A Message to the DJ's From the World of John Wick
"Do Not Stop the Music (Even If Someone Dies)"
INTERIOR - FIRE AND ICE NIGHTCLUB - DAY
GREGOIRE, club manager, walks across the main dance floor as flames dance along one wall while the opposite side is frozen in ice. DJ GUSH follows in tow.
GREGOIRE: First let me just say, BIG FAN. Watching you DJ is truly next level stuff. You got it all, great look, great vibe. You, DJ GUSH are exactly what Fire & Ice needs…Now this is a very exclusive club but occasionally we will have some people come in here…and they will want to cause some trouble.
GUSH: Oh, like Bridge and Tunnel people?
GREGOIRE: Not exactly…Ruska Roma?
GUSH: The ballet troupe?
GREGOIRE: Ha, yeah but no… Tarasov Mob? (off Gush’s Look)…No? High Table? (Beat). Assassins….and Protectors.
GUSH: O-K? So what, the assassins and protectors fight each other?
GREGOIRE: Yes and no. I mean, sometimes it’s assassins and assassins, sometimes it’s assassins versus protectors. Sometimes it’s just assassins. Honestly I can’t even tell the difference between the assassins the protectors.
GUSH: Ok…So…
GREGOIRE: Oh, and then there’s another type of people—they just kill with no allegiance. I don’t think they have a name. But they definitely are a group. They have a Chancellor. But look, that’s not for you to worry about. I just want you to play your music. No matter what.
GUSH: No matter what?
GREGOIRE: Yeah. Keep the vibe going. Obviously, since we are Club Fire and Ice, our club melts every night, so we can’t afford to let the music stop.
GUSH: So, you want me to score the fight?
GREGOIRE: No. No. Don’t be ridiculous. I just want you to keep the party going. Honestly, these things don’t last more than 3-5 minutes. But if you stop playing, we lose the vibe then it’s like 30 minutes to get that energy back.
GUSH: Are people dying here?
GREGOIRE: That’s a Trish thing. She deals with bodies.
GUSH: I’m just thinking this through—am I in danger?
GREGOIRE: Depends. Have you betrayed a vaguely European person lately?
(BEAT)
GREGOIRE: I kid. No, you aren’t in danger…I mean, we can’t predict collateral damage.
GUSH: Um, what happened to the last DJ?
GREGOIRE: Hammer to the skull… I’ll never forget the look on his face. Cause the hammer actually got him in the back of the head. He didn’t know what happened. Truly shocked. But as he fell he managed to hit crossfade into the next track. Beautiful execution….Not his murder. The DJing. By the way his death, total accident. The assassin was trying to discard the hammer, not kill DJ Moist.
GUSH: I’m sorry, hammer?
GREGOIRE: That was my fault. We left a bunch of hammers on the floor, to build authentic igloos at the club, we just left one on the dance floor. Which is why his death is such a fluke. Normally it’s just guns.
GUSH: It feels like if someone is being killed, people will stop dancing.
GREGOIRE: That’s it. They don’t. They don’t care. Kids?! Most of the time they just sidestep it and keep partying, which is a testament to the club as well as the music.
GUSH: What about the cops?
GREGOIRE: Oh, it’s not a thing. We just burn the bodies.
GUSH: WHAT?!
TRISH enters dragging a dead body, completely nonchalant.
TRISH: Hector found one more in the bathroom.
GREGOIRE: (To Trish) I’ll be right there. (to Gush) I gotta see a man about an incinerator if you catch my drift.
GUSH: It sounds like you are saying you are burning a body.
GREGOIRE: HAHA! I am. I like you. Remember, don’t stop the music. No matter what. (To Trish) Can You get blood out of ice?
Gregoire and Trish walks away, leaving Gush staring in horror as they Trish waves cheerfully drag a the body toward a furnace built into the fire wall.
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