Episode 8
SCENE 1
(Camera fades in from black to show most of the warehouse tribe gathered behind the buildings. They have build a funeral pyre and on top it is a body wrapped in a faded black blanket. Bray walks up to it pushes the blanket a side and gently strokes the pale forehead of the young girl. She looks ashen and thin, her short blond hair is a mess and her eyes have dark rings around them. Bray closes the covers and turns to the people gathered. In the crowd we can see Noel, Hummy and Crow. He gives a short inaudible speech, then a younger boy hands him a torch and he sets the pyre on fire. Shadows dance across his face.)
(Flashback to the first season to the death and funeral of Zoot.)
(There's an astounded look on Bray's face before he starts to cry to himself.)
Bray OV: Martin. That was his name before the virus.
(Crow appears by his side and wraps an arm around him to comfort him. Camera zooms in on the burning body and cuts back to the body of Zoot before cutting to the next scene.)
SCENE 2
(Gel is pacing quickly in front of a table in the café. The camera pans around to show Sammy, Lottie, Darryl, KC, Kayla, Chester and Dylan looking at her. She has a clipboard in her hand.)
Gel: So the party is tonight and there's a lot we need to get done. (Points at Darryl) Darryl, you're in charge of the music and entertainment.
Darryl: Sweet!
Gel: And that doesn't mean you're performing your stupid Zoot show. No one wants to see that.
Lottie: Yea and your rapping sucks.
Darryl: Hey hey hey, no need to get mean.
Gel: No time for that. (points at KC) You're going to get the drinks, you have your contacts, right?
KC (nods): No problem.
Gel: Good now for the food and the decorations. Any volunteers?
Sammy: I know where to find food and decorations is more a girl thing, right?
Lottie: What? That's sexist, Sammy.
Sammy (shrugs): Then don't do it.
(Lottie looks at him for a while then smiles bittersweet.)
Lottie: I'll be decorating. (turns back to Sammy) You can't dare me to do anything.
Sammy: Whatever.
(Gel scribbles their names down and looks at the remaining three.)
Kayla: I'll follow suit with Lottie and do the decorating. You should ask Trudy though to cook the food for you.
Lottie: Yea, I'm not eating anything Sammy cooks.
(Sammy pokes his tongue out at her, but heads of to find Trudy.)
Gel: Good, what about you two?
(She looks at Chester and Dylan. The two brothers look at each other for a while then nod.)
Dylan (in unison): Decorating.
Chester (in unison): Food.
(Chester turns to his younger brother in disbelief.)
Chester: What? Did you not hear Sammy? That's girl stuff.
Dylan: Oh and cooking isn't ?
(Chester shakes his head and rushes after Sammy, while Gel puts their names down.)
SCENE 3
(The older Mall Rats have gathered in the entrance hall. Jay is standing in front of them next to Amber and pointing out duties. In the background we can see Trudy and Brady following Chester and Sammy to the kitchen.)
Jay: Ram you have the map Crow gave us?
(Ram waves the piece of paper in his hand.)
Jay: Good. Jack will go with you and I think you should take Lex with you.
Lex: Shouldn't I be here?
Jay: No, Ryan is taking up on barricading the other entrances here.
Lex: Fine, then let's go now.
(Jay nods and the three guys leave.)
Amber: Before we really barricade the hospital area we should gather some more medical supplies and pick up some more of the technical stuff in there.
Jay: I'll go in there then, but I don't know much about medicine.
Ellie: I've been working a lot with Jack and I guess I can help.
(Jay nods at her and looks at the remaining Mall Rats without tasks.)
Jay: Alice, you're on guard duty. Salene, it would help if you'd keep an eye on the madness in there (points at the café). Ebony and Slade would you scout the area around here. All the Consilium posters and flyers have to go and the area should be secure.
(Ebony rolls her eyes)
Ebony: That's a crappy job.
Amber: Then help with the party.
Ebony: Yea right. Come on, Slade.
(The two of them walk out of the hospital.)
Amber: Good, everyone got their jobs and I will help Ryan with the barricading.
(The group scatters away and the camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 4
(While all the other Mall Rats are busy with either the party or their strike against the Consilium. Ruby is watching Bray. She sits in her room, the little boy on her lap and a teddy bear in her hand. A vacant smile on her lips she inhales the scent of his hair.)
Ruby: And I thought I'd have someone like you in my life. Guess it's for the best like this. My baby's father is a total jerk.
(Bray gurgles and bites the teddy's ear.)
Ruby: You're such a darling. I can't help but wonder what my baby would have looked like. Maybe I wouldn't be that alone now. Ebony and Slade have each other, Lottie has Sammy, Siva is dead, Lex is with his old friends again, Darryl is all over the girls and Ram keeps mostly to himself. I just wish there'd be someone just for me.
(She sighs and gently strokes his fair hair, before the camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 5
(Black screen, a knock. Camera fades in to show Kaelem sat at a desk full of papers, in the background is a huge screen which shows the entrance of the school. He mutters something and the door is opened. Jim enters the room and Kaelem looks up from his work.)
Kaelem: What is it, Jim? I'm kinda busy here.
Jim: I know. We just thought you'd like to know that the Harpies and the Mall Rats have gathered together again. You should probably cross them off your list.
Kaelem: So my little sister is about to act up... again.
Jim: I'm sorry.
Kaelem: No, no. It's not like I haven't given her a chance to change her mind. By now the whole city loves us, me in particular. There's nothing they can do.
Jim: I can't believe how ungrateful they are. How can they not see you hacked the program and saved their lives?
Kaelem: They will see it soon and if not, they're just going to be outcasts in our wonderful new community of educated people.
(Jim nods and leaves. Kaelem has a smug look about him and looks at one of the posters of himself that hangs on one of the walls.)
Kaelem (to himself): I can't believe they're so easy to convince. (mocking) Kaelem, the saviour. Lying has always been so easy.
(He laughs to himself and continues his work.)
SCENE 6
(In the café Kayla has set up a ladder and Dylan is putting up some garlands, while Lottie sits on a chair and tries to undo the knots in their chain of lights.)
Kayla: I wonder what Gel is doing.
Lottie: Probably getting ready for the party. She's a complete airhead.
Dylan: But the party is only tonight.
Lottie: Yea, but you wouldn't know how long it takes for her to get ready.
Dylan: That's stupid.
Lottie (grins): Yes, that's Gel.
(Kayla turns to the younger girl.)
Kayla: So Lottie why did you pick decorating? You don't seem to happy about it.
Lottie (shrugs): I hate cooking more and Sammy can get really annoying. And you?
Kayla (laughs): Anything that gets me away from KC is fine.
Dylan: Is he your boyfriend?
(Kayla looks at him in shock and then shakes her head while laughing.)
Kayla: No! KC and I are friends. I don't think I could get together with someone who reminds me of my darkest days every time I look at him.
Lottie: The slave traders? How was it? Tell us about it.
Kayla: Well, we were about 30-40 people in one cage and those were real fruitcakes. One guy always said something about Zoot...
(Camera cuts to the next scene as she starts to tell.)
SCENE 7
(Crow and Bray are waiting for the Mall Rats outside the warehouses, but they're deep in conversation.)
Crow: So you have a brother?
Bray: Had. He's dead. It all came back to me at Maria's funeral.
(She put on a sympathetic face and hugs him.)
Bray: The thing is... You know all this stuff you told me about with the Chosen and worshipping Zoot?
(Crow nods)
Bray: I think my brother was this Zoot guy.
(Crow frowns and fiddles with her hair.)
Crow: Normally I would have a fit because you didn't tell me, but you're excused. Still, how come you did remember Ebony and Trudy and the beginning of your life with the Mall Rats, but not your brother up 'till now?
Bray (shakes his head): I don't know. Maybe it was too painful. This was...
Crow: Hey, it's alright. It's a lot to take in. If you'd rather not deal with the Mall Rats now, Noel and I can do that.
(Bray looks at her and then the camera pans around to show the figures of Ram, Lex and Jack walking up. Camera pans around to Bray and Crow again.)
Bray: I think I just have to have a little time on my own. It's so odd, I actually miss him.
(Crow nods and brushes his arm soothingly.)
Crow: It's not a problem. Just send Noel out here and take all the time you need. You probably don't need me to sit around you and ask annoying stuff.
Bray (smiles): You're not annoying. Thank you.
(He kisses her and leaves for the warehouses, just a few moments after the Mall Rats walk up to Crow.)
Lex: What was that?
Ram: You probably scared him away.
Crow: Nothing like that. He gets Noel, who will show you around.
Lex: Wait a second... did he just kiss you?
Crow (rolls her eyes): And that's your business why?
Jack: Keep out of it, Lex.
Lex: I'm just curious who'd take a witch like her.
Crow (dryly): Charming. Why are you here anyway?
Lex: To make sure it's not a trick and you're stealing our people.
Jack (hastily): That's not true. Ram and I aren't the best fighters though and it's not safe for Ram to walk around in the city.
Ram (mutters): Stupid virts.
(In the background Noel walks up to them and the camera zooms out as the four boys greet each other and Noel starts to show them around.)
SCENE 8
(In the kitchen Trudy has set Chester to cut some onions while Brady is happily washing other vegetables. The boy is everything but happy about it and cuts the onion in huge pieces.)
Trudy: You're doing it wrong. I can't use them like that. Look, you have to do it like this.
(She takes the knife from him and shows him again. Chester wipes some tears from his eyes.)
Chester: It's not that easy when you can't see a thing. Why onions? They taste like crap.
Trudy: You use onions to enhance the taste of the dish you're cooking not to eat them on their own.
Chester: Why did Sammy get to go with Salene anyway? That's so not fair. I have to do all the work.
Trudy: Stop complaining, Chester, you volunteered for this. Sammy went because he knows the city better than you do.
Chester: It was either this or decorating. It was really just picking between two evils and I took the one with the cooler people on.
(Brady looks up and splashes some water on him and her mother.)
Brady: Brady is cool (giggles). Everybody loves me, because I is a princess.
(Chester looks at the little girl unsure and then turns to Trudy who is quietly laughing to herself, but just shakes her head at him. He turns to Brady again.)
Chester: Why aren't you wearing a crown then, princess?
(Brady thinks about it for a while then turns to her mother.)
Brady: Mommy, why I have no crown? I want one!
(Trudy rolls her eyes at Chester.)
Trudy: Look what you've done. She won't be quiet now until she gets a crown.
Chester (shrugs): Make her one out of paper. She won't know the difference. (turns to Brady) Do you even know what a crown is?
Brady (nods): Something a princess has.
Chester (smiles): See, no big deal.
(He resumes to cutting the onion while Trudy smiles at him. Without him she would've been in trouble now. Camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 9
(Ryan has some nails between his teeth while hammering a plank to a thick door in the back of the hospital. Next to him Amber holds another hammer and some planks.)
Amber: This is nice.
(Ryan looks at her confused and takes the last nail from in between his teeth.)
Ryan: What? Hammering planks to all the entries?
Amber: No, doing this with you. Since you've been here we haven't really had time to talk.
Ryan (smiles): I didn't know you wanted to. We've never been really close. Although I must say I was relieved to find out you weren't dead after all.
Amber: We may not be close, but you're still family. All the Mall Rats are.
Ryan: Thanks, it's nice to hear that from you.
Amber: Can I ask you something?
(Ryan sighs and walks away to the next door. It takes a few seconds for Amber to catch up with him. She's about to say something, when he talks.)
Ryan: I know you want to know about Bray and the others, but I never saw any of them. Once I thought I saw Cloe, but that was it. I'm sorry.
Amber: It's okay. It was a chance and even though KC did see Bray that didn't help me either. (pauses) Maybe you'd like to know Cloe came back after she was taken by the Chosen.
Ryan: Where is she now then?
Amber: The Technos took her. Probably because she was in a relationship with one of them.
(They walk in silence until they get to another emergency exit and start to barricade the door.)
Ryan: It's odd, you know. Although I know Patsy and Cloe have grown up now I still picture them as the two little girls Sal and I used to look after.
Amber: I know, you four were like a family.
Ryan (sadly): And now Sal can't even look at me.
(Camera cuts to his sad face and then pans out as the sound of hammering is still heard.)
SCENE 10
(Noel has brought Ram into the the smallest warehouse, where they've set up a desk and the two of them are standing over a map. They talk in low voices and point at stuff on the map. Camera cuts to the outside of the warehouses where Jack and Crow are walking along the outskirts of the warehouses. Jack has a coil of wire in his hand which he lays out as they walk. Lex follows them a few paces behind. He stops as he sees some kids clean up after the funeral this morning.)
Lex (calls out): Hey Crow, what happened there?
(Crow walks up to him to see what he's looking at. Her face drops a little.)
Crow: They're cleaning up after the funeral we had this morning.
Lex: Funeral?
Crow: Yes, you shouldn't talk about Maria though. The people liked her.
Lex: No, what I mean is... you burned her?
Crow: What else do you expect? We can't exactly bury her here.
Lex: What about outside the city?
Crow: And you expect us to walk through the city with a body? Especially since no one except for us Harpies used to know about this. I take it you can keep a secret, since you didn't even mention it to Kestrel.
Lex: Sure I can, but how would we have told Kestrel? We didn't even know about this place until you decided to make this the safe zone.
(Crow frowns at him to make out if he's playing her, but he looks just as confused.)
Crow: So Ebony didn't tell you she found the second working camp of the Technos?
Lex: What? No! When was that?
Crow: A few weeks ago.
(Camera zooms in on Lex's face before cutting to black.)
SCENE 11
(Camera fades in from black to show Ellie going through some medical supplies on one of the trashed stations. Camera pans around to show Jay messing with a computer he has just opened up. He looks at the bits and pieces deep in thoughts. Ellie turns around and watches him for a while.)
Ellie: Are you okay?
Jay (absent): Yea, it's just been a long time I've been fixing computers and stuff. That's always been more Ved's and Ram's piece of work.
Ellie: That's not what I meant. Things with you and Amber haven't been so smooth, right?
Jay (turns around): You've noticed?
Ellie (shrugs): It kinda hits you when you've been gone for a while.
Jay: I think she hoped for you to bring Bray with you.
Ellie: And you feared the same thing?
Jay: I wouldn't say I feared it. Just... Is it so bad of me to not want him back?
Ellie: People around here would probably rip your head off for saying that, but I've always thought people should be allowed to speak their mind. I can kinda understand you though. Can I be honest with you?
Jay: Sure.
Ellie: I don't think many of the others give you a high chance if Bray should turn up again.
(Jay looks upset and turns around to stare at the computer again.)
Ellie: I'm sorry.
Jay: Does that mean you think so, too?
Ellie (uneasy): You have never seen the pair of them together and they have a son.
Jay: She promised me, you know, but she still hesitated. That was a moment you don't hesitate.
Ellie: What do you mean?
Jay: I asked her if she would get back together with him and she hesitated before promising me she wouldn't. I know she was lying.
(Ellie bites her lip as she looks at his back. She takes a step towards him and reaches out to comfort him, but decides against it and goes on with her search for the right medicine.)
SCENE 12
(Slade and Ebony are walking next to each other in circles around the hospital every time they make a full circle they widen it a bit.)
Slade: So what do you think?
Ebony: You don't have to be smart. We're completely outnumbered, the hospital can never protect us and we're going to be attacked because no one knows where the Harpies live.
Slade: Very optimistic there. We could try Ram if he could build any of his zappers. We'd have an upper hand then.
Ebony: I think if it came to a fight, we should have some surprises waiting for them. In the park preferably because that's the point we can't see from the inside. We could either have a scout out here or have Jack and Ram install a camera. It's also easy to have some traps set up with the trees and the bushes offering good hiding places.
(They make their way to the small park behind the hospital and look for places to set traps.)
Slade: I talked to Ruby. She's really upset.
Ebony: Of course she is. She won't believe me when I say it was an accident and you accepting the truth makes her mad.
Slade: It's hard though. Ruby and I have been friends for so long now. Not having her around is odd.
Ebony (stiff): So? You and Mega used to be brothers and you cope well.
(Slade stops and looks at her furiously.)
Slade (snaps): Are you fucking kidding me? How would you even know, Ebony. We don't talk any more and if we do, it's about you.
Ebony: So do you want me to hold your hand while you cry your heart out? Maybe you should go talk to Ruby then.
Slade: I can't believe you! You're so self-centred I ask myself if you're even hearing anything that doesn't concern you.
(Ebony shakes her head and goes on with looking for places to set a trap.)
Ebony: Don't be like that. You know what you were in for when we started seeing each other.
Slade: Oh did I now? I knew you were an independent and strong woman, but you're ice cold. Do you even care about any one around here?
Ebony: You know I care about you. That's why I told you about the thing with Ruby.
Slade: Maybe you just got scared. Maybe you did push her!
(Ebony glares at him and slaps him across the face, before storming off. Camera zooms in on Slade, who holds his burning cheek now. Cut to the next scene.)
SCENE 13
(KC has a bag slung over his shoulder and with every step he takes the sound of glass bottles knocking together is heard. He has a content look on his face and makes his way back to the hospital. He walks for a while before he spots Darryl a few metres ahead of him.)
KC (calls out): Hey, Darryl!
(The other boy stops and looks around. As he spots KC he waves at him and wait for him to catch up.)
Darryl: KC, are you already done?
KC (smirks): It's easy to get some booze from the bar, when you know what to say.
Darryl: Really? Last time I was there the barkeeper wasn't that friendly.
KC: Like I said, you need to know what to say.
Darryl: And how do you know that?
KC (shrugs): Years of practice. I used to be Lex's business partner.
Darryl (smiles): I used to do that too, when he had this virtual casino in Liberty.
KC: A casino, how cool!
Darryl: Yea, Ruby wasn't to cool about it because it involved Paradise headsets.
(KC pulls a disgusted face.)
KC: I take it Ram was involved then.
Darryl: Yes, but he's actually not that bad.
KC: You might say that, but you weren't in one of his sick working camps.
Darryl: I never knew Ram at his best. I had the great honour of getting zapped by Mega and left on a dump though.
KC: Oh, so you shouldn't even be here right now?
Darryl (nods): If it weren't for Slade. He's a good guy, you know.
KC (laughs): There must be something wrong with him if he's with Ebony though. None of her guys has ever been in his right mind. Except for Bray maybe.
Darryl: Jay has been with her, too.
KC (laughs even harder): First Ebony then Amber looks like the obvious way to go now, huh?
(The two boys share stories of the Mall Rats while they're walking to the hospital and the camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 14
(Camera cuts to Lex's shocked face and then pans around to Crow who is deep in thoughts.)
Lex (mutters): Typically Ebony. What would she gain from not telling us? Is anyone here? Is Tai-San here?
Crow (shakes her head): No, there's no one here who goes by that name. However we have a former Mall Rats here...
Lex: Why didn't you tell us?
Crow: Ebony knew, I thought you knew, too.
Lex: Who is it and why is he or she not here?
Crow: He left just before you came. He suffers from amnesia and got some upsetting memories back this morning, so he wasn't up to showing you around.
Lex: Wait, you mean the guy kissing you.
Crow (rolls her eyes): Can you please get over yourself? Yes, I'm talking about Bray.
Lex (stunned): Bray... This is so...
Crow: Confusing? Yea, for me too.
(From of screen comes a shout and the two turn around.)
Jack VO: Crow, are you coming? I don't know this place like you do.
Crow (shouts): Sure!
(She gives Lex a last glance and runs off to Jack. Camera fades to black.)
SCENE 15
(Gel is sitting in her room in front of her mirror and applies make-up and doing her hair. Camera pans around to show Lottie standing in the doorway with the arms crossed in front of her chest. She lets out an annoyed sigh and shakes her head.)
Lottie (irritated): GEL!
(Gel jumps and smudges her make-up. She spots the mistake in the mirror and lets out a typical cry for her and waves her hands in disgust.)
Gel (snaps): Lottie! Look what you did. I look hideous.
Lottie: I can't see much difference.
(Gel turns around and glares at Lottie, whose mouth twitches a little in amusement, but she's too annoyed to laugh.)
Lottie: What are you doing anyway? You're supposed to help us with the party preparations. It was your idea, remember?
Gel: Excuse me? I did all the planning, Lottie. My job is done.
Lottie: Oh please, everyone of us could have put some names down on a piece of paper and ordered everybody around. Now get your ass up and help us in the café.
Gel: No way, that's your part and I did way more than that. I also planned my whole outfit and my make-up and my hairdo. If you want I can help you later on. You might want to go a little out of your habits for this.
Lottie: Ugh... I can't believe you! Grow a brain, will you?!
(She groans and storms off steaming. Gel shrugs and turns back to the mirror trying to rescue her make-up.)
SCENE 16
(Back in the café KC helps Darryl set up for the music, while Salene, Trudy, Chester and Sammy are setting up the buffet and the decorators are taking in what they've done. There are wires of lights and garlands everywhere. Lottie had found an old mirror ball in one of the boxes and Kayla and Dylan had used all the air in their lungs to blow up dozens of balloons.)
Dylan: It looks awesome!
Kayla (tilts her head from side to side): It looks a little too much like a children's birthday party for my taste.
Lottie: Maybe, but I'm not doing any more decorating. If Gel isn't happy with how it turned out, she can do it herself next time.
Kayla: Calm down, Lottie. She's not worth it.
Lottie: I know, but could she be less annoying and self-centred? That's all I'm asking for.
(KC and Darryl are done now with setting up the music and Darryl puts the first CD on, which unfortunately is loud Heavy Metal. Quickly he turns it down and the room erupts with laughter not only because of the surprise but also because Chester's and Sammy's performance on the air-guitar was hilarious.)
Darryl: Sorry for that. That was the wrong CD there. Now, why don't we dance a little and celebrate the good work we did.
(He turns the music up again and 'You belong to me' is played. Salene and Trudy start dancing with each other until Brady runs to her mother and she picks her up. Salene then turns to Lottie. She refuses, but Salene drags her along anyway and soon they're both laughing and having fun. Kayla looks at her new friends smiling, when KC walks up to her and takes her hand. She shakes her head.)
Kayla: I can't dance.
KC (grins): So? Neither can I.
Kayla: I really don't want to.
KC: That's too bad, 'cause it's still my week and I'll teach you how to have fun while looking extremely stupid.
(Kayla rolls her eyes, but laughs at the same time and the two of them start to dance awkwardly together. They can't keep it up for long until they start to laugh uncontrollably. Soon the whole group is dancing and jumping around just having fun. Camera slowly fades to black.)
SCENE 17
(Ram, Jack and Lex are on their way back to the hospital now. Ram keeps a little to himself but listens to the conversation the other two men are having.)
Jack: So he is alive?
Lex: Yes, but he's with Crow now and doesn't remember a thing.
Jack: Maybe we shouldn't tell Amber and the others then. It would only upset her.
Lex: Sure, but you deal with her when she finds out.
Jack: Oh, I'd rather not. But are you going to tell her?
Lex: Hell no! Why don't we let Ebony take the blame. She knew he was there all along.
Ram: Because it always works so well, when you try to use Ebony.
Lex: Oh shut up, Ram. How could she possibly turn this one around.
Ram (shrugs): You know Ebony. If she's good at something it's winning and scheming.
Jack: We could wait to tell the others 'till after the party.
Ram: And how would that help? They're still going to freak out because of it.
Lex: He's right. If it were Tai-San I would want to know right away.
Ram: And with that you just qualified yourself for the job of the messenger.
Jack (smirks): You were the one to find out anyway. It makes total sense you talk to her.
(Lex protests, but the two geniuses just come up with more reasons why he should deliver the message and he soon surrenders.)
SCENE 18
(Bray sits on his sleeping bag looking around at all the people in the warehouse, but soon they become a blur and the scene switches to the funeral of Zoot. Shortly afterwards we see him introducing a very pregnant Trudy to the Mall Rats, who are all faceless though. Scene switches to him holding Brady for the first time and Trudy explaining why she's called Brady. Slowly the scene of the warehouse resurfaces.)
Bray: I have the worst migraine...
(He groans and massages his temples. As soon as he closes his eyes he remembers being questioned by Ebony about Zoot's whereabouts. Quickly he opens his eyes again and buries his head in his hands.)
SCENE 19
(Ruby sits next to Alice with Bray jr on her lap. The two women are casually chatting while Alice glances to the front door and to the barricade that separate the stations from the part of the hospital they live in.)
Alice: Are you looking forward to the party?
(She nods to the café where laughter and music is heard.)
Ruby: Not really. I don't see why we should have a party, when we're risking to get into a war tomorrow.
Alice: To celebrate that we are a tribe and have friends who back us up.
Ruby: See, no reason for me to come. Since we left Liberty everything has gone wrong for me. I don't even know why I let Ram talk me into it. I mean, for Lottie everything turned out great. She doesn't even need me any more.
Alice: That can't be true. The people here care for you. Have you seen how Darryl looks at you.
Ruby (laughs): Have you seen how Darryl looks at Gel or Ellie or Ebony or any other person with a pair of tits?
Alice: Oh... Well, another Lex in the making.
Ruby: Thank God, no. Darryl at least is remotely nice, although I don't appreciate it when he calls me babe and tells me we should hook up, because Slade chose Ebony.
Alice: You and Slade?
Ruby (nods): Yea, but I don't really want to talk about it. As far as I'm concerned he's dead.
Alice: Love isn't my cup of tea, too.
Ruby: Can it beat getting lied to for month that he has an incurable brain disease so you try to have his baby while he's already hooking up with Ebony and forgetting all about you.
Alice: That's harsh. I don't think Lex can beat that. He let me believe we were an item while he was seeing my best friend behind my back, but now I know Lex and Tai-San are meant to be, so I hope he finds her.
Ruby: Wow, you and Lex, who'd had thought.
Alice: Yea, that's a mistake I'll never do again.
Ruby: Who needs men anyway. (tickles Bray) You're not growing up to be just like these pigs, do you?
Alice: No, I can see him being a real charming lad. Someone like Jack or Ryan.
(Ruby smiles and gets up as she spots Amber and Ryan walking towards them. She hands the boy to his mother and then walks to the café, where she watches Lottie laugh and dance with Sammy, Chester and Dylan. Camera pans around to show she has a sad look in her eyes.)
SCENE 20
(Everyone was slowly meeting in the entrance hall, since Ram, Jack and Lex came back at the same time as Ellie and Jay closed the barricade neatly behind them again and Ebony rushes past them furious. It is Ram who reacts the quickest.)
Ram (in a singsong): Oh Ebony! Oh Ebony!
(The woman turns around and glares at him.)
Ebony (snaps): WHAT?!
Ram: We want to talk about secrets.
Ebony: Leave me alone!
Ram: Oh but we can't, can we now? Since you have the most interesting one of us all.
(Her eyes wander to Ruby who's still standing in the doorway of the café and she goes slightly pale. She then walks up to them and puts her hands on the hips.)
Ebony: Do I?
Lex: Yes. We came to the safe zone and Crow told us you've already been there weeks ago. You happened to walk into someone quite familiar, didn't you?
(A little relief crosses her face, but she gets defensive again.)
Amber: What are you talking about?
Jay: Ebony?
Ebony (blurts): I saw Bray!
(Gasps are heard and Ellie quickly takes Bray from Amber before she accidentally can drop him or something. Unnoticed by the others Jay's eyes grow dark and his lips thin.)
Ellie (angry): And you didn't tell us?
Ebony: He asked me not to.
Amber: But why?
Ebony: I didn't tell you, because he doesn't want to come back. He lost his memory and got a little tribe on his own there. He's only just beginning to get his memory back and could remember me and him being together but not the Mall Rats.
(Tears start to fall from Amber's eyes and Ryan awkwardly puts an arm around her.)
Ebony (cont.): He asked me to let him start over, not to tell anyone and never come back.
Jack: But what about Amber and the baby?
Ebony: Of course I told him about it, but he didn't remember a thing and...
Lex (cuts in): He's with somebody new. I don't think he'll be giving up on her to come back.
Ebony (nods): Bray is happy. I couldn't get myself to destroy his happiness once again.
Ellie: Because that would really drag at your conscience, wouldn't it?
Ebony (glares at her): I care about Bray, whether you believe me or not.
Jack: Amber, he's with Crow.
(The girl looks up at him and cries even harder before burying her face in Ryan's chest. Jay clenches his fist, gives her a disgusted look and rushes past them. Ellie looks after him worriedly and camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 21
(In the warehouses Bray is still sitting like we left him earlier, but now Crow is approaching him. She kneels in front of him and cups his face in her hands. When he looks up he has a confused look in his eyes that are a little red from crying.)
Crow (softly): I'll stay here with you until you feel better. The party will miss out on me then.
Bray (hoarse): No, you should go. You'll just get into trouble.
Crow (shrugs): I don't care what Kestrel's going to say. We've known each other for so long, I know how to get her to forgive me.
Bray: I didn't know memories could hurt that much.
Crow: That's true. They hurt, but they can also make you happy. You shouldn't worry too much, Bray.
Bray: That's easy for you to say. You remember everything.
Crow: Yes, and sometimes I think it would be better I didn't, but it's part of who I am and I have to except that.
Bray: You mean...
Crow: I mean that you have to get through this and in the end you'll be a stronger person than you are now.
(Bray smiles at her and places a hand ar her neck to pull her closer and kiss her gently. She closes her eyes enjoying the moment.)
Bray: You should still go, Crow. I'll be fine.
Crow: I'd just much rather spend my time with you. Maybe get away from here. Just you and me.
Bray (smiles): Right now is probably not the best time to do so.
Crow: Fine, but I won't be having any fun.
Bray: That's fine with me.
(She leans in to kiss him passionately and camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 22
(Camera cuts back to the hospital, where everything is as we left it. Ebony now turns to Ram and glares at him.)
Ebony: Why don't you wipe that stupid grin of your face? You were the one telling me the warehouses used to be Techno camps.
(Everyone now turns to him as well and looks very angry.)
Lex: What? You told us you didn't know anything about that.
Ram: Well, I lied. (he puts his hands up) Now before you kill me let me explain. I didn't tell you were the mines are, because they were 'closed down' according to Mega's files and that couldn't mean anything good. About the warehouses... I didn't think any one was in there as far as I had heard in the city the area is a ghost town. Which it is. No one in the city knows someone is still living there.
Amber: You could still have told us. Why did you tell her then?
Ram (shrugs): You know her. I couldn't talk her out of it so I let her have a look.
Ebony: You knew I found Bray there, too
Ram: Yes, but you weren't thinking of telling the others and I didn't want to be part of your lie. You also told me, he was with someone so I thought maybe it was for the best. You know Amber had moved on, he had moved on, why should everything blow up in their faces.
Amber: You disgust me, Ram! Don't think you fool me with your fake concern.
Ram: Come on. Why would I have gone to the warehouses if I had a bad conscience
Amber (snorts): Conscience, right...
Ellie: I don't believe you. Not you (points at Ram) and especially not you! (points at Ebony)
(Ebony shrugs and starts to walk away.)
Ebony: Doesn't matter. I have other things on my mind right now.
(Ellie is going to call after her, but Jack simply takes her hand in his and shakes his head.)
Ellie: Did you see him?
Jack: Who?
Ellie (rolls her eyes): Bray of course. Who else would it be? Santa?
Jack: Funny. No, we didn't.
Lex: Crow said he had gotten some upsetting memories back this morning and couldn't face us.
Alice: Well, he can't hide forever.
Ellie: Exactly and if I'm dragging him here to see this little guy. (She smiles down at Bray)
Amber (shakes her head): No, I don't want him around. If he knows he has a son and still refuses to come here, he can go be happy with Crow.
(She walks away while brushing the tears from her face. Camera pans around to show all the sad and angry faces before cutting to the next scene.)
SCENE 22
(The café is now nearly empty, only Slade is sitting on a chair looking at the decorations. Ram walks in, gets himself a glass of water and is about to walk out again, when he spots Slade. He pulls up a chair and sits down in front of him.)
Ram: Trouble with the wifey?
(It doesn't sound as amused and sarcastic as it usually does.)
Slade: Shut it, Ram!
Ram: I don't think I can. Looks like you got yourself a little more than you bargained for, huh?
Slade: If you're here to gloat, I'm just telling you that I will hit you.
Ram: I'm not. Actually I wanted to ask you, what you said to Ruby.
Slade: Why, she did come out of her room, didn't she?
Ram: Yes, but she's not any better. She needs a friend.
Slade (snaps): Then go be her friend. She doesn't want me around any more.
Ram: Because of Ebony?
Slade: Of course because of her. It seems that everything goes wrong with her around.
Ram: It's just like Java said. That girl is poison.
Slade: But I love her and I believe in what she's saying. It's just... sometimes she rubs me the wrong way.
Ram: Well, then go work it out.
(He gets up and starts walking.)
Slade: What are you doing about Ruby?
Ram (shrugs): Maybe I'm giving this friendship thing a go. See if it's something for me.
(He leaves and Slade just shakes his head while grinning.)
SCENE 23
(Out in the city the Harpies are making their way for the hospital. Some are dolled up, others didn't bother that much. Behind them Crow runs up to the crowd and falls into pace next to Kestrel, who looks her up and down.)
Kestrel: Didn't think you were showing up.
Crow: Yea, well..
Kestrel: What's the matter? The tribe is suddenly not important enough with lover boy around?
Crow (rolls her eyes): There was a little problem, but that shouldn't concern you. You know I'll stay by your side no matter what.
Kestrel: So you do remember your promise.
Crow: Of course I do.
(The atmosphere between the two girls is still tense as they walk past the camera and it cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 24
(Camera cuts to Jay's angry face. He paces in the room he shares with Amber, who walks in right at that time. The traces of tears are still shown on her face, as she gently lays her son down in his crib, but she tries to smile at Jay, who doesn't return it.)
Amber: Don't be like that, Jay.
Jay: You said you didn't care for him any more.
Amber: I never said that. I only said I didn't love him.
Jay: Do you blame me for being upset? I don't want to lose you, Amber.
(She walks up to him and hugs him, which he doesn't respond and only stands there like a dead fish.)
Amber: No, I understand that, but you have to let it go. I can't put up with this forever, Jay. You have to trust me.
Jay: I do, but then sometimes this little voice in my head keeps telling me what a fool I am and that you and Bray are meant to be.
Amber: Stop it. I have you now and he has Crow. I wished for him to be a part of my son's life, but although he knew about him, he refused to see us. If he decides to be like that, I don't even want him around here.
(Jay puts his arms around her now and kisses her neck. When he looks at the camera he doesn't look too convinced though.)
Amber: We should get ready for the party. The Harpies should arrive her any minute now.
(He kisses her roughly on the lips before pulling away and taking his shirt off. Amber looks him up and down with a suggestive smile, but he doesn't notice and just keeps changing. She sighs inaudible and does the same. Camera cuts to the next scene.)
SCENE 25
(Salene is in her room applying some make-up and then fixing her hair. A soft knock is heard at her door and she turns to face the guest.)
Salene: Come in.
(Ryan enters with a shy smile on his face and takes her in.)
Ryan: You look beautiful, Salene.
Salene (blushes): Thanks. What can I do for you?
(He holds his hand out for her to take.)
Ryan: I wanted to escort you to the party.
Salene (smiles): I would have found the way by myself you know.
Ryan: I just wanted to make sure.
(She takes his hand and they leave her room.)
Ryan: I wanted to say sorry, too. For making things uncomfortable around here for you.
Salene: Don't be stupid, Ryan. Of course your brought back memories and not just the good ones, but I never blamed you for it.
Ryan: But you've been so distant towards me.
Salene: That's because I don't know what you expect from me and how I feel about you. I haven't forgotten we're technically still married.
Ryan: I haven't really thought about that. I've missed you and I still love you, but I don't know if I'm in love.
(The two of them are now standing in the entrance hall, where some other people have gathered. From the café loud music is heard.)
Salene: I care about you and I've always thought about you when I was in distress, but you have to know that I've been with another man.
Ryan: Can't say I'm happy about that, but I don't blame you. Where is he now? I hardly want to come in between something.
Salene (sadly): He died.
Ryan: I'm sorry, Sal.
Salene (smiles): It's okay. Maybe we'll just be friends for now.
Ryan: Friends sounds good.
Salene: What about a friendly dance then?
(They smile at each other and Ryan takes her outstretched hand as they enter the café. Camera fades to black.)