TEXT: THE HAPPINESS PATROL PART ONE Run time: 24:51 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. Streets of Terra Alpha. Night. [SCENE_BREAK] As the episode credit is shown, we see dark streets painted in 'happy' colours. A woman, DAPHNE S, comes down the street, in a dark trenchcoat. She is a melancholy looking woman with yellow hair and premature wrinkles and bulbous eyes, rather like a woman bloodhound. She sits down on a bench. A man in a dark coat like hers appears arpound a corner, slightly plump and weaselly. This is SILAS P. He hisses to get her attention. SILAS P: Psst!! Do you want to talk about it? DAPHNE S: I don't talk to strangers. SILAS P: Perhaps I can help. DAPHNE S: I didn't ask for any. SILAS P: You know you shouldn't sit here. It's dangerous. DAPHNE S: I don't care anymore. Let them get me. SILAS P: You don't have to face your suffering alone, you know. DAPHNE S: What do you mean? (Silas P sits down behind her, then looks left and right to make sure of no eavesdropping) SILAS P: There's a place. A secret place. Where some of us gather to indulge their depressions, to share their miseries, with other killjoys like you and me. DAPHNE S: I'm not a killjoy! SILAS P: That's what they would call you. You interested? DAPHNE S: Perhaps. SILAS P: Oooh, it changed my life. Here, my card. Here, take it! (Daphne reads it) DAPHNE S: "Silas P" SILAS P: (Grinning) Other side! DAPHNE S: (As she reads it, Silas's demeanour changes to triumphant and he leaps off the bench) But it says... SILAS P: "Happiness Patrol, Undercover
SUMMARY:
The Happiness Patrol walk the streets of Terra Alpha, destroying all the killjoys, on the orders of the despotic Helen A. And in the Kandy Kitchen, something terrible lurks...