12 Monkeys Page #12

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COLE:

Where I come from we think of this as Eden.

If we could just see the sun, eat sun-grown

food. Eden! Look at them! They donut

know what they have. They don't see the

sky. They don't feel the air!

COLE'S POV:
a BMW speeds toward them, passes, its radio BLARING!

COLE (o.s.)

And the ones who aren't hungry are so smug

they haven't a clue. WAIT! STOP!

EXT. ACURA/SKID ROW

On foot now, COLE pulls an astonished RAILLY to a wall covered with

graffiti, a hopeless tangle of symbols, words, and crude pictures.

Clueless, RAILLY stares at the wall, then at COLE.

COLE touches a bit of red-stenciled graffiti hidden under gang

insignias. We can just see TWELVE MONKEYS holding hands in a circle.

COLE:

The Twelve Monkeys!!! They're here.

(looks around)

Somewhere. Come on!

He pulls her along the sidewalk. No question, he's insane.

At the next alley entrance, COLE stops abruptly. Then, still

keeping a firm grip on RAILLY'S arm, he starts ripping down newly

tacked-up posters announcing a Rap concert.

RAILLY stares at him, then turns and is looking all around when,

suddenly, COLE pulls her up tight and threatens...

COLE:

Look, I'm warning you. You do anything,

I'm going to go crazy -- hurt people!

RAILLY:

I'm not going to "do" anything, I

promise. But you need help, James.

None of this is what you think it is.

ANGLE ON COLE, not listening, staring triumphantly! He's found

another partially obscured stencil of THE TWELVE MONKEYS!

But just then, a raspy VOICE startles COLE.

RASPY VOICE (o.s)

You can't hide from them, Bob.

COLE whirls, sees a derelict, LOUIE, leering at him, speaking in a

voice eerily like the RASPY VOICE from the next cell in the future.

LOUIE:

No, sir, Old Bob -- don't even try.

(conspiratorially)

They hear everything. They got that

tracking device on you. They can find

you anywhere. Anytime. Ha Ha!

RAILLY looks from LOUIS to COLE, sees COLE'S stunned reaction.

LOUIE:

(touches his back jaw)

In the tooth, Bob! Right?

(sudden triumphant grin)

But I fooled 'em, old buddy!

He opens his mouth wide. NO TEETH'

COLE grabs RAILLY and pulls her into the alley and down it.

COLE:

They're keeping an eye on me.

RAILLY:

Who's keeping an eye on you?

COLE:

The man...with the voice. I recognized

him. He's from the present. He...

COLE breaks off, freezes as he sees...

there on a brick wall is a stencil of the DANCING MONKEYS

And further on, another red stencil!

EXT. VACANT LOT - MOMENTS LATER (DAY)

CRACKHEADS huddle against a building, sucking their pipes,

oblivious to COLE pulling RAILLY past.

COLE scans the walls for messages in the confusion of graffiti.

RAILLY is considering her surroundings dubiously when, suddenly,

COLE pulls her toward the mouth of a dark and forbidding alley.

RAILLY:

James, no -- we shouldn't be here!

COLE ignores her, yanking her after him into the alley.

INT. DARK ALLEY - DAY

Two TOM CATS face off, arching their backs and HISSING menacingly.

COLE avoids them as he pulls RAILLY into the gloom.

ANGLE ON RAILLY, seeing something alarming twenty yards ahead!

RAILLY'S POV:
TWO THUGS, standing over a MAN, kicking him.

RAILLY tries to stop, but COLE, intent on the wall messages,

doesn't notice the THUGS.

The TWO THUGS turn and spot COLE and RAILLY moving toward them.

These creeps have mean eyes, predator faces.

RAILLY digs her heels in, forcing COLE to stop.

RAILLY:

James! We have to go back. Those men...

Too late. While COLE turns and stares at her, uncomprehending,

the TWO THUGS are approaching.

FIRST THUG:

Hey, buddy.

Startled, COLE turns to face them.

The SECOND THUG lunges for RAILLY'S purse, yanks it from her.

COLE reaches to grab it back, but...WHACK! The FIRST THUG smacks

COLE hard across the face with something metallic.

Bloody-faced, dazed, COLE doesn't even have a chance to clear his

head as the FIRST THUG shoves the hard object against COLE'S

cheek. It's a cheap thirty-eight pistol.

RAILLY turns to run, gets two steps before the SECOND THUG knocks

her roughly to the ground.

SECOND THUG:

Stick around, b*tch.

Looming over her, the SECOND THUG starts to unzip his fly.

RAILLY looks over to COLE, SEES...

COLE dropping to his knees, groveling at the FIRST THUG'S feet.

COLE:

Please! Please don't hurt me!

The FIRST THUG steps close, kicks COLE contemptuously, c*cks his

foot for a second kick when...

COLE uncoils, lunging, rising, his strong arms around the bigger

man's calves, lifting him mightily, high off the ground.

The gun FIRES wildly as COLE staggers forward with the FIRST THUG

in his arms and smashes the man into the brick wail behind him.

The FIRST THUG goes down in a heap, dropping the pistol.

Zipping his fly hastily, the SECOND THUG turns to deal with COLE

but COLE attacks him....rocking him again and again with savage

blows that come one after another with lightning speed. The SECOND

THUG staggers back, bloody and dazed as RAILLY watches, amazed.

Turning back to the FIRST THUG, COLE sees the MAN reaching for

the dropped pistol.

COLE kicks him viciously in the jaw. The FIRST THUG'S head whips

back. SNAP! He collapses against the brick wall.

COLE turns back to see the SECOND THUG retreating down the alley

as fast as he can stagger.

RAILLY stares up at COLE. He looks very dangerous. He glances

in her direction as he pockets the pistol.

COLE:

Are you hurt?

RAILLY:

Uh, no. Yes. I mean, just some scrapes...

As RAILLY gets to her feet, she sees COLE bend over the

motionless THUG and quickly go through his pockets.

RAILLY:

Is he...alive?

COLE ignores the question as he pockets the man's wallet and a

handful of bullets, then turns and snaps at RAILLY.

COLE:

Come an. We're running out of time.

You can't help him.

As COLE yanks her roughly away, she looks back, sees the FIRST

THUG'S sightless eyes, wide open...staring blankly.

RAILLY:

Oh, Jesus, James! You killed him!

COLE:

I did him a favor. Now come on.

COLE, pulling her again, sees more "12 MONKEYS" on the wall.

RAILLY:

You didn't have a gun before, did you?

COLE:

I've got one now.

EXT. SECOND AVE - DAY

The EVANGELIST, spotting COLE and RAILLY hurrying past him,

points urgently at COLE.

EVANGELIST:

You! You! You're one of us, aren't you?

But COLE has stopped and is staring at...

A STOREFRONT OFFICE...its windows covered with posters. The sign

over the office says, FREEDOM FOR ANIMALS ASSOCIATION.

INT. FAA STORE - MOMENTS LATER (DAY)

Earnest young activists, FALE, deathly pale, BEN, long haired,

and TEDDY, muscular, are gathered around a counter collating

leaflets that demand an END TO SPECIEISM. Behind them, a large

poster proclaims, "ANIMALS HAVE SOULS, TOO". Just then, there's

a tremendous CLAP OF THUNDER as the ACTIVISTS look up and see

COLE and RAILLY enter.

COLE looks startled. It sounds like torrential RAIN POURING in

here. Maintaining a tight grip on RAILLY'S wrist, he looks

around frantically for an explanation for the tropical downpour.

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