Prisoners Page #17

No way out. Corpse is probably

just another wannabe who read the

book.

LOKI:

So what are we saying? Taylor is

a fake? These girls could still

be alive somewhere? How did he

get his hands on the clothes the

parents ID'd?

FORENSICS GUY:

That I can't reconcile.

Loki pops a coffee bean in his mouth with a shaking hand,

Forensics Guy watching on, concerned.

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(CONTINUED)

FORENSICS GUY (CONT’D)

You alright?

Loki nods dismissively. Forensics Guy nods back, doesn't

push him -- has his own fish to fry.

FORENSICS GUY (CONT’D)

(yelling to his team)

If there are windows open, get

them f***ing shut.

Something occurs to Loki. He pulls out his note pad,

flipping through the pages, until he comes to:

IN THE HOUSE? OPEN WINDOW

167 OMITTED 167

168 INT. JOY’S ROOM - THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - DAY 168

Joy's now dead gerbil lying in its habitrail. Nancy

stares down at it, something building inside her...

Eliza walks up behind her.

ELIZA:

What is it?

Nancy turns, losing control of herself and SMACKS Eliza

across the face --

NANCY:

I told you to feed it! Why didn’t

you feed it?!

Eliza stands there in shock. She gives her mother a

hating look, shakes her head in disbelief and rushes from

the room --

169A EXT. THE BIRCHES’ HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 169A

Eliza bursts out the front door, starts walking down the

street towards the Dovers’ house. Nancy appears in the

doorway yelling after her --

NANCY:

Get back here! I can’t handle

this right now!

Eliza ignores her, keeps walking. Nancy retreats back

inside her house and SLAMS THE DOOR --

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169 INT. RALPH'S ROOM - THE DOVERS' HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER 169

Ralph talks on the phone with Eliza as he looks out his

window, watching as Loki walks through the bushes looking

for something...

A:

(CONTINUED)

RALPH:

(into phone)

OK, I’ll pick you up --

170 EXT. THE DOVERS' HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER 170

Loki looks up at Anna’s window, maybe ten feet from the

ground. He looks down and notices two deep footprints

filled with water -- someone dropped hard from the

window.

He looks around thinking, checking the bushes... His

eyes go wide, as he picks something up. A SOCK WITH A

RABBIT FACE ON IT.

As he deposits the sock in a little plastic bag he looks

over to see Ralph coming out of the Dovers' house with a

duffle bag slung over his shoulder.

LOKI:

(off Ralph’s look)

Just needed to check something.

Ralph nods curtly and throws the duffle bag in the back

of Grace's compact. He gets in the car and pulls out of

the driveway --

Loki watches as Ralph drives down the street -- then

stops -- Eliza running up to the car. She gets inside

and they drive off.

171 INT. BATHROOM - SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - DAY 171

The pictures of Anna and Joy nailed to the cell.

Angle widens to reveal:

KELLER IS FEEDING THE HEAD OF A BIG SNAKE INTO THE PVC

PIPE, holding on to the tail as the rest disappears...

KELLER:

Feel him?

Nothing, and then Jones starts THRASHING inside the cell,

SCREAMING. Keller yanks the snake back out --

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(CONTINUED)

KELLER (CONT’D)

It’s going all the way in if you

don’t start talking.

Keller BANGS on the cell --

KELLER (CONT’D)

You hear me?

No reply. So Keller feeds the snake back in...until

JONES LETS OUT A SCREECH and the cell starts shaking.

Keller slowly pulls the snake back out --

KELLER (CONT’D)

Last chance.

The snake dangles from Keller’s hand, curling and

uncurling, HISSING --

KELLER (CONT’D)

TALK!

Jones only whimpers. So Keller feeds the snake all the

way into the PVC pipe...and lets go --

Jones GOES BALLISTIC INSIDE, trying to CLAW HIS WAY OUT --

KELLER (CONT’D)

Tell me about the God damn maze,

a**hole! Tell me and I’ll get you

out right now. I’ll take you home

to your aunt.

Angle widens to reveal another dozen snakes in a

cardboard box. Keller grabs another one. He starts

feeding it into the tube when he hears JONES TRYING TO

SAY SOMETHING and yanks it back out --

Keller presses his ear to the tube, but he still can’t

hear what Jones is saying. He grabs a claw hammer off

the floor...

And starts prying off a small panel of wood right where

Jones’ head is, until...

Jones’ cadaver-like face is revealed, his mouth is

moving, but Keller still can’t hear him...

So he moves in closer, putting his head inside the cell,

until his face is just inches away from Jones’...

JONES:

There’s no way out. It’s a

prison.

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(CONTINUED)

Keller waits for more. But it soon becomes apparent that

there is no more. Jones has gone blank.

Jones' POV as Keller replaces the panel of wood and

EVERYTHING GOES BLACK: THE SOUND OF SNAKES HISSING,

KELLER HAMMERING --

CUT TO:

172 INT. A SMALL ROOM - DAY 172

Joy opens her eyes, she’s curled up on the floor, her

lips stained purple...

For the rest of this sequence we stay with Joy’s POV:

She sees Anna passed out on the floor a few feet away.

The windows look like they’ve been covered over with

something -- all the furniture has been removed. There’s

a homemade book on the floor with a familiar cover:

FINISH ALL THE MAZES AND YOU CAN GO HOME.

Joy starts to stand up -- HER VISION DISTORTING -- THE

MORE SHE MOVES THE MORE DISTORTED HER VISION BECOMES.

She struggles to steady herself -- her vision normalizes

enough that she can discern the door is ajar...

There’s a knocked over 2-liter bottle of what looks like

grape-aid on the floor -- its purple contents have

spilled out beneath the crack in the door, alerting their

captor to the mess. There’s a mop leaned against the

wall; someone in the middle of cleaning up the grape-aid -

- whoever it is can be heard in the kitchen using the

sink, there’s a TV going somewhere --

Joy start shaking Anna -- gets her to wake up -- points

to the door. Anna is too out of it to move. Joy pulls

her up -- helps her --

Joy pulls Anna out the door -- everything starts spinning

and distorting as they enter the hallway --

Joy blindly feels the wall, moving through the morphing

interior -- Anna starting to lag...

Then Joy’s hand finds a door knob, she looks up and sees

sunlight blasting in through the window glass on the top

of the door -- a way out. Joy tries the knob -- it’s

locked. She fumbles with the little turn lock on the

door knob -- unlocks the door --

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173 EXT. A BACKYARD - CONTINUOUS 173

Joy’s drugged POV -- as she move out the door, Anna right

behind her -- the brightness of the outdoors is almost

blinding -- the sound of someone stomping through the

house after them -- THE KEEPER -- they start running

across a morphing surface of snow and lawn as the Keeper

gives chase...

Joy plows through some hedges into what looks like a

field, Anna starting to lag --

A:

(CONTINUED)

And then Joy looks beside her and Anna is gone, SCREAMING

in the widening distance...

174A EXT. WOODS - DAY 174A

Joy wanders through the woods, lost, exhausted, freezing.

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