TOO MANY TVS - A TALE OF SUPER CRIME

               By Kevin Hines



               INT. MEDIA ROOM - EVIL HEADQUARTERS

               Hundreds of TVs line the wall. Some showing news events, some
               showing spy camera hidden in important government locations. 

               Standing in front of these screens is the evil DR. DAST -
               fiendish master criminal.

               Off the sides is LACKEY 1 and LACKEY 2. They are wearing
               overalls and are holding tools.

                                   DR. DAST
                         It's finally complete. With this
                         media center I can keep tabs on the
                         entire world and manipulate all the
                         world's leaders into doing exactly
                         what I... I just missed what
                         happened on screen 3.

                                   LACKEY 1
                         Well, all the screens are being
                         recording to hard drives. So
                         anything you missed can be
                         reviewed.

                                   LACKEY 2
                         And each screen has a 30 minute
                         buffer, so you can rewind anytime
                         you think you saw something.

                                   DR. DAST 
                         Excellent! Rewind screen 3 so I can
                         see what the Prime Minister of
                         England was doing a moment ago.

                                   LACKEY 2
                         Great. Using this remote, you first
                         hit the SCREEN button. And then
                         enter the code for the screen you
                         wanted.

               Dr. Dast takes the remote and hits a few buttons.

                                   DR. DAST
                         That didn't do anything.

                                   LACKEY 2
                         That's because you hit SCREEN and
                         3.

                                   DR. DAST
                         I want to rewind screen 3.

                                   LACKEY 2
                         Right. But the remote expects a 3
                         digit screen number. You need to
                         hit zero, zero, three.

                                   DR. DAST
                         Alright, let me... wait, what just
                         happened on screen 185?

                                   LACKEY 2
                         I was talking to you.

                                   LACKEY 1
                         I was watching screen 8.

                                   DR. DAST 
                         Why? What happened on screen 8.

                                   LACKEY 1
                         A guy opened a safe. You know that
                         guy with the... the rich guy.
                         Aaaah. I am so bad at names.

                                   DR. DAST
                         I'll just rewind that screen.

                                   LACKEY 2
                         Oooh. Quick look at screen Oh-94.

                                   DR. DAST
                         Yes?

                                   LACKEY 2
                         It's gone.

                                   DR. DAST
                         Crap. It's hard to keep track of
                         all of this.

                                   LACKEY 1
                         It is a lot of TVs.

               An alarm goes off.

                                   DR. DAST
                         What is that noise?

                                   LACKEY 1
                         That is the proximity alarm.
                         Someone is in our base!

                                   DR. DAST
                         Who?

                                   LACKEY 2
                         That should be on the base security
                         screens... oh wait, I wrote this
                         done.

               Lackey 2 starts flipping through the pages of a very thick
               binder.

                                   DR. DAST
                         Hurry!

                                   LACKEY 2
                         Oh wait let me check the index.

               Lackey 2 turns to the back of the binder.

               All the TVs go to static.

                                   DR. DAST
                         What's going on?

               Lackey 1 checks a handheld computer device.

                                   LACKEY 1
                         Whoops. The hard drives must be
                         full.

                                   DR. DAST
                         Already?

                                   LACKEY 1
                         It's a lot of screens. I probably
                         should have a ordered more hard
                         drives.

               SCREEN GOES TO STATIC

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