Rough Diamonds Page #16

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EXT. TEAM CLIFFORD BUILDING - NIGHT

Marie's BMW screeches to a stop outside the beachfront condos, and

Marie strides towards the construction site entrance.

Elena gets out the car, feeling decidedly sick. She circuitously

adjusts the microphone taped to her chest, then follows Marie into

the dark, unfinished building

INT. JAY'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Marie enters the makeshift office like a wolf stalking her prey,

heading straight for the safe. With a rock steady hand, she works

the lock...CLICK...

MARIE:

One down...

EXT. TEAM CLIFFORD BUILDINGS - NIGHT

Morrison brings his clunky Police sedan to a halt around the back

of the building site.

.

INT. MORRISON'S CAR - NIGHT

Kristen listens intently to the live feed.

ELENA (V.O.)

(over headphones)

Marie! Please, I can't do this...

INT. JAY'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Marie's working the safe combination like a master thief, spinning

it nimbly between her buffed nails. CLICK...

MARIE:

Two down.

Elena stands in the makeshift office doorway, trying to coax

something incriminating from Marie's perfect lips.

ELENA:

I told you not to kill Chad. I'll tell it

to the police.

Marie doesn't even look round, concentrating on the job at hand.

Elena's reeling.

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ELENA:

I'll tell 'em you made me lie about your

stepfather raping me, made me perjure

myself on the stand, went and killed

Chad, and now...

MARIE:

(sotto)

99. A very good year...

CLICK. Third and final tumbler falls. The safe door swings open,

revealing a STACK of CASH and Jay's HANDGUN...

INT. MORRISON'S CAR - NIGHT

Kristen shakes her head. It's hopeless, Elena can't get Marie to

say an incriminating word...

MORRISON:

This has gotta end.

KRISTEN:

It's gonna end. One way or another...

INT. JAY'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Marie pulls out a wad of crisp, clean bills, draws them across her

nose like a wine connoisseur.

MARIE:

Money. Always in style.

She dances over to Elena, waves the cash in her face.

ELENA:

Why'd you do it? Why'd Chad have to die?

Marie slides up against Elena, fluttering the cash over her in the

world's most expensive shower. Elena couldn't be less interested,

focused on getting that confession...

ELENA:

You killed him, Marie. You murdered him

in cold blood...

Marie presses up against Elena, pushing her up against the

unfinished dry wall. Kisses her passionately, finally silencing

her for a few, brief, electric seconds. And when she pulls away

her fingers dance down Elena's shirt until...

.

She rips the microphone from Elena's chest. Stands there with the

dangling cord in her hands, her face caught in a permanent snarl.

The blood drains from Elena's face...

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INT. MORRISON'S POLICE CAR - NIGHT

A piercing feedback forces Kristen to throw aside the headphones.

She looks to Morrison.

KRISTEN:

She's been made...

Morrison draws his gun.

MORRISON:

Stay here...

Kristen shakes her head resolutely.

KRISTEN:

I got us into this...

BANG! A GUNSHOT echoes in the darkness...

MORRISON:

Just stay in the car! Please...

Morrison sprints over to the building site, leaving Kristen in the

car, alone.

INT. JAY'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Elena stands with her hands up, an ugly bullet hole in the wall

just beside her. Marie keeps Jay's gun trained on her as she

unloads the cash from the safe...

MARIE:

You stupid f***ing Sherbert. You think

you could sell me out?

ELENA:

They made me do it...

MARIE:

Morrison doesn't know his prick from a

pogo stick. And that b*tch Parole

Officer, she hasn't got the balls for

this...

Marie takes dead aim once more...

ELENA:

Please, don't...

Marie's finger tightens on the trigger...

INT. MORRISON'S POLICE CAR - NIGHT

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BOOM!

Kristen tenses as the gunshot echoes throughout the construction

site. She reaches across to the driver's seat, grabs the

SHOTGUN...

INT. TEAM CLIFFORD BUILDING - NIGHT

Elena scrambles across the concrete floor, desperately trying to

make it to the relative safety of one of the support pillars. She

sees the forensic UV light switch on the floor, reaches for it...

MARIE:

stands in the shattered doorway, surveys the expansive, unfinished

floor. Is about to unleash a hail of bullets when...

The WORK LIGHTS flicker out, replaced by the eerie ULTRA VIOLET

LIGHTS scattered around the unfinished floor...Bathed in the

florescent blue glow of the lights, Elena scrambles to safety

behind a pillar. Her shirt GLOWS, her eyes like beacons...

MORRISON *

Sweeps through the second floor, meticulously checking every *

corner, every shadow... *

KRISTEN *

Runs towards the unfinished building, looking up to the UV glow on*

the fourth floor. She sprints for the INDUSTRIAL ELEVATOR... *

MARIE:

scours the bizarre darkness, hears a sound. BOOM! The orange

muzzle flash illuminates the floor briefly as Marie shoots

randomly. The flimsy plaster walls EXPLODE...

MORRISON *

Enters the third floor from the fire escape, continues his *

meticulous sweep of the building. *

KRISTEN:

Stands in the industrial elevator, jabbing the 4th floor button, *

hyperventilating as more gunshots EXPLODE. She clutches Morrison's*

shotgun to her chest, getting closer to the top floor. *

ELENA:

shields herself as plaster rains down on her, unable to see

through the cloud of dust under the UV lights, until...

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BOOM! A bullet sparks off rebar inches from her foot. She looks up

to see the barrel of Jay's gun. Marie's face is contorted

maniacally as she squeezes down on the trigger... *

MORRISON:

Runs up the fire escape stairs when a final deafening GUN SHOT

rings out. Followed by SCREAMS. He rips open the fourth floor fire *

door, tearing through the building, pushing through thick plastic

sheeting until he finds himself under the UV glow.

.

Thick plumes of blood, black under the UV light, stain the walls

and floor. He sees Elena, in a fetal ball, trembling

uncontrollably.

Beside her, Marie lies dead, her chest a gaping crimson mess,

Jay's gun still clutched tightly in her cold, dead hands.

Kristen looks up at him, almost too shocked to speak. Morrison's

shotgun is still smoking in her hands.

KRISTEN:

I didn't have a choice. She was gonna

kill Elena.

Morrison steps forward, calmly, takes the gun from her.

MORRISON:

It's gonna be okay.

EXT. TEAM CLIFFORD BUILDINGS - LATER

The new crime scene is alive with activity. Cops, reporters,

bystanders. Morrison sips coffee as PARAMEDICS wheel Marie's

corpse to the ambulance.

One of them hands something to Morrison. A blood-splattered

digital video tape.

PARAMEDIC:

We found this on the body.

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