1.1: We’re going to open as the show usually does with an unmarked CAR
pulling up into the frame. The headlights streaming at the reader--it’s pulling
into a wooded area in the middle of nowhere. For the display lettering format
it in the way that the show normally would: in a non-enclosed caption in
courier font.
DISPLAY LETT: Watertown,
New York.
1.2: Similar to
the previous, but now MULDER and SCULLY have stepped out of the town car. They
are trying to make their way through the woods. Scully is teetering on her
side, wearing running sneakers, arms extended. Mulder is giggling because he’s
wearing muck boots and just trudging through the mud like a kid. Just so you
know these are big, giant, boots for walking around a horse’s stable and are
usually camouflage. Lots of foresters wear ‘em.
1. SCULLY: Ugh.
Mulder. It feels like I’m stepping in—
2. MULDER: That’s
because you are, Scully. We’re out on a cattle ranch and you better believe it’s more than just mud.
3. SCULLY: Perfect.
1.3: A flashlight
gleams in their faces—they protect their eyes. Mulder has his badge up in his right
hand.
4. FROM OFF: FBI?
5. MULDER: That’s
us—Mulder and Scully.
1.4: From Mulder
and Scully’s perspective: We can see TWO LOCAL POLICE—one is wearing SHERIFF
stripes and is shining the flashlight at our heroes. The other OFFICER looks
fairly young and sheepish and terrified.
6. SHERIFF: HA!
Watch out for that last step—
7. MULDER: Please
spare us.
1.5: Now Mulder
and Scully are behind the Sheriff and the DEPUTY—all four of them are looking
in horror at what is before them. The Sheriff is the only one who isn’t shocked
by what he’s seeing.
SHERIFF: Second
one this week.
Then we go to a second page and see the dismembered body of the cattle rancher.
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