Hearthville Serial – Book 8 – Episode 5

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EXT. SKY, AROUND LEROY BARE'S SPACESHIP - NIGHT

Bright lights flashing, colorful lights, SOUNDS OF
EXPLOSIONS, spaceships attempting to surround Leroy Bare's
spaceship.  He is zapping them with bombs exploding.  His
space flies forward.  Enemy Spaceships race to catch up.

INT. LEROY BARE'S SPACESHIP - NIGHT

LEROY BARE looks at his monitor to view primitive map.
BACHUS WILCOX looks at map.  PROFESSOR WILCOX and MINI
WILCOX are looking out the window.

                      BACHUS WILCOX
          That looks like a map that I drew
          when I was writing something in my
          journal.

                      MINI WILCOX
                (turns from window, and
                 looks at monitor, map)
          It does.

                      BACHUS WILCOX
          How would you know?

                      MINI WILCOX
          I wouldn't.  I never look at your
          diary.

                      BACHUS WILCOX
          Journal.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
                (joins his wife to look
                 at monitor)
          Whatever.  Leroy, why would his map
          be on your monitor?

                      LEROY BARE
          I don't know.

EXT. SKY, SUN IS RISING, A FEW CLOUDS - MORNING

Spaceships are flying.  The ocean is seen beneath the sky.

EXT. HOTVILLE BEACH - MORNING

No living person is seen on the beach. A lawn chair blows
across the beach. Camera follows chair until it reaches a
dead body.  Camera focuses on the body of a young man.
Focus on bullet holes.  Blood.  The camera moves to the
young man's face.  His dead eyes are wide open.  His mouth
is wide open.  The camera moves down and then shows his
outstretched arm and then his hand and then the cane that he
is clutching.

INT. ROOM AT SEVY MOTEL - MORNING

CLAUD FELTER wakes up next to his wife SARAH FELTER.  Sarah
is sleeping, snoring. Claud looks at his wife.  He looks
over at the second bed in the motel room that is still made
up.

                      CLAUD FELTER
          I wonder where Shane is?

Claud shakes his wife to wake her up.

                      CLAUD FELTER
          Didn't Shane come back to the room
          with you last night?

Sarah Felter sits up.

                      SARAH FELTER
          No. He was winning.  I was losing.
          So I just left him at the Favors
          Poker Room.  I didn't want to keep
          playing.

                      CLAUD FELTER
          Do you think he met a girl and went
          back to her place when he was
          finished playing poker?

                      SARAH FELTER
          I don't know.  He was not
          socializing with anyone while we
          were together.  But of course I am
          his mother and so after I left, who
          knows.  He probably met someone.  I
          am sure he is okay.

                      CLAUD FELTER
          I don't know.  I have a bad
          feeling.

SOUND OF SIRENS.

EXT. HOTVILLE BEACH - MORNING

Body laying on the beach.  SHERIFF CONNIE MCIRON stands
above the body, looking down.  DEPUTY SALLY FRANCIS is
squatted at the body with a flashlight. People start walking
onto the beach and to where the Sheriff's car is parked with
flashing lights. Mary Dugan, in a bikini, is standing at the
car. The Coroner Van with lights flashing pulls up on the
beach next to the Sheriff's car.  Coroner, DOC JACK PERKINS,
opens the door and exits from the driver's side.   Two men
carrying a stretcher with a body bag on it get out of the
back.  They walk toward the body and reach the Sheriff and
Deputy.

                      SHERIFF CONNIE MCIRON
          Doc Jack, don't be running off with
          the body.  There might be someone
          on the beach who knows who the
          young man is.  We need him
          identified.

                      DOC JACK PERKINS
          Finger prints, dental records,
          police records, school records,
          facebook records, twitter records,
          we will identify him all right.

                      SHERIFF CONNIE MCIRON
          Not everyone is on the grid under
          the communist eyes of our prying
          government.

                      DOC JACK PERKINS
          Yeah.  Well.  That prying makes my
          job easier.

                      SHERIFF CONNIE MCIRON
          Your job.  Hotville is not exactly
          crime riddled city.

                      DEPUTY SALLY FRANCIS
          The young woman
                (looks at her e-Tablet)
          Mary Dugan discovered the body on
          her way for a morning swim.  She
          said she had seen him the day
          before at the Sevy Motel where she
          is staying.  She can lead me to the
          room but she does not know the room
          number.

Coroner Tech STEVE JERGINS walks up next to Deputy Sally
Francis.

                      STEVE JERGINS
          You smell nice today.  Is that the
          perfume I bought you.

                      DEPUTY SALLY FRANCIS
                (giggles)
          Yeah.  I thought perfume was a nice
          change from a date bringing
          flowers.

                      SHERIFF CONNIE MCIRON
          Sure. Why didn't you just come out
          and tell her that she has body
          oder.  You asshole.

                      STEVE JERGINS
          No.  When you give someone perfume,
          that does not mean that you think
          they stink.
                (looks and points at
                 body)
          Say Doc Jack, doesn't the victim
          have a stamp of some kind on his
          hand there.

Doc Jack gets down to look at the victims hand.
         

INT.  ROOM AT SEVY MOTEL - MORNING

CLAUD FELTER and SARAH FELTER finish getting dressed. They
look out the window toward the beach and the flashing
lights.

                      CLAUD FELTER
          Did you murder our son last night?

                      SARAH FELTER
          How could you ask such a question.
          Are you insane?  I am sure he is
          okay.  He probably took his
          winnings and got fall down drunk
          partying.

EXT. HOTVILLE BEACH - MORNING

The ghost of SHANE FELTER rises from his body.  He looks
around.

                      SHANE FELTER
                (looking down at his own
                 body)
          How can I be dead?  Who shot me?

Shane walks over to where MARY DUGAN is standing.  She is
sexy in her bikini and he gives her a look over.

                      SHANE FELTER
          God, you are so sexy, and I never
          could get the nerve up to speak to
          you.  Now I am dead. 
                (looks around)
          I thought when people died they
          were supposed to be greeted by
          loved ones who have gone to the
          great beyond.  What.  Is this
          Walmart?  God done fired all of his
          door greeters. Let me think.
                (scratches his head)
          The Wilcox family recently died.
          Greet me, you fuckers.  Don't leave
          me standing here alone.

STEWART DUDDLEY walks up to where Mary Dugan is standing.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          What is happening?

                      MARY DUGAN
          Some young man got shot.  He was
          shot five times.  I found his body.
          It was awful.  Say, aren't you
          Stewart Duddley.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          Yeah.  Do I know you?

                      MARY DUGAN
          Not really.  I am just a fan.  I am
          sorry you can't play football any
          more.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          So you are from Hearthville?

                      MARY DUGAN
          No. Our High Schools are rivals.  I
          am in college now.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          Hearthville College.

                      MARY DUGAN
          Yeah.  You know, I actually do know
          your brother Victor and Jossette.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          How is that, that you know them.

                      MARY DUGAN
          My mom is friends with Jossette's
          mom Terence.  I've been on a few
          dates with Roger but I think he is
          gay.  I heard that you two once
          kissed.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          It was an accidental kiss.  We are
          not gay.  And who in the hell would
          have told you about that, any way.

                      SHANE FELTER
          I am standing here dead and you two
          are just talking, talking, talking.
          And I am not even in your
          conversation.  You fucking,
          shallow, turds.

                      MARY DUGAN
          I am glad you are not gay.  So
          prove it.  Ask me out on a date.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          You want to go out on a date with
          me.  A football player who can no
          longer play football.  I am a
          washed up loser.

                      MARY DUGAN
          So you are gay.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          No.

                      MARY DUGAN
          Date me.

                      SHANE FELTER
          I am dead and he is going to get
          laid.  This world is so god damned
          cruel.  Someone, just shoot me
          another five times.

                      STEWART DUDDLEY
          Okay. Do you want to go dancing
          tonight.  I hear the Intrique is a
          cool club.

                      MARY DUGAN
          Pick me up at seven.  I am in room
          301.  I am here with my parents so
          if we have sex it can't be in my
          room.

                      SHANE FELTER
          I've heard her say that before.  To
          me.  But I have never talked to
          her.  Have I?  I was at the Favors'
          Poker Parlor.  I was winning. Mom
          was losing.  And yes.  That girl
          was there.  I think maybe we did
          talk.  But I can't remember.

Shane sees an aura of colors around Stewart.  He notices
auras of light coming from many of the people on the beach.
But he doesn't see an aura coming from Mary Dugan.  Then all
the auras vanish from the different people.

                      SHANE FELTER
          When I was seeing auras why did
          some of the people have auras and
          others did not.  Why did this girl
          not have an aura?  Stewart was all
          lit up, but this girl, nothing.
          That is odd.  Isn't it?

INT. OGLBY HOME - LIVING ROOM - DAY

VICTOR DUDDLEY is setting with JOSSETTE OGLEBY and ROGER
OGLEBY. Victor sees an aura around Roger but he doesn't see
one around Jossette.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          So Roger, I am sorry Stewart didn't
          come with me.  He wanted to go to
          the beach in Hotville.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          How long is he planning on
          vacationing there?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          He reserved his room at the Sevy
          Motel for a week. 

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
         
          Why isn't he staying at the
          Victoria Hotel?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          We tend to like the Sevy.  Mrs.
          Sevy is funny and giant
          corporations have no sense of
          humor.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
                (laughs)
          Burn.  Yeah.  I like staying at the
          Sevy also.  But rooms at the
          Victoria are nice and the maids are
          sexy.

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
         
          Hey.  We know you are gay.  Don't
          pretend to notice sexy maids.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          I do like to look at sexy women.
          And sexy men.  Bitch, don't try to
          put me in a damn box.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Wow.  I don't think I've ever
          witnessed the two of you fight
          before.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          Seriously Victor, did calling me
          out for being gay and giving me a
          lecture sound like Jossette.  It is
          like she has been replaced by some
          pod person or some shit.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY (V.O.)
          Jossette did not have an aura when
          I was seeing Roger's aura.  Which
          happens.  True.  But Roger is
          right, she doesn't seem like
          Jossette.  And in the other
          timeline when she died, we couldn't
          find her soul.  And now here she
          is.  Is she a figment without a
          soul?  Legacy time code?  New time
          code?  Something Belial has
          created?

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
         
          What are you in such deep thought
          about?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Do you have a soul?

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
         
          What a weird question?  As smart as
          you are, you can't be religious.
          You can't really believe in God or
          that there is such a thing as a
          soul.  No one has a soul.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          So you have never been in touch
          with your higher being or your
          lower being or just your being?

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
         
          What are you talking about?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Only people without a soul can
          truly be an atheist. Because if you
          have a soul, at some time or
          another, you've experienced
          something supernatural.

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
          You are talking like my Aunt
          Rachel.  Are you as crazy as she
          is?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Wow.  This is scary.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          Tell me about it.  And whoever this
          is, I am not so sure she is not
          dangerous.

                      JOSSETTE OGLEBY
          You two are the ones who are
          dangerous, you damn religious nuts.
          We are born.  We die.  That is it.
          No one has a soul. Souls do not
          exist.  Trust in the science.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          Trust in the science.  Now you are
          sounding like some damn demon.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Or worse.  A democrat.

                      ROGER OGLEBY
          Well.  You two have fun.  I am
          getting the hell out of here.  I am
          going to call mom and let her know
          that I am going to Hotville.