TC Ep 288 Script

Keelee walking down reb tunnels, sticking to the sides as people hurry past. Someone shoves a Crow into a wall.

reb: outta my way, BlackAash

crow: outta YOUR way?! You wouldn’t be shit without us helping your asses -

reb: we were getting on just fine without you Corvid vermin -

crow: I’ll show you vermin -

(start fighting, keelee skirts around, hurrying. Follows the crowds to see tiraa and co returning from mission with Pak and a few other old Crows, Tiraa is distracted by reb leader asking her questions and doesn’t see kl as she passes. KL takes a small hidden tunnel and follows, coming out near the ceiling of the big secret meeting room, where Cepni, Deacon, Lars, his mom and Brek dad wait. Tiraa and co enter.)

cepni: Of all the contingencies we planned for, we did not expect this outcome. We are happy to receive you all.

pak: please, my companions are tired and sick, can they -

cepni: they will be escorted to the Med Bay immediately (nods at guard to take them). Are you well enough to answer some questions?

pak: i will get through them. 

cepni: thank you. (to tiraa) debrief.

tiraa: We infiltrated an outskirt temple as planned. Skeleton staff again, they clearly weren’t too bothered with guarding their captives. As you know, due to the intel we acquired from the last raid, we knew the possibility of prisoners was high, but I don’t think any of us expected to find old Crows who survived the Duune massacre. 

cepni: and that is why you were there? You were captured during the slaughter and held since?

pak: (looks at hands) seems so.

brekdad: what did they want with you though? leverage?

larsmom: they tested you, didn’t they?

pak: there were…tests. yes. For what, I don’t know. 

larsmom: and only a fraction of you passed those tests?

pak: there were a number of us I have not seen since. 

(larsmom nods to cepni)

cepni: is there anything you remember? numbers? dates? words mentioned in passing?

pak: …Mother. 

Neekia: he’s tired, Cepni -

cepni: yes, (to guard) please escort him to the Med Bay as well. 

(pak is escorted out)

cepni to group: good job. We will examine them to see if we can ascertain what was done to them. In the meantime, we have another problem. (turns to Lars who points a clicker at a screen)

Lars: Our dear Warden is on the move.

(show close up of KL gdad with guards. Keelee flinches back, eyes wide)

Tiraa: Is there any sign of -

Lars: No sign of one surly Crow Boss, unfortunately. However -

(clicks and shows scra and co entering the same warehouse as the warden. KL gasps when she sees ky)

Lars: There is a Crow King to account for now, apparently.

Neekia: That brat -

Deacon: that’s him. 

cepni: how those three have gotten involved to this degree I’ll never -

tarokk: so this confirms they are back on this Island, then. 

Lars: and about to be captured by the Government already, it seems.

(Keelee runs away down the tunnel in a panic)

brekdad: we will deploy a recon squad. Volunteers?

Neekia looking at tiraa: us, of course (tiraa nods)

lulu: Me

brekdad: you have trained hard and have proved yourself in the temple raids, but this will be -

Lulu: Me.

Tiraa: I have been personally training her, I vouch for her.

Del: I’m going too. (rhaast looks at him in surprise) 

rhaast: that’s all of us, then. 

Lars: They’re in the warehouse district. Take this (throws them a small remote) just developed it,  it’ll get you through that City shield. This footage is from ten minutes ago, before the feed was cut. We don’t know the outcome of the confrontation, but I assume it wasn’t in their favor. 

cepni: acting against Doves is one thing, but going against the Government is damming. (looks at tiraa and del) Are you willing to go the distance?

Tiraa sneers: did the prison break mean nothing? we’ve already sealed our fates. If this Resistance goes down, we’re going with it. 

Keelee running to Dad’s cave.

KL: G-Grandfather is alive (pants) and he has  -

Dad looks over his shoulder at her. he’s splotched with black dye, half a wing black and molting, feathers everywhere. he says nothing.

KL: you…knew he was alive. 

Dad sneers: He’s the Warden of the jail they threw me in. He put me in there. 

KL: and you didn’t tell me

D: what d’you care? You hate him too. He abandoned our asses in that shack and left us for dirt.

KL: because you were useless.

D: what, you’re gonna parrot his words back now? He had just as much contempt for you as he did for me. except he made me what I am, and then couldn’t bear to look at me.

KL: because you never tried. you thought he would just give you everything

D: is that what that son of mine was sayin’ about me? All talkin’ behind my back were you? He was just as lazy, always leavin’ us and -

KL: No. Ky was working all that time. harder than you ever have. for us. (thinks back to what cyras told her in the cave about ky giving all his money to get her out). You will never be as good as him.

(KL picks up the pot of dye and leaves Garrek looking dumbfounded. She goes to her room, looks at Tiraa’s side amd the black clothes, looks in a sliver of mirror, and starts dying her hair and wings. She wraps the scarf Cyras gave her around her neck, a scrap of black fabric over her eye, and leaves.)