Right, sorry I've not posted anything for awhile, I'll try to stop being such a bad person and input more real soon.
Not sure if this qualifies, as its kind of more science fiction than science fact, anyhow, here it goes....
HEART OF DARKNESS
INT. MEDICAL DECK, SPACE SHIP – NIGHT
CCTV MONITOR: A MAN IN A HOSPITAL SMOCK SITS ON A BARE BED, PENSIVELY ROCKING BACK AND FORTH. THIS IS ROBERTS.
ANXIOUSLY WATCHING THE MONITOR ARE TWO MEDICAL STAFF CURRUTHERS AND MICHAELS.
CURRUTHERS
I’m just not sure Michaels. Not sure at all. Can a man go through temporal void to a parallel universe and face sights of unimaginable terror and evil, and then – and then come back sane?
THEY LOOK BACK AT THE MONITOR.
CCTV MONITOR: ROBERTS PACES BACK AND FORTH, SHAKING HIS HEAD AND MUTTERING TO HIMSELF.
MICHAELS
True, true – he seems normal enough – considering. All the brain scans came back fine. But will we ever know for sure? The things Roberts must have seen – out there – no man should have to go through that, to –
CURRUTHERS GRABS HIS ARM.
CURRUTHERS
Roberts! He’s gone!
THEY BOTH STARE OPEN MOUTHED AT THE CCTV MONITOR – THERE’S NO SIGN OF HIM.
THEY SOUND THE ALARM.
MICHAELS
(To Com)
Lock down! Lock down!
THERE’S A SOUND FROM BEHIND. THEY SPIN AROUND POISED TO ATTACK…
A WILD-EYED ROBERTS IS BEHIND THEM, HOLDING A SHARP KNIFE.
BEAT. THE TENSION MOUNTS.
ROBERTS
(Clears his throat)
Cup a tea?
CURRUTHERS AND MICHAELS STARE AT THE KNIFE. ROBERTS FOLLOWS THEIR EYE LINE.
ROBERTS
… and some cake?
CURRUTHERS AND MICHAELS LOOK AT EACH OTHER, AND NOD SUSPICIOUSLY.
ROBERTS CHEERFULLY WHISTLES AS HE BREWS SOME TEA IN AN OLD-SCHOOL TEA POT. HE CUTS GENEROUS SLICES OF CAKE FOR THEM ALL. HE SITS DOWN, MAKES HIMSELF COMFORTABLE AND LOUDLY SUPS HIS TEA.
MICHAELS TIMIDLY SIPS HIS TEA. BEAT.
MICHAELS
So, Roberts… how are you feeling?
ROBERTS
Hmmm? Me? Oh, OK. A bit tired, I guess. But can’t complain really.
CURRUTHERS
Do you want to talk about it?
ROBERTS
Oh – I see. You mean the evil parallel universe I spent 5 years of mind-bending, utter terror and soul-wrenching turmoil in? Where I couldn’t tell up from down? Left from right? And where each waking moment was filled with the terrible dread that I had somehow damned all those I love?
MICHAELS AND CURRUTHERS NOD (ALMOST TOO EAGERLY).
MICHAELS
Well… yes.
ROBERTS
Yeah, it was awful, I suppose, if that’s your kind of thing. To be honest all that never-ending pain and horror got a little dull after awhile…
ROBERTS ABRUPTLY STANDS UP STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW, AND THROWS HIS MUG AT THE WALL, ENRAGED.
ROBERTS
F**k!
ROBERTS COLLAPSES TO THE FLOOR, HEAD IN HANDS. ROCKING BACK AND FORTH.
ROBERTS
Shit. Shit…
CURRUTHERS
Flashback, right?
ROBERTS
Shit… No! No – I forgot to tape the Lovejoy repeats!
JOLLY (AND NERVOUS) LAUGHTER ALL ROUND. ROBERTS STILL FUMES.