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01 - Video: OPERATION: poke it with a stick

[What is this? The communicator turns on to

a stick. A long, twisty, gloriously brown thing that is repeatedly poking its screen.

Holding the stick is a kid wearing shorts and long socks and a beige polo shit but that's not at all important. It's a kid, and he thinks he's getting closer to triggering an unexploded bomb every time he pokes the strange device. He looks far too bored to be doing what he thinks he's doing.]

Boring, stupid thing. Germans can't even make proper bombs, the pigs.

[Poke poke poke

Alright, he's getting bored and he's dropping the stick

and he's bending over to pick up some rocks. Can you guess what they're for?]

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[He's not going to wave back and cheerily introduce himself, if that's what the telly wants him to do.]

Why wouldn't I be?

[ Yes, Ed. The television wants you to introduce yourself to it! ]

I dunno, you just seemed like you might not be too happy about this.

I've just got to follow the railway tracks and I'll be back home. [So he's managed to convince himself that Peter and Lucy and Susan and the old housekeeper had dumped him in some city not far from the middle of nowhere where they now lived.]

I dunno if there even are railroad tracks here.

[ Fun fact: I read that as 'railroad snacks' and was so very confused. On a more serious note, Hong Kong isn't 100% sure how to tell Edmund (again?) that he's not on Earth at all. ]

...'course there are. How else would would I have gotten here?

[ That's such a tough question to answer. ] You kinda flew.

No I didn't.

You kinda did. This isn't Earth, I'm sorry.

Shut up! I know where I am and I know where I need to go and I won't need your help to get there. You're only playing some stupid game with me but I know better than to fall for it.

Okay, here's what you do. Wait 'til it's dark out, then you look up in the sky and tell me what you see. If it looks like Earth, good for you. You'll be home in no time. If not, why don'cha give me another call?

[...hold up, he's going to be stuck here at night? Alone at dark in a strange place-- and he's in another of those stupid worlds, just like that stupid Narnia that stupid Lucy had thrown him in.]

I-- I don't know how!

Okay, how about this? Can you help me figure out where you are? If you want, I'll come pick you up and take you to my place for a little while. You could get something to eat there, if you wanted.

[Very, very quietly:] I think someone's comin' already.

That's good, d'you know who? [ Just curious. ]

[EDMUND DOESN'T WORRY ABOUT SILLY THINGS LIKE NAMES.

He realizes it might have been a mistake on his part.] --no.

I'm sure it's okay. [ ... so he says in order to be reassuring.... ]

[Nod, nod.]

So like, you'll find some place to stay, I bet.

--so what's your name?

Oh yeah, you don't know. I'm Hong Kong. Nice to meet you.

Like the country.

Bingo. That's me.

[Bewildered silence. Elaborate.]

There's a few of us here. We're basically countries and cities that look like human beings.

That's-- [bollocks.]

[video; English]

bauhinia - 2012-05-12 18:40 (UTC) - Expand

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