Prisoners Page #10

specks of blood off his face.

KELLER:

We’re not done, Franklin.

Keller stands a few feet away, blood on his shirt, stone

faced. The closed door to the bathroom, Jones

whimpering.

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FRANKLIN:

We’ll -- we’ll come back later.

Need to get home.

KELLER:

It’s been five days. Maybe five

days since they’ve had a drink of

water. This could be the last

night that matters.

FRANKLIN:

I’ll call you after Nancy falls

asleep. I promise.

Keller looks dubious.

88 INT. KITCHEN - THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - NIGHT 88

Nancy pours Eliza a bowl of cereal, they both look

exhausted.

NANCY:

Will you do me a favor and start

feeding your sister’s gerbil?

Just until she comes back.

Eliza nods. Nancy pours the milk, sits down, her cold

coffee waiting. Eliza eats a cereal flake with her

fingers.

The sound of Franklin coming in the front door. Nancy

gets up fast --

89 INT. VESTIBULE - THE BIRCH’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 89

Franklin locks the front door as Nancy appears behind

him.

NANCY:

Do you know what time it is?

He turns, snaps at her --

FRANKLIN:

Don’t! Just don’t!

She stops, shocked by the way he looks, like he’s aged,

and his eyes -- staring through her.

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90 EXT. THE DOVERS' HOUSE - NIGHT 90

With Franklin standing meekly behind her, Nancy rings the

door bell over and over, until finally Keller opens the

door.

Nancy glowers at Keller, trembling...

NANCY:

What the hell were you thinking?

Keller gives Franklin the evil eye, then steps outside,

closes the door behind him -- shoots Nancy a hard look...

KELLER:

You tell anyone?

Nancy shakes her head. She looks at Franklin, her anger

starting to collapse into a desperate hope...

NANCY:

I want to see him.

91 INT. KELLER’S TRUCK - TRAVELING - NIGHT 91

Nancy and Franklin ride up front with Keller. Keller

pulls into a liquor store parking lot.

FRANKLIN:

Where are we going?

KELLER:

Can’t keep parking in front --

people are gonna notice.

We’ll walk from here.

92 EXT. LIQUOR STORE PARKING LOT - NIGHT 92

Keller, Nancy and Franklin exit the truck and walk

silently across the parking lot. A doll peeks out of

Nancy’s purse...

93 INT. BATHROOM - SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 93

The bathroom door opens. Nancy walks in, alone,

clutching her purse...

Jones’ wrists are tied to a pipe in the shower. His face

is all but hidden; wrapped in blood soaked rags, just one

eye peeks out...

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Nancy doesn’t scare easy; she moves in close and gets

down to eye level with him...

She pulls some pictures of Joy out of her purse and lays

them out on the floor. Then some drawings. And finally

the doll.

NANCY:

This is her favorite doll.

She can’t sleep without it.

Nancy fights to keep from crying. She looks to Jones,

his cyclops eye staring blankly.

NANCY (CONT’D)

She did these drawings. They’re

kind of sad, see. She hasn’t had

the easiest life.

He starts to come to life a little; leaning over to get a

closer look at the photos and drawings.

NANCY (CONT’D)

Please help her.

She stops and considers for a moment. Then, with shaking

hands, she starts to remove the rags from Jones’ head.

His face is a horror.

She peels the duct tape off Jones’ mouth, revealing the

rag stuffed inside. She pulls it out, then sets about

untying his wrists from the pipe, freeing his mangled

hands.

Jones’ mouth starts moving. He’s saying something...

Nancy moves in closer, closer, until finally she gets the

message:

JONES:

Help me.

Jones grabs Joy's doll, stands up and backs away from

Nancy, towards THE WINDOW...

Jones beats the doll's head against the window -- the

glass shatters. Nancy SCREAMS. Keller and Franklin rush

inside.

KELLER:

You untied him?!

Jones is wriggling out the window, about to plunge three

floors, when Keller grabs his legs and yanks him back in.

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Jones grabs a shard of glass off the sill. Keller gets

his chest slashed as he grabs Jones' wrist and slams it

into the wall repeatedly. Jones drops the shard --

Shocked, Nancy watches Keller and Franklin struggle to

tie Jones back up, trampling Joy’s belongings beneath

their feet.

94 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - POLICE STATION - NIGHT 94

Loki sits down across from Father Dunne. Standing by the

door is the seldom smiling DETECTIVE CHEMELINSKI, 43.

LOKI:

Detective Chemelinski said you had

some specifics about the crimes

you claimed this man committed.

The abductions.

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

He was waging a war against God.

Loki shakes his head --

LOKI:

Great.

(to Chemelinski)

You told me he had something?

CHEMELINSKI:

(to Dunne)

Tell him how he took the kids,

shitbird.

Loki looks back to the priest, waiting...

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

He said he took them in daylight.

Sometimes more than one child at a

time.

Loki leans in, suddenly very interested.

LOKI:

He said that?

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

Yes.

LOKI:

Did he mention an accomplice?

Any names?

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FATHER PATRICK DUNN

No. But he said he had a family.

A wife and a son.

95 INT. SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY - APARTMENT HOUSE - NIGHT 95

The closed door to the apartment. Behind the door we

hear the WHINE OF A BAND SAW REVVING UP.

96 INT. SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - APARTMENT - NIGHT 96

Keller, leaned over the band saw lost in a cloud of saw

dust as he slices through a piece of plywood.

He slams nails into wood with a nail gun, one after

another, like the ticking of some two ton clock hand.

We’re too close to see what he’s building...

97 INT. THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT 97

Nancy stands in front of the humming microwave, zoning

out as leftovers bubble and melt. IT BEEPS. The clock:

2:
05 am. The door bell rings, jolts her --

VESTIBULE:

Nancy opens the door. It’s Keller. He’s covered in

sawdust.

NANCY:

What is it -- what happened?

KELLER:

Get Franklin. I need to show you

how it works.

98 INT. SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - APARTMENT HOUSE - NIGHT 98

Keller, Franklin and Nancy approach the closed bathroom

door.

FRANKLIN:

We need to let him go.

KELLER:

You said that already.

NANCY:

Has he said anything new?

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KELLER:

He will. Soon. You’ll see.

99 INT. BATHROOM - SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 99

No sign of Jones, but where the shower used to be is a

false wall made of wood: THE CELL.

KELLER:

No light gets in, barely enough

room to sit down inside.

The shower still works, but we

control it from out here. I

rigged the water heater, so it

either comes out scalding or

freezing.

He motions to two pipes jutting out of the cell, with

faucet knobs on the end, “cold” and “hot.”

KELLER (CONT’D)

Talk to him through this --

Keller motions to a PVC pipe jutting out, bent like an

elbow.

Nancy leans in and listens: JONES IS INSIDE sobbing...

NANCY:

Oh my God.

Franklin notices a little picture of Anna and Joy tacked

to the outside of the cell.

KELLER:

To remind us. In case we start

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