Tomorrow People Network Draft Cover - Zen 134237

53.JEDIKIAH(point-blank)I’d like for you to come work forme, Stephen.STEPHEN(long beat)You’re joking?JEDIKIAHI underestimated you. Clearly.We’ve only glimpsed what you’recapable of... But if you let mehone your abilities, you’d be quitean asset to ULTRA.STEPHENULTRA hunts down people like me.Why would I help them?JEDIKIAH(motioning to next room)Simple. For them... Your family.STEPHENAre you threatening -- ?JEDIKIAHNo, you’re threatening them -- ifyou don’t help contain the spreadof your species. I’m offering youthe chance to protect the ones youlove, Stephen....STEPHENThe chance to be a traitor?JEDIKIAHA traitor to who? A bunch of rebelrunaways you met two days ago, orto your mom? Your brother, yourfriend -- Astrid, is it?(off Stephen’s surprise)Therapy records... Veryilluminating.(then)Sooner or later, you’re gonna haveto choose a side.Just then, Stephen’s brother ENTERS. Feigned nonchalance...LUCASo, we’ve got an uncle Jedikiah...How random is that?