Misha Williams

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JACK 
Well, I'm happy. 
 
BRIAN 
You are happy? You are happy? That's just fine and 
dandy.  
 
JACK 
I'm at piece with Nature and its history. That's all 
Daddy wanted really. What better aim in life? 
 
BRIAN 
There's just a little matter of accepting that Daddy's 
Great Scheme was a gigantic flop. Mother and I having 
spent bloody years keeping his name on the map. 
 
JACK 
If you lived here you'd understand. I like the friendship 
and snakes and spiders. Crocodiles smile at me. I can 
converse with scorpions.  It's Man who's made Nature 
an enemy. A big mistake. 
 
BRIAN 
My mistake was believing you'd reached the Fourth 
Dimension. I thought you'd actually made it into a 
mystical reality when all these years you've just been 
bumming around as a beachcomber. 
 
JACK 
I did enter the Fourth Dimension. I'm right in it now. 
You're outside it and don't see. 
 
ALBERT creeps near with a camcorder. 
 
BRIAN 
Who the hell's that? 
 
ALBERT points the camcorder at his own face and does a "piece to 
camera", speaking intimately to "the viewer". 
 
ALBERT 
I am here on the banks of the remote River of Blood. 
Brian Fawcett has now made contact with his long lost 
brother Jack. And I am about to approach… 

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BRIAN 
(Shouting at ALBERT) Hey! What's going on?  
 
ALBERT points the camera at BRIAN and JACK and advances on them.  
 
ALBERT 
Gentlemen. This is obviously a moving moment for you 
both. How do you both feel at this extraordinary… 
 
BRIAN 
Switch that off! How dare you! 
 
ALBERT 
How do you feel at this moment? 
 
ALBERT continues filming. BRIAN pulls out his revolver. 
 
BRIAN 
I'm feel like blowing your brains out.  
 
He takes aim at ALBERT who points the camera now at himself. 
 
ALBERT 
(To camera) I am about to get shot. Brian Fawcett is 
taking aim at me and these could be my last seconds 
of life…  
 
BRIAN 
It's you again. You BBC bugger! Hand that camera 
over! 
 
ALBERT 
No! 
 
BRIAN 
Right. Take this then! 
 
BRIAN cocks the trigger. 
 
ALBERT 
No! Please! Alright! Here… 
 
BRIAN grabs the camera and starts to rush off with it. 

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 87 
 
BRIAN 
(Calling back) This is going in the river!! 
 
He exits. JACK walks briskly in the other direction and vanishes. BRIAN 
returns. 
 
BRIAN 
Where's he gone? (Shouting after him) Jack! JACK!! Oh 
no! Don't go!! 
 
ALBERT 
He went that way. 
 
BRIAN 
(To ALBERT) You… Media…Jackal!…. Well… Perhaps it's 
just as well. He's obviously found his milieu right here 
and who am I to… anyway… 
 
ALBERT 
Have I messed things up? 
 
BRIAN 
Not really. Perhaps… everything was said. Where can 
one get a swig of Kachasa around here?  
 
ALBERT 
Right here. 
 
He gets some out of his bag. They take swigs. 
 
BRIAN 
Perhaps I shouldn't have done that. Your tape was the 
only evidence of his existence. Nobody will believe my 
encounter now. Oh, who cares. It was just one of life's 
little incidents.  
 
ALBERT 
They found…the lost civilization? 
 
BRIAN 
No. 
 
 

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 88 
ALBERT 
I think they did. 
 
BRIAN 
Don't be absurd.  
 
ALBERT 
I know. 
 
BRIAN 
How? 
 
          
 
 
 
ALBERT 
It says so on the Internet. 
 
BRIAN 
(Chuckling)  Oh, I see. 
 
ALBERT 
It's been known on the Internet for ages. They 
discovered an underground city. "Z". Inhabited!! It's 
discussed on scores of websites worldwide and 
accepted… 
 
BRIAN 
Ahhha. 
 
ALBERT 
I'm determined to find it. 
 
BRIAN 
Would you let me know when you do? 
 
ALBERT 
Certainly. Can you give any advice?  
 
BRIAN 
Keep taking the diarrhoea tablets. 
 
ALBERT 
But as to direction?  
 
 
 

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 89 
BRIAN 
The confluence of the Juruena and the Teles Pires 
rivers. Go forth then! Become casualty one hundred 
and one! I've had enough. I'm returning to 
Cumberland. It is more conducive to spirituality than 
this damn place. 
 
ALBERT 
Did you ask your brother if your father's still alive? 
 
BRIAN 
Damn. I didn't. 
 
ALBERT 
I'm sure he's alive. Mr Fawcett. Brian… Before I go. I'd 
like to say. I am not now what you think. I am not a 
BBC clone. I was once a sad hack, I admit. Although on 
a freelance basis. But now. Since my experience of 
meeting you. I've changed. I've broken off with the 
woman I loved. 
 
BRIAN 
I'm sorry. 
 
ALBERT 
I've radically changed gear. To a very different 
attitude. 
 
BRIAN 
Oh, good. 
 
ALBERT 
I reject my brainwashed past. It was a stupid reality I 
was caught in. Scientifically driven. Commercially 
driven. The things they ask you to do? The 
compromises! Its far better to kill a great idea and 
bury it for posterity than let Hollywood get its hands on 
it. Life need not be soulless. Thank God. I know what 
life's about now. Thanks to you. 
 
BRIAN 
I say.… That's rather touching. Well… thank you, 
Albert.  I wish you the greatest of luck in your quest. 
I'm sure it won't be fruitless. 

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