By
Ben Isaac
my Lady of Whims 1925
(edgar fraklin and doris schroeder)
2018 Ben Isaac
973-985-6303
Spider21b@gmail.comHAVE KNIFE WILL TRAVEL PART 4
1 ACT I 1
MUSIC: OPENING BAR.
NINA the boy’s with me and if you want him you have to go
through me or face the consequences!
SOUND: nina yells k.iiii!
NINA Have knife , will travel reads the card of this
girl. Hire me, if you will. But know this, I
tolerate no lies and I make no compromises. You cross
me, client or not, and you’ll find this knife and this
girl against you.
MUSIC: BRIDGE TO..
ANNOUNCER: back to Have knife, Will Travel, an inner
child production, starring
[____________] as Nina the ninja. Tonight’s episode...
“ episode 4 lost in the old west ”.
NARRATOR
as our great ninja of truth justice and the American
ninja way! sets out with her young ward as they head
further and further west into the wild west
NINA
may i ask why are you so heavy?
JACK may i ask why are you still caring me?
NINA
oh sorry i forgot about that
(NINA PUTS JACK DOWN)
(JACK HITS THE GROUND WITH A THUD)
JACK I think we left the city a while ago...
NINA well look at that a old ghost town
SOUND: FOOT STEPS IN THE SAND2.
2 act 2 ghost town 2
( STARTS TO RAIN AS THE TWO HEROES HEAD INTO THE
ABANDONED HOTEL)
SOUND: RAIN AND THUNDER
OLD MAN JIM
hello there! strangers welcome the cactus inn!
NINA Hello, do you run this place?
OLD MAN JIM
yes well i do there little Missy
SOUND: JACK HOLDS ON TO YOUR SELEVE AS SIGHS
NARRATOR
at this point in his life jack thought to himself “He
felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he
sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were
enjoying it.”
OLD MAN JIM
If your looking for a map of the town there is a woman
who lives outside of town that makes and sells maps!
JACK you know once we get out of here we could go back
courting ?
NINA
Perhaps we could prioritize jack. We’ve gotta get out
of here
OLD MAN JIM
well its two dollars a day breakfast at 11 am
NARRATOR
our heroes head for the night it was a long day as they
get rooms for the night two separate rooms, i don’t
want any shipping here!
3 the next morning 3
NINA ( yawns) morning , jack look there are 2 foreign
soldiers sitting down stairs
JACK
let me look
SOUND: EATING FOOD LOUDLY
(CONTINUED)CONTINUED: 3.
SOLIDER SYLVESTER
remind me why are we here a again
SOLIDER NANCY
to find that ninja who took the bosses girl Sylvester,
and kill the local lady who makes maps
SOLIDER SYLVESTER
well yeah i knew that
OLD MAN JIM
are you ready for some more pancakes?
SOLIDER SYLVESTER
keep them coming!
NINA
crap. got to get to jack’s room! (opens door)
we’ve got to beat them to her.
get a map and warn her
JACK who?
NINA the map maker, look no time,
JACK what?
NINA let me just use my mind link ability
JACK crap.
we’ve got to beat them to her.
get a map and warn her
is there a way we can delay their progress?
NINA
we can free there horses in the back of the inn, do we
have enough to pay whoever to give the soldier’s bad
advice? to lie about where she is?
JACK I still have some money from what my father was going
to give the duchess form the wedding
NINA do we have a handle on the sense of community in the
area?
(CONTINUED)CONTINUED: 4.
JACK did you see anyone else on that path here?
NINA no....
NINA fine fine but can we tell if the old man running the
hotel would care if these soldiers killed a lady from
his town?
JACK i would figure so, i mean there are not that many
people around here
NINA
right. crap.
I mean you can ask him when they leave but it might be
too late
Or try to speak with him as they are eating
JACK
maybe talk to the old man?
NINA maybe we can pass him a note?
NINA
dear old man, no that’s not right,
SOUND: ( SCRATCHES PAPER)
NINA dear inn owner these hired guns are shady . they want
to murder the map maker. i don’t know if you care that
much, but if you do, please stall them as long as you
can without drawing suspicion. also please toss this
note in the fire or something if you think they might
see it."
NARRATOR
nina using her ninja skills and wit gives the note to
the old man ,He reads the paper and nods and winks to
nina as he throws it into the fire
NINA
success
NARRATOR
then the old man inn keeper writes down on a pad, and
throws it into the air as nina catches it mid air it
reads " head outside of town to the south there you
will find the map maker She is about a days ride from
town she has a red house with a barn attached"CONTINUED: 6.
JACK come on tinfoil, away!
NARRATOR
As they head south more shots head closer to Nina and
jack, at this point of the story, most native
narratives would point out the following things, 1 our
main character is a ninja riding on animal with an ex
boyfriend while running away at a fast speed, with men
walking with bullets, how or why does this make any bit
of sense?
NINA stick to the story
NARRTOR
maybe I don’t want to?
NINA do i have to use ice magic on you?
NARRATOR
look i have had a rough week!
NINA continue then
NARRATOR
since Nina didn’t have idea what to do next!
NINA I do to, i have my ninja stars and other things in
my pouch!
JACK
who are you talking to?
NINA its this this heat,
NARRATOR
no need to threaten me Nina, I am sorry i gotten
angry with you, it was very unprofessional
NINA yeah I know, just lets keep going!
SOUND: HORSE RIDING
NARRATOR
Nina rides faster with your horses
(CONTINUED)CONTINUED: 7.
JACK don’t you have anything to attack them Nina?
NARRATOR
horse tries nina throw her off but she manges to keep
on the horse
NINA I’d rather fight when necessary but not more than so
NARRATOR
our group of heros head to the farm house as the
soldiers continue to fire at them and then suddenly
stop
JACK Must have ran out of bullets
SOUND: NARRATOR
As he opens the door of the house ( fx)
You both see the old women sitting on the floor drawing a
map
WILD JANE
oh hi there, just drawing this new map here, on the
floor here
NINAaha!
you! we need a map! and to get you out of here!
unless there’s somewhere you can hide for quite a
length of time.
WILD JANE
hide from what? I got my two boys with shotguns and my
ranch hands too, the name is wild Jane who might you
be?
JACK my name is jack smalls mam
NINA and I am Nina,yes, well, they should probably hide too.
because soldiers and nonsense and murder are headed
your way.
WILD JANE
how many soldiers? And are they yankey or dixey?
NINA two that we saw headed this way..how many more there
could be? I can’t say....
(CONTINUED)CONTINUED: 8.
WILD JANE
but what kind of...
NINA asshole soldiers who want to murder you. that kind.
WILD JANE
if there are more we should run to the barn There is a
Secret passage The rest of my boys are there now
SOUND: FOOT STEPS FROM OUTSIDE THE HOUSE
NINA we should do that then.
JACK sounds good lets get going
WILD JANE
follow me
NARRATOR
Tune in next time for the next thrilling part of have
knife will travel
IN OUR CAST WAS
. as jack
.as nina
. AS THE DUTCHESSS
this is Bob Baily speaking
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