One of the rear service yards to the shopping centre: F Service Yard, which featured in The One About The Skateboarders. It is dimly lit. A van is parked in a bay beneath a sign which reads: 'Cars parked here without authorisation will be clamped.' The doors of the van are open, and we can just make out tools inside.
Nearby, in the centre of the yard, a red and white-striped temporary canvas work hut used by telecom engineers has been erected. There is light inside it.
2. EXT. SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE. NIGHT.
Inside the canvas hut is YOSHITAKA and ZENSHO, both in their late 20s. They are kneeling on the ground looking at a manhole cover between them. YOSHITAKA holds a lamp over it, and as he does so we see that it has a complex design of shapes and hieroglyphs, a bit like a maze. It is circular within a square frame. Across the bottom is the inscription, 'La Fonderie Toulouse.' YOSHITAKA and ZENSHO marvel at it as if it were a work of art.
3. EXT. SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE. NIGHT.
Inside the canvas hut, ZENSHO is trying to open the manhole cover with a crow-bar, without success.
YOSHITAKA
Here, let me have a go.
4. EXT. SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE. NIGHT.
Inside the hut, ZENSHO and YOSHITAKA, both wearing round welding goggles, are using an oxycetaline torch around the edge of the manhole cover.
5. EXT. SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE. DAY.
The following morning, F Service Yard. There is no van, no canvas work hut. But there is a hole in the yard where the manhole cover once was. Above it stands HAYLEY who, as ever, is on her walkie-talkie. Some SKATEBOARDERS seen over in the corner.
HAYLEY
Control, come in.
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