The Crow: City of Angels Page #11

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HOLLY:

Keep doing that, honey, you'll go blind.

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INT. PEEP-O-RAMA BUDDY BOOTH - NIGHT

Holly is still MOANING. Over on the LED display, Nemo's time

has just about expired.

HOLLY:

Time's almost up, lover. Better hurry up with those tokens.

NEMO:

Shitfire...

Nemo fumbles with his pants, scoops out some more tokens...

Too late, the shutter is already closing. Nemo feeds some more

tokens into the slot. Nothing happens. Nemo punches the LED display.

NEMO:

Come on, f***er!

The shutter starts rattling up again, only this time...

ASHE:

is standing on the other side of the Plexiglas. His mouth splits

into an evil grin.

ASHE:

"Do you want me, baby?"

Nemo's eyes just about pop from his skull.

NEMO:

You.

ASHE:

Me.

CRASH! Ashe slams his fists through the Plexiglas window, reaching

for Nemo's throat.

INT. PEEP-O-RAMA, HALLWAY - NIGHT

Nemo comes flying out the booth door. He struggles to rise. A

CHORUS OF ORGASMIC SIGHS and cheesy SURF MUSIC drifts out from

the other booths.

ZEKE:

(o.s.)

Hey, mime boy.

AT THE FRONT COUNTER.

ZEKE, the Peep-O-Rama's corpulent manager, is cradling a sawed-off

shotgun. BOOM! He blows a blast into Ashe's chest!

Ashe starts toward Zeke, unfazed. Zeke moves to fire again...

Ashe snatches the shotgun from the fat man's grasp, smashing

him in the face with the butt-end. Zeke falls back into a video

display, sending an avalanche of porno tapes raining down on

top of him.

Seizing the moment, Nemo rushes for the exit...

Ashe spins, pumps the shotgun, blows out one of Nemo's kneecaps.

Nemo collapses on the floor, wailing like a child. Ashe strides

over to him.

ASHE:

One crow sorrow...

He HEAVES Nemo through a glass display booth filled with sex

toys. Ashe punctuates each line of the nursery rhyme with a new

assault on Nemo.

ASHE:

...two crows joy...

Nemo starts dragging his broken body across the floor. He finds

himself face to face with an anatomically-correct blow-up sex

doll - the kind with a built-in pre-recorded memory chip.

DOLL:

Ooh, oh baby, I like it like that. You're so good. You're so

good...

ASHE:

Three crows a letter, four crows a boy...

Ashe HEAVES Nemo back the other way, sending him SMASHING into

the front counter. Peep-O-Rama tokens go flying, bouncing and

spinning every which way...

CLOSE ON A SPINNING TOKEN

On one side of the coin the eye is open, on the other it's closed

- this creates the illusion of the eye blinking.

ASHE:

Five crows silver, six crows gold...

Nemo utters a half-sob and rolls over, feebly wiping away the

blood which is clouding his eyes.

ASHE:

Seven crows a secret never to be told.

NEMO:

...please, please just stop...

Ashe pries open Nemo's eyes with his fingers.

ASHE:

You killed my son, Nemo. You took away the only piece of light

left in my soul.

NEMO:

We had to! Judah's orders. Never leave any witnesses! We didn't

have a choice!

ASHE:

We always have a choice.

Ashe plunges his fingers into Nemo's eyes - killing him off-camera.

He lifts up his now blood-covered hands and turns...

Just then, Holly Daze bursts out into the hall. She sees Ashe

and YELPS, certain her number's up. Ashe grabs her by the wrist,

spinning her around.

HOLLY DAZE:

(CRINGING)

...no...

Ashe touches her face and sees a split-second FLASH of...

HOLLY DAZE DANCING

Jump-cut bump and grind, CAT-CALLS, LAUGHTER, the distorted faces

of men leering with their hungry eyes, tongues and sweaty palms

and heavy breath and I wanna be your f***ing dog, baby, and...

BANG! ASHE

shuts his eyes, reeling...

Ashe looks up at Holly - one victim to another. His eyes burn

a laser beam into her soul.

ASHE:

If you value what you've lost, you'll walk away from this place

and never look back.

Holly Daze nods with conviction. Ashe releases her. She bolts

like a rabbit flushed from cover.

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EXT. PEEP-O-RAMA - NIGHT

Curve ROARS UP on his motorcycle, followed by Kali and a car-load

of ENFORCERS. The team grab their weapons, head for the porno

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