Screenplay ~~- Flame (The Witch Who Stole Jesus)

Sister Stickitt Locks Flame On Breeder Farm

2016 Characters =~2Min. Reading Time
THEN, OUTSIDE AT THE BETHLEHEM STREET AT NIGHT:

Elder Squaddy CATCHES Flame.

Buzzi fist-beats Elder Squaddy.

Elder Squaddy whips a hammer out of his cloak, bangs Buzzi on the head.
Buzzi collapses.

Up rush Romanux and Torturanus, noses bleeding. They CHAIN Buzzi.

Up rushes Sister Ida Stickitt. She HANDCUFFS Flame, JOLTS, seeing a black necrotic lesion grow on Flame's hand.

SISTER IDA STICKITT
God's punishing you!

Romanux drags Buzzi in chains north toward a FORT.

Sister Ida Stickitt HAULS Flame south of Bethlehem, toward a compound.

SISTER IDA STICKITT
Breeder farm's your new home, concubine!

OUTSIDE AT THE FORT IN THE DAYTIME:

Buzzi in chains breaks rocks. He shakes, weak, face pallid as death. Red infection-lines snake from his necrotic hand up his arm.


OUTSIDE AT THE BREEDER FARM IN THE DAYTIME:

Flame in chains HOES the field next to Bellie who plays with dolls. Red infection SNAKES up Flame's arm from her spider-bite.

BELLIE
(to doll)
Good wives don't like spiders and snakes!


OUTSIDE AT THE FORT IN THE DAYTIME:

FIVE YEARS LATER, Ten year old Buzzi in chains breaks rocks, his snake-bitten-hand SCARRED over.


OUTSIDE AT THE BREEDER FARM IN THE DAYTIME:

Ten year old Flame in chains HOES the field next to Bellie who plays with dolls. Scars MAR Flame's healed hand.

BELLIE
The first wife always gets the best baby-seeds.

Flame looks longingly north.


OUTSIDE AT THE FORT IN THE DAYTIME:

FIVE MORE YEARS LATER, Fifteen year old Buzzi in chains breaks rocks, looks up. South sun flares his eyes.

Romanux GALLOPS north from Bethlehem over the hill to Buzzi.

ROMANUX
You did your time, bed-bouncer.

Romanux throws a key on the ground.

Buzzi DIVES, pulls up the KEY, UNLOCKS his chains.

ROMANUX
Flame's dead to you, dog meat.

Buzzi runs south, up the hill.

ROMANUX
(screams)
Stay away from her, peon!

BUZZI
Peon you, pig-breath!

ROMANUX
(throws a rock)
She's MY Flame!

Buzzi runs over the hill.

BUZZI
TorturAYnus is YOUR Flame!

Romanux chases Buzzi.

Buzzi sprints, scared.