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What about you?

WORTH:

I just woke up here.

HOLLOWAY:

Middle of the night. It's like Chile. They always come in the middle of the night.

LEAVEN:

Who?

HOLLOWAY:

Only the government can build something this ugly.

QUENTIN:

Oh, it ain't government.

HOLLOWAY:

Then what is it.

QUENTIN:

I don't know.

HOLLOWAY:

Aliens!

QUENTIN:

Please, we're spooked anough as it is. Let's rule out aliens from now on and concentrate on what we know.

LEAVEN:

My mom's gonna freak...

QUENTIN:

Rennes...

LEAVEN:

Just won't be there...

QUENTIN:

What do you think Rennes?

RENNES:

We don't solve the act, sitting still. I'm moving at this straight line, till I get to the end.

QUENTIN:

Alright, I attend to agree.

LEAVEN:

Shouldn't we wait here? To see if anybody comes.

WORTH:

No one is gonna come.

QUENTIN:

There's a way in here, so there's gotta be a way out. We can avoid the traps using the boot. Holloway is it. What do you think? For an exit?

HOLLOWAY:

Ok.

QUENTIN:

It can't be that simple.

RENNES:

It ain't gonna be that simple. Take a look around. Take a good long look around, see it. Coz, I got a feeling it's looking at us.

LEAVEN:

I just wanna wake up...

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Leaven blinks with her eyes several times. Quentin sits down beneath her.

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QUENTIN:

Leaven, we can do this. We just have to stay calm, and work together as a team. There's gotta be a lot of people looking for us on the outside. I'm a cop, alright?

LEAVEN:

You're a cop?

QUENTIN:

Yeah... I'm gonna get you out of here, I promise, but you gotta be with me on this one...

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Leaven nods.

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LEAVEN:

Ok.

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Rennes opens a new door, waiting for Quentin to give "signal"

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QUENTIN:

Boot it!

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Rennes throws the boot, nothing happens.

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RENNES:

Clean.

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Through several times of boot-throwing we see other rooms, with other colors on the walls. On the way to a new green room, Leaven notice some numbers in the passage between two rooms. A loud sound is to hear.

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HOLLOWAY:

That one sounded closer.

RENNES:

It's mechanical. Seems to come at regular intervals.

QUENTIN:

Maybe it's the ventilationsystem?

RENNES:

No bets...

HOLLOWAY:

No kidding, I'm boiling

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Leaven looks at the numbers again: 566 472 737. Above these numbers are some others: 476 804 539.

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QUENTIN:

What is it, serial numbers?

HOLLOWAY:

Room numbers, they're different in each room.

WORTH:

Oh great, so there's only 566 million 400.000 rooms in this thing.

HOLLOWAY:

There'd better not be! We have about three days without food and water before we're too weak to move.

LEAVEN:

They have to feed us, don't they?

QUENTIN:

Holloway!

HOLLOWAY:

Oh, we have heat, stress, physical exhaustion i.e. dehydration, headaches, dizziness, disorientation, confusement. Mental process. The body eventual begins to break down it's own tissue.

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Rennes rips a button of Holloway's shirt.

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RENNES:

Suck on it... Keeps the saliva flowing.

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Again the boot lands in a new room. This time, it's red.

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QUENTIN:

What?

RENNES:

The air seems dry in there.

HOLLOWAY:

Trapped?

RENNES:

Molecular chemical sensor.

QUENTIN:

Why the hell didn't the boot set it off.

RENNES:

The boot's not alive. It detects hydrogen-sulfide extruded from the skin.

QUENTIN:

How come, you know so much about sensors, Renz?

RENNES:

Rennes... Not Renz! It's french!

QUENTIN:

Fine, you're french. I'm asking how...

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Rennes opens a new door and throws the boot.

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QUENTIN:

Rennes... Sensorexpert... With the right age... I don't believe it...

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Quentin laughs.

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QUENTIN:

This guy is The Wren...

HOLLOWAY:

The what?

QUENTIN:

The Wren. The bird of Attica. through the coop on six major prisons.

RENNES:

Seven!

HOLLOWAY:

You're kidding right?

LEAVEN:

You can get us out?

RENNES:

Maybe.

HOLLOWAY:

An escapeartist!

RENNES:

Yes, I'm Harry "f***ing" Houdini. The only reason I dragged you so far, is cause I need your boots. If you're not smarting up I'm gone like that. No more talking... No more guessing. Don't even think about something which is not right in front of ya. That's the real challenge, you gotta save yourselves from yourselves.

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Rennes jumps into the new room. We hear a click.

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RENNES:

Merde.

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Rennes gets acid in the face. He screams, and the door closes. In the other room, the door begins to open.

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QUENTIN:

Get him out!

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Rennes' head is partly dissolved. He screams quietly, because he has blood in his mouth. The others scream too. They lay him in a corner. After a little while they look to him again. He's dead, most of his head his been dissolved.

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QUENTIN:

So it was electrochemical or whatever, right? And he missed it. The Wren... That's great, that's f***ing great.

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Quentin turns the corpse of Rennes around with a foot.

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QUENTIN:

Alright... It's time to reassess this place.

HOLLOWAY:

I've been over it again and again, why would they throw innocent people in here? Are we being punished?

LEAVEN:

I've never done anything to deserve this!

QUENTIN:

Forget about all that! You can't see the big picture from in here. So don't try. Keep your head down. Keep it simple. Just look, look at what's in front of you.

WORTH:

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