The Rendezvous Page #5

shall rejoice before the Lord.

For he cometh.

BELTRAN:
Your brother

was my friend.

To judge earth.

[GASPS] Jake!

Jake.

Oh!

No.

Pity.

Rachel...

where'd your brother

hide the scroll?

I don't know.

If you move,

he will shoot you.

Khaleel?

[SPEAKING IN ARABIC]

Jake?

Oh god.

Hey, so, how you doing?

Um, are you afraid?

Because I'm really,

really afraid right now.

And, we gotta get out of here.

No?

You know how you said,

God loves all people?

He does...

he really, really does.

And if you could,

would you help us?

Would you just walk over

to that table

and grab one of those knives

and get me out of these ropes?

Yes.

Please?

Okay, please.

- No!

- Okay, got it.

Um... so then,

why don't you do it?

You could just walk right over

there and cut these ropes off.

It'd be so fun.

- Lisbeth!

- No, no, no!

- Lisbeth!

- No!

Jake!

[MUFFLED SCREAMS]

- Okay, we bust out of here.

- Uh-huh.

Find a crowd, marketplace,

a public square.

- You got the gun?

- Jake, I don't do guns, okay?

- Really?

- Okay.

[MUFFLED SCREAMS]

So, the thing to keep

in mind here,

is that there are better

ways to follow God.

- Rachel! Come on!

- Yeah, okay.

Wait, keys.

What the hell?

- Jake, Escalade.

- Good idea.

Wow, yes!

Jake, what are you doing?

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

Rachel!

Jake! Hang on!

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

Get down!

- [ENGINE TURNING OVER]

- Now get on the ground!

I said on the ground!

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

[ENGINE RAVES]

Woo! Yes!

Woo-hoo!

- Next time wear a shirt.

- Get in the car!

You stay down!

Ready? Here we go!

- Take your time.

- Woo!

- Whoa!

- LISBETH:
Khaleel! Khaleel!

Come on!

- I think we lost them.

- Jake!

- You were amazing back there.

- Jake, listen to me.

Okay, so, the reason

that I'm here

is because I'm my brother's

only living relative, right?

You said that was standard

operating procedure.

- Right.

- So, I remembered something.

My brother had a mentor

in college

he was a visiting professor

from Jordan.

A biblical scholar.

Jake, he had

a Spanish classmate.

- Beltran.

- Okay, and?

My brother wanted us

to find him.

- Who?

- Fawaz Azzam, the professor.

- That's his name?

- Yes.

And this is where

it gets interesting, so,

David found two kittens

at a dig once

he named them after

Fawaz Azzam.

But he didn't have time

to take care of them

so he gave them to me.

- Fawaz Azzam?

- Yeah,

"Fuzzy" and "Zam" actually.

- [CAR HORN HONKING]

- Oh, no.

Oh, sh*t, Apocalypse Annie.

God is coming for you, heathens!

Hang tight, here we go!

[ENGINE RAVES]

- [GUN SHOT FIRES]

- RACHEL:
Agh!

- Keep your head down!

- You think?

[GUN SHOT FIRES]

Hang on.

[COUGHING]

Agh! God!

What is she, crazy?

- What are you doing?

- Keep it steady.

RACHEL:
Careful!

[GUN SHOT FIRES]

- You can't escape God's wrath!

- I can't hear you!

- What are you doing!

- Shout louder!

LISBETH:
Son of a b*tch!

I'm out.

- You got a better idea?

- Uh.

Oh, Rachel, Rachel!

[CHUCKLES]

Pull up next to them, come on!

- What is she doing?

- Here she comes, here she comes!

What are y'all gonna do now?

- Jake?

- Watch out!

- JAKE:
Get down!

- Whoa!

- Khaleel!

- [CAR HORN HONKING]

- RACHEL:
What?

- Really?

- Oh, yes!

- Hallelujah!

- Yes!

- Drive the car! Drive the car!

Yes, yes.

- JAKE:
Nice driving, kid.

- RACHEL:
Thank you.

Jake? Look at this.

My brother knew that I was

gonna identify his body

so he carved that into his arm.

It's a message, Jake, for me.

It's not a river.

It's the cats.

"Fuzzy" and "Zam."

JAKE:
Cats? Really?

David wanted me to find

Fawaz Azzam

because he knows something

about the scroll.

Beltran will know how

to find him.

Rachel, that is a pretty

thin thread.

Well, do you have a better idea?

[ENGINE SPUTTERING]

Oh, no.

No gas, no signal and half

a bottle of water between us.

Unless you want to drink

washer fluid.

So, what's the plan?

I guess we sit tight until

the sun drops a bit.

Or someone passes by.

And let's hope the crazies

don't find us.

You know, the trick to this

is to conserve your energy.

So, we both have to keep

our mouths shut.

Easier for some

then others, right?

I'm serious. And we have

to cover our mouths, too.

Slows the rate of dehydration

from breathing

it's a scientific fact.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Wow.

- Hm.

How's that?

It's very chic.

I spy with my little eye,

something beginning with, "s".

RACHEL:
Sand.

[EAGLE SCREECHING]

Eyes this way.

I gotta go and pee.

David?

David!

You okay?

Yeah.

Come on, change of plan.

We're walking.

Where are we heading?

I'm Bedouin, I can get us out.

With what, your Bedouin radar?

My birth name is Yakub Alshadi.

My grandfather lived in a tent.

It's in my blood.

Jake, you were raised in Ohio.

I came back in the summers.

For what? For Bedouin camp?

You have a desk job.

You weren't even able to get

us out of that market today

without a GPS.

JAKE:
I'm gonna get us

out of here, I promise.

We'll find some Bedouins

or some camels.

BELTRAN:

I shouldn't have left her

with him, they disappeared.

You were supposed to keep

them with you.

How could you lose them?

I'll find them, I promise.

DU PLESSIS:
Don't make promises

you can't keep.

- Was Anya sleeping with David?

- Seems so.

DU PLESSIS:

She was like a daughter to me.

That would have been

inappropriate.

Beltran Reyes?

Gotta go.

How can I help you?

BELTRAN:
I'm afraid,

I won't be much help.

Anything at all that can help

us find the missing US agent.

I've left messages,

several times,

so naturally, I'm very worried.

They went to meet you

at the apartment

of the dead woman.

What happened after that?

We split up, so I could

get my car.

We were supposed to meet

in front of the church.

Why didn't you?

By the time I got there,

they were gone.

And what does Mr. Du Plessis

have to say?

Du Plessis has nothing to do

with this.

[SMIRKS]

What are you doing

in the Middle East, Beltran?

Protecting my friends.

What about you?

Give me a call if you

hear anything.

RACHEL:
So, we get to Beltran

to get to Fawaz Azzam.

JAKE:
Beltran, Beltran, great.

- RACHEL:
He was David's friend.

- JAKE:
We don't need Beltran.

Once we get a signal,

I'll make a phone call.

We'll be out of here in no time.

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[KEYPAD TAPPING]

[MOANING]

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

[MOANING CONTINUES]

What are you doing?

Channeling my inner Bedouin.

My grandfather was

the camel whisperer.

[MOANING CONTINUES]

[JAKE SIGHING]

RACHEL:
It's spectacular,

isn't it?

JAKE:
Yeah.

You can see why religions

started in the desert.

RACHEL:
Jake, do you think

we're gonna get out of here?

JAKE:
It'll be dawn soon,

we should get some rest.

- You shivering?

- RACHEL:
Yeah.

That's actually supposed

to be good.

It's when you stop shivering,

you have to worry

about hypothermia.

JAKE:
Yeah? Here.

Thank you.

- You got it?

- Yeah.

You want an arm?

Yeah, sure, body warmth.

- It's a good survival strategy.

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