GENERAL GIBSON

Sample dialogue

• “Chapter one: I walked to school eighteen miles each morning, milked the goats, plucked the chickens, played hooky, caught fireflies, went skinny-dipping in the watering hole, said my prayers every night, and got whipped with a maple switch twice a week. That was life. Chapter two: my father went off to fight in the war to end all wars (it didn’t), and what-was-left-of-him came back in a pine box with a flag on top. End of chapter two. Next: I went to officer school and twenty years passed at the speed of a dream. A wife, a son, a daughter, a poodle. Chapter three: another war. Arms and legs blown off like popcorn. Eyeballs gouged out, figuratively and literally. The men put on shows under the palm fronds dressed as women in hula skirts. That was life. In the meantime, somebody else’s story: a man thinks up a number, divides it by a trillion, plugs it into the square root of the circumference of the earth multiplied by the speed of a splitting atom -- and voila! Progress. I’m not a scientist. You are. End of chapter three. Junior Stargazers and Space Cadets --”

  scene 9, source scene 10 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. DAY

• What’s happening now?

  scene 40, source scene 41 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. EVENING

• To Ricky Cho, for his work in the field of Aeronautical Induction:

  scene 9, source scene 10 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. DAY

• One. Confirm said life-form is not operating under the guidance of any hostile foreign terrestrial government.”

  scene 23, source scene 24 — INT. OBSERVATORY. DAY

• I hope you’re aware: you and your accomplices may still face felony prosecution. Possibly, even, a treason charge.

  scene 34, source scene 35 — INT. OBSERVATORY. DAY

Bookends

Often appears with

• EXECUTIVE5 scenes
• AIDE-DE-CAMP3 scenes
• WOODROW3 scenes
• AUGIE2 scenes
• DINAH2 scenes
• RICKY2 scenes