Logan Page #18

CHARLES (CONT'D)

...I don’t deserve it, do I?

(then)

...I did something... unspeakable.

Logan turns.

CHARLES (CONT'D)

I remembered what happened in

Westchester. This was not the first

time I've hurt people.

(pain fills his eyes)

Until today, I didn’t know. You

wouldn’t tell me. We just kept

running from it. I’m done running.

Charles turns to Logan.

CHARLES (CONT’D)

(almost funny)

I think I finally understand you,

Logan...

(dead serious)

...the burden you carry...

Logan arrives at Charles bedside. Puts his hand on Charles’

shoulder. Charles c*cks his head, perplexed, looking up at

him in the shadows. Something is wrong.

CHARLES (CONT’D)

Logan...

LOGAN PRESSES HIS FIST INTO CHARLES’ CHEST.

Charles GASPS. Logan pulls his hand back and that’s when we

see his CLAWS ARE BLOODY.

On the floor, LAURA OPENS HER EYES.

Charles LOOKS UP FROM HIS WOUND, blood coming. He tries to

reach a bedside light and succeeds as again-- THE CLAWS

PLUNGE INTO HIS CHEST. IN THE LIGHT WE SEE -- THIS IS A

PERFECT DOUBLE OF LOGAN.

For simplicity’s sake, let’s call this creature BAD LOGAN.

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He will also be referenced as “X-24”, his model number. He

is a younger, stronger, clone of The Wolverine. Feral, he

moves in a slight crouch. He is not the absence of emotion

but rather, the presence of it, most noticeably, rage.

LAURA FLIES AT BAD LOGAN, SHRIEKING, landing on his back,

gouging his flesh. He spins, trying to shake her, swiping at

his back with his blades. He stumbles across the room and

slams his back on the wall, crushing her, plaster cracking.

LAURA DROPS TO THE GROUND. Dazed.

NATE (O.S.)

Hey!

NATE STANDS IN THE DOORWAY, a Louisville Slugger in his hand.

His wide eyes take in Charles, bleeding, still moving, Laura

on the floor, claws covered in blood. Then he looks to BAD

LOGAN-- AND LUNGES-

A METALLIC THWACK as the bat connects with Bad Logan’s head,

but the clone hardly registers the impact AS WE CUT TO :

INT. ALKALI COMMAND VEHICLE -- COUNTRY ROAD -- CONTINUOUS

The tinny transmitted sounds of the violence play off screen

as we look at the Munson farmhouse a ways off through a

windshield. PAN TO REVEAL-

WE'RE IN THE ALKALI COMMAND VEHICLE. PIERCE AND DR. RICE are

riveted to a feed from Bad Logan’s bodycam.

PIERCE:

Your baby boy just took out the

most wanted mutey in the world.

DR. RICE

He’s fantastic.

Caliban stares, stricken, his face pressed against the bars

in his cage in the rear of the truck.

CALIBAN:

You said you wanted the girl! You

said you just wanted the girl!

ANOTHER REAVER SMACKS THE CAGE, knocking Caliban down.

DR. RICE

(bright eyed)

I told you I was forced to bring a

new tool to bear. He's just a baby

and a bit of a blunt instrument.

(MORE)

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DR. RICE (CONT'D)

But your friends had every chance.

And so did you.

WIDER -- EXT. FARMHOUSE / COUNTRY ROAD -- SAME

WE SEE THE SEVERAL REAVER/ALKALI VANS nestled in an overgrown

section of country road, among them the FLATBED WITH THE BIG

BOX. Only the big doors are wide open... WE PAN TO --

The Munson corn field. Logan (regular Logan) and Will are

coming down the irrigation road toward the Munson Farm.

WILL:

Since Nate was born, I try not to

imbibe much. Maybe once a month.

Passing the sheds and equipment, Logan crosses toward his

pick-up truck as Will breaks for the house.

WILL (CONT'D)

I'm guessing you enjoy a drink more

often than that.

LOGAN:

Only on days that end in “Y.”

INT. FARMHOUSE -- HALLWAY / STAIRS -- CONTINUOUS

Carrying Laura, BAD LOGAN steps over NATE’S GUTTED BODY and

heads down the hall toward the stairs. We hear A SHOTGUN RACK

and see-- Kathryn in her bedroom door with a two barrel.

KATHRYN:

(low)

Put her down.

Bad Logan stares at her. Drops Laura.

WILL (O.S.)

Kathryn!

KATHRYN:

Stay down there, Will!

EXT. FARMHOUSE -- CONTINUOUS

Logan grabs a booze bottle from the glove box. And that’s

when he turns, smelling something. The horses in the corral

seem excited. LOGAN’S HEAD SNAPS UP.

GUNSHOTS RING OUT. SCREAMS FROM THE HOUSE.

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INT. FARMHOUSE -- UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -- CONTINUOUS

CLOSE ON-- LAURA, pinned in the restraining device on the

floor where Bad Logan dropped her, lying on her side.

FROM HER DUTCHED POV -- we see Bad Logan killing Will who

tumbles down the stairs. We also see Kathryn dead, beside

Nate, also lifeless. Tears fill Laura’s eyes.

Pellets rain from above.

Laura looks up to -- Bad Logan, wounds healing.

She struggles in rage as--

Bad Logan picks her up moves to the staircase.

INT./EXT. FARMHOUSE - HALLWAY - NIGHT

LOGAN LEAPS BURSTS INTO THE BACK DOOR TO FIND--

WILL, LYING IN A HEAP AT THE BASE OF THE STEPS. GUTTED.

Then Logan sets eyes upon--

A DOUBLE OF HIMSELF COMING DOWN THE STEPS, CARRYING LAURA.

A reincarnation of Weapon X. From the floor, Will’s eyes fix

on Logan, life draining from him.

Logan meets Bad Logan’s yellow eyes.

Logan glances to-The

blood drenched stairs--where he last saw Charles.

Laura watches, trapped in the restraints as--

Bad Logan suddenly moves away, with Laura toward the front

door and-

LOGAN RACES UPSTAIRS but the camera stays at the bottom,

looking upward.

ON LOGAN -- IN THE UPSTAIRS BEDROOM

He stands over Charles, ravaged and bloody. Their eyes meet.

Charles is still alive.

EXT. FARMHOUSE -- NIGHT

BAD LOGAN (X-24) carries Laura down the front steps, heading

toward the farm road.

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INT. FARMHOUSE -- STAIRCASE -- CONTINUOUS

ON LOGAN’S BACK AS HE CLATTERS DOWN THE STAIRS, CHARLES’ in

his arms, wrapped in a bloody quilt.

EXT. FARMHOUSE -- CONTINUOUS

X-24 (Bad Logan) stops in the center of the road where --

THE ALKALI CONVOY HEADLIGHTS BLINK ON.

X-24 squints at them. Starts toward the lights with his

quarry...

INT. FARMHOUSE -- DOWNSTAIRS HALL -- CONTINUOUS

Logan racing out the door with Charles. The pick up lies

ahead.

INT. ALKALI TRUCK -- CONTINUOUS

Dr. Rice leans forward, rapt, watching out the windshield

like a proud father--as X-24 comes up the road toward them,

carrying Laura. Beside him, Pierce and the Reaver Driver.

REAVER DRIVER:

(starting up the vehicle)

I’ll pick em up -- meet em halfway.

Let the clean up crew in.

DR. RICE

No.

Rice’s eyes are glued on X-24: his project’s first road test.

DR. RICE (CONT’D)

Let him come to us.

In back, Caliban lies on the corrugated steel floor, beaten

and bruised. He rises, peering through a slot. He sees:

Logan emerging from the front door, Charles in his arms.

Caliban blinks back tears, overcome with guilt, sorrow...

Rice watches eagerly as Bad Logan nears their truck.

RICE:

We learned the hard way with the

X-23’s. We assumed, because they

were children, their emotional

responses could be manipulated. But

you can’t nurture rage. You must

simply design it.

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