Beast of Burden Page #5

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We are on the same side! Say it!

BLOOM:
They're patching me

through. Just hang on, Sean.

Hello, yes? Yes, am I talking

directly to the pilot?

Oh, no, God!

This is not happening right now!

BLOOM:
Okay, well tell your men

to stand down, I said

- I need that plane in one piece.

- Sh*t!

- Listen to him!

- [PHONE RINGING]

BLOOM:
I said stand down!

- No deadly force.

- [PHONE RINGING]

Sh*t! Come on, Bloom,

repeat it, please.

BLOOM:
Do not authorize

deadly force!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh, no, what? No, no, no, no.

No, not good,

not good, not good!

- [ALARM BEEPING]

- SEAN:
No! Sh*t!

Oh, come on!

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

Okay, yes, I get it!

Everybody calm down!

Okay. Okay, okay. Okay.

Okay, easy.

Okay.

Okay. Wait a second,

how do I do this?

- Come on. Come on, come on.

- [ALARM BLARING]

[MONITOR BEEPING]

DOCTOR:

There are no vital signs.

No. I don't understand.

DOCTOR:
I'm sorry,

but you have lost the child.

What?

I... I dont...

DOCTOR:

There is something else,

an irregularity.

I... [SOBBING] I was...

DOCTOR:
We need to keep you

here for additional tests.

What? Why?

[SOBBING]

What did I do wrong?

SEAN:
Its not gonna...

- Its not your fault.

- [JEN SOBBING]

- SEAN:
Hey. Hey, hey, hey.

- [SNIFFS]

- [JEN SOBBING]

- SEAN:
We did nothing wrong.

- JEN:
I don't understand!

- SEAN:
No, no, no.

- This is not us. It's not us.

- JEN:
How do you know?

SEAN:
It's just a f***ing,

terrible thing...

- that happened.

- JEN:
It wasnt supposed

to happen to us! [SOBS]

Oh, dry. F***ing dry.

Dry.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Okay.

- [DIAL TONE]

- [LINE RINGING]

JEN:
Hey, my love,

just reminding you

when you go to the grocery store

to please pick me up some milk.

I forgot it again. [CHUCKLES]

One percent, not two.

I can't deal with that stuff

you drink.

It's, like, practically butter.

Oh, and eggs.

And if you have time,

uh, I guess I'm just asking you

to make me some breakfast.

- [JEN CHUCKLES]

- [SEAN CHUCKLES]

JEN:
Will you please make me

breakfast when you get home?

I love you.

[PHONE RINGING]

[PHONE BEEPS]

- MALLORY:
Sean.

- [THUD]

You have made

an unscheduled stop.

Why?

Uh, my fuel line was, um...

MALLORY:
What happened

to the fuel line?

Uh... it broke.

MALLORY:
The people above me

will insist

on a very thorough report.

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

Well, uh, tell them...

tell them that

the fuel line was cracked,

and since I had to leave

without a pre-flight check,

I didn't have time to catch it.

MALLORY:
Is that what happened,

or are you just

having me repeat a lie?

You make reports

on all your kidnappings?

MALLORY:

Our employers are very thorough,

Mr. Haggerty.

Yes. That is what happened.

And Mr. Mallory,

my wife can never remember

the f***ing milk.

She always forgets it

cause it made her sick

when she was younger,

so they never had it

in the house.

But ever since we got married,

she finds out that she loves it.

Only the one-percent,

though. She's...

She's very specific about that.

She needs me to get that for her

tomorrow morning.

MALLORY:
We'll be arriving

in 13 minutes.

If you're not there

in 20 minutes, Jen dies.

What? No. No, no, no.

No, no, I'll be there.

MALLORY:
I must report

in 20 minutes.

If our employer doesn't have

confirmation of your landing...

I will be... I will be there.

I swear. I swear to you.

Mr. Mallory, I will be there.

You don't have to worry

- about me, sir.

- MALLORY:
If I have to kill Jen,

she will have to be dissolved

in acid,

because I can't guarantee

a precursor of a bullet.

Please, you don't have to do

this. We will f*** off quietly.

We will go quietly

out of your life.

Please,

you don't have to do this.

MALLORY:
Don't think

for a moment

that you are the only one

with something to lose

in 20 minutes.

As I said,

our employer's thorough,

punctual,

and viciously effective.

Now, that's a fact.

Would you like to speak

with your wife again?

Tell her I'll see her soon.

- Okay.

- [DOOR THUDS]

Okay.

Extra full.

Flaps, 10 degrees.

Come on, come on.

Faster, faster, faster.

F***ing fall apart

in about 10 minutes.

Jesus, come on.

Oh!

Okay, yeah, there we go.

There we go.

Come on. Baby, come on.

All right, moving.

Clearing...

should be...

should be right below.

No. No.

- [DIAL TONE]

- [LINE RINGING]

- Son of a b*tch.

- BLOOM:
Where are you?

Staring down

at your f***ing SUV.

Why are you doing this?

BLOOM:
The director decided

you needed to be intercepted

- at all costs.

- They're going to kill her,

Bloom! What part of that

don't you understand?

- BLOOM:
Yeah. Sorry.

- How did you know?

How'd you know

I was going to be here?

BLOOM:
Helicopter pilots.

They intercepted your heading.

Wetlands were always

a candidate for a cartel drop.

Just needed someone to confirm.

For the love of Christ, Bloom,

tell them to stand down

for like 10 minutes, okay?

They don't see the SUV yet,

- but if they do...

- BLOOM:
It's out of my hands.

Okay?

Just get to Jen as fast

as you can.

- She might have a shot.

- A**hole!

Come on just... okay, just

f***ing get there, Sean.

Okay, come on,

you piece of sh*t.

You can outrun an SUV. Come on!

Four minutes.

Okay, come on, come on.

That's where we are.

Now, come on.

Let's hit that clearing.

That's all you got to do.

There it is.

That's it. That's it.

Right there. Okay.

Okay, we're coming in.

This is almost f***ing over.

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

F***ing...

- [DIAL TONE]

- [LINE RINGS]

Uh, hey, Mallory, um,

I'm on my final approach.

Everything seems solid,

but I got to warn you

about something.

Uh, there seems...

there's, like, a...

a park ranger, maybe,

or I don't know,

it could be border patrol.

Somebody's coming. Um...

- Yeah, I just wanted to warn...

- JEN:
Sean...

- Jen?

- JEN:
Sean! [SOBS]

Okay, wait. Are you alone?

Yes, I'm alone, but...

they're right... they're right

outside the door.

- Jen, Jen, are you hurt?

- JEN:
No.

I'm okay, the ties are

a little tight, but I'm fine.

- SEAN:
You're sure?

- Yes.

SEAN:
Jen,

you cannot stay there.

- They're gonna kill us.

- Just do what they say, Sean!

SEAN:
No, that doesn't

matter anymore.

They killed Octavio.

- Who's that?

- That doesn't matter either.

At this point, we-

we are gonna have to fight.

Okay. What do I do?

SEAN:
[STAMMERING]

I don't know. Uh...

SEAN:
[STAMMERING]

Look in the car, there anything,

did they leave like a weapon

a gun or a knife?

[CLATTER]

Okay. Okay.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

JEN:
No, they took everything.

Okay, they took everything.

They took everything.

- What do we need to do?

- JEN:
Sean!

Okay, I'm thinking.

Let me think for a second.

Shh! Shh!

Stop thinking out loud.

SEAN:
Okay. Sorry. Um...

[SIGHS]

SEAN:
What about the keys?

Did they leave the keys?

No, they didn't leave

the f***ing keys!

SEAN:
Uh, a screwdriver,

I mean, literally anything, Jen.

Look around the car.

Search the glove box.

- SEAN:
Can you get in there?

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