**SCENE 9: 2ND FIDDLE**
**INT. PROFESSOR’S HOUSE – LAB – DAY**
1. WS – Slow push-in on the Professor’s house by the river, warm lab windows glowing.
2. WS – Inside the lab: Torm and Professor side-by-side at the main workbench, surrounded by microscopes, plates, and glassware.
3. MS – Two-shot at workbench: Torm and Professor working in perfect clockwork rhythm.
4. CU – Torm’s hands at workbench, precisely adding chemical strands to a Shadow Fever plate.
5. CU – Professor’s hands mirroring the same careful movements at his station beside her.
6. OTS (over Professor – Torm at workbench) – Torm focused on her plate.
7. CU – Professor (eyes on work): “Your father hated noise and could be very impatient…”
8. CU – Torm at workbench, listening with soft expression.
9. MS – Professor continuing at workbench: “…not realizing how the words he chose to use would affect the people around him.”
10. CU – Torm still at workbench: “Was he ever like that with my mother?”
11. OTS (over Torm – Professor at workbench) – Professor smiles warmly.
12. CU – Professor telling the story with affection while working.
13. CU – Torm at workbench reacts, laughs, then puzzled: “Haha, that is funny… wait… is that an insult, or a compliment?”
14. CU – Professor: “Both! But they were also the most tender couple I’ve ever known. I miss them very much.”
15. CU – Torm, nostalgic at workbench: “I remember my father always had a giant book with him.”
16. CU – Professor, wistful: “Ah… I wish I knew where that book was… the things his mind saw.”
17. MS – Two-shot at workbench as Professor adds: “…Luckily, he was only the second most brilliant mind I’ve ever known.”
18. CU – Torm, curious: “The second most brilliant? Who was the first?”
19. CU – Professor looks at her warmly across the workbench: “Without a doubt, you, dear girl! You.”
20. CU – Torm, touched but doubtful at workbench: “If I was brilliant, I would have cured my sister by now…”
21. CU – Professor, serious: “Look at me, Torm.”
22. CU – Torm slowly lifts her gaze to meet his across the workbench.
23. CU – Professor encouraging: “No one has ever lasted more than three days…”
24. CU – Torm quietly: “Three months.”
25. MS – Professor passionately speaking about her progress from his side of the workbench.
26. CU – Professor: “You will cure the world of this plague.”
27. CU – Torm, half-smiling at workbench: “And when another comes along?”
28. CU – Professor: “Then you will cure that one. And then the next one and the next.”
29. CU – Torm, dry humor: “No pressure. Sure, I can save the world.”
30. CU – Professor, sincere: “You really can. And you are!”
31. CU – Professor catches her hiding a smile: “Ah, I saw that smile. It’s okay to smile…”
32. CU – Torm, vulnerable at workbench: “I feel guilty.”
33. CU – Professor: “Guilty?”
34. CU – Torm: “Yes… I shouldn’t enjoy working on the solutions as much as I do…”
35. OTS (over Professor – Torm at workbench) – Torm explaining her guilt.
36. CU – Professor, kind: “Your enthusiasm benefits the world…”
37. ECU – Torm’s eye intensely looking into the microscope at the workbench.
38. CU – Professor interrupts excitedly: “Torm, what sample number was that?”
39. INSERT – Torm’s hand quickly flipping the logbook (still at workbench) to the butterfly illustration page.
40. CU – Torm at microscope: “111, SOLIS LUX Rhopalocera.”
41. CU – Professor, animated: “SOLIS LUX Rhopalocera. The sunlight butterfly, of course! And the ratio?”
42. MS – Torm and Professor lean in together at the workbench, excited about the result.
43. ECU / POV – Microscope view: the plate shows no ghost cells.
44. CU – Torm amazed at workbench: “I don’t see any ghost cells.”
45. MS – They begin resetting their plates at the workbench when the large village bell suddenly rings loudly. Torm (still seated at workbench) looks up with a curious expression.
46. CU – Torm: “What is that?”
47. CU – Professor’s face turns serious as he recognizes the bell.
48. MS – Professor: “I haven’t heard that bell since your mother and father passed away. You better get home. I’ll run the tests again.” Torm quickly hands him the plate across the workbench.
49. MS – Torm hurriedly gathers her things (notes, small tools, cloak, and bag) from the workbench, stands up, and starts moving across the lab toward the door.
50. MS – Torm reaches the door, puts on her cloak, turns back briefly and says: “I’ll be back as soon as I can.” Professor (from workbench): “Be safe.” Torm opens the door and steps out.
**INT. PROFESSOR’S HOUSE – LAB – DAY**
1. WS – Slow push-in on the Professor’s house by the river, warm lab windows glowing.
2. WS – Inside the lab: Torm and Professor side-by-side at the main workbench, surrounded by microscopes, plates, and glassware.
3. MS – Two-shot at workbench: Torm and Professor working in perfect clockwork rhythm.
4. CU – Torm’s hands at workbench, precisely adding chemical strands to a Shadow Fever plate.
5. CU – Professor’s hands mirroring the same careful movements at his station beside her.
6. OTS (over Professor – Torm at workbench) – Torm focused on her plate.
7. CU – Professor (eyes on work): “Your father hated noise and could be very impatient…”
8. CU – Torm at workbench, listening with soft expression.
9. MS – Professor continuing at workbench: “…not realizing how the words he chose to use would affect the people around him.”
10. CU – Torm still at workbench: “Was he ever like that with my mother?”
11. OTS (over Torm – Professor at workbench) – Professor smiles warmly.
12. CU – Professor telling the story with affection while working.
13. CU – Torm at workbench reacts, laughs, then puzzled: “Haha, that is funny… wait… is that an insult, or a compliment?”
14. CU – Professor: “Both! But they were also the most tender couple I’ve ever known. I miss them very much.”
15. CU – Torm, nostalgic at workbench: “I remember my father always had a giant book with him.”
16. CU – Professor, wistful: “Ah… I wish I knew where that book was… the things his mind saw.”
17. MS – Two-shot at workbench as Professor adds: “…Luckily, he was only the second most brilliant mind I’ve ever known.”
18. CU – Torm, curious: “The second most brilliant? Who was the first?”
19. CU – Professor looks at her warmly across the workbench: “Without a doubt, you, dear girl! You.”
20. CU – Torm, touched but doubtful at workbench: “If I was brilliant, I would have cured my sister by now…”
21. CU – Professor, serious: “Look at me, Torm.”
22. CU – Torm slowly lifts her gaze to meet his across the workbench.
23. CU – Professor encouraging: “No one has ever lasted more than three days…”
24. CU – Torm quietly: “Three months.”
25. MS – Professor passionately speaking about her progress from his side of the workbench.
26. CU – Professor: “You will cure the world of this plague.”
27. CU – Torm, half-smiling at workbench: “And when another comes along?”
28. CU – Professor: “Then you will cure that one. And then the next one and the next.”
29. CU – Torm, dry humor: “No pressure. Sure, I can save the world.”
30. CU – Professor, sincere: “You really can. And you are!”
31. CU – Professor catches her hiding a smile: “Ah, I saw that smile. It’s okay to smile…”
32. CU – Torm, vulnerable at workbench: “I feel guilty.”
33. CU – Professor: “Guilty?”
34. CU – Torm: “Yes… I shouldn’t enjoy working on the solutions as much as I do…”
35. OTS (over Professor – Torm at workbench) – Torm explaining her guilt.
36. CU – Professor, kind: “Your enthusiasm benefits the world…”
37. ECU – Torm’s eye intensely looking into the microscope at the workbench.
38. CU – Professor interrupts excitedly: “Torm, what sample number was that?”
39. INSERT – Torm’s hand quickly flipping the logbook (still at workbench) to the butterfly illustration page.
40. CU – Torm at microscope: “111, SOLIS LUX Rhopalocera.”
41. CU – Professor, animated: “SOLIS LUX Rhopalocera. The sunlight butterfly, of course! And the ratio?”
42. MS – Torm and Professor lean in together at the workbench, excited about the result.
43. ECU / POV – Microscope view: the plate shows no ghost cells.
44. CU – Torm amazed at workbench: “I don’t see any ghost cells.”
45. MS – They begin resetting their plates at the workbench when the large village bell suddenly rings loudly. Torm (still seated at workbench) looks up with a curious expression.
46. CU – Torm: “What is that?”
47. CU – Professor’s face turns serious as he recognizes the bell.
48. MS – Professor: “I haven’t heard that bell since your mother and father passed away. You better get home. I’ll run the tests again.” Torm quickly hands him the plate across the workbench.
49. MS – Torm hurriedly gathers her things (notes, small tools, cloak, and bag) from the workbench, stands up, and starts moving across the lab toward the door.
50. MS – Torm reaches the door, puts on her cloak, turns back briefly and says: “I’ll be back as soon as I can.” Professor (from workbench): “Be safe.” Torm opens the door and steps out.
SISTER
(1) Water... water.
Torm puts down a vial and quickly fetches her sister water and rushes to her bedside.
TORM
(2) Here it is, here.
Torm gently helps her sister sit up and drink. Her sister takes a small sip and falls back to her pillow.
SISTER
(3) Will this never end?
TORM
(4) Just rest. It will be over soon.
Torm puts down the water and adjusts her sister's vapor machine.
SISTER
(5) I'm so afraid, Torm. I don't want to die.
TORM
(6) Fear is good: it means your mind is working properly .
SISTER
(7)Please, get this out of me.
TORM
(8) I am, little sis, we just need a little more time.
Torm checks a few spots on her sister's body for black veins.
SISTER
(9) What if the mixtures stop working? What if they start having the opposite effects and I start getting worse again?
TORM
(10) Just a few weeks ago you couldn't even talk. And now I see the black veins growing smaller. You have nothing at all to worry about.
Torm takes out a small dripper and a glass plate.
TORM
(11) Okay, a few dream samples.
Torm collects a few of her sister's tears and drops them onto the glass plate.
TORM
(12) Your dreams are getting more colorful.
SISTER
(13) The dreams are the only thing good about the fever.
TORM
(14) I've read that some people give themselves Shadow Fever just to have the dreams.
SISTER
(15) I CAN ONLY REMEBER PARTS OF THEM.
Torm puts a dry white mixture into the vapor machine that is at the side of her sister's bed. Torm adjusts a few parts of the machine and soon it releases vapors.
TORM
(16) I will show them to you when you are better. Now get some more sleep so I can go back to work.
Torm tucks her sister in and returns to her work.
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SHOT LIST 1-56
INT. torm's house - day
In a single room house in the middle of Dreamer Village, a young girl, Torm, is working on some mixtures while her sister sleeps. Her sister has caught "Shadow Fever," but Torm has managed to keep death away from her sister's door by extracting a mineral from a river nearby . Torm has converted her half of the room into a chemistry lab made of brass parts, glass vials, tubes, dials, scales, evaporators, distillers and many other hard-to-name devices. Aiding her study are numerous book stands and old medical diagrams which Torm references so often, her eyes could fade the paper they 're written on. The room is mostly wood and plaster, which Torm keeps dimly lit to help her sister sleep and reduce the sensitivity pains caused by the fever. The level of pain her sister has withstood from the fever is immeasurable. The fever produces painful black veins that burn the skin, stab the nerves, and typically kills its host within a few days, but Torm has almost found a cure.
In a single room house in the middle of Dreamer Village, a young girl, Torm, is working on some mixtures while her sister sleeps. Her sister has caught "Shadow Fever," but Torm has managed to keep death away from her sister's door by extracting a mineral from a river nearby . Torm has converted her half of the room into a chemistry lab made of brass parts, glass vials, tubes, dials, scales, evaporators, distillers and many other hard-to-name devices. Aiding her study are numerous book stands and old medical diagrams which Torm references so often, her eyes could fade the paper they 're written on. The room is mostly wood and plaster, which Torm keeps dimly lit to help her sister sleep and reduce the sensitivity pains caused by the fever. The level of pain her sister has withstood from the fever is immeasurable. The fever produces painful black veins that burn the skin, stab the nerves, and typically kills its host within a few days, but Torm has almost found a cure.
SCENE SUMMARY
Torm gathers plants, butterflies, water, and mineral powder while maintaining the collection machines she built along a nearby river. Using spare parts and an old glass chandelier converted into a waterwheel housing, her advanced gathering station produces thick white mineral resin at a greatly increased rate. After collecting her daily supply of herbs, roots, plants, and other materials, she heads toward the Professor’s house.
SHOT LIST 1-35 APRX: 3:33
6. DAILY ROUTINE
SHOT LIST 1-50 ( 2:11 min )
