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SUM OF ALL EVIL
Original screenplay by Tion
WGAW #1341143
Last revision: 02/18/2009
JUDE, smiling:
Well, not the best place, but... [Takes out a ring, continuing] ...secret enough
CAROLINE, amazed:
Jude... I'm wordless
JUDE:
I know we get each other wordless. So you wanted a snackbar?
CAROLINE:
Sorry, I actually dislike first-class restaurants, you know...
JUDE:
No problem, me too. May be even more. Many people discourage them and not because they are poor. That's too primitive reason. [Adjusts the served order, continues] The very point is System [Abruptly stops, sipping the drink]
CAROLINE, just having sipped too, glancing at JUDE's drink:
So yours is alcoholic
JUDE:
Well, it's not a weekend, so no
CAROLINE:
You drink only on weekends?
JUDE, smiling again:
Nope, now too [Sips the drink]
CAROLINE:
Dodger... So what do your tattoos actually mean? Pretty complicated
JUDE, sipping:
Those on the neck's sides... Well, every express my remonstrance somehow
CAROLINE:
Marvelous
JUDE:
Just like you
CAROLINE, after a mutual pause:
I'm recently curious about odd skinheads, walking around. Hope, it wouldn't be dangerous to walk some evening
JUDE, pursing the lips thoughtfully:
Me too... But let's put it apart
On that side:
[Man, hasn't she revealed your Confederate cross yet while fuckin'?]
JUDE, bending under the table:
I left my phone on solely for urgent calls, now keep on fumbling in ears [Reverting to CAROLINE] Sorry, a cheeky friend of mine
CAROLINE, coolly:
I don't catch privacy [Now examining the ring] Fabolous, Jude. Platinum-mounted
JUDE:
My pleasure. Order somethin' more?
CAROLINE, wrinkling:
I would like to go. Actually I have a pressing business soon, so...
JUDE:
Naturally. Need help?
CAROLINE, getting out:
No, thanks. I'll call you a few hours later
JUDE, going out too:
I don't mind
JUDE, hugging CAROLINE:
Ok, stay in touch
CAROLINE, smiling:
You too... Rum fellow
JUDE:
So what, Rooster?
ROOSTER:
Finally...
JUDE, cutting off:
Can't you really last without me for some time?
ROOSTER, sighing:
Man, Bodo is a bungler, just locked up with two girls after huge beer
JUDE:
I'll make him intelligent. Let's go
JUDE:
I ordered you to keep an eye on folks till my return, now I'm sorry
BODO, with a smile:
Ordered? Jude, are you still joking?
JUDE:
Unfortunately no. We are on secret address so far, learn managing the people. I don't like when a trustworthy lets down. The girls now pass to me, as settled.
JUDE, addressing others:
Now listen. This is not just punch-and-kicks nor lame street brawls. It's a clash of ideologies. From this moment our slackness would lead to adversity. A friend of mine now finishes working on permanent retreat to the underground. The more bigger the city is, the more wider are its underground venues. So take notice
SPOKESMAN, insuring himself as he does not see the collocutor's face:
Associate Justice Emerson?
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, calmly:
The decision was approved unanimously
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE:
What's the date?
SPOKESMAN:
The 25th
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE:
Well, let them expect the last day
MAN:
[...I think there is no place for such things even in spirit. But troubles never come singly - we have numerous militant counter-cultures worldwide: urban car arsonists in France, nationalists in Germany and so on. All of them are weird and dangerous as never before. When the computers evolved, nobody was thinking a cyber terrorism would appear. Similarly, our community at the dusk of the 21st century has reached a point, favorable for what was once called `the sum of all evil'. Each country faced huge problems unique to itself, which hinders the common efforts. Still I believe it's not a Judge Dredd's world, but we shouldn't waste the time].
FEMALE PRESENTER:
[Do you assume it's all about the counter-cultures, not crime as well?]
MAN (cont'd):
[Decidedly yes. For the nowadays countercultures eclipse the crime. You think they are nowhere, but they are everywhere, ready to vanish from any place you'd point. They are ghosts, blunting your vigilance, still being elusive].
WILLIAM, turning to:
Hi, honey
MEGAN, coming to food-preparing device:
Hi, dad
WILLIAM:
So you got an `A' yesterday?
WILLIAM, chuckling:
Not a news anymore...
MEGAN, discontentedly:
I don't like Mozart
WILLIAM, not getting:
Huh?
MEGAN, wrinkling:
Mom said I'm little Mozart. I don't look like him though
WILLIAM, stroking:
Mom meant you are a nugget like him
FIRST JUDGE, breaking the silence:
Some vagueness felt still
SECOND JUDGE:
What vagueness?
FIRST JUDGE, sighing:
I mean I hope we'll uproot it soon, not just cut it off
FIRST JUDGE, still looking around, now sniffing:
Looks like we are making history anyway.
SECOND JUDGE:
There's no turn back now
Looks at the watch then, continues:
Power lunch
SECOND JUDGE:
Some say Washington is nicer than NY
FIRST JUDGE, shrugging:
A matter of taste. Or residency
FIRST JUDGE, cont'd:
Any city is quite pretty at night though - all those important buildings nearly 3,000 feet high, flared with xenon...
FIRST JUDGE:
NY is tough enough, that's not my judicial point. [Nibbles a reddish apple, cont'd]. A friend of mine used to work there as a skyscraper engineer in 2082. Almost every vital stuff is extremely firm. That doesn't belittle the urban beauty though. And it just disguises the real firmness... Some soda?
SECOND JUDGE:
No, I'm just waiting for 7Up, a new party's loading
STRANGER, barring the way:
Hi, girlie
STRANGER, diffidently:
Your dad is the federal marshals' chief, eh?
ROE, shouts, speeding his stride:
Hey!
MEGAN, wrinkling:
Do we know each other?
STRANGER, pursing the lips:
So he is. William, right? [Squats down, cont'd] You know, men are really created equal, but some think they should be as equal as others. That's the chip. People are different. But they are some who don't get it. They level each soul.
ROE, crying:
Hey!! Frig off!!
STRANGER, aware, after short pause:
So where does hatred come from, princess?
ROE, breathing heavy:
Know who you are?! A sheet from my big, fat ass!
STRANGER, hardly, but smiling:
Say it loud, darkey! Let us hear that!!
ROE, turning on walkie-talkie:
William? It's militia. Watch out now. Looks like they've found the joint in the armour
Walkie-talkie:
[Which one?]
MARCUS:
Ok, I'm not here to make a high-flown speech. Nor am I here to waste the time. The goal of ours remains as plain as you were explained before. Plain, but decisive. Group `Tango' will take care of the rest. So let God have mercy on us. For we don't
BRIAN:
How do you feel yourself?
JEFF:
Hopefully. I have no patience left
JEFF, cont'd:
Many militiamen and volunteers, cops and national guardsmen were recently killed. That shouldn't be ominous, huh?
FRANK:
Got it? A hit at one hundred mph!
JEFF, narrowing the eyes:
Just a stubborn amateur with a sound-guided RPG... A pretty long way from another borough, though on emergency lane
MARCUS approaches, looks around:
Whoever they are, that doesn't befit to any side. Faster, recover!!
SKINHEAD, gazing around:
I need some mighty boombox, not lame
SALESMAN:
Two devil's pieces, dude. One is a bit simpler with a bitrate amplifier up to five hundred. Ninety hours all-sufficiently. Both crashproof, with stereo subwoofers, hot buttons and other stuff.
SKINHEAD, weighing:
No fuckin' Malaysia?
SALESMAN:
Neither. Some test?
SKINHEAD, trying to outvoice, but vainly:
Hell out of here!!!
SKINHEAD, surveying the tested one:
Seventy hundred?
RANDY:
Will!
RANDY, smiling:
Not only me was waiting for you
RANDY, as WILLIAM goes to sit down:
Will, why your lads, not just police or SWAT?
WILLIAM:
The cops are now pawns. SWAT sturdies don't fit, it's a touch-and-go for them. And all infiltration attempts failed
RANDY, joining the meal:
Wow... So what's actually goin' on now?
WILLIAM, watching the news on a 3D holographic screen:
The racists decided to strike the ultimate blow before gettin' smashed for good. One out of two groups will deal with that as the beasts are about to invade the Bronx. Another group will swoop their heart. We have a SCOTUS' and mayor's approval. The beasts have passed themselves a sentence. Wish goodluck to Marcus' guys. If the SWAT is Themis' sword, we are her machine gun
No way further, the Bronx access' on hold!
CAROLINE, loud, but doubtfully:
What?!
CAROLINE, disappointedly:
Fuck!
CAROLINE:
Hi, it's me. Listen, the borough thoroughfare is shut...
CAROLINE'S GRANDPA, interrupting:
[I know. The whole access is blocked, they just don't want a harm. SCOTUS prepares a big wiping!]
CAROLINE, after some pause, knowingly:
Woach. Are you ok?
CAROLINE'S GRANDPA:
Yep. Everybody's advised staying at home, not just blacks. Turn home too, the mob have already rushed
CAROLINE, clasping the tongue:
All right... Take care
STEPHANIE, smoothly:
Wow, a threesome
CAROLINE, touching her nape confusedly:
I'm sorry
GUY:
No, no, no, you've probably not got it... It's Stephanie, be acquainted. [Comes face to face, whispers, grasping CAROLINE's nates]. We've patently found the common language
BODO, to himself, grins:
Welcome us, the Big Apple's Worm
MARCUS:
In the name of the United States Supreme Court you are hereby subdued to unconditional surrender. Lay down arms now!
BODO takes an extended bottle and rag. He shows the rag in the right hand for a while so that the SCOTUS logo on it becomes recognizable to the opposite side. BODO then tucks the rag into the bottle and fires it up, making the Molotov cocktail.
BODO, murmuring:
From Bodo et al.
MARCUS, observing, as his eyeshade mirrors the blaze:
I knew it gonna be a raunchy date
STARKY:
Man, this gets grave now. Hip-hopish bonzes assailed. There is no drunken metallists and hoi polloi for us anymore, got it?!
JUDE, gulping:
Then we are afforded the honour. Come here, it's time to talk
STARKY:
What?!
JUDE:
I said `come here'!! Otherwise Dixies will tear your hooded bugaboos at one!
RANDY, whispering:
Who will guard the guards?
WILLIAM, exchanging glances, promptly:
We. By ourselves. Sleep easy, Megan stays at home `til my decision
JUDE, sighing:
We have to sweat over
One of the blacks:
Now kick the bucket, mazfuckas!
My producer will pay me a bonus for your ears, you know?
STARKY, jerking the head:
Man, just say where's your heroic kidnapper now, huh?
JUDE:
Tear it!!
JUDE (cont'd after few seconds):
See?
CAROLINE:
Hi, I worried...
GRANDPA:
Yes, me too. Did you get home safely?
CAROLINE, slightly confused:
Am... Yeah. I'm ok now
Such luxury didn't fit to rhesus monkeys, did it?
JOSH:
There should be some big fish right here, condole with them if I find... Guys, who is Pajo? Sounds familiar
BOB:
Hole sheet, it's that Pajo, don't you recognize?
JOSH, grining as he dials STARKY:
Worthy of notifying the Imperial Wizard
STARKY:
Yes?
JOSH:
[We've dug out Pajo, that black-`n-white feuds producer]
STARKY, leaning back in the chair:
Brilliant. Just watch the black monkey militia out
CAROLINE:
Hi there
GRANDPA, walking out of some room, smilingly:
Hi, Carol... Some flower tea?
CAROLINE, shrugging:
I don't mind
CAROLINE:
A fortunate end
GRANDPA, pouring the tea into cup:
Yep. Everyone here just sticked the backside and waited. Kudos to marshals
CAROLINE, amicably:
See you still do in the old way
GRANDPA, jerking the head:
I haven't even bought a kitchen service yet, Carol. Some motion keeps a doctor away... Though I'll never tread off if I see some Dixie again. [Makes some beverage for himself, joins]
I faced some dark horse when all that started, three years ago. He was goin' like `damn, is it a country of just Lincoln and Hamilton?' And I said `it's a country of Hamilton, Lincoln, Whitman and Kennedy, it's a free country of mine and yours'. And know what? He shut.
CAROLINE:
He was just predisposed by the word `free' probably
GRANDPA, squelching as he sips a hot drink:
No, not likely. He just ran out of crap... How's the tea?
CAROLINE:
Just as I like, thanks
MARCUS, reporting WILLIAM:
It's group `Sierra', task completed successfully
WILLIAM:
[Gratters, commander Lodd]
MARCUS:
Our honour
1ST BOUNCER:
Gentlemen, I'm sorry, there is no need to disrupt a private spot anyway. All such venues are closed by day
CHARLIE:
One must comply with federal request
1ST BOUNCER:
We owe right to disarm any potentially dangerous person nonetheless
CHARLIE, still coolly:
You owe right to comply with and desist from persistent refusal
1ST BOUNCER:
I can't proceed further unless I want some headshot
CHARLIE, detaching some subordinate:
Stay with him
The bouncer and one marshal stay in the nightclub while others disappear in the passage as the bouncer locks it up.
It's here
CHARLIE, finally:
No way, thermite explosive
CHARLIE:
May I drop dead...
CHARLIE, sight-seeing a huge Confederate battle flag and the portraits of Jefferson Davis, Lee, hanging atop:
Welcome to lair... Looks like it was a tough day yesterday
WILLIAM, presenting a roll:
You wanted some big poster?
MEGAN, merrily:
Thanks, dad!
News, female voice, in French:
[Today American law enforcement located and assaulted the long-time obscure headquarters of Ku-Klux-Klan and neo-Confederates, the so-called Dixiecrats. Both spots were unveiled in the state of Alabama. Hundreds of fierce men were rendered harmless or eliminated, two federal marshals have died in office meanwhile]
1ST TEEN:
Unbelievable
2ND TEEN, putting on the hood:
Boobies
2ND TEEN, facing the 1ST:
This is how it works for the eighth time!
JUDE:
No, any place within two days, I can't stand more
NEO-NAZI:
Then good luck, Yankee, I just wasted the time
JUDE:
Man, the Imperial Wizard's already dead, Bodo's dead. Are you sane, talking about one week or are there European bureaucrats too? I'd accommodate dozens of your Jerries here by that time
NEO-NAZI:
Commiserate you can't do it now. Bye
JUDE, cutting the talk:
Fuckin' Teutons... [Dials another number, waits for a few seconds. Speaks constrainedly] Caroline? It's me, am... Listen...
CAROLINE:
Jude? I already warned you. You matter nothing for me now. I'm speaking with ghost...
JUDE:
[Carol, my bolt is shot...]
CAROLINE, interrupting:
Remember the ring you presented me four years ago? It's just somewhere in the universe now
-THE END-
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