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“Revenge is second only to REALLY good coke in its ability to stimulate feats of inhuman accomplishment.” – Ancient Chinese Proverb
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(FADE IN: The camera pans up from bare feet dipping into lake water to reveal NOVA seated on the edge of a dock, clad in rolled-up jeans, hands jutted in the front pocket of a grey/orange CSWA sweatshirt. A cigarette pokes out of his overgrown beard, and white-streaked blonde hair juts unkemptly off his scalp. When he speaks, his tone is DELIBERATE.)
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NOVA: “What ARE you doing here…Erik…Mateo?”
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(He takes a drag of his smoke.)
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NOVA: (Shaking his head) “This is unfortunate for you, sir. I don’t know who you are – my admittedly superficial research efforts yielded nothing – or what noble purpose drove you to wait by the phone with baited breath for the news that your BIG SHOT had arrived…”
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(Another drag. The EAGLEstar stares off across the lake, at nothing.)
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NOVA: “…but I know the story of a guy…” (Holds up a hand) “…and I’ll go ahead and tell you it’s me to avoid as much of the cliché as possible…but this guy…”
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(NOVA grins, his hand clenching into a fist.)
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NOVA: “…this guy was on a HOT STREAK in Oh-Seven…”
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(Suddenly NOVA jabs his fist forward.)
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NOVA: “…and he STUNG ‘EM!!”
(CUTTO: NOVA dropping TCHU’s head back against the turnbuckle and covering for the pin…SFX: JESS CHAPEL screaming into his headpiece “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! NOVA HAS WON THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS!”)
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NOVA: “Wadn’t no fluke either, boy…no sir…”
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(CUTTO: NOVA slamming JAMES IRISH head-first onto the mat with his BOURBON FOR BREAKFAST Death Drop! NOVA hoisting the CHAMPIONSHIP OF CHAMPIONS overhead!)
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NOVA: “They couldn’t take it from him…sure did wait long enough between tries…”
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(FLASH CUTTO: NOVA dropping DAN RYAN! JONATHAN RHINE! DEVIN SHAKUR!)
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NOVA: “All it took was POLITICS, and a hasty solution for a problem that DIDN’T EXIST…”
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(CUTTO: NOVA blindfolded with toilet paper by ‘El Presidente’ EDDIE MAYFIELD…COJONES MERCADO winds back and DESTROYS NOVA’s head with a steel chair!)
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NOVA: “…and they pulled the ol’ ‘Switch-A-Roo’ and dropped HIM on HIS head.”
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(CUTTO: JESS CHAPEL, shamefaced, walking out of a hospital room with the CHAMPIONSHIP OF CHAMPIONS in his hands. Camera shot pans around the door to NOVA, bedridden and bound to a halo, extremely distraught. CUTTO: NOVA on the dock. The shot zooms in on his face, and he stares into the camera, eyes smoldering.)
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NOVA: “So I ask you, ERIC. Again. WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING HERE?”
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(He flicks his cigarette into the water. Then he removes a Zippo lighter from his pocket and begins flipping the lid open and shut.)
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NOVA: “Because I'M here to watch this motherf*cker BURN."
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(FADETOBLACK.)