Militia Page #8

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HUBBEL:

One night, foreman's talking to me

about 'coming clean.' Sept his coming

clean was a lie. He'd get reduced

time if he said me and the crew wanted

to use the cheaper concrete that

caused the rupture. I didn't have

one, but the crew's all got family

counting on them. How're they gonna

take care of their own from Jackson

Correctional?

(beat)

So I killed him. Moved out here.

Saved the others 'lot of trouble.

(beat)

Got to say, sometimes, I get tired.

I miss it. Back there.

Gannon and Olsen arrive, Olsen focused on Keating's SILENCE.

GANNON:

Hubbel, set up somewhere else.

(MORE)

43.

GANNON (CONT'D)

(to Olsen)

Need to see Keating's locker before-

OLSEN:

It's not Keating.

Gannon STARES into Olsen. Hubbel looks at the two of them.

GANNON:

What?

OLSEN:

We know it wasn't Morris.

GANNON:

We do.

OLSEN:

Then that leaves Keating, the f***in'

moron mute who isn't even capable of

talking, let alone some goddamn

inspiring attack, and is basically

retarded. Or Noah, the one

who...isn't.

(beat)

Keating's not the guy.

GANNON:

And you've arrived at this new found

certainty how?

OLSEN:

'Cause of the reasons I just said.

GANNON:

Those aren't reasons. They're traits.

I need to question him to know for

sure.

OLSEN:

No, we don't. Cause it wasn't him.

GANNON:

Then what exactly is your solution?

Beat. Hubbel walks off toward the TRASH BIN...

OLSEN:

We write a confession, get Noah to

call the cops on the CB, have him

say he did it.

(beat)

Then we hand him over to them.

44.

Gannon's eyes try and hide his panic at the idea...

GANNON:

Why...why would we do that?

OLSEN:

Noah got here last. Where the f***

was he? Why are you not seeing this?

GANNON:

So you want to give Noah to the cops

because he was late?

OLSEN:

No, because he-

GANNON:

--And since when do you have to talk

to shoot a bunch of people?

OLSEN:

Do you f***ing get what's happening

out there? This thing has spread.

And if I don't pin this on one person,

it's gonna turn into something that

never ends and a lot of people are

gonna die. Nobody in the goddamn

world's gonna believe Keating's

capable of this. Nobody. So what the

f*** is your suggestion?

GANNON:

It wasn't Noah.

Olsen gets in Gannon's face.

OLSEN:

Why the f*** not? Why couldn't it be

Noah, you smug son of a b*tch? What

the f*** do you know that I don't?

Olsen's anger BARELY camouflages his fear. Gannon watches

Olsen like he's an equation to be solved.

GANNON:

You're right. Give him up. He's the

best option you got.

Olsen sees Gannon's sincere. He walks toward the BACK EXIT...

GANNON (CONT'D)

Besides, it's not like when these

shootings happen, the gunman's ever

described as 'quiet'...

45.

Olsen STOPS. Looks back at Gannon.

GANNON (CONT'D)

'Detached.' 'Anti-social.' Like the

people who knew him have ever said

'I would'a never thought he would do

something like this.'

Olsen sees Gannon's play. Gannon turns back to Olsen and

says it with DEAD CALM.

GANNON (CONT'D)

I'm questioning my f***ing suspect.

Do not get in the way.

Olsen's eyes WIDEN...

OLSEN:

Did you just tell me what to do?

BECKMANN (V.O.)

Calling out to Abilene militia...

INT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE - NIGHT

Beckmann patches into the CB RADIO, trying to contact a nearby

militia. The night vision monitor next to him still WHITE

HOT, the GRID MAP still pulsing...

BECKMANN:

Over. Anyone in Abilene, do not engage

with the 47th precinct. I repeat, do

not engage with-

A 'ping' sound.

Beckmann stops speaking. Looks at the fish finder unit...

A BLIP ON THE SCREEN.

His eyes LIGHT up.

Then a small, FAINT FLASH OF LIGHT on his face...

He looks out the window to see far down the road coming in.

Coming over the hill like a halogen sun RISING in the woods...

CAR LIGHTS.

INT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE MAIN HALL - NIGHT

Olsen looks at Gannon in awe of his insubordination.

46.

OLSEN:

Tell me that again.

Olsen walks back. Face to face with Gannon. GUN in the back

of his jeans...

OLSEN (CONT'D)

Go on. Tell me again-

HUBBEL (O.S.)

We knew this was gonna happen...

Gannon and Olsen look over at Hubbel next to Keating...

Hubbel holds a CELL PHONE.

Retrieved from the TRASH BIN containing all the members

phones...

HUBBEL (CONT'D)

--And when it did, we knew they’d

come back at us with everything they

got.

OLSEN:

Hubbel, put that down.

Hubbel's hand on the PHONE'S POWER BUTTON...

HUBBEL:

So we get to go to war with cops.

Who didn't really want that?

GANNON:

If you turn that on, they're gonna

find us. They're gonna come here.

In his own world, he continues his ramblings...

HUBBEL:

Maybe it's wrong to be happy the

world's breaking down, but a war may

be our only way back into the world...

The three of them HELD BY THE SILENCE. When we hear it...

BECKMANN (O.S.)

CAR.

Gannon and Olsen see Beckmann run out of the office.

BECKMANN (CONT'D)

COMING DOWN THE ROAD. HERE.

47.

Olsen turns to the loading bay windows. FLASHING WITH LIGHT

from the APPROACHING CAR LIGHTS...

OLSEN:

LIGHTS OUT! LIGHTS OUT, NOW! NOW!

The members shut off every light inside the warehouse. Gannon

goes for the BACK DOOR, but Olsen STOPS HIM.

OLSEN (CONT'D)

You stay right f***ing there.

EXT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE FRONT ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS

THE ROAD LIGHTS UP from the approaching CAR as it gets closer

and closer we begin to see...

A POLICE SQUAD CAR.

INT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE LOADING BAY - CONTINUOUS

Pitch dark inside. All the militia men line up against the

main loading bay door to the front of the building.

Gannon LOOKS through one of the windows. The cop car almost

there. Gannon immediately looks to the door to out back...

EXT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE BACK ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS

On the ground, still tied to the tree, NOAH sees the

headlights LIGHTING UP THE OUTSIDE.

His eyes WIDEN...

INT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE LOADING BAY - CONTINUOUS

Gannon looks to the back door, then he sees:

Every member has his AR-15. Locked and loaded.

Including Olsen.

GANNON:

What the f*** are you doing?

Olsen gives Gannon a look of absolute certainty.

OLSEN:

You mean what the f*** are we doing.

Gannon sees the look in Olsen's eye.

48.

OLSEN (CONT'D)

Get ready.

The militia kneels underneath the windows, as the cop car

lights pour through them, just above the makeshift army.

EXT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE FRONT ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS

The cop car PULLS UP to the warehouse. Shuts its engine off.

The COP,(35), gets out of the car. Mustached. Archetypical.

He walks up to the warehouse. Turns on his FLASHLIGHT...

EXT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE BACK ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS

Noah hears the cop's flashlight click on. His FOOTSTEPS

approaching...

INT. LUMBER WAREHOUSE LOADING BAY - CONTINUOUS

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