R+P Post 9: Our Script

The following is the script for our opening sequence:

Jen: You gonna call the bet or what?

Blake: Look, I need you to do something for me

Jen: Oh really? Is that so, well please, tell me how I can help

Blake: You worked on the […] case, you know where the file is and how to get it.

Jen: So you want me to break into the records room of our old station? I can consider myself lucky if I manage to get through the doors of that place nowadays.

Blake: Which is why you should consider the offer more seriously. I doubt these fools are offering you much of a challenge. [glares from others]

Jen: [pause] So what do you want with those people. I don’t know too much about them but they’re not the kind of people you’d want to mess with.

Blake: They have Rachel, which is why I need to find where they are and what they’re capable of.

Jen: And you plan to do all of this alone? You haven’t changed, you always were the type to do things his own way.

Blake: Look, Jen. I need that file. If you’re going to stay here and waste your time with these lowlife thugs then I couldn’t care less, but I will do everything in my power to find these people.

When composing the script, our main interest was keeping an equal balance in content between Blake and Jen, in order to convey them both as strong characters. The script is quite fast-paced, this is to demonstrate the fact they are comfortable talking to eachother as they are not strangers to one another.

This scene from Casino Royale was our main influence for the conversation, as it shows the tone we were trying to achieve, however our sequence being slightly more serious.