2.14.2012

Episode 5 Synopsis

Episode 5 THE XMAS SPECIAL EPISODE

Carrying Diamonds in a One-Horse Open Sled, in the Darkest Night of the Century

Scene 1 the Xmas tree eater
Celia and Sutton come back from mom’s Xmas lunch, a big whitish turkey corpse uncooked in the not-working oven has starved them till home. It had been not possible to eat and they were allowed only some carrots, Sutton is gone sleeping to be vigilant for the night poker-game.

Scene 2 empty red box of candy
Alice comes from mom’s “soya bean vegan like” Xmas lunch, mom has put dad on diet and all the party has been starved nearly to death, Sutton is woken up by the door bell, Miss Winters has his day off for a date with Colonel Armadale and the kitchen is closed.

Scene 3 cometa star shooter from next door
Adam arrives from a late over craft trip in which no food has been provided, Sutton is woken up by the door bell.

Scene 4 bells ringing in the deepest dark cold night
Celia waits for the pander at the agreed café, playing with her Diamond And Emerald Necklace (Chopard); he is late because the Xmas lunch has been too generous and he stresses Celia to work quickly, Celia is wearing a Heart-Shaped Burma Ruby Necklace, Celia comes home unnerved and Sutton is woken up by the banging of the door.

Scene 5 one for the good child and one for the bad moments
A panettone cake is mysteriously delivered and Sutton is woken up by the door bell, again.

Scene 6 flying deers with snowman sled drivers
Robin arrives with Walter the dog, she is determinate to cook a Xmas pudding and ginger biscuits, Sutton is woken up by the door bell.

Scene 7 seeking presents under the bed
Dunburton wakes up Sutton and confesses he can’t take a day off and he was hiding in the cellar,  from the window of the bed room is visible the Temple of Kukulka in  the North Platform of Chichen Itza, Celia duplicates the object and must run out to deliver the object: therianthropic Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, a mammoth ivory figurine dating to 30,000 BCE.

Scene 8 old man in crimson socks
Sutton sleeping on his feet welcomes his guest for the poker game, Walter the dog eats voraciously the panettone cake.

Scene 9 salty biscuits and black dirty snow
Celia offers everyone tea and a tiny crumble of panettone cake left from the attack of Walter the dog, everyone protests they want proper Xmas food.

Scene 10 carol singing voices in the dusk
Miss Winters comes home from lunch with Colonel Armadale with a doggy bag, huge enough to feed the whole party, Walter the dog is in a frenzy mood wanting more food.





Odd facts and curious details about Episode 5:

The panettone cake is a traditional rich egg sweet bread, with raisins and citron candy skins, very popular at Xmas time, created in XV century in Milan, Italy. No explanation about who has mysteriously sent the panettone is given in episode 5.

Sutton is trying to have some sleep but he is disturbed by the door bell ringing, on Sutton’s night table there is a trembling pile of books, very classic readings, some titles are visible:
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Honore de Balzac, Pére Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Dorne
GK Chesterton The Club of Queer
W. Collins, The moonstone
D. Defoe, Moll Flanders
C. Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
A. Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
V. Woolf, Orlando
H. James, The Aspern Papers
DH Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
B. Stoker, Dracula
G. Elliot, Silas Marner
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as big as the Ritz


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