Cult of Personality

#### Radio Tower

* A sheet metal building is at the base of The Radio Tower. Go 106.1FM is stenciled on the side of the building. A black 1950s Chevy coupe parks in the three-spot parking lot. DJ Jackie Emrock exits the car with a box of supplies and speaks into the door to "Martha in the Morning." He confirms his identity as she's clearly been hiding here.
	+ M: What's my second favorite song?
	+ J: Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon and Garfunkle, but you like the Bangles cover that came out last year.
	+ M exits the door and hugs Jackie: Thank god, thank god. Jeezus, Jackie, you scared the hell out of me.
	+ J: I told you I'd bring you some gear before I had to be at the Tree Ceremony.
	+ M (whose hair has been freshly cut and bleached blonde): You can't go. If I'm not there, you won't be able to see them. If I'm not there, you won't know who you're talking to. I have to come.
	+ J: Negatory good buddy. You have to stay here and keep spinning all the hits. They're looking for me, not for you. You'll be safe here.
	+ M: Yeah, but I'm not doing any good out here. We can't find the others, and now I've lost VH. I'm letting everyone down. First Sam and my parents and the others. Now the whole town.
	+ J shakes his head: That's bullshit, Veronica. You keep yourself safe for what's ahead. I'll report back as soon as I know it's safe. Until then, you keep the Chevy here and I'll ride my bike back.
	+ Veronica Kirkshaw nods back: Stay safe old Troubadour.
	+ J: Always
* Jackie heads back to Garrett on his Harley. He's wearing a crystal earring.

#### The Streets of Garrett

* Jessie "JD" Davis and Scarlet Blake are head back after picking up her bike to meet Derrick "Ricky" Lewis and Heather Jones. Scarlet is driving her bike hard, clearly upset. JD is pushing to keep up, and it's obvious that she's pushing for more than she has energy for. As JD catches up with her, he sees that she's crying, and he stops her to talk. She's frightened and overwrought from the encounter where she was shot at by the Alta 209. She shows him a narrow miss where a bullet punched a hole in her clothes.

* Ricky & Heather are headed back to meet JD & Scarlet. Similarly, Heather is upset by her sister and by Randall Flagg and by the present danger. She asks Ricky to remind her to "Never Say Never".

#### Flashback: A Dream

* It's January 1980. Heather is 4 years-old and she wakes up in the sunlight, on the back of a shaggy lion.
	+ Lion speaking in his sleep: I'm not afraid. I'm not scared. Not no more. I'll give you the right paw and the left paw.
	+ H: Good Kitty.
	+ L: Hea-her, you're here. What do you want to play? We can go swimming in the great eastern ocean. We can ... you have to jump in first and tell me if it's safe.
* They're in a Narnian glade and another, greater lion approaches.
	+ Aslan: Heather, my sweet child, we must speak as the aged do.
	+ H: Speak? Should we have tea? A tea party, and we can talk? I can bring Paddington.
	+ A: I'm sorry. We do not have time for tea.
	+ H: Why?
	+ A: This is a dream. Did you know that?
	+ H: A dream? Are you a dream?
	+ A: Well ... a dream for many, but for a rare few like you, it is also real. You can walk between the worlds as others do the rows of a garden.
	+ H: But you're real.
	+ A: And you are too. For all there are many types of dreams, most forgotten, a precious few remembered, but even fewer still are lost. And that's what this will become, a lost dream.
	+ H: Why?
	+ A: I have used all of my magic, all that I know, the deepest magic. We cannot stay with you.
	+ H: No. No stay.
	+ A (a tear rolling from its eye): You have such a lonely path ahead and it breaks my heart that you must walk it alone.
	+ H: Don't, just stay.
	+ A: You will be surrounded by the cruel. You will be under siege from the wicked. You will live in a land of monsters.
	+ H: Monsters? No...
	+ A: I'm so sorry, my sweet child. I have failed you.
	+ H: I don't understand.
	+ L (crying): No. I'm not leaving Hea-her. She's my very best friend. I don't care what monsters come. I'm scared but I'll fight them all. I'll give them all the right paw, left paw, right.
	+ A comforting L: You cannot, Lion. The veil will come between us, no matter how hard we try to hold on.
	+ L: It's no fair. I'll fight this veil. I don't care how scared I am.
	+ A: My sweet child, this new age has just begun, and I fear for you, it will be an age of loneliness. The great veil will grow separating us, but when this new age falls to twilight, the space between us will begin to weaken. When the dark one comes into your life, this will no longer be a dream lost but a dream remembered. You will remember your youth with us inside this world. You will remember that you are not alone.
	+ H: Will you come back? Will you come back?
	+ A (nods): You will remember that you are loved.
	+ H: I love you too.
	+ L: Will she remember her very bestest friend?
	+ H: Always
	+ A: She will, Lion. I can make sure that you remember anything when the Twilight Falls. Is there something you want to hold onto, Heather?
	+ H: You.
	+ A: And so it shall be. I want you to remember more than anything else that you have a family, and that the long, lonely road you've walked is nearing its end. Remember you are loved, and when the veil fades all of us will begin appearing in your dreams. Lion and I will be the last because we are the last to be with you. When the veil falls, know this ... we will come. We will charge like the great armies of old.
	+ L wraps his paws around Heather: I'll be there, Hea-her. I'll lead the charge myself.
* They start to fade...
	+ H: No, don't go.
	+ A: You are one of us, my sweet child. Never forget this is your home. When the veil falls, together again, we shall be. Now, repeat the spell of remembrance, my child. Repeat my words: Sweet Song of Youth, The Wise, the Meeting of all Wisdom.
* Heather repeats it
	+ L: I won't leave you Hea-her. I won't leave my bestest friend.
	+ H: I love you forever.
	+ L: I won't be scared here. I'll find a way back to you. We all will. I'll lead the charge. I love you, Hea-her. I love ...
	+ H: Bye!
* In 1988, with the arrival of Randall Flagg, Heather remembers the dream. She receives "Once a Queen of Narnia, Always a Queen of Narnia" for 3 successes.

#### The Streets of Garrett

* The four bikes of the keystones converge wordlessly and head back to the silo to give Optimus Prime the Energon. After a bit of silence, Ricky speaks up and tells JD and Scarlet that Randall Flagg has moved next door to Heather. They decide they'll be ok if they stay together.
	+ Scarlet: "Yeah, this Randall Flagg dude's got nothing on us. Same with big robots."

#### Lewis Farm

* In the silo, they find a great metal fist sticking out of the grain with a thumbs up. They push back the grain and reveal the windshield of Optimus Prime. After some consideration on what to do with the Energon, they realize that if they set it on his windshield, it slowly gets absorbed. But it may take hours before Optimus has enough to power back on.
* With limited time, they leave Optimus Prime there, and decide to head to the library to translate the rest of the Morse Code message.
* Heather realizes that she probably knows Optimus Prime's "boy". There's a Rob that works at The Paperback Exchange. JD remembers him too, and that he used to wear an Optimus Prime helmet. They decide that if they can find Rob's last name at the library, they might be able to figure out where he lives.
* JD leaves Optimus Prime a note: "Optimus, we went to the library. - Keystones. PS: Looking for Rob. Have Walkie-Talkie. Contact us through radio. Use code Beatbox"

#### The Library

* They head back to town and see the preparations for the Tree Lighting Ceremony have progressed.
* It is now later in the afternoon and the sky is beginning to darken as it is winter.
* The library is fairly empty.
* At the entrance is a circular desk. There are two levels to the library and a wrought iron catwalk rings the second floor. The ceiling is very high. Both levels contain 10-12 foot bookshelves. The ceiling depicts indigenous peoples and the settling of Garrett and moments in Garrett's history.
* A 22 year-old woman, Hannah Casper - the town librarian, stands at the desk and greets them.
* The missing posters of Ben McKenzie, Shannon Locke, Casey Mitchell and Jerry Baker are all hanging up here (unlike in the rest of the town - where otherwise the kids seem to be forgotten). There are also two small index cards with photos attached with the names of George Butts and Rob Ott. There's a crystal hanging in the window. (JD recognizes it as similar to the ones hanging off his dad's journal.)
* The kids ask Hannah for xerox copies of the photos, and for a book on Morse code. She tells them a group of boy scouts came in earlier in the morning working on a morse code assignment. All the books are still in the research room upstairs where they were working.
* The kids borrow the phone book to look up the boys to get their addresses and phone numbers, and take it upstairs with them.
* Upstairs in the research room, the table is littered with papers. It's a mess from the boy scouts. They find the morse code book. Together they work to find the addresses/phone numbers of the missing kids (unfortunately, George's is not listed), and to translate the rest of the morse code message.
	+ The message: "Got the fearin', power steerin', pistons poppin', ain't no stoppin' now. Panama. Panama. I had to move my home. Meet me in the place that sort of sounds like where I live."
* Heather realizes that the message is probably from Van Halen, and that she is probably referring to the Maplehurst Mall.
* The kids discuss stopping by Rob's house, and maybe some of the other kids on the way to the mall. Heather realizes that one of the houses is the one that she saw burning a few months ago.
* JD wonders what the Boy Scouts were working on, and he grabs a bunch of the papers. Scarlet hands him the morse code book.
* As JD exits the room, he is lifted off the ground by a huge man, 6'5" in a full black suit with black sunglasses.
	+ Starscream looks JD in the eye: "Human designation, Casey Mitchell, you are coming with me."

## Characters

* DJ Jackie Emrock
* Veronica Kirkshaw
* Lion
* Aslan
* Randall Flagg
* Optimus Prime
* Robert Ott
* Hannah Casper
* Ben McKenzie
* Shannon Locke
* Casey Mitchell
* Jerry Baker
* George Butts
* Van Halen
* Starscream

## Locations

* The Go 106.1 FM Radio Tower
* The Paperback Exchange
* The Library
* Maplehurst Mall

## Lexicon

* Keystones
* Energon