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DANGER MOUSEDark DawnDM-S2-E56Shooting ScriptWritten byMark Huckerby & Nick Ostler18th April 2016
1EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE - DAY1Black cabs, red buses, commuters.1NARRATOR (V.O.)London. A normal, ordinary,everyday-1A STAMPEDE OF RAINBOW PONIES sends cars and pedestriansflying. SCREAMS 2NARRATOR (V.O.)Stampede of ANGRY RAINBOW PONIES!?2DANGER MOUSE gallops in on the Danger Horse. PENFOLD, wearinghis Giraffe Warriors onesie, grips onto DM’s waist.3PENFOLDIt’s a bit early for all this,isn’t it, Chief? I haven’t even hadmy porridge.34DANGER MOUSEEvil doesn’t have a snooze button,Penfold!4They vault a car, chasing after the stampeding ponies andPenfold grips DM’s waist harder.5DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)(constricted)A bit tight!56PENFOLDSorry. I’ll cuddle Bernard instead.6Penfold takes out his teddy bear, BERNARD, and cuddles him.WHIP PAN TO SNUGGLES the giant teddy bear, who is hanging offNelson’s Column, shooting out black rays of anger from theblack tiara on his head.7SNUGGLESJOIN ME, FRIENDS! FEEL MY CUDDLYRAGE!7He blasts a CHILD’S TEDDY BEAR. It leaps from its pram, blowsa raspberry at its owner and joins Snuggles. The child BAWLS! .Two little teddy bears are trying to wrestle Big Mike, whojust giggles in response. As several more teddies run past,Danger Mouse dismounts and squares up to Snuggles.
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804162.8DANGER MOUSEAlright, Snuggles, I think someoneneeds a time out on the naughtystep. And by ‘someone’ I mean youand by ‘naughty step’ I mean amaximum security prison.89SNUGGLESI’ll never surrender! I’ll destroyanyone who isn’t my friend! Do youwant to be my friend? BE MY FRIEND!9DM and Penfold look at each other, surprised.10SNUGGLES (CONT’D)I don’t care! I don’t need you, Ican make my own friends!10ZAP! Snuggles aims a POWER RAY at Bernard who comes to life,leaps out of Penfold’s arms and GROWLS at him.11PENFOLD(gasps, stricken)Bernard?11Snuggles jumps off Nelson’s Column onto a rainbow pony andswings Bernard up behind him. They gallop off.12PENFOLD (CONT’D)12BERNARD?!Danger Mouse steps up, watching them go.13DANGER MOUSELet me handle it, Penfold. I knowwho’s behind this. I’ll simplysummon the Danger Car and-13NEEEYOW! The Danger Car races past, an irate Penfold at thewheel, standing up as he drives.14PENFOLDNO ONE TAKES MY BERNARD!14DM looks around, awkward.15DANGER MOUSESeat belt Penfold!!!!He WHISTLES , leaps on Danger Horse and takes chase.15
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-18041623.2EXT. PINK DAWN’S PLAY SET PALACE - DAY CRASH! Penfold drives the Danger Car through the gates,jumps out and stomps up to a bedroom door with a PICTURE OFPINK DAWN hanging on the door. Penfold pounds on the door.16PENFOLDPink Dawn? You open this door atonce right now!16He listens. No reply.17PENFOLD (CONT’D)Right then. I’ll. KICK IT DOWN!17He winds up to kick the door down.33INT. PINK DAWN’S NEW BEDROOM - DAY CRASH Penfold’s feet fly smash through the door, but therest of his body is on the other side. The door opens,revealing DM and the top half of Penfold stuck in the hole.18DANGER MOUSEIt wasn’t locked, Penfold.1819PENFOLDThanks, Chief.19He falls out of the door with a thud.20DANGER MOUSEDon’t mention it-20Penfold pushes past and stamps into the room, angry.21PENFOLDYou’ve got some explaining to do,young lady!21REVEAL - the room has changed. The girly pink accoutrementshave been replaced by with GOTHIC TEENAGE PARAPHERNALIA.22DANGER MOUSEWait. Where’s all the pink stuff?22A chair swings round to reveal PINK DAWN, but not as we knowher. Black hair, moody fringe and a black dress adorn the allnew Dawn as she scribbles in her journal.
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804164.23DAWNHeard of privacy much!? Ugh, I hategrown ups. GET OUT OF MY ROOM!2324PENFOLDChief, something’s changed. I thinkshe’s.2425DANGER MOUSE/PENFOLD(with horror).A TEENAGER!2526NARRATORNO! Pink Dawn? A teenager? The onlything worse than a super villain isa teenager! And the only thingworse than a teenager is a teenaged super-villain!2627DAWNNow leave me alone before I, like,flick my hair at you and stuff.2728DANGER MOUSEI think we can handle that.28ACT TWO29DAWN29Ugh.Dawn FLICKS her black fringe, emitting a black power-wavethat sends DM and Penfold flying into a side table, coveringthem with teenage goth jewelry.30DANGER MOUSE/PENFOLD30Oof!COLONEL K’S HOLOGRAM pops up in front of them.31COLONEL KAh DM, Interesting new look.31They shake off the jewelry. Penfold, angry, stomps OOV.32DANGER MOUSEJust dealing with a villainous teentantrum Colonel. Looks like PinkDawn’s grown up and abandoned hertoys.32
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804165.33COLONEL KHm. I wonder if that could beconnected to all the angry softtoys rampaging across Britain?3334DANGER MOUSEWell, yes Colonel, obviously.3435COLONEL KDrop everything and deal with itDM! Major Mugsy has disappeared!35He shows a picture of himself with a teddy in uniform.36DANGER MOUSEWe’re at Pink Dawn’s right now sir.Should have everything undercontrol in no time. Just needs abit of finesse and-3637PENFOLD (O.S.)(shouting)Now you listen here, Missy!3738DANGER MOUSEExcuse me Colonel.38DM joins Penfold who is angrily confronting Dawn.39PENFOLDSnuggles is out there causingmayhem with your super-poweredtiara - and he’s done somethingterrible to my Bernard!3940DAWNT.L.D.L. Too long, didn’t listen.40Dawn starts another super-powered hair flick.41PENFOLD41Ooh ‘eck!He grabs the POETRY JOURNAL from her desk and uses it toshield himself from the blast, but is still blown across theroom into Danger Mouse’s arms.42DANGER MOUSE/PENFOLDOOF!Penfold pulls the journal off his face and reads.42
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-180416436.PENFOLD“Life is a hole. Like the darknessin my soul. I am alone. Even thecharge is out on my phone.”(emotionally to camera)It’s rather moving actually-43Dawn snatches it off him.44DAWNDon’t read that! Ugh, soembarrassing.4445DANGER MOUSE(to himself)Hm, doesn’t like beingembarrassed.(louder)Come on Penfold. We’ll just telleveryone the teddies are Dawn’s.45Penfold, gloomy, slopes after DM towards the door. Dawn jumpsin front of them.46DAWNWAIT! You can’t. I’ll look likesuch a like baby and stuff.4647DANGER MOUSEThen do the sensible adult thingand help us fight these teddybears! Hm, doesn’t sound quite asadult when you say it out loud.4748DAWNTsch. FIIIINE.48Dawn rolls her eyes and winds up for as hair flick. DM andPenfold look at each other alarmed.49DANGER MOUSE/PENFOLDHAIR FLICK!49And dive for cover as she hair-flicks.4EXT. LONDON - DAY4PAN DOWN TO the fog-shrouded bridge.50NARRATOR (V.O.)And so our heroes arrange arendezvous- Is that fog? Tut! Oh!(MORE)50
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804167.NARRATOR (V.O.) (CONT'D)That’s 20 minutes on my homejourney!Danger Mouse appears holding a smoke machine, that’s pumpingout fog.51DANGER MOUSEWe’re just creating a bit ofatmosphere!5152NARRATOROh sorry, carry on.5253PENFOLDWhat am I going to do if I don’tget Bernard back chief?5354DANGER MOUSEI don’t know? Get another one?54Penfold wails.55DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)Don’t worry, Penfold I’m sure Dawnwill convince Snuggles to puteverything back to normal.55Snuggles, Bernard and some of his toy army peer through thefog at one end of the bridge.Dawn steps out of the fog at the other end of the bridge.56SNUGGLES(briefly excited)DAWN!(remembers he’s angry)Pfff, ‘hello’. You look, whatever.56Dawn hears DM’s voice in her earpiece. He’s hiding in the fogwith an anxious Penfold.57DANGER MOUSE (OVER EARPIECE)Remember, Dawn, just tell him whathe wants to hear.5758PENFOLD (OVER EARPIECE)Is Bernard there, can you see him?5859DANGER MOUSE (OVER EARPIECE)Penfold, get off the microphone!5960SNUGGLESWell? I’m waiting?60
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804168.With DM and Penfold, DM is whispering into a microphone.61DANGER MOUSERepeat after me Dawn. “I’m reallysorry I was mean to you, Snuggles.Please stop scaring people.”61Penfold is in near tears and tapping DM’s arm. DM sighs.62DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)And please give Bernard back.62With Dawn and Snuggles63DAWN(robotic, fast)I’m really sorry I was mean to you.Boo hoo. Please stop scaringpeople. And give Barney back.64PENFOLD (OFF, IN DISTANCE)6364BERNARD!Snuggles seems unsure.Intercutting between DM and Dawn65DANGER MOUSESay it like you mean it!6566DAWNSay it like you mean it!6667SNUGGLES67DANGER y, I’ll send the toys home, butonly if you say ‘pretty please’.7071DANGER MOUSEGreat! Just say it, Dawn!7172DAWNPr- Pr- Prrrrrr- UGH!72Dawn hair-flicks, knocking Snuggles and the toys over.
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-180416739.SNUGGLES73OOF!And dispersing the fog, revealing Danger Mouse.74DANGER MOUSE74Ah.75SNUGGLESDANGER MOUSE?! What is this?7576DAWNUgh, you’re such a baby toy. Idon’t want you back. I don’t careif I never see you again!76Snuggles GASPS , heart-broken again. His toy friends areoutraged.Penfold breaks ranks and runs towards Bernard.77PENFOLDDon’t worry chief! Bernard willlisten to reason!77Bernard turns on the approaching Penfold, GROWLING .Penfold races back past DM.78PENFOLD (CONT’D)There’s no reasoning with him!78Snuggles grows angry as he rises up, his face darkening.795SNUGGLESNo more Mr. Nice Snuggles. ALL WILLFEEL MY PAIN!795EXT. LONDON STREETS - DAYSnuggles rampages through the streets ROARING and blastingevery soft toy in sight.80DANGER MOUSEWell, that could have gone better.80Teddies leap from the arms of distraught children, run fromhouses and break out of shop windows, joining his growingarmy and leaving a trail of devastated owners.DM and a depressed Penfold race after them in the Danger Car.
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804168110.PENFOLDBernard! Bernard! Who’s going tohug me now?!81He looks hopefully at DM.82DANGER MOUSEBit busy saving the world Penfold.Honestly, a few lost teddies andeveryone falls to pieces. At leastI can rely on the Professor to keepa level head. Profess-82PROFESSOR SQUAWKENCLUCK comes onscreen - she is turning theLab upsidedown, weeping with such emotion that she iscompletely incomprehensible. Snot-bubble level bawling.83PROFESSOR SQUAWKENCLUCK(INCOMPREHENSIBLE BABBLE)8384DANGER MOUSESorry Professor, what was that?.8485PENFOLDI think she’s speaking Spanish.85She picks up a keyboard and types, still bawl-babbling.86DANGER MOUSEWait, she’s typing something.86He activates his eye-patch and reads the message.87DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)‘Professor Donkey’ is gone! My liferuined.87DM hangs up.88DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)Looks like we’re on our own, PenfoOh good grief.88Penfold has wadded up his jacket and is cradling it like ababy.89PENFOLDYou’ll be my new baby bear now,Jacket. I’ll call you Jacky.8990DANGER MOUSEGetting a bit weird now Penfold.90
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-1804166EXT. LONDON - HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - DAY11.6Snuggles blasts some MPs, whose briefcases fall open,revealing teddy bears which join his ranks to their distress.91NARRATOR (V.O.)It looks like there’s no stoppingSnuggles. But honestly, isn’teveryone a little old for teddies?91Snuggles turns TO CAMERA and blasts us with his rays.A SILHOUETTE OF A TEDDY jumps up on screen and runs off.92NARRATOR (V.O.)Mickey Phone! Mickey Phone! Wah!!!92The Danger Car flies in. Penfold blubbing .93DANGER MOUSEI-patch, scan for targets.93I-patch POV plots a course through all the rampaging teddies.94DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)I can still contain them, just aslong as things don’t get any worse.94Snuggles appears on screens everywhere, angry and emotional.95SNUGGLESBy the way, if anyone’s wonderingwho’s to blame, it’s HER!95Embarrassing photos of Dawn on every screen - in her supergirly phase, cuddling Snuggles, having teddy tea parties etc.96SNUGGLES (CONT’D)She used to love me! She used todress me in ribbons and bows.I was her special bear!9697DANGER MOUSE97Uh-oh!98DAWN (O.S.)NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!ACT THREEBLACK STORM CLOUDS rolls over the horizon as GOTH DAWNstreaks into sight, hovering on black power beams.98
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-18041699DAWN (CONT’D)STOP MAKING ME LOOK SILLY!100DANGER MOUSEIf you don’t like silly, you chosethe wrong show.12.99100DM makes evasive manoeuvres as Dawn hair-flicks, sendingwaves of black doom all over the city. SCREAMS as shiny skyscrapers are turned black and gloomy,traffic lights are turned black, pedestrians on a zebracrossing are forced to flee as the white stripes turn blackand the cars drive across.101NARRATOR (V.O.)(still sad)Can Danger Mouse stop our villains(sniff) before they turn Londoninto a gloomy, unfriendly place?You know (sniff), more than usual.101DM continues to pilot them around black rays and dodgeattacking teddies, under the following:102PENFOLDYou’ll never understand Chief. Younever lost someone you care aboutmore than anything in the world.102103DANGER MOUSEI nearly lose my best friend everyweek! It’s the thing that drivesme. And his name is Penfold.103104PENFOLDOh. So not only is Bernard gone,but now I find you’ve got anotherfriend called Penfold who’s moreimportant to you than I am! WEEPS 104105DANGER MOUSEGood grief.105 ZAP! the Car is blasted, turning it black.7EXT. BIG BEN - CONTINUOUSSnuggles (with Bernard) scales Big Ben like a cuddly KingKong. Dawn rises next to him, both powering up their blackrays, ready to obliterate each other.7
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting AWNAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!107The Danger Car screeches in between them and hovers there. DMleaps onto the bonnet and holds up his hands.108DANGER MOUSEWAIT! I know you’re both upset, butthings change. People change.Teddies change!108109PENFOLDI don’t want them to!109110DANGER MOUSENot helping, Penfold. What I’msaying is, if you love something,you have to set it free!110Dawn and Snuggles look at each other, thoughtful. Beat.111DAWN/SNUGGLES111Nah.Danger Mouse dives clear as Snuggles and Dawn blast eachother. ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! Bernard loses his grip on Big Ben and plummets away.112PENFOLD112BERNARD!Penfold leaps from the hovering Car and falls after him.113DANGER MOUSE113PENFOLD!DM leaps after him, but collides with Dawn, who spirals outof control, crashing into Snuggles. The three dangle from theclock face and can only watch as Penfold grabs a surprisedBernard with the ground approaching fast! At the very lastmoment Penfold pops open a parachute! They land on the groundand Penfold releases his grip on Bernard.114PENFOLDIt’s okay, Bernard. You go. I canlearn to live without you!Bernard’s frown lifts. and he runs into Penfold’s arms!They both BURST INTO TEARS 114
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-18041614.ABOVE THEM, ON BIG BENDanger Mouse, Snuggles and Dawn are all moved by what theysee. then embarrassed115DANGER MOUSE/SNUGGLES/DAWNAhem, something in my eye/Thewind’s making my eyes water/Minortear duct infection115Snuggles and Dawn look at each other. DM is in the middle.116SNUGGLESI’M SORRY I WAS SO ANGRY!116117DAWN117Me tooo!!!Dawn takes the Tiara and puts it on, turning back into PinkDawn. They hug, crushing DM - he manages to squeeze out ofthe middle of their embrace.118DANGER MOUSEI’ll just. give you some space.118ON THE GROUNDBernard turns back into just a teddy and falls into Penfold’sarms, as Danger Mouse lands next to them.119DANGER MOUSE (CONT’D)Looks like it all ended happilyever after for once Penfold.119In B/G Dawn and Snuggles fly away spreading rainbows acrossthe sky.120DANGER MOUSE (CONT'D)Thank goodness as angry Bernard wasquite creepy.120121PENFOLD(gasps) Chief!121Penfold covers Bernard’s ears.122DANGER MOUSEAll that’s left is for the Narratorto sum up what we’re all feelingwith a few heart-felt words.122
DM-S2-E56-DarkDawn-Shooting Script-180416123NARRATOR (V.O.)Waaaaah!!! Mickey Phone! I love youso much! Mic-key-ph-one!!! Neverleave me again!15.123
flying. SCREAMS 2 NARRATOR (V.O.) 2 Stampede of ANGRY RAINBOW PONIES!? DANGER MOUSE gallops in on the Danger Horse. PENFOLD, wearing his Giraffe Warriors onesie, grips onto DM’s waist. 3 PENFOLD 3 It’s a bit early for all this, isn’t it, Chief? I haven’t even had my porridge. 4 D
