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TEASER
FADE IN:
INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT
XENA and GABRIELLE are working in a seedy bar. Xena is waiting tables and Gabrielle is standing behind the bar. She is not a happy woman as she watches Xena fend of the advances of the drunken male patrons. Gabrielle is drying a glass and if it were possible she would be rubbing holes in the glass.
Across the room, Xena is holding a tray and trying to be nice to the man who is very persistent. She smiles and removes his hand from her backside one last time before walking away.
Gabrielle slams the glass down on the bar, and then tosses the towel after it as Xena comes over.
GABRIELLE I’m going to kill him.
XENA Relax. It’s nothing I can’t handle. Besides, he’s too drunk to be any harm. And if I smile real nice I’ll get a big tip.
GABRIELLE I’ll give him a tip.
XENA (chuckling) Yeah, I can imagine what that would be too.
She leans across the bar and whispers
XENA (cont’d) I promise you, he’s harmless. But it’s cute that you’re jealous.
GABRIELLE I am not jealous!
XENA (smiling) Are too.
Gabrielle narrows her eyes and growls.
GABRIELLE I am not jealous. I just don’t think you should have to put up with that kind of crap.
Xena winks.
XENA Just give me two beers and a rum and coke.
Gabrielle looks past Xena to the table, her eyes dart back to Xena and she grabs two bottles from the cooler and slams them down on the bar.
XENA Thanks.
CUT TO:
INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT
The bar has gotten more crowded and Gabrielle’s temper has gotten shorter. She’s watching Xena fend off advances from nearly every possible direction. She’s getting twitchy, pacing back and forth behind the bar as she mixes and serves drinks, her hands are shaking and her lips are pursed tight. She doesn’t even notice that Xena has approached the bar.
XENA Vodka tonic.
GABRIELLE How about giving him an Amphipolis Punch?
XENA What’s that?
GABRIELLE That’s where you go over there and put his lights out. If he cops another feel, he’s going to put a hole in the seat of your pants.
XENA Come on, Gabrielle. Just a couple more hours and we’re out of here.
GABRIELLE Okay. But....
Before she can finish, a fight breaks out behind them and one of the men is hurling right at Xena.
GABRIELLE Xena! Watch out!
Xena turns and delivers a right cross to the man, dropping him like a stone. Gabrielle scrambles over the bar to give her a hand in either stopping or winning the fight. The fight erupts like a volcano that has been simmering for 3000 years.
Xena grabs the closest guy and punches him squarely in the face. Gabrielle blocks a punch with Xena’s serving tray as EVERYONE in the place gets in on the brawl. Xena grabs Gabrielle around the waist and pulls her out of the way as she throws another punch as a man who was about to nail Gabrielle.
GABRIELLE Thanks.
XENA Let’s get out of here.
They push their way through the crowd and head for the front door. Glass breaks around them and the sound of chairs crashing cause them to duck and flinch. At the door they run right into the owner who is a VERY LARGE MAN with his arms crossed over his chest.
OWNER Do I really need to say it?
GABRIELLE We’re fired?
OWNER I always knew you were the brains in this outfit.
Xena growls at him
OWNER Now get out of here before I call the cops.
GABRIELLE But we didn’t do anything....
OWNER I mean it, blondie (beat) Get yourself and your Amazon....
Xena starts forward, growling louder now. Gabrielle grabs her by the arm.
GABRIELLE Going, going! Come on, Xena.
CUT TO:
EXT. MOTEL - NIGHT
Xena and Gabrielle walk along the upper deck of a run down motel. At the door to their room, Xena has to jiggle the lock to try and get the door open. She’s getting more frustrated and mumbles something about kicking it in when Gabrielle takes the key from her hand.
GABRIELLE Let me.
She works the lock and then throws her shoulder against the door forcing it open.
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INT. MOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
Xena lies down immediately on the bed and Gabrielle grabs a tape and puts it in a VCR, turning on the TV as she does.
XENA No, please. PLEASE don’t make me watch that damn show again.
Gabrielle sighs and shuts the VCR off but leaves the TV on and tunes it to the news. Then she joins Xena on the bed, rubbing her partner’s tense shoulders.
GABRIELLE You know when we watch it that it helps us get back our memories.
XENA They are not ‘our’ memories Gabrielle. WE are a science experiment. The original Xena and Gabrielle died 3000 years ago.
GABRIELLE That was not nice.
Xena sighs and nods.
XENA I’m sorry. I’m sorry about everything. Maybe I can go back tomorrow and get our jobs back.
GABRIELLE If you go back there, you’ll end up in jail. Don’t worry about it. We’ll figure something else out. I’ll admit it’s not going to be easy. We need to find a job that doesn’t require any documentation.
XENA This is a very different world.
GABRIELLE Yes, it is. But this is our world and we have to make the best of it.
XENA That would be easy if we had birth certificates, driver’s licenses and what do they call that other thing?
GABRIELLE A social security number.
XENA See, I don’t get that. Why would you need a number to be social or secure?
GABRIELLE I’m not even going to pretend to understand it. However, the fact remains we’re nearly broke, we have no jobs, and the rent is due on this place Friday.
XENA They should pay us to stay here. If Xena and Gabrielle’s memories are right, they stayed in better places than this in ancient Greece. The cockroaches are on strike for better living conditions.
From the room next door, there is a loud moan. Xena rolls her eyes and grabs a pillow to cover her head.
XENA Not tonight. God, can’t she find anyplace else to take her tricks?
GABRIELLE Not that rent by the hour.
Xena sits up and pounds on the walls.
XENA Knock it off!
Gabrielle just sighs and hands Xena a jacket.
GABRIELLE Come on. You’re a cheap date. I’ll buy you dinner until this hour is over.
XENA Fries?
Gabrielle laughs and put her own jacket on.
GABRIELLE Sure. Fries and burger, chocolate shake. The works.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
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