Sequence 2 2

SEQUENCE 2_02 - "Thicket"

2_02_01 TIN WOODMAN 043-03 Eh? What's this?

TIN WOODMAN, WOOT and SCARECROW stare up at a wooden SIGN on a twisted post. A desultory wind stirs dry leaves around them. WOOT glances at his companions, but their attention is focused on the sign.

On it is a skull and cross bones. It reads: “All Strangers are Warned not to Follow this Path to Loonville.”

2_02_09 Strange cries fill the woods around them. TIN WOODMAN, SCARECROW, and WOOT look uncertainly at each other.

SCARECROW

     All strangers are warned not to follow this path to Loonville...

2_02_10 CU SIGN

SCARECROW 054 M-maybe w-we should go another way…

2_02_11

TIN WOODMAN 054-01 Perhaps if we were to go back to—

2_02_12 WOOT 055 I’d like to see what this… Loonville looks like.

2_02_13 TIN WOODMAN and SCARECROW look at him with alarm.

2_02_14

SCARECROW 057 B-but… a warning means danger... And I for one believe it sensible to keep out of danger whenever we can. D-don’t you agree, Sire?

2_02_15 TIN WOODMAN 057-01 Well, I...

2_02_16 WOOT 058 I’m not afraid.

2_02_17 SCARECROW 058-01 Now see here... I think we ought to think this through.

2_02_18 TIN WOODMAN twirls his axe, juggles it once, flips it around his head: smiles slyly.

TIN WOODMAN 059 We’ll manage.

2_02_19 SCARECROW 059-01 Now see here—I think we ought to think this through! After all, suppose—

2_02_20 WOOT 059-02 Maybe you should wait here then?

2_02_21 SCARECROW 059-03 Buh-buy-by myself? Well... Maybe I will!

2_02_22 TIN WOODMAN 059-04 Good idea! You stay in this open clearing and keep an eye out for the Opteryx.

2_02_23 SCARECROW 059-05 Opteryx?

2_02_24 TIN WOODMAN 059-06 You can’t miss her! She’s got 20-foot wings… and a huge beak…

WOOT 059-07 And she flies around looking for straw to build her nest with!

2_02_25 TINMAN and WOOT walk off.

TIN WOODMAN 059-08 See you later…

2_02_26 SCARECROW St-st-ss... Oh, my...

SCARECROW remains behind and looks about nervously. After several moments a small bird lands on SCARECROW’s shoulder and chirps at him.

SCARECROW panics, screams and runs off towards TIN WOODMAN and WOOT.

2_02_27 SCARECROW 059-09 Hey, wait, you guys… you’re gonna need me! Ahhhh⿦.

2_02_28 EXT. WOODS – DAY

CU AXE chopping.

2_02_29 TIN WOODMAN hacks through heavy underbrush, followed by WOOT and SCARECROW. They are surrounded by EXOTIC PLANTS.

2_02_30 WOOT struggles through a nest of thorny VINES.

WOOT This is tough going...

2_02_31 SCARECROW Yes, indeed it is.

2_02_32 TIN WOODMAN hacks through several writhing vines.

2_02_33 SCARECROW is suddenly engulfed in writhing vines.

SCARECROW (gasps) Help! Ahh! Ahh! It's a snake!

2_02_34 TIN WOODMAN and WOOT look OS towards Scarecrow.

TIN WOODMAN Will you look at him...

2_02_35 SCARECROW Ahh... Ahh...

2_02_36

WOOT (exasperated) It's vines.

2_02_37 SCARECROW stops struggling stands up.

2_02_38 SCARECROW winks.

SCARECROW It might be vine for you but it's killing me...

2_02_39 WOOT makes a face at the pun.

2_02_40 TIN WOODMAN turn back forward and continue trekking through the vines.

2_02_41 SCARECROW, smiling, walks a few paces then falls away from view.

SCARECROW Ahhhh⿦.. (falling away)

2_02_42 TIN WOODMAN and WOOT don⿿t turn back.

TIN WOODMAN Just keep going. Ignore him.

2_02_43 WOOT sneaks a glance back anyway.

WOOT Look. I think he fell into a hole.

2_02_44 SCARECROW⿿S hat sit on the forest floor.

2_02_45 TIN WOODMAN turns.

TIN WOODMAN Oh...

2_02_46 TIN WOODMAN and WOOT peer down at SCARECROW⿿S hat. TIN WOODMAN picks it up tentatively, they look underneath.

2_02_47 SCARECROW falls earthward.

2_02_48 SCARECROW (OS) Ahhhhh...

2_02_49 TIN WOODMAN and WOOT look around, startled. SCARECROW drops down in front of them.

TIN WOODMAN Quit playing around.

FADE TO BLACK