Rabbit-Woman: No Way Henri (Acts 1 and 2) v.2 (abridged)
Rabbit-Woman: No Way Henri
ACT 1
In a deserted alley, HENRI OSBORN desperately tries to cover up the Schizo Surfboard with trash. He's ashamed of his past as a schizo in Coco's community.
SCARLET SCHIZO (Voice Over)
>Coward! We have a new corpo to save.Henri turns, sees the SCARLET SCHIZO mask hanging on a nearby dumpster. He trembles with fear.
HENRI
>Leave me alone. Please ...SCARLET SCHIZO (V.O.)
>Hiding in the shadows. Hiding from who you truly are.Henri picks up an empty wine bottle and SMASHES the mask (so that the actor can show emotions better without a mask blocking his face) He tries to run but he's 's too fat so he shuffles off, Scarlet Schizo's CACKLING LAUGHTER echoing around him...
ACT 2
Rabbit-Woman swings from building to building with wrist launchers that shoot long sticky ropes of mold. She lands in front of the homeless shelter and runs inside.
Rabbit-Woman searches, frantic. She pulls off her hood.
>Muumi! Where's Muumi?A FOOD SERVICE WORKER points Pippa towards the kitchen.
>Thank you!Pippa takes off, rounding the kitchen door to find...
MUUMI HAVING TEA WITH HENRI OSBORN
No armor. Dressed in ill-fitting clothes from the donation bin. Nursing a PHASE CONNECT BRAND COFFEE CUSTOM ROAST COFFEE FROM TALES COFFEE ONLY $35 + SHIPPING in a MUCH DEMANDED PHASE CONNECT BRAND COLLECTOR's EDITION MUG (soon to be in the official
shop.phase-connect.com store), he looks tired, disoriented... even fragile.
MUUMI
>Ah, hey, here she is! Henri, this is my surrogate daughter.Pippa is totally thrown.
PIPPA
>Henri Osborn? I thought that you--HENRI
>I saw Rabbit-Woman in an ad for this place. And I thought she could help me. But you’re not her.PIPPA
>Wait, so you want Rabbit-Woman’s help?MUUMI
>He... he just wandered in.HENRI
>I didn’t know where else to go.>The WUMAOS ravaged my country.>KSON joined Vshojo. My father...(beat, then)
>Sometimes I’m not myself. I’m... someone else.>I don’t know why, what’s going on with me? And I don’t--Muumi pulls Pippa aside.
MUUMI
>He’s lost. And I don’t mean just in the cosmos, I mean in his mind.PIPPA
>Well, I mean, they all have their own mental and physical issues.MUUMI
>Well, he needs help, and maybe they all do.PIPPA
>Wait, you don’t mean--? No MUUMI, this isn’t my problem.MUUMI
>PIPPA. Not your problem?PIPPA
>Muumi, their chance of getting help is way better back where they came from.>Banning them, that’s the best thing that we can do for them.MUUMI
>For them? Or for yourself?Her words hit PIPPA hard. She’s guiding her, but leaving the choice open. She hesitates.
MUUMI (CONT'D)
>Look around you. This is what we do. We help people.PIPPA
>This is what’s best. For them. Trust me.Off MUUMI, not entirely sold by that...<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>
