Sign+Counter+Sign

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// Max and 99 are in disguised as educators - piles of marking, pulling computer bags, etc.? //
 * Scene 1: Sign – Counter Sign **

Max: [In phone booth] For security measures the Chief told me to memorize the sign and counter sign – better review quickly before trying to locate…oh, I think I see 99 now. [Max tries to get out of phone booth but can’t]

[// 99 approaches from center aisle and walks briskly towards the phone booth, looking for Max //] [99 approaches the phone booth] (99 helps Max out of the booth) // [99 speaks quickly as they walk] // Max, we have to get moving quickly with this mission – as the chief said “The fate of the educational world is at stake!”. So, KAOS has created a mind altering pill that takes the diversity out of our classrooms and turns people into disengaged learning machines. They are slipping this pill into the Tim Horton’s coffee.
 * 99:** I thought this was where I was suppose to meet agent 86. I don’t see him. [Look around. Notices him in the phone booth]. That could be him. I’ll see if he knows the counter sign.
 * ( **Sign) It is not best that we should all think alike;
 * Max: **** ( **Counter sign) Many hands make the lights work.
 * 99 : ** Didn’t you mean…. Many hands make light work?
 * Max: ** No, 99 – I memorized it exactly. It said ‘Many hands make the lights work..er, wait...maybe that was the slogan of the electrical workers union I used to belong to’.
 * 99: ** Oh, Max!
 * 99: ** Ok Max, pretend you are a guest speaker and follow me nonchalantly to the podium.

First we must identify the signs and symptoms. Then, determine the scope of the infiltration and Finally work with our scientists to formulate an antidote. We don’t have much time – 5 hrs to be exact!
 * Max: ** Of course, 99, it’s the old ‘Pill in the Coffee Cup” trick.
 * 99: ** Right, Max.
 * Max: ** 5 hours, 99??!! That’s ludicrous, ridiculous. We can't possibly do it in 5 hours!
 * 99: ** Well – how about 6?
 * Max: **Ok. That works for me.