Wonderwoman Page #7

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MENALIPPE:

What is your name?

STEVE:

I can't tell you that, either.

VENELIA:

We should kill him right now and

be done with it.

Philippus talks, calm despite her friend's death.

PHILIPPUS:

He dies now and we know nothing

about why they came here and who

they are.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

Ladies, I'm sorry. I can only

tell you one thing about me: I'll

never talk.

29 INT. PALACE - THRONE ROOM - LATER 29

Steve's overcome by an unseen force. He struggles.

STEVE:

My name's Captain Steve Trevor.

Pilot... American Expeditionary

Forces. Serial number 8121941.

That's all I'm at liberty to s--

REVEAL:
Steve, bleeding from injuries sustained in

battle, bound by a GLOWING GOLDEN LASSO controlled by

Menalippe.

Diana and Hippolyta, battle weary, watch him. With them

the QUEEN'S GUARDS, what's left of ANTIOPE'S GUARDS and

SENATOR ACANTHA (50s).

Steve strains to keep his mouth shut. He can't.

STEVE:

Seconded... to British

Intelligence.

(re:
lasso)

What the hell is this thing,

anyway?

DIANA:

The Lasso of Hestia compels you to

reveal the truth.

MENALIPPE:

It is pointless -- and painful --

to resist.

HIPPOLYTA:

What is your mission?

STEVE:

Whoever you are, you're in enough

danger as it is. You shouldn't --

HIPPOLYTA:

What is your mission?

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

(exhales; caves)

I'm a spy.

CUT TO:

30 FLASHBACK - EXT. MILITARY INSTALLATION (OTTOMAN EMPIRE) - 30

DAY:

Steve, in his GERMAN PILOT'S UNIFORM, stands on an

AIRSTRIP next to several other PILOTS and PLANES.

STEVE (V.O.)

British Intelligence got word that

the leader of the German Army,

General Ludendorff, was visiting a

secret military installation in

the Ottoman Empire.

STEVE'S POV

FOLLOWING GENERAL LUDENDORFF as he and his troops enter a

large, nondescript WAREHOUSE.

STEVE (V.O.)

I posed as one of their pilots,

then flew in with them.

31 INT. MILITARY INSTALLATION - FACTORY/LABORATORY - DAY 31

Steve follows the others into the warehouse.

STEVE (V.O.)

According to our intel, the

Germans had no troops left, no

money, no munitions of any kind...

Steve discovers this is an immense MUNITIONS FACTORY

manned by elderly men, women, and children, all of whom

appear to be slave labor for the Germans in the mass

production of BOMBS.

STEVE (V.O.)

... but our intel was wrong. The

Germans had the Turks making bombs

for them. And not just bombs...

Ludendorff approaches a SCIENTIST, wearing head-to-toe

protective gear. Removing mask and goggles, we meet the

STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL DR. MARU, 40s. She finishes writing

a CHEMICAL FORMULA in a NOTEBOOK. She turns, greets

Ludendorff with respect and confidence.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE (V.O.)

New weapons. Invented by

Ludendorff's chief psychopath.

Dr. Isabel Maru.

Steve can't help but stare admiringly... until Maru turns

her head, revealing METAL PLATES on her face, hiding

damage incurred by her own experiments.

STEVE (V.O.)

Boys in the trenches call her `Dr.

Poison.'

Maru leads LUDENDORFF to her lab, to a fully-enclosed

TEST CHAMBER with a VIEWING WINDOW.

In the chamber, Steve sees a gruesome site: A PRISONER,

his terrified face covered by a GAS MASK, his wrists and

ankles stretched out and restrained by CHAINS. Another

CHAIN leads from the top of the prisoner's gas mask.

Out of earshot, Steve watches as Maru shows Ludendorff

the formulas in her notebook, explaining them.

Maru closes the notebook and sets it down, then releases

GLOWING GAS into the chamber. Panicked, the prisoner's

terrified eyes widen, MUFFLED SCREAMS cry out behind his

gas mask.

Enraptured, Maru puts a hand against the window, her

anxious eyes follow the SMOKE filling the chamber: It

has to work this time.

Ludendorff watches, waiting.

Steve looks on in horror as the prisoner's gas mask

begins to show slight signs of disintegration: thin

cracks in the glass, wear on the straps, corrosion on the

metal -- Maru isn't even aware she's grinning, but then --

The prisoner realizes the gas mask is resisting the gas,

protecting him. He calms. Maru's face falls.

Her eyes dart to Ludendorff who shows obvious signs of

disappointment.

Steve watches as a frustrated Dr. Maru pulls a LEVER --

and the chain connected to the prisoner's gas mask tears

the mask off, exposing him to what's left of the gas!

The panicked prisoner screams in pain as he breathes in,

dying horribly!

Steve can barely watch, he glances away -- and his eyes

lock on Maru's notebook.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE (V.O.)

From what I saw... if Dr. Maru was

able to complete her work,

millions would die. The war would

never end.

(beat)

I had to do something...

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