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Me as an applicant to be part of the team of SenateFlix scriptwriters for Season 1 Episode 21 Season Finale:
Season Finale:
TRAILER: Flashes of scenarios — then, Ex-SP Alan convenes “plenary” before midnight of deadline, 11 senators show up but… Near midnight (camera zooms in to a shining object slowly bobbing up in the moonlit night) A smooth sparkling bald head slowly ascends the staircase…
Flashback,
caption reads: 7 HOURS EARLIER
Ex-SP ALAN (huddled with senators in a meeting) : We have to convene before midnight of the constitutional deadline . Because the plenary will automatically lapse into sine die adjournment by operation of law that’s why…
Sen. LOREN interrupts: Wait … are you still the Senate President…?
Ex-SP ALAN stands up, holds up camera phone to light his face, bangs table loud: I AM… THE SENATE PRESIDENT — FOREVER!!! ⚡🎇🪅… Pia! What are you doing, browsing your phone there?
Sen. PIA: I’m reading Avelino vs. Cuenco, Consti Law 1. Quick read it now, this is what the Onse senators followed…
Sen. LOREN: Hindi na sila Onse. Tayo, tayo na yung Onse. Na-onse tayo!
Ex-SP ALAN: Don’t say that! (Near tears) I am the Senate President forever! (Bangs table)
Sen. ROBIN: Sandali lang kapatid, hindi naman forever — bawal sa Qur’an yan (Wait brother, not forever, that’s against the Qur’an)
Ex-SP ALAN: Read Psalm 23! Imee, call up the others, we will convene before midnight!
Sen. IMEE walks to her staff, smiles and points at staff member: You…it’s your fault. (Looks at another staff member) It’s her fault, di ba, she approved it. Let’s call up the other senators.
Sen. BONG GO: Boss… We’re still lacking two more, Sen. Jinggoy is in jail and…
Ex-SP ALAN: Give Jinggoy a mobile phone! Smuggle it to prison, I don’t care! Give a maleta to the warden. Jinggoy will join and vote by teleconference!
Sen. MARCOLETA: You do not lack legal background. But we have not yet approved the rule on teleconference voting, we didn’t have a quorum then remember, the ten walked out on us, remember?
Ex-SP ALAN ( fuming 🤬) (Points to the sky) Call up Bato now (fugitive Senator Bato)
Sen. IMEE (walks to her staff again, smiling, points to the same staff member) : It’s your fault. Call up Bato, put him on speaker phone.
(Staff member calls up fugitive Senator Bato and presses the “speaker” tab)
SPEAKER VOICE in AI voice of British accent sounds out: “The number you dialled — is out of network coverage area… The number you dialled — is out of network coverage area.”
STAFF MEMBER : Ma’am — Senator Bato is … Out-of-the-Planet.
Ex-SP Alan (screams) No-ooo!
(sobs) (hands camera phone to Sen. Bong Go)
Ex-SP ALAN: Bong, step back a little… Medium shot only… Don’t forget to press the Filter Tab to 1,000 per cent Filter Touch Up or else I will strip you of your committee chairmanship.
(Ex-SP Alan rehearses by mumbling speech to himself).
Sen BONG GO: Rolling! … and…
Ex-SP ALAN: They can try to remove me… They can kill me… But they will not kill … the idea … of a democratic Philippines led not by men but by law … led by the Philippine Constitution. I… am … Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano and … I am the Senate President forever! (points to the sky then freezes)
Sen. BONG GO: Cut! and.. Good take!
(Fade black. Transition to a shot of the moon 🌝 , sounds of crickets 🦗 chirping.)
(Alfred Hitchcock “Psycho” movie music plays…
(Camera zooms in to a glistening bald head.
(Bald head slowly turns to camera to face camera, then delivers the immortal lines but in acoustic version):
Sen. BATO (in acoustic version) : Pag dih ku pumapasuk…
Hinahanap nyuh ku…
Di bah!!!
(Graphics run over the screen: To be continued… to Season 2)
