"It Means to Help Me"

An excerpt of Cantor, written by Tessa Farrow. Storyboards by Will Melvin.

The manager of a magical cabaret is at the end of their wits. Their magic is spiraling out of control, and they're desperate to rein in their star performer, Ocean. But competing for Ocean is the entity MUSE... and it's promised them the one thing they desire most.
A storyboard in progress based on the unpublished novel, Cantor, written by my big sister, Tessa Farrow.

Transcript

10. OCEAN: Carlisle?
13. You look as if you've seen a ghost.
18. CARLISLE: Ocean. The voice—
19. CARLISLE: Ocean. The voice—
20. —that awful thing you've been speaking to, you mustn't speak to it anymore.
22. Ocean. It means this place harm. It means us harm.
23. It will take you from me and everything we worked for.
24. So I need you to banish it, to make sure it never comes close to us again.
25. Do you understand?
26. CARLISLE: Do you understand me?
27. CARLISLE: Do you understand me?
28. CARLISLE: Please, say something.
29. CARLISLE: Please, say something.
30. CARLISLE: Ocean.
31. CARLISLE: Ocean.
32. OCEAN: Carlisle.
33. It doesn't mean us harm.
34. CARLISLE: [stutters] OCEAN: Oh,
35. You don't understand, that's all. It's alright, Carlisle, I understand.
36. You don't understand, that's all. It's alright, Carlisle, I understand.
37. OCEAN: It's promised me. All will be well.
38. What— what did it say?
39. OCEAN: All will be well. The cabaret,
40. and you, Carlisle.
41. And I'll have Lyra.
42. CARLISLE: It's — it's lying. What do you mean you'll have Lyra? Ocean, it's a demon or something, it — it's lying to you alright?
43. CARLISLE: It's — it's lying. What do you mean you'll have Lyra? Ocean, it's a demon or something, it — it's lying to you alright?
44. Oh, no. See you do see the worst in people.
45. But it's not like that, really.
46. It's about my gifts.
47. It's about my gifts.
48. It's about my gifts.
49. It's about my gifts.
50. It's about my gifts.
53. She hasn't seen what it could be. What it could really be.
54. I can show her the most spectacular things, Carlisle. I can show her our lives.
55. OCEAN: And then she'll understand, too. CARLISLE: Show?
56. Yes, the show. [laughs]
57. And she'll come back to us.
58. It means to help me. Charity.
59. Don't say that.
60. A kindness.
61. Haven't we earned that?
62. Lyra's not coming back.
63. OCEAN: She said you'd say so.
64. You like hopeless things.
65. I need you to put that thing out of here.
66. Ward it. Banish it. Something. You make it disappear, and you do it right now and you stop... yammering on.
67. [shaking] Do it now, Ocean.
68. Now.
69. Now.
70. Now.
72. MUSE: Tie! Draw?
73. MUSE: Tie! Draw?
74. MUSE: Tie! Draw?
75. MUSE: Put the munitions down, maestro.
80. OCEAN: Please don't fight.
81. OCEAN: Please don't fight.
82. It's so easy, Carlisle.
83. It's so easy, Carlisle.
84. It's so easy, Carlisle.
85. CARLISLE: Fine. Fine, I run this show, I'll do it.
86. CARLISLE: Fine. Fine, I run this show, I'll do it.
87. CARLISLE: Fine. Fine, I run this show, I'll do it.
88. Listen, Ocean. I'll exorcise you myself.
89. Listen, Ocean. I'll exorcise you myself.