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ULTIMUS (An original screenplay) NOTE: There are no slugs in this SP. So if you're a traditionalist, go the hell away. FADE IN: Inside an art store. It's night time. Two people are left inside, packing things up, obviously ready to go home. JACK FALCON, 32 stands in front of a cash register clutching a bundle of paintbrushes. His friend JARED SLOCOMBE, 28 taps him on the shoulder. JARED Good night. JACK Good night. Jared exits the store and then makes signals for a cab. The cab pulls up at the sidewalk. And just before he enters, Jared waves at Jack. Jack is seated near the counter, reading a super-hero comic-book. JACK (V.O.) I'm Jack Falcon. I'm 32. I've been working in this art store for 8 years now. It's a pretty decent job. I live a pretty decent life. In fact I have a girlfriend. Jack continues to read the comicbook. JACK (V.O.) My current girlfriend is Jolie. I said current. Well I had one. Her name was Heather. INSERT FLASHBACK: Daytime. A bustling sidewalk. And Jack's previous girlfriend, HEATHER stands helplessly in front of a deranged gunman, who by his looks is in a hurry. The gunman whips out his pistol and shoots Heather with it. The gunman is wearing a skimask. And he is carrying a satchel. He starts shooting other people who get in his way. END FLASHBACK. JACK (V.O) Have you ever wished, that for just one day, you become a superhero. You can stop time, pass through walls, kill all the bad guys. Well, I've always been a comicbook geek since childhood, but ever since THAT happened... A pause. JACK (V.O.) Becoming a superhero is all I ever wanted. Well I am a superhero. Yes I am. But not yet... and before I tell you anything else. My advice for all of you is to be careful. Jack finally gets up. He sets the comicbook down on the counter. JACK (V.O.) To be careful of what you all wish for. CUT TO: Still night time. Jack is seated on his couch, comfortably. He grabs hold of the telephone and punches up the keys to dial a number. The other end of the line starts ringing. JOLIE Hello. JACK Hi, baby. JOLIE What's up? JACK No, you tell me, what's up? JOLIE (laughs) Ahhh, the hell with this. Jack smiles. JACK Let's go to the pizza place tomorrow. JOLIE Is that what you called for? JACK Erm...yeah ? Listen--- JOLIE All right, what time, tomorrow. Jack continues to talk over the phone. JACK (V.O.) I forgot. If I'm 32... Jolie's 21. I know, I know... anyways, she's an IT student. Why did I hook up with someone eleven years younger than me? I can't figure that out myself... CUT TO: It's day time. About 10 A.M. Jack is walking through a sidewalk, just in front of a bank. He's holding a package. A short-opaque brown envelope containing something. Probably a ream of typewriting paper. Who the fuck cares. Jack is dressed in gray pants and a black sweater. AT THE OTHER SIDE OF A BANK, a tall hulking man stands. His name is ROBERT BIGGS. He is 61, bearded and he is wearing a long overcoat. In fact he wears all black. Biggs is in baggy overalls, thick boots --- or shoes? Thick pants. He digs into his pockets and then digs out... well, thick gauntlets. Who is this guy, anyway? Biggs is also holding a black briefcase. He sets the briefcase on the ground. He's standing on a parking lot. It's an open parking lot, no gates surround it, no security guards protect it. It is open and exposed to the street. A YOUNG MAN riding a motorcycle parks up near the wall of the bank. The young man is clean shaven and is wearing a black motorcycle helmet. Biggs approaches him and punches him in the stomach. The young man falls on his back and Biggs takes out his helmet. And wears it. JUST ON THE SIDEWALK, Jack can see all this happening. He stops walking. He gets compelled to stay. He watches Biggs sentiently. Biggs steps close to the concrete wall, ignoring the unconscious body of the young motorbiker. Biggs PUNCHES THE WALL REAL HARD and he manages to dig deep into it, leaving a small crater about 6 inches in diameter. Biggs punches the wall again, making the damage even worse. Biggs pulls out two grenades from his pockets, pulls their pins and plants them into the crater. He backs away. He picks up the briefcase. Meanwhile, Jack just watches the crazed man in black in disbelief. He continues to watch him with fascination. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The wall explodes. Now the bank is left with a big opening. Well, big enough for Biggs to step in. Biggs steps in anyways, the security guards after clearly being momentarily stunned charge towards him. Biggs shoots them both with an UZI through full-auto mode. Everyone inside the bank panics. Biggs hurls his briefcase ruthlessly at a Teller. It smashes the Teller's face, making him fall back and disappear behind the counter. Biggs pulls out one more grenade and rolls it towards the lobby. CUT TO: Jack, still on the sidewalk, watching the chaos. BOOM!!! The lobby of the bank explodes. The explosion rocks the place. Jack falls on his back. But still, he doesn't move away. He gets back up and gets his attention back to the bank. He watches as if he's a reporter anxious to get his story on the papers. TIME CUT: A few minutes have passed. Police arrive. Military choppers arrive! What the fuck is going on here?? The military choppers land on the site. Two soldiers holding MP5s storm the building. Jack still continues to watch, from the sidewalk. He steps out of the sidewalk, and into the street getting an even closer look. The bodies of the two soldiers fly out of the building and land hard on two police cars!!! Biggs, still dressed in black and looking silly with the helmet steps out of the bank. He's now holding one Heckler and Koch rifle, and he fires it full-auto mode towards the cops. 3 cops take the bullets. All of them get killed. Then something happens. Something Jack doesn't expect to happen. Jack slowly looks at his upper body. He just stares in disbelief. He's taken some bullets himself!!! Jack collapses on the sidewalk. Two men step out of one of the military choppers and walk towards Jack's body. Is Jack dead? One of them is just a private. The other man is SGT. GELLAR. Gellar is 51, a man who has a both gutsy and intelligent look. The private and Gellar step closer towards Jack's body. PRIVATE Sarge, I think this--- GELLAR I know, Private. PRIVATE Should we, erm... Gellar takes a deep breath. CUT TO: Biggs. He is still fighting the cops. He falls forward and then punches through the cement ground. He makes a small crater, just like the one he made in the bank wall. And then he plants a grenade after he pulls it's pin. A cop approaches him and points an AR-15 at his face. COP Don't move! Biggs disarms the oafy cop of the AR-15 and punches him in the neck. The cop flies backward. Whoa, this motherfucker is superstrong! Biggs picks up the grenade and throws it in the direction the cop flew into. Biggs puts his right foot on the small hole he made. He STOMPS ON IT REAL HARD, then suddenly there's a LARGE OPENING on the ground! The sewers below can clearly be seen from it. The opening is large enough for Biggs's body to pass through. Biggs jumps in anyway, lands on the sewer. CUT TO: Private and Gellar standing in front of Jack's body. GELLAR Take him. FADE OUT. Inside a secret lab, Jack lies on a gurney, his body is strapped well into it, three computers run, and Gellar just sits in front of the gurney. DOCTOR KESSAL sits in front of a blaring monitor and starts punching some keys. Wires protrude out of Jack's head and are attached to a CPU! What the fuck have these guys done? The lab is very wide and spacious, yet it isn't as occupied as most laboratories are, not to mention this lab is run under military jurisdiction. If not, just Gellar's jurisdiction. GELLAR How long will the procedure take? KESSAL Don't worry. Not long. Gellar turns back to Jack's body. Jack is badly injured. Blood is all over his sweater. ON A COMPUTER MONITOR are blueprint's of what appears to be inside Jack's brain. Kessal continues to punch keys. A WHITE FLASH and Jack is now... ALIVE. He stands in front of Gellar, who gets up from his seat, he looks at the gurney, where his body lies and is attached to complex devices. Jack is still dressed in the gray pants and sweater. Except that there isn't any blood in his sweater. And there are no injuries. Jack's eyes widen, in shock. Except that he really doesn't turn pale. Instead his face becomes momentarily static. Just like a static signal on TV. JACK What the fuck happened? Who are you?? GELLAR Come down Mr. Falcon. You are dead. KESSAL No. But at least your body is on an unconscious state. You are a holographic being. We revived you, we attached a diskette to your head surgically, and we have another diskette attached to our CPUs. You are what we call online. Since you are now in your holographic state. JACK What the fuck have you done to me?? GELLAR You mean what the fuck did a deranged bandit do to you...You were shot Mr. Falcon. JACK How do you know my name? Gellar pulls out something from his pocket. A wallet. He hands it to holographic Jack. Who then takes it in his own hands. He's able to touch something. GELLAR Yes, your wallet. JACK I can hold this thing? KESSAL You see Mr. Falcon, you are not entirely computer generated. Your life is suspended. You are both spirit and machine. Jack passes the wallet to his left hand, and he pushes his finger right through it! Much like a ghost would penetrate any body part through something. JACK How the fuck did I do that? KESSAL Unexplainable physics, Mr. Falcon. JACK (eyes wide open, even more in shock this time) The name's Jack. KESSAL Yes. Unexplainable. And although this would be a milestone in science that could make me a millionare, it is unexplainable and this discovery can not be revealed. Even if I wanted to. Gellar gets his hands on one of those black plush seats on wheels and pushes it towards Jack. GELLAR Have a seat, Jack. Jack does so. He bounces on and off for awhile, fascinated at how he can touch and move objects, even if he's just a holo man. KESSAL You are the first template of Project Ultimus. It is a project that I've been trying to develop for years. I've been working closely with the military... Kessal nods slowly. KESSAL After all, this is a secret military venue, and I've been under Sergeant Gellar's authority here. JACK Project Ultimus? KESSAL Yes, that's what I call it. JACK So I can make my body solid if I want to, and I can make it... KESSAL Yes, you can move objects... if you prefer to be on a ghost-like state, yes you can pass through walls. GELLAR You can do what every human being can. And what every human being can not. JACK Can I levitate? Put up a fight... and, and and--- KESSAL Yes you can. Jack feels sort of a rush. He's not sure if he should be excited or to be upset that he's now a science experiment. JACK How many people have you done this to? KESSAL Two or three. But those other projects have failed out of... certain errors. JACK So if you fuck up this time around, I'll die? KESSAL No. I won't fuck anything up, this time around. JACK Sergeant, how'd you know that I was gonna be--- GELLAR No. JACK Sir--- GELLAR We were there for Robert Biggs, a notorious terrorist... or should we say a big time bank robber. The military is everywhere, Jack, we just sit and observe, we wait for him to strike. JACK Robert Biggs? GELLAR Yes, a hitech bank robber. We join the police. But usually we're there to disperse the media. No one has made a report about this ever since. JACK Disperse--- GELLAR Yes, we even threaten reporters carrying a notepad and a pencil. We don't want a panic, Jack. JACK How was he able to punch through walls? GELLAR I don't know. It's a sophisticated ... device that he wears underneath his clothing that allows him to punch through walls... Gellar frowns. GELLAR It's some sort of body armor, he can also use it to shield metal, punch steal. It's all sewn right under the fabric he wears. And it could only have been invented by somebody as sophisticated as--- KESSAL Myself. GELLAR That's right. JACK So, just because he's so sophisticated, it makes it difficult even for you soldiers to bring him down. GELLAR Yes. Kessal turns away from the computer and gets up. He eyes the wooden long table just a few feet away from where Jack is seated. KESSAL You see that long table over there, Jack? JACK Yes. Jack gets up and walks towards it. KESSAL Try to PENETRATE it. Jack walks closer to the table, until he finally is walking through it! His body is walking through the middle of the table. KESSAL Now try to make your body solid. Jack does so. He GROANS. JACK ARRRRRGH!!!!!!!! The table gets split in two, the other half flies close to Gellar almost hurting him. The other half is in front of Jack. Jack steps on it and fucks it up some more. He steps on it. KESSAL So you've easily adjusted to your programming. JACK (turns to Kessal) What? KESSAL You can make your body solid or air at your command. JACK What? KESSAL You are versatile. JACK Why am I still wearing the sweater and the... pants. KESSAL Well, I programmed it. Unless of course you want to ... change. JACK No. KESSAL Mr. Falcon you can become a ghost. You can pass through walls, or you can become organic at will, but you can not do any bodily functions that every human being needs to do... Jack frowns. KESSAL Eat, sleep, drink. Mainly because you don't have to. Jack steps closer to the gurney where his real body lies. JACK Can you... bring me back? KESSAL I'm afraid not. If I... disconnect you. As what I term it, you will die. I'm afraid that I can not find a way to revive you and ... JACK Are you sure? KESSAL For the time being. Yes. FADE OUT. Inside the lab, later on. Jack is seated on the floor. Gellar, quite bleary sits in the computer chair right in front of the monitors. Only this time, the monitors are off. JACK There's no way I can be brought back. GELLAR No way. Beat. Jack just stares. Stares at his body lying on the gurney in disbelief. JACK There's a problem... GELLAR Yes? JACK Never mind. GELLAR What is it? JACK My girlfriend. Gellar sighs. GELLAR I'm sorry, Jack. JACK This is strange, I was supposed to go out with her today... GELLAR So, what gives? JACK Is there a way to tell her about... this? GELLAR Well, it's not that your... permanently dead. You can talk to her. JACK No, I meant, how am I gonna explain all this to her? GELLAR That's your calling Jack. I can't help you out in that department. CUT TO: Night time. Jolie Ferris's apartment. Inside the living room. JOLIE is very pretty. She sits on a couch, together with MENA STUART, her friend. Obviously also Jack's friend. Someone else is inside the room, it's Jared. He walks back and forth, restless. JOLIE Something happened to him. Jared finally sits, on a wooden chair, facing both Mena and Jolie. JOLIE Jared, do you know where he was this morning? JARED Um, he was... out of the store. He was gonna deliver something, to somebody... I don't know... MENA You're right. Something did happen to him. JOLIE You think he could have been hurt in that shooting? MENA Yeah--- JARED Holy shit! That's it! He might have been taken to some --- some hospitat. We can't know for sure... Jolie sighs. JOLIE There's no doubt now. He was there when the shooting happened. And then he got hurt. JARED Yeah, he did. JOLIE Shouldn't we start calling some hospitals, you know--- MENA That's up to you, Jolie. JOLIE But how are we supposed to know what hospitals--- JARED That's what you're supposed to do. I'm only here if you need some help or... CUT TO: Inside the secret lab. Jack is still seated on the floor. Gellar near the computers. Jack is restless. Not that he needs to sleep, but clearly, he is disturbed. GELLAR Would you rather be disconnected? JACK What? GELLAR Because there's no other way, Jack. Jack gets up. JACK There has to be some other way. GELLAR You call her. You talk to her. Tell her the truth. JACK I don't know if I would rather do that, or if I'd prefer to be dead. Disconnected. GELLAR I'm sorry Jack... Jack gets up. He kicks one concrete post, cutting into it, breaking it. The concrete falls to the ground, dust flies all over the area he just damaged. JACK Why did this have to happen? GELLAR Shouldn't you be thinking about what you CAN do as a holographic man? JACK What? Jack walks closer to Gellar. GELLAR You can do things people can't do, Jack. Look on the bright side. JACK I don't get--- GELLAR You can fight the cops. You can fight crime. You can be a holo crime fighter! JACK No, I don't want that. GELLAR Sure you do. JACK What? GELLAR You've probably dreamed about it all your life. JACK What did you say? Gellar shakes his head. GELLAR Nothing, I just had to assume. JACK Oh... GELLAR But you can... get back at the terrorist who took your life from you. Considering the things you are now capable of doing, Jack. JACK Biggs. GELLAR Yes. You can get him for us. JACK Wait a minute... you motherfuckers shot me, you did this to me. You had a number of fucked up experiments, and everytime there's a crime scene, you just shoot someone and----- GELLAR No. That would be immoral. Biggs shot you. If it wasn't us. It could have been one of the cops. But no, it was Biggs who shot you. JACK (shrugs) I see. GELLAR Yes. JACK But there's something that doesn't make sense to me. GELLAR What, Jack? JACK It's Biggs. GELLAR What about him? JACK If he can do all those things, why does he only rob banks? GELLAR I've been trying to figure that out myself. He must be... a Manchurian candidate. Gellar laughs. GELLAR He's probably brainwashed. I don't know... look--- JACK What? GELLAR The answer to your question? Gellar starts nodding his head. GELLAR He's crazy. CUT TO: A city park. Day time. A bus is parked up near the curb of the rotunda of the park. CUT TO: Inside the bus. A Korean guy holds a young woman at bay. He holds a revolver. He sticks the revolver's barrel close to her neck. CUT TO: Outside an entire precinct of SWAT guys hold tear gas launchers, and stun grenade launchers and aim it directly at the deranged Korean inside the bus. A lot of cops point their service pistols at the armed assailant. CUT TO: Inside the bus. KOREAN I want the president! CUT TO: Outside. One of the cops. COP Who is this motherfucker? COP 2 He's asking for the president. COP Jesus. CUT TO: Just a few meters away from the chaos, Jack watches. CUT TO: Inside the bus. The man picks up a can of paint. He opens the lid of the can. He lets go of the young woman AND SHOOTS HER IN THE HEAD! EVERYBODY INSIDE THE BUS SCREAMS. HE SPILLS THE PAINT ON THE WINDOW THAT LOOKS AT ALL THE COPS HOLDING HIM AT GUNPOINT. THE KOREAN WALKS TOWARDS THE BUS DOOR, SHUTS IT, LOCKS IT. HE POINTS HIS REVOLVER TO THE DRIVER. HE SHOOTS HIM TOO! CUT TO: A COP, OUTSIDE. HE HEARS THE GUNFIRE. COP Jesus. CUT TO: Inside the bus. THE KOREAN WETS THE GLASS DOOR WITH THE PAINT TOO. NOW ALL THE COPS CAN'T SEE HIM. THE PASSENGERS AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BUS ARE ALL BATHED IN PAINT. EVERYONE SCREAMS ENDLESSLY IN PANIC. CUT TO: Jack. Still watching from a distance. He can't take this anymore. He watches the bus closely. Observes. He sees all the cops. Jack's face turns STATIC. Nice trick. Now, since his face is all static, no one can recognize him. Jack dashes towards the bus and then PENETRATES RIGHT THROUGH THE BUS'S WALL, THE SIDE WHERE ALL THE WINDOWS ARE OBSCURED BY BLACK PAINT! CUT TO: Inside the bus. The Korean guy couldn't believe what he just saw. Someone passed right through the solid walls of the bus! Right through the solid windows! Jack grabs hold of the Korean's wrist, holding the revolver. He chops his elbows, disarming him of the weapon. Jack gribs the Korean right in the chest, he holds him, up high --- and then hurls his body towards the painted glass windows --- CUT TO: Outside. The Korean's body FLIES TOWARDS THE COPS, THEN PAST THEM, FINALLY LANDING WITH HIS HEAD SMASHING AGAINST A STEEL POST WITH A PING! CUT TO: One of the cops. Just stares in shock. COP Who the fuck was that? All the cops now have a new target. COPS AND SWAT GUYS (in unison) Freeze! You're under arrest! Jack start to rise OUT OF THE BUS. He's now levitating and penetrating the roof of the bus. He rises slowly, and finally lands on his feet, now solid. Now on top of the bus. His face still static. His identity kept anonymous. Jack jumps off the bus's roof. The cops and swat guys start shooting him. Jack makes his body solid, and the bullets bounce right off his body! CUT TO: One of the cops. COP Holy shit! Jack walks slowly, calmy towards the aggravated police officers. They continue shooting him, but his body continues to merely catch the bullets. The bullets just bounce off his body. Then Jack just stops. Someone familiar is in front of him. It's Biggs! Now he's the one watching from a distance. He's in the same black overalls. The baggy pants, the overcoat, the boots. Jack rises, and flies towards Biggs, but Biggs catches his body. Biggs makes a big leap and then CRASHES on the concrete ground, making a BIG OPENING... Jack and Biggs fall CUT TO: down below. In the sewers. Jack punches Biggs in the face. But Biggs takes those punches like a man. A man of steel. Jack's attacks don't affect the sinister Biggs. CUT TO: The cops and swat guys walk towards the opening in the street, their attention now away from the bus. CUT TO: One of the cops. He attends to the dead body of the Korean guy. CUT TO: The sewers. Now Biggs and Jack are away from that opening that leads to above. Now, not even the cops can reach them. Jack's face this time is back to normal. He's not doing that static trick anymore. Jack and Biggs continue to fight. At one point, Jack's arms PASS RIGHT THROUGH BIGGS'S CHEST! Biggs backs up, and wards off Jack's attack. He grabs hold of Jack's wrist and then manages to hurl his body to a far brick wall. The bricks get smashed and fall right off the wall. Biggs pulls out a Glock. He shoots at Jack, but the bullets pass right through Jack's body anyway. Jack charges forward, and kicks the handgun away from Biggs's hand. BIGGS Arrrgh! Fuck! Biggs has now knows that he lost. He runs far away from where Jack stands, he kicks, and punches a brick wall. Amazingly, Biggs manages to tear the wall apart, and then he moves along. Jack tries to follow him. But he disappears into the darkness... Instead, a grenade lands right in front of Jack. CUT TO: The cops, almost all of them having attention focused on the big hole on the ground, all of them are looking down, hoping to find any of the two in the sewers. PHWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!! The cement floor that they stand on explodes! Their bodies fly in all directions. It was Biggs's grenade. But something else flies as well. It's not a body flying out of control. It's Jack! He's flying on his own as the flame rises from above the ground. Then Jack lands slowly, gracefully a couple of meters away from the explosion. A couple of meters away from the crime scene. Jack takes a deep breath. CUT TO: The secret lab once again. Could be either day or night. Jack stands in front of Gellar, who is seated as always in front of the computer monitors. The monitors are off though. Only the medical paraphernalia attached to Jack's real body is on. JACK The son of a bitch is mean. And I mean--- GELLAR Yes, Jack, that's why not even the cops could stop him. JACK I've always been thinking about... Jack frowns. GELLAR About, what Jack? JACK About Jolie. GELLAR Like we've always discussed Jack. It's your calling. I can't decide for you in that department. You're the only one who can help yourself. CUT TO: Jack's own home. His living room. Jack sits on a couch. He picks up the receiver to his telephone. He dials up a number. JACK Yeahello. BENEDICT FERRIS Ferris residence. JACK Sir, this is Jack. I'd like... BENEDICT Oh yeah, Jack, you wanna um talk with--- JACK No, no... BENEDICT But I guess you have to. I insist. JACK I can't. BENEDICT Something's wrong Jack? Right? JACK Yeah, you can say that. BENEDICT Tell me, what is it? JACK I can't. BENEDICT Are you in good terms with Jolie? JACK Nothing's wrong with our relationship... BENEDICT It's --- JACK Yes sir? BENEDICT There's been no word about you ever sicne that horrible shoot out at the bank. JACK No. It's got... Jack winces. He feels very uncomfortable lying. JACK ...nothing to do with um... BENEDICT So what seems to be the problem. JACK Listen Mr. Ferris... um, I might see her soon. It's just that. A long pause. Jack holds up his arms. He makes them "static", just reminding himself that he's a hologram. Well, part spirit and part hologram. The coolest thing is, he can also make his body solid if he wants to... JACK It's just that I'm going through something now. And I'm not ready to tell her... BENEDICT I see, son... JACK I hope you understand, sir. BENEDICT Yes. I'll try to keep mum on this ... just so I can help you out. I've met you, Jack. You are a good man. And I just want you to take your time... regarding the things that trouble you. May they have something to do with your relationship with Jolie or not... I'm worried. But I care... JACK Thank you, erm--- BENEDICT So I guess you should just call me. When you get the chance. When you feel like spilling the beans to ... her and start revealing what ever it is you're keeping secret now. What ever it is, I'm sure ... you don't want Jolie to know about it. Because she doesn't deserve to know about it... are you physically--- injured or something? JACK Oh no. Jack nods his head "no." Almost flippantly. JACK Nothing like that, sir. I'm good actually. BENEDICT You're good? It's just that SOMETHING that you can't... A pause. This time Benedict can't get some words out of him. JACK Yes. I'll call back. Good night, Mr. Ferris. BENEDICT Yeah, likewise, son. Jack hangs up. He puts the receiver down. CUT TO: Ferris residence. Benedict stands in front of Jolie, who has a confused look on her face. BENEDICT Well, he's alive. But he won't tell me anything! JOLIE And I wonder why... BENEDICT Se--- JOLIE Won't he even talk to me? BENEDICT No. JOLIE Dad, you've heard about what happened to one of his girlfriends before, right? BENEDICT Yeah. I've heard his story. CUT TO: Day time. Jack is sitting in his living room, watching TV. He changes the channel! There's another bank being robbed! IT'S THE BANK THAT BENEDICT FERRIS WORKS ON! A SWIRL OF MILITARY CHOPPERS SURROUND THE AREA! CHAOS ALL OVER THE PLACE. IT JUST REMINDS JACK OF THE INCIDENT THAT NEARLY KILLED HIM. THE CAMERA ZOOMS CLOSE TO SOMEONE. THE PERPETRATOR, WEARING A BLACK HELMET, BLACK OVERALLS --- IT'S BIGGS! BIGGS LIKE BEFORE IS ALSO CARRYIG A BRIEFCASE THIS TIME. BIGGS JUMPS REAL HIGH, AND HIS LEGS SMASH THROUGH THE CEMENT GROUND THAT HE STANDS ON, POLICE TRY TO SHOOT HIM, BUT HE DISAPPEARS TO THE DEPTHS BELOW. CUT TO: Gellar on a chopper. He holds a sniper rifle. GELLAR'S SIGHT POV, he tries to look everywhere for Biggs. THE POV PANS DOWNWARD, AND THEN HE CAN SEE A BIGASSED OPENING ON THE GROUND; BIGGS'S TRADEMARK. Gellar throws the rifle behind him, to the other side near the wall of the chopper's fuselage. in frustration. GELLAR Fuck! CUT TO: The sewers. Biggs runs furiously, trying to make his escape. CUT TO: The skies. Something's taking a plunge VERTICALLY. It's Jack! Even though he's falling superfast, it can easily be made out that his face is STATIC again. The coolest way for a vigilante--- no superhero to be anonymous. That's what matters. CUT TO: The sewers again. Biggs is navigating on foot, frantically through the labyrinthian underground maze. Then something is flying fast towards him, it's Jack. Jack flies, fast like a ghost in one of those clichéd horror movies. Jack lands on his feet, just inches from Biggs. Then Jack throws a suckerpunch to Biggs's face. Biggs falls backwards. De ja vu. Here they go again. Fighting in the sewers. Biggs is on his back. Jack walks towards him, Jack bends down, and punches his arm through Biggs's neck. BIGGS Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!! But just before Jack can make his arm solid while it's INSIDE Biggs's neck, Biggs throws a punch to Jack's well, solid face, Jack flies backwards. CUT TO: Still the sewers, TWO POLICE OFFICERS jump down the sewer, their feet creating a splash of the dirty sewege water on impact. Jack turns around, and takes a look at the two uniforms making a futile and pathetic attempt to subdue Biggs as always. This is the distraction Biggs wanted, TWO GRENADES ROLL TOWARDS THE POLICE OFFICERS. JACK Oh shit. Jack pities them anyway. He flies towards them and grabs them by their leather coats. He pulls them upwards and ascends, high, high up as the two grenades blow up the sewer to oblivion. Jack lands slowly, as always, gracefully like David Copperfield would after he finishes his flying routine. Just a few meters away from the ground Jack drops the two officer's bodies. They groan as the force of their drop hurts them a bit. Three officers look at Jack in amazement. They've never seen anyone do these sort of things before. MALE OFFICER Holy shit!!!!!!!! Then Jack flies high, high up. Then he FALLS, with style, head first towards the ground... he continues to fall, finally passing through the ground then back to the --- CUT TO: Sewer. It's pretty much the same area where he just encountered Biggs again. But this time, no Biggs. Biggs has managed to flee the scene yet again. Jack makes his face UN-static and returns it to normal. JACK FUCK! CUT TO: Military men using rattan sticks, knives to threaten all the media people. Even Gellar, this time holding an AR-15 threatening a news van. GELLAR Get the fuck outta here! Jack's face is static again. He walks towards a cameraman shooting him in awe. The cameraman remains astounded as Jack walks closer towards him. But the cameraman just wishes Jack could show his face. JACK Let me show you a trick. CAMERAMAN Please do. Wow! Jack punches the camera lens, and his hand just penetrates it. Like a ghost. CAMERAMAN Wow! Then Jack makes his arm SOLID, and then the camera just BLOWS APART to bits. The cameraman lets go of what's left of his camera and just frowns, but still in astonishment though. CAMERAMAN Motherfucker! Jack looks left, and he sees Jolie and Benedict together! They were both in the bank when the incident happened! Thank God Jolie is all right! Jolie is embracing her dad, both of them are caked with dust, and look exhausted. Jack sprints superfast at the speed of light. And disappears from what now is a crime scene. Policeman start putting yellow tape all over the place. CUT TO: Biggs's lair. Actually, it's just a warehouse. And he stands in front of no one else but... Doctor Kessal!!! BIGGS You tell me Kessal. What the fuck was it!!!!! Kessal starts sweating. He looks like he can shit himself any minute. KESSAL Okay, okay! He was a prototype for our Ultimus project. He works with... he stays in touch often with a sergeant from the military. Kessal finds it difficult to catch his breath. KESSAL But I didn't tell him everything, I work the project on --- Biggs steps very close to Kessal. BIGGS YOU TELL ME. KESSAL What? BIGGS Everything. Biggs drops the briefcase he is holding. He bends down and opens it, he hands Kessal a bundle of twenty dollar bills. BIGGS Everything. KESSAL Yes--- BIGGS You made my clothes. Clothes make the man. I am the man. Now, tell me... Kessal pockets the bills hastily, almost absently, he is reckless, and scared shit. Amazing how Kessal's client can easily intimidate him. Kessal is a fucking wimp after all. CUT TO: Jack in his living room. At night. He just sits and stares while on the couch. INSERT FLASHBACK: Heather, his lost love. Blood starts pouring out of Heather's torso. It starts pourint out. Jack just replays this image over and over again in his head. END FLASHBACK. Jack picks up the phone. He calls Ferris residence. JACK Sir, are you all right? I heard about it--- BENEDICT God damn, it's good to hear your voice at a time like this Jack. You were there? JACK Let's just say I'm an up to date kind of person. BENEDICT You stay at home, often? JACK No. If you don't believe me. You and Jolie can... A long pause. BENEDICT Never mind, forget it. You probably don't want to meet anybody right now. Take your time. But I do hope you get back to being with my daughter again. In fact I do hope you start... erm... visiting us. JACK Um, yeah. BENEDICT There's something I discovered today, Jack. The man, the terrorist who stole money from my bank. JACK What? BENEDICT I should have told you this a long time ago... but I didn't want to be... JACK What, sir? BENEDICT I saw your girlfriend die. JACK Heather? BENEDICT Yes. I didn't tell this to Jolie, or anybody... CUT TO: The Ferris residence. Benedict on the phone. Jolie just listens in at the door of the living room. Benedict doesn't notice Jolie snooping on him. CUT TO: Jack on the phone. BENEDICT The same man that robbed my bank. Was the same person who killed your girlfriend, he must have been a small time bandit long time ago. But he is the same person. I remember him. It's just a good thing he doesn't remember me... Jack starts to get furious. Now that he knows the motherfucker who killed his girlfriend. BENEDICT I was scared shit that day, I couldn't talk about your girlfriend, or anybody else he killed. I ran off as soon as there was the pandemonia on the street... (Benedict coughs) that day... and I don't think I wanna talk--- JACK Mr. Ferris, I have to go now. Jack hangs up the phone. CUT TO: Day time. The city skyline, Jack flies, fast, really fast. Then he sees someone else flying, someone like him! It's Biggs. Biggs flies past him. Then Biggs slowly descends, and lands on his feet at the sidewalk of a freeway bridge. Jack lands in front of him. BIGGS You see, Dr. Kessal told me everything. He told me about the sergeant, your best friend. And I wouldn't worry about your best friend now. CUT TO: Gellar's apartment. He is inside, badly beaten up. His face is bruised. He is in pain. GELLAR Arrrrrrgh! He is wearing a black, torn up t-shirt. Must be one of those rugged fabrics he has been wearing at 'Nam. But who the fuck cares. He makes his way slowly, outside of his apartment. CUT TO: Gellar driving his car, barely being able to move properly. CUT TO: Jack and Biggs at the sidewalk overlooking the city. BIGGS You saved those two cops, Jack. But you also saved my life. I didn't realize that someone with... this power would have a conscience. JACK What the fuck do you want? BIGGS To take out anyone who gets in my way. And you are getting in my way, Jack. And Doctor Kessal never told you that you don't have to be dead, to be hooked up to his Ultimus device. Biggs crosses the bustling street. He stands right in front of a speeding van. Jack just watches him. Jack shifts his vision to another freeway, down below. Then he turns back to Biggs who is now in front of a van with a furious driver, honking his horn at him. Then Biggs lifts up the van like superman! Biggs levitates slowly, and then finally hurls the van off the bridge! Jack takes off, and then manages to catch the vehicle right before it crashes to the other freeway below. Jack doesn't have an easy time putting the vehicle back in upright position. Biggs returns to the sidewalk, and just watches Jack's inexorable course of action on keeping an ordinary family's death away. Jack then, ascends, and then lands back to the sidewalk, on the freeway bridge above; again, in front of Biggs. CUT TO: Kessal's house. Day time. Kessal is in his kitchen. Lying, his mouth is covered with duct tape. His hands are tied up with the duct tape too. Gellar arrives. Gellar pulls out the tape hastily from Kessal's mouth. KESSAL AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGH! FUCK! EASY, WILL 'YA!!!!!!! Gellar bends down and begins to free Kessal of the duct tape in his arms. GELLAR We don't have much time. KESSAL I'm sorry. I woulda been dead if I hadn't been doing what I have been doing right under your nose for the past years. GELLAR It's all right. KESSAL I woulda been dead. Jack woulda been dead. GELLAR Well, he will die if he don't move quickly KESSAL I KNOW! CUT TO: The bridge. The sidewalk. Biggs rises slowly, and finally flies far, far away towards somewhere. Jack flies as well, and follows him closely. They are like two birds having a race. They are like two supermans having a contest. CUT TO: Gellar's car. Kessal and Gellar are inside. Kessal drives. Frantically. GELLAR Could you be any slower? Kessal steps on it. The car's engine roars as Kessal begins to bend it to it's limit. KESSAL Fuck it. CUT TO: The secret military base, the gates. Two soldiers guard the gates of what is the secret base that Gellar and Kessal have been running project Ultimus for a long time. The two guards shoot at Biggs, but the bullets just pass through him. Biggs approaches the one of the guards, then he extends his arm, straight, his fingers pointing forward, like some fancy karate stance and he just penetreates this guard's body. The other guard just watches in shock. The guard under Biggs's mercy begins to tremble! And electricity starts assaulting this guard's body! He finally trembles to the max, gets toast and his body falls on his back. Biggs steps down from the guard house and turns to Jack. BIGGS I bet that Doctor Kessal never told you that you can also be... electrifying. The second guard approaches Biggs, but Biggs just chops the back of his neck, knocking him out instant. CUT TO: Biggs's secret lair. Gellar and Kessal see Biggs's body, sleeping, hooked up to the... well, the Ultimus device. CUT TO: THE SECRET LAB! Biggs and Jack enter simoultaneously, Biggs slowly walks towards Jack's CONNECTED body, and then makes a move to UNPLUG what's connected to his brain. But just before he does so, Jack does the same karate thing that Biggs did to the guard. Then Biggs starts to get electrocuted! He doesn't move! JACK But I guess you can also be electrifying to someone else who is connected to the Ultimus. Biggs manages to escape Jack's threatening attack. He backs away, then... CUT TO: Biggs's lair. Gellar whips out a hand gun and starts shooting the motherfucker's head. Blood pours out of Gellar's head. CUT TO: The secret lab. Biggs's body becomes static, then finally begins to vanish... it disappears in a blur of light as--- CUT TO: Gellar finishes all the rounds in his handgun. A WHITE FLASH and CUT TO: Jack standing in front of his real body in the secret lab. He's just glad that it's all over. FADE OUT. Inside the secret lab, the next day. Kessal is on the computers, Gellar just stands in front of Jack's real body. So does Jack who stands alongside Gellar. Jack sees a defibrillator. JACK You're gonna... KESSAL It's what you want. And it might be the only way. A WHITE FLASH TIME CUT: Still inside the secret lab. This time, Jack is normal again! He now is using HIS BODY to move, he gets up from the gurney. He scratches his head, there's a little blood. KESSAL It took a few plastic surgery procedures. But it's what you want anyway. JACK It's what I want. Thanks. Gellar just nods at him reassuringly. Kessal hands Jack a diskette. JACK What is it? KESSAL It's a diskette. The disk I have inserted in your brain is still functional, just as long as you are still alive. It is run by your body's natural electricity. And if this disk is destroyed, so will the one inside your head. And you will die. JACK Fuck. KESSAL But you can still thank us. There was no way you would have been alive like this without project Ultimus. Let alone, you would have been dead by now if you hadn't been picked up by that private. You would have been in a morgue... and--- JACK I don't wanna hear it. KESSAL Take care of that diskette. It's your life. JACK I will. CUT TO: Just outside the Ferris residence, at night. Jolie emerges from the front door, and she gets pleased to see Jack! She runs towards him and hugs him. JOLIE What happened, Jack?? Jolie and Jack kiss. JACK Nothing. I'm glad that ... some doctor took care of me. JOLIE You were in that other shooting were you? JACK I'm sorry, yeah. JOLIE But--- Jack kisses Jolie again. JACK I called from that ... top secret hospital. JOLIE I don't care... as long as you're really okay now. JACK I am. Jack kisses Jolie yet again. JOLIE I love you. FADE OUT. THE END.
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