Rough Diamonds Page #13

horizon for any sign of Chad...

ELENA:

(sotto)

Please...

A rustling sound stops her in her tracks. Dead silence, until...

A HAND GRABS HER LEG, AROUND THE FLASHING ANKLE BRACELET, DRAGS

HER DOWN INTO THE SWAMP...

EXT. EVERGLADES CLEARING - DAY

Marie hacks her way through the overgrown foliage with the tire

iron, like a Prada clad big-game hunter...

MARIE:

(calling out to Elena)

You see him?

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No reply, just her own voice echoing back...

MARIE:

Elena?

She rolls her eyes.

MARIE:

Useless b*tch...

EXT. SWAMP ROAD - DAY

Kristen's unmarked car races across the desolate swamp road.

INT. KRISTEN'S CAR - DAY

She checks the flashing GPS signal. Getting closer...

EXT. EVERGLADES - DAY

Elena bursts up to the surface of the bloody water, gasps for

breath. Looking down she sees Chad, holding on to her like his

life depends on it. It does...

He pulls her back down into the water, just as she catches a

glance of the circling GATORS...

Using her as leverage, Chad pulls himself out of the swamp,

climbing over her writhing body to the relative safety of solid

ground...

Elena coughs and splutters, floundering in the blood soaked water.

The ravenous Gators approach, sensing a feeding frenzy...

CHAD:

Don't move! Don't splash, they can sense

you in the water, they'll rip you to

pieces...

Elena freezes, looking round at the black eyes breaking the

surface of the bloody water, gliding in for the kill...

ELENA:

Hel..help me...

She reaches out a hand to Chad, only a few feet away...

.

He hesitates, then reaches out to her. But stops short of grabbing

her trembling hand. Just balls his fist, squeezing every last drop

of blood out of the open wounds on his palm...

The dark blood cascades down into the water around Elena...

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CHAD:

No.

And he smiles as the Gators ease open their powerful jaws...

WHACK!

Chad's eyes roll back into his head as blood flows from his nose,

ears and mouth. He falls forward, stiff as a board, and SPLASHES

down into the water next to an apoplectic Elena. Behind him stands

Marie, the BLOODY TIRE IRON in hand...

Marie reaches out a hand, pulls Elena out of the water. She

collapses onto her back and sucks in the stagnant swamp air...

MARIE:

What are you doing? Our diamonds are

about to become dinner...

Elena can't move, leaving Marie to wade into the swamp...

EXT. SWAMP ROAD - DAY

Kristen approaches a fork in the swamp road at high speed. She

checks the GPS scanner. It doesn't show her which way to turn...

KRISTEN:

Which way, which way...

Split second decision. Left. She spins the wheel, takes the left

hand fork...

Bad choice. Just a few meters down the right fork is an abandoned

BMW, an idle airboat, a crashed car, one dead man and two wild,

wild things...

EXT. SWAMP ROAD - DAY

Elena and Marie, soaked to the bone, drag Chad's cold, dead corpse

out of the trees. Marie drops the body, heads straight for her

abandoned BMW. Elena follows, stumbling through the vines, her

clothes dripping wet, shivering more from nerves than cold...

.

MARIE:

Get rid of the body. And his car...

ELENA:

Where are you going?

MARIE:

Where do you think?

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ELENA:

I don't...I don't have a clue...

Marie spins round, a vicious look in her eyes. She holds the blood

soaked diamonds in her hand...

MARIE:

Chad made us an appointment to sell

these. I'm gonna keep it...

Elena looks down to her flashing ankle bracelet...

ELENA:

It's only a matter of time before my

Parole Officer finds me...

Marie turns back around, flings open the BMW door and gets in.

MARIE:

Then I suggest you get to work...

She fires up the powerful engine, speeds away in a cloud of dust,

leaving Elena the most deeply unpleasant task of her young life...

EXT. CHAD'S CRASHED CAR - AFTERNOON

Elena struggles to drag Chad's bloody body back to his crashed

car. The tail lights flicker, throwing an ominous red glow over

the dense thicket of overhanging trees.

ELENA:

(sotto)

Jesus...

With a Herculean effort she manages to stuff Chad's inert body

into the driver's seat. She stumbles back, horrified at the grim

tableau before her...

EXT. MUSEUM - AFTERNOON

Marie's car comes barreling into the parking lot outside the stone

Museum building.

INT. MUSEUM - AFTERNOON

The Curator paces back and forth, like an expectant father, in

front of the empty glass case that used to house the diamonds.

Marie bursts into the Museum, and he strides up to meet her,

shocked when he sees Marie's covered in blood, sweat and guilt...

CURATOR:

Marie? Are you alright?

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MARIE:

Never better. Got the money?

The Curator nods nervously.

CURATOR:

I convinced the board of the

extraordinary circumstances

surrounding...

MARIE:

Good.

She fishes in her bag for the diamonds...

CURATOR:

I...I received a call from your

'associate'. He said he would be handling

the transaction.

MARIE:

Change of plans. My 'associate' got tied

up at work. Completely swamped...

The Curator nods, unsure if he inquire further...

Marie finally pulls out two blood soaked Diamonds from her bag,

thrusts them at the Curator. He screws up his wrinkled face,

afraid to touch them...

MARIE:

Calm down. It's just blood.

EXT. CHAD'S CAR - AFTERNOON

With trembling hands, Elena opens the trunk of Chad's crashed car.

She pulls out a plastic gas container, sloshing the fuel around

inside, then trailing it back across the vine covered ground...

She carefully places the empty container down, standing twenty

feet back from the wreckage, fumbling in her pocket for a match...

She can barely control her hands, her whole body shaking in

fear...

Finally she pulls out a MATCHBOOK, still sopping wet from the

swamp. She strikes match after match, but they won't light, until,

finally, one produces a tiny flame that simmers for a second then

smoulders out...

ELENA:

Don't do this to me, please...

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In frustration, she runs back to Chad's car, looking desperately

for a lighter, climbing all the way in. Because of the slight

slope it's on, the car's flimsy door slams shut behind her.

Elena pays no heed, continues to rummage through the glove

compartment.

ELENA:

You gotta have a lighter or some...

She's cut off as the WRECKED CAR'S HORN BLARES OUT!

Deafening, the sound echoes around the dense undergrowth. Elena's

heart skips a beat. Chad's corpse has slumped forward against the

steering wheel.

ELENA:

Jesus...

She struggles with all her might to pull Chad's body back off the

horn...

.

Silence reigns once more. Elena takes short, sharp breaths. Looks

over at Chad's body slumped to the side, leaning against the

driver's side door...

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