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SCENE 1
(Headquarters is busy—papers, people, conversations. Gadget is
working at the science table. Numbers is at the light board. Chief
is at the desk. Others are milling around in conversation.)
JANE: Line up for morning roll call!
(everyone hurries to their spot)
CHIEF: (Jane hands Chief her clipboard) Thank you, Jane. Let's see …
Gadget?
GADGET: (salutes and the suitcase he's carrying opens and spills random
items—a hammer, twine, duct tape, a roll of toilet paper) Present,
Chief.
CHIEF: I see you've come prepared, Gadget, at ease. (Gadget picks up
the items and puts them back in the suitcase.) Numbers?
NUMBERS: Reporting for duty, Chief … precisely three minutes and
sixteen seconds before roll call.
CHIEF: As expected. Knox and Bree?
KNOX & BREE: Yo, Chief!
CHIEF: And … Secret Agent Dee? (looking around) Agent Dee?
DEE: (walking in) Sorry, Chief. I should've expected the delays. The
traffic this week! Some joker's camel ran out of water in the
middle of downtown. Dromedaries were backed up to Herod's
Gate!
CHIEF: As a fourth generation agent, Dee, I would think promptness
would be in your blood. (hands the clipboard back to Jane)
DEE: Won't happen again, Chief.
CHIEF: "On time and on our guard at all times." We can't have a
repeat of JI1 or JI2.
DEE: That's for sure! I don't want to see JI3 caught unaware like
JI1. I can't imagine the cost of exterminating all those locusts.
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