Episode 8 – A Melancholy Town

Black screen the laughing from the beginning of ‘Feel Good Inc’ by the Gorillaz starts. The first “Feel good” and the beat starts and cut to the inside of a large pub/club and Lovett downing a shot and laughing. She is dressed up in a tight red dress and more make up than we have seen her wearing before. People are dancing and laughing and Lovett is joining in with lots of people all doing the same. Random cuts to her drinking, dancing, flirting with some men and laughing the bar drinking shots with a stout older man with a goatee beard. Close up of more shots and tall drinks being poured and the man slipping a ‘something’ into one of the drinks and handing it to Lovett. Lovett throw back the shot and is handed another one straight away. The song is still playing and the laughter on the song is cut to coincide with Lovett laughing as Lovett and the man laugh, talk, flirt and dance. Lovett is slowly looking more drunk. Cut to more laughing as Lovett and the man talk close to each other. Cut to Lovett and the man leaving the pub/club Lovett is looking a little unsteady of her feet and the man is putting his arm round her as they get the street and he steers her away along the road. On the opposite side of the road there is a man in a black suit leaning against a door of a shop with one leg casually crossed, with his arms are folded, his right hand is inside this jacket, he is watching Lovett and the man. As Lovett and the man get farer away down the street Die straightens up and walks after them. The song comes to an end with the laugher of the track mixing with Lovett’s drunk laugh.
Lovett –drunk and drugged-: “I didn’t want to leave. Where we going?”
The Man: “My place.”
Lovett: “Oh… I don’t want to.”
The Man: “Of course you do.”
Lovett: “No, I don’t. Do I? I don’t think I do.”
The Man: “Yes you do. Don’t worry you’ll be fine…”
Lovett: “I don’t like you.”
The Man: “I don’t care; you won’t remember a thing anyway.”
Lovett turns her head round to look behind her.
Lovett: “I think we have enough now, don… don’t you?”
She hiccups as the man says
The Man: “Enough for what?”
Die’s left hand rest on the man’s right shoulder and spins him round.
Die: “For this.”
Die punches the man full in the face. The man crumbles to the grown moaning and holding his nose and Lovett stands over him.
Lovett: “Enough to arrest yo… you… your arse. I feel a bit sick.”
The man takes his hands from his nose and goes shout; Lovett throws up all over the man’s face.
Die: “I’d keep my mouth shut if I was you mate.”
Cut to black.

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  1. Rachel Jones

    Love the ending, a perfect contrast to the dark apprehension of the body of the story. ❤

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