Everly

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(FOOTSTEPS ECHO)

(PLANE ENGINE ROARING)

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

(BED SPRINGS CREAKING)

(MEN CHATTERING)

(WOMAN GASPS)

(WOMAN YELLING)

(MAN SPEAKS JAPANESE)

(MEN CHEER, LAUGH)

(WOMAN SOBBING)

(MAN SHUSHES)

(SOBBING FADES)

(CRYING)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(COUGHING)

(MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(PANTING)

(TOILET FLUSHES)

(MAN SPEAKING OUTSIDE)

(MEN LAUGH)

(SPEED-DIALS NUMBER)

(LINE RINGING)

This is Detective Robertson.

Leave a message after the beep.

- (BEEPS)

- He knows. He knows.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

What's going on in there?

(POUNDS)

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(POUNDS)

(GASPS)

(SPEED-DIALS NUMBER)

- (MEN SPEAKING JAPANESE)

- (LINE RINGS)

Hello. It's Edith...

GIRL:
And Maisey.

EDITH:
We are not home right now.

- Leave a message after the beep.

- Beep.

(BEEPS)

(HANGS UP)

MAN:
Ooh.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(POUNDING ON DOOR)

Get the f*** out here!

Get out here now!

(MEN TALKING)

I'm coming in!

(GUNSHOT)

(DISTANT SOUNDS ECHOING)

(MEN SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(STEREO PLAYS:

"WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS")

(GUNFIRE)

Good tidings to you

And a happy New Year...

- (GROANS)

- (MUSIC QUIETS)

And a happy New Year

Good tidings to you

- (PISTOL CLICKING)

- Wherever you are

- (MAN GRUNTING)

- Good tidings for Christmas

And a happy New Year

We wish you a merry Christmas

- (GAGS)

- We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy New Year

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy New Year

(THUMPING ON CEILING)

WOMAN 1:
What the hell

is all that noise?

Cheese and crackers,

keep it down.

Really?

- (SIGHS)

- (SONG STOPS)

(STEREO PLAYS:
"GOD RES YOU MERRY, GENTLEMEN")

...merry, gentlemen E

Let nothing you dismay...

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

WOMAN 2:

Hey, is everything okay in there?

...was born

on Christmas Day...

Yeah.

To save us all

from Satan's power

- Oh, my God.

- When we were gone astray

O tidings

- I'm sorry.

- Of comfort and joy

Comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy...

(PANTING)

(SPEED-DIALS NUMBER)

(LINE RINGS)

This is Detective Robertson.

Leave a message after the beep.

- (BEEP)

- Where are you?

Where the hell are you?

You promised me that you would help me.

You said you'd get me out of this.

Now I'm so f***ed.

Call me, a**hole,

at least to tell me

that you don't give a sh*t

that you sold yourself

like all the other disgusting cops.

(CHUCKLES)

And I'm on my own.

...comfort and joy

Comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy

(VOCALIZING)

Sh*t.

- (RING-TONE CHIMES)

- Hello.

Hello?

(RING-TONE CHIMING)

- ...Christmas Day.

- (CHIMING CONTINUES)

To save us all from Satan's power

When we were gone astray

O tidings of comfort and joy

Comfort and joy

- (SECOND RING-TONE CHIMES)

- (MUSIC STOPS)

(GRUNTS, YELPS)

(RING-TONE CHIMES)

(MULTIPLE RINGTONES CHIMING)

Stop.

No.

(ALL RINGTONES STOP)

(GASPING)

(RING-TONE CHIMING)

(WINCES)

(CELL PHONE CHIMING, BUZZING)

(BEEPS)

MAN:
Everly.

What a surprise.

I assumed you'd go down

without a fight.

I was wrong.

I'm never wrong.

Did you get my present?

Open it.

I picked it out myself.

(GASPS)

Your detective friend

is just the beginning.

221 Shaffer Avenue.

What?

My men are already there

waiting for my call.

No, Taiko. No.

No, Taiko. No. Please, no.

- We had an agreement.

- I'm begging, please.

Do as your told,

or I kill your mother and daughter.

Do anything you want to me, but, please,

please, just leave them out of this.

I don't need your permission to do

anything I want with you.

I own you.

- Yes. Please...

- Or did you forget that?

- If you ever loved me...

- This isn't about love.

It's about honor.

You were taken to be a whore,

just like the others,

but when I saw you, I said,

"No, she's special. She's mine."

But you betrayed me, Everly.

You... You're right.

You're right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I... I was scared,

and I deserve to die because of it.

But...

but, please,

please let them live.

Let them live, please.

(TAIKO SIGHS)

All right. I will grant you your wish.

You will die in that room tonight, Everly,

and I'll let little Maisey live...

Thank you. Thank...

just long enough

to earn back what you've cost me.

I'm sure your daughter will be

very popular with the older clientele.

F*** you.

F*** you.

F*** you!

F*** you!

(SPEED-DIALS)

Come on, Mom.

Pick up. Pick up.

- EDITH:
Hello.

- (HANGS UP, SPEED-DIALS)

(LINE RINGING)

- Hello. It's Edith...

- And Maisey.

- We are not home right now.

- (HANGS UP, SPEED-DAM)

- (GROANS)

- Hello. It's Edith...

And Maisey.

- We are not home right...

- (HANGS UP, SPEED-DIALS)

EDITH:
Hello.

- Hello?

- Mom.

- Everly?

- (SIGHS)

There's men there.

There's men already there.

You need to take Maisey and run.

What the hell are you talking about?

What men?

- Mom...

- Where are you?

(DOORBELL RINGING)

- (MEN YELLING)

- Who's that?

- They're there.

- (CLATTERING)

Everly, what have you gotten us into?

Mom, you got to get out of the house

right now with Maisey,

or they're going to kill you both.

- Okay, okay. I'm going. I'm going.

- Come on.

- MAISEY:
Grandma.

- (DOGS BARKING)

- Maisey.

- I need you to be quiet.

MAISEY:
Where are we going?

Who's out there?

- (CLATTERING)

- (MEN YELLING)

EDITH:
Shh. Out the door.

We are going for a ride.

Follow me.

(CAR DOOR OPENS)

While we are in the car, scoot over.

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

- (MAN YELLING)

- (MAISEY SCREAMS)

- (CRASHING)

- (TIRES SQUEALING)

- (SILENCED GUNSHOTS)

- Mom?

- EDITH:
Maisey. Maisey...

- Mom?

- Are you okay?

- I'm okay.

It's going to be all right, baby.

Keep your head down,

and hand the phone to Grandma.

Put on your seat belt.

Good job, baby.

Everly, what the hell

is going on?

Mom, you need to keep driving.

Don't stop for anyone.

Meet me at McCoy Park downtown.

- I'm calling the police.

- No.

He owns the police.

This is madness.

What do you mean?

- Who owns the police?

- (ELEVATOR DINGS)

No time.

Four years ago, you disappear,

and I haven't heard from you

in four years, Everly,

four years.

(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

- (BEEP)

- men showing up at my home

in the middle of the night

to kill me and Maisey.

What have you done?

And why would we want

to see you, anyway?

First you abandon your daughter,

and now you put our lives in danger?

- MAN:
B*tch!

- I did not abandon her.

You have no clue

what happened to me.

You need to see me so I can give you

enough money for you to disappear tonight.

You have to start a new life

where no one can find you,

or else you're dead, and Maisey's doomed

to a life of misery.

Calm down so we can talk about this.

You are not making any sense.

- But, Everly...

- Meet me at the park,

and call me when you're there.

I love you.

- Please tell me what...

- (RING-TONE CHIMES)

WOMAN:
Taiko, what the f***?

It's been raining f***ing bullets

in here for the last 10 minutes.

Broke-ass motherf***er.

Listen, I've got a dead John

bleeding all over my place

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