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| Johnny Apocalypse Transcribed by StarvedChoccobo |
The scene opens on an outside shot of the Agency, then moves inside, down the empty corridors.) DARIEN: (voice-over) A philosopher named Wittgenstein once observed that, "Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie." Yeah, well, our new agent, Alex Monroe, knew too much. Way too much, which meant she was going to lie about practically everything. (The camera focuses on an office door.) ALEX: (from behind door) You�ve gotten soft. (The camera moves inside, and pans up from black.) OFFICIAL: Soft? (chuckles) Ask my agents how soft I�ve gotten. (The camera focuses on the Official at a table. On the table lies an open briefcase, which Alex stalks around to stare the Official in the eyes.) ALEX: They are your prime examples. You treat them more like peers and less like employees. OFFICIAL: I keep them informed. ALEX: That is not possible this time. OFFICIAL: They should know when they are going on a suicide mission! (The Official takes the briefcase, closes it, and prepares to leave.) OFFICIAL: You want backup? Pick two other agents. ALEX: No, I need Fawkes. (The Official heads for the door, with Alex trailing him.) ALEX: If anything goes wrong out there, he�s the best weapon you�ve got. (The Official opens the door and turns to Alex.) OFFICIAL: That is exactly why I don�t want to lose him. ALEX: If everything goes well, they�ll be back here, safe and sound, in a couple of days. OFFICIAL: If everything doesn�t go well, you�re responsible for their deaths. ALEX: Trust me, I�ll live with it. (The Official walks down the hall. Alex closes the door behind him, then stalks off to another door and walks through, slamming it behind her. As soon as the second door closes, an invisible Darien sighs as he sheds quicksilver. Once visible, he takes a few steps towards the camera.) DARIEN: Ah, terrific. (Fade to static, intro.) DARIEN: (voice-over) There once was a story about a man who could turn invisible. I thought it was only a story, until it happened to me. Okay, here�s how it works, there�s this stuff called quicksilver, that bends light. Now, my brother and some scientists made it into a synthetic gland. That�s where I came in. See, I was facing life in prison, and they were looking for a human experiment. So, we made a deal. They put the gland in my brain, and I walk free. Yeah, well, the operation was a success, but that�s when everything started to go wrong. (Fade to commercial.) (The scene returns to the Agency hallways the next day. Darien and Hobbes walk through the halls, talking.) HOBBES: What? DARIEN: What do you mean, what? I just said, I heard them yelling, and then I snuck in. HOBBES: And? DARIEN: And what? HOBBES: What were they yelling about? DARIEN: The mission. HOBBES: What mission? (Darien looks at Hobbes.) DARIEN: Do you know how many times a day you say "what" to me, man? HOBBES: No. DARIEN: I mean, you got a hearing problem, or something? HOBBES: No, there�s nothing wrong with my hearing. What is wrong with you, my friend? DARIEN: Right there. HOBBES: What? DARIEN: You just said it twice. HOBBES: The mission, Fawkes, there�s something they said. DARIEN: Nope. Not a hint, not a trace, not a clue. (Darien and Hobbes walks through a set of doors, stopping in front of Alex�s office.) HOBBES: Maybe it�s a setup. Maybe they knew you were in the room, maybe they�re running a test on us, Fawkes. DARIEN: Hobbes, please. The Official, he�s a good actor, but he�s not that good. (Darien reaches out and knocks on Alex�s door.) ALEX: (from behind door) Come on in. (The scene jumps to Alex, looking out of the window. She swivels her chair around towards the camera.) ALEX: Gentlemen� (Darien and Hobbes fall down onto the couch simultaneously.) ALEX: What we have here is a milk run. (Darien looks at Hobbes.) DARIEN: (whispering) What�s a milk run? ALEX: We pick up a 12 year old boy named Adam Reese in Clearview, take him to someplace else. Nothing to it. DARIEN: That�s it? ALEX: Yes. HOBBES: Who is he? ALEX: I told you, Adam Reese. DARIEN: Yeah, I, uh, I think what Hobbes means is wh� ALEX: I know what Hobbes means. He�s important enough to require our attention. HOBBES: Twelve year old kid, huh? (Darien looks away from Alex.) DARIEN: At least it�s not a suicide run, huh? (Darien shifts his gaze to meet Alex�s.) DARIEN: Perhaps there�s uh, a little more you�d like to tell us, Ms. Monroe? (Alex rotates her chair to stare out the window again.) ALEX: You�ll be filled in on a need-to-know basis. (Darien and Hobbes look at each other, then speak simultaneously.) DARIEN & HOBBES: The old "need-to-know". (Hobbes looks at Alex.) HOBBES: Oh, yeah. Well, let me tell you something, the thing of it is, Ms. Monroe, is we need to know right now. ALEX: Why is that? (Darien looks at Hobbes again.) DARIEN: Why is that? HOBBES: Why is that? DARIEN: I guess mainly �cause we�re curious. HOBBES: That�s right. We, we have, we have inquiring minds. DARIEN: Inquiring. HOBBES: Inquiring minds. DARIEN: Very inquiring, curious minds� HOBBES: Need to know. (Darien and Hobbes nod.) ALEX: Inquiring minds are just going to have to wait. (Alex swivels back to face Darien and Hobbes.) ALEX: We�ll take your car. (Hobbes points to Darien.) HOBBES: Taking his car? DARIEN: You like my car? HOBBES: What about my van? ALEX: Too slow, too sloppy. Meet me outside in five. DARIEN: Sloppy and slow. HOBBES: She loved my van, now she hates my van. DARIEN: Your van sucks. (The scene shifts to the Keep, where Claire is looking at something illuminated by a lamp. Alex walks through the door, attracting Claire�s attention.) CLAIRE: Oh� ALEX: Hi. CLAIRE: �hello. ALEX: Hello. I need a syringe of counteragent CLAIRE: Oh. (Claire smiles, but doesn�t move.) ALEX: I�m taking Fawkes and Hobbes on a errand, and Fawkes may need to go invisible. (Claire gets up out of her chair.) CLAIRE: Oh. Oh, um, well, I usually come along to administer the shots. ALEX: Not this time. (Claire stares at Alex for a second, the smile slowly fading from her lips.) CLAIRE: You certainly don�t beat around the bush, do you? ALEX: Look, If I were to tell you that this was no big thing, would you believe me? CLAIRE: Probably not. ALEX: Then there�s really no point in bush beating, is there? CLAIRE: I guess not. ALEX: And it�s really not a big thing unless you make it one. CLAIRE: And if I do? ALEX: Then you�ll probably start sleeping badly, which would be your problem, and you and I wouldn�t work well together, and that would be my problem, cause I need you as an ally, Claire, not an enemy. CLAIRE: All right, um�so it�s no big thing. ALEX: Right. (The scene moves to Darien�s car driving down a crowded road, then shifts to the car pulling up at a house. Darien, Hobbes, and Alex get out of the car and head towards the house.) HOBBES: Pumped egg cream, you gotta pump them. DARIEN: What are you talking about, pumped? (The scene jumps to the porch, where Alex knocks on the door. Darien and Hobbes wait behind her, talking.) HOBBES: Bosco had a little pump� DARIEN: Who�s Bosco? HOBBES: Put in seltzer, stir it around real good, put in a little more seltzer� DARIEN: Bosco? HOBBES: �stir, it, like, overflows. It�s like creamy soda� (Alex, after peering in through the door, opens the screen and lets herself in.) HOBBES: It�s an egg cream. (Darien and Hobbes follow Alex in after a moment.) ALEX: Look for him in there. (points) (Darien and Hobbes move off, as Alex moves out of the dining room, and down the hall. The camera jumps to Darien, who springs through a door into the family room.) DARIEN: Aha! BOY: (over walkie-talkie) Who are you guys? (Darien looks at the sofa, then moves a cushion to reveal a walkie-talkie. The camera pans to Hobbes, with sunglasses on, moving down a hall.) BOY (over walkie-talkie) What are you doing here? (Hobbes moves into a bedroom, looking for the walkie-talkie.) DARIEN: (over walkie-talkie) Ah, Kirk to Enterprise, are you there? Over. (Hobbes flips back a comforter on the bed to reveal another walkie-talkie. He picks it up and moves back into the hall, where Darien is talking into his walkie-talkie.) DARIEN: Yo, Bones, what�s up? What�s up, G? Hey, you there? (The camera shifts to Alex, who is moving through the kitchen. She opens a drawer to reveal a diary, which she pockets.) BOY: (over walkie-talkie) You better have a search warrant. (Alex looks around.) ALEX: Adam? (Alex moves into a nearby room.) ADAM: Do I know you? (Alex opens a closet to reveal Adam speaking into a walkie-talkie.) ALEX: No. (The camera moves to a shot of Darien�s car, then back to the kitchen where everyone is gathered.) ADAM: How come you know my name? (Darien quickly looks at the floor.) ALEX: We know your mom, right guys? (Darien looks up.) HOBBES: Hmm? Yeah. DARIEN: Yeah. HOBBES: Yeah, we know your mom. DARIEN: Yeah, your mom. HOBBES: She�s a very nice� DARIEN: She�s cool. HOBBES: � lady. ADAM: She�s not here. She went away for a few days. ALEX: I know. That�s why she wants us to take you to her. ADAM: She all right? ALEX: (quickly) She�s fine. Everything is fine. It�s just that something came up, so she wants us to pick you up, okay? ADAM: Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me ask you something. Alright, other than the fact that you�re, like, this really hot chick, why should I believe a word you just said? (Darien and Hobbes nod towards Adam. Darien points at Adam approvingly.) ALEX: Because, she told you somebody would be coming to pick you up, right? ADAM: Right. ALEX: Well? ADAM: Got some kind of ID? DARIEN: Oh, what? Oh, yeah, yeah, you want some ID? Sure, sure. (Bobby pulls in close to Darien.) DARIEN/ HOBBES: One, two, three! (Darien and Hobbes both whip out their badges and show them to Adam.) ALEX: Okay? (Darien and Hobbes pocket their badges.) ADAM: Um, I guess. DARIEN: Okay, well, uh, I am Darien, and this is Hobbes, right here. HOBBES: Bobby. ADAM: What the hell kind of name is Darien? DARIEN: Unusual. ADAM: Yeah, more like dorky. (Hobbes snickers.) DARIEN: It's French. ALEX: Come on, let's go. (Alex puts on her shades and walks off. Adam follows her, trailed by Darien and Hobbes.) DARIEN: Actually, I'm third-generation French-Canadian. (The scene moves outside to Darien's car, where Hobbe and ALex get in the back. Adam gets in the front side passenger seat, and Darien gets behind the wheel, driving off as soon as he gets in. As they pull away, a helicopter appears over the roof of a building. The helicopter follows Darien's car onto the highway. The camera moves inside the car. Darien takes a moment to straighten his hair. He glances over at Adam.) DARIEN: What do you got in there? ADAM: In what? DARIEN: Your hair, what do you got? It looks good. ADAM: Gel, I guess. I don't... DARIEN: Gel, wow. I used to use that stuff. (Adam snorts. The camera jumps outside the car for a moment to show the helicopter, still following the car.) ADAM: So, what's this, what's this all about? DARIEN: Oh, hey, (points back to Alex) talk to her. ALEX: I'm afraid that's classified, sweetie. HOBBES: Probably on a need-to-know. DARIEN: Ah, the old need-to-know. ADAM: Need? Huh? Wha, what's that? DARIEN: Uh, oh, when she needs you to know something, she'll let you know. ADAM: I don't get it. ALEX: These two think they're funny. ADAM: You know, what's this, what's this agency you work for? DARIEN: It's called "the Agency". ADAM: It's kind of a dumb name, isn't it? HOBBES: This kid asks a lot of questions. (Alex starts laughing.) ALEX: He's funny. DARIEN: You got a real thing with names, huh? HOBBES: Oh, you think he's funny? ADAM: It's better than nagging you about how much longer before we get there. DARIEN: Hey, speaking of which, how much longer before we get there? ALEX: A while. DARIEN: Ooh, that ain't gonna work, I gotta use the little boys' room here. HOBBES: I'm havin' a little need to know what food tastes like, if you don't mind. ALEX: Bobby, it's getting old. There's a rest stop up ahead. (The car pulls into El Monte Park, with the helicopter still following. The scene shifts to Hobbes and Alex at a picnic table, eating.) HOBBES: We could just clear all this up right now and go for it, what do you think? (The camera moves to Adam and Darien, playing basketball. Darien has the ball, and tries to get past Adam.) DARIEN: Hey, what's your ma do, huh? ADAM: I don't know. She's, you know, she's a mom. DARIEN: Yeah? What about your pa? (Darien fakes past Adam and makes a layup.) DARIEN: Yaaaah! ADAM: Uh, never knew him. He died just before I was born. (Adam takes the ball and heads out. Darien is silent for a moment.) DARIEN: Lt's see your jumper. Come on, your jumper, let's go. ADAM: All right. (Adam shoots, but misses.) DARIEN: Oh, okay, that's disgusting. (Darien grabs the ball and moves to Adam.) DARIEN: Okay, this is what you gotta do, check it out. bend down, bend your knees. (Darien shoots.) DARIEN: Pop! (Darien sinks the shot.) DARIEN: See? There ya go. (The camera moves back to Hobbes and Alex.) HOBBES: I used to have some game, I'll tell you that. ALEX: Yeah? What happened? HOBBES: I was good, you know? ALEX: Too short? (The camera shifts to the helicopter pilot.) PILOT: Wait until they're out in the open. And remember, no shooting. One bullet can kill us all. (The camera shifts back to Darien and Adam. Adam now has the ball.) DARIEN: Okay, let's see what you've got. ADAM: All right. (Adam takes a shot.) DARIEN: There you go. (Adam sinks the shot. Darien runs around waving his hands.) DARIEN: It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole! (Alex calls to Darien.) ALEX: Hey, let's get going. ADAM: He's teaching me the jump shot. ALEX: Your mom's waiting! DARIEN: All right, we'll do it another time. (Darien takes the ball from Adam.) ADAM: Anyway, she really puhes you guys around, doesn't she? DARIEN: Yeah, well, she's the boss. ADAM: Yeah, but she's a chick. (Darien drapes his arm around Adam and starts to walk off.) DARIEN: Wrong. She's a tough chick. (The helicopter suddenly sets down in front of Darien and Adam. The two are stunned for a moment, but Darien recovers, and starts running, dragging Adam with him.) DARIEN: Get to the car! (Alex and Hobbes spot the chopper and start towards it. Hobbes draws his gun.) ALEX: No guns. HOBBES: What are you talking about? ALEX: I said, no guns! (The camera jumps back to Darien and Adam, who are running. Two men jump out of the chopper and run towards them.) DARIEN: Go, get in the car! (Adam runs off, but is caught by one of the men. Darien throws the basketball at him, but misses. The second man quickly knocks Darien to the ground, as Alex and Hobbes rush in. Hobbes kicks the man holding Adam. Alex kicks the man attacking Darien.) HOBBES: Get to the car! Go! (Adam gets up and runs off. The two men fight Alex and Hobbes for a minute.) DARIEN: Get him, man! (A third man gets out of the chopper, and sneaks up behind Alex, knocking her to the ground. Darien quicksilvers and chases the third man. In quicksilver vision, Darien approaches the man, who pulls out a pair of glasses and puts them on. The man quickly turns around, and starts attacking Darien. Darien is saved by Alex, who gets up from the ground and kicks the third man, knocking him down. Alex pulls out her gun and aims at the chopper. She lines up the shot for a moment, then fires. The chopper starts spewing smoke.) MAN: Come on! Let's go! Let's go, come on! Come on! (The other two men run past him, and the three run off. Alex smiles and holsters her gun. She walks over to Hobbes.) HOBBES: I thought you said no guns. ALEX: Not around the kid. HOBBES: Well, you need to be a little more specific. (Darien walks over.) DARIEN: You got some kick, there, huh? ALEX: Keep it in mind. HOBBES: Who the hell are those guys? DARIEN: What do you mean, who are those guys? You don't remember that big guy from the school, with Stark when Allianora died? HOBBES: That's the big guy? DARIEN: That's the big guy. What the hell do they want with Adam? (Alex looks at Darien, then puts her shades on and walks off.) DARIEN: What does that, what does that mean? What is that? Huh? (Hobbes moves next to Darien.) DARIEN: (shouts) Hey, what the hell is going on?! (Alex walks off, not looking back.) (Fade to commercial.) (The scene returns at a motel. Hobbes looks out the window while Adam plays a video game, which plays the opening theme from season 1 in the background. The camera moves to Alex and Darien. Darien is following Alex around, unhappy.) DARIEN: All right, okay, the truth. Is this about getting your kid back? ALEX: No. DARIEN: Huh? Really? So, what, you're just telling me it's a coincidence, Chrysalis showing up here, is that it? (Alex moves to the closet.) ALEX: I had no idea hey knew about Adam, or anybody else did. (Darien follows Alex.) DARIEN: Knew about Adam? Knew about what? What are you talking about? (Alex looks at Darien, and sighs.) DARIEN: What? (Alex sighs again, then crosses her arms, and leans in towards Darien.) ALEX: Okay. Ever since things came apart in Russia, Intelligence has been going through thousands of KGB files. (The camera jumps to a shot of Alex's laptop, with the Health and Human Services logo displayed.) ALEX: One of them described an experiment done in East Germany before the Wall came down. (The screen shifts to a file on Dr. Leopold Albrecht. Darien leans in, looking at the display.) ALEX: There was this scientist, Albrecht. He couldn't stand the fact that they were going to lose the Cold War. (The screen shifts again to a image of a virus.) ALEX: So he inoculated a baby with an incredibly virulent strain of an airborne virus a hundred times more powerful than Ebola. DARIEN: So, that baby is now Adam, is that what you're saying? ALEX: Yes. We got a tip from a woman, probably the one posing as his mother. Once this virus is unleashed, it's gonna make the Black Plague look like a summer vacation. We're talking a potential million deaths. DARIEN: I got you. So, this whole thing is about trying to prevent that from happening, huh? ALEX: It can't be prevented. When Adam reaches puberty, his testosterone level triggers the virus. DARIEN: Well, what is he, 12? We got some time, right? ALEX: His handler, the woman he thinks is his mother, she's been tracking the level. (Alex takes out the diary that was taken from Adam's house, and flips through it.) ALEX: He's going to reach it any day now. (Darien sighs, and straightens up.) DARIEN: Okay, so, uh, what are we doing? We're taking him someplace to get fixed or something? ALEX: Yeah, hopefully. It's a genetically-engineered virus that may be vaccine resistant. DARIEN: And what if it is? ALEX: Permanent quarantine. DARIEN: How permanent? ALEX: Until we're sure Adam isn't going to wipe out the entire West Coast. DARIEN: Hey, I thought you said a million people. ALEX: Whatever. A lot. DARIEN: There's, like, thirty million people on the West Coast... ADAM: It's all lies. (The camera moves to Adam, who is standing in the doorway. Alex and Darien look up, alarmed.) ADAM: You guys are just a bunch of liars! (Adam runs out the door.) DARIEN: Adam... (Darien gets up and follows him outside, where Adam runs off.) DARIEN: Adam, Adam! (Adam runs into the pool area, with Darien close behind.) DARIEN: Look, Adam... (Adam stumbles, but recovers quickly.) DARIEN: Adam... (Darien closes the gap and catches Adam a few seconds later. Adam struggles violently.) DARIEN: Adam! Come here, come here, come here. All right, just cool out, all right? How long were you standing there? ADAM: Let go of me! DARIEN: Look, look, whatever you heard... (Adam shakes free of Darien and stares at him.) ADAM: What I heard is that I'm some kind of a freak, all right?! DARIEN: No. What you heard is that somebody did something to you, okay? Something that can be corrected. ADAM: Yeah, what if it can't? What if there's nothing we can do? DARIEN: Well, I guess you learn to live with it. You know, the big thing is, you gotta keep hoping for an answer. ADAM: Yeah, right. Nobody screwed around with you. (Darien is silent for a moment.) DARIEN: Wrong. (Darien quicksilvers as Adam watches. Adam reaches out with a hand to where Darien is.) ADAM: Wh...wh, what the hell? (Darien sheds quicksilver and reappears in the same spot.) DARIEN: Yeah, you want to talk about freaks... ADAM: How did you do that? DARIEN: My brother stuck a gland in my head. ADAM: Wh... DARIEN: Yeah, uh... it's a gland, you know? And it secretes this stuff called quicksilver, and it, it bends the light... (Darien shakes his head.) DARIEN: It's complicated. What I'm saying is, you and I, we're in the same club, man. ADAM: But you, just, like, you just disappeared, man. I mean...that's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. DARIEN: Yeah, that's what I thought at first too, but believe me, it gets old. Time to get back to your room, now, all right? (Darien puts his arm around Adam and heads back to the motel. The scene shifts to a TV screen, where Darien and Adam are playing a first-person shooter. Darien holds his controller out to Adam.) DARIEN: Wait, I think mine's broken, I... (Adam chuckles and plays for a few seconds more, then turns to Darien.) ADAM: You know, you got a really good jump shot, but you, like, really suck at this. DARIEN: Well, I just... haven't gotten my rhythm yet. Can we just play again, please? ADAM: All right, I'm just gonna beat you like a drum. DARIEN: All right. (Darien focuses on the game again.) ADAM: So, I got one question. (Darien responds without looking.) DARIEN: Shoot. ADAM: How many times did you sneak into the girls' locker room? DARIEN: N... ADAM: Don't lie. (Darien looks at Adam.) DARIEN: Never. ADAM: Oh, bull. Come on. DARIEN: Okay, once. I did it once. ADAM: That's what I thought. DARIEN: But. it was just one time, man. I was testing the whole thing out. I was in a pretty bad mood at the time. ADAM: Man, if it were me, I'd move in forever. (Darien pauses for a moment, unsure how to respond.) DARIEN: Little soon for that, ain't it, man? ADAM: Oh, yeah? When'd you start thinking about girls? DARIEN: Well, it was third grade. What is that, 8, 9? Something like that? ADAM: Yeah, see? DARIEN: So, what are you saying, there's somebody special? Is that what you mean? (Adam looks embarassed, chuckles a little, and looks away.) DARIEN: Come on... Wait, no, seriously. ADAM: Uh, there's this, uh, one chick, Callie... DARIEN: Yeah? ADAM: And you know, I mean, I kinda, you know, see her sometimes in class, kinda, you know, looking over at me out of the corner of her eye, you know, how people do when they don't want you to notice? DARIEN: I know exactly what you're talking about. But check this out. Maybe she knows, but she just doesn't want you to think that she knows, that, that... you know, you know. You know? (Adam chuckles.) ADAM: Dang, man, that's, that's devious. DARIEN: Let me tell you something, man. These chicks are very devious creatures. (Darien focuses his attention on the TV again, in time to hear the game say, "Game over!") DARIEN: Okay. Uh, I've clearly have had enough humiliation for the evening. I'm out of my league here. I'm going to crash, all right? ADAM: All right. (Darien pats Adam on the back and gets up off of the floor.) ADAM: Darien? (Darien turns back to Adam.) DARIEN: You know what, I was thinking about that. You were right, it is kind of a dorky name. Why don't you call me Fawkes? What's up? ADAM: All right, uh, Fawkes... am I going to die soon? (Darien crouches back down in front of Adam.) DARIEN: Uh, no. You're not going to die soon, Adam. Alright? I give you my word. ADAM: Okay. (Darien raises his hand.) DARIEN: Shake on it? (Adam looks at Darien, then low-five's him. The two lock hands at the end, and the scene quicksilver fades from there to the open sky. The camera slowly pans down to reveal Darien's car in front of a shack.) MAN: (over phone) We're all set up for your entry. (The camera focuses on Alex, in the back seat of Darien's car. She closes her cell phone and puts it away.) ALEX: Okay, Adam, come with me. ADAM: What about Darien? ALEX: This is as far as he goes. (Adam shakes his head.) ADAM: I'm not going anywhere without him. (Alex pauses for a moment.) ALEX: Okay, but just to get him settled in. (Hobbes speaks up from beside Alex.) HOBBES: What about me? I'm just supposed to sit here baking in the middle of nowheres? (Alex rolls her eyes.) ALEX: Oh my god, this is like running a daycare center. (Everyone gets out of the car and heads towards the structure.) DARIEN: No, it's not. HOBBES: I'll tell you what, go ahead. Don't worry about me, I'll be... DARIEN: It's very warm. HOBBES: ...right here, sokaing up rays. DARIEN: Looks like an outhouse here. HOBBES: Get a little color, a radiant glow. (Alex opens the door, and the other three follow her in. Alex punches keys on a keypad, then puts her hand on a scanner. The keypad/ scanner beeps twice, then an elevator opens. Everyone walks into it, and waits as they are taken down. As soon as the doors open, Alex walks out.) ALEX: Okay, I'll be right back. (Alex walks off, leaving Adam, Darien, and Hobbes. The trio strolls to of the elevator to reveal a structure painted pure white. The three round a corner to reveal Alex heading towards a group of doctors.) DARIEN: All the charm of a dentist's office, huh? (Hobbes looks at Darien, and the thhree start walking down towards Alex.) HOBBES: Nice, huh? DARIEN: Yeah, I like it. HOBBES: You should visit my dentist's office, my friend. DARIEN: Oh, yeah? HOBBES: Oh, yeah. Beautiful, sensational. DARIEN: Really? Oh, the decor? HOBBES: The receptionist. (Darien chuckles.) DARIEN: Oh, the receptionist. You're killing me, my brother. That really wants to make you open wide, huh? Huh? HOBBES: Yeah, absolutely. ADAM: You guys trying to loosen me up? HOBBES: Hey... DARIEN: Yeah, something like that. ADAM: It's not working. DARIEN: Well, it's worth a try. (Darien and Hobbes' smiles disappear as they turn the corner with Adam, to show Alex talking with a doctor.) DOCTOR: These are the guys? ALEX: Yeah. (Adam walks up, flanked by Darien and Hobbes.) ALEX: Adam, this is Dr. Garmen. He'll be leading the team working with you. ADAM: You mean on me. (Garmen chuckles dryly. Hobbes laughs.) HOBBES: Hey, that's my boy. A smart-ass, this kid. (Hobbes winks and clicks his tongue at Garmen. Darien pats Adam on the back.) HOBBES: Watch out for him. DARIEN: We're so proud of you. HOBBES: That's my boy. GARMEN: Yeah. (Garmen leans in and snaps a metal bracelet on Adam's wrist.) ALEX: Cool bracelet. GARMEN: It's, uh, just for identification. Your room is, uh, right down the hall. (points) You want to check it out? ADAM: Where's, uh, Darien going to be staying? ALEX: He and Hobbes are going to be heading back. Their part in this is over. ADAM: Why can't he just stay here with me? ALEX: He can't be of any help here. DARIEN: How about, uh, you know, just until he gets settled in. What do you say? ALEX: Fawkes, no. We don't have time for this. (Alex gives a forced smile.) DARIEN: Let's you and me go check out that room. (Darien takes Adam's shoulder and starts walking, staring at Alex the entire way. Alex glares at Darien as soon as Adam's back is turned. Alex, Hobbes, and Garmen stand in the hallway. Alex and Garmen avoid eye contact with each other and Hobbes. The camera shifts to Adam's room, where Darien and Adam walk towards the bed.) DARIEN: Look, Adam, these guys, man, they understand the problem, you know? They're ready to go, they're set to help. I mean, this is, you know, without a doubt, the best place for you to be right now. (Adam tosses his backpack onto the bed.) ADAM: Well, then how come you can't stay here too? DARIEN: Ah, Ms. Monroe's probably right about that. I'd just get in the way, you know? (Adam sighs, and sits on the bed. Darien follows suit.) DARIEN: Look, uh... sometimes, sometimes stuff's out of our control. And when it is...sometimes the best thing you can do is just sit tight, do nothing, and wait for it to come back in control again. ADAM: Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh... (Darien and Adam are silent for a moment.) ADAM: ...you know, can...can you at least come back to see me? DARIEN: Absolutely. You can count on it. You know, give them a couple of days, you know. Get started on doing whatever it is they got to do, and I'll come back with Nintendo and whip your ass, huh? (Adam snorts.) DARIEN: You take care, okay? ADAM: All right. DARIEN: All right. (Darien gets up and pats Adam's knee.) ADAM: See you in a couple of days. DARIEN: Absolutely. Two days. (Darien leaves the room. Adam stares after Darien, softly dropping his hands into the mattress. Outside the room, Darien strides up the hall towards the doctors, who are conferring with Alex.) DARIEN: Hey. I think he's going to be okay. (Alex freezes for a moment, then starts talking.) ALEX: Good, good. Uh, listen. (Alex takes Darien by the arm and guides him past the doctors.) ALEX: I appreciate you getting him settled in, and I'm thinking you and Hobbes shouuld go on ahead. I've got a lot of paperwork to do, and I'll catch up with you later. Okay? Thanks. (Alex pats him on the back and heads back towards the cluster of doctors.) DARIEN: You sure? ALEX: Positive. See you tomorrow at the Agency. (Darien walks to Hobbes, who is watching the doctors with interest. Darien stares at the group for a few moments.) DARIEN: You feel like there's something going on here? HOBBES: That's right. Nobody's making eye contact. Shifty bunch of bastards. I don't trust anybody. I think you should do a little invisible recon, my friend. DARIEN: Yeah? HOBBES: Uh-huh. DARIEN: It crossed my mind too. HOBBES: Definitely. (Darien and Hobbes look at each other.) DARIEN: I'll meet you outside. HOBBES: You got it. DARIEN: High five? (Darien and Hobbes high-five. Darien quicksilvers and points a finger at Hobbes as he goes.) DARIEN: Word. HOBBES: You're the man. (Darien watches Hobbes head off in quicksilver vision, then turns to the doctors and Alex. As he moves towards the group, they all move towards a door. Garmen punches keys on a keypad, then opens the door. Alex and the doctors walk in.) GARMEN: The temperature in here will reach 2,000 degrees. The only thing left will be five pounds of ash... (Garmen moves to a large metal safe, and opens it up to reveal an incinerator.) GARMEN: Which we'll place in a lead-lined container and bury three miles below the earth's surface. ALEX: Are you sure there's no other way? GARMEN: Positive. ALEX: How long does he have? GARMEN: The bracelet will tell us when the testosterone level's about to peak. Unitl then, we keep him as comfortable as possible. ALEX: But there's no way the virus can escape? GARMEN: No. Once the host has been destroyed, the danger's gone... forever. (The camera zooms in on the flames of the incinerator.) (Fade to commercial.) (The scene returns with Darien shedding quicksilver in Adam�s room. Darien quickly moves over to Adam.) DARIEN: Hey, man. ADAM: Oh, neat. DARIEN: Hey, shh, come here. We gotta be quiet now. (Adam gets off of the bed.) ADAM: What, what�s going on? (Darien places a hand on Adam�s chest.) DARIEN: Uh, we�re going to get you out of here, so don�t say anything, okay? (Darien quicksilvers Adam and grabs his backpack.) ADAM: Oh, man, this is so cool! DARIEN: Shh, would you� come on. Be quiet. Here we go. Come on, come on. Pretty cool, huh? (Darien grabs Adam and quicksilvers. The two move to the door, invisible, and open it.) DARIEN: All right, after you. (The door closes. The camera jumps to the elevator, where Adam and Darien shed quicksilver. Adam feels his arms experimentally, then looks at Darien.) ADAM: So, how come we�re sneaking out? DARIEN: Well, uh, basically, I just don�t want to spend time arguing with these people. ADAM: Yeah, alright, whatever. DARIEN: Mmm, whatever. ADAM: Can you make me disappear again? (Darien smiles.) DARIEN: Maybe later. (Darien clasps Adam�s shoulder. The camera jumps back to Adam�s room, where Garmen and Alex walk in.) GARMEN: I�m sure he�ll be fine� (Alex and Garmen stop, realizing that Adam is gone. Alex rushes out, followed closely by Garmen, who hits an alarm as he runs. The camera jumps back to the elevator, where Darien and Adam hear the alarms.) DARIEN: Uh-oh. Uh, somehow, I think they just noticed you�re gone here, Adam. (The scene shifts to the surface, where Darien and Adam race out of the shack to the car, where Hobbes is waiting.) DARIEN: Come on, Wyatt, let�s get the hell out of Dodge! (Darien and Adam get into the car, and they quickly drive off.) DARIEN: Whooo-hoo! (The camera moves to the inside of the car, where Hobbes pulls a few sharp turns. Adam, in the passenger seat, is jerked around a bit.) DARIEN: Woo-hoo! Go, Starsky, buddy! (Darien pats Hobbes on the shoulder from the back seat, then starts chanting.) DARIEN: Go Starsky, go Starsky, go Starsky, Starsky, Starsky. HOBBES: How come the jailbreak, kid? ADAM: Well, I asked for a better room, and they got pissed. DARIEN: This kid remind you of anybody? (Hobbes points back at Darien.) DARIEN: Uh-huh, me, that�s right. ADAM: He turned me invisible. HOBBES: He turned you in� ADAM: It was so cool! (Hobbes looks back at Darien, who looks worried.) HOBBES: You turned him invisible? How was that? ADAM: It was cool. HOBBES: Yeah? ADAM: Yeah. HOBBES: Did you get that cold rush that goes that goes through you? ADAM: Yeah, dude, it made me an ice cube. HOBBES: It�s like a shock, huh? ADAM: Yeah. DARIEN: Hey, hey, guys, can we please discuss where we�re gonna hide this guy? HOBBES: You have not thought of that?! DARIEN: I�m winging it here, Hobbes, now what are we gonna do with him? HOBBES: You gotta think of these things, you gotta be on top of it, man. Okay, not my place, not your place, not the lab� DARIEN: Oh, those are obvious, right? I got you. So, what do we do. (Hobbes thinks for a moment.) HOBBES: I got it. DARIEN: What? HOBBES: They�ll never find him there. (The scene shifts to the back of a TV, which slowly pans up to reveal Eberts on a sofa, watching TV and eating Creo's with a pillow in his lap.) TV: Before I marry you, I have to tell you. I�m in love with your father and I�m carrying his child. EBERTS: Oh, you�re still a bitch. (Knocking at the door is heard. Eberts looks over while finishing a Creo. He sets the pillow aside, grabs the package of Creo�s, and goes to answer the door. He looks through the blinds on the door. Adam, Hobbes, and Darien are outside. Darien and Hobbes grin at him.) DARIEN: Eberts, come on, open up the door. Come on. (Eberts opens up the door.) EBERTS: What are you doing here? (Hobbes walks in past Eberts, grabbing the package of Creo�s in the process. Adam and Darien follow behind Hobbes.) DARIEN: Hey, how you doing? This is Adam. Adam, Eberts, how you doing? Place looks great. ADAM: Hi. HOBBES: Adam�s gonna need to stay here for a while, Eberts. (Eberts closes the door and walks to the other three.) EBERTS: Adam Reese? HOBBES: That�s right. ADAM: Yeah. Um, guys, how, how come everybody, like, knows me? DARIEN: I don�t know. I guess he heard us mention your name or something. HOBBES: Yeah. Isn�t that right, Eberts? (Eberts stares, and says nothing.) DARIEN: Right? (Eberts stares for a moment more.) EBERTS: Yes, that�s right. DARIEN: Hey, Hobbesy, why don�t, uh, you and Adam just go make a sandwich or something while Eberts and I have a little chat here? (Hobbes responds, still eating the Creo�s.) HOBBES: Oh, got you. Come on, kid. We�re gonna go into the kitchen here. (Eberts takes Adam into the kitchen. Darien and Eberts move in close and stare each other in the face.) EBERTS: Have you lost your mind? DARIEN: How�d you know about him? EBERTS: I read the file. (Darien looks away briefly.) DARIEN: All right, here�s the deal. I gotta keep him out of sight until I can talk to the Keeper. (Eberts purses his lips.) EBERTS: Well, you�d better hurry. DARIEN: Why? EBERTS: According to that file, that bracelet on his wrist is a hormone level indicator. Like your tattoo, the redder it gets, the higher the level. DARIEN: Well, I didn�t notice it being red at all. EBERTS: Oh, it�s going to get red. It�s going to get really red. I imagine you have a few hours, and not a lot of those. DARIEN: All right, uh, but he can chill here for a while? (Eberts looks at Darien, silent.) DARIEN: What? Eberts, come on. (Eberts sighs.) EBERTS: Fine, he can� chill here for a while. But I hope you understand how many people you�re endangering by doing this. DARIEN: Yeah, yeah, trust me, I�m aware. Oh, yeah, uh, one more thing? EBERTS: What? DARIEN: Blood sample. How do I get one? (Eberts raises his eyebrows. The camera suddenly shifts to a blood sample under a microscope.) CLAIRE: What kind of monster would put something like this in a baby? (The camera moves out to show Claire studying the sample. She turns in her chair to face Darien.) CLAIRE: I swear, sometimes I think the worst thing that ever happened to man was the discovery of the wheel. DARIEN: Question is, can you find a way to counteract it? (Claire shakes her head. She gets up and crosses her arms as she moves to another part of the Keep.) DARIEN: What? No? CLAIRE: No. DARIEN: What do you mean, no? Come on, you�re the Keeper, for god�s sakes, you always got a solution, right? (Claire turns to face Darien.) CLAIRE: Well, yes, I�m sure there�s a solution, I just don�t know how long it�s going to take. I mean, maybe I�ll find it tomorrow, maybe it takes me 20 years. DARIEN: Well, great, well, if Eberts is right, we may not have 20 hours. CLAIRE: What are you going to do? DARIEN: I don�t know. (The camera shifts to the door of the Keep. Alex is standing in front of the door. Darien opens the door and spots Alex.) DARIEN: Oh, crap. ALEX: Where is he, Fawkes? (Darien quickly moves to the side and presses a button rapidly, closing the door. Alex swipes a keycard through the slot on her side, reopening the door. Darien looks past Alex curiously.) DARIEN: Where�s who? ALEX: Damn it, Fawkes, you�re playing around with the lives of millions of people. (Darien tries to get around Alex, and spins by her. Alex catches up and walks with Darien.) DARIEN: Yeah, well, you know what? I have trouble grasping the concept of a million people. I�m much better at smaller, more intimate ones, like say, oh, one? Adam Reese? ALEX: Oh, that�s very noble. Insane, but noble. DARIEN: Oh, but it�s perfectly sane to be in a business where you incinerate kids? Huh? Hey, what if Adam was your kid? (Alex and Darien stop in front of a pair of doors. The two continue the conversation silhouetted by the glass panes in the doors.) ALEX: That�s why I�m doing this, to save my child, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of other children. DARIEN: Just like that, huh? Damn, you are cold. (Darien pushes on one of the doors and walks through. Alex follows him.) ALEX: No, not just like that. I�ll probably never sleep well for the rest of my life. But you know what? I�m gonna do this, so tell me where he is. DARIEN: No, no way. I gave Adam my word we�d help him. ALEX: Okay, well, then you misinformed him, because there is nothing you can do except save the lives of the people he�s going to kill. (Darien looks away from Alex.) ALEX: And cold has nothing to do with it. (Darien looks up at Alex.) DARIEN: Maybe it does. ALEX: What? DARIEN: Maybe there�s a way to save him. Come on. (Darien and Alex move off, and the scene quicksilver fades to the open desert, where Darien stands near his car. He turns to face a man shown only from the legs down.) DARIEN: Hey, nice night. Glad you could make it. (The camera moves out to reveal Jared Stark, also standing near his limo.) STARK: Let�s dispense with the pleasantries, shall we, Darien? DARIEN: Fine, fine. Chrysalis wants the kid, I got him. STARK: In return for what? DARIEN: Some guarantees. STARK: Such as? DARIEN: Look, you guys want to study him, fine. Deploy him, fine, do whatever you want. Just don�t do it while I�m alive, all right? STARK: And what do we do with him in the meantime? DARIEN: Well, I got a little idea for that. I�m thinking maybe we ought to stick him in one of those cryo-pods you�re keeping all those nerds in. You know, keep him safe and sound, what do you say? STARK: That�s all you want. DARIEN: That�s it. STARK: And why should we trust your government with this? DARIEN: Look, I�m not here on their behalf, okay? They want to destroy Adam, I don�t. (Stark looks away briefly, then nods.) STARK: Fair enough, but I pick the time and place. DARIEN: Okay, you�re offending me now. Okay, I call you and say, "Hey, let me do you a favor," and you say you don�t trust me? STARK: It�s my nature. DARIEN: Ah. STARK: Besides, I seem to recall that you were once a thief, no? DARIEN: Well, Stark, I�d love to stay here and reminisce with you, but, uh� I got the kid. I pick the time. I pick the place. STARK: All right, Fawkes. By the way, how close is the boy, to, uh, going off. DARIEN: Close enough that you might want to bring those cryo-pods with you when you come. (Darien and Stark stare at each other.) (Fade to commercial.) (The scene returns outside the Agency building.) DARIEN: (voice-over) Hey, look, we know these people. How they think, what they do. ALEX: There�s too much at stake here. (The camera moves inside, where the Official, Alex, Darien, and Hobbes are gathered around a table. The Official is on the phone.) HOBBES: Absolutely. Couldn�t agree with you more. DARIEN: Yeah, that�s why we got to go in alone. ALEX: Uh-uh. No cowboying on this one. (The Official hangs up the phone.) OFFICIAL: Does anybody know where the hell Eberts is? (The camera zooms to Eberts� house, where he and Adam are playing the Nintendo.) EBERTS: Oh, who has released the dogs?! (The camera zooms back to Hobbes.) HOBBES: How would we know that? OFFICIAL: It�s two o�clock in the damn morning. He�s supposed to be in bed. DARIEN: Maybe he is. With somebody else. (The Official looks at Darien skeptically.) OFFICIAL: Eberts? HOBBES: Yeah. OFFICIAL: I can�t picture it. Don�t be ridiculous. (The Official chuckles.) HOBBES: I�m sure� ALEX: Can we get back to the case? There�s a time issue here. DARIEN: Exactly. So don�t waste it by putting together a group that�s just going to get in the way. ALEX: You are not going in without backup. HOBBES: Backup usually turns into screwup. DARIEN: Ms. Monroe, come on. You�ve seen what we can do. ALEX: (scoffs) Yeah, which is exactly why I want this on book. DARIEN: How do you think she�d look with a whistle and clipboard, huh? HOBBES: It would work. DARIEN: Yeah? Hey, boss, can you explain to her how it works here, please? (Darien points to the Official.) OFFICIAL: Ms. Monroe� these are my two top men. (The Official holds out his arms. Darien and Hobbes roll in under each arm. Alex smiles and rolls her eyes.) OFFICIAL: They do their best work alone. ALEX: Is that your final word? OFFICIAL: It is. HOBBES: You tell �em, Chief. DARIEN: That�s very nice, very convincing. (Alex sighs, then nods.) ALEX: Well, I�m overruling it. OFFICIAL: You don�t have the authority. ALEX: Really? Well, it�s three hours later on the East Coast, I could make a phone call� OFFICIAL: Ah, ah, ah� (The Official looks disturbed and removes his arms from around Darien and Hobbes.) OFFICIAL: No, that won�t be necessary. HOBBES: That�s it, Chief. Stick it to �em. OFFICIAL: Not at all, no. Boys, you�re going in with backup. (Both Darien�s and Hobbes� faces fall. Alex gets up and walks towards the door.) ALEX: Let�s go. (Alex leaves.) HOBBES: That�s not good. (Darien sighs as the two get up.) DARIEN: Think Bill Gates treats his people like this, huh? HOBBES: Pays them a lot more, I�ll tell you that. DARIEN: Couldn�t pay them worse. (Darien and Hobbes leave the room. The Official sighs, then picks up the phone and redials. He gets Eberts� answering machine.) EBERTS: (over phone) Greetings, this is Eberts. I can�t come to the phone right now. Please leave a message. (The machine beeps. The Official hangs up and sighs again.) OFFICIAL: Eberts, you�re not entitled to a sex life. (The scene shifts back to Eberts� house, where Eberts and Adam are still playing the video game.) EBERTS: Oh, no, don�t hit it. Oh, who�s getting jiggy with it? Who�s getting jiggy with� I think I�I�Ohh! (Eberts wins the game. Adam grimaces and buries his face in the controller.) EBERTS: Who is the man? Who is the man, sir?! (Eberts pauses, and calms down.) EBERTS: I believe that�s me. (Adam looks over at Eberts.) ADAM: God, man, I mean� dude, you have got to spend, like, all your free time playing. EBERTS: Actually, I have many outside interests. This is simply one of them. (Knocking is heard. Eberts gets up to answer the door. Adam picks up the controller as Eberts moves to the door.) EBERTS: Who�s there? DARIEN: It�s me. (Eberts moves to open the door, then pauses.) EBERTS: What�s the password? DARIEN: There is no password, Eberts. EBERTS: There is no password? DARIEN: There�s no password. EBERTS: I was certain we had a password. DARIEN: There was no freaking password! EBERTS: Perhaps in the future, we should assign a default password. DARIEN: Hey, will you open up the door, please, Eberts? (Eberts opens the door.) DARIEN: Thank you. (Adam looks over to see Darien come in.) ADAM: Oh, hey, Darien. DARIEN: Hey. What, what are you guys still doing up? EBERTS: He had trouble sleeping. ADAM: Yeah, so he spent the last few hours clobbering me at Death Maze. (Adam resumes playing as Eberts and Darien talk quietly.) DARIEN: How are we doing here? (Eberts looks at Adam, whose bracelet is turning red.) EBERTS: We don�t have much time. DARIEN: All right. Okay, we�d better take off here, Adam. ADAM: Oh, where? DARIEN: I got an idea how to solve your problem. All right, let's hit it now. (Darien moves to Adam, and the two head for the door.) EBERTS: Uh, can I go? (Darien stops.) DARIEN: Eebs, remember what happened the last time you came? Hmm? EBERTS: Right. I�ll stay here. (Darien nods.) DARIEN: That�d be best. (Eberts moves to the sofa as Darien and Adam leave.) EBERTS: Take care, Adam. ADAM: All right, see you. (Eberts watches as the two leave, then slowly sits down on the couch. The scene fades to the desert, where Adam and Darien are waiting on top of the car.) ADAM: So, what you�re saying is that, this thing�s like a freezer or something? DARIEN: Yeah, yeah, that�s, that�s pretty much the idea, you know. So, we�ll keep you on ice until we can figure out a way to make you safe, and then we�ll thaw you out. ADAM: That�s going to work? (Darien is silent for a moment.) DARIEN: Uh-huh. (Adam stares at Darien for a while, then looks away. Suddenly, a tractor-trailer drives over a hill and into view.) DARIEN: Well, they�re here. ALEX: (over radio) Let them come toward you. DARIEN: Hey, you know, it�s not like I�m a mission virgin or anything. I�ve done this before, sissy. ALEX: (over radio) Oh, that�s very reassuring. (Darien and Adam exchange glances, then wait for the trailer to pull up. The door to the cab opens, and Stark, accompanied by a Chrysalis agent, steps out.) DARIEN: All right, Miss Expert, here they come. How close do I let them get? ALEX: (over radio) Wait until they�re a hundred feet from you. (Darien waits for a bit, then gets up.) DARIEN: Okay, let�s move out. (Darien and Adam head towards Stark. As they walk, Adam gives Darien nervous glances. Darien puts an arm around Adam.) DARIEN: All right, buddy, you cool? ADAM: All right. (As Darien and Adam walk, the camera pans back to the car, where Alex slowly looks out from the front seat. The two groups meet each other and stop.) DARIEN: You look good, I like those shades. Are they Armani? (Stark removes the orange shades and looks at Darien. Alex pulls a walkie-talkie out.) ALEX: Now. (Agents spring out from the nearby underbrush, brandishing guns.) AGENT: Freeze! (Darien grabs Adam and runs with him out of the line of fire. The Chrysalis agent shoves Stark out of the way as well. The back of the trailer opens up, and Chrysalis agents pour out. The two sides exchange fire. Alex gets out of the car and gets behind it in time to meet Darien and Adam.) DARIEN: Come here, come here, get over here. Stay down. (Adam struggles against Darien.) DARIEN: Adam, hey, Adam! (Adam breaks free and runs off.) ALEX: I�ll get him, you get the cryo-pod. (Darien quicksilvers and heads towards the trailer as Alex chases after Adam. Darien, invisible, gets in the cab and drives the trailer off. The Chrysalis agents run off. Stark gets up and sees the trailer leaving.) STARK: Darien! (Alex catches up to Adam and holds him, despite his struggling.) ADAM: Let go of me! ALEX: You have to come with me! ADAM: You�re trying to kill me! ALEX: We�re trying to save you! ADAM: I don�t believe you, alright?! Something bad was gonna happen to me at that place you took me to. ALEX: That�s because we knew no other way, and now we do. ADAM: I don�t believe you. ALEX: You have to. ADAM: Why? (Alex spins down to face him.) ALEX: Because, I don�t want you to die. (The scene moves to the trailer, now parked by a field. The camera moves inside, to the cryo-pod and other equipment. Darien, Hobbes, and Claire are gathered there. Darien opens the top of the cryo-pod.) CLAIRE: Where�d you learn to work that? DARIEN: Oh, uh, when we were retrieved Kate, I saw how it worked. (Adam and Alex join the group. Adam looks at the cryo-pod.) ADAM: So, that�s the thing? DARIEN: Yeah, that�s it. ADAM: Looks like a coffin. HOBBES: Just think of it as a life raft. ADAM: Yeah, okay. (Adam starts to climb in, but Darien stops him.) DARIEN: Uh, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on. (Adam gets back out.) DARIEN: (to Claire) Is there any time left, do you think? I mean, does he have to get in right now? (Claire sighs.) CLAIRE: Come here, sweetheart. (Claire takes Adam�s hand, and checks his bracelet, which is steadily pulsing red.) CLAIRE: Uh, no, it�s not much. DARIEN: Well, I�m thinking maybe we can run a few more tests or something, know what I mean? ALEX: Darien� the bracelet�s only an indication. DARIEN: Yeah, that�s exactly what I�m saying. There may be more time, right? ALEX: Or less time. HOBBES: Listen, partner, this isn�t the best time for second thoughts. DARIEN: I�m not having second thoughts, I just think� ADAM: (interrupting) Put me in there. DARIEN: Hey�I�m not a hundred percent sure this thing�s going to work. ADAM: I am, okay? (Darien stares at Adam.) ADAM: Hey, you know� it�s just like you said. I just sat tight. This one�s in my control. DARIEN: All right. (Darien clasps hands with Adam.) ADAM: Okay. DARIEN: All right, let�s do it. (Adam climbs into the cryo-pod, and looks back up at Darien.) ADAM: See you later, okay? DARIEN: Yeah, you�ll see me later. (Darien pats Adam�s chest.) DARIEN: You take care. ADAM: All right. (Darien closes the pod lid, then watches as the cryo-pod activates. Adam looks up at Darien as the cryonic gases swirl over his face, obscuring him from view.) (Fade to commercial.) (The scene returns in the Official�s office, where the Official is inches from Eberts� face. Hobbes watches the two.) OFFICIAL: So you have no idea where they kept the boy last night? EBERTS: Why would you think I would, sir? OFFICIAL: A direct answer, Eberts. Did you hide the boy last night? HOBBES: Oh, sir, that would be a direct violation of policy, sir. (The Official grabs Hobbes� shirt and lifts him up without looking.) OFFICIAL: I�m well aware of that, Hobbes. (The Official sets Hobbes back down.) EBERTS: Sir, no one has adhered to or followed the guidelines and bylines of this agency more closely than I have. OFFICIAL: You still haven�t answered my question, Eberts. (The Official and Eberts stare at each other for a moment.) EBERTS: No sir, I did not hide him. OFFICIAL: Mmm. Aah, all right, you�re both dismissed. (The scene shifts to the hallway. Eberts walks down the hallway, and Hobbes quickly catches up.) HOBBES: Hey, Eberts, Eberts! That was nice work in there, man. You lied like a pro. Very nice. (Eberts and Hobbes stop at the end of the hallway.) EBERTS: Not at all, Robert. The term "hide" implies "keeping from view". Technically, he was in plain sight at all times. HOBBES: There�s hope for you yet, hope for you yet. (Hobbes pats Eberts on the shoulder and walks off.) EBERTS: Well� (Eberts raises a hand and starts to talk, then waves it off and heads in the other direction. The camera moves to Darien, who is sitting by Adam�s cryo-pod, playing with the basketball.) DARIEN: Oh, hey, did I tell you that, uh, Eberts, he got you a new game for the Nintendo? It�s pretty cool, it�s snowboard racing. (The camera starts slowly moving down the hallway, zooming out on Darien.) DARIEN: By the time you get out of here, I�ll probably be able to kick your butt. At least for the first couple of games, anyway. Anyway, I was thinking about, uh, thinking about your jumper the other day. It actually wasn�t that bad, it wasn�t that nasty. You just, you just kinda get up�over your arm, and let it fly. DARIEN: (voice-over) When God created Adam, he put him in the most perfect place on Earth. I hope this Adam wakes up to a world like that. (Fade to credits.) |