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the chosen one


[Two Horned warriors are setting a trap]

1st Warrior: It's going to happen

2nd Warrior: It's not going to happen

1st Warrior: I promise you, one day it's going to happen. Someone's going to fall for it



[In the village, Dad is trying to chop a small tree with a rock]

Cavegirl: Take you ages doing it like that

Dad: Do you mind, I'm busy

Cavegirl: First..

[Cavegirl snatches the rock]

Cavegirl: You want to drop the little ones

Dad: I don't need the little ones

Stiks: (to Cavegirl) What are you doing?

Cavegirl: Making life easy.....Oh

[Cavegirl pulls strip of leather from Stiks' shirt. Cavegirl ties rock to big stick and chops down the tree]

Cavegirl: Let's call it an axe



[Big Sis and Mum are by the side of a stream]

Big Sis: ...and I was kissing Roast and this tree fell on my leg and it really hurts and now my legs look horrible and they're not horrible, they're beautiful

[Cavegirl and Stiks arrive]

Mum: Mummy make it better

Cavegirl: Not like that you won't

Big Sis: It really hurts

Cavegirl: Shut up

[Cavegirl scoops up some water, splashes it on the leg and blows]

Cavegirl: Clean the wound...Dry it off...Bandage it up

Mum: Not the way we do it

Cavegirl: Then you've been doing it wrong

Stiks: Don't talk to your Mum like that

Cavegirl: If you're wrong, you're wrong

Big Sis: It does feel better

Mum: Aw, shut up



[A short distance away Stiks pushes Cavegirl against a rock wall]

Stiks: You're getting a bit full of yourself

Cavegirl: No I'm not

Stiks: You've got to be careful, older people like to think they know everything. I know you're different and a bit clever, but not everybody else wants to know

Cavegirl: You think I'm different?

Stiks: I think you're wonderful

Cavegirl: You can kiss me if you like

Stiks: (guffaw)

Cavegirl: What's funny?

Stiks: Girls

Cavegirl: What about them?

Stiks: You tell them "You're wonderful" and they'll do anything for you

Cavegirl: You said I was different

Stiks: Not that different

Cavegirl: I am different...Watch this



[Cavegirl runs off to where Dad is carring a big piece of wood]

Cavegirl: Dad!...Dad!...Dad what are you doing?

Dad: We're carrying these logs from here to here

Cavegirl: What do you mean carrying them?

Dad: Well, there's no easy way

Cavegirl: 'Course there is...All you've got to do is this...this...this...and this

[Cavegirl rolls the big log on small round logs]

Cavegirl: What are you making anyway?



[At the prison, Dad and Cavegirl on either side of the bars]

Dad: A better prison

Cavegirl: Why am I here?

Dad: For being a smart Alec. No one likes a smart Alec

Cavegirl: I was helping

Dad: You were embarassing me, you're always doing that. I'm the head of the tribe, head of the family. I'm the one that knows best. You're going to stay in there until you learn to keep your thoughts to yourself

Cavegirl: But Da..

Dad: To your self

Cavegirl: I was jus..

Dad: I don't want to hear it Cavegirl, you are not going to make an idiot out of me again.

[Dad turns round, takes some steps and turns back]

Dad: Something wrong

Cavegirl: Yep, I was trying to tell you should be on this side of the cage...(smile and wave)...See ya

Dad: Cavegirl!...Cavegirl!

[Stiks arrives]

Stiks: Cavegirl, there's a problem



[As Dad tries to free himself, Stiks and Cavegirl run off in the direction of shouts of anguish. Roast laying on ground surrounded by group of the tribe]

Roast: Me and Big Sis were kissing...and a tree fell on her leg and she couldn't kiss any more so...so I started kissing someone else and she saw and she kicked me and it really hurts ow!

[Gran slaps some goop on his leg]

Gran: Mud will help

Cavegirl: No it won't. Basically it's very simple. All you need is a wounded leg, a fresh bowl of water, and a length of leather. This you can tear from any garment...But ask your parents first

Gran: Can you get on with it? I haven't got time for all this

Cavegirl: Of course

Cavegirl: So as not to waste time, here's one I prepared earlier

[Cavegirl lifts up Big Sis' leg]

Stiks: Cavegirl, can you heal my leg?

Cavegirl: I haven't really got time

Trunk: You're too selfish now to share your powers are you?

Cavegirl: It's not powers, it's just common sense

Gran: Well share your common sense then

Cavegirl: It'll take me ages to teach you lot common sense

Mum: Are you being rude young lady?

Cavegirl: Noo

Mum: (louder) Are you being rude young lady?

Cavegirl: (with attitude) Yes, I'm being rude

Mum: Get her!

[Tribe chase Cavegirl but she ducks into a crevice in the rocks]



[Cavegirl back at the prison]

Cavegirl: Why are you still here Dad?

Dad: Tried and tried and I can't get that lock thing to work

[Cavegirl turns the lock a few times and the door swings open. Dad walks out. Awkward silence]

Cavegirl: Can't help knowing this stuff

Dad: Every now and then, someone comes along who is a bit more clever, and they teach people stuff, and that's how we all become a bit more clever

Cavegirl: The word's progress Dad

Dad: Shut up...The problem is, you're not just a bit more clever, you're...you're a miracle, and I made you. How's a daft man make a miracle like you

Cavegirl: But Dad I..

Dad: Don't know everything?

Cavegirl: I don't know..

Dad: How it works with boys

Cavegirl: How to...

Dad: Pretend I'm not upset when really I'm crying

Cavegirl: Hooow..

Dad: To deal with knowing more than everyone else

Cavegirl: And I don't know how you know what I'm thinking

Dad: I might be daft but you're still my daughter and I'm still your Dad

[sound of approaching irate tribe members]

Dad: You'd better go...But take care...People don't like those who are smarter than them...Best learn to disguise it

[Cavegirl kisses Dad and runs off]

Dad: (among shouting) Trouble with miracles is everybody wants to hurt them



[The two Horned warriors sit and wait. Cavegirl is still being chased]

Cavegirl: (to herself) Can't help being clever...Not hard to be clever when everybody else's daft...Not my fault I'm a bit ahead of the game...I can't help it if I see things other people don't

[Cavegirl goes flying into Horned warrior's trap]

Cavegirl: (to herself) OK, I don't see everything

[Tribe stop chasing, warriors take off their animal skulls]

1st Warrior: Is she dead?

Cavegirl: (to herself) Girl, just keep your eyes and mouth shut

[Second warrior kicks Cavegirl over with his foot]

Cavegirl: (to herself) Just my luck, a guy who takes pride in his work

2nd Warrior: Yep, she's dead

Cavegirl: (to herself) Excellent...I think

[All the Horned warriors are gathered around Cavegirl]

2nd Warrior: Having trapped and killed the beast, I now display her before you

1st Warrior: She's not dead

2nd Warrior: Of course she's dead, she doesn't move, she doesn't speak, she's dead

[Cavegirl gets up]

Shaman: It's a miracle. She must be the Chosen One

Cavegirl: The what one?

Shaman: The Chosen One. You are the Chosen One

Cavegirl: Is that good?

Shaman: Of course it's good. Anyone with talent, progressive thinking we hold in high esteem

Cavegirl: (to herself) I knew I was special

Shaman: Hail the Chosen One. She that can heal all sickness

The Masses: Hail the Chosen One. She that can heal all sickness

Cavegirl: She that can what?

Shaman: Heal all sickness

Shaman: Heal the sick, heal them

Cavegirl: But what if I can't?

Shaman: Well then you die

Cavegirl: But I'm the Chosen One

Shaman: Not if you can't heal them

Cavegirl: (to herself) Mmmm, tricky

[Cavegirl moves to one of the sick]

Cavegirl: Blind. Yoooou're healed

Blind Guy: (running off) Yessss, I can see

Shaman: He can see

The Masses: He can see

Blind Guy: I can see

[Blind guy falls over log]

Blind Guy: No I can't

Shaman: Get her!



[Cavegirl chased by entire Horned Tribe]

Cavegirl: (to herself) Note to the future. Dads are normally wrong, but on this occasion, my Dad's spot on. If you feel a bit special, sometimes it's best to keep it to yourself

[Gran sees Cavegirl being chased and hits the warning drum. The tribe mobilize.]

Cavegirl: The Horned Tribe are coming, the Horned Tribe are coming

Big Sis: Now we'll all be slaughtered

Cavegirl: Not necessarily

Stiks: You got a plan?

Cavegirl: Of course I've got a plan...It's not a great plan...It's a normal nothing special plan that anyone could have come up with

Dad: Let's hear the plan

Cavegirl: Well, everyone's involved. We all play a part. Let's huddle

Cavegirl: Dad, remember outside the prison when you knew everything I thought?

Dad: Yea

Cavegirl: Well...



[The Horned Tribe arrive. Cavegirl appears from behind a big rock]

Cavegirl: My power is awesome. I am...the Chosen One

Shaman: No you're not. You're just a silly little girl

Cavegirl: Sometimes I'm a silly little girl...

[Cavegirl disappears behind rock, Little Bro appears]

Cavegirl: (voice) Sometimes I'm a small boy, but sometimes...

[Little Bro disappears behind rock, Dad appears]

Cavegirl: (voice) Using my mystical powers, I transform myself into a large wild beast man, grrrr

[Dad disappears behind rock, Mum appears]

Cavegirl: (voice) I am the all-powerful

[Mum disappears behind rock, Cavegirl appears]

Cavegirl: (voice) You must bow before me

[Roast jumps down from nearby rock]

Roast: Oh yeah, you don't scare me

[Cavegirl swooshes her pelvis and gives a good thrust at Roast with a resounding boom. Roast clutches his stomach and falls down]

[Stiks is standing on another rock]

Stiks: You can't do that to my mate

[Cavegirl swooshes her pelvis and thrusts her rear at Stiks with another resounding boom. Stiks falls off the rock with a cry]

Roast: Cavegirl, you can't do that to our tribe...Get her!

[The tribe run at Cavegirl screaming. Cavegirl rattles off a volley of pelvic thrusts. The tribe are decimated amid the resounding booms. Oh the humanity. The tribe are all downed. Cavegirl stands and looks at the Horned Tribe defiantly. They turn and flee]

Cavegirl: Wait...I know I'm the almighty all-powerful all-splendid one...(to the 1st Warrior)...but I am still just a girl

1st Warrior: So?

Cavegirl: So I don't suppose you're free tonight?

1st Warrior: No, my mum doesn't like me talking to girls

[Cavegirl does a couple of threatening pelvic swooshes]

1st Warrior: OK, OK fair enough fair enough. I'm sure in your case my mum can make an exception

Cavegirl: Excellent

last updated Jan 7th 06

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