Firestarter 2: Rekindled Page #7

Brown hair, brown eyes.

The body is 64 inches long.

Weighs 125 pounds.

Skin is of normal texture.

Appendectomy scar.

No tattoos or other markings visible.

(Mary) I'm alive.

Manner of death is believed

to be self-inflicted asphyxiation.

Cause of death appears to be

a dry-cleaner's plastic bag,

which was removed from the deceased

at the scene and placed into evidence.

Help me.

I will now examine the brain in order

to determine the mechanism of death.

(inward cry of fear)

Help me!

- May I help you?

- John Rainbird.

- Excuse me?

- John Rainbird.

- We don't have a John Rainbird here.

- Are you sure?

He's not on the list. What division is he?

Research and development.

- Nope.

- Try kidnapping and murder.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk!

Hey! Hey!

You can't go in there!

All right, boys, back to your room.

(babies crying)

- I wanna see the fire.

- Shut up.

Hey, moron, what are you doing?

Charlie's here.

- You can't leave.

- I wanna see Charlie.

- We're not supposed to go.

- You stay.

No one is going to leave this room.

- Says who?

- I do.

Do you want me to kick your ass?

Because you know I can.

The camera's right there.

Stop it, stop it, stop it!

Get away from me.

Why didn't you stop him?

I tried. It was like there was nothing there.

Shut the door behind me.

Sit down over there, face the wall.

- What?

- Face the wall!

What's going on?

Be quiet.

(knocks on door)

Vincent.

Vincent!

Charlie, look out!

- Hello, Charlie.

- Let him go.

No. I don't think so.

- Do it, Charlie.

- How precise is your weapon, Charlie?

Is it as precise as mine?

Fry the son of a b*tch!

Oh, she can't do that, Vincent.

- She doesn't want to kill you too.

- I said, let him go.

No. I think you're gonna

have to kill me, Charlie.

That's what you want, isn't it?

- Let him go, please.

- Let's trade.

What will you give me?

- I'll stay here with you.

- No, Charlie, don't...

- You'll stay?

- Yes. You're right, I belong here with you.

I don't believe you. Too bad.

Well, look who's here!

Charlie, why are you holding back?

- (Vincent) Get outta here, Charlie.

- (John) After she came to rescue you?

I don't think so.

Or are you afraid of who you really are?

- (Vincent) Don't listen to him.

- (John) I can see it in your face. Let it go.

- Shut up!

- Come on, show us what you're made of.

No!

Well, don't just stand there!

OK, come on.

- What is this place?

- I don't know.

Why did he recreate a town?

- Training?

- Training for what?

Come on.

Wait! Wait! Wait, wait! Wait!

You hear about near-death experiences.

The victim is compelled towards a light,

- but then turns back at the last moment.

- She had an out-of-body experience?

No. She claims she was

conscious the whole time.

Then how was she pronounced dead?

There's been cases - rare cases, granted -

where someone's been buried beneath

the snow and apparently expired.

No discernible pulse, no breathing,

and then spontaneously revived.

Spontaneous revival, kinda like

spontaneous combustion, huh?

- Ever heard of suspended animation?

- Where they freeze people?

It's like a hibernative state. The heart

beats, but so slowly there's no pulse.

- We're talkin' a single beat in an hour.

- And there've been cases of that?

In the textbooks, at least.

Hi, Mary.

Mary, I'm Special Agent Pruitt.

I'm with the FBI.

You believe some people

tried to kill you.

- (rasping) Have to stop them.

- Yeah. We will.

You don't worry, now. You're safe.

I'm not worried about me.

They think I'm dead.

Who else is in danger, Mary?

You think they'd tell me?

They've tried to kill me. They wanna

keep me quiet. I know things.

Who are these people, Mary?

He said his name was Gil James.

He's with Systems Operations.

- What Gil James?

- The man who tried to kill me.

- Rainbird sent him.

- Rainbird?

Lot 6.

- I'm sorry. What?

- Lot 6.

Drugs, mind-control experiments

back in the '70s.

They enhanced our brains.

God! Rainbird!

Rainbird, he was there back then!

They're still out there!

- Mary, Mary...

- It's them!

- You're OK now.

- It's them!

You've very safe right now.

Mary, tell me. Tell me how

they enhanced your brain.

- We could do things.

- What things?

- Different things. We were all different.

- What kind of things could you do, Mary?

Work things. I could make things work.

- Like, fix things that were broken?

- No!

OK, I don't understand.

Why don't... why don't you show me?

(rasping) It hurts if I do it.

Yeah.

(whispers) Yeah, I'm sure it does.

Wait! Where are you going?

- What do you think?

- What do you think?

I believe she believes it. In this instance,

I'm willing to keep an open mind.

(bleeping)

(several phones ringing)

Do you believe her now? Clear.

You know, I've been looking for you.

You're Richardson.

Yeah.

What?

I just cleared the western region.

You said I couldn't save him.

You said I couldn't save him, but I did.

Yes, you did.

Damn right.

Will you tell us a story?

Doesn't have to be about Charlie.

It can be about something else.

No. No stories.

Why?

I wanted you to do something for me,

a simple thing, and you wouldn't do it.

How do you think that makes me feel?

- Are you mad at us?

- Mad. No. I'm just mad at myself.

I haven't taught you something

that's just as important as tying

your shoelaces or riding your bike.

I'm sorry, sir. They told me to come in.

I can wait outside, if you want.

Gil, please, please.

Come, come in. Sit down.

There you are. Go on.

We won't be a minute.

We're just having a lesson.

- Oh.

- On second thoughts, Gil,

maybe you can help us.

Sure. Why not?

Why not? Gil works for me

as an accountant.

Which means, sometimes,

he has to kill people.

Gil was supposed to stop Charlie

from going away, but he didn't.

And then, when Charlie came back,

he missed her the second time.

Well, he's too big for me to spank

and I can't ground him. So, any ideas?

Any ideas?

Garcia, pack a clean undershirt.

We're takin' a field trip.

- Where?

- Colorado.

My victim's information was right.

There is a Systems Operations.

- Three of 'em, in fact.

- There is?

Yeah. But only the one in Colorado

has a John Rainbird and a Gil James.

Catch. It's for your head.

Thanks.

- You OK?

- No.

Two days ago, my life made sense.

It was boring, but it made sense.

- Now...

- You're in my world.

Charlie... all those people that I found,

all the ones they didn't even need,

they're dead because of me.

- You didn't kill them.

- Yes, I did.

Because I did my job -

my stupid, little, boring job.

When I was younger, this is what

I always thought would be so cool.

Superhero, psychic powers,

but it's not cool at all. It's terrifying.

Yeah, it is.

We can't just leave it like this.

We've gotta tell somebody.

- Who do you want to tell?

- I don't know!

- What about the press?

- I tried that.

They just turned me

into a bedtime story to scare children.

- What about the police?

- They own the police.

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