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| The Pilot Transcribed by invisible_mom |
(Next scene � The van is parked under a sign that says �Mammoth � Medical Supplies) (Next scene � Eddie the Mammoth is studying an x-ray of Darien�s skull. Darien is sitting on a table. He is smoking a cigarette.) Eddie: �OK kid, I�m gonna take a whack at it.� Darien: �Take a whack at it? Eddie, come on, this is my brain we�re talking�� Eddie: �Hey, hey, relax kid, it�s Eddie the Mammoth. I�m the one who took 8 bullets out of Charlie Iellos hippocampus. How you feeling otherwise?� Darien: �Pretty good.� Eddie: �You�re not drinking or anything. Your liver is good, your kidneys are good. Darien: �Oh yeah, it�s good.� Eddie: �And you do have an organ donor card?� Darien: �Sure.� (short pause) �Why?� Eddie: �You just stay right there. I gotta make a quick call.� (Eddie leaves the room. Darien looks around and sees a refrigerated unit with thermos containers with labels that say �Human Organs � Handle With Care/Human Kidneys � Handle With Care. He realizes that Eddie may be planning on harvesting his organs. He hops off the table, grabs the x-ray, and runs.) (Next scene � he is parked outside a hospital) Darien Voice-over: �No, I had to face facts. There was only one person I could look to now.� (He is looking at a wallet size picture of him and Casey) �And she was the last one who would want to see me.� (Next scene � Casey is in a hospital room bandaging a boy�s wrist. Darien is peeking through the window in the door. She is speaking to the boy to put him at ease.) Casey: �Ten! Do you have any older brothers?� Boy: �Yes, two. Two older brothers.� Casey: �Two older brothers! So, what do you want to be when you grow up?� Boy: �I want to be a fireman.� Casey: �Really! Well, when I was little, I wanted to be a rodeo clown, but my dad was really pushing biochemistry, and my mom was in that whole 90�s neurophysics craze. So they kind of made me split the difference with this MD/PHD program at Hopkins. I said, �Guys, I�m seventeen.� Darien voice-over: �They say memory is a luxury only those who go straight can afford. But for Casey O�Claire, I�d always empty my pockets.� (During her speech and the voice-over, the camera is on Casey�s face. Now it pulls back to reveal Darien sitting in the chair having his hand bandaged approximately one year earlier.) Casey: �What do you do, Mr. Fawkes?� Darien: �Oh, I, ah, well, I�m ah,� (glances at a Red Cross blood donation poster hanging nearby) �I�m in humanitarian aid.� (Next scene � Darien and Casey are having a quiet dinner together. The camera pans past some photos.) Casey: �Thank you, Darien. I haven�t had an evening like this in a long time.� Darien: �No, you know, me neither actually. Case, look, I kinda gotta come clean about something here. I mean I�m� I mean I�m really ah, (chickens out) I�m really looking forward to seeing you again.� (Next scene � the camera pans past some pictures of Darien and Casey. It is obviously later in their relationship. They are sitting on a couch talking.) Darien: �Now I don�t want you to feel rushed.� Casey: �I don�t feel rushed. What�s wrong.� Darien: �Well, you now, I�m just afraid that you don�t really know me.� Casey: �I know you�re good. And I know you�re gentle. And I know you�d never hurt me. I trust you.� (She leans over and kisses him.) (Next scene � Darien and Casey are standing up, holding each other, talking) Darien: �You know baby, I think I could do it. I think I could quit.� Casey: �Why would you quit UNICEF for me?� Darien: �Well, you know, it�s just, I�m trying you know. I mean I am really, really trying.� Casey: �Darien, what are you trying to do?� (Switch to the courtroom scene, the old man is on the stand saying, �He tried to have his way with me. I can still feel his hands groping me. Bastard! I�m telling you, that son of a bitch robbed me of my manhood.� (Darien swivels around to look at Casey. She is furious.) �What am I gonna tell my grandchildren? God, I feel so violated.) (Next scene � Darien looking through the window at Casey bandaging the boy. She looks up, but he is gone. (Voice � Dr. Mackey to Radiology) (Next scene � Casey is going through some folders on a shelf. The camera pulls back to show Darien standing just inside the door.) Darien: �Hey Case. CASEY!!! If you ever loved me, don�t leave!� (He follows her across the room. She turns to confront him) �Thank you baby, thank you for believing�� (She punches him in the stomach) �Oh! Oh, OK, no you�re right, I deserved it.� (She slaps his face hard) �Oh, boy, that hurt!� (She walks away) �Look Case, Case, I�m sick.� (She turns around and he gives her the puppy dog eyes.) (Next scene � Darien and Casey are walking down a hallway) Casey: �Come on, Darien!� Darien: �What?� Casey: �You�re telling me that someone micro-grafted a synthetic bio-partition to your cerebral cortex. Do you know how lame that sounds?� Darien: �Yeah, of course, when you say it like that.� Casey: �It�s a physical impossibility Darien.� Darien: �Casey, I showed you the x-ray.� Casey: �This?� Darien: �Yeah!� Casey: �This looks like you could have gotten it from Kinkos.� Darien: �Come on, I got it from a doctor.� Casey: �Fine. Let�s hear it from him, Darien.� Darien: �Fine. It�s 555-1293.� (Casey punches the number into the phone) Casey: �What�s his name?� Darien: �Eddie the Mammoth.� (Casey hangs up the phone) �What? He�s a licensed physician. Hey Case, would you come on. Why would I lie about this?� Casey: �Oh, I don�t know Darien. Maybe for the same reason you conned me.� Darien: �No, no, no, wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. That was different. That wasn�t even technically a con.� Casey: �That wasn�t technically a �� (She shoves Darien into an empty room) Darien: �What? What?� Casey: �You told me you worked for UNICEF. You told my mother that you worked for UNICEF.� Darien: �What was I supposed to say to your mother?� Casey: �360 days I am falling in love with a total lie, and that is not technically a con?� Darien: �No, no, see a con is for profit. I did that because I�� Casey: �What?� Darien: �I did it because� Come on Case!� Casey: �What do you want from me Darien? You say your brother did this to you, go to him.� Darien: �I can�t.� Casey: �Why? You break his heart too?� Darien: �No. I got him killed. You wanted the truth Case. He died in my arms.� Casey: (taking a deep breath): �OK Darien. Alright. What is going on?� Darien: I just need you to get this thing out of me.� (They look at the x-ray again.) Casey: �Yeah, but you haven�t told me what it is.� Darien: �No, no, I can�t darlin, people are dying over this. I can�t get you involved.� Casey: �And since when have you been Mr. Selfless.� Darien: �OK, look Case, I am trying to get justice for Kevin. OK, you get involved, I�ve got to get justice for you. You know. Then it just becomes this whole big thing. You know what I mean?� Casey: �You just can�t stop can you?� Darien: �Stop what?� Casey: �Playing games.� Darien: �Case, I�m not playing�� Casey: �You are. And the stupidest thing is how badly I still want to believe you.� Darien: �Listen to me. I swear on my brother�s grave I�m not playing games with you.� Casey: �Then prove it.� Darien: �OK. Alright, just, you can�t tell anyone what you�re not gonna see.� (Darien backs up, turns around, does some deep breathing, turns around, and yells �HA!� Nothing happens. Casey turns away and Darien looks down and realizes he is still visible. He pushes her out the door.) Casey: �Darien!� Darien: �I can do this. Just give me a second.� (You can hear Darien inside saying �Come on, here we go, you da man,� several times while Casey stands outside of the office confused. Then you hear him say, �Damn it!� Inside you can see he�s still visible. Suddenly, he grabs the back of his head in pain and goes down on one knee. He knocks over a cart of medical supplies. Casey comes in and finds him on his knees, groaning, and clutching the back of his head.) Casey: �Are we about finished Darien? Darien, enough is enough. I don�t have time for�� (Darien looks up and she sees his bloodshot eyes) Casey: �Oh my God!� (Darien attacks her and pushes her up against the wall. She yells, �Darien, stop!� Darien: �Get away from me, get away�� (He runs out of the room, down the hall, and out of the hospital, back to the van. He struggles with the pain, trying to regain control.) Darien voice-over: �It took all my will to put the demon back in it�s bottle. But even that couldn�t prepare me for what was coming next.� (A guy in a dark suit and dark glasses is standing on the sidewalk staring at Darien.) Darien: �Who the hell are you?� (He is hit from behind by a second guy.) Darien voice-over: �I had no idea who they were, but I can tell you this much. Their car was really cheap.� (Next scene - The Official�s office. Darien is unconscious, sitting in a chair. One of the agents uses smelling salts to bring him around.) The Official (TO): �Good morning, Mr. Fawkes.� Darien: �Who the hell are you?� Eberts: �Security prohibits him from giving his actual name, Mr. Fawkes. For now you can simply call him The Official.� Darien: �The official what?� Eberts: �Oh, don�t worry, you�re safe. You�re at The Agency.� Darien: �The Agency.� TO: �We�re the guys who underwrote your brother�s project.� Darien: �CIA?� TO: �Not exactly.� Darien: �NSA?� (TO points over his shoulder at the big federal seal on the wall) �Department of Fish and Game. Ah Jeez, you gotta be freakin kidding me.� TO: �No, they�re just our temporary sponsors. The Department of Defense had a few cutbacks this year. But Fish and Game had a surplus, so we kinda got absorbed.� (TO starts to leave the room) �Darien!� (Everyone leaves the room and starts walking down a long hallway) Darien: �Hey wait, wait, wait. How the hell did you guys find me? You got like an Audubon Society spy satellite or something?� TO� �We staked out your girlfriend�s hospital. Then we jumped you.� Eberts: �One needs to be resourceful when one is underfunded.� Darien: �Yeah, well you know what? I don�t appreciate being kidnapped.� TO� �No? Well maybe you appreciate this.� (He hands Darien a picture, then walks away.) Darien: �Arnaud.� (shot of a picture of Arnaud without glasses. Darien looks at the 2 agents in black behind him, then starts jogging down the hall to catch up to TO and Eberts) �Hey, you got anymore of these?� (Next Scene - several outside and inside shots of Arnaud�s hacienda) Voice in French: �Attention Monsieur La Range!� (I think they are saying Attention Mr. Rat, but my knowledge of French is almost non-existent. They are saying it loudly to frighten the rat so he will quicksilver. He does. We see Huisclos and Dr. Ingrim watching the cage, but we don�t see the rat. We then hear a sound like desilvering, then Huisclos gets angry.) Huisclos: (grabbing Dr. Ingrim by his lapels): �You said you wouldn�t hurt it!� Dr. I.: �I told you, I can�t recreate the gland effectively until you give me that last microdisk.� Huisclos: �And I told you Ingrim, the disk is in transit!� (Huisclos pushes Ingrim away and storms out of the room. The camera pans down to the rat�s cage and we see a bloody blob and hear sizzling noises.) (Next scene � We see an x-ray of an intestinal tract. Arnaud draws a circle around the microdisk. Huisclos walks in.) Huisclos: �Anything? Merde!� Arnaud: �Patience. It can�t stay in there forever.� Huisclos: �It doesn�t have to. The auction is in 3 days. What are you going to do? Are you going to walk in there empty handed? Oh, the disk is in here.� (Points to his torso.) Arnaud: �My hands are never empty.� Huisclos: �No, there�s too much blood on them. (Huisclos pulls out a bottle of Pepto Bismol and swallows a mouthful.) Arnaud: �Oh dear, have I aggravated your little ulcer?� Huisclos: �You promised me Arnaud. You said after we finished this I could quit.� Arnaud: �Did I?� Huisclos: �Oh, dammit! Haven�t I done enough for you?� Arnaud: �No man can do enough for his brother.� Huisclos: �You�re insane. INSANE! I don�t know what is going to cost you more in the end, your arrogance or this irregularity.� Arnaud: �Question my bowels all you like, Huisclos, but never, ever doubt my will.� (Arnaud holds up a small scalpel.) (Next scene � someone is spreading a brown antiseptic on someone prepped for surgery. We see hands in rubber gloves choosing surgical instruments. We then see Arnaud performing surgery on himself while his brother holds a mirror over him, and 2 medical personnel look on. He asks his brother to stop shaking the mirror. He finally pulls the microdisk out of his intestinal tract.) (Next scene � A computer screen states: Disk unreadable. Would you like to try another?) Dr. Ingrim: �It�s not my fault. Your stomach acid must have corrupted it. Forgive me, but without that data, there�s nothing more that I can do.� (Arnaud holds the scalpel up to Dr. Ingrim�s face) �Unless I had Fawkes original gland to work from.� Huisclos: �Good luck finding him. He�s probably long gone by now.� (Arnaud slashes the back of Huisclos hand with the scalpel.) Arnaud: �We don�t need your attitude, brother. We just need Darien Fawkes.� (Next scene � The Official�s office. Darien is looking at different pictures of Arnaud) Eberts: �We believe your Arnaud de Thiel may very well be Arnaud de Phoen.� Darien: �The Phone.� TO: �DE PHOEN! His nomme de guerre. It�s Swiss-German for Savage Alpine Wind.� Eberts: �It also means hairdryer.� TO: �Interpol calls him the Swiss bank of terrorism. He supplies other organizations with weapons, funds�� Eberts: �Somehow he managed to infiltrate your brother�s team.� TO: �And that�s just the start. Word is 8 terrorist groups just sent their buyers to his hacienda. Seems De Phoen is having a little auction.� Eberts: �Quicksilver to the highest bidder.� TO: �Invisible suicide bombers�� Eberts: �See-thru assassins�� TO: �Not a pretty picture.� Darien: �Yeah, well I didn�t draw it.� TO: �No, but you can erase it.� Eberts: �You can steal the quicksilver formula back for us.� Darien: �Me? What about the CIA or NSA?� Eberts: �You�re our best weapon, and frankly, this incident has been a bit embarrassing for The Agency. We�d prefer to keep it, ah, �� TO: �Under the hoopa.� Darien: �You�re telling me the rest of the government doesn�t even know about this project? (long pause) Oh Jeez. Oh, so, so you screwed up and now, now I�m supposed to save your ass. You know what? I don�t think so.� TO: Excuse me, but who is the one with his brain turning to Alpo? You need the counteragent, we need the formula. You get them back to us, with De Phoen, we�ll get you back to normal.� Darien: �Let me ask you a question. Why would you trust me? I could just make a deal with him.� TO: �Yeah, sure, you could. But will he give you what you�re really looking for, like, Oh I don�t know, justice?� (Shot of Darien holding a bloody, bullet-ridden Kevin in his arms) Darien: �That is a crock of blatant manipulation.� TO: �Yeah. But as crocks of blatant manipulation go, it�s pretty good.� (Darien, exasperated, sits back in his chair. He says Jesus Christ under his breath.) (Next scene � a bunch of random scenes of Mexico. Then we see Darien standing in a Mexican marketplace) TO�s voice-over: �Our intelligence puts De Phoen�s safe house somewhere in northern Mexico. Now, you�re not going in alone. We�re linking you up with our best deep cover agent. He�ll identify himself to you by the standard methods.� (Darien is holding half a business card. He is casually looking around for his contact. He makes eye contact with another American dressed in a dark suit. The guy walks over and says, �You expecting someone?�) Darien: �My better half.� (The man smiles and pulls out his business card to match it to Darien�s card. They don�t match. The man says, �Sorry. My mistake.� He puts his card away, looks around, and wanders off.) (Suddenly Darien hears someone say, �Oh, that was smooth.� He turns around and we see Bobby Hobbes sipping on a tropical drink. Hobbes walks up to him, pulls out his card, and after Darien hesitates says, �Go on. Do you think I�d be your frickin friend if you didn�t have a frickin card?� |