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Why I Should Write the Sailor Moon Movie Part #25: It's Part #23, but Moreso

Previously. . .

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INT, Underground Lair, Meeting Room

A forlorn KAO LING, standing in front of a semi-circle of SIX EMPTY SCHOOL DESKS, each bearing the name of one of the six minions we've met: EUDIAL, MIMETE, TELLU, VILUY, CYPRINE, and PTILOL.

Some music to fit the mood:



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INT, Crystal Chamber

Steaming TANKS OF ENERGY are now connected to tubes leading to the CRYSTAL. THE PROFESSOR, as always shrouded in shadow, leans against the railing separating him from the mass of tubes and wires leading to the crystal, his eyes cast downward.

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INT, "Nursery"

A huge room filled with arrays of large VATS, split down the middle by a long CONVEYOR BELT with some STRANGE MACHINERY at one end-- apparently, the vats are fed into the machinery, and something comes out along the conveyor belt. We follow PTILOL, walking past an array of vats. Most of the vats are nearly empty, containing what look either like eggs or embryos-- of what, we probably don't want to know. After a few seconds, PTILOL comes upon vats containing HUMAN-LIKE BEINGS, resembling prepubescent children. PTILOL stops at one particular vat-- we hold, to reveal that the vat contains a PREPUBESCENT CLONE of TELLU.

CYPRINE(V.O.)

What are you doing?

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INT, Mimete's Room

We see a startled EUDIAL, turning around to see CYPRINE, standing at the doorway to Mimete's room. EUDIAL is carrying a bag of stuff, apparently cleaning up the once-occupied room. The walls are lined with posters of (mostly male) pop idols, primarily from the mega-group Three Lights. The beds are lined with STUFFED ANIMALS and DOLLS, all of which look like human BABIES or YOUNG CHILDREN.

EUDIAL

(indignant)

You know exactly what I'm doing.

EUDIAL returns to picking up the (many) clothes lying on the ground. CYPRINE walks in.

CYPRINE

Clean-up duty.

EUDIAL.

No. . .

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INT, Meeting Room- Continuous

A close-up on MIMETE'S desk. We see KAO LING, scraping MIMETE'S name tag off the desk.

EUDIAL(V.O.)

"Mourning."

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INT, Mimete's Room- Continuous

CYPRINE

So that's it? She's gone? Not even gonna look for her.

EUDIAL

We already did.

EUDIAL picks up some clothes near MIMETE'S bed, then stops and looks at the DOLLS. She picks up a BABY DOLL and examines it closely.

CYPRINE

Something wrong?

EUDIAL shakes her head.

EUDIAL

I never saw Mimete as the maternal type.

CYPRINE

(surprised)

Really?

(beat)

I thought it fit her pretty well.

CYPRINE picks up another DOLL.

CYPRINE

You're the one always talking about how self-absorbed she was. What could be more gratifying to your vanity than having another little "you" running around?

CYPRINE throws her DOLL back on the bed. EUDIAL throws her DOLL into the bag a second later.

EUDIAL

Speaking of which. . .

CYPRINE

Tellu?

EUDIAL nods.

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INT, Nursery- Continuous

We see PTILOL, examining the younger TELLU, her body beginning to twitch.

CYPRINE(V.O.)

I'm looking at her right now.

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INT, Mimete's Room

CYPRINE

She's coming along quite nicely.

EUDIAL looks away, bitterly, and continues "mourning".

CYPRINE

It's a weird feeling. One of us actually being. . . gone. I mean. . . you've all "died" at some point.

EUDIAL freezes.

CYRPINE

Viluy "died" from an infection. You and Mimete both froze to death at D-point. And now. . . Tellu's going to "die". After tomorrow, Ptilol and I will be the only ones still left on our first life.

EUDIAL

(curt)

Is this going anywhere?

CYRPINE thinks for a second.

CYRPINE

(shaking her head)

No.

EUDIAL returns to her chores. CYPRINE opens up a drawer and spots something.

CYPRINE

Oooh!

CYRPINE pulls out a CELL PHONE from the drawer and activates it.

CYPRINE

Eudial, we have cell phone reception down here, right?

EUDIAL

Why do you keep asking me things you already know?

CYPRINE

My mind is spread across two bodies. It's hard to keep track of things.

CYPRINE searches through the numbers.

CYPRINE

Man! Mimi got around!

CYPRINE dials a number.

EUDIAL

What are you doing?!

CYPRINE hums a tune as she waits for an answer.

CYPRINE

The name "Nichogi" keeps coming up.

(sarcastic)

He just might be connected to all of this!

EUDIAL

Ptilol!

CYPRINE

I'm Cyprine.

(points to her dimple)

Ptilol's the one with the dimple.

EUDIAL

Cyprine!

EUDIAL walks up to take the phone from CYRPINE, but she hangs up.

CYPRINE

My call didn't get through.

EUDIAL

Are you crazy?! What if somebody picked up-?

CYPRINE

How many Mimetes have there been?

EUDIAL'S surprised by this question, and by CYRPINE'S abruptness in asking it.

EUDIAL

What?

CYPRINE waits for EUDIAL'S answer.

EUDIAL

Two.

CYPRINE

Three.

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Mimete-2 ran away. Wanted to be a pop-idol or some-such. Didn't Kao Ling tell you? Just ran away, out of the blue, taking all of Mimete-1's memories with her. All her knowledge, all her desires. We had to start from scratch with Mimete-3.

EUDIAL is stunned.

CYPRINE

I can understand that, actually. I once ran off to the mountains of Kyoto.

(beat)

I wanted to find myself.

EUDIAL drops her bag and storms out of the room.

CYRPINE

Kao Ling's in the meeting room.

(beat)

Eudial?

To Be Continued. . .