Void

One of my favourite aspects of films and TV shows is often the dialogue that takes place between characters.

So, I wanted to write a scene involving three characters having a different conversation with each other, at the same time, while the questions and answers jump around. I wanted to create confusion within the conversations and have answers bounce off other questions.

However, why are they having this conversation in a living room? Whose house are they in? Why is there tension between two of the characters? Who is Hannah, who is mentioned? Why are they looking out the windows?

And thus, the story tumbled.

Main Characters:

Echoes are the threat to humanity. A mother is sitting outside with her baby when she gets a call from her friend, her young son has been hit by a car and it's not looking good. Upon hearing this her emotions spike; panic and terror runs through her while sadness and despair fight them. All she wants is to see her son. The extreme emotional distress causes her to change, she becomes single minded and evolves to have that one goal in mind, see her son again. She becomes extremely strong, has improved vision, amazing reflexes and loses her voice. Should someone approach her she would grab a hold of them and try to demand to know where her son is, breaking bones, tearing muscles and possibly dismembering them. There is no way to help them, even if their goal is identified and accomplished. They are lost forever and for the public's safety must be brought to rest.

Harry disagrees. He, along with Dan and Bailey are an Echo unit, trained to bring the Echoes to rest before they can cause any more damage. Harry has been a long-time believer in being able to bring Echoes back from their fate and is doing all he can to accomplish that goal, or at the very least make bringing the Echoes to rest, as painlessly and as humanely as possible. He pioneered and fought for the standardization of Navis, an injection that can euthanise Echoes, which is still a contested point among the Echo units who don't want the risk that comes with having to get in close to the Echoes to inject them, those units still utilising firearms. Harry also unionised the Echo units, increasing pay and introducing standard life insurance for all active field unit members. Harry has his views and isn't one to back down. Creating enemies in the privatised company contracted to deal with the Echo's.

Dan has yet to be fully fleshed out as a character, but is the control of the group, taking sides depending on his beliefs and for the good of his teammates and those around them along with being the foundation of the group, keeping them on stable footing and not letting them trip and fall (or trying to).

Bailey is an Ex-Echo. One of the few and rare whom have returned. A side effect of that is that he no longer has memories of anything but the reason for turning. Bailey has spent the past 10 years relearning to walk, write, talk and control the evolutions he still has from when he was an Echo. He was raised in a lab by scientist and teachers and later trained by Ryan to utilise his ability's, whom he see's as a father figure. This has left him in a mentally unbalanced state. His broken re-upbringing has left him lacking in many areas, one of which is understanding the room, reading between the lines, or recognising subtleties. And lonley. The only person he considers on his side any more is Ryan, who is no longer around after being fired.

1 Plot Point:

One day, while Harry is having lunch with a co-worker, a stranger interjects into the conversation about experimentation. The stranger injects something and turns into an Echo and attacks those around them before Harry manages to get their attention with car alarms outside before the dinner explodes. The Echo, now on fire, runs around smashing the cars alarming. Managing to get clear of the Echo, Harry witnesses an Echo unit fire projectiles at the Echo and unload magazines of bullets at it, killing it. Wade approaches Harry bragging about putting the Echo down in such a violent way before Harry gets transported to the hospital. This was a targeted attack. Why?

Again, in this script I'm exploring a lot with many characters constantly interacting in strange and interesting ways, having conversations that often stray from their original meaning, having opposing views and fights with strange relationships and backgrounds. I find it hard to summarise this script with so many plot lines with different characters and how they overlap with each other.

At the moment its 490 pages long and about 88,000 words and I have a lot of ideas for the future.