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Season 3 Episode 21

Written by Marcus Durham

Continuity Announcer: Later tonight on Television Midlands you can look forward
                      to Saint and Greavsie Play Pop. Meanwhile here's the
                      penultimate episode of Bates Motel.


Theme tune fades in  

[Tina opens the door and enters. The room is bright, and not like
 any other in the Motel. A console is at the centre of the room and the walls
 are adorned with roundels. The door shuts behind Tina]

Tina: Huh! This isn't my Motel.

[A door at the side of the room swings open. A familiar voice can be heard
 as a figure emerges from the door]

Voice: It certainly isn't.

[The figure emerges, looks at Tina and smiles smugly.]

Random: Why Tina, what an unexpected pleasure........

[Theme Tune plays and fades out]

Tina: But you're...... dead.
Random: Or so you dared to believed.
Tina: But why come back? And why now, so close to the final end?
Random: Why.... to gloat of course.
Tina: I should have known. Get out of my Motel or I'll have you removed!
Random: I'd like to see you try!
Tina: Then so be it!
Random: Say goodbye Tina, you're all going on a long journey..... A very long
        journey.
Tina: Where?
Random: Why, to the land of cancellation of course.
Tina: How do you know about that?
Random: I make it my business to know everything Tina.

[At the roadside just outside of the village Alden is looking out to sea. Suki is 
 standing beside him]




Suki: Why did you bring me out here?
Alden: Look at it.
Suki: What?
Alden: The sea, the sky. Can you hear it?
Suki: Well I can hear the sea...
Alden: I can feel the wind in my hair, I feel as if I could run forever!
Suki: What are you getting at?
Alden: We should move away. Leave the Motel.
Suki: Together?
Alden: Yes.
Suki: Leave Kings Oak forever? And do what? Go where?
Alden: Anywhere! Our shares in the Motel are worth enough to set us up anywhere.
Suki: I must admit it sounds tempting.
Alden: Then let's do it! You only live twice!
Suki: Twice?
Alden: Well yes, didn't I tell you that I died in 1977? Come to think of it,
       I was technically dead two years ago as well. But I'm alive now.

[Michelle is standing in the entrance to the Motel talking on the phone.
 Dai walks past.]




Dai: Excuse me Miss Michelle.
Michelle: Go away I'm on the phone.
Dai: But Miss Michelle, Miss Tina wishes to see you.
Michelle: Go tell her to gas herself.
Dai:..... Can you write that down?
Michelle: Just go away!

[Michelle starts talking on the phone again]

Michelle: Yes Charles I'm trying to get fired. I'm even speaking to you on Tinas 
          personal cordless phone... Yes, I know. Speak you soon my love.......

[The scene cuts to Charles Daniel's office]

Charles: And I'll speak to you soon my dear.

[Charles puts the phone down]

Charles: Trina has been interminable for no discernible reason for the last
         few episodes. She'll have to go, and Michelle will be an ideal 
         replacement. Don't you agree?

[Charles turns around as the camera pulls back to reveal The Master]

The Master: I don't see why you've asked me to join forces. You're so
            evil and manipulating that even I'm scared to cross you.
Charles: Bwa-ha-ha.
The Master: You even do the laugh. Next you'll have the beard!
Charles: I'm working on it.

[In reception Alden is behind the reception desk. He is talking to Soldeed]

Alden: I don't care if you don't like the food.
Soldeed: In the name of the second Skonnan Empire! I'll have your job for this.
Alden: You can't have my job, I own part of this Motel. You either like what you get
       or you shut up.
Soldeed: The Nimon shall hear of this!
Alden: Oh yes, the almighty Nimon who nobody has ever seen. Tell me, are you sane?
Soldeed: Are you?
Alden: Perhaps not before, but I am now. Quite sane. Now go away]

[Soldeed walks off. Trina walks up behind Alden]

Alden: Is that the lovely Trina, not Tina, I hear behind me?




Trina: I want a word with you.
Alden: If it's about your precious Chuck, I really couldn't care less. There
       are more important things that petty contractual issues with ex-members
       of staff. So what if I killed him?
Trina: So you did kill him!
Alden: Yes, and since there is only one episode left there is no chance of you
       having chance to call in the police, or get a trial.
Trina: But I can still get my revenge.
Alden: Now I've got to admit, my dear, that even I hadn't thought of it.
Trina: I'll get you, and I'll see you in the same place as my beloved Chuck.
Alden: What, in a supermarket stacking shelves?
Trina: I'll get you, Alden Estevelez Keith Simon Bates. 

[Trina walks off]

Alden: Bye bye my dear, lovely to have your presence. 

[Marcus enters from the office]

Marcus: Hmm, what was the quite fanciable Trina doing here?
Alden: Death threats.
Marcus: What, again? This is quite becoming a habit with you.
Alden: Yes, but only once episode to survive her petty death threats.




[Outside the Motel Tina is sitting in her car facing the entrance]

Trina: I'll get you Bates. You'll end up in soap hell forever!

[She starts the engine and starts to rev. Meanwhile Dave is in an office
 at unknown location. He is being interviewed]

Interviewer: So Mr Stone, what job experience do you have?
Dave: Well, er I was chief engineer in the soap Three Sided Square before it
      was axed after two seasons. Then I moved to Bates Motel where
      I've been ever since.
Interviewer: And do you think that this is enough experience to be the captain of
             an Isle of Wight ferry.
Dave: Yes! I spent two years at sea in Three Sided Square. It was sheer hell,
      it was always raining and the technical quality was dreadful. I was acting
      against all the odds.
Interviewer: Fair enough, you get the job. You start next month,

[Meanwhile in the carpark at the Bates Motel, Mariane has arrived in her
 car]

Mariane: Another day at the fun factory. 

[Dai walks over]

Dai: Hello Miss Mariane. Why is that Miss Trina from Fairlawns over there revving 
     her engine up?
Mariane: Oh, well she's probably having a mechanical problem.
Dai: Should I help her?
Mariane: Best not, not after that time you drained all the oil from Aldens
         car and it seized up on the motorway.
Dai: But it was all dirty!


[Meanwhile in the main office of Bates Motel.]

Alden: I have some important news. I'm selling up and leaving.
Tina: What? Why?
Alden: It's all over. Even I recognise that. Even Dave's gone and got himself
       a job as the captain of an Isle of Wight ferry. Chucks dead, Random's back
       and the soap is ending. I've had enough. I'm going. 
Tina: But... but what about your shares?
Alden: Whoever wants to pay for them can have them.
Tina: I'll buy them!!!!!! I'll finally have control of my Motel! A 75% share!
Alden: Whatever, as long as you meet the asking price.
Tina: When are you leaving?
Alden: Next episode. Although I don't have much choice as next episode is the final
       one.
Tina: Ah...... I see.

[Random bursts in]

Random: OK, so what's going on.
Tina: Do you mind knocking? You have no place in here.
Random: Oh do shut up.
Tina: What do you want?
Random: I've come to gloat. I've destroyed you and your soap opera. I've manipulated
        you all since day one!
Tina: What do you mean?
Random: Don't you understand Tina?...... I'm all around you..... I am the producer!

[Random walks out into reception, Tina runs after her]

Tina: Get back here! You mean you've been manipulating us all along.
Random: Yes. Amusing isn't it.

[Tina swings at Random and hits her]

Random: You're nothing but a big drama queen in a small time soap! But 
        you've been destroyed. You'll never work in television again!

[Random turns around and walks into the bar, Tina follows her to the entrance.
 Pete looks on from the bar where he is cutting lemons with an excessively
 big knife. Meanwhile Alden is standing in reception and is about to leave
 the building.]

Tina: You destroy me and you'll destroy yourself! You forget that this
      soap is also your job.
Random: I don't care about your job, or the miserable little people
        who work here. I'm lined up for something much better, in Dallasty.
        So I can destroy all of you and there is nothing you can do to
        stop me. I win, you lose. Ahahaha.

[Random laughs madly as Tina looks on in despair. The camera cuts to
 Pete as he looks at Random, and raises the knife from the plate.] 




[Meanwhile outside Trina is still revving her car up. Suddenly she spots
 Alden walking out of the entrance and into the drive. She drops the
 clutch, the tyres screech and she hurtles towards the oblivious
 Alden at speed. Alden hears the noise turns to face the car. He
 looks shocked, but before he can take action he is thrown over the
 bonnet of the car in slow motion.]

[Theme tune fades in]




Storylining by

Marcus Durham, David Lewis, Aidan Folkes,
Mariane Desautels, Jefferson Eng





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Transmitted from the 21st of May 1999


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