'I tell you,' says Walt, 'it's the perfect international project.'
'Yes but,' says Kiochi.
'Anyone can meet anyone in cyberspace,' says Walt, sipping at his margarita.
'Yes but...'
We see that they are sitting by a white table next to a pool in bright sunlight, the American and the Japanese. A blond with large breasts that are having trouble keeping themselves to themselves lies by the pool in a two-piece, talking to a bare-chested maybe Korean young man. Will they be a sub-plot? And where are we? California? Okinawa?
And then suddenly we notice a third figure at the table: a brown-skinned woman who turns towards the men. She looks over-dressed for the heat, in a red hat and scarf, and a cream dress with a lot of shoulder-pad. But she's cool. Is she Bollywood Indian maybe? Or a very tanned white woman? She's sipping at Perrier.
'Walt, you dummy,' says the woman, with a hint of Scandinavian not Hindi in her American, 'what Ki's trying to say here is that cyberspace doesn't exist. It's an imaginary place.'
'So?'
Kiochi and the woman share a look. The sub-plot blonde by the pool is splashing the bare-chested man. Another sub-plot on legs, a young worried man in a white uniform pushing a trolley, emerges from the French windows and trundles his load towards the conversation.
'So,' says the woman, 'it's the place people think exists when they dial somewhere up on their computer. When really all there is is just...'
'Don't give me this really, for,' - in normal circumstances Walt would say 'fuck' here, but this is prime-time - 'for heaven's sake, who cares about really? Just get a couple of writers to do some storylines, right?'
And so a hungry writer, disguised as a worried waiter, gets to be the first to hear about a new project, and lo and behold, a soap opera is born...
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This is part of the writing project goddesses in cyberspace, developed by Alan McDonald at ArtiMedia, Batley, UK. Thanks to Charin Singh for all his help, and to Yorkshire and Humberside Arts for financial support. This page by Alan McDonald.