Episode Three

GRAPHIC: EARLIER

EUREN’S OFFICE. Bare desk except for a FOLDER. EUREN is looking at it. MARTY G sits across from him.

EUREN

You are an interesting person.

MARTY G

I could say the same for you. I could. You tried to flunk me from a class I never took.

EUREN

You have not taken my class?

MARTY G

Which makes me wonder why you called me.

EUREN

Damn this bureaucracy. I could have sworn I had you in my power. I mean- that you would be amenable.... I have a proposal for you. I see that you are interested in observing behavior. I share that interest with you. I am embarked upon a social experiment, and would like to involve you.

MARTY G

A social experiment?

EUREN

Yes. How do young people respond to events beyond their control? Events orchestrated by “powerful” people, people over whom the “victims” have no control? Would you be interested in recording their responses?

Reaction from MARTY G.

EUREN (OS)

So what do you think?

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EUREN watching this in black box.

EUREN

Marty was unresponsive. I did not know whether he had agreed to my proposal or not. I am not entirely sure what my proposal was. But I do know this. Marty did some research on me.

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VALERIE/VALERY BLOG: STREET CRED: EUREN BOOK

VALERY (VO)

Have you read Professor Euren’s book?

FRESHMAN

It’s brilliant! I didn’t understand any of it!

SOPHOMORE

I saw him on television. Does that count?

JUNIOR

Book? Read? What? Is this for class?

SENIOR

I’m taking his class, so yes. I have read it. The man’s a genius. A genius.

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EUREN in BLACK BOX SET. The Café Scene is on Big TV.

EUREN

Marty became obsessed with Valerie. We don’t have footage of the original obsession. But we have this dramatized reenactment.

MARTY Z steps into the BLACK BOX and address the camera. He is wearing a white shirt and black pants.

MARTY Z

I don’t care about Euren. I care about Valery.

MARTY Z closes his eyes. Screen goes wavy and disolves into and out of shots of MARTY G and VALERIE dissolving into and out of MARTY Z and VALERY.

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VALERY, wearing a white shirt an black pants, chasing a student, CHET, down the street with a camera.

CHET

Leave me alone!

VALERY

Did you or did you not put a cow on the roof of the student union?

CHET

Leave me alone.

MARTY Z watching VALERY through his video camera. She notices him and turns her camera towards him. They video each other.

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A robed figure walks down a campus path. A variation of the music that prefigures the melody of the final Komplaint Khoir fills the soundtrack.

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BLACK BOX. The final scooter scene is on the BIG TV.

EUREN

These students have graduated, and gone. My observations are over. All we have is this lost footage. Like archeologists, we tread heavily on those young forgotten bones.