The discussion continued for the entire day and Mark only returned home around 6 in the evening. However, he did not continue writing his script for The Sixth Sense, and instead picked up his phone and dialled up a number.

"Wassup! Eddie here!"

"Eddie, it's me, Mark."

"B*tch. you took four days to find a place to sleep? What, yo a*s was levitating for three nights?"

"No..."

"So you had a place."

"Yes."

"Oh my days! I told yo' a*s to call me as soon as you got a phone!"

"I... was busy. My apologies-"

"Don't gimme non-a-that. I know you ain't feeling sorry for nothin', at least be honest, b*tch! We known each other for what, five years now? You think I don't know what you think like? Ya don' ask girls out, ya don't accept their invitations, hell, ya don't even try asking them boys out! You don't bother trynna to communicate with no one unless absolutely necessary. You know a lot o' people find you odd."

"Your point?"

"See? Ya don't even deny it, like you don't feel ashamed or embarrassed? Right, my point is at least don't lie that you feel sorry for your actions. You don't. In fact, I sometimes find myself wondering if you actually feel anything at all."

'Oh... you don't say~'

"Alright. I will try to be honest."

"Good. Now, have you started ya job?"

"Yeah."

"And? Is it good?"

"Yeah."

"..."

"..."

"So, Eddie, did you get in the audition you tried out for?"

"Nah, but I still got a whole damn list of options you gave me, one of 'ems gotta have space for little old me!"

"Yeah, it will, trust me."

"I already am! Mark, I didn't get to thank you for the-"

*ting*

Mark put the phone down, and pulled out the plug connecting the phone to the line. He did not have time to bother with such sob-stories of gratefulness. Expressing emotions to others was one of the most inefficient ways to spend your time, and Mark was not going to waste it with Eddie on such a... human topic.

Instead, he turned his attention to the notes placed to his side and began editing the first scene he had written the previous day. It was an early draft and he should have just hand-written it in pencil or the likes, but he wanted the practice of typing before work today, so he had typed it out. Now, he was making changes to the dialogue, adding a few and removing some unimportant ones. After all, he did not have perfect memory from his past, and was instead using his memories of the movie and his skills as a scriptwriter to essentially write a new script that would closely depict the emotions behind the original one.

Soon, he was done making changes, and wrote out a new first scene. Somehow though, it was already 10 and he was really hungry. Instead of wasting time going out for dinner, he opened the shopping bag full of stuff, that he had bought on the way back home, and pulled out his old-trusted; the humble instant noodles.

...

After a quick but filling dinner, he turned to write down, like the newly revised first scene, in pencil, the second scene.

[Movie: The Sixth Sense (Scene 2)]

[The film then jumps forward to the following autumn. Malcolm has survived the shooting and is back to work, though he appears emotionally distant and detached, particularly from his wife, who now seems cold and withdrawn. Malcolm begins working with a new patient, 9-year-old Cole Sear, who is exhibiting symptoms similar to those Vincent displayed as a child. Cole is an isolated, anxious boy, living alone with his single mother, Lynn. He is clearly troubled by something, but Malcolm is unable to pinpoint the cause at first. He starts following Cole’s behaviour, observing him at home and at school. Cole is shy and uncomfortable around other people, and he’s often bullied by his classmates.]

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This one still needed a lot of grammar corrections and even more dialogue and pacing corrections, but it was a good first draft. Plus, he could directly make many changes on it without having to rewrite it since it was done in pencil, so it would be faster to work out than the first scene.

However, it was already night so Mark closed his notebook and went to sleep for the night.

...

The next morning, the first thing he did was reconnect his phone landline cable, before backing up his suitcase and heading off to work. Since he lived rather close-by, and it was early enough that the sun did not bother him, and instead, it was pleasantly cool which allowed him to do some brisk walking without the fear of sweating too much and ruining his work clothes.

At work, most of what happened was discussions, and he as the Intern was instructed to note it all down as the overarching plot of an underdog hero taking his wings to save the galaxy, wrapped in a freedom struggle from an oppressive regime, wrapped in a fight between the light and the dark of the same force, wrapped in a science fiction spectacle like none seen before took form.

Mark was in charge of noting down all important points spoken of within the discussion, but it would naturally be highly disorganised and in random order, which was why Silvia was in charge of noting down characters and who they are meant to be, and Luke was in charge of noting down the plot points of the movie they needed to include in the script.

Finally, Dan, Bob and Kraig would be involved directly in the discussion only, since they had been working for LucasFilms from their first movie, American Graffiti that seemed to be doing really well at the box office currently and was one of the reasons George Lucas had enough confidence to move onto this passion project of his. Silvia and Luke were hired directly from other production companies and since they had a little bit of experience, they were directly given junior screenwriter positions, unlike Mark.

However, all three of them could also contribute whenever they had a valid input, and this was made certain by Kraig as he repeated it multiple time over.

"I would like to ask if there is going to be a backstory to Luke and Darth Vader," Mark raised a point, much to the confusion of all those present.

"No, not that we have thought of yet. Plus, it will not make much sense to show it in the movie."

"It would not. Urm, Kraig, could I ask Mr. Lucas for a few seconds of his time. I have an important question only he could answer."

"And what would that be?"

"Why are we all being hired permanently?"

"..." silence filled the room at the strange tangent Mark was going on, but Kraig rapidly put the dots together in his mind and his eyes widened at the thought.

"Kraig, Dan and Bob would have been enough to slowly make the script of many movies, and if need be, Mr. Lucas could have hired people like us on a temporary basis to work on parts of the script; namely the dialogue and grammar, with Kraig working on the overall story and plot-holes," Mark continued to explain.

"Unless we were making more than one movie.... a franchise!" Kraig completed his thought process, and Mark did not respond.

"For that, we would need more fleshed out characters, potential points of conflict, that would need to be hinted at in the first movie, or at least not disproven by the first movie preventing us from using it in the second movie," Kraig added on with a sharp glint in his eyes.

"But that is insane! No other movie has become a franchise other than James Bond, and that too is an enigma in the movie circle. An impossibility that should not exist!" Dan butted in with a frightened voice. He did not want to lose his job after his company over-invested in projects that had no guarantee of any amount of success, and went bankrupt.

"Only one way to find out," Kraig muttered as he left the room, leaving a stunned Dan, Bob, Silvia, and Luke inside, with only Mark having enough forethought to follow behind him.

Only when the meeting room door closed did the four snap to attention and hurried behind Kraig and Mark, but the two were already inside Mr. Lucas' room, and heard the decisive click of the lock, sealing their fates of having to wait for the answer to their unanswered questions.

However, as the meeting which should have taken merely seconds began to take longer and longer, and finally the lawyer sitting in the room opposite Mr. Lucas' got a phone call and rushed inside with a bunch of documents, their worries increased manyfold. However, the four were now resigned to their fates; victims of their own minds' lethargy, unable to find out their futures and leaving it up to the actions of Kraig and the new intern; Mark.

...

About two hours later, Kraig first left the room with an odd expression, and was quickly followed by an unfazed Mark. Only after another few seconds did the lawyer leave with his slick-oiled hair and tight-fitted suit.

"So? What's the answer?" Dan asked Kraig impatiently, and the man did not blame him after realising the clock behind him had swung to 5 past 4.

"I cannot say much, and neither can Mark. Do not pester him or he will be in a heap of legal troubles, but all you need to know is that we need to think of potential connections." Kraig said after having sorted through his thoughts and finding the right words he could legally use to convey his meaning to his team.

Immediately, they all understood, but did not react much with words, as they were still outside their meeting room with the other departments still listening in.

"Alright, back inside, we have a lot of work ahead of us, perhaps only less than the visual effects department," Kraig pulled Mark inside first, preventing him from accidentally letting something important slip to the other members, or worse, the other departments.

"Mark, I hope you remember what you signed back there. It means you absolutely cannot say anything about anything to anyone. Got it?"

"Yes." Mark nodded his head rapidly as thought to show fear, but internally he just accomplished another one of his goals. The original Star Wars IV: A New Hope was made with the intention of it being a stand-alone movie, and the relationship between the antagonist and the main characters was only revealed in the subsequent films, which made a few scenes in the first movie rather odd, like the meeting between Darth Vader and Princess Leia.

As such, he wanted to save the movie from such a fate, and the first step to doing that was to get Kraig on board with the idea of Darth Vader being Luke's father. And now, it was successful, which meant he could move on with the other small changes he wanted to make in the story. Nothing too obvious, but simple changes here and there which could smoothen out inconsistencies between the original trilogy and the prequels.