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UP LATE, LATE AT NIGHT!

Season 01, Episode 01

ACT IV

By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Operahouse-Typewriter

(c) 2020

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FADE IN

EXT. D-COP’S HOUSE, DAYTIME

OPEN ON A LS OF THE FRONT OF D-COP’S HOUSE

Hold the shot a moment, but then we catch a glimpse of the students sneaking one by one from some object in the yard, shrub or shed…etc, to the back of the house. The very first should be V-HESS and the last should be JEWELCASE.

CUT TO MS OF REAR OF D-COP’S HOUSE

V-HESS, CASS-E, HANSEL, GRETEL, B-RAY with MR PUPPET, CLAMSHELL, and JEWELCASE huddle near a window.

CASS-E
(strong whisper) “What are we doing here.”

EVERYONE ELSE
“Yeah.”

V-HESS
“Shhh. You want him to hear us.”

B-RAY
“Then why are we sneaking around his house on a Saturday morning.”

MR. PUPPETS
“Yeah we could be watching cartoons, like the one where the Fonz travels in a spaceship.”

V-HESS
“I’m tired of that guy and that class. It makes no sense. Twenty hours to explain how to adjust the mirrors. Something weird is going on.”

B-COP
(off-screen) “You better believe something weird is going on.”

THE CAMERA PANS OUT ENOUGH TO SHOW B-COP AND THE HUDDLED STUDENTS.

CASS-E
“Oh no. Cheese it fellas!”

B-COP
“Cool it. I am not here to rat you out. I want answers too. Why’s he so excited to teach this class? (turns to V-Hess) So what’s your plan.”

V-HESS
“There’s dog poo everywhere in his backyard. So I made a giant bag of dog poo that we will set on fire. Heck, we could even make two flaming poo bags. Yeah. Double doo-doo doorbell ditch.”

Everyone groans.

B-COP
“That is awful. Why don’t we look in the window instead. Spy on him and see what he is up to.”
Everyone agrees B-Cop’s idea is a better idea. V-Hess throws away the bag of dog poop.

B-COP
“Okay. Now who is the lucky person to look through the window. It’ll need to be the lightest person here.”

Everyone looks around.

CAMERA SHIFTS BACK AND FORTH TILL FINALLY SETTLING ON MR PUPPETS.

MR PUPPETS
“Uh-oh.”

CUT TO…

INT. D-COP’S BATHROOM, DAYTIME

A simple bathroom with a bathtub/shower and toilet along one wall. On the other wall is the vanity, mirror, and towel rack. A window sits up high on the short wall perpendicular to the tub wall and vanity wall.

LS OF BATHROOM

D-COP sits in the bathtub with PADDLES, a dog made from a ping-pong paddle. The bathtub is filled with bubbles from an especially foamy bubble bath. D-COP is singing into a scrub brush. While D-Cop sings we can see the face of Mr. Puppets come into view in the upper window.

D-COP
(singing into scrub brush as if it was a microphone) “I met him at the dance floor.
He turned around and I said I would take more.
When we danced, we danced.
All the stars were shining advanced.
You get the idea.”

D-COP points the scrubbrush to PADDLES

PADDLES
“Woo-Woo-Woof”

D-COP
“That’s when I kissed the Leader of the Pack.
Uh-huh
That’s when I kissed the Leader of the Pack.”

PAN OR TILT THE CAMERA UP SO WE CAN SEE MR. PUPPETS MAKE A FACE AT WHAT HE IS SEEING.

Mr. Puppets leans in further to watch. Soon his face is joined by more of the classmates. Then there is a loud RIPPING NOISE as the wall caves in and everyone topples into the bathroom. D-Cop screams.

Cass-E rises first.

CASS-E
“Cheese it fellas I think he’s noticed us.”

Everyone runs out of the room.

CUT TO…

INT. LIVING ROOM OF D-COP’S HOUSE, DAYTIME

D-Cop’s living room has two sofas and a recliner. A large sofa in the center with a smaller sofa off to stage-left and a recliner to stage-right. V-HESS, B-RAY and Mr. Puppets sit on the smaller sofa. CLAMSHELL, CASS-E, and JEWLECASE sit on the larger sofa leaving a space at the stage-right end. B-COP sits in the recliner. HANSEL AND GRETEL are playing with PADDLES behind the sofa. D-COP is carrying a tray giving drinks to everyone.

B-COP
“So you’re saying the reason you have been acting so weird and why caught you having a bubble-bath sing-along with a dog is that you dognapped Judge Laser’s dog to make her too upset to teach traffic school so she would have to ask you to teach the class and she would then realize how great you are.”

D-Cop sits down on empty spot on larger sofa.

D-COP.
“Yup.”

B-COP
“That’s messed up.”

Clamshell stands up and claps, slow clap. He walks over to D-Cop.

CLAMSHELL
“I just want to say that was the most impressive thing I have ever heard in my years on this planet. I have been needing the guidance of somebody as wise as you. Please teach me to be just like you.”

B-COP
“Whoa, whoa…”

V-Hess stands.

V-HESS
“Just like Clamshell, I just want to say that is the most gnarly bone-curdling thing I have ever heard and I am on board. Teach me your dark ways.”

B-COP
“I think you two are reading this all wrong.”

Cass-E stands.

CASS-E
“Maybe it’s all the medications I take but what all of you are saying makes a lot of sense to me right now and I want to learn your ways of love.”

Clamshell stands.

B-COP
“Oh, not the little old lady too.”

CLAMSHELL
“I may have started this class as a puppeteer…”

CUT TO CS OF B-RAY MR. PUPPETS

B-RAY
“What?”

CUT BACK TO CLAMSHELL

CLAMSHELL
“But you sir are the true master of Puppets. Count me in.”

Just then the phone rings. RING, RING, RING. D-Cop goes over to pick it up, moving into the foreground. Maybe have a shift of some kind, like lighting brighter on him and background darkens. Shift back at end of call.

D-COP
“D-Cop’s residence, D-Cop speaking. What’s that. Oh, hi Laser Judge. Are you crying? Oh, I’m sorry. What’s wrong. (pauses as he listens) No. They did what. Is there anything I can do to help. (listens) Well, I could take over for that if it would help you out. You know I am always willing to help you out. Okay, so dry those tears I’ll be right over and everything will be better. We’ll get through this, together.”

D-Cop hangs up the phone.

D-COP
“That was Laser Judge. Her Garden Party Fundraiser is a disaster. The band canceled on her and she is at a loss. My plan is working…”

B-COP
(off-camera) “No it’s not.”

D-COP
“Luckily for her, old D-Cop is here to save the day, because something you may not know about me my other Minor in college was music.”

D-COP turns around and the visual effect goes away. We now can see that everyone except Paddles and B-Cop are dressed like D-Cop.

CLAMSHELL
“That’s funny because my other minor in college was music.”

V-HESS
“That’s funny too because my other minor in college was also music.”

CASS-E
“Weirdly enough my other minor in college was music.”

CUT TO CS OF B-COP

B-COP
(turns to camera) “I better stick around to save them from themselves.”

FADE OUT