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7.8 磅 0 2 Cell FADE IN: A SPECK OF DUST Grains of sand dance in the wind. As we glide over a VAST DESERT, the speck of dust becomes a HORSE AND RIDER. CATHERINE YOUNG straddles the beautiful black animal, her
NOVAK (CONT'D)
They were killed.
Kidnapped, tortured,
and murdered. By a white
male. About
30-years old.
(significantly)
Who owns an albino dog./
Everyone knows this is a real clue and awareness is
heightened. Ramsey chimes
in.
RAMSEY
A purebred German Shepherd.
Novak shows them a picture of a WHITE GERMAN SHEPHERD taken
from a resource on the Internet.
RAMSEY (CONT'D)
Breeders typically destroy albino pups,
so this animal is truly unique.
NOVAK
Nicole Labetzki. Victim
seven.
Forensics found dog hair in her car, but
they had a K-9 unit at the scene and
never had it checked.
TEDDY
LEE
The Phoenix office tested that hair
thirty minutes ago. And we
got the
match.
NOVAK
It's his dog.
Ramsey holds up a thick list.
RAMSEY
Registered breeders of German Shepherds.
The list is long and a few of the cops GROAN. Novak silences
them with a fierce look that says, "I will not rest until
this man is found and neither should you."
NOVAK
Be thorough, but be fast.
This guy's
accelerating.
He
only waited six days this last time.
When he started, two months could pass.
A DESK SEARGENT enters the room and hands a FAX to Ramsey.
Novak is curious about it, but continues.
NOVAK
(CONT'D)
This can mean different things.
He
thinks we're stupid and can't catch him.
He's having fun and needs more.
Or...
(thinking it through)
This dog hair thing is sloppy.
The body
this morning was found in less than
three inches of water. He
knew we'd
find her. He wants to be caught. But
if we can't stop him...
Gravely concerned, Ramsey moves across the room.
NOVAK (CONT'D)
(dreading what's on that fax)
...he can't stop himself.
INT. STARGHER HOUSE - BATHROOM - DAY
Stargher, the awful PAIN eating away at his skull. He
searches the medicine chest.
DISTORTED VOICE
Me god
feed on pain.
The VOICE echoing inside his skull.
DISTORTED VOICE (CONT'D)
Pain good. Cumm home to
meee...
INT. STARGHER HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY
Struggling to stay on his feet, he
moves to the KITCHEN.
Valentine paces nervously, whimpering concern. Stargher
reaches for a bottle of vodka but falls to the floor.
Valentine BARKS, but gets no reaction from master. We MOVE
IN on Stargher's unblinking eyes.
DISTORTED VOICE
Go sleep Carl. Me god wake
up now.
INT. THE CELL - DAY
Julia Hickson finds the snack foods, drinking spigot, toilet,
shower, and drain. Her bare
feet try to adjust to the tile
floor, but it's fucking cold.
She glimpses herself in the
mirror and is startled by what she sees - a terrified girl.
INT. SUBURBAN
HOUSE - DAY
A TAN SEDAN sits in the driveway of this modest middle-class
home. A VENTURA COUNTY
SHERIFF'S CAR sits nearby, a deputy
keeping watch.
INT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - DAY
A distraught
middle-aged couple, MR. AND MRS. HICKSON, sit on
the couch of their living room.
FAMILY PHOTOS show them with
Julia, whose fiancee, John, does his best to comfort the
mother. Novak and Ramsey have
the unfortunate task of
interviewing them about their daughter's disappearance.
RAMSEY
She was still living at home?
MR. HICKSON
Yes, sir.
JOHN
We were looking at apartments.
MR. HICKSON
(important they know)
But nobody was moving in together 'til
after the wedding.
Novak hasn't said much.
Instead, he looks at something in
his hands - a plastic evidence bag containing the TOY DOLL.
RAMSEY
John, you
came to pick her up when?
JOHN
Eight o'clock. We were
going out for my
birthday.
MR. HICKSON
Maybe you made a mistake.
Maybe she...
she...
Novak hides the doll.
RAMSEY
No sir. I'm sorry.
Ramsey's cell-phone rings and he excuses himself to a corner
of the room, leaving Novak alone to deal with this
uncomfortable, sad situation, no one saying a word until an
emotionally shattered Mrs. Hickson, fingering a rosary, feels
compelled to tell him.
NOVAK
After three years she remembers what the
guy drove?
RAMSEY
She remembers because it was her "dream
truck." Wanted one just like it.
EXT. SMALL AIRPORT - DAY
Ramsey and Novak exit a small jet and are met by FBI Agent
STOCKWELL.
STOCKWELL
Ramsey, Novak?
They nod and he directs them to a waiting GMC SUBURBAN.
STOCKWELL (CONT'D)
Agent Stockwell.
NOVAK
Where is he?
STOCKWELL
Edison. Just east of Loma
Park. SWAT's
had the house under surveillance for
about twenty minutes.
(info memorized)
Suspect is Carl Rudolph Stargher.
No
registered weapons, no priors.
Got a
license for his dog, though.
Named him
Valentine...
INT. GMC SUBURBAN - DAY
Stockwell is behind the wheel, racing down the highway.
Ramsey's in the passenger seat, Novak in back. Shotguns and
body armor line the cargo area.
Novak's eyes target the FAX,
a copy of Stargher's license and registration, and the grainy
dot-matrix image of the suspect's face. And Novak knows he's
found him.
NOVAK
You're the bad man, aren't you, Carl?
EXT. STARGHER HOUSE/NEIGHBORHOOD -
DAY
A sparsely populated lower-middle class neighborhood. A half
dozen plain houses at the end of a cul-de-sac. Bare trees.
Brown lawns. Crows in the
air.
The house furthest from the main road has a white Ford F250
pick-up in the driveway.
Green trim.
THE SUBURBAN, hidden from Stargher's house, four-wheels it
through a prairie and stops outside the backyard of a
PRESCHOOL, where
two more Suburbans and a van already wait.
INT. PRESCHOOL - DAY
Stockwell introduces Ramsey and Novak to BROCK, leader of the
FBI Tactical Unit, a calm, confident ex-Marine wearing a
black uniform
and body armor.
BROCK
Glad you could make it. We
lose the sun
in half an hour.
Novak and Ramsey join him at the shaded window to observe
Stargher's
house. Children's drawings fill
the wall. As
Brock explains, Novak checks with binoculars.
BROCK (CONT'D)
Perimeter's two-hundred yards around the
house. Three men at the rear, two on
each side, four up front.
I've got two
marksmen on the roof.
NOVAK
Have they seen him?
BROCK
No. There's been movement
in the
kitchen. But it could be
the dog.
(important)
You think she's in there?
Novak is careful with his answer.
NOVAK
We proceed assuming she is.
RAMSEY
Let's give old Carl a call.
Tell him
he's got company.
NOVAK
No.
(to Brock)
Can you get a man close?
EXT. STARGHER HOUSE - DAY
Quiet. Calm. And then we catch a glimpse of a FIGURE
advancing, using any cover he can, until he is right outside
the house. The sneaky SWAT
team member, ERICSON, whispers
into his throat mic.
ERICSON
I'm at the back door.
BROCK (V.O.)
(in Ericson's earpiece)
Check the kitchen.
Ericson maneuvers his way to the kitchen window and uses a
MIRROR to sneak a peek. In
the REFLECTION we see a
motionless man lying on the floor.
ERICSON
I have a man down. Repeat,
man down.
BROCK (V.O.)
Stargher?
Ericson chances a quick visual check and pops his head up
before reporting.
ERICSON
Can't see his face.
INT. PRESCHOOL - DAY
Brock
looks to Novak, urgency and tension mounting. Novak
knows how much is riding on this specific moment. All the
various outcomes. And
decides.
NOVAK
Go.
EXT. STARGHER
HOUSE - DAY
The SWAT TEAM SWARMS towards the house.
INT. STARGHER HOUSE - DAY
ERICSON KICKS IN THE BACK DOOR.
GUN READY!
ERICSON
FBI!
He and THREE OTHERS rush inside!
BAM! FOUR MEN KICK in and
proceed through the FRONT DOOR!
SWAT TEAM MEMBER
FBI!
An odd quiet is all they encounter. IN THE BACK, Ericson
moves through a LAUNDRY ROOM and finds VALENTINE hiding
behind a pile of dirty clothes, frightened by these masked
figures in black.
ERICSON
(into
throat mic)
I've got the dog!
He points for someone to secure the animal and MOVES into the
KITCHEN, aiming his gun at the man on the floor, finally
getting a look at his face.
ERICSON (CONT'D)
(recognizing him)
Carl Stargher! Do not move!
No problem there. Stargher
appears lifeless. As various
SWAT team members secure the house, Ericson removes his mask
and CUFFS Stargher, startled at the sight of the horrible
RINGS piercing his back.
ERICSON (CONT'D)
Jesus Christ...
EXT.
PRESCHOOL/STARGHER'S HOUSE - DAY
As an AMBULANCE emerges from a hiding place behind another
garage, we FOLLOW NOVAK and RAMSEY as they run from the
preschool into the house.
INT. STARGHER HOUSE
As a K-9 UNIT secures Valentine, Novak storms into the
kitchen, checks Stargher for a pulse and barks at SWAT>
NOVAK
Paramedics. NOW.
Ramsey pushes through and Novak informs him.
NOVAK (CONT'D)
He's alive.
EXT. STARGHER HOUSE - DAY
FBI AGENTS and local police cordon off the area.
INT. STARGHER HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY
Valentine is muzzled and led away as the PARAMEDICS load
Stargher onto a stretcher.
Agent Stockwell turns to a
worried Novak.
STOCKWELL
They'll take him to County General.
Reid's already there.
NOVAK
Make sure he stays cuffed.
Two men on
him at all times. I don't
want anyone
