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WebSerial: Hotville - Episode 1
Characters:
# Coach Paul Bloom
30 years old.
Black Hair, Blue Eyes 6'2", slightly muscular, athletic jock type, bisexual
# Elvira Davis
Elvira Davis, black hair, blue eyes, 5'8". 28 years old. Official Occupation
Retired Tennis Pro. Actual Occupation Spook for the Government with a
License to Kill.
# TESS FLETCHER
Erotic Mystery Writer, Teacher at Hotville College, Neighbor of Coach Paul
Bloom. Of course think Angela Lansbury but younger, around 40, and over
sexed.
# Oscar Crumbe
Former boyfriend of Coach Bloom. 36. Blonde Hair. Blue eyes. Slightly over
weight and hairy.
# JENNA SMYTHE
Transvestite who passes as a woman, and who teaches at Hotville College.
Around 26, various wigs, breast sizes, a pocketbook that holds the kitchen
sink. Only her close friends know she is a man.
Referenced:
# Sarah Sloth
Teaches at Hotville College, Engaged to Coach Paul Bloom, Lesbian Lover is
Elvira Davis.
Around 26. Parents are rich. They want her married to a man and she likes
having money.
Think Young Goldie Hawn Type
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Hotville Episode 1 By Charles Peters FADE IN EXT. I-285 - DAY COACH PAUL BLOOM is inside his 1976 Black Tran Am. He is driving through Atlanta on his way to the College Town of Hotville. A sign signals a lane change ahead for those who wish to exit on to I-20. GPS DEVICE (O.S.) Exit East Toward I-20 COACH PAUL BLOOM (O.S.) I must be crazy taking this job at Hotville College. GPS DEVICE (O.S.) Did not understand command. The 1976 Black Trans Am exits on to ramp toward I-20. A Pink Volkswagen on I-20 pulls into lane at the same time Coach Paul Bloom starts into lane. He glances at the woman. He does not know ELVIRA DAVIS but that is the driver of Volkswagen. He flips her the bird. Her expression is a laugh and she speeds ahead. ELVIRA DAVIS (V.O) (Laughing) I can’t believe Sarah is going to marry that man. A man! My word. EXT. COACH PAUL BLOOM’S NEW HOME - DAY COACH PAUL BLOOM pulls into his driveway behind the moving truck. He ogles the two handsome deliverymen moving his furniture and boxes into his new home. He walks to the back of his car and opens his trunk. He pulls a beer from a cooler in his truck. He opens the beer and starts to drink. He then thumbs through a box in the trunk. He pulls a picture from the box and looks at it. The picture is a photograph of his former lover Oscar Crumbe. COACH PAUL BLOOM Oscar, the world does not revolve around you. Not anymore. (Coach shakes his head) Still, here I am looking at a picture of you so... (His lips tremble. He rubs his brow.) (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 2. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) So I am already missing you. God damn it. I am already missing you. Coach Paul looks up from the pictures and sees the Pink Volkswagen driven by Elvira Davis drive slowly in front of his house. Elvira makes a gesture with her finger like she is shooting him. She laughs. She hits the gas and speeds on. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) Who the hell is that woman? One of the moving men walks up with a piece of paper for Coach Paul to sign. He signs it without much paying attention to what he is signing. The moving man walks away. Coach Paul puts the picture of Oscar back in the box. He finishes his beer. He tosses the can in his boot. He picks up the box and closes the boot. He walks up to the door of his house. INT. COACH PAUL’S HOUSE - DAY Maneuvering the box in his arms he enters the door into his house. COACH PAUL stares at all the furniture tossed every which of way. He stares at some boxes stacked and other boxes turned over and with stuff strewn. He puts the box he is holding down on the floor. COACH PAUL BLOOM (with sound of truck cranking) What the fucking hell? Son of a bitch. What a damn mess. Coach Paul looks out the window. CUT TO: EXT. COACH PAUL’S YARD - DAY The moving truck is backing around Coach Paul’s Trans Am and through a flower garden and over some shrubbery and knocking down the mail box. A woman, Tess Fletcher, is standing with her bicycle and looking flabbergasted. She looks up to see Coach Paul looking out his window. She smiles. She waves. She then shrugs with a what are you going to do gesture. (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 3. Coach Paul walks out on his porch. He rushes after the truck but they are on their way to the corner to make their turn and to become out of sight. Coach Paul looks at Tess Fletcher. COACH PAUL BLOOM A mess out here. A mess in my house. Unbelievable. I can’t believe my fiancee recommended them. TESS FLETCHER (smiles) Just the thought of moving gives me a shiver. (does a shivering gesture) I moved here five years ago from Atlanta to teach at the local Hotville College. Back then I had so few items I moved myself. COACH PAUL BLOOM That was smart of you. My fiancee Sarah Sloth insisted I should use these movers that a friend of hers strongly recommended. TESS FLETCHER Oh Sarah. A lovely girl. Congratulations. (V.O.) I thought Sarah was a lesbian. A lovely girl. So where did the two of you meet? COACH PAUL BLOOM She was a temporary teacher at the college in California where I was coaching at the time. TESS FLETCHER So you are going to be the new coach at Hotville College. Wonderful. So wonderful to meet you. Tess Fletcher and Coach Paul shake hands. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) I had thought they were going to do away with our sports (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 4. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) programs. Budget mess and such. I was so glad when I heard they were going to be hiring someone new and the programs were going to survive. COACH PAUL BLOOM Sarah convinced me to come to Hotville but if I had known their sports programs were so tenuous I probably would have remained where I was. Tess crawls onto her bicycle. TESS FLETCHER Well, I need to meet with Sheriff Baskerville before he leaves for the day. It has been nice meeting you. COACH PAUL BLOOM Same here. And please don’t be offended by my question but aren’t you the one and same Tess Fletcher who writes Erotic Mysteries. TESS FLETCHER Yes. My claim to fame and shame. Tess Fletcher rides off on her bicycle. EXT. BROKER LANE - DAY ELVIRA DAVIS is standing with the moving truck. She is talking to the two men who moved Coach Paul Bloom. She hands each of them a check. They get into the moving truck and drive off. She gets into her pink Volkswagen and drives off. INT. COACH PAULS HOUSE - NIGHT The house is partially arranged from the mess earlier. The turned over boxes can no longer be seen. Several boxes can be seen sitting around. Coach Paul sits down on a red couch. He places a drink and a TV dinner on a coffee table in front of the couch. He looks at the box next to the coffee table. He pulls the picture of Oscar he had looked at earlier from the box. He stares at the picture. 5. INT. PAUL & OSCARS APT. IN CALIFORNIA - FLASHBACK OSCAR CRUMBE You are breaking up with me. You are going from Coaching at a real college to coaching at some hick college in Georgia. Have you lost your mind? COACH PAUL BLOOM I will be the Head Coach at Hotville College. I am just a lowly assistant here and it is clear that is all that I will ever be if I stay here. OSCAR CRUMBE Are they holding you back because the Head Coach knows that you are gay. COACH PAUL BLOOM I don’t know. Maybe. OSCAR CRUMBE (frowns) You blame me for telling him. Don’t you! COACH PAUL BLOOM No. You should not have propositioned him, but no. Of course I don’t blame you. OSCAR CRUMBE Please do not move to Georgia. I love you. Damn it. I love you. There! I have said it. COACH PAUL BLOOM Love me. You say that, but you don’t even try to remain faithful to me. OSCAR CRUMBE Do you want me to be faithful? I can be faithful. By fucking God I will take a vow and swear on a Chastity Belt if that is what it takes to keep you here. (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 6. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am not faithful to you either. I’ve had sex with other people. I’ve even had sex with women OSCAR CRUMBE Women! What? Now are you going to tell me that you are straight. COACH PAUL BLOOM Maybe I am. I think I might would like to get married to a woman and maybe have some children. I think I might would like to live a more normal life. OSCAR CRUMBE Normal life? So you think living with me is not normal. Hell. Fuck. Fire. You have gone from being gay, to straight, to now being a fucking homophobe. My God, I have been letting a homophobe suck my cock. I guess I should think my lucky stars you didn’t try to bite my cock off. COACH PAUL BLOOM Oh shut up. Just shut up. I can’t stand hearing your voice one second longer. In the last few months you have been driving me fucking insane. When you have been out fucking with some dude from the bar and you call home late I’ve actually started hoping it is not you but some police telling me that you have been killed. Screaming in tears Oscar Crumbe falls onto the floor. INT. COACH PAUL’S HOUSE - NIGHT COACH PAUL stares at the picture of Oscar. COACH PAUL BLOOM (speaking to himself out loud) God, Oscar, I wish I had not broken your heart. (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 7. Coach Paul Bloom had not noticed a neighbor, JENNA SMYTHE had entered his home. She is holding a pie she has brought over. JENNA SMYTHE Howdy neighbor, thought I’d bring you something good to eat. Jenna Smythe places the pie down on the coffee table. She sits down next to Coach Paul on the couch. She looks at the picture of Oscar. JENNA SMYTHE (laughs) An x boyfriend? Coach Paul puts the picture back in the box. COACH PAUL BLOOM What? No. He was a friend. I slept with his wife. It broke his heart. JENNA SMYTHE Quick on your feet with lies. I like that. Jenna pulls some plastic silverware and a bottle of wine from her pocketbook. She then pulls some glasses and saucers from her pocketbook. JENNA SMYTHE (cont’d) I didn’t know how quickly you would be ready for company. I am impressed. I understand from Tess that your movers left quite a mess. COACH PAUL BLOOM It was not quite the mess I thought at the time; but I have been busy. JENNA SMYTHE Tess also told me that you are engaged to Sarah Sloth. She is a lovely girl. Just lovely. (beat) So does Sarah know that you are gay? (She picks the picture of Oscar up, glances at it, and then puts it back into the box.) Coach Paul takes a bite of the pie. (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 8. COACH PAUL BLOOM This pie taste really good. JENNA SMYTHE Imagine how it will taste when you lick it off my naked body. COACH PAUL BLOOM That is not going to happen. Jenna grabs Paul by his shirt collar. She pulls his face into her face. JENNA SMYTHE We are going to have sex and you are going to like it. When you see me naked, you will understand why. Jenna Smythe lets go of Coach Paul. She pulls a cd player from her pocketbook. To music, she does a strip tease. Amused, Coach Paul sits back and watches. Then he looks shocked. COACH PAUL BLOOM You are a man. You are a transvestite. JENNA SMYTHE You keep my secret and I will keep your secret. Now, lets you and me suck and fuck. COACH PAUL BLOOM No. JENNA SMYTHE Please. Pretty Please. You know you want to have sex with me. I know you do. I can see that you have an erection. FADE OUT
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Characters:
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# Tess Fletcher
Erotic Mystery Writer, Teacher at Hotville College, Neighbor of Coach Paul Bloom
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# Sheriff Ben Baskerville
Sheriff of Hotville
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# JOHN SLOTH
Think John Travolta Type
Preacher, Uncle of Sarah Sloth, Brother of Joseph Sloth, father of missing Jeremy Sloth. Mayor White & his son Mikey White try to have Preacher John Sloth removed from being the Preacher of Hotville Baptist Church.
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# Coach Paul Bloom
30 years old.
Black Hair, Blue Eyes 6'2", slightly muscular, athletic jock type, bisexual
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# Sarah Sloth
Teaches at Hotville College, Engaged to Coach Paul Bloom, Lesbian Lover is Elvira Davis.
Around 26. Parents are rich. They want her married to a man and she likes having money.
Think Young Goldie Hawn Type
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# Sylvia Sloth
Wife of Joseph Sloth. Mother of Sarah Sloth.
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# Joseph Sloth
Father of Sarah. Rich. Think Jimmy Stewart type in looks.
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# Gladys Sloth
Wife of Preacher John Sloth. Think Lilly Tomlin type character.
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MAYOR KEITH WHITE
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Referenced:
Mikey White
25, blonde, blue eyes, 5'8", slim build. Owner of the Red Hank Fight Club Gay Bar
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Jeremy Sloth
Kidnapped. Missing. Maybe dead.
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Elvira Davis
Elvira Davis, black hair, blue eyes, 5'8". 28 years old Official Occupation Retired Tennis Pro. Actual Occupation Spook for the Government with a License to Kill.
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Jenna Smythe
Transvestite who passes as a woman, and who teaches at Hotville College. Around 26, various wigs, breast sizes, a pocketbook that holds the kitchen sink.
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Bea
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WebSerial: Hotville - Episode 2
Hotville Episode 2 By Charles Peters
FADE IN EXT. SUNDECK OF COACH PAUL’S HOME - DAY COACH PAUL BLOOM is grilling some Hamburgers while his fiance SARAH SLOTH is in a lounge chair and sunning. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am nervous about my first day tomorrow at Hotville College. This is such a small town. Back at my old job, where I was a lowly assistant coach, there was something comforting in that most people I dealt with barely even remembered me from one day to the next. SARAH SLOTH It will be okay. For the most part people are nice. Of course you will most likely encounter some assholes. COACH PAUL BLOOM There was this one woman. She was driving a pink Volkswagen. First she and I nearly wrecked on I-20. Then she drove by here and pointed her finger at me like she was shooting me. SARAH SLOTH That is my girlfriend Elvira. She is really pissed that you and I intend to get married. COACH PAUL BLOOM Did you breakup with her? SARAH SLOTH No. She and I had sex last night. COACH PAUL BLOOM Sex. SARAH SLOTH Are you angry? COACH PAUL BLOOM No. Of course not. We have an open relationship and we each (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) should be able to tell each other about anything. SARAH SLOTH I wish Elvira better understood that, but she insist on being jealous. COACH PAUL BLOOM I guess I need to work on Elvira and I becoming friends. SARAH SLOTH Elvira is not exactly the friendly type. There was a time she and I hated one another. She was older than my cousin Jeremy but she dated him and treated him really badly. At the time I could not understand why Jeremy was so fond of her and now here I am in love with her. COACH PAUL BLOOM So what does your cousin Jeremy think of your relationship with his old girlfriend. SARAH SLOTH When Jeremy was 21 he was kidnapped. My father paid a million dollar ransom, but Jeremy wasn’t released. His corpse, remains, have never been found but I guess he is dead. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am sorry. SARAH SLOTH It was awful. (beat) There is a teacher at the college who reminds me of Jeremy. Her name is Jenna Smythe. The first time I saw her, it gave me chills. Father says if you go back far enough everyone is related but he said as far he knows we and Jenna Smythe aren’t closely related. There is a strong, uncanny, resemblance. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. COACH PAUL BLOOM Maybe your Uncle, Jeremy’s father, did some fooling around. SARAH SLOTH Anything is possible but Uncle John, Jeremy’s father, is deeply religious. I guess he is okay, but of course he would never approve of you or me if he knew the real us. Coach Paul Bloom puts the hamburgers on a plate and carries them to the picnic table where he has already set things up for them to dine. Sarah gets up and walks over to the picnic table. They sit down to eat. COACH PAUL BLOOM I hope you are not going to be angry about this but Jenna and I had sex. SARAH SLOTH You had sex with another woman. COACH PAUL BLOOM Not exactly. SARAH SLOTH What do you mean, not exactly? COACH PAUL BLOOM Jenna Smythe is a dude. SARAH SLOTH She is a dude. Fucking hell. On some level I knew. Shit hell. I knew it. But then I thought it was stupid. COACH PAUL BLOOM Please do not be angry. I am sorry. I don’t think Jenna will tell anyone. I think our secret is safe. That is if we keep her secret. SARAH SLOTH I am not angry. Yeah, I want you to stay discreet but I am not angry about you having sex with Jenna. (beat) Don’t you understand. If she is a dude then most likely what I sensed is (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) right. I just never put it together. Not fully. COACH PAUL BLOOM I don’t understand. SARAH SLOTH Jenna Smythe is my cousin Jeremy Sloth. I am going to confront him. By God I want to know what happened to that $1,000,000 that my father paid as ransom for his safe return. COACH PAUL BLOOM If you confront him or tell people who he is then he might tell people that I am gay. Your parents will not like that you are marrying a gay man. SARAH SLOTH Damn. He and I are constantly passing in the halls and in the lounge and he acts like we don’t even know one another. I fucking loved my cousin. I cried and cried when I thought he had been killed. Coach Paul and Sarah Sloth eat in silence. INT. LIBRARY - DAY TESS FLETCHER and SHERIFF BASKERVILLE sit at a table going over old newspaper clippings and also a folder with police records. TESS FLETCHER I sure am glad you agreed to help me research the book I am working on. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Well, you know how much I like your muffins. TESS FLETCHER I do hope by muffins you mean my pussy. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Right now I am feeling more hungry than horny. (beat) So what do you hope to find out about the kidnapping of Jeremy Sloth. TESS FLETCHER I am not sure. The old Sheriff Barker thought the kidnapping was a ruse created by the Sloth family to cover up Jeremy’s murder. Sarah and Jeremy had a serious fight in front of witnesses a couple of days before the kidnapping. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE You can’t seriously think that Sarah killed Jeremy. I grew up in this town. I remember Jeremy and Sarah. Sure they would have their fights but they were as close as siblings. TESS FLETCHER Cain and Abel maybe. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE No. Tess. I think you are all wrong about this. TESS FLETCHER In this interview Sheriff Barker had with Mikey White he said that he overheard them fighting about someone. They were both dating the same person. He didn’t know who. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I’ve heard the rumors that Sarah is gay but back then the only person I remember Sarah dating was myself and Mikey White. I sure as heck was not dating Jeremy. Why would Mikey say what he said if he was the one dating both of them? TESS FLETCHER Sure. Why not? It throws suspicion away from himself. Mikey does own that Gay Bar the Red Hank Fight Club. Even though I think Sarah is gay it could have been Mikey they were both dating. Do (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) you remember who Jeremy might have been dating? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Even though Elvira was a couple of years older, Jeremy dated her. He also dated her sister Majara. And he was best friends with their brother O’Hara. He was close to the Davis family. You know, it was Jeremy who first began playing tennis with Elvira. When he saw how good she was, he hired her a coach. Even though he was younger than her, he was like a mentor to her. TESS FLETCHER I feel more confident than ever that Jeremy was murdered. I think Sheriff Barker was right. The kidnapping was just a ruse to protect Sarah. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Well, a million dollar ransom was paid. TESS FLETCHER If I could prove what happened to the money that would be a starting point. I mean, they could have pulled the money out of the accounts. Handed the money off to someone. Then they could have just moved the money back into some other account. As rich as the Sloth family is, that would probably be simple for them to do. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE You are wrong. It was a real kidnapping. Elvira saw two men abduct Jeremy right outside of their home. Elvira owed a lot to Jeremy for helping her. She would not lie to protect his killers. TESS FLETCHER O’Hara told me that Elvira was wrong about what she told Sheriff Barker. He said that what she saw was just a couple of friends picking Jeremy up. That was (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) two days before the supposed kidnapping. Mikey White said he saw Jeremy at the Grocery Store and perfectly okay the day after when Elvira said she saw him kidnapped. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE One or both of them had their days wrong. TESS FLETCHER So why didn’t Elvira report the kidnapping when she saw it. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Because at the time she did think it was just a couple of friends picking Jeremy up. It wasn’t until after the ransom note that she realized what she had witnessed. TESS FLETCHER I guess I need to talk to Elvira. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Good luck with that. She always has been an unfriendly cuss. INT. COACH PAUL’S HOUSE - DAY Coach Paul and Sarah Sloth are in the Coach Paul’s bedroom, dressing to go to church. COACH PAUL BLOOM I can’t believe I’ve agreed to go to church with you. I have not been to church in years. SARAH SLOTH What religion are you? COACH PAUL BLOOM My adopted mom considers herself Catholic. My adopted father is Baptist and the few times I have gone to church, it has been to a Baptist Church. SARAH SLOTH My Uncle John is a Baptist Minister. My dad said there is (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) some kind of problem at his church and we need to go to show him our support. COACH PAUL BLOOM What kind of trouble can there be at a church? SARAH SLOTH Mikey White and his father, you know the Mayor, are Deacons at the church and they are trying to have my Uncle fired. They are threatening the other Deacons, suggesting they will have the church removed from the PigPath Denomination if my Uncle is not fired. My Aunt Gladys sometimes Preaches at the church and they are saying women should not be allowed to Preach, even on a fill in basis. COACH PAUL BLOOM Is she ordained? SARAH SLOTH Not by a group that the PigPath Convention recognizes. They don’t allow women Preachers. Other Baptist Denominations do allow Women Pastors. My Uncle’s position has changed on the subject but when he brought the church into the Pigpath Convention, he pretty much agreed with the narrow minded views of the Convention. He is the founder of the Church and now they are trying to take the Church away from him. COACH PAUL BLOOM So can’t he just change the Convention the Church is in. SARAH SLOTH Dad told me that Uncle John wants to take the Church Independent. Even the Deacons who are trying to support Uncle John are uncomfortable with that. They say it will make the church seem less legitimate. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am not an expert on this, obviously. At one time Oscar was a major church goer. As Sarah is putting on a necklace, she gives Paul an are you kidding look. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) I know. Go figure. Anyway, the Baptist church he went to belonged to some Convention that accepted pretty much any church, including Gay Churches. The Convention pretty much served one purpose and that was to support diverse religious voice. SARAH SLOTH I can’t imagine my Uncle bringing the church into a convention that recognizes Gay Churches! I can’t really see that happening. Even if he were of such a mind, the Congregation would have a fit. These are basically good people but they are pretty much set in their ways. We have to respect that. COACH PAUL BLOOM I don’t have to respect anything though I will play nice. I will not make waves. SARAH SLOTH My father wants you to become a regular church goer and become a Deacon at the Church. COACH PAUL BLOOM Seriously. You think I can do that without me suddenly talking in tongues and my head exploding and my Mom’s Priest doing an exorcism on my dead body. SARAH SLOTH I want to stay rich and that means keeping my parents happy. You do understand that. Don’t you? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10. COACH PAUL BLOOM I understand. But you do understand that it was with great reluctance I left California to come back to Georgia. SARAH SLOTH Are you saying that you want to back out of this marriage? COACH PAUL BLOOM No. But it is not because of the money. It is not because the marriage might help my career. When we were dating in California I developed real feelings for you. SARAH SLOTH And I love you. The love is real. Coach Paul Bloom and Sarah Sloth kiss. It is a tender kiss with a display of true affection. COACH PAUL BLOOM (V.O.) I miss Oscar but I do love Sarah. SARAH SLOTH (V.O) I am so confused. How can I love both Elvira and Paul? EXT. PARKING LOT OF CHURCH - DAY COACH PAUL and SARAH SLOTH drive up in Paul’s black 1976 Trans Am. They pull into a parking space next to Sarah’s father’s 2012 Cadillac. Dressed in expensive clothes, they exit the Trans Am. Standing, near the streaming moat that flows around the church and near the garden around the church, are various people who all seem to fix their eyes on the parking lot and on Sarah Sloth and Coach Paul. Coach Paul stares at the people and the beautiful garden and the church. It has both a larger than life and yet still a small town feel to it. COACH PAUL BLOOM Who designed this. It is beautiful. SARAH SLOTH My Uncle and Jeremy. Jeremy did paintings that inspired my Uncle with the design. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 11. COACH PAUL BLOOM Jenna Smythe painted this? SARAH SLOTH If Jenna and Jeremy are one and the same. Yes. Sarah Sloth and Coach Paul walk up to her father, JOSEPH SLOTH. JOSEPH SLOTH Hello dear. I am glad you came. My brother is in a mess. You know he almost never drinks. Well. Today he has been drinking. He insist he is going to Preach today. SARAH SLOTH Aunt Gladys can’t talk him out of it. JOSEPH SLOTH No. She is just sitting like she is oblivious to it all. (Looks around. Shakes his head.) I would seriously like to hire someone to break Mayor White’s legs for starting this shit. SYLVIA SLOTH walks up. She kisses her daughter on the cheek. She looks Coach Paul Bloom up and down with a rather disgusted look. SYLVIA SLOTH So Paul, I guess after today you will have even a lower opinion of us small town hicks. COACH PAUL BLOOM I don’t really think of anyone, well maybe myself, as a hick. I grew up in Georgia, myself. SYLVIA SLOTH Your father being a football player for the Falconians, I would guess you are well traveled. COACH PAUL BLOOM I’ve seen enough people in different places to not really be shocked by anything. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12. SYLVIA SLOTH (laughs) Well, dear, let us go inside. They walk across a beautifully carved bridge over the streaming water in the moat. Coach Paul looks down at the gold fish in the moat. INT. CHURCH - DAY Joseph Sloth, Sarah Sloth, SYLVIA SLOTH, and COACH PAUL walk down the aisle of the church and sit toward the front of the church. They look at PREACHER JOHN SLOTH standing at the pulpit. He takes a gulp of moonshine from a jug as he gets ready to speak. Other people filter into the church and sit down. JOHN SLOTH (pounds his fist on the podium.) So Mayor White and his son Mikey White want to fire me from this church that I founded nearly 30 years ago. After the fire my 14 year old son Jeremy designed the church where you now sit. We designed the beautiful grounds. MAYOR WHITE stands up and looks around at the people. MAYOR KEITH WHITE It is not us who want to fire you. You have broken the rules of the Pigpath Convention. JOHN SLOTH Sit your ass down and shut the fuck up. COACH PAUL BLOOM (whispers) Your Uncle, the Preacher, just said fuck. MAYOR KEITH WHITE All you have to do is... JOHN SLOTH Yeah, see, the Mayor does not want you to know the truth of what is happening. And he thinks that I am too ashamed of certain things to (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13. JOHN SLOTH (cont’d) tell you the truth of what is happening. (beat) The Mayor and his son are blackmailing me. They want me to resign both from the church here and also from the board of Hotville College. (beat) See, here is the thing. At the same time my wife was pregnant with Jeremy, another woman was pregnant with my other son. I never got to know that son because he was given up for adoption. (takes a drink from the jug) Now you may think because of my sins that I am not worthy to Preach here. Understand though, I don’t Preach to sanctimonious assholes like the White family. I Preach to fellow sinners who don’t pretend they are perfect. (beat) I want everyone in this church who is not perfect to stand up. Come on. Stand up. Everyone in the church stands up. JOHN SLOTH (cont’d) I have hired O’Hara Davis to try to find my son that was given up for adoption. I thank Mayor White to stir my passion to want to know my other son. I thank you Mayor White. MAYOR KEITH WHITE You are welcome. And I am sorry that you think my son tried to blackmail you. I can assure everyone that there was no attempt at blackmail. John Sloth throws the empty jug into a garbage can several feet away. JOHN SLOTH Well, I am obviously too drunk to Preach today so my wife is going to Preach. Do any of you object to my wife doing the Preaching. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14. Sylvia Sloth begins the chant. SYLVIA Gladys. EVERYONE Gladys. Gladys. Gladys. John Sloth sits down in a seat behind the podium while Gladys walks up to the podium. Everyone in the church sits down. GLADYS SLOTH I much thank all of you for your support. And let me make clear, I rejoice in knowing that my husband has a son. If we can locate him, it will be so wonderful to accept him into our lives. And please rise up Bea. Bea stands up. GLADYS SLOTH (cont’d) Bea is the mother of my husband’s son that was given up for adoption. She was, is, and will always be a good friend. If anyone judges her and behaves unfriendly toward my good friend Bea then you will have me to deal with. FADE OUT _____________________
Webserial:
Hotville
Episode 3
Characters:
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Joseph Sloth
Father of Sarah. Rich. Think Jimmy Stewart type in looks.
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Sarah Sloth
Teaches at Hotville College, Engaged to Coach Paul Bloom, Lesbian Lover
is Elvira Davis.
Around 26. Parents are rich. They want her married to a man and she
likes having money.
Has taught for around 3 years.
Think Young Goldie Hawn Type
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Coach Paul Bloom
30 years old.
Black Hair, Blue Eyes 6'2", slightly muscular, athletic jock type,
bisexual
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Salvadore Rose
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JENNA SMYTHE
Transvestite who passes as a woman, and who teaches at Hotville College.
Around 26, various wigs, breast sizes, a pocketbook that holds the
kitchen sink.
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Place Notes:
Fictional Town Hotville, located in Georgia not far from Atlanta.
Fictional Hotville College - A small college that would like to be UGA
but isn't.
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Notes:
Fictional Hotville College Football Team - The Hotville Felines
Fictional Hotville Women's Softball Team - The Hotville Hounds
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Background:
Coach Paul Bloom has come to Hotville, engaged to Sarah Sloth, to coach
at Hotville College.
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Hotville Episode 3 By Charles Peters
INT. HOTVILLE LOUNGE/CAFETERIA - DAY SARAH SLOTH is talking to her father JOSEPH SLOTH. They are standing a few feet from a door to a balcony where Coach Paul Bloom is standing. JOSEPH SLOTH There was a meeting of the College Board late last night. They were trying to hold their meeting without me but I caught wind of it. SARAH SLOTH What was it about? JOSEPH SLOTH They voted to abolish the Hotville Feline Football Team. I could not stop the vote. I thought we would be able to keep the football team at least one more season but Mayor White rallied the board against me. SARAH SLOTH So are they going to fire Paul. They just hired him. JOSEPH SLOTH No. He will still be over the elective sports programs that the students take classes in. And they are keeping the Hotville Hounds. SARAH SLOTH They are keeping the women’s softball team. JOSEPH SLOTH Yeah, Mikey really enjoyed the idea of W. Bloom’s son coaching a women’s softball team. I don’t know why. SARAH SLOTH So are we going to be able to phase Paul into the job of College President when President Hymen retires. JOSEPH SLOTH If you can convince him to want the job, I will do my best. I need one of our people running this (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2. JOSEPH SLOTH (cont’d) college. Of course Mayor White is going to do everything possible to get one of his people in charge. (beat) Well. I’ve got to get out of here. I’ve got to meet with the Governor and see if I can get the state funds to help incubate the company I was telling you about. This town needs jobs. SARAH SLOTH Good luck. JOSEPH SLOTH Thanks. I will let you know how the meeting goes. Joseph walks across the lounge and exits. Sarah exits onto the balcony to join Coach Paul Bloom. EXT. PARKING LOT OF HOTVILLE COLLEGE - DAY Viewing down on the parking lot, around 300 cars can be seen. Some students are leaning against some of the cars. Some students are smoking. Some are drinking beer. Some are smooching. One student is throwing up. COACH PAUL BLOOM is standing on a balcony from the College Lounge/Cafeteria and looking down at the parking lot. SARAH SLOTH walks up to stand next to him. COACH PAUL BLOOM What the heck have you gotten me into. Is this where all the rejects in Georgia go to college. SARAH SLOTH It is not that bad. These are good kids. COACH PAUL BLOOM Some of these so called kids are older than you. SARAH SLOTH So. What is your point. People don’t advance at the same pace. Some people take time out to do shit. Some people start on one path they don’t like and so (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) they come back to college to start on another path. Don’t be a damn snob. COACH PAUL BLOOM I just. I don’t know. Sorry. SARAH SLOTH Well. Actually. I probably need to apologize to you. The sports programs are going to be abolished here. There of course will still be the electives that the students take for fun and to meet each other and to make an easy A. COACH PAUL BLOOM Did you know this was going to happen? From Tess Fletcher I know there had already been talk that the Sports Programs were going to be abolished. SARAH SLOTH There were rumors back and forth. See. Here is thing. My father and I want you to become qualified to take over Hotville College when President Hymen retires. COACH PAUL BLOOM I do not want to be President of this college. I want to coach. I wanted to turn the football program here around. That was the plan. SARAH SLOTH I am sorry. COACH PAUL BLOOM (screams) You are sorry. You are sorry. Unfucking believable. Your father practically owns this college. You knew this was going to happen. Students in the parking lot look up toward the balcony. SARAH SLOTH This college is going to become involved in the incubation of some (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) new businesses. It is going to be involved in training workers for businesses that are being brought to Georgia. Running this college is going to be an important job. It will also help bring you into my father’s business. COACH PAUL BLOOM I want to coach. SARAH SLOTH (points to the students) These students need jobs a hell of a lot more than they need a football team. You will need to learn to look at business the same way you look at sports. It is violent, it is dirty, and you have to play to win. COACH PAUL BLOOM (laughs and throws his hands up) My father taught me how to win at football. I am not prepared to... SARAH SLOTH Grow up. You are not prepared to grow up. I fully understand that. I guess all of us who come to teach do so because there is a part of us afraid to live outside academia. COACH PAUL BLOOM I was not going to say that I am not prepared to grow up. That isn’t a fair statement. We enter academia because we want to help students learn and prosper. But I know Sports! I do not know how to run this college. SARAH SLOTH (with anger in her voice) You will have help running this college. If you truly want to help students learn and prosper, you can better do that by taking over this college and not just trying to run some underfunded, bullshit, football team. That said though, (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) at some point you might can bring the football team back. As President! Not Coach. Sarah Sloth turns and storms into the lounge/cafeteria. A student in the parking lot throws a football up to Coach Paul Bloom. His frown turns into a smile and he throws the football back down to the student. He watches as the student catches the ball and then walks back to talk to the friend who had dared him to throw the ball up to Coach Paul. Coach Paul’s smile quickly fades. Sadly, solemnly, Coach Paul turns to go inside the lounge/cafeteria. INT. LOUNGE/CAFETERIA - DAY COACH PAUL looks at Sarah sitting with her friends at a table. He walks through a line to order what he wants to eat. He pays and taking his tray of food he sits down at a table by himself. With each bite he feels angrier. He stares at Sarah, Tess Fletcher, and Majara Ray. Some male teachers walk by. They don’t sit with him. Suddenly Coach Paul is startled when SALVADORE ROSE sits down in a chair across from Coach Paul. SALVADORE ROSE (a look of being pleased. happy.) Like man. You got fucked in the ass but good. COACH PAUL BLOOM What? SALVADORE ROSE The sports program. COACH PAUL BLOOM Oh. Yeah. I guess I was the last to know the situation. I should have done a better job of checking out the details. My God, I am thirty and still screwing up like a teenager. I guess that is why I feel so angry at Sarah. She isn’t wrong about me not acting like an adult. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. SALVADORE ROSE Yeah. Well. On the bright side Hotville is not a bad place to live. The kids here are not too bad. If you end up taking the President’s job you will be considered a big shot. (beat) Course, since your father is W. Bloom, I guess you are used to being considered a big shot. COACH PAUL BLOOM My father is famous. Not me. Most people never paid attention to me and I liked that. (beat) I guess I liked that. Now, here I am, and I feel like I am in a fish bowl. I don’t like this fish bowl feeling but I guess I did want some sort of fame. (takes a bite of food) I mean, I had dreams of building myself up to a job in pro-football. I had dreams of coaching a Super Bowl Team. I wanted that to be my fame. Now I am going to end up an administrator. A fucking administrator. Something my father totally hates. SALVADORE ROSE In High School I had dreams of being Home Coming Queen but the reality is that I am just a Queen. That is life. I live with it. COACH PAUL BLOOM You are gay? SALVADORE ROSE Does that bother you? COACH PAUL BLOOM Not really, though Sarah told me that I should pretend that I am a homophobe. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7. SALVADORE ROSE Oh yeah. Politics. I understand. Do you want me to sit somewhere else? COACH PAUL BLOOM Hell no. I want you to introduce me to the local gay scene. SALVADORE ROSE Seriously? COACH PAUL BLOOM Yeah. SALVADORE ROSE Oh. It is that way. I guess I shouldn’t judge but I think you really shouldn’t marry a woman if you prefer dick. COACH PAUL BLOOM I will totally pretend this conversation never happened if you repeat it but Sarah knows. I will not go into the details of why she wants to marry me but just so you understand, I am not out to hurt anyone. SALVADORE ROSE (smiles) I sometimes use a lesbian beard for some of my relatives who would hate me if they knew the real me. I once considered marriage with one of them but then I thought it is not like I have a career that I give a fuck about anyway. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am thinking about making up with my partner and getting him to move to Hotville. Does that make me insane? SALVADORE ROSE I don’t know. Is it insane to play with matches next to a truck filled with dynamite? (makes an extreme hand gesture to symbolize an explosion) Kaboom. Right in your face. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. (grins as he spoons a bite of his food) Or maybe not. JENNA SMYTHE walks up and sits down next Salvadore, across from Coach Paul. Jenna bats her eye lashes in a flirtatious manner toward Coach Paul. JENNA SMYTHE Sarah is going to make a beautiful bride. Coach Paul Bloom stares nervously at Jenna. He frowns. He turns up his nose. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am a lucky man. Salvadore Rose looks at Jenna and then he looks at Coach Paul. He cocks his head. His eyes widen. SALVADORE ROSE My fucking God. You two have had sex. You two have fucked. Angrily Salvadore Rose stands up. He looks down at Coach Paul. SALVADORE ROSE (cont’d) I see I’ve got myself some competition. (then he looks down at Jenna) Or maybe you, Jenna, have got yourself some competition. If you can fuck with Coach Paul then so can I. COACH PAUL BLOOM I think I have something to say about that. (laughs. he uses his fork to play with peas on his plate.) But yeah, maybe. JENNA SMYTHE (laughs as she looks at Sarah at the other table) Yeah, you and Elvira are two lucky men. COACH PAUL BLOOM What? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. Salvadore Rose walks to throw his tray on the conveyor belt. He then starts walking toward an exit. Jenna Smythe jumps up and goes after him. JENNA SMYTHE Honey, don’t be that way. You are just mad that I bagged him before you could. SALVADORE ROSE You know, though he and I just met, I felt like he and I were real friends. You know how people treat me around here. Then here you come batting your eye lashes and making clear to me what you had done. JENNA SMYTHE Sorry. He is a good guy. You will be friends. I haven’t screwed that up. You haven’t screwed that up. FADE OUT
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About Hotville WebSerial Episode 4:
In this episode more is revealed about the kidnapping of Jeremy Sloth.
It begins with a spooky trip to the cemetery by an unknown character.
Then we see an unexpected side of Bea Griffith. It is revealed that
Mayor White is horny for someone. We learn more about Coach Paul Bloom
and Salvadore Rose. Tess Fletcher has an interesting conversation with
Elvira Davis that sheds more light on what happened to Jeremy Sloth.
Then when Tess is talking to Sheriff Baskerville they realize something
important to the investigation of what happened to Jeremy. What they
realize brings the car accident and death of Sheriff Barker more into
question.
a4 - Hotville - Episode 4
Characters:
BEA GRIFFITH
Had child with Preacher John Sloth. Suspect in whatever happened to
Jeremy.
MAYOR KEITH WHITE
Suspect in whatever happened to Jeremy
JENNA SMYTHE
Transvestite who passes as a woman, and who teaches at Hotville College.
Around 26, various wigs, breast sizes, a pocketbook that holds the
kitchen sink.
Coach Paul Bloom
30 years old.
Black Hair, Blue Eyes 6'2", slightly muscular, athletic jock type,
bisexual
Salvadore Rose
Teaches at Hotville College
Mikey White
Mayor's Son.
25, blonde, blue eyes, 5'8", slim build. Owner of the Red Hank Fight
Club Gay Bar
Elvira Davis
Elvira Davis, black hair, blue eyes, 5'8". 28 years old Official
Occupation Retired Tennis Pro. Actual Occupation Spook for the
Government with a License to Kill.
TESS FLETCHER
Erotic Mystery Writer, Teacher at Hotville College, Neighbor of Coach
Paul Bloom
Moved to Hotville from Atlanta 5 years ago.
Sheriff Baskerville
Sheriff of Hotville
Hotville Episode 4 By Charles Peters
EXT. CEMETERY - NIGHT The full moon. Bright. Trees are blowing in a breeze and casting dancing shadows to haunt the imagination. A hand wearing a white glove clutches a partially open, rusted iron gate. Legs in pink stockings and black high heel shoes walk sideways through the gate. They continue along a brick walkway. They stop at a sign that reads, "Hotville Cemetery, 1835." They continue to a Mausoleum. They walk up steps. They enter the Mausoleum. A hand wearing a white glove tilts down a flower vase and a chain is pulled. Part of the wall opens. Moving toward the secret room the lighting turns to pitch black. A lantern flames with fire to reveal it is situated on a chained, padlocked, coffin. A hand wearing a white glove checks the chain, the lock, and then turns a small metal knob on the lantern. The flame lowers, rises, lowers, and then goes out. Pitch black turns to a dim light moving toward the outer area of the Mausoleum. The wall closes. Legs in pink stockings and black high heel shoes walk out and then away from the Mausoleum. INT. BEA GRIFFITH’S HOME - NIGHT A lamp flickers from bright to dim with a CRACKLE sound. A door SQUEAKS. In flickering light, a woman’s legs in pink stockings move across the floor. Feet dressed in black high heel shoes walk across the floor making the floorboards SQUEAK. The view rises from the black high heel shoes, back to the pink stockings, and then the railings of a baby bed. The view rises above the railings and then down to a Thumbelina Doll in the baby bed. Two hands, wearing white gloves, lift the doll from the baby bed and the doll is cradled to a naked breast. From the naked breast the view reveals the face of a smiling BEA GRIFFITH. BEA GRIFFITH I won’t give you up for adoption. No. I will not. I will not. INT. MAYOR KEITH WHITE’S HOME - NIGHT MAYOR KEITH WHITE stares at a picture of a younger Bea Griffith. He shakes his head. He takes a drink from a Bourbon Bottle. MAYOR KEITH WHITE The site of you standing in church as a Scarlett Woman made my dick so hard. I think I will seduce you. I wish I could make Preacher Johnny Sloth watch us fuck.
2. INT. RED HANK FIGHT CLUB - NIGHT JENNA SMYTHE is dancing with MIKEY WHITE. Majara Ray is drinking at the bar. Men can be seen dancing with each other. Women can be seen dancing with each other. Two men, wearing thongs, are wrestling on stage. SALAVADORE ROSE is watching Jenna and Mikey dance while he smokes and drinks. ELVIRA DAVIS walks up to Salvadore Rose. ELVIRA DAVIS I understand you’ve been getting friendly with Coach Paul. Any chance you can break him and Sarah up? SALVADORE ROSE No. Even if I were to have sex with him, he’d still be with Sarah. Now if you could get his X, Oscar Crumbe, to come to Hotville, that might be a plan to break them up. Using Oscar Crumbe you might be able to deal yourself a winning hand. ELVIRA DAVIS I’ve thought about doing exactly that but I don’t like dealing from the bottom of the deck. SALVADORE ROSE The hell you don’t, but I guess not with Sarah? ELVIRA DAVIS Not with Sarah. I keep telling myself not to do that to Sarah. Still, I am tempted. (looks over toward Jenna Smythe. she points toward Jenna.) Now there is a woman who confuses the hell out of me. SALVADORE ROSE How so? ELVIRA DAVIS She favors Jeremy so much. It is uncanny. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. SALVADORE ROSE Other people have said that to me and I have questioned her about it. She has no idea why they should favor so much. ELVIRA DAVIS So what is her background? SALVADORE ROSE She grew up in New York. ELVIRA DAVIS Is she adopted? SALVADORE ROSE No. ELVIRA DAVIS Just very odd. I think I will ask her to dance. SALVADORE ROSE Go for it. ELVIRA DAVIS I will. Elvira Davis leaves the bar where Salvadore is sitting. There is a graceful beauty as she priss from Salvadore toward where Jenna and Mikey are dancing. ELVIRA DAVIS (cont’d) Jenna. How would you like to dance with me? JENNA SMYTHE I would like that. MIKEY WHITE Well I would not like that. Elvira, just move along. ELVIRA DAVIS No. You move along. MIKEY WHITE I will have my bouncers remove you. Before Mikey is even sure what has happened Elvira has tossed him face down on the floor. She has her knee in his back as she twist his arm. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. ELVIRA DAVIS Stud, you don’t have enough bouncers to remove me. Do you understand? You do not boss me. MIKEY WHITE I understand. Majara watches her sister. She laughs and shakes her head. Elvira gets off of Mikey but he continues laying on the floor. Elvira starts dancing with Jenna. MIKEY WHITE (cont’d) (screams) Will someone help get me up from this floor. I think she has broken my back. ELVIRA DAVIS It will wear off in a second or two or three. A couple of men come to the dance floor to help Mikey White up from the floor and they help him walk to his office. INT. - COLLEGE - DAY COACH PAUL BLOOM walks down a hallway. He is looking at classroom numbers and looking inside of classrooms. Then he stops when he sees Salvadore sitting at a desk and talking to Mikey White. Seeing Mikey White he starts to quickly turn and keep walking but Salvadore motions for him to come into the classroom. INT. - COLLEGE CLASSROOM - DAY SALVADORE ROSE motions for COACH PAUL BLOOM to enter the classroom. Coach Paul Bloom walks into the classroom where Salvadore Rose sits with MIKEY WHITE. Mikey White looks more relaxed and laid back slouched in the chair than he looked in Church where Coach Paul first saw him. COACH PAUL BLOOM (sounding more shy than coach like) I didn’t mean to disturb you. I thought you and I might shoot some hoops before your next class. I can see you are busy. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. SALVADORE ROSE No. Glad you stopped in. Course, sports isn’t really my thing. Now Mikey here, he might would like to shoot some hoops. MIKEY WHITE (laughs) Yeah, I don’t think so. I am certain Sarah and her father would not much like it if Coach Paul and I were to become friends. COACH PAUL BLOOM And what about your father? MIKEY WHITE Point made. I guess that I had better get out of here before you and I become bosom buddies. Bosom. Romeo and Juleo like. Mikey stands up. He reaches out and shakes Coach Paul’s hand. He pats him on the shoulder. He smugly winks and then he walks out of the classroom. COACH PAUL BLOOM Yeah, I don’t think there is much danger of me becoming friends with that dude. (laughs) Much less Romeo and Juleo. Damn. SALVADORE ROSE (glances down at the papers he has been grading) I have no idea why he came in here. He may be having some sex fantasies with you being his star. He was asking me questions about you. Kind of odd. He had heard that you and I were sitting in the lounge together. COACH PAUL BLOOM So do you know him well? SALVADORE ROSE Shit no. I don’t travel in his circles. I do go to his bar and see him there but not that he would much notice me. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. COACH PAUL BLOOM I see you are doing paper work. I guess I had better get out of here and let you get back to your drudgery. SALVADORE ROSE No. Sit down. I can talk while I go over these shitty papers. I thought I was connecting with the students on this but hell no. Coach Paul Bloom sits down in a chair. Looking uncomfortable he folds and unfolds his arms. COACH PAUL BLOOM I was never that good in history either. Memorizing dates. Like damn. SALVADORE ROSE All I ask is that they know which happened first and be in the right decade. I mean, I know this is not the most important thing in the world but like if you are going to take my class, at least try. COACH PAUL BLOOM Yeah, I used to expect that from my players. I was starting one of my speeches to tell a young man how I expected more from him and then his girlfriend walked in. She heard what I had said. The kid had just learned he was dying from inoperable cancer and I was telling him how if he wanted to get anything out of this life he had to work harder. You know the speech. SALVADORE ROSE Yeah, I’ve been on both ends of it. I’ve been lectured and have lectured on working hard. COACH PAUL BLOOM When his girlfriend started cussing at my insensitivity, I realized, like hell, that speech is stupid. Just fucking enjoy life. I let him play when he could so that he could enjoy being on the team as much as (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) possible during the next 3 months. His girlfriend is the one who introduced me to Sarah during that time. It was after his funeral I decided I wanted to leave Oscar and move back to Georgia to be with Sarah. SALVADORE ROSE That is sad that he died. And yeah, I know in the grand perspective of life and death that what I do here does not mean shit. COACH PAUL BLOOM I was not trying to say that. Of course learning is important. Anyway, trying to quickly change the subject, what do you think about Hotville College? SALVADORE ROSE I get pissy like over these papers but I pretty much like it here. President Hymen is pretty cool. He comes up with some goofy ideas but I like that. COACH PAUL BLOOM Goofy ideas? Like for example. SALVADORE ROSE His idea for environmentalism is to genetically alter humans so that future generations will be one foot tall. Don’t you love that. COACH PAUL BLOOM But how will the one foot genetic mutants defeat the people who remain normal size. SALVADORE ROSE High tech sling shots. Just wipe all the giants off the face of the earth. I love that old man. Nothing gay mind you. Just, he makes me smile. COACH PAUL BLOOM He sounds cool. I hope he is not planning on retiring anytime soon (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. COACH PAUL BLOOM (cont’d) because I seriously do not want his job. SALVADORE ROSE Well. My advice is to get in his favor and get appointed as a co-administrator with him, so that you will get an idea of what the job is like. That will also put you in line to get his job when he is ready to retire. That is if you decide that you want the job. I understand that is what Mikey White is planning on doing with Josh Gordon who he hopes to take over the college. COACH PAUL BLOOM Josh Gordon. That name sounds familiar. SALVADORE ROSE I would guess Sarah has mentioned him. COACH PAUL BLOOM No. She hasn’t. But I mean that his name sounds familiar from California. SALVADORE ROSE I don’t know that much about him. Josh could be from California. I don’t know. These people have almost nothing to do with me. It is like I have leprosy or something. I am friends with Jenna Smythe and some people from the bars and that is about it. INT. HOME OF ELVIRA DAVIS - DAY TESS FLETCHER and ELVIRA DAVIS are sitting at a table and drinking coffee. TESS FLETCHER This is a lovely home. I like what you have done with it. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. ELVIRA DAVIS Well, since my knee injury caused me to have to retire from Tennis I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. TESS FLETCHER I am sorry I haven’t come by here to see you sooner. It looks like you are doing well with your knee. ELVIRA DAVIS So you caught on quickly to that. Yeah, you are right. It is easier to blame a knee injury for my retirement than saying I can no longer play worth a shit. TESS FLETCHER Oh my. I didn’t mean to suggest... ELVIRA DAVIS The truth is what it is. So you wanted to ask me questions about Jeremy Sloth? TESS FLETCHER Yes. O’Hara told me that you are not sure whether you are right on whether you saw the kidnapping or not. ELVIRA DAVIS Most days when I think about what I saw, I am fairly certain I did see the kidnapping. Then I have doubts. I did not get a good look at the men. I heard laughing. And O’Hara is right, I did not hear Jeremy scream out for help. So I think, okay maybe I am wrong. But see, Jeremy’s friends told me they were not the ones who picked him up that day. So I am left remembering how I thought Jeremy and whoever were rough housing. You know playing. Then I consider, I wonder, maybe Jeremy didn’t even fully realize he was being kidnapped. That is until it was too late. So I come back to the realization--I mean I now feel it in my gut--that I saw Jeremy being forced into a car and I did nothing to help him. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10. (takes a sip of coffee) O’Hara thinks that Jeremy’s friends just don’t want to be associated with what I saw because that would make them look suspicious. He may be right. Mikey White swears he saw Jeremy the next day perfectly okay. Regardless, in my gut, I can’t help but feel like that Jeremy was kidnapped that day and that Mikey White was just confused on what day he saw Jeremy. When I asked people at the grocery store, they had not seen Jeremy that day. TESS FLETCHER Okay, for a second, say you didn’t see the kidnapping and it was his friends picking him up. Do you think it is possible that the kidnapping was not real? Is it possible that the Sloth family were simply covering up the murder of Jeremy the way Sheriff Barker thought? ELVIRA DAVIS No. That is not possible. They all loved Jeremy. We all loved Jeremy. (raises her voice in anger) And what do you mean the way Sheriff Barker thought. Sheriff Barker thought Jeremy was kidnapped for money. And I agree. It was about money. God damn fucking money. The man I loved was kidnapped for money and I did nothing to help him. I just watched. I watched like I am a total brain dead idiot. TESS FLETCHER I’ve seen Sheriff Barker’s files and his theory was that the Sloth family was covering up the murder of Jeremy. ELVIRA DAVIS (voice in a more calm tone as she visibly tries to calm herself) I have no idea what was or is in Sheriff Barker’s files but that was (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 11. ELVIRA DAVIS (cont’d) never the impression that he gave me. Sheriff Barker talked to me a few days before he was killed in that wreck. At that point he was still investigating the case as a kidnapping for ransom and a possible murder. That is what he indicated to me. TESS FLETCHER Did he tell you who he suspected? ELVIRA DAVIS No, but it was obvious he did suspect someone. The way I see it now. Not when I was talking to him or from what he said. Just the way I see it now; the kidnapping had to have been done by someone who would not be so obvious. Still, it had to have been someone who Jeremy knew because of the way he behaved at the car. It might not have been his regular friends that I questioned, but it must have been someone that he knew. Also, it must have been someone who would not have drawn suspicion to themselves when they suddenly had money. TESS FLETCHER Someone rich or someone who always pretended so. That would make sense. ELVIRA DAVIS Going back to those days, there is my sister’s husband, Johnny Ray. I don’t want to suspect him but as a gambler he was always someone who would have money one day and be broke the next. Then there is Mayor White. Back in those days he made his money by buying businesses, turning them around, and then selling them. A sudden display of wealth would not have drawn attention to him. There is the Bloom family. They have always been rich. W. wouldn’t have kidnapped Jeremy for money but... I don’t know. That is unlikely. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12. TESS FLETCHER What? Why would you suspect W.? ELVIRA DAVIS I am just not liking the Bloom family right now. Forget that I said that. At church the other day something else occurred to me. I don’t remember. Were you at church? TESS FLETCHER Yes. I felt so sorry for Preacher John and Gladys. And gosh, Bea, she looked mortified at it all coming out about her having Preacher John’s child. ELVIRA DAVIS I started thinking. What if Bea was jealous of Jeremy. I know it sounds ridiculous that Bea could have been behind the kidnapping but still I wondered. And she did come into money about that time from a distant relative. That was her story. I never really thought much about it until I learned that she and Preacher John had a child together. TESS FLETCHER I guess that is something to think about. I don’t want Bea to be involved but you know I do not want any of them to be guilty. ELVIRA DAVIS I just don’t know. And you are right about it being awful to suspect these people. The truth is, hell, I don’t totally look or feel innocent. I always come back to why didn’t I realize Jeremy was being kidnapped? If I had just realized what was happening I might could have saved Jeremy. TESS FLETCHER What could you have done? You didn’t know. From what you say Jeremy might not have even known what was happening that day he was kidnapped. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13. (beat) So you were in love with Jeremy. ELVIRA DAVIS I will always love Jeremy. TESS FLETCHER And you are are close friends with Sarah. ELVIRA DAVIS Yeah, Sarah and I are friends now but we were not friends back then. Going back earlier, to High School, Sarah was a cheerleader and I was a hood. Sarah thought I was not good enough for Jeremy and in truth I wasn’t. If not for Jeremy there is no telling what direction my life might have taken. TESS FLETCHER So Sarah was protective of Jeremy? ELVIRA DAVIS They were protective of each other. TESS FLETCHER So there is no way that Sarah was involved. I don’t know why Sheriff Barker implicated her in his records. The more I think about it the more silly the notion sounds. Sheriff Baskerville kept telling me I was wrong to think Sarah was involved. And hell I know the girl. I like her. Just right there in Sheriff Barker’s records, he implicates her, so I got off on this crazy idea. Tess Fletcher takes a final gulp of coffee. She grabs up her pocketbook as she stands. TESS FLETCHER Much thanks for seeing me. You have been wonderful in straightening me out about Sarah. And you come by my place to see me. You will always be welcome. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14. ELVIRA DAVIS I may come to see you. And please let me know what you are finding out. It is very important for me to know what happened to Jeremy. TESS FLETCHER I will. And please let me know what you are able to discover. I will not put anything in the book that you do not want in the book. You have full veto. You seem to have given this case a lot of thought. ELVIRA DAVIS Thank you for giving me veto power. I promise to be reasonable with any suggestions. To be honest, when O’Hara told me that you are writing a book I was not happy. Then he convinced me that you might help me find peace if we can learn the truth. TESS FLETCHER I understand. I realize now more than ever how hard this has been for you and why O’Hara pushed me to research this book. ELVIRA DAVIS My brother does worry about me. Since he is a detective I was kind of shocked that he thought you might be able to discover more about the case than he has been able to discover. TESS FLETCHER I don’t really know the people the way you and he do. That is I don’t know the way they were back then. I didn’t grow up here, so in one way it puts me at a disadvantage but in another way it puts me at an advantage. I mean I was totally wrong about Sarah. I feel certain about that now but it was a path that needed to be explored. Now I have to go figure out why Sheriff Barker’s records show he looked at Sarah as a (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 15. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) suspect but you say she was never his suspect. ELVIRA DAVIS As far as I know she was never his suspect. Yeah, Jeremy and Sarah did have a fight over me but it was no big deal. TESS FLETCHER Wait. I thought the fight was where they were both dating the same person. One of them was involved in a gay relationship. ELVIRA DAVIS This is not for public consumption. Sarah and I are both bisexual or lesbian if that is what you want to call it. We did not have sex during that period of time. We didn’t even like one another back then. Now understand, I will deny this and it must not be in your book but I will be honest with you. Sarah and I are currently lovers. TESS FLETCHER Was Jeremy bisexual or gay or whatever? I mean, was there a man that both he and Sarah may have dated. ELVIRA DAVIS I don’t know. I have always been reluctant to talk to Sarah about Jeremy. It is so sad for both of us. I have wanted to talk to her and question her at times but Jeremy was a major sore spot with Sarah and me. I don’t mean to put it all off on Sarah but she didn’t understand our relationship. Jeremy and I loved one another but we weren’t exclusive. He dated my sister Majara off and on. I wouldn’t call what he and O’Hara did as dating but it was pretty close. I am sure there were other people. I saw other people. So Sarah just thought I was using (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 16. ELVIRA DAVIS (cont’d) Jeremy because he did spend money to help me. TESS FLETCHER But you really aren’t sure who else he might have been seeing or what sex they were. ELVIRA DAVIS No. TESS FLETCHER I guess I will need to have an uncomfortable conversation with Sarah. And don’t you worry, I don’t judge and what needs to be kept secret will be kept secret. ELVIRA DAVIS Thank you. Tess Fletcher rushes out the door. INT. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE’S OFFICE - DAY TESS FLETCHER and SHERIFF BASKERVILLE are sitting at a table. Three empty jail cells can be seen in background of where they are sitting. TESS FLETCHER I see Raymond Burch is no longer in a cell. Did someone finally pay his fine. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Yeah, his mom. His father would just as soon I kept feeding him. I don’t know why his father treats him the way that he does. You know, Raymond is not a bad person. TESS FLETCHER Oh. I know. And he is one my smarter students when his allergies aren’t acting up. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE His allergies? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 17. TESS FLETCHER Yeah. He makes 100’s when his allergies aren’t messed up but he totally can’t take a test when he is having a bad allergy day. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I didn’t win a single checker game against him. Guess I keep the jail cell too clean for my own good. TESS FLETCHER (laughs and hits at the Sheriff’s shoulder.) You would not have wanted to win at checkers by causing him to have an allergy attack. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I guess not. TESS FLETCHER So did you get your car cleaned up from where he threw up in the back of it? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE He cleaned it. He did a real good job. He didn’t complain once while he was cleaning and getting that gross mess out of the car. He just kept apologizing to me. That apologizing made me feel guilty as hell for not driving him home when I picked him up for being publicly intoxicated. I should say his apologizing and me having to feed him for the next month. (beat) I do now miss him though. TESS FLETCHER Yeah. I will tell him to stop by here. You know, when he graduates he might make you a good Deputy. What do you think? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I thought he was going to be a writer. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 18. TESS FLETCHER Shit. You know most writers have to wear more than one hat. That is if they want to eat. For his writing he has been taking a lot of Criminology classes. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Most kids who graduate with a degree in Criminology move to one of the bigger cities. They don’t even bother approaching me about a job. TESS FLETCHER Talk to Raymond about becoming your Deputy. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I may just do that. Thanks Tess. TESS FLETCHER No problem. I think you will be able to teach him a lot that he wouldn’t be able to learn else where. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Me teach him. And since when do you think that you aren’t the better investigator than me? TESS FLETCHER Since I think you are totally right about me being wrong about Sarah. I don’t know why I let Sheriff Barker’s files point me in the wrong direction. Tess starts sorting through the files on the table. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) Elvira told me that the last time she had a conversation with Sheriff Barker he did not suspect Sarah of anything. If what she is saying is true then these files do not make sense. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Now you and I are thinking alike. Look at the writing style. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 19. TESS FLETCHER (looks at the pages) I don’t see. What do you mean? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Come on Tess. This style matches most of the other records in the archives. This is the file that implicates Sarah. Tess Fletcher looks over the regular file and then at the file that implicates Sarah. She puzzles. She scratches her head. She thumps on the table. She keeps comparing the files. Then she rolls her eyes in a laughing expression, a sudden realization, of what Sheriff Baskerville is talking about. TESS FLETCHER At times Sheriff Barker wrote in short sentences heavy with his own made up abbreviations. There is none of that in the file that implicates Sarah. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Exactly. TESS FLETCHER So if someone put records into the archive they may also have destroyed part of the archive. My word! Do you think the car accident that killed Sheriff Barker was really an accident. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I don’t know. I am going to begin a criminal investigation into the death of Sheriff Barker, even to the point of having his body exhumed and a new autopsy. (looking at the files for a moment) Odd that you and I reached the same conclusion of there being something wrong with the files near the same time. TESS FLETCHER Not so odd. From the beginning you were right about Sarah. Then Elvira helped me to catch up with you. Glad you noticed the queer (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 20. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) thing about these files because I am not sure I would have noticed to be able to prove what I was thinking. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE So was Elvira much help? TESS FLETCHER Quite a bit. I don’t know why everyone says what they do about Elvira being unfriendly. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I am sure her brother O’hara had something to do with her being friendly to you. So besides making clear to you that Sarah had nothing to do with Jeremy’s kidnapping, how else did she help you? TESS FLETCHER She has thought the case out to the point of creating a suspect list of sorts. Among her suspects includes her own brother-in-law Johnny Ray, Mayor White, and Bea. She started to suggest someone in the Bloom family but then backed off that suggestion. That was kind of odd. She didn’t know if Jeremy swung both ways or not. Now don’t spread this around, she and Sarah do. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Do what? TESS FLETCHER You know. Swing both ways. I am telling you for the investigation. Do not let what I am telling you become gossip. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Understood. So Elvira was having sex with both Jeremy and Sarah? TESS FLETCHER No. No. Not according to Elvira. She said in those days she and Sarah didn’t even like one (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 21. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) another. Still, for some reason Elvira did think she was the one that Jeremy and Sarah were fighting over. That said though, she made clear that Sarah and her were not seeing one another back then. I am thinking there was someone else. Someone that both Jeremy and Sarah were dating but Elvira had no idea who that might be. I am going to need to talk to Sarah to see if she will tell me. FADE OUT
Characters:
TESS FLETCHER
Erotic Mystery Writer, Teacher at Hotville College, Neighbor of Coach
Paul Bloom
Moved to Hotville from Atlanta 5 years ago.
Sylvia Sloth
Wife of Joseph Sloth. Mother of Sarah Sloth.
Sarah Sloth
Teaches at Hotville College, Engaged to Coach Paul Bloom, Lesbian Lover
is Elvira Davis. Around 26. Parents are rich. They want her married to a
man and she likes having money. Has taught for around 3 years.
Mikey White
Mayor's Son. 25, blonde, blue eyes, 5'8", slim build. Owner of the Red
Hank Fight Club Gay Bar
JENNA SMYTHE
Transvestite who passes as a woman, and who teaches at Hotville College.
Around 26, various wigs, breast sizes, a pocketbook that holds the
kitchen sink.
Joseph Sloth
Father of Sarah. Rich. Think Jimmy Stewart type in looks.
Coach Paul Bloom
30 years old.
Black Hair, Blue Eyes 6'2", slightly muscular, athletic jock type,
bisexual
Elvira Davis
Elvira Davis, black hair, blue eyes, 5'8". 28 years old Official
Occupation Retired Tennis Pro. Actual Occupation Spook for the
Government with a License to Kill.
Bea Griffith
Had child with Preacher John Sloth. Suspect in whatever happened to
Jeremy.
About Episode:
Tess Fletcher learns more details about when Jeremy disappeared. She
talks with Sarah Sloth.
We see Mikey White has a sexual relationship with Bea Griffith. We
learn that Bea Griffith wants whoever is locked in the coffin to be
freed.
We learn that Jenna Smythe is also a witch. The degree she has magic
powers is not yet fully known. We also learn that she is a friend and an
accomplice with Mikey White regarding the chained coffin in the
Mausoleum.
We still do not know what happened to Jeremy though there are more
clues. We also do not know who, if anyone, is locked in the coffin.
WebSerial Hotville Episode 5
Hotville Episode 5 By Charles Peters
INT. SLOTH MANSION - NIGHT Soaked, drenched, with hair like a wet cat, TESS FLETCHER climbs a large column of stairs. There is a BOOM OF THUNDER. Tess jumps. She looks up toward the skylight above the staircase. From looking at Tess we look up toward the skylight. We see lightning flashing in the night sky through the skylight. We HEAR the SOUND of HAIL HITTING the skylight. We see large balls of bouncing hail. In flickering light our view moves toward the skylight back to Tess. She is now looking from the staircase toward the center of the room. We turn from Tess to see what she is seeing. A Chandelier is swaying in a breeze and its lights are flickering on and off. Still in flickering light, from watching the Chandelier we turn back to the frightened face of Tess. She looks down the stairs and then she looks up the stairs. We also look down and then up the stairs. LOUD BOOM of THUNDER. Lights go out. TESS FLETCHER Where did that butler go? Did he call Sarah on the Intercom to expect me. (screams) Sarah. The butler told me to come up. (beat, screams) Sarah! Lights come back on. No flickering. SYLVIA SLOTH walks on to the balcony at the top of the staircase. She is dressed in a nightgown, ready for bed. SYLVIA SLOTH (a tone of of slight derision) Tess. It is rather late to be out. (now more concern) And in this storm. You are soaked, dripping water. Tess shakes her head like a wet dog. Though her windbreaker is still on, it is loose and she shakes water from it. TESS FLETCHER I am afraid the late hour slipped up on me. (laughs) So did the storm. I had called Sarah earlier to be expecting (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) me. It was a longer ride on my bicycle from the Jailhouse than I realized. SYLVIA SLOTH (turns toward bedrooms, yells) Sarah, you have company. (turns toward Tess, smiles) I will show you where Sarah’s bedroom is. Tess climbs the stairs to stand next to Sylvia. She follows Sylvia to Sarah’s bedroom. Sylvia knocks on Sarah’s door. No one answers. Sylvia opens the door. The bedroom is empty. SYLVIA SLOTH (cont’d) Sarah must have returned to her home or to the home of Coach Bloom. I thought she was sleeping here tonight. TESS FLETCHER When I talked to her, that was also my understanding. Course, I am running late and my cellphone has been doing weird. She could have tried to call me and I would not know it. SYLVIA SLOTH You said you rode your bicycle here? TESS FLETCHER Yes. SYLVIA SLOTH (in a laughing voice) I lost my virginity on a bicycle. (looks from side to side and with her hand to her mouth toward Tess’ ear, in a hushed voice) I called my bicycle Clyde. (slaps Tess on the shoulder and laughs) I will go to my room and get my phone to see if I can reach Sarah. If you like, you can wait in Sarah’s room. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. TESS FLETCHER Thank you and I am so sorry for this. SYLVIA SLOTH No problem. Tess walks into the bedroom while Sylvia walks down the hall. Tess looks on the bed and at an open year book lying there. The yearbook is turned to a page with Jeremy Sloth pictured. TESS FLETCHER My word. Jenna Smythe favors Jeremy. Unusual. SARAH SLOTH walks into her bedroom. SARAH SLOTH I was talking to my father in his office. I am sorry I did not greet you. TESS FLETCHER I was running late. I guess I could have asked you on the phone what I wanted to ask but I know it is a sad topic and I wanted to be able to see your face in case I am crossing a line. I mean, I don’t want to accidentally be hurtful or make you angry. SARAH SLOTH Elvira warned me that you would be asking me about Jeremy. I didn’t realize how she had been avoiding the subject with me but I guess I had also been avoiding the subject. TESS FLETCHER I want to make clear that you are not a suspect. We now realize that someone has tampered with Sheriff Barker’s files. SARAH SLOTH That someone tampered with his files to implicate me is troubling. Elvira said the more she thought about it, the more it upset her. I am not really sure what I should think about it. I obviously have an enemy. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. TESS FLETCHER Yes and it also makes us wonder if someone murdered Sheriff Barker. That thought is very disturbing. SARAH SLOTH I don’t understand who would want to suggest I had anything to do with what happened to Jeremy. TESS FLETCHER This is not what I came here to ask you but still I must. Is it possible that Jeremy and Jenna Smythe are one and the same person? SARAH SLOTH Elvira told me that I can trust you and that she has shared some things. TESS FLETCHER Yes. I understand about you and Elvira. SARAH SLOTH When Coach Paul told me that Jenna is a man, I thought Jenna and Jeremy must be one and the same person. I was going to confront her, him. But see, Jenna knows that Coach Paul Bloom is bi-sexual and that creates a situation. I don’t want my parents to know. TESS FLETCHER I understand. So Coach Paul discovered Jenna is a man because they were... SARAH SLOTH Yes. Anyway, I am left wondering if I cried and cried over my cousin when the entire time the entire thing was about him bilking my father out of a million dollars. TESS FLETCHER I will confront Jenna. You and Coach Paul will not be mentioned. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. SARAH SLOTH Thank you for that. Elvira told me that you would be asking me if Jeremy and I dated the same person and if that is what we fought about. TESS FLETCHER Yes. SARAH SLOTH That is not what we were fighting about. I don’t know why Mikey said that. I wanted Jeremy to stop seeing Elvira. I was not friends with Elvira then as I am now. TESS FLETCHER Did you ever date Mikey White? SARAH SLOTH Yes. TESS FLETCHER So Mikey could have thought you were fighting over him. And he is the one who wanted to confuse people on when Jeremy was kidnapped. SARAH SLOTH Wait. You think Jeremy and Mikey had a sexual thing. TESS FLETCHER I don’t want to jump to conclusions. I’ve already made that mistake once. I guess I need to talk to Mikey. SARAH SLOTH Be careful when talking to Mikey. While your friend Sheriff Baskerville controls the County Sheriff’s Office, Mayor White controls the City police. TESS FLETCHER Do you think they would threaten me? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. SARAH SLOTH I don’t like Mikey White. I don’t trust Mikey White. Now mind you, part of that dislike comes from a rivalry between my father and his father. TESS FLETCHER I understand. Still, you may be right. I may let Sheriff Baskerville do the questioning of Mikey White. Sarah Sloth reaches out and pulls Tess into her arms and hugs her. SARAH SLOTH Thank you for investigating all of this. SYLVIA SLOTH enters the bedroom. SYLVIA SLOTH I have some clothes that should fit you. I have a bath prepared and the clothes laid out. You need to get out of those wet clothes before you catch a cold. INT. HOME OF BEA GRIFFITH - NIGHT Mikey White is let into the home by Bea at the front door. He walks in and over to a recliner chair. He sits down, reclines back, and props his legs up. Bea walks to the Fridge in the kitchen and gets a couple of beers. She walks back to the living room, hands Mikey White one of the beers and pops the other one for herself. Mikey White pops the beer. He takes a drink. He places the beer on an end table next to the chair. He unzips his pants and pulls out his cock. He starts to play with his cock with Bea watching. She quickly finishes her beer and throws the can into the trash. She strips naked. She climbs into the reclining chair to straddle Mikey White. She begins to ride Mikey White’s cock. EXT. HOME OF BEA GRIFFITH - NIGHT Jenna Smythe is on the porch next to a porch swing and peeping inside the window at Mikey and Bea having sex. Her eyes have a strange reddish glow. Using a flashlight she rubs her genital area through her dress. She turns and walks off the porch.
7. EXT. CHURCH STREET - NIGHT With light from the flashlight Jenna Smythe walks in the rain. She walks past Preacher Johnny Sloth’s church. She turns down a path. She walks through a partially open gate to the cemetery. She walks to the Mausoleum. She climbs steps. She enters the Mausoleum. INT. MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT JENNA SMYTHE tips over a vase and a chain is pulled. The door to the secret room in the Mausoleum opens. She lights candles throughout the secret room in the Mausoleum as the door to the secret room closes. In candle light she strips herself naked. Her wet clothes are in a puddle on the floor. From viewing the pile of wet clothes we look at her smoothly shaved legs from all angles. We look at her smooth ass; then her large, soft cock. The focus moves to her slender but muscular chest and then her back. Our viewing rises to the back of her head and her wig. Then we look at her face, her makeup. We see an attractive woman. From her face our view moves to her arm and then to her hand touching her cock. The focus remains on her cock as she walks toward the coffin and then her soft cock touches against the iron chain that wraps around the chained coffin. Her hand moves away from her cock and to where the chains are padlocked. She fondles the padlock that locks the chains. The view pulls back as she climbs on top of the coffin. She begins to hump the coffin. The secret door opens. MIKEY WHITE enters the Mausoleum. The secret door closes. Mikey White watches Jenna hump the coffin for a moment. MIKEY WHITE What the hell are you doing? JENNA SMYTHE (startled) I don’t know. Jenna Smythe looks around. She looks at her cock. JENNA SMYTHE (cont’d) I don’t remember even coming in here. I have no memory of coming here. MIKEY WHITE I saw you in the window watching Bea and me. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. JENNA SMYTHE I don’t remember watching. I think he is calling me. We need to free him from the coffin. MIKEY WHITE Be glad that is impossible because if we did free him, he would kill us. Now get dressed. We need to get out of here. JENNA SMYTHE One of these days I am going to free him. MIKEY WHITE Then one of these days he is going to kill you. Kill us. INT. SYLVIA SLOTH’S BATHROOM - NIGHT Naked, her large breast bouncing, TESS FLETCHER climbs into the large bathtub that is big enough for several people. Airjets are blowing the water. With a smile she lowers herself into the water. Focus moves from the top of her head, her smiling face, to her nice breast sticking out of the water, to a blurred beneath water view of her vagina area, and to her feet partially beneath and above water. Her toes, painted in pink nail polish are sticking out of the water and wiggling. She begins stretching in the water with a yawn. JOSEPH SLOTH enters the bathroom. She quickly moves to cover her breast with one hand and her vagina area with the other hand. JOSEPH SLOTH Would it upset you if I strip naked and crawl into the tub with you? TESS FLETCHER What would Sylvia think? JOSEPH SLOTH It was her idea. TESS FLETCHER Somehow I doubt that. JOSEPH SLOTH Well, you in the bath anyway. You can’t blame a man for trying. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. TESS FLETCHER You are a married man. Turns and leaves the bathroom. INT. COACH PAUL’S HOUSE - NIGHT COACH PAUL BLOOM is sitting at his table. The lights flicker on and off. He is looking over an old football playbook. His cellphone is laying on the table. He looks at it. He reaches out to touch it. He then pushes it away. COACH PAUL BLOOM I must not call Oscar. I must not call him. KNOCK. KNOCK. Coach Paul gets up and walks to the door to answer it. He opens the door and ELVIRA DAVIS walks in. He views the storm outside for a moment and then closes the door. ELVIRA DAVIS I behaved threatening toward you and I am sorry. We both love Sarah and we can make this work. COACH PAUL BLOOM Agreed. Elvira Davis walks over to the table where Coach Paul has the football playbook open. She glances at it. ELVIRA DAVIS Football has been your life. COACH PAUL BLOOM Pretty much so. ELVIRA DAVIS So what is your plan to keep the football team at Hotville College? COACH PAUL BLOOM I don’t have a plan. Sarah wants me to become President of the college and I guess if that happens then I will be able to restore the football program. Elvira walks from the table and closer to where Coach Paul is standing. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10. ELVIRA DAVIS But then you will not be able to coach. COACH PAUL BLOOM No. ELVIRA DAVIS That sucks. (beat) Well. I am not going to stay. I just wanted to let you know that I am over my crazy and that I am sorry the way I behaved. COACH PAUL BLOOM What caused the change? I mean, the change in your feelings toward me. ELVIRA DAVIS Thinking about Jeremy Sloth. (beat) I guess I better be going. Are we good? COACH PAUL BLOOM Yes. I am glad you visited. I am hoping we will be friends. I know that is awkward but still. ELVIRA DAVIS As long as you do nothing to hurt Sarah, there is no reason for us to be enemies. COACH PAUL BLOOM Understood. INT. MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT BEA GRIFFITH is standing at the chained coffin. The secret room is lit with candles. BEA GRIFFITH I must find a way to break the curse that binds these chains and prevents the key from working on the padlocks. I can find nothing that can break, can cut, these chains. I must break the curse, the magic, that locks you from me.
11. INT. RED HANK FIGHT CLUB - NIGHT MIKEY WHITE and JENNA SMYTHE sit in Mikey White’s office. JENNA SMYTHE I don’t see how you can have sex with Bea. MIKEY WHITE She is attractive. JENNA SMYTHE You are gay. MIKEY WHITE Don’t put me in that box. And please do not try to tell me that there are not times you find yourself attracted to women. I saw the way you were looking at Elvira. JENNA SMYTHE She is a beautiful woman. MIKEY WHITE Yes, she is. JENNA SMYTHE Dancing is not having sex. MIKEY WHITE So you are saying that if you could, you would not want to have sex with Elvira. JENNA SMYTHE I don’t know. Maybe with Elvira. But with Bea. No way! MIKEY WHITE I like Bea. And when she is riding my cock, it is different. It is different from when I’ve been with any other person. I like that feeling. JENNA SMYTHE She is mentally off. MIKEY WHITE Hell. We are all mentally off. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12. JENNA SMYTHE I am not. MIKEY WHITE You were fucking a coffin. JENNA SMYTHE I wasn’t. It was not me. That is the only way I can explain it. It was not me. MIKEY WHITE I know it wasn’t exactly you. My guess is that a witch, probably Bea, thinks that you are the one who bound those chains and was compelling you, thinking she could get you to break the spell. That is my off the cuff theory, but I am not sure that is even possible. Could Bea do that kind of spell while she and I are having sex? JENNA SMYTHE Yes. The sex could have been part of the ritual and why I was drawn to the two of you before going to the Mausoleum. So Bea could be trying to free him? But why? MIKEY WHITE I don’t know. It is her threat, to reveal the Vampire in the Mausoleum, that she uses to maintain a hold over me. I had always thought her discovery of our secret was accidental. Then I discovered the magic books and that she is a witch. I know she dabbles in magic just as you do. JENNA SMYTHE Before you start up again on me being her son, I am not. I am not her son. It is just a coincidence that she has some magic power as do I. MIKEY WHITE You favor Jeremy. You and Bea are both witches. You must be her son. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13. JENNA SMYTHE I am not her son and I am not the witch who locked those chains around the coffin. I’ve told you that more than once. If I could, I would free him. No witch, Bea or anyone else, would have to compel me to do it. I would free him on my own. MIKEY WHITE And if Bea thinks you are the one who cursed those chains to be unbreakable, then she isn’t the one who bound those chains. So who did it? He, himself, couldn’t have put the curse on the chains because if he had that power then he, himself, could break the spell and free himself. JENNA SMYTHE I once had a dream that he isn’t really in the coffin. I dreamed that it was all a charade to fool someone. MIKEY WHITE An empty coffin. And the letter to us was just to help in the charade. JENNA SMYTHE Maybe to fool Bea. Maybe he was trying to get away from her. She might even be the witch who cursed him to be a vampire. MIKEY WHITE Is there any spell that you can use to look inside the coffin, to see if he is there. JENNA SMYTHE As you know, it is bound by magic. The only way to look in that coffin is to break the chains and I have been unable to work that spell. As I’ve told you, I am not very powerful. MIKEY WHITE If he is in the coffin and we break the chains, with his new found (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14. MIKEY WHITE (cont’d) freedom he will kill us. Even if you were that powerful, that would not be smart. Can’t you cast a spell to see in the coffin through a mirror or a crystal ball? JENNA SMYTHE There may be such a spell, but I do not know it. I am not really much of a witch. MIKEY WHITE So you keep telling me. I am not so sure I am convinced. FADE OUT
a6 - Hotville - Episode 6 (WebSerial)
Hotville Episode 6 By Charles Peters
INT. SLOTH MANSION - DAY TESS FLETCHER, SYLVIA SLOTH, and JOSEPH SLOTH are sitting in a large sun room eating breakfast. TESS FLETCHER Thank you so much for letting me sleep over. SYLVIA SLOTH No problem. TESS FLETCHER Back on the subject of my current obsession, Jeremy. My understanding is that you, Joseph, delivered the ransom in person. JOSEPH SLOTH That is right. Besides the popular resort and campground on Hotville Lake there is another campground. I actually own it. It is totally run down and is currently closed. It is the Sloth Campground. That is where the ransom drop was done. The money was left in an old cave there. TESS FLETCHER Sheriff Barker’s records, which I am now fully aware have been altered, said the ransom drop was done in a crowd at your brother’s church. JOSEPH SLOTH That is wrong and Sheriff Barker would not have put that in his records. TESS FLETCHER I guess I need to see if I can get Sheriff Baskerville to go out to the Sloth Campground with me. Joseph, if there is any way you can find the time, it would be good if you could go with us. JOSEPH SLOTH I don’t have a thing planned for this morning. If it is agreeable to the Sheriff and you, we can go as soon as we can hit the road. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2. TESS FLETCHER I will call him and find out. INT. CAVE AT THE SLOTH CAMPGROUND - DAY TESS FLETCHER, SHERIFF BASKERVILLE, and JOSEPH SLOTH are standing just inside the entrance to the cave. The sun is shinning into the cave. We see that each of them, one by one, has a flashlight. Sheriff Baskerville turns his flashlight on and off to make sure that it is working. JOSEPH SLOTH I haven’t been in this cave since Sheriff Barker and I returned here to look for evidence and to see if the money was gone. The paid ransom was gone and I guess the kidnappers got it. (beat, does he sound sincere or not, the viewer should wonder) Still Jeremy was not returned to us. It broke our hearts. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I looked at some of the old evidence that Sheriff Barker had recovered from the cave. There was a matchbook from the Hotville Cafe. There was some spent bullet casings. There was a cross. Do you remember anything else that he gathered that I missed locating or that may have been tampered with? JOSEPH SLOTH There was an old Falconian Cap. Sheriff Barker collected some condoms from the cave. There was some beer cans and some sacks from a couple of Restaurants. TESS FLETCHER If that was from the kidnappers that would have been very sloppy of them. Even back then they had pretty good DNA lab work. Also that would be evidence of where the kidnappers may have gone while in Hotville. That evidence might have provided some pretty good clues, leads, for Sheriff Barker. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. JOSEPH SLOTH The thing is this cave was a favorite of the young gay tourist and locals. The campground was run down back then but it was one of the favorite haunts of young men partying. TESS FLETCHER But see, even that would be something Sheriff Barker could have explored. Someone might have seen something. JOSEPH SLOTH Sheriff Barker did his best. Do not think I am trying to put him down because I am not. Sheriff Barker had no co-operation from the state. There was no co-operation from those assholes in Atlanta no matter how much I demanded it. I hadn’t supported the then current governor and he had NOT forgotten the deals I made in trying to defeat him. TESS FLETCHER Are you saying he interfered with the investigation to stop the Sheriff from getting help from state law enforcement? JOSEPH SLOTH My family was made suspect by the state officials. Sheriff Barker knew better. He didn’t suspect us; but because of the Governor and our current Mayor other people did. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Tess, don’t make corruption under the Georgia Gold Dome part of your book. That would be a mistake. JOSEPH SLOTH Oh gosh yes, do not put what I just told you in your book. You do not want to do that. And I do not think they had a thing to do with what happened to Jeremy. It is just they, corrupt and disgusting as they were, were trying to take advantage of the politics of the situation. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. TESS FLETCHER That is what you say, but especially with the White family it could have been more than politics. JOSEPH SLOTH I don’t know. The Mayor and I have been rivals a long time. He plays dirty but that dirty; the kidnapping of Jeremy? I doubt it. TESS FLETCHER Someone kidnapped that young man. They probably killed that young man. You have to realize that killers do not wear an id that declares that they are murderers. They look like everyone else. They try not to bring attention to themselves. Whoever was behind what happened is probably someone that you would never suspect. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Now Tess it could be a total stranger. This was not a crime of violence; emotion. This was a crime for money and that means total strangers could have been involved. TESS FLETCHER That may be true, but the way that Elvira described the kidnapping it was someone who Jeremy knew. He thought they were just horsing around. He didn’t realize he was being kidnapped just as Elvira didn’t realize he was being kidnapped. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Still the unknown suspect could have been a casual acquaintance, acquaintance but still a stranger, who he had just met around the college or the lake or anywhere. This suspect could be someone he might have known for a few days or even weeks but still be a stranger. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. TESS FLETCHER That is true. It could have been someone pretending to be his friend for a period of time before the kidnapping. So shit, that really increases our suspect list. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE No. We just have to do basic police work, ask people questions, to see if we can find who may have been new in Jeremy’s life before the kidnapping. It would have been much easier if done at the time of the kidnapping but it can still be done. JOSEPH SLOTH Sheriff Barker did take Jeremy’s computer stuff and also did a search on his phone records. I had forgotten about that. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Yeah, I’ve looked for the evidence. It is gone. The copy of the phone records and the computer is gone. TESS FLETCHER Sheriff Barker had to have figured the mystery, the guilty party, out and that is why he was killed and records and evidence were altered or removed. (beat) But why did it take him so long to figure it out? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I hate to say it but maybe he did figure it out from near the beginning. TESS FLETCHER Ben! You can’t believe Sheriff Barker was dishonest. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I don’t want to believe it; but you see how the evidence should have been laid out for him. How could he not have solved the case? It is (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE (cont’d) difficult now, but it should not have been that difficult back then when the case was fresh. JOSEPH SLOTH A lot of pressure was being brought on him, on both of us, to let it go. And God help me, at some point, one morning I woke up and I put Jeremy out of my mind and I did let it go. I put it all behind me. TESS FLETCHER It couldn’t have just been politics. Someone high up must have been involved. It all goes back to the White family. Doesn’t it? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Tess. Mayor White can make our lives miserable if we start trying to implicate him in this. TESS FLETCHER So we should just let it go? We should not seek justice for Jeremy. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I hate when people say that. Justice! When what they really mean is revenge. TESS FLETCHER (with a dirty look toward the Sheriff) So you think we should stop investigating? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE No. We just need to be careful and hope the rocks we turn over do not lead back to Mayor White or his son. With light from their flashlights they walk deeper into the cave. They look at the sides of the cave. There are various drawings that have been done with spray paint. We focus on one bit of graffiti that is hard to read. The word coffin, in red paint, comes into focus to be readable. Then we move on. They keep walking. The distance between the cave walls narrow as they walk. They reach an area where to keep (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7. walking they would have to squeeze in, walking sideways. They stop. JOSEPH SLOTH I left the four suitcases with the money squeezed there. TESS FLETCHER You carried all four of the suitcases by yourself? JOSEPH SLOTH No. My brother was with me. TESS FLETCHER How were you told to make the drop here? JOSEPH SLOTH A letter was left under the door of Bea’s home. She brought the letter to me and my brother. Well, to my brother. I was standing there. She did not see who had left the letter. TESS FLETCHER Is it a coincidence that the ransom note was left with Bea? She is one of our suspects. JOSEPH SLOTH What? No. TESS FLETCHER She may have resented that Jeremy was accepted by Preacher John while she was forced to give her baby up. That could be her motive. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Tess. Even if she were driven by madness to kidnap and hurt Jeremy, which I doubt, could she have also murdered Sheriff Barker? Could she have altered records and messed with evidence. I don’t think she is capable of doing such things. My God, we are talking about Bea. She brings cookies and cakes to me. She is a nice lady. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. TESS FLETCHER I don’t want Bea to be guilty. I like Bea. Still, I think Elvira was right to put her on the suspect list. According to Elvira she did suddenly have money after the kidnapping. JOSEPH SLOTH That was money from a relative who had died. TESS FLETCHER Do you know that for sure? JOSEPH SLOTH No. Bea and I barely have ever spoken. Anyway, didn’t Elvira say there were two men who kidnapped Jeremy? TESS FLETCHER She didn’t see them well enough to be able to identify them and therefore she could not identify their sex. JOSEPH SLOTH So in this theory, Bea and some unknown person kidnapped Jeremy. So I guess the question would be, who was Bea friends with during that period? (beat) I can’t remember anyone in particular who might have been involved with her but then we didn’t really associate. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE You know, now that I think about it, she was running a boarding house during that period. Josh Gordon was one of her borders and I am thinking Jenna Smythe might have also boarded with her when she first came to town. There was also an older man who boarded with her but I don’t really remember much about him. There may have been another border or two but I can’t remember. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. JOSEPH SLOTH I think you are right. I had forgotten Josh Gordon was in town during that period. My brother did mention once or twice he did not like Josh hanging around Jeremy. I don’t know, never met, Jenna Smythe and I don’t remember my brother mentioning her. INT. PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH’S HOME - DAY Tess and Gladys are sitting in the living room sipping coffee. Gladys has the TV set to watch wrestling. TESS FLETCHER So are you and Bea okay? GLADYS SLOTH There is no reason that we shouldn’t be. We were friends in High School when we were both dating Johnny. There was no jealousy then. There is no jealousy now. TESS FLETCHER I hate to ask this. You are going to think I am awful and in truth I want it to be a ridiculous thought. Gladys jumps up and motions her hands in wrestling moves. GLADYS SLOTH Hell yeah! Toss that SOB to the mat. That is right. Pin him. Pin him. (shaking her head as she sits back down) That was beautiful. (takes a sip of coffee) Tess, sorry. What were you saying? TESS FLETCHER Have you ever wondered if Bea was involved in the kidnapping of Jeremy? GLADYS SLOTH Heavens no. She loved Jeremy like he was her own son and Jeremy thought of her as an aunt. They loved one another. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10. TESS FLETCHER I understand at the time of the kidnapping that Bea had taken in borders. GLADYS SLOTH Oh yes. That was during the period where she fancied she could turn Hotville into a Mecca for artist. TESS FLETCHER So her borders were artist? GLADYS SLOTH Right. She rented to two men and a woman. Josh Gordon was one of them. The other man was older. It is odd that I can’t remember his name because Bea had something of a crush on him. Then the woman was Jenna Smythe. Of course you know Jenna and Josh. They remained about town and went to work for Hotville College. TESS FLETCHER Have you ever thought it odd on how much Jenna favors Jeremy? GLADYS SLOTH Not really. This goes back years but I saw a woman on Jerry Springer who looked enough like me to have been my twin sister. I sent a picture of myself to Jerry Springer, explaining how much I look like the woman, and asked if he could arrange for us to meet. He thought it might be an idea for a show. TESS FLETCHER You went on Jerry Springer? GLADYS SLOTH The show didn’t pan out because I refused to flash my boobs but he did arrange for me to meet the woman in New York where the woman lives. We became friends and anyway Jenna is the, uh, ah, mmm, daughter of the woman, Mrs. Mary Smythe. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 11. TESS FLETCHER So are you related to Mary Smythe? GLADYS SLOTH Yes. Mary and Bea and I are 7th cousins if we figured out our family tree correctly. Bea and I discovered we were distantly related while we were still in High School and working on a family tree project in history. TESS FLETCHER Neat. That is a cool idea for history. I may mention that to Salvadore Rose who teaches history at the college. (beat) You know, Jenna and he date. (beat, shakes head) Gosh, I am so easily distracted these days. Anyway, so when Jenna lived with Bea, did Jeremy and Jenna become good friends. GLADYS SLOTH Oh my, they fought like brother and sister over silly stuff. But yeah, I think they were friends. TESS FLETCHER So they fought. GLADYS SLOTH Mainly, just silly stuff. Jenna some times would say stuff against Bea and Jeremy did not like that one bit. Jeremy loved his Aunt Bea as he called her. But don’t get the idea that Jenna would have done anything to hurt Jeremy. It was not that kind of fighting. TESS FLETCHER As I guess you know, I am writing a book about the kidnapping and in the process I am trying to figure some things out. GLADYS SLOTH That is what I’ve been told and I figured that is what your questions have been about. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12. TESS FLETCHER Yes. Of course. The thing is, if you agree, I am about to bring my intrusion to another level. If you object, that is okay. You will not hurt my feelings. Here is the thing, I would like to look through Jeremy’s things. GLADYS SLOTH Why would I object? I will show you to the attic where we have the boxes stored. I warn you though, I haven’t thrown anything away. Even when Sheriff Barker told me I could throw stuff away or give it to charity, I couldn’t. He said it would be better for me if I did get rid of the items but I didn’t agree. TESS FLETCHER Sheriff Barker wanted you to get rid of Jeremy’s items? GLADYS SLOTH Yes. He said it would help me find closure. I told him that the only thing that would help me find closure is if he found out what happened to my Jeremy. He made me so angry. When he died, that was one of the few times I refused to go to a funeral where Johnny preached. TESS FLETCHER So you got the feeling that Sheriff Barker was not doing enough to investigate what happened to Jeremy? GLADYS SLOTH It was more than a feeling. It was a fact. Joseph said the problem was coming down from the state, but I don’t believe it. When I talked to the state officials they said that Sheriff Barker refused to include them in on the investigation and that he had jurisdiction. Contrary to what Joseph was saying, Mayor White (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13. GLADYS SLOTH (cont’d) actually did use the city police to do some investigating for me. It is no secret that Mayor White and my husband hate one another. I don’t think hate is too strong of a word for their relationship. Still, Mikey and Jeremy were friends. Mikey wanted to find out what happened to Jeremy? TESS FLETCHER So was Mikey or his father able to find anything out? GLADYS SLOTH No. Johnny thinks they didn’t try but I think they did. I think the problem was Sheriff Barker. TESS FLETCHER (looks at her watch) Much thanks for talking to me. I just realized I need to be somewhere. Will it be okay if I come back later to look through Jeremy’s things. GLADYS SLOTH Sure. Just let me know when. TESS FLETCHER (stands up) Will do. Thank you so much. INT. BEA GRIFFITH’S HOME - DAY Jenna Smythe and Bea are sitting in the kitchen and playing a game of Rummy. Jenna draws and discards a card. Bea draws and discards a card. JENNA SMYTHE I know it was you who compelled me to the Mausoleum to free Count Duso. I don’t know how you could have thought I am the one who put the spell on the chains. BEA GRIFFITH I am sorry. You know how I am when I get something in my head. I now know I was wrong. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14. JENNA SMYTHE No problem. The truth is, I suspected you as well. Now that we know we are on the same side, how are we going to work together to free Count Duso? BEA GRIFFITH Damned if I know. JENNA SMYTHE You know, there is a chance that he isn’t in the coffin. There is a chance he was playing a game with us to fool us on where he is. BEA GRIFFITH I’ve considered what you are saying. Still, it is true that he was afraid he would lose control and hurt us. JENNA SMYTHE I know. And that is Mikey’s fear. Mikey is afraid that if I do manage to free him, he will kill Mikey and me. But was Count Duso really becoming that out of control. Somehow, I doubt it. BEA GRIFFITH There was a hunger gripping him that he couldn’t control and he had memory lapses. I think that is true. I think a witch was doing something to him and it terrified him. Still, I’ve also wondered if he would have taken such an extreme action, locking himself in the coffin, to deal with his fear of what the mystery witch was doing to him. JENNA SMYTHE I read the letter. I know what he wrote and I know he was troubled, but we are talking about Count Duso. To think that one night he would crawl out of his coffin and decide to stop fighting the mystery witch baffles me. I find it hard to believe. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 15. BEA GRIFFITH To confine himself to that coffin is not a solution that ever made much sense to me. It could all have been a charade to fool whatever witch was causing his cravings and mental lapses. I’ll not argue against your theory of him not being in the coffin; though the fact may still be that he is in the coffin and we need to free him. Still, you have to realize, Mikey may be right. Count Duso might want to kill us. JENNA SMYTHE Do you know of any spell that we can cast to get beyond the bindings of the chains to look into the coffin to see if he is there and maybe even communicate with him. BEA GRIFFITH Not right off hand but it might be something we should research. INT. MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT MIKEY WHITE is standing with a crowbar and a sledge hammer. He begins working, hammering, to wedge the crowbar into the edges of the coffin. MIKEY WHITE I might not can break the chains to free you, not that I would want to go against your wishes, but if I can just get where I can peep into the coffin and talk with you. If I can just break the seal. I think there is enough play in the chains where I can run some equipment into the coffin. I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to go against your wishes. I just want to talk to you.
16. INT. ATTIC OF GLADYS SLOTH HOME - NIGHT TESS FLETCHER is seated on the floor and looking through boxes of Jeremy Sloth’s things. Tess picks up a book that has Journal labeled on it. She starts to read out loud. TESS FLETCHER Aunt Bea told me that I have a half brother. It was rather odd, unusual, when she told me. She told me that she had a dream that I would be the one who would find her son. (turns page) I told my father what Aunt Bea had told me. I wasn’t sure whether he would be upset or exactly how he would react when I told him. He wasn’t upset. He told me that mom knew and that within the family it was not a secret. He said that he had made a mistake. He told me that he wished he had not joined with Bea’s parents in encouraging her to give her baby up for adoption. He is okay with my trying to find my half brother. (turns page) This journal is supposed to be about my quest to find my half-brother but something odd happened to me. Aunt Bea introduced me to her new borders. There was Josh Gordon and Jenna Smythe and some older gentleman. He was very unfriendly and no one introduced me to him. Jenna Smythe and I favor so much, it seems unreal. Apparently her mom and my mom also look alike. We are distant cousins. But that wasn’t the odd think. I went out to shoot hoops with Josh Gordon. He did not miss a single shot and some of them he should have missed. The ball was in no way aimed where the ball should have gone in. It was like magic, witchcraft. Tess put the Jeremy’s Journal in her pocketbook.
17. INT. LIVING ROOM OF GLADYS’ SLOTH’S HOME - NIGHT TESS FLETCHER walks into the living room where GLADYS SLOTH is seated. Tess sits down in a chair. TESS FLETCHER I found a Journal that Jeremy had been writing. I put it in my pocketbook. Jeremy was looking for his half-brother? GLADYS SLOTH Yes, though he did not tell me much about his search. He was afraid it might upset me, but I was okay with his looking for his half brother. TESS FLETCHER He also mentioned something odd about Josh Gordon’s playing basketball. GLADYS SLOTH Yes. Jeremy and Josh developed a strange relationship. TESS FLETCHER What about his relationship with Mikey White? GLADYS SLOTH As I told you earlier Mikey and Jeremy were friends, but the White family and the Sloth family do not get along. I would call it more complicated than strange. TESS FLETCHER I mean did Mikey and Jeremy, you know? Sex. GLADYS SLOTH Their friendship was strong and they may have experimented, but Elvira was the love of Jeremy’s life. Now that between Josh and Jeremy, it was different. TESS FLETCHER What do you mean? Different. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 18. GLADYS SLOTH Witchcraft! And that is not to be in your book. Understand. TESS FLETCHER I understand but you must realize that is a rather odd thing for you to have said. GLADYS SLOTH I know. God! I know. Still, that is what their relationship was based on, witchcraft. TESS FLETCHER How so? GLADYS SLOTH Bea found Josh and Jeremy in her basement, naked, and performing a magic ritual. They were chanting while pumping on one another’s erect cocks. Bea said a picture of Sheriff Barker was in the center of a pentagram beneath their cocks. TESS FLETCHER What was the purpose of the spell? GLADYS SLOTH To make Sheriff Barker do their bidding. TESS FLETCHER How did Bea react? How did you react? GLADYS SLOTH How could we react? We let them know that we didn’t like it but they were grown men. TESS FLETCHER They were grown men but did they take what they were doing seriously or was it just an excuse to, you know. I mean did they really expect what they were doing to work. GLADYS SLOTH It did work. Shortly after Bea caught them performing the magic (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 19. GLADYS SLOTH (cont’d) spell, Sheriff Barker hired Jeremy to clerk and do computer work for him. Previously, Sheriff Barker had rejected Jeremy for the clerking job. Previously Sheriff Barker would not allow my husband to council any prisoners. That all changed. TESS FLETCHER Please don’t be offended if I find it hard to believe. GLADYS SLOTH Oh, I understand. If you have never seen witchcraft at work, it is easy to dismiss it as silly. I fully understand. See if you can get someone to get Josh to play basketball with him. Watch him play. He has a personality quirk where he does not like to miss the hoops. TESS FLETCHER Just out of curiosity, I may do that. Still, do you think any of that has anything to do with Jeremy being kidnapped. Do you think Josh was involved? GLADYS SLOTH (emotional and on the verge of tears) I don’t know. If I had the answers, don’t you think I would take my husbands gun and confront whoever and demand answers and find out what happened to my baby. I just don’t know. TESS FLETCHER I am sorry I upset you. That is the last thing I want to do. Please forgive me for pressing. GLADYS SLOTH You think I know more. God, I wish I did know more. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 20. TESS FLETCHER I understand. Please do not be upset. I am just trying to piece it all together. GLADYS SLOTH (more calm) I realize you are trying to gather as much information as you can for your book and to resolve what happened to Jeremy. I want to help you the best I can. Ask me whatever you need to ask and I will answer the best I can. I am sorry I got emotional. TESS FLETCHER Have you read through Jeremy’s Journal to know whether there is anything particular I might should focus on. GLADYS SLOTH Jeremy loved keeping journals. I have read through some of them but not all of them. I know I should have manned up and looked through all of them but I get weepy when I start reading them and the ones I have read do not seem to provide any clues to anything. Also Jeremy kept his journals scattered about and some hidden so that I am not even sure if I have found them all. Tess Fletcher pulls the Journal she had started reading from her pocketbook. She shows it to Gladys Sloth. Gladys Sloth takes the journal and thumbs through it. GLADYS SLOTH (cont’d) This one is new to me. It must have been in the box that Bea or Johnny packed. When you are finished reading it, please... TESS FLETCHER Oh, of course, I will return it. I will make a copy of it to a computer file so besides reading I can search it for key words. I would like to do that to all the Journals if you can gather them for me. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 21. GLADYS SLOTH Of course. I have five of his journals in a box in my bedroom. Of course, there may be more like the one you found that I haven’t found. I will get the box of journals from my bedroom for you. Gladys Sloth gets up and leaves the room. TESS FLETCHER I am starting to doubt that Sheriff Barker even investigated the kidnapping. INT. MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT Mikey White slips small wooden wedges between two crowbars he has hammered into the coffin. We can see he has placed several wedges in places where he has pried the coffin open by around 1/2 an inch. He removes the crowbars. We see that Mikey has a colonscope like tube tool to insert into the coffin to take video inside of the coffin. He has the device connected to a laptop computer where he can see video as it is being recorded. On the laptop computer screen, we and Mikey see a hand inside the coffin. The hand moves. The hand reaches up. From inside the coffin view by way of the laptop computer we turn to see fingers sticking out of the coffin. We then see fingers from a second hand sticking out of the coffin. The fingers form into a grip pushing to open the coffin. FADE OUT
WebSerial: Hotville Episode 7
Hotville Episode 7 By Charles Peters
INT. HOTVILLE COLLEGE CLASSROOM - DAY There are eight students in the class. There are two men and six women. The students are chatting and walking about. They are dressed for fencing class. Some have foils in hand and are practicing or playing. COACH PAUL BLOOM is standing in the front of the classroom and watching. He looks down at his attendance book. COACH PAUL BLOOM First let me say, in this class there are only two grades. A+ and B+. If you show up over 50% of the time you get A+ so consider Roll Call as a test. (beat) Harry Dicko. HARRY DICKO Present. COACH PAUL BLOOM Cher Johnson CHER JOHNSON Present. COACH PAUL BLOOM Duke Donnelson DUKE DONNELSON Present. COACH PAUL BLOOM Hilda Hinkle HILDA HINKLE Present. COACH PAUL BLOOM Sandy Hunkan SANDY HUNKAN (rubbing her stomach) Present COACH PAUL BLOOM Ellen Way ELLEN WAY Present (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2. COACH PAUL BLOOM Joannie Whistling JOANNIE WHISTLING Here. COACH PAUL BLOOM Blare Bismark BLARE BISMARK Yeah. COACH PAUL BLOOM Now today I am going to put on a video which will show you some basic moves. You can do what you are doing now, or were doing before I interrupted, as you watch the video. Talk. Play around. Maybe copy some of the maneuvers but don’t get too rough. Harry Dicko walks up to Duke Donnelson. HARRY DICKO So, do you want to practice together. DUKE DONNELSON Sure. Coach Paul watches Harry and Duke. SARAH SLOTH walks into the classroom. SARAH SLOTH How is it going? COACH PAUL BLOOM Good I guess. Do you know the story of those two men. They look like brothers but they have different last names. SARAH SLOTH As far as I know they aren’t related. Harry is smart and comes from a well off family. I don’t know as much about Duke though I think his grandfather is like super rich. They both live on the same road with ritzy homes. Now Cher there, she comes from one of the poor families but I like her. Sandy (MORE) (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3. SARAH SLOTH (cont’d) Hunkan is also from one of the poor families. The other girls aren’t local but live in the dorm. I understand President Newton Hymen recruited the girls to come to the college though I am not sure why. COACH PAUL BLOOM What are the girls majors? SARAH SLOTH Criminology related. That tends to be one of more popular majors here. Harry and Duke become aggressive with their foils. The rest of the class pull to the sides of the room while Harry and Duke take full center. It looks like they are getting ready to fight. Coach Paul moves to break them up. COACH PAUL BLOOM Okay you two sissy boys, I don’t want a cat fight in here. You two drop down and give me 100 push ups. Harry and Duke drop their foils to the floor. They give Coach Paul a disgusted look. DUKE DONNELSON When hell freezes over. HARRY DICKO Unbelievable. Duke and Harry walk toward the door. COACH PAUL BLOOM Where the hell do you two queers think you are going? DUKE DONNELSON You aren’t teaching at a regular college or High School. You are teaching a fucking elective at a small town College that will let anyone in. We are dropping the class. COACH PAUL BLOOM I can have you kicked out of this College. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4. HARRY DICKO Big fucking deal. I only enrolled here to meet people. I run a mail order business out of my parents' basement. I brought in over a $100,000 last year. DUKE DONNELSON Coach dude you called us sissy and then you called us queer in front of witnesses. We can have your ass fired for using hate and fighting words against us just because we were running lines from a movie and play acting. ELLEN WAY Look Coach, you were in the wrong. Apologize, invite them back in the class, and end this bullshit. COACH PAUL BLOOM Running lines from a movie? You weren’t getting ready to fight? HARRY DICKO Hell no. Duke could kick my ass. DUKE DONNELSON I don’t know. I think you might be able to give me as good as I give. HARRY DICKO (looks around at the girls in the class) Yeah, fighting you, I might be able to impress the ladies. There is LAUGHTER from the girls in the class. DUKE DONNELSON Hells bells yeah. We both would impress these fine looking women. COACH PAUL BLOOM I am sorry. I misread the situation. I didn’t realize you were acting out a movie. And I am deeply sorry if I insulted your manhood. My coaches used to do that to me all the time. It was wrong. Do you accept my apology? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5. HARRY DICKO Sure. I do. We all say shit we don’t mean. DUKE DONNELSON Yeah. No big deal. SARAH SLOTH I have an idea. Harry and Duke, why don’t you let the coach and me take you out for dinner as a way to apologize. HILDA HINKLE Well, I am feeling slighted. Miss Sloth, I didn’t get an invitation to dinner after you and I had our fight. COACH PAUL BLOOM We can have a party over at my house. You all will be invited. EXT. COACH PAUL’S HOME - DAY OSCAR CRUMBE is seated on the Porch Swing. He is kicking his feet and swinging as he whistles. COACH PAUL drives up and gets out of his car. He looks at Oscar Crumbe swinging on his porch. He smiles and starts to run toward him but then stops. Oscar stands up from the swing and the swing hits him in the ass. Coach Paul walks up on his porch. He unlocks the door to his house. He starts to walk inside but then he stops, he turns. He walks to Oscar. He grabs Oscar into his arms. COACH PAUL BLOOM I’ve missed you. God, I’ve missed you. OSCAR CRUMBE How are things with you and Sarah? COACH PAUL BLOOM I love her but I also love you. OSCAR CRUMBE Love me. You love me. But I moved to Georgia with the sole intent to make your life hell. You are screwing up my plans. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6. COACH PAUL BLOOM You are moving to Georgia. That is great. There is a house on the street right behind my house that is for rent. Please move there. I will rent the house for you. OSCAR CRUMBE I’ve already rented the house. I don’t need you to pay my rent. COACH PAUL BLOOM That is great. I am so glad that you will be living close to me. OSCAR CRUMBE Close to you but not with you. You really are a cruel bastard. COACH PAUL BLOOM I guess I am. There are two gay men in one of my classes and I was so mean to them today. I am not sure they realize they are gay. Sarah wants us to try to get them past that denial and set them up on a date. I didn’t know what she was trying to do so anyway Sarah and I are now giving a party for my Fencing Class. Isn’t that outrageous? OSCAR CRUMBE Outrageous. And I guess I will have to sit on my back porch and watch your party from afar. COACH PAUL BLOOM Don’t talk crazy. Of course you are invited. Hell. Here is an idea. Why don’t you help us throw the party? You can get to know Sarah. OSCAR CRUMBE I don’t want to get to know Sarah. COACH PAUL BLOOM Of course you do. Before you know it, the four of us are going to be a family. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7. OSCAR CRUMBE The four of us? COACH PAUL BLOOM Sarah’s girlfriend Elvira. OSCAR CRUMBE See, this is what my Preacher is afraid of; that gay marriage will lead to polygamy. Or did he say monogamy. Maybe monotony. EXT. BACKYARD AND PATIO AREA BEHIND COACH PAUL’S HOME - DAY COACH PAUL is standing at a grill. OSCAR CRUMBE and SARAH SLOTH are standing with Coach Paul. The patio area and backyard is decorated for a party. OSCAR CRUMBE When Coach Paul suggested that you and I plan this party together I thought he was crazy but I think we did a pretty good job. SARAH SLOTH I agree. Different students walk up to Coach Paul to say hello. Oscar stands back, observing the students and their guest. HARRY DICKO walks out to the patio and hands Sarah a gift that is an item that he sells online. HARRY DICKO Mom said I should bring a gift. It is a bottle of candy with a gift on bottom. SARAH SLOTH Harry, this is so cool. Thank you. Oscar and Harry stare at one another. Harry is not sure how to respond to the look Oscar is giving him. Harry breaks the mutual stare and starts to walk away. OSCAR CRUMBE So where is Duke, the other guest of honor. I thought that you two might come together. Harry stops and turns back around to face Oscar. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8. HARRY DICKO I don’t know. Duke lives right down the road from me but we haven’t ever really become friends. I mean, we are not like enemies or anything but, I don’t know. OSCAR CRUMBE Of course you know. You want to fuck him and he wants to fuck you but you are still at that stage where you don’t want to be gay and so it makes you so damn fucking uncomfortable you can’t stand it. I remember when I was in such denial that I actually considered marrying a woman. This man was totally in love with me but I broke his heart. I even moved to another state, all the way across the fucking country, just to avoid having to deal with my homosexuality. HARRY DICKO I am not gay. I like girls. OSCAR CRUMBE So when is the last time you went on a date with a girl? COACH PAUL BLOOM Oscar, stop it. You are being mean. He said he is not gay. Drop it. Harry stares at the big bear of a man, Oscar; and Oscar stares back. They are back to their staring contest. HARRY DICKO So, are you in a relationship? OSCAR CRUMBE No. To be honest it has been so long since I’ve had sex I am starting to question my homosexuality. Harry grins. He walks next to Oscar and pats him on the shoulder. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9. HARRY DICKO You are okay. I like you. So what class do you teach. OSCAR CRUMBE I sometimes teach bartending but not at the college. And Harry, you are also okay. HARRY DICKO Thanks. Well, I guess I better go try to mingle. I guess if awkward was considered a sexual orientation that would be me. COACH PAUL BLOOM I understand that. SARAH SLOTH Yeah, we all go through phases where we feel that way. DUKE DONNELSON walks out on the patio. Harry gives Duke a quick look and then blushes as Duke stands next to him. DUKE DONNELSON Sorry that I am late. I was at Grace Park taking pictures and I lost track of time. Have I missed anything. HARRY DICKO Apparently they think, or at least Oscar who I have just met, thinks that you and I have never become close friends because it makes us nervous that we secretly want to fuck one another. DUKE DONNELSON I am not gay. HARRY DICKO And neither am I. OSCAR CRUMBE Well I am totally straight. That is what I put in all my online ads where I am looking for a man to suck my dick and let me fuck them in the ass. Duke clinches his fist. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10. DUKE DONNELSON So who is this clown acting like he knows us? OSCAR CRUMBE I am a friend of Coach Paul and Sarah. Please don’t get pissed at me. I am sorry. DUKE DONNELSON So like do you and Sarah go antiquing together and do other stuff fags and their hags enjoy. HARRY DICKO Man. That wasn’t cool. Oscar grabs Duke up by the shirt collar. OSCAR CRUMBE I can see that you’ve got the punk thing going on and you think you are all so tough but next to me you are a little man. I could crush you like the little piss ant that you are. My gaydar never fails me and it tells me that both you and Harry there are just as gay as I am but are not yet ready to deal with it. That is okay and I know I should have been more respectful of that. But don’t use words like fag trying to hide your own repressed sexual desires. Oscar releases Duke with a shove backwards. Duke responds by jumping forward and trying to hit Oscar. His first punch misses but his second punch hits Oscar in the stomach. Oscar doesn’t feel the blow to his gut. Still he grabs Duke into his arms and pulls him close. OSCAR CRUMBE (cont’d) (whispers in Duke’s ear) Are you a top or a bottom? Oscar throws Duke to the ground. COACH PAUL BLOOM (screams) Damn it Oscar, what the hell are you doing? Do you always have to try to make people feel like crap? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 11. Oscar reaches down and helps Duke up with a friendly hand. He then gives Duke a card. OSCAR CRUMBE If you ever want to talk in private give me a call. I really do understand what you are experiencing. Duke pulls his hand away from Oscar. He drops the card to the ground. DUKE DONNELSON I am not experiencing anything! OSCAR CRUMBE If you aren’t experiencing anything you seriously need to check yourself for a pulse. You may be dead. Oscar turns to talk to Harry. Harry walks away away. Duke turns and walks up to a CHER JOHNSON who is dancing alone. Without asking if he can join her, he begins to dance with her. She likes his moves. Their dancing becomes more intimate; almost like they are having sex. SARAH SLOTH I think we made progress in getting Harry and Duke to accept their homosexuality. OSCAR CRUMBE (laughs) I think so. COACH PAUL BLOOM Oscar, what the hell was that? Are you drunk? OSCAR CRUMBE Yeah, I think I will claim being drunk as my excuse. Sorry. I don’t know what the hell got into me. I guess I was projecting some stuff. I am going home. COACH PAUL BLOOM No. Shit. Don’t go. We watch Oscar Crumbe walk toward his home. Then our focus turns to Duke and Cher dancing and kissing and rubbing their bodies together. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12. CHER JOHNSON You know, I heard what was being said over there. DUKE DONNELSON (laughs) So. CHER JOHNSON So I know that you do have a major crush on Harry. You stalk him. DUKE DONNELSON What? Stalk him? Why would you say such a thing. CHER JOHNSON Because I have been stalking you. I even have a picture of you in a tree taking pictures of Harry in his bedroom. With an expression of total shock on his face, Duke continues rubbing his body against Cher as they dance. We look from Cher and Duke dancing and toward the sky and see the sun setting. EXT. HOTVILLE LAKE - NIGHT From a bluff we look down upon the lake reflecting moonlight. From looking upon the lake, we see a rabbit. It runs across a logging road. The rabbit runs in and out of bushes. The rabbit runs up some steps. It runs up to a large wooden door and then through a doggy door opening. INT. CABIN LIVING ROOM - NIGHT We see the rabbit run through the doggy door opening, across a wooden floor. The rabbit jumps up into the arms of COUNT DUSO. Count Duso yawns and we see his fangs. He pets the rabbit as he uses a remote control to flip channels on the TV. COUNT DUSO As usual, all these channels, and not a thing worth watching on TV.
13. EXT. HOTVILLE LAKE - NIGHT We see black shiny shoes standing on the edge of a bluff. We again look over the lake. We see the black shiny shoes turn away from the edge of the bluff and begin walking along a path. We see the shoes step into a mud puddle and a couple of frogs hop away from the mud puddle. We then view up from the shoes and up the form of the man. We focus on a badge. From looking at the badge we move up to see the face of Sheriff Baskerville. We watch as he climbs into his Sheriff’s Car. INT. MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT We see MIKEY WHITE with the look of horror on his face. We see the coffin lid pressing against the chains as the hands push from the inside trying to open the coffin. We see the wood of the coffin lid splinter and crack. Then like an explosion the wood of the lid flies apart and across the Mausoleum. We see Jeremy Sloth, naked, climb from the coffin. MIKEY WHITE (voice trembles) Jeremy, you aren’t dead. JEREMY SLOTH I am very dead. A Vampire. Now I am hungry. I am so hungry. In a threatening manner, his fangs showing, he glides with his feet slightly above the marble floor, toward Mikey White. His form flashes between Vampire form and skeleton form. He is a scary, campy, sight. MIKEY WHITE Fuck. Mikey turns and runs out of the Mausoleum. Jeremy reaches out for Mikey. As he does he folds, crumples, settles weakly down onto the marble floor. He is now more of a sad sight than a scary sight. JEREMY SLOTH Don’t run. Let me feed. I am so weak. Come back. From being weak on the floor, he has a burst of energy. There is an orange flowing glow around him as he goes from appearing almost at his end on the floor to an upright, standing position. He opens his mouth wide to show his fangs and then his jaws make a snapping noise.
14. EXT. CEMETERY - NIGHT SHERIFF BASKERVILLE is driving through the cemetery. He sees MIKEY WHITE running from the mausoleum. He stops and exits his car. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE (scream) Mikey, stop. Why are you running? MIKEY WHITE Someone is after me. I’ve got to get out of here. They are dangerous. You need to get out of here. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I am the Sheriff. I don’t run. Mikey White keeps running but then stops at a tree. There is a loud RUMBLING SOUND like a stomach growling but a lot, lot, lot louder. JEREMY SLOTH (loud) I am so hungry. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE What the hell? Sheriff Baskerville draws his gun. He approaches the Mausoleum. Then he sees a shadowy form exit the Mausoleum and walk, stumble, toward him. Jeremy raises his arms out in front of him. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE (cont’d) Stop. Stop where you are? I don’t want to shoot you. Jeremy Sloth looks at the man who will be his first ever victim. There is a look of sympathy for he doesn’t want to kill Baskerville, but he is hungry for blood. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE (cont’d) Jeremy Sloth? JEREMY SLOTH Ben. Jeremy grabs Sheriff Baskerville and forces the gun from his hand. Jeremy sinks his fangs into the neck of Sheriff Baskerville. Mikey White runs from the tree where he has been standing and tackles them both to the ground. He stops (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 15. Jeremy from drinking more of Sheriff Baskerville’s blood. Jeremy and Mikey roll around on the ground. They fight. Then Jeremy turns into a vampire bat and flies away. Mikey White checks the condition of Sheriff Baskerville. INT. BEA GRIFFITH’S HOME - NIGHT Sheriff Baskerville is laying on the couch, unconscious. MIKEY WHITE, JENNA SMYTHE, and BEA GRIFFITH are standing and looking at him. JENNA SMYTHE What happened to the Sheriff? MIKEY WHITE A vampire! JENNA SMYTHE Count Duso? MIKEY WHITE Count Duso was not in the coffin. BEA GRIFFITH What? MIKEY WHITE (speaking quickly, excited, out of breath) I tried something. I just wanted to see inside but then the coffin flew to pieces. Jeremy Sloth was in the coffin. He is now a vampire. He bit Sheriff Baskerville. Do you think the Sheriff is going to live? Bea Griffith touches Sheriff Baskerville’s forehead. She then pulls the collar of his shirt down to see the fang marks where he was bitten. She rubs the cheek of his face. She runs her hand down the inside of his shirt to touch over his heart. BEA GRIFFITH He will live but I sense he has lost a lot of blood. I see how you tackled Jeremy and saved Sheriff Baskerville. You were brave. You did good. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 16. JENNA SMYTHE What are we going to do about Jeremy? BEA GRIFFITH I don’t know. We must try to help him. JENNA SMYTHE I wonder how Jeremy ended up in the coffin instead of Count Duso. Did Count Duso turn him into a Vampire and then put him in the coffin. BEA GRIFFITH Count Duso would not do that to Jeremy. MIKEY WHITE Count Duso was not being himself. He, himself, was afraid he was going to hurt us. BEA GRIFFITH We have got to figure out who the witch is who was causing Count Duso to have memory losses and murderous impulses. MIKEY WHITE But right now our concern must be Sheriff Baskerville. JENNA SMYTHE Jeremy will try to turn the Sheriff into his slave. He will try to compel him to come to him, to help. That may help us to find Jeremy. There is a KNOCK on the door. Bea Griffith throws a blanket over Sheriff Baskerville. She goes to answer the door. JEREMY SLOTH is standing at the door. JEREMY SLOTH Is Ben going to be okay? I didn’t mean to hurt him. I don’t want to hurt anyone. I need help. BEA GRIFFITH Sheriff Baskerville is going to be okay. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 17. JEREMY SLOTH Sheriff? What happened to Sheriff Barker? BEA GRIFFITH He is dead. A car accident. JEREMY SLOTH May I come into your home? Will you invite me in? BEA GRIFFITH Yes. I invite you. You are welcome into my home. Jeremy enters the home. He walks over to the couch. He lifts the blanket off Sheriff Baskerville. He stares at him. JEREMY SLOTH I am so sorry. I now know how Count Duso must have felt. MIKEY WHITE You were naked and now you have clothes. JEREMY SLOTH A Goodwill Box! I didn’t hurt anyone else if that is what you are wondering. JENNA SMYTHE So what happened to you? You were kidnapped and then... JEREMY SLOTH I don’t remember. I don’t remember. JENNA SMYTHE People think you are dead? JEREMY SLOTH I am dead. JENNA SMYTHE Hardly. So how are we going to handle your return. Are you going to announce you are back. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 18. BEA GRIFFITH No. People will want answers. People close to Jeremy will expect a normal behavior and realize there is something wrong. JEREMY SLOTH So I guess I must leave Hotville. BEA GRIFFITH No. You can pretend to be my son that I gave up for adoption. We can use the Count Duso’s lab and his studies to try to figure out how to return you to a more human state. Count Duso was able to become a day walker. At the very least we know that is possible. JEREMY SLOTH Yes, Count Duso will help me. BEA GRIFFITH We don’t know where Count Duso is. We thought he was in the coffin where you were chained. We were sent a letter to make us think that. JEREMY SLOTH I don’t know how I came to be in the coffin but I am sure that Count Duso would not have done that to me. MIKEY WHITE Not as himself, but you remember there was something happening to him. He had become something of a Jekyll and Hyde. JEREMY SLOTH I don’t remember. MIKEY WHITE What is the last you remember? JEREMY SLOTH Having sex with Elvira and her kissing me as I was leaving to get in my car. That is the last thing that I remember. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 19. MIKEY WHITE Is there a spell to restore his memory? JENNA SMYTHE It is too dangerous? BEA GRIFFITH How would it be dangerous? JENNA SMYTHE The mind protects itself from memories it can’t handle or that would distort a sense of reality. He might go totally crazy. You know, start playing with dolls like he believes they are real. BEA GRIFFITH Bitch! JENNA SMYTHE Sorry. I couldn’t resist. Jeremy Sloth walks up to an antique grandfather clock. He looks at the time. JEREMY SLOTH I need a coffin before daylight. BEA GRIFFITH The coffin of Count Duso is still in his secret lab in my basement. You can use it. MIKEY WHITE Speaking of secret rooms, I need to close the door to the secret chamber in the Mausoleum. BEA GRIFFITH It might be a good idea to return Sheriff Baskerville to the cemetery before he recovers and wakes. EXT. CEMETERY - NIGHT SHERIFF BASKERVILLE is laying near a tombstone on the ground. He wakes. He rubs his neck as he sits up. The fang marks vanish as he rubs his neck. We see the sun rise and hear a ROOSTER CROW. Weak, Sheriff Baskerville stands up. He swoons. He uses the tombstone to catch himself from falling. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 20. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I remember Jeremy Sloth biting me on the neck but that can’t be real. I must have got hit on the head and just dreamed that part. I need to talk to Mikey White. Sheriff Baskerville takes some deep breaths. He steadies himself and steps away from the tombstone. He makes his way to his Sheriff’s Car. He gets into the car and drives off. INT. SHERIFF STATION - DAY SHERIFF BASKERVILLE enters the station and fixes himself some coffee. With the coffee in hand he walks over to a mirror and looks at his neck in the mirror. He shrugs. He walks over to his desk and sits down. TESS FLETCHER enters the Sheriff Station. She is smiling and chipper while the Sheriff looks like he has a hangover. She walks over and fixes herself some coffee and then walks over to a chair in front of the Sheriff’s desk. TESS FLETCHER Jeremy Sloth and Josh Gordon practiced witchcraft. They put a spell on Sheriff Barker to control him. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE You can’t be serious. Witchcraft! TESS FLETCHER I don’t know if I much take the notion of witchcraft seriously either, but that is what Gladys Sloth told me. She also said that Jeremy was working as a clerk here at the time he was kidnapped. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Are you sure? I don’t remember Jeremy working here. TESS FLETCHER Is that something you would necessarily know or remember? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Guess not. So Jeremy worked here. I guess there are files I can check. That is if they have not been messed with. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 21. TESS FLETCHER You look awful this morning. Are you sick? SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Someone hit me over the head in the cemetery. Mikey White was somehow involved. He was running from someone. I guess I need to talk to him. That is not going to be fun. TESS FLETCHER You might need to go to the hospital. You may have a concussion. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Shit. I hate hospitals. I am going to be okay. Doc Hassle walks into the Sheriff Station. DOC HASSLE Tess. Ben. You two still having sex on a regular basis? TESS FLETCHER What a thing to ask? DOC HASSLE Well, you know what they say. Sex is better exercise than jogging. TESS FLETCHER (shrugs, gives him a double look, laughs) I’ll stick to riding my bicycle. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Doc, if you came here to report on your Peeping Tom again, I am not going to arrest your 90 year old neighbor. DOC HASSLE She keeps ruining my flower garden but I am not here about that. Someone stole blood from the hospital. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Stole blood? (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 22. DOC HASSLE That is what I said. Blood! Young people these days. All the cool drugs they could have stolen and they steal blood. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Why do you think they would have stolen the blood? DOC HASSLE How the hell should I know? Maybe there is a gang of hemophiliacs in town. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Well, did any of the hospital staff notice anyone strange around the hospital. DOC HASSLE I didn’t question the hospital staff for you. That is your job. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE (gives Doc Hassle a dirty look) I guess. DOC HASSLE Say, you are looking like total shit this morning. No wonder Tess would rather ride her bicycle. TESS FLETCHER He got hit over the head last night. DOC HASSLE You might have a concussion. TESS FLETCHER That is what I told him. DOC HASSLE Yeah but you aren’t a doctor. You really should come by my office and let me check you out. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I am not a library book. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 23. DOC HASSLE What? Oh yeah. Real funny. MIKEY WHITE enters the Sheriff Station. MIKEY WHITE Hey. Doc. Tess. Sheriff. I figured you might want to talk to me about last night. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Do you know who was chasing you? Who attacked me? MIKEY WHITE I don’t know. Truth is, at first I thought it was a ghost. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE For a moment I thought it was Jeremy Sloth I saw, so I guess I also kind of thought it was a ghost. (beat) But it wasn’t any ghost who hit me on the head. MIKEY WHITE Are you okay? I am sorry if you were hurt. I shouldn’t have left you like I did. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE It wasn’t your job to protect me, but I appreciate the sentiment. I am okay. MIKEY WHITE I wish I could be more help, but it was dark and I was scared. I can’t even describe who was after me. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Well, you take care. You and your father do tend to make enemies. MIKEY WHITE How well I know. If I think of anything I will tell you and if you learn anything, please let me know. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 24. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I will do. Mikey White leaves. TESS FLETCHER I think Mikey knows more than he was telling. I get the feeling he was lying but I don’t know why. DOC HASSLE Hell, Mikey will tell you a lie when the truth would serve him better. He can’t help himself. That said, he and his father are generous to the hospital so I guess I shouldn’t be bad mouthing him. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I don’t know. Thinking about it, I am sort of thinking Mikey White may have come back and fought with my attacker. He may have saved me. DOC HASSLE And then left you there. He should have brought you to the hospital. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE I am okay. Still, I wonder why he would have lied. DOC HASSLE I told you... SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Yeah, I know. Habitual liar. Still, as a lawman I have to look for real motives and not pop psychology. TESS FLETCHER Obviously, Mikey does know who the attacker was. And Doc is right, Mikey should not have just left you there. BEA GRIFFITH enters the Sheriff Station. She brings some cookies and puts them on the Sheriff’s desk. She is smiling. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 25. BEA GRIFFITH I have some great news. My son had been searching for me. He found me. TESS FLETCHER That is wonderful. BEA GRIFFITH I am so happy. Well, I’ve got to be running. Bea Griffith leaves the Sheriff Station. INT. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH’S CHURCH OFFICE - DAY PREACHER SLOTH is sitting with a Sandy Hunkan and her mother. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH I understand your reluctance to want to give your baby up for adoption but you should listen to your mother. SANDY HUNKAN I want to keep my baby. Things are bad now but they will get better. I am sure I will be able to take care of my baby. MRS. HUNKMAN This is a small town. It is not like a big city. People will talk about you and your baby. SANDY HUNKAN Maybe I will move to Atlanta. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH And be homeless. Destitute. If you can’t take care of your baby, Social Services will take the baby from you and who knows where your baby will end up. Isn’t it better that you put your baby up for adoption. SANDY HUNKAN I have faith that it will work out where I can keep my baby. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 26. MRS. HUNKAN Faith! The only faith you can trust is faith that you will not win the big lottery. SANDY HUNKAN I am not due for 7 months. I don’t want to sign anything until I have more time to consider my options. INT. TESS FLETCHER HOME - DAY TESS FLETCHER is looking at Jeremy Sloth’s journals. TESS FLETCHER (reads) I tried to get a job with Sheriff Barker. He would not hire me. To make it even worse he gave me a ticket for speeding while I was driving home. I have no idea what I did to piss him off. I told Josh about it and he said we could cast a spell so that Sheriff Barker would give me the job. The spell seems to have worked. I got the job. (turns page) I have been able to locate the file where Sheriff Barker took Aunt Bea’s son to deliver to his new parents. I would not have been able to locate the file without the finder spell that Josh gave me. The file was well hidden in a storage room that stays locked. (turns page) It was not a normal adoption. It was not what Aunt Bea or her parents thought. The baby was sold on the black market. When I told my father he cried. He told me that I should not tell Aunt Bea. I wanted to confront Sheriff Barker but my father said that we can’t. Sheriff Barker is too powerful. Dangerous. (turns page) Josh told me that there is a spell that we can use to get information from Sheriff Barker without him knowing it. He will not remember a thing. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 27. (turns page) Aunt Bea’s son was not taken from Hotville. Harry Dicko is her son. He and I actually went to school together. His parents are nice enough. It is not like what father and I feared. We’d imagined the worst. I told father who his son, my half-brother is. Father knows his parents and talked to them. It has been decided that we will not pursue what we know. We will not tell Harry. We will not tell Aunt Bea. I feel so unsettled by it all. I had so obsessed on finding my half-brother and now I am not going to do anything about it. It makes me mad that Sheriff Barker was selling babies to the highest bidders. I guess like in the case of Harry the parents were usually good parents but still, if it had been the girls themselves selling their babies they would have been arrested. It makes me angry. (turns page) I thought about quitting my job with Sheriff Barker, but if he was involved in one criminal activity there are probably other illegal things he has been doing. I want to bring him down. I want his ass in jail. (turns page) I just learned something about my father. I don’t want to believe it is true. I can’t bring myself to write about it. Tess closes the journal. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) That was the last entry before the kidnapping. INT. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH’S CHURCH OFFICE Tess Fletcher and Preacher Sloth are seated near his desk. (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 28. TESS FLETCHER You must have known that Sheriff Barker was involved in Jeremy’s kidnapping. You knew enough about what Jeremy was doing. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH What are you talking about? TESS FLETCHER The selling of babies. The selling of your and Bea’s baby. Preacher John Sloth’s eyes widen. There is a look of guilt on his face. TESS FLETCHER (cont’d) My God, that is what Jeremy discovered. You were involved. When Jeremy told you about the selling of your baby, you weren’t crying because you were afraid of what happened to your baby. You were involved. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH No. Of course I was not involved. TESS FLETCHER Jeremy figured it out. He wasn’t going to keep quiet about it, was he. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH Tess. You know me. I wouldn’t do such a thing. (beat) Where is your evidence? TESS FLETCHER Oh, I will get the evidence. John Sloth stands up and leans to open a drawer to his desk. Tess stands up and is about to leave when he pulls a gun from the desk drawer. He points the gun at Tess. He shoots her and she falls to the floor a few feet from the door. Blood puddles where she has fallen. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH Meddling bitch. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE walks into the office. He sees Tess has been shot. He quickly pulls his gun as he shifts and jumps (CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 29. hoping to throw Preacher John’s aim off. Preacher John fires his gun but misses. Preacher John then jumps out a window, breaking the glass. He makes his getaway. Sheriff Baskerville quickly checks on Tess. SHERIFF BASKERVILLE Thank God you are still alive. Sheriff Baskerville pulls his cellphone from his pants pocket and calls 911. About Hotville Episode 8:
Tess Fletcher continues to hang on after being shot by Preacher John Sloth. There is a shortage of blood after the theft of blood at the hospital and Sheriff Baskerville gives blood for Tess. He does not realize how dangerous giving blood will be since he does not know he has been bitten by a vampire. Count Duso discovers that Jeremy Sloth is no longer in the coffin in the Mausoleum. Count Duso and Josh Gordon search for Jeremy.
WebSerial: Hotville - Episode 8
Hotville Episode 8
By
Charles Peters
Copyright 2012
INT. MAUSOLEUM SECRET ROOM - NIGHT
COUNT DUSO stares at the chains and the pieces of wood that
once was the coffin.
COUNT DUSO
I should have known when I built
the coffin it wouldn’t last as long
as I had hoped. If you want good
timber you have to cut down the
trees yourself.
JOSH GORDON enters the Mausoleum.
JOSH GORDON
Aren’t you afraid that you will be
seen? Mikey White and Jenna Smythe
and Bea Griffith all come
here. They worry for you as much
even as they fear you.
COUNT DUSO
I felt a disturbance in the
ether. I felt something was
wrong. We must find Jeremy, for
this is not the time he should
rise. He should only have risen
after all that he has known has
turned to dust.
JOSH GORDON
I went along with your plans. You
know I love Jeremy just as much as
you love him but I have decided we
were wrong. We must either let him
be free or drive a stake through
his heart. I will not use my
powers to bind another coffin in
these chains.
COUNT DUSO
I agree but we must find him. Do
you have the power to locate him?
JOSH GORDON
I sense that at this moment he is
near his father but I am not
certain. I taught Jeremy his magic
fairly well and he is in hiding.
COUNT DUSO
He is using his magic?
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2.
JOSH GORDON
That is not all together bad but it
is inconvenient for me.
COUNT DUSO
You go talk to Mikey and Bea and
maybe Jenna. Through them, see if
you can sense where he is. If you
can tell me where, I will go to
where his father is.
JOSH GORDON
At the church. His office.
COUNT DUSO
Damn. That place gives me a
headache but if I can find Jeremy
there then it will be worth it.
EXT. PREACHER JOHN SLOTH’S CHURCH OFFICE - NIGHT
Count Duso is standing just outside the window of the church
office. He is hiding behind a tree as he peeps through the
window. He sees the EMS techs loading Tess onto a
stretcher. As they come out of the church Count Duso turns
into a bat.
EXT. ROAD - NIGHT
The EMS vehicle is speeding down the road. Its siren is
BLARING and its lights are flashing. When it comes to a car
the car quickly pulls off the road to make room for it to
safely pass. The Sheriff’s Vehicle is following closely
behind the EMS. Sheriff Baskerville can be seen through the
windshield and then the window on driver’s side. The view
moves from the side view of the Sheriff’s car to behind for
a visual of both the EMS vehicle and the Sheriff’s car
speeding down the road.
INT. EMS VEHICLE - NIGHT
Focus is on Tess Fletcher’s face. There is no oxygen
attached at first view. The view moves down from her face
to show a bloody sheet. The view then moves to show the EMS
Tech applying pressure directly to her side and trying to
stop the bleeding. The view then moves back up to her face
as the EMS Tech puts an oxygen mask over her mouth and nose.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3.
TECH 1
The bleeding is bad.
TECH 2
She is barely hanging on. I don’t
think she is going to make it to
the hospital.
INT. SHERIFF’S VEHICLE - NIGHT
Focus is on SHERIFF BASKERVILLE’s face. From his face the
focus moves to his neck where once there were vampire fang
marks but there are not currently any marks to be seen.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
Please Tess. You have to
live. Please don’t die. I will
feel lost without you. I love you.
EXT. ROAD AND PARKING LOT - NIGHT
The EMS vehicle speeds into the parking lot and into the
unloading area. Sheriff Baskerville’s vehicle pulls up
beside it. He quickly exits his vehicle as do the EMS
Techs. They quickly unload Tess from the vehicle and rush
her through the automated doors.
INT. JOSEPH SLOTH’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Joseph Sloth is seated at his desk. His brother, Preacher
John Sloth, is standing at a window and then pacing between
the door and the window.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
Tess was crazy. She attacked
me. She was saying wild, insane,
stuff. Then she attacked me with a
knife. I had no choice but to
shoot her.
JOSEPH SLOTH
Why did you shoot at Sheriff
Baskerville?
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
He startled me. I don’t know. You
know those two are always
conspiring together. This entire
town is out to destroy me. It is
the devil at work in this town. It
is the devil I tell you.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4.
JOSEPH SLOTH
You are going to have to turn
yourself in. There will have to be
a hearing. For my lawyer to help
you, you are going to have to be
honest with them.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
Do you think I am lying? I am a
man of God. I do not tell lies.
JOSEPH SLOTH
Bullshit. Now tell me the truth.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I don’t know why I came here. I am
leaving.
JOSEPH SLOTH
I’ve always wondered if you were
involved in the kidnapping of
Jeremy. I didn’t want to believe
it but in the back of my mind I’ve
always wondered. Could you do such
a thing?
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
How could you think such a thing?
JOSEPH SLOTH
Your body language. Your
words. Your eyes. There was just
something about the entire
thing. Still, I didn’t want to
believe it. Now Tess, who was
investigating the kidnapping, has
been shot. Shot by you! Now tell
me the truth?
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I’ve told you the truth. She came
into my office like a crazy
woman. I had to shoot her.
JOSEPH SLOTH
Was the kidnapping a total
hoax. Is Jeremy safe,
alive. Please tell me he is
alive. I would rather think that
he would betray me than to think
that he is dead.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
Jeremy would never do anything to
hurt you and you know he didn’t
care about money. Why should
he? You gave him whatever he
wanted. You left me to struggle
for money, but you gave my son
whatever he wanted.
JOSEPH SLOTH
Did you kill Jeremy? Did you kill
your own son?
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
Jeremy was sick. He was a
sinner. He engaged in homosexual
sex. He practiced witchcraft. He
was depraved, evil.
JOSEPH SLOTH
You monstrous lunatic! How could
you kill your own son. Jeremy was
good and kind.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
He was sinful and he was going to
destroy my good works.
JOSEPH SLOTH
What? Destroy your good works? I
don’t understand. Jeremy loved
that church. He loved the good you
did in the community.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I don’t want to talk about it. I
am leaving.
JOSEPH SLOTH
If you tell me the truth, even if I
hate the truth that is told, I will
still help you. Tell me the truth!
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I don’t know what the truth is.
Preacher Johnny Sloth exits the room.
6.
INT. DOC HASSLE’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Doc Hassle and Sheriff Baskerville are talking just inside
the doorway.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
Doc, is she going to live?
DOC HASSLE
She has lost a lot of blood and
because of the blood theft there is
a shortage. She needs type O.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
I am type O. Take the blood from
me.
DOC HASSLE
The blood has to be processed
through a registered agency. I
would be breaking the law if I gave
her a transfusion directly from
you.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
Shit. Laws are made to be broken.
DOC HASSLE
That is a fine thing for a Sheriff
to say.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
What? You are going to let Tess
die because of some stupid
law. Hell, if I arrested everyone
in Hotville, who broke the law,
over half of this town would be
getting gang raped in Prison.
DOC HASSLE
That visual doesn’t exactly give me
an incentive to break the law.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
Please. To hell with the law. My
blood is okay and it isn’t like
Tess and I don’t exchange bodily
fluids from time to time.
DOC HASSLE
Okay. Okay. I’ll send a tech in
here. She will draw, collect, your
blood for Tess. I am pretty sure I
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7.
DOC HASSLE (cont’d)
can trust her. I will have to tell
her what is going on.
INT. OPERATING ROOM - NIGHT
There are two nurses in the room with Tess. Doc Hassle
enters the room with the blood that has been donated by
Sheriff Baskerville.
DOC HASSLE
How did the operation go?
NURSE 1
She is still a live. I’d never met
the surgeon before, don’t even know
his name, but he did really well.
NURSE 2
(takes the blood from Doc
Hassle)
She was given blood but she is
going to need an additional
transfusion. Thank God you were
able to procure more Type O. The
surgeon was concerned.
DOC HASSLE
I don’t understand. You two know
Dr. Stewart. He didn’t do the
surgery?
NURSE 1
No. We were told that he had a sub
and we didn’t argue. It was odd
the way the sub came in, but he did
a good job. His surgical techique
was superior to most who I have
seen operate.
Doc Hassle looks at the chart to see the amount of blood
given and then helps the nurse connect the blood he has
brought in so as to give her more blood.
DOC HASSLE
Where did the blood she was given
come from?
NURSE 2
I don’t where the blood he brought
in came from just as I don’t know
where the blood you brought in came
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8.
NURSE 2 (cont’d)
from. I didn’t want to hear his
story and I don’t want to hear your
story.
INT. STORAGE CLOSET IN THE HOSPITAL - NIGHT
COUNT DUSO is changing from his surgeon clothes to dress as
an old man with a beard. He looks in the mirror to admire
his costume. Then he looks at a picture of a woman who
looks like Tess but who is dressed in clothes from the
1800’s.
COUNT DUSO
I speak to this picture but I hope
that you may hear my words through
the betweens of this world and the
next. Hear me. Tess, my beloved
Tess, hear me. From the times I
remember we shared, it was another
life. Another century. Still, I
hold you in my heart like it was
yesterday. I remember you all so
tenderly and lovingly in my arms
like it is today. I did so love
you. I do so love you. Now that I
have again found you, I pray that
you will not die. Make your way
through the betweens back to this
world. Let the bright light of the
heavens and the angels touch your
soul to heal your body and bring
you back. It is not your time to
pass. It is not your time to go.
Hear my words and come back to me.
INT. DOC HASSLE’S OFFICE - NIGHT
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE is sitting where his blood has been
drawn. He is alone.
SHERIFF BASKERVILLE
I feel so weak. I’ve given blood
before. I have never felt like
this.
Sheriff Baskerville falls, from where he is sitting, to the
floor. Sprawled on the floor he reaches out to the door and
passes out.
9.
INT. BEA GRIFFITH’S HOUSE - NIGHT
JEREMY SLOTH and BEA GRIFFITH are in the kitchen. He
suddenly grabs his head.
JEREMY SLOTH
For some reason your spell has been
broken. I am feeling compelled to
go to Sheriff Baskerville. He is
in trouble. He needs blood.
BEA GRIFFITH
I closed his wound. He shouldn’t
have lost any more blood.
JEREMY SLOTH
We need to get him back here where
we can give him a transfusion from
the blood that we stole.
BEA GRIFFITH
You need that blood until we can
obtain more from Atlanta.
JEREMY SLOTH
I can’t remember the transport
spell that Josh taught me. Damn
it. What the hell was that spell.
JOSH GORDON enters the kitchen.
JOSH GORDON
So here you are? I found you gone
from the coffin.
BEA GRIFFITH
You knew. You did that to Jeremy?
JOSH GORDON
We thought it was for his own good.
JEREMY SLOTH
Never mind that now. I’ll ask the
details later. We have got to get
Sheriff Baskerville here for a
blood transfusion before he
dies. Can you do it?
JOSH GORDON
Where is he at?
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 10.
JEREMY SLOTH
Let me think. I should be able to
tell. I am connected to him.
Okay. He gave blood at the
hospital. That is what
happened. He gave his blood for
some woman by the name of Tess
Fletcher. She was shot.
(beat)
Son of a bitch! Fuck!
BEA GRIFFITH
What?
JEREMY SLOTH
She was shot by my father.
JOSH GORDON
Never mind that now. Don’t get all
angry at your father again. You
can’t do magic when you are upset.
JEREMY SLOTH
(Jeremy stares at Josh with an
odd, questioning look.)
Okay. Never mind. That is out of my
mind. How do we do the transport
spell? We have got to get him here
so that we can give him a blood
transfusion.
INT. DOC HASSLE’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Focus is on Sheriff Baskerville. The fang marks reappear on
his neck. The focus moves toward the closed door to the
office. The door slowly opens. PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH enters
the office with his gun pointed toward Sheriff Baskerville.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I must get rid of witnesses.
A ghostly image of JEREMY SLOTH appears next to Sheriff
Baskerville. He stares at his father as he, Jeremy, touches
Sheriff Baskerville. At Jeremy’s touch Sheriff Baskerville
vanishes from the office. The ghostly image of Jeremy
stands up.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
Vanished! The devils work! But
devious devil, you will not save
Tess Fletcher. I will kill her.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 11.
JEREMY SLOTH
Why would you want to kill anyone?
What has happened to you?
Jeremy Sloth vanishes from the room.
INT. BEA GRIFFITH’S HOUSE - NIGHT
Sheriff Baskerville is on the couch. JEREMY SLOTH is laying
on the floor. The ghostly image of Jeremy enters his own
body. Jeremy’s eyes open. Jeremy weakly stands up to see
Sheriff Baskerville is being given a blood transfusion. JOSH
GORDON and Jeremy Sloth watch BEA GRIFFITH work on him.
JOSH GORDON
I wish I had more of an ability
with healing but I guess that
requires more compassion and
tenderness in the heart than I am
capable of feeling.
BEA GRIFFITH
Wishing for the root of the power
is the first step toward such a
gift.
JEREMY SLOTH
Josh, you said I was angry at my
father. I don’t understand. I
don’t understand why my father
would want to kill anyone.
BEA GRIFFITH
Jeremy has partial amnesia.
JOSH GORDON
I didn’t realize. Jeremy, I guess
I need to catch you up on things.
BEA GRIFFITH
Jenna Smythe said that might be
dangerous.
JOSH GORDON
You know how much I value what
Jenna Smythe thinks. So anyway,
Jeremy, you discovered that your
father had been selling babies.
While searching for your
half-brother you discovered that
your father and Sheriff Barker had
sold your half-brother.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 12.
Bea Griffith stops working to heal Sheriff Baskerville. She
grabs Josh by his shirt collar.
BEA GRIFFITH
What? Selling babies. Johnny sold
my baby. He made money from my
despair?
JOSH GORDON
Bea, I am sorry but yes.
Bea Griffith pulls her hands away from Josh. Tears roll down
her cheeks as she returns to working with Sheriff
Baskerville.
BEA GRIFFITH
Josh, go on. Tell Jeremy what
needs to be told. I promise not to
be distracted from my healing task.
JOSH GORDON
At first your father convinced you
that it should be kept quiet. At
that point you didn’t realize that
your father was involved in Sheriff
Barker’s profiteering. He made you
think that you should not tell
Harry Dicko that he is adopted and
who his real parents are. At first
he convinced you that you should
not tell Bea that you had found her
son. Then when you discovered your
father was in the business of
selling babies, you decided to tell
all. You realized the silence was
not to protect Harry or Bea but to
protect your father’s dirty secret.
JEREMY SLOTH
Harry Dicko is my
half-brother? That shy, quirky,
genius dude is my half-brother?
JOSH GORDON
Yeah. Bea, have you ever met
Harry?
JEREMY SLOTH
You will like him.
BEA GRIFFITH
I am sure I will love him. Josh,
what happened when Jeremy turned
against his father?
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13.
JOSH GORDON
His father had two men kidnap
him. Of course Count Duso and I
knew that his father planned to
kill him. I was trying to reach
Jeremy when his father threw him
off lover’s leap. I managed to use
my power to slow his fall but it
was not enough. When Count Duso
and I reached him at the bottom of
the bluff he was near death. If I
had your healing powers I might
could have saved him but I don’t
have your ability to heal and
there was not time to fetch you.
Even if we had fetched you, you
might not have been able to save
him. The way Count Duso figured the
situation, the only way for Count
Duso to save Jeremy was to turn him
into a vampire.
JEREMY SLOTH
Why lock me in the coffin?
JOSH GORDON
You killed two people. Mikey,
Jenna, and Bea though it was Count
Duso who killed them but it was
you. You planned to kill your
father. You talked about turning
your mother into a vampire. You
considered turning Harry into a
vampire. Count Duso thought if you
had time in the coffin and then
were eventually released to a
different time you would be less
dangerous, deadly. He didn’t want
to hurt you. He didn’t want to
kill you. He was only thinking of
you. He loves you very much.
JEREMY SLOTH
Father shot some woman by the name
of Tess. In astral, ghost, form I
saw that he was going to kill
Sheriff Baskerville. We saved the
Sheriff from father when we
transported the Sheriff here.
Father is still at the hospital and
still wants to kill Tess. I must
go to the hospital and stop him.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 14.
Josh Gordon’s cellphone rings. He answers the phone. COUNT
DUSO is on the other end of the connection.
JOSH GORDON
Yes. I understand. I have found
Jeremy. The best I can tell he is
okay now though he does have
partial amnesia. Look. He told me
that his father is at the hospital
and is going to try to kill Tess
Fletcher. He wants to go to the
hospital to stop his father.
COUNT DUSO
Tell him I am at the hospital. I
will protect Tess.
JOSH GORDON
I will do.
INT. TESS’ HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT
PREACHER JOHN SLOTH is in the hospital room where Tess
remains unconscious. We focus on a chart at the foot of her
bed which reads, "Vitals Good." Preacher John Sloth points
his gun at Tess. There is the SOUND of a cart SQUEAKING. A
door to the hosptial room slowly starts to open. Preacher
Sloth quickly puts his gun into his pocket and darts through
a different door. Two NURSES enter the room.
NURSE 2
I can’t believe she survived. It
is a miracle.
NURSE 1
I wonder where the blood came from
that the strange surgeon gave her.
NURSE 2
I don’t know and it is best that
neither of us know. It was weird
and probably illegal. Regardless,
I am glad Tess is going to live.
INT. RESTROOM - NIGHT
Preacher John Sloth is pissing in the toilet. He finishes
and then turns and peeps out the restroom door to look at
the two nurses and Tess. Suddenly the opposite door from
the hospital room that shares the restroom opens. COUNT
DUSO puts Preacher John Sloth in a choke hold and covers his
mouth.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 15.
COUNT DUSO
Do not say a word!
INT. TESS’ HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT
The two nurses exit the room. COUNT DUSO and PREACHER JOHN
SLOTH fall through the door and wrestle on the floor.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
My revolver is loaded with silver
bullets.
On the floor Preacher John Sloth kicks Count Duso in the
balls as he squirms away from him. Preacher John Sloth
pulls his revolver. He points his revolver at Count Duso.
PREACHER JOHNNY SLOTH
I am going to destroy you. From
what I have read a silver bullet
will cause you to explode into
dust. Your destruction will be so
fun to watch.
FADE OUT
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