Post by Torture on Nov 19, 2018 15:08:30 GMT -5
ACT II
Story By I. Isbak
Written by: Bichez
FADE IN
1 MONTH AGO
INT. - DOCTOR’S OFFICE - DAY
SAM KIDSGROVE is meeting with his Doctor, DR DAVID SMETHWICK, Doctor to the stars. The sort of man who has many, many leather bound tomes in his study. He oozes expert in medicine.
DR SMETHWICK
So your tests are back, I’m pleased to say that you have your condition under control and we can move on to phase 2.
KIDSGROVE
Phase 2?
DR SMETHWICK
Yes, it’s relatively simple, all you really have to do is work out your medication based on this formula and you can live a normal life. You can do whatever you did before with minimal complications.
KIDSGROVE
Minimal complications?
DR SMETHWICK
Well yes, as long as you take your insulin in the correct amounts and make sure that you eat before exercise you don’t have to worry about things. You did used to exercise a lot, if I remember rightly?
KIDSGROVE
Yeah, I guess you can say that. I used to wrestle, along with acting. I have to tell you doc, it was the greatest time of my life. When I came out of rehab it was there for me, it stopped me from regressing and it’s just something that saved my life. It means so much to me Doc.
DR SMETHWICK
Hmmm, no reason you can’t go back to that in my eyes, as I said just eat before you wrestle to ensure you don’t slip below 4, have a small dose of insulin so you have some running through your system and you can do that in exactly the same capacity as before.
KIDSGROVE
Oh wow, you’re serious? Thank you Doc, thank you a million times. Good things happen to those who are blessed.
DR SMETHWICK
Right, OK. Um. You can stop hugging me now. Anything else?
KIDSGROVE
No, no, no. It’s all good thank you.
DR SMETHWICK
Good, well thanks for coming in, we’ll get in touch when you need your next checkup.
PRESENT DAY
INT. - KIDSGROVE’S MANSION - NIGHT
Kidsgrove is on the phone, a business call.
KIDSGROVE
Yeah, yeah, cool. Yeah I’ll arrange it now. I have my assistant on it already. The flight is set for one hour.
Kidsgrove puts the phone down and speaks to his assistant ROBERT QUILL, a young go getter with aspirations to be a star.
KIDSGROVE
So it’s settled, we need to go to London.
ROBERT QUILL
Great news sir. We’ve come a long way since the incident.
KIDSGROVE
That we have Quill. I have to thank you for everything you’ve done for me during this rather...Difficult time. The support you have given has been a lifesaver and I’m grateful that you have been here. Especially putting me in touch with the guru.
ROBERT QUILL
My pleasure sir. I’m glad he helped keep you positive through this time.
KIDSGROVE
Believe me, it’s helped more than you will ever know. A life changing disease changes a man, Quill. It makes you think about the kind of man you’ve been and the kind of man you want to be, and I am a different man as a result. We best get prepared, we have to go in an hour. Set up my baggage please, I’m going to meditate.
2 HOURS LATER
INT. - SAM’S PRIVATE JET - NIGHT
Sam is sitting on his seat, smiling while looking wistfully at the ocean below.
ROBERT QUILL
You look pretty pleased, sir.
KIDSGROVE
Yeah, I kinda am Quill. I always enjoy going back to England. It’s home. Even London in it’s own weird kinda way. It’s familiar and comforting. Like a good pair of slippers. A place I can feel at peace and feel like I belong, you know?
ROBERT QUILL
Sure sir. So why are we going to London? You never said.
KIDSGROVE
Simple Quill. We have to promote Destination:London. The whole campaign is centered around Wembley Stadium. Turmoil. Action Wrestling. Almost 90,000 people in attendance and a feat of incredible logistics.
ROBERT QUILL
Logistics? Why?
KIDSGROVE
Well, Quill. The illustrious leaders of this whole organisation scheduled a show at Wembley stadium on the same day as England play Croatia at Wembley Stadium. It’s a logistical nightmare. I mean they’ll have 2 hours to put everything together after the footballers leave. Whoever decided this is either extremely ambitious or extremely stupid.
ROBERT QUILL
They hired an army of Eastern European migrants to get it done, paying less than minimum wage, clearly. Would you go back to it?
KIDSGROVE
To what? Eastern Europe?
ROBERT QUILL
No, Wrestling.
KIDSGROVE
Why would I? That part of my life is in the past. I’m now at peace with myself, after all attitude is a choice. I learned that from the guru. I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don’t pay much attention to the past or the future. That’s what you’re there for.
ROBERT QUILL
I see.
Quill looks rather uncomfortable at this and tries to hide his annoyance, quite poorly.
KIDSGROVE
What?
ROBERT QUILL
Nothing, it’s just that you were at the top of your game, everyone loves you in wrestling - people took to you and I think you took to them, why end that?
KIDSGROVE
You’ll see that life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?
ROBERT QUILL
Your hill? That doesn’t even. Never mind.
15 HOURS LATER
INT. - INSIDE A GREGGS BAKERY IN LONDON - DAY
Robert Quill is sitting across the table from representatives of Action Wrestling, drinking coffee.
ROBERT QUILL
So I honestly think that he should be back in this business, he won’t say so, he says that part of his life is over. Personally I hate to see him like this, I think he’s gone a little soft. He used to be this massive deal, like he knew what he wanted and then just went and took it, you know? He did that in life, he did that in business and quite honestly I think wrestling brought that out in him. I need to get him there again because that’s where he belongs. He belongs in the industry, he belongs in the main event, he deserves that star on the Hollywood hall of fame and that spot in the wrestling hall of fame. I think he should be there at Turmoil.
ACTION WRESTLING REP
In what capacity though? The card is full. Do you want him to do a segment or something? Does he even want to come back? Every time we reached out to him he said something about a hill and…
ROBERT QUILL
Don’t get me started on that fucking hill. It’s all I’ve heard for months, the hill. What is my hill Quill, I need to find my hill. Fuck sake, it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I mean honestly, if I knew the guru would make him this kind of lunatic I’d never have bothered and just left him there weeping into his insulin pens and feeling sorry for himself. This is the kind of thing I’m talking about, the kind of thing that coming back to AW will fix. I have no doubt that after a few minutes he’d be back to himself and ready to go again. He just needs a reason.
ACTION WRESTLING REP
I’m sorry, what do you want me to say? The card is full and by the sound of it, he’s not exactly in the right frame of mind for any of this.
INT. - SAM KIDSGROVE’S HOME IN LONDON
Sam Kidsgrove is talking to his lawyer, BRENT KENSINGTON-WILLIAMS UK lawyer to the stars over a table with contracts littered around the place.
BKW
So all you need to do is sign here.
KIDSGROVE
And I’m re-signed to AW with a return at Turmoil, right? I can see the homecoming now. 90,000 people hitting the roof when I fly through those curtains, I’ve goosebumps already just thinking about it. You know how much exposure we’re going to get for this? This is the first PPV to hit this stadium since 1992, the stadium was rebuilt since then, you know? At a ridiculous cost to the taxpayer I might add. We’re creating history this Sunday as a promotion and we’re going to blow the arch off of this stadium. Who’s going to be front and centre of it all? The world won’t be talking about who won the World Title, or who is the Wrestler of the year, no. The world will be talking about Sam Kidsgrove making his triumphant return to Action Wrestling in front of 90,000 of his compatriots and becoming the first ever International champion! This, my friend is why I refused to come back on the go home show. I was offered the main event segment but the world deserves my return at Wembley, not in fucking Oxford.
BKW
It says in the contract that you don’t want to know who you’re facing?
KIDSGROVE
That’s right, it’s a triple threat match and that’s all I know. I don’t care who I face because they can’t stop me regardless. I wouldn’t care if it’s a triple threat with Wade Moore and Spencer Adams or if it’s Karlie Nash and L Verez or whatever combination the people who figure out these things has decided. I’ve not watched the product since I retired so I don’t even know if those people employed anymore, who knows? The simple fact of it is when I have 90,000 people cheering me on I can’t lose. The imagery at the end of the match will be the same regardless of who I’m facing. I’ll be holding up the title in front of my home crowd and both of my opponents will be on the ground, beaten, battered and distraught. Distraught because Sam Kidsgrove, Last Action Hero is back and holds a title that no one else will ever hold. I will go down in history as one of the greatest, ever. This starts by winning the title on Sunday, this means going on and being the man to beat, the big X on my back, regaining my place as a champion. The only reason I’m not still US champion is because my body failed me. Now I have that under control it’s time for a new title. My brand will never be as hot after this Sunday. It’s a perfect opportunity in so many ways. Quill was at least right about that.
BKW
Where is Quill?
KIDSGROVE
He’s in town. Trying to convince some Action Wrestling reps to sign me for Turmoil.
BKW
Does he not know you arranged this a few weeks ago?
KIDSGROVE
No, I’ve not told anyone. Every time they ask I quote some random insane babble from a motivational speaker I saw on Youtube the other day, it was kinda like looking in a mirror at some points.
BKW
Then why is he out trying to sign you up to Action right now?
KIDSGROVE
I set a little test for him, the ratty little suckup. I knew he was trying to push me into wrestling again. So I figured if I didn’t show any interest he’d do something behind my back and I was right, he couldn’t wait to be in the same place as their reps to go talk about me. I dislike that brand of disloyalty, so I set up a little test where some of my men are posing as Action Wrestling reps. They have their orders.
BKW
Orders?
KIDSGROVE:
Nothing too bad, he’ll make it back to America - minus a job and a couple of teeth maybe. Perhaps a finger or two. OK a tongue.
BKW
Jesus!
KIDSGROVE
These things never happen to those who are loyal, you’d do well to remember that.
BKW
Yes sir. I’ll remember that.
FADE OUT
END