Lou Page #7

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BERRY:

They’d be here but the ferry’s not

running Chief. Over.

RANKIN:

Well, tell’em to start swimming!

Over.

CUT TO:

INT. LIVING ROOM (LOU’S HOME) - LATER

Rankin stares at the balled-up black tarps on the floor. He

sniffs the empty glass of whiskey, sees the notepad and pen.

He knows what almost happened last night.

The only thing missing from the table is LOU’s NOTE to

Hannah. INSTEAD -- there’s a note in shaky handwriting with

KAYCEE’s name on it.

Rankin picks it up, opening it.

ANGLE ON NOTE--“We went into the woods. 48 N, 123 W. Vee’s

dad took her. Lou’s got guns. Get the police.”

SUDDENLY -- through the window, Rankin sees a TRICKED-OUT ATV

fly from the woods and onto Lou’s massive backyard.

Rankin’s hand shifts to his GUN as he moves to the back door.

EXT. BACKYARD (LOU’S HOUSE) - CONTINUOUS

Kaycee waves to Rankin from the back of the ATV driven by her

boyfriend DEACON (30’s). The ATV is an homage to BIGFOOT, the

infamous blue and white monster truck, just smaller. It has

all the bells and whistles.

They stop. Kaycee dismounts.

KAYCEE:

You got our phone call! About the

tree!

RANKIN:

We did.

KAYCEE:

The g.d. road was blocked. Had to

turn back and get Bigfoot.

She kicks the back of the ATV. Deacon winces.

36.

RANKIN:

You’re here now. That’s good. I got

some questions.

Rankin glances at the NOTE still in his hand.

KAYCEE:

(re:
the burnt spot)

Is that Hannah’s car?

RANKIN:

Think so.

KAYCEE:

What happened? Did lightning hit

it?

DEACON:

Don’t know lightning could do that.

Deacon tucks a large wad of chewing tobacco into his lip.

RANKIN:

It wasn’t lightning.

KAYCEE:

So where are they? Where’s Hannah?

RANKIN:

She’s gone.

Kaycee looks from the burn spot in front of Hannah’s trailer

to the burn spot in front of Lou’s house. Her eyes narrow.

KAYCEE:

This is Lou’s fault.

RANKIN:

You don’t even know what this is.

KAYCEE:

Don’t need to. Where’d Hannah go?

RANKIN:

From what’s been reported, Vee’s

father took her. My guess is Hannah

wasn’t too happy about that so she

came up here and got Lou.

KAYCEE:

Vee’s dad? Philip?

37.

RANKIN:

That’s what this note says. You

know anything about their custody

arrangement?

KAYCEE:

There wasn’t one.

RANKIN:

Alright.

KAYCEE:

Because he’s dead.

Rankin tries to hide his surprise.

RANKIN:

You said he was dead?

KAYCEE:

(nodding)

Vee’s dad was a real wild card.

That’s why Hannah lived in the

sticks. She thought she was safe

out here. But he died in a prison

fight a couple months back. He had

a mouth on him.

DEACON:

He wasn’t so tough.

RANKIN:

You knew him?

Deacon shakes his head, ”no.”

KAYCEE:

Hannah was with him on the main

land.

DEACON:

Didn’t know him but I bet I coulda

kicked his ass.

KAYCEE:

(her lip quivers)

Hannah’s gonna be pissed. She loved

that car.

Rankin’s brow furrows. His gaze turns to the woods.

PRE-LAP:
OVER THE TREES.

38.

LOU (O.S.)

Maybe you were seeing things.

HANNAH (O.S.)

I was seeing things. I was seeing

Philip standing in my bathtub!

LOU (O.S.)

But you said Vee’s father was dead.

EXT. WOODS (LOU/HANNAH) - CONTINUOUS

Lou remains in front but Hannah has the compass now, double

checking their direction. Jax is nowhere in sight.

LOU:

You sure it was him?

HANNAH:

I’m sure. The Devil probably threw

him out ‘cause he didn’t want the

competition. I know how it sounds.

But when everything about a person

surprises you, you just come to

expect it.

LOU:

So what kind of person was he,

besides surprising?

HANNAH:

Philip? He was nice at first.

Bought me funny gifts when he

traveled for work.

LOU:

What’d he do? For work?

HANNAH:

Not sure. I didn’t really want to

know. He was always tired when he

came home. Covered in bruises. One

time it looked like, well, it

looked like he’d been shot. When I

got a pregnant, I got the heck out

of there. I knew we were better off

without him. He got so mad. Went on

and on about me abandoning him.

Then he--

Hannah pauses.

LOU:

Some stories are best left untold.

39.

Hannah ignores her and pulls back her shirt, revealing a

series of VERTICAL SCARS running up her forearm. We now know

why she left her sleeves down while giving Vee a bath.

HANNAH:

He took me to a house in the middle

of nowhere and tied me to a

radiator and he gave me a knife.

There was one way off that radiator

and it was using that knife. Thing

was, both sides of the knife were

sharp, real sharp. If I used it, I

was going to cut myself.

Lou walks faster. She doesn’t want to hear Hannah’s story.

She pushes through a thicket of trees, letting the tree

branches swing back into Hannah’s face.

But Hannah persists.

HANNAH (CONT’D)

I waited twenty-seven hours tied to

that damn radiator. He’d call and

leave messages on the answering

machine, saying all sorts of nasty

stuff. Finally, he called and said

if I waited any longer the baby was

going to die. So I just-

Hannah makes a cutting motion.

HANNAH (CONT’D)

I know I seem soft Lou but I’ve got

edges. I got them from my dad, I

got them from my bosses. I got them

from Philip. But living life hard

is no way to live.

Beat. Lou can’t take it anymore.

LOU:

That’s crap. If you don’t live life

hard, you’ll get trampled on. You

let him make you victim. You got

knocked up by a sociopath.

HANNAH:

(quietly)

Well, all I know is -- it was a

good thing you moved to the island

and rented me that trailer. No one

else would have helped me like

that. Then or now. So thank you.

40.

LOU:

(WHISTLING)

Where’s the damn dog?

Jax trots out of the trees. Lou reaches down and tears off

the garbage bag as a GUST OF WIND swells through the forest.

Leaves tumble down.

ANGLE ON-

A FALLING LEAF as it...

EXT. DIRT DRIVEWAY (LOU’S HOUSE) - CONTINUOUS

...lands in front of Rankin walking amongst the ashes of

Lou’s truck. He reaches down, picks up an INCENDIARY DEVICE.

He hands it to Kaycee. She grabs it, drops it into a ziplock

bag. She and Deacon now wear bright orange volunteer vests.

DEACON:

Kaycee! You got to have the gloves

on.

KAYCEE:

It’s in the bag now. It doesn’t

matter.

DEACON:

Then why’d Chief give us gloves?

KAYCEE:

Does it matter Chief?

Rankin looks past them at a BRIGHT RED RENTAL CAR with a

KAYAK tied to its roof, making it’s way up the driveway.

SUDDENLY -- the wind catches the boat, RIPPING it off the car

and onto the ground. The car stops. A TALL MAN in a FBI

windbreaker gets out. He struggles to return the boat to the

roof. He fails.

ANGLE ON--

Rankin, Kaycee and Deacon, looking at the man, confused.

RANKIN:

(to Kaycee)

Don’t worry about the gloves.

Kaycee gives Deacon an “I told you so,” look as the red car

pulls up next to them.

41.

A FAX MACHINE rests on the backseat wrapped in waterproof

plastic. The tall man gets out.

This is ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT INATOMI (30’s), he’s as green

as a four-leaf-clover but far less lucky. He flips open a FBI

BADGE revealing a sea-sickness band around his wrist.

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