(Opening scene: Max and Logan are engaged in a chess game at night in Logan's apartment. Logan study's the board and decides to make a move.)

Max: Finally ...

Logan: She beats a retreat in the face of the Sicilian Gambit.

Max: Check.

(Logan pickups up one of his pieces and is about to place it on the board.)

Max: Uh..uh ..

Logan: That's not checkmate ..it can't be ..

Max: 'Fraid so.

Logan: Okay. So, uh ..that's uh ...four games to you?

Max: Five.

Logan: Right ... five. Isn't it against the superhero code to use your powers to take advantage of we mere mortals?

Max: Yeah, and I'm not done taking advantage, either. There's a stunt contest at Crash tonight. Thinkin' about pulling a Linda Blair..riding my bike up on the ceiling or something. Wanna come?

Logan: No, thanks.

(Max gets up and puts on her jacket.)

Max: Oh. I forgot. No fun for Logan Cale ...world's coming to an end. Fight the power, protect the downtrodden, blah, blah, woof, woof. C' ya.

(Max leaves. After she does, Logan doubles over in pain, grabbing at his back.)

(Scene cuts to Lydecker's Headquaters. Lydecker is playing with Chinese medicine balls with one hand as a technician is on the computer making a composition.)

Lydecker: Raise the forehead a little bit and thin out the eyebrows. Make the cheekbones a little rounder...not so defined. And the lips fuller.

Technician: Fuller?

Lydecker: You heard me. Perfect.

(Lydecker moves behind the technician and leans over to hit a key on the keyboard. We see a WANTED flyer on the screen with a composite of Max. The flyer reads: Reward 50,000 and WANTED.)

(Scene cuts to Lydecker's Headquarters. Lydecker and a Police officer exit an elevator.)

Captian Dale Swanstrom: This reward you're offering--it's a hell of a lot of money.

Lydcker: Mr. Vogelsang was a valued operative. We'll do everything we can to find his killer.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: And what if the girl goes to ground?

Lydecker: Don't think she will.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: She'll run, if she's smart. She'll try and get the hell out of the city.

(Lydecker and Captian Dale Swanstrom are standing in front of a monitor looking over a map.)

Lydecker: Well, she'll have to get through our checkpoints. This is where my men are.

(Lydecker hands to Polica Capt. Dale a copy of the WANTED flyer.)

Lydecker: I'd like one of these on every wall, every window and every lamppost in the city.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: With this kind of money involved, every nutcase in this town is going to be more than happy to turn in his nearest and his dearest, just for his cut.

(Captian Dale Swanstrom sits down.)

Captian Dale Swanstrom: Besides which, this is going to take a lot of extra manpower but, you know...with the financial straits that the city's in...

Lydecker: The agency appreciates your predicament.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: Thank you, sir, uh... Then you understand where I'm coming from?

Lydecker: Completely. I think I can help you.

(Lydecker gets out his gun out of an attache case and points it at the Police Captain. Captian Dale Swanstrom throws his hands up in the air.)

Lydecker: You trying to elicit a bribe from a federal agent?

Captian Dale Swanstrom: No, sir.

Lydecker: Good, 'cause sometimes when you grease the palm, it makes the finger slippery.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: Sir, you have the complete cooperation of my department. We're 100 percent at your disposal.

Lydecker: All right, then. You're dismissed.

(Captian Dale Swanstrom gets up and leaves.)

(Scene cuts to Jam Pony locker area. Original Cindy and Max are changing.)

Original Cindy: That was one badass endo you spiked last night. How much you win, anyway?

Max: 75 bucks.

Original Cindy: Damn, girl, next time, my paper's on you.

(Original Cindy sees a male worker taking a peep in the locker area. Max goes out after him. She grabs the guy and throws him up against the lockers.)

Max: Hey!

Normal: Hey, take it outside.

Max: What did i say was going to happen if i caught you peeping again?

Traidy: I can't help it, Max. You're so the bomb.

Max: Kaboom!

(Max kicks the guy in the groin with her knee and walks away as the other Jam Pony messengers watch . Original Cindy comes out while Traidy is groaing in pain.)

Original Cindy: Pervo!

(Scene switches to Normals desk. Normal hands over a package to Max.)

Normal: No roughhousing on the premises. We're not insured for it.

Max: South market street?

Normal: Yeah, I hope you're packing.

(Normal leaves as Original Cindy approaches.)

Original Cindy: Want to have lunch?

Max: Yeah. Meet you here at noon?

Original Cindy: Cool.

Max: All right.

(Scene cuts to South Market Street. Max is standing in line at a checkpoint.)

Checkpoint Cop 1: I.D.?

(Inside checkpoint office, a copy of the WANTED flyer is coming through the fax machine.)

Checkpoint Cop 1: Hey, Jerry.

(Another cop comes out of the office with the flyer.)

Checkpoint Cop 2: What's up?

Checkpoint Cop 1: Look at this.

(The sector police hands over an ID for Jerry to check out.)

Max: Come on, guys. Girl's trying to earn a living here.

Checkpoint Cop 2: Yeah, it's forged. Definitely.

Checkpoint Cop 1: Jim.

Jim: Yeah.

Checkpoint Cop 1: You're going downtown, pal.

(Scene switches to Max going through the checkpoint. She bikes around South Market Street to the package's destination. She gets off her bike to deliever the package.)

Package Receipient: Thank you.

(Max sees the WANTED flyers on a poll. Next to the poll are two police officers and Max's bike is next to them. Max walks the other way.)

(Scene cuts to Jam Pony: Sketchy, Herbal and Original Cindy are looking at the WANTED flyer that Sketchy is holding.)

Sketchy: I don't, I don't know. I'm just saying it kind of sort of looks like her.

Herbal: That paper there speaks of wicked things. Max is a righteous woman with no malice in her heart for no one.

Original Cindy: I know my gurl. She's a badass, straight up, but she's not a killer.

Sketchy: I'm not saying she killed anybody. Just that...I see a resemblance.

Original Cindy: No, no, what you think you're seeing is the 50 large reward in your pocket. But you better get your eyes right and double-quick, too. Otherwise, what you're going to be seein' is Original Cindy puttin' the smack down.

Normal: Hey, let's go, people. Lots of lonely packages out here crying out for a home. Move. Where the fire truck is Max? She should have been here an hour ago.

Sketchy: I ain't seen her. Probably wouldn't recognize her if i did.

(Sketchy folds up the flyer and puts it away in his backpack.)

Normal: What are you hiding back there?

Sketchy: Nothing.

Normal: Get out of my sight.

(Sketchy walks away. Normal grabs the flyer from Sketchy's bag. He opens and looks at it.)

(Scene cuts to Max calling Logan on the payphone in South Market Street. The phone rings.)

Max: Come on, Logan, answer.

(A hoverdrone is flying by and Max turns around as the phone continues to ring. Max sighs and hangs up the phone.)

(Scene cuts to the hospital as Dr. Sam Carr enters a examination room with a chart in hand. Logan is sitting on the examine table.)

Dr. Sam Carr: Hey.

Logan: Here, Sam, let me start you off. "Logan, I've got some bad news."

Dr. Sam Carr: You remember after the shooting, that we decided not to remove one of the bullet fragments because it was lodged so close to your spine?

Logan: It would have been too risky.

Dr. Sam Carr: Right. Unfortunately, the fragment has migrated. That's what's causing the spasms. It's actually impacting on your spinal cord and if we don't get it out of there it could keep moving and cause more damage.

Logan: Worst case scenario?

Dr. Sam Carr: You could end up quadriplegic. Maybe even on a respirator.

Logan: Looks like i'm going under the knife again.

Dr. Sam Carr: Operating in that area, it's inherently risky. You've got three major arteries. They're right there so there's always the chance of bleed out. And removing that fragment could result in nerve damage as well. Though probably not as severe as what we're looking at if we do nothing and further migration occurs. So...

Logan: Let's do it.

Dr. Sam Carr: Okay. I'll set it up for tomorrow morning.

(Dr. Carr leaves.)

Logan: Thanks, doc.

Dr. Sam Carr: Get some rest.

(Logan puts on his jacket and feels pain from his back.)

(Scene cuts back to South Street Market. Max is walking around. Two teenagers are looking at the WANTED flyer on a poll.)

Teenager 1: Oh, yeah, she's a killer, all right.

Teenager 2: Word up, man.

Teenager 1: You know what I'm saying?

(Max walks by.)

Teenager 2: Yo, check it out.

Teenager 1: Hey, baby, you got the time? 'Cause i got the place, you know what I'm saying?

(Max turns around to look at them and notices the Flyer behind them and rushes off.)

Teenager 1: Nah, don't be shy, i was...

(Teenager 1 turns around and looks at the flyer again.)

(Scene cuts to Max walking towards the exit checkpoint and an officer holding a flyer calls out to her.)

Cop: Hey! Yeah, you.

(Max turns around.)

Cop: Come here.

Max: What is it, officer?

(The Cop shows Max the WANTED flyer.)

Max: Oh, no, not her again, man. She's been dissing me all day. I got stopped twice already.

(The Cop gets ready to radio for back up.)

Max: Come on, she doesn't even look like me. Look at how thin she is. Can you say "eating disorder"?

(Max hits the cop with her elbow and knocks him down.)

Teenager 1: Oh, it is her, man.

Max: Boo!

(Max walks away. As the teenagers back off.)

(Getting up on the floor, the police officer reports on his radio what just happened.)

Cop: This is Kirby. That ten-zero-seven...She's on south market.

(Scene cuts to Lydecker's headquarters. Sandoval is talking on the phone and hangs up.)

Sandoval: We have a confirmed sighting on south Market.

Lydecker: How confirmed?

Sandoval: She took out a policeman without breaking a sweat.

(Lydecker is looking at a monitor with a map of South Market as Sandoval is taking notes.)

Lydecker (walkie-talkie): All tac-units, this is command. Target is known to be in South Market. Establish airtight perimeter and start site to site search. Box her in, and box her in fast.

(Scene cuts back to South Market, Max walks with her head down. She sees two Humvees pull up near her, and runs. Lydecker's men start frantically searching for Max and pushing civialians away.)

Manticore Solider: Step back!

(Max watches the Manticore soldiers search as she is hidden.)

(Scene cuts tp Jam Pony, Original Cindy checks her watch, then uses the payphone to call Max's pager)

(Scene cuts back to South Market, Max has hidden somewhere in what looks to be a meat processing plant. Her pager beeps, alerting one of Lydecker's men to her whereabouts. Max uses a slab of meat on a chain to knock this soldier off balance, then disarms him and kicks him in the head. She tries to find another hiding spot, and when more soldiers appear, she slides behind a counter)

Manticore Soldier: Spread out. Move!

(Scene cuts to Logan's appartment and Logan just comes home. Logan doesn't check his answering machine.

( Scene cuts to Zack seeing aWANTED flyer of Max on a poll. Zack pulls it down and looks at it.)

(Scene cuts to Max hidden behind a counter as a man heading towards her location talking on a cell phone.)

Man ( cell phone): Yeah, he coughed up the juice. I had to break his thumb first, but hey. Hey, hold on, I got to whiz.

(Max hits the man up against a fence and takes his cell phone.)

Loudspeaker: ...Free to go about your business once you are cleared.

Max(cell phone): He's going to have to call you back.

(Scene cuts to Jam Pony. Normal is heading out as Sketchy is heading in. Nornal puts his head set on Sketchy.)

Normal: Sketchy, get over here. I need you to man the desk.

Sketchy: Me?

Normal: Yes, i have something important I need to do.

(Zack walks in.)

Normal: Wow, you got a lot of nerve showing your face in here, pal.

Zack: Where's Max?

Normal: Well, she didn't come back from her morning run. Imagine that. I had some high hopes for you, pal but you just turned out to be like all the rest, didn't you? Just a great big, fat goose egg.

Zack: Cindy...

Original Cindy: Well, what have we got here?

Zack: I'm looking for Max.

Original Cindy: Welcome to the club.

(The nearby pay phone rings and Original Cindy answers the phone.)

Original Cindy: Yeah?

Max: It's me.

Original Cindy: Max.

(Zack snatchs the phone.)

Original Cindy: Uh...

Zack: Max, it's Zack.

Original Cindy: Who?

(Scene switches briefly to Max hiding nearby a ventilation fan.)

Max: Zack, what are you doing there?

(Scene switches back to Jam Pony.)

Zack: Never mind that. We got to get you out of town.

Original Cindy: Would somebody mind telling me what's going on here?

(Scene cuts to Logan's appartment. Zack enters as Logan is taking his pills.)

Zack: Knock, knock. You shouldn't leave your window open if you don't want visitors.

Logan: So I've been told. What brings you back to Seattle?

(Zack shows Logan the WANTED flyer.)

Zack: You think I'd let Max take the rap for something I did?

(Scene cuts back to South Market Street. Max is still hiding nearby a ventilation fan as Manticore soldiers can be seen searching from her vantage point.)

Delta Four (on radio): Control, this is delta four. No sign of her yet.

(Scene cuts to Lydeckers Headquarters.)

Lydecker (walkie-talkie): Roger, delta four. Turn the place inside out. Evacuate if you have to. I want her found.

(Scene cuts police station. Detective Sung is at his desk talking on the phone.)

Detective Sung (on the phone): Logan, you don't have to convince me. You say she didn't do it, she didn't do it. Vehicles are subject to search. But I can tell you, no one's picked her up yet.

(Scene cuts to Logan in his Aztek with Zack at the South Market Street entrance checkpoint.)

Logan (cell phone): Great. So what's the situation down there?

Detective Sung: It's a zoo. Every crank in the city's angling for that reward money. Last i heard, they're closing in on the suspect on south market.

Logan: Okay, see if you can run interference for me.

Detective Sung: I'll try, but I'm just one guy.

Logan: Appreciate anything you can do.

Detective Sung: Yep.

(The detective hangs up the phone and walks away. We see Normal sitting in a chair down at the police station waiting patiently.)

(Scene cuts to South Market Street. Logan and Zack are at a Checkpoint being waved through.)

Sector Police: Go ahead. Let him through.

(Logan drives his Aztek in.)

Loudspeaker: All forms of I.D. Will be produced on command.

Logan: Good luck.

Zack: There's no such thing. Success depends on having a well-thought-out plan that's executed with precision.

Logan: Right.

(Zack gets out of the van with a backpack.)

Loudspeaker: As a reminder, any person caught assisting a known criminal will be subject to severe prosecution. Until further notice all places of business and vehicles are subject to search.

(Scene switches to Zack on the upper level of the market. He assembles a compressed air powered grappling gun out of sight and then fires a rope into the middle frame structure of the market.)

(Scene cuts back to the police station. Detective Sung is taking Normal's statement but isn't writing anything down.)

Detective Sung: Mr. Ronald?

Normal: Yep, that's me. Hey, i just want to say that I admire the work that you fellas are doing keeping the streets safe for average citizens like myself.

Detective Sung: I understand you have some information for us.

Normal: Right. Got it...business at hand. Yes, uh, uh, i'm reaching out to do you guys a solid on this female perp.

Detective Sung: Excuse me?

Normal: The skell who works for me..Jam Pony..her name is Max.

Detective Sung: Let's not tell the whole world, okay? Not with 50 large on the line.

Normal: Hey, i'm not doing this for the reward money. About how much did you say it was?

Detective Sung: Maybe you better come with me, Mr. Ronald.

(Scene cuts back to South Market Street.)

Loudspeaker: To all citizens, be aware that a felon has been seen in the market area. Keep your children close by and report any suspicious activity to the police or military.

(Scene cuts to the interior of Logans Azteck as Zack is walking back to the car and gets in.)

Logan: All set?

Zack: Would I have come back here if everything wasn't all set?

Logan: It's a figure of speech.

(Logan drives the Aztek up to the checkpoint.)

Sector Police: Hold up. Sector pass.

(Logan hands the pass over.)

Sector Police: Open the hatch.

Logan: Come on. Come on.

(Scene cuts to Max still a the ventilation fan looking at her watch.)

Max: Show time.

(Max lifts up and overhead panel and leaves.)

(Scene cuts back to the checkpoint.)

Sector Police: You're free to go.

Logan: Thanks.

Sector Guard: We have a bus coming in. Let's get a couple men on that.

(Logan drives the Aztek out.)

(Scene cuts to Max going to the upper level of the market. Manticore soldiers give chase and start shooting at Max as she runs.)

Manticore Soldier #1: Hey, there she is. Stop! Hold your fire!

(Max runs to the rope that Zack had left and swings from the upper level of the market to the top of a bus at the checkpoint. She then jumps onto Logan's Aztek and gets in. Logan drives off.)

Manticore Soldier #2: Stop that vehicle! Get the trucks! Move, move, move!

(Scene cuts to inside Logan's Aztek.)

Logan: You okay?

Max: Yep. We used to play this game all the time at manticore..escape and evade.

Zack: You were always good at it.

Max: You okay?

Logan: Yeah, fine.

Max: You don't look so good.

Logan: I was up late. So, my family has a cabin about 30 miles north of here. You guys can stay there tonight.

Zack: Then we cross the border into Canada and never look back.

(Scene cuts to Lydecker's headquarters. Sandoval is reporting to Lydecker.)

Sandoval: Sir, we have a confirm from the alpha team that the suspect is no longer in South Market.

Lydecker: What?

Sandoval: She got over the perimeter fence and jumped into some kind of vehicle.

(Lydecker sighs and puts down his clipboard.)

Lydecker: Find her.

(Scene cuts back at the police station where the Detective and Normal are in an interogation room.)

Detective Sung: So, what makes you think this girl is the perp?

Normal: Well, the female's striking physical resemblance is what initially caught my attention. At first, I didn't want to believe it was her but, uh, you know, the more i thought about it the more i realized it was possible. She has a real bad attitude and quite a temper which she demonstrated this morning as a matter of fact, so... I..I just felt it was my civic duty to step forward before she kills again.

Detective Sung: What if you're wrong? What if she didn't do it?

Normal: Well, she walks. No harm, no foul.

Detective Sung: You know, I'm getting the sense that you are not a man to be taken lightly. Am i right about that, Mr. Ronald? Are you not a man to be taken lightly?

Normal: Uh...Mmm... Yeah. I mean, no. Uh... Uh, yeah, I most certainly am...Not.

Detective Sung: That's what I thought. That's why I brought you in here. The fact is, Mr. Ronald, if you know this girl and if you can identify her... Your life is in great... Great... Danger.

(Normal snorts dismissively )

Detective Sung: I'm serious.

Normal: Hmm...

(Scene cuts back to Logan's Aztek. Classical music is playing. )

Max: What are we listening to?

Logan: Sibelius.

Max: It's sad.

Logan: Yeah.

(Max sighs )

(Scene cuts back to Jam Pony . Chaos is everywhere as everyone is partying and ignoring their work with Sketchy in charge. Herbal arrives and heads over to the counter to tlak to Sketchy.)

Sketchy: It's anarchy out there, man. I call out runs and they just ignore me. I mean, I never thought I'd say this but, uh, Normal's got it tough back here. Maybe I ain't man enough to fill his shoes.

Herbal: Um, you got to take comfort in the words of the great Bob Marley: "Me don't swim too tough so me don't go out in water too deep."

Sketchy: That just didn't help me out at all.

(Herbal laughs.)

Herbal: Give I and I a package, man.

Sketchy: Thanks, man.

Herbal: Easy.

(Scene cuts to Logan driving up to and stopping in front of the cabin.)

Logan: Here we are.

(Zack gets out of the van.)

Logan: Here you go.

(Logan hands Zack the key to the cabin.)

Zack: Thanks for helping out.

Logan: I'd wish you good luck, but...

(Zack leaves to go inside the cabin, leaving Max and Logan alone in the van.)

Logan: He's a fun guy.

Max: You should see him get his drink on at the x5 reunions.

Logan: You're going to be okay, you know?

Max: Oh, yeah. I'll be better than okay. It's the way i'm made. It's you I'm worried about.

Logan: I'll miss you.

Max: You could always ditch it all and go on the lam with me. Great way to visit exotic places meet new people.

Logan: I'd just slow you down.

Max: It's okay.

Logan: I have to go back. Someone has to watch out for the downtrodden. Blah, blah, woof, woof, right?

Max: Right.

Logan: Take care of yourself.

Max: You, too.

(Max gets out of the Aztek and walks away. She stops and comes back to give Logan a kiss through the van window.)

Logan: Just go.

(Max turns and leaves as Logan watches.)

(Scene cuts to Logan's appartment later that night. Logan is staring out the window. It is raining outside. Bling walks over to Logan.)

Bling: I'm making tea. What's your preference?

(Bling and Logan watch the rain falling against the window.)

Logan: Belladonna, mandrake... Anything in the opium family.

Bling: Might want to think about getting some rest. Got a big day tomorrow.

Logan: I can't sleep.

Bling: Miss her, don't you?

Logan: It's that obvious, huh?

Bling: Get this surgery behind you maybe you can go raft up with her.

Logan: No, it was the right thing to do...let her go. For a thousand different reasons. And I always do the right thing, right?

(Scene cuts to the cabin, Max is staring out the window. She walks to the couch and sits down. Zack brings in 2 glasses and a bottle of wine.)

Max: Thought you'd want to get moving. Bang over the border into canada before dawn.

Zack: We've got a secure night's lodgings. Might as well take advantage.

(Zack pours some wine into the two glasses and gives one to Max as they sit across from one another at a fireplace.)

Zack: Here's to you finally doing the smart thing and getting out of Seattle.

Max: Right.

Zack: I remember the morning of the escape getting into Cheyenne around 7:00 A.M. The streets were just starting to fill with people. Not soldiers or doctors just regular people on their way to work. It scared the hell out of me. As far as I was concerned, they were all the enemy and I was completely outnumbered.

Max: I know the feeling.

Zack: I climbed up onto the roof of an office building in downtown to lay low just as the sun was coming up. It was my first morning as a free man. The whole world looked different.

Max: It was like it was in color all of a sudden.

Zack: I know I've been hard on you, Max but I'm just trying to keep you safe.

Max: I know.

(Zack touches Max's hair and sweeps it off her face.)

Zack: You're going to miss him, aren't you?

Max: You think that's stupid.

Zack: No. A part of me wants the same things..friends... A place where I belong... Someone to care about.

Max: Thought it was a sentimental lie.

Zack: Even I have my moments of weakness.

(Scene cuts back to the police station interogation room.)

Normal: You know, I appreciate your concern for my safety, detective but I've been locked in this room for a very long time and I got to go to the bathroom very, very badly. Very badly.

Detective Sung: Well, I've got some good news. We've been looking into this suspect and our fears that you were in some danger are unfounded.

Normal: Well, better to be safe than sorry. I'll just be running along then.

(Detective Sung grabs Normal as he is leaving.)

Detective Sung: Not so fast. There's another matter we need to discuss, Mr. Ronald.

Normal: Another matter?

Detective Sung: Don't play games with me. You know what I'm talking about. Unpaid speeding tickets from two years ago. They've gone to warrant.

Normal: Yeah, there's got to be some mistake because I don't own a car.

Detective Sung: Well, I don't know what to tell you, Mr. Ronald except that you are under arrest.

Normal: Ay-yi... Listen, if you think you can squeeze my shoes like some dirtbag skell you're a hump going sideways into a big..time jackpot. But it's your world, detective.

(Scene cuts to Normal getting put into a jail cell by a guard.)

Normal: For the love of Mike.

(Normals sees a big thug next to him in the cell looking him over.)

Normal: Terrific.

(Scene cuts to later next morning in Logan's appartment. Bling is looking for Logan.)

Bling: Logan? Oh, my God.

(We see Logan head down on the table with a glass knocked down. Bling goes to get some help.)

(Scene cuts to Max in the cabin who gets startled in her sleep.)

(Scene cuts away to the hospital. Logan is being wheeled with Bling at Logan's side.)

Dr. Sam Carr: What happened?

Paramedic: Found him unconscious at the scene. No sign of head trauma.

Dr. Sam Carr: He's tachy. What's his pressure?

Paramedic: B.P's 80 and falling.

Dr. Sam Carr: Okay, he's got to be bleeding from somewhere. Let's get him to O.R.

(Scene cuts to Loganbeing brought into surgery.)

(Scene cuts to the cabin. Max gets up all of a sudden.)

(Scene cuts back to the hospital. A cell phone rings in Blings pocket. Bling answers the call while looking at Logan's surgery through the window.)

Bling: Hello.

Max: Bling? What are you doing with Logan's phone?

Bling: Hey, Max.

Max: Is he all right? Can I talk to him?

Bling: He can't talk right now.

Max: What's wrong?

Hospital P.A.: Dr. Marks to E.R.

Max: Why are you at a hospital? Tell me!

Bling: He's been having some problems lately. He collapsed this morning at home. They're operating on him now.

Max: What hospital?

Bling: Metro medical. Listen, Max...

(Scene cuts to Max putting down the phone and leaving.)

Zack: Where you going?

(Scene cuts back to the hospital.)

Bling (on the phone): Max?

(Scene cuts to Zack following Max outside of the cabin.)

Max: I'm going back.

Zack: No way.

Max: I need to be there for him.

Zack: The mission is to get you over the border and into safe territory.

Max: Yeah, well, I'm changing the mission.

Zack: Don't be crazy. Lydecker's got the entire city looking for you.

(Zack stands in front of Max trying to prevent her from leaving.)

Max: Out of my way or I go through you. What's it going to be?

Zack: You going to take me on? Huh, maxie? Go ahead.

(Zack grabs Max by her coat collar.)

Zack: Go ahead.

(Zack wraps his arm around Max's neck into a headlock.)

Zack: Get your head in the game, soldier.

(Zack kicks Max down to the ground. Max leaps over him backwards. Max flips Zack over.)

Max: Think I'm not in the game?

(Max takes Zack down.)

Max: Think again.

Zack: Okay.

(Max walks away.)

Zack: Do what you want but don't think you're going to make it back out of there. You're throwing away your freedom.

Max: Consider it a moment of weakness.

(Scene cuts back to the hospital where Logan is having his surgery.)

Dr. Sam Carr: I need suction.

(Blood starts to squirt out.)

Dr. Sam Carr: Whoa!, we got a bleeder. Clamp. Sponge. Hang another four units of ab-neg.

Nurse: We're already on our last two.

Dr. Sam Carr: All right, somebody get on the phone right now to the blood bank. We need more. Clamp. Oh, God.

(Scene cuts to Max hitching a ride on a truck. Max gets off of it and enters the hospital. She can be seen on the hospital security cameras as she walks through the halls. Max stops at a surgey room cleaning up a male nurse notices Max as she turns and head for a different room.)

(Scene cuts to Logan's hospital room. A nurse and Dr. Carr are monitoring Logan.)

Nurse: Blood pressure's still dropping.

Dr. Sam Carr: Give him ten of morphine. Keep him comfortable.

(Max enters the room.)

Dr. Sam Carr: I'm sorry, you can't be in here.

Max: Is he dying?

Dr. Sam Carr: We can't discuss that right here.

Max: Just tell me. Is he dying?

Dr. Sam Carr: He's lost a lot of blood. He won't make it without a transfusion.

Max: So transfuse him.

Dr. Sam Carr: It's not that simple. The blood banks are tapped out. Logan is ab-negative. It's the hardest type to find. I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do.

Hospital P.A.: Paging Dr. Carr. Dr. Carr, please.

Dr. Sam Carr: Why don't you take a minute?

(Dr. Carr leaves.)

Nurse: I'll be right outside.

(The nurse leaves.)

Max: Lucky for you

(Max takes off her jacket and hooks up the tubes to transfer blood.)

Max: I'm a universal donor. People at Manticore figured it'd be handy if their genetically enhanced killing machines could swap blood in a pinch.

(We see Max's blood passing into Logan through the tubes. A tear fall down Max's face.)

Max: If you die on me, I'll kick your ass.

(Scene cuts to later at Logan's hospital room. Max closes her eyes while giving blood and lays her head on Logan's chest. She goes into a dream sequence with Sibelius' "Valse Triste" playing in the background. There are little white lights all around in a ball room. Max is wearing a gorgeous white gown and necklace. Logan is wearing a suit in his wheelchair.)

Max: Dance with me.

Logan: I can't.

Max: Sure, you can. Mind over matter.

Logan: See, my problem is I can't walk.

Max: I'm not asking you to walk. Just dance.

(Logan stands up and his wheelchair pushes back.)

Logan: Whose dream is this, anyway... Yours or mine?

Max: Don't ask me.

(They dance staring into each others eyes.)

Logan: You okay?

Max: Yeah. I'm just a little dizzy.

Logan: Do you want to stop?

Max: No. Don't let go.

Logan: I won't.

Max: Promise?

Logan: I promise.

Max: Logan...

(They are about to kiss, but the dream sequence comes to an end before it is completed..)

(Scene cuts to Max sleeping on Logans chest.)

Max (mumbles): Don't leave me.

(Security guy points a guy to the back of Max's head. There are also several other guards in the room.)

Security Guard 1: Going to need you to stand up very slowly and put your hands in the air.

Dr. Sam Carr: What the hell's going on here?

(Dr. Carr takes the needle out of Max.)

Dr. Sam Carr: Oh, my God. What are you doing?

Max: Did it work?

(Security is pulling Max away.)

Nurse: B.P. Is 110/90.

Dr. Sam Carr: What?

Max: Did it work? ....Did it work?!

(Security takes Max out.)

(Scene cuts to Lydecker's Headquarters. Sandoval is on the phone.)

Sandoval: It's captain swanstrom on five. Says it's important.

Lydecker (on speaker phone): What sort of good news? I'll be right over.

(Scene cuts to the police station where we see a jail cell full of women that look like Max. Max is leaning against the bars seemingly drifting in and out.)

(Scene cuts to the desk area of the police station. Lydecker arrives and heads towards Captian Swanstrom's office. Sandoval follows close behind.)

Lydecker: What do you got?

Captian Dale Swanstrom: We got your killer.

Lydecker: Where is she?

Captian Dale Swanstrom: He's.... in a holding cell.

Lydecker: Must be a mistake.

Captian Dale Swanstrom: It's no mistake. He gave us details from the crime scene and he produced the murder weapon.

Lydecker: Where is he?

Captian Dale Swanstrom (talks to another officer): This way. Call off the 10-07 on the girl.

(Scene cuts back to women's cell, a police officer is letting the women go.)

Officer: Okay, let's go. Everybody out.

Max: What's going on?

Officer: Perp confessed. You're free to go. Let's go.

(Scene cuts to outside of the police station, Zack is handcuffed and walking with Manticore soldiers. Max sees him and is sadden. Detective Sung sees Max.)

Radio: All units be advised. Shift rotations back to normal.

Manticore Soldier: If he keeps fighting, hog-tie him. Get going. Aircraft waiting.

Detective Sung(to Max): Just go.

(Max hops over the railing and leaves.)

(Scene suts to Sandoval with Lydecker in a Manticore hummer.)

Sandoval: There's a chopper at the airport standing by to take him back to manticore.

Lydecker: Not what we hoped for but not a bad day's catch, either.

Sandoval: What about the girl? Swanstrom called off the search.

Lydecker: We've worn out our welcome with the Seattle P.D. Besides, she's long gone. He sacrificed himself for nothing. I thought I'd taught him better.

(Scene cuts to Jam Pony. Normal returns.)

Normal: Hey!

Sketchy: I've never been so glad to see anyone in my life.

(Sketchy gives Normal a hug.)

Normal: Yes, well, I have to say I'm glad to be here myself, actually. Let go of me. Let go of me now. Thank you.

(Sketchy releases Normal.)

Sketchy: I did the best I could, but these people are a bunch of slackers, bums and weirdoes.

Normal: Right. Tell me about it.

Sketchy: I don't know how you put up with it, man.

Normal: Right. Neither do I. Back to the pit with the rest of the cretins.

(Normals hands Sketchy a package.)

Normal: 729 campbell. Where the fire truck is Max?

(Scene cuts to Logan's room at the hospital. Max is eating Logan's Jello. Logan wakes up.)

Logan: Hi.

Max: I figured you'd be napping all day so i ate your lunch.

Logan: Hospital food...one thing even the pulse couldn't manage to make worse.

Max: How are you feeling?

Logan: Pretty good, considering. Must be all this supercharged Manticore blood I got in me.

Max: I still can't believe it... That he'd let himself be taken back there on my account.

Logan: He cares about you... And I don't mean like a brother.

Max: I got to get back to work.

(Max starts humming the music that was in the dream sequence. )

Logan: That's the music.

(Max stops.)

Max: From... The car?

Logan: Right. From the car.

(Max turns back towards Logan.)

Max: You know about what happened...

Logan: After the car.

Max: I was real emotional with all that was going on.

Logan: I know.

Max: It's not...like...

Logan: Me, neither.

Max: I mean...

Logan: Exactly.

Max: So long as that's clear.

Logan: I'm glad we talked about it.

Max: Me, too.

Logan: See ya.

Max: Later.

(Max leaves with the "Valse Triste" music playing in the background. Logan removes the monitoring device.)

(Scene cuts to a shot of someone putting up a flyer over the WANTED flyers on a post.

Scene cuts to Jam Pony. Max heads to the locker area.)

Normal: Well, well, well look who decided to come in today.

Max: Don't bust my chops, Normal or I might snap and kill again.

(Normal leaves.)

(Max closes her locker and heads over to look at the television.)

TV Reporter: We interrupt this program to bring you news of a fatal air accident in the Cascade mountains. The helicopter was en route from Seattle airport and was rumored to be carrying a prisoner wanted on a federal warrant. The cause of the crash is under investigation. There is an unconfirmed report of gunfire at the scene of the crash but police say no survivors were found on the doomed aircraft.

(Scene cuts to Max on top of the Space Needle, reflecting.)

Max: He always said he'd rather die than go back to manticore. Maybe I'm conning myself or maybe I just know who Zack is and what he's capable of but I can't help feeling that he survived somehow and that he's out there. So, here I am back in this broken city and as long as I'm here he will always know where to find me.