Militia Page #17

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BACK TO:

EXT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE FRONT ENTRANCE - NIGHT

Gannon looks back at the motion light...

Then back out at the wall of SWAT and militarized police.

The line of militia behind him...

Gannon closes his eyes...

GANNON:

Olsen...tell the truth...tell them

what happened...

(beat)

Tell them you and I did it together.

Olsen stops moving. Freezes. The rest of the militia holds...

GANNON (CONT'D)

You and me. Not the group. They had

nothing to do with it. Just us...

Olsen stands still. Frozen by the suggestion. We come in

close on the motion light. Still lit...

95.

GANNON (CONT'D)

If we tell the truth, the group will

go free. It will end this.

The militia men's eyes dart between Olsen and the SWAT. Trying

to discern whether Olsen duped them all...

Olsen's eyes lock on Gannon in shock of the accusation...

OLSEN:

He's lying. Keep your guns on them

or they'll open fire.

Gannon stays focused on the lit forest and SWAT in front of

him.

Motion light still lit...

GANNON:

Put your gun down and I'll give myself

up to them.

Olsen's body frozen in rage, in anger...

OLSEN:

Shut the f*** up, Gannon.

Gannon stays focused on the motion light. Still lit...

Olsen's eyes dart between Gannon and the SWAT teams...

His body, frozen. His finger, the only thing trembling...

GANNON:

Just please put the gun down, Olsen.

Let's just tell the truth...

Olsen stares out at the brightly lit SWAT. Uniformed and

homogenous and terrifying...

The militia men next to Olsen. Weak. Meager...

Morris's eyes tearing with rage at Olsen...

Keating's wide with psychosis at Olsen...

Beckmann's driven with anger at Olsen...

Gannon stays focused on nothing but the lit forest. The lit

SWAT members...

We come in close on the motion light. Still on...

Olsen slowly c*cks his gun. Just then...

96.

The motion light flicks off.

Sending the woods and the SWAT into total DARKNESS.

But the lights from inside the warehouse stay ON, silhouetting

each member of the militia. Perfectly outlined targets.

Gannon tackles Noah to the ground...

Olsen OPENS FIRE into the woods at the SWAT.

The militia follows suit and begins FIRING. Aimlessly into

the woods almost as if at some cloaked menace, just as the

SWAT RETURNS FIRE.

Surgical and precise and immediate and impersonal.

Gannon and Noah both on the ground, their hands over their

heads as the continuous cacophony of GUNFIRE spreads through

the woods...

Gannon looks over at Noah on the ground. Unprotected in the

wake of the firing. Gannon's hands drop from covering his

own head, to the ground...

He CRAWLS. Toward Noah. Keeping his head down, nothing to

hide behind, between the two firing lines. Gannon finally

gets to Noah...

And covers him.

Protecting him. Hands on their heads as BULLETS split the

air just above them.

Hubbel fires into the woods at the SWAT as three rounds hit

him in the chest. He drops.

Morris keeps firing, switching aim, YELLING out as he tries

to find a target in the darkness. He then takes two rounds

to the leg, hunching him over, then two in the back. He falls.

Keating looking around, horrified at the violence he so

piously fantasized over. He ceases firing just as two rounds

hit him in center mass. He crumbles.

Beckmann drops to reload a cartridge from behind the garage

wall when three rounds burst through the corrugated steel of

the wall, sending him to the ground.

Olsen fires out. The last of all of them. Defiant and tireless

and pretending he still has a chance...

A bullet hits him in the cheekbone. Then three in the chest.

Olsen goes down.

97.

Quiet.

The motion light turns back on.

The militia bodies slumped to the ground.

Gannon and Noah stay prone.

The outside of the lumber warehouse begins to colorize with

RED and BLUE as the police cars turn on.

Gannon gets on his knees and puts his hands up. He calls out

toward the line of militarized police...

GANNON (CONT'D)

We had nothing to do with the attack.

(motions to Noah)

He's U.C. He can confirm status if

you bring him in.

The cops stare silent at Gannon. None move. Then we hear...

VOICE (O.S.)

Get Noah up.

The voice. We hear it...

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D)

Get him back to the precinct to be

debriefed.

We know the voice. Then the cop steps into the light:

Kowalski.

FLASHCUT-

Beckmann looks at the CB as Kowalski SCREAMS out over the

gunfire on the CB radio...

KOWALSKI (V.O.)

--HQ HQ, men descending on my position

from tree line! Immediate assistance-

BACK TO:

Gannon looks at Kowalski. Sees his badge. His face drops...

FEMALE OFFICER (O.S.)

Thirty-two, Oscar Victor Charlie...

Gannon hears her voice. He knows it too...

98.

FEMALE OFFICER (CONT'D)

I've got two Caucasian males at the

Cross Creek lumber warehouse...

FLASHCUT-

Beckmann, Gannon and Olsen listen to the News Reporter...

AM NEWS 1130 REPORTER (V.O.)

--it took place over thirty seconds,

but police are now telling us it-

BACK TO:

Gannon's eyes light up. The same voice as the News Reporter...

FEMALE OFFICER:

Need immediate evac...

Another patrolman sounds out. Gannon hears his shrill voice...

PATROLMAN:

Somebody get HQ on radio. Tell 'em

we need a body disposal unit out

here.

...Scratchy sounding.

PATROLMAN (CONT'D)

Seven down. All Caucasian males.

Right f***ing now, please?

FLASHCUT-

Gannon in his trailer, listening to the attack on his police

scanner. The shrill, scratchy voice of the cop yelling out...

PATROLMAN (V.O.) (CONT'D)

-CONFIRM SHOTS FIRE- ON -CER -ERAL, ULTIPLE

DOWN, WILCOX ROAD, -EDIATE

BACK TO:

The voice of the Patrolman from the attack.

Gannon's heart drops out from underneath him.

Gannon looks out at all the cops standing there. Staring at

him. Watching him as if he's the last one in on the joke.

Gannon looks down at Noah.

GANNON:

There was no attack.

(MORE)

99.

GANNON (CONT'D)

(beat)

You faked it.

Noah looks at Gannon, then back at the bodies of the downed

militia men...

NOAH:

All they did was make threats. Say

they were going to attack us. We

needed them to actually do

something...

FLASHCUTS:

NOAH (V.O.) (CONT'D)

So we fake an attack on ourselves...

-Somewhere in the woods, a line of POLICE OFFICERS firing

handguns into the woods. Another FIRES off an AR-15,

aimlessly...

Another cop sets off three IED charges in the distance...

-Gannon stands outside his trailer. Listening to the

attack...

NOAH (CONT'D)

And then all it took...

-The warehouse's armory blinds roll up. The line of AR-15's.

A hand comes and takes #18. We see who takes it...Noah.

NOAH (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Was hiding a single gun...

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