Richard Alexander Hall

INT. LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN’S HOME – DAY

THE TRAVELER happens on LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN.

TRAVELER

Here, you’ll love this.

He puts the earbuds of his iPOD up to Beethoven’s ears. Wonderful music (the audience may only guess what) fills Beethoven and overtakes his soul. He moves to snatch the iPod from the traveler’s hands.

BEETHOVEN

(in German)

GIVE IT TO ME! GIVE IT TO ME!

The traveler siezes it back.

TRAVELER

No! It’s mine! I’m just lending – you can’t -

Beethoven reaches for a candlestick – no – he grabs the traveler by the vest and pulls him into his kitchen, siezes a butcher knife, and STABS THE TRAVELER THROUGH TO THE HEART.

INT. BEETHOVEN’S HOME – NIGHT

Beethoven listens to song after song on the iPod, through all hours of the night, alternately frozen in reveries and dancing in raptures, until nearly all his energy has fled. Then, the iPod battery dies.

BEETHOVEN

No!

He comes to the dead traveler and shakes his frame.

BEETHOVEN

(In German)

Make it live! Make it live again!

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