Here’s my take on the “Air Travel” edition of Sketchwar.
FADE IN:
INT. AIRLINER CABIN – DAY
ANGIE (30s) sits next to an empty aisle seat. A large bag sits at her feet.
On the other side of her, RYAN (8) sits in the window seat. A small bag sits at his feet.
RYAN
Mom, I’m bored!
ANGIE
Do you want a movie?
She pulls a portable DVD player out of her bag.
ANGIE
There’s Nemo, and there’s Shrek, and --
RYAN
I wanna watch The Hurt Locker!
ANGIE
What?
RYAN
Aunt Katherine let me watch it, and it was awesome, and they’re all trying to stop these bombs from going BOOM!
ANGIE
We don’t say “BOOM!” on the plane, Ryan.
RYAN
And then one of the bombs, it blew up, and it made --
Angie points out the window.
ANGIE
Hey, Ryan, look at that cloud! That one looks like a bird! And that one looks like a ball. What does that one look like?
RYAN
The compression wave of a shaped C4 detonation!
ANGIE
Oh god.
RYAN
That other cloud is all crazy, like an IED, or a --
ANGIE
Let’s play with your toys, okay, Ryan?
Ryan digs through his bag.
He retrieves a plastic dinosaur.
He retrieves another plastic dinosaur.
An ATTENDANT pushes a cart past them, distracting Angie as --
Ryan retrieves his favorite toy: a big rectangular chunk of Play-Doh, with little multicolored “wires” of yarn stuck into it, and a watch clumsily embedded in the top.
ANGIE
And look, we’ll land in ju-- oh my god!
RYAN
I made it by myself out of Play-doh! and yarn!
ANGIE
How did you get that past security?
Ryan studies the toy bomb carefully.
RYAN
Sergeant James has to stop the bomb before the clock hits zero seconds.
He prepares to remove one of the ‘wires’.
Angie nabs the toy and puts it in the bag.
RYAN
Aw, MOM!
ANGIE
Let’s put that back and play with your dinosaurs, okay?
Just as she puts it away, the attendant comes by.
ATTENDANT
Would you like anything to drink?
RYAN
(to the attendant)
Did you know that Composition C has a detonation rate of twenty-six thousand feet per second?
ATTENDANT
Aw, really? What’s a composition C?
ANGIE
It’s nothing, really. We’ll all have orange juice.
ATTENDANT
Be back in a minute. Ooh!
At that moment, DYLAN (10) scoots by her and takes the aisle seat.
RYAN
Dylan! I was telling Mom about Hurt Locker!
DYLAN
Bombs are lame.
RYAN
Oh.
DYLAN
And Hurt Locker wasn’t as cool as Scarface.
ANGIE
What?
RYAN
Oh, yeah!
Dylan takes a dinosaur.
DYLAN
(as dinosaur)
“I’ve got three kilos to get to L. A.”
Ryan picks up a dinosaur.
The attendant returns with the drinks.
RYAN
(as dinosaur)
“Give me the heroin! I’ll drive it right by the cops!”
The attendant hears this, and looks at the three of them, alarmed.
ANGIE
Can I get something with alcohol?
FADE OUT.