CAVE OF FEAR

BY ALISON LEA BINGEMAN

 

ROXTON: When I signed onto this expedition, I told Challenger I'd follow him to Hell and back and I intend to do just that.

 

MARGUERITE: He'd better be dead or I'll kill him myself.

 

MALONE: We couldn't abandon him.

MARGUERITE: Why not?

 

CHALLENGER: Cassandra, I'm a married man.

CASSANDRA: How delightfully Victorian.

 

MARGUERITE: According to the map we should be nearly there.

SUMMERLEE: As long as we don't meet anymore Raptors.

MARGUERITE: Or apemen, cannibals, T-Rex's…

ROXTON: Always the optimist, Marguerite.

 

AS THEY PART WAYS IN THE CAVE OF FEAR

MARGUERITE: I'll take the left.

ROXTON: Don't go far. One hundred yards, we meet back here, got it?!

MARGUERITE: (she gives him a look) Got it.

ROXTON: Oh Marguerite…be careful.

 

WILLIAM: Oh, of course. Terrible thing, a gunshot wound. Imagine a freight train slamming into your chest, ploughing through your ribcage like it was a pile of twigs.

ROXTON: No…this isn't possible…

WILLIAM: Well, luckily I didn't suffer. My heart exploded almost immediately.

 

ROXTON: Didn't anyone teach you not to play with guns?

 

MALONE: Go!

VERONICA: Don't be crazy.

MALONE: I'm telling you…leave me!

VERONICA: I'm not leaving you here to be some Raptor's lunch!

SHE KISSES HIM

MALONE: What was that for?

VERONICA: Inspiration. Now move your ass!

 

ROXTON: If you want to sit this one out…

MARGUERITE: Oh, I told you, I'm fine.

ROXTON: You know, there's nothing you have to prove.

MARGUERITE: Look, whatever we went through in there, it's over.

ROXTON: Well…if you ever want to talk about…

MARGUERITE: I won't. (They stare at each other a moment) Was there anything else?

ROXTON: No. (She walks off) I guess there isn't.

 

CASSANDRA: Tell me I didn't give you the greatest pleasure you've ever known.

CHALLENGER: There was this barmaid once in Brighton, or was it Liverpool?

 

MALONE: I know the only reason you kissed me was probably because you thought I was…but I was wondering if it might of…I mean, not that I'm assuming… Could we do it again, sometime? Soon?

VERONICA: Maybe.

 

SUMMERLEE: I've never seen anything quite like it. Must have been some kind of saphrophytic fungus with psychotrophic properties.

ROXTON: If you say so, Professor.

 

SUMMERLEE: You know, you haven't said one word about what happened in there.

ROXTON: That's right.

SUMMERLEE: I see.

 

ROXTON: Thank you, for saving my life.

SUMMERLEE: Only too happy to have been of service, old boy. 

  

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