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Black screen; we hear Lovett and Die talking.
Die: “Who the hell still goes into banks now days?
Lovett: “Me, I don’t trust the internet with my money, it could all just disappear.”
Die: “But you are drawing money out; what’s wrong with the cash machine?”
Fade from black to Lovett and Die walking up to a big bank with two big doors. Lovett is wearing her big red coat blue jeans and purple DM’s. Die is in his black suit, white shirt and sky blue tie.
Lovett: “I like dealing face to face with people.”
Die: “But…”
Lovett: “You don’t have to come with me you know!”
Die: “I’m bored; so I will.”
Lovett: “Shut – up – then.”
The drums form the start of Ballroom Blitz by Sweet start to play and cut to Lovett and Die getting in the queue and the camera slowly pans around the bank and the people in it.
We focus on a tall man with a black bag as Brian Connolly sings
-“Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh”-
Then another man with a black bag
-“Andy? Yeah”-
Then another man with a black bag
-“Mick? Okay” “Alright fellas, let’s go!”-
The song kicks in full.
We pan round at other people there a man and woman mid-twenties each is carrying a guitar case.
-“Oh it’s been getting so hard”-
A young looking woman bank teller behind the counter.
-“Living with the things you do to me”-
A woman late thirties with a little girl about seven
-“My dreams are getting so strange”-
A man bank teller just standing about doing nothing.
-“I’d like to tell you everything I see”-
An older woman with a large shopping bag on wheels.
-“Oh, I see a man in the back as a matter of fact”-
There is a man all in black (at the back) he has red rimed eyes from a cold and is holding a handkerchief and has a black bag.
-“His eyes was as red as the sun”-
In the corner by the doors is a woman in a long black tight fitting coat sitting in a chair she also has a black bag.
-“And the girl in the corner that no one ignores”-
Die sees the woman and she sees him. She winks at him.
-“’Cause she thinks she’s the passionate one”-
Lovett is looking around and squinting and getting suspicious at the men with black bags. She elbows Die and slightly nods to the man in black.
-“Oh yeah!”-
The older woman, just in front, looks up at Die and smiles at him.
-“It was like lightning”-
Die smiles back
-“Everybody was frightening”-
…and then Die starts subtly looking round too; as we pan around some more.
-“And the music was soothing”-
The couple with the guitar cases move forward in the queue. There is an old man in front of them he has two walking sticks helping him walk oddly.
-“And they all started grooving”-
Die looks at Lovett and taps under his left arm so Lovett sees:
-“Yeah, yeah,”-
Lovett shakes her head.
-“yeah-yeah-yeah”-
And she reaches inside her coat and hands him one of her batons.
-“And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack””-
The man in black with the handkerchief (at the back) shouts.
Man in black: “NOW!”
-“And it turned into a ballroom blitz”-
All the men with black bags pull out guns and we see woman on the chair slowly stands up.
-“And the girl in the corner said, “Boy I want to warn you”-
Man in black: “Everyone on the floor!”
-“It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz”-
Man in black “NOW!”
-“Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz,”-
The customers and tellers in shock move slowly to lie down.
-“ ballroom blitz…”
Die and Lovett move to attack.
“…ballroom blitz”-
Die hits the arm of ‘Steve’ with the baton Steve drops his guns yelling in pain.
-“Oh reaching out for something”-
Lovett has both of her other batons out and heads fast to Andy
-“Touching nothing’s all I ever do”-
Lovett cracks him across the head with both in a crossing scissor motion he fall to the floor out cold.
-“Oh I softly call you over”-
Mick is in shock and just stands staring at Die.
-“Then you appear there’s nothing left of you”-
Die back handed hits Mick in the throat with his baton; Mick drops his gun and clutches at his neck choking falling to his knees.
-“And the man in the back is ready to crack”-
The man in black has a sawn off shotgun and he points at Lovett as she moves towards him.
-“As he raises his hands to the sky”-
Man in black: “Stop!”
Die is also moving towards him his hand going inside to the left side of his jacket for his gun.
-“And the girl in the corner is everyone’s mourner”-
Lovett turns to look at Die but sees the woman from the corner behind Die
-“She could kill you with a wink of her eye”-
The woman from the corner winks at Lovett and hits Die hard on the back of the head with the butt of her hand gun. Die goes down to his knees.
-“Oh yeah! It was electric”-
Lovett goes to move towards the woman.
-“So frantically hectic”-
The woman from the corner; points her gun at Lovett’s face. Lovett stops.
-“And the band started leaving”-
The couple with the guitar cases make a break for the door.
-“’Cause they all stopped breathing”-
The man in black shouts
-“Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah”-
Man in black: “Stop them!”
-“And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack””-
Steve is back on his feet his gun in his other hand and stands between the guitar couple and the door with his gun up.
-“And it turned into a ballroom blitz”-
Lovett is rising her hands the batons still a in each hand.
-“And the girl in the corner said, “Boy I want to warn you””_
Die tries to stand
-“It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz”-
…but the woman from the corner kicks him in the side of the head and he goes down fully.
-“Ballroom blitz”-
Lovett goes for the woman from the corner again but the man in black grabs her round the neck from behind.
-“Oh yeah! It was like lightning”-
One of the women bank tellers hits a button under her desk…
-“Everybody was frightening-“
…and alarms and sirens start to go off.
-“And the music was soothing”-
The man in black is shocked by the alarms
-“And they all started grooving”-
…and Lovett drops one of her batons and grabs his arm holding the gun and twists it, moving round and to the side at the same times.
-“Yeah, yeah…”-
There is a cracking noise from the man in black’s arm
-“yeah-yeah-yeah”-
Man in black: “Get this bitch!”
-“And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack””-
The woman from the corner grabs the little seven year old girl by the hair
-“And it turned into a ballroom blitz-“
She drags the little girl to stand
-“And the girl in the corner said,”-
…and points her gun at the girls head and winks at Lovett.
-“Boy I want to warn you”-
Lovett and the woman stare hard at each other.
-“It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz”-
Lovett lets the man in black go as Die (who is lying on the floor) make grabs for the woman from the corner’s foot with his left hand pulling out his gun with his right. The woman kicks Die in his head with her other foot again and he passes out.
-“Ballroom blitz…”-
Lovett goes to make a move but this time the man in black is ready and hits her across her back with the shot gun in his good arm and she goes down.
-“ballroom blitz,..”-
Mick stands still holding his neck and coughing and moves fast to Die and kicks him in the stomach.
-“…ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz”-
The woman lets go of the little girl
-“It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz”-
The woman grabs Die’s gun from the floor
-“It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz”-
She goes over to the bank teller that hit the button
-“It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz”-
And she points Die’s gun into the tellers face.
-“Yeah, it’s a ballroom blitz-“
Corner woman: “Turn that off now, I warn you!”
The teller moves and turns a switch and the alarms and sirens stop the woman from the corner winks at the teller.
And the music fades out.
High shot of the scene with Die out cold on the floor Lovett on the floor and all the customers and tellers on the floor too.
The robberies, apart from Andy (who is on the floor out cold) stand looking round.
Man in back: “Shit!”
There is the noise of police car sirens from outside.
The Woman: “Steve, get those doors locked up!”