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170

TORRES:

No, sir.

ROBERTS:

Keep looking. Bodies just don't

f***ing disappear.

Roberts' voice slowly FADES as we PUSH IN ON Stanley,

internal wheels spinning.

STANLEY:

(to himself)

Disappear...

FADE TO:

1910 STOCK FOOTAGE

Houdini's favorite elephant trick going on inside Stan's

head.

INT. BIG TOP - DAY

A large crowd of people surrounds Houdini and pale-suited

assistants in front of a large elephant in the center

ring.

GABRIEL (V.O.)

Houdini made an elephant disappear

in a room full of people.

His assistants pull a curtain all the way around the

elephant.

GABRIEL (V.O.)

You know how he did it?

CUT TO:

INT. CURTAIN - DAY

GABRIEL (V.O.)

Elephant suit. Filled with his

assistants.

We see his assistants jump out of the elephant and hang

the suit inside the curtains.

GABRIEL (V.O.)

Assistants jump out. Blend in

with the others.

(CONTINUED)

A108A.

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CONTINUED:
(2) 170

INT. BIG TOP - DAY

Houdini's assistants pull back the curtain, melding with

the assistants inside, unbeknownst to the audience of

course.

GABRIEL (V.O.)

Voila.

The elephant is gone. Houdini throws up his hands.

GABRIEL (V.O.)

No more elephant.

171 FLASHBACK - SWAT GUYS 171

in black urban assault gear, pushing Stan to the ground.

CUT TO:

172

OMITTED 172

173

CLOSEUP - STANLEY (PRESENT) 173

Realization sinking in.

173A

INT. GABRIEL'S HOUSE - GINGER'S ROOM 173A

Ginger looks at him, holding her Glock, a wire taped

between her breasts.

GINGER:

I'm D.E.A., Stanley.

CLOSEUP - GINGER

GINGER:

Trust me.

108A.

173B CLOSEUP - STANLEY - PRESENT

GABRIEL (V.O.)

-- so advanced nowadays you couldprobably pilot it from yourtrailer.

CUT TO:

173B

174 FLASHBACK - GABRIEL

GABRIEL:

(smiling)

Misdirection...

174

175 INT. GABRIEL'S HOUSE - WINE CELLAR - DAY

Gabriel's "face" smooshed against the glass door.

175

109.

176 BACK TO ROBERTS (PRESENT)

Roberts looks at him inquisitively.

176

ANGLE ON STANLEY

As a wry Indiana Jones smirk slowly crosses his face.

slowly shakes his head.

ROBERTS:

Cheer up, Stan, we got him.

You're a hero.

He

STANLEY:

Yeah that's me. Hero.

They walk to the door and out.

ROBERTS:

I was wrong about you, Stanley. I

wanted you to know that. You

know, you should take yourdaughter on vacation. Relax a

little, you're lucky to be alive.

Stanley slaps Roberts on the arm and walks out.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN:

177 INT. CREDIT SUISSE (MONTE CARLO) - DAY

A WOMAN who looks surprisingly like Ginger with blondehair and dark shades saunters into the Credit Suisse main

bank in Monte Carlo.

177

She walks up to a desk and sits down in front of a youngfemale BANK EXECUTIVE. Both women speak in French withSUBTITLES.

WOMAN:

I would like to transfer moneybetween my employer's accounts.

BANK EXECUTIVE:

Certainly. May I have youremployer's account number andpassword, please?

The Woman slides a piece of paper across the desk as shecasually lights a cigarette.

(CONTINUED)

110.

177 CONTINUED:
177

BANK EXECUTIVE:

(looking at the

account number,

realizing who she is

dealing with)

Oh, of course. You realize, how

should I say, there is a

substantial amount of money in

that account.

The sexy Woman smiles.

WOMAN:

That's why I'm here. My employer

doesn't like drawing attention to

himself. He likes to keep a low

profile.

The Bank Executive keys in the account numbers.

BANK EXECUTIVE:

Of course. Would you feel more

comfortable dealing with the bank

president?

WOMAN:

(exhaling)

Would you?

BANK EXECUTIVE:

Yes...

WOMAN:

Get him.

BANK EXECUTIVE:

Right away. A glass of Cristal

while you... Wait a moment...

WOMAN:

What?

BANK EXECUTIVE:

There seems to have been a

series of large withdrawals out of

this account.

WOMAN:

That's impossible.

The Woman spins around the terminal.

The Executive and the Woman look at each other in

astonishment, then both look back at the screen.

(CONTINUED)

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The balance now reads $500.00.

We PUSH INTO A CLOSEUP OF the terminal. Then THROUGH it.

111.

178 TERMINAL 178

We PUSH INTO a CLOSEUP of the terminal. Then THROUGH

it. We SHOOT THROUGH the system of wires and microchips,

DOWN and THROUGH T1 lines, ACROSS the world at light speed,

and EXIT the computer world FROM...

179 INT. DINER - SOMEWHERE IN ARIZONA - DAY 179

The screen of Stanley's laptop.

HOLLY (O.S.)

Everything okay, Dad?

Stanley, sitting at a booth, looks up from his laptop

at Holly who was studying a road map of Arizona.

STANLEY:

Everything's fine. Just making the

last of some charitable donations..

Stanley finishes, shuts down laptop.

STANLEY:

How about you, almost done?

HOLLY:

(folding up road

map)

Yep. Got it all figured out.

STANLEY:

Well, let's do it.

They leave table.

EXT. DINER - SOMEWHERE IN ARIZONA - DAY

They exit diner. Make their way to a new SUV with a

thirty foot tricked out Airstream trailer stretched

out behind it.

STANLEY:

By the way, where exactly are we

going?

HOLLY:

The Petrified Forest.

STANLEY:

The Petrified Forest.

Stanley opens the driver side door of the SUV.

(CONTINUED)

111A.

179 CONTINUED:
179

HOLLY:

Right. And I'm driving.

Holly climbs into the vehicle, as if to take the wheel.

Stanley slides in next to her.

STANLEY:

Scoot over, you.

WIDE SHOT:

WE CRANE UP and AWAY as the vehicle pulls out of the

desert truck stop...

HOLLY (V.O.)

Know why they call it the Petrified

Forest?

STANLEY (V.O.)

No. Why?

... and drives off down the road.

FADE TO BLACK.

112.

FADE IN:

180 EXT. CREDIT SUISSE (MONTE CARLO) - DAY 180

A MAN, whom we have not seen before but does maintain a

certain "Gabriel" air about him, hiding behind shades,

leans against a three-hundred-year-old column reading a

newspaper.

She walks toward him and he signals for the valet.

WOMAN FROM BANK:

You're not f***ing gonna believe

this. Stanley -

MAN:

-- How much he leave?

WOMAN FROM BANK:

500 bucks.

He takes the $500 in cash from her hand and hands her the

paper. They walk down to the dock, where a 50-foot offshore

cigarette boat waits, a valet standing next to it.

He hands the valet the $500. Stepping down into the

cigarette boat, he grins up at Ginger.

GINGER (WOMAN)

(steppng in next

to him)

You don't seem that upset.

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