Fanon:Episode 3:Clean and Clear

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Clean and Clear
Name	Clean and Clear
Genre	Drama, Romantic, Comedy
Created by	Kit0804
Production
Original Run	8th February 2017
Status	Finished
Chronology
Succeeded by:	There's No Such Thing as Ghosts
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Episode 3
	Josephine and Claudette are cleaning in a very large hous, Josephine finds a very expenive vase.
Claudette Baptiste	(Notices Josephine fiddling) Josephine!
Josephine Baptiste	(Shocked and drops the vase) AGH!
Gemma Birgenstein	What was that? Did someone drop something?
Josephine Baptiste	NO! No no no! NO! Stay where you are Ms. Birgenstein!
Claudette Baptiste	Josephine! My god, child! Fix yourself and that vase!
Gemma Birgenstein	Very well, I'm going to visit my mother. Be safe.
Claudette Baptiste	(Smiles at Gemma until she leaves) Josephine! She almot saw the vase! God! Back in Haiti this would never have happened! We shouldn't have moved!
Josephine Baptsite	Oh, my mother! The same lecture every time I drop something! I don't even want to clean!
Claudette Baptiste	That's just as well, because you can't. Back in Haiti, we had to clean or you were deemed unfit, and sent back to your parents. Had I of not learnt, we would not be here.
Josephine Baptiste	Yeah, cleaning away. It's just like Haiti, but more expensive.
Claudette Baptiste	Josephine Emily Baptiste! I will not have you insult my family like that. Carry on! (Josephine picks up a cloth and cleans)
	Flashback, September 1 1959. Claudette Baptiste is handed cleaning equipment by a woman.
Claudette Baptiste	(In Creole) I don't understand. Why do I have to work in this dingy place?
Betye	(In English) Because your parents have forced you to to pay off their migration taxes! And speak English girl! You are in Sunset Valley now!
Claudette Baptiste	(Quietly) Yes Missus.
Betye	Do not mumble! When you clean, the employers expect you to speak loudly! (Grabs Claudette's jaw) Hmmm. Your teeth could use a bit of work. But we'll get to that. For now, you will stay and clean here until you are fit to clean in public.
Claudette Baptiste	(Under her breath, in Creole) Slavery.
Betye	(Hits Claudette) You are not allowed to speak to me like that! Understand? (Claudette holds her face, but does not reply) UNDERSTAND?
Claudette Baptiste	(Weakly) Y...yes.
Betye	Get to work. (Hands bucket and cloth) This counter had better be spotless by the time I return.
Jennifique	(A young girl appears in the background, making fun of Claudette)
Betye	Girls! Get to work!
Claudette Baptiste	(Starts singing "The Flower Duet")
	Present day. Claudette and Josephine have moved from Gemma's house to a large sandy type house.
Josephine Baptiste	Cleopatra Bouseffi...
	Wind flies by.
	Claudette gets out the car, stumbling around with mops
Claudette Baptiste	Apparently she had a party and something horrible happened to the drains and the whole floor got covered.
Josephine Baptiste	I hope she realises we are CLEANERS. Not plumbers. (Josephine seems disgusted at the fact of being a plumber.)
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Oh, God. What a mess! Ah, Baptiste and Baptiste! (Cleopatra laughs) Welcome to my...home. As you can see things got a little rowdy last night. If you could fix this up in about 4 hours that would be perfect.  (Cleopatra lets out a faint laugh)
Josephine Baptiste	We might need a bit more than a couple of ours.
Claudette Baptiste	Do you want to get paid?
	Josephine goes to snap back but decides not to.
Claudette Baptiste	I thought so.
	Cleopatra clicks her fingers, and her car rolls out of a small block.
Claudette Baptiste	Ms Bouseffi, where are you going?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Oh, to visit Ptolemy's grave. It's almost his anniversary of his death, so.
Josephine Baptiste	You'll be back before we're done?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	We'll see.
Josephine Baptiste	(Cleopatra gets in the car) But you need to pay us before or after! (Cleopatra drives off) We aren't leaving.
Cleopatra Bouseffi	I'm sorry, I can't hear you!	Mollie Fineworth	Go to hell.
Claudette Baptiste	Not leaving.
	Claudette looks up to the sky
	Flashback, 1972
	Claudette is in a room with Emmanuel
Emmanuel	Not leaving? Not leaving?! You aren't leaving Grime Busters?
Claudette Baptiste	Of course not! I've made many friends there, I own the company! I have hidden the fact that we have been enslaving children for years, I will not emerge from the depths now!
Emmanuel	And what about when you can't work, eh? (Emmanuel points at Claudette's stomach, she is 2 months pregnant) What about when little Josephine comes along? This is ridiculous. In 7 months, we will have no source of income and a baby! We're ruined. And...and maybe
Claudette Baptiste	What? Maybe what? (Emmanuel remains silent) Say it! I dare you!
Emmanuel	(She's hit a nerve) Maybe I don't want to be a part of a sinking ship, and should get off while I can!
Claudette Baptsite	(Hurt) Are you saying you want to leave me and my...I'm sorry, OUR baby?
Emmanuel	(Nods) That's right. Goodbye, Claudette. You've struck a nerve there. I'll be praying for you.
Claudette Baptiste	Emmanuel! You get back here right now! Emmanuel!
Emmanuel	Wretch!
	Present day Claudette and Josephine have spent hours awaiting Cleopatra's return.
	Cleopatra drives up, it's night.
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Oh God.
Josephine Baptiste	There she is, mama!
Claudette Baptiste	(Awakens suddenly) Cleopatra! You've been gone for 7 hours! 7! Pay us extra, now!
Cleopatra Bouseffi	I...I apologise, Claudette, Josephine, but...I've left my money at the salon and it's bound to be locked now.
Claudette Baptiste	Go back. Now.
Josephine Baptiste	Mama, please. Cleopatra, we're sorry, but we simply cannot leave until you've paid us.
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Absolutely not. Get out! Out! Out!
	Flashback, 1972 Claudette is giving birth to Josephine
Claudette Baptiste	Get out! Out! Out! Out!!! (Claudette screams)
	(The nurse holds Claudette's hand)
Claudette Bouseffi	Screw that idiot Emmanuel! Screw him! SCREW HIM!
Nurse	One more push, Ms Baptiste. One more!
	(Claudette screams, Josephine starts crying)
Claudette Baptiste	Oh! Oh...Josephine.
Nurse	Is that the name? Josephine?
Claudette Baptiste	Oui. Josephine. (The nurse wraps Josephine up and hands her to Claudette) Josephine.
	Scene change to outside the hospital, a nurse wheels Claudette and Josephine out
Claudette Baptiste	Thank you, so much. I couldn't have done it without you.
Nurse	[As Emmanuel] That's what I'm being paid for. Do you have anyone picking you up?
Claudette Baptiste	[A car drives up with 'Grime Busters' written on the side, Claudette sighs] There. There's my car. Thank you, nurse.
Nurse	A social service will come and visit your child every couple of weeks, purely mandatory.
Claudette Baptiste	I know, I see it on movies all the time.
Betye	(Gets out of the car, she is very old)  Claudette!
Claudette Baptiste	Betye?
Betye	Come along! I'm taking you back!
Claudette Baptiste	This is who they gave me?
Betye	Do you want to walk? Get in the car!
	Present day - Baptiste house
Josephine Baptiste	...And he walked out on us? Just like that.
Claudette Baptiste	Just like that.
Josephine Baptiste	And in order to make up for his non-existant child support you made me work for you.
Claudette Baptiste	Josephine, I'm so sorry...I had to! We would have been ruined!
Josephine Baptiste	I don't blame you. (Exhales)  As long as we have each other, we'll be fine.
Claudette Baptiste	(Chuckling)  Keeping the houses of Variety clean and clear!
Josephine Baptiste	What happened to the rest of the children at Grime Busters?
Claudette Baptiste	Don't think I didn't let Emmanuel get away with everything. The police came to investigate, they promised me to let me go if I told them who was in charge there. Emmanuel.
Josephine Baptiste	So...you lied?
Claudette Baptiste	Vengence is sweet. Get it when you can, however you can. In my case, I lied to the police.
Josephine Baptiste	And Betye?
Claudette Baptiste	She behaved a lot like a mother toward me, she came to all your birthdays. She died when you were three, I don't suppose you remember her. I know I do.
Josephine Baptiste	(Thinks for a while and shrugs) Oh well. You know, you changed a lot of people's lives. Had you not have offered those children a job to pay off their families' debts...in some rural parts of the country, you may have saved a few lives.
Claudette Baptiste	I try.
Josephine Baptiste	(Hears the phone ring, goes to answer it) Helllo? Grime Busters.
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Oh, hello, Josephine, it's Cleopatra here. We've had a minor incident here, just thought you'd like to do a spontaneous clean up here. Someone's left this large-
Josephine Baptiste	Cleopatra, you know spontaneous cleans are extremely expensive here at grime busters?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	I'm willing to pay everything! It's just this-
Claudette Baptiste	(Takes the phone) Cleopatra, if you've had one of your stupid parties again, I'm going to delete your subscription!
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Massive casket! There's a huge Egyptian casket laying inside my house which has appeared from nowhere. Get it out! Now!
Josephine Baptiste	We're cleaners, not handywomen!
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Hold...hold on. I recognise it.
Josephine Baptiste	What?
Claudette Baptiste	If this is some sort of joke...
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Let me just...
Josephine Baptiste	Cleopatra?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	(Cleopatra waves a hand over the casket, a large amount of dust and sand flies off it. Revealing a name. "Cleopatra Bouseffi") Agh! (The casket bursts open, the body of Cleopatra is seen)  AGHHH!!!
Josephine Baptiste	Cleopatra? What's the matter?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	Get here now!
Jospehine Baptiste	What's happened!?
Cleopatra Bouseffi	I remember everything!