Beth, David and Hugo are sat in an office.
Beth: Did Mark say who he had hired?
David: Some kid who wrote a fan fiction of his work.
Beth: Seriously?
Hugo: David, don’t you think you are giving Mark a bit too much free reign on this project?
David: It was one of the agreements when he took it over and let’s be honest do you really think he is just going to let this kid write?
Beth: Exactly it’s a stunt so Mark can keep control of the writing. No good will come of it.
David: I’ve read some of the kids work, it’s not bad and with a bit of training he might make something
There is a knock at the door and mark and Daniel walk. Mark walks up to the desk and looks at some sheets that Hugo hands him. Daniel hangs back.
Mark: Everyone this is Daniel, he is going to be working on our screen writing team.
Daniel: Pleasure.
Mark: When did these come through?
Hugo: Last night.
Mark: I will get Anni to send them over to the studio.
David: We need to discuss shooting locations when you have a free minute, the shopping area isn’t going to work
Mark: Why not?
Beth: Because everyone will be shopping for Christmas by then.
Hugo: They don’t look to comfortably on being shut around that time.
Mark: We will sort something.
Daniel steps forward.
Daniel: I’m sorry is there something I should be doing.
David: Right yeah. Mark take him to go and see Louise, get the pair of them working on scene 23 for the pilot, we need the first draft done for casting next week.
Mark: Yeah.
Mark leaves
Mark: Follow me
Daniel timidly follows him out. They walk downstairs towards the writer’s office. Talking as they walk.
Mark: Strange thing about this place is you need to be ready to have meetings in the hallways. When you are in your office you will want that to be a meeting free zone. People never come and see you when you’re in your office. Well apart from me probably.
Daniel: Right.
They stop at the office and Mark opens the door. Louise looks up.
Mark: This is Louise, she is going to be your writing partner.
Daniel: Hi
Louise: Yeah we spoke the other day.
Mark: Of course.
Daniel: So do you have any notes for me for scene 23?
Mark: yeah don’t worry about that I will be in to work with you through that later. Why don’t you two get to know eachother, work on some small things and get the juices flowing.
Daniel taps at the desk.
Daniel: Okay yeah, sounds good.
Mark: Your desk is there, if you need me my assistant Anni is just next door. Welcome to the team.
Mark leaves. Suddenly Elizabeth grabs him.
Elizabeth: Hey
Mark: Hi
Elizabeth: I’m just going to get some lunch fancy it.
Mark: What for?
Elizabeth: To eat Mark. come on.
Mark: Oh I can’t I need to finish this work.
Elizabeth: I meant you know me and you go and have something to eat together, like boyfriend and girlfriend.
Mark: Yeah I know what you mean it’s just I can’t leave this stuff now. Tonight though.
Elizabeth looks down sadly as Mark disappears.
Elizabeth: yeah tonight.
Scene changes back to Daniel.
Daniel sits down at his desk and smiles nervously at Louise.
Louise: build up scenes.
Daniel: Excuse me?
Louise: That’s all we ever write here. Scenes that build up to something else. The stuff most likely to get cut.
Daniel: Then who writes the rest?
Louise: Mark and then we get the fun of editing it.
Daniel: If you don’t like it, why are you here?
Louise: Because no matter what, my names going to be on the credits as a screen writer and if that isn’t great for the CV, then nothing will be am I right?
Daniel: Yeah *he sighs* your right.
End scene
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