Asylum Page #4

KATKA:

But I don't want to go, I am enjoying it.

DOUG:

How about you Brutus?

CHRIS:

Sorry Katka, but I'm with Doug on this.

DOUG:

You're outnumbered Kat two to one,

got to go with the majority, that's

democracy.

Doug, Katka and Chris gather their belongings and meander through the

crowded audience to the exit. ANGLE Josh arguing with Holly.

JOSH:

All I'm saying Honey is run the thing

past me for Christ's sake before you

get up and broadcast the crap.

HOLLY:

Oh that's it? Everything I do is crap!

EXT - PRAGUE STREETS - DOUG/KATKA/CHRIS - NIGHT

They stand at a crossroads away from the nightclub.

DOUG:

So what's it going to be, Coogan's

or U Vayvudoo?

KATKA:

I don't care. I'm not staying out

late Doug.

CHRIS:

What about that squat bar you showed me,

is that open on a Sunday?

DOUG:

Yeah, let's check out the low-life.

Chris starts to walk with Doug but Katka stands still. Doug turns.

KATKA:

I think I'll go home.

Doug moves close to Katka

DOUG:

Come on Kat we'll just have a couple of

drinks. I can't just leave Chris on

his own!

Doug embraces Katka.

KATKA:

I'm not staying out late and

I can't come back to your place.

DOUG:

Whatever!

The three of them walk briskly through Prague's Old Town streets and

alleys. They cross a tram line. Show tram stop and a corner clock,

time is now 8.10 pm. Chris offers Doug a cigarette and they share

Doug's zippo lighter. Doug breaks away to check a rubbish skip.

CHRIS:

Anything in it?

DOUG:

No, just crap. I want some picture

frames.

CHRIS:

Never heard of K-MART?

SHOW a building under refurbishment for Western client.

DOUG:

I don't have the money for those Bourgeois

traps. Hell, I'm making what a Czech

earns.

CHRIS:

Yeah and they manage to go to

bourgeois joints!

An old LADY passes by walking a small DOG. A Tram passes with Western

cigarette advertising.

DOUG:

It all comes down to ideology and

they've lost theirs. If I'd been

here ten years ago, maybe they

wouldn't be in the mess they are today.

CHRIS:

What's that? Free!

DOUG:

Just because they've got a choice of four

McDonalds, doesn't mean they can afford a

cheeseburger.

CHRIS:

Give'em a break Doug, all it takes is

a little work.

KATKA:

Maybe you should try working more and

show us Czechs how it's done.

Doug moves from Katka and puts his arm around Chris.

DOUG:

A word of advice my celibate friend.

These Czech girls look like dynamite

and go like it, but don't be fooled;

there's a price to be paid and it's

going up fast. Right Kat?

KATKA:

What?

DOUG:

You're everything a guy could want.

Doug kisses Katka. They turn down a narrow street with some boarded

up buildings and cut through an alleyway into another street. They

approach an old decrepid apartment building, some windows dimly lit

above. Faint rock music. They pass through the heavy main door into

a dark passage and enter a bar.

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