INT. OVERSEER'S OFFICE – MOMENTS LATER
The office is cozy, over-lit, and filled with mismatched furniture. A cheerful old post-war poster reads: "Keep Calm and Vault On."
OVERSEER BENJIMAN
(demonstrating something behind his desk)
And when you turn the little handle up top, it all goes away.
Yep, that's… how a toilet works.
Mm-hmm.
LUCY
I'm—I'm actually from a Vault.
Well, we're from a Vault, actually.
JUNO (softly)
Yep. Mine was a little different from this, though.
OVERSEER (eyebrows raised)
So you are.
Goosey MacLean. Juno Arendal.
JUNO (laughs, caught off guard)
Hehe, yeah, that's right.
JUNO (V.O.)
Goosey? That's funny, man. What kind of idiot thinks that's right—ow.
LUCY (kicks him lightly, muttering)
Don't encourage it.
LUCY
Oh, no, no. It's—it's Lucy.
OVERSEER
Nope, it says Goosey. Hmm.
But hey, that's something.
You don't meet a natural-born Vault dweller every day.
We're a dying breed.
JUNO (off to the side, scanning the office)
Guess we're rarer than we thought.
JUNO (V.O.)
Everything's Vault-Tec issue. No rust, no scav jobs. Either they kept things running tight or someone real careful is scrubbing the history in here.
LUCY
Oh, you're… you're from here?
OVERSEER
Five generations, and proud of it.
LUCY
Ah.
I just thought because…
Because so many people here seem to be refugees from the surface.
OVERSEER
Tell me about it.
Ooh. These people. Am I right? (chuckles)
(groans) I grabbed a moldy one. (clears throat)
JUNO
Gross.
LUCY
What do you mean by that?
OVERSEER
Well,
you won't find anyone more open-minded than me,
but they come in here with their smelly food
and their weird ideas.
You're from a Vault. You get it.
JUNO (quietly, firm)
Well, I'm not sure I do.
JUNO (V.O.)
Dude is so awkward, oh my god.
You know who he reminds me of?
Jerry from Rick and Morty. That's it. That's why he feels familiar.
LUCY
I—I don't understand.
If you don't like people from the surface,
then why do you keep taking them in?
OVERSEER
It's a policy from before my time.
But these newcomers, ooh, let me tell you—
if you want to get elected, you have to respect their traditions,
tolerate them, and not call them "surfies." It's awful.
OVERSEER
What, you don't take in surface dwellers in your Vault?
LUCY
Well, to be honest—no, we don't.
OVERSEER
What is that like?
LUCY
No—I think what you're doing here is a really good thing.
I saw what was left of Shady Sands.
An entire city just destroyed in an instant. It…
I mean, some of these people lost everything.
OVERSEER
And that was a tragedy.
So we took our share of them in and gave them a home
because it's what we do.
But it's like—you can't make a funny joke about it
without offending these guys.
I mean, one funny joke I told on maybe ten occasions.
LUCY
What was the joke?
OVERSEER (scoffs)
I forget.
All I know is it was a huge bomb.
(chuckles) Pretty good, right?
Oh, she doesn't get it. (clears throat)
Any other questions?
JUNO
Okay, that was funny actually.
(whispers to Lucy)
Wait, Lucy—what about Level 12?
LUCY (quickly jumping in)
We do have one. Uh…
What's on Level 12 and why can't we go there?
OVERSEER (tone shifts, sharp)
We don't talk about that.
Geez, what's the matter with you two?
LUCY (taken aback)
Sorry, I…
OVERSEER
I just…
You should go now.
LUCY
I only wanted to—
OVERSEER
Goodbye, Goosey.
Tense music creeps in as the mood chills. Juno lingers behind Lucy, eyes narrowing, studying the Overseer.
JUNO (V.O.)
*And there it is.
Mission acquired: Find out the secrets of Level 12.*
OVERSEER
Skedaddle.
INT. HALLWAY – OUTSIDE OVERSEER'S OFFICE – MOMENTS LATER
JUNO
That was weird, huh… Goosey?
LUCY (hits him lightly on the arm)
Shut up.
JUNO (grinning)
Just saying.
I mean now we got to go to level 12 its only right.
LUCY (as they walk off)
Let's find Titus.
(beat)
Why would my name be Goosey?
JUNO (laughs out loud)
I don't know, Goosey.
They disappear down the corridor, steps echoing in the clean, too-quiet hallway.