Collateral Damage Page #14

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FELIX:

You're going the wrong goddamn

way!

GORDY:

I am?... Looks different in the

dark...

FELIX:

Turn around!

Gordy turns the car around. Felix keeps the gun on him.

FELIX:

You drive where I say... Or the

Supervisor will have us both shot.

Gordy drives back. They approach the Suburban and thehouse once more. This time it's on Felix' side. Felix

gives the guerrilla guards a wave as they go by, and...

Gordy's eyes go to something he couldn't see coming theother way: a large propane tank next to the house.

196 EXT. PLANTATION - VARIOUS SHOTS - NIGHT 196

The work in the sheds continues. Heat lamps dry down thelong tables of coke.

197 GUERRILLA GUARDS 197

are more vigilant at night, patrolling the grounds withposted teams.

198 WORK LIGHTS 198

illuminate the two big diesel generators as Gordycontinues his overhaul. He has two sentries now. One

wears a combat vest, and as Gordy works, his eyes go tothe grenades hanging on the vest's front.

199 EXT. PLANTATION - DIESEL GENERATORS - DAY 199

The sun's over the yardarm now, blazing hot, and Gordy'sstill working under the watchful eyes of the guards.

Nearby, a group of guerrillas is playing soccer, when...

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A man is injured, and his teammates call for one ofGordy's guards to substitute. The man in the combat vest

responds. The game is shirts and skins, and he's joiningthe skins. Puts down his AK, strips off his combat vestand shirt, and runs in.

Gordy's eyes go to the vest and the attached grenades.

With the other guard still watching him closely, however,

there's nothing Gordy can do.

200 SAME SCENE - LATER 200

The soccer game rages back and forth. Suddenly, an openman gets the ball. Breaks toward the goal.

Gordy sees the player about to go one-on-one with thegoalie. He cheers the action loudly, whereupon...

Gordy's guard turns to see what's happening, and...

Gordy grabs a grenade. Almost gets it into a tool box,

when...

The player kicks wide, the guard looks back, and...

Gordy covers the clattering of the grenade's droppinginto the tool box by picking up a large wrench... But thegrenade's still visible as now...

Felix comes around the corner. He's sleepy and hungover.

And pissed by Gordy's lack of progress.

FELIX:

It's afternoon. Yesterday, yousaid it would only take two morehours.

Gordy wipes his hands on a rag, throws it on the grenade.

GORDY:

I have this one ready to go.

Gordy reaches up and hits the start button on theGENERATOR. It SPUTTERS, but won't catch. Felix justlooks at him. Gordy makes an adjustment, and...

This time, the ENGINE TURNS OVER. PURRS like new. The

heat lamps brighten in a row of sheds. Felix winces as

the DIESEL ROAR makes the hangover hammers in his headpound even harder.

FELIX:

What about the other one?

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GORDY:

I just need another part fromtown, and it's five more minutes.

FELIX:

... Sh*t. Fine. Let's go.

Gordy grabs the tool box.

FELIX:

Why're you bringing the tool box?

GORDY:

The old part's in there. I need

to match it, and it's all greasy.

Felix buys it and heads off. As Gordy follows him...

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EXT./INT. LAND CRUISER (CAGUAN) - VARIOUS SHOTS - DAY 201

They pass the "Cine" in the storefront. The ELC

Supervisor's big-screen TV is being wheeled in.

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GORDY 202

sees an attractive woman playing with some children.

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GORDY AND FELIX 203

drive past the bar. Gordy notices Felix doesn't evenglance at it.

GORDY:

Berta working today?

FELIX:

Ha! Puta!

We see that, whatever this means, it's an unexpectedcomplication for Gordy.

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INT. MACHINE SHOP - VARIOUS SHOTS - DAY 204

Gordy chooses the spare part.

The clerk wraps the part in newspaper.

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205 EXT. MACHINE SHOP - DAY 205

Gordy loads the part into the Land Cruiser. To Felix -GORDY

You as thirsty as I am?

No.

FELIX:

Felix gets into the Land Cruiser.

206 EXT./INT. LAND CRUISER (CAGUAN) - DAY 206

Gordy climbs in.

final straws.

Felix starts driving. Gordy's down to

GORDY:

We can't stop for one beer?

FELIX:

There's beer at the plantation.

GORDY:

(thinking fast)

There's no Berta at the

plantation. I like drinking beeraround pretty girls, not a bunchof guys with automatic rifles.

FELIX:

To hell with Berta.

GORDY:

What happened? Last night youwere in love with her.

There's a beat.

safe to confide.

Felix glances at Gordy. Decides it's

FELIX:

... I had a dream... I fed her

lobster, got her drunk, and sherejected me for another man.

(off Gordy's look)

Dreams tell the future.

GORDY:

... That wasn't a dream, that was

the alcohol talking... You sayingtwo men can't go have a beer andlook at women's breasts because

of pink elephants?... Nothingmakes any sense down here.

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Felix pulls out his .9mm. Gordy doesn't blink an eye.

GORDY:

Go ahead and shoot me, and you

fix the goddamn generator. Part's

in the back.

Beat. OFF Felix, thinking it all over...

207 INT. BAR - NIGHT 207

A replay of last night. Felix is pretty wasted. Berta's

in his lap again. In Spanish -

FELIX:

You know I'm your man, baby.

Someone whistles for a drink. Berta starts to stand.

Gordy slips her twenty US dollars to stay. She does.

GORDY:

I have to piss.

Gordy crosses, exits into the bano.

208 EXT. BAR - BACK - MOMENTS LATER 208

Gordy drops out the bathroom window.

209 EXT./INT. LAND CRUISER - MOMENTS LATER 209

Gordy gets the grenade from the tool box. He slides it

just inside the top of his pants, with the spoon hookedover the waistband. He finds some wire. Then searches

for something else. Finds a piece of string and checksits length. From Gordy's reaction, we understand it'stoo short.

Gordy opens doors and checks seat pockets. Nothing. He

checks the glove box. No long string there, either. But

he does find two rubber bands. Gordy studies them amoment, thinking. Tests their elasticity. Then pullsout the Zippo and thumbs it. The lighter still works.

As Gordy pockets everything and walks off...

210 EXT. CAGUAN - VARIOUS SHOTS - NIGHT 210

Gordy steals through town, hiding when he sees someonecoming. He's re-tracing the route he took the nightbefore, when he followed the Beaten Man's Suburban.

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He passes the "Cine" in the storefront. A movie's

beginning to play on the supervisor's big-screen TV. The

place is packed. No one sees Gordy, who moves on.

212 GORDY 212

continues to make his way through Caguan, when...

He rounds a corner, and there's a four-man ELC patrol,

two in a truck and two out. Gordy turns, starts headingback, when...

One of the GUERRILLAS calls to him.

GUERRILLA:

Alto!

Gordy stops. The two standing men walk toward him. The

other two men get out of the truck to provide backup.

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