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GRACE:

Why?

ANNA:

My red whistle. She’s going to

help me look for it.

Grace shakes her head.

GRACE:

Sweetie, I think that whistle is

long gone.

Anna just stares back, waiting for another answer until:

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(CONTINUED)

GRACE (CONT’D)

Fine, but get Ralph and Eliza to

go with you please.

NANCY:

What whistle?

ANNA:

The emergency whistle Daddy gave

me. I lost it...

(thinking)

Hundred and thirty-three days ago.

GRACE:

She’s just like her father.

FRANKLIN:

(to Anna and Joy)

If you want to find a whistle, you

have to whistle for it.

Franklin whistles a little something. Keller rolls his

eyes. Anna and Joy fire back with a tuneless sampling of

Jingle Bells. Everybody laughs. The girls take a bow,

and exit.

FRANKLIN (CONT’D)

OK, Keller, what do you want to

hear?

GRACE:

(giggling, a little

drunk)

He used to love Springsteen in

high school.

FRANKLIN:

Got too much respect for the Boss -

- can’t cover him drunk.

KELLER:

Thank you.

GRACE:

Oh, he likes the Star Spangled

Banner.

Franklin starts to play the Banner. Nancy throws a couch

pillow at him, laughing.

KELLER:

(smiling, getting up)

Think I need a refill.

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9 INT. KITCHEN - THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 9

Grace enters, Franklin’s Banner blaring through the

house. Keller pours himself a fresh glass of milk, his

back to her.

KELLER:

Think you hit the limit with the

wine, hon.

She sneaks up and wraps her arms around him --

GRACE:

Uh huh. Having fun?

He turns around, immediately taken by her tipsy adoring

eyes.

KELLER:

When I get you home I will be.

GRACE:

(coyly)

We’ll see about that.

She kisses him passionately as Franklin's Banner reaches

its soaring climax.

10 EXT. THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - DUSK 10

The sun sets behind the Birch house.

11 INT. BASEMENT/TV ROOM - THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - DUSK 11

Ralph and Eliza sit watching TV. They look lobotomized

with boredom. Keller walks in.

KELLER:

Where are your sisters?

They both shrug their shoulders. Grace comes in behind

Keller, flushed from too much wine.

GRACE:

(to Keller)

I can’t find them.

KELLER:

(to Ralph and Eliza)

Did you take them to look for the

whistle?

Ralph and Eliza just stare blankly.

(CONTINUED)

RALPH:

Dad, what are you talking about?

GRACE:

They didn’t come to get you

earlier -- they were supposed to

come and get you.

ELIZA:

We haven’t seen them since we ate.

Keller puts his hand on Grace’s shoulder, steadying her.

KELLER:

Don’t worry, they’re probably at

our house.

12 EXT. FAIRMOUNT CIRCLE - DUSK 12

Keller jogs down the street without his coat on.

13 INT. KITCHEN - THE DOVERS' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 13

Keller moves fast through the kitchen...

KELLER:

Girls?

14 INT. STAIRS - THE DOVERS' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 14

Keller double times it up the stairs...

KELLER:

Anna? Girls?

15 INT. HALLWAY - THE DOVERS' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 15

Keller runs in and out of the bedrooms one by one.

They’re not here.

16 INT. BASEMENT - THE DOVERS' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 16

The light clicks on, Keller rushes down the stairs and

looks around. Food and water to last a lifetime.

Chemical toilets. Meds for radiation sickness. Guns.

No girls.

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17 INT. LIVING ROOM - THE BIRCHES' HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER 17

Grace, Nancy and Ralph wait anxiously in the living room.

Keller rushes in, out of breath.

KELLER:

Are they here?

GRACE:

Oh God.

FRANKLIN:

I don’t believe this.

Eliza enters from another room.

ELIZA:

I looked all over the house,

they’re not here.

RALPH:

The RV, Dad there was this RV and

they were playing on it. There

was someone inside I think --

KELLER:

Where?

18 EXT. FAIRMOUNT CIRCLE - CONTINUOUS 18

Keller, Ralph and Franklin burst out the door.

KELLER:

(to Franklin)

Go that way, we’ll meet you on the

other side.

We follow Keller and Ralph as they sprint down the middle

of the street. They slow, seeing ROGER, 40s, standing on

his stoop puffing on a cigar --

KELLER (CONT’D)

Roger, have you seen my daughter

walk by here?

Roger shakes his head. Then watches on, confused, as

Ralph and Keller take off again, hauling ass down the

street...

Ralph makes a hard stop, pointing at some big tracks in

the slush where the RV was parked.

RALPH:

Here. It was here.

(CONTINUED)

Keller looks up at the empty house with the FOR SALE sign

on its lawn. He makes a beeline for the front door.

KELLER:

Were you guys messing around in

this house?

RALPH:

No.

Keller tries the front door. It’s locked. Franklin

comes running from the other direction, out of breath,

shaking his head. Keller pulls out his cell phone,

dialing...

KELLER:

(to Ralph)

Tell me everything you can

remember about that RV...

19 INT. SAIKEI GARDEN - LATER 19

DETECTIVE LOKI, 33, sits at a darkened table, finishing

up his duck. He’s the only customer. Hair cropped, suit

pressed; looks more like a cadet than a detective. The

WAITRESS walks over with the check, Chinese, 25,

gorgeous, all smiles.

WAITRESS:

Happy Thanksgiving, Detective.

Loki gets up, pays the check in cash, gets his coat on --

LOKI:

No fortune cookie?

WAITRESS:

My boss told me cops don’t like

fortune cookies.

Loki ponders this, amused. She’s smiling at him. His

phone rings --

INT. LOKI’S SEDAN - PARKED/SAIKEI GARDEN - NIGHT

Loki starts his car, watches the fog disappear from his

windshield while listening to cross chatter on the police

radio. He peers out at the restaurant, can see the

Waitress busy inside.

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DISPATCH (V.O.)

...caller reported an RV matching

the description -- vehicle is

parked at a rest stop off of Route

forty-six, northbound, past exit

seventeen -- any available units?

Loki considers, still watching the waitress -- he picks

up his radio --

LOKI:

This is 1340, I’m five minutes

away -- heading over --

Loki throws the car in gear, pulls out --

COP 1 (V.O.)

This is 1212, responding.

COP 2 (V.O.)

1080 -- responding.

LOKI:

No lights, no sirens. Wait for

me.

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A:

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

21 EXT. GAS STATION - NIGHT 21

The gas station lot appears to be empty but for the

parked RV facing the adjacent woods. But as the angle

widens we see another vehicle, parked across the way,

cloaked in darkness...

A cop car, with two uniformed cops sitting impatiently

inside, late twenties: CARTER and WEDGE. Loki drives up

beside them and everybody gets out --

Loki draws his sidearm, following behind Carter and Wedge

as they approach the RV --

Carter and Wedge are maybe ten feet from the RV’s side

door when ITS ENGINE ROARS to life. IT STARTS BACKING

UP, positioning for the on-ramp. Carter and Wedge look

to Loki -- What now?

Then, going the wrong way on the on-ramp, ANOTHER COP CAR

BLOCKS THE RV’S ESCAPE, forcing it to change course,

angling right for the adjacent WOODS now, accelerating

until...

THE RV SMASHES THROUGH THE TREES, burrowing into the

woods for a few yards until it GRINDS TO A HALT --

Loki runs up behind the RV, Wedge and Carter right behind

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