murder in the darkness
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Murder In The Darkness
by
Devin McConnell
Fish in the Percolator © 2009 A cyberpunk mystery
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CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
JACK
A gruff and cynical detective with a
bit of a scathing attitude toward al-
most everything and everyone around
him. He doesn’t make any personal con-
nections to his cases, he just treats
each one as another job. Jack displays
a very trademark trench coat and fedora
at almost all times as well as keeping
his trusty sidearm handy at all times.
JILL SERPENTES
Cunning, merciless, and manipulative.
Jill has a very specific goal in mind
and never deviates from it no matter
how much she must go out of her way to
obtain it. She can appear quite inno-
cent in character but beneath the lay-
ered personality she invents there lies
the cold, hard, straightforward mind of
a killer.
GREG
Greg is Jack’s partner for this new
case. He is tech savvy and a forensics
expert with a wide knowledge of biol-
ogy, genetics, chemistry, and a wide
catalogue of medical procedures and ma-
terials
CHIEF
The man Jack has to report to. The
chief appears as a hard ass to keep
Jack in line. But beside that he is a
man with great conviction to serve as
chief of the police and takes greathonor in the idea of putting away
wrongdoers to preserve society.
JULIA
The recently widowed genetic and bio-
logical engineer. Her and her husband
were working on a very secret personal
project that the Jill is after. She is
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a workaholic in her office but yearns
to be able to revert to her more laid
back personality whenever she has the
chance, however her extreme work pat-
tern makes that a near impossibility.
She is kind and understanding in char-acter and as a boss, so she is gener-
ally liked by everyone who works under
her and with her.
DAVE
An undercover agent for the Jill. He’s
been undercover in the Petronov’s re-
search facility in order to gain their
trust and get a better idea of what
they are producing for the Jill. He is
essentially a mercenary with only onepaying boss. He cares little for anyone
involved in his mission and feels no
connection to the people he hurts.
DRUG BOSS
A plain and simple CEO type (though not
that big of a tycoon) Doesn’t quite un-
derstand what he is getting into every
time and instead just follows where the
money is, which lands him in some trou-
ble and gets him killed.
ALEXANDER
A top theriogenolocial scientist that
works together with his wife Julia with
the hope of accomplishing a major
breakthrough in reproductive methods.
He needs little characterization be-
cause he dies very early on as a result
of Jill swapping his drug supply with a
fatal batch.
SARAH
An associate with Julia and Alexander,
she worked with them on the partheno-
genesis project to try and compensate
for her own infertility. Shy at most
times due to hiding her past so much as
well as being torn between the charac-
ter’s because of her betrayal of
Deckard and Greg to Jill.
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SYBIL
Jill’s partner and right hand agent.
She has a relation with Jill similar to
that between Deckard and that Chief,
mutual cooperation mixed with bitter
hatred. She frequently comes to blows with Jill over decisions. She is
equally as sly, evil and cunning as
Jill which makes them the perfect team.
But their confrontations leads Jill to
have her disposed of by getting Deckard
to believe that Sybil is the mastermind
behind the entire thing
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INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera focuses in on a small puddle of melted ice on the
side of a cracked up street as a rushed business man steps di-
rectly into it and lightly soaks his foot before pulling it out
instinctively
ALEXANDER
Ahhh… dammit. (grunts) Well better see
if these pills work any better than the
last ones that crock sold me.
The man produces a small jar filled to the brim with pills and
continues to take a handful from it and throw them into his
mouth without a second thought.
ALEXANDER
Blech… do these things always need totaste like rubber?
Just as the man downs his pills and finishes his sentence he im-
mediately lets out a small yelp and grasps his left arm with ap-
parent pain as his arm starts to bleed a bit and the other one
begins dripping blood onto the snow which greatly contrasts the
two colors. In just moments he falls face first into the snow
with blood and the camera slowly moves up from his body to the
sky.
SHOT - DESCRIPTION
The camera pans down from the ceiling in a faintly lit room with
the protagonist sits back at his desk with his trusty sidearm
lying beside him as he sifts through a few papers on his desk on
various things he is taking little interest in when his phone
goes off.
JACK
Jack here… oh good… chief, ya know I
was just thinking to myself how much I
would love to talk to you again…
...What?!
What the hell do you mean, no murderer?
How is someone murdered without a… grr
Ok I’ll be right over
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EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack gets up slowly and holsters his gun and heads out of the
room to his car grabbing his hat on the way out.Int. scene - de-
scription
The camera pans across a deserted parking lot covered with a
light layer of snow that keeps the ground white. A small walled
in dumpster with an open fence door reveals a body lying face-
down in the snow with the red blood piercing the white coat of
snow
JACK
Hmm… this is the place, where’s the
chief?
GREG
The cops left an hour ago, the chiefincluded. They left me here for you.
I’m Greg, I’ll be your technical and
forensic expert
With this new voice appearing out of nowhere Jack notices his
new friend leaned up with his back against a wall as he speaks
in a calm and confident manner.
JACK
Okay then… Greg, what are we dealing
with here? What’s this about there be-ing no murderer?
GREG
Well there’s no murderer at the scene.
Believe me, he was murdered. But all we
found was this vial full of pills,
they’re over the counter.
JACK
So then it’s simple, someone dropped
some poison in the jar.
GREG
Not that simple, I took a blood sample,
there wasn’t a trace of any poison I
can think of.
JACK
So then how did this guy die? Where’s
all the blood from?
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GREG
Well he bled to death rather quickly,
my estimate is that he fell unconsciousabout ten minutes after the bleeding
started. He died within a half hour
from there.
JACK
Wait bleeding? How the hell did he
bleed that fast?
GREG
I’m not sure, but I have an idea. I’m
gunna need to take these pills back and
see what the hell they are.
JACK
All right, where are you set up?
GREG
Actually I don’t have a place to stay
at the moment. They ordered me out here
to trail along with you. So whenever
you’re ready to go, we should probably
get down to finding out what the hell
these things are
JACK
I suppose that’s the best course of ac-
tion, it’s the only piece of evidence
from the scene, right?
GREG
Have a look for yourself, there’s noth-
ing here but a bloodied up corpse.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack briefly walks over to the body and kneels down next to it
in order to examine a bit. He shakes his head and turns up noth-
ing. Then stands back up and motions to Greg to leave. They both
get in his car and drive off.
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INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack and Greg both emerge back at Jack’s place and Greg immedi-
ately sets down his computer and begins to type furiously into
it with the pills in hand.
GREG
Hey, I need to crush this for analysis.
Have a knife or anything?
Jack
Ah, yeah. Here.
Jack tosses Greg a small Swiss army knife
GREG
Thanks, now to see what’s in this thing
Greg cuts the pill into small and smaller pieces until all that
remains is a pale powder.
GREG
Alright. It’ll take some time...
JACK
Really, how is there no murderer and no
poison? It impossible.
GREG
I’ve got hunches. Although they’re just
that.
JACK
We got time to kill. Share ‘em.
GREG
Coumadin, it’s a blood thinner
JACK
A blood thinner?! What the hell is that
for?
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GREG
To kill him
JACK
Explain.
GREG
Well it’s rather simple. Like I said I
tested his blood before you arrived and
found something interesting…
JACK
Which is?
GREG
He was hemophilic. He has naturally
thin blood. It’s a genetic disorder.
Those damned miscoded protein sequences will get ya
JACK
Ok I think I’m starting to piece this
one together
GREG
Impressive, I only figured it out about
an hour ago myself.
JACKWell it’s obvious that the victim was
slipped the wrong drug for his hemo-
philia. Instead of thickening the blood
it did the exact opposite-
GREG
Precisely...
JACK
So with his blood thinned to an ex-
treme, this entire system is unable toclot to stop the flow of blood at all.
So the smallest prick will cause him to
bleed to death.
GREG
You got it
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JACK
So then we need to solve the next ques-
tion. Where’d the drugs come from?
GREG
That’s a good question. I’ll just tryto look up this number on the inside of
the cap.
JACK
That’ll help
Greg makes quick work of the location and hacks away at his lap-
top pinpointing the location in a few minutes
GREG
Got it
JACK
Well then, please share
GREG
Hmmm… I don’t recall there being a fac-
tory here.
JACK
Where?
Greg points out the map on his laptop
JACK
Hmmm… alright then I’ll go see what’s
up here. You can stay here until I re-
turn
GREG
Hey, one more thing
JACK
Yea?
Greg tosses Jack a small earpiece microphone
GREG
Take this so I can keep in touch
JACK
Thanks, this’ll come in handy I’m sure
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EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack takes up his hat and trench coat and heads out the door. He
climbs into his car and takes off for the coumadin “factory”
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack pulls up to the outside of the factory and begins to ap-
proach the front of the building when he notices something in a
window right on the front of the building. He quickly evades be-
ing noticed and climbs up against the nearest wall
JACK
What the hell?
DRUG BOSS
-“used it to kill someone?!” How do you
do that with a blood thinner?
THUG #1
Listen, we don’t know what the boss is
doing, her mind works in crazy ways
JACK (TO HIMSELF)
Her? The person behind this is a woman?
DRUG BOSS
Well I’m afraid I can’t give it to you
if you’re going to use it as a weapon.Do you know what will happen to me if
someone gets ahold of this information?
THUG #2
Hey, wait, don’t do anything irrational
here. Do you know what will happen to
you if we don’t get more of that previ-
ous shipment
DRUG BOSS
I’m sorry gentlemen, but that is nowyour problem, you’ll need to find some-
one else who can supply you with your
deadly coumadin.
(THUG PULLS OUT GUN AND PUSHES IT INTO BOSS’
GUT)
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THUG #2
Give us what we need and we’ll gladly
leave Mr. Dickson
(WITHOUT WARNING JACK POPS OUT FROM AROUND THE
CORNER THAT HE WAS HIDING BEHIND AND BURSTS INTO THE ROOM)
JACK
Freeze! Drop the guns both of you. I’m
no cop so I’ll gladly shoot.
Without even bothering to give a second thought the two thugs
release the boss and take off in the opposite direction. Jack
rushes in and drops on top of the boss and begins firing ran-
domly at the thugs to scare them off.
JACK
Heh, a couple of cowards. You ok?
DRUG BOSS
I’m fine. Hasn’t been the first time.
JACK
Well now it’s my turn. Who are those
clowns with that drug of yours?
DRUG BOSS
Honestly I couldn’t tell you. I still
can’t believe how they managed to kill
someone with a blood thinner, I mean at
best you could make them lightheaded
or…
JACK
-or they could be completely splattered
all over a parking lot because they
already had thin blood being hemo-philic…
DRUG BOSS
WHAT?! Dammit, I never even thought of
that. You think they really killed
someone?
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JACK
Well those two pansies… I doubt it.
However this boss they were talking
about seems dangerous enough, espe-
cially if she managed to make someone
kill himself.
DRUG BOSS
Yea she sounds like one crazy bitch.
That’s rather ingenious, she had to
have been stalking that guy to know he
was hemophilic.
JACK
And what do you know about our mysteri-
ous killer?
DRUG BOSS
Not much, honestly, those guys you met
earlier placed an order for coumadin
specially though me. I didn’t give it
to them; this was our first meeting.
But they came back for more, so they
must be going after someone else who’s
hemophilic. Who was it that they
killed?
JACK
I don’t know, I wasn’t there when the
forensics team ID’d him, and he wasn’t
anyone I’d seen before. I guess I’ll
have to stop in later and see the chief
about who he was soon.
DRUG BOSS
Well, when you find out, notify me. If
the coumadin is traced back to me...
JACK
Hey buddy thats your problem. Besidesyou should be more worried about them
coming for your head. And probably
soon.
DRUG BOSS
I doubt it’s that bad. The drugs had to
be shipped to her somewhere. All I have
to do now is track down the shipment
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and find out where it went. Then you
might be able to nip this whole problem
in th-
A gunshot rings out clear and true and Jack reacts instinctively
to jump behind some cover. However that shot is the only one. He immediately looks toward the drug boss and finds him lying dead
on the ground slouched over with a bullet in his chest. Jack
pans the area looking all around and sees no trace of the
shooter.
JACK
Dammit… (Takes out small earpiece and
shoves it in his ear) Greg, I found our
drug lord friend.
GREG
Well what does he know?
JACK
Not much now that he’s dead.
GREG
Damn… well anyway. The chief just
called. Sounded pissed as usual, but
urgent this time. I think they Identi-
fied the body of our hemophilic friend,
you better head over there quick.
JACK
Will do.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack carefully approaches his car, climbs in and takes off for
his next location and his next confrontation. His boss
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jill is strutting around her office with a pensive and anxious
air. In Jill’s office, we watch Sybil enter her office,
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
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The chief inhabits a small and rather normal appearing office
room similar to Jack’s but with a little more showmanship. His
certificates of sorts hang on the walls and he appears overall
more organized and uptight in his office structure.
CHIEF
It’s about time you showed up. We got
all hell breaking loose and you’re the
only man I know I can count on.
JACK
Funny, that’s not what you said last
time you saw me
CHIEF
Jack… that’s in the past now, you know
as well as I we can’t let that kinda
shit cloud our minds when we’re
actually needed.
JACK
Oh so now that you’re desperate you
have no choice but to call in that
backstabbing son of a bitch, am I
right?
CHIEF
Dammit Jack… we got people dying left
and right, some crazy bitch is on theloose and you wanna just bitch about
getting a little slap on the wrist?
JACK
You call pulling me out of my apartment
and throwing me in a cell for two days
while some damned lunatic kills my wife
a slap on the wrist?! If I didn’t at
least owe you something for nabbing the
son of a bitch who killed her then I
would kill you right now.
CHIEF
Jack… calm down you nut. I did you a
favor, they were ready to take you in
and give you the god damn chair. I man-
aged to convince them to put you away
for a little while and catch the real
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killer. We both knew it wasn’t you. I
knew it wasn’t you
JACK
You let her die…
CHIEF
If you don’t get doing your job then a
lot more people are going to die my
friend we got a serious situation here.
JACK
Go on…
(The Chief tosses a photograph of the
earlier crime scene)
CHIEF
We ID’ed our bloody little friend.
JACK
And?
CHIEF
He’s a top biochemical, genetic and
theriogenolocial scientist. His name is
Alexander Petronov
JACKTheriogenology?
CHIEF
The study of reproduction in the vet-
erinary field
JACK
So he was playing around with animal’s
genetics and offspring. What the hell
does this mystery killer want with
that?
CHIEF
We have no idea. The pieces in this
puzzle barely even resemble one an-
other.
JACK
So you’re saying we have nothing to act
on?
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CHIEF
Oh no, not quite. We have someone very
important that you need to talk to.
JACK
Who’s that?
CHIEF
His wife. Julia Sisard Petronov. Known
to most of her co workers as “sis” for
her maiden name
JACK
What do I need to pay the widow a visit
for?
CHIEF
Both Alexander and his wife were topbiochemical geneticists. They were
working on something very secretive.
It’s quite possible that she knows eve-
rything we need, and that can’t be good
for her own safety. So I’m gunna need
you to protect her as well.
JACK
Great thats what I need, another tag
along. Where is she now?
CHIEF
She’s still working at the same re-
search facility that her late husband
did. They were a team in their little
science experiment. I’ll send the coor-
dinates to Greg
JACK
Great now I’ll go get him too.
CHIEF
Jack, be careful. We have no idea what
this woman is planning. But looking at
what she’s already done it can’t be
very good.
JACK
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Right, I’ll get over there as soon as I
can. (Hit’s headset ON) Greg, I’m on my
way over to my office, we’re heading
over to a research facility. I’ll fill
you in on the way.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack walks out of the room with his hat in hand and putting on
his trench coat and holsters his gun.
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera zooms back from an open window as it’s closed by a
woman in a white lab coat.
JULIA
*sigh* I know it’s beautiful outsidebut doesn’t anyone care about contami-
nation? I better go back and check the
embryos.
She continues across the room to her workplace and begins focus-
ing intensely on her pipette and microscope in particular. A man
stands directly outside the doorway with his hand to a small
earpiece as he nods in agreement with what he is being told.
JULIA
Ahh damn there does another one. Whycan’t you just stay still? (Looks up at
man in doorway) Hey Dave, can you bring
me another petri dish of egg cells an-
other one just kicked the bucket.
DAVE
(Lowering hand from ear) Yea sure I’ll
go get it. (He walks out of the door)
JULIA
(Talking to herself lightly) Where thehell is Alexander today? He said he’d
be in about an hour ago.
Julia puts her face back down into a microscope as the camera
zooms out a little bit to encompass her entire face as the blade
of a knife slips into the shot and positions itself directly
parallel to her neck. As soon as Julia realizes the knife blade
in front of her she immediately pulls back with a small scream.
But at the moment she does that she bumps into Dave, holding the
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knife, as he covers her mouth from finishing her scream of dis-
tress and he positions the knife within striking distance to her
jugular.
DAVE
Surprise Julia. You’ve got a lot oftalking to do.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The screen blacks out over the frozen image of Dave holding the
knife to Julia’s neck
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack’s car pulls up to the front door of the research facility
and both him and Greg step out calmly as Jack puts his hat back
on his head and feels his hip to make sure his sidearm is at the ready. They both calmly walk up to and enter the building en-
gaged in small chatter. They enter the lobby of the building and
find the entire area appearing to be deserted. Then appearing
out of nowhere, with an air of urgency, an employee of the
building (also in a white lab coat) comes up to Jack and Greg
and greets them.
SARAH
Hello gentleman, you must be Mr. Jack.
I’m Sarah.
JACK
How did you know we were coming?
SARAH
Umm… your boss called us while you were
on your way…
JACK
Right, the chief. Oh this is my partner
Greg.
SARAH
Ah very nice to meet both of you (They
exchange hand shakes between the three
of them)
JACK
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Now, Sarah I need to find Mrs. Petronov
SARAH
Oh you mean Sis?
JACK
Right, Sis…
SARAH
Well she’s deep into her work in her
lab. I’ll take you over there in a few
minutes once they’re done with their
test in there. The room needs to be
kept sterile I’m afraid.
JACK
Well that’s ok, but I do need to speak
with her very soon. Greg is here with me to get a better understanding of
what exactly you do around here.
SARAH
Ahh of course. I’ll take you over to
Sis’ room and then I can give Greg a
tour of the area and we can discuss
what we’re working on.
The three of them walk out of the lobby together and subse-
quently arrive at their location. The door to the lab is stillclosed.
SARAH
Hmm it seems that Julia is still hard
at work with her experiment. Here, Jack
I’ll let you in and Greg and I will
continue onto my facility
(She opens the door and Jack goes in-
side and she shuts the door behind him)
SARAH
Well then, let’s move on shall we?
GREG
Fine enough.
(Sarah takes off at a brisk pace and
gets faster while Greg keeps pace. She
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wall and punches him square in the face, then lands his knee
into the attacker’s gut. The two throw a few punches at one an-
other before Jack picks up his gun that he dropped when Dave
pinned him against the wall and takes a pot shot at Dave’s leg
and lands it directly. He kicks away Dave’s weapon and grabs him
by the shirt collar and lifts him straight off the ground and starts asking questions.
JACK
Alright you son of a bitch, my turn.
Who do you work for?
DAVE
Why the hell would I tell you?
Jack shoves the barrel of his pistol into Dave’s mouth and
starts rapidly getting more angry
JACK
Because if you don’t you’ll have a
mouth full of lead
DAVE
You won’t, you need me. I’m your only
lead.
JACK
You think I give a damn after you tried
to kill me?
As Jack and Dave bicker back and forth with the gun in Dave’s
mouth a second unidentified assassin approaches Jack from behind
with a gun pointed straight for the pack of Jack’s head just as
Jack turns around to notice his attacker a gunshot rings out and
the would be assassin falls on his knees, then face, dead. The
camera looks up to see Greg pointing a gun still frozen in air
from where he made the shot. With Sarah standing behind him.
JACK
Greg! Sarah! Well, I guess you guys
just saved my ass
GREG
Heh, now you owe me
SARAH
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Jack, are you all right? Your bleeding
a bit
(Jack wipes the small bleeding cut with
him sleeve)
JACK
Yea, I’m fine. Now if you’ll excuse me
(Jack picks Dave back up off of the
floor and starts to yell in his face)
JACK
Who do you work for!?
(He punches Dave across the face)
DAVEUghh dammit. I’ll tell you where she’s
going to be
(Jack throws him back to the ground on
his knees and puts the gun to his head)
JACK
Start talking
DAVE
Alright, alright. She’s gunna be takingJulia to her new research facility…
(The scene switches between Dave and
Jack and Jill and her Rival speaking)
JILL
I need you to go somewhere for me. Be
there at twelve…
DAVE
...o’clock, on the dot. She’ll be...
JILL
...all alone on this one. You must
wait for an informant...
DAVE
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...so that should give you time to get
to her. Heh, good luck taking her
down...
JILL
...take out anyone who gets in your way, and good luck.
JACK
Is that all?
DAVE
That’s all I know
JACK
Greg get the chief on the line, tell
him we got a thug for him to take away.
One more thing, what did you do withJulia?
DAVE
You’ll have to ask her.
(Jack throws him to the ground again)
JACK
Get him out of here… NOW!
The screen fades to black on Jack and comes back up with Jill in her office.
With very little light she can barely
be recognized as she speaks to Julia,
tied to a chair in the center of the
room in the spotlight right after her
rival leaves the room.
JILL
And now to figure out what to do with
you… Listen carefully to me. I know
what you and your husband are workingon, and I want it. You’re going to fin-
ish your little project under my watch
and I’m going to be the first one to
use it.
JULIA
Your insane, you have no idea what
you’re playing with the fabric of life
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is delicate, you can’t just screw with
it as you please-
JILL
Silence!
Jill gets right in Julia’s face and
pushes her cheeks together so she stops
talking while she calms herself and de-
livers her next piece
You’re going to do what you’re told if
you value your own life…
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera turns to face Jill as she assumes a sinister and de-
vious smile.
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The shot starts off with Sybil strutting confidently in a small
circle around the area Jill told her to await her informant.
Just as she finishes a circle, Jack steps into the shot looking
rather serious.
SYBIL
Are you one I’m looking for?
JACK
You have Julia?
SYBIL
Of course we do, who do you think I am?
JACK
That’s all I need to know…
Without hesitation Jack reaches for his gun and pulls it out and
points it directly at Sybil. But before the shot manages to fire
she reacts instinctively by kicking it square out of his grasp
and onto the ground nearby. She follows up by delivering a swift
blow to the stomach and back of the knees bringing Jack down.
She quickly jumps behind Jack and pulls out a syringe and care-
fully lands it into Jack’s neck.
SYBIL
Good night Mr. Jack. Dream of me.
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EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera assumes a first person perspective from Jack’s view
as he spins around a bit and catches a good glimpse of Sybil
snickering as his vision starts to blur and he passes out.
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack finds himself awakening in a small room with his hands tied
to a ceiling fixture leaving him hanging but unable to free him-
self. He immediately begins to try and take in his surroundings
as Jill walks in with a thug
JILL
Well well who do we have here?
THUG
This is that detective that Sybilcaught.
JILL
Ahhh… I see. I’ll take it from here if
you will.
The Guard walks out leaving Jack and Jill all alone
JACK
Who are you?
JILL
I’m your personal savior. Just shut up
and I’ll get you out of here.
Jill produces a small hand knife and cuts the rope tying Jack to
the ceiling
JILL
Alright you hold up the guard and I’ll
get us out of here.
JACK
Got it
Jack and Jill break through the door and Jack immediately uses
the remaining piece of his rope to strangle the guard. While
Jill produces a small key ring and proceeds to open the door so
the two of them can escape.
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JILL
Ok, lets get the hell out of here, fol-
low me
JACK
Be right there
(Jack picks up his confiscated pistol
off of the nearby table and slides it
into his holster)
Alright let’s go. I’ll drive
JILL
Good because they towed your car over
here.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Both Jack and Jill come running from the building and jump into
Jack’s car which was waiting for them and take off
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack and Jill both arrive at Jack’s office in silence as Greg
turns around from his computer because of Sarah tapping him on
the shoulder and motioning for him to notice a new character along side Jack.
GREG
Ummm… Jack?
JACK
Calm down, she just freed me from cap-
ture I think I owe her at least a few
words.
GREG
Right…
JILL
If you don’t mind gentleman, I can
speak for myself.
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Jill walks into the center of the room as Jack closes and locks
the door behind her and Greg turns from his computer entirely to
hear her out and Sarah takes a seat to hear this story seeming
fairly unfazed.
JACK
Alright go ahead
JILL
Thank you, Mr. Jack
JACK
How do you know my name?
JILL
That’s all part of my story. I’d love
to tell you if you’d let me start.
(Jack slouches down against the wall as
Jill starts her story)
Ok, my name is Jill Serpentes. I, like
you, am a private detective hired by
Mr. Alexander Petronov to protect his
assets in the event of his death and to
protect his wife, Julia, from the mob
that he was secretly cutting deals with
for his research.
GREG
What? What was Petronov getting himself
into?
JILL
That’s right, Petronov’s research had
burned through his entire life’s sav-
ings but he believed that he was so
close to completing some miraculous
breakthrough that he made a deal with
that little mafia gang you encounteredearlier. Their leader was interested in
what they were trying to make, so
Petronov got to continue his work on
their dime. Which worked fine enough
until the project was nearly done. The
group’s leader demanded that Petronov
turn over their research once it was
complete. Petronov flat out refused
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this and hired me because he feared for
his life. However he never told me that
he was a hemophiliac, poor bastard,
that chick really messed him up.
JACK
So what were you doing at their hide-
out?
JILL
Well, after Petronov’s death I knew my
most immediate job was to protect
Julia, but I knew that you were also on
the case of the widow, or at least I
assumed you were.
(Jack makes a slightly annoyed face at
the mention of his earlier failure)
So my next priority was to infiltrate
the gang myself so that I could make
track down the killer while keeping an
eye on Julia. That’s when you showed up
Mr. Jack, right in my grasp. And I de-
cided it would be very beneficial to
have you on my side.
JACK
Hmmm… great so now we’re out on ourass, with no leads as to what comes
next.
(Jill produces a small disk from her
coat and tosses it on the table in from
of Greg’s computer)
JILL
Not quite, Alexander trusted me to
safeguard a copy of all his research in
the event of his death.
GREG
Smart guy…
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(He inserts the disk in his computer
and begins taping away again)
JILL
I’m assuming of course that by now you
two know what they were working on?
(At the same time)
JACK
No
GREG
Of course
JILL
Well you seem to be the brains in this
operation, why don’t you bring Jack upto speed?
GREG
Certainly, Petronov and his wife were
busy tampering with the forces of re-
production in a form called “Partheno-
genesis”
JILL
(Nodding slowly)
Correct…
GREG
(Continuing)
Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual
reproduction in which offspring is pro-
duced in the absence of a male partner.
It occurs naturally in a number of in-
sects, plants, reptiles, and fish. But
humans are considerably more complexthan that. Usually in humans when two
of a woman’s eggs to manage to begin
the process of fertilization it ends
with one of them being rejected. But if
the egg cells are delivered an electric
charge at the proper time they can be
forced together for a time longer and
reach the embryonic stage. From there
the floodgates are open to begin creat-
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ing identical organs that can’t be re-
jected by the body, and if it’s culti-
vated right you could be on the track
to creating a perfect genetic clone of
one’s self.
JILL
(Clapping her hands lightly)
Very good, you seem to be up to date on
this. Well Jack you got all that?
JACK
Well I had a little trouble just trying
to take out one Jill, there’s no way
I’m gunna let her get away with cloning
herself.
JILL
Well then we better get on the case of
finding Julia, no doubt she’s working
on this as we speak in captivity.
JACK
Your right, lets go. But where the hell
are we going?
JILL
Ahhh… you’re forgetting that I alreadyknow their plans. Just get in the car
and I’ll give you the directions to
where they’ve got Julia.
JACK
Alright, ladies first…
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack opens the door up and lets Jill
walk out before himself as he puts hishat on. Once she makes it out the door
he turns to Greg and uses sign language
to tell him “Look her up” before clos-
ing the door and leaving
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INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack and Jill emerge from Jack’s car and Jack holsters his gun.
Jill produces a small sidearm to match Jack in the weapons de-
partment. The two of them both proceed to slowly approach the
compound and sneak around to a back entrance and cautiously en-ter the back door. Just then the scene changes to Greg and Sarah
back at the office.
GREG
Alright let’s see where Jack’s at right
now
(Greg knocks away at his keyboard and
quickly pinpoints Jack)
Ahh… right on time.
(He taps on his headset)
Jack it’s Greg, you there?
JACK
Yup, we’re inside and heading for the
basement. According to Jill, Julia
aught to be there
GREG
Alright proceed with caution.
(He taps the headset to mute himself as
Sarah enters the room with a plate of
some assorted food)
SARAH
Does Jack eat? He doesn’t really have
any food in his place
GREG
Nahh… I think Jack practices photosyn-
thesis. I still haven’t seen him eat,
sleep or take a piss… Just kill
SARAH
What about you?
GREG
Yea I eat on occasion…
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SARAH
No, I mean you seemed pretty calm with
a gun at the lab… that wasn’t the first
time you’ve pointed a gun at a person…
(Greg hits his computer once and turnsto face Sarah in a very stoic and seri-
ous manner)
GREG
Yea, I’ve gotten my fair share of blood
on my hands
SARAH
Really? I can’t picture you being much
of a killer…
GREG
Sit down…
(Sarah pulls up a chair and takes a
seat attentively)
I’ve seen plenty of things you can only
picture in your mind.
I really started on this path way back
when I enlisted in operation Desert
storm…
SARAH
You were in the army?
GREG
Not for long, I was captured by the re-
publican guard in Kuwait just at the
onset of ground operations
SARAH
But you got away?
GREG
Yea you could say that… I was… released
by US forces.
SARAH
What do you mean?
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GREG
Well…
(Flashback images begin using footage
reels and photos of “The Highway of
Death”)
I was being transported out by the
Iraqis in their retreat from Kuwait.
However Uncle Sam didn’t think they
were moving fast enough, so he decided
to blow them to kingdom come, two days
after the american ceasefire officially
ended military action.
SARAH
Dear god…
GREG
Well it worked for me, I managed to get
away amid all the chaos. I made my way
out of Iraq and into the nearby Soviet
Union. Just in time for the fun to
start there too.
SARAH
The Soviet Union?!
GREGYes, the United Soviet Socialist Repub-
lic. What about it?
SARAH
That’s where I’m from
GREG
Ahh, yea I can see you definitely have
some Russian in you. What brought you
here?
SARAH
Well at that time the entire country
was collapsing…
GREG
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Yea, between the war in Afghanistan and
Perestroika the USSR was on the verge
of collapse at that point…
SARAH
Yea… I was walking the streets as adestitute at the time, I was originally
a scientist for the government and
worked a bit in the field of biochemis-
try, but I lost my job due to govern-
ment restructuring in the 80s. So I
turned to prostitution to try and man-
age up enough money to leave the coun-
try.
GREG
I’m sure it wasn’t easy being a prosti-
tute in mother Russia
SARAH
Well it was a bit easier for me because
I’m infertile, I later found out that
years of working in the government’s
lab led up to a lot of exposure to tox-
ins and chemicals that made me unable
to fertilize or conceive a child with a
partner.
GREG
Wow, I’m sorry about that
SARAH
Well that’s why I came here, I managed
to pay my way in to come over to the
United States with Dr. Petronov and I
started my work with him and Julia on
the parthenogenesis project.
GREG
That’s quite a story, hopefully yourresearch can get back on track after
all of this.
SARAH
Yea, I sure hope so. Well anyway finish
up your story how’d you end up back in
the US?
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GREG
Well I took part in a number of anti
communist revolutions across eastern
Europe in the wake of the falling iron
curtain, and that certainly left me
with quite a few enemies. So I took offto travel the continent through the
90s. Until 9/11 that is. It seems that
an anonymous tip came from some of my
enemies back in Russia and I was picked
up by the US labeled as a “terrorist”
and thrown in Guantanamo bay Cuba.
SARAH
Oh damn… The prison?
GREG
The same. And I sat there for quite a
few years, until the US had a little
change of heart…
(Que. Picture of Barack Obama)
... And they finally decided I wasn’t
an islamo-fascist and in fact decided I
would be a big help in the FBI. So they
started me out here, trying to protect
the governments possible interest in
Petronov’s little science experiment…
SARAH
Well thats quite a story…
GREG
Likewise…
(At that moment Jack can be heard turn-
ing his headset back on and yelling at
the two of them)
JACK
Greg! Are you there?
(Greg instantaneously throws the head-
set back on and starts back at Jack,
Sarah slowly exits the room trying not
to be noticed)
GREG
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What’s up?
JACK
We’ve got a bomb here
GREG
Oh that’s delightful, is Julia tied to
it by any chance?
JACK
Nope, she’s gotta be somewhere else,
they must’ve been waiting for us to lay
this trap.
GREG
Wait, then where’s Jill?
JACK
We split up to search the place, she
could be anywhere in this place. Now if
you don’t mind a little bomb diffusing
needs to occur in the next 16 minutes.
GREG
Alright do you have the thing open yet?
JACK
Yea I popped this thing open like a can
of soup now I just need to know what tostart pulling
GREG
Heh, you should probably be a little
more cautious than that, alright do you
see a small brown box to the left,
thats the power supply, you can’t take
that out yet or you’ll be blown up, in-
stead take the green wire out of the…
(Greg and Jack go back and forth withdirections as the camera zooms back
from the room out the door to see Sarah
on a cell phone with an anonymous per-
son who is revealed as Jill)
SARAH
Yea they’re taking it apart as we
speak…
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I know, I didn’t expect it to be that
easy either but this guy’s FBI, you
should probably watch out, I think he
may be onto you…
Right, I’ll keep an eye on him. Justlet me know when the time is right…
So what did you do with Julia? Right I
know, once she gets that stage com-
pleted I can take over from there…
No problem I don’t think either of them
have the slightest idea that I even
know you…
Well for one thing they didn’t bother
to ask…
Alright you better go find him I’m sure
they’ll have that bomb of yours hushed
up in a few minutes, no need to be sus-
picious about it…
Yea I’ll be fine over here, yes I’ll
talk to you later, goodbye…
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
She closes the phone and re-enters the
room with Greg
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack and Jill return from their first mission together rather
bruised. Jill, Sarah, Greg and Jack are all in Jack’s office and
Jack is bandaging a part of his arm while Sarah wipes a bit of
blood off his cheek from a small cut he procured. Jill is suspi-
ciously unharmed and Greg is typing away and asking the occa-
sional question as Jack talks on
JACK
...They already moved her before we got
there
GREG
Jack, they were waiting for you…
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JILL
That’s impossible, no one knew that we
were coming
SARAH
I dunno, those guys have ears all overthe place. Maybe they tapped the phone
or Greg’s computer
GREG
Nope, I got it all the loose ends tied.
I’m tighter than most government main-
frames.
JACK
Well they gotta have someone on our
tail… Jill what do you know about this?
JILL
Jack, you know as much as I do at this
point… But they’re running out of
places to take the girl.
GREG
Your suggesting we just hit ‘em again?
JILL
It’s our best chance
JACK
Makes sense, we need to find Julia be-
fore she completes the research for
that psychopath.
JILL
Agreed, we gotta move fast
GREG
Not just fast, decisively.
JACK
Greg’s right. We need to go right after
their leader
JILL
Makes sense
JACK
Where is she?
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JILL
Well I can’t be sure but I have an idea
of where she might be for most of her
day
JACK
If that’s the best we got then we
should go with that
GREG
Ok you two better go rest up and head
out tomorrow, I’m sure it’ll help im-
mensely
JACK
That sounds nice I think I can afford
to rest a bit.
(Jack sits down on the nearest chair
and Jill walks over to start rubbing
his neck)
JILL
Greg, can you find us a simple sniper
rifle?
GREG
You need a scoped rifle?
JILL
Correct, I think it’ll help us im-
mensely to stir some shit up before we
go in for the kill
GREG
Yea I think that can be arranged
JILL
Good, thanks.
(Looks over at Jack starting to doze
off in his chair)
Come on Jack get up, you need to reach
the bed at least until you actually
start sleeping
(Jill helps Jack out of the chair he
was dozing off in while nursing his
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SARAH
Ok well I’ll put on some coffee or
something.
GREG
Thanks, I could use that
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Sarah walks out and the camera focuses
on Greg continuing to hack away on his
keyboard and the screen blacks out
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
An early morning sun is rising as Jack and Jill pull up and exitJack’s car looking quite ready and solemn of their plan. Jill
goes around to the back of the car and comes back next to Jack
with a sniper rifle with a fixed scope that can be seen. Jack
holster’s his sidearm and the two of them head for their vantage
point to await their prey. Jill is readied and in position with
her sniper rifle as Jack stands beside her and looks out at
their target.
JILL
Alright, you know the plan?
JACK
Yup, I got it. What are you waiting
for?
JILL
I’m making sure it’s her
(She fixes the scope a bit)
JACK
Hey, who’s that?
(Jack snatches the scope off the top of
the rifle and puts it to his eye as a
small telescope)
JILL
Who? Give me that
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(She stands up and grabs the scope and
looks out on the distant figures)
Dammit, that’s Julia
JACK
Are you serious? We’ve got to get down
there and get her then
JILL
Oh come on, let me just take one head
off…
(Before she can lay her hand on the
trigger Jack grabs her arm and picks
her up and on her feet)
JACK
Oh no you don’t, we’ll split up. You go
get Julia and I’ll take out Jill down
there.
JILL
Heh, are you sure you can handle her
this time Jack?
JACK
No, I guess I’d better go see now
shouldn’t I?
JILL
Well all I can say is don’t get your-
self killed
JACK
No promises
JILL
Right… ok I’ll go in and rescue our
little friend and get her out if youcan take care of her
JACK
Right…
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The two of them split up and sneakily approach their destina-
tions with their missions in mind
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INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
Jack slowly sneaks along the wall and looks around the corner to
see Sybil giving orders to the two thugs to take Julia away
SYBIL
Get her out of here, we’ll need her
later…
(She turns to who appears to be her
right hand man)
And you, make sure that you track down
that traitorous woman who freed that
detective
(Jack pops around the corner at the end
of her sentence and shoots the righthand man straight and true before he
can make another move then turns his
gun on Sybil)
JACK
How about I save you the trouble
SYBIL
Oh good your here, Now I can just kill
you this time
JACK
Heh, don’t think it’ll be that easy
SYBIL
Of course not…
(The screen fades to black and comes
back up on Jill sneaking around for
Julia. She turns a corner and sees the
two thugs taking her away and she
quickly leaps into action by sliding upbehind them and delivering a straight
blow to both of them in the neck ren-
dering them unconscious and dropping
Julia. Jill quickly cuts the bonds of
rope tying Julia’s hands together and
gives her a hand)
JILL
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Alright get up, we don’t have much time
to get out of here
JULIA
Who are you?
JILL
I’m your personal savior, We’re here to
get you out of here
JULIA
What do you mean we?
JILL
Yea I’m here with my partner, we’ve
been trying to find you for some time
JULIA
They’re been forcing me to continue
work on the parthenogenesis project so
they can use it themselves, that
woman’s nuts!
JILL
Yea we know, speaking of I need to go
find Jack
JULIA
Jack?
JILL
Yea, my partner. Now come on let’s go…
(The camera fades out on the two of
them and comes back in on Jack is hold-
ing Sybil around the waist with a his
gun pointed to her head. Both of them
appear worn out and a bit beat up and
Jack has a small cut on his face and
hand)
JACK
Ok now you’ve got some talking to do
SYBIL
Oh believe me, there’s a lot you need
to know…
JACK
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I’m listening.
SYBIL
Good.
(Just as she’s about to begin speaking
Jill and Julia break through the near-
est entrance and distract Jack for a
moment and leave Sybil with the open
spot to slip from Jack’s grasp and and
pull his gun from his hand with her and
shoot him straight into the stomach. He
falls back as Jill pulls her pistol
right out and takes out Sybil and both
her and Julia fall to Jack’s side)
JILL
Jack!
JULIA
Hang in there, we need to stop the
bleeding
JILL
Right, elevate his torso and apply
pressure to the wound. See if he’s got
a knife on him, I think I’m gunna need
to pull that bullet out. I think we’re
going to have to get him to a hospital…
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera zooms out and upward from Julia and Jill hunched over
Jack’s wound and begin rushing to help him and fades out
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The camera sets in on Greg as he is furiously typing into his
computer as he comes to a final realization.
GREG
No… no this can’t be possible. I’ve got
to go find Jack!
(Sarah enters the room rather noncha-
lantly and notices Greg’s sudden alarm)
SARAH
What’s going on? What’s wrong?
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GREG
It’s Jill, she’s the one we’ve been
looking for this entire time, I need to
get ahold of Jack but he’s not answer-
ing his mic.
SARAH
Are you sure it’s Jill? Why would she
have been helping this whole time?
GREG
I don’t know what she’s doing, that’s
the bad part. Listen to me you need to
get out of here. Go find the chief, let
him know what’s going on…
(As Greg finishes that sentence Jill
struts into the room calmly holding her
pistol at the waist and aiming it at
Greg)
JILL
What’s going on? Do tell…
(Greg and Sarah both put their hands in
the air with a slight notion of surren-
der)
GREGYou…
JILL
Me…
GREG
What the hell did you do with Jack and
Julia?
JILL
Julia is in a safe location, andJack’s… in the hospital
GREG
What?!
JILL
He let his guard down
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GREG
Bullshit, you shot him to get him out
of the way
JILL
Oh no, having him incapacitated was abit out of my plan. I still have much
use for him
GREG
What the hell are you talking about?
JILL
You really think I’m stupid enough to
tell you what I’m going to do? I’m dis-
appointed in you Greg
SARAH
Jill what’s the big idea? What are you
doing?
JILL
Stop playing stupid girl
(She points the gun at Sarah)
Your a poor actor Sarah
(Greg steps in front of the gun)
GREG
Stop, what the hell are you talking
about?
JILL
Oh you mean she hasn’t told you? Oh of
course not, Sarah’s been playing spy
for me for quite some time now.
GREG
No… that’s a lie
JILL
Oh, just look for yourself
(Greg turns to Sarah who appears visi-
bly guilty in admittance)
GREG
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Oh dammit… and what do you get out of
this?
JILL
Oh she gets to take over the partheno-
genesis project once I’m in control
GREG
Oh how enticing…
JULIA
Yes and the sooner I can cut all the
strings holding the project together
it’ll fall right into my lap. Then I
can use it to my own desire
GREG
You’re one Jill…
JILL
Thank you, I suppose I’ll see you in
hell then
GREG
It’s a damn shame there’s no hell for
you to end up in
(Jill shoots Greg and he is instantly
killed, Sarah falls to his side andlooks at Jill with a mixture of anger
and fear)
SARAH
What the hell are you doing? Why did he
need to die?
JILL
You told me yourself, he had it all
figured out
SARAH
And what happens to Jack now? What hap-
pens when he sees this?!
JILL
I’ll bring him back later and use this
to my advantage
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SARAH
And what will happen to the partheno-
genesis project? Can I still take over
once your in control?
JILL
I doubt that will be necessary, Julia
has almost finished all the necessary
work that it requires.
SARAH
What? Then what will I do?
JILL
Hmmm, I have an idea…
(She lifts her gun at Sarah)
SARAH
Noooo!!!
(Jill pulls the trigger, Sarah is dead)
JILL
Silly girl…
(She picks up the phone in a calm and
nonchalant manner, dials Jack’s number
and begins faking a frantic and scaredvoice)
Oh Jack you need to get over here
quick! Greg and Sarah… it’s the chief!
He’s… He’s killed them!
(She shoots off at the wall)
He’s run off, you need to get over here
quick!
(She clicks the phone off)
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The scene blacks out on Jill’s evil and maniacal grin in satis-
faction with her latest scheme come true.
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The scene starts back up in Jack’s office once again with Jack
practically breaking in his door and having Jill throw herself
on him in the same frantic mess she was earlier
JILL
Oh Jack! I came in and that madman was
standing over the two of them with the
pistol still smoking. I… I wrestled the
gun away from him and shot until he ran
off
JACK
It’s ok, hey, hey, HEY!
(He grabs her by both shoulders and
shakes her a bit)
Calm the hell down
(He takes one look at the two bodies
lying on his office floor and slams his
fist against the wall in pure fury)
I’ll kill that son of a bitch… hedoesn’t know what the hell he’s doing
JILL
Jack are you sure? Look what he did to
those two
JACK
He murdered them!! He probably thought
that they were spies or something… That
crazy bastard
JILL
Jack, what are you thinking your going
to do?
JACK
Oh I know what I’m going to do, and I’m
going to need your help to do it…
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CHIEF
Jack! What the hell is going on?!
JILL
That’s him! He killed Greg and Sarah!
JACK
You son of a bitch…
CHIEF
Are you mad?! She’s the one that-
(Gunshot rings out, Jack is standing
with his pistol drawn straight toward
where the chief’s chest was just stand-
ing. The chief is now lying on the
floor behind his desk. Jack walks over
and crouches by his side)
JACK
You were saying something? Make it
quick, because it’ll be your last
CHIEF
Jack… she’s the one who murdered your
wife…
(The chief slumps over. Dead.)
JACK
What?!
(He grabs up the chief’s body trying to
squeeze out an answer, to no avail of
course)
JILL
Hahahahaha!
(Jill breaks out into maniacal laughter
before plunging into explaining her-
self)
Your quite a fool Jack
JACK
What are you talking about?
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JILL
The chief told no lies. I am the one
you were looking for this entire time,
I’m afraid I played you like a little
wind up toy
JACK
You!
(He draws his gun at her again but she
reacts far quicker in anticipation of
this by knocking out his legs from un-
der him with a swift kick. She picks up
his gun and puts it at his face in or-
der to have his total attention)
JILL
Tsk, tsk, tsk. You poor little man, now
everyone is dead but you, but for mak-
ing it this far I might as well indulge
you as to what’s been going on.
JACK
Oh feel free to enlighten me
JILL
Heh, well for one thing that woman that
we killed earlier, the one who shot
you, she’s not who you were lookingfor. That was me
JACK
So who was she?
JILL
My rival, we we’re partners for most of
this, but she was starting to get to be
a bothersome fly. So I just had you go
and swat her
JACK
Great…
JILL
Oh, Sarah and Greg, I took them both
out last night.
JACK
What?!
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(He lunges at her and she smoothly
dodges his bear like attack and strikes
the back of his head with the butt of
his pistol and goes back to talking)
JILL
Yea, Sarah was working for me. A nice
little double agent. Greg had me all
figured out, so I needed to take care
of him to continue on…
JACK
You crazy bitch…
JILL
I’m really starting to take that as a
compliment. Oh and Julia has finished
up the last of the parthenogenesis pro-
ject for me, so soon I’ll be able to
breed an perfect clone of myself. Can’t
you just see it now Jack?
JACK
You’re completely insane
JILL
Hahaha excellent! Well then I suppose I
should make my leave now before you be-
gin to put this all together and figurethings out.
EXT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
She struts over to the door, opens it and blows Jack a kiss as
she exits the room. Jack slowly manages to get himself up and
struggles toward the door where she left. He opens the door to
find nothing but his pistol sitting on the other side next to a
headshot of Jill but no sign of her besides that.
INT. SCENE - DESCRIPTION
The scene fades in with Jack sitting solemnly in his office. The
entire scene is timed with the accompanying music and plays out
accordingly. Jack is sitting and staring at the picture of Jill
as the lighting contrasts with his face and it can be seen that
he is slowly transforming on the inside from good to evil. He
slowly tears up the picture and throws the pieces into the air
and they land at his feet. He slowly arises from the chair and
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heads over to put on his coat and hat and holster his gun. The
shot immediately changes to him getting into his car and then
again to him driving while visibly frustrated and thinking
deeply on the situation at hand. A dramatic drum beat strikes as
he steps slowly out of the car in front of Jill’s hideout. The
shot cuts away to him again waling slowly down the hallway while he parts his trench coat to the side and slowly draws his pistol
and holds it straight up in the air. Just as a dramatic beat is
struck he kicks in the door to the Bitch’s office and begins
beating up and shooting the henchmen in the first room. He con-
tinues onto the second door and kicks that in with a well timed
kick. Jill is startled by Jack’s unexpected entrance and tries
to reason with him a bit before he seizes her up by her shirt
and throws her to the ground in front of him on her knees. The
camera changes to a side angle of Jack and Jill’s silhouettes as
Jack brings his pistol slowly through the air and it ends point-
ing straight at Jill’s temple. He utters the words slowly and calmly
JACK
Jill fell down and broke her crown…
(He pulls the trigger on her and she
drops dead. Jack stands still with his
gun raised in the air for a little
while and suddenly he finds a large
knife landing in his back. He drops his
gun in agony and tries to turn around but doesn’t make it before he drops to
the ground. Dead. Julia is standing
over his body calmly wiping her hands
together.)
JULIA
And Jack came tumbling after…
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