Saw X Page #3

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A malignancy that must be cut out for you to survive.

The blades cannot cut through the galvanized cable.

But they can slice through flesh and muscle, allowing you to cut the cancer away.

Live, or die. The choice is yours.

(TIMER BEEPS)

No, no, no. No, no, no.

Kramer.

(TIMER BEEPING)

Kramer!

Kramer!

Kramer!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(PANTING)

(MUTTERING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(TIMER BEEPING)

(GRUNTING)

(STRAINING)

(EXCLAIMING IN PAIN)

(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SCREAMS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GRIMACING IN PAIN)

(CRYING)

(SCREAMING IN PAIN)

(CRYING)

(GROANING)

You’re gonna be okay.

Detective… I could use your assistance… in locating some people that are in need of our services.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

(BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(VALENTINA CHUCKLES SENSUOUSLY)

Okay. Vamonos.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SCOFFS)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

(WHIMPERS)

(SCREAMING)

(DOGS BARKING)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Mateo?

(IN ENGLISH) Hey.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

GABRIELA:
Mm.

Gracias.

(DOGS WHIMPERING)

(DOGS STOP BARKING)

(SIGHS)

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

(SCREAMING)

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING DISTANTLY)

(DOOR SQUEAKING)

(TOILET FLUSHING)

(WATER RUNNING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(ITEMS CLINKING)

(GABRIELA BREATHING HEAVILY)

(DOOR CREAKING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANING)

(SCREAMING)

(SPRAYING)

CECILIA:
I’m arranging a small team in Bolivia next week, Margaret.

Yeah, we have three cases scheduled already.

But I think that we might have room for one more spot.

Yeah. We’re working off the grid, of course, but if you think you can get there, Margaret.

No… Please, no need to cry, Margaret.

No… (CHUCKLES) I’m not an angel.

It’s pure science.

All right.

You send those medical records in and we’ll have a look, all right?

Perfect.

See you soon, Margaret.

See you soon.

(CELL PHONE BEEPS)

(DISTANT THUDDING)

(RADIO ANNOUNCER SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

(DISTANT THUDDING)

I’ve got a gun!

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(SCREAMING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(GARAGE DOOR OPENING)

(CAR STARTING)

What the f***…

(GASPS)

Hi.

Who are you?

This is my associate, Amanda.

(VALENTINA SCREAMING)

(GRUNTS)

(YELPS)

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

(SCREAMS)

(GRUNTING)

Get some rest, Cecilia.

You’re going to f***ing need it.

(MAN SCREAMING)

(CHAIN CLANGING)

Mateo.

(GRUNTS) What the f*** is going on?

(SCREAMING) Why are we back here?

Oh, my God. What the…

(MATEO CONTINUES SCREAMING)

(CHAINS CLANKING)

(GROANS)

MATEO:
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Help. Who are you?

Do you know why we’re here?

Hey! Hey.

MATEO:
Lady, do you know…

(GABRIELA SPEAKS IN SPANISH)

Do you know who brought us here?

(VALENTINA SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

MATEO:
(IN ENGLISH) Hey! Can you help us?

(GROANS)

Who are you? Please. Please, please.

(GROANING)

Hey, hey…

What… What are you doing?

(RATTLING)

GABRIELA:
Hey.

(DOOR SLAMS)

John?

It was you?

(SCREAMING) Why?

Why are we here?

CECILIA:
John!

What is this?

We were only trying to help you.

That game is over.

And a new game is about to begin.

Valentina…

(WHIMPERING)

…did my blood ever make it to the lab?

Or…

did you just suck it out and flush it down the drain somewhere?

(WHIMPERING)

MATEO:
Mr. Kramer. Mr. Kramer.

Please, listen to me. I beg you.

I beg you, please. Please.

We have nothing to do with this.

We didn’t know what was going on. It was all her.

She planned the whole thing.

Mateo, I don’t even know if that’s your real name.

It is my real name.

It is, oh.

‘Cause they have never heard of you at the hospital.

She told me to say that I worked there.

But I don’t. I’m sorry.

JOHN:
Mm, mm.

MATEO:
Please wait. Let me explain.

Mr. Kramer… I meant no harm.

I would really like to believe you, Gabriela.

(SOBBING)

You’ll have a chance to prove yourself.

Por favor. Por favor.

(WHIMPERING QUIETLY)

The key to your freedom is inside that box.

What the hell is that?

It’s a Gigli saw.

I thought you said there was a key?

He was speaking metaphorically.

He does that a lot.

When I get out of here, I’m gonna kill both of you motherfuckers!

That’s a good plan.

You’re gonna wanna really listen carefully to the rules in order to pull that off.

F*** you! (SCREAMS)

(WHIMPERING)

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

Go ahead.

No. No.

What…

(MACHINE POWERING UP)

No. No. What?

The wire saw inside of that box was invented by an Italian physician. Leonardo Gigli. It creates an extraordinarily clean-cut to the bone.

No.

(SAW WHIRRING)

No. No, no, no, no, no!

No, no, no, no!

(SCREAMS)

(SOBBING)

The dotted line on your leg marks the spot.

Are you f***ing crazy?

What makes you think I’d f***ing cut off my own leg?

JOHN:
Because if you don’t, the wire saw that’s wrapped around your neck will first cut into your skin, then your vertebral ligaments, and finally, it’ll sever your spinal cord.

VALENTINA:
(WHIMPERING) No.

The CliffsNotes version?

(WHISPERING) It’s gonna cut your head off.

No!

CECILIA:
You won’t.

You wouldn’t.

Uh, it’s true.

We won’t.

But Valentina might.

(SHUDDERS)

JOHN:
All of you…

All of you…

All of you…

You promised dying people.

Dying people!

That you could save their lives.

And in doing so, you took advantage of the only thing… that they still possessed.

Hope.

No, John. We’ve worked to heal people.

Your case was… different.

(SCOFFS)

And still you lie.

My associate, Amanda here, has had a look at your bank records.

Take a look.

Who are those 34 people to you?

AMANDA:
John’s case was different?

Did you heal any of those 34 people?

JOHN:
Did they have children that are now orphaned?

You’ve been doing this larcenist dance now for more than eight years.

Eight years.

That’s more than $8 million.

That’s a lot of pain… to inflict on others for your own enrichment.

AMANDA:
There was no healing going on there, b*tch.

They’re all underground. I checked.

We know everything.

We have everything.

Including the cash from your house.

We have it upstairs.

Please. Please, don’t do this. Please.

(CRYING) Please, help me.

Please.

JOHN:
That’s exactly what we are doing, Valentina.

This is not retribution, it’s a reawakening.

(SOBBING)

Valentina, follow my instructions if you want to live.

There are more than five pounds of marrow in the human body.

All you need is three ounces.

(SCOFFS)

There’s more than enough in your femur.

Just suction it out, it’ll be transferred to that device right there and it will deactivate the saw around your neck.

Don’t hesitate.

Because your time is prescribed.

(SOBBING)

(CRYING) No. No.

JOHN:
Now, refusing to play the game is not an option.

If you refuse… you will remain in this room…

(SOBBING)

Forever.

(WHISPERS) You’ll make it.

So long as you keep your head.

MATEO:
We were not involved in the whole thing.

(GABRIELA SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

MATEO:
(IN ENGLISH) Please.

John! Please.

This is not right.

Not right?

A lecture in moral decency?

From you?

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