INT. COVERED PROMENADE. EARLY EVENING
On the highest peak on Bleisure Island is Productivity Fountain, where the source of the vitamin-infused natural drinking water of the Peach Blossom Spring originates.
RACHEL
Would anyone mind if I turned the sun up a little?
ETG
The [Productivity Fountain]* as one of the main features of the [Island], dances in different postures to welcome people from all around the world. It is now graceful, animated, eulogising, extolling and majestic… Next to the spa area, are seascaped features suites with varying styles. Stand on the veranda and you can have an outlook on the sea in the paradise.
EXT. SEAFRONT LED SKY SCREEN. EVENING
THE CAST are having a farewell meal and being treated to a show. They are sipping JESSICA’s Guarana and Cacao Green Monster Chia cocktails and laughing peacefully. GAVIN is on his tablet and we see a few others sneaking off to sit at laptops. A 1:25 replica of the Eiffel Tower* rises from the sea 50ft out from the shoreline, adorned a crew of WORKERS dancing and dressed as sirens in a complex choreography. Music plays from a parabolic field over the gathered crowd. Fireworks go off in the shape of cherries and hearts.
GUEST
(to ETG, DAN, RACHEL, JESSICA and DESKMAG who are staying to finish work)
To me you seem here as if you were living in heaven, compared with us of the country from which I came.
HAMMOND
We are happy…we live amidst beauty… we have plenty to do and on the whole enjoy doing it. What more can we ask of life?
RACHEL
Well everyone, thanks for coming, it’s been a pleasure to meet you. Thanks to your reviews and feedback Bleisure Island will be launching our public service shortly. I now will leave you to make your own way back or stay and sign up if you’d like to. Please keep in touch, and enjoy the rest of your night.
EXT. SAME SHORELINE VIEW WITH PALMS AS WE OPENED ON, BUT THIS TIME AS A SUNSET.
A TITLE FADES IN OVER THE SKY, IN SILHOUETTE.
FADE OUT
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