The Android's Song -
An Antony Wells ThoughtPlay
EXT - OUTTER SPACE
We are focused on the earth. Alone in the cold embrace of space.
A WOMAN'S VOICE
:Does it remind you?
We pan right, a star shoots past.
We pan back round to earth. Completely still.
NARRATOR(OLD MAN)
:There she sits.
We pan forward slightly, to reveal a cloud of satalities and other human debris'
A WOMAN'S VOICE
Of all time frozen, of all love broken?
MAN'S VOICE
Stop it.
We pan in towards the clouds and stop. A giant boeing 747 shoots past us.
NARRATOR
God damn the things that invade her sky.
We pan to the right to watch the plane soar off. almost majestically. but not quite.
A WOMAN'S VOICE
Does the light dance on your soul?
MAN
You'll never know.
We pan back down. reaching the top of skyscrapers over new york.
NARRATOR
God damn these structures.
BEAT
A WOMAN'S VOICE
And so we dance....do we?
A MAN'S VOICE
Dancing until the sun expires. I question why though...
A WOMAN'S VOICE
Isn't it obvious?
We pan down some more. to street level. Dealers sell drugs on the corner. A police car sits and watches. doing nothing.
A MAN'S VOICE
Do you remember that night?
A WOMAN'S VOICE
I've heard of it.
A MAN'S VOICE
You always were funny.
A WOMAN'S VOICE
Was I?
We pan right to reveal a man walking down the street. cool. in a trenchcoat.
A MAN'S VOICE
*beat* Always were....
A WOMAN'S VOICE
So tender the fabric of our soul....how are you doing?
A MAN'S VOICE
I'm lost in a sandstorm. Yourself?
A WOMAN'S VOICE
I'm lost too. Would tell you where, but then I wouldn't be lost.
NARRATOR
So they
