The Encounter: Paradise Lost Page #2

let's all be friends.

I'm Bruno.

My wife, Mimi.

The over-eager,

Ric Caperna.

My good friend Charlie.

And who are you?

Chris.

This is my wife, Helen.

This your place?

- Yeah.

- Oh, nice.

You did very nice.

Don't worry,

we're not staying long.

A few hours at most.

III:

Chris, come here.

Come here.

Yeah, okay.

Any of your staff

still around?

No.

You see that guy,

right?

Who is he?

The angel of death.

He was here before the tsunami.

Now he's back again.

Angel of death, huh?

All right, go sit down.

Go ahead. Thanks.

I'm gonna

take care of this.

Yeah, be careful,

will ya?

What's wrong?

We're gonna die.

It's not them

I'm worried about.

Sit down.

Just sit down.

Have a seat, please.

Hi, Mimi.

How'd you know

her name?

He knew mine too.

Hey.

Who are you?

I am that I am.

You work for Kamal?

Let's ask an expert.

Do I look like

a drug dealer, Ric?

Deville.

So that's where you got

your information, huh?

Deville.

You sold me out.

Your so-called friend has

only one love:
bloodshed.

And if he has his way,

none of you will survive today.

- Let me kill this creep now.

- No, no, Charlie, no, no.

We don't even know him.

No, we don't.

You have to nothing

to fear from me, Chris.

I'm not the

angel of death.

Ask your wife, Helen.

She knows me.

I've never

seen you before.

Well, that's

true you've never seen me,

but on the 137th day

of your 12th year,

you gave your life to me,

small Presbyterian church

on Hartford Road

and Evergreen Avenue.

Oh, since then you allowed

yourself to become

a little strangled

by the cares of this world

and the deceitfulness

of human wealth,

but I never lost

sight of you, Helen.

And I know the day is coming

when you will ourish.

Come on, Bruno, let me

pop this guy now He's a loony.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Charlie, please.

Don't pretend you've

never heard my voice, Charlie,

though it was

always filtered

through your mother

and grandmother.

When you came forward

in your 9th year;

you loved the smiles

on their faces,

but your heart proved to be

such rocky soil, Charlie.

Your friends called you sissy,

and you just caved in.

You were always very prideful,

Charlie, even as a kid.

All right, come on.

What's your game,

pal, huh?

You work for

Deville or not?

No, I don't work for Deville,

nor does Deville work for me.

He was outside the prison

yesterday when I was released

You used

the wrong verb tense, Ric.

I wasn't outside

the jail yesterday.

I am outside the jail now,

even as we speak.

The same way that I am on the

street outside Deville's ofce.

Tell Charlie how you saw me,

"the bearded white guy. "

I don't know what I saw,

and I'm tired

of playing 20-Questions.

Who are you?

III:

I'm Jesus.

Chris t.

Yeah, and I'm

the Virgin Mary.

That's it. That's it.

I've had enough.

Calm down.

Calm down.

What do you mean

calm down?!

It's obvious he's escaped

from the local loony bin.

You know, you're lucky

my mother's not here.

She wouldn't let anyone

blaspheme, not even me.

You're right, your mother's

a very Godly woman

and she prays for you to come

to me every day, Charlie.

Don't break your

mother's heart, Charlie.

Shut up!

Just shut up!

Give me your gun,

Charlie.

Give me your gun.

Who is it?

Wrong number.

Chris, you've done a great

job of restoring this hotel.

It was Helen.

If I had my way,

I would have left it a ruin,

a monument

to God's cruelty.

Do you think that's

the way Timothy sees it?

Anywhere he looked,

he saw my love.

I don't wanna

talk about him.

It's not true, Chris.

You've been wanting to talk

to me about him for years.

You know, if you were

who you say you are,

I'd punch you

square in the face.

What happened?

Our son was killed

in the tsunami in 2004.

That's terrible.

How old was he?

He was 22.

$0 young.

I don't think

I could bear that.

The only thing you can do

is just remind yourself

that the pain

isn't real.

Mimi spent time in a

monastery where she was taught

that all pain and suffering

are illusions.

Isn't that right, Mimi?

Yes.

Mimi, do you believe this pain

you're feeling now is real?

No.

Isn't real.

But you feel it.

Only because I haven't

achieved enlightenment yet.

Mimi, I am Jesus,

and I'll never tell you

that you're not hurting

when you really are.

I don't deny your pain,

and I'll never ignore it.

I think it's better

if pain is just an illusion

because if I thought what

I was feeling was real,

I would kill myself.

Hey, baby, you don't have

to live like this, you know?

You can always

go back to rehab.

Maybe she needs

a reason to face reality.

What do you know?

I know pain.

It breaks my heart.

My hope for humankind was never

pain, suffering, and death.

It's Kamal, your supplier.

He's running late

because of the storm.

Oh, and don't worry

about the storm.

It's going to hit further

north along the coast.

This is him.

Will you still

be here today?

Couple hours?

I can't wait a couple hours.

I'm dying.

Look, I know youre

hurting, baby.

Look-listen to me, you're

halfway through detox now.

If we stay the course

we can start again.

We can start again clean.

I'm gonna die!

You're not going to die!

What's wrong, Mimi?

He doesn't understand

how badly I hurt.

That's too bad because

if he doesn't understand

the depth of your pain,

he'll never appreciate

the height of your victory.

What is victory?

Your triumph over drugs.

And more importantly,

finally finding the peace

and the security that you've

sought after your whole life.

Can I tell them

about your life?

Mimi was born

in a tiny village.

You could say

that even from birth

she was a victim

of the drug trade.

Her father worked

in the poppy fields

while her mother worked

in the processing plants.

They had no choice.

We were so poor.

You either worked the fields

or you starved.

But-

they were good people.

They loved me.

They send me to school

at the monastery

so I would have

a better life.

You loved it there.

Yes.

It's wonderful.

What happened?

Mimi's father

was wrongly accused

by the drug lord

of stealing.

The only payment

he would accept was Mimi.

They dragged her out

of the monastery

and sold her to

a Bangkok brothel.

Don't tell them

about it, please.

I won't.

We skip to Bruno?

For Bruno, it was

love at first sight.

He couldn't bear

to see you working there,

so he bought you

from the gangster.

At first I wasn't sure

what he was going to do.

Whether he would

be like the others.

I belong to him.

He can use me, beat me,

put me on the street,

but instead he freed me.

And the drugs?

Dealers usually hook their

women so they can control em.

Isn't that right, Bruno?

Another word out of you,

I put a bullet in your head.

It's about time.

Bruno wasn't to blame,

not directly anyway.

Call it insecurity.

Bruno, Mimi never quite felt

comfortable around your friends.

They all look at me

like I was some dumb Bai girl.

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