Entertainment

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 1

May 26, 2019
9:48 pm

The Synopsis

The English legendary literary giant, William Shakespeare once wrote that; “Some are born great, some acquire greatness and others had greatness thrust upon them.”

For Ken Fiberisima, he probably has all the above simultaneously. Born into a wealthy family, and was later to become filthy rich earlier in his mid-twenties and wielded so much power in the society and amongst his peers.

The affable and dynamic young man, towering six foot tall with handsome features of an athlete and a glistering dark complexion that always sent shivers down the spines of many ladies that come across him. And having acquired so much wealth, the thirty-two year old multimedia artist/advertising practitioner lives flamboyantly and spends recklessly on frivolities.

A kind hearted young man whose wealth abuses his mind and he throws caution to the wind thus taking life less seriously. Always drinking himself to stupor and smoking as if his life depended on it.

Not for once, did he believe in the awesome power of God and vehemently refused to have fellowship with Him despite mounting pressures from his lovely fiancée, Ngozi to acknowledge the creator a place in his life.

Now his business, eventually collapses and being ravaged by terminal illness that medical science has become absolutely useless in his case and only a miracle from God can save him but would the same God that he denied when life was rosy for him save him with his unfathomable mercy or allow him to pay the ultimate price for his sins? After all, the Bible says that “The wages of sin is death”

– Romans 6:23

_{FADE IN:}

_{1.I.EXT.VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS.DAY.}

_{From BIRD’S EYE, CAMERA establishes with a LONG SHOT of AKIN ADESOLA STREET, LAGOS as the STORY unfolds.}

_{1.II.EXT. KEN’S OFFICE. DAY.}

_{The CAMERA crawls with a LONG SHOT bringing into view an ARCHITECTURAL MASTER PIECE of a STOREY BUILDING with a beautifully designed sign BOARD hanging strategically at one corner of the EDIFICE which reads ‘CRAZY CREATIVE INCORPORATED –}_{our creativity blows your mind}_!’.

₁_._{III.INT.KEN’S OFFICE.DAY.}

_{KEN in his exquisitely furnished OFFICE, painting some comely designed GRAPHICS with these INSCRIPTIONS; ‘}_{MAKING YOUR COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR LOVED ONES BETTER.THAT’S WHAT WE’RE KNOWN FOR}_–_ADDING_VALUE_!_{With a STICK of CONSULATE CIGARETTE hanging loosely in between his TWO LIPS, he puffs and nods his HEAD to the RHYTHM of the LEGENDARY AFRO-BEAT EXPONENT’S(FELA KUTI) TRACK ‘WHEN TOUBLE SLEEPS YANGA GO WAKE AM’ wafting from the SPEAKERS as NGOZI comes in.}

_KEN

Hello, my beautiful damsel! You look splendid this morning.

_NGOZI

Thank you prince charming. Hope that designing you’re doing is actually for us?

_KEN

_{You guys indeed like quality work but never interested in making encouraging payments.}

_NGOZI

_{We do Ken, just that you’re being a lot greedier.}

_KEN

_{That’s not true!}

_NGOZI

_{For God’s sake, put off that cigarette.}

_KEN

Sorry for inconveniencing you with it.

_NGOZI

_{Sorry for yourself Ken! I pity you because you’re only damaging your respiratory system with that nonsense.}

_KEN

_{You want some?}

_NGOZI

_{You know quite well that I don’t drink alcohol besides it’s too early for you to start drinking brandy, it’s barely 10am. Ken hope you know that you’re endangering your life?}

_KEN

I only know you to be a lawyer not a medical practitioner so save your quackery of a medical advice.

_NGOZI

I might not be a medical doctor but it’s common knowledge that the Federal Ministry of Health warns that smokers are liable to die young.

_KEN

Federal Ministry of Health my foot!

_NGOZI

_{May God have mercy on you, Ken.}

_KEN

Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.

_NGOZI

_{By the way, Ken, have you finally made up your mind to accept our offer?}

_KEN

No way! Honey, its two hundred and fifty million naira or no deal.

_NGOZI

Try and be reasonable about this, I believe one hundred and eighty million naira is a good offer. Please do consider it.

_KEN

Sorry babe! There’s nothing to consider.

_2._{INT. SWIFT COMMUNICATION. DAY.}

_{THE BOARD of the COMPANY in a meeting being chaired by the MD/CEO.}

_BEN

_{Miss Osondu is not here?}

_{MRS. WILLIAMS}

_{Some women are not just fit to be career women; they should confine themselves to the kitchen. I think we should commence the meeting without her.}

_AKANDE

_{Ah! Ah! Mrs. Williams, that wouldn’t be fair besides Miss Osondu is not the type that keeps late to appointments.}

_{…She enters}

_NGOZI

_{I’m sorry, I never intended to be late, it’s just that…..}

_BEN

Miss Osondu, please save us that excuse but I want you to realize that this is not your kitchen where you stroll in and out conveniently at anytime you desire; this is a business environment and I wouldn’t want a repeat of this. Do I make myself clear?

_NGOZI

_{Very well sir!}

_BEN

_{We’re in a brink of losing our numerous subscribers to other rival mobile telecommunication firms and that’s why we’re creating a new service plan to entice them to patronage, right? But we need a creative advertising campaign to reach out to our target audience.}

_AKANDE

_{Sir, please permit me to say something at this juncture.}

_BEN

_{Go ahead!}

_AKANDE

_{I think we’ve agreed to use the nation’s leading creative consultant to provide us with the required service?}

_BEN

_{Yes, actually but he declined the offer we made to him. Honestly, ladies and gentle man, we really need that young man, Ken, his creative ingenuity to turn things around for us.}

_{MRS. WILLIAMS}

_{The young man in question happens to be a lover to one of us here, why can’t she use her feminine powers to convince him to accept what we’re offering if she really has the interest of this company.}

_MR.BEN

_{For now, this meeting is over, please return to your duties…. Miss Osondu!}

_NGOZI

_Sir!

_MR.BEN

Please, see me immediately in my office.

_NGOZI

_{All right sir.}

₃_._{MR. BEN’S OFFICE DAY.}

_{In the tastefully furnished OFFICE, MR. BEN is sitting in his SWIVEL CHAIR, slowly tapping the GOLD plated PEN he’s holding on the DESK as NGOZI walks in.}

_NGOZI

_Sir?

_BEN

_{Yes, Miss Osondu, please sit down.}

_NGOZI

_{Thank you sir.}

_BEN

_{Miss Osondu, I know I have no right what so ever to interfere in you private affair but I beg of you to be sincere with me about what I’m going to ask you for the interest of this company.}

_NGOZI

_{Do go ahead sir, I’m all ears.}

_BEN

_{You know the interest of this company, equally is ours. It’s also paramount that we do our best to ensure her productivity and efficiency; are you following?}

_NGOZI

_{Absolutely sir!}

_MR.BEN

_{Good! Miss Osondu, what’s actually your relationship with ken; Mr. Ken Fiberisima?}

_NGOZI

_{He is my friend, my very good friend.}

_BEN

_{Your boy friend, some sort of?}

_NGOZI

_{Well, yes!}

_BEN

_{Please, I want you to see how you can possibly convince him to accept the amount we’re offering him, you follow?}

_NGOZI

_{I do sir but I want to let you know that I’ve done that before now, I tried talking to him about it but he bluntly refused that he’s not taking anything less than two hundred and fifty million naira.}

_BEN

_{I must tell you the truth, Miss Osondu, if we pay that amount, we might not have enough money to pay salaries and run other expenditures in the subsequent month.}

_NGOZI

_{Is it that bad now?}

_BEN

_{I’m afraid, it is, so do your best to ensure he accepts what we’re able to offer, okay.}

_NGOZI

_{I’ll sir, I’ll keep trying.}

_{4. EXT. ON THE ROAD. DAY}

_{In a state of the art MERCEDES BENZ, KEN is chauffeur driven; his DRIVER speeds through the high brow ROAD leading to his OFFICE and KEN sights a charmingly beautiful young LADY standing at the BUS-STOP, ordering his DRIVER to stop.}

_KEN

_{Stop! Stop my friend. Didn’t you see that chic standing there? Are you blind or something?}

_TUNDE

_{Sorry sir! No sir!}

_KEN

_{What’s no sir? My friend will you reverse the car immediately so we can pick her up; if you don’t like good things I do! Hi pretty!}

_LUCY

Hi!

_KEN

_{Where’re you going young lady?}

_LUCY

_{None of your business young man!}

_KEN

_{Come on! Don’t sound unfriendly; I can give you a ride.}

_LUCY

_{I don’t accept a ride from strangers.}

_KEN

_{Pretty damsel, I mean no harm, I just want to be of help to you, that’s all.}

_LUCY

_{I don’t know you, so why would I accept to ride with you?}

_KEN

Oh! I’m Ken, Ken Fiberisima; so tell me where do I drop you off?

_LUCY

All right, Ken Fiberisima, I’m going for a job interview at the bank on Adeola HopeWell street.

_KEN

_{Hop in pretty, my pleasure to ride with you.}

_LUCY

Thank you.

_TUNDE

_{Oga, where?}

_KEN

_{Drive straight to Adeola Hope Well}

_TUNDE

_{Okay sir.}

_5._{INT. KEN’S OFFICE DAY.}

_{KEN in his COZY OFFICE and his MEMBERS OF STAFF surround him as he makes some GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION WITH THE .4 PEN on the CARD BOARD, he holds in between his fingers as he talks.}

_KEN

I want this particular place even out, do you understand me Collins.

_COLLINS

Yes sir but won’t it be unattractive if I do that with the same blue colour?

_KEN

No! No! Besides, this is corporate branding; the bank’s colour is blue so you certainly need their colour to design their adverts.

_COLLINS

_{Sir, what about the specifications?}

_KEN

Use medium formation.

_COLLINS

_{But sir, since it’s going to be a bill board design, I would suggest we use something bigger.}

_KEN

You’re right but for now, it has to be in a medium formation till our client accepts the design.

_OBINNA

_{That reminds me sir; the MD of swift communications limited scheduled a meeting with us by 2pm today.}

_KEN

_{Mr. Obinna!}

_OBINNA

Sir!

_KEN

You’re the general manager of this company; you’ve absolute right to represent me as proxy in that meeting.

_OBINNA

Obviously sir, you won’t attend?

_KEN

_{Mr. Obinna, I run a creative business organization not a charity home so I find it rather ridiculous to sit down for hours listening to a man that will always demand quality service but at the same time find it difficult and unimportant to pay the service worth.}

_OBINNA

_{Sir, but I don’t think the offer they made to us is bad, I think is reasonable enough.}

_KEN

Even you, you! Mr. obinna, you really want us to settle for that deal? Collins did you hear him?

_COLLINS

Actually it’s the least we’ve ever had but if we’re sure of making something out of it why not, we could give it a trial.

_KEN

Hell no! We’re not taking it; the profit there is less than 5% of the gross, which all of you know quite well it’s not our standard.

_OBINNA

_{But sir…}

_KEN

_{No buts! Mr. Obinna, I’m surprised at you, I know you love chics with passion to a point that you can sell your soul to have a quickie with them… are you sure Mr. Ben has not made you some silly offer of them?}

_OBINNA

_{(Voice over)}

_{See who’s talking between me and you who loves the thing in the skirt more? Ever since I got married I have stopped such life.}

_KEN

Mr. Obinna! Are you sure you’re still with us?

_OBINNA

Yes sir, I am, I’m with you!

_KEN

_{You see what I’m talking about, he’s already imagining how he would ravish them, anyway, this meeting is over so that Mr. Obinna doesn’t get soaked in his brief while thinking about how he would lay the chics.}

_OBINNA

_{Sir, I’m no longer like that.}

_KEN

_{Oh! Interesting, I’m still like that!}

…to be continued.