Flashback - Fargo

MARK WAKES UP TO THE SOUND OF TRAFFIC, ONCE HE GETS INTO FOCUS HE NOTICES HE IS LYING FACE DOWN IN A PILE OF MUD, HE SLOWLY LIFTS HIS HEAD UP AND TAKES A LOOK AROUND. HOW THE HELL DID HE GET HERE? HE IS IN CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK CITY. HE TRIES TO STAND QUICKLY BUT HAS TO STEADY HIMSELF, HE FEELS UNEASY, AND UNSURE ABOUT WHO HE IS AND HOW HE GOT TO BE HERE, ALL HE CAN REMEMBER IS THAT HE’S ENGLISH AND HIS NAME, ONCE HE GETS HIMSELF TOGETHER HE BEGINS TO WALK AT A SLOW PLACE. PASSERS BY ARE LOOKING AT HIM STRANGELY, SO MARK THEN LOOKS AT HIS HANDS, WHICH ARE COVERED IN MUD, THEN HE NOTICES HIS FACE IS ALSO COVERED IN DIRT AND HIS CLOTHES ARE TORN IN PLACES. HIS PACE QUICKENS UNTIL HE COMES ACROSS A PUBLIC TOILET.

HE CLEANS HIS HANDS AND FACE, HE WALKS OUT OF THE PUBLIC TOILET BACK INTO CENTRAL PARK, AND BEGINS A BRISK WALK TO THE CITY.

ONCE OUT OF THE PARK HE WALKS INTO A COFFEE SHOP AND ORDERS A COFFEE, THEN HE THINKS, DOES HE HAVE ANY MONEY? HE CHECK HIS POCKET, AND PULLS OUT A CRUSHED I PHONE AND A WALLET, HE OPENS THE WALLET WITH GREAT INTEREST, THEN INTEREST TURNS INTO DELIGHT WHEN HE COUNTS THAT HE HAS POUNDS. BUT HE IS NOW IN AMERICA SO HE DECIDES TO TALK TO THE BIG AMERICAN MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER.

Mark
Excuse me, I don’t suppose I could pay in English money?

Counter Man
Hey, you’re an English guy, why you look all torn up?

Mark
Its going to sound strange but I don’t know?

Counter Man
You don’t know, what you lost your memory or something?

Mark
You could say that!

Counter Man
So if you lost your memory and you look all torn up, why you ordering a coffee?

Mark
I cant answer that, can I pay in English money.

Counter Man
Afraid Not.

Mark
You can just change it later, I need a coffee, I need to think of how and why I’m here, and I don’t particularly want to walk around New York looking like this with my mind all messed up, a good cup of coffee would really help right now.

Counter Man
Look, no can do, its our policy not to accept anything apart from the American Dollar Bill.

Mark
I will give you £200.

Counter Man
Coming right up Mr, I will bring it right on over.

Mark
Many Thanks.

MARK WALKS OVER TO A TABLE ON ITS OWN IN THE CORNER OF THE COFFEE SHOP. HE SITS DOWN SLOWLY AND AFTER THE MAN BRINGS HIS COFFEE OVER HE STARS FEELING ACHING PAINS ALL OVER HIS BODY. HE STARTS SIPPING HIS COFFEE AND TRIES HARD TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. HE STRUGGLES ENORMOUSLY, THEN HE STARTS HEARING LOUD NOISES COMING FROM INSIDE THE COFFEE SHOP, HE LOOKS AROUND, NO ONE ELSE IS REACTING TO THE LOUD NOISE. ITS SOUNDS LIKE POLICE SIRENS. AND THEN HE HEARS SCREAMING. THE NOISE INCREASES A GREAT DEAL, WHICH IN TURN MAKES MARK SCREAM OUT LOUD. THE OTHER CUSTOMERS ALL TURN IN HORROR TO MARK ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR, INSTEAD OF HELPING HIM THEY RECOIL.
MARK GETS UP WITH THE NOISES STILL INCREASING, HE RUNS OUT OF THE SHOP, SOME PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT HIM WITH CONFUSION THE SIRENS ARE STILL THERE, ALONG WITH SCREAMING AND PEOPLE TALKING OF WHICH HE CANT MAKE OUT, HE TURNS DOWN AN ALLY. NO ONE ELSE IS THERE.
THE NOISES STOP.
HE SITS DOWN AND PUTS HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS. WHEN HE LOOKS UP A MAN IN A PURPLE SUIT APPEARS AS IF FROM NOWHERE.
MARK STAYS STILL UNABLE TO MOVE A LIMB.

Man In suit
Its time.

HE PICKS MARK UP, AND CRADLES HIM LIKE A BABY.

Mark
(Struggling to talk)
Am I dead?

Man In suit
No, your beginning again.

MARK THEN TURNS INTO A BABY, THEN A BRIGHT LIGHT APPEARS, THE LIGHT TURNS INTO A WORMHOLE, THE MAN AND BABY MARK WALK THROUGH AND THE WORMHOLE VANISHES.

2 HOURS EARLIER ENGLAND

MARK IS WALKING DOWN A STREET IN LONDON WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND EMMA. THEY HAVE THEIR ARM LINKED, THEY ARE LAUGHING.

Mark
Did you see his face, he couldn’t believe it when I told him the pompous twat!

Emma
It was priceless, he always said you would never make it, but now you have, we have to celebrate!

Mark
Lets go out for dinner, my treat, now I’m going to be rich!

Emma
Now mark lets not get carried away.

Mark
Why not I have been waiting for so long for this, I’m gonna treat you all weekend, and do whatever you want.

Emma
Getting carried away is what you should do!

Mark
Ha, right lets go to the most expensive restaurant, the best one you can think of.

Emma
Oh I know the one, but it will have to be on you as I left my purse at the flat.

Mark
You wanna go now, okay right lets see. (Feels around in his pockets for his wallet, then checks his jacket) I have gone and left my bloody wallet at the office.

Emma
He did say it wouldn’t be long till you went crawling back.

Mark
Oh haha, Look, wait here I wont be long, I will run and get it.

Emma
Hurry then, my tummy has the rummblies !

MARK STARTS A BRISK WALK AND STOPS AT THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, THE LITTLE RED MAN THEN TURNS GREEN AND HE STARTS WALKING ACROSS THE ROAD WHEN HE NOTICES A MAN IN A PURPLE SUIT STANDING A FEW YARDS AWAY, WITHOUT NOTICING, MARK IS JUST STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, THE MAN IN THE SUIT IS STILL STARING AND THEN HE SMILES. MARK THEN COMES AROUND AND REALIZES HE IS JUST STANDING THERE HE STARS TO WALK AFTER THE MAN IN THE PURPLE SUIT, BUT WITHIN SECONDS THE TRAFFIC FLOW AND BEFORE MARK COULD DO ANYTHING A CAR COMES FROM AROUND THE A KNOCKS HIM OVER, HE FLY VIOLENTLY OVER THE CAR AND COME CRASHING DOWN DEAD.

THERE IS A BRIGHT LIGHT AND THEN A WORMHOLE APPEARS, THE MAN IN THE PURPLE SUIT WHISTLES, AND WALKS THROUGH THE WORMHOLE.