King and Maxwell: Summer Adventures Page #9

A quick look over their shoulder reveals two Guard Dogs atthe end of the corridor. The dogs begin to run. Sean punchesin the last numeral. The door slides open.

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They all scramble through, Sean slamming his hand on theoversized button to close the door. It slides shut just asthe dogs skid to a stop on the other side, snapping andbarking. Only we can’t hear a thing.

SEAN (CONT’D)

Cool. Sound proof.

INT. DATA CENTER - STAIRS - NIGHT

They climb a flight of stairs, reach a locked steel door witha traditional lock. Sean shoots Michelle a look.

Michelle takes two bobby pins from Megan’s hair, picks thelock.

INT. THE WALL - NIGHT

The door opens into a cavernous room. One entire wall, twostoreys high, is fitted with dozens of screens. On theopposite side of the room is an operations area with a dozencomputer stations. In the middle of the room is an oversizedleather chair. Fitted into each armrest is a keyboard andnumeric pad.

SEAN:

The wall.

(off Michelle’s look)

Only words Edgar Roy spoke when I wentto see him. I thought he was referringto the security cameras on the prisonwall. I’d forgotten about it until youstarted describing this place...

There's a noise behind them and they both quickly draw their

weapons. A gasp from Megan as a giant figure steps from theshadows... Edgar Roy.

Sean lowers his SIG, puts it on a table, showing Edgar Royhe’s now unarmed. Michelle keeps her SIG aimed squarely atRoy chest.

SEAN (CONT’D)

You could have warned me about the

dogs.

EDGAR:

Sorry. Why did you take so long?

SEAN:

Not as smart as you, Edgar.

(beat)

You know it would have been easier if

you’d called me.

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EDGAR:

FBI is monitoring your phone.

(to Michelle)

And yours.

MICHELLE:

(lowers her SIG)

Seriously?

EDGAR:

The last time Ted came to see me, Itold him how he could prove I didn’tkill those men. He brought his micro-

cassette-recorder.

MICHELLE:

I saw it at his house. No cassette

tape though...

MEGAN:

FBI must have taken it.

MICHELLE:

Or his killer.

SEAN:

You gave Ted those strings of numbersand letters verbally?

Edgar just stares at him like he’s an idiot.

MICHELLE:

You can still remember them, right?

He gives Michelle the same look. Then he sits in the leather

chair, begins typing. Sean, Michelle and Megan watch inmounting awe as ‘The Wall’ comes to life... dozens of

screens, data streaming from a myriad of sources, some withsound, music, voices - a digital window on the world.

As they watch, mesmerized by the sheer volume of data, Edgarlowers the sound.

Tracking information and satellite data scrolls rapidly upone side of the wall, as satellite imagery of the earth isdigitally rewound, a calendar spinning backwards, countingback six weeks until it stops on a date: 05-18-12. The

images on The Wall are replaced by a single, obliquesatellite image of farm buildings in West Virginia.

EDGAR:

This is when it happened.

MICHELLE:

That’s your farm?

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EDGAR:

Yes.

SEAN:

The date’s wrong - this is a weekbefore you were arrested.

EDGAR:

When I was in prison, I replayed in myhead, every image I’d seen... until Icame to this one.

MICHELLE:

Why didn’t you react when you firstsaw it?

EDGAR:

Data is nothing without context.

On the screen, two SUVs drive up to the farm buildings.

Several FIGURES get out, scout the area.

EDGAR (CONT’D)

It was a Friday. Temperature wasseventy-two degrees, relative humiditythirty seven percent, dew point fortyfour, I got to work seven minutesearly. While I was here, they were onmy farm.

On the screen, the figures begin unloading what appear to bebody bags from the SUVs and taking them into the barn.

EDGAR (CONT’D)

Eight days later I found the groundhad been disturbed in the barn. I gota shovel and had just uncovered thefirst body when the police came.

SEAN:

Who controls this satellite, Edgar?

EDGAR:

Q-Sat-one-three-nine-four, launchedOctober eleven, two-thousand-seven,

built and operated by Q-Tech, publiclylisted company, principal shareholderMason Quantrell.

SEAN:

What if Bunting’s ‘Wall’ was puttingQuantrell’s intel gathering networkout of business? He would have known

Edgar was the key. No Edgar, no wall.

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MICHELLE:

Killing him would have been tooobvious.

SEAN:

But having him locked up for murder...

(a thought)

Do you know who tasked the satelliteto be over your farm?

Edgar types. Half the screen rapidly scrolls through a seriesof authorization documents, until it stops on one document.

EDGAR:

Classified Authorization Hotel Oscar

one three Delta, authorizing officer -

Foster, Ellen, Assistant Director.

SEAN:

Foster and Quantrell are in thistogether. They get rid of theopposition, Quantrell wins this newmulti-billion dollar contract and

Foster gets a multi million dollarkick-back.

MICHELLE:

Sounds about right for Washington.

(beat)

They used the satellite to watch untilyou went into the barn. Then theytipped off the cops.

(to Sean)

Want to guess why they recorded it?

SEAN:

The only way for them to guarantee thedeal. His satellite, herauthorization. If one goes down, theyboth go down.

MEGAN:

Edgar, can you zoom in on their faces?

Edgar’s fingers fly across the keyboard.

On The Wall, the faces of several figures come into focus.

Edgar closes in on one figure in particular. The figureglances skyward and Edgar freezes the frame. It’s Megan.

MEGAN (CONT’D)

That’s what I was afraid of...

She snatches up Sean’s SIG, still on the desk where he put itdown. Levels it at Michelle and Sean.

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SEAN:

Guess you think I screwed up...

MICHELLE:

Thought had crossed my mind.

SEAN:

When I was at the fire, I found acorner of the white board page.

Whoever attacked us threw it in the

fire. Which got me wondering - why?

(beat)

Why not just grab it and run? Unless

you couldn’t run because it would’veblown your cover. Wouldn’t it Megan?

MICHELLE:

Explains why Ted stopped, rolled downthe window. He stopped for you. Onceyou killed Ted, you knew you couldn’trisk that Hilary knew something...

SEAN:

You working for Quantrell or Foster?

MEGAN:

Foster, not that knowing will make anydifference to you.

SEAN:

On the contrary...

Sean dumps a handful of rounds onto the table.

SEAN (CONT’D)

You don’t think I’d be that careless,

do you Megan? I just wantedconfirmation it was you.

Megan falters, glances quickly at the SIG - and it's allMichelle needs. She moves with lighting speed, grabs at thegun as Megan pulls the trigger - BAM! BAM! BAM! Michelle

puts her down, knocking her out cold.

MICHELLE:

Not loaded, huh?

Sean trying to figure it out. Michelle pulls out hercellphone.

MICHELLE (CONT’D)

You got Murdock’s number?

SEAN:

Sure

He stops, looks at The Wall.

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