Deadpool Page #11

(E.T. voice)

Elliot?

We hear LAUGHS from nearby tents. Wade is now playing for anaudience.

AJAX:

Joke away. The one thing that neversurvives this place is a sense of humor.

WADE:

We’ll see!

AJAX:

(to Angel Dust)

All yours.

We re-take WADE’S P.O.V. as Angel Dust, chewing her

matchstick, re-enters frame above him, smiles, then puncheshim in the face. Black.

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32 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT/DAY - MONTAGE - PAST 32

A MONTAGE of Wade’s treatments in the Workshop, set to thenotes of JOHN DENVER’s inspirational classic, ‘I WANT TO

LIVE.’ Juxtaposed with HARROWING VIGNETTES of Angel Dust andAJAX experimenting on WADE...

...as he GASPS, CLAWS, SCREAMS BLOODY MURDER.

Wade is DUNKED into thick, molasses-like LIQUID. PULLED and

YANKED, POKED and PRODDED by contraptions that would haveshamed the Spanish Inquisition.

SAWED. COMPRESSED. SLICED. DICED. SLAP-CHOPPED. BLED.

LONG SYRINGES PLUNGE DEEP INTO SOFT TISSUE.

SCALPELS MAKE LONG INCISIONS.

ENDOSCOPIC CAMERAS TRAVEL THROUGH THE BODY, REVEALING THE

DIRTY WORK OF INVASIVE SURGICAL EQUIPMENT.

STAPLE-GUNS DRIVE STAPLES INTO SLICED SKIN TO PULL IT BACK

TOGETHER.

MINIATURE CIRCULAR SAWS SLICE THROUGH BONE.

IV’s PULL FLUIDS FROM THE BODY AND INSERT OTHER FLUIDS IN.

JOHN DENVER:

I want to share what I can give. I want

to be... I want to live!

We also see SHORT, ULTRA-FAST MINI-MONTAGES of medical

instruments, implying the PASSAGE of TIME.

32AA INT. WORKSHOP - MONTAGE - NIGHT 32AA

Over images of:

INJECTION:

AJAX (V.O.)

The serum I’m injecting you with targetsany mutant genes lurking in your DNA.

TORTURE:

AJAX (V.O.)

Adrenaline acts as a catalyst for theserum, so we must subject you to extreme

stress.

(CONTINUED)

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AJAX (V.O.)

If you’re lucky, the mutant genes willactivate and manifest in spectacularfashion.

AJAX (V.O.)

If not, we’ll have no choice but to keephurting you in new and different ways.

Each more painful than the last.

32AA INT. WORKSHOP - DAY 32AA

AJAX:

Until you finally mutate. Or die.

33 INT. WORKSHOP - WADE’S TENT / WORM’S TENT - NIGHT 33

At last, Wade is laid back down on his table, only now inQUIET DARKNESS, MEEK, WITHOUT ANY RESISTANCE whatever.

CUNNINGHAM (O.S.)

Puppies.

In the tent NEXT to Wade, CUNNINGHAM holds up his FIST to the

fabric. Wade can see it through the cloth in SILHOUETTE.

CUNNINGHAM (CONT’D)

It helps picturing puppies.

Wade gives Cunningham a KNUCKLE BUMP through the fabric.

WADE:

Puppies.

CUNNINGHAM:

Or kittens. If you swing that way.

WADE:

(chuckles)

I swing both ways.

Wade swallows hard, grows serious:

WADE (CONT’D)

But me, I’ve been making a list of thingsI still plan to do.

CUNNINGHAM:

A bucket list?

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WADE:

I prefer f***-it list: Naked tandem base-

jumping with the WNBA’s SacramentoMonarchs... Sparking up a spliff with theOlympic torch...

CUNNINGHAM:

Finishing my Lego Millenium Falcon...

WADE:

Giving Meredith Baxter Birney a dutch

oven...

CUNNINGHAM:

Making my kids banana pancakes...

AJAX (O.S.)

With the mouse ears? Creative, and

delicious.

AJAX and ANGEL DUST enter CUNNINGHAM’s tent and beginprepping him for a fresh round of torture.

AJAX (CONT’D)

It’s OK, I encourage distractions. Can’t

have you giving up on us, can we now, youlittle worm?

Suddenly, a VOICE calls out from the adjacent tent:

WADE (O.S.)

Don’t take that sh*t, Cunningham! How

tough can he be? Name like Francis.

Ajax is very subtly SURPRISED. WHAT did Wade just say? WADE

is still strapped down inside. Talking nice and LOUD:

WADE (CONT’D)

That’s right! He got ‘Ajax’ off a dish-

washing liquid!

(laughs from nearby tents)

Legal name’s Francis. F-R-A-N-C-I-oops.

Ajax has ENTERED Wade’s tent. Ajax’s expression tells us allwe need to know about the validity of Wade’s claim.

With as much freedom of motion as he has in one hand, Wade

WAVES a STUB of PAPER at Francis.

WADE (CONT’D)

Dry-cleaning tag, Francis. Snagged itoff your lab coat.

(beat)

(MORE)

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WADE (CONT’D)

FYI. I may be able to get you the superhero

discount.

CLOSE-UP on the tag, which reads ‘FREEMAN, FRANCIS.’

Ajax stares hard at Wade with menacing eyes.

AJAX:

You are so relentlessly annoying. Shut

the f*** up, or I’ll sew that prettymouth shut.

WADE:

Uh, I wouldn’t do that. Here’s the

problem with round-the-clock torture.

You can’t really step it up from there.

AJAX:

Is that what you think?

WADE:

Yeah. Francis. That’s what I think.

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V35 EXT/INT. MONTAGE - VARIOUS V35

35 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT - PAST 35

Two ORDERLIES and ANGEL DUST finish strapping Wade down andattaching ELECTRODES to his head and chest. Wade is BOUND to

a HOSPITAL BED that’s ENCASED in a large CAPSULE ofPLEXIGLAS.

The top half of the capsule is hinged to one side, OPEN,

allowing Angel Dust access to Wade.

Ajax sits eating a meal from some Tupperware in a nearbychair.

AJAX:

Seems your genes are as stubborn as you.

But we can still increase your suffering.

We don’t even have a name for this next

toy.

Various WIRES and TUBES run out of the capsule, connected toOXYGEN TANKS, DIALS, and a MONITOR tracking BRAIN and HEART.

AJAX (CONT’D)

We reduce the oxygen in the air to theexact point you feel like you’re

suffocating.

(MORE)

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AJAX (CONT’D)

If you start to pass out, and your brainwaves slow, we turn up the O2. If youcatch your breath, and your heart rateslows, we turn it back down. And we

leave you. Right. There.

WADE:

Um. What?

AJAX:

Waterboarding is the most severe stressknown to man. This device prolongs that

stress. For hours, days, weeks...

Angel Dust chews her match and TAPS the capsule with aFINGER.

ANGEL DUST:

Or if you keep yapping, years...

WADE:

And I thought you were d*cks beforethis.

AJAX:

The saddest part? You still think we’re

making you a super-hero. You.

Dishonorable discharge. Beating up pizza

guys. Hip deep in hookers. You’re

nothing. I’d call you an a**hole, butI’d have to answer to a**holes. Little

secret, Wade. The Workshop doesn’t makesuper-heroes. It makes super-slaves.

We’re gonna fit you for a control collarand auction you to the highest bidder.

(finishes meal, gets up)

Who knows what they’ll force you to do.

Put down freedom fighters. Murder

innocents. Or maybe just mow a lawn or

two.

ANGEL DUST:

There’s a brave face.

Ajax goes to close the lid.

WADE:

Seriously. Now you do have something inyour teeth.

AJAX:

Enjoy the weekend!

(CONTINUED)

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Ajax swings the capsule CLOSED and LOCKS it. The sound leaks

away until all that’s left is a HISSING SOUND as AJAX hitsBUTTONS to lower O2 LEVELS.

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