Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2021 13:09:39 GMT -5
Scattered leaves tell a story of autumn colors, the yellows, oranges, and wilted browns. Panning through a forest we hear footsteps all around and some maniacal giggling. Pigeons flap by in all directions. Switching to a scrolling shot up the side of a cliff as the sun starts to set, a wider angle provides context of where... on the coast of California. Varying shots escalating one by one in deep trembling concern- each picture more telling than the last. The grounds of Asylum are abandoned. The door wide open. The inmates totally gone. Most cells are left in their existing states. Striped shirts hang from cell bars. A virtual ghost town of what Sanatorium was, or at least its skeleton. We finally settle on a shot of the Infirmary Physician Dr.Sly twiddling away in his lab. Oblivious in care to the situation at hand. Nurse Rawson is frantically mixing substances in vats from smaller potion viles. Trying to come up with something that will allow inmate paralysis, temporarily enough to capture them. A maddening sense of his far too calm demeanor contrasting with her building anxiety is drowning the tone of the room.
Nurse Rawson "OHHHHH MY, MY, MY! THEY'RE OUT, DOCTOR! We must act fast! OHHHH MY, MY, MY!!!"
Dr.Sly "Nurse, panicking solves nothing. We have to remain strategic in our task! It's not paralyzing them that matters, it's pulling them in, we can use a variety of altered hormones to attract their insatiable appetites to be wanted..."
Rawson looks at Sly confused. Trickling around the back of the Doctor we get a glimpse of him inserting a syringe into a pigeon like the ones at the scene opening. When the pigeon breathes post injection it exhales some type of mist.
Nurse Rawson "Will it... work..?"
Dr.Sly "We just need... carriers to get it near them... ha- haha- haaaaa-"
His way too creepy for comfort smile extends just as the shot in the forest resumes. Pigeons in all directions with mist trailing by each hiding inmate, deep in the bowels of their own escapes. Drawn like mice to cheese, a trance overtakes the controlled body vessels as they begin to march back toward the door where guards emerge in tactical gear. Back in the lab, Rawson heads down the hall to grab some more potions from the storage area to mix. Along her path she notices the Warden's door open. A loud shriek! Sly barrels down the hallway afraid his potions may have been spilled. He pushes the cracked door all the way open. Rawson stands over the motionless body of Eden. The Nurse looks up at the Doctor with tears streaming down her cheeks.
Dr.Sly "Who could have done this?! Is she breathing, Nurse?! NURSE! FOCUS! GET HER TO MY LAB! NOWWW!"
Eden is wheeled on a gurney into the lab. Spilling of instruments, loud murmuring, and shocks of defibrillators are heard as the visual steps away in a steady pace down the hall. Back at the door, guards capture inmates and begin putting them back in their cells before the Pigeon delivered hormonal trance wears off.
Then.
We only hear flat-lining.
Deep in the forest a Pigeon is swatted out of the sky. A hooded silhouette steps on the pigeon with a sideways crunch while shielding their face from inhaling. The figure turns, heading for higher ground among the cliffs. We get a close up on their lips as they pause staring back toward the Asylum.
Hooded Figure "I'm Sorry, Eden..."
The figure turns, continuing to escape up the cliff.
A pair of binoculars lowers from the highest Asylum window. Sly smiles, having seen the figure when they paused.
Dr.Sly "Bingooooo- NURRSSEEEEE!?"
Zooming in on a shiny new name badge, 'Warden Sly.'