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WGA REG. I10531-01
"AT POINT VENGEANCE"
by
D J Sekelik & Bert Emrick
FADE IN:
EXT. PITTSBURGH SKYLINE - NIGHT
Panoramic view of the city from the air.
Two small bright beams of light on a black screen.
Light beams get larger until they fill the screen. Roar of Engine!
Screen goes Black. Red taillights appear large and bright. Zoom away
disappear , loud RACING ENGINE.
Another pair of bright beams rapidly grow larger.
SKYLINE SHOT ZOOMS DOWN TO MERCEDES', TANYA'S FACE.
INT. MERCEDES BENZ -- NIGHT
Tanya's eyes stream with tears, as she drives quite fast on the parkway ,
towards the City. She turns on to the ramp, leading into Downtown. Enters a
parking garage.
EXT. DOWNTOWN STREETS - NIGHT
Tanya, takes her wig off, changes in the rest room. Walks out to the
sidewalk through the crowds of people going about their business. Traffic's
heavy. Sparkling city lights, give a festive feel to the night air.
INT. CITY LOUNGE NIGHT
(Tanya), sits sipping a drink, smoking a cigarette. Looking outside , people
and cars lights , bouncing off one another in the night mist.
EXT. DOWNTOWN STREETS- NIGHT
Tanya, notices a man walking briskly through the crowed shopping district,
looking around intensely. Shortly after him is a woman dressed in black
(Lou) melting into the crowd. She keeps the bogus disc close to her person.
INT. CITY LOUNGE- NIGHT
Tanya, takes a sip of her drink , focuses on the man crossing the street.
She changes her seat position. Losing site of him in the lights and mist.
There is a GUNSHOT. Tanya quickly reaches in her purse. The man is on the
ground, bleeding. People are frantically running around, in and out of
traffic. Cars swerving , people in and out of the streets.
INT. CITY LOUNGE- NIGHT
Tanya glances down and leaves a tip on table while all around is absolute
chaos.
Sounds of car horns blaring, sirens , Police.
EXT. CITY LOUNGE BALCONY - NIGHT
Tanya walks down the steps. Wades through the commotion, people running up
and down. Tanya walks calmly, to the sidewalk, away from the scene. Looks
back in the midst of madness.
EXT. MARKET SQUARE ALLEYWAY - NIGHT
Tanya walks to the alley, briskly. Stops. She hears noises, the sound of
footsteps. She listens, nothing, starts walking. Stops. Hears gun being
COCKED. Tanya ,glances around, the mist is heavy, lights glaring. She makes
out a figure in the mist. Gun raised , she ducks down. A GUNSHOT rings out.
Tanya takes cover. Brick dust from a bullet meant for Tanya, rains down on
her, the bullet ricocheting ,hits the wall instead. She lunges out into the
misty alley, running hard. The sound of a motor bike racing towards Tanya.
She dives to one side as a woman (Lou) on the bike roars past. Tanya calls
to her but she does not stop. There is a another GUNSHOT ,we see a man. HE
is looking down at Tanya.
TANYA POV BLURRED AND FADING, MAN STANDING ABOVE HER.
TANYA BLURRED FOCUS , PASSES OUT.
INT. HOSPITAL ER NIGHT
TANYA (low whisper)
Where...Am...(faints)
TANYA POV - A MAN STANDS OVER HER.
MAN (Jake Canton?)
Be still, you're safe.
He gently, pets her silky skin.
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM NIGHT
Tanya in bed, bandage around her back in a wrap bruised from rubber bullets
hitting her.
MAN
Relax you'll be fine. Sleep I'll see you in the morning.
The Man leaves , closes the door , and walks to the elevator.
EXT. HOSPITAL LIMOUSINE NIGHT
The man gets in the car, drives off. Pouring a drink, cell phone rings and
he answers.
The Man (Morgan)
Hello! Hello! FUCK you , prick!
Morgan is more interested in the Van. Throws the phone on the seat. The
electric window rolls down to reveal the hospital in background, he looks
back, and watches.
INT. HOSPITAL TANYA'S ROOM NIGHT
A Nurse walks in to check on Tanya , puts down the tray , picks up the
syringe , injects something into Tanya. Two orderlies enter the room and put
Tanya into a body bag then on to a gurney.
EXT. HOSPITAL MORGUE - NIGHT
The Black Van backs down the Morgues ramp, in the rear of the Hospital. The
Gurney is being rolled to the Van , its lifted in , doors are closed. The
Orderlies , walk back to Morgue entrance. The Van drives past. The limousine
,pulls out as the window rolls up and begins to follow.
EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT
The Black Van is seen speeding down a country road , with the Limo a few
lengths behind.
EXT. GATED MANSION DRIVE - NIGHT
The Van makes a sharp turn up the long drive. The limo stops before the
Gates. The Black Van drives past the Main House, makes a right turn to the
guest-house. Stops. Two armed guards stand watching it approach. The rear
doors are opened they remove the gurney.
INT. GUEST HOUSE - NIGHT
The two guards position the stretcher, in the bedroom. They check to be sure
she is still unconscious and leave. Two armed guards position themselves
outside.
INT. GUEST HOUSE BEDROOM - NIGHT
Tanya awakens. Knows nothing of the surroundings. She has a job to do , she
must get away. Tanya , pulls the curtains back, spots the guards. Walks to
the other window, sees a motorbike. Looks at her face , reflected in the
window, she winces, before padding across the room to look for some clothes.
INT. GUEST HOUSE - NIGHT
Tanya, dresses in a black outfit she finds in the closet. Looks out the
window. The guards are talking.
EXT. GUEST HOUSE - NIGHT
Tanya opens the patio door quietly, she hears the voices of the guards and
crawls out carefully, she keeps looking back , getting closer to the
Motorbike.
EXT. PATIO GARDEN - NIGHT
Tanya, pushes the motorbike through the manicured garden of shrubs. She
climbs on , wheels the bike down the hill to the driveway. Gets on the bike
coasts down the road as far away from the grounds as she can , before
kicking in the starter, and quickly speeding away.
EXT. ROAD - NIGHT
We see a dark and desolate road. Suddenly the sound of a speeding car comes
up to the rear of the bike. Tanya looks in the mirrors. Lights, get
brighter and closer. A Quick double S curve approaches , as the bike enters
the bends, Tanya, stops the bike dead. Spins around heads in the opposite
direction. The vehicle, attempts the turns , but hits the guard rail and is
jettisoned straight up into the night air. It tumbles end over end until it
crashes, and immediately explodes. Tanya shows a sigh of her relief, looks
back in her mirror, turns around rides past the flames and fades into the
night mist.
EXT. MC KEES ROCKS STREET -NIGHT
Tanya rounds the corner , shuts off the engine. The bike glides to a stop in
the parking lot.She looks around, lights a cigarette and walks to her
apartment building. She still has the disc taped to her thigh.
INT. TANYA'S APARTMENT NIGHT
Tanya removes the bandages. We see her back. The dark welts in the
reflection from the mirror behind her. Tanya, puts her hair up, slips into
her nightgown, turns the lights down , gets in bed. Wrestles around a
little, drifts to a deep sleep.
MONTAGE
Nightmares about her ordeal. The shooting,the man in the Hospital ,drugged
and kidnapped, then bang!
CUT FROM BIKE TO TANYA AS SHE SITS UP, CONTINUOUS FLUID MOVEMENT TOWARDS
CAMERA
MONTAGE END
INT. TANYA'S APARTMENT NIGHT
BEDROOM
Tanya wakes up and bolts upright in bed , she is sweating and shaking. She
gets up, dresses casually, but fast , before looking at the clock. 12:20am.
TANYA Fuck this, I need air and a cold
fucking beer.
EXT. MC KEES ROCKS SIDEWALK NIGHT
She walks from her apartment, to her local watering hole , remembering the
meeting in Point Park tomorrow, she stops a block from her place. She looks
down , lights are on they are still open.
EXT. LOCAL FIREMEN'S CLUB 5 NIGHT
Walking along she tries to recall her dream. She keeps going over and over,
but can't remember. Tanya really needs to stop for that drink. She walks to
the entrance, rings the buzzer, walks up the steps.
INT. CLUB 5 DIM-LIGHT-MUSIC NIGHT
Looks over the place , sits at the bar, orders a beer, a shot of vodka.
Lights a cigarette, only a couple members at the bar. A old friend sits next
to Tanya at first she doesn't notice.
DALE
Hi, long time! Girl!
Tanya recognizes the voice. Turns around , looks and is surprised.
TANYA
Jesus Christ! Dale, how the hell are you? Boy , it's great to see you. They
hug and kiss.
She motions to the barmaid to give them a round of drinks.
DALE
So, You're looking well. What have you been doing, I haven't seen you ,
since the thing with your father. Oh. Sorry!
Tanya sips her drink, looks at Dale. Slugs him in the arm.
TANYA
No need. I've been traveling. Fucking off. You Know how it is.
TANYA
Well Dale it has been nice but, I have to get up early, see you around.
Dale, doesn't have time to get a word out . Watches Tanya walk out the door,
orders another drink, sits and stares at the T V.
EXT. CLUB 5 SIDEWALK NIGHT
Tanya walks out the exit. She notices a dark figure in the night mist
standing under a streetlight. She starts walking home. A car passes drawing
Tanya's attention. When she looks back, the figure is gone. She walks faster
,feeling tired and scared.
INT. TANYA'S APARTMENT NIGHT
BEDROOM
Tanya removes her clothes , lets them fall to the floor. She falls on the
bed ,rolls over, turns the light off. Turns on her side , closes her eyes.
BEDROOM WINDOW
Tanya sleeping, a dark image appears at the window, casting a shadow over
her. She opens her eyes slightly, the shadow disappears. Tanya rolls over ,
goes back to sleep.
EXT. GATED MANSION SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS NIGHT
A car pulls in the driveway. Stops. A Man (Jake Canton) gets out of the car,
looking around he takes time to view the surroundings before , walking
through the gardens to the Guest House.
INT. GUEST HOUSE NIGHT
Jake walks around, checking rooms, all are empty.
EXT. GUEST HOUSE NIGHT
Jake exits the house. The guards are nowhere to be found. Jake takes out a
cell-phone , makes a call.
JAKE CANTON
(speaking into phone)
The package is gone! Why?
Just find me the girl. Send some guys out here, to check around now! Stupid
pricks.
Jake closes the phone , walks away. He gets in his car, slams the door and
drives away, tires smoking. Squeals to a stop. Backs up. He gets out and
notices the motorbike is gone. (Fuckin Yutz!)
EXT. POINT PARK CITY - DAY
A cute little girl on a swing-set her father gently pushes her. The park is
full of Kids. A well-dressed businesswoman , Tanya sits in the background
watching the Fountain and Kids.
TANYA
(in her mind)
Lucky little girl, lovely Fountain too.
MORGAN, in a dark suit approaches Tanya from the other way. He walks with a
limp and is carrying a leather briefcase. A woman, LOU, is with him.
Tanya Good morning. You're right on
time.
Tanya stands to give Morgan a big hug, but he gives a stone-faced, motion
for her to sit down. Stunned at the rejection, she sits. Morgan sits on the
bench next to Tanya. Lou remains standing, slightly behind the bench. Tanya
glances at Morgan, then looks steely at Lou, as Morgan slides the briefcase
to Tanya. She puts it on her lap. Opens it revealing a laptop computer.
LAPTOP
She lifts the top , turns it on. A Picture of a man's full face and profile
comes on the screen.
MORGAN
The basics are on page one. Page one-A , has all the other information you
will need. It is all on the disc. Do well!
I want the disc located with the detailed plans.
TANYA
Fred Tang? It's going to piss them off. You sure on this?
MORGAN
Fuck them! Just do it. Understand!
Tanya taps keys on the computer to check the next page, a look of concern
flashes across her face. She notices the face of the Senator, and the
insignia disc.
TANYA
You've been using Fernando to prep.
Morgan nods an affirmative motion.
TANYA
He's an ass-hole. . . . You know he's been hitting on me?
MORGAN
It's only natural. Besides, who hasn't played with your sweet ass?
Tanya turns off the computer , closes the case. Morgan glances up at Lou ,
gives a slight nod. Lou returns the nod and adds a smug smile. Tanya
meanwhile watches the Fountain and Children play.
MORGAN
Wish you were still a child?
TANYA
I never was a child, you should know! Bastard!
Tanya turns to see Lou glaring at her from behind Morgan's back.
LOU (MOUTHS)
Bitch! Slut! (Smiles)
Tanya smiles sadistically at Lou, strokes Morgan's arm.
TANYA
Maybe next time you'll allow the bitch to sit with us.
Morgan ignores her, looks around the park.
MORGAN
Make sure your timing stays on schedule.
Morgan walks away. Lou walks past Tanya. Tanya grabs her arm hard , and
stares in Lou's face.
TANYA
I know it was you last night. You bitch, you are to work with me not against
me.
LOU
(leans in and whispers) Go fuck yourself princess.
Lou straightens up. Pulls her arm away. Runs to catch up to Morgan, she puts
her arm around his, giving Tanya something else to think about.
EXT. MORGAN'S ESTATE - NIGHT
All is quiet, the only light is starlight. A figure (Teko) darker than the
shrubs and trees glides to a tree. He stands for a moment then depresses a
section of tree bark. A penlight reveals a section of bark pulled away.
Behind is a recording device with a corkscrew antenna. A hand, with a
diamondback rattlesnake skin bracelet around the wrist, reaches in and
removes a mini tape. A new one is replaced.
INT. HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - NIGHT
Three candles burn on an alter , in an otherwise dark room. The silhouette
of a man stands at the alter listening to a tape. We travel around the room
as the tape is played.
ALTER
Mythical figures and animals are carved into a long slab of Marble, very red
in color but its grain is yellow like flame.
TAPE
MORGAN (ANGRY)
No fucking way, dumbshit. You will not talk to him. You'll kill the son of a
bitch.
TAPE - YANA - EVERYONE LIKES HIM. CHIN'S A HERO TO ALL OF THE KIDS.
TAPE - JOSE - HE'S PITTSBURGH'S MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPION.
TAPE - MORGAN (ANGRY) - WHAT HE IS, BAD FOR BUSINESS. AND HE'S IN YOUR
TERRITORY. YOUR BUSINESS IS DOWN, AND HE'S RESPONSIBLE.
TAPE - LOU - WANT ME TO TAKE CARE OF IT?
TAPE - MORGAN (STILL PISSED) - FUCK NO! THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT. - AND IT'LL
BE DONE TOMORROW AFTERNOON WHEN HE LEAVES THE GYM.
TAPE - PETER - THAT'S AT THREE. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
TAPE - MORGAN (SCREAMS) - YOU'LL BE WHERE I TELL YOU TO BE! NOW GET YOUR
ASSES OUT OF HERE!
(beat) Chairs scuffle on the floor, feet hurriedly walking away, door shuts.
TAPE - MORGAN WHAT THE FUCK'S WRONG WITH YOU? OFFERING TO WHACK CHIN WHEN
YOU'VE GOT TANYA TO DO AFTER SHE DOES FREDDY TANG.
TAPE - LOU - SORRY, DIDN'T THINK
TAPE - MORGAN THAT'S FUCKING RIGHT. YOU DON'T THINK , YOU DON'T DO SHIT
UNLESS I TELL YOU.
FADE TO
EXT. SOUTH SIDE NATIONALITY - DAY
Colorful banners painted with ethnic characters are strung over all the
streets , gracefully swaying in the breeze.
EXT. SOUTH SIDE PITTSBURGH -DAY
Small business with tall, narrow, and colorful vertical signs stick into the
air like ethnic sign posts. A walking tour of pink-faced, Pittsburgh people
and tourists take pictures of anything remotely ethnic. A bike tour
comprised of skinnier tourist passes the walkers. A tour bus loaded with
noisy passengers pass the bikers. Little shops with baskets, cloth, and nets
stuffed with colorful sweets, toys etc. Hangs from the ceilings. Tables,
packed together so one must turn sideways to get by, are loaded with any and
everything to eat.. Ethnic children noisily follow a young man, walking down
the street. He passes the only sign printed in English.
SIGN
Welcome to: PITTSBURGH'S NATIONALITY FESTIVAL"
KID 1- Will you teach me to fight , Mr..?
KID 2
Yeah! Me too. I want to be a champion when I get old like you.
CHIN
I saw you guys smoking a joint. Athletes don't do drugs. Only dummies do
drugs.
KIDS I promise not to do drugs if
you teach me how to fight.
- Yeah! Me too.
- Me too!
EXT. VETO'S POV - DAY
Standing in an ally , behind several cardboard boxes. He watches as PETER
occasionally peeks out to the sidewalk. Peter gives the okay sign to someone
in the ally. Veto looks down the alley, where YANA and Jose stand in an open
doorway. Both carry automatic pistols. They move back into the doorway.
EXT. ALLY - DAY
YANA looks at Jose. Both are frightened.
YANA
Remember. Don't hesitate. If we don't kill him, he's going to kick our
asses.
JOSE - And Morgan will get what's left.
EXT. ATOMB'S POV - DAY
Peter steps out onto the sidewalk as [the] three kids and Chin walk past.
Peter points down the ally while talking excitedly.
PETER - there is someone in trouble, they asked me to find you. Please help,
they are killing him.
Chin turns to the boys, points down the street , they run away. Chin and
Peter run into the ally. As they run past the open doorway, YANA and Jose
step out and BLAST Chin with their pistols. Chin face-plants. Peter stops,
turns around, and cautiously goes to Chin. YANA hands Peter his gun. Peter
puts another SHOT in Chin's back. All three vanish into the doorway, the
door SLAMS shut. Veto ,walks briskly to Chin. Standing at Chin's sneaker
clad feet, we see Veto's snakeskin cowboy boots.
Teko pulls a U.S. Army duffel bag up around Chin's feet and higher. With the
bag vertical, gravity helps stuff the body into the bag. The bag's top is
closed. A red liquid is poured out of a goatskin bag onto the blood pool
that has formed on the payment.
EXT. SHADOW ON WALL - DAY
A man with a lumpy bag over his shoulder, unburdened by its weight, walks
away.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE - DAY
The door opens slowly. We see a pair of black dress boots walking softly to
a window. At the window we see a business person in a brown suit with a
large leather briefcase hanging by a shoulder strap. Long black hair hangs
to just below the collar. Large wraparound sunglasses cover the eyes. While
walking to an adjoining room, a light leather glove is pulled on a hand,
then another. He looks into the room, then walks to another door. Opens it,
revealing a closet empty except for an old cardboard box. The stranger goes
to the last door, opens it, looks inside, then closes the door. He stands at
the window where the sunlight pours in a wide beam. Tiny dust particles
kicked up by the stranger swirl in the light.
INT. SERIES OF STRANGER'S POV - DAY
At street level the street is congested with car traffic. A kid on a
skateboard worms through pedestrians crowed on a sidewalk.
The building across the street is an older office building with plenty of
windows, most are closed, some have drapes, others folding blinds, the rest
are bare.
On the third level of windows, we see the corner window, the next, a drape
flutters outside, the next, a man leaning out looks down the street, the
next is an empty space, the next a man walks back and forth, obviously
angry.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE - DAY
The stranger steps out of the light and lowers the briefcase to the floor.
The bag is opened. A brightly colored object is withdrawn. The stranger
holds it to his mouth and begins blowing air into it. In a moment, the kid's
beach ball is half inflated. It's dropped and hits the floor without a
bounce. Something wrapped in a towel is removed from the briefcase.
The towel lands on the dirty floor. We look up to see the stranger holding a
rifle with a folding stock. Another towel is removed from the bag,
unwrapped, revealing a long silencer. The silencer is casually screwed onto
the rifle. Next a scope is unwrapped and is meticulously attached to the
rife. The stock is unfolded and locked in place. A clip is pulled out of the
bag and inserted into the magazine. It's slapped with the heel of a gloved
hand to insure it's in place and the rounds are free. The breach is pulled
back, and shoved silently home, cocking the rifle.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE 2 - DAY
A door opens very slowly. We look through the hinge-side crack to see a
second figure (Tanya) sitting on an armchair. The figure has a long blonde
wig on. The rifle's strap is wrapped around her arm. The arms are braced on
both knees to anchor the weapon, feet on a small table. Tanya ,looks into
the scope, makes an adjustment and then for some reason, turns to look at us
with a curious expression. The door is slightly ajar, but goes unnoticed.
Tanya brings the scope to eye level shaking her head slightly..
THROUGH SCOPE
Fred Tang's head is in the cross hairs. We shift focus from cross hairs to
Fred Tang. He's talking and angrily expressing himself with his hands to
someone out of view.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE 2 - DAY
We see Tanya pull her eye away from the scope, distracted by a flash of
light , from a building across the way. She shifts aim.
THROUGH SCOPE 2
We focus in on Tanya, just in time to see her fire.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE - DAY
The stranger's head explodes, eye still over the scope as he dies. We see
the stranger's right eye shot through ,the back of their head , a mess.
EXT. TANYA'S WINDOW - DAY
We see Tanya looking through scope. We focus pull to silencer , we witness a
puff of smoke from the muzzle as the weapon fires.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE 2 - DAY
We see Tanya , fire the weapon, riding the rifle's recoil as an empty casing
tumbles over her shoulder. The assassin's eye remains on the scope.
INT. THROUGH SCOPE - DAY
In mid rant, a side of Fred Tang's head erupts.
Sound - rushing noise, under water till bullet strikes, then full sound of
wet hit.
INT. EMPTY OFFICE - MORNING
Tanya ,calmly stands up and leaves.
INT. FRED'S OFFICE - DAY
Fred Tang is sprawled out on the floor. His head is cocked on the baseboard,
of a wall splattered with blood. A woman SCREAMS frantically, she is joined
by another man, who kneels at Fred's side. A hole in Fred's temple oozes a
steady stream of blood , pools under his shoulder. The man moves Fred so his
head isn't cocked up on the wall. Fred's head turns, revealing a chasm where
his other temple used to be. A bloodied , flattened bullet lies on the
floor.
INT. BUILDING HALL STAIRWELL - DAY
Tanya, quickly moves down one flight of stairs goes to a door under the
stairs marked "Janitors Closet". With the key ready, she opens door and
slips inside.
INT. CLOSET - DAY
Dim light, the dress is removed, revealing legs ,covered by pulled up
leggings and white tight T. The pumps are replaced with sneakers, one of
which is too small.
TANYA (mutters) - Fernando, you ass-hole.
She looks around, finding a yellow vat. The dress is stuffed into it. It is
marked "HAZARDOUS MATERIAL". Filled with acid. The clothes bubble, the
blonde wig is removed and dropped in the acid. The lid of a large trash bin
is removed. The bottom of the bin is covered with gnawing-on chicken bones.
TANYA (CONT'D) (pissed) - Man! You fucking ass-hole.
She digs the bones out, pulls out a false bottom. A sport bag is taken out.
The bottom is replaced as are the bones. The gloves are put into the sport
bag, that is hung over a shoulder. She peeks through a crack in the door,
and leaves.
EXT. ALLY - DAY
Tanya calmly walks out of the building. She stretches against a wall
cluttered with empty boxes , a large trash bin before jogging down the ally,
as she passes the trash bin, Lou steps out from behind. Lou raises a pistol
, aims it at Tanya's back.
VETO
(wind-like whisper) - Look behind you!
Tanya turns. Looks behind. She is spooked. Lou shoots. THUD! Tanya is
knocked forward, hits a trash can, falls to the payment. She tries to get
up. She's hurt too bad, and in shock. She can't control her muscles. It's
difficult for Lou to contain her delight. She walks to Tanya's jerking body.
Lou aims at Tanya's back. Shoots twice. Lou's face looks as if she's almost
orgasmic. Lou turns Tanya over with her foot. She mock-pouts , and shoots
again.
LOU
Now, you're a dead bitch.
Lou puts the gun in her jacket, she looks around for witnesses. Seeing none,
she walks away. Tanya's forehead with a bleeding bullet hole showing , blood
splattered over her face and neck. A pendant hangs from her neck ,lies on
the pavement. Blood seeps , to surround the pendant. The silver pendant
engraved with odd characters is slowly covered with blood. The shadow of a
man moves quickly along the wall. It stops over the fallen Tanya. Quickly
crams her into a body bag. The contents of a goat skin bag are spilled into
the blood pool. The blood breaks down, dries quickly to a powder. A breeze
blows, the red powder , disappears
INT. RANCH HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - DAY
Black screen until a door opens. The opening fills with blinding light. The
silhouette of a figure carrying a bundle on his shoulder ,dragging another
bundle behind him. He enters.
INT. ATOMB'S POV - DAY
He lights a small reed torch. With that torch he moves around the room
lighting candles of various sizes and color.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - DAY
The lighting is dim, but good enough to see the room's features. The walls
curve, to form a circular room. Covered with heads of animals, spears,
knives, bows and arrow quivers, skin drums, assorted art, and a multitude of
plants. The ceiling is black ,with sparkling gemstones ,of various colors
,reflecting candlelight as twinkling stars. The dark figure disrobes, the
silhouette reveals that it's a male, slightly stooped, possibly from age. He
picks up an urn, holds it over his head , pours the liquid contents over him
as he scrubs each part of himself with one hand while pouring with the
other. When the urn is empty, he takes a loincloth from the alter ,ties it
around his waist. The man picks up one of the duffel bags, places it on the
alter. It's opened, a body is dragged out. The body is carefully stretched
out on one side of the alter. The reed torch is used to set afire two bowls
at the ends of the alter. The torch is extinguished on the dirt floor. He
takes a double-edged dagger from the alter and easily slices off the body's
clothes, revealing a naked female. Tanya's forehead ,has a bullet wound
caked with dry blood. Her wrist vein is sliced longitudinally open with the
dagger. The man squeezes a few drops of blood from her arm that fall into a
small golden bowl. A purple leaf is stuck over the cut to stop the flow of
blood. Added to the bowl is the contents of another small urn. The other
body is laid on the alter, next to Tanya. The clothes cut off, blood is
taken from a vein.
INT. HOUSE LATER
The outline of a man naked except for a loincloth approaches the wall. A
leather apron decorated with red, yellow, and green beads forming geometric
patterns is selected ,from several leather and fur robes. It's hung from his
neck. A headdress of long horsehair is taken from the wall. It's put on his
head. Hair strands cover his bare shoulders. A Markden mask is taken off the
wall and put on. He turns to face us, we see a carved Markden face,
scowling, with slit-eyes and mouth. It's most prominent feature, a big nose.
LATER (CONT'D)
He sits in the center of the earthen floor, Behind a caldron atop a few
pieces of unlit fire Markd. Two gold bowls sit at his side. An oval shaped
skin-drum with animals stained on it rest on his other side. An ancient
whalebone baton carved with intricate signs of the almanac leans against the
drum. Teko takes seven hands of dirt from the floor and drops them into the
caldron. One of the bowl's contents is added. With both hands he mixes the
dirt while HUMMING a chant. A glob of mud is removed from the pot. He
massages the mud for a moment, while still humming, sets down a dirt statute
of a standing bear.
VETO
Mother bear the healer will lead you from the Under World. Give you
introspection on solitude and change and rebirth.
He picks up the drum and baton. He strikes it once, puts it down.
VETO(CONT'D)
She will teach you to speak to the spirits, to transfer motion, and learn of
astral travel. You will use her dreams to become wise, be a visionary. --
And when necessary, administer vengeance.
Veto,thumps the drum twice and then puts it down. He takes more mud,
massages it, and produces a barracuda.
VETO (CONT'D)
For fierceness, protection, and self-defense, the barracuda is your
connection to the energy of male warriors.
The drum is beat twice. Another trip to the pot, and a moment later he puts
a chameleon on the dirt floor.
VETO (CONT'D) -
The chameleon will give you patience and determination. The sun will provide
your energy. His confidence will let you blend in with that around you.
INT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE - NIGHT
Peter, Jose, and YANK are seated in straight-back chairs. Morgan and Lou
circle them.
MORGAN (IRRITATED)
So you shot him a half dozen times. He was killed on the spot, right?
YANA -
I SWEAR.
MORGAN -
So? Why no cops? Why no ambulances? Why no local or national news about the
king of karate-chops was found murdered in a fucking town alley?
PETER -
Maybe the street people got him.
MORGAN (READY TO KILL SOMEONE) -
So the fucking street bums ate him!
He walks to Peter and hits him in the face so hard that Peter hits the
carpet unconscious. Morgan grabs YANA by the shirt , yanks him to his feet.
Instantly knees him in the groin. He turns YANA loose, who stands, bending
over.
MORGAN (CONT'D) -
So why is it, there's not a drop of his fucking blood. Where you said he
fell with all those fucking bullet holes in him.
Jose doesn't say shit or even look at Morgan. He's next.
YANA (WITH PAINED EFFORT)
- Can't explain that -- Sir. He was bleeding -- when we left.
MORGAN -
Maybe the echo-nuts wiped it up to keep Mother Earth sparkling?
YANA (GRUNTS) -
No, Sir
MORGAN
Just get out. Now!
INT. HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - NIGHT
Tanya and Chin, on the alter, half covered with a coarse blanket, made of
kenaf fibres. Each blanket is unique in color and its intricate design.
Tanya, lies on her stomach, her face turned to us. Her body is ghostly
white. Eyes sockets dark. The bear, barracuda, and chameleon are positioned
an inch from her face, looking at her. Close on bullet wound to head reveals
it is covered with a purple paste. Close on back, four ugly bullet holes,
stuffed with the purple paste. In the background the figure uses a large
knife to chop a leafy plant. He carries the coarse product in hand to the
alter and dumps it into a bronze bowl. A thin bamboo section is held over
the bowl. It's end is punctured with the point of a small dagger. It's
shaken three times and each time a drop of fluid lands in the bowl.
Veto (yells) - Hiia! -- Yiia! -- Miia!
He quickly thumps the drum six times. With haste, the mixture is stirred,
using a strangely shaped bone. The bowl is then held over Tanya as a gray
paste is spread on each wound with the bone.
INT. CHINATOWN OFFICE - NIGHT
Lou is now alone with Morgan.
MORGAN
Lou, thanks to you, I learned of Tanya's scheme in time to turn the
tables. -- But damn it, I can't accept this.
He pours a drink.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
Call it paranoia if you want, but Chin's disappearance and now Tanya's? This
doesn't happen. I want an explanation. Or I'll have to assume the worse.
There's a conspiracy.
LOU (upset) - I have to agree. But Morgan I am not involved. I shot her
dead.
MORGAN
Maybe she wore a vest.
LOU - One round whacked her head. She's dead. I saw blood on her back, face,
and a pool of blood so thick that it covered the pendant you gave her.
MORGAN
I meant to tell you, about taking that Damn thing ,it is valuable.
He downs his drink , pours another Crown Royal.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
You know if you weren't so special to me, that I'd get tough with you. I
can't let this stand. You have to get out on the streets, find her -- and
Chin. I have to see those bodies.
Lou nods, zips up her leather jacket and leaves.
INT. HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - NIGHT
Tanya is covered with her blanket. Chin is uncovered. Several brightly
colored plants lie on the alter. Veto,dips separate index fingers into the
bowls, and then paints Chin's face with the liquid. A yellow plant is
chopped with a knife. A red plant is chopped. A small bright blue plant
without leaves is chopped. A sliver of Chin's skin is cut from his shoulder.
A vein is sliced open. Congealed blood is dug out. All ingredients are
placed in a gold bowl. Everything is stirred with the odd bone. Then another
bamboo section is opened. Six drops are shaken into the bowl. With each
drop -
The drum is thumped six times. TEKO takes a needle-sharp dagger from the
alter. It's thoroughly stirred in the mixture. The dagger's point is then
jabbed into Chin's bullet wound. Each jabs leaves a black dot.
A tattooed black rose covers a wound. The dagger is repeatedly jabbed into
another wound.
INT. VETO'S POV - NIGHT
Large bronze bowls placed on both sides of the alter, filled with liquid,
burn eerie blue flames that bath the room in the same color. His left arm is
outstretched over the two covered bodies on the alter. His right hand comes
in view holding a small dagger. He cuts a small vein, blood pours into the
large brass bowl until he pinches the wound closed, and holds it for a
moment. Tanya's bear idol, is crushed in his hands, letting the dust fall
into the bowel. The same is done to the barracuda, and then the chameleon.
Three small Marken bowls are stacked vertically. He takes the first bowl,
and as he scrapes some of its powder into the brass bowl
VETO
Heart of the falcon to heal the soul and bring it back to this world. To
teach swiftness, speed , control of movement. Understand the magic.
He sets the bowl down. Hits the drum twice. Picks up the next bowl, and as
he scrapes
VETO
(CONT'D) - The mighty brain of the grouse who stands guard at the door of
the Great Spiral. To understand the cycles and circular nature of time and
how to travel the Great Circle.
He beats the drum twice. Then while scraping powder from the last bowl
VETO
Take femininity from the black panther who knows of death and the dark and
rebirth. She is your guardian of energy and allows you to reclaim your power
needed for the astral travel she'll show you.
We see Chin's face. An eyelid flutters. His body moves slightly with each
shallow breath.
INT. VETO'S POV - NIGHT
Close on Tanya's face. Right hand holds the needle dagger, Left hand holds
the brass bowl filled with magic. The dagger is dipped, and stirred in the
bowl. The dagger begins jabbing at Tanya's hair line, leaving gray dots with
every puncture.
Tanya's forehead is dark gray. The bullet wound is black. Spidery and jagged
black cracks radiate from the hole, giving the illusion of a cracked skull.
The dagger jabs in the eye socket, leaving the color of black mixed with
blood.
INT. MORGAN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Lou enters looking exhausted. Morgan's in bed watching Larry King. A nearly
empty bottle of Crown Royal rest on the side table. A spidery trail of smoke
rises from a cigar parked in an ashtray next to the bottle. Morgan looks at
Lou when she enters.
MORGAN
Well?
LOU -
Nothing. I used Lumina like the cops do.
MORGAN
AND?
LOU
Nothing. Not a trace. Except on the wall next to where she was hit.
Morgan looks mean as he starts to get out of bed. Lou is frightened.
LOU (CONT'D)
Ask Fernando. He saw the blood on the wall.
Morgan walks directly to Lou, while she backs up.
LOU (CONT'D) -
Fernando found a culvert near the spot. We're going to go down there
tomorrow, when it's light to see if -
MORGAN -
If the street people ate her.
Morgan is only a few feet away, Lou's back is to the wall.
LOU -
No. But maybe she crawled in there. -- Please don't hurt me!
Morgan puts his hand out and takes her chin in his hand, he smiles.
MORGAN -
Why would I do that -- especially when I need some fucking.
Lou's head is pushed down to Morgan's groin.
CUT AWAY
INT. HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - DAY
Only a few candles dimly light the room.
TANYA'S POV
SWIRLING SCENES (WITH MUSIC BOX MUSIC )
A) Psychedelic night sky is full of spinning multicolored stars.
B) A ballerina doll changing colors spins slowly around.
C) Looks to side, animals looking at her from the jungle. She sucks in air
in sudden fear. She passes out.
INT. HOUSE - BEDROOM - DAY
Super: "Two weeks since reincarnation."
A heavy Black woman, MERCED, sits on the bed, hiding the face of Tanya as
she feeds her with a spoon. She's very careful, motherly.
MERCED
Oops, sorry dear.(smiles)
She takes a napkin and wipes up a spill.
MERCED (CONT'D)
Soon my dear. Soon you will feed yourself again and not have to worry that
sloppy old Merced will spill soup on you again. She smiles kindly.
A Black Woman keeps shoving stuff into her mouth. She chokes, spits it up.
Another spoonful. Spits it up. The woman wipes her face and neck. Her lips
are moving but the only sound is the melody that constantly plays in every
waking moment. [Name of dancer on box thing]
A nice looking young man looks down her. His lips move (out of sync) to the
sound of Lullaby.
INT. HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - NIGHT
Twinkling multicolored stars in near blackness.
Tanya'S POV
An eerily illuminated toy ballerina in an otherwise black screen slowly
turns as MUSIC BOX plays. Focus from Ballerina to figure in background. A
carved Markden face, whose hair, horse hair, hangs beyond his bare
shoulders. A leather apron decorated with red, yellow, and green beads form
geometric patterns. Her breathing accelerates in fright unlit she passes
out.
A old, wrinkled face blots out some of the twinkling stars, a strange blue
light from the side creates strange shadows on the face. He looks down and
at us with concern, then his eyes turn kindly.
OLD SPIRIT (OLD AND STRAINED VOICE) -
Three white men came to steal our lives. One was killed by another, but he
refused to go to the Other World.
Tanya'S VISION
The old face fades to a rocky gorge in the mountains. A young man is shot by
another young man, four times. The third man awaits on a rubber boat at the
edge of a roaring river. Finally he leaves.
OLD SPIRIT
The killer laughed at every bullet. Then the killer said something in white
man's talk, turned and got into the boat with our stolen lives.
The rubber boat is full of nylon bags, stuffed full. An artifact of a bow
and quiver of arrows lean against one bag. The boat is caught by the current
and whisked away. The injured man moves. Tries to rise.
OLD SPIRIT
But with bullets in both legs and arms, he cannot.
The man stops struggling.
OLD SPIRIT
I watch him lie there for two days and three nights. Finally, on the third
night White Coyote and his mate Flower Eater come to eat him. -- Time has
come to share his body with nature.
The man lies helpless on the rocks. A huge white coyote cautiously
approaches, his mate a smaller coyote follows a few paces behind.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D)
White Coyote sniffs the air ten times for every step foreword. He's so
hungry I can see his mouth watering.
Close on a watering mouth framed by two long fangs.
When all of a sudden, out of the night, marks in a giant golden eagle. The
eagle appears out of the night and whacks White Coyote's back with it's
talons, (claps hands together explosively). The coyote jumps with a yelp,
Flower Eater splits with her mate right behind. Then the eagle lands next to
the dying man.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D)
I never saw this before. The eagle steps up on the man's chest and stands
guard. -- That when I became curious about the white man. The eagle stands
on his chest as the sun rises. White Coyote and Flower Eater return but stay
well away. They lie on their haunches, their tongues out, panting, watching.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D) - Watching just like me as neither the man nor eagle
moved all day.
The sun goes down in a brilliant red sunset with the eagle still standing on
the man's chest. The sun rises to a red sunrise.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D) - It promised to be a rainy day. I watched, knowing
the great bird would lose interest -- Rain it pours on the bird, it moved
back a few steps ,extended a giant wing over the man's face to keep the
water out.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D) - That was when I knew I was witnessing something. This
was not an ordinary man, no. I watched until the rain suddenly stopped. The
sky brightened with sunshine and the eagle turns his head and looks straight
at me
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D) - The great eagle looks right at me. I heard the words
from it's mouth. Sky Father, he says to me, has sent this man to you, Wind
Dancer, Keeper of the Anasazi Alter. Be ready to cross the waters when five
more winters have past, And like that, the giant bird spread his wings and
he lifts off the ground
OLD SPIRIT - A rare wind came from the north and lifted the bird into the
sky without a flap from his wings. -- A sight so magnificent that White
Coyote stood and howled to his brothers and sisters.
The bird sails away without movement as COYOTES EVERYWHERE HOWL.
Sound of howling coyotes.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D) (smiles) Sky Father made me happy. Soon I could join my
old family and friends as he had selected the new keeper -- even though he
was a white man.
A long golden feather suddenly appears in his hand. He puts the quill into
her hair.
OLD SPIRIT (CONT'D)
You will someday follow, little Sun Bird.
EXT. RANCH HOUSE - GREENHOUSE - DAY
Super: "Three weeks since reincarnation."
Tanya's back is to us as she sits, unmoving, in a chaise lounge amid wild
jungle plants. Chin walks slowly towards her, being careful not to step on
the plants.
Tanya'S POV
[Icelandic Lullaby] The Oriental boy steps into view. He smiles. Nice teeth.
He speaks, but his lips are out of sync with the tune.
TANYA - Ha.
Chins eyes widened with delight. He turns his head to yell something
unheard.
TANYA (CONT'D) - YOU'RE A DUBBED CHINESE MOVIE. -- THAT'S FUNNY.
She dozes off.
EXT. RANCH HOUSE - GREENHOUSE - DAY
Chin exited runs through the greenhouse.
INT. RANCH HOUSE LIVING ROOM - DAY
Merced dusts a table as Chin runs through the room.
CHIN - She spoke!
Merced drops her duster. Her eyes fill with tears. She cries while smiling.
While doing the sign of the cross -
MERCED - Name of the father of the son, and the holy spirit. Amen
While holding her hands in the amend position, she adds
MERCED (CONT'D) - And bless Atomb.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - GYM - DAY
Chin stands in the center, alone. From a dark shadow along a wall, a vague
figure speaks
TEKO - She's repaired. It's time to explain.
CHIN - Why did you wait so long?
TEKO- If she could not fully recover, you had no need to know. Her voice
means she will be among us again.
CHIN - Good, I can notify my family that I'm alive, now.
TEKO- No. You were dead and lost to your family. I knew how to give you a
new life, but in repayment, you must remain dead to the world for six months
from this day.
CHIN - What's to prevent me from leaving?
TEKO - Me. I mean you no harm, but must have your skills. I can put you into
any state of awareness until I have what I need. I hope you'll choose to
help me.
CHIN - What is it?
TEKO- After this conversation is over, you will never question me again. You
will not speak to me unless I ask you to speak.
The voice follows the shadowy figure as it moves along the wall.
TEKO (CONT'D) - You are to train Tanya in the martial arts and have her in
the same condition you're in when competing for the championship. That is
all you and she will do for the next six months.
(beat)
When she can defeat you in armed combat, I'll deem her ready and you may
leave.
CHIN (insulted) - Beat me?
TEKO- If you ever wish to leave here, you must be a better teacher than a
fighter.
The figure walks close to the door that only he can use.
TEKO (CONT'D) - For your time and efforts, you'll leave here with 500,000 in
a Swiss account. That money guarantees your silence about all of things that
concern me. Besides, the training regime will make it easier for you to
regain your title.
(beat)
Do you agree.
CHIN - You're asking little for giving me back my life. May I ask your Name?
TEKO-TEKO.
CHIN - An unusual Name.
TEKO- Now days, yes, it is.
CHIN - May I see what you look like?
TEKO- No.
CHIN - May I ask about her face?
TEKO- No.
Last words echo as we fade away.
EXT. RANCH LAND - DAY
Super: "Six weeks since reincarnation."
Chin and Tanya walking away from us on a grassy hill.
EXT. TANYA'S POV - DAY
Chin looks at us. He tries to hide a look of sorrow at seeing our face.
CHIN - Let's jog for a while.
Tanya - I'm feeling stronger every day.
They breakout in an easy jog.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - GYM - DAY
Tanya's POV
Dumbbells with several weights on both sides goes up and down as -
CHIN - Forty -- forty-one
LATER
She's running on a tread mill. Heavy breathing. Her arms drip sweat.
CHIN - Harder, harder, push it, push it. One more minute.
The TUNE returns as she passes out.
BACK TO SCENE
Chin grabs her on the way down. He lowers her to the floor. From the
shadows, Atomb speaks.
TEKO- Let her rest for five minutes. Spend the rest of the day in the
armory.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - ARMORY - NIGHT
A large roofless room has mounds of dirt scattered throughout. Targets,
silhouettes of people stand on the far wall.
Tanya's POV
CHIN, dressed in black, has a M 16 strapped on his back, a.45 caliber pistol
strapped on his side. He zigzags , running towards a target, dives behind a
mound, pulls the M 16 off, fires! A short burst, the target's heads
disintegrates. He jumps and runs towards the target on the other side,
shooting as he runs, that target takes a bunch of hits all over the body.
He dives behind another mound. Shoots over the top keeping his body below
the return-line-of-fire. Another target bites the dust.
Chin leaves the rifle behind ,while charging the two remaining targets he
pulls the pistol out ,blasts away until he's out of ammunition.
>From the target line, fifty yards away he, jogs back to Tanya.
CHIN - Think you can do it this time?
Tanya (whines) - I'm tried. Besides. Merced tells me you are a martial art
champion, what do-job did you learn this in?
Chin taps his nose with an index finger
CHIN - Hong Kong SDU. I thought I could make a difference, I was wrong. Dead
wrong.
Tanya moves to table, picks up two pistols. She looks at Chin and pouts. Cut
as Tanya, twin Biretta's firing advances along course.
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
A woman sleeps on her side in the early morning light.
Super: "Six months after reincarnation."
Tanya (wakes and screams) - Nooooo!
She sits bolt upright, leans one extended arm for support. The nightmare
revisited, she shakes it off. Tangled hair hangs over her bowed face. With
both hands, she tosses her hair back as she looks at us.
Tanya's FACE
Her eyes are black. Her face dark gray. White teeth are tattooed in place
around her lips. Black cracks radiate from a black hole ,covering the bullet
wound scar. A life-sized skull has been tattooed to cover her face. Alice
Cooper would cry with envy. She yawns , crawls out of bed. Stands and
stretches. A wall covered with photos and articles cut from newspapers and
indistinguishable junk hang in the background. She drops her extra large
nightshirt on the floor. The shirt is deftly picked up with one foot ,
deposited on a dresser.
WALL CLOSE UPS
A) Smiling Morgan standing with other smiling faces.
B) Morgan smiling with frowning faces.
C) Headlines: "Morgan wins six year case against Feds."
D) "Prosecutor gives up on Morgan."
E) "Morgan Noel wins settlement against State."
F) Photo of Morgan with his arm around Lou, she looks up to him as a
faithful daughter would.
G) The pendant hanging by a gold chain has a stiletto sticking through it.
BACK TO SCENE
Tanya turns to look at the wall of faces, REVEALING four tattoos, a black
widow, bumble bee, butterfly, and a scorpion , hide the ugly scars from
bullet wounds.
DRESSER
A large golden feather sits on top. She opens the top drawer REVEALING a
black sword with intricate metal hilt. Pistols, a short Biretta and a long
barrel magnum are placed on either side of the sword. Boxes of ammo and
clips are neatly stacked all around the drawer's perimeter. She picks up the
magnum.
WEAPONS
The gun's chamber is opened, spun, and closed. Gun is returned.
The sword is picked up, light shines on the blade as it is slowly
unsheathed. A finger carefully feels its edge. The blade slides back home
and is returned.
Tanya - Be patient my beauties.
BACK TO SCENE
Tanya opens a window shade, REVEALING a pleasant day in a rural area. A
fence separates a stable from the green rolling hills. A large greenhouse is
attached to the house. An eagle in the distance SCREECHES. She inhales
deeply, but winches with a jab of pain from mending muscles.
MERCED - Tanya! Breakfast is ready.
Tanya - Be right out.
She picks up a pair of shorts that were on the floor, selects a baggy shirt.
While she buttons up, she opens the bedroom door.
INT. RANCH HOUSE LIVING ROOM - MORNING
Spacious room with antique furniture and horse-lovers stuff adorn the walls
and table tops. Short, heavy, and apron-clad MERCED waddles across the room
to the kitchen.
Tanya - Where's Chin?
MERCED - In the greenhouse. He ate earlier.
EXT. RANCH HOUSE - GREENHOUSE - DAY
Luscious green tropical plants fill a large glass building. Narrow trails
wander web-like through the jungle of multicolored leaves.
A big leaf slowly moves REVEALING Chin, stooped over and pulling weeds that
he tosses into a plastic bag. In the background barely distinguishable in
the foliage is a man's eye. He is motionless as he watches Chin.
DARK VOYEUR
EXT. TEKO'S POV - DAY
As Chin tosses a weed into the open bag, an elephant ear moves slightly
behind him. Silence is suddenly broken when Tanya leaps, SCREAMING, from a
plant , tackles Chin. Chin's, pinned by Tanya,
CHIN (laughs) - Saw you coming a mile away.
Tanya - Liar. I got 'cha.
CHIN (chuckling) - Did not.
Tanya - Wish he could've seen me. I'm getting good at this astral travel
stuff.
CHIN - He probably did. We never know where he is.
She rolls off Chin and lies on her back.
CHIN (CONT'D) - What do you think he's training you to do?
Tanya leans up on an elbow and looks at Chin.
Tanya - Don't know. But as soon as it's done, my newfound skills are going
to get me even with someone.
CHIN - Your dad, I know. But how can you do that to your father?
Tanya - Easy. How could he have treated me as he did.
CHIN - You don't know for sure that he told her to kill you.
She's quiet for a moment, in thought.
Tanya - It's more than that. He has used me for his sexual perversions since
I was ten years old. Turned me into a prostitute, and rented me to old men.
CHIN - Hard to believe a man would do that to his flesh and blood daughter.
Tanya - Can't believe that I was so stupid to let him.
She sits up. Leans over and jerks on a weed.
Tanya (CONT'D) - Then he thought it was cute to turn me into an assassin
when I was a teenager. That's the worse part. I see those faces in my
dreams.
CHIN - Whydah you do it?
Tanya - I was brought up isolated from other kids. Thought it was normal.
Later, he threatened to kill me if I didn't do as told. -- And he would've.
CHIN - You didn't have any friends when you were young?
Tanya - Never. You're the only friend I've ever had.
Chin (chuckles) - and you try to kill me every day? Some friend.
They Both LAUGH.
CHIN (CONT'D) - Seriously, you've had boy friends, haven't you?
Tanya - Never. I was his -- and I'm ashamed to say -- I loved him.
(shakes her head sadly)
Tanya - Just didn't know any better.
Chin touches her shoulder, shows concern, Tanya, not used to compassion,
pulls away.
Leaves obscured , TEKO'S , view as he backs deeper into the foliage.
EXT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - DAY
Lou steps out of a taxi and walks to a pair of huge solid steel gates. An
armed guard standing by the gate recognizes her , uses a hand-held radio.
GUARD TOM - Open pedestrian gate.
A small door in the larger gate opens. Lou walks through as the door closes.
INT. MORGAN'S OFFICE - DAY
Lou walks in , goes directly to Morgan. She plants a passionate kiss on him.
He roughly grabs her ass.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - GYM -- DAY
>From the dark side of the room.
TEKO - Three hours of anticipated telepathy.
CHIN (whispers) - Synchronized idiocy, he means.
Tanya , stifles a chuckle. Each wears a leather band around their neck.
Tanya's neck band has a slow flashing red light. Chin's neck band flashes
blue. Chin and Tanya move to be face to face. Chin moves to a distorted
posture, Tanya follows while both stare at each other. With an unsheathed
sword in hand, each moves fast or slow, but each moves independently, and at
matching speeds. Chin attempts a fast turn-around and breaks eye contact for
a flash.
TEKO - Penalty!
Chin's , blinking blue light is on steady. The electrical jolt causes him to
glance towards the shadows in protest. That brings increased voltage, he
drops to his knees, he doesn't scream out. He doesn't dare. Tanya continues
her dance, her concentration locked onto Chin's eyes.
INT. MORGAN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
In a big bed, Lou and Morgan share a pipe. Morgan takes a hit as Lou pours
him a refill of wine. As she puts the bottle back on a side table
LOU - I cannot believe that her body disappeared like that.
Morgan exhales, with a grin
MORGAN - Fucking street people must of eaten her.
LOU (angry) - Why do you keep saying that?
MORGAN - What else? Cops don't have her. Morgues or hospitals never saw her.
The only other possibility is she wasn't dead.
Lou throws her empty glass at the wall.
LOU - Damn you! Say that once more and I'm leaving you.
She starts to tear up
LOU (CONT'D) - Fucking bitch! Even dead, she's causing me trouble.
MORGAN - What about that voice you thought you heard warning her?
LOU - I looked, nobody was there. I never leave witnesses.
MORGAN (taunting) - Fucking street people. Probably was in a culvert. You
left, he dragged her down and had a feast.
LOU - And I hope he fucked her first.
MORGAN - You really know how to hate, don't you?
She cuddles up to him.
LOU - Had a good teacher.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - GYM - NIGHT
Tanya moves incredibility fast, swinging her sword. Stops. Only a hair away
from Chin's neck. Chin drops to his back, kicks himself into a black flip ,
instantly charges Tanya, his sword darts and sways like lightening bolts in
the dimly lit room. Tanya drops , at the same instant kicks Chin's knee,
breaking the knee cap. A millisecond later her sword is again at his throat,
a trickle of blood runs down his neck. Chin remains still, even with the
pain of the shattered knee. From the dark shadows a voice comes
TEKO- Release.
Tanya removes the sword , looks at Chin's knee, and his face; shows no
expression. She helps Chin hobble away -
Tanya - Please, don't make us fight again.
LATER
A opening door floods a path of light into the gym. Tanya walks towards the
center, the door closes. In the dim light, she sees four men. She stops.
Each man stands erect on the corner of a ten-foot square marked on the
floor. Each is blindfolded and carries an unsheathed short sword.
>From the dark perimeter -
TEKO - They are paid to kill you. You must use your sheathed sword to defend
yourself, also administer twelve killing thrusts to each man.
(beat)
Go to the square's center. Tanya! Wait for my command.
Tanya goes to the center , assumes an attack stance.
) TEKO- Remove blindfolds.
The men throw off the blindfolds and blink to get their eyes adjusted. After
a long moment.
TEKO heretically yells.
Attack!
Two men jet at her, she side-steps and jabs as another man attacks. She
fends off his blow with her sword, turns and jabs it four times in
lightening succession into his belly. The other man nearly impales her, but
her body, like fluid, avoids contact as she sends him to make-believe
heaven. The men, all quick, continue to move back and forth within the
confines of the square, and with every movement Tanya is there with the
blunt blade sinking in several inches. She's a whirlwind of death.
Her specialty blow, a hard slap on the head with the broad side of her
weapon, disorients each adversary long enough to give her the advantage with
most every attack. One by one, when killed a dozen times, the man steps
outside the square. As the last man steps out, holding his damaged jewels -
TEKO - Score?
Tanya looks at her arms, legs, her body.
Tanya - Two cuts.
TEKO turns to the rising figures from the floor.
TEKO- Put your blindfolds on. You will be paid and returned to your homes
now.
LATER
Tanya runs in place at full speed. Her mouth and nose are covered with duct
tape, she cannot breath. Her eyes closed in concentration, her body covered
with sweat.
TEKO- Breathe. You've made two minutes.
She rips the tape off and loudly SUCKS in as she slows her pace.
TEKO(CONT'D) - I believe you're ready.
As she walks towards the shadow -
Tanya - I feel ready.
INT. CHINATOWN OFFICE - MORNING
Morgan looks over the city streets from a fourth-floor suite. Three
scummy-looking men and Lou are in the room. He turns to face them.
MORGAN - I've let you guys have this sector thinking you were going to
improve sales.
The three men look at each other uneasily,
MORGAN (CONT'D) - But what happens? This is the third month that your
numbers are lower that YANA's a year ago.
YANA - It's the fucking cops. Man -- they've been kicking our ass.
JOSE - Yeah! It's like someone's fingered our people. And nobody wants to
buy 'cause we're being watched.
MORGAN - The only one watching is me. And you guys are fucking up.
He nods to Lou. She quietly gets up moves behind YANA. She kicks him in the
crook of his knee. YANA SCREAMS in pain as he goes down. Lou moves a step
closer and sends a vicious kick to his face. Teeth spray the air. The other
dopers move away, their hands out in front to ward off any incoming blows.
LOU - You best not let a drop of blood hit Morgan's carpet!
The fallen doper holds his hand over his mouth to stop blood from spilling
out, he has to swallow frequently.
MORGAN - Next month, expect worse unless you do your jobs.
Morgan looks at Lou, smiles. She looks happy.
MORGAN (CONT'D) - Much worse. And I want a twenty-five percent increase.
As Morgan walks to the bar
MORGAN (CONT'D) - Spend as much time on business as you do in the titty bars
and you'll have no problem making your quota.
Morgan at the mini bar, pours Crown Royal into a glass. He faces them again.
MORGAN (CONT'D) - What do you think, YANA. A few fucked up legs should do
the trick?
YANA - Yes, sir.
MORGAN (coldly demands) - Now get your asses out of here!
Jose and Peter run for the door.
YANA (pissed at being left) - You pricks! Help me!
They're gone. YANA tries to get up, makes it, then hops away.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - MORNING
Large bowls filled with a liquid produces eerie blue flames and are placed
on both sides of the alter. Chin, naked, lies stretched out on the alter. He
is unmoving, eyes open but dead-like. An odd looking slimy wrap covers his
knee. He has a one inch cut on his neck, a six inch slice on his side, a
half inch puncture near his heart. A man wearing a full length buffalo pelt
that covers his head to his feet enters. A wide pendant made of rawhide is
attached to the skin. From it hangs a Marked doll, a gold sun god, an wolf
carved in ivory, and a odd shaped stick. A Markden staff, carved with
symbols, is placed carefully on the alter next to Chin, one end touches the
top of Chin's head, the other, his foot. He pulls a big knife out, it takes
on the same color as the blue flames.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - BEDROOM - MORNING
TEKO'S POV
Tanya sleeps in a brightly lighted room. Shear drapes blow about in the
breeze. She lies as straight as a board on her back. A light sheet covers
her; she looks dead except for her slow rhythmic breathing. TEKO stands
beside the bed, looking down on Tanya. He doesn't move until he goes to the
wall covered with pictures and articles. The pendant is taken down, the
stiletto removed, and is placed on the dresser next to the golden feather.
The pendant goes into a pocket in the hooded robe. Out of his other pocket,
TEKO pulls out a music box with ballerina on top. He leaves it on the
dresser and looks again at the sleeper
BACK TO SCENE
TEKO- You don't remember, but it's yours.
He leaves. The door closes Tanya suddenly sits erect. She shakes her head.
Tanya (mumbles) - Please -- if there's a God. Please stop that nightmare.
Tanya does a double take at the ballerina. Gets out of bed. Touches it to
see if it's real. The dancer turns as the TUNE plays. A huge smile appears
on her face, tears stream from her eyes
EXT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - DAY
Guards Tom and Mark are stationed on either side of the gate. As Mark flips
a nearly dead cigarette into the street, Morgan's limo turns in the
driveway. The gates open without the limo slowing down , it speeds past, the
gates close.
TOM - Good thing you ditched that smoke.
Mark - Need to tie a bell on that fucking car.
Tom goes over to Mark, and in a quite voice -
TOM - What do you think happened to his daughter?
Mark (smirks) - She was competing with Lou for Morgan's attention. What do
you think happened?
TOM - Morgan wouldn't let her do anything to his daughter.
Mark - He didn't give a shit. He was balling his daughter and I heard Tanya
planned to poison him, and takeover the business to get even.
TOM - Fucking a neurotic daughter and a psychopathic girlfriend at the same
time is dangerous shit -- even for Morgan.
A voice from the intercom nearly causes them to make a run for it. Were they
heard?
INTERCOM - MS.LEE- Mr. Jake Canton is expected. Be sure he's alone. Any
extras, and they stay with you.
They look at each other and are greatly relieved.
TOM AND Mark - Yes, Ms.Lee.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - SACRED ROOM - DAY
TEKO wears the leather apron as he finely chops an odd red plant with his
knife. The material is carefully placed in a brass bowel.
BRASS BOWL
Highly polished but worn with hand carved angels hovering over fallen tribal
warriors.
BACK TO SCENE
TEKO spins on his heels , slashes Chin with the knife. Blood pours out. With
his other hand, he holds the bowl under the blood flow. When nearly full, he
presses a pressure point on Chin's shoulder. The blood stops. Part of a big
purple leaf is torn off then placed on Chin's newest wound. With his
fingers, he stirs and stirs the bloody compound until he pours a small
amount into an old and worn golden bowl. Pours more into another matching
small bowl. He wipes Chins face with blood colored fingers until his face is
covered. Then he massages each wound with the compound until each is dry. A
small stiletto is taken from his belt. It is put unto one of the smaller
bowls, stirred, then held up to the light as if checking for consistency.
Satisfied, Atomb begins rapidly jabbing Chins chest wound. Every jab leaves
a color in Chin's skin.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE - DAY
By Morgan's design, Lou sits behind Jake Canton, hoping to make him
uncomfortable. It works, he occasionally turns enough to see her.
Morgan looks pissed as -
JAKE CANTON - All I'm talking about is five square city blocks -- nothing
more.
MORGAN - And for this prime area, you're offering what?
JAKE CANTON - Friendship. You'll have no competition from me in the rest of
your area.
MORGAN (laughs) - Look at you. Come here alone and try to muscle my
territory.... You must be using your own shit.
JAKE CANTON - I have no reason to fear you. I'm not another easy Freddy Tang
kill, Morgan. (wicked smile) Or should I say, Aldric...
Morgan is suddenly serious -- worried.
MORGAN - Why would you call me Aldric?
JAKE CANTON - An expatriate hiding in Costa Rica from someone who tried to
kill him, happened to see a gringo newspaper with your picture on it.
(shitty smile) He came to town last week looking for work. With his resume,
his experience as a white-water river guide, and his knowledge of your
brother, I couldn't refuse.
MORGAN (interrupts) - Lou, wait outside.
Lou reluctantly leaves. We see close up of Morgan.
JOURNEY INTO THE EYE TO REVEAL
FLASHBACK -- DEEP IN THE CANYON DECHELLE
A rubber boat is pulled up on the rocky shore. Several bags, bulging with
stuff fill the boat. A tall bearded man on the stern, starts the engine.
Aldric Leon (Morgan) crawls aboard and then stands on the bow.
WADE LEON starts to board but turns to see the old ruins that seem to grow
out of the mountain.
WADE - Years to find you, Tassa. And worth every moment. Your secrets will
keep the scientific community busy for years.
As he turns back, he looks up at Morgan. Morgan has a pistol pointed at him.
MORGAN/ALDRIC - Wrong, brother. These beauties are headed for collector
auctions or the melting pot.
WADE - You can't do this! It's my find, my research, my career.
MORGAN/ALDRIC - Wrong again. Think it over on your hike back to
civilization.
Wade is getting angry and moves towards the boat. Morgan cocks the gun.
WADE - Aldric, it's impossible to walk out of -
MORGAN/ALDRIC - I'll make it easier for you.
He shoots Wade in the leg. Wade falls. Morgan gets off the boat and walks
over to Wade. He shoots him in the other leg. Wade pulls his pistol, fires,
hit Morgan in the knee. Morgan nearly goes down but doesn't. He aims ,shoots
Wade in the arm, his gun tumbles away.
MORGAN/ALDRIC (CONT'D) - Don't worry about your wife, I'll take good care of
her for you.
Shoots him in the other arm. He reaches down and pulls a gold pendant out of
Wade's pocket.
MORGAN/ALDRIC (CONT'D) - I'll give it to your kid -- if she's nice to me.
She'll soon be turning tricks -
WADE (moans) With every limp you take, you'll remember your treachery until
I send death from my grave for vengeance. I'll -
VOICE OF JAKE CANTON - Morgan -- Morgan, you here?
We journey back through eye to the room and see Morgan in his office. Morgan
looks back at Jake.
JAKE CANTON - Too bad you didn't do a better job of killing your guide.
You're going to lose a great deal of respect when everyone knows that you
tortured and killed your only brother, stole his treasure, killed his wife,
and put his kid on the streets.
As he lights a smoke -
JAKE CANTON (CONT'D) - Bet even Lou would never trust you again. She'll
probably be knocking on my door
MORGAN - Fuck you.... (downs his drink) I want the guide.
JAKE CANTON - He's yours -- just make the call to YANA.
MORGAN - Fuck 'em. You can take them out, they aren't worth a shit, anyway.
JAKE CANTON - Nope, it has to be you.
Morgan signals his acceptance by a nonchalant shrug.
JAKE CANTON (CONT'D) -Speaking of family. Where's your daughter? No one has
seen her around.
MORGAN - Moved to Europe.
Jake grins and winks at Morgan.
JAKE CANTON - Thought you might've heard the rumor that she wanted to
takeover so you whacked her.
MORGAN - There was some friction in the organization. She left voluntarily.
JAKE CANTON (shitty smile) - Friction, shit! Lou hated her.
Morgan smiles, the smile of a snake, showing Jake he knows something about
his involvement. Payback would be due, but later, after he gets the guide.
INT. RANCH HOUSE - GYM - NIGHT
Tanya in background approaches TEKO, the man who lives in shadows. She looks
down, so as not to look into his face.
Tanya - You called for me?
The man moves closer to Tanya, she is frightened. He has never been so
close. She bows her head.
TEKO- Your recovery is near complete. You've learned the skills of weaponry,
mastered the art of killing.
He moves to within two feet of Tanya.
TEKO (CONT'D) - Your body is a lethal weapon. Any finger can kill an enemy
twice your size. And you have the wisdom needed to use these skills.
His hand touches her shoulder ,he remains quiet for a moment.
TEKO - All that remains to complete your training is the art of self
healing, your willingness to forgive.
His hand comes away.
TEKO (CONT'D) - But before you're ready for those things, you must use your
destructive skills to prepare you for more difficult lessons that must be
learned.
Tanya - I don't understand what you're telling me. Tell me what I'm supposed
to do for you.
TEKO - I am revenge. And you are vengeance, my, our, doorway to spiritual
rebirth.
She is confused. He holds a hand in front of her face and slowly opens his
palm revealing her pendant.
Tanya - I don't want that thing. I detest it -- and hate him. He took
everything from me -- wanted to kill me. That... that broke my heart.
TEKO (kindly) - Tanya you had a hole in your heart long before he had you
shot.
He swings the pendant sideways as if on a pendulum.
TEKO (CONT'D) - I've repaired it. You shouldn't hate the only thing given to
you from your father.
Silence -- she slowly looks up.
Tanya - Who are you?
His hand gently caresses her cheek. He puts the pendant's chain around her
neck.
TEKO - Tanya, the man you hate, the man who abused you, the man who made you
do those things is not your father.
Tanya - Morgan's not my -
TEKO - No. He stole you from his brother and killed your mother to hide his
shameful secret.
Tanya - Then where's my real father? Did you know my mother?
TEKO- She was a loving mother -- so beautiful. You were only a year old
when --
TEKO (CONT'D) (angry) - She, nor you, deserved your fates. -- Your father
was an archaeologist who had made one of the greatest discoveries in modern
times. Morgan stole his discovery, shot him and left him in a remote
mountain range to rot.
Tanya - How do you know all of this?
TEKO - It will be explained when the time is right for you to open the
doorway.
Tanya - What do I have to do to find this doorway?
TEKO - Introduce me to Morgan.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE - NIGHT
Lou sits on Morgan's lap. Both are naked and sweaty, breathing heavily. Lou
lights a cigarette. Morgan fills two glasses on his desk with Crown Royal.
LOU - I didn't know you have a brother. Where've you been hiding -
MORGAN (interrupting) - Had a brother. Died of cancer a long time ago.
LOU - Why didn't you tell me?
MORGAN (sarcastic) - Guess I'm still grieving. But now let's get to
business.
He pushes her off. Gets up and pulls his pants up from around his ankles.
As she pulls up her panties -
LOU - Thought I just did a fantastic job of taking care of business.
MORGAN - Not monkey -- money business. I have a nice surprise for you.
Interested?
LOU - Love surprises.
MORGAN - Before the sun rises, you get to put YANA, Jose, and Peter into
Used-to-be Land.
She smiles.
LOU - What happened?
MORGAN - I've made a lucrative deal with Jake. I've swapped that turf for
something more promising.
Lou is confused.
LOU - More profitable than downtown Chinatown?
MORGAN - You're questioning me?
She stubs her cigarette out in an ashtray.
LOU (seductive) - Never liked those assholes, anyway.
EXT. CHINATOWN - TITTY BAR - NIGHT
YANA, very drunk, sits in the shadows getting a lap dance from a trashy
redhead. His walking cane leans against the table.
YANA - Spread 'em Baby, think I'm in love.
Jose and Peter, also drunk, watch a stunning beauty on the dance ramp drop
her shorts. Peter drools as the dancer spreads her legs before his face.
Jose sticks a twenty dollar bill in her garter. Both are in love.
The dancer on YANA's lap looks up to see a woman dressed in black
approaching YANA from behind. Thinking it must be the guy's wife, the dancer
gets up.
DANCER - Short romance!
The woman in black comes into the light, she's wearing a black ski mask. She
bends over ,whispers in YANA's ear.
LOU - You're fired.
His head snaps around towards Lou and looks into the silenced barrel of her
pistol that's jabbed between his eyes. The back of his head blows out,
splattering the dancer. The dancer SCREAMS ,while hauling ass out of there.
Jose turns to see what the screaming is about. YANA is falling out of the
chair. The dancer, covered in bloody stuff, zooms past. A woman with a
pistol looks at him.
JOSE - Shit! Get outta here, Peter.
He knocks a chair over on his way to the door. Peter is mesmerized at the
legs spread only inches from his face. The dancer stops dancing, closes her
legs as the woman in black steps behind Peter. Peter follows the dancers
eyes and turns to look behind. The woman in black stands over him, she
points the gun at Peter's heart. He jerks twice as she pulls the trigger,
then slumps in his chair. The dancer on stage joins in with the other
dancer's WAIL as Lou runs for the door Jose used to escape.
EXT. CHINATOWN - STREETS - NIGHT
Jose is running at full throttle. He dodges pedestrians, crosses a street,
dodges cars. Dodges more people, collides with a kid walking a dog. The kid
goes flying, the dog goes after Jose, BARKING.
Lou dodges people. Most who see her gun gives her lots of room.
A man points to the BARKING dog.
MAN - That way!
Lou strains to catch up. She jumps over the crying kid sitting on the
sidewalk. She follows the BARKING that comes from an alley. She slows, it's
dark, both sides of the alley are covered with garbage cans, boxes, and
junk. A wino sitting with his back against a wall, looks up at her. Takes
the brown wrapper away from his mouth. CHUCKLES.
WINO - Trade you some wine for a blow job.
She shoots him in the chest without loosing her pace. She looks carefully on
both sides as the BARKING dog gets fainter. She picks her the pace and runs
hard again.
INT. FLOPHOUSE - LOBBY - NIGHT
Jose, breathing heavily and sweating, slams open the front door and runs to
the counter.
JOSE (frightened) Floyd, you haven't seen me. Gimme a key. Now, damn it!
Floyd, in slow motion, turns to select a key from one of the pigeon holes.
He seems to be deciding which room to put Jose in.
JOSE (CONT'D) (panicky) If you don't give a key now, you're fucking dead.
He pulls a short barrel revolver from his coat pocket. Floyd looking at the
gun snatches a key and tosses it. The key tumbles in the air in slow motion.
[POINT OF VIEW PROJECTILE] Jose catches the key as he moves towards the
stairway and bounds upstairs in a flash.
FLOYD - Remember, that's ten bucks a hour.
EXT. CHINATOWN - STREETS - NIGHT
With her mask removed, Lou walks the sidewalk, looking in doorways. The gun
is hidden in her jacket.
Sound - APPROACHING SIRENS.
A woman wearing a red jacket walks by. Lou looks around then cold cocks her
as they pass. She takes her jacket. She walks by an old sign painted on the
brick wall of a dump, "FLOYDS FANTASY LAND." Ten feet further down, she
stops. Turns around and walks back to Floyds. Without delay, she enters.
INT. FLOPHOUSE - LOBBY - NIGHT
Lou leans on the counter. Floyd, suspicious -
FLOYD - What'll it be? Window for ten or inside for two bucks less.
She turns on the charm. Floyd is receptive.
LOU - Give me the room next to Jose's. I want him to hear us.
Floyd looks at his register.
FLOYD - No Jose here. Would he be using another Name? (chuckles) They do
that a lot in here.
LOU - I don't give a fuck what Name he used.
Lou pulls out the gun
LOU - You know who I mean. What's his number?
FLOYD - Lady -
LOU - Lie you die.
Puts the muzzle on his nose.
LOU (CONT'D) - Then I'll burn this dump to the ground to be sure I get him.
FLOYD -Fourteen.
LOU - Key.
Without moving his head, he reaches back, finds fourteen, and gives her the
key.
LOU (CONT'D) - Thanks, Sweetie
She pulls the trigger. As he falls, the pigeon holes behind are filled with
blood and brains.
INT. ROOM FOURTEEN - NIGHT
Jose paces. He puts a freshly lit cigarette in an ashtray. He peeks around
the tattered curtain.
VIEW FROM WINDOW
People walking, cars driving, nothing unusual. No sign of Lou.
JOSE - Thank God.
He pulls a cell phone out of a pocket, thinks of the number, and dials. On
the FORTH RING -
JOSE (CONT'D) - Let me speak to
Jake. Tell him it's Jose Mendez.
Jose lights a cigarette and notices a new one burning in the ashtray. As he
puts it out -
JAKE CANTON - Jose?
JOSE - Yeah. I decided to take that deal you offered last week. I'll work
for you.
JAKE CANTON - Damn! There is such a thing as ghosts. CLICK.
Jose looks at the phone and then puts it in his jacket.
JOSE - Cocksucker sold us out.
His cell phone rings. Before he can answer, the door SLAMS open and Lou
rolls into the room firing at the ringing phone. Jose catches a shot in the
belly. His gun falls from his hands as he drops to his knees. Lou jumps to
her feet and moves to Jose, kicking his gun away. She lowers the muzzled to
his forehead.
LOU - Morgan's right. You're a dumbshit. Why would you hide in a dump that
you used to call home.
JOSE - Don't kill me, Lou. I've never done anything to you.
Morgan wants me out -- I'm out, and out of town for good.
LOU - How about out of state.
JOSE - Sure. Out of state.
LOU - How about out of your mind.
She pulls the trigger.
EXT. RANCH LAND - DAY
Tanya and Chin are drenched in sweat as they jog in knee-high grass that
covers the rolling hills.
Tanya - Can't believe your knee is okay. It really looked like it was
broken.
CHIN - Woke up this morning and it was as good as new.
(beat)
How'd you do against the four men?
Tanya - Won.
CHIN - Any cuts?
Tanya - Little ones.
CHIN - Have you ever seen his face?
Tanya - No. It's always too dark or he wears a stupid animal shin. Think
he's disfigured?
CHIN - Must be. Why else would he hide from us for all this time?
Tanya - Could be an alien. How else could he have brought us back to life.
CHIN - Maybe we weren't dead. (looks at her, smiles) Or maybe he is an
alien. Looks like you -- and that's why he tattooed you.
Tanya - I have four bullet holes in me. One in my head. Had to be dead....
Wish he hadn't tattooed me, though; it's gross.
CHIN - Not if you look beyond the face.
Chin looks away, embarrassed. Silence as they run until -
Tanya - Do you look beyond my face?
He looks at her.
CHIN - I stopped seeing the skeleton the third day I knew you.
She smiles, the skeleton still looks scary.
Tanya - Let's race.
She sprints ahead. Chin tries to catch her as they round the top of a hill.
A small cliff is before her, she leaps off the top at full speed and rolls
as she lands, jumps to her feet and continues to run. Chin opts to go around
the cliff, putting more distance between them.
Under a tree on top of a hill, Tanya lies on her back. Chin, a piece of
grass in his mouth, sits up a few feet away.
TANYA -
I'm glad he brought us here. Love this place.
CHIN -
Wish I knew why we can't leave.
TANYA
With the tattoo, I couldn't go anywhere. Why would he do this to me?
CHIN
You can be sure he had a reason. I think it has something to do with making
you well.
He pulls up his shirt.
CHIN (CONT'D)
I woke up with these this morning.
SERIES OF TATTOOS
A) iguana on his neck.
B) crocodile on his side.
C) gecko on his chest.
CHIN
They cover the cuts you gave me yesterday.
TANYA
REALLY?
CHIN
When I awoke here after being shot, I had three bullet wounds tattooed with
different flowers, a black rose, black tulip, and a black poppy.
She looks at his torso. No tattoos.
TANYA
Where'd they shoot you? (chuckles) On your ass?
CHIN
(a mock annoyed look) They were body shots. The tattoos faded away
after I fully recovered.
TANYA
If you're saying what I think. Why do I still have my tattoos? I'm fully
recovered.
CHIN
I think it has as much to do with emotional recovery as physical. When I
stopped wanting to kill the dopers, I really did feel better.
TANYA
I don't remember waking up...
CHIN
(INTERRUPTS)
That's because you were in a coma, until he got you fixed up. Took a couple
of weeks.
TANYA
He has to be an alien or something. Sometimes he scares me to death -- other
times I feel that he's an angel.
CHIN
It's creepy how he can suddenly be somewhere. Then he's gone.
TANYA
I'm learning astral travel...
CHIN (INTERRUPTS)
But not as good as me. (chuckles) Did you see me in your bathroom this
morning while you were showering?
He laughs as she sits up and punches him in his belly.
TANYA
You did not!
A sudden movement comes from a rock face in the background Zoom in to see a
man in a coyote robe complete with head sitting on a rock. Only a smile is
visible under the hood.
VETO (MUTTERS)
She likes him.
INT. CAR DAY
Morgan driving , puts a pill in his mouth and washes it down with a swig
from a Crown Royal bottle. He lights a cigar, and rolls the window down. He
presses a switch on the dash and the sunroof slides open.
MORGAN
Glorious day.
A THUMP comes from the rear of the car. Another THUMP. He turns on the
radio, and selects a ROCK SONG (Dave).
MORGAN (CONT'D)
There! You happy?
He smiles, very happy as he drives on a two lane country road.
EXT. CAR DIRT ROAD DAY
Morgan drives on a narrow one lane and rough dirt road. The rap music has
changed to ROCK. The road ends at a barbed wire fence. He leaves the car to
open the gate. Returns and drives on.
EXT. FARM - DAY
He backs the car up to a barn door. Gets out the car to unlock and open the
barn's door.
INT. BARN - DAY
Morgan moves several Marked planks on the floor revealing a steel door. He
unlocks the door ,pulls it open revealing a deep pit filled partly with a
fluid with a yellow taint. Morgan opens the trunk of the car, revealing ,
the RIVER-GUIDE, who is bound and gagged.
MORGAN
Won't have to worry about you resurfacing again.
He roughly wrestles the guide out, dumping him on the ground. Morgan smiles.
MORGAN
Hope you can swim - hog-tied! (big grin)
And in acid.
The guide comes alive as he fights his bindings, MUMBLES, GROANS, fear and
panic are alive in his eyes.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
You wont be alone. A lot of assholes have been in my pool.
Morgan uses his feet to push the guide to the open pit.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
Be careful not to splash any on my shoes. Paid 500 bucks for these babies.
He holds up a shoe to show the guide, who could give a shit. He still
struggles. Morgan continues to push him closer. At the pit's edge, the guide
is crying in fear and anger.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
Bet If I removed your gag you'd promised never say a thing about Wade and me
, even work for free -- give me your daughters for my string.
He tosses what's left of his cigar into the pit.
PIT
As the butt hits, the acid comes alive with smoke and bubbles.
MORGAN
Don't know how to pronounce its Name, but, man, that's some powerful shit.
In a couple hours, you'll be reduced to the gold in your teeth.
He kicks the angry man into the pit. Instead of backing away, he leans over
to watch the action as the acid turns into a bubbling yellow red froth.
The guide, with the bindings eaten away already, tries to get out of the
pit.
MORGAN
Love that shit.... That's where I should've put Tanya.
He slams the steel door shut, locks it. The boards are replaced. As he walks
to the car, glances at his watch.
INT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE - DAY
MORGAN (SHOUTS)
Money! Damn you!
A young girl standing before him shakes with fear, tears stream from her
eyes.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
This is a fucking business! There's no charity fucking, allowed! I give you
a place to live, feed you, and the only fucking you do is to me, the hand
that feeds you.
WHORE (CRYING)
I don't do freebies. Promise.
MORGAN
Show me the money! You better have five Franklins for me. That's your quota.
If you don't have it, you're either not fucking or think you can rip me off.
Either way you're guilty of stealing from me.
As he lights a cigar, he looks at the girl, waiting for an answer.
She's really upset, frightened, there are too many horror stories about what
happens to whores who run afoul of her boss. Fear overloads her mind, she
can't answer.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
Very well. I'll be generous this time. I'm taking you off the streets.
You'll be working Lulu's until you get caught up with what you owe me.
She looks horrified. He pours Crown Royal into a glass. Takes a gulp, a
drag, and a deep inhale of smoke.
MORGAN (CONT'D)
You're going to fuck in overdrive down there to make your quota. You still
owe me five hundred every two days.
WHORE
But... that's in a ghetto whorehouse. They only get thirty dollars a trick.
MORGAN
Divide 500 by thirty to get an idea what that pussy of yours is going to
feel like in a few weeks.
WHORE
I can't. It hurts me to do it.
MORGAN
Tough shit. Maybe you should've been a fucking doctor or a rocket scientist
instead of a dick squeezer.
He laughs, as she breaks down and collapses on the floor. He goes over to
his desk. Pulls out a baggy with white power in it. He tosses it to the
girl.
MORGAN
This one's free. It'll take care of your pain.
He walks to the girl, lifts her chin up, to face him.
MORGAN
Don't even think about running. You know I'll find you.
Sniveling, she nods that she understands. Lou enters.
LOU
CHARLIE SPIN'S here.
Morgan motions to the girl-whore.
LOU
Okay, Bitch. -- Get outta here.
The girl scrambles to her feet and splits.
LOU
Want me to stay here for Charlie?
MORGAN
No. Be sure the whore gets to Lulu's. Oh, and Lou, send in Charlie.
Lou leaves. Morgan smiling evilly.
EXT. COUNTRY SIDE - DAY
Tanya and Chin run side by side , enter a bolder field. They slow up only
slightly as they navigate, leaping over, boulders.
Tanya falls, she is caught by Chin. They stop. Breathing heavily, he holds
her. They lock eyes until he leans closer. Both look at the other's mouth.
They gently kiss.
INT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE - DAY
Morgan sits behind his desk. Charlie Spin, a black hip hop guy, sits down on
a straight back chair in front of the desk , legs spread , smoking.
MORGAN
You're looking prosperous today, Charlie. I hope that means you have my
money.
CHARLIE
Got something bettar'n dat.
MORGAN (WICKED SMILE)
If you try to bullshit me, you know what I'll do to you -- again.
CHARLIE
Yeah, I know. I got 'nuf to feed de wolf, but gots sump'um better for you.
He pulls out a wad of bills and as he counts:
CHARLIE
- Twenty - forty- sixty - eighty - hundred
Makes a neat stack and resumes counting.
CHARLIE
Fifty - seventy -, ninety - hundred. Two hundred greenbacks for you.
He puts the money in front of Morgan, who is not happy.
MORGAN - The wolf is hungrier than that. It takes five Franklin to keep the
wolf at bay. You know that.
Charlie looks understanding, sympathetic to Morgan's needs.
CHARLIE - I know. Had it, but -
MORGAN (interrupts) Shut the fuck up! I'm not interested in your fucking
bullshit excuses.
He opens a desk drawer, pulls out a pair of leather gloves. He stands up --
pulls on one glove and as he pulls on the other -
MORGAN (CONT'D) I'm going to teach you once and for all what being
responsible is about. You borrow money that you can't payback. This will be
a reminder before you try it again.
CHARLIE - Wait, man!
He gets to his feet.
CHARLIE (CONT'D) - I got dis easy grab 'n snatch set for tomorrow! Big
money!
MORGAN - I've known you for how many years, Charlie?
CHARLIE - Long time. Ten years, maybe.
MORGAN - And in those years, did you ever tell me the truth about anything?
Morgan unleashes a jamb into Charlie's face. Blood squirts from his nose.
Charlie grabs his nose as Morgan kicks him in the balls. Charlie grabs his
balls as Morgan kidney-punches him. Charlie grabs his back, as Morgan
punches his face again. Charlie goes down. Morgan kicks him in the ribs. And
then in a maniacal fit, repeatedly kicks Charlie until he passes out.
INT. HOUSE - GREENHOUSE - DAY
Chin is pruning a bush, when suddenly from the foliage -
VETO
Today is your last, Chin.
He's startled.
VETO
Sorry. I should've rustled a bush to give you warning.
Chin smiled.
CHIN
I've been expecting you. -- What do you mean my last day?
TEKO - Your work is over. Merced will take you to town tomorrow. Your money
has been deposited in a new Swiss account. All details will be in a packet
you'll get tomorrow.
CHIN -TEKO , please, I don't know what Tanya will be doing for you, but I
want to help her.
TEKO - I know you do. But you've done a good job. This is something she has
to do alone. She must feel and understand before she can learn real
happiness.
(beat)
Even I cannot help.
Chin stands and walks towards the voice, looking.
CHIN - Are you here or is this a speaker?
A bush moves very slightly and a figure in a loin cloth, his skin splotched
with green shades emerges. His face is hidden by a shadow.
CHIN (CONT'D) - What it is she must do?
TEKO - Tomorrow -- if she's here, she may choose to tell you. She may not.
It'll be her decision.
CHIN - If? If she's here? She's in danger, isn't she.
TEKO - Depends on how well you've taught her.
CHIN - Sir -- I love her. I can't let her go alone.
TEKO - I know of your feelings. She feels the same towards you. Maybe
tomorrow will bring peace and love to us all.
TEKO steps closer to Chin.
TEKO (CONT'D) - I've kept my face from you for security reasons. I don't
wish to be identified. It's for my own personal reasons. And it's for
protection when the police try to learn where you've been for the last six
months.
CHIN - I understand, I think. And that's why the unusual Name, too?
TEKO - No. That's the Name I took a good many years ago. It's a word from a
lost civilization for -- revenge.
CHIN - Why do I feel that the ballerina music box she found plays a big part
in this. Do you know that she heard it, and visualized it when she was
recovering.
TEKO (pleased) - At a year old, it was her favorite toy. She gave it to her
father just days before he was killed.
Chin stumbles on a root. When he looks up, TEKO is gone.
CHIN -TEKO -- you still here?
He notices a patch of thick clover growing in a tight clearing. He kneels
down to feel the springy-softness of the thick clover bed.
Tanya blurred with speed, springs at Chin's back. Connects, knocks him down
on the clover bed.
A background of blurred colors of flowers and tropical greenery. The
foreground, an array of colored leaves, brightly colored flowers partly
obscure Tanya and Chin.
TANYA
Got 'cha!
Both laugh.
CHIN
I must admit, you got me.
TANYA
I bet I can sneak up on TEKO, now.
She becomes aware of the clover bed. Pushes it down with her hands.
TANYA
I've never seen this before.
CHIN
Me either. I was trying to follow Atomb and ended up here. Wish I'd know
before now.
TANYA
It's paradise.
Chin moves closer to Tanya who lies on her back. He looks down on her.
CHIN
You're paradise.
He touches her face tenderly with his hand.
CHIN
I hope the tattoo never fades, so you'll never look for another friend.
She is quiet, the meaning of his words, not wasted. She puts an arm around
his neck. She slowly raises her head to meet his, she kisses him gently.
Chin responds, but gently, slowly, until he breaks off the kiss to gently
kiss over her eyes, her chin, her mouth again, but with slightly more
passion.
CHIN
(passionately)
What if he's here?
TANYA
He'd have to be blind not to know how we feel about each other.
Chin kisses her, more passionately. Then --
CHIN
He's not blind.
TANYA
He'd have to be stupid not to know what two people in love will do when left
alone -- in paradise.
She kisses him, until, Chin pulls away, looks down on her.
CHIN
And he's not stupid.
They passionately attack each other's lips. Chin starts removing her top.
TANYA kicks off her sneakers.
Tanya, being undressed by Chin, pushes Chin's sneakers off with her bare
feet.
Chin sheds his shirt. Then pushes his pants down.
Tanya's hand shakes too much to unsnap her bra -- she tares it off. Then,
with Chin's help, sheds her pants and panties at the same time.
We look through a framework of leaves and blurred flowers to focus on Tanya
and Chin's faces. They look at each other's eyes as if in
anticipated-telepathy. They begin to move together, very slowly.
Soon each moves beyond passion to love, Tanya's skull looks angelic, Chin's
expression is devotion. Neither speak as they continue to look deeply into
each other's souls through the eyes.
The rhythmic motions speeds up a notch. Tanya's breathing becomes heavy. Her
sound causes Chin to become more excited, his trusts, slightly harder. Tanya
wraps his head in her arms and plants a hard, passionate kiss on him.
She MOANS, her passion erupts. Chin GRUNTS. They simultaneously climax while
still looking into each's eyes.
We see them blur as we focus on a lady bug sitting on a leaf, watching the
lovers change positions so Chin is on the bottom.
EXT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - NIGHT
Gate's in background Tanya silently lands on a flower bed, dust flies around
her feet. She crouches as she moves towards the large house in the
Background, guards, Tom and Mark, walk around a corner, a door only feet
away closes. Tom doesn't notice, but Mark looks at the closed door. Tries
the lock, it's secure. They continue walking.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - NIGHT
CORRIDOR
Lou walks nonchalantly until she notices something amiss on the floor. She
stops. Part of a foot slightly protrudes from behind a corner. She peeks
around the corner revealing a guard, HARRY, on floor.
He's trying to push his intestines into a wide slash in his belly. His hands
are covered with blood as is his entire stomach area.
He looks up at her. He's confused, and in shock. He smiles pitifully as he
sits an expanding, messy pool of blood.
His hand-held radio lies on the floor.
HARRY'S POV
Lou moves cautiously towards him. She looks around. Stoops and picks up the
radio, and then backs away around the corner.
CORRIDOR
Lou walks fast as she brings the radio to her ear.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE
A radio on the desk SQUAWKS.
RADIO - LOU - Morgan!
Morgan reaches over, picks up the radio.
MORGAN - Yes?
RADIO - LOU - Something's going down. Found Harry with his guts spilling out
in Corridor three.
MORGAN - Shit! He tell you who did it?
RADIO - LOU - He's out of it.
MORGAN - We'll check it out. See what you can find.
Morgan goes to the door and opens it. Guards Carl and Ted stand against the
wall. Both have Oozesy's slug over the shoulders. They sense something is
wrong by Morgan's demeanor.
MORGAN - Look for an intruder. Someone just killed Harry and I want them
alive.
Morgan closes the door and returns to his desk.
INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Carl and Ted turn and move quickly away, while getting their weapons ready.
As Lou moves around a corner, she stops. She sees two feet protruding from
an open door.
LOU (whispers to self) - This is bullshit.
Lou advances with her pistol at eye level. She looks down at another dead
guard.
LOU'S POV
He is cut from stomach to temple. She looks up and moves down the corridor.
BACK TO SCENE
Lou uses the radio.
LOU - Morgan -- another guard killed with a very sharp sword. Is this Jake's
people?
RADIO - MORGAN - Why? He got what he wanted.
LOU - Yin Lee works for him. He's good with a sword.
CORRIDOR 1
Guards Tom and Mark rush along a corridor towards us. Lou steps into the
corridor -- stops, turns toward sound of a man GRUNTING.
A woman dressed in black has one hand on Mark's throat. A dagger is in the
other. Tom in background is doubled over, leaning against the wall.
Tanya drives the dagger into Mark's belly. He drops to the floor as Tanya
instantly turns and slices Tom's jugular. Blood squirts. He drops.
The woman spins around to face Lou. Lou GASPS at the face from hell that's
marching towards her. Lou hesitates a moment then sees the pendant.
LOU - No! Can't be.
Lou overcomes some of her fear. She raises her gun. Tanya instantly pulls a
pistol from her shoulder holster and fires. Lou's gun is blown out of her
hand. Lou clutches her hand, looks to reveal a nasty bullet wound. She's
horrified. Lou runs away and through the doorway into the other corridor.
CORRIDOR 2
Guards Fernando and Thorn rush towards her, she pushes past them.
LOU - Take her alive.
She continues to run away, in pain and very scared. The guards ready their
weapons as they run towards corridor 1.
CORRIDOR 1
The guards burst through the doorway, weapons ready. They look to the left,
to the right. The corridor is empty. They look at each other, confused. With
hands and feet braced on opposite walls, Tanya is suspended over the guard's
heads. As the guards walk away, Tanya drops silently behind them. Fernando
begins to turn around to check his six. Tanya smacks him in the head with
the sheathed sword, he goes blank. Then she pulls the blade free and slashes
Thorn's throat in a fluid move.
As Thorn falls to floor, Tanya kicks Fernando in the stomach. He smacks back
against the wall as he raises his Ouzie.
FERNANDO'S POV
Tanya swings the blade wide arch towards him.
Tanya (extended yell) Yessssssss!
Swing completed, the death face before him smiles.
Tanya (CONT'D) - That's for fucking with my tennis shoes.
BACK TO SCENE
Fernando GURGLES A SCREAM, drops his gun, his hands go to his throat, blood
seeps through his fingers. His body slides down the wall leaving a bloody
trail.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE
Morgan, angry, and sitting behind his desk, calls on the radio. Fear creeps
over his face as he -
MORGAN - Tom, come in.
(beat)
Mark, come in.
(beat)
Lou, damn you! Where are you?
(beat)
Cline?
(beat)
YANA?
RADIO - GUARD CARL - Carl here, Sir. I'll check it out! Where are they boss?
MORGAN - Corridor 1. Be quick about it.
INT. CORRIDOR - LOU'S POV - NIGHT
She runs down corridor 2. Lou is frantically running ahead, trying to hold
her injured hand.
Tanya - You're mine. Run bitch!
A guard, Carl, with gun at the ready runs into corridor. As Lou pushes past
him -
LOU - Kill her! Now!
A SHOT is fired. Lou smiles, slows, and turns to look behind.
The guard flies back and lands near Lou's feet. His radio skids across the
floor.
RADIO (Morgan with anxiety) - Lou, Damn you! Answer me!
The guard has a gunshot wound in a temple, his eyes wide open. He's dead.
Lou's BREATHING comes faster. As she runs the corridor, she WHIMPERS.
Tanya - I won't do you in the back. I Have something special just for you.
Want you to see and feel it slowly happening.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE
MORGAN - Carl? Carl, come in.
Morgan puts down the radio and opens a drawer. He takes out a pistol. Checks
the clip, and slams it home, cocks it, and removes the safety.
He wipes sweat from his face, with a handkerchief.
With gun in hand, he walks briskly to the door and locks it. Morgan goes to
the windows. Each are secure with burglar bars. He looks in a closet, it's
full of file cabinets.
MORGAN (CONT'D) - No way to run. No place to hide.
As he wipes more sweat away, a chime on his desk clock announces the hour.
He turns, squats, and points the pistol at the sound, almost blows it away.
A tree limb brushes on the iron burglar bars outside of a window, he turns
and points the gun.
MORGAN (CONT'D) - Got to get out.... Buy some time... regroup.
INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Lou barrels down the corridor with Tanya not far behind. An elevator is
near, Lou glances behind. She slams on the breaks at the elevator and
frantically pushes the call button. The door slowly opens -- Lou darts in.
INT. ELEVATOR - NIGHT
Lou repeatedly slams her finger on the "Door Closed" button. The door closes
slowly with Tanya in the background. Charging towards it. Lou WHIMPERS as
Tanya unsheathes her sword. She bashes the "Two" button with her finger.
LOU (pushing button) - Please! Please!
The door closes at the last second. A NERVOUS LAUGH of relief from Lou.
Instantly a sword is thrust through the crack, stopping a hair away from
Lou's breast. She rears back.
LOU'S POV
The sword pries the doors open enough for Tanya to get her hands inside to
force the door open. The door opens revealing a close on of Tanya's
hate-filled death-face. Lou is a wounded animal cornered, terrified, angry,
and desperate. With an animalistic scream, Lou charges, surprising Tanya who
is thrown back into a wall, she loses control of the sword. Lou spin kicks
Tanya's head, Tanya staggers from the blow. The sword drops to the floor.
Tanya turns back to Lou, but Lou gives her a powerful kick to the stomach.
Tanya drops to one knee, her eyes close. Lou follows with another kick to
Tanya's face. Another kick. Lou's nostrils flare with blood lust as she
moves to stand in front of Tanya. She is no longer the hunted, she's
confident, eager to kill. As she grabs Tanya's sword --
Tanya's defeated demeanor instantly changes.
Close on Tanya's evil smile.
Tanya's hand that had held her stomach, thrusts out with a dagger that
plunges home in Lou's body just below the heart. Lou's confused, she didn't
see it coming. She looks down at the knife's hilt. Tanya stands erect. Grabs
the hilt. Lou's surprise is surpassed with pain. Blood flows freely from her
wound. A dribble of blood from her mouth. Lou's pain is surpassed by fear as
Tanya is almost nose to nose. The only life evident in the death face is in
the eyes. They are afire with excitement, pleasure, and insanity. Lou is
jerked around as Tanya yanks and slices a bigger hole in Lou's chest cavity.
Tanya (sadistic and animalistic) - Morgan sent me to kill you.
Tanya moves back two feet. Holds up a hand, her fingers composing a circular
pattern, turn rigid. Tanya jambs her hand into Lou's wound. Lou looks down
at Tanya's arm as it disappears into her own chest. Tanya feels around as
Lou is pinned to the wall. Tanya yanks, yanks again, yanks again, and
withdraws her hand holding Lou's still-pumping heart.
Tanya (CONT'D) - You won't miss it. You've always been heartless.
Tanya's wicked face glares at Lou as she pushes the heart into Lou's face.
Lou's eyes cloud over and she drops to the floor. Tanya stands over her with
a bloody knife in one hand a bloody heart in the other. She puts the organ
to her nose. Her nose crinkles as from a foul odor.
Tanya (CONT'D) - As I suspected. It's full of shit.
INT. MORGAN'S COMPOUND - OFFICE
Morgan sits behind the desk with the gun in his hand. It's pointed at the
door. With his other hand, he sticks a cigar in his mouth. His hand shakes
as he tries to light it. Nervously, he looks around the room. It's
unnaturally QUIET. Suddenly the door is being shredded by silenced bullets.
The lock falls to the floor, CLUNK. The door doesn't move. It's back to
unnaturally QUIET. Until -- BLAM! The door slams open and CRASHES onto the
wall. Morgan jumps, his eyes widen in shear terror.
A person in black appears in the doorway.
Morgan without a second of hesitation empties his PISTOL until he hears a
deafening CLICK!
MORGAN'S POV
The person in black falls into the doorway. Lou's dead face stares at Morgan
with open eyes. He looks up at the door revealing another person in black,
who tosses a bloody mass in a slow softball pitch. The heart flies in a big
arch to SPLOTCH on Morgan's desk, splattering blood over the desk and onto
Morgan. Morgan, petrified, can't move as the person in black steps into the
light. The death faces causes him to GASP. As death marches to his desk, he
manages to speak in a whining, high pitched voice.
MORGAN - Who are you? Why are -
Morgan sees the pendant hanging from death's neck. Her sword is swung and
lands on his cheek. He is nearly knocked out of his chair but she reverses
the swing and connects on the other cheek, keeping him in the chair. Tears
stream from his eyes. The sword is unsheathed and she holds it high in the
air as if she's about to split him in two. Like a deer in headlights, he's
too frightened to move, but manages to -
MORGAN (CONT'D) (blubbers) - Who... are you? Tanya?
Tanya savors the moment until -
TANYA - I'd like to introduce you to -
She looks back at the door. A man wrapped in a black wolf's pelt enters the
doorway. The wolf's head covers the man's head. The wolf-man strides to the
desk where he stands next to Tanya.
TEKO (cold but calm) - Hello, Aldric.
He removes the wolf's hood revealing a man with long white hair. Deep
wrinkles cover his tanned face. His eyes blaze with hate as he glares at
Morgan.
TEKO(CONT'D) - I'm Revenge. You already know -
Atomb looks at Tanya. He gently puts a hand on her shoulder.
TEKO (CONT'D) - my daughter -- Vengeance.
Tanya's death mask eyes instantly fill with tears. She turns to look at her
father for the first time in her life.
MORGAN (mutters) - Wade! It's you? You have sent vengeance from the grave.
Morgan, resigned to his fate, relaxes. Closes his eyes, awaiting the final
blow. Atomb reaches inside the pelt and withdraws a closed fist. The fist is
held in front of his face. He opens his hand to reveal a fine green powder.
TEKO (quiet incantation) - Tor yawa lla evisneffo stcepsa.
Morgan winches expecting the sword's blow. TEKO gently puffs on the tiny
mound of powder. It flows to Morgan as if it were iron and he were magnetic.
His head is green with the dust. TEKO looks at his open palm. It's clean. He
puts his arm around Tanya, and onto the sword. She looks into his face With
a slight pressure on the sword, he urges her to lower the weapon.
TEKO (gently, lovingly) - Come daughter. It's time to heal.
Tanya - And leave him Ali -
TEKO (cuts her off) He possess nothing we want. He only knows hate and owns
only misery now.
He nudges her towards the door. As a dutiful daughter, she complies.
Walking out,TEKO's back to Morgan -
TEKO (CONT'D) - Fortunately, Aldric', we didn't discover the last tomb so
long ago.
He looks over his shoulder.
TEKO (CONT'D) - Nor did we see the Anasazi Guardian who watched us for days.
(smiles)
He took me into a cavern that concealed the Anasazian Alter of Miracles.
Morgan strains to turn his head to look at his brother.
His eyes try to close as, he strains against their closing --
Morgan's eyes slam shut. TEKO turns away again.
TEKO (CONT'D) - We knew it was an advanced civilization -- but you have no
idea just how advanced they were. Too bad you couldn't have contained your
greed. The next trip, we might have found it -- and you wouldn't be on your
way to hell.
Tanya turns to look at Morgan, but TEKO stops her head with his hand.
TEKO (CONT'D) - His future is not something we want to see.
As they walk through the doorway with TEKO's arm lovingly around Tanya's
shoulder --
Morgan tries to move, struggles to move, he cannot. Red splotches appear on
his green face. He GROANS. The splotches quickly grow, turning to shades of
brown. His flesh is rapidly rotting away. With a closed mouth he PAINFULLY
SCREAMS. A piece of his lip falls away to land on the desk. Flesh, like bad
dandruff, sprinkles from his face. A piece of eyelid falls away, revealing a
panicky jaundice eye moving around like crazy.
FADE TO BLACK
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