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SUPERNATURAL S5 EP #91: "Fishsticks"
ORIGINALLY AIRED: October 15th 2009
WRITTEN BY: Bert and Ernie
DIRECTED BY: Joe Shmoe
CAST:
JOHN WINCHESTER: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
DEAN WINCHESTER: Jensen Ackles
SAM WINCHESTER: Jared Padalecki
JIM BOB: Chad Michael Murray
DEX DUTHOR: Mike Rosenbaum
FEATURED MUSIC:
Mandy by Barry Manilow
White Rabbit by Jefferson Starship
PROLOGUE: LOS ANGELES. EXT. GIFFORD PARK - NIGHT
(Several muscle cars are parked in a row alongside a small park bench where Angel, Gunn, Lorne, Wesley and Fred are gathered.)
LORNE: Hey, uh, who wants some mu shu? I got beaucoup mu shu here.
FRED: I'll take some, thanks. Angel, this little picnic was such a good
idea.
GUNN: Yeah, man. Why haven't we done this before?
(Pan to Fred scanning Wesley while Lorne operates the machine out of a silver briefcase.)
ANGEL: Well, you know, you've all been working so hard...
WESLEY: Has anyone seen the plum sauce?
(Fred stops scanning Wesley and puts the scanner back in the briefcase on the picnic table.)
FRED: We're clean. Nobody's listening.
ANGEL: You were late.
WESLEY: Thought I was being followed.
GUNN: I get that we have to be careful, but feels weird hiding from the company we're supposed to be running.
ANGEL: We're not hiding, we're being safe. There are factions at Wolfram & Hart, people who want to see us destroyed.
FRED: But still, it's not like everyone there's evil. I mean, we work with these people. Some of 'em I see more than I see you guys, at least
lately, anyway.
WESLEY: And you think you can trust him? (Fred gives him a look) Them.
FRED: What?
WESLEY: These...people, the ones you're spending so much time with lately. Knox, for example.
FRED: (embarrassed) Uh, we're, you know, heh heh, friendly, but he's under me- or I'm on top of him. Professionally. All I'm saying is, he-he's not evil.
ANGEL: I think we're all agreed that the senior partners are. They put us in charge for a reason. What we need to know is...why?
GUNN: We've only been there a month.
FRED: Turns out running a company doesn't leave a lot of time for, you know, covert ops.
LORNE: Yeah, I'm up to my horns in schmoozin' starlets and boozin' hipsters, Angel.
WESLEY: What about Gunn?
GUNN: What about Gunn?
FRED: It's...well, what they put in your head. All that law knowledge and whatever. Maybe you know something, more than the rest of us.
WESLEY: The alteration to your mental capacity-
GUNN: My capacity's the same as it's always been. The good doctor just revved up some idlin' brain cells, set 'em in motion.
ANGEL: It's a legitimate concern. You gave them access to-
GUNN: I made a deal. We all did. Seems like I'm the only one who's willing to accept that. Everybody here got something out of this.
ANGEL: Fear, mistrust, a great motor pool.
LORNE: I got the Nancy Sinatra collection. Original 45s.
WESLEY: I did get a rather nice pen. (takes the pen out of his pocket) Sterling. (admires his pen) Has my name on it. Which is not the point at all.
GUNN: No, the point is what, that I'm some spy for the senior partners?
ANGEL: Nobody's saying that.
GUNN: Just thinking it.
FRED: No. Charles...
ANGEL: The point is, the senior partners have a plan for us, and if we're not prepared-
FRED: Angel, it's not like we don't want to be ready. We just have, you know, plates...big, heaping, full plates.
WESLEY: Between running our departments, handling clients, dealing with Spike-
ANGEL: Spike is a distraction. As soon as he's released from his ties from Wolfram & Hart-
WESLEY: That could take years.
FRED: Using the amulet to destroy the hellmouth, it turned Spike into-
LORNE: A spook?
FRED: Well, he's more than a ghost. He's something unique.
WESLEY: Regardless, whatever binds him-
ANGEL: (looking off into the distance) (to Wesley) Can I borrow your pen?
WESLEY: (irritated) Uhh, sure.
(Nearby, a woman screams as a growling hairy monster follows her, knocking her down to the ground.)
FADE TO BLACK
OPENING CREDITS SEQUENCE (it was pointed out to me that SPN doesn't do openeing credits as such.)
ACT I: EXT. GIFFORD PARK - NIGHT
(The monster attacks the girl, slashing her shoulder then biting her neck. Angel pulls the monster off of the girl and begins fighting with it himself. Angel punches it then jams Wesley's silver pen through its chest. The creature falls back to the ground and immediately turns back into the shape of a man. The girl ran away during all the commotion, and the next sound is that of car tires screeching as she drives away.)
ANGEL: Damn it.
Cut to: WOLFRAM AND HART. INT. LOBBY - DAY
(Angel and Gunn are talking as they walk through the lobby. Angel's holding a sketch of the girl from the park.)
ANGEL: She was bitten. I smelled her blood on him.
(Cue: Bark at the Moon by Ozzie Osbourne)
GUNN: Tonight's the second night of the full moon, which means 2 more nights for her to go all dog-girl.
ANGEL: 12 hours till moonrise, and then- If she hurts anyone-
GUNN: She won't. We'll find her.
ANGEL: We better. She won't even know what's happening to her.
GUNN: (presses elevator button) Well, she'll figure it out soon enough. McManus did. The guy you... killed. I pulled his credit card records, cross-checked 'em with police
reports. (reads from the folder) He left his wife and kids a couple years ago, kept moving, staying in the middle of nowhere most of the time. First year or so, a few mangled bodies showed up here and there, but the last 6 months, guy was leaving corpses like bread crumbs.
ANGEL: Probably tried to control it for a while and just gave up. (they walk into the elevator) Thought he had to fight it alone, ended up with nothing worth fighting
for. But this girl, she's not alone. She's got us.
(Fade out/end of featured music)
Cut to: WOLFRAM & HART. INT. FRED'S OFFICE - DAY
(Fred's reading reports, working busily, when Spike appears in her office.)
SPIKE: Well, aren't we the busy little beaver.
~~~~~~~
(The original transcript was borrowed from Angel, S5, Ep 91 'Unleashed'. I edited where necessary.)
This format would remove the need for all handcoding of bold, italics, underscore, etc, making life easier for everyone.
To make sure it's clear -
All actions to be in parentheses ( ) - no italics necessary
All dialogue to be preceded by the speaker's name followed by a colon - IN CAPS:
Double line space between each separate line of dialogue or action as shown above
Flashbacks to be treated as separate scenes, with location/details as available - FLASHBACK (SAM): STANFORD, CALIFORNIA. INT. BEDROOM
Featured music to be cued in and out where appropriate
ETA: Asterisks for *emphasis* where necessary
If anyone has any questions, and/or ideas for improvements, please voice them now so I can tweak as necessary. Thanks!
SUPERNATURAL S5 EP #91: "Fishsticks"
ORIGINALLY AIRED: October 15th 2009
WRITTEN BY: Bert and Ernie
DIRECTED BY: Joe Shmoe
CAST:
JOHN WINCHESTER: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
DEAN WINCHESTER: Jensen Ackles
SAM WINCHESTER: Jared Padalecki
JIM BOB: Chad Michael Murray
DEX DUTHOR: Mike Rosenbaum
FEATURED MUSIC:
Mandy by Barry Manilow
White Rabbit by Jefferson Starship
PROLOGUE: LOS ANGELES. EXT. GIFFORD PARK - NIGHT
(Several muscle cars are parked in a row alongside a small park bench where Angel, Gunn, Lorne, Wesley and Fred are gathered.)
LORNE: Hey, uh, who wants some mu shu? I got beaucoup mu shu here.
FRED: I'll take some, thanks. Angel, this little picnic was such a good
idea.
GUNN: Yeah, man. Why haven't we done this before?
(Pan to Fred scanning Wesley while Lorne operates the machine out of a silver briefcase.)
ANGEL: Well, you know, you've all been working so hard...
WESLEY: Has anyone seen the plum sauce?
(Fred stops scanning Wesley and puts the scanner back in the briefcase on the picnic table.)
FRED: We're clean. Nobody's listening.
ANGEL: You were late.
WESLEY: Thought I was being followed.
GUNN: I get that we have to be careful, but feels weird hiding from the company we're supposed to be running.
ANGEL: We're not hiding, we're being safe. There are factions at Wolfram & Hart, people who want to see us destroyed.
FRED: But still, it's not like everyone there's evil. I mean, we work with these people. Some of 'em I see more than I see you guys, at least
lately, anyway.
WESLEY: And you think you can trust him? (Fred gives him a look) Them.
FRED: What?
WESLEY: These...people, the ones you're spending so much time with lately. Knox, for example.
FRED: (embarrassed) Uh, we're, you know, heh heh, friendly, but he's under me- or I'm on top of him. Professionally. All I'm saying is, he-he's not evil.
ANGEL: I think we're all agreed that the senior partners are. They put us in charge for a reason. What we need to know is...why?
GUNN: We've only been there a month.
FRED: Turns out running a company doesn't leave a lot of time for, you know, covert ops.
LORNE: Yeah, I'm up to my horns in schmoozin' starlets and boozin' hipsters, Angel.
WESLEY: What about Gunn?
GUNN: What about Gunn?
FRED: It's...well, what they put in your head. All that law knowledge and whatever. Maybe you know something, more than the rest of us.
WESLEY: The alteration to your mental capacity-
GUNN: My capacity's the same as it's always been. The good doctor just revved up some idlin' brain cells, set 'em in motion.
ANGEL: It's a legitimate concern. You gave them access to-
GUNN: I made a deal. We all did. Seems like I'm the only one who's willing to accept that. Everybody here got something out of this.
ANGEL: Fear, mistrust, a great motor pool.
LORNE: I got the Nancy Sinatra collection. Original 45s.
WESLEY: I did get a rather nice pen. (takes the pen out of his pocket) Sterling. (admires his pen) Has my name on it. Which is not the point at all.
GUNN: No, the point is what, that I'm some spy for the senior partners?
ANGEL: Nobody's saying that.
GUNN: Just thinking it.
FRED: No. Charles...
ANGEL: The point is, the senior partners have a plan for us, and if we're not prepared-
FRED: Angel, it's not like we don't want to be ready. We just have, you know, plates...big, heaping, full plates.
WESLEY: Between running our departments, handling clients, dealing with Spike-
ANGEL: Spike is a distraction. As soon as he's released from his ties from Wolfram & Hart-
WESLEY: That could take years.
FRED: Using the amulet to destroy the hellmouth, it turned Spike into-
LORNE: A spook?
FRED: Well, he's more than a ghost. He's something unique.
WESLEY: Regardless, whatever binds him-
ANGEL: (looking off into the distance) (to Wesley) Can I borrow your pen?
WESLEY: (irritated) Uhh, sure.
(Nearby, a woman screams as a growling hairy monster follows her, knocking her down to the ground.)
FADE TO BLACK
OPENING CREDITS SEQUENCE (it was pointed out to me that SPN doesn't do openeing credits as such.)
ACT I: EXT. GIFFORD PARK - NIGHT
(The monster attacks the girl, slashing her shoulder then biting her neck. Angel pulls the monster off of the girl and begins fighting with it himself. Angel punches it then jams Wesley's silver pen through its chest. The creature falls back to the ground and immediately turns back into the shape of a man. The girl ran away during all the commotion, and the next sound is that of car tires screeching as she drives away.)
ANGEL: Damn it.
Cut to: WOLFRAM AND HART. INT. LOBBY - DAY
(Angel and Gunn are talking as they walk through the lobby. Angel's holding a sketch of the girl from the park.)
ANGEL: She was bitten. I smelled her blood on him.
(Cue: Bark at the Moon by Ozzie Osbourne)
GUNN: Tonight's the second night of the full moon, which means 2 more nights for her to go all dog-girl.
ANGEL: 12 hours till moonrise, and then- If she hurts anyone-
GUNN: She won't. We'll find her.
ANGEL: We better. She won't even know what's happening to her.
GUNN: (presses elevator button) Well, she'll figure it out soon enough. McManus did. The guy you... killed. I pulled his credit card records, cross-checked 'em with police
reports. (reads from the folder) He left his wife and kids a couple years ago, kept moving, staying in the middle of nowhere most of the time. First year or so, a few mangled bodies showed up here and there, but the last 6 months, guy was leaving corpses like bread crumbs.
ANGEL: Probably tried to control it for a while and just gave up. (they walk into the elevator) Thought he had to fight it alone, ended up with nothing worth fighting
for. But this girl, she's not alone. She's got us.
(Fade out/end of featured music)
Cut to: WOLFRAM & HART. INT. FRED'S OFFICE - DAY
(Fred's reading reports, working busily, when Spike appears in her office.)
SPIKE: Well, aren't we the busy little beaver.
~~~~~~~
(The original transcript was borrowed from Angel, S5, Ep 91 'Unleashed'. I edited where necessary.)
This format would remove the need for all handcoding of bold, italics, underscore, etc, making life easier for everyone.
To make sure it's clear -
All actions to be in parentheses ( ) - no italics necessary
All dialogue to be preceded by the speaker's name followed by a colon - IN CAPS:
Double line space between each separate line of dialogue or action as shown above
Flashbacks to be treated as separate scenes, with location/details as available - FLASHBACK (SAM): STANFORD, CALIFORNIA. INT. BEDROOM
Featured music to be cued in and out where appropriate
ETA: Asterisks for *emphasis* where necessary
If anyone has any questions, and/or ideas for improvements, please voice them now so I can tweak as necessary. Thanks!