Maranello - the F1 soap opera

Episode Ten

or

What They Did On Their Holidays...

Scene 1 - A bar in Chicago.

Screen caption: 'Two Weeks After the Nurburgring' comes up. A TV in the corner is screening the action from Wrigley Field as MIKA and DAVID lean on the bar.

(Suddenly, Mika slumps to the floor and lies there, motionless).

(The BARTENDER makes a call and a few minutes later an Med-Alert rig pulls up to the bar. DC watches anxiously as the paramedics examine MIKA before loading him up on a stretcher and carrying him into the ambulance.)

(A short drive later, the unconscious MIKA is unloaded from the ambulance and DC also gets out to be confronted by a tall, balding, bespectacled man in green scrubs and a brunette nurse in pink overalls. The two take charge of the trolley and rush it into the E.R., with the paramedics and DC trailing behind.)

(Dr GREENE and a few nurses lift MIKA on to the resus table.)

(In the background, DAVID is looking anxious. Suddenly, a stocky figure with attractively greying hair and a lab coat on shoulders past him.)

(Suddenly MIKA begins to groan and twitch.)

(Suddenly there is a commotion in the hallway. NURSE HATHAWAY rushes over to the incoming casualty.)

(She motions to the corridor, where DC is chatting up a petite Hispanic nurse.)

(DC pushes past him and hoists MIKA over one well-developed shoulder.)

(He rushes out into the snowy Chicago streets, MIKA over one shoulder.)

Scene 2 - A dingy looking bar in Baltimore.

In the foreground, JACQUES is sitting at the bar nursing a can of Colt .45 and looking moody. Beside him, MIKA SALO is knocking back shots of Jim Beam whilst CRAIG fastidiously sips at a mineral water.

Suddenly, a hush falls over the bar as the door opens and two men in suits and trenchcoats come in. One is African-American, the other a lanky white man. Several patrons begin to sidle discreetly out of the side and back entrances, but the pair make unerringly for JACQUES and his companions. As one of them removes his hat, we see his head is completely bald. CRAIG chokes on his Evian.

(Meanwhile, JACQUES and the tall, lanky detective are exchanging meaningful glances.)

(He turns round abruptly and escorts CRAIG out of the bar).

(The three men walk out onto the street, where a battered white Cavalier is parked at the kerb.)

(Before he can find a pay phone, however, another white Cavalier comes roaring up to the bar and two men spill out. One is an African-American with a goatee beard and the car's driver is a stocky strawberry blond in a dark shirt and leather jacket.)

(He receives no reply as the two detectives charge into the bar. PEMBLETON turns to BAYLISS.)

(The two detectives come rushing out of the bar again and come up to the group, out of breath.)

(MIKA SALO gets into the second Cavalier, while CRAIG and JACQUES get in the back of PEMBLETON and BAYLISS' vehicle. Just as they are about to pull away from the kerb, BAYLISS jumps out and runs back to the second car.

(KELLERMAN growls through the window at him and LEWIS floors the gas pedal. The first Cavalier drives off and is soon lost in the traffic, but LEWIS' vehicle has a slower start. We follow the vehicles and 100 yards down the road from the police department, as the first vehicle parks, LEWIS loses control and hits a fire hydrant.)

(SALO, tiring of this banter, exits the Cavalier and delivers a hefty kick to the rear right-hand door.)

(He and KELLERMAN launch themselves in pursuit and chase SALO into the police department building.)

Scene 3 - the Baltimore PD Homicide Department.

We're in the Box. POLLOCK is cowering at the table as PEMBLETON stares into his face.

(POLLOCK cowers beneath PEMBLETON'S glare.)

(PEMBLETON lights a cigarette.)

(POLLOCK subsides.)

(PEMBLETON seems to soften at the mention of marriage and sits down opposite CRAIG, offering him a cigarette.)

(Meanwhile, in a smaller room, BAYLISS is idly chatting to JACQUES.)

(BAYLISS slips out of the fishbowl and gets PEMBLETON out of the Box, where he has reduced Craig to tears.)

(Conveniently, the MEDICAL EXAMINER comes into the room.)

(But just as PEMBLETON escorts the trembling POLLOCK from the Box and waits for BAYLISS to take JACQUES into the Box, there is a sudden commotion as SALO, hotly pursued by LEWIS and KELLERMAN, rushes into the room.)

(KELLERMAN draws his weapon and points it at SALO.)

(Suddenly, SALO produces a Glock pistol from underneath his leather jacket and points it at LEWIS. In the ensuing standoff, KELLERMAN's weapon is discharged and POLLOCK falls to the ground, wounded in the upper right chest.)

(There is a terrible silence.)

Scene 4 - A bar in Chicago.

Scene 5 - A bar in New York City.

(Soft piano music ripples through the exquisitely-dressed crowd as waiters scurry back and forth with bottles of champagne. MICHAEL sits at a prominent table, pug dog at his feet, and his wife - silk-clad and festooned with diamonds - sits opposite.)

(Just as he produces a small black velvet box from his inside coat pocket, however, the bar is thrown into disarray as fifteen New York uniformed cops come charging in.)

(The women screaming, the men protesting, everyone complies. A short, fat detective in a dirty trenchcoat and a tall, urbane Hispanic man in a well-cut suit come in once the shouting has subsided.)

(The ill-matched pair come up to where MICHAEL is sitting, motionless, the only man in the room not to have dived to the floor.)

(As he completes the Miranda warning, MICHAEL shakes his head and CORINNA faints.)

(He handcuffs MICHAEL).

Scene 6 - The coffee room of the 15th Squad Detective unit.

(SIMONE and SIPOWICZ leave the coffee room.)

(They walk towards LIEUTENANT FANCY'S office.)

So will MICHAEL be charged in time to leave for Suzuka and compete? Who is his mystery accuser (as if we didn't know). And what will be the outcome of the latest police-involved shooting on Homicide? Hiccuping gently (like Mika and David) we leave you to ponder their fate...

Normal (ie not ripped off from the entirety of American television) service will be resumed after Suzuka.

If you enjoyed Maranello, you might be interested in checking out some books about the various TV shows mercilessly abused and tortured in the production of this episode...

Bedside Manners - George Clooney & ER	The ER Companion - An Unauthorized Guide	Homicide - A Year on the Killing Streets
		About the real-life homicide unit which inspired the TV series - well-observed, funny and more gripping than any work of fiction.
Homicide - Life on the Street - The Unofficial Companion	Homicide - A Year on the Killing Streets	The Corner - A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood
This book is to Homicide fans what the Nitpickers' Guide is to Star Trek fans...	Talking Book version, narrated by a member of the cast of the TV show.	Follow-up book by the author of A Year On The Killing Streets, as above.
NYPD Blue True Blue - The Real Stories Behind Nypd Blue	NYPD Blue - Blue Beginning	NYPD Blue - Blue Blood
Based on interviews with the NY police detective who is the consultant for NYPD Blue.  Again, well recommended.

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