Cold Open

It all started long ago because the people of the surface world mocked me

When you've got something to say, start at the beginning, okay

You can become my partner

Your- your partner?

Good-lookin' guy, well-dressed

Duck your head, Marlowe

Come in, come in

Nah, nah, nah business hours been 9 to 5 since dawn of time

But he refused to see me

Yeah, ask ya mama 'bout it

Hey, are we alone or am I hearing things?

What things? Like someone else is walking with us

We got the seventeenth wonder of the world right here

We got the nineteenth wonder too, hell

There's three blocks of people walkin' on the street

I must have a partner, I can do so much

There's something strange about him

Strange isn't the word for it

Finally, I could stand it no longer

I decided to strike out alone

To search for a new world, the legendary land at the center of the Earth