Thunderbirds Are Go!: The Movie

Scene 4 - Harmony

We open up in the Western setting once more. This is the town – Harmony. Around the open setting, we can see a white well, and a variety of paths leading around the small village. Various buildings lie around the area, including a pub/bar, trees, wheels, old houses, etc. On the wall, we can see a wanted poster of the Hood. The horses with the men that we saw earlier arrive and thump the beaten up Rigby down on the ground. They then simply gallop away. Eventually, he gets up with his aches and pains. Frowning angrily and confused at what just happened to him, he eventually places his cowboy hat back on him and throws his bag behind his shoulder again and approaches a bandit sat against the wall. He is hot and sweaty. His face is covered with a big black bushy beard, which makes up for the little thin strips of grey hair left on his head. His teeth are crooked and partly missing, splattered with dirt, and even has one golden tooth, combined with a big gap in the centre of his top teeth. The bandit is definitely drunk. Rigby tries to make out where he is at still. An air of mystery and suspense fills the village.

Bandit:

Harmony.

Rigby:

Never heard of it.

Bandit:

Not many have.

Cowboy piano music has begun to play in the distance over the conversation.

Rigby:

Where is it?

Bandit:

You are a stranger here?

Rigby:

I am.

Bandit:

Ah. We do not get many visitors around these parts, Senior. You look as though as you need a drink. Try the bar down there.

Rigby:

Thanks. Maybe I'd get more out of them than I do you.

He leaves, with his back turned to him. Rigby stops suddenly when the Bandit calls out.

Bandit:

Do not ask too many questions, my friend. It would not do you any good. You'll soon find out where you are.

Rigby continues walking. He enters through into a different passage, where he can see a bar ahead, and a hook to place horses at. It is Lady Penelope and Parker! They take off their horse riding gear such as their helmets and boots and leave them by the horses. Penelope's horse is a gorgeous white, thick in build and with large, strong calf muscles. Parker rode on a smaller, cheeky little donkey with a dark grey coat with big buck teeth. It makes a horrible noise at Parker.

Parker:

Oi! Quiet you!

Penelope takes off her helmet and shakes her hair as Rigby approaches them, confused at what is happening.

Rigby:

Penelope! Parker!

Penelope:

Captain. I see that the entrance into Harmony was not met with the nicest hospitality.

Rigby:

We knew that this would be a tricky assignment, Lady Penelope. But these people are a bunch of angry farmers!

Penelope:

Careful. Watch your volume.

Rigby:

This place is weird. Unsettling. Almost... unearthly.

Penelope:

Yes. I see what you mean. It does have a weird taste of air about it. Maybe it's because we're in a world completely unlike our own.