PREVIOUSLY...

Still coming to terms with his newly enhanced senses, speed and agility, NYPD OCCB Narcotics Officer Kevin “Kasper” Cole, a.k.a. THE WHITE TIGER, found himself fairly overwhelmed by his new powers. Nauseous, overly sensitive to light and sound, Kasper nonetheless followed up on an informant’s tip regarding a subway train derailment under the urban war zone called “The Mog.” This train, the legendary Money Train, carried payoff cash for the city’s crooked cops, judged and politicians. The derailment sparked a running gun battle beneath the streets as both police and street gangs competed to be the first to reach the crash site. Using his unique powers, Kasper managed to make an end run around the factions competing for The Money Train, only to end up pinned down by gunfire as he sought to protect the wounded police officers on the scene...

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(SPLASH)  MEDIUM CLOSE-UP: A MAN’s FACE. WELL, WE CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE MUCH OF THIS MAN’S FACE BECAUSE HIS ENTIRE FACE IS COVERED BY AN OTOMETRIST’s LENS ARRAY. A LENS ARRAY IS A LARGE METALLIC MASK WITH DOZENS OF LENSES DESIGNED TO TEST A PATIENT’S EYE SIGHT. I WILL FIND A PICTURE OF THIS THING. IT IS MADE OF SHINY METAL AND HAS DOZENS OF LENSES MOUNTED ON LITTLE HINGES THAT ALLOW THEM TO SWING INTO PLACE OVER THE PATIENT’s EYES IN ANY NUMBER OF COMBINATIONS, THUS ENABLING THE EYE DOCTOR TO PROPERLY PRESCRIBE EYEGLASSES FOR A PATIENT.

 

                WE CANNOT SEE MUCH OF THE PATIENT’s FACE, BUT HE IS A WHITE MALE, MID 50’s. IF AND WHEN WE SEE HIS SUIT, HE IS WEARING AN EXPENSIVE SUIT AND TIE.

 

                THIS IS, BY ALL APPEARANCES, A ROUTINE MEDICAL EXAMINATION: A PATIENT HAVING HIS EYES EXAMINED.

 

    1  CAPTION:      Wednesday Afternoon on Riverside Drive.

    2  LEGEND:       Stan Lee presents

    3  LOGO:         < Insert  THE CREW logo >

    4  TITLE:        BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE MOGADISHU

                                                CHAPTER THREE: DANNY

    7  VOICE:        (Off)  Better with-- better without--?

    8  MAN:          Without.

    9  MAN:          It’s been “without” for the last 20 minutes!

   10  MAN:          I really do have other things to do, young man.

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1              REVERSE ANGLE: DANNY. I WILL PROVIDE VERY SPECIFIC REF FOR DANNY: HE HAS NEVER ONCE BEEN DRAWN RIGHT, SO YOU NEED TO INVENT HIM HERE.

 

                DANNY HAS A KIND OF BABY FACE, MAKING HIM LOOK LIKE HE’S MUCH YOUNGER THAN HE IS. HE HAS A RATHER NON-SPECIFIC ETHNIC LOOK (HE IS LATIN AMERICAN, BUT DON’T HAMMER ON IT TOO MUCH, DANNY IS VERY AMERICANIZED).

 

                I NEED A VERY SPECIFIC EXPRESSION FROM DANNY, HERE, A KIND OF IMPATIENCE AND MILD ANNOYANCE: HIS HEAD TILTED TO ONE SIDE, HIS BROW FURROWED, STARING AT US THROUGH THE TOP OF HIS EYES AS IF TO SAY, “ARE YOU FINISHED YET?”

 

                DANNY WEARS A WHITE LAB COAT OVER HIS CLOTHES. DANNY DRESSES LIKE A BLACK GUY WITH  A LOT OF MONEY: STYLISH, FORWARD-THINKING CLOTHES. SEE EDDIE MURPHY’s CLOTHES IN Boomerang. I’LL PROVIDE SOME REF.. HE LOOKS LIKE A KID WEARING DADDY’s MEDICAL STUFF.

    1  DANNY:        Yes, Mr. Winter.

    2  MAN:          (Off) I’m a very important man, you know.

    3  DANNY:        Yes, Mr. Winter.

    4  MAN:          (Off) Probably lost half a million dollars just sitting here.

    5  DANNY:        Mr. Winter, we’re trying to treat autosomal dominant disease--

 

2              DOWN ANGLE: THE EXAM ROOM: ESTABLISH THIS SMALL EXAM ROOM, THE PATIENT IN A LARGE, MECHANICAL CHAIR (LIKE A BARER WOULD USE), THE MULTI-LENS ARRAY COVERING HIS FACE. DANNY BLITHELY WRITES ON THE MAN’s CHART, IGNORING HIM.

    6  DANNY:        --wherein patients have a healthy functioning gene and a gene with a disease-causing mutation.

    7  DANNY:        The mutant gene produces a dysfunctional protein that damages the photoreceptor cell.

3              ON DANNY, HOLDING THE CHART, LOOKING DOWN AT IT, STIFLING A YAWN WITH HIS FIST. HIS BODY LANGUAGE IS VERY CASUAL. LEAVE THE BACKGROUND BLANK FOR LOTS OF COPY.

    8  DANNY:        The good news is, there's a new report of exciting gene therapy breakthroughs for autosomal dominant forms of retinal degeneration.

    9  DANNY:        Ribozyme therapy dramatically reduced vision loss with dominant RP. Photoreceptor cell function was as much as 93% greater in the ribozyme-treated eyes than in the untreated control eyes.

 

4              ON THE PATIENT: DANNY’s HANDS SWING THE LENS ARRAY AWAY FROM THE PATIENT’s FACE (THE LENS ARRAY IS MOUNTED ON A SWING ARM OR SOME SUCH).

 

                WE NOW SEE THE PATIENT’s FACE: MID-50’s, WHITE, BUSINESS MAN. ANNOYED.

   10  MAN:          Which, I suppose, is why Dr. Ellenberg brought you in.

   11  MAN:          Look rather young to be a doctor, kid.

   12  DANNY:        (Off) Dr. Ellenberg is a doctor, Mr. Winter--

 

5              SAME: DANNY GENTLY HOLDS THE MAN’s HEAD BACK AS HE ADMINISTERS EYE DROPS TO THE PATIENT. DANNY IS ALL BUSINESS, HERE.

 

                IMPORTANT: DANNY MUST BE WEARING LATEX GLOVES. HE MUST NOT TOUCH THIS GUY WITH HIS BARE SKIN.

   13  DANNY:        --I’m a surgeon. A ribozyme therapy specialist.

   14  MAN:          One of those over-achievers, huh?

   15  DANNY:        Wait’ll you get my bill. Then you tell me.

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1              CUT TO: ANOTHER OFFICE: DANNY ENTERS THROUGH A DOOR. BEHIND HIM (LOOKING THROUGH THE DOOR) WE SEE THE EXAM ROOM DANNY WAS JUST IN.

 

                DANNY WRITES IN THE MAN’s CHART AS HE WALKS. DANNY HAS REMOVED HIS LATEX GLOVES AND HAS THEM PINNED TO THE METAL CLIPBOARD OR SOME OTHER OBVIOUS WAY OF GETTING ACROSS THAT HE IS NO LONGER WEARING GLOVES.

 

                INSIDE THIS OFFICE, THERE IS A MAN BOUND AND GAGGED, LYING ON THE FLOOR.  DANNY IGNORES HIM. POSITION THIS MAN SO THAT HE CANNOT BE SEEN FROM THE EXAM ROOM.

    1  DANNY:        Give those drops about 12 minutes, Mr. Winter. I’ll be back.

 

2              NEW ANGLE: DANNY SQUATS BY THIS MAN. INVENT THE MAN, DOESN’T MATTER WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE.

 

                DANNY IS SHOWING MR. WINTER’s CHART TO THIS MAN.

    2  DANNY:        Looks pretty good, Dr. Ellenberg. His cornea’s a bit thick though.

    3  DANNY:        As you know, corneal thickness impacts measured intraocular pressure.

    4  DANNY:        Lowering the MIOP in ocular hypertensive patients may prevent O.H. from converting to primary open angle glaucoma.

 

3              STAT/REPEAT PANEL: THE BOUND MAN GLARES AT DANNY, FURIOUS. DANNY CONTINUES WRITING ON THE CHART.

-- no copy --

 

4              STAT/REPEAT PANEL: DANNY HAS STOPPED WRITING: HE GESTURES (POINTING) AT SOMETHING OFF-PANEL WITH HIS WRITING PEN.

 

                THE MAN PASSES OUT WHEN DANNY TOUCHES HIM. NOTE THAT DANNY HAS REMOVED THE GLOVES.

    5  DANNY:        That Mr. Winters’ coat--?

5              NEW ANGLE: DANNY PUTS A THIN TRENCH COAT ON OVER HIS CLOTHES. IMPORTANT: DANNY HAS REMOVED THE LAB COAT. DANNY IS PREPARING TO LEAVE.

 

                IN ONE HAND: DANNY HOLDS A SET OF CAR KEYS, HE HOLDS THE KEYS AT EYE LEVEL, SMILING.

    6  DANNY:        You’re gonna be out cold for a few minutes, Doc--

    7  DANNY:        --long enough for me to pop Mr. Winter’s sled.

    8  DANNY:        Bentley keys in his coat pocket-- parking ticket stub--

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1              CUT TO: THE WAITING AREA: A LOT OF PEOPLE WAIT TO SEE THE DOCTOR. DANNY EXITS THE DOCTOR’s OFFICE, WEARING MR. WINTERS’ COAT.

    1  DANNY:        --and, I’ll be seein’ ya, Doc!

    2  DANNY:        Bet you hear that one all the time!

    3  DANNY:        My best to Mrs. Doc!

 

2              ZOOM IN ON DANNY, SUDDENLY ANNOYED: HE’s SPOTTED SOMEONE.

    4  DANNY:        ---

 

3              NEW ANGLE: WHO HE SEES: MOISHE THE CLEANER. MOISHE SITS AMONG THE CROWDED WAITING ROOM, READING A NEWSPAPER. HE DOES NOT SEEM TO NOTICE DANNY. DETAILS ON MOISHE FOLLOWING.

-- no copy --

 

4              THE RECEPTIONIST AREA AT THIS DOCTOR’s OFFICE: DANNY, SMILING, CHARMS THE YOUNG RECEPTIONIST AS SHE HANDS HIM A PARKING TICKET STUB.

 

                DANNY IS WEARING MR. WINTERS’ COAT.

    5  GIRL:         I’ve validated your parking ticket, sir...

    6  DANNY:        Could you just leave it on the desk?

    7  DANNY:        Germs. I’m one of those.

 

5              CUT TO:  A VERY EXPENSIVE BENTLEY (PLEASE USE REFERENCE) PULLS OUT OF A MUNICIPAL PARKING GARAGE. POST A SIGN SOMEWHERE OUT FRONT THAT LISTS THE RATES, ETC. AN ATTENDANT INSIDE A BOOTH OR SOME SUCH.

 

                IF WE CAN MAKE HIM OUT, WE SEE DANNY BEHIND THE WHEEL OF THE BENTLEY.

    8  DANNY:        (From car) Ma!

    9  ELECTRIC:     [Ital.] ¿Sí, Danny?

   10  DANNY:        (From car) I’m pretty sure it’ll be awhile before Winters figures out his Bentley is gone--

6              INSIDE THE CAR: DANNY, ANNOYED AS HE DRIVES. HE DOES NOT USE A TELEPHONE AND WE DO NOT SEE WHO HE IS TALKING TO.

   11  DANNY:        --just the same, disable the LoJack on this car. Jam all satellite transmissions.

   12  ELECTRIC:     Se hace.

   13  DANNY:        Ma-- I saw Moishe in the waiting room.

   14  DANNY:        Can’t be good.

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1              MEDIUM: A VERY ANNOYED WOMAN. MID-FIFTIES, HOLDING A POODLE OR SOME SUCH. VERY EXPENSIVE JEWELRY. THIS IS A RICH WOMAN. THIS IS MR. WINTERS’ WIFE.

 

                WE ARE INSIDE A WAREHOUSE.

    1  WIFE:         Bentley?!?

    2  WIFE:         You stole his Bentley?! I wanted the Porsche!

    3  WIFE:         The Porsche, you incompetents!!

 

2              NEW ANGLE: DANNY REMOVES MR. WINTERS’ COAT. HE HAS THAT IMPATIENT LOOK ON HIS FACE.

    4  DANNY:        Mrs. Winter, we’re not incompetent, and I didn’t “steal” anything.

    5  DANNY:        Your signed affidavit gave me permission to bring your husband’s car down here--

 

3              ESTABLISH: THIS IS A CHOP SHOP, A SECRET AUTO MECHANICS GARAGE HIDDEN INSIDE A WAREHOUSE. THIS IS WHERE CAR THIEVES BRING STOLEN VEHICLES TO BE DISASSEMBLED AND SOLD.

 

                SEVERAL MEN, WEARING COVERALLS AND TOOL BELTS, WORK FEVERISHLY ON MR. WINTERS’ BENTLEY, DISASSEMBLING IT (HAVE AT LEAST ONE GUY CARRYING ONE OF THE DOORS AWAY FROM THE CAR TO DRIVE THIS POINT HOME).

 

                DANNY AND MRS. WINTER CAN BE RELATIVELY TINY OR OPEN SHAPES, HERE: JUST PUT THEM SOMEWHERE SO WE CAN ESTABLISH WHERE THEY ARE STANDING IN RELATION TO EVERYTHING ELSE.

    6  DANNY:        --where my freelance forensics team will compile enough hair and fiber evidence--

    7  DANNY:        -to prove Mr. Winter has bagged his secretary on regular intervals.

    8  DANNY:        Said evidence will be more than enough to get you the Porsche--

4              DANNY NOW PULLS ON HIS OWN JACKET, A SHORT LEATHER JACKET OR WHATEVER MAKES SENSE TO YOU, AS HE TALKS TO MRS. WINTER. HE DOES NOT SMILE AT HER.

 

                MRS. WINTER’s HAND EXTENDS INTO FRAME: SHE IS OFFERING A HANDSHAKE.

    9  DANNY:        --and the house it’s parked inside.

   10  DANNY:        That’ll be $35 thousand, Mrs. Winter.

   11  DANNY:        You can keep the handshake.

 

5              CUT TO: DANNY AT A PUBLIC PHONE ON A CITY STREET. NEW YORK PHONES DO NOT HAVE FULL-LENGTH PHONE BOOTHS, JUST PLASTIC WINGS AROUND THE PHONE, MOUNTED ON A POLE IN THE GROUND (IF YOU NEED REF, PLEASE LET ME KNOW).

   12  DANNY:        Yeah... yeah, Mr. Winter-- your wife’s got the car.

   13  DANNY:        Look-- I know you’re upset, Mr. Winter, but that’ll pass.

   14  DANNY:        You wanna do a piece of business here, or what?

 

6              IN CLOSE ON DANNY, ON THE PHONE. SERIOUS EXPRESSION.

   15  DANNY:        I can have my guys give Mrs. Winter fake evidence that won’t stand up in court.

   16  DANNY:        Cost you hunnert twenty-five, Mr. Winter.

   17  DANNY:        It’s how the game is played. You in or out?

   18  VOICE:        (Off) Good question--

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1              VIEW OVER DANNY’s SHOULDER: MOISHE THE CLEANER. EARLY 60’s WHITE, PUDGY, A BIT DISHEVELED. BIG NOSE. SCOWLS. EVEN WHEN HE SMILES, HE SCOWLS.

 

                WE SEE MOISHE THROUGH THE PLASTIC WIND GUARD THAT SURROUNDS THE PUBLIC PHONE.

    1  MOISHE:       Howya howya, kid.

    2  DANNY:        (Off) Moishe! Moishe The Cleaner!

    3  MOISHE:       Like ya didn’t see me in the doc’s office you lyin’ speed bump.

    4  MOISHE:       By th’ way--

 

2              DETAIL:  DANNY’s FEET: HIS FEET DO NOT QUITE TOUCH THE GROUND. DANNY APPEARS TO HOVER ABOUT AN INCH OR TWO OFF OF THE GROUND, BUT HE STANDS ON THIN AIR AS THOUGH IT WERE SOLID GROUND.

    5  MOISHE:       (Off) --looks like your belt needs tightenin.’

 

3              DANNY AND MOISHE HEAD DOWN THE STREET, DANNY SMILES AT HIM, GENUINELY HAPPY TO SEE THE OLDER MAN.

    6  MOISHE:       I’d shake your hand, but, considerin’...

    7  DANNY:        Nothin’ but love for the old school, Moishe.

    8  MOISHE:       Been a few years, here, Danny. Hadda scrounge since Mossad retired me.

 

3              CUT TO: EXTERIOR: MOISHE’S DRY CLEANERS.

    9  MOISHE:       (From inside) These days I make more cash actually bein’ a dry cleaner!

   10  MOISHE:       (Attach) I hear you’re freelance now-- no more writing books for the NSA--?

   11  SIGN:         SORRY! WE’RE CLOSED

    

4              INSIDE THE STORE:  DANNY AND MOISHE TALK. BEHIND AND AROUND THEM: HUGE MECHANIZED RACKS OF CLOTHES IN SHEET PLASTIC.

   12  DANNY:        Not for awhile. Not since that Ghudaza thing went bad.

   13  DANNY:        Not a lot of steaks in the fridge these days.

   14  MOISHE:       Where’s that hoverin’ toaster of yours-- that tech servo you programmed your with your mother’s personality--?

   15  DANNY:        Close. Ma always watches my back.

 

5              MOISHE: A TELEVISION ON A SHELF BEHIND HIM. A NEWS REPORTER ON THE TV.

   16  MOISHE:       Been pals a long time, Danny.

   17  MOISHE:       Be my pal now.

   18  MOISHE:       Our friends in Chicago set me up with a steady gig-- errand boy stuff--

   19  TV NEWS:      SUBWAY DERAILMENT

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1              DETAIL: THE TV SET: WE SEE AN IMAGE OF THE MONEY TRAIN (SEE LAST ISH). THIS IS A GRAPHIC FOR A NEWS BROADCAST AND NOT THE LITERAL TRAIN, WHICH IS TO SAY THIS TRAIN IS NOT DERAILED, BUT IT IS A PHOTO OF A SUBWAY MAINTENANCE TRAIN.

 

                MOISHE’s HAND REACHES IN FROM OFF, GESTURING WITH HIS THUMB AT THE NEWS BROADCAST.

    1  MOISHE:       (Off) See, 66 Bridges, the largest gang on the east coast, owns a bunch of cops and judges and the like.

    2  MOISHE:       Every week, there’s a payroll drop. The cops use an old subway maintenance train--

    3  MOISHE:       --we callit “The Money Train.”

 

2              NEW ANGLE: DANNY AND MOISHE: MOISHE OPENS AN OVERSIZED MAP OF THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SYSTEM ON A COUNTER OR SOMETHING, ABOUT TO SHOW DANNY WHERE THE MONEY TRAIN IS.

    4  MOISHE:       On board the Money Train are several lock boxes.

    5  MOISHE:       Along the route, couriers with keys take specific lock boxes off of the train. No two people have the same key, nobody knows nothing.

    6  MOISHE:       Somebody derailed the Money Train. Somebody who knows what’s on it--

 

3              DETAIL: THE MAP. MOISHE HAS CIRCLED WHERE THE MONEY TRAIN DERAILED. THE SUBWAY LINE RUNS ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN PRINCETON WALK AND THE MOG. THE AREA ENCOMPASSING THE MOG HAS A HANDWRITTEN SCRAWL OVER IT, “THE MOG”, PERHAPS WITH A CARTOONISH SKULL & CROSSBONES BENEATH THIS HANDWRITTEN TAG.

    7  MOISHE:       (Off) --over seven million in cash and drugs meant as payoffs to cops, judges and politicians.

    8  MOISHE:       (Off) Worse, the train’s stuck right under The Mog--

 

4              ANGLE ON DANNY: STUDYING THE MAP, SERIOUS EXPRESSION.

    9  DANNY:        “The Mog”...?

   10  MOISHE:       Short for Little Mogadishu-- a pretty nasty section of Brooklyn.

   11  MOISHE:       Lawless place. Lotta gang warlords and the like.

   12  DANNY:        So... we got cops and crooks all tryin’ to get to this train first-- before the news media.

 

5              THE TWO OF THEM: MOISHE GIVES DANNY A SERIOUS GLARE.

   13  DANNY:        Those lock boxes on board could hurt a lotta people if word gets out.

   14  DANNY:        So, basically, any mutt holding a key is now a target for elimination--

 

6              SAT/REPEAT: ONLY NOW, MOISHE HOLDS A KEY AT DANNY’s EYE LEVEL, SHOWING IT TO HIM. MOISHE RETAINS SERIOUS EXPRESSION, HIS EYES LOCKED ON DANNY’s EYES AS DANNY SCRUTINIZES THE KEY.

   15  DANNY:        ---

   16  DANNY:        --well, I meant “mutt” in a good way.

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1              NEW ANGLE: DANNY, ANNOYED, WALKS THROUGH THE RACKS OF CLOTHING, HEADING FOR THE FRONT OF THE STORE: HE IS LEAVING. ANNOYED. MOISHE FOLLOWS, TRYING TO CONVINCE HIM.

    1  MOISHE:       Danny-- no-- wait--

    2  DANNY:        What am I, an onion, now, Moishe?

    3  DANNY:        Got “Peel Me” written on my forehead?

    4  DANNY:        Here’s Moishe with his ten-pound bag of crap.

    5  MOISHE:       Danny-- c’mon!

 

2              MOISHE STOPS HIM, ANGRY, DEMANDING. BE CAREFUL THAT MOISHE DOES NOT TOUCH DANNY’S SKIN. H CAN TOUCH HIS CLOTHES, GRAB HIS JACKET, ETC., BUT NOT HIS HAND.

    6  DANNY:        [Ital. Quote] “Please hold my ten-pound bag of crap! Pay no attention to the smell thereto--!”

    7  MOISHE:       If I get my lock box off that train, it spares some people some embarrassment.

    8  MOISHE:       This is a cake walk for you--

 

3              ON MOISHE, ANGRY.

    9  MOISHE:       --a guy to whom gravity is an abstract concept!

   10  MOISHE:       That belt of yours helps you fake being normal-- keeps your feet on the ground--

   11  MOISHE:       --when the truth is you got weird gravity powers and people pass out if they touch you!

4              ON DANNY: STOIC. NOT BUYING IT.

   12  DANNY:        I walk on water.

   13  MOISHE:       You walk on water! If I walked on water, I wouldn’t be talkin’ to you, kid!

   14  MOISHE:       You don’t do this, I’m in Teaneck with the shades drawn!

 

5              THE TWO OF THEM: DANNY GLARES AT MOISHE. THEY BOTH KNOW DANNY’S GONNA DO THIS.

   15  MOISHE:       Easiest 25 grand you ever made.

 

6              STAT/REPEAT PREVIOUS.

   16  MOISHE:       Easiest 75 grand you ever made.

   17  DANNY:        And 25% off on my dry cleaning.

   18  MOISHE:       Well, now you’re just bein’ a hockey puck.

 

7              EXTERIOR OF DRY CLEANERS, DANNY JABS A FINGER AT MOISHE’s CHEST. MOISHE SMILING, GRATEFUL..

   19  DANNY:        This one’s gonna get ugly, Moishe. It’s an uphill turd roll.

   20  DANNY:        You owe me one uphill turd roll.

   21  MOISHE:       Money in the bank, kid.

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1              CUT TO: EXTERIOR OF GRACE & TUMBALT. DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN. THE PENTHOUSE SUITE. THIS IS TRIAGE’s OFFICE (LET’S DISCUSS). HE HAS GLASS WALLS IN HIS OFFICE, AFFORDING HIM A GREAT VIEW OF BROOKLYN AND MANHATTAN (DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN IS NEAR THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE, WHICH LEADS INTO CHINATOWN).

    1  VOICE:        (From building) Danny.

    2  VOICE:        (Attach)  Danny Vincent-- a.k.a. Vicente-- the deadly and infamous “Junta.”

    3  VOICE:        (Attach) Whup whup.

 

2              DETAIL: A BUSINESS CARD. DANNY’S HAND HOLDS THE CARD.

                COLOR: NOTE: THIS IS DANNY’S HAND HOLDING THE CARD.

    4  VOICE:        (Off) How you livin’, dog?

    5  VOICE:        (Attach) How’s our fiends in Chicago?

    6  CARD:         NIGEL BLACQUE

                                                SENIOR VP — MEDIA GROUP

                                                GRACE & TUMBALT

    7  DANNY:        (Off) I don’t have any friends, Triage--

 

3              PULL BACK: DANNY VINCENT, STANDING IN TRIAGE’s OFFICE, LOOKING AT TRIAGE’s BUSINESS CARD.

 

                DANNY IS EMOTIONLESS. HE’S A PRO.

 

                TRIAGE’s OFFICE: LET’S DISCUSS. TRIAGE IS RICH. LOTS OF AFRICAN ART. A BIG, ELEGANT SPACE. HE IS THE KINGPIN OF THIS UNIVERSE.

    8  DANNY:        --not worth the investment.

    9  VOICE:        (Off) You got mad friends, dog-- CIA, LCL, Russian mob--

   10  VOICE:        (Attach) --you been around for a youngster.

   11  DANNY:        I’m a freelancer.

4              NEW ANGLE: TRIAGE. HE IS BASED ON DON CHEADLE’s CHARACTER FROM THE FILM Bulworth, AND I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO SEE THIS FILM TO GET TRIAGE AND HIS BODY LANGUAGE RIGHT.

 

                TRIAGE DRESSES THE SAME WAY DANNY DOES. NOT THE SAME CLOTHES, BUT THE SAME STYLE. THE SAME ATTITUDE.

 

                TRIAGE IS KING OF THE WORLD, SMILING, CONFIDENT.

   12  TRIAGE:       You’re a fixer, man.

   13  TRIAGE:       You fix whatever the jump I need fixed.

   14  TRIAGE:       Allem, uh, spy pals of yours ain’t returnin’ your calls anymore, Danny. Gotta pay the rent.

 

5              ON DANNY: STILL LOOKING AT TRIAGE’s CARD. ALL BUT IGNORING TRIAGE.

   15  DANNY:        Rent man comes for everybody, Triage.

   16  DANNY:        Strictly in terms of that whole kettle and pot thing.

   17  DANNY:        About that train.

 

6              TRIAGE, AMUSED.

   18  DANNY:        (Off) Moishe, an old pal, sets me up to recover a lock box off of this train--

   19  DANNY:        (Attach) --which, as it turns out, is your train, Triage.

   20  DANNY:        (Same) Grace & Tumbalt being a front for the 66 Bridges Gang-- that’s your payoff loot on that train.

7              NEW ANGLE: A PAIR OF THUGS ENTERING. THESE ARE WELL-DRESSED THUGS. THE THUGS, TRIAGE AND DANNY ALL SHOP AT THE SAME STORE.

 

                THE THUGS CARRY ASSAULT WEAPONS AND PISTOLS OR WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU. THEY ARE NOT AIMING THE WEAPONS, BUT THEY ARE CLEARLY INTENDED TO INTIMIDATE (THE OFF-PANEL) DANNY.

   21  DANNY:        (Off) So, I figure this for some kinda job interview. You work me through Moishe--

   22  DANNY:        (Attach)  --see what I can do.

   23  DANNY:        (Same) What say we cut out the middle man, Triage.

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1              DOWN ANGLE: THE ROOM: ESTABLISH WHERE EVERYBODY IS: THE THUGS STAND NEAR DANNY, FACING HIM, STILL NOT AIMING THEIR GUNS BUT TRYING TO PUNK HIM NONETHELESS. DANNY IGNORES THEM, CONTINUING TO STUDY TRIAGE’s CARD. TRIAGE POURS HIMSELF A DRINK. MAKE SURE WE SEE AT LEAST ONE OF THE GLASS WALLS SOMEWHERE IN HERE.

    1  TRIAGE:       Okay. This here’s Buckwheat and Stymie. They’re, uh, quality control specialists.

    2  TRIAGE:       Gonna read your resume right quick.

    3  DANNY:        So, what, we do the OK Corral thing now?

    4  DANNY:        Put Opey thru your nice glass walls?

 

2              IN CLOSER: DANNY AND TRIAGE: DANNY ANNOYED.

    5  DANNY:        [Ital. Quote] “Babbitt Buys A Tough Guy”?

    6  TRIAGE:       Rent’s a tough guy.

    7  TRIAGE:       Already got tough guys. I need the mother of all tough guys.

    8  DANNY:        Put an ad in the Post.

 

3              ONE OF THE THUGS FIRES HIS WEAPON AT DANNY: THE GUN DOES NOT FIRE.

    9  SFX:          CLAKKK!

   10  DANNY:        Wasting your time, pal. See how hot your guns are?

   11  DANNY:        My servo tech’s disabled your weapons.

4              ON DANNY: NOW HOLDING TRIAGE’s CARD UP TO THE LIGHT, EXAMINING THE PAPER IT IS MADE FROM. WITH DANNY’s FREE HAND, HE THUMBS BACK OVER HIS SHOULDER, DIRECTING OUR ATTENTION TO SOMETHING.

   12  DANNY:        My servo tech.

   13  DANNY:        Over there.

   14  [1]DANNY:       Little something I salvaged from a brown bag gig in Latveria.

 

5              ANGLE ON THE GLASS WALL: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL: DANNY’s SERVO TECH. NOTE THIS LITTLE ROBOT HAS NEVER BEEN DRAWN THE SAME WAY TWICE. FEE FREE TO REINTERPRET THIS THING ANY WAY YOU WANT. IT IS MAYBE A LITTLE BIGGER THAN A BLENDER OR OTHER SMALL APPLIANCE. MAYBE SOME BLINKING LIGHTS.

   15  DANNY:        (Off) See, Triage, your coated glass is bullet proof and cancels microwave eavesdropping--

   16  DANNY:        (Attach) --but a simple, laser can still burn off your firing pin.

   17  DANNY:        (Same) And, despite what Flash Gordon and Mr. Spock may have told you, lasers are invisible to the naked eye.

 

6              THE ROOM: DANNY PUTS TRIAGE’s CARD IN HIS POCKET AS HE TURNS TOWARDS THE GOONS.

   18  DANNY:        Now... this is gonna hurt a little, fellas.

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1              TOP 1/3 OF PAGE: BIG PANEL: TRIAGE’s OFFICE: THE THUGS ARE OUT COLD, MINOR DAMAGE TO THE OFFICE. TRIAGE EXTENDS HIS HAND FOR A HANDSHAKE, DANNY DUSTS OFF HIS HANDS.

    1  TRIAGE:       As advertised.

    2  TRIAGE:       I’m impressed.

    3  DANNY:        You don’t wanna do that.

 

2              IN CLOSER: THE TWO MEN, TRIAGE AMUSED, WITHDRAWING HIS HAND.

    4  TRIAGE:       Oh, that’s right-- the handshake thing.

    5  TRIAGE:       Not supposed to touch your bare skin because--

    6  DANNY:        About the train.

    7  TRIAGE:       Yeah... let’s see you get to the Money Train before the cops or the crooks or the news does.

 

3              TRIAGE: AMUSED.

    8  DANNY:        I’m pretty insulted by your little test, Triage. Makes my rates go up, to, say, two hunnert twenty-five.

    9  DANNY:        And no more going through Moishe and the like.

   10  TRIAGE:       You really been to Latveria, man?

 

4              DANNY EXITS, ANNOYED.

   11  DANNY:        Read about it on a cereal box once.

   12  TRIAGE:       (Attach) So, you’re on this thing, right?

   13  DANNY:        I’m on it. I’ll head right down there.

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1              EXTERIOR: DANNY’s HOUSE: THIS IS A SIMPLE ROW HOUSE IN QUEENS, NY. A 2-STORY FRAME HOUSE LIKE ANY OF A DOZEN 2-STORY FRAME HOUSES ON THE BLOCK, A SMALL PATCH OF LAWN OUT FRONT.

 

                DANNY DRIVES A STATION WAGON. PULLS INTO THE DRIVEWAY.

    1  CAPTION:      Wednesday Evening in Bayside, Queens.

 

2              IN CLOSER: WE CLEARLY SEE DANNY GET OUT OF THE CAR. A DUFFLE BAG SLUNG OVER HIS SHOULDER (THE SERVO TECH IS INSIDE THE BAG BUT WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS YET).

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3              CUT TO: INSIDE THE HOUSE: DANNY CHECKS HIS MAIL, SORTING THROUGH IT.

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4              CUT TO: DANNY COOKS DINNER, READING THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BOX AS HE STIRS A POT OR SOME SUCH.

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5              CUT TO:  DANNY VACUUMS THE LIVING ROOM.

 

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1              CUT TO: DANNY, IN HIS LIVING ROOM, EATING WHILE WATCHING TV, LAUGHING AT DAVID LETTERMAN ON TV.

    1  ELECTRIC:     [Ital. Music notes] ...Will it floo--at, Will it float! ...Will it floo--at--

    2  SFX:          DINNNG-DONNG--!!

    3  DANNY:        I’ll get it, Ma.

 

2              NEW ANGLE: OVER DANNY’s SHOULDER: THE FRONT DOOR IS OPEN AND WE CAN SEE WHO IS AT THE DOOR: TRIAGE.

    4  DANNY:        --?! Triage--?

    5  TRIAGE:       Didn’t I send you to go get something for me?

 

3              NEW ANGLE: DANNY SNAPS HIS FINGER, SUDDENLY REMEMBERING.

    6  DANNY:        No, I--

    7  DANNY:        --oh, wait, that’s right-- the Train Thing!

    8  DANNY:        Forgot all about it.

    9  TRIAGE:       I’m a bad candidate for this bull, Danny--

 

4              DANNY SNAPS INTO PISSED-OFF MODE, ACCUSING TRIAGE. TRIAGE DOES NOT ENTER THE HOUSE.

   10  DANNY:        Me too.

   11  DANNY:        You’re not tryin’ to recruit me, Triage-- you’re trying to punk me--

   12  DANNY:        --play, [Ital. Quote] “How Stupid Is Danny?” Well, let’s see--

5              ON TRIAGE: GRIM, DANNY’S HAND POINTS AT HIM.

   13  DANNY:        (Off)  I know who you are, I know who your father is, I know your operation.

   14  DANNY:        (Attach) I know the ins and outs of 66 Bridges--

   15  DANNY:        (Attach) --and I know our friends in Chicago will throw you off a roof if you screw this up.

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1              INTERIOR OF HOUSE: DANNY SLAMS THE DOOR, WE NO LONGER SEE TRIAGE (HE’S OUTSIDE).

    1  DANNY:        So, how about you just bite me a couple times.

    2  SFX:          SLAAAAMM!!

 

2              DANNY GOES BACK TO EATING AND WATCHING DAVID LETTERMAN.

    3  ELECTRIC:     ...honestly, Paul... I wouldn’t give my problems to a monkey on a rock...

    4  SFX:          DINNNG-DONNG--!!

 

3              DANNY WALKS BACK TOWARDS THE FRONT DOOR.

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4              CUT TO: THE DOOR: DANNY’s BACK TO US, HE’S GOT THE DOOR OPEN, TRIAGE IS STANDING THERE, GRIM.

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5              STAT/REPEAT.

    5  TRIAGE:       All right.

    6  TRIAGE:       Five hundred G.

 

6              REVERE: ON DANNY, GRIM.

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7              STAT/REPEAT: ONLY NOW, DANNY SMILES BROADLY.

    7  DANNY:        You like Palliala...?

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                (SPLASH)  CITYSCAPE OF THE MOG. ONLY, THIS TIME,  OUR FOCUS AND ORIENTATION IS ON JUNTA, CROUCHING, IN COSTUME. HIS FAITHFUL SERVO-BOT HOVERS NEARBY. THIS IS VERY FRANK MILLER DAREDEVIL.

 

THE PANORAMIC CITYSCAPE OF THE MOG BEHIND JUNTA IS JOLTINGLY OUT OF SYNC WITH HIS ORIENTATION, INTENDED TO BE OFF-PUTTING AND TO DISORIENT THE READER. IT SHOULD TAKE US AN EYE RUB OR TWO TO UNDERSTAND THAT JUNTA IS, IN FACT, UPSIDE DOWN AND AT SOME ANGLE OFF OF THE NORMAL AXIS OF THE HORIZON LINE.

 

JUNTA’s COSTUME:

LET'S COMPLETELY RE-THINK JUNTA'S COSTUME (THE VELLUTO VERSION WAS COMPLETELY WRONG AND JUNTA DOES NOT CARRY A SUPER-ELECTRO-MAGNETIC-LASER-FIRING STAFF. ASIDE FORM HIS ROBO TECH, JUNTA PERHAPS HAS A CELL PHONE AND MAYBE A ZIPPO LIGHTER). IN OVERALL APPROACH, I'D THINK JUNTA'S COSTUME SHOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE WOODY'S FROM Quantum & Woody, PARTLY CONVENTIONAL, PARTLY SUPER-HEROIC. INSTEAD OF A MASK, JUNTA WOULD LIKELY WEAR VERY EXPENSIVE AND VERY COOL-LOOKING SUNGLASSES THAT ALSO HAPPEN TO OBSCURE HIS IDENTITY. THE SERVO-BOT TRANSMITS IMAGES TO THE GLASSES, SO JUNTA HAS A VISUAL/TACTICAL DISPLAY INSIDE THE LENSES HE CAN ACCESS WHEN HE WANTS TO. WHATEVER WE COME UP WITH SHOULD BE SIMPLE ENOUGH THAT JUNTA COULD THROW A COAT ON OVER IT AND BLEND IN WITH STREET PEOPLE.

    1  CAPTION:      Wednesday Night In The Mog.

    2  ELECTRIC:     [Ital.] La salida de la emergencia está al final de esta calleja, Danny.[2]

    3  JUNTA:        Got it, Ma.

    4  JUNTA:        Prepare to cut the video feed to the subway emergency exit on my mark.

    5  ELECTRIC:     Sí, Danny.

    6  ELECTRIC:     Yo no confío en señor Triage.[3]

    7  JUNTA:        I don’t trust Triage either, Ma, but he’s a door back to my life.

    8  JUNTA:        It’s pretty hard going from top-level spy to rent-a-spook.

    9  JUNTA:        66 Bridges does sub-outs and money laundering for our friends in the intelligence community--

   10  JUNTA:        -our friends in Chicago.

   11  JUNTA:        Bridges works for them, and Triage is Bridges. He’s my door--

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1              JUNTA EXECUTES SOME IMPOSSIBLE LEAP. GRAVITY IS AN AT BEST ABSTRACT CONCEPT TO HIM. THINK The Matrix. IT IS VITAL YOU SEE AT LEAST THE OPENING SCENES OF THIS FILM TO UNDERSTAND HOW DANNY’s POWERS WORK. HE IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE GRAVITY-DEFYING KEANU REEVES IN The Matrix.

 

                JUNTA’s SERVO-TECH PARALLELS HIS MOVEMENTS, OBEDIENTLY GLIDING ALONG, DEFYING GRAVITY.

    1  JUNTA:        --which was why I had Moishe set me up with him.

    2  JUNTA:        I run Triage’s little errand, get my foot in 66 Bridges--

    3  JUNTA:        --move Triage out--

 

2              CUT TO: INTERIOR: A BLACK TUNNEL. WE ARE LOOKING UP AT A SEWER GRATE, JUNTA REMOVING THE GRATE, PEERING DOWN AT US. THE ONLY LIGHT IS THE AMBIENT NIGHT SKY BEHIND JUNTA.

    4  JUNTA:        --get Chicago talking to me again.

    5  JUNTA:        So, what say we go destroy us some evidence?

 

3              CUT TO: JUNTA, UPSIDE DOWN, COMING TOWARDS US IN A LOW CROUCH. HE IS WALKING ON THE CEILING (I SUGGEST YOU TURN THE PAGE UPSIDE DOWN AND DRAW JUNTA NORMALLY: GRAVITY IS MEANINGLESS TO HIM).

    6  ELECTRIC:     Tenga cuidado, hijo.[4]

    7  JUNTA:        I’m always careful, Ma.

    8  JUNTA:        It’s in my contract.

 

4              NEW ANGLE: THE ACCESS TUNNEL TURNS LEFT OR RIGHT OR WHATEVER.

    9  JUNTA:        Part of the tunnel around The Money Train has collapsed.

   10  JUNTA:        Rescue crews are pinned down by the crossfire between the gangs and the cops.

   11  JUNTA:        The blueprints you downloaded indicate this emergency escape tunnel will put me right behind the derailment--

 

5              JUNTA ARRIVES TO DISCOVER THE HOLE WHITE TIGER CARVED INTO THE WALL LAST ISSUE.

   12  JUNTA:        --then all we’ll need to do is--

   13  JUNTA:        --cut through the wall--

   14  JUNTA:        --hello--?

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1              INT./SUBWAY TUNNEL: WHERE WE LEFT OF LAST ISSUE: WHITE TIGER AND A COP ARE PINNED DOWN BY GUNFIRE. ONE OF THE COPS IS BADLY WOUNDED AND CAN'T BE MOVED. TIGER COULD ESCAPE, BUT THAT WOULD MEAN LEAVING THE COP TO DIE.

 

                WHITE TIGER HAS A PISTOL IN HAND, BUT HE IS NOT FIRING (I MEAN, WHAT GOOD WOULD IT DO?). INCOMING GUNFIRE HITS THE TRAIN BEHIND THEM, THE TRACK BED, ETC.

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2              IN CLOSE: JUNTA AND THE SERVO. JUNTA ILLUMINATED BY THE GLOW OF THE SERVO. GRIM EXPRESSION.

    1  JUNTA:        Ma-- who’s the guy?

    2  ELECTRIC:     Yo no tengo información sobre este asunto.[5]

    3  JUNTA:        I dunno... kitty ears, white jump suit.

    4  [6]JUNTA:       Looks like one of Hunter’s guys-- tribal hit-men from east Africa.

 

3              JUNTA EMERGES FROM THIS HOLE IN THE WALL, PASSING THROUGH THE WALL INTO THE WAR ZONE.

    5  JUNTA:        Well, whoever he is, he’s in the way.

    6  JUNTA:        Alert two, Ma.

    7  ELECTRIC:     Alerte dos, reconoció.

 

4              IN CLOSE ON WHITE TIGER: WINCING, CLEARLY IN DISCOMFORT, PERHAPS NE HAND CUPPED OVER AN EAR, INDICATING HE IS SENSITIVE TO THE NOISE.

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5              NEW ANGLE: WHITE TIGER LASHES OUT, FIRING OFF A VOLLEY OF ENERGY DAGGERS (SEE REF), THE DAGGERS FIRE OF IN AN ARC. TIGER SNARLING.

    8  JUNTA:        (Off) Whoa--

    9  JUNTA:        (Attach) --Whitey’s made us--!!

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1              THE SERVO TECH GETS CAUGHT IN THE VOLLEY OF ENERGY DAGGERS.

    1  JUNTA:        (Off, Burst)  MA     --!!

 

2              JUNTA LUNGES AT TIGER, ENRAGED, BUT TIGER IS TOO FAST, EVADING JUNTA.

    2  JUNTA:        Hey-- that’s my servo-tech, you mope--

    

3              TIGER GETS BEHIND JUNTA, GETS HIM IN A HEAD LOCK. JUNTA GRIMACING, ANNOYED WITH HIMSELF.

 

                JOE: IMPORTANT: I AM NOT SURE HOW THE WHITE TIGER’S COSTUME IS CREATED. IF HE STILL HAS ONLY ONE SLEEVE ON THE COSTUME UNDER THE COAT), THEN HAVE TIGER USE HIS RIGHT ARM (THE ONE WITHOUT THE SLEEVE) TO WRAP AROUND DANNY’s NECK, HERE. THE IDEA IS WHITE TIGER MUST MAKE SKIN CONTACT WITH DANNY. IN THE OLD COSTUME DESIGN, WHITE TIGER WOULD HAVE BARE SKIN ON HIS RIGHT WRIST, BELOW THE SHORT GLOVE ON HIS RIGHT HAND. eMAIL ME IF I HAVE CONFUSED YOU! THANKS!

    3  JUNTA:        --whoa--

    4  JUNTA:        --way faster than he looks--

    5  JUNTA:        Look, pal-- for your own good-- don’t touch me--

 

4              NEW ANGLE: TIGER HAS RELEASED JUNTA AS TIGER STUMBLES, PASSING OUT. ONE OF TIGER’s HANDS REACHES FOR HIS MASK AS HE STAGGERS, JUNTA SQUIRMS LOOSE.

    6  JUNTA:        --I’m kind of not really here-- sort of--

    7  JUNTA:        Tends to make people pass out--

 

5              NEW ANGLE: TIGER VOMITS ON JUNTA. TIGER’s BACK TO US, JUNTA IS OUTRAGED: TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR THIS.

 

                PLEASE INDICATE SOMEHOW THAT TIGER HAS LIFTED HIS MASK UP OVER HIS CHIN: HIS MASK IS STILL ON, BUT HIS MOUTH IS EXPOSED.

    8  TIGER:        (Burst)  BLLLUUUEEEHHHH--!!

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1              BIG PANEL: JUNTA STANDS OVER THE WHITE TIGER: TIGER OUT COLD, NOW. JUNTA’s COSTUME RUINED BY THE VOMIT. JUNTA’s HEAD DOWN, EXAMINING HIMSELF.

    1  JUNTA:        ---

 

2              STAT/REPEAT FIRST PANEL.

    2  JUNTA:        --or vomit.

 

3              IN CLOSE ON JUNTA, SNAPPING BACK TO ATTENTION AS BULLETS WHIZ BY HIS HEAD. JUNTA NOT FEARFUL, JUST ANNOYED.

    3  JUNTA:        Cops. Getting closer.

    4  JUNTA:        Vomit all over new jacket.

    5  JUNTA:        Missing Kilburn.

    6  JUNTA:        Yep, definitely a turd roll.

 

3              JUNTA REMOVES A SIDE PANEL FROM THE TRAIN, REVEALING ROWS OF LOCK BOXES.

    7  JUNTA:        Ma- Ma--!

    8  JUNTA:        Great. Servo tech’s off-line.

    9  JUNTA:        No sensor analysis to tell me--

 

4              IN CLOSE: JUNTA HOLDS THE KEY MOISHE GAVE HIM AT EYE LEVEL, SCRUTINIZING IT.

   10  JUNTA:        --how much C4 will blow up in my face when I turn this key.

   11  JUNTA:        Triage said, [Ital. Quote] “You fix whatever the jump I need fixed.”

   12  JUNTA:        I turn this key, the whole train will probably blow, bringing down the tunnel with it!

5              IN CLOSE: WHITE TIGER: OUT COLD ON THE FLOOR. JUNTA’s HAND REACHING IN, TAKING WHITE TIGER’s ENERGY DAGGER.

 

                WHEN IT IS INACTIVE, THE ENERGY DAGGER LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL TRIBAL DAGGER WITH THE BLADE MISSING.

   13  JUNTA:        (Off) So, we improvise Plan “B.”

   14  JUNTA:        (Attach) Borrow Barf Man’s energy dagger-- tribal design, fires “virtual blades”--

   15  JUNTA:        (Same) If this one’s like the others I’ve seen--

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1              JUNTA PULLS ONE OF THE LOCK BOXES OUT OF THE TRAIN. WITH HIS FREE HAND, HE IS SING TIGER’s ENERGY DAGGER TO CUT THRU THE METAL AROUND IT.

    1  JUNTA:        --on it’s highest setting, the energy dagger should cut thru iron like cheese.

    2  JUNTA:        Thereby avoiding whatever booby trap Triage has in place--

 

2              JUNTA HURRIES PAST THE COMATOSE TIGER, CARRYING THE HEAVY LOCK BOX. HE LOOKS DOWN AT TIGER AS HE MOVES.

    3  JUNTA:        --and, with that, I bid you a fondue see ya.

    4  JUNTA:        Cops’ll be all over you in about a hairy eyeball, pal. Scooby says [Ital. Quote] “Rotsa Ruck!”

    5  JUNTA:        Hope Moishe can get this puke out--

    6  JUNTA:        (Small) --at 25% off--

 

3              SUDDENLY, JUNTA GETS DECKED BY A MASSIVE PUNCH FROM OFF. THE FIST AND FOREARM APPEAR TO BE THE ARMORED GAUNTLET OF THE WAR MACHINE ARMOR (SEE REF): A BLACK (OR GRAY) VERSION OF IRON MAN’s ARMOR.

    7  SFX:          KAAAAPPPP--!!

4              BLACK PANEL.

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5              ANOTHER BLACK PANEL

    8  JUNTA:        (Tailless) ...Ma..

    9  JUNTA:        (Tailless)  ...Madre de Jesus...

 

6              ECU JUNTA: GRIMACING, IN PAIN: HE HAS JUST AWAKENED.

   10  JUNTA:        ...what the hell hit me...

   11  JUNTA:        ...hey... wait...

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1              TOP HALF OF PAGE: JUNTA AND WHITE TIGER, SEATED BACK TO BACK, HANDCUFFED TOGETHER.

 

                BOTH MEN ARE SHACKED BY 2 INDIVIDUAL SETS OF HANDCUFFS. THEIR WRISTS SHACKLED TOGETHER BEHIND THEIR BACKS. THE SHORT CHAIN LINK BETWEEN THEIR CUFFS ARE INTERTWINED SO THEY ARE BOUND TO EACH OTHER. IF THIS IS OT CLEAR, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

 

                JUNTA IS ANNOYED, WHITE TIGER IS STILL OUT COLD.

    1  JUNTA:        Hold it-- hold on--

    2  JUNTA:        The cops are breaking through-- you can’t leave me here-- chained to him--!!

    3  VOICE:        (Off) Really--?

 

2              UP ANGLE: RHODEY, LOOKING DOWN AT US. RHODEY IS DRESSED LIKE A NEW YORK SWAT POLICE OFFICER. THE VISOR OF HIS HELMET IS UP SO WE CAN CLEARLY SEE IT IS RHODEY. GRIM EXPRESSION.

 

                RHODEY HAS A DUFFEL BAG SLUNG OVER HIS SHOULDER (NEXT ISH WE WILL SEE JUNTA’s SERVO TECH IS INSIDE THE BAG).  RHODEY’s RIGHT HAND GRIPS THE DUFFEL BAG STRAP, SOMEWHERE NEAR HIS SHOULDER.  HERE WE SEE ON RHODEY’s RIGHT ARM, HE WEARS A SINGLE WAR MACHINE GAUNTLET.

 

                GIVE CAREFUL THOUGHT TO THIS GAUNTLET DESIGN, THIS WILL BE AN ONGOING BIT OF BUSINESS, THIS SINGLE GAUNTLET.

 

                FIND SOME CREATIVE MEANS TO LIGHT RHODEY HERE SO WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THIS IS HIM.

    4  RHODEY:       --looks like I just did.

    5  RHODEY:       You’ve got about 30 seconds before you’re swimming in New York’s finest, Danny.

    6  RHODEY:       I suggest you make the most of them.

3              NEW ANGLE: RHODEY’s LEGS AND FEET IN F/G AS HE RUNS PAST OUR POINT OF VIEW: JUNTA AND TIGER SITTING NO GROUND IN B/G, LIGHT FROM OFF-PANEL INDICATES THE COPS ARE GETTING CLOSER. JUNTA CALLS AFTER RHODEY, BUT RHODEY IGNORES HIM.

    7  JUNTA:        Hey--

    8  JUNTA:        --HEY--!!

    9  RHODEY:       (Off) Scooby says [Ital. Quote] “Rotsa Ruck!”

   10  JUNTA:        (Burst)  HEYYY--!!!

   11  NEXT:         NEXT:  PALS

 

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