Lovett: “An Easter Egg hunt at Christmas does sound like us.”
Die –to Vasilisa-: “How can we help?”
Vasilisa smiles and winks at Lovett and looks back at Die.
Vasilisa: “How is your leg Six-Seven?”
Lovett sighs heavily. Fade to black.
Fade from black to Lovett, Die and Faina walking cross the now empty of people state room the party was being held in. Faina is now carrying a white I-Pad and she is still wearing the Bluetooth ear piece.
Faina: “You have my number Six-Seven; so please keep in touch with whatever you find?”
Die: “We will.”
Faina: “That is my… personal number. Feel free to get hold of me… day… or night.”
Lovett tuts and rolls her eyes as she does she spots a small camera high in the corner of the room.
Lovett: “Did you get any video of the woman from that camera?”
Faina looks a little embarrassed and reluctant to say anything.
Lovett: “Hey, any information you have now will speed things up you know?”
Faina sighs and nods and looks at her I-pad fiddles with a bit and shows it to Lovett and Die.
Faina: “Blue Wolf does not like cameras in the embassy and our equipment here is a little out of date… it is not of much use I am afraid.”
The video is in black and white and low quality. It shows a wide high up view of the room they are in, we see Lovett and Die standing close to each other as a moving bright light that is vaguely human shape bumps into Die.
Lovett: “A very dazzling dress indeed.”
Die put out his hand to shake Faina’s hand.
Die: “Thanks Faina. We’ll be in touch.”
Faina gentle takes his hand.
Faina: “I will look forward to it.”
Lovett tuts again and Lovett and Die walk towards the exit.
Lovett: “Where we…”
Die: “Not here.”
Lovett frowns at Die but stays silent as they walk out of the room. Quick fade to black.
Quick fade from black to Lovett and Die walking out of Russian Embassy gates and into the street of Kensington Palace Gardens. Lovett now has her large red coat on over her dress and Die has along black over coat. Lovett is rapping a sky blue scarf around her neck as they walk through the gates.
Lovett: “Alright so where do we start? Christies or the British museum?”
Die stop and puts a hand into his trouser pocket and pulls out a coin.
Die: “You call. Heads or tails?”
He tosses the coin into the air catches it in his right hand as if fall and slaps it on the back of his left hand keeping the coin covered with his right hand.
Lovett: “Heads!”
Die uncovers the coin.
Instant cut to a tight close-up of a green pair of eyes. The camera starts to slow zoom out and we see the person’s head which is covered with a black ski mask. The JHUD’s version ‘Nutcracker Swagger- Dance of the sugar Plum Fairy hip hop remix’ starts to play. As the short ‘strings’ intro’ plays the camera zooms out more and we see that the female figures is wearing a black cat suit and at 13 seconds into the music the beat starts and the camera starts to turn clock wise. The woman is hanging upside down by a black rope over a cube glass case in the Christie’s London museum and gallery from a skylight high above. As the rest of the two minute piece of music plays the woman sticks her suction cup laser cutter on to the top of the glass cube and cuts a round hole out of the glass and put the glass and suction cup in a bag round her waist and reaches into the glass cube. She can barely reach the egg with her fingers. Her fingers slips over its surface
Woman: “Der’mo!”
She struggles a little more to get a grip on the egg
Woman: “Nu davay zhe!”
Finally she gets a grip on the egg and slowly pulls it out of the glass cube and put in her waist bag; she shifts her weight slightly and pulls a small white fluffy toy rabbit out of the bag it has a white business card tied around its neck. She drops it into the glass cube where the egg had been.
Woman: “Dlya papy.”
As the last notes of the music play she shoots upwards still upside down and out of shot… cut to black.
Christmas Special -redux
This Post Has One Comment
Comments are closed.


I am genuinely thrilled to see these wonderful stories have a little home here-your writing, as always, brightens my days immensely.