Writers Thought Dumps – 4

INT. ROOM – AFTERNOON

Inside an unkept room, sits a desk with no other furniture; Food containers, boxes, and papers upside down and on its side, scattered throughout.

Standing next to the desk, dressed like a detective, is Jope, a very odd person.

He sets an item on the desk; He thinks.

Axel, very into details, walks in and stands next to Jope.

AXEL
Everything about this room screams someone who doesn’t really care.
JOPE
Yes …
(thinks)
Unless it’s something they want to secure so securely that it’s something I have never been able to break into …
(looks down)
Never been able to.

Axel looks down at an item that’s tied shut. Oddly looks at Jope then item then Jope.

AXEL
This box … is that what you are referring to … the one tied … with a knot?
JOPE
Never been able to open a tied knot.
AXEL
(puzzled)
So anything else you can … but a tied knot?

Jope thinks.

JOPE
My fingers are stubby and thick … nails trimmed real low.

Axel weirdly stares at him then the item.

JOPE
(curiously)
How did they know? …

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