two days
ago!
COMMODUS
Will you please get back in your
wagon? And stay there?
LUCILLA
Im tired of being stuck in that
wagon.
Embarrassed by Commodus childish spat with is sister,
Tribuus gestures to the 2nd Praetorian.
TRIBUUS
Soldier, help the Emperors sister.
As a soldier jogs back up toward Lucilla Commodus looks
down at the legionnaire leaning on his shovel.
COMMODUS
Where is my father?
TRIB
Two boys about his age run up the streets; call out, catch
up with him and gesture toward the port.
THE BOYS
Jacques! Come quick!
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EXT. PIER - DUSK
The little boys tug JACQUES to the end of the pier and
point to something in the water.
BOYS
Look! Right there! Its shining!
JACQUES walks over, and sure enough sees something shining
a few feet down in the water.
JACQUES
(squinting)
A coin.
FIRST B
two
pieces of cold leftover toast off a serving plate. He tosses
Elaine another look--catch ya later--and exits.
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INT. HALLWAY PAST KITCHEN - MORNING
??
Paul slips to the back door unnoticed. Identical red plastic
rain ponchos line the wall on pegs. He helps himself to one
and eases outside, making good his escape.
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EXT. NURSING HOME - ESTABLISHING - MORNING
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Nestled in a valley of wooded h
two men. The man talking is big, looks like an over-stuffed kid. "LEON" it says on his breast pocket. Hes dressed in a warehousemans uniform and his pudgy hands are folded expectantly in his lap. Despite the obvious heat, he looks very cool.
The man facing him is lean, hollow cheeked and dressed in gray. Detached and efficient, he looks like a cop or an accountant. His name is HOLDEN and hes all
two minutes, primary
charges will blow base charges, and
those buildings will be reduced to
smoldering rubble. I know this
because Tyler knows this.
TYLER
Look what weve accomplised.
(checks watch)
Thirty seconds.
JACK (V.O.)
Somehow, I realize all of this -- the
gun, the bombs, the revolution -- is
really about Marla Singer.
PULL BACK from Jacks face. Its pressed against TWO LARGE
BREASTS that
two black
SWAT vans.
The panel van - with Marcells Crab House painted on its
sides - pulls to a stop. The back doors open from the inside
and Starling is the first one out - well-rested and alert -
hoisting down her equipment bag.
One of the DC policemen, the one whose girth and manner
say hes in charge, watches the woman by the van slip into a
Kevlar vest, drop a Colt .45 into a shoulder holster
A normal Dennys, Spires-like coffee shop in Los Angeles. Its about 9:00 in the morning. While the place isnt jammed, theres a healthy number of people drinking coffee, munching on bacon and eating eggs.
Two of these people are a YOUNG MAN and a YOUNG WOMAN. The Young Man has a slight working-class English accent and, like his fellow countryman, smokes cigarettes like theyre going out of style.
It
up from table)
Who on earth...?
MOM opens door to two police detectives in plain
clothes. DETECTIVE MOORE is younger and more rugged
than the older more world-weary DETECTIVE BRADFORD.
DET. MOORE
Mrs. Sutphin?
MOM
(Nervously)
Yes?
DET. MOORE
(Shows badge)
Im Detective Moore and this
is Detective Bradford.
Subtitle appears "7:26am" and then fades out.
DAD
(Taking over)
Im Dr. Eug
two days. Physicists,
biologists, mathematicians, you name it.
Everybody being flown to the middle of
nowhere in the Pacific Ocean.
NORMAN
Whats going on?
PILOT
Theyre not telling us anything, sir.
What about you? Whatd they tell you?
NORMAN
They told me that there was an airplane
crash.
PILOT
Uh-huh. You get called on crashes?
NORMAN
I have been, yes.
PILOT
And why is that, sir?
NORMAN
Im on a l
two such detectives.
Excuse, please, to introduce
Japanese son, Willie.
Japanese?
But l thought--
Mrs. Wang and l
couldnt have children.
Willie: adopted number three son.
Careful on this road.
Its treacherous.
Treacherous road like fresh mushroom.
Must always--
Idiot! Not finish mushroom story.
Youre idiot!
Sorry, but l see nothing.
This fogs as thick as bouillabaisse.
-Nuts!
-I beg your pardon?