Tales of Haxton Byson/Tales of Haxton Byson: 2022 REWRITTEN

— Narrator.

**Tales of Haxton Byson** is a self-titled episode and also the debut episode of the series.

## Other Casts

### Co-Stars

* Cillian Murphy as Steve
* Kevin Rankin as Verne
* Robert LaSardo as Alcaraz
* Peter Serafinowicz as Police Receptionist

## Trivia

* First appearance of Haxton Byson, Wayne Winston, Quinn Bennington, Phil Scurry.
* First (and last) appearances of the Mutual Gangsters, Patrick Wurrman, Jacob, Don.
* This episode took place before the apocalypse.
* The small Neo-Nazi group has been changed to Mutual Gangsters from the original, as it does not make sense the fact a Spanish actor, Robert LaSardo is portraying one of the Neo-Nazis.
	+ Two of them has been re-casted to be Cillian Murphy and Kevin Rankin.
	+ In addition, they have been given official names.
		- The name were not mentioned in the plot till Leonardo mentioned Steve and Alcaraz' names, as the writer thinks it's fine to identify them as anonymous.
* The reason why Wayne spared the remaining Mutual Gangsters mid-thrashing is because he thinks they would suffer a permanent type of brain damage which is more worse than death.
* Many rewrites were made due to illogical circumstances.
	+ Wayne originally going to response to Quinn saying if he can fight a "one verse three" with "An actor would never leave their dreams from their body, remember." when preparing to fight over Steve and Alcaraz. Quinn called bullshit on that one to the point Haxton told them to stop messing around.
	+ Wayne wasn't originally going to kick a unresponsive heads of Steve and Alcaraz.
	+ Wayne and Haxton's arrest happened way earlier before:
		- Wayne was falsely arrested for operating a terrorist attack on a local diner because of his distinct blood stains on his hands and shoulder where he would accepted the police officer's demand to cessation.
			* Because of this, Haxton ran to the position where he is arrested and tried to negotiate the cops to let him go instead of going with Quinn to help with Phil. Though, Quinn was trying to tell Wayne it's a terrible idea.
		- Haxton was arrested for assaulting a police officer because he tried to negotiate with them that Wayne does not caused the explosion to happen on the diner and it was the severely injured Steve and Alcaraz who actually did it but the police officers did not believe him.
		- There's a small dialogue of Wayne calling the police officers "pigs" the second time for poorly investigating into Phil's dog case and that the prime suspects of the case happened to be lying there.
	+ Because of Haxton and Wayne's arrest in the early scripts, Quinn is the only one present that can able to say his words to a oblivion Phil:
		- "Phil, Jesus Christ, man. I don't know what to say; it's always nicest guys in the planet to be targetted by delusional people, but don't worry Wayne might've took care of those bastards just for you. I hope in those 2 years...I hope that you get to remember us again considering parts of your memory were shattered for no specific reason. I hope for the last time, you managed to see your dog again when we finally found him."
	+ Phil Scurry was originally going to be put in a coma for 2 years due to his brain being compensated from a bullet fired by Verne, this was changed to him dying from his injuries because the showrunner does not have plans for him to make an appearance in future episodes and most specifically the fact he have to survive an apocalypse for 2 years straight while in coma is genuinely unnatural.
	+ There is a original plot regarding Haxton and his friends ending up in custody. Quinn and one of Leonardo's closest assistants, Connor were suddenly thrown in prison due to Quinn originally poisoning Steve and Alcaraz alone while Connor being unknown. Chapter 5, originally called Bolt for Freedom, was not finished before the initial rewrite.

**Chapter 1: The Escape Plan**
The episode opens at the prison cafeteria and caps to three characters sitting at the same table. Whom of which are called Haxton, Wayne, Quinn.

Quinn: "So you're telling me, this will work out? Just as planned?"

Haxton: "It will go south, I'll tell you what. Connor is like some distributor or anything, right?"

Quinn: "The hell is Connor?"

Wayne: "Haxton talked about it before, literally like, 24 minutes ago. It isn't really that long of a progress you would forget."

Quinn: "I wasn't paying attention, bitch."

Wayne: "Not my probl-"

Haxton interrupts their minor argument over Quinn's not concentrating to what Haxton said earlier, "GUYS, Connor was like, what? A chemist? Fellow inmates know for sure he's a nerd."

Wayne: "Hold on, how would a chemist in fact knows how to make a pipebomb."

Haxton: "The thing he knows what we don't at all, so naturally he'll find a solution to build one from junks."

Quinn: "Yeah... But how are we going to get explosive mixture out of this stupid pipebomb anyways? Those are the most important parts for the containment."

Haxton: "Do the guards or this prison eventually owns gunpowder?"

Quinn: "To my knowledge. Why would they carry them anyways? It isn't like the 19th Century whatsoever."

Haxton: "I'm asking you a simple question, thought've they still carry them anyways."

Quinn: "Dude, everybody in the world knows their shit together by acknowledging the fact they used ammo and pellets now."

Wayne: "What about shotgun shells?"

Quinn: "Say what?"

Wayne: "Shells simply have pellets in them plus they sealed it pretty tight but it doesn't stop us from the fact it is a plastic case."

Haxton: "Yeah well, guards we've seen doesn't really carry shotguns at all."

Wayne: "So like, are we gonna break inside their office to get them?"

Quinn: "There's should be a better way to break in it, obviously."

Wayne: "There's no absolute way to break in without any assistants from the outside. No contacts or anything; but if we do, we just get out of this forbidden place real fast among those with us."

Quinn: "I am not saying we needed contacts, yo."

Quinn later came up with a plan of his own, "I got a idea."

Wayne walks up to a overlooking guard and instantly hugs him without hesitation. Which the guard would later respond with, "Hey sir, what are you doing???" Wayne confidentially receives the guard's keycard without him feeling it going out of his pocket.

Guard: "Let go of me, sir!"

Wayne: "Look, I'm sorry man, I just wanna hug to relieve stress out of my head alright!"

Guard: "We don't condone inmates to hug us so casually, even given permission to do so."

Wayne: "Yeah yeah yeah, thanks a lot."

Wayne went in Quinn's cell where he and Haxton are present there.

Haxton: "You got the card?"

Wayne: "Surprisingly easy, I did a lot of convincing at the end."

Haxton: "Alright good, we're just going to get inside the office stealthily."

Quinn: "What about we need only one person to get inside anyway? What if there are surveillence cameras anywhere."

Haxton: "Shit you're right, who's actually good at being sneaky anyways?"

Quinn: "Yeah, you've be asking Eddie Murphy over here."

Wayne: "Are you fucking with me right now?"

The issue cuts to Wayne stealthing his way to find shotgun shells undetected after inserting the guard's keycard. During the route, he heard footsteps coming from the front so that he have to hide inside a left-opened locker in the room besides him, slowly.

Guard 1: "Did you hear something?"

Guard 2: "Hear what?"

Guard 1: "Or is it just me? Because, I heard a locker closing while there's nobody in this peculiar room."

Guard 2: "I ain't hearin' nothing, Jacob. You must not be taking your medicine again."

The second guard continues walking to the front while Jacob abnormally stares at the locker whereas Wayne is panicking.

Jacob: "Yeah, it's probably me again without my medicine pills." Jacob walks away thinking he was being delusional because of locker Wayne closed in order to hide from them.

Wayne awaits for 5 minutes in order for them to not hear him closing the locker however guards would keep appearing from the perspective that he is temporarily stuck in here. For 10 minutes, he does not see any guards walking by so he have to make a quick solution to find shotgun shells.

Wayne is perceived of a information gathered by the same guard he took the keycard from, talking to his co-worker about some prisoner mysteriously took his keycard and inserted it in the slide lock. He got his suspicion that Wayne is in the place or he already left the room without the guards knowing he was in the office.

Guard 1: "If you seen an African-American inmate who is about 5'10, balding. Just let me know because the man hugged me as a distraction to take my card. He eventually made excuses like hugs would relieve stress or anything."

Guard 2: "You got it, Hanson."

The different second guard walks out of the room with orders to find Wayne for stealing Hanson's card as Wayne immediately hides from him in the next room.

Wayne whispering: "I'm so fucked."

Wayne continues searching for shells in a hurry until stumbling upon a weaponary.

Wayne: "Oh shit, this might be it."

Wayne looks around his back to check if there's any guards are coming before going inside to get a single shell. When successfully getting the shell and before going outside of the weaponary, he hears incoming footsteps from a single guard. He tried to find a place to hide but to no avail, he quicky underneath the desk from the behind.

The guard brought lunch to the security guard that was just behind a door with a slide lock.

Guard: "Hey Don, I got some McDonald's for you."

Don: "McDonald's again? This is the fifth time in a row."

Guard: "Yeah, ever since Hanson was involved to the fast food chain in the first place he doesn't stop eating those fries, nuggets, and burgers, you name it. I mean, I don't blame the guy for being so addictive to nuggets anyways."

Don: "Yeah whatever. Enjoy your lunch by the way."

The security guard, Don grabs the McDonald's bag for his lunch before closing the door, as the guard walks away groaning with his lunch.

Wayne whispering: "I haven't had McDonald's in like 8 years."

Wayne walks out of the desk with a shell in his pocket till unexpectedly getting caught by Don asking the guard who gave him the McDonald's, about his drink. Don immediately deploys his taser.

Don: "Don't move a muscle."

Wayne: "Hey hey hey! Uhh... I did not steal anything from you guys I swear! I just wanna check on what are you guys doing!"

Don: "Excuses don't convince me, big man."

Don reaches his walkie talkie and call the prison guards regarding Wayne's trespass inside the office. Wayne immediately made a run for it, as Don attempts to taze Wayne but instead it tazes to the wall.

Don to his walkie talkie: "The inmate you're looking for, is retreating. I repeat, the inmate you're looking for, is retreating!"

While on his run, Wayne pushes his way a few guards walking in front of him, they quickly identify him, deploy their weapons towards him, and firing.

When Wayne reached to the door, he tried to insert the stolen keycard like 2 attempts till it would opens for him to get the shell to Haxton. Wayne ran to the cell block with guards chasing after him. He successfully reaches Haxton talking to aforementioned Connor and throws the shell on a floor with reluctance as he kept running till he was caught.

Haxton grabs the shell and shows it to Connor, who is reliable of making operational products for prisoners.

Haxton: "Does a shotgun shell filled with pellets work for a pipebomb?"

Connor: "Pellets would likely be accomplishable for our pipebomb containment we've talked about earlier. But, it will take a while maybe like tomorrow or 2 days."

Haxton: "Yeah, we'll be patient anyways. I'll keep in touch if you need me for helping purposes."

Connor: "I don't need any acquaintances that can assist me in manufacturing. Plus, they can most likely detonate the containment by accident if their hands are otherwise incautious."

Haxton: "But I'm pretty cautious let's just say."

Connor: "No you are not. You don't trust inmates by hands to hands, just like you don't trust people with appalling haircuts older than your 8 year old self."

Connor walks away with a scowl on his face to work on the pipebomb.

Haxton shouting to Connor: "Notify me if you are finished!"

Haxton whispers: "Hold on a sec; do I even have an appalling haircut?"

The issue zooms into Haxton's perspective and flashes back to 6 days ago about how Haxton and his friends are imprisoned.

**Chapter 5: Bolt for Freedom**
Quinn uses a sharp toothbrush to draw a second tally mark on his wall to indicate his time in prison. Guard opens his cell to enforce him out of the bed.

Guard: "Wake up, inmate. It's breakfast."

Quinn sighs before going to the cafeteria to meet up with Haxton and Wayne. Quinn grabs his breakfast to sit at the table as he awaits Haxton and Wayne to come by. Eventually, they did alongside their breakfast, however Wayne's face was severely beaten due to his entrance to the prison office.

Quinn: "Jesus, look at you. It's like Two Face was beginning to decompose."

Wayne: "Two Face instantly got his "two face" by acidic chemicals. So, I don't get the punchline here."

Quinn: "I'm not a DC nerd like you, bitch. I just think Two Face design is almost identical to you."

Wayne: "Man, fuck yo-

Haxton interrupting: "Guys guys. The pipebomb Connor is currently constructing should be detonated at this specific wall right here, right there in this cafeteria. If somebody going to volunteer a distraction on the guards while we are setting the pipebomb over there to enable our escape plan."

Wayne: "And what if the plan goes south."

Haxton: "Like what?"

Wayne: "If you know your guards well, they damn know they gonna shoot at you for escaping. In fact, there's a lot of us around by the looks of the cafeteria; don't you think casualities should be over the limit?"

Quinn: "What about we lock the guards outside of their office?"

Wayne: "Quinn, you're such a dumbass. Guards are hard to convince otherwise to get in their office as inmates."

Haxton: "Guys, have you mishearing my plans yet again? If somebody going to volunteer to distract guards out of the cafeteria then we're good to go."

Wayne: "Don't forget, there's a security guard inside the building monitoring the place. How should we take care of that?"

Haxton and Quinn look at each other for a few seconds before coming up with a plan.