Z&B Episode 1: Stop! Apple!
[Exterior Dolly side view] Zoot and Buff ride in their convertible down the street. <Happy traveling music>
[Camera diagonal down following car as empty street rolls by] Zoot is driving.
[Text placard] "Help!" <high pitched trumpet note>
[Close up of their faces from side/front] They are surprised to hear the cry for help. They grow determined.
[Street view of Apple cart] Salesman/owner is waving his hands while two apples (one red and one green) roll on the sidewalk by his feet. (Barely on screen is a small cafe table and three chairs.) Car pulls up and <screeches> to a stop. (Driver's side is toward camera.) Zoot forward rolls over windshield while Buff behind her leaps over his door toward owner.
[Closeup on ground] Owner's hand picks up two rolling apples in view of Buff's bare feet and tire of car.
[Head to waist] Buff is listening to owner, who stands back up and shows them the two apples. (Buff has a tattoo of a gear and wrench on his chest.) Zoot is slowly sliding down car hood and listening, interested. Zoot is holding her open wallet displaying a police badge. Owner spins the two apples in one hand while talking excitedly and gesturing with the free hand.
[Continuous, slight zoom in] Owner points down the street. They both turn heads.
[Down the street] Something disappears into an alley. (Spoiler: a dog.)
[Return to view] They nod at owner, (anticipating they will enjoy the case of the stolen apple). Zoot tosses her cigarette to the ground.
[Return to street view of Apple Cart] They give chase on foot, (with Zoot partially eclipsing Buff from camera's view).
[Deep inside the alley, closeup of an apple stem on the ground] Z&B can be seen out if focus in the background turning the corner, stopping to look down the alley, then running towards the stem. At the same time, slowly the stem is highlighted with a glowing outline, and the missing apple is outlined by the time their feet arrive at the stem. B's hand picks it up.
[Face to chest] They look at the stem. Z has the same cigarette in her mouth again. They look opposite directions for clues. They look up at something above them.
[View upward at side of building] There is a metal escape ladder running up the side of the building. [Camera pans slightly to appreciate the height.]
[View from above] They are far down from the top of the building where the ladder leads.
[Side view head to waist] Buff strides to the ladder while Zoot reaches to her belt buckle and lifts it up to face height. it has a bright cable attached back to the belt. As Buff (out of focus in background) climbs ladder, belt buckle starts to vibrate and lifts off into the air, dragging cable behind it.
[At top looking down] Belt buckle drone flies up to top of roof as Buff (out of focus below) climbs ladder.
[Close up of Zoot from above] Zoot waves hand left and right.
[Return to view above] Drone sways left and right. It stops and beeps. Drone suddenly leaps down to overhang like a grappling hook and fastens itself securely.
[Cowboy view] Zoot has one hand on belt, pressing a button which causes the cable to tighten. She takes a step forward and it continues to tighten.
[Front view] she raises her shoe up to the camera at chest level and cleats/spikes grow out of her shoe.
[side view, quick cut] Buff is climbing and almost to the top.
[same view at ground] Zoot is running up the side of the building. she runs past him (just in time to censor him).
[At the top] Both leap over the edge at the same time and land on the roof in a similar spiderman pose.
[Camera chest level from behind] They scan the rooftop, stepping forward and back to back. [Camera orbits around Zoot to opposite side] Zoot tosses her cigarette away and whips out her badge wallet and a pair of handcuffs. <BARK!> They startle. They spin toward camera. Buff readies both hands for eagle claw kung fu; Zoot has a badge and handcuffs readied. (The badge wallet is a weapon in her hands. The cigarette is back in the corner of her mouth again.) They stare at it (behind the camera). They comically disbelieve what they see.
[Downward front view of cute happy dog with a green apple on ground in front of it.] It picks up the apple in its mouth.
[Side view head to ground] They haven't moved out of their fighting stances; the dog walks toward them. It heaves the apple toward them. Buff catches it in the air.
[Chest level closeup] Buff still has the stem; he places it into the apple to find it is a perfect match. Computer highlight fairy fire like before <with computer Bing! sound> indicates it is complete now.
[Side view again] The dog is now begging for a treat.
[Face closeup] They look at each other, then back at the dog.
[Side view again] They are now standing more casually. Hesitantly, Buff tosses the apple back to the dog. The dog catches the apple on its snout, and catapults it back up to Zoot, who puts her handcuffs away just in time to catch it.
[Faces closeup again] They look from the dog back to each other quizzically again. They both get an idea at the same time.
[Downward isometric view of them on the rooftop] They start scanning the rooftop again, focusing on places above the dog's head.
[Extreme closeup] Buff sees something, excitedly.
[Closeup] A new tennis ball (similar to color of apple) caught in a tight spot too high for the dog to reach. With difficulty, Buff's hand reaches in and grabs it and pulls it out.
[Closeup chest level] Buff tosses the tennis ball, back handed.
[Closeup chest level] Zoot deflects the ball upward with her badge, tracks it in the air with her eyes while pocketing the handcuffs, and catches it contact-juggling-style with the badge. She looks at the dog, then gently tosses the ball forward.
[Side view heads to ground] The dog bounces the ball from Zoot to Buff.
[Closeup chest level] Buff is surprised and quickly tosses the apple forward before catching the ball in both hands.
[Closeup, chest level] Zoot catches the apple in one hand and puts away her badge with the other.
[Low side view] Buff kneels down beside the dog and pets it. It appears happy. He puts the ball in its mouth. The dog stands up and walks around in front of him.
[Cowboy view] Zoot waves goodbye as Buff slowly stands also waving goodbye.
[Wide View] Dog walks to an easier fire escape stair just around the corner of the building that they didn't see earlier.
[Faces Closeup] They are both dumbfounded that the dog knew an easier way.
[At the stairs] They run up and peer over the edge. Zoot tosses her cigarette away.
[From above] The dog is only down one flight, waiting for them to follow.
[Side view, high speed] They all walk down the fire escape stairs. (Zoot has her cigarette back.)
[Return to wide view of street in front of Apple cart] Owner is trying to sell apples to a nonexistant crowd like a circus barker, and convertible still parked. Zoot's male twin brother is sitting at a small cafe table for three with a slice of apple pie. (Male Zoot wears costume identical to female Zoot except opposite colors of pinstripe and suit.)
[Wide sidewalk view] Zoot, Buff, and dog walk up (a little out of focus) as Owner (looking wrong way) is in forefront. Owner slowly turns, and is surprised to see them so soon.
[Chest level] Zoot stops walking and tosses apple ahead while Buff stops and happily recognizes the guy at the table, (pointing at him).
[Head to Chest] Owner catches apple, looks at it all over, and is very pleased. Zoot's brother at table stands and smiles.
[Side cowboy view, (head to thigh)] Zoot smiles and tosses her cigarette on the ground.
[Head to chest] Zoot's brother tosses his different colored cigarette to the ground.
[At ground] Dog now sitting watches the two cigarettes bounce off the ground and back up.
[Closeup] She catches his in her mouth and smiles as Buff watches blankly and blinks once.
[Closeup] He catches hers in his mouth and smiles.
[Head to waist] They hug each other. In background, Buff steps around toward table. (Apparently, Buff already knew they act like that. He is unsurprised.)
[Closeup] Buff sees something of interest.
[Extreme closeup orbiting pie] The abandoned pie is still on the table uneaten.
[Head to chest, tracking] Buff sits down in the abandoned seat and picks up the nearby fork and starts to eat.
[Continuous pan down to ground then track dog] Dog with ball in its mouth trots ahead and sits down in front of owner.
[Medium side view] Owner crouches slightly, lightly scolds dog for running off with Apple by shaking a finger at it. Dog is oblivious to the meaning of the gesture.
[Head to thighs] After pulling the empty fork out of his mouth. Buff happily signals the owner for 2 more of these Apple pie slices by waving two fingers then pointing down at his pie.
[Head to knees] Owner looks back up from micheivious dog, smiles, waves two fingers back, and nods happily.
[Head to knees] The Zoot twins walk around to the table, (Female upstage; Male behind). MZ and Buff share a bro-bump handshake as MZ passes to his new seat. FZ & MZ sit down with Buff, (who has a napkin in his lap now). Buff and FZ talk (FZ mostly talks; Buff talks between bites) to MZ about their adventure. MZ is happy to hear the tale.
[Continuous, slowly zoom out and boom up into the sky] Dog walks up and sits politely next to Buff. Owner brings two more slices of pie for MZ&FZ. Buff takes tennis ball from dog's mouth and bounces it on the ground. Dog catches ball, returns, and tosses it on the ground so that it bounces to Buff. All are surprised at the dog's intelligence and chuckle happily. [Camera continues to pull away. Fade out.]
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