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| The Pilot Transcribed by invisible_mom |
(Next scene - Darien riding the motor scooter from the loncheria across an open, desert like area.) (Next scene - Inside the hacienda. Arnaud has 2 men bring an unconscious Huisclos into the livingroom. Casey is there.) Arnaud: �Come on. Bring him in the livingroom and put him on the couch.� Casey: �What happened?� Arnaud: �Easy, easy, easy. The idiot left his safety off. He shot himself in the foot. I think he�s in shock.� Casey: �Elevate his foot, elevate his foot.� Arnaud: �Do what she says!� Casey: �Mr. Griffin, calm down. I will take care of him.� Arnaud: �Alright. I�m going to go call an ambulance.� (Next scene - Arnaud walks outside the house, checks his gun, walks to the other end of the hacienda, and enters a door. Then we see him enter and walk through an underground complex on the security monitors. They are in normal mode. He gets to his office. Two men are already there.) Arnaud: �Get your men ready. He�s on his way.� (Both men speak into headsets.) (Next scene - Darien is riding on the scooter. He stops, gets off, walks a few steps, grabs the back of his head, and goes down on his knees having an attack. He beats on the back of his head while he groans in pain. You can hear the whispery voices in his head. He starts to rise.) Darien: �The attacks were unbearable now. My sanity was slipping like a brick on a Frisco hill. To go invisible might just push me over the edge. But I had to try. This wasn�t about me anymore. This was for my brother, my girl. My conscience was calling, and it was time to get De Phoen.� (Darien walks through a wooded area, heading for the hacienda.) (Next scene - Darien arrives at the hacienda. He pulls out binoculars and checks out the area.) Darien voice-over: �Sound triggered alarms. The slightest noise would set them off. No, I guess invisibility alone wasn�t gonna cut it here.� (We see Darien�s arm and watch turn invisible.) (Next scene - A computer layout of the hacienda is flashing and an alarm is sounding. The words �Perimeter Breach� are on the screen.) Arnaud: �Perimeter breach! First team go!� (4 men leave. 2 have fire extinguishers. They run outside, then over to a large picture window. After they spray the extinguishers, they find Darien�s watch, with the alarm going off. We then see Darien�s point of view in quicksilver vision. He looks around, then heads for the door the men came out of. He goes through the door, and you can see his footprints on the mat outside.) (Next scene - Arnaud�s office) Arnaud: �He�s here. His exterior temperature is minus 10 degrees Centigrade. Put on your goggles and set your instruments accordingly. (Both men leave.) Arnaud: �Take us to thermal imaging. (He turns around to a bank of monitors. We see a white image of Darien entering the building, coming down the staircase, and walking down a hallway. Suddenly, Darien cries out in pain and crumples against a wall.) (Arnaud picks up a hand held device that is linked to the intercom system, and starts speaking.) �Good afternoon Mr. Fawkes. You�re not feeling very well are you? It�s quicksilver madness. Don�t worry. It�s only going to get worse.� (Suddenly Arnaud�s second team enters the hallway. They �see� Darien. He sees them and starts running. They shoot at him and miss. They start chasing Darien through the complex while Arnaud watches on the monitors.) Arnaud: �He�s in the weapons locker.� (Arnaud pulls his gun, and goes to join his men. He meets up with them and they head for the weapons locker.) Arnaud: �Remember, don�t aim for the head!� (Just before they reach the locker, Darien bursts out of the door with a shotgun pointed at his head.) Darien: (shouts): Nobody move or the gland gets it!� (The 4 men stand there pointing guns at each other in a Mexican stand off.) Darien: �OK, back off. I said (shouts and chambers the shotgun) BACK OFF!� (Arnaud puts his gun up. He tells his men, �Do what he says.� They start backing down the ramp.) Darien: �It�s what you want isn�t it? Then I�d highly suggest (shouting) you don�t screw with me! Move, move, I want them back, back! Arnaud: �Allay, allay!� Darien: �Back. OK guns down. (shouting) Guns down!� Arnaud: �And what is it you want Monsieur?� Darien: �I want her out of here right now.� Arnaud: �No. I mean what is it you really want?� (He pulls out the bottle of counteragent. Darien stares at it.) �You can almost smell it, can�t you? The counteragent. You can�t resist. Believe me I know. I helped design it that way.� (Arnaud pulls out a syringe and starts filling it.) Darien: �What?� Arnaud: �You don�t think I would create an invisible man without a means to control him do you? I mean, alone he�d be all powerful, but make him dependent on a drug, a counteragent�� Darien: �My God! You sound like a cheap pusher.� Arnaud: �A regulator, Monsieur. Terrorism is the currency of the 21st century and quicksilver will corner the market. I can sell the gland to as many zealots as I want, and their violence begets more violence. And that�s fine because no matter where they go or what they do, they have to come back to me for this.� (Arnaud has been filling the syringe with counteragent while he was talking. At the end of his speech he looks at Darien. Darien suddenly looks as if he is caving in under too much pressure. He slides down the wall he is leaning against and sits on the floor, still holding the shotgun. Arnaud�s men move forward, but he waves them back.) Darien: �That is a � I mean that�s � That�s a great scam!� Arnaud: �You think?� Darien: �Oh hell yeah. It�s a license to print money.� Arnaud: �Well then. (Arnaud squats down beside Darien) �Come on board.� Darien: (slowly looks at Arnaud like a sleepwalker): �You killed my brother.� Arnaud: �So what? I�ll kill mine. We�ll be even. We are the brothers, you and I. Our natures are the same.� (Arnaud stands up) �Besides, I�m the only one who knows how to take the gland out.� (Darien looks up at Arnaud with a stricken look on his face. Arnaud offers his hand to Darien to help him up. Darien looks at Arnaud�s hand, exhales loudly, and lowers the shotgun as if he is giving in. He puts his hand in Arnaud�s and Arnaud pulls Darien to his feet. Arnaud checks the needle in preparation for giving Darien the shot. Darien slides around the corner he is leaning against, cocking the shotgun as he goes. The shotgun goes off. Darien falls to the floor and his head is gone. Arnaud screams, �No!�, and bends over Darien�s body. Darien punches Arnaud in his stitches, grabs the syringe out of Arnaud�s hand, and runs down the hall.) Arnaud to guards: �Go, go, go!� (The guards run after Darien. Arnaud goes to his office to look for Darien on the monitors.) Arnaud: �Where are you? Where did you go? (Arnaud hears a noise, then sees Darien on a monitor. Arnaud runs down a hallway. He runs into Dr. Ingrim�s lab. Ingrim is lying on the floor mumbling.) Arnaud: �Ingrim, where is he? Where did he go? Where is he? Where� for God�s sake, will you speak?� (Arnaud points his gun at Ingrim. Ingrim points to his mouth. Suddenly a circle of grenades appear around the 2 men. A grenade appears in Ingrim�s mouth. Arnaud says, �Little prick.�, and shuts his eyes. The grenades go off and Darien is catapulted out the door he originally used to enter the complex. Casey hears the explosion and goes to investigate. She takes Huisclos� gun. She walks outside and finds Darien lying on the ground. Smoke and flames are coming out of the door behind him. She slowly walks up to him. As she reaches him, he sits up. She pulls the gun on him.) Casey: �Stay back!� Darien: �Hey baby. Oh, no, no, no, Casey. It�s not what you think. It�s gonna be OK, see I have�� (He looks at his hands and realizes the syringe with the counteragent is broken. The last of the counteragent slides down his hand as he watches helplessly.) Darien: �Oh my God, oh my God!� Casey: �What?� Darien: �Oh my God!� (Darien collapses and starts having another attack.) Casey: �Darien!� Huisclos: �Doctor!� (He motions for her to take the syringe he is holding. Darien is coughing and groaning on the ground. She takes the syringe from Huisclos and gives him his gun.) Huisclos: �This is a counteragent. Give it to him. It�s the only thing that will save him. Take it!� (Casey goes to Darien, takes his arm, and helps him to his knees as she tries to give him the shot.) Casey: �Darien hold still. Hold still.� (She manages to give him the shot, then gently lowers him to the ground as he collapses.) (Next Scene � The Official�s office) Darien voice over: �What�s past, they say, is prologue. My partner found us a half hour later, just in time to take the credit.� (Shot of Bobby opening an envelope. He looks really excited. Then he sees it is a $50 savings bond and his face falls.) �Whatever you can say about him, he did deserve that raise.� (Shot of Huisclos lying in a hospital bed talking to the authorities) �Huisclos confessed to everything. In the end, the poor schmo felt so guilty, he�d of taken the rap for snatching the Lindbergh baby.� (Shot of a hallway on fire) �As for De Phoen, well, they never did find a body. All I know is the flames meant for him took the last of my brother�s project. With the lab destroyed, the quicksilver process, all of Kevin�s work, was lost forever. And me, you ask� well, my brother�s legacy may have been out of sight, but it sure wasn�t out of my mind.� (Next scene � Casey and Darien at the hospital, looking at the x-ray of his head) Casey: �I can�t take it out Darien. Not without killing you.� Darien: �Well, I guess, ah, that�s it then, game over.� Casey: �Look, there still may be a chance. If I can reproduce your brother�s process, figure out how he put the gland in in the first place�� Darien: �Case, come on, I mean, that could take years.� Casey: �Yeah, well, we won�t know if we don�t try right? We�ll just have to start from scratch.� Darien: �You�d stay with me?� Casey: �I�ll help you.� Darien: �That�s not what I meant.� Casey: �I can�t offer anymore Darien. (Darien looks down, totally depressed and unhappy.) Darien: �Hey, you think maybe you and I can start from scratch?� Casey: �We�ll see. (Darien looks at the x-ray and the camera pans in for a close-up of the x-ray.) (Next scene � The camera pans down from a big, leafy tree down to Kevin�s grave. The gravestone says: In Memory of Kevin Fawkes � 1965 - 2000.) Darien: �I believe in God, not cause I�m religious, but cause there�s gotta be a being with a bigger sense of irony than me. After all this, I still needed the counteragent. And there was only one person left I could turn to.� (We see Darien standing in front of Kevin�s grave. We hear The Official say, �Good afternoon Mr. Fawkes.� Darien turns around and we see The Official standing directly behind him. Darien looks really unhappy to see him.) Darien: �Let�s just say, ah, for the sake of argument, I got a .45 in my pocket.� TO: �I�d say, talk to them.� (He motions with his head for Darien to turn around. Two agents dressed in black suits step behind Darien. Darien looks at one of them, then turns back to The Official.) TO: �Come on, kid� We both knew it would end like this.� (long pause) (TO starts slowly walking towards Darien. Darien takes his hands out of his pockets and looks like he is ready to run. TO holds open his jacket and puts his hand inside, reaching for something. He pulls out a form and holds it up to Darien.) TO: �The W-4 you can fill out here. But I�ll need your social security number for the I-9 form.� Darien (confused): �Wait. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You trying to hire me?� TO: �Come on kid, face facts. It could be years before we figure out how to get you deglanded. Why not make the best of it?� Darien: �Hey, you know what? Why don�t you save your breath OK? I�m not my brother.� TO: �No but you�ve got a piece of him.� (Points to Darien�s head) �You use it right, you could be more.� Darien: �I don�t want to be more. I just want to be me.� TO: �Yeah?� Darien: �Yeah.� TO: �And who is that?� (Darien looks around, uncertain, trying to figure out what to say.) Darien: �He�s the guy who is telling you to go screw off.� (Darien pushes the form back at The Official, turns and walks away.) TO: �I thought you were the guy who needed the counteragent.� (Darien stops with a look of shock on his face, and turns around. The Official pulls a syringe out of his jacket.) TO: �We salvaged enough data from the wreckage to reproduce it. The way I see it, you need your shots, we need your services.� (The Official puts the syringe away) �Sounds like a trade to me.� Darien: �No, sounds like the same scam Arnaud was gonna run.� TO: �Yeah, yeah, yeah� It�s a good scam.� Darien: �No, it�s not, It�s not, it�s, it�s�� TO: �Evil?� Darien: �Yeah!� TO: �Like my good old mom always said, �Anything done out of love is beyond good and evil.� (laughs) �Me, I love my job.� (Darien and The Official just stare at each other for a moment. Then the Official puts his hand on Darien�s shoulder and says, �Come on. Let�s talk Pension Plan.� They walk away from the grave. The agents follow.) Fade to Black |