Prisoners Page #5

Got nine level three sex offenders

living within a ten mile radius of

Fairmount Circle.

DISSOLVE TO:

41 INT. LIVING ROOM - SEX OFFENDER’S HOUSE 1 - NIGHT 41

A MAN, 50’s, muscled, wearing a tank top and boxers --

looks like Loki woke him up.

LOKI (O.S.)

I’m gonna need an address and

phone number for everybody you

were with that day.

Loki’s looking at a wall full of little nail holes --

LOKI (CONT’D)

What was hanging here?

42 INT. GARAGE - SEX OFFENDER’S HOUSE 1 - NIGHT 42

The muscled man watches on as Loki opens a cardboard box -

- inside it are framed photos -- the muscled man, but

skinny, younger -- standing with his then wife and kids.

43 EXT. FAST FOOD RESTAURANT - NIGHT 43

Through the window we see Loki talking to a MALE

EMPLOYEE, 27 -- working the register. The Employee

shakes his head emphatically --

44 EXT. LOKI’S SEDAN - NIGHT 44

Loki walks to his car -- angle widens to reveal the

downtown area. Strip malls, gas stations -- cars

whizzing by -- blurred faces in car windows --

40 CONTINUED:
(3) 40

45 EXT. BACK YARD - SEX OFFENDER’S HOUSE 2 - NIGHT 45

A GREY HAIRED MAN, in his pajamas, shivering in the cold,

watching as...

GREY HAIRED MAN:

I have bad arthritis -- haven’t

been out of the house in months.

Looking like he’s ready for this night to be over, Loki

opens the door to the man’s tool shed -- moves inside --

starts rifling around in the clutter, taking his

aggression out -- holds up a porn magazine --

LOKI:

You’re not allowed to have this.

GREY HAIRED MAN:

I forgot it was in there. I

promise I’ll --

Loki tosses the magazine out onto the yard. He keeps

rifling -- finds another magazine, another -- throws

them out --

LOKI:

Who’s your probation officer?

46 EXT. YARD - NICE HOUSE 2 - NIGHT 46

Loki walks out the front door, the Grey Haired Man

following after him --

GREY HAIRED MAN:

Please --

Loki stops, faces the man --

LOKI:

Get back inside.

The man doesn’t move -- Loki looks like he’s going to

blow --

LOKI (CONT’D)

Get back inside!

The Grey Haired Man turns and shuffles back inside his

house. Loki breathes out, gets in his car --

47 EXT. SAINT EMILIANA CHURCH - NIGHT 47

Loki’s headlights wash over a cheaply built grey house,

its windows all boarded, a big white cross on its front.

And right beside it...

A small grey house, THE RECTORY. Loki’s headlights wink

out.

48 INT. BLACK SEDAN - PARKED - CONTINUOUS 48

Looking beat, Loki pops a coffee bean in his mouth.

He checks his notebook, crossing off the last of a long

list of sex offenders.

49 EXT. FRONT DOOR - RECTORY - MOMENTS LATER 49

A cracked door bell as Loki pushes it and nothing

happens. He sighs, tired, pissed off. He starts BEATING

ON THE DOOR --

LOKI:

(yelling inside)

Police. Hello? I need to talk to

you, Father. Open the door.

He peers in a window near the door: a TV playing an old

black and white war movie. An old priest lying on the

floor -- looks dead.

50 INT. LIVING ROOM - THE RECTORY - CONTINUOUS 50

Loki opens the unlocked front door and rushes inside...

He squats down beside the priest lying on the floor,

FATHER PATRICK DUNN, 64, grizzled and bald. He’s not

dead, he’s SNORING, passed out. Empty liquor bottles are

everywhere.

Loki considers, then stands up.

LOKI:

You mind if I look around?

Dunn doesn’t seem to mind at all, still SNORING up a

storm.

51 INT. KITCHEN - RECTORY - CONTINUOUS 51

Loki turns on the light: a wall clock TICKING, a sink

full of liquor bottles, an abandoned game of solitaire on

the table, cards thrown on the floor...

Loki notices something: the refrigerator’s electric chord

-- it’s stretched taught to the outlet, barely reaches.

The fridge has been moved. Loki looks closer -- sees the

top of a door frame behind it...

Loki walks to the refrigerator, shaking his head. He

sighs and starts shoving it off the door it’s blocking.

The fridge is old and heavy and doesn’t go easy...

52 INT. THE BASEMENT - THE RECTORY - MOMENTS LATER 52

The door opens, Loki takes the first step....THEN GRABS

THE DOOR FRAME WILDLY -- THE STAIRS HAVE BEEN REMOVED.

It’s a ten foot drop to the basement floor...

Loki squats down and flashes his flashlight. Piles of

junk obscure his view...

He gets down and lets his legs dangle off the edge. Then

he turns around, gets in a hanging position, and drops --

He lands on his feet, then falls back on his ass. He

gets up, cursing under his breath, shining his flashlight

-- suddenly startled by three big statues. Saints.

Loki moves in closer. There’s something behind them...

A MAN IN A CHAIR. Loki loses his breath, draws his gun --

LOKI:

Hey!

Loki shines his flashlight on him...it’s a corpse,

skeletal, long since dead. What was once a very tall

man, strapped to a chair with reams of duct tape.

LOKI (CONT’D)

Christ.

Loki moves in closer. He notices a pendant hanging

around the corpse’s neck with a maze-like design carved

into it.

MOMENTS LATER:

Loki drags a statue of a kneeling saint under the

doorway.

(CONTINUED)

He steps on its back, reaches up and grabs the lip of the

door frame. Then, straining, he pulls himself up...

53 INT. KITCHEN - RECTORY - MOMENTS LATER 53

Father Dunn's POV as he comes to: Loki's dragged him to

the basement door AND IS ABOUT TO TOSS HIM OVER THE EDGE,

holding him by the back of his shirt. Dunn is terrified,

acting like there's burning lava down there --

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

NO! NO! Don't -- PLEASE!

LOKI:

Who’s the corpse? First name,

last name. NOW, or down you go --

leave you with your buddy for a

while. Come on! What’s his

name!? Who is he?

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

Couldn’t go to the police.

They’d never believe a --

Loki leans him further over the edge -- DUNN SCREAMS --

LOKI:

I spent six years in the

Huntington Boys’ Home, father --

hurting a f*** like you would be a

real treat for me!

Dunn shakes his head, tears streaming --

FATHER PATRICK DUNN

I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME! Came to me

for confession. Killed sixteen

children, he said. Bragged about

it. I convinced him to come back

here. He was going to kill more.

He wouldn’t tell me his name.

Loki rolls his eyes, yanks Dunn back from the edge --

LOKI:

Right. Sixteen children huh?

I think he was just trying to

impress a fellow pervert scumbag --

come on, time to go.

54A OMITTED 54A

52 CONTINUED:
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54 EXT. WOODS - MORNING 54

Keller trudges through the woods. His cell phone rings.

The caller ID:
GRACE. Keller answers --

KELLER:

(into the phone)

Hey.

GRACE (O.S.)

(over the phone)

They’re letting him go.

KELLER:

(into the phone)

What?

GRACE (O.S.)

(over the phone)

The man, the police said they’re

letting him go today.

KELLER:

(into the phone)

OK, it’s OK. I’m gonna take care

of it.

Keller hangs up, shocked, turns around. Franklin and

Ralph are about twenty yards behind him.

He takes off running towards them, weaving between trees,

stomping through the snow, running right past them --

RALPH:

Dad? Where you going?

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