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# 1
A mountain.
The present.
DAN and WILL are sitting side by side.
DAN is facing the audience, holding a torch.
WILL is facing away.
RACHEL is watching them.
RACHEL Two men are alone on a mountain.
The men are handsome.
The men are tall.
The men are Caucasian.
Their journey has been long.
Their journey has been linear.
It is a Hero’s Tale.
They have been tested.
By beasts.
Storms.
Riddles.
Mirages.
Sirens.
Wicked queens.
All the usual hero things.
The story is nearly over.
The grail is nearly won…
DAN turns the torch on.
The beam is very faint.
DAN Battery’s dying.
In the torch.
You got any more, Will?
Will?
Silence.
Tell you what.
I’ll go and find someone.
Somewhere.
Someone with batteries.
Won’t be long.
Silence.
I’ll leave my pack here.
So you’ll know.
That I’m coming back.
Silence.
Wouldn’t leave you here, Will.
Promise.
Silence.
Hey??
Remember that time in Greenland?
When the ice cracked and I…
I went through?!
The ice!
I went blue all over.
You put your arms around me.
The heat from your body brought mine back to life.
Remember?
Silence.
And our guide!
He only had half a face.
He’d shot the other half clean off!
He wanted to die but he got it wrong.
The angle.
So he had to go through life with this…
Half a face.
Half a nose, shattered cheekbone.
Blind in one eye.
You didn’t stare at him.
I did.
I stared at him all the time.
Still dream about him.
Sometimes he’s sitting at the end of my bed.
Silence.
He opens his water bottle, drinks from it.
There’s nothing in it.
Hey, pass me yours, would you?
Silence.
Will?
RACHEL Doesn’t it hurt?
Carrying that great big thing.
DAN What?
RACHEL Bet it digs into your back.
DAN Oh.
Well, it’s padded you see.
RACHEL I see.
DAN It’s an Alpine Classic.
RACHEL Ah ha.
DAN Expensive.
But worth it.
RACHEL What’s that bit for?
DAN This bit?
RACHEL Yes.
DAN The ski-slots.
RACHEL Where are the skis?
DAN Um.
They went.
Somewhere.
RACHEL Went.
DAN But look!
Ice-axe hook.
Tool tubes
Haul points.
RACHEL Yes.
DAN My goggles.
With detachable, shatter-...
