Scene 10: Beach Flashcards
Stache: no, simples best. We go to Plan B: the poison fruit cake. The hateful brats arrive. Empty beach, tempting morsel, maybe a note: “Feel free ,tuck in “they eat it they die-
They come, Cap’n!
Stache: Let’s kill us some kiddies, Smee!
So nasty, so very nasty!
Stache: Plan C, Smee!
Poisoned fruitcake, brats?
Stache: What I am? I’ll tell-
BLACK STACHE!
Stache: ‘Dja note that, Smee? ‘Dja see it? Genuine heroic sacrifice?
Inspiring Cap’n. I’ve got goose flesh all over.
Stache: Now, open it Smee. Open, and elaborate.
It’s- It’s-
Stache: Do we detect a pattern here? Help me, the linguists among you, what’s the turn of phrase?
Empty, Cap’n. The trunks empty.
Stache: losing hand freak out
Sir?
Stache: And you are?
Smee, sir- your right hand man.
Stache: Not anymore, Smee. Not anymore - thanks in no small part - TO THIS
Oh Captain, my Captain!
Stache: Crocodile tears, Smee. Opine if ye would, what’m I to do now?
I’m stumped, sir.
Stache: You’re stumped? It’s all about you, isn’t it? Selfy-self-self
I sir? Not me, sir
Stache: Then kindly retrieve it! I’m not leaving my hand behind for these children to paw!
Retrieved, cap’n.
You! You sacrificed, willingly, for the sake of a gill.
Girl.
Stache: Girrrrrrl. And that was majestic! You’ve piqued the poet in me, Pan. What say we merge a forger?
Forge a merger