The Recesses - Ensemble Flashcards
(1.2) POPPY: But it’s more than… what I’m saying is, I want to write something worthy of the front page.
JAMES: Hm. Good answer.
A REPORTER runs in, frazzled.
REPORTER: James? It’s the lacrosse article, people are… I dunno. People are frustrated.
(1.7) AMBER: I so wish I had been there.
GOSSIP #2: Amber, no offense, but you are never there. Literally not at all.
(1.7) AMBER: Believe me, I know. Jake Everton won’t take proper notes at our meetings, I can’t stand it. Oh, and I just saw Mia Kapiletti’s t-shirt design. It’s awful, clashes with everything.
GOSSIP #2: I mean, it’s Mia.
(1.7) AMBER: If it was just personal stuff, I would, but like… I don’t wanna interfere with the election…
PENELOPE: The election?!
GOSSIP #2: Rose? It’s gotta be Rose. What did she do?
(1.7) AMBER: And then later, at the same exact meeting, one of the sixth-graders asked her what her policies were, and she literally said, straight-up, “I don’t care. This is just for the résumé.”
GOSSIP #1: She didn’t!
GOSSIP #2: So condescending.
(1.10) ROSE: So wait, I’m only running for the résumé, not actually going to do anything. But I’m also plotting to get rid of spring break? That doesn’t even make sense.
ADVISOR #1: I guess the idea is that you’re a hypocrite.
(1.10) ADVISOR #2: It’s ridiculous, but it’s working. Too early for a legit poll, but all you have to do is walk around the court at recess. People are talking, people are outraged. They believe it.
ADVISOR #1: They want to believe it. Everybody loves a scandal.
(1.10) Vincent coolly appears in the doorway.
VINCENT: Sorry to interrupt.
ADVISOR #1: Excuse me, this is a private campaign meeting.
(1.10) ROSE: Take five. Both of you. We shouldn’t be long.
ADVISOR #1: Wait a minute, isn’t he the son of the– (vice principal?!)
(1.12) DEALER #1 pockets the money.
DEALER #1: What money?
DEALER #2: If you want soda, my friend, you have to pay.
(1.12) Sniffling, the doormat hands the first dealer
another two dollars as Vincent enters.
DEALER #2 (CONT’D): There you go. Now we’re square.
(1.12) VINCENT: How many customers have you been extorting behind my back?
DEALER #2: We don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
(1.12) DEALER #1: Oh… lose customers, you say? To who?
DEALER #2: Yeah, losing customers shouldn’t be a problem. We’re the only option they have… aren’t we?
(1.12) DEALER #1: You think we haven’t noticed our own sales going down? What, everyone gave up on soda, decided to be a health nut, all at the same time?
DEALER #2: Seems unlikely.
(1.12) AMBER: I’d like to see how Vincent handles it.
DEALER #2: I mean, what do you expect us to do? If there’s a competitor in town, if we’re not getting the money we need… someone has to foot the bill.
(1.12) DEALER #1: I don’t understand why we needed a middleman in the first place.
DEALER #2: Seems like a simple enough business model to me.
(1.12) NIKKI: Back off him, guys, back off!
DEALER #2: Whoa there. You’re not our boss, either.
(1.12) Amber exits, Vincent and the first henchman
in tow. Nikki watches them go. When
they’re out of sight, she pulls the two dealers
to their feet.
DEALER #2: My head…
(2.7) DEALER #1: Gum? C’mon. Gum was nothing.
DEALER #2: Their whole “system” was literally just Blake and Margo. Two people can build a business, sure. But it takes more than that to build an empire.
(2.7) POPPY: An empire. And is that what you were in on?
DEALER #2: Wait, one second. You’re not using our names, right?
(2.7) POPPY: The Gazette doesn’t pry into your affairs. It never has, it never will. What, are you scared?
DEALER #2: No! Just, you know, being cautious.
(2.7) DEALER #1: It sure used to be. Nobody could stop it, it was a beautiful steamroller. Well, beautiful until we got crushed.
DEALER #2: We had no competition, no serious rivals, nothing. But by May, everything started falling apart. Nobody was buying sodas, nobody trusted anybody.
(2.7) POPPY: Well. That should be enough to be incriminating.
DEALER #2: Wait, what?!
(2.7) POPPY: That’s the thing about us reporters, we do our research.
DEALER #2: Why are you doing this?!
(2.7) DEALER #1: You seriously think we’re gonna–
DEALER #2: Come on, just do what she wants!
(2.7) POPPY: She?
DEALER #1: Well, um–
DEALER #2: Look, we did meet her, the kingpin, but only a couple times. She likes her privacy.
(2.7) POPPY: Describe her.
DEALER #2: I don’t know, really, I don’t! Just that she’s… intense.
(2.7) POPPY: The full truth, or everything leaks. You don’t want to know what I’m capable of.
DEALER #2: Yeah. A dealer, a friend of ours. Talk to her, okay? She’s close to the top.
