Prisoners Page #16

Holly Jones opens the door. Keller’s shaky, struggling

to act normal.

HOLLY JONES (CONT’D)

Can I help you?

KELLER:

Good morning Ma'am. I’m Keller

Dover.

HOLLY JONES:

I’m sorry, you’re who?

KELLER:

My little girl was abducted with

her friend --

She recognizes him and steps back, starting to close the

door, fear in her eyes.

HOLLY JONES:

What do you want?

KELLER:

I’m sorry, I guess I didn’t think

this through too good. I’ve just

been thinking a lot about what

happened with your nephew. I know

I scared him that day at the

police station. I guess what I’m

trying to say is I feel

responsible for him running away.

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She studies him, the act of which seems to be giving her

a headache.

HOLLY JONES:

Would you like to come in?

162 INT. KITCHEN - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER 162

It’s a quaint little nook. Keller sits at the table,

keeping his bandaged knuckles out of sight. Across from

him sits Holly Jones. She drinks tea.

HOLLY JONES:

My husband and I were very devout

at one time. Spent our summers,

driving around in that RV with our

son -- handing out pamphlets,

spreading the good word. But

after our son died of cancer we

started seeing things differently.

Adopting Alex helped, but we never

got over it.

Keller shakes his head sympathetically.

HOLLY JONES (CONT’D)

You look very tired.

KELLER:

I don’t sleep much. Keep dreaming

about being lost in a maze.

Keller watches for her reaction to his mention of the

word, but she doesn’t react whatsoever. Instead there’s

a long, awkward silence, until:

HOLLY JONES:

I’m sorry, Alex never talked much,

so I hardly know what to say to

people when they come here.

Keller waits for her to go on, and when she doesn’t.

KELLER:

He doesn’t talk much?

HOLLY JONES:

He talks. Good morning, good

night, things like that, but it’s

hard to get much more than that

out of him. He had an accident

when he was little. After that he

started choosing his words a

little too carefully.

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KELLER:

What kind of accident?

HOLLY JONES:

My husband kept snakes. It wasn’t

so bad what happened, but Alex had

a fear of them, and...

(she trails off)

It’s not my favorite memory.

KELLER:

I’m sorry, it’s none of my

business.

HOLLY JONES:

You know you remind me of him a

little -- my husband.

KELLER:

Oh?

HOLLY JONES:

It’s the eyes.

She stares into his eyes for a moment, making him

noticeably uncomfortable. He looks down, sees a

newspaper on the table: TAYLOR COMMITS SUICIDE, LOCATION

OF BODIES STILL UNKNOWN

HOLLY JONES (CONT’D)

You sure you don’t want some tea?

She sees Keller trembling as he slowly swivels the paper

around, staring at it in disbelief.

HOLLY JONES (CONT’D)

Oh God, I’m sorry, Mr. Dover, I

thought for sure you knew already.

I say it’s better this way. That

awful man would of spent years on

death row -- watching tv and

getting fat... But not knowing

where she rests is a horrible

thing. I am so so sorry --

Keller gets up --

163 INT. O’MALLEY’S OFFICE - POLICE STATION - DAY 163

Loki sits in front of O’Malley’s desk, looking a mess,

staring at a photocopy of the maze Bob drew while

O’Malley pours a glass of whiskey.

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CAPTAIN RICHARD O'MALLEY

Well at least I don’t have to

worry about losing you to PSP.

Loki isn’t listening, moving a shaky finger over the maze

drawing, lost, trying to find his way out.

CAPTAIN RICHARD O'MALLEY (CONT’D)

When forensics is done with his

place we’re deploying cadaver

dogs.

(beat)

We’re not superheroes, kid. We

don’t save the f***ing day. We’re

cops. Hell’s janitors. You want

fulfillment, start a family, have

some kids.

164 INT. LOKI’S DESK - CONYERS POLICE STATION - DAY 164

Loki walks to his desk, staring deliriously at the

disarray. He straight-arms everything to the floor,

computer monitor and all. No one walking by dares make

mention of this.

His desk is now bare but for an evidence bag containing

Jones' matchbox RV. He sits down, takes the little RV

out of the bag and sets it on his desk.

He gives it the tiniest push, watching as it slowly rolls

off the edge --

He reaches down to pick it up when something on the floor

catches his eye...

The crime scene photos of the corpse he found in Father

Dunn’s basement. A close-up of the pendant the corpse

was wearing with the maze carved into it.

Suddenly energized, he pulls the photocopy of Bob's map

from his pocket, unfolds it and sets it on the desk next

to the photo of the corpse's pendant...

THEY’RE IDENTICAL. Loki’s astounded. His cell phone

RINGS.

LOKI:

(into phone)

Yeah?

FORENSICS GUY (O.S.)

(over the phone)

We found something.

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165 EXT. BOB TAYLOR’S BACKYARD - DAY 165

Loki walks up behind Forensics guy and the rest of his

team, all of them staring down at...

What looks like two little bodies, half buried under

garden pebbles and mulch. But as Loki gets closer he

sees it’s:

FORENSICS GUY:

Two kids size department store

mannequins with their heads caved

in. And I just talked to my lab

guys. They’re telling me all of

the blood we sampled from the

plastic containers is pig’s blood.

(yelling to his team)

Get those covered! It’s supposed

to snow soon. Come on, hurry up!

166 INT. LIVING ROOM - BOB TAYLOR’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 166

A darkened mess of a room with mazes drawn on the walls

and ceiling. Forensics Guy and Loki enter --

FORENSICS GUY:

It’s like he’s playacting. Case

in point, except for the few

pieces ID'd by the Dovers and the

Birches, all the other kids

clothes we found still had the

tags on them. And the book of

mazes -- he made it out of

photocopies, pictures in this book

we found in the attic. Ex-FBI

agent wrote it.

Forensics Guy grabs a beat-up hardcover off a table.

LOKI:

(reading the title)

Finding the Invisible Man.

FORENSICS GUY:

It’s about a theoretical suspect

he claimed was responsible for

numerous child abductions.

Totally discredited I guess, but I

read some of it, kind of

interesting.

Forensics Guy flips through the book showing Loki some

full page photographs of the real book of mazes.

(CONTINUED)

LOKI:

Taylor was abducted when he was a

kid, escaped after three weeks.

His captor drugged him

continuously with an LSD, ketamine

cocktail. He had no idea where

he’d been. They never caught the

guy.

FORENSICS GUY:

There you go. Probably read this

book and decided he was taken by

the Invisible Man. Now he’s doing

his best imitation.

LOKI:

Did his best imitation. He shot

himself last night.

Forensics Guy shakes his head.

FORENSICS GUY:

How did he do that? I thought he

was in custody.

Loki ignores the question and takes a photocopy of Bob’s

map out of his pocket.

LOKI:

Taylor drew this. It was supposed

to be a map to the bodies. We

found a corpse last week wearing a

pendant with the same design on

it.

FORENSICS GUY:

It’s not a map, it’s the last maze

in the maze book. Unsolvable.

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