The Book of Not: The Book of Gehenna: The Awakening of Lilith

[CUT TO: Small town main street. It is early evening. The cars are all old-fashioned.]
[SLOW CLOSEUP on DRUGSTORE window, where we see NADINE and MARTY sharing an ice cream soda.]
[CUT TO: INTERIOR.]

NADINE: Gee, Marty, isn't this music dreamy?
MARTY: Yeah, Nadine, I heard that rock and roll is, uh, y'know, sweeping the nation. Because it's the 1950s and stuff like that.
NADINE: Oh, Marty, will you ever forgive me for dating Big Ed, the captain of the football team?

[GRAPHIC rolls along bottom of screen: Exposition Exposition Exposition]

MARTY: Why, sure, Nadine. Ed's a good guy. I'm sure he won't mind...

[MUSIC: The record starts skipping: "A dream...a dream...a dream...a dream..."]

NADINE: Oh, Marty, let's go up to that spooky house up on the hill...uh...wait, no...I mean, let's go out to Dead Man's Curve...no...uh...Lover's Lane...yeah. Let's get in your rod and go out to Lover's Lane.

[MARTY suddenly picks up the ice cream soda and flings it to the ground, where it breaks in slow motion. NADINE starts laughing.]

NADINE: You stupid, stupid boy! You stupid, stupid boy!
MARTY: Shut up, Nadine! You're not even a teenager anymore!
NADINE: You stupid, stupid boy!

[MARTY produces a gun and fires it at the drugstore window...it smashes through the 'O' perfectly.]
[PAN RIGHT to drugstore door. BIG ED enters.]

BIG ED: Marty, you wimp! Keep away from my girl from now on, do you..uh...

[BIG ED looks around.]

BIG ED: Aw, shit. Already?
MARTY: Yeah, I guess so.
NADINE: You stupid, stupid boy!

[BIG ED smashes MARTY's face down on the counter, which wobbles dangerously, since it isn't a real drugstore counter but only a prop.]

NADINE: You stupid, stupid boy.

[LILITH comes in, wearing a biker jacket.]

LILITH: Eddie?
BIG ED (suddenly normal again): Yeah, sugar?
LILITH: Let's hit the road, Eddie. I'm sick of this nowheresville burg stuffed full of squares.
BIG ED: You got it, baby.
MARTY: Hey, man, where are you going?
BIG ED: Nowhere in particular.
MARTY: Man, I wish I was you.
LILITH: Take it easy.

[EXIT LILITH and BIG ED. The roar of a motorcycle fills the soundtrack. The music picks up again where it skipped.]

MARTY: Gosh, Nadine...yeah...I'd love to go to Lover's Lane with you... NADINE: Aw, Marty...I'm the happiest girl in the world!

[FADE TO BLACK.]
[GRAPHIC: A Quinn Martin Production.]
[FADE TO WHITE.]

Next time: Gehennavision Part Six!
The re-awakening of Ventrue

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