Nine Dead Page #2

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in Hollywood though.

Good for you.

I'm gonna miss

my sitcom audition.

Your audition?

Where the hell do you think

you are?

Jesus, will you

cut the kid some slack already?

We're all scared here.

He's doing his best.

Hey, is Sully the only one

who's not from Los Angeles?

My travels have

taken me all over,

including Los Angeles.

More than a few prisons.

I'm Father Michael Francis.

I have Catholic parish

in the San Fernando Valley.

Eddie, where are you from?

Barstow.

You guys forgot about me.

You said you ain't talking.

I just figured you're

from Los Angeles,

since, you know,

the city's chock-full

of you pussies.

I got your p*ssy.

Excuse me.

No one appreciates your

pissing match more than I.

But I think we're forgetting

about someone.

Do you speak English?

English?

Say something.

I know you understand us.

Does anybody know

what this language is?

Anyone know what it is?

Chinese, I think.

How the hell do you know?

Old-school kung fu flicks.

It's annoying, whatever it is.

I hope he cap her ass first.

N*gger!

The chick does speak English.

Yeah, she's funny.

Let's see who lives

and dies first.

This situation stinks

of a pig setup.

Jesus.

Told you.

God, for the last time.

This has absolutely nothing

to do with the cops.

How can you be so sure?

Because I am a cop!

I knew it.

I thought if I told you

scumbags I was L.A. County,

you wouldn't say anything,

knowing I was one of the good guys.

Good guys?

Yeah.

You're one of the good guys?

Yeah.

In my old neighborhood,

the cops weren't the good guys.

I'm not a scumbag.

I'll make you a bet

that our masked host

comes back in here,

grabs one of us,

brings him outside,

shoots the gun up into the air,

and we all think he's dead.

Yeah, that's what

he's gonna do.

He's gonna sweat us.

That's what he's gonna do.

You think?

Yeah, he's gonna do that.

Really?

Come on, guys, come on.

We can do this.

Yeah.

If he figured out

why we're all here,

we can figure it out.

You know what?

I really appreciate

your can-do spirit,

but if this pig is wrong,

my name's Coogan.

And I got to say,

what a pleasure it was

to spend the last 10 minutes

of my life with you all.

Well, we still haven't

gotten your name.

You didn't?

Miss chink over there said it

plain as day.

It's what you and

everyone else think: n*gger.

All right?

Yeah, is that with 1 G or 2?

That--that--

With 2.

You think this is funny?

This isn't funny.

Hey, what else am I gonna do?

In about 3 seconds

we're gonna find out

if Coogan's right about this

being a bust,

or we're gonna find

one of us dead.

Why are you here?

You got to give us more time.

You're asking the impossible.

We're all willing to do

whatever you want.

But you have to give us

something in return.

Okay, okay.

How could I have known that?

Please just wait a second.

Please don't!

What are you doing, man?

God!

F***.

Sorry to see him go,

but that's one less

to worry about, right?

As I said,

you have to know why I brought

each and every one of you here

in order to survive.

If you want to walk

out of here alive,

you'd better figure out

why he was here as well.

I can't die like this.

Please, God.

We ask that you--

Hey, Father.

You think we can toss the idea

of him faking the killing

outside the door?

Who are you praying to?

God's not here.

You still think

this is the cops?

If we don't figure out

what's going on

before somebody else dies,

we're not gonna get

out of here alive.

Well, does anybody here

speak Chinese?

I speak a little Spanish.

Habla espaol?

Really?

No dice.

Padre, you sure you didn't

touch no kids?

I have never harmed a child

in my life.

Anyway, that thing over there,

he's already admitted to the crime,

so stop looking at me.

Hey.

Guys, I might be a little

screwed up,

but I just spent

I'm trying to be a reformed man.

What did you serve time for?

Grand theft auto.

Not child molestation?

No, that's all they could

hit me with.

You see,

they couldn't find a body.

You're a winner, ain't you?

Thank you.

Piece of sh*t.

I think it's about time

we heard from you.

All right.

I'm Leon, from L.A.

My brother and I used to do work

up and down the West Coast.

What kind of work did you do?

Looking for this?

Don't give me those

f***ed-up looks.

At least I never sexed

and killed no kids.

I never killed anybody.

But I'd rob your ass

if the price was right.

Cash is king,

and I stick to what works.

But guns?

Guns can be better

than cash.

Kelley, did you ever

prosecute Leon?

No, he doesn't look familiar.

That's because

I never got caught.

Yeah, well, our friend

out there caught you.

Yeah, coming out the USC

library no less.

The library?

Yeah, it pays to do research

in my business.

If the cop and Kelley

know each other

and Christian and Vegas Sully

know each other,

then it would make sense

that we're all connected here,

whether we know it or not.

Well, if I busted you, you guys

would know better than me.

I mean, that list is long.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat.

I wouldn't even know

where to begin.

But in my business,

we don't do this sh*t.

I forget how you people can be

so thoughtless and careless

when it comes to human life.

I spend every waking moment

serving God

by trying to help people

in my community,

and all you seem to do

is try to destroy life.

You put yourself

up on a pedestal,

but you're here

just like the rest of us.

So why don't you stop talking

about why you shouldn't be here,

and let's figure out

why you are.

Hey, Eddie.

Eddie.

What?

Nobody's stopping you

from talking, Eddie.

I work for

a health insurance carrier.

I'm from Barstow.

That's fascinating.

Any other useless facts

you'd like to pass around?

I'm doing my best.

Tell us about your work.

What do you do?

Come on, what do you do, Eddie?

Okay.

A couple of years ago,

I helped out my brother-in-law.

He has colon cancer.

My company does a lot

of experimental medical work,

and I falsified his forms

so that he can get

the treatment.

But I did it to help

my brother-in-law.

I mean, this doesn't make sense.

I'm a good person.

I don't deserve to be here.

I shouldn't be here.

Hey!

Relax there, leaky faucet.

Okay.

I'm human.

Jesus Christ, Eddie.

So you know, I mean,

all right.

Everybody have a look.

You know, laugh.

But you know what?

If we don't start confessing,

I mean,

we're never gonna

make it out of here alive.

Everybody--

everybody's got to help.

Jackson and I

used to sleep together.

Yeah, until my wife found out.

Would your wife go this far

to get back at you

for cheating on her?

No, she divorced me

and moved to Arizona.

I think that's far enough.

Plus, she has no way of getting

us all here together.

And she has no reason to.

I pay my alimony.

I don't think she hates me that much.

No ex-wife would want her man dead.

That's her money train.

Look, no one knows you two,

so I doubt it's the ex-wife.

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