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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#00ff55"><span class="style16"><small>EPISODE</small> </span><span class="style17">1</span><font
size="+1">:</font></font></font><br>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff55"><span class="style14"><small>Z</small></span><span class="style8"><small>OOTA
GETS A BUG IN HER HAIR</small></span></font></font><br>
<br>
<span class="style20"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><i>OVERVIEW: Treen finds a small bug in Zoota's
hair and after a series of waterings it grows into a grotesque, massive creature.
Sluker attempts to eat one of the creature's tentacles. Treen and Zoota
prevent him. Sluker has a change of heart and attempts to kiss Zoota instead.</i></font></font> <br>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><font size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font></font></font></span></div>
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<p class="style20"><img src="Nervepool_greenview.gif"
height="143" width="200"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#00ccff"><font
size="+2"><small><br>
</small></font><small><br>
INTERIOR of CENTRAL HIVE</small></font></font></small></p>
<p class="style20 style22"><small><small><font
color="#0000ff"><small>Camera careens around the central chamber and its forest of "hypertrees." It zooms into a patch of hair, swirls about and finally pulls back, revealing Treen and Zoota. Zoota is sniffing and coughing. Treen hangs from a hypertree and plays with Zoota's hair. Zoota ignores her, deep in thought.</small></font></small></small></p>
<p><span class="style20"><small> </small></span><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br>
</font> <font
color="#6666ff">(singing)<br>
</font> <i><font
color="#00ccff">Zoota, Zoota, you, you, you<br>
Got some air in your hair.<br>
Sweet breeze </font></i></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"><i><font
color="#00ccff"> blows... soft hair grows.<br>
Smoggy wind... bugs come in.<br>
--We shall magnify, oh, we shall magnify!<br>
<br>
</font></i> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br>
</font> <font
color="#00ccff"> My hair and its air are not too keen on your <br>
rude inspection.<br>
<br>
</font> <font
color="#6666ff"> TREEN<br>
</font><font color="#00ccff"> Don't be so sure my little flagella. You share <br>
your hair air with me. And some of my hair <br>
air is now mixing</font></span><font color="#00ccff"> </font><span class="style20"><font color="#00ccff">in your hair air. And all the air and <br>
hair everywhere is like a great field. It's so watery. <br>
</font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (pause, closing eyes, flicking fingers in the air)<br>
</font><font
color="#00ccff"> ...and I'm in it.</font><br>
</span></font></small></font></small></p>
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<div class="style20" style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota,
distressed, touches her hair.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN (cont.)<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (pointing down a passageway)<br></font><font
color="#00ccff"> ...and I smell something rancid coming in from <br> yonder tube.<br></font> <br> <font
color="#6666ff"> (singing)</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6666ff"><br></font> <br><span class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff"> <i>Smoggy wind... bugs come in.<br> --We shall magnify, oh, we shall magnify! </i></font><br></span></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div class="style20" style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
takes out a creature with an oval magnifying element attached to its long tail, and pops it in her mouth like a
lollipop. She climbs down and inspects Zoota's hair with it,
wrapping herself and the magnifying creature around Zoota.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font><font color="#00ccff"> I cannot think clearly with you all around me.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
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<p class="style8"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Slow
zoom into Treen's fingers ruffling Zoota's hair.</font></font></small></small></p>
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<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Voiceover)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Then think unclearly.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I can't do that sort of thing.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Then where's the problem?<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> You're the problem, but in a good sense.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> You are so sinewy and vague</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">.
<span class="style20"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff"> </font></font></small></font></small></span><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6666ff">(stroking Zoota's lizard costume)
</font></font></small></font></small></font></font></small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"><small><small> <font
color="#00ccff"> </font></small></small></span></font></font></font></small></font><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">So are you.
<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Thanks. From both of us.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"> <br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Camera pulls out of hair. We see Zoota
looking about the chamber. Camera follows her gaze into the rafters, whirls about, and zooms into
the pool where
we become lost in seaweed. Cut to Treen and Zoota struggling in a new, strange tangle involving Treen's water wig and Zoota's lizard's antennae.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Still peering into Zoota's hair)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Winkle down a second...<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> No! It's not like there's any spuggle smitch in <br> there.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I got something. It's not spuggle smitch. </font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
takes something odd out of one of Treen's pockets to play with.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It's pretty.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Playing with Treen's pocket thing <br> and hooking it around a <br> hypertree.)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sure, Treen...<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">...and it's yucky.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
looks up at Treen. Treen pulls out biomorphic tweezers and removes something from Zoota's hair. She climbs to the
other side of chamber. Over the shoulder shot to Zoota who is
itching her hair.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> ...and it's way too small. It needs water.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> What is it?<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It needs water, doesn't it, Zoota?<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> What needs water? If it's dead it doesn't <br> need water.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It's definitely not dead. It's very responsive</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20">. Eew!</span></font><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
hums to herself while inspecting the thingy. Zoota drops a dollop of saliva onto a pinky. Treen notices her.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font color="#00ccff"> It was in my hair, Treen. I caught it, so it's <br> now in my family. Think of it as a child that I <br> didn't know I had. And maybe it came out of <br> the wrong hole. And maybe it came out of <br> my nose and crawled up into my hair... My <br> baby! You found my baby!<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (calming down)<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It's not clear what this is. But maybe if I <br> water it...<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (rubbing her saliva between two <br> fingers)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">Put some of this on it.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Of all the unsavory secretions, Zoota! <br> There's bacteria in your saliva, girl.</font></font></span></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
places the hair thingy into a pouch near her belly. She scoops water from the pool with her hands and pours it into
the pouch. She crawls into a corner away from Zoota and begins to go to
sleep. </font></font> </small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> So you're sleeping?</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: 14px;">
<p class="style24"><small><small><font color="#0000ff">Zoota,
itching her scalp, looks around, stirring the pool with her foot. She places one of her lizard's stingers into the water and makes sparks. She takes some water in her fingers and pours it over her
head. We see close-ups of stirring water.<br>
</font></small></small></p>
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<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font><font color="#00ccff"> Most stuff is really small, Treen. A lot of small <br> things. There's microorganisms everywhere. <br> Primitive little beasts...<small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style20"><font color="#00ccff">holding off on evolution. </font></font></small></font></small><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">(looks longingly at Treen and wringing <br> her hands)<br></font><font
color="#00ccff"> But we are fauna! The biggies, the super evolved! <br> <small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff">So we have to</font></font></small></font></small> somehow share the world with the little ones.<br><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff"> </font></font></small></font></small>We're like cousins, you know. Distantly.
<small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN</font></font></span></small></font></small>
<small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">(stroking her little critter and falling asleep)</font></font></small></font></small>
<small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#00ccff"> </font></font></span></small></font></small>Distantly.<br> </font><font
color="#3333ff"> </font><font color="#00ff00"> FADE TO BLACK</font></font><br></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;">
<p><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Fade-in
to still water and pan over to Treen and Zoota asleep in a sprawl together. Sluker comes in mumbling to his strap-on turtle. He finds the hair
thingy in Treen's pouch, which has grown bigger. He pulls it out and
walks around the chamber, staring at it quizically, monkeylike, presenting it to his turtle. A hand reaches out from the shadows to grab the Thingy from Sluker, but he moves away, unwittingly, everytime the hand gets close. The hand turns out to be that of Glooky, who tends to keep to herself up in the hypertrees. Sluker
leans back into a nook, strategically near Zoota, and falls asleep
holding the <em>thingy</em>. He is obsessed with Zoota, despite her lack of interest. The chamber eases into darkness. </font></font></small></small></p>
<p><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">With a whispery "glow little worm" Glooky's glow worm's head lights up, helping to guide her around the sleeping bodies to Sluker. He rolls over, still asleep, but enough to frighten Glooky off. </font></font></small></small><br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></font></small></small><br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
wakes up, sees Sluker & eazes away from him. Noticing he has the <em>thingy</em>, she puts it back in Treen's pouch. She
snuggles near Treen and chews on one of the nectar buds on Treen's water wig.</font></font></small></small></p>
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<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"> <font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#00ff00"> FADE TO BLACK</font></font> </span><br></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Fade
in to Treen waking up (close-up of her licking her dry lips). She grabs her <em>hair thingy</em> and finds that it's larger. She
shakes Zoota awake. </font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">(wide-eyed, speaking slowly, <br> directly into camera)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It grew.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Cut
to Zoota nodding sleepily and stroking her hair (remembering where the thingy had come from). She takes the <em>thingy</em>,
looks at it, and falls back to sleep while still holding it. Sluker
sees her with the <em>thingy</em> and, taking hold of the other half, snuggles
closer and falls asleep. </font></font></small></small><br>
<br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
attempts to pull the <em>thingy</em> away, but to no avail. Treen takes off her water wig, pulls some vines from the pool, and strings the wig between the hypertrees in the
chamber so that
it is suspended just above the water. She fills the cups of the wig with water and splashes
the water inside. At one point we watch these preparations over Glooky's shoulder as she sits perched up in a hypertree. </font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN (cont.)<br><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font></small></font></small><font
color="#6666ff"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">(</font></small></font></small></font></font></span><font
color="#6666ff"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20">addressing Zoota and Sluker
<small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font></span></small></font></small></span><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> who are still gripping the thingy)</font></span></small></font></small></small></font></small></font><span class="style20"><font
color="#6666ff"><br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Good, sleepy babies</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20">. Ooh my little tadpoles. Let go <br> of mommy and float down the tube. Let go. Go bye <br> bye. Sleepy babies.</span></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: 14px;"><span class="style8"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
and Sluker's hands release the <em>thingy</em>, falling together as the creature drops into the wig's water cup. Treen goes to sleep
while staring at her contraption. Glooky, too, has fallen asleep. </font></font></small></small></span><br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
<font
color="#00ff00"> FADE TO BLACK<br>
<br>
</font></font></small></small></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">We
fade in to a splash of water and follow it up to see a larger <em>hair thingy</em> over-flowing its container, water dripping into the pool.
Focus changes to foreground where Zoota wakes up, and notices her hand
coiled inside of Sluker's. She attempts to extract it but Sluker, still fast asleep, seems to have an iron grip. </font></font></small></small><br>
<br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Camera
zooms into Zoota's face, grimacing, and dissolves to Zoacode, WITNESS CONNECTION:</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></font> <img
src="zoacode-witness_connection.gif" height="128" width="141"><br><br><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff"> ZOOTA<br></font></font> <font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#00ccff">"Witness Connnection"... mmm.... no.<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">(Zoacode changes to LINK WEIRDLY)</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6666ff"><br> <br></font> <img
src="zoacode-linkweirdly.gif" height="128" width="170"><br><br><span class="style20"> <font
color="#00ccff">"Link Weirdly"... Oooh... No. No.<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">(Zoacode changes to BYPASS HOSTILE NODE)</font></span><font
color="#6666ff"><br> <br></font> <img
src="zoacode-hostile_node.gif" height="144" width="141"><br><br><span class="style20"> <font
color="#00ccff">"Bypass Hostile Node"... umm... maybe, but how do I bypass... ahh, this node is all</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20"> glommed onto me</span>.<br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
spits on her hand, attempting to lubricate it and free herself from Sluker's sleepy grip. She stretches a foot into
the pool and scoops up some seaweed and water for the same purpose.
To no avail.
She tries to zap Sluker's hand with her lizard's tentacle. Still no response.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Whispering)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Treen, I'm stuck. Shift out of the dream you're <br> in and enter this one. I need you. Open your <br> eyes. </font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
wakes up.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Staring at the thingy.)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Wow. <br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Waking up and staring at the <br> thingy.)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Wow. </font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker
then notices Zoota and smiles at her.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (coldly to SLUKER)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Think!</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20"> Do I know you as intimately as you <br> think I do?</span></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker
obliges Zoota, lets go, and returns his stare towards the <em>thingy</em>.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Something so good has grown out of you</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20">, </span></font></font></small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"><small><small><span class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff">and here </font></span></small></small></span></font></font></font></small></font><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20"><br> </span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"><small><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><small><small><small><span class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff">am I to see it! I can see</font></span></small></small></small></font></font></small></span></font></font></font><span class="style20"> it growing into maturity, see <br> </span><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">it bulge</font></span></small></font></small></span></font><span class="style20"> out into bigness. It is coming out <br> </span><span class="style20"></span><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style20"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">a-popping </font></span></small></font></small></span></font><span class="style20">and maybe soon it has eyeballs... I see it may <br> see us all very soon. I see it may know us all <br> very soon... And its thoughts will be strange.</span></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Zoota
nods helplessly, growing distressed.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (licking lips)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> And it smells good...</font> <br><br> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Eeew.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sluker, that thing isn't meant to be eaten. Are <br> you a sponge? Here, take some nectar.</font></span><span class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff"><br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I'm worried.</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
offers everyone some nectar buds from her hair wig. Glooky suddenly appears for a hand-out, which is given with a brief volley of alternating confusion and grimacing. Everyone chews, staring mutely at the <em>thingy</em> and
becoming very
sleepy. They all curl up and fall asleep (Glooky a little farther off from the pack). A sleepy hand falls into water with a splash. Camera zooms in on hand in water.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#00ff00"> <span class="style20"> FADE TO BLACK</span></font></font> <br></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Fade
in to a single finger touching Zoota's toe. It's that of Sluker sleeping nearby, arm outstretched. Camera pulls back
to reveal Zoota still asleep grasping Treen's feet. Treen pulls away and starts to extract the water wig from the limbs of an even larger <em>Thingy</em> while it floats in the
pool. Everyone begins to stir. Glooky retreats up into a hypertree. </font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Pulling away from thingy)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Good little plasmodium!<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Oh pus! Little?<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (Circling the pool)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">This was once in your hair, Zoota.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It's not in there now.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I know, silly.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Can I put it in my hair?</font> </font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;">
<p><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
and Zoota stare at him. A wind begins to blow leaves into the chamber
from the North. Long pause.</font></font></small></small></p>
<p><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style40">.........</span><span class="style41">GLOOKY</span><font color="#0000ff"><br>
</font> <span class="style42"><span class="style40">..</span>Something isn't right. </span></font></small></small><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font></small></font></small></p>
</div>
<pre><span class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (holding one of thingy's appendages)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I bet this is salty.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">Sluker is on the verge of eating<br> something he knows nothing about.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sluker, you be really gentle with it, will you? <br> We're going to pull some food.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Yes. It's very good. Good and good. A vast <br> swollen goodness. It's most likely very sweet, <br> too.</font></span></font></small></font></small></span></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Treen
and Zoota exit out a portal. Laughing, followed by worried exclamations, are heard. They immediately return. Sluker and his turtle are both staring, perhaps drooling, at the creature floating in the pool. </font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sluker, did you say the thingy might be <br> sweet? <br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sweet. Very sweet.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (To Woota)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Maybe the thingy needs us to be near it.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Yeah.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker
backs away from the creature while all three stare at it.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Sluker, can you leave while the hair thingy is <br> growing? We think you're far too interested <br> in this creature... in the wrong way.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> No, I don't think I can make myself leave. My <br> legs won't do it. They're stuck like mud creatures, like plants</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"><font
color="#00ccff">, you <br> know --my legs.</font> </span></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: 14px;">
<p class="style8"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">After
a few moments of pained silence, Treen and Zoota languidly point squidlike fingers at each other and say "link" back
and forth. Sluker tries to join them, wordlessly, then makes an effort with Glooky who just stares at him. Then he makes a similar
gesture to the pool. One by one they all nod off to sleep. </font></font></small></small></p>
<p><span class="style8"><span class="style20"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#00ff00"> FADE TO BLACK</font></font></small></font></small></span><br>
<br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Fade
in. The thingy has sprouted everywhere. Sluker wakes up and gingerly dips
a pod into the
pool, swirls it around to wash it. He holds it up, closing his eyes in earnest.</font></font></small></small></span><br>
</p>
</div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER</font></font> <font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#6666ff">(cont.)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I must.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker
places the pod in his mouth. Treen and Zoota wake up, bolt straight up, and hiss at him.</font></font></small></small><br>
</div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">But I washed it...<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It came from my hair.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: 14px;"><span class="style8"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker,
with pod still in his mouth, goes up and smells Zoota's hair (after she backs up into a corner). Tension increases.
Treen is stroking the tentacles and pods of the sprawling thingy,
smelling and inspecting it. She goes up to Sluker, sniffs his hair, pulls pod
out of his mouth and peers in, inspecting his teeth, holding him down
in a quasi-wrestling grip. </font></font></small></small></span><br>
</div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">Zoota, there's something in here.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff">Maybe we should water it.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Camera
zooms in on Treen's face as she stares in fascination at Sluker's mouth. </font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> It's squirming.</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Cut
to side of Sluker as he chews. Zoota is in the background, wide-eyed. Zoom in on Treen's head, past a glimpse of brain
and fade to darkness.
A Zoacode, PROBE ALL VIA SQUIRM, fades in:</font></font></small></small><br>
</div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small> <img
src="zoacode-probe_via_squirm.gif" height="146" width="132"><br><br><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">TREEN</font></span></font> <span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#6666ff">(cont.)<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (trancelike)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Probe All Via Squirm.<br><br></font> <font
color="#6666ff">ZOOTA<br></font> <font
color="#6666ff"> (wiggling fingers in manner of <br> aforementioned Zoacode)<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> I'm tempted to say that Sluker is an utterly selfish subhuman... and he's so grubby.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Startled,
Sluker stops chewing.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">SLUKER<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> But I washed it... Zoota, I'll stop eating<br> your creature if you let me kiss you.</font></span><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Suddenly
Glooky's strange laugh is heard and she climbs down from a hypertree. The Nervians freeze as she dances and
snakes around them, pinching each one sweetly and going up to Sluker.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><span class="style20"><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font
color="#6666ff">GLOOKY<br></font><font color="#00ccff"> Sluker, I think you need to kiss the creature<br> you just ate. You owe it that much.</font></font></span><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#00ccff"><br></font></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: large;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Sluker
is speechless. Glooky kisses Sluker on the mouth and disappears into the pool. She reappears suddenly.</font></font></small></small></div>
<pre class="style19"><small><font size="+1"><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style20"> <font
color="#6666ff">GLOOKY<br></font> <font
color="#00ccff"> Oh, and thanks for the baby.</font></span><span class="style8"><font
color="#00ccff"><br></font></span></font></small></font></small></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-size: 18px;"><small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Glooky
opens her mouth. Camera zooms into her tongue revealing a squirming miniature of the creature. She plunges into
the pool, her glow worm creating a pool of light in the water as she disappears. Camera follows her in, filling the screen with swirling
water and light. </font></font></small></small><br>
<br>
<small><small><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff">Camera
pulls back, rotating, revealing empty chamber which forms into Nervepool icon.</font></font><font
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#0000ff"></font></font></small></small></div>
<pre><small><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
size="+1"><small><span class="style19"> <font
color="#00ff00"> FADE TO BLACK</font></span><font
color="#00ff00"><br><br></font></small></font></font></small></pre>
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