Logan Page #11

The recording ends. Logan tosses the phone down.

He reaches up for the mirror, adjusts it so he can see-

Laura. Lying there, in a ball, sleeping, a plastic horse doll

in her hands. Some comic books under her head. Suddenly, she

awakes, her eyes meeting his. And holding.

Logan blinks under the weight of her gaze. Then she looks

away and rolls over.

INT./ EXT. LOGAN’S LIMO -- OKLAHOMA CITY -- NIGHT

Laura awakes on the leatherette bench and looks up to

Charles, sleeping soundly, holding her hand. Colored light

passes over his face. She turns to see lights playing outside

her window. She sits up to face-

THE SPECTACLE OF A MODERN GAMBLING STRIP. Dancing lights and

thematic facades throb like fireworks. A car passes, blasting

thumping hip hop.

Charles blinks awake. We see in his eyes a quiet panic as he

looks out at his surroundings and, for a moment, seems to

have no idea how he got here nor who these people are.

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Laura meets his eyes. It starts to come back to him. He looks

out the window as they pull into a Casino parking area.

CHARLES:

...Is this where we’re hiding out?

LOGAN:

We’re not hiding out. We’re gonna

get a couple hours sleep, clean up,

get new clothes, ditch the limo,

get a new ride and get the f***

out.

EXT. OKLAHOMA CITY CASINO/HOTEL - VALET - NIGHT

Logan pulls to a stop a valet who eagerly approaches until he

sees the thrashed condition of their ride and its frazzled

passengers. Logan hands him cash.

LOGAN:

Keep it out front.

Laura steps out, clinging to her horse. Dazzled by the

throbbing lights and sexy throbbing musak.

INT. OKLAHOMA CITY CASINO/HOTEL - LOBBY - NIGHT

Weary, Logan holds an electronic key in his hand as the

threesome moves past slots and gambling tables still

operating in the middle of the night. Laura is overwhelmed by

noise, lights and activity. She jumps WHEN A LOUD BELL RINGS

as someone wins a jackpot. Charles puts a hand on her.

Logan hits the UP button of the elevator and, as they wait

for the doors to open, they all looks at--

A DISPLAY FOR A CASINO CLOTHING STORE. A male mannequin in

handsome western wear stands beside a shapely Cowgirl and a

little kid mannequin in a unicorn tee/skirt and studded denim

jacket. Charles eyes a suit and hat on a mannequin in an easy

chair with a pipe.

Bing! -- the elevator doors open.

INT. OKLAHOMA CITY CASINO/HOTEL - ELEVATOR - NIGHT

They enter, Logan pushing Charles who carries shopping bags

in his lap and tries on a new hat, tag attached. As the doors

close, Logan presses their floor, the button lights and Laura

starts to press other floors. Logan swats her hand.

Meanwhile, Charles digs in the bag, offers Logan a new

baseball hat with a tag on it, tissue paper falling.

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LOGAN:

Please wait till we're in the room.

The doors suddenly re-open and there are A COUPLE (dressed

nicely) and awkwardness as Logan hits the door close button.

LOGAN (CONT'D)

Sorry. Going up.

Laura starts hitting other buttons again. He swats her again.

INT. OKLAHOMA CITY CASINO/HOTEL - SUITE - DAWN

Oklahoma City lies beyond the big windows, morning light

filling this well appointed suite. We see the remains of a

room service breakfast. Clothing wrappers and boxes are

scattered about. In a robe, Laura helps Charles finish

donning his new outfit. Suddenly, there are gunshots from the

TV. Laura turns.

ON SCREEN -- A shootout in a 50’s technicolor Western.

Elisha Cook Jr is gunned down in the mud by Jack Palance.

CHARLES:

This film is a classic, Laura.

Almost a hundred years old now. I

first saw it at the Esoldo in

Dewsbury when I was your age.

ONSCREEN -- Now, it’s a cemetery scene where the homesteaders

sing a hymnal as they lower Elisha Cook Jr. to the ground.

INT. HOTEL - SUITE - BATHROOM - SAME

A line of mini bar bottles stacked on the sink, Logan dresses

in front of the mirror. Exhaustion catching up with him, his

body still scarred from the battle at the smelting plant. He

finished buttoning a new shirt. Picks up his hat.

His eyes land upon Laura’s bloody clothes on the floor. Her

backpack nearby. Logan opens the backpack, pulls out those

files he’d seen before. TRANSIGEN and ALKALI stamped on them.

He flips through them -- records for the young mutants (some

we saw on Gabriela’s videos), we glimpse details:

X23-44:
Projects himself into other people via ocular lock.

X23-22:
Can FREEZE OBJECTS with her cryogenic breath.

X23-20:
Can TRANSFORM AND MOVE ORGANIC PLANT LIFE -- grasses,

trees, plants, a sort of green “Magneto”.

X23-11:
Can generate seismic energy in nearby objects...

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Logan keeps flipping through the files, until he finds the

one he’s really looking for: LAURA.

“High IQ” “Volatile emotional swings” “Difficult to control”

“Signs of Manic Depression in source genetics.”

“SOURCE DNA:
JAMES HOWLETT.”

Clinical photos of Laura’s Adamantium implant. Medical images

of this little girl on a stainless table, in exquisite pain.

Logan can’t look anymore. They bring back his own dark

memories. Closing it, he finds a WRINKLED PHOTO clipped to

the back. It’s of GABRIELA AND ANOTHER NURSE (MARIA) WITH

OTHER YOUNG MUTANTS IN A LAB. On back is that address in

North Dakota. And a list of names: “Delilah, Rictor, Bobby,

Rebecca, Laura and Charlotte.”

Logan tucks the file back in the backpack, then notices

something else... wadded in a side pocket.

SEVERAL COMIC BOOKS. X-MEN comic books.

LOGAN:

...For f***’s sake.

EXT. TRUCK STOP - MORNING

As Pierce and his Reavers show up and take over the place.

They start sealing it off, and head in to the MINI MART...

INT. TRUCK STOP MINI MART - MORNING

The clerk is scared/confused as Pierce and a Reaver enter and

lock the door behind them...

CLERK:

Who are you guys? More cops? Dude,

I already told them everything.

INT./EXT. VAN - TRUCK STOP - MORNING

Where a battered Caliban sits, guarded by a Reaver, the red

slicker in his lap. The Reaver beside him reaches over and

raises the SHADE. Caliban recoils and we now see the blisters

on his face from the previous exposure to light.

INT. OKLAHOMA CITY CASINO/HOTEL - SUITE - DAY

Laura finishes tying her NEW SHOES amid some clothing boxes.

She also wears a new unicorn shirt, new skirt and leggings.

The ones from the display. She's pleased and meets eyes with-

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Logan, who emerges from the bathroom with the backpack. He

doubletakes at her, then grabs another bottle from the mini

bar. We hear canned gunfire from the next room.

Laura crosses to Charles in the bedroom and sits on the edge

of the bed where he is watching “Shane.” On screen, the big

“shoot out” grabs Laura’s attention.

Logan walks in, watching indifferently.

Laura remains riveted as on-screen-- SHANE KNEELS DOWN AND

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