SUPER:

END.

JAMES (mumbling) You’re not real. You’re a dream I’m having while I’m still in that cell.

JAMES (whispering) Is it about the bunny?

A WAITRESS walks by, impossibly slowed down. Her movement takes ten seconds. No one notices but James.

WOODSMAN (standing abruptly) No. It’s about the torrent. And whether you seed before the curtain call.

JAMES looks up. The Woodman’s mouth moves, but the voice comes from everywhere and nowhere—the jukebox, the ice machine, the buzzing neon sign.

He doesn’t. He never does. But he clicks “Download” anyway.

JAMES HURLEY sits alone, nursing a beer. He stares at a cracked smartphone on the sticky table.

The screen goes black. The Bang Bar lights flicker and die.

Here’s a short satirical piece in the style of a lost Twin Peaks: The Return scene.