[NOTE: This screenplay was found after the Bureau acquired the Night Springs television series and all its past episode scripts. It appears to be written by Alan Wake as part of an application to become one of the show's writers.]
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NIGHT SPRINGS SPEC SCRIPT
EPISODE: "OVER THE THRESHOLD, DARKLY" By Alan Wake
HOST (V.O.): It is only human nature to wish to control the forces around us, and even more so to possess them. But what happens when those forces are not ours to claim - or even of this world? What if they are the things you can discover... in Night Springs.
INT. SECRET LAB - NIGHT
We are in a Secret Lab. The large sign on the wall reads "The Federal Bureau of Night Springs".
SCIENTIST: I've told you several times, Director: it isn't ready.
DIRECTOR: It's ready when I say it's ready, Doctor!
SCIENTIST: But the being beyond the portal... we have no control over it!
The robust Director shoves the nerd-like Scientist aside, and heads for the portal control panel. He slams the "ON" button with a determined fist.
DIRECTOR: All the more reason.
The entire screen is filled with DANGEROUS red. Then it fades away and we see that the two men are in another dimension. The air ripples around them as if they were a 1983 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sitting in the Texas sun after a 5-day road trip.
INT. UNKNOWN DIMENSION - NIGHT
SCIENTIST: What have you done?! You've doomed us!
DIRECTOR: Control yourself, Doctor. Where's this beast of yours?
SCIENTIST: Right there, sir.
A horrible shapeless, shifting ENTITY fills the horizon. It can't be described, that's how horrible it is.
DIRECTOR: What a thing of beauty you've been keeping from me!
The Director steps closer to the horrible Entity. He reaches out with a steady hand.
DIRECTOR: You are mine now, creature. I will return you to my facility and control your power!
SCIENTIST: Sir, we don't know--
The Entity instead rushes forward and engulfs the Director. He SCREAMS in pain as the Scientist looks on and does nothing, like the coward that he is.
ENTITY (subtitled): I am not the one being examined. I am not the one locked inside a prison.
Gradually, the Director emerges from the entity. His once sparkling eyes are now empty and dull. The Scientist rushes to him.
SCIENTIST: Sir, sir? We have to escape!
DIRECTOR: We cannot. They are in control now. I got what I wanted.
The Scientist turns from what used to be his Director, now transformed into a stranger, an alien that only resembles the Director in form.
He drops his all-important clipboard as he stumbles towards the closing portal, but the horrible Entity is already rushing through it in a flow of INSANITY and CHAOS. The Scientist becomes caught in it and the Entity devours him, screaming, as it enters our world. The Director lifts his pistol to his head. His hand is steady, sure in its finality.
DIRECTOR: Or so I thought.
Camera fades to black. A GUNSHOT is heard.
NARRATOR (V.O.): And so, our hunger for control, our obsession for domination and power, the hubris at play in this children's puppet show we're starring in can only lead to our fall from control, to submit to those who really hold the strings and control us... in Night Springs.
@colealtblog it is! the thickness/fuzziness of the thread makes it hard to tell, but SDSU stops just a tiny bit before hitting the yellow field to its north or the blue to its east. trust me, i was careful with that one
my tablet pen is acting up again and i thought it was just goofing off for attention like the previous 2 times it's had this problem (always registering as touching the surface even when it's only hovering -- adjusting the pressure sensitivity does not help) but my usual solution of replacing the nib and replacing the battery and uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers some number of times and restarting my laptop (all in semi random order) has not worked so far I'm So Fucking Scared...
