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(Intro Scoring)

LINDEN: Hi, good morning.

ISKA: You!

- You!

- You filthy animal,

- you're the one who got my daughter pregnant?! You animal. You pig!

PADS: I wish (takes a deep breath)

...you will give me a sign.

(emotional music)

- That I may love again.

(emotional music continues)

- Wena, it's hard to be lonely.

(emotional music swells)

CHLOE: The moment Benjo marries me,

- I will be your boss!

(sharp intake of breath)

(ambient piano scoring)

LINDEN: Wow,

- that looks delicious!

- Special?

EMIL: Of course, well, this is for Benjo.

- I don't want my spouse to feel left out of my life.

- That I only have time for work and none for him.

- So, here I am, preparing his favorite.

LINDEN (whispering): That's what you call love!

(Linden giggling teasingly)

LINDEN: Alright, I will leave you at it...

CHLOE: What?

- Did you think, you're the only one who is preparing something for Benjo?

- I'm not going to just give up that easily.

LINDEN: Hmmm,

- I can smell blood.

- Is this a food war?

- If that is the case,

- so let the Kitchen War, begin...

- Right now!

BENJO (VO): The challenger, a Filipina fighter cooking a classic Filipino dish.

- She makes your blood boil, she makes you cringe --- CHLOE!

- And our champion, preparing a 5-star quality meal,

- the mighty, chefilicious Emil.

- And I will be the ultimate judge to the biggest cook-war in history, Benjo!

(tense musical scoring)

(suspenseful, dramatic scoring)

(videogame fight track placing)

(electricity humming)

BENJO (VO): Let the Cook War begin!

(sound of mortar and pestle)

(suspenseful, dramatic music continues)

(cinematic sound effects)

(cinematic scoring continues)

(sizzling sound of ingredients being sauteed)

(scoring heightens)

(Opening Credits)

(ambient sounds)

(soft footsteps)

(Kelly giggling softly)

(dogs barking in a distance)

PADS: Wow, someone has left some Adobo for me!

- Hey, Kelly,

- do you think I'm blind and not see you?

KELLY: No, that was not me!

(Pads swearing)

PADS: Perfect timing,

- thank you,

- I haven't eaten yet.

(light-hearted scoring)

(door closes)

(jolly scoring)

(light romantic scoring)

(fast successive beats)

(scoring swells)

(sentimental music)

LINDEN: Here it comes after so much preparation.

- the challengers from the kitchen are now ready.

- Ladies and gentlemen, the stars of this competition,

- here they are, all ready to be judged!

EMIL: For you Beh, I mean, Benjo.

- I prepared Beef Stroganoff on Farfalle pasta.

(Inaudible chatter)

CHLOE: Well, Benjo,

- Kare-kare (a savory Filipino dish of oxtail and pork legs with peanut butter sauce and vegetables)

BENJO (Excited): Kare-kare!

- I've been craving this for a long time!

- Ahhhh, This is my favorite, but, I'll try this first.

- I will taste this first... yes, ahhh...

EMIL: You don't want this?

BENJO: I'll give this a try first.

(Linden sighs)

ISKA: Wait, hand that over to me.

Yes, the plate you prepared.

(ambient sounds)

EMIL: Here you go, ma'am.

ISKA: Will you look at this,

I did not know that there a spaghetti that's shaped like a ribbon.

LINDEN: Pasta...and it's a bowtie.

- And it's called Farfalle!

ISKA: Farafalye!

BENJO: While this Kare-kare is perfect with rice and sauteed shrimp paste, where is the shrimp paste?

ISKA: There is, here it is!

BENJO: Linden...

LINDEN: Yes?

(utensils clattering on a plate)

BENJO: Linden, can you hand me the shrimp paste?

LINDEN: Okay, fine!

- This so smelly shrimp paste ...(mumbles comprehensively)

ISKA: What did you say?

LINDEN (sarcastically): Nothing, I said stuff yourself full!

(silver on china plates)

(tensed musical scoring)

BENJO: Delicious!

(more intense scoring)

BENJO (mumbling): It's really delicious.

LINDEN: We don't seem to have some water.

- Chloe, you seem such a helper, why don't you get some water?

BENJO: Chloe... Chloe... please? Can you?

(scoring)

CHLOE: Ahhh, okay, let me just get something to drink.

BENJO: Alright.

LINDEN: Can you do it faster.

ISKA: Can you please hand me the...

BENJO: Here...the shrimp paste.

- there you go.

(Emil scoffs)

BENJO: This really is tasty!

LINDEN: This Beef Stroganoff is really very delicious.

The best!

(inaudible chatter)

CHLOE: Benjo, water.

BENJO: Yes please, yes, please.

EMIL: Try some of the Kare-kare?

LINDEN: Ahh....

- I don't think so, it looks like a haphazardly done Kare-kare!

ISKA: You will regret it.

(tensed ambient scoring)

BENJO: C'mon Linden, try the Kare-kare. Eat.

EMIL: Don't mind him, just eat.

LINDEN: Benjo, you should try the Been Stroganoff, it's so creamy.

- It's very tasty.

BENJO: Yes, I'll leave some space in my tummy for some of that.

EMIL: Nevermind, you don't have to. It's fine.

CHLOE: Why do you sound so angry?

ISKA: You're sulking.

EMIL: No, no... he just had so much and he is on a diet.

LINDEN: Commander Iska, maybe you should take it easy that's bad for hypertension.

ISKA: Well, it's savory.

LINDEN (whispering): Pig!

ISKA: Let's forget about hypertension for now.

(Ambient music)

(throbbing sexy music)

(Mood saxophone music)

(music intensifies)

(intensified music heightens)

(sexy beats)

(Iska laughs in glee)

ISKA: I love the taste of this!

LINDEN: It should... it's rather costly.

ISKA: I was told,

- back in Guimba, we only drink fermented coconut wine.

- I really love the taste of this.

- What do you call this again?

LINDEN: Wine.

ISKA: Wine!

LINDEN: Red wine.

ISKA: You're not afraid of me anymore.

LINDEN: No.

- I know you're not going to have me killed... right?

ISKA: Of course, I can see that you're a good person.

- What you don't know is...

- I was just making up stories...

- I don't really kill gay people.

(Iska laughs)

- I just said that to...

- protect my daughter.

LINDEN: I know...

- But, there is something that you don't know.

ISKA: What?

LINDEN: Just open your eyes.

(sentimental music plays)

- Look around you.

(sentimental music continues)

- The truth is very plain to see.

(music intensifies)

(Linden scoffs) Excuse me.

(soft sentimental music)

(laughter)

PADS: Hey Benjo, don't make me pay for my rent.

BENJO (good-heartedly): You may pay half.

PADS: You're a billionaire and you're making me pay half?

(friendly chatter)

PADS: You should give me that unit instead.

KELLY: It's ready, here is my world-famous Sangria!

PADS: We have been waiting for that.

KELLY: It's here now so don't complain. Excuse me, I'll just move this Hennessy aside, with all due respect.

PADS: I remember, this is so good.

BENJO: That's my favorite.

KELLY: Emil....

EMIL: I miss this...

KELLY: Benjo...

BENJO: What do you call this again?

KELLY: Sangria!

BENJO: Sangria...

KELLY: And of course, Chloe...

CHLOE: Thank you Kelly...

KELLY: And, PADS...

PADS: Ahhh, save the best for last...

KELLY: Of course I'm the best, so I'm the last....

- Wait, where is Inang?

CHLOE: Asleep, she got drunk on red wine (laughs).

(friendly chatter)

KELLY: What about Linden?

- Linden!!!

BENJO (jokingly): Nevermind looking for him, he went out to look for boys.

(inaudible chatter)

KELLY: So, how about this one? Who will have this?

(everyone chattering at once)

KELLY: Shhhh, here is what we will do,

let us play a game. Let's talk about who among us has the most miserable life. Then, whoever wins will surely need this last bottle.

EMIL: And it really has to be the saddest?

KELLY: Yes, whoever has the saddest life story will have this bottle of world-famous Sangria.

EMIL: So, I'll go first,

BENJO: Do good Beh!

EMIL: The saddest would have to be what happened to my grandfather...

- Well, my grandfather was mistaken to be a subversive rebel and he was tortured during Martial Law.

- After that, our family became so poor that we were basically living in a hand-to-mouth existence.

- Sometimes, when my mother asked me to fish and did not catch any, we were forced to eat rice with cooking oil and soy sauce.

- But, now I'm happy that I am with you all and that I will win this!

- (Overlapping voices) Wait, we haven't even told our stories yet!

KELLY: My life is much more painful.

- Your workmates can turn their backs on you...

- ...your friends...

- ...or the person you thought you loved.

- You will survive.

- You can bear with it...eventually.

- But if it's your own family that abandons you?

- Nothing will be as heartbreaking.

- I would have understood if I was a bad person.

- But, I did not murder anyone. I did not steal. I did not break someone else's family.

- They turned their back on me because they had a daughter inside a son's body.

- So, now, when someone leaves me behind, guys fool me,

- I'm already numb to the feeling...

- I don't get mad anymore...

- I don't mind that all was a waste of time...

- I just ask myself...

- Why me?

- Why should it be me, over and over again?

- So, do I get to have this bottle now?

PADS: Not yet,... I am not even done yet.

- I think everybody here knows... that I had Covid.

- Me and my wife.

- What's painful is that she died.

- But, what's more painful is that I gave her the virus...she was not even going out of the house.

- When I got home, I took the virus home with me.

- Worst, she's not the only one who died... I also lost our innocent child.

- You know, when we had Covid. People shunned us.

- We were isolated...even prisoners had more freedom.

- It's been several years since the pandemic, and I have been lonely since then.

- I feel so alone all these years.

- Years I have been craving for love.

- But I know, my time will come...

-... eventually, I will be happy.

- And I will love again.

- So, I win this?

(chatter)

CHLOE: I haven't shared yet.

PADS: Drink your juice first...

BENJO: Go ahead...

CHLOE: I remember...

- when I was much younger.

- My father left us.

- He was mistaken as a rebel...

- he was one of those massacred during an encounter back in Guimba.

- For almost a month, me and my siblings, together with Inang hid in a cave.

- I can't forget that Inang almost did not eat so that we could have food.

- Grade school and high school I had to sell foodstuff so I could continue some sort of education.

- I also dreamed to have my sibling go to school...

- but, nothing.

- He died due to meningitis. No hospital will take us in because we were impoverished.

- I had to travel to Manila eventually to find work.

(Chloe breaking down)

- I was almost raped by my boss.

- But, I ran.

- I applied here.

- I got to know all of you.

- Thank you!

(Chloe crying)

(Pads and Benjo mumbling words of comfort)

KELLY: Pregnant women are really like that. They're really emotional.

CHLOE: So I won?

BENJO: Wait, you haven't even heard me yet.

KELLY: Hey Benjo, are you even still joining?

BENJO: Of course, and even if you win I won't have you drinking any alcohol because you're pregnant.

CHLOE: I know, even if I win I will give it to Benjo because I'm sure you haven't forgotten that I'm having a baby.

(teasing banter)

BENJO: Alright...

PADS: Why don't you tell us your story Benjo...

BENJO: Listen to my story...

- that's all you went through?

(Benjo inhales)

- it's nothing to what I went through...

- Because of politics, my family had to separate ways.

- I had this favorite car. But Dad gave me the second hand.

- And my weekly allowance? He always cut it in half. What used to be 100,000, he would just send me 50,000.

(Chloe & Emil scoffs)

- And the slow internet? I cannot study and its so hard.

- The most irritating is that you are left with a multi-billion company that you don't know what to do with.

(Chloe laughs)

- So, I have to win!

PADS: Excuse me, you want to be murdered?

KELLY: That's so shameful.

- Don't you dare touch that Benjo, give me that!

(everyone laughs at Benjo)

KELLY: I think we will all have to agree on whose life had been so hard...

PADS: Me!

(bickering)

BENJO: Chloe has the most miserable life among us all...

KELLY: Yes, this should go to Chloe...

BENJO: No,... she couldn't take any alcohol.

KELLY: So, Benjo, this bottle goes to me and Pads.

- You're not going to sleep yet anyway but we want to get tipsy.

EVERYONE: Cheers!!!

(friendly banter and laughter)

(Pads teasing Kelly)

CHLOE: I'll go ahead, I need to sleep early... the baby seems to be getting sleepy.

KELLY: Go ahead Chloe, it will be good for you.

(Everyone saying goodnight to Chloe)

PADS: Let's go swimming...

KELLY: Yeah, its getting hot.

PADS: I still want to take a dip.

KELLY: I've been wanting to get into the pool, I want to dive on someone.

PADS: Crazy!

(Pads splashes water)

KELLY: Hey Pads, I'm getting wet!

PADS: You're in the pool, obviously you'll get wet!

KELLY: I curled my hair before getting into the pool, it'll be a shame if you get it wet.

PADS: You have a lot to say... there!

KELLY: Help....help!!!

PADS: Kelly...Kelly....

- Wake up.... wake up... shall I do mouth to mouth?

- There!

KELLY: What on earth!!!

PADS: This is a four-feet pool... mouth to mouth???

KELLY: Is that so? Then hug me then, I feel cold...

PADS: Stop it... you might touch something....

KELLY: Why? What cant be touched? No one is touching that anyway...

PADS: Stop it, you might touch something that bites....

KELLY: Wait, why is your chest bigger than mine?

PADS: That's fine... you... you know, used to be bigger than mine anyway....

(laughter)

EMIL: The water is too cold...

- nice...

- the white trunks look good on you...

BENJO: What you're wearing suits you as well...

- sexy...

EMIL: Why? You want it?

- You're staring...

BENJO: Why? Do you want this too?

EMIL: As if you don't know me, when have I ever said no?

- Wait, don't you like something else now? Sorry...

BENJO: Hey, wait...

EMIL: You chose her over me, remember?

- You want this bad?

- Do you find me sexy?

(Emil giggles)

BENJO: What about me? Do you find me sexy?

EMIL: Of course...