Braven Page #3

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Almost.

Dad, I'm sorry.

Get in the car.

[engine starts]

Another male rides shotgun.

Take 'em both out.

POPS:
What?

Something's not right.

SNIPER:
Come on.

Baby, get down, get down.

No shot.

Let's move to the perimeter

of the cabin.

Essington,

take the back east corner.

Louisi, front east.

Ridley, you'll take

the front west.

And, Clay, take the rear west.

Let me know when

you're each in position.

Let's go.

You can ride

in the big boy's seat.

F***, man.

- Close the curtains, Pops.

- CHARLOTTE:
What's going on?

It's gonna be all right, baby.

It's gonna be all right.

CHARLOTTE:
Daddy?

It's gonna be okay,

baby, okay?

- The CB is in the shed.

- You good to shoot?

What do you think?

- Dad?

- It's gonna be okay, baby.

Grandpa and I gotta do

a few things, all right?

- I can help.

- Help by staying out of sight.

It is very important that

you do not open this door

unless it's for me, okay?

- Okay.

- All right, baby.

Get in there.

Okay, I love you.

Ehh.

Once you're in position,

check in.

ESSINGTON:
Copy. Rear east.

CLAY:
I got rear west.

RIDLEY:
Copy. Front west.

LOUISI:
Roger. Rear east.

KASSEN:
Hold your positions

until the bag is secure.

This is Joe Braven up on

Blue Mountain. Does anyone copy?

[static, indistinct voice]

This is Joe Braven on

Blue Mountain. Do you copy?

MAN:
This is Fish and Game.

Go ahead, Joe.

- This is Joe Braven.

- [static]

Come on, man.

Why we standing around?

Give me a gun. I'll go in there

and get it myself.

[sighs]

Do you know this guy?

Yeah, man.

Tell me about him.

How many of them?

I make four, at least.

But you need to see this.

- Motherf***er.

- Yeah.

What are you gonna do?

- I'm gonna go talk to him.

- No, no.

With that amount of drugs,

they're not here to talk.

They're gonna size you up,

take you out, then come for us.

I got an idea.

Son of a b*tch.

Hey, you know

what you're doing?

I think so, Pops.

KASSEN:
Why don't you

go bring him out?

Look, his family's in there.

Let's just come back

for the sh*t, man.

Motherf***er's got our drugs.

KASSEN:
Just bring him out.

He's coming out.

Louisi, Ridley,

come in from behind.

Well, look at you.

I'm so sorry, man.

Ah, Mr. Braven.

Sorry to interrupt your day.

- [thud]

- Yeah.

Where the f***'s

the rest of it?

If you shoot me, my guys

will burn the other half.

Okay.

You clear off my property.

I'll meet you in town

at the Waverlin Cafe in an hour.

I'll bring the rest of it,

and you'll never see me again.

Oh, no, no, no, f*** that.

You get your Sasquatch ass

back in there

and bring all of it out now,

motherf***er.

No, Joe,

I don't wanna go into town.

A city boy like me

wouldn't be welcome there.

And besides, what if I run

into Stephanie or Charlotte?

I didn't come here

to kill good people.

I just want

what belongs to me.

Joe, just do

what they want and then...

So how 'bout you go inside,

get the rest of it,

and then we'll be on our way.

Could you do that for me, Joe?

Please?

Uh, yeah.

Watch him.

You know if you give

the other half,

we're as good as dead.

I got a sniper

in the front woods.

I'd like to take him out.

Not yet, Pops.

We gotta get Charlotte

out of here,

then I'll come back for you.

Until then, just wait.

Roger that.

Hi, baby. I got you.

You're doing so good.

Come on.

It's gonna be okay,

all right?

Soon Grandpa and I are gonna

need your help, all right?

- I'm ready.

- That's my tough little girl.

You stay right here.

I'll be right back.

You still got 'em?

POPS:
Yeah, I do.

Wait for my signal.

Once we have

the other half secured,

take 'em all out.

Copy that.

Copy.

Yeah, yeah.

[squeaks]

[clatter]

[gunfire]

He's got the bag!

- [bullet impact]

- F***!

Goddamn it. You with me.

Lay down some cover.

Second floor.

- [gunfire]

- God damn!

[gunfire continues]

- Nobody gets out of that cabin.

- [engine starts]

- Go!

- Oh, hell no!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, I need a f***ing gun!

[gunshot]

- [gunshot]

- F***.

Charlotte,

you remember the plan?

- Okay.

- Yeah?

You get to the top,

you call Mama.

- Yeah.

- I love you.

Go.

Run, run.

Go!

Stop.

Kill the engine.

[distant engine revving]

Wait.

The main road's that direction.

Why is he looping back around?

- Ah...

- What's going on?

He's not trying to run.

He's going back to the cabin.

I'm going uphill,

try to find a sniper position.

You push him back towards me.

[tea kettle whistles]

Charlotte!

[whistling diminishes]

Charlotte, come on, baby.

[beeping]

Oh, sh*t!

All right.

KASSEN:
He's down on

your side of the gorge.

Secure the bag,

clean him up.

[distant engine idling]

I got the bag.

KASSEN:
And where's Braven?

I'll find him.

Kassen, Joe didn't...

KASSEN:
Gentry, say again.

Say again, Gentry.

[screams]

[yells]

[panting]

[dialing]

- [line ringing]

- Please pick up.

[phone rings]

- Joe.

- Mom?

Charlotte?

Charlotte, you can't

run off like that.

Stop. Mom, there are men

shooting at us.

- What did you say?

- They're shooting.

I'll meet you

at the lookout boulder

on Blue Mountain.

Where are you? Hello?

Charlotte, baby,

I'm losing you.

- Hello, hello?

- [line beeps]

[phone beeping]

[line ringing]

OPERATOR:
If you'd like

to make a call...

[dialing]

If you'd like

to make a call...

Sh*t.

[phone ringing]

Sheriff Ossler.

Hey, Cal?

This is Stephanie Braven.

Listen, Joe's up at

Blue Mountain.

There seems to be

some sort of trouble.

- Trouble?

- Yeah.

Charlotte called and said

there were men shooting.

I don't know.

Anyway, she lost reception.

I tried calling her back,

and I can't get through.

All right,

we'll check it out.

- I'm headed up there right now.

- No, you're not.

We'll handle it.

Just hurry, please.

Dispatch, this is Ossler.

Deputy Harris and I

are headed over to Blue Mountain

to respond to a call.

Will advise when we arrive.

What's going on?

Shots fired over at

the Braven cabin. Let's go.

Man, look,

it's probably just some kids

who are shooting cans off

some fence posts or something.

F*** you, man.

That's f***ed.

Sh*t.

I think Joe's daughter

was in that cabin.

Ridley, get to the top

of the mountain.

Kid's trying to call for help.

- Essington.

- Copy.

Move to the west side

of the cabin.

Take a cover position.

Clay, take your position

near the back.

I get my hands on this bag,

we kill all these

sons of b*tches.

[grunts]

[grunts]

Clay, bag was another decoy.

He's headed towards you.

You go east along the trail.

I'm coming.

We'll flank him.

[coughing]

[groaning]

MAN ON RADIO:
Over.

I'm trying to find it.

KASSEN:

Clay, find the ATV trail.

He's coming back on that.

The drugs are

still in the cabin.

Essington, Hallett,

hold the perimeter.

Do not engage.

Do not give him any excuse

to burn those drugs.

[garbled radio transmission]

[air hissing]

Goddamn it!

[Hallett laughing]

You f***ing missed me!

F***!

I should just

f***ing shoot him.

You dumb f***ing Indian.

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