Opening scene: (Jacinda is directing Max, Sketchy, Herbal and Original Cindy in carrying a water heater up to the roof)

Jacinda: A little to the left. Careful.

Sketchy: But why not? Hell, it's been 30 years. Grunge is due for a revival and I can get paid if I'm the one doing the reviving.

Herbal: Ah. So this is not about making music. This is about making money.

Sketchy: This is Babylon, dude. I want a car.

(Max chuckles)

Max: I'm so looking forward to hooking up this thing and having a nice hot shower.

Jacinda: Amen to that. All my little boy can talk about is taking a bubble bath.

Sketchy: Hey, Jacinda... has anyone told you you have beautiful eyes?

Original Cindy: Ugh! What? Sista gurl the bomb, but now is not the time or the place, fool.

Sketchy: Have you got rivalry issues with heterosexual males such as myself?

Original Cindy: Im'ma gawna put the smack down on your ass.

Sketchy: I got it, I got it.

(A rat squeaking nearby Sketchy head as he's nears the top of the next flight of stairs)

Original Cindy: You fool!

Herbal: I got it.

(Max throws the heat up to the next flight of stairs)

Max: Okay, on three....One, two... three. Herbal, you got some guns on you.

Herbal: Yeah. Thanks. ( sighs )

(Max comes out from her bathroom.)

Max: A hot shower in my own apartment. If that ain't heaven, girl, I don't know what is.

Original Cindy: I'm glad, 'cause that water heater cost enough .

Max: It was worth every penny.

Original Cindy: Give me your paw.

Max: What are you doing?

Original Cindy: What? You never had a manicure before, boo?

Max: No. Sounds too much like Manticore. Besides, it's kind of girly.

Original Cindy: Shugga... sometimes you so butch, it's hard for me to be lieve you don't play on the all-girl team.

Max: I'm just not into the whole pampering thing. Give me a hot shower, clean undies... I'm good to go.

Original Cindy: Yeah, well... There's nothing a man likes more than to know his woman minds the details.

Max: Yeah, well, I'm no man's woman, okay?

Original Cindy: Whatever. We got a rodent problem, boo. ( gnawing and scratching ) Hear them gnawing?

Max: Yeah. So you really think men pay attention to this kind of stuff?

Original Cindy: I know they do. Not consciously, though. I mean, the male mind likes to think it's thinking on some larger issues. Like, the workplace, conquest... meeting adversity head on but it's way more subtle than that.

Max: Original Cindy, an expert on men. Who'd have thunk?

( both laughing )

Original Cindy: Original cindy's aiight with the mens...... just don't ever ask her to go to bed with one. ( giggling )

(plaster cracking and hissing as the ceiling collapses and the newly installed water heater is now sitting in their living room.)

Max: Somebody out there just doesn't want me to be happy.

(Original Cindy is shooting pool at the crash with someone for money as the other Jam Pony's watch on as she takes wins.)

Max: That's my girl!

Original Cindy: Don't hate the player hate the game.

(max and the other Jam pony's laugh)

Diamond: Who says you were a player?

Original Cindy: What's up boo?

Diamond: We on?

Original Cindy: I only play to win.

Diamond: Yeah?

Original Cindy: And that's not been my experience with you.

Max: Do we know who this is?

Herbal: That is Diamond.

Sketchy: She's hot

Original Cindy: How long have you been back in Seattle?

Diamond: Not long. Just got paroled.

Original Cindy: When are you gonna quit being a bad girl?

Diamond: When you stop liking me that way.

Original Cindy: Don't even try and put that on me. Do the crime do the time

Diamond: Only that's all over now. From now on I'm living straight, At as far as the law is concerned.

Original Cindy: And you came all the way back here to drop the knowledge that you turned over a new leaf. What makes you think I care?

Diamond: What makes you think I came looking for you? Maybe I just wanna to get my drink on. I'm just playing. Look, I... I heard you was going to be here so I came down to tell you... I been missing you. And I'm sorry.

Original Cindy: You ain't done nothing wrong.

Diamond: Yeah, I did. I didn't work hard enough to keep you. This your crew?

Original Cindy: Max, sketchy... meet Diamond... and you remember Herbal thought.

Herbal: Mm-hmm. My sister.

Diamond: What's up?

Sketchy: Can I get anyone an adult beverage? Diamond?

Diamond: Let me hold a forty... long as you don't be thinking it gets you play.

Sketchy: I pretty much get the drift here. You don't feature dudes.

Diamond: Let's just say Diamond's never met a man worthy of her case but I know how you boys like a challenge.

Sketchy: Forty coming up.

(Original Cindy holds up some money)

Diamond: Diamond doesn't want your scrilla, boo. She wants this. (she and Original Cindy kiss)

(Music is playing: "Something is drawing me to you something, yeah, something something that's making me feel this is about a word they call "attraction " (Max's pager goes off) it's a positive reaction...)

(Max sneaks up behind Logan as he writing something in his penthouse)

Logan: Max. ( gasps )

Max: I didn't know you wrote poetry.

Logan: You startled me. It's not poetry.

(Max snatches the book out of Logan's hands)

Max: Looks like poetry to me.

Logan: May I please have my book back now?

(hands Logan back his book)

Max: Okay. You paged me?

(Logan turns to face his computer)

Logan: Yeah. Uh... Pierpont Lemkin, the go-to guy from the Marbury cartel.

Max: I met Original Cindy's ex tonight.

Logan: Oh, that's nice because Lemkin is paying off the sector police to look the other way so he can run arms unchecked.

Max: You should have seen Sketchy's face when he heard they were making out and he missed it.

Logan: Mmm. 'Cause word on the informant net is Lemkin's crew is behind the heist of those nuclear warheads from March air force base.

Max: What is it with guys and lesbians anyway? I mean, what's so damn fascinating about being unwanted by the opposite sex?

Logan: Have you heard anything I've been saying?

Max: Every word. I parallel-process and multitask like there's no tomorrow.

Logan: Good chance we'll be out of tomorrows if we don't take lemkin down and fast.

Max: What do you need?

Logan: His records-- who he's paying and how much. It's all on this disc. A guy in his inner circle got me the encryption algorithms so I can bust the code, but I need the disk.

Max: So get your guy to grab them for you.

Logan: He's dead. Executed. His body turned up on his mother's doorstep.

Max: Nice.

Logan: However, he did manage to get the combination to the safe.

Max: So this is a box job.

Logan: Yeah. I hacked into the mainframe of Lemkin's insurance carrier and dumped the blue prints to his house. The guy's a real security freak so you gonna have to do some recon before you hit the safe.

Max: On another matter not unrelated. My new hot water heater is non operational. Due to an accident caused by rats eating up our buliding. If I happen to find some cash along with these disks.. you don't mind if I help myself? but I realize that your mission is to save the world and what I'm suggesting probably sound opportunistic but you know stealing from a theif really isn't stealing at all.

Logan: Just get me the disks. Anything else you do I don't want to know about.

Max: Cool.

Logan: So, they were really making out?

Max: Yeah.

Logan: Ummm...

(Max returns back home and decides to make a peanutbutter sandwhich when she spots a rodent on the counter then it scurries away.)

Max: Rat bastard!

Original Cindy: What's going on?

Max: Think he's crapped outside and thinks he's setting up house in our crib.

Original Cindy: Umm...could you try and keep it quiet cause Diamond's in there trying to sleep. She's beat.

Max: I bet. (O.C. laughs) How come you didn't talk about her before?

Original Cindy: There are somethings that words just can't explain.

Max: Your that tight? huh?

Original Cindy: Diamond opened my eyes. She turned me on and turned me out. Till then I was the dainty thing. All quiet and shy.

Max: So she brought out your inner bitch.

(Both of them laugh)

Original Cindy: Among other things. Diamond brought me sunshine. I ain't gonna front though. She brought me a gang a rain too. She always having issues with the law. I wouldn't see her for long stretches.

Max: Do I need to lock my stuff up?

Original Cindy: It ain't even like that. Besides she says it's all in the past.

Max: She gets here act together, maybe you two can work out.

Original Cindy: Maybe. Umm...do you mind if she crashes her for awhile?

Max: No, no problem.

Original Cindy: Thanks. Oh, check it. She's gonna be on the mike at Guru's tomorrow. We got love if you wanna drop by.

Max: Diamond's a singer?

Original Cindy: My girl drops the word.

Max: She got skills?

Original Cindy: Diamonds the tounge twister aiight.

(both laugh)

Diamond: Where's my boo? (calls out from the bedroom)

Original Cindy: I'm coming sugga! Good night.

(Cindy heads back into the bedroom)

Max: Good night.

(Max is smiling when she hears a squeak and quickly snatches up the rodent making the sound.)

Max: Gotcha! But you know what? One rat deserves another.

(Max shows up at the front door of Lemkin's. A maid answers.)

Max: Hi, A delivery for a Mr. Lemkin.

Maid: Sure.

Max: I'm gonna need a signature. (max drops her board) Oops..sorry!..

(Max releases the rodent from the previous night as the maid stoops over to pick up the board Max dropped. Max squeals and the maid squeal at the sight of the rodent.)

Max: It went over there.

(A guard who was alerted by the screams rushes down and sees Max. He has his handgun drawn.)

Max: A rat. It was this big I swear. (Max points out the direction of where the rat went to the guard. Who then leaves.)

(Max heads toward the safe and does some recon. She sees infra red sensor beams criss-crossing the room. She studies the pattern. ANd then turns as someone approaches.)

Lemkin: Who are you?

Max: If your Mr. Lemkin. I just delivered a package for you.

Lemkin: What are you doing here?

Max: I gotta pee. I was looking for the ladies.

Lemkin: Pee outside. Get her outta here.

Max: Fine

(Max, Diamond and Original Cindy are just leaving Guru's after Diamonds performance.)

Diamond: There goes your hand

Original Cindy: You were kick'n some dope rhymes in the club. For reel, for sure.

Diamond: Oh, When Diamond drops her word it go down and stay down. You...you feel me.

Original Cindy: No doubt, no doubt. I mean you were all for look'n boo.

Diamond: Well you know... Well, you know...

Max: Listening to you two... it's like reading original text. Talking about yourself in third person. The whole shugga boo dealio. I totally get where it comes from now.

Original Cindy: If you saying that I'm biting Diamond's flava I'm not even trying to hear that.

Diamond: Boo, don't even listen to her. She get her stilo from Diamond.

Original CIndy: Original Cindy don't bite nobody's stilo. It don't come from nowhere 'cept me which is why the name is Original Cindy. Period, point blank.

Diamond: Boo... Boo... I was just doggin' you. I gotcha. ( giggling )

Max: Hey, I'm sorry I even brought it up. Geez.

(Max uses her enhanced vision to spot several armed men waiting for them.)

Max: You guys get ghost. We got a situation here.

Diamond: What you mean, "situation"?

Original Cindy: Just do what she says; she knows what she's talking about.

(The men move in trying to stop them from leaving.)

Bounty Hunter: Don't move.

(A fight ensues as Max takes on all five men.)

Original Cindy: Come on, let's get out of here.

(Max defeats them all and takes a handgun that belonged to one of the assailants off the ground and leaves)

(Max is talking to Logan as he is doing curls at his penthouse)

Logan: What makes you so sure these weren't Lydecker's people?

Max: Well, they weren't jarheads, for one thing. Lydecker's posse's all, "G.I. Joe, hut-hut-hut ." Plus, they're strapped with way more firepower than this.

Logan: No shortage of folks looking for Manticore technology.

Max: Run a check on that. It might narrow the field .

Logan: I'm all over it.

Max: Well, this little girl's going to go home and chill out before she knocks that safe over .

Logan: It's worth noting, while you're right-- my mission is saving the world-- it doesn't mean that I don't worry about you.

Max: Worry accomplishes nothing. But it's nice to know that you think of me as more than your own private cat burglar.

Logan: Way more.

Max: Can I take that to mean that my name shows up now and then in those little poems of yours?

Logan: Without stepping right into an admission that I do, in fact, write poetry... maybe.

Max: Maybe, huh? Mmm. I can live off of that for a couple of days. Later.

(Back at their apartment Original Cindy is polishing Diamonds nails.)

Diamond: Hope your girl is okay.

Original Cindy: She called from her boyfriend's crib before. She's cool.

Diamond: I wonder what those guys were after.

Original CIndy: Who knows? Homegurl's a real trouble magnet, though for real.

Diamond: Umm...I need some air. Do you mind opening a window or sumthing?

(Original Cindy heads for a window)

Original Cindy: Umm...huh. It's stuck. Hold on.

Diamond: If you could live anywhere and money was no object. Where would you go?

Original Cindy: Some place warm. Where it doesn't rain 362 days a year. Like mexico.

Diamond: Yeah... right on the Gulf.

Original Cindy: Yeah. White sandy beaches... so warm.

Diamond: Maybe we'll make it there someday-- you and me?

Original Cindy: Right, right.

Diamond: What you doing with a slim-jim?

Original Cindy: Belongs to Max.

Diamond: Use these for stealing cars.

Original Cindy: Great for opening windows, too. Anyway... nice fantasy but my arms are too short to even reach Mexico.

Diamond: Life's too short, baby. Sometimes you got to take what you need to be happy 'cause you might not get another chance.

( Door opens and Max walks in.)

Original Cindy: You all right?

Max: Yeah, fine. They were just trying to get me to change long distance carriers.

Diamond: Girl, I've been in some street fights but I ain't never seen no moves like yours before.

Max: I took karate as a kid. (Max notices her slim jim on the table)

Original Cindy: Window was jammed.

Max: Uh-huh. See you girls in the morning.

(the next morning in the kitchen Original Cindy walks towards the fridge as Diamond is drinkng a coffee.)

Original Cindy: So you want to hook up later and have lunch?

Diamond: Sounds good. Maybe tonight i can be the wife and cook you dinner.

Original Cindy: Mmm... later.

(As the shower running Diamond checks out Max's gear and finds her flash light, picks and blue prints. Diamond rushes back into the kitchen as she hears the shower turning off. Max comes out sighing.)

Diamond: Well you shower quick.

Max: No point in hanging out when the water's cold.

Diamond: Sorry. We drank all the joe. Did you want some? (Diamond offers Max her cup)

Max: Nope.

Diamond: So Max. I've been wondering. Just running things through my mind. You know?

Max: What kinda things?

Diamond: Like the way you handled things in that fight. How you have a slim jim lying around. How you deliver packages for a living and can still afford this trick ass rice burner of your's?

Max: Tips have been good lately.

Diamond: Or maybe you're supplimenting your income with an alternative carrer? Not unlike the one I pursue myself.

Max: Is there a point to this? cause I got work.

Diamond: If you are ever looking for someone to get your back; step to me. I'm available.

Max: I'll keep that in mind.

(At Jampony. Sketchy is on the phone as Max passes by.)

Sketchy: Throw me some details what's it like over at your crib. Three hot babies hanging around rubbing moisturizer on each other.

Max: Yeah Sketchy, then we put on our sexy lingere and have pillow fights.

Sketchy: See.

(Max stops by Original Cindy's locker and chat's with her.)

Max: Hey, you got a sec?

Original Cindy: Yeah.

Max: Ummm..I think it would be better if Diamond wasn't staying with us.

Original Cindy: You said it was okay?

Max: I know, but the situation isn't working out for me. I'm sorry.

Original Cindy: Which means what exactly?

Max: Look, I'm not trying to make this personal but I don't know who those guys were the other night and I don't know what they wanted and I can't have someone around that I don't know and who doesn't know what the score is with me.

Original Cindy: She'll be gone in the morning. ( Max's pager goes off )

(Max calls Logan on the pay phone at Jam Pony. Logan is talking to Max while examining the hand gun Max gave him earlier.)

Max: Logan, me hitting you back.

Logan: Yeah, the gun came back to a guy with nine different aliases hooked up with an outfit called "the Nomads."

Max: And I'm guessing they aren't a speed-metal band.

Logan: More like bounty hunters working out of Tacoma.

Max: It just gets better and better. Do we know who the client is?

Logan: We don't; that's going to take some digging. But these guys are very expensive. Whoever they're working for's got deep pockets . (Max sighing )

Max: Thanks for the heads up.

Logan: Max... You might want to think about getting out of town for awhile. Lay low?

Max: First, I got to knock over a safe for a friend.

(Max returns back to her apartment and gets her gear later that night. She sneaks out while Original Cindy and Diamond are sleeping. Diamond hears Max opening and closing the door. Max arrives at Lemkin's front gate and leaps over it. Diamond follows soon after. Max does a series of flips past the gird of motion sensors between her and the safe. She then punches in the combination on the safe keypad and begins removing the contents. Max then fires a small hand crossbow with a line attach back toward the entry way and slides a pouch containing the pilfered items across. Diamond takes this opportunity to take the pouch, inadventantly sets off the alarm and runs off. Bars come down securing the room and Max.)

(Max is in a police interrogation room as a detective is questioning her.)

Detective: Your lucky the cops got there before Lemkin took care of you himself. He's a bad man.

Max: Good fortune smiles on me where ever I go.

Detective: Only you got captured at the scene.

Max: I heard there was a party at that address. I wanted to meet some boys.

Detective: Look. The maid I.D.'d you from your visit earlier.

Max: Honest mistake on her part. I must have one of those faces.

Detective: And your partner is in the win with all the cash.

Max: My what?

(The detective shows Max a survelliance video of Diamond taking Max's loot.)

Detective: Come on, give me Diamond and maybe I can make this all go away.

Max: Is that her name? I've never seen her before in my life.

Detective: Lemkin want's back whatever was in that safe. In a bad way. My boss want's thsi case closed and there are some very powerful people after your friend. Everyone goes away happy if you help us out.

Max: You must be all worn out working for all these people like you do?

Detective: You and Diamond have a rendevous point?

Max: You just watch her swim away with my hard earned cash. Do you seriously think she's waiting at the doughnut shop to split it with me?

The detective moves to a door at the rear of the room and talks to several figures behind it.)

Detective: She's all yours.

(A bounter hunter from the night before comes in and shoot's Max in the chest with a tranquilzer gun.)

(Max is lying on a metal table inside a sterile room. Two men are outside the door watching her.)

Speaker voice: This is the Synthedyne voice message service. Will Doctor Lemar please report to the decontamination room.

(Max stirs awake as the Synthedyne voice message ends.)

C.E.O.: Have you been experiencing headaches in the last twenty four hours?

Max: Where am I?

C.E.O.: Answer the question. Headaches? Naseau?

Max: No.

C.E.O.: Bleeding from your nose or gums?

Max: No.

C.E.O.: Pain in the joints or limbs?

Max: No, but I'm beginning to notice a very acute pain in my ass.

(The two men enter the room. One in a dark navy pinstripe suit speaks who is obviously in charge and Scott.)

Max: Where am I?

C.E.O.: Where is Diamond?

Max: Wish I could help but like I told the cops I don't know the lady.

C.E.O.: My interest in her is on a rather urgent matter and not to mention very time sensitive.

(Max shrugs No.)

C.E.O.: Okay. I'll make arrangements to have you returned to police custody.

(Both men exit the room and stand in front of the door where Max can see them boh talking. She concentrates on reading their lips)

C.E.O.: She give us anything under the penthandol?

Scott: Nothing that gets us any closer to our girl.

C.E.O.: Get rid of her. As for Diamond we have six hours before all hell breaks loose.

Scott: Good.

(The Scott returns to the room and prepares a syringe as Max watches from the table.)

Max: So, is this some kind of hospital or something? because you know I'm not sick. I've already had my shots. ... Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, tetanus.

Scott: Something to help you sleep.

Max: I don't sleep.

Scott: You will.

Max: I don't think so.

(As the Scott nears with the shot Max attacks him, choking him with her legs unconcious and then makes her escape.)

(Max comes into Logans and grabs a chair next to him as he's on the computer.)

Logan: I've been paging you all day. I thought something might have gone sideways at Lemkin's.

Max: Something did go sideways: Diamond.

Logan: Original Cindy's new, old, former, on-again girlfriend?

Max: Yeah, and big surprise-- she's trouble. Does the name synthedyne mean anything to you?

Logan: Oh, yeah. Started out as a pharmaceutical company in the late 1990s. Synthedyne made billions during the influenza outbreak of 2011 stockpiling vaccine and then selling it on the black market at inflated prices. Gave them the capital to branch out. Lots of subsidiaries. Into everything from orange juice to private prisons. Here's the ceo. His name is...

Max: Satan. We've met.

Logan: You did have a busy night.

Max: He asked me lots of questions about Diamond. Man's on a mission for miss thang.

Logan: So why would a player like Croal be intereste d in Diamond?

Max: Maybe they dated when she was going through her experimental period and it ended badly.

Logan: Or maybe he was her landlord. Diamond Latrell-- serving a three year sentence for receiving stolen goods. Incarcerated at the Synthedyne Correctional facility for women.

Max: Escaped two weeks ago and is currently at large. Guess we found our connection.

Logan: And now we just have to figure out what it means.

(At Jam Pony)

Normal: Hot run 1298 Chapel.

Original Cindy: That's on the other side of town.

Normal: Well alright. Why don't I read out some addresses and you can pick the one's your in the mood to visit alright? 1101 Wexler? No? 17 Haskel? 283 Clancy? Clancy is such a pretty street this time of year.

Original Cindy: I'm on break right now.

(Normal decides to leave as Diamond shows up.)

Diamond: Your on permenant break baby girl.

Original Cindy: Yeah, right!

Diamond: I'm serious. There's something that I haven't told you that you need to know.

Original Cindy: Here we go. What did you go and do this time?

Diamond: I wasn't up for parole for another 18 months.

Original Cindy: So when they catch up with you and they will. They gonna throw your ass back inside and I'm gonna end up alone just like always. This is not good enough for me anymore.

Diamond: Look, I'm not going back.

Original Cindy: You can't live your life on the run.

Diamond: I don't have that much life left.

Original Cindy: What are you talking about?

Diamond: Doctors in the joint say there's something wrong with me. Some kind of cancer or something. They had me on all these medicines to keep it in check but that's no kinda life in there. That's why I walked.

Original Cindy: Your just running your game. Same as always.

Diamond: Not this time. I spent my whole life running. Never staying in one place or with one person long enough to have a real connection. When I got the news that that clock was running out on my ass the only thing I could think of was seeing your pretty brown eyes one more time. I've blown every opportunity I've had to get with you. I'm not gonna screw this one up. This is my last shot at being happy maybe it sounds selfish

Original Cindy: No. It sounds beautiful.

Diamond: So Mexico it is then?

Original Cindy: I've gotta a little cheddar put aside it's not a lot but..

Diamond: No forget your pennies. From now on you and me are living large.

Original Cindy: Whoa!

Diamond: I ain't gonna front. The way I aquired this cash ain't entirely legal. But I figure stealing from a thief ain't entirely illegal, either. But like I said before sometimes in life, you just got to take what you need.

Original Cindy: Original Cindy's going to tender her resignat ion and buy a bikini.

(Max and Logan are at Sebastian's)

Sebastian ( synthesized voice ): Synthedyne ... They figured out a way to dovetail two enterprises by using convicts as biotech guinea pigs. They tell the prisoners that they've got something fatal cancer, aids, whatever, and the prisoner agrees to be treated.

Logan: But they're perfectly healthy and Synthedyne's just using them to build a better virus.

Max: Cute.

Sebastian ( synthesized voice) : In Diamond's cell block they were testing a designer disease called a n918.

Max: She's been staying in our apartment.

Sebastian ( synthesized voice) : As long as she was receiving her meds the disease was controlled and not communicable.

Logan: But she's been out of Synthedyne for two week's. Then pretty soon she'll become terminal, and with this particular strain highly contagious.

Max: I have to find Original Cindy

(Max arrives at Jam Pony and see Normal)

Max: Where is she?

Normal: Vamoosed out of here with that lesbian love doll of hers. Where the heck have you been all day?.

Max: Where did they go?

Normal: I don't know and I don't care. Good ridance as far as I'm concerened.

Max: Guys I gotta find Original Cindy it's a matter of life and death.

Sketchy: She and her exceptionally fine squeeze bounced down to Mexico to make sweet girl and girl love. Which I'd give my hat and ass to watch.

(Herbal hands Max a note)

Herbal: She gave this to me to give to you. I've never seen our sista so happy but sad at the same time.

Max: Did she say how she was getting there?

Herbal: Bus.. (Max rushes out)

(Original Cindy is holding Diamond's head while they are on the bus.)

Original CIndy: You aiight girl?

Diamond: Head hurts that's all.

Original Cindy: A little sleep and you'll feel better. (Diamond laughs)

Diamond: Diamond won't feel better till she's sipping on a Mango Margarita and skinny dipping with her sugga.

(Max speeds after the bus on her motorcycle. As she nears she sees a hazmat team has already intercepted the bus and is in the process of rounding up all the occupants. )

Hazmat leader: Everyone off the bus. Move quickly. Stay together. Everyone off the bus. Don't ask questions. Just move.

(Max stops and takes in the scene and notices a copter flying by. She uses her enhanced vision and sees Original Cindy and Diamond being taken away by the copter.)

(Original Cindy and Diamond are put in seperate decontamination rooms but they are able to see one another. The CEO of synthedyne and his assistant are observing them in another room. Scott is in a neck brace.)

Scott: There's the lab report.

C.E.O.: It looks like Diamond's an918 gone full blown and is contagious.

Scott: The other one tested negative for the disease but we dosed her with the antidote anyway. Just to be safe.

C.E.O.: You should've checked with me first. I was planning to put them together to see how long it took for the symptons to present once Diamond infected her.

Scott: What do you want me to do with her now?

C.E.O.: Well, we can't let her go..

Original Cindy: You can see this woman is sick. Help her!. Give her something. What is the matter with you people?! (The C.E.O. and Scott leave.)

(Max sneaks into Synthedyne by hitching a ride underneath a delivery truck.)

Woman ( on P.A.): Scott report to the security office. Mr. Scott, to the security office.

(Max sneaks up behind the Scott as he's looking at a folder and slams him up against a nearby fence.)
Max: How about a little adjustment? (Scott groans ) (Max set offfan alarm and workers begin clamoring around )

Man ( on P.A. ): Firebug's in sector five. Sector five... Sector five... (Max opens the lock leading to Original Cindy )

Original Cindy: Max? Thank god! Get us out of here.

Max: Put this on. Cindy: What about Diamond?

Original Cindy: I can't leave my gurl.

Diamond: Original Cindy... go on, now. Go on with max. Leave Diamond here.

Original Cindy: Nah, I'm not even trying to hear that.

Diamond: Don't make this harder now. I got this cancer, and I'm dying.

Max: You were murdered. The doctors at synthedyne lied to you when they told you you were sick. Injected you with a biological agent and pretended it was medicine. I'm sorry. It's too late.

Original Cindy: No matter what happens in my life you are my first, and my truest, love. You know that.

Diamond: I'm going to be sitting up in heaven watching my baby gurl shine. You got her back?

Max: Always.

Diamond: Well, I got a confession to make. I jammed you up before.

Max: It's forgotten. I've been on the run myself. I know what it can make you do. We gotta go.

Diamond: Before you go. There's one last thing I need to do and I need your help.

(Max hot wires a Synthedyne van and drives through a gate as the guard's dive for safety.)

Guard1: Slow it down. It's not stopping

Guard2: Get out of the way!

Guard1: What the hell was that?

(The C.E.O. of synthedyne is in another decontamination room talking on a cell phone)

C.E.O.: Noon? by the time we play 18 holes it'll be dark.

(A man hazmat suit comes in carrying an additional suit)

Man: Sir, there's a possible contamination in sector five. Per regulation we are sealing off the area and evacuating the area.

C.E.O.: Yes, I'm on the phone.

Man: I need to ask you to put on the suit for your own protection.

(The C.E.O. hand signals that the man should put the suit down on a nearby table. The man does and leaves.)

Look after the money that I have smeared that starter with. You tell that son of a bitch that I want a seven A.M. tea time! That's right. Yes.

(After finishing his phone conversation he sees a figure in a hazmat suit)

C.E.O: What do you want now?

(Diamond points a gun at the C.E.O. Her face shows the ravages of the contagion flowing through her system.)

Diamond: Hey baby!

C.E.O.: Diamond I can help you. There's an antidote.

(Diamond takes out a vial)

You mean this? No sugga its too late for Diamond and we both know it. I'm stone cold dead.

(Diamond drops the vial to the ground and it smahes)

Diamond: Oh..and so are you. Cause there ain't no more of that. Looks like Diamonds finally found a man that's worthy of her kiss.

(Diamond Kisses the C.E.O. on the lips)

(At their apartment Original Cindy sits looking at a photo as Max comes in.)

Max: Hey.

Original Cindy: Hey. This is little Cynthia Mceachin, scared of her own shadow. Didn't even trust herself enough to cross the street on her own. She doesn't exsist anymore. So tonight I'm gonna say a pray and thank diamond for that. For getting my arms around who I really am. You know?

Max: Yeah, I know.

Original Cindy: Hard as I try not to have all these feelings for her cause it's easier that way.

Max: The feelings kept coming anyway.

Original Cindy: No doubt. And even though you ain't with that person your not alone in the world either. Cause survive throw in your direction.

Max: Weird how that is.

Original Cindy: Call soul power sugga. Only thing that's gonna help Origianl Cindy stay strong through this bitch. Look at this manicure. I just did this three days ago. Nails all busted, polished chipped.

Max: Price a girl pays for kickin ass.

Orignal Cindy: Umm huh.. Well, sista girls gonna help you out. Aiight?

Max: Aiight. (both of them start to laugh)

(Logan's penthouse is lit by candle light. Max is bringing back a bottle of wine from the kitchen. As Logan wait's for her.)

Max: These brown outs are beginning to be a major drag, This is like the third one this month.

Logan: There hoping to have the power back on next thursday. How's Original Cindy doing?

Max: Time heals all wounds right?

Logan: I'm not sure anyone gets over their first love.

Max: I wouldn't know. So when do I get to scroll through your lyrical pen scratchings?

Logan: Ah, you don't. And boy, do I wish you'd stop bringing it up.

Max: Why do you always get so embarrassed about this?

Logan: Because my dad was one of those manly men who thought introspection meant you were weak.

Max: Since when did Logan Cale, man of letters, speaker of truth, let the Fred Flintstones of this world get under his skin?

Logan: Since I was about three. ( Max sighs ) You really want to see one of my poems?

Max: Only if you're cool with it.

Logan: Oh, well, I don't know about "cool." More like vulnerable and completely exposed, but... Okay.

Max: You wrote this about me?

Logan: Depends. Do you hate it?

Max: It's all right.

Logan: Well, then, yeah. It's about you.

Max: Cool. ( uneasy chuckle ) I've got to bounce. Don't want to miss the curfew. (Max steals the poem whil Logan isn't looking)

Logan: Oh, okay. I'll see you later. (Logan tosses the book on the table upset.)

(Max is sitting on the space needle reading Logans poem.)

Max: "Forever eyes. Dark. Somebody's angel." Whatever. But I never had anybody write a poem about me before. So whoever's out there looking to put me in a cage or straight kill me even if they succeed, they've already failed... because of this. Thanks, Logan. You're going to help keep me strong through this bitch.