Chapter 3 – Page 032
Fun fact: the Thameslink train I take to and from work goes through this defunct station outside King’s Cross every day. Every time, I imagine the driver must be suppressing the desire to stop there for a laugh.
Also, I echo Lewis’ advice here to stop giving transphobic hacks money.
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Panel 1 (wide):
Pandora has emerged in the abandoned King’s Cross Thameslink. Light barely penetrates the crumbling relic of a not-too-distant past. Sam is curious, Des is gawping, Lewis is incensed.
WORDING: How long has this station been here and I’ve never realised?
SOLOMON: Wowww! Is this the original Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters?
RUSSELL: Read!
RUSSELL: Other!
RUSSELL: Books!
Panel 2:
Standing at the platform, the three natter while waiting for the cleaning train.
WORDING: Right, people, this is proof of concept for us. We don’t just need to capture Brilligan, we need to solve this problem before she does.
RUSSELL: The last few cases have involved a perpetrator with a clear motive. Granted that won’t be the case every time, but…
SOLOMON: We’ll be better able to brainstorm ideas once we punch through to wherever this train is hiding.
SFX (between panels): zhooooOOOOOOMMMM
Panel 3:
A shadow falls over the three. Sam droops, Lewis claps excitedly, while Des just finds this all very funny.
WORDING: Assuming this bin lorry on tracks doesn’t get punched out from under us.
MATINDER (off-panel): I’d have you not talk of Molly in such ways! She’s very sensitive!
Panel 4:
We look up at old Tube hand Matinder Singh driving the clapped out cleaning train. He’s a jovial soul, but very prideful.
WORDING (off-panel): Dear god in heaven you named your train.
MATINDER: Oh, I am but her latest servant!
MATINDER: Do not fret! I’ve driven every engine the English have built since the Darjeeling Limited. We’ll get you where you need to be!
Panel 5:
Des is charmed on board by Matinder while Sam and Lewis clamber on behind her. Sam is yelling into the radio.
RUSSELL: Don’t be too confident, even we don’t know where we need to be.
WORDING: Control, this is Pandora! Everything ready at your end?
DENNIS (radio): Ready when you are! The track has been cleared all the way to the York Street siding!
Pandora has emerged in the abandoned King’s Cross Thameslink. Light barely penetrates the crumbling relic of a not-too-distant past. Sam is curious, Des is gawping, Lewis is incensed.
WORDING: How long has this station been here and I’ve never realised?
SOLOMON: Wowww! Is this the original Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters?
RUSSELL: Read!
RUSSELL: Other!
RUSSELL: Books!
Panel 2:
Standing at the platform, the three natter while waiting for the cleaning train.
WORDING: Right, people, this is proof of concept for us. We don’t just need to capture Brilligan, we need to solve this problem before she does.
RUSSELL: The last few cases have involved a perpetrator with a clear motive. Granted that won’t be the case every time, but…
SOLOMON: We’ll be better able to brainstorm ideas once we punch through to wherever this train is hiding.
SFX (between panels): zhooooOOOOOOMMMM
Panel 3:
A shadow falls over the three. Sam droops, Lewis claps excitedly, while Des just finds this all very funny.
WORDING: Assuming this bin lorry on tracks doesn’t get punched out from under us.
MATINDER (off-panel): I’d have you not talk of Molly in such ways! She’s very sensitive!
Panel 4:
We look up at old Tube hand Matinder Singh driving the clapped out cleaning train. He’s a jovial soul, but very prideful.
WORDING (off-panel): Dear god in heaven you named your train.
MATINDER: Oh, I am but her latest servant!
MATINDER: Do not fret! I’ve driven every engine the English have built since the Darjeeling Limited. We’ll get you where you need to be!
Panel 5:
Des is charmed on board by Matinder while Sam and Lewis clamber on behind her. Sam is yelling into the radio.
RUSSELL: Don’t be too confident, even we don’t know where we need to be.
WORDING: Control, this is Pandora! Everything ready at your end?
DENNIS (radio): Ready when you are! The track has been cleared all the way to the York Street siding!