Cast:
TV Crew (Georgia, Millie N, Mia, Lexus)
Gemini = Lily
Leo = Grace
Aries = Summer
Parents = Michael & Harriet
Kid 1 = Rosie
Kid 2= Evie
SIRA Guards = Charlie & Matthew
Script (or click here to download a word doc):
[Kat & Yolanda look around a paradise with endless beaches and exotic jungles.]
KAT
Wow! Look at this place! Isn’t it incredible?
YOLANDA
You can see that it is surrounded with beaches and jungles. How very exotic!
[Both reporters move towards the ocean]
KAT
And look at this, no plastic waste!
[Kat looks out towards the sea. Suddenly, she sees a nihplod leap out of the ocean.]
KAT
(to the camera crew) Quick! Are you recording any of this?
[The camera shifts focus onto the nihplod.]
KAT
And here you can see the majestic nihplod as he flies out of the sea at top speed.
YOLANDA
You wouldn’t believe this, it doesn’t seem like anyone lives here. It’s so beautiful and unspoilt. And here are signs that the rare Erereh plant has been growing here… I wonder what else we’ll find?
[Yolanda collects the Erereh fragment into her backpack. Rustling from off stage, camera crew pan towards the sound]
KAT
Are we going to be lucky enough to see an undiscovered species?
[Star people appear]
Yolanda
[to Kat]
yes! Potential interviewees!
Kat
Hi, are you locals or tourists?
Leo
We’ve been here for thirty years, and we’ve not aged since.
Yolanda
How did you get here?
Gemini
We were on our way to our summer holiday- having a break from our job of lighting up the sky at night, and suddenly we got strayed into this black hole which we thought was a patch of cloud in the sky.
Aries
We felt a strong pull like a seatbelt when you stop suddenly, and then we started spiralling, we thought it would never stop, but then we dropped out of the atmosphere and it all turned black. When we woke up we were lying on the sand over there.
[shipwreck parents appear]
Yolanda
Wow, see this everyone? Our fellow travellers from the ship have survived the storm. How did you arrive at this beautiful planet?
Dad
A black hole opened up in the sea, and we were pulled through. We’ve met other people here, and they’ve all said the same thing.
Mum
They’ve all been sucked through the black hole from different areas of the galaxy. The black hole is slowly sucking up the whole universe.
Kat
Did you hear that everyone? The whole universe is under threat from the black hole at the centre of the galaxy! It will eventually devour the whole universe!
[Freeze frame as SIRA announcement comes on]
[Sound op tries to warn them, followed by Arrest sequence]