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