TEASER:
INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT
Sam is really sick. He's shivering and starts to cough aggressively. Allison is taking care of him. She brings him his medicine.
There is a sequence of shots showing Allison nursing him back to health, bringing him food, staying up late.
ACT ONE:
INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Sam is laying on the couch and Allison is sitting opposite of him. She looks worn out. Her face is buried in her hands.
Sam opens his eyes and sees her that way.
SAM
Thanks
Allison looks up tired, but smiles at him.
ALLISON
How you feeling?
SAM
Not dead.
Sam adjusts his position with difficulty. He's still visibly shivering.
SAM (cont'd)
I was an undercover cop.
Allison looks at Sam.
SAM (cont'd)
Homeless people were disappearing left
and right. It must've gone unnoticed
for a while. We suspected a Kingpin
named QUIN of facilitating the
kidnappings, but we had no hard
evidence. So I ended up going
undercover as a homeless guy. Two
weeks in, I got kidnapped...
Sam starts to cough.
FLASHBACK. EXT. STREET/INT. HOSPITAL
Sam struggles with a couple of guys before he gets knocked out. Then we cut to the hospital where he's being sedated.
SAM (V.O)
I don't have any clear memories what
happened after that. The first person
I remember clearly is you. And that
was more than a year later.
INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
SAM
When I looked at getting back to my
life, I found that I have been charged
with QUIN's murder. Now you know
everything about me.
Sam smiles weakly, but suddenly starts coughing really hard and spitting blood. Allison gets a napkin and covers his mouth.
ALLISON
We really gotta get you to a hospital.
SAM
No. No. I just need to get some rest.
Sam closes his eyes as he curls up. He drifts off to sleep.
INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT - LATER THAT NIGHT
Sam is shivering and muttering illegible words. Allison, sleeping on the floor beside him, wakes up at his muttering.
She brings another blanket and covers him. As she gets close to him, she notices strange electric surges emanating from under the skin in the back of his head, where the scar is, and going down his spine. With every surge his body shivers.
Allison is very concerned.
As she examines the location of the surges, Sam suddenly sits up straight, staring without blinking and blankly straight ahead.
ALLISON
Sam. Sam. Are you okay?
But Sam doesn't even notice her. He gets up and walks to a window, staring out blankly, his mumbling becomes understandable. He's muttering a bunch of numbers.
SAM
49353911931411 49353911931411
Allison notices that he's repeating them. She quickly grabs a pen and starts to write them down.
Suddenly the electrical surges emanating from his head, stop and he collapses to the floor. Allison tries to grab him, but she collapses under his weight.
INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT - THREE DAYS LATER
Sam opens his eyes slowly and looks around. He's still in Allison's apartment.
SAM
How long have I been out?
Allison is preparing a cup of tea, which she hands to Sam.
ALLISON
Seven days.
SAM
Sorry about all the trouble. Don't
know how to thank you.
Allison sits beside him. She shows him a paper with the numbers that he had been repeating unconsciously.
ALLISON
Do you recognize these number?
Sam looks at them intently.
SAM
No. Should I?
ALLISON
Do you remember anything from the last
couple of days?
Sam concentrates.
SAM
Vaguely. Did I do something?
Allison looks worried.
SAM (cont'd)
Allison, talk to me. What happened?
ALLISON
I don't know how to describe it. You
were almost sleep walking, and you
kept repeating these numbers. And
something in the back of your brain
kept glowing.
Sam instinctively reaches for the scar.
ALLISON (cont'd)
It's like you have something implanted
there. It's the only thing that makes
sense, the scar, the bloody noes, the
strange abilities.
She points to the numbers she wrote from him.
ALLISON (cont'd)
Are you sure these numbers don't mean
anything to you?
Sam shakes his head. Allison shows him the paper her dad left her.
ALLISON (cont'd)
The thing is these numbers
(points at Sam's
numbers)
And these ones
(points at her
father's)
Are the same exact number of digits.
I can't help but think they're related
somehow.
SAM
I'm not following. Where did you get
these ones?
Sam points at her father's. She gets up and grabs Sam's camera.
ALLISON
That's the thing. Do you know that
guy?
Allison points at Gamil, in the picture that Sam took of Fr. Moses and Gamil.
SAM
Not personally. He seems to be an
acquaintance of Fr. Moses.
ALLISON
See, my father was imprisoned fifteen
years ago. Shortly after being sent
to prison, he was murdered. When I
turned 18, I decided to find out what
happened to him, why he was
imprisoned, but I kept hitting one
dead end after another. Until this
guy showed up in my apartment, and
gave me these.
(referring to the
bible and the paper)
He said he was my father's cell mate.
He said they were from my father. That
he asked him to give them to me.
Sam takes a look at picture.
SAM
Why would a priest be involved with a
guy with a criminal record
ALLISON
Maybe because he also has a criminal
record!
SAM
What?
ALLISON
He admitted it. He said he worked for
Reaver.
SAM
But that means whatever your father
was into fifteen years ago, is related
to what's happening now.
Sam seems to be trying to get his mind around what's been going on, when suddenly the lights pulsate rhythmically.
It's Mores code.
ALLISON
What is going on?
Sam catches on quickly. He grabs a pen and paper and starts to jot down words: "S.O.S. Cedar Park. midnight. Juliana.".
Allison looks over his shoulders at the message.
END OF ACT ONE:
ACT TWO:
EXT. ABANDONED PARKING LOT
A car stops and Kylan gets out with GAMIL and walks to Ethan.
She hands him a flash drive.
KYLAN
You know what to do.
ETHAN
Are you sure it's going to work this
time?
KYLAN
UltraMed closed the security hole in
their system since the last time we
got Juliana to hack in. But now
(he points at the
flashdrive)
she wrote a virus that should get you
in. Just don't get caught.
ETHAN
I'll do my best, but I'm walking on
thin ice there. So we need to wrap
this up.
KYLAN
Just do your part and don't worry
about the rest.
Kylan walks away.
EXT. CEDAR PARK - MIDNIGHT
Sam, Allison and Juliana are on the run through the forest. A couple of hundred meters behind a couple of guys follow them.
Juliana is panicking, but Sam is leading them to his car.
By this time they exit the forest and get into Allison's car.
INT. ALLISON'S CAR
SAM
Did you figure out what they're after?
JULIANA
Yeah. UltraMed is doing tons of
research on HMI. That's what they are
after.
Allison drives off.
SAM
HMI?
ALLISON
Human/Machine Interface. Sam, it
could explain this thing...
Allison points to the back of her head.
SAM
What kind of HMI?
JULIANA
It's pretty advanced stuff. I
wouldn't be surprised if we start
seeing full human/machine integration
soon... It's Sci-Fi scary.
SAM
Juliana, listen, I'm afraid I'll have
to ask you to stay on the inside. We
need to know their plans, and you're
the only one who can do that now.
JULIANA
But, they suspect me, and I'm afraid
they'll kill me, when they don't need
me anymore.
SAM
I won't let anything happen to you. I
promise.
EXT. CEDAR PARK - MIDNIGHT
Hester and Butch exit out of the forest to see Allison's car driving off, but it's too far for them to recognize anyone.
EXT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING - PAST MIDNIGHT
Allison is parked in her car some ways from the building.
She's on the phone with Sam.
ALLISON
Ok, I'm in position. Do you think
Ethan will show up?
SAM (V.O)
According to Juliana, but listen
Allison, all I want you to do, is keep
an eye on things. Don't try to get
involved.
ALLISON
I'm more worried about you. Don't
turn this into your own personal
vendetta.
EXT. BAR
Sam is waiting for Kylan outside the bar that she usually goes to.
SAM
Don't worry about me. Gotta go.
Sam hangs up and puts a face mask on, as he notices Kylan getting out of the bar somewhat drunk.
Sam takes advantage of the secluded nature of the bar and attacks Kylan, as she opens the door of her car. Sam tazers her, knocking her unconscious. Sam shoves Kylan in the back seat of her car, ties her hands and feet with plastic restraints, and drives off.
EXT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING - PAST MIDNIGHT
Allison watches as Ethan arrives and enters the building.
EXT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING
Ethan is standing by the door, he's on the phone with Hester.
ETHAN
Where is Kylan?
HESTER (V.O)
That's not important. Just do as
you're told.
Ethan doesn't look happy, but he continues on.
INT. ROOM
The room is spartan except for a desk and a computer.
Juliana is there with Hester standing over her shoulder. He gives her the phone.
HESTER
Don't screw it up.
Juliana takes the phone.
JULIANA
Okay, place the device on the card
scanner.
EXT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING
Ethan places a block device on the card scanner. A red light flashes a couple of times, before it turns green.
INT. ROOM
Juliana's screen, changes to display footage from security cameras in the building.
JULIANA
Alright I'm in.
She types some commands frantically.
INT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING - SECURITY ROOM
A security guard sits on a chair leaning back with his legs up on the desk. His head is down, obviously asleep.
The screens displaying the security camera footage, flickers for a moment and then remains steady.
INT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING - CORRIDOR
Ethan walks through the doors and into a long hallway.
JULIANA (V.O)
I put all security cameras into a
feedback loop. No one will see you...
And I'll keep an eye on foot patrols.
Ethan approaches a computer lab and enters.
INT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING - COMPUTER LAB
Ethan sits in front of a computer, logs in and plugs in a USB drive. Immediately a whole bunch of data starts to get downloaded.
EXT. ULTRAMED RESEARCH BUILDING
Allison is looking at the numbers that her dad gave her, then she seems to realize something and then drives away.
EXT. BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN
Sam has his face mask on, sitting on one end of the boat with a gun pointed at Kylan sitting on the other end of the boat.
Kylan regains her consciousness and sees the gun pointed at her.
KYLAN
What do you want, man?
SAM
Who do you work for?
KYLAN
The Jeenie in the bootle
Sam cocks his gun as he moves closer to Kylan.
SAM
Who do you work for?
KYLAN
Alright. Alright. I work for Reaver.
SAM
I don't care about Reaver. Who hired
you?
Kylan doesn't seem to get the question. Sam encourages her, by putting the gun right to her knee.
SAM (cont'd)
Who hired you to steal research from
UltraMed? I'm not going to ask again.
KYLAN
Carnalis. We work for Carnalis Corp.
And that's all I know, man. Please
don't kill me.
Sam leans closer to Kylan.
SAM
How long do you think you can last in
the freezing water?
Sam hits her over the head with the gun.
END OF ACT TWO:
ACT THREE:
EXT. ETHAN'S BASEMENT SUITE
Allison, walks around the house, when her phone rings. She picks it up quickly. It's Sam.
SAM (V.O)
Allison, where are you?
ALLISON
I'm checking out where Ethan lives.
SAM (V.O)
What? Why? Please, just leave.
ALLISON
No, Sam, he might have some
information that could shed some light
on what happened to my father.
At this point she's at the door and she tries to unlock it and to her surprise, it's open.
ALLISON (cont'd)
I'm in.
EXT. SOME PARK - MIDNIGHT
SAM
What makes you think you'll find
anything?
ALLISON (V.O)
Right now, it's just a hunch.
SAM
I'm going to buy you sometime, use it
wisely.
Sam hangs up and we realize he is following Ethan. Sam has a cap on, and in the dark, you can't really tell it's Sam.
Ethan seems to wait for someone impatiently. Hester walks out of the shadows.
ETHAN
Kylan is still a no show?
HESTER
(roughly)
Just give us the package.
ETHAN
My dealing is with Kylan not with you.
At this point, Sam intervenes.
SAM
Miss me?
Hester is shocked by Sam, who attacks him, and knocks him down skillfully.
He grabs Ethan and drags him away.
SAM (cont'd)
Let's go.
They head towards Sam's car.
SAM (cont'd)
Get in.
They get in and drive off.
ETHAN
Sam!
SAM
How do you know me?
ETHAN
Allison told me a lot about you.
INT. ETHAN'S BASEMENT SUIT
Allison walks through the spartan basement suit, using her phone as a light. There is no furniture except for a single desk with a laptop on it. She walks into the bedroom, and there isn't even a bed there. She wonders how could someone live there.
Allison walks back to the computer which is turned on and unlocked. She looks through it, that's when she finds a bunch of surveillance pictures taken of her and of Sam. That gets her really worried.
ALLISON
What is this?
Allison takes her phone out and tries to call Sam.
INT. SAM'S CAR
ZOOM IN: SAM'S PHONE
Sam's phone vibrates, but he doesn't notice as he drives a rough road. Ethan sits in the passenger seat.
ETHAN
Where are we going?
SAM
Somewhere safe.
INT. ETHAN'S BASEMENT SUIT
ALLISON
Come on Sam, answer the phone.
That's when she hears the door to the suit open. She immediately shuts off her phone and hides in an empty room.
Butch and Gamil walk in. Butch heads to the laptop, closes it and takes it.
BUTCH
Start wiping down the place. Nothing
leads back to us.
Gamil starts to wipe down the place.
INT. ETHAN'S BASEMENT SUIT - ROOM
Allison gets out through the only window in the room
EXT. ETHAN'S BASEMENT SUITE
She walks briskly looking back to make sure Butch hasn't come out. That's when she notices his truck parked in the driveway of the house.
She hesitates only for a moment, then jumps in the back of the truck and covers herself with a tarp.
INT. CABIN IN THE WOODS
Ethan warms himself by a fire, while Sam keeps trying to reach Allison.
ETHAN
Still can't reach Allison?
Sam looks up at him.
SAM
How did you know, I was trying to
reach her?
ETHAN
Doesn't take a relationship expert to
figure out the two of you! You should
just tell her how you feel. Life is
too short to wait.
EXT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE LOCATION
Butch's truck comes to a halt beside an hold warehouse. He gets out and walks into it. Moments after, Allison jumps out of the back of the truck and heads into the warehouse.
INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE
Allison walks through empty corridors until she sees a lit room. At his point she hears loud laughing from behind her.
She quickly heads to the lit room, and looks inside. She sees Juliana working on a computer.
INT. CABIN IN THE WOODS
SAM
So how did you get yourself into this
mess in the first place?
Ethan seems to be unnaturally cool. He looks at his watch as if he's expecting someone.
ETHAN
You know how it is, I needed the extra
money.
SAM
You're an executive assistant manager
at UltraMed. You're already making a
good living, what would push you to
get involved with these guys.
ETHAN
You know Sam, you stick your nose in
things that don't concern you. Why is
that? Is it that you like playing the
hero? No, no, wait, it's justice,
right? You're fighting for justice.
SAM
I do what I have to do to put things
right.
Ethan gets up, he's getting a bit edgier.
ETHAN
Oh really, like how you murdered Quin
in cold blood.
Sam gets defensive.
SAM
That's a lie. I was framed. And how
do you know about Quin? Who are you?
Ethan takes out his phone and shows some video footage to Sam.
ETHAN
You were framed? This doesn't look
like a frame to me.
Sam looks at video footage from a security camera, of him shooting Quin point blank. Sam is stunned.
ETHAN (cont'd)
You killed my father.
Sam looks up at Ethan, lost for words.
Suddenly the door to the cabin gets kicked in and Kylan bursts in guns blazing.
KYLAN
You should've drowned me when you had
the chance.
Sam looks from Kylan with her gun aimed at him, to the angry and vengeful look on Ethan's face.
SAM
Listen, Ethan, there must be a
mistake. I didn't murder Quin. Yes,
I was investigating him, but that was
it.
Ethan walks towards Kylan.
SAM (cont'd)
This is not the way. Working for
Reaver would only get you killed.
Ethan smiles.
ETHAN
I am Reaver.
Kylan throws Ethan a gun.
ETHAN (cont'd)
I don't know how you survived the
water, but I don't think your thick
skull will save you from a bullet to
the head.
Ethan points the gun at Sam, but Sam swiftly throws a small chair near by at Ethan, causing his bullet to miss. He then tackles Kylan to the ground, and takes the moment of distraction to bolt out of the cabin into the darkness of the forest.
It doesn't take long for Ethan to gather his wits about him and head after Sam, shooting a couple of bullets in his direction.
One of the bullets, grazes Sam in the shoulder, but he continues on running and completely disappears.
ETHAN (cont'd)
Forget it. We don't have much time
left.
They head off.
END OF ACT
THREE:
ACT FOUR:
EXT. STORAGE
Allison stands in front of a storage location. She looks at her phone and checks her GPS coordinates, and compares them to the numbers that are written in her father's notes.
FLASHBACK. INT. WAREHOUSE - ROOM
Allison is hiding behind the desk talking to Juliana who is looking at Allison's paper.
ALLISON
That's all I have from my dad. I
really need to find out what it means.
At this point Hester walks into the room, and Allison hides scared. He walks to Juliana, who hides the paper from plain site.
HESTER
Hey, babe...
(gets uncomfortably
close to her)
I'm going to enjoy getting to know you
better when we have sometime for
ourselves.
BUTCH (O.S)
Hester, Kylan is on his way.
HESTER
Be right there.
Hester gets really close to Juliana.
HESTER (cont'd)
Can't wait.
He walks out, and Juliana breathes out in relief. She takes out the paper.
JULIANA
These are GPS coordinates. Here,
look.
Juliana pics up a pen and writes the numbers in proper format and gives it to Allison. Allison takes the paper and looks at the coordinates
INT. STORAGE - CORRIDOR
Allison walks through the corridor. She remembers what Juliana told her.
JULIANA (V.O)
I can see a pattern in how these
verses are organized. They give you
three separate sets of numbers. a 3
digit number and a 6 digit number and
a 14 digit number.
Allison looks at the paper. The three digit number is 317.
Allison stands in front of locker room 317.
EXT. FOREST - NEARBY
Juliana etches an arrow in the tree using a pen without the rest of the crew, Ethan and Kylan noticing.
EXT. FOREST - DAY
Sam runs through the forest. His arm is bandaged up.
FLASHBACK. INT. ALLISON'S APARTMENT
Allison bandages his wounds.
ALLISON
I don't want you to go.
Sam turns to Allison and holds her from her shoulders.
SAM
I have to. We can't leave Juliana
alone.
Allison surprisingly hugs him.
ALLISON
Be careful
EXT. FOREST - DAY
Sam reaches a camp site. He looks through it, but there is nothing of value
As he looks around he notices an arrow etched in a close by tree. It's giving him a direction. He runs, every once in a while, he see another sign left for him by Juliana.
EXT. ABANDONED ROAD JUNCTION
Farther ahead of Sam's location, Kylan, Juliana and Ethan are in a hiding location looking over a road junction. Hester and Butch have their car blocking the intersection.
Juliana's hands are shaking.
ETHAN
Calm down the fun part hasn't started
yet.
JULIANA
Why are we doing this?
ETHAN
You're a smart girl, figure it out.
FLASHBACK. INT. WAREHOUSE - ROOM
Allison prepares to leave and Juliana whispers intensely to her.
JULIANA
Allison, I figured out what they have
been doing. UltraMed transports their
research data from their main site, to
their backup facility by land. Kylan
and her guys are planning to attack
the transport. Allison, you have to
tell Sam. They'll kill me once
they're done
ALLISON
We won't let anything happen to you.
INT. STORAGE - CORRIDOR
Allison looks at the next 6 digits and uses that to unlock the storage locker. She rolls up the door and finds an empty room, except for one single metal case. Allison hesitates for a moment, then walks to it and opens it. It's a computer built into the case.
EXT. FOREST - ROAD JUNCTION
Sam arrives at a near by location to where the attack on the UltraMed van is already in progress. Sam looks and sees two armed security guards dead beside the Van transport, and another is held at gun point. Juliana is working on a safe inside the Van to unlock it. She has a few wires connected to it, and is working on a small computer.
EXT. ABANDONED ROAD JUNCTION
Hester stands watch on the remaining guard, holding a semi automatic weapon.
Ethan walks to Juliana.
ETHAN
How long?
JULIANA
I'm working as fast as I can.
Ethan points the gun at her head.
ETHAN
You better not be stalling.
POV: ANOTHER ANGLE
From another location an ASSASSIN, the same assassin that had followed Sam when he rescued Courtney and Fr. Moses, watches the events unfold from the scope mounted on his sniper rifle.
His phone is erected in front of him. It has a message written on it: "Retrieve data and clean up mess".
INT. STORAGE ROOM
Allison is on her knees beside the case computer. She reaches for the power button and hits it. Immediately the computer goes through a boot sequence. When the desktop appears, it has a picture of Allison's father, John, and her when she was younger.
Allison's eyes tear up.
ALLISON
Dad.
She reaches for the screen affectionately.
At this point a prompt pops up: "Enter password to access secure network"
Allison looks at the paper her father gave her, and types in the final piece of the puzzle.
Just then, a small camera built in the case rotates and faces Allison. Then another window pops up, and displays a bunch of data, showing some download progress.
INT. SUPER COMPUTER CLUSTRE
On a small terminal a picture of Allison, which was just taken when she accessed the computer, appears, and under it a verse in red flashes: "Unauthorized Access".
EXT. ABANDONED ROAD JUNCTION
Juliana is able to get the safe open.
JULIANA
I got it.
Ethan immediately reaches for the contents of the safe, a box of hard drives, and takes them out, then walks to their get away car.
ETHAN
(to Kylan)
You know what to do.
Ethan gets into the other car, as Kylan picks up one of the security guard's gun, and hands it to Hester.
KYLAN
Off her.
Kylan and Butch head into the other car, as well.
Juliana is terrified.
JULIANA
Please don't.
HESTER
Sorry, babe.
Hester points the gun, but Sam comes in like a train and tackles him down. The gun slips from him. That's when Butch pops from the other car and starts firing at them, but instead of getting Sam, he nails Hester who falls on top of Sam.
INT. CAR
ETHAN
Drive.
EXT. ABANDONED ROAD JUNCTION
Ethan's car drives off aggressively.
Sam pushes the dead Hester off him and looks back to Juliana, who's been shot in the right shoulder, and she's bleeding.
Sam rushes to her.
SAM
Oh no, no... Juliana, I'm so sorry.
Sam applies pressure to the wound with both his hands to stop the bleeding.
EXT. FOREST - NEARBY
The Assassin watches the unfolding events through his scope, a cold expression on his face.
Suddenly his phone lights up with a message: "Kill & Retrieve". Then a picture of Allison appears.
The Assassin packs up his gun, and walks away coldly
END OF ACT FOUR: