Speedy, Meri & Me Martha Rose Crow

 

ACT 12-HASHOE'S NEW HOBBY GOES BOOM!

 

SCENE OF CARS STOPPED ON HIGHWAY.

 

DIVA(narrating) Almost sixty years later , they are still finding bombs in Holland. When they do, traffic stops . . .

 

SCENE OF PACKED TRAIN STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. PEOPLE ARE MISERABLE BECAUSE

THEY ARE GOING TO BE ON THE STRAIN FOR A LONG TIME.

 

DIVA (narrating) Or trains stop . . .

 

SCENE OF POLICIE GOING FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE TO EVACUATE PEOPLE.

 

DIVA(narrating) Or people are evacuated. Everyone has to wait until the bomb squad comes in and disarms them. This is one of

the legacies of war.

 

GROUP SHOT OF HASHOE'S LIVING ROOM. FRANKIE IS SHOWING OFF HIS NEW METAL DETECTOR.

SPEEDY, MERI AND ME ARE THERE WITH HASHOE AND SOME OF HIS BOYS.

 

DIVA (narrating) It was Frankie's hobby, first. Hashoe said

 

CLOSE-UP OF HASHOE

 

HASHYou will never find anything valuable with that! You'll work for hours and all you'll get is a bucket of beer caps!

 

TWO-SHOT OF HASHOE AND FRANKIE.

 

FRAN Watch, I'll find something good, you'll see.

 

FRONT-PAGE STORY ON ALKMAAR NEWSPAPER WITH A PICTURE OF A MAN SITTING IN FRONT OF A

CACHE OF GOLD COINS.

 

DIVA(narrating) Right after that, a man found a pot of gold coins using a metal detector. He found the ancient, Roman coins in

a farmer's field right outside Alkmaar.

 

GROUP-SHOT IN HASHOE'S LIVING ROOM. FRANKIE IS PASSING AROUND A GERMAN HELMET WITH A

BULLET HOLE IN THE TOP. HASHOE IS SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THE NAZI PISTOL. WHEN MERI PASSES

THE HELMET TO DIVA, SHE SHAKES HER HAND AND HEAD 'NO'.

 

FRAN (to Hashoe) See, I told you that I would find something good.

 

DIVA(narrating) Frankie had used his metal detector in a forest by Heiloo. Right under the earth, he found the bodies of two

German soldiers that had been buried there since World War II. It was obvious how one of the soldiers died (Dan holds up the

helmet to see the bullet hole), but since there were only bones, it was hard to figure out how the other one died. No one cared,

anyway. They just took the relics and buried the bones back up. The Dutch boys in North Holland tell me that there's all kinds

of German soldiers buried in shallow g raves like that. They like to brag that the Dutch Resistance used to kick a lot of German

ass. They did.

 

TWO-SHOT OF FRANKIE SHOWING HASHOE OLD GERMAN MONEY AND A WEDDING RING.

 

DIVA(narrating) Hashoe was sold. He got himself a metal detector. Guess what he found?

 

TWO-SHOT OF HASHOE AND FRANKIE WALKING THROUGH A LOCAL FOREST. HASHOE'S DETECTOR

MAKES ALERT SOUND, HASHOE DIGS AND DIGS TO FIND A BEER CAP. HE THROWS IT IN THE BUCKET

HE'S CARRYING. THE CAMERA ZOOMS INTO THE BUCKET TO SEE A LOT OF BEER CAPS, A BROKEN

SCREWDRIVER, SEVERAL RUSTY NAILS, OLD DUTCH COINS AND AN OLD DUTCH LICENSE PLATE FROM

1953.

 

DIVA(narrating) To cheer Hashoe up, Speedy suggested that we go to the beach and party. Hashoe took his metal detector with

him.

 

GROUP SHOT OF PLAYERS ON BEACH. THERE ARE THREE BOXES OF BEER AND A COOLER UNDER AN

UMBRELLA. OTHER PEOPLE ARE CLOSEBY. MERI IS LAYING ON A TOWEL TOPLESS GETTING A SUNTAN.

DIVA HAS SHORTS AND A T-SHIRT ON. SHE IS READING HER FAVORITE BOOK 'ORIGINAL BLESSING' BY

MATTHEW FOX. FRANKIE AND SPEEDY ARE IN THE BACKGROUND THROWING A FRISBEE TO HASHOE'S

DOGS. HASHOE IS SEEN WALKING DETERMINEDLY UP THE BEACH WITH HIS DETECTOR IN HIS RIGHT

HAND , WITH A BEER IN HIS LEFT HAND AND A JOINT HANGING OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

 

DIVA(narrating) Poor Hashoe only got a few beeps and it was only beer caps.

 

ONE-SHOT OF HASHOE DIGGING UP A BEER CAP IN THE SAND. DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS EYES.

 

DIVA (narrating) Just as Hashoe was coming up to us to get a new beer, it went off.

 

ONE-SHOT OF HASHOE AND HIS METAL DETECTOR, IT IS MAKING AN URGENT SOUND.< /DT>

 

DIVA (narrating) Hashoe thought that he finally found his treasure.

 

 

 

 

ONE-SHOT OF HASHOE DIGGING A BIG HOLE WHILE MERI SUNS HERSELF IN THE BACKGROUND. DIVA

IS STILL READING HER BOOK, WHILE SOMETIMES WATCHING HIM. FRANKIE AND SPEEDY ARE STILL

PLAYING WITH THE DOGS.

 

DIVA(narrating) We didn't think he would find anything, except maybe some more beer caps and another license plate. We

were wrong . . .

 

ONE-SHOT OF HASHOE STANDING IN FRONT OF A BIG HOLE. THERE IS SOMETHING MADE OF METAL IN

THE HOLE, BUT HASHOE CAN'T DIG IT OUT BECAUSE IT IS SO BIG. HASHOE PUTS A COLD BEER TO HIS

SWEATY FOREHEAD AND LOOKS AT THE METAL THING. HE FINISHES HIS BEER AND LOOKS AT THE

METAL THING. SPEEDY AND FRANKIE ARE COMING UP FROM THE BEACH TOWARDS MERI AND ME.

SPEEDY AND FRANKIE BARELY LOOK INSIDE THE HOLE WHEN HASHOE DROPS THE BEER BOTTLE ON

THE METAL. A 'CLUNK IS HEARD', THEN ANOTHER ONE AS IF AN ECHO.

 

DIVA Why did you do that?

 

HASH To see wh at kind of a noise it would make.

 

MERI (sitting up) I think you woke it up.

 

GROUP SHOT AS EVERYONE BECOMES SILENT. THEY BEGIN TO HEAR SOMETHING LIKE LITTLE GROANS.

 

DIVA(narrating) Everyone knew what it was. They grew up around them and someone is always finding a new one left over

from that war.

 

THREE-SHOT OF SPEEDY, MERI AND ME. MERI IS GRABBING HER TOWEL AND DIVA IS GRABBING HER

BACKPACK. MERI'S TOP IS ON THE BEACH.

 

DIVA I think tha t we had better get the fuck out of here.

 

SPDY(to Hashoe) Get your dogs out of here. Frankie and I will warn the other people. (To Diva and Meri) You guys had better

hide. The policie are probably going to come.

 

MERI We're out of here!

 

DIVA(narrating) Most of the people on the beach were German tourists, but they understood the world 'bomb'!

 

SHOT OF SPEEDY AND FRANKIE TELLING PEOPLE. EVERYONE GETS UP AND FLEES. HASHOE LEAVES HIS

METAL DETECTOR IN THE SAND WHILE HE RUNS TO GET HIS DOGS.

 

DIVA(narrating) Everyone got out of there fast. Meri and Me caught a bus home.

 

TWO-SHOT OF MERI AND ME GETTING ON A BUS. MERI IS WEARING HER TOWEL BECAUSE SHE LEFT

HER TOP ON THE BEACH.

 

DIVA (narrating) Meanwhile, Speedy, Hashoe and Frankie waited for the policie to come. Reporters came, too.

 

THREE-SHOT OF HASHOE TELLING THE POLICIE ABOUT THE BOMB ON THE BEACH. HE IS LOOKING AND

POINTING TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN A LOUD SOUND RINGS THROUGH EVERYONE'S EARS AND A

LARGE ORANGE AND YELLOW FIREBALL I S SEEN IN THE HORIZON. EVERYTHING SHAKES.

 

TWO-SHOT OF MERI AND ME SITTING ON A BUS WITH A BUNCH OF OLD LADIES AROUND THEM. THE

BUS ROCKS A LITTLE FROM THE EXPLOSION.

 

MERI (rolling her eyes and speaking cynically) Ja, I think Hashoe woke it up.

 

DIVA(looking a Meri wrapped in a towel) I don't think you're going to get your top back.

 

MERI (shaking her head) Nee, I don't think so, either.

 

SHOT OF BUS HEADING BACK TOWARDS ALKMAAR.

 

DIVA(narrating) This time, Hashoe lost three boxes of beer, his cooler, an umbrella and his metal detector.

 

SHOT OF HASHOE ON FRONT PAGE OF ALKMAAR NEWSPAPER, POINTING TOWARDS THE HORIZON AND

THE LARGE FIREBALL IS SEEN.

 

DIVA (narrating) But he didn't care. He was famous.

 

ONE-SHOT OF HASHOE PUTTING THE FRAMED ARTICLE ON HIS WALL.

 

DIVA(narrating) And he didn't give up on his new hobby. He got a new detector.

 

FIVE-SHOT OF HASHOE SHOWING SPEEDY, MERI, ME AND FRANKIE H IS NEW TOY.

 

DIVA(narrating) He and Frankie found lots of other things, but that would make another story and this story is about Speedy,

Meri and Me.

 

DISSOLVE TO NEXT SCENE.

 

 

 

 

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