The Lost Arms Analysis

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EXT. THE LOST ARMS – NIGHT
He walks back to the Lost Arms with the look of a man feeling much less weight on his shoulders, eagerly needing a few bottles of root beer float to get his strength back from a draining day. His demeanour suddenly changes as if he anticipates trouble would be waiting for him, he comes to stop. We get a close up from LEMONY’s P.O.V of an unusual car parked out the front with a red light on top. It seems like a police car, but as he gets closer it comes to look even stranger, as it is a run-down station wagon with a flashlight duct taped to its roof. Next to the car is two adults in uniform, standing on the steps of the Lost Arms, where THEODORA was sitting, it is clearly visible she is fiddling with her fingers, she

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