Prisoners Page #21

The lights in the windows go out one by one --

204 INT. KITCHEN - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 204

Holly Jones hoists Keller’s duffle bag up off the floor

and sets it on the kitchen table.

She unzips it and starts emptying the contents on to the

table:
rope, the rifle, duct tape, the white bag Nancy

gave Keller. She looks inside the bag...

THE WHITE BOX WITH THE SKULL AND CROSSBONES, A SYRINGE...

205 INT. BATHROOM - SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 205

Loki and Forensiscs Guy stare at the empty cell,

completely befuddled, as are the rest of the cops and

forensics techs moving in and out.

A:

206 INT. SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 206

Loki walks out of the bathroom. O’Malley is there,

finishing giving orders to a UNIFORMED COP.

CAPTAIN RICHARD O'MALLEY

...with a camera get within twenty

feet of that room, you’re fired.

(to Loki)

Come here.

He ushers Loki out of the rest of the cop’s earshot.

Loki looks completely deflated, lost.

LOKI:

I’m gonna find Dover --

CAPTAIN RICHARD O'MALLEY

No you’re not. Holly Jones needs

to be notified. Go, now.

207 INT. THE HOLE - CONTINUOUS 207

DARKNESS -- as Keller flicks a lighter, the quivering

flame illuminating his face. He looks up...climbing out

might not be an option.

He looks down at his hands. The rusted chain connecting

the handcuffs broke in the fall.

He moves the flame around illuminating two rusted

children’s bicycles, several empty plastic 2 liter

bottles...an old dirt encrusted child’s sneaker...

He reels, loses his breath, lets the flame go out.

He reaches up, digs his hands in the wall and starts

trying to climb out...

After a few feet the dirt crumbles like dry cake and he

slides back down.

He flicks the lighter again, looks up at the dirt

wall...spies a loop of tree root protruding out. He

tries to grab it, but it’s just out of reach...

He grabs the children’s bicycles, stacks them against the

dirt wall -- he’s able to step up on them, gives him a

little more height, he reaches up...

Grabs hold of the loop of tree root -- he PULLS HIMSELF

UP -- reaching his other hand up, grabbing at the lip of

the hole --

208 INT. BLACK SEDAN - TRAVELING - NIGHT 208

Loki pulls up in front of Holly Jones’ house. He turns

off the engine --

209 INT. A ROOM - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 209

ANNA lies on the floor, asleep. THE SOUND OF THE

DEADBOLT LOCK TUMBLING. She starts to wake up...

The door starts to open -- when the DOORBELL RINGS --

210 EXT. FRONT DOOR - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 210

Loki RINGS the door bell again and waits...

211 EXT. UNDER THE TRANS AM - CONTINUOUS 211

Keller’s fingers peeking out from under the sheet of

plywood as he manages to push it off center, giving him

enough space to climb out...

Keller grabs hold of one of the Trans Am’s underside

pipes -- the pipe BREAKS -- OIL SPRAYS IN KELLER’S FACE

as he grabs hold of another pipe, and pulls himself up

and out...

Keller crawls out from under the Trans Am. He leans

against the car, blackened with dirt and motor oil,

sucking air...

212 EXT. FRONT DOOR - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 212

Loki starts back down the walkway -- as he’s walking he

glances back over his shoulder -- gives the house a last

look and notices something...

A curtain swaying ever so slightly -- like someone was

just peeking out at him.

Loki stops, turns around and walks back to the front

door. He stands there, listening...hears what sounds

like someone moving around inside --

LOKI:

Miss Jones? You in there?

Then Loki hears something else -- it’s faint and brief --

sounds like someone crying out --

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A:

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216 INT. VESTIBULE - HOLLY JONES’ HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 216

Loki opens the front door and moves inside, keyed up --

217 INT. BACK DOOR - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 217

The back door opens. Keller creeps inside, his oil

slicked form almost invisible in the gloom...

218 INT. LIVING ROOM - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 218

Loki moves inside. Nobody there. He goes to leave when

his eye catches a framed photo, basked in moonlight:

Holly Jones’ husband wearing an unsettling smile,

shirtless, revealing he’s wearing THE FAMILIAR MAZE

PENDANT. HE’S THE CORPSE LOKI FOUND IN DUNN’S BASEMENT.

SOMETHING’S KNOCKED OVER IN THE ADJACENT KITCHEN. Loki

snaps back to attention, eyes darting, moving now...

219 INT. KITCHEN - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 219

Loki’s POV as he enters the kitchen: Keller’s duffle bag

on the kitchen table. The open box with the skull and

crossbones:

POISON! Fast acting, humane...

220 INT. HALLWAY - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 220

Keller, moves into the hallway, holding his breath, back

to the wall. He opens a door and looks in at...

A room stuffed with old furniture and junk...

He moves on to the next. The closed door with the

deadbolt on the outside...

He turns the lock, bracing himself...

221 INT. A ROOM - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 221

Keller opens the door to see Anna huddled in the corner.

He walks towards her, eyes tearing, breath quickening...

222 INT. HALLWAY - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 222

Loki approaches the same room, then stops, seeing a

shadow on the wall, a figure, looming over Anna’s

shadow...

Loki takes a breath, gun at the ready, inching towards

the doorway...

223 INT. A ROOM - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 223

Keller, Anna in his arms now, rushing for the door --

when IT SLAMS IN HIS FACE and they’re thrown into

DARKNESS --

BACK TO:

224 INT. THE HOLE - CONTINUOUS 224

BLACKNESS...the click of Keller’s mini-maglight, shining

up under his chin. His face, sea-sick, blinking, rubbing

his eyes, seeing:

(CONTINUED)

Dirt walls, the two rusted bikes, ALL OF IT DISTORTING.

The laced grape-aid. His escape was a hallucination.

HE’S STILL IN THE HOLE.

225 EXT. BACK YARD - HOLLY JONES’ HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 225

The Trans Am. We hear Keller screaming beneath it ever

so faintly...

226 INT. A ROOM - HOLLY JONES' HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 226

Loki walks into the doorway, gun outstretched, eyes

focusing:

The shadow isn’t Keller -- it’s Holly Jones, now

squatting beside Anna, her back to Loki, starting to

inject the poison into her arm.

LOKI:

STOP -- PUT IT DOWN --

She pulls out the half-emptied syringe and drops it to

the floor. Then her back still to him, she straightens

up.

HOLLY JONES:

Make sure they cremate me. I

don’t want to be buried in some

box.

LOKI:

TURN AROUND -- SHOW ME YOUR HANDS -

-

Holly Jones pulls the .38 from the front of her pants,

swings around and FIRES at the same time Loki does --

SHE GRAZES LOKI’S FACE RIGHT OVER HIS EYE. Loki HITS HER

SQUARE IN THE FOREHEAD. She collapses, dead.

Blood pouring from his forehead, Loki picks up Anna, now

semi-unconscious -- gritting his teeth --

227 EXT. HOLLY JONES’ HOUSE - CONTINUOUS 227

Loki bursts out the front door with Anna in his arms,

blood running down his face --

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