“Hello everybody, and welcome to this week’s episode of In Like Cyn, dedicated to my good friend Jarret Summers who passed away on March 30, 2017. You will be missed forever my friend. This episode will take you to a table read of my pilot The Shepherd.” – Cynthia Troyer
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Season 2 Episode 17
Published to YouTube on May 11, 2017
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In Like Cyn – Season2 Episode 17
The Shepherd Table Read
Published to YouTube on May 11, 2017
[Cyn: Cynthia Troyer; SE: Sage Emeralds; JL: Jason Long; KB: Kristopher Blank; JS: Jarret Summers;
EO: Erica Ortiz; AS: Arami Elyz Sanabria; SL: Stacy Lumbrezer; RG: Robert Gold;
JM: Jacquie Marroquin; PY: Peter Young]
Title: The Comedy Multiverse logo
Title: In Like Cyn logo
Cyn: Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of In Like Cyn.
SE: Wha-wha – what? Uh uh uh yo! Everything I do is brand new I must continue… Yeah, everything I do is brand new I must continue…
TITLE: Cynthia Troyer, screenwriter
Cyn: And today we are at Amish Buddha Headquarters – and we are gonna be doing — cluck cluck — A Table Read! A table read of my pilot called “The Shepherd” written by me – and Jason Long.
Title: The Shepherd, 13 episode TV bible with Pilot
Title: The Shepherd Table Read
Cyn: Today —
Cyn VO: My friends all headed to Hollywood, to Franklin Village, and the table read was on.
TITLE: Amish Buddha Headquarters
TITLE: Jason Long – writer/youtuber
TITLE: Erica Ortiz – writer/actress
TITLE: Arami Elyz Sanabria – movie mogul
TITLE: Kristopher Blank – songwriter/actor
TITLE: Jarret Summers – writer/actor
Cyn OS: How do you feel about playing God tonight?
JS: I feel very blessed to play God. God is with me always.
Cyn OS: And you – you’re playing Mother Superior tonight –
TITLE: Jacquie Marroquin – advertising
JM: I am playing Mother Superior. And Diamond.
Cyn OS: Who is a whore.
JM: Who is a whore.
TITLE: Peter Young – writer
TITLE: Stacy Lumbrezer – producer/writer
RG: Hey world. I just want to insult one more people because that’s what I do.
TITLE: Robert Gold – writer
Robert Gold and Peter Young simulate making out.
RG: It’s only for the ratings, okay. You needed a good man make-out sesh.
TITLE: The Shepherd Pilot: Sisters of Mercy – written by Jason Andrew Long & Cynthia Troyer
Cyn VO: TEASER
FADE IN:
EXT. CHURCH – JUST BEFORE SUNDOWN
PETER KING (42, Irish, handsome) stands on the steps of the church in running attire. A metal gate reads: 777 Sisters of Mercy –
RG: – above his head. He gazes at the neighborhood, from his vantage point – a rundown part of town.
He puts his earbuds in, pushes play.
RG: INT. SEMINARY SCHOOL – SUNSET
Peter enters, dips his fingers in the holy water and crosses himself. He goes into the confessional booth – darkness. A small door slides open. FATHER MATTHIAS (60’s, gray, healthy) appears in the window.
PY: PETER: “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.”
KB: FATHER MATTHIAS: “I’ll give you a hint. St. Francis was not talking about physical death.
RG: The Father shuts the window. He opens it again.
KB: FATHER MATTHIAS: “Oh, don’t forget, Peter, the Kingdom is UPON us.”
RG: From the sliding door of the confessional as it closes…
EXT. ALLEY / INT. SHANGRI-LA – NIGHT
…to the sliding window at the back of a bar – known as The Shangri-LA – as it opens. Peter, freshly showered, leather jacket, smooths his hair and looks in at a BOUNCER.
RG: Nicky P lays out his cards. With the river he has two pair.
JM: VELVET: “Ooooo, two pairs. I got three of a kind. Any of you boys trump that? Ohh, Peter’s got a full house.
RG: Peter starts raking in the chips.
PY: PETER: “Ahhh, gentlemen, nice playing with ya!”
JS: NICKY P: “Hang on. What you got, Sammy?”
JL: SAMMY: “Like the glowing cheeks of a virgin!”
RG: – throws his cards down.
JS: NICKY P: “A flush. Looks like Sammy’s buying us all some drinks!”
RG: Peter is stunned. He watches Sammy rake in all that money!
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JM: VELVET: “Sammy, my man, that hoodoo or whatever, seems to be working.”
JS: NICKY P: “Happens to the best of us, Peter.”
RG: Peter stands up from the table. Two security men come over and Nicky P gets in his face. He holds up the marker.
JS: NICKY P: “You’ve got two weeks to pay this off. Two weeks!”
AS: TIFFANY: “Are you asking me for details?”
PY: PETER: “As much as you want to tell I am here to listen. But right now all you have to do is ask for forgiveness.”
AS: TIFFANY: “Who should I be forgiven by?”
PY: PETER: “Ahhhh, of the universe? The Multiverse? Listen, Tiffany, you lack guts!”
AS: TIFFANY: “Forgive me! Okay? Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. Is that what you wanted to hear?”
PY: PETER: “Good! Penance will do you good…”
RG: INT. SEEDY MOTEL – DAY
A balding Older Man; THE PROPRIETOR, is going over paperwork.
JS: MOTEL PROPRIETOR: “Afternoon, sister. You look – different.”
TITLE: the neighbor’s dogs wander on in –
SL: SISTER MARY: “I was hoping you could tell me if you’ve seen this woman around here.”
RG: Sister Mary pushes a photo of a vivacious RED HEAD, who is the spitting image of her.
JS: MOTEL PROPRIETOR: “Is this a joke? That’s you in different hair.”
PY: PETER: “I love you, mom.”
RG: The light spreads from his third eye, all through his body.
IN PETER’S ROOM
Sister Martha bursts in, in a panic. Peter wakes up.
Cyn: SISTER MARTHA: “You must come quick, Father. There’s a fight on the front steps. Come quick! Please!
RG: IN THE HALLWAY
Mary, Joseph, and Celeste arrive to check the commotion.
JS: FATHER JOSEPH: “What is all this racket?”
JM: MOTHER CELESTE: “What is going on?”
DISTURBANCE AND WE REPEAT AND PICK UP –
JS: FATHER JOSEPH: “What is all this racket?”
JM: MOTHER CELESTE: “What is going on?”
PY: PETER: “Call 9-1-1, and everyone stay inside.”
SL: SISTER MARY: “Peter! You can’t go out there alone.”
PY: PETER: “I have to. Lock the door after me.”
RG: EXT. SISTERS OF MERCY – 11 PM
At the bottom of the steps, CURLY RAMIREZ (35, angry, Latino, dressed like he robbed Liberace)
RG: FADE TO WHITE. END OF ACT ONE.
JL: (to Robert) Very good.
RG: Peter goes all in. He lays down a royal flush – wins, rakes in the chips.
WITH A WHOOSH – they are back in the white room, but stacks of cash are all around them.
JS: GOD: “Could this much get rid of the darkness and decay?”
PY: PETER: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom – ”
JS: GOD: “Peter, now you’re just quoting one of my books. I already knew it’s not the money that you desire. You want to make a difference – to really help the world become a better place. Because it distracts you from the thing you want the most – to save your mother. Well Peter, your mother’s dead!”
PY: PETER: “I know that! I have a gripe with you about that one too. With all due respect, why would you take away a 13-year-old boy’s mother!? Or give babies cancer for that matter? It’s not right! Just help me save my church!”
RG: Peter falls to his knees, grabbing onto God’s robes.
PY: PETER: “I need that money to save my church?”
JS: GOD: “Does truth take money?”
PY: PETER: “Tell me what to do -”
RG: INT. ORPHANAGE MEDIC STATION – AFTERNOON
Peter is on his knees in front of NURSE GLORIA PRITCHART (50’s, good natured), who is trying to get him back in bed.
PY: PETER: “Tell me what to do -”
JM: NURSE PRITCHART: “I’m trying to tell you to get back in bed, Father. You’re going to tear your stitches.”
PY: PETER: “There’s a wilderness out there. People are starving for spiritual growth, but they don’t know where to turn. Deliver me from hypocrites who preach one thing but do another. Deliver me from high cable prices. Deliver me from fat cats getting richer while you can’t eat. I’m not Robin Hood, but I could be. They’re putting GMO’s in your food, so you need to buy their drugs to solve your health problems. When all you really need to do is go back to what God provided for us.”
JS: Amen!
PY: PETER: “Yes, I said God. The Go Word. Is it a dirty word now? My God comes with a capital G!”
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Cyn VO: This episode is dedicated to Jarret Summers, who passed away on March 30, 2017 (actually March 29, 2017). I will always miss you, my friend.
JS: I feel very blessed to play God. God is with me always.
Cyn VO: Join me every Thursday for a new In Like Cyn.
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