Episode Knotes

OPENER

WHAT IS IT IN AN ALLOY THAT MAKES ONE HARDEN IN FLAME AND ONE BECOME BRITTLE? TAKE THREE CHILDREN, EACH EXPOSED TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE UNDERSTANDING OF MOST. ONE CLINGS TO CONVENTION AS A MEANS OF COPING, ANOTHER BECOMES SUBSERVIENT, WHILE THE FINAL SIMPLY LEARNS TO ADAPT. THREE METALS, ONE MUST WONDER AT THE ALLOY THEY WILL PRODUCE.

FREYA

WHY WERE YOU SO CROSS AT SIR NICHOLAS WHEN HE SPOKE ILL OF AMANDA?

VANESSA 

Never doubt her Freya. No matter the situation Amanda will pull through.

FREYA

Why do you follow her so blindly?

VANESSA

(sound of grabbing Freya) Are you incapable of aught but despair? We’re lost in a foreign land. This is nothing. I know despair, Freya, and this is a morning stroll compared to it.

FREYA

I’ve never seen this side of you

VANESSA

A gem has many facets, each catches the light differently. Once you’ve escaped you’re not so keen to revisit hell. You ask why I follow her? I’ll tell you. It was several years ago, before Amanda was the Sylvi. It was before her mother passed away.

(Flashback begins)

(Slamming of a heavy prison cell)

GUARD

Get in there and keep your mouth shut.

AMANDA

Please don’t do this. Why did you take me here?

GUARD

(rusty Sword comes out) 

This is your world now. I don’t care if they even pay the ransom. Sooner or later you will become the sheath for this blade. Until then not a sound or I’ll take you a piece at a time. 

(walks away door slams)

VANESSA

He won’t be back for at least a few days. I hope you ate well before they took you.

AMANDA

Who said that?

VANESSA

Your eyes will get used to the dark. Over here. (Jiggles chain).

AMANDA

Hold on, I’m making my way to you.

VANESSA

You seem overly calm for someone who has just been kidnapped.

AMANDA

Calm mind, calm waters, panic solves nothing.

VANESSA

Listen I don’t know what control you think you have, but on this ship, it is useless. I hate to tell you but you’re here forever.

AMANDA

There you are. I’ve found your hand. You’re ice cold.

VANESSA

That’s not my hand. (Jiggles chain again) Over here.

AMANDA 

(gasps.)

VANESSA

That’s more like it. That must be Dannika. I think she stopped talking a few days ago, maybe a week. Strange they didn’t chain you down.

AMANDA

This is horrible.

VANESSA

This is hell. Yet still, you sound like you’re just in for a small visit.

AMANDA

Tell me this is your hand.

VANESSA

YOU FOUND ME.

AMANDA

Now let me get you out.

VANESSA

You are a breath of fresh air in here. What is your name?

AMANDA

If only I was breezy enough to dispel the air of our pungent cellmate. Regardless, its Amanda. Amanda Camaron (pronounced Cama-Ron not –Camron)

VANESSA

You say that like it that should mean something to me.

AMANDA

My mother is Miranda Camaron.

VANESSA

…meaning?…(means nothing to her. Sarcastic)

AMANDA

Miranda Camaron…As in the current Sylvi Knight. Otherwise known as Miranda Sylvi.

VANESSA

Sylvi? Ha. It’s been years since I’ve heard that mentioned. Still I don’t see the significance. There are many Sylvi Knights throughout the Twist Islands.

AMANDA

That’s true but there is only one true line that goes all the way back to Lady Angellica. I am of that Line.

VANESSA

You mean to tell me that your mother is the actual Syilvi Knight, as in she takes orders from the King directly?

AMANDA

That’s what I mean.

VANESSA

(snaps) It means nothing here. I don’t know how to get it through your naive head. You and I are no different than Dannika over there on the floor or Michael. He was chained up against the far wall in front of me.  Stopped talking almost a year ago. I’ve been the lucky one down here, they use me once in a while to clean the ship. I see light while the others down here are left to rot.

AMANDA

Are you done?  ...Now how about your name?

VANESSA

I...Vanessa.

AMANDA

If you’re quite done venting, I’ll get rid of these chains. (Chains come loose.)

VANESSA

How…?

AMANDA

That guard. He was more concerned about trying to scare me with his knife. I was able to swipe his keys while he was dragging me in.

VANESSA

(nervous) Listen Amanda, this is not a good plan. He can see in the dark, put my chain back on.

AMANDA

No. We are getting out of here. My mother won’t be bargained with. I’m surprised she has yet to lead an assault on this ship. We are going to make it easy and meet her in the middle. Come on!

VANESSA

Shhhh. Listen. He returns. Chain me back up before he sees.

AMANDA

Nonsense. Get up we’ll take him together. Can you fight?

VANESSA

(Nonsensical whimpering like someone who has been tortured for years)

(Cell Door Slams open.) 

Look Out! 

(slow motion voice to show a slowdown of time for Amanda’s thought process)

AMANDA

Three heartbeats to act…

(Sound of Heart beat 1) 

The Guard is at the door and I can sense his position. The gate is almost open completely. (slow motion gate hitting the hinge sound, begin angry grunt sound)

(Sound of Heart Beat 2)

He’s coming closer to me. He can see in the dark and I can’t. (grunt gets full)

GUARD

(in slow motion) Get up! Island trash!

(Sound of Heartbeat 3)

AMANDA

I’ll create an illusion of myself on the floor cowering. And get behind him when he goes to grab me. Now! (illusion sound, finish guard grunt)

(guards knife is drawn)

GUARD

I’ll send you back in pieces. 

(Knife clanks on the stone ground, the illusion fades sound.) What! Where is she?

AMANDA

(jumps on his back, the sound of gripping his back, sound of chains clanking, the sound of guard gurgling. Knife drops) Pick it up, Vanessa!

VANESSA

quick gasp. 

Knife sounds, the sound of slicing throat.)

Guard Gurgles. Chains loosen. Amanda Drops down. The guard drops with a loud thud)

VANESSA

(Angry Grunt as she starts rapidly stabbing the dead body getting years of anger out on her main guard. 

AMANDA

Hey Hey! Alright. It’s ok. He’s gone, He’s dead. Come on, Let’s get off this ship