Gold By Imagine Dragons: A Short Story

(The boys are all on stage again, lounging on their rolling chairs. The revolving stage is not revolving. Their balaclavas are off.)

LYNCH: Well that was epically lame.
VARIOUS: Yeah.
RAGNAR: We should do it somewhere more crowded…

KAVINSKY: Urgh don’t you losers want to try something different now? That idea sucked.
STEPHEN: Na. Look, what if we did it outside the court house. That would be so cool. Everyone would see and people would think it was a real witness we kidnapped.
SWAN: DUDE! That is an awesome idea. C’mon KAVINSKY we gotta. Just drive us over; we have nothing else to do anyway.
KAVINSKY: Urgh fine. This better be bloody good though.

[The camera shows KAVINSKY’s POV out of the front window of the car. The screens glitches and …show more content…

[The camera follows as the van skids away and then the shot drops like he phone was shoved in a pocket and cuts out.]

[Glitch effect.]

Gold by Imagine Dragons crescendos in as the boys talk and laugh in the car.

(The boys roll in from stage right, balaclavas off and lounging.)

VARIOUS: Did you see their faces! KAVINSKY: Aw dude that was better than when we glued Mr. Nicholson to his seat in Math! STEPHEN: Oh my god yeah that was so good. Did you like my little “Never see him alive touch?” SWAN: YES Oh my god that was the deal sealer!

[Shot of the view passing outside the car.]

After a minute the sound of sirens starts to crescendo in and the music starts to glitch and cut out as a voiceover come in.

POLICE VOICEOVER (faintly): BLUE CHEVROLET TURN RIGHT

STEPHEN: Hey did you guys hear that?
KAVINSKY: Na
RAGNAR: What?

POLICE VOICEOVER (clearly): BLUE CHEVROLET TURN RIGHT

LYNCH: Ok no I hear it that time.
STEPHEN: Blue Chevrolet turn right, guys that are us.

(The revolving stage stops and so do the boys. The boys turn around.

[To see a squad of police cars behind them parked in a semicircle men behind their doors hand guns out.]

RAGNAR: Crap what? Dude pull …show more content…

Do not resist.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall by Two Steps From Hell plays quietly crescendoing as the scene progresses.

(The boys get off the seats and stand beside them, their hands on the sides of the chairs. RAGNAR is freaking out.)

[On screen the camera pans 360 and they are surrounded by police hiding behind their car doors guns at the ready.]

(RAGNAR starts to hyper-ventilate and he looks around frantically. He starts walking towards the front of the stage).

[On screen a midshot of a policeman in full riot gear, hands gripping his gun and shaking. Starts to yell. As RAGNAR get closer to the front of the stage the camera zooms in on the policeman.]

POLICEMAN: Put your hands on the car! PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE CAR. PUT YOUR BLOODY HANDS ON THE CAR. STOP. BLOODY PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE BLOODY CAR. I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL SHOOT. STOP. I WILL BLOODY SHOOT YOU.

[On screen the camera cuts to a close up of the polices finger on the trigger it is white and his hands are sweaty.]

STEPHEN: RAGNAR. FOR CHRIST SAKE PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE BLOODY CAR.

(RAGNAR lifts his hands up and then retreats away from the police (and the front of the stage) and puts his hands on the