Tres Amigos Episode 2: From an Undisclosed Location

INT. SHELTER. DAY OR NIGHT.
W is in bed reading his bible.

W

We have to know!

Rummy is at the periscope.

RUMMY

We'll die up there!

W

Revelation! People disappearing! Rummy says that the whole city

of Washington is gone! It looks like a dessert! We have to

know what happened up there! We could have missed the Rapture!

RUMMY

A nuclear war is what happened!

Dick sits in front of the computer screen. One hand on the mouse the other out of sight.

DICK

My God W! When did you start believing your own lies?
W

Look, fellas, just read Matthew 23 and 24 and you'll see what I mean.

Dick, still at the computer, closes his eyes briefly. A steady POUNDING sound, from under the desk.

W (CONT'D)

Rummy! Read the chapter! That's an executive order!

Rummy looks through the periscope.

RUMMY

I don't have a Bible!
DICK

Borrow mine. I'll look it up online when I'm finished, er, trying to

make contact.

Rummy get's the bible from Dick's night stand. He carries it toward the window staring at it like he would a foreigner. He opens it. The pages have been cut out to hide a hand gun. He turns a page, the handgun. He looks at Dick. Dick sits in front of the computer. POUNDING NOISES. He grunts happily. Rummy looks at W. W looks at his bible. He runs his finger over a line of text. Looks puzzled, runs the finger over the same line, GROANS. Rummy looks back at the Bible. Then out the window. Instead of the beach scene, Rummy shakes hands with Saddam Hussein.

RUMMY

Jesus!

W

Amen!

Rummy shakes his head, and looks back at the window. A badly burnt child being carried away on a gurney.

RUMMY

Holy Crap!
W

Frightening huh? Better than a Steven King...

Dick, nearing orgasm, let's out a GROAN.

W (CONT'D)

Good for you Dick! I've never seen you this passionate about

something that didn't make money.

Rummy watches the window in horror. A city in flames. A mother crying and cradling a baby in her arms. A crude likeness of him, one of Dick, and one of W, draped in American flags and being burned by and angry mob. Rummy walks to bed, throwing the bible back on Dick's night stand.

W (CONT'D)

I know. It's a hard thing to get through.

W replaces his bible on the night stand.

W (CONT'D)

Just try again tomorrow and we'll get through it together.

Black.
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To read Episode 1 click on Tres Amigos Episode 1 in the recommended links. The authors are currently looking for filmmakers to make Tres Amigos a visual reality. A good format for it would be flash animation, but we are open to any ideas and input. It could even be adapted for theater. Please contact us on this site.