Logan Page #10

Outside, the horse ride has stopped moving. Laura hits the

button over and over, but nothing happens. She bangs on the

side and, still, nothing happens.

CHARLES:

Logan...

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LOGAN:

I don’t wanna hear it. I don’t want

to talk about it anymore.

CHARLES:

Logan.

LOGAN:

Stop.

CHARLES:

I have to pee.

Logan looks at him. Oh.

EXT. TRUCK STOP -- DAY

ON LAURA AS -- SNIKT -- A CLAW comes out. She tries to jam it

into the Bucking Bronco machine’s coin slot. Logan grabs her

wrist, holds out a QUARTER.

LOGAN:

Last ride. Then we’re leaving.

He nods to the claw, she retracts it. Then she grabs the

quarter from him.

LOGAN (CONT’D)

You’re welcome.

Logan crosses to the -

INT. TRUCK STOP MEN’S ROOM - DAY

We look at a half closed handicapped stall door as Logan and

Charles shuffle about inside.

CHARLES:

Stop it. For God’s sake I can do

that myself!

LOGAN:

Well, you’re not doing it!

EXT. TRUCK STOP - DAY

As Logan wheels Charles back to the car, he looks over at the

bucking bronco ride. LAURA’S GONE.

INT. TRUCK STOP CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY

Laura walks down an aisle, looking at the colorful products.

She grabs a can of Pringles, starts in on it.

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Then she stops and looks at a floor display of Hypno, Mag and

all the variations of “energy drinks.” Laura grabs a can,

opens it and takes a long drink. She’s bouncing as she walks

now...

A CLERK looks up from his phone at her eating snacks.

Laura stops at a SUNGLASS RACK, munching. Notices a pair of

shades. Puts them on, eats more, looking at herself.

CLERK:

Yo. Girlie. You gotta pay for that.

Laura looks up with her mouth full. She starts for the door.

The Clerk blocks her way. She just looks up at him.

CLERK (CONT’D)

Where's your mommy and daddy?

She continues staring. Shoves some Pringles in her mouth.

CLERK (CONT’D)

Alright, that's enough-He

swipes the Pringles can from her hand, about to take the

sunglasses from her nose, when, in a terrifyingly swift move,

she throws the clerk to the floor, straddling him, hand on

his throat the other raised-- SNIKT-- claws out.

CLERK (CONT’D)

Holy sh*t! Oh God Jesus, No!

That's when a hand again grabs Laura by the wrist.

LOGAN:

Not okay.

Logan pushes Laura to the door turns to the clerk-LOGAN

(CONT’D)

Sorry.

--then grabs a handful of CIGARS and A PHONE CHARGER,

stealing a look at a security camera on his way out.

INT. EXT LIMO -- OKLAHOMA -- NIGHT

A great starry sky as the desert becomes the plains. The limo

sits, parked along a flat stretch of Oklahoma highway.

Laura and Charles are asleep in back.

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Logan sits up front in the darkness, legs across the bench,

staring at the road ahead and then at the Pennysaver clipping

for the boat on his visor. And the envelope of cash.

A billboard up ahead hypes GAMBLING AND SHOWS IN OKLAHOMA

CITY, 50 miles away.

There is a small beep. Logan sighs, looks down to Gabriela’s

pink phone plugged into the charger. It's come to life. He

raises the partition and hits play.

ON THE PHONE SCREEN -- PART TWO OF GABRIELA’S VIDEO :

WE SEE A "STAFF MEMBER" PINNED ON THE FLOOR, SKIN SMOKING,

his neck being gripped by a 9 year old with glowing eyes.

People scream. “Leo! Basta! Basta!” The boy leans back and

starts crying. The staff member is dead.

GABRIELA:

As the children became older, they

became difficult to control.

ANOTHER SURREPTITIOUS VIDEO. A BUMPY SKINNED CHILD expertly

shoots an automatic weapon into target dummies in an indoor

range. SUDDENLY THEY TURN AND SHOOT THE INSTRUCTOR. SCREAMS.

A MOVING SHOT. THE BOY WITH GLOWING EYES is chased by

security up a staircase to a rooftop. An alarm whoops. The

boy lands outside and, for a moment, breathes air and stares

at Mexico City. Panicked staff yell to him in Spanish as -

THE BOY THROWS HIMSELF OFF THE LEDGE.

GABRIELA (CONT'D)

They taught them to kill-- but they

did not remove their hearts.

ANOTHER CHILD IS FORCIBLY CUFFED IN A NOW FAMILIAR RESTRAINT

SYSTEM, hissing, spitting, VIBRATING, loose objects flying

around the room. OTHER CHILDREN WATCH. Some weep.

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

They could not be controlled.

ANOTHER SHOT -- A trickle of blood runs to a drain. TILT TO

FIND A YOUNG LAURA IN A SMOCK, seemingly drugged, SITTING on

the floor of a tiled room. She stares at her arm as she cuts

it with a metal claw, then watches it heal, then cuts again.

The camera/phone drops and we see a dutched image of Laura as

Gabriela comforts her, saying “What are you doing, baby?” in

Spanish. Laura cries on her shoulder.

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GABRIELA (CONT’D)

A soldier who cannot be controlled

is not a good soldier.

A LONG LENS GLIMPSE OF THE RED HAIRED MAN, temperamental,

gesticulating, walking up a corridor, trailed by PIERCE.

NOW A SHOT FROM A MOVING CAR-- OF A WINDOWLESS STRUCTURE.

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

(whispers)

Inside this building is something

new. Something better than X-23.

STOLEN SHOTS FROM IN THE NEW BUILDING-- FLASHES OF TANKS

CONTAINING ADULT HUMAN ORGANS, LIMBS submerged in liquids on

collagen forms:
arms, hearts, feet-- some being harvested.

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

I got inside yesterday.

THE RED HAIRED MAN confers with technicians. A Reaver notices

Gabriela who hides her camera/phone. She claims (in Spanish)

to be lost.

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

They told us to destroy files. They

said the Cancer program had failed.

The female Mexican staff, some crying, shred medical files as

out the door a child is dragged away by A REAVER...

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

They started putting the children

to sleep. Like dogs.

We hear Gabriela telling them (in Spanish) that “we cannot

let them do this”. Some of the staff meet her eyes.

NEW SHOT-- GABRIELA IN A SUPPLY CLOSET, DOOR CRACKED...

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

(hushed)

We are going to save as many as we

can. I have read about a place in

the north. A place for mutants.

They call it Eden.

SOME FLASHES OF IMAGES OF AN ESCAPE. AN ALARM SOUNDING.

PANIC. SECURITY. FEDERALES COMING TO THE LAB. RUNNING. CRYING

CHILDREN. Exhortations to the kids to keep running. GUNFIRE.

LOGAN REACTS TO THE CHAOS.

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GABRIELA (CONT’D)

I have not shown anyone what you

have now seen. Not until I am sure

Laura is safe.

AND NOW ON THE PHONE -- AN IMAGE OF GABRIELA LOPEZ IN THE

MOTEL ROOM, BARELY ABLE TO KEEP HER HEAD UP...

GABRIELA (CONT’D)

If you are watching this, it means

I am dead. I am not sure if any

other children survived. We were

separated. I am sorry, but there is

no more money. That was a lie. You

have everything I have in my life.

Logan reacts to this.

GABRIELA (CONT'D)

She is not my child... but I love

her. You may not love her but she

is your child. I see now you are

not a hero. You are not what I read

about. Maybe you never were. But

please, I beg you, please bring her

to safety.

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