Collateral Damage Page #7

38.

88 CONTINUED:
88

CAB DRIVER:

Beyond those mountains... Thetrail is very dangerous, but donot worry, Ever will get youthere... You can pay him then...

You can pay me now.

Gordy pulls out his wallet, pays the Cabbie.

CAB DRIVER:

Gracias, senor.

The Driver gets back inside the cab. Out the window -CAB

DRIVER:

Que la vaya bien.

He drives off. Gordy looks to Ever. Ever smiles,

motions him to follow, then turns south and starts

walking. As Gordy falls in behind...

89 EXT. DARIEN GAP - VARIOUS SHOTS - DAY 89

Gordy and Ever pass through pristine tropical rainforest.

90 NEAR STREAM 90

rushing fiercely through the jungle, Ever uses hismachete to cut two lengths of bamboo. He hands one to

Gordy and indicates how they'll ford the stream. Gordynods, then follows Ever's lead into the perilous, belly-

deep water. They struggle to maintain their balance,

even with the sticks. When they reach the opposite bank,

Ever signs okay to Gordy and smiles.

91 HELICOPTER CARCASS 91

They pass the carcass of a crashed and burned-outhelicopter, when...

Two dangerous-looking men armed with assault rifles stepout of nowhere onto the path ahead of Gordy and Ever.

Gordy and Ever stop. Gordy glances at Ever. Ever's

focused on the men and clearly doesn't like what he sees.

Gordy looks back. The armed men advance toward them

carefully, rifles in the ready position. Gordy watchesthem approach, wondering who they are and what they'regoing to do. Ever, frightened, takes a half-step back,

then swings the length of bamboo fast and hard, and...

(CONTINUED)

39.

91 CONTINUED:
91

He smashes it into the base of Gordy's head, knockingGordy out.

The men run up. One man covers Gordy, while Ever and theother man rifle his pack and toss his pockets. They takehis passport, wallet, and an NYFD T-shirt. And then

they're gone.

92 CLOSE ON HUMMINGBIRD 92

Hovering over Gordy as he comes to. As it flies off...

92A GORDY 92A

sits up. Feels the bloody lump on his head. It hurts,

but it's not serious. He searches his pockets andbackpack, realizes the passport and wallet are missing.

Gordy stands. Looks around. He's alone. He's in the

jungle... He keeps heading south.

93 EXT. DARIEN GAP - VARIOUS SHOTS - DAY 93

Gordy trudges on. The thick jungle's hot and humid,

full of STRANGE SOUNDS and shadowy animal movements.

Gordy's going uphill, when he rounds a bend in the trail,

and...

He meets a man coming the other way. Alarm gives way tothe realization that the man is followed by a number ofpeople, including women and children. As they passGordy, it's apparent they're refugees from their hauntedexpressions and crude backpacks heavy with possessions...

Gordy addresses the passing people. Indicates where he's

standing.

GORDY:

Aqui? Colombia?...

No one replies. Then a small COLOMBIAN GIRL comes up andgets his attention. She runs back up the trail a shortdistance and stops. She draws a line in the dirt.

COLOMBIAN GIRL:

Panama.

She jumps backward over the line.

(CONTINUED)

40.

93 CONTINUED:
93

Colombia.

COLOMBIAN GIRL:

She does it again.

COLOMBIAN GIRL:

Panama... Colombia.

She smiles. At the sound of a sharp WHISTLE, however,

she runs back quickly, passing Gordy and rejoining herfamily. Her father hands her a machete and a Zippolighter, says something to her. Whereupon the littlegirl returns to Gordy and holds the items out to him.

Beat. Gordy takes them.

GORDY:

Gracias.

The little girl runs back again, and Gordy watches therefugees disappear around the bend. Then turns back

uphill and approaches the line the little girl drew inthe dirt. Looks down at it. Crossing over means hewalks into a world dangerous enough to cause these peopleto flee for their lives, and...

Just as Gordy charged into the fire-engulfed tenementpast a tide of more sensible rats going the other way, henow steps over the line and advances into Colombia.

94 EXT. PARQUE NACIONAL LOS KATIOS (COLOMBIA) - DAY/NIGHT

Where the rain forest of Darien continues in Colombia.

94

Darkness sets in as Gordy follows the trail downhill. At

night, the JUNGLE'S EVEN NOISIER. When...

EVERYTHING GOES QUIET. Gordy slows. And suddenly,

AUTOMATIC WEAPONS begin to POP somewhere. Not close, but

not far, either. A FEW BURSTS, some SINGLE SHOTS -- the

call and response of an ambush -- and then SILENCE. And

then the nighttime JUNGLE NOISES return.

As Gordy walks on...

95 EXT. PARQUE NACIONAL LOS KATIOS - MORNING 95

The sun is already cooking the jungle as Gordy reaches abreak in the trees, sees a small town ahead.

41.

96 NEARBY - MOMENTS LATER 96

Gordy has left the trail. He lowers his pants justenough to expose his injured thigh. A bandage covers thewound made by the glass shard. Gordy unwraps thebandage, revealing...

A wad of cash is hidden inside, along with a photo ofAnne and Matt. A long, livid scar marks the wound.

Gordy studies the photo of Anne and Matt a moment, thenremoves some cash from the wad and re-wraps the money andphoto inside the bandage.

97 BACK ON TRAIL 97

Gordy heads into the town.

98 EXT./INT. CHIVA - NIGHT

One of the colorful, wretchedly overcrowded buses thatply Colombia's back-country roads.

As the chiva jolts and shudders over the dirt road, Gordysleeps. He's an object of some curiosity -- not only agringo, but a virtual Gulliver in comparison to thesmall-statured Colombians pressed in around him.

98

99 EXT. FINCA (COLOMBIA) - DAY

A sprawling farm/estate deep in the countryside. Beyondthe hacienda, we see a military compound containing tentsand three heavily camouflaged helicopter shelters. A

recently arrived Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) sitson a chopper pad with its rotors still turning.

99

100 INT. HACIENDA - DAY 100

Full of manned hi-tech command-and-control and

surveillance equipment. A Colombian military operationsofficer, ROCHA, waits with an aide.

Brandt arrives with Updegraf.

BRANDT:

Find your f***ing leak?

ROCHA:

Not yet. And it could be yourfucking leak.

(CONTINUED)

42.

100 CONTINUED:
100

BRANDT:

All due respect, Noel, it's not

likely... And we don't need the

whole world looking into what

we're doing down here... We find

Rate this script:5.0 / 2 votes