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Excerpts from “Intensifying Hearts & Dreams”, season 18
Episode 1
Int: The Intensifying Heart Club, at a table in the VIP section
DADDY, ANGÉL GABRIÉL and SALINA are seated at the table, eating luxurious jumbo shrimps and lobsters.
DADDY
Well, then. Shall we just wait for FRANK before we order dessert?
SALINA
Sir… I’ve been wanting to say something for a while. Why… Why aren’t we trying to reaquire our pristine baybee? Isn’t that important at all to FRANK? I don’t know why I should have to lend him my body all the time. I know we messed up, but that isn’t the baybee’s fault. I kind of miss it…
ANGÉL
Sweet heart, what did we say about questioning FRANK?
Supplementary material from “Intensifying Hearts & Dreams”, season 1
Chapter 25
Good evening, learners! This time, we will be taking a look at the very beginning of “Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – the first memo where mr. Dalgren of the BOF made the proposal to go ahead with the series! Mr. D’Annunzio’s original synopsis is enclosed, and by comparing it to the final form of the story, you will be able to ascertain for yourselves how worrisome and wrong things can become if you let thoughts and ideas roam about unsupervised.
Yours sincerely,
The Department of Godliness and Order in Media
Excerpt from ”Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 100
Int: Doomtown Luxury Towers, NICKY’s apartment
NICKY is pacing around the luxurious rooms, getting ready for a productive day of thoroughly nasty scheming. The kidnapped baybee lies on its back, being changed, powdered and having make-up applied by an advanced NannyBot™.
NICKY
Sweet baybee… Today will be the beginning of the end for your father’s employer. My ambitions are reaching their boiling point. My final victory is nearing.
Excerpt from “Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 85
Int: The Futureshop, surreal chamber
In the depths of The Futureshop, we find ourselves in a dark chamber full of frayed electrical wires that glitter, self-playing pianos that stutter, dark statues of unknown animals that could be confused for horses or squids, shelves with piles of burning reading glasses, and similar obscure memorabilia from another world. We find DUKE sitting on his thone-like chair/chair-like throne (think of the one from Game of Thrones, but with wood and electronica rather than swords). He is speaking to a SLAVE chained to the floor. The SLAVE is facing away from DUKE.
DUKE
See all this, SLAVE. See this town into which we have dug from unknowable tunnels. They know us not but we are here all the same.
Excerpt from ”Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 70
Ext: hill at the edge of Doomtown
Sunset. Two MYSTERY MASKS are sitting next to each other, looking serenely at the town during a break in their duties.
MYSTERY MASK NO. 28B
Man oh man… It’s getting crazier and crazier up in here. As if the whole mess surrounding FRANK‘s funeral wasn’t enough, with the drunken fist fight that erupted at the reception between THE MAYOR and ANGÉL GABRIÉL… Now we got ghost trees and weird-ass pianos popping into existence all over the place?
Supplementary Material from ”Intensifying Hearts & Dreams”, season 17
Chapter 21
Dearest readers, journalists, and fans! For today’s chapter we present an exclusive look at ”Frank’s Funeral Program”. This limited edition, true-to-life piece of memorabilia was produced during season 17 of the show, and distributed to lucky viewers exclusively at telenovela conventions, actor appearances and signings, and other similar events. Enjoy!
Signed, Johannes Dalgren /creative director, the BOF
Excerpt from ”Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 59
Int: Location unknown, Pastor Jing’s auditing chamber
MARCIA is sitting despondently on the edge of a divan. Long time no see, MARCIA! She seems as scattered as ever, and is nervously looking around the small room, waiting for someone. There is a chair for a practitioner to sit in as well as a small table with a glass of water and an e-meter. MARCIA jumps, startled, when PASTOR JING suddenly enters. The PASTOR strides purposefully over to his chair, all the while scanning a folder held in his hand. He addresses his patient nonchalantly, without meeting her pleading gaze.
PASTOR JING
Right, MARCIA WILKINSON. You are troubled by memories of trauma sustained at the Gastronomy Institute and have been under the wicked influence of psychiatry. Is that correct?
Excerpt from ”Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 53
Int: The Gastronomy Institute, café
MADAME MORGANNA is sitting by herself at a table for two. The Institute’s lobby is mostly abandoned and she is alone in the café but for one of her tame peacocks, curled up by her feet.
MADAME MORGANNA
Enemy territory once more after all these years… Who would have thought it possible?
Excerpt from “Intensifying Hearts & Dreams” – season 17, episode 49
Int: the Intensifying Heart Club, wine lounge
DADDY, DR. ADAMSON and POLLYANNA are seated at a small table, sipping from glasses of expensive red wine. The table is covered by pieces of money and scattered paperwork.
DR. ADAMSON
So let’s run through this one more time. The Club is losing business, we’ve lost what little influence we had at the Committee, and now you’ve recieved an e-mail from FRANK. Is that the gist of it?
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