Precyber 41

Norne ups the ante.

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J.R.R. THORNE

Your opinion isn’t necessary, Dr. Noble. In fact, if you had simply cooperated in the first place none of this would have happened. You’re a normal flesh and blood human being, like I am. If you can’t understand the logic of what I’m doing, then you’re just not cut out to be among the living…you’re no better than everyone else who blindly sits by and lets these demigods run amok about the earth.

DOC SHADOWS

(chuckles)

Am I a demi-god then?

J.R.R. THORNE

It is interesting Doctor Shadows, that you question my logic. You didn’t question it when you joined my organization. Are you doing so now?

DOC SHADOWS

(pauses)

No. It is necessary.

J.R.R. THORNE

Then proceed with your interrogation.

Doctor Shadows squats down on his legs and stares again into Frank’s eyes. There is a brief visible struggle.

DOC SHADOWS

Amazing…he’s still holding on some how. He’s got something he’s using as a psychic barrier against me….I’ve never seen such willpower.

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DOC SHADOWS

Yes, he’s weakening…one more time and I should have it. I’m ready to begin at any time.

J.R.R. Thorne flips a switch on the side of the chair, causing Frank to jolt as if from an electric current.

J.R.R. THORNE

Why waste a perfectly good telepathic probe when you can do it the old fashioned way…

Doc Shadows turns off the switch.

DOC SHADOWS

That wasn’t necessary.

J.R.R. THORNE

Of course it didn't help get the information from him, but I think it was, Doctor Shadows, very necessary. It was the kind of necessary that a young mother feels when she shoots the man that ran over her child and drove away into the night, it’s the kind of necessary our founding fathers felt when they dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor, and it’s the kind of necessary that I’ve felt every day of my entire life for the last twenty years. I assure you Doctor Shadows, it was and is necessary.

DOC SHADOWS

I believe your logic has a few flaws in it Thorne.

FRANK

(weakened)

I’ll second that

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J.R.R. Thorne and Dr. Shadows enter from opposite ends and begin to walk around the chair.

J.R.R. THORNE

Well Dr. Noble, have you changed your mind about giving me the formula?

Frank Noble slowly looks up.

FRANK

Isn’t that already sort of formulaic?

J.R.R. THORNE

Ah yes, evil villain tortures hapless scientist to obtain secret formula to conquer the world, isn’t that it?

FRANK

Something like that yes. It sounds a lot like the shows I watched growing up as a child.

J.R.R. THORNE

Ah, but you see Dr. Noble, the difference between your little television shows and THIS is that you are not only watching but feeling this…feeling the pain searing through your nerves, feeling the unreality of staying awake for 96 hours straight searing through your entire consciousness. You’ve managed to resist Dr. Shadows so far, but do you really think you can continue?

Doc Shadows stops walking around the chair and looks into Frank’s eyes.

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Shadows sees this. He steps up behind Frank, touches him with one finger and puts him instantly to sleep. He picks Frank up in both arms goes outside.

EXT. OFFICE PARK – AFTERNOON

Doc Shadows takes an unconscious Frank and puts him to the car waiting outside.

Inoria and Hawkqueen stand over the broken robot.

Doc Shadows drives away with Frank, unseen or unnoticed by anyone.

INT. INTEROGATION CHAMBER - NIGHT

A single chair with restraints bolted to the floor with Frank Noble sitting in it. There is a video monitor which cannot be seen by the audience, the lighting is poor, with a bright light shining directly on the seat. Frank Noble has his head down, barely conscious.

VOICE FROM MONITOR

(off screen)

An in other news today, Weather Man destroyed the small island of Tomako, killing at least 34 people and rendering the rest of the island's population homeless. United Earth heroes showed up a few hours later to arrest him, but by then the worst of the damage had been done…

The monitor statics.

VOICE FROM MONITOR

(off screen)

and in other news today Doctor Smiley single handedly wiped the memories of at least seven people, medical experts are unsure if they’ll be able to restore the [static] and in other news today the Pterodactyl razors a young couple in …

Sylvester

I have a swollen lower lip making reading ...difficult.  We'll resume next week.  Likely will record several in a row.

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Fade In:

EXT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE PARK – AFTERNOON

A giant robot walks down the street. It vaporizes a car. A large hovercycle pulls up and INORIA and HAWKQUEEN get off.

FRANK NOBLE walks down the street, speaking into a cellphone.

FRANK

Yes, I've nearly got it working. Its pretty amazing stuff. So far its refracted literally everything that I've thrown at it. This could mean unlimited room temperature superconductivity...

Frank ignores the robot. Just another day and battle in the city. Hawkqueen and Inoria do battle against the robot in the background while DOCTOR SHADOWS gets out of a black sedan and follows Frank into his lab. Frank does not see Dr. shadows.

INT. LAB - AFTERNOON

Frank sighs, puts on a pair of goggles and fires up a laser which bounces off a thin sheet of something shiny and tinfoil like. (Reflexium.)

Doctor Shadows watches this, still unseen.

FRANK

If I coat it with a little of this... (Sprays something on the sheet)

The robot walks by the window. Inoria is hanging onto its leg, banging on it with something bulky and metal to utterly no effect.

Frank tries the laser again, this time it is much stronger.