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SPECTRUM #3

PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

PANEL ONE: RICHIE cuts loose with a solid-light beam that is hammering against TERRY’s floating garbage, while DEBRA circles around behind.

RICHIE:
NO ONE is trying to hurt you! You are MAKING US do this!

TERRY:
LIAR! I ain’t goin’ back! I got rights!

PANEL TWO: RICHIE has a glowing shield-disc in front of him that blunts the force of TERRY’s trash-geyser. He’s concentrating but still trying to reason with TERRY.
RICHIE:
Go back where?

TRASHY TERRY:
You tell Casper he ain’t the boss of me!

RICHIE:
Casper? AGENT Casper?

PANEL THREE: Close up on TERRY; his eyes are wide, angry, but not insane. He believes he is fighting for his life.

TRASHY TERRY:
John, Jack, Jim, I don’t care what he calls hisself! He makes everything sound good but then you find out you’re a prisoner of the system! I don’t want no part of it!

PANEL FOUR: DEBRA grabs TERRY in a sleeper hold from behind.

DEBRA:
Got him!

TERRY:
NO!

PANEL FIVE: MISS THING comes in from the side, her eyes doing her intense-glow thing. TERRY stares right into her eyes, wide-eyed and fearful.

MISS THING:
Go to sleep.

TERRY:
Nnnn…