Pursuit

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**Pursuit** is the second episode of a series of short films on YouTube promoting Starcop.

## Synopsis

Pursuit centers around Skelter in the Cranium Interceptor pursuing a Starcop. The Starcop had just abducted one of the Cranium Clones, Helter. Skelter manages to break Helter out by firing a rocket from his vehicle which sends the officer's ship out of control and it hits Four Arms, a bovine, a wall, and CBT's cloaks. The Cranium Clones arrive and demolish the Starcop's vehicle. More reserves arrive to aid the police officer, and one of the other Starcops turns off the camera.

## Transcript

* *[A scratched, dirtied Starcop badge appears as light flashes on it and a synthesizer plays. Title is typed out on screen: "Starcop Log 2: Pursuit." Lens flare to an elevated position in Universe City; there are many futuristic buildings and an animated billboard. A Starcop spaceship flies in and off-screen.]*
* Woman: All units are advised of a 420 in progress. A Starcop craft is being chased by a moonlit sedan cruiser with crimson markings.
* *[The billboard changes to "Enjoy SODA: LEGACY, The Magnetic Drink." A black spaceship flies in and off-screen, chasing the Starcop ship. An "ARRESTED!" poster slams on-screen, showing Helter.]*
* Woman: The police have a suspect in custody and need backup, pronto.
* *[Cut to the cockpit of a Starcop spaceship, which is flying across a cratered surface as the pilot moves the handlebar. "STARCOP" logos are visible on the ship, and "CAUTION: Heated Surface" stickers are positioned near both exhausts.]*
* Starcop: Oh yeah, things are definitely getting intense up here in Sector Six.
* *[Cut to the Starcop ship flying past a rock formation, as the criminal ship chases him off-screen.]*
* Starcop: The Wormhole Gangsters are packing their bags.
* *[Cut to the prisoner pod of the Starcop ship; Helter is trapped and pounding on the glass. Two stickers reading "Penitentiary Pod Containment" are applied on either side of the area that the pod is attached to, while a "DANGER" sticker with information is visible on the pod itself.]*
* Starcop: We picked up Helter at Joko's, trying to move some stolen Arkeyan gold.
* *[Pan away from the prisoner pod and flaming exhausts and to the front of the Starcop ship, which is being chased by Skelter's one. Cut to the inside of the criminal ship, where Skelter moans, surrounded by two screens; "TARGET ACQUIRED > STARCOP VX-MERLIN: PENITENTIARY POD RELEASE" with an accompanying depiction of the ship with the pod circled and "PREPARE TO SHOOT."]*
* Starcop: I guess his clone friend wants him back.
* Skelter: Fire!
* *[Cut to the front of Skelter's ship, which shoots a missile, before cutting to the back of the Starcop ship; the missile hits the back of the ship and explodes the Penitentiary Pod. Cut to Helter flying out as the Starcop ship spins off-screen and smoke billows out, Skelter's ship chasing it all the while. Cut to the Starcop screaming and flailing his arms in the cockpit, looking from side to side. Cut to the wall from Alien Probings, which the worker has finished building as he hums and looks at it. Zoom in as the worker looks at the wall again, only for it to get destroyed by a Starcop ship which knocks him to the ground. Cut to an ice cream stand, where Four Arms gives a Jawa with a suit and crewcut a tray with blue and white ice cream on it. The Starcop ship flies in and destroys the stand, Four Arms' blood splattering the walls as he collapses.]*
* Jawa: WHOA!
* *[The Jawa turns around, still holding his tray. Cut to a farm, where a robot farmer with a fedora and pitchfork stands, surrounded by jumping chickens and cows with rocket engines attached to their sides. The chickens squawk as they jump away from the approaching Starcop ship, which flies through one of the cows, exploding them into T-bone steaks and leaving behind a trail of smoke. The farmer turns around and looks at the starship, absolutely livid.]*
* Farmer: Hey, give me back muh cow!
* *[Cut to CBT standing next to a clothesline with four red cloaks on it. The Starcop ship flies through and rips off all of the capes, as CBT looks at the now-off-screen Starcop spaceship.]*
* CBT: Huh?
* *[Cut to the Starcop ship stopping, the cockpit cloaked in capes. The Starcop opens up the cockpit and looks disappointed. The Starcop looks around, before seeing something that makes him recoil in terror.]*
* Starcop: Huh?
* *[Cut to Skelter looking on, as Helter rides a laser cannon that comes forward and lowers. Skelter turns around and looks at the blaster as Helter charges it and laughs. A hologram reading "WARNING! POD BREACH: PENITENTIARY POD RELEASED!" with an image of an exploding pod and a gif of one breaking appear. Cut back to the laser cannon, which fires and recoils, knocking Helter back, before returning to its starting position. The Starcop looks on, horrified, before lifting his arms up and silently screaming as he is consumed by a neon green blast. As the cloud and particles dissipate, it is revealed the Starcop survived, while his ship is reduced to pieces. The Starcop shakes his arms and looks on, horrified. Cut to the criminals; Helter looks to his left as a siren sounds, Skelter shaking his arms while lowering the laser cannon. Skelter looks to his right and center before running off-screen as Helter's truck hides the laser cannon between two yellow boxes that have holes, scratches, and graffiti on them, before driving off. Cut to a camera recording of the Starcop sitting, surrounded by smoking wreckage and a burning exhaust, looking horrified. The camera reads "REC" in red, "36 min," "C008," "FR170," "MF84," "F6.9," "69%," and "CH1" and "CH2," the former accompanied by two white squares and a fraction of one, the latter with four and a half. The camera rises up and pans to the left, where a female Starcop and a police dog walk in, looking frightened, before quickly panning to the right, where an unshaven Starcop on a hover-bike flies in.]*
* Unseen Starcop: HEY!
* *[Pan forward and to the center, where a Starcop with orange sunglasses looks at the camera, frowning before shaking his head.]*
* No-Longer-Unseen Starcop: Shut down that camcorder!
* *[The Starcop goes up and turns off the camera as the screen briefly flashes green and red, before turning to a dark gray backdrop. Text is typed on the screen, reading: "Starcop Log 02: End transmission/:go to iwfc.fandom.com/wiki/Starcop."]*

## Trivia

* This short features the Spore logo.
* The cruiser can be seen flying through the Venture City Incognito plantation.
* Four Arms' Ice Cream Parlor from Ice Cream Store cameos in this episode.
* Even though One-Eyed Willy doesn't appear in this episode, his vehicle cameos.
* The construction work to block out CBT's vandalism from the log before is smashed.
* This episode has a billboard with the Tron: Legacy logo but the "Tron" is replaced with "Soda". The worker on the billboard is a model from Venture City Incognito.
* The person purchasing Alaskan ice cream from Four Arms has the face of a Jawa.
* The Starcop's face resembles Jason Isaac, the actor of Lucius Malfoy in the *Harry Potter* film series, only black instead of white.
* Skelter's voice in the short film (when he says "Fire") is the Text to Speech voice "Daniel." It's possible that this is actually the automated voice in his spaceship.