《Wonderland: Origin Arc [Script]》3.3 - The Planning Stage
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[Chelsea and Gary are in the club house again, sat on the sofa in the living room. Gary is wearing a Red Lantern shirt and black shorts. Chelsea is wearing a blue hoodie and black jeans. The living room currently has the carpet torn completely off, a plastic red mat rolled out on top of it. The front door opens up and Leigh pushes through with the trolley full of drawing equipment and the werewolf mask in his hand. The two look at him, both worried.]
Leigh: [tired] I’m back.
Chelsea: [panicked] What the hell happened? Gary said that you hung up on him.
Leigh: [tired] Oh, yeah, there was a robbery, I dealt with it. By the way, I haven’t paid for this.
Gary: [panicked, with Chelsea] What?!
Chelsea: [panicked, with Gary] Excuse me?!
[Leigh backs away from the trolley, it still moving into the centre of the room, as Gary and Chelsea quickly stand up.]
Leigh: [defensive] Okay, in my defense, I sorted it out and I’m certain the police have arrived now!
Gary: [panicked] Why didn’t you tell me?
Chelsea: [panicked] Yeah, we could’ve come down and helped you!
Leigh: [defensive] Because I didn’t want either of you getting in trouble or getting shot.
Chelsea: [panicked] I’m sorry, there was a gun?
[Leigh hesitates, looking at Gary.]
Leigh: Know what, I shouldn’t have said that.
[Gary nods in agreement.]
Chelsea: [worried] Yes you should’ve! Much earlier!
[Leigh moves over to Chelsea, placing his hands on her shoulders. Gary starts to empty the trolley onto the mat.]
Leigh: Look, I’m here! I’m fine! Nothing happened to me, I’m still here, we’re all safe.
Chelsea: [worried] You better, okay? I don’t want you getting hurt.
Leigh: I won’t, I promise.
[The two smile slightly and kiss quick. Gary looks up from the mat, having spread out a large map of Chesterfield on it.]
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Gary: Bit gay.
Leigh: [annoyed] Come on, man.
Gary: [chuckling] Sorry, I did it to Tracey and Sissel, I’m gonna do it to you too.
[Gary gets up, spinning a red marker pen in his hand.]
Gary: So as I said. Gay.
[Leigh groans and sits down. Chelsea chuckles and sits next to him.]
Chelsea: [chuckling] You need to get a girlfriend.
Gary: [triumphant] And you need to get a room! Whoo! Double whammy, I am on a roll today!
Leigh: [annoyed] Gary?
[Gary looks at Leigh, who stares him down. He sighs.]
Gary: [bored] Fine. Still fun though.
Chelsea: [chuckling] He’s not wrong.
[Leigh sits down and scribbles the word “Plan” onto the top of the map in black ink.]
Leigh: Okay… now then… we all know the situation so I don’t feel we need to go other that. What we do need to go over is protection.
Gary: Question, should we get guns?
Leigh: [confused] What? No? Can we try to calm down on the guns, please?
Gary: [defensive] It’d just be useful!
Leigh: I get that, but they are kinda illegal.
Chelsea: No guns. No arguments.
Gary: [disappointed] Damn it…
[Gary writes onto the map “No guns” in red pen.]
Gary: [disappointed] Okay, what else?
Chelsea: You didn’t have to write “no guns”.
Gary: [with Leigh] Yes I did.
Leigh: [with Gary] Yes he did.
Chelsea: [hesitant] Okay… well… I think we should discuss the plan.
Leigh: Catch the Rabbit, punch him until he goes away.
[Gary scoffs.]
Leigh: Well it’s basically our plan!
Gary: I know! It’s just terrible!
Leigh: Well at least we’re trying, what are you doing?
Gary: Well I’m not getting a gun pointed at me!
Chelsea: [annoyed] Guys!
[Leigh and Gary look at Chelsea.]
Chelsea: [annoyed] Can we focus please?
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[Leigh and Gary look at each other, nodding slowly.]
Gary: [with Leigh] Yeah, alright then.
Leigh: [with Gary] Okay, sorry.
Chelsea: [annoyed] Thank you! Now… we need to stop the Rabbit.
Leigh: Main priority.
Chelsea: It’d be best that we learn something about him in order to beat him.
Leigh: We don’t have many people we can ask, he’s killed three people already.
Gary: [smug] I know someone we can talk to.
[Leigh and Chelsea look at Gary in confusion. He smiles smugly.]
Gary: [smug] That’s right. I know things.
Leigh: [shouting] Tell us!
Chelsea: [shouting] Who is it?
[Gary reaches for his phone in his back pocket.]
Gary: [surprised] Okay, Jesus, you don’t have to yell so loud.
[Gary unlocks his phone, showing the Screensaver group being the cover picture now. He clicks on the photos app and shows the two an image, both leaning closer to the phone. It’s a picture of a man in a coffee shop, wearing a green coat and top hat on the table.]
Leigh: [confused] Did you take this in person?
Gary: Does it matter? Look!
[Gary switches to the next image, the Screensaver group, and points at man in green. He switches back and forth between the coffee shop and the screensaver.]
Gary: You want to get info on the Rabbit? Then this is our guy.
[Chelsea takes the phone off of Gary.]
Chelsea: [surprised] Who is this guy?
Gary: [excited] No idea! But I became pretty happy with “Hiroikkuhatto”.
[Leigh looks at Gary confused.]
Gary: [embarrassed] It’s… it’s “Heroic Hat” in Japanese, I thought it’d sound cool.
Leigh: Don’t force it.
Gary: [embarrassed] Noted.
Chelsea: Hey, do we know where this guy is?
Gary: Again, no idea, except that I bumped into him and figured out he was staying in Chesterfield for “business reasons”. It was nice, we shared a cake. Kinda romantic.
Leigh: Well…
[Leigh quickly gets to his feet, dragging up Gary.]
Leigh: If this is our chance to get the upper hand, we need to find this guy. Where would he be?
Gary: Well if I can have my phone back…
[Chelsea chucks him his phone. He catches and checks it.]
Gary: It’s 11, he’ll probably be in town getting lunch. Let’s go.
Chelsea: Um… should we? I mean, Leigh just stole from a super-
Leigh: [defensive] I promise you that we are not going to get chased by the police!
[Chelsea stares Leigh down. He puts his hands on his heart.]
Leigh: [defensive] Cross my heart, promise.
[Chelsea sighs.]
Chelsea: [reluctant] Come on.
[Leigh and Chelsea start heading out the door. Gary uses his phone to call Vince.]
Gary: Hey man, can you get Liv and meet us in town? Oh, great, thanks!
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