DAMNATION S1E3

Season One - Episode Three

Cast

Crystal Conners (Happy-go-lucky ski-bum who is a sucker for a sob story)

Mr Sparkles (Government Hit-man with own agenda who has The Agency watching him)

Curtis Weinstein (Street smart, fresh, wise-cracking home-boy who is "a bit of a mommy's boy")

Walter White (Post graduate chemistry major pushing the boundaries who is treading on peoples toes both sides of the law) 

Jacqueline LeFranc (Aspiring writer looking for cheep thrills with an ex Cody Brian just can't let go)
and
Jake Sullivan (Ex-con turned PI who is trying to go straight and failing)

Events (scenes & aspects)

October 20th 1990 - 3:40pm - Good Intentions Medical Center - a private treatment room

Jacq is finally recovering after the heavy night before and she becomes aware that she is not alone in the room. Cody, who looks like he's spent the night sleeping rough & wearing dark glasses, is watching over her.  Jacq makes an effort to call for the nurse but Cody's hand is there before hers.  They argue, Jacq wanting Cody to leave her alone and Cody wanting Jacqueline to stop pumping her body "full of rubbish" and hanging out with losers and drug dealers.  Cody also reveals (part of) what happened the previous night, that he was walking Claire Bennet home and gave her his jacket (as it was cold), they stopped outside Jacq's apartment and he went around the back, he herd Claire scream and saw the killer ripping out her heart then he ran for it.  His apartment key he left in his jacket and he can't go to the police because the news is reporting that she was burnt in the fire at the Little Hawaii.  He needs his keys so he is going to stick around Jacq until he gets them.

About this time Dr Michaels walks in and lets Ms LeFranc know that she is free to go.  Cody hangs around while she dresses.

3:40pm - Devil's Rest Hotel - Cody's Room

Walter (having picked up Cody's key) thinks that they need to start looking for Cody and the best place to start is where he is staying.  Cody's room is on the floor above Mr Sparkles it's dark and gloomy and a real mess.  They don't find much of interest except for a video tape (with a handwritten label "J & C") which they play to discover that it's a sex tape and by the looks of it Jacqueline isn't aware of the camera.

4:15pm - Bert Tomson’s Place
Jacq's plan to palm Cody off on one of her contacts Robert Tomson (a barman at the Little Hawaii) goes awry when Bert is having some quality time with Bobbi.  Bert does offer Cody and Jacq to join in with them, even offering Jacq some "awesome new pills."  Cody then opens his mouth and spoils the deal by yet again telling Jacq that she needs looking after and protecting from "scum drug dealers!"  Bert shrugs and closes the door on them.

4:45pm - Good Intentions Medical Center
Crystal wants to head to the Medical Center to pick up Jacq and when they get there they find that Ms LeFranc has been discharged.  Crystal calls around her friends and eventually finds out that she was at Bert's a little while ago.  Walter gives Dr Mary Michaels a call, discovers that Cody was with Jacq and while he is talking arranges to take her out for a meal Sunday after work.

4:45pm - Jake Sullivan Private Investigator's Office
Jake has been cleaning up from the mess he made of the killer (in Episode One), he slept most of the day so is listening to the news of what happened at the Little Hawaii when there is a knock on his door.  The person is Mr Jesus Mendez who wishes to employ Mr Sullivan to find his runaway daughter Stacy.  Mendez gives Jake a post card from Stacy that was sent (date of posting October 12th) from Good Intentions, on the card she writes that she and Donny have found a better religion (than Catholicism).  Mendez tells Jake that he’ll be staying at the Devil’s Rest Hotel until Friday and gives him $500 and will double the fee if he can arrange a face to face meeting with his daughter Stacy.  Jake warns him that Stacy may not be alive but Mendez doesn't want to think about that until it happens.

5:20pm - Devil's Rest Hotel
For the first time the whole cast assemble in one place at the same time.  The bar is full to the brim.  Curtis and Candy have dropped by for a quick drink before going to Sundown.  Crystal and Walter are looking for Jacq as they believe that she will be looking for Mr Sparkles and finally Jake is looking for Mr Sparkles or any of the others that he was with when the killer attacked at the Little Hawaii.

Jake looking for answers about last night comes up blank as Curtis says he knows nothing and Mr Sparkles says that Jake and he were playing poker somewhere else all night.  Crystal does identify Donny Petersen who was hanging out with Stacy Mendez and thinking about it her memory clicks as she saw him earlier today as the scruffy chauffeur of Mr North.

When Jacq and Cody enter the scene it isn't long before things get a little heated.  Crystal plants Cody's room keys back on him then asks if he's checked his pockets.  Cody does, but lies very badly that he hasn't got them.  He is sticking with his idea that he is Jacqueline's knight in shining armour and he will save her from the evils of the world.  Mr Sparkles thinks that giving him a swift kick (or knee) to the balls will help the situation.  That's when Cody starts swinging at Mr Sparkles (back story is that Mr Sparkles helped out Jacq by beating up Cody) this time Cody has the power of corruption on his side his muscles having been enhanced giving him a Superb Physique.  Mr Sparkles, Jake and Crystal engage (or attempt to engage) Cody physically while Jacq tosses taunts at him and Walter pushes the boundaries of his corruption (he is a walking tri-corder) in attempting to alter the chemicals within Cody.

The fight ends when Cody shoves Jake into Mr Sparkles, he then realises that the whole room is in fear of him so he then makes a run for the window.  Mr Sparkles chases after him (without showing any willing to capture him) but Cody escapes into the night.

End of Episode Three