"Happy Valley" by JOSH DAVIS H A P P Y V A L L E Y By Josh Davis SCREEN BLACK The opening music begins to play. It's a classy little melody with a new age sound. It plays lighty against the background as soon as the logo of the company passes away. We can hear the sound of typing at a computer in the B/G NOW, all their is is nothing. The SCREEN is pure black. HOLDEN(v.o.) My life, in pictures......... STILL PICTURE UP: A picture of our Hero, HOLDEN FOSTER, at the age of one. It's his first birthday party. He's surrounded by his mom and dad, his Grandma and Grandpa. HOLDEN(v.o.) My first birthday party. There's my mom and pop, my grandma Rose and my Grandpa Luther. Grandpa Luther passed away two years later, on my third birthday party. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Just like Holden said, his Grandpa is dead, and he's fallen face first in to Holden's birthday cake at Holden's third birthday. The faces of the grownups are shocked. HOLDEN(v.o.) And my uncle Steve got the whole death scene on tape! CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Holden's first day of Elementary school. He has a "Punky brewster" lunchbox, the dork. And on this picture is his personality, since he's flipping of the camera. HOLDEN(v.o.) Oh what a crazy kid I was. My first day of school. There's me with my stupid overalls and my "Punky brewster" lunchbox. I was a fucking dork. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Holden's 8th grade graduation picture. Move in on a kid three spots from the left in the second row. It's HOLDEN, dressed in dress pants with a white shirt and a red tie. HOLDEN(v.o.) Eighth grade graduation. Made out with some chick under the bleachers after the dance. She wanted five more bucks the fucking whore. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Like he said, Holden is making out with some girl under the bleachers. He has his hand running up her leg to her thigh. HOLDEN(v.o.) I forgot my buddy Mike snuck up on us with a camera. Will you settle for PG-13? CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Holden's first day of high school. He's dressed sord of Gothic, punkish in a way. He wears a shirt with the giant skull logo of the band "The Misfits" and loose kaki-pants. His hair is messy, jet black. HOLDEN(v.o.) First day of high school. Hooray "The Misfits" and my loose kaki pants. Oh, and the jet black hair with the lack of hair gel. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Holden has on the graduation cap & tassel. He is robed in silky blu. HOLDEN(v.o.) Last day of high school, and the beggining of my fucking hell. SCREEN BLACK FADE IN: EXT. "HAPPY VALLEY" MENTAL HOSPITAL - MORNING We're now outside HAPPY VALLEY MENTAL HOSPITAL. It's too cheery outside to be your average mental hospital. SONGBIRDS are chirping in the trees, people who are smiling enter and exit the hospital. There's even children playing outside for fucks sake! HOLDEN(v.o.) Happy Valley Mental Hospital.....it seems like the most happy place in the world, even the name is too cheery. It would be the nicest place in the world if it wasn't for the phrase Mental Hospital strapped to the back of it...... A MENTAL PATIENTS runs past the screen, screaming weird words. GUARDS rush by the camera, trying to catch him. EXT. "HAPPY VALLEY" - PARKING LOT - MORNING A baige STATIONWAGON parks in the parking lot of the Hospital. Out of the stationwagon steps the FOSTERS, a family way too much like the family of the TV shows back in the 50's, like something off of Father Knows Best The dad smokes a pipe and wears slacks and a nice shirt; The mother wears a casual dress; the boy and the girl are too nice and too cheery, they even wear Blue(boy) and Pink(girl). HOLDEN(v.o.) My family. They're like a walking, talking rerun of "Leave it Too Beaver". The DAD stands outside the hospital, smoking a pipe. DAD (sighs) Let's go get your brother. INT. "HAPPY VALLEY" - Holdens room - MORNING Holden sits on his bed, in the clothes he wore when he first got to Happy Valley. On his lap is a suitcase with all his stuff in it. He doesn't notice a man standing in the doorway. The MAN IN THE DOORWAY is one of the patients, kind of mentally ill. MENTAL PATIENT Are.......you leaving, Holder? HOLDEN Yeah, unknown mental patient, my parents are here. MENTAL I'll miss you. HOLDEN I'll miss you too, unknown Mental patient. EXT. "HAPPY VALLEY" - FRONT LAWN - MORNING HOLDEN stands before his family. He wears the same clothes he wore when he first got there, pure black clothes, almost gothic. Even his hair is black. He stands out like a thore thumb among the Cleaver clan. DAD (swelled up with pride) My son....... The DAD hugs HOLDEN. Only Holden is uncomfortable about the hug. HOLDEN Hello father......... DAD (near crying) My son......... DAD gives HOLDEN another hug. EXT. CAR(moving) - MORNING The family Stationwagon rolls down the interstate. INT. STATIONWAGON(moving) - MORNING HOLDEN sits in between the little boy and girl. They smile goofy smiles. HOLDEN just stares blankly at each and every thing that they pass by. The only time Holden shows interest in anything is in a family stranded on the side of the road. The LITTLE BOY and LITTLE GIRL are now caught up in a road game. BOY OHH! OHH! There's Vermont....... GIRL .......Oregon! BOY Doesn't count! GIRL WHY NOT? BOY You can't do the state your in! GIRL CAN TOO! BOY CAN NOT! GIRL CAN! BOY CAN'T! GIRL CAN! BOY CAN'T! GIRL CAN! BOY CAN'T! GIRL CAN! BOY CAN'T! HOLDEN DO YOU TWO EVER SHUT THE FUCK UP?! EXT. SIDE OF THE ROAD - MORNING The STATIONWAGON abruptly pulls off to the side of the road. INT. STATIONWAGON(moving) - MORNING - later HOLDEN'S POV: From where he's sitting in the car we can see the street where he lives on, MULBERRY STREET. The cheery smiles of his family grow even wider. He just shuts his eyes. EXT. MULBERRY STREET - MONTAGE The street is even like 50's TV. There's multiple people out mowing their lawns or watering their lawns. They all have happy, cheery smiles on their faces. They even whistle while they work. Children are outside playing hopscotch and jumping rope and playing a game of stickball...... A FIREMAN helps a little girl get her kitten out of a tree. SLOWLY FADE TO BLACK FADE IN: CLOSEUP - ON TV: We open up on the saturday night matinee, "The Shining". We're ironically on the part where Jack kills the man with the red axe. Danny, the little boy, screams. PULL BACK We're in Holden's room. OVERHEAD SHOT: Holden lies in his bed, staring up at the ceiling. He lies on top of the covers, smoking a ciggarete. He hasn't taken off his clothes to go to bed. He just lays there, SMOKING. HOLDEN(v.o.) My room was just as I left it. The ciggaretes I had left behind my shelf was even there. Now, maybe some of my other items were there. Holden gets up and lifts up his mattress. Hidden in a secret compartment under the mattress is a stack of nudie magazines [suggestions: "Hustler", "Play Boy", "Big butt Biker Babes", "Penthouse"]. HOLDEN Yes............ HANDHELD SHOT: Camera follows Holden as he walks across the room to his CD Player. He searches through his CD's. He chuckles at how outdated they are. QUICK SHOTS OF CD'S: Smash Mouth, Jimmy Ray, Steppenwolf....... HOLDEN What the hell were you thinking? Jimmy Ray?! (beat, begins to sing song) "Are you Jimmy Ray? Who wants to know 'bout me? Are you Jimmy Ray?! Who wants to know 'bout me?!" HOLDEN stops singing as the door opens. MOM walks in, holding a tray. On the tray are pieces of cheese sandwhiched between Saltine Crackers. MOM Just thought you'd like to have a little snack before bed. HOLDEN (monotone) Oh thank you Mom. LONG PAUSE. MOM Listen, Holden, I'm sorry about everything. About Happy Valley -- HOLDEN (best impression of 50's tv) -- Gee wiz mom, do you really have to give me the business? I don't want to get sore about nothing tonight. LONG PAUSE. MOM (doesn't get the idea) Your father is really sorry too. HOLDEN (raising voice) It was three years out of my life. I'm fucking 21 now. I have three thousand dollars in cash in the bank, I know how to drive, I even own a fucking bike. (louder) IT WOULDN'T BE THAT HARD FOR ME TO LEAVE! MOM No need to get angry dear. HOLDEN Don't call me dear. It's fucking Holden. MOM Dear, I only call you dear because I love you. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN If you loved me you wouldn't of thrown me in there. MOM is speechless. She just sits the tray on the bed and leaves. INT. HOLDEN'S ROOM - NIGHT(rain) Minutes later. HOLDEN sits on his bed, reading a book. We move in closer to see the title of the book. TITLE OF BOOK: "A Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger He finishes up the page he's on and he puts it down. The pitter-patter of the rain hitting his window is annoying him. He tries to drown out the noise of the Rain by sinking his head deep into his pillow. HOLDEN (singing to self softly) If a body catch a body coming through the rye...... (beat) If a body catch a body coming through the rye...... (beat) If a body catch a body coming through the rye...... (beat) If a body catch a body coming through the rye...... Then, a GHOSTLY VOICEOVER kicks on. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Call Mikey........ HOLDEN looks around. Is he really hearing it? Or is he imagining it? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Call Mikey....... (repeats) Call Mikey....... (repeats) Call Mikey....... (repeats) Call Mikey....... (repeats) Call Mikey....... (repeats) He is being driven insane by it. He curls up in a ball on the floor. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Call Mikey....... (repeats) Call Mikey....... (repeats) LONG PAUSE. Holden breathes a sigh of relief. Is it over? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Call Mikey....... HOLDEN flinches. HOLDEN(v.o.) Why? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.)(cont'd) ............because we have work to do! INT. HOLDEN'S ROOM - NIGHT SUPERIMPOSE: Twenty Minutes Later, 8:30 P.M. CLOSEUP: Holden's eyes, they're shut. SUDDENLY, they pop open. HOLDEN How long have I been asleep? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Twenty minutes. PULL BACK to reveal Holden's paranoid face. PULL BACK even further to see that Holden is still in the fetal position on the floor. A little of bit of droll clings to his face. The DOOR OPENS to reveal father. His eyes grow wide as he sees his son on the ground. HOLDEN (looks up at father) How long have I been asleep? FATHER I dunno. It's 8:30. When'd you lay down? HOLDEN (doing math in head) Four days. FATHER (pause) Are you okay? HOLDEN Never been better. FATHER ARE YOU SURE? HOLDEN (motions to the platter on bed) Maybe it was the cheese and crackers. This is the first time we see Holden even crack a smile. INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT - later -- FANTASY ON TV: The evening news DAD sits in his favorite chair, smoking a pipe. He watches the news with some curiosity. As soon as the local weather forecast comes on, he grimaces at the chance of rain tommorow........ MOM sits on the couch, knitting...... BOY and GIRL plop infront of the TV. They usually would be bored by the news, but we're forgetting this isn't a normal family. MOM Slight chance of rain? DAD Yeah, yeah. Poppycock. MOM Oh, these weathermen are usually wrong dear. PAN OVER TO the staircase, where HOLDEN finishes the last step. He's changes his clothes. He now wears a pair of baggy jeans and a Polo Jacket. His hair has been moosed back. HOLDEN I'm going out. MOM Where to? HOLDEN So see Mike. MOM Oh, that's wonderful Holden! I'm sure Michael would be happy to see you. HOLDEN begins to walk out of the door, but then he pauses. Everything is now in SLOW-MOTION as he pivots around and pulls out a 9-MILLIMETER handgun. Now,the speed is down to a slug's pace as he FIRES shots in to the unsuspectingfamily. We can't see them, and the only thing we hear from them is a MUFFLED scream, cut off by a pistol blast -- CUT TO: INT. FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT- later REPLAY SCENE: ON TV: The evening news DAD sits in his favorite chair, smoking a pipe. He watches the news with some curiosity. As soon as the local weather forecast comes on, he grimaces at the chance of rain tommorow........ MOM sits on the couch, knitting...... BOY and GIRL plop infront of the TV. They usually would be bored by the news, but we're forgetting this isn't a normal family. MOM Slight chance of rain? DAD Yeah, yeah. Poppycock. MOM Oh, these weathermen are usually wrong dear. DAD Not Bill Ferny. Best weatherman on this side of the Missisipi. MOM Well, alright Ward. PAN OVER TO the staircase, where HOLDEN finishes the last step. He's changes his clothes. He now wears a pair of baggy jeans and a Polo Jacket. His hair has been moosed back. HOLDEN I'm going out. MOM Where to? HOLDEN So see Mike. MOM Oh, that's wonderful Holden! I'm sure Michael would be happy to see you. HOLDEN gets in the doorway, stops, looks back and then continues out in to the rainy night. CUT TO BLACK Sound of the ENGINE of a car starting. FADE IN: EXT. FAMILY STATIONWAGON(moving) - NIGHT(rain) The family stationwagon moves down the Eugene streets. The car passes by some homeless people who sit on the sidewalk. EXT. SHOALS OLD-FASHIONED PIZZARIA - NIGHT(rain) The STATIONWAGON pulls up outside "Shoal's Old-fashioned Pizzaria". INT. SHOALS OLD FASHIONED PIZZARIA - NIGHT(rain) Holden enters the pizzaria. By the people in it, you can automatically tell it's a hotspot for teenagers to hang out at. Even the music they play in there gives you the big tipoff. SHOALS, the man at the counter, has a big mustache, like the cliche italian pizza places owner. He even wears the chef's hat. He looks like a younger and fatter version of the guy on the cans of "Chef Boyardee". HANDHELD: The camera is shaky handheld as we follow Holden to one of the booths. Waiting there is his friend MIKE, a short but somewhat muscular guy with short black hair. MIKE Holden? Holden has a grin on his face that stretches across his whole face. MIKE You haven't changed a bit you ugly bastard. MIKE gets up and the two best friends give eachother a strong handshake and a warm hug. they quit and they look at eachother and they share a good laugh at how long it's been. They sit in the booth. MIKE When'd you get out? HOLDEN This morning they picked me up. MIKE You still pissed at them. The last time we talked you seemed a little pissed at them. HOLDEN (thinks) Huh? When was the last time? MIKE When I came to visit you. It was a month or two after they first put you in there. HOLDEN That was awhile ago. (beat) Three years ago. The first week of summer. I coulda gone to college. Fuck no. LONG, UNCOMFORTABLE PAUSE. MIKE Why'd they put you in there again? HOLDEN I was hullucionary. I kept seeing shit that wasn't there. Like a split personality in my head. MIKE What, you mean like schizophrenia? HOLDEN No. Like voices. MIKE Trippy. (long pause) You still hear the voices? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Mike.........Kill....... LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN No. (beat) Heard from anybody after graduation? MIKE Not really. I heard from Becky. HOLDEN (eyes light up) Really? MIKE (smiles) Yeah. (beat) She asked about you. HOLDEN (pause) You didn't tell her about Happy Valley did you? MIKE No. She didn't hear. She left for Portland right after Graduation. (beat) Her father got her a nice secretary job up there. He pulled some strings for her like he did for her at Stanford. HOLDEN Stanford? MIKE Yeah. She had a couple of GPA points below the required for Stanford. Her dad pulled some strings with the board down there and got her in. She's didn't go though. (beat) She got a conscious. HOLDEN She didn't go?! MIKE Nope. She just toke the cushy secretary job. She got an apartment with the money. HOLDEN Good for her. MIKE But she does ask about you. HOLDEN What'd you tell her? MIKE Nothing really. HOLDEN (stares at Mike) WHAT'D YOU TELL HER? MIKE (shitface grin) You were setting the world onfire. HOLDEN Very fucking funny. You always were a damn smartass. TIME LAPSE: HOLDEN and MIKE are now eating their food. Both have a huge pan of Pizza in the middle of the table, and they both munch on Calzones. They are both drinking soda. Both of them are laughing about the good times. MIKE (grinning, trying not to laugh) And then you tried to pick her up again. HOLDEN What can I say? I was young, horny, desperate as hell..... MIKE That you were my friend. Both just bust up LAUGHING. MIKE I swear to god man she was in love with you. HOLDEN She was not! MIKE I know she was. HOLDEN How you figure? MIKE (while chewing bit of pizza) You two were always partners for something. Science class, she always wanted you to be her partner. HOLDEN Because she wanted the better grade. MIKE It was because she wanted your dick man. She wanted it bad. HOLDEN She was not.... MIKE She was practically beggin' for it. Don't be in fucking denial Holden. Denial and acceptance man. HOLDEN She was going out with that one guy. What the fuck was his name? MIKE Huh? HOLDEN She was going out with that one guy. What the fuck was his name? The prick? MIKE (long pause, thinking) ROBBIE? HOLDEN (eyes grow wide) THAT'S IT. (beat) She went out with that guy all through High school. MIKE (begins singing school fight song) In the halls of Marist High School........ (beat) Robbie and Becky........ (beat) ......fucking in the halls, of good old marist high school! People inside the Pizza place give Mike a strange look. MIKE (turns to the people) What you all looking at? Most of the people turn around and go back to what they were doing. MIKE looks aound, making sure everyone has gone back to what they were doing. HOLDEN You think those two had sex? MIKE They did. HOLDEN How do you know? MIKE I had Gym class with Rob. Bragged about it every-damn-day. HOLDEN No way. MIKE Yes way. HOLDEN No way. MIKE The guy was a pompous dickhead. And besides, they sure acted like it. HOLDEN Huh? MIKE Did you ever doubt that they didn't have sex? C'mon, they were half-fucking. HOLDEN Last time I checked, making out wasn't half-way home. MIKE (smiles) Well last time I checked, dry humping was halfway there. (takes a sip of soda) She woulda had a orgasim right there if they woulda keep going. Now, imagine what they would do when she went over to his house. SMASHCUT TO: INT. MIKE'S HOUSE - THREE YEARS AGO - SPAGHETTI WESTERN FILTER (Spaghetti Western Filter is when the movie plays with an Orange Filter) HOLDEN, MIKE and a few other nameless guys are sitting back watching a funny movie on TV. It's funny because they're laughing their heads off as the hero cracks a funny joke. MOVIE: "The Big Lebowski" DUDE(ON TV) This Chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill so what the fuck are you talking about? WALTER(ON TV) What the fuck are you talking about?! This Chinaman is not the issue! I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line you do not, uh--and also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred, uh. . . Asian- American. Please. The group laughs O/S. DUDE(ON TV) Walter, this is not a guy who built the rail- roads, here, this is a guy who peed on my-- WALTER(ON TV) What the fuck are you-- DUDE(ON TV) Walter, he peed on my rug-- DONNY(ON TV) He peed on the Dude's rug-- WALTER(ON TV) YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT! This Chinaman is not the issue, Dude. DUDE(ON TV) So who-- WALTER(ON TV) Jeff Lebowski. Come on. This other Jeffrey Lebowski. The millionaire. He's gonna be easier to find anyway than these two, uh. these two . . . And he has the wealth, uh, the resources obviously, and there is no reason, no FUCKING reason, why his wife should go out and owe money and they pee on your rug. Am I wrong? DUDE(ON TV) No, but-- WALTER(ON TV) Am I wrong! DUDE(ON TV) Yeah, but-- WALTER(ON TV) Okay. That, uh. CUT AWAY FROM TV to Holden. It's days before his mental breakdown. He's the happy kid but with the slightly crooked smile. HOLDEN turns away from the movie and looks to Mike. HOLDEN Where's your bathroom, man? MIKE Up the stairs, first door on your right. HOLDEN goes up the stairs. He goes in to the first door(on the left), wherehe finds BECKY and ROB fucking like two dogs in heat. SMASHCUT BACK TO: INT. SHOALS OLD FASHIONED PIZZARIA - NIGHT(rain) - LATER The RAIN has picked up again. HOLDEN and MIKE stare out at the rain from their window seat. MIKE What do you plan to do? HOLDEN I dunno. Find a nice quiet place where I can think, maybe get an apartment of my own or something. (thinks) Then maybe go rob a bank. MIKE smiles. MIKE Now, why you always have to say somethin like that? EXT. SHOALS OLD-FASHIONED PIZZARIA - NIGHT(rain) Both HOLDEN and MIKE stand outside of Shoal's Pizzaria in their raincoats. The large neon sign of the restaurant sticks out like a thore thumb. They try to light their ciggaretes. HOLDEN (exhales ciggarete smoke) I love the rain..... LONG PAUSE. MIKE Your weird, man. HOLDEN Am not. MIKE Are too. HOLDEN Am not. MIKE Are too. HOLDEN Am not. MIKE Are too. HOLDEN Am not. MIKE Are too. HOLDEN Are too. MIKE Am not. HOLDEN smiles as MIKE just registers that he was checked. HOLDEN Retard. HOLDEN'S POV: His eyes shift from Mike to the stormdrain right off the sidewalk from him. In the sewer, he can see a Red AXE down there. The CAMERA holds on the axe, then the camera pulls back up to look back at Mike. HOLDEN What do you see in the stormdrain? MIKE looks down the stormdrain. MIKE Nothing. Water. HOLDEN'S POV: His eyes reshift to look down the Stormdrain, and the Axe is still there. HOLDEN Are you sure? MIKE (stares at Holden) Yes. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN You wanna get a beer? MIKE (checks watch) Sure. CUT TO: EXT. THE FOSTER HOUSEHOLD - NIGHT(rain) All lights are OUT. INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT(rain) MOM and DAD are asleep, and in classic tv style, there's two single beds, and a nightstand between them. We can see a record player over in the corner of the room. MIKE(v.o.) When'd you get out? HOLDEN(v.o.) This morning they picked me up. MIKE(v.o.) You still pissed at them. The last time we talked you seemed a little pissed at them. HOLDEN(v.o.) (thinks) Huh? When was the last time? MIKE(v.o.) When I came to visit you. It was a month or two after they first put you in there. HOLDEN(v.o.) That was awhile ago. (beat) Three years ago. The first week of summer. I coulda gone to college. Fuck no. MIKE(v.o.) Why'd they put you in there again? HOLDEN(v.o.) I was hullucionary. I kept seeing shit that wasn't there. Like a split personality in my head. MIKE(v.o.) What, you mean like schizophrenia? HOLDEN(v.o.) No. Like voices. MIKE(v.o.) Trippy. (long pause) You still hear the voices? HOLDEN(v.o.) No. (beat) Heard from anybody after graduation? MIKE(v.o.) Not really. I heard from Becky. HOLDEN(v.o.) (eyes light up) Really? MIKE(v.o.) (smiles) Yeah. (beat) She asked about you. HOLDEN(v.o.) (pause) You didn't tell her about Happy Valley did you? MIKE(v.o.) No. She didn't hear. She left for Portland right after Graduation. (beat) Her father got her a nice secretary job up there. He pulled some strings for her like he did for her at Stanford. HOLDEN(v.o.) Stanford? MIKE(v.o.) Yeah. She had a couple of GPA points below the required for Stanford. Her dad pulled some strings with the board down there and got her in. She's didn't go though. (beat) She got a conscious. HOLDEN(v.o.) She didn't go?! MIKE(v.o.) Nope. She just toke the cushy secretary job. She got an apartment with the money. HOLDEN(v.o.) Good for her. MIKE(v.o.) But she does ask about you. HOLDEN(v.o.) What'd you tell her? MIKE(v.o.) Nothing really. HOLDEN(v.o.) (stares at Mike) WHAT'D YOU TELL HER? MIKE(v.o.) (shitface grin) You were setting the world onfire. HOLDEN(v.o.) Very fucking funny. You always were a damn smartass. EXT. SHORE SHACK - NIGHT(rain) - later MIKE and HOLDEN come out of the shoreshack, WASTED. They're falling over, they are laughing at something that we didn't hear about, and nearly drooling on the concrete. They reach the car. HOLDEN (drunk) I'm fucking smashed! (beat) Can you drive? I'm too fucking wasted. MIKE, while drunk, thinks long and hard about it. MIKE (not as smashed as Holden) Yeah sure, what the fuck. I can drive. INT. MIKE'S CAR(parked) - NIGHT(rain) They both get in, both drunk as hell, MIKE at the wheel of the car. MIKE I'm cool as a damn cucumber. MIKE flips on the radio. They both begin rocking out to a tune on the radio (possibly "Crazy Train" or "Radar Love"). MIKE plays the "air guitar" while HOLDEN lipsyncs to the song. The SONG ends. HOLDEN (checks watch) 12:55 in the AM. It's getting late. EXT. THE FOSTER HOUSE - NIGHT(rain) MIKE'S car pulls up outside the Fosters home. The Flowers are getting mowed down by the massive rainfall. HOLDEN gets out, and he nearly falls face-first on to the cement sidewalk. MIKE (looking from car) You need help? HOLDEN (face planted) That'd be great. INT. THE FOSTER HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT(rain) MIKE helps HOLDEN on to the couch. The first thing HOLDEN does is go for the remote and he turns on the TV. The picture is a little fuzzy from the rain messing up the satellite. ON TV: An old rerun of the "Mickey Mouse Club". Mike is getting ready to leave when Holden grabs his arm. HOLDEN (drunk) Stay awhile. MIKE (drunk) I would, but I gotta go dude. HOLDEN (drunk) You can stay ten more minutes, can't ya? LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN(cont'd) You live alone, you moved out. You really don't have nothing to go home too. MIKE (drunk) But I have work in the morning. LONG PAUSE. MIKE (drunk) Yeah, I'll stay. But just for ten minutes. And I actually have work tommorow, dude. No lie. HOLDEN (drunk smile) Yeah, whatever. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Kill, Kill, kill....... INT. FOSTER HOUSE - NIGHT - later SUPERIMPOSE: 5 Minutes later HOLDEN and MIKE are plumped up on the couch, watching the rerun of "Mickey Mouse Club". They both look silly drunk. HOLDEN goes for the clicker, but MIKE stops him. MIKE Leave it here. Christian Aguilera is on this episode. She's really hot. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN What is your job anyways? MIKE Just call me Officer Mike. HOLDEN (shocked) Your a cop. MIKE nods: "Yes". HOLDEN Wow, I'm really impressed. And I always thought you'd stay and move up the ranks at Burger King. MIKE (flips Holden off) Fuck you. HOLDEN You ain't no officer. MIKE sits down on the couch. MIKE Hey, the coversations you get at that deskjob are much more deeper than my usual conversations you get at Burger King (beat) "Would you like fries with that?" (beat) Or that job I had at Wal-mordor. "Thank you come again". I sounded like fucking Apu. I sounded as deep as a plate of glass. HOLDEN Don't forget, I had that damn job too. CUT TO: INT. WAL-MART - YEARS EARLIER There's a long line at HOLDEN'S checkout counter. He's taking several minutes just with one customer. The customer stares at him, aggraveted. Her two little kids are making a lot noise. HOLDEN (blank) Ma'am, could you please tell you kids to be quiet. CUSTOMER (aggravated) THEY WOULDN'T BE THAT WAY IF YOU WOULD HURRY UP! I GOT STUFF TO DO TODAY!!! HOLDEN (monotone) Ma'am, I'm sure corner can wait today!!! The CUSTOMER hits Holden very hard with her purse. CUSTOMER FUCK YOU! The CUSTOMER storms out. BACK TO: INT. HOLDEN'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT HOLDEN gives a chuckle. MIKE What's so funny? HOLDEN Nothing. (beat, smiles) "Walmordor". LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN You ever get that feeling? MIKE What feeling? HOLDEN That your being watched. MIKE Yeah, all the time. Incase you forgot, the government satellites track me on a regular basis. HOLDEN I'm not kidding. Like, you know something is there, yet you cannot see it. MIKE (sarcastic) Yeah, people get that all the time. And it is called paranoia. The vietcong used it as a tool of torture. They made you overly fuckin paranoid. HOLDEN Not true. MIKE You saw Taxi Driver. Remember the main guy? Travis Bickle? The same thing man. Overly paranoid. HOLDEN He wasn't paranoid. He was insane, that's a given. But he wasn't paranoid. MIKE Same thing. HOLDEN IT IS NOT THE SAME THING. (beat) Paranoid is when your very suspicious, or overly cautious. You think that someone is out to get you. That isn't insane. Insane is when your fucked up in the head. MIKE Not true. HOLDEN NOT TRUE? MIKE If you really think about it, they could be in the same league. Someone could be insane by being paranoid. They think that the government has implanted a chip up their ass to watch their every move. They're both paranoid and insane. They're paranoid by being insane. The insanity makes them paranoid. (beat) You get what I'm saying? HOLDEN nods: "yes." MIKE But then there's the crackheads. HOLDEN What about crackheads? MIKE Are crackheads insane? They're paranoid. HOLDEN Technically, they are not insane when it comes to their paranoia. It's the drug that is making them paranoid. Not they're psychosis. LONG PAUSE. MIKE I gotta take a piss. HOLDEN Knock yourself out. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - BATHROOM - night The pitter-patter of the rain has stopped outside. MIKE is taking a piss. He looks around at the light green walls with the big Forest Trees painted on the Walls in a forest green color. MIKE smirks. It's been a long time since he's been in this bathroom. MIKE(v.o.) (sarcastic) Yeah, people get that all the time. And it is called paranoia. The vietcong used it as a tool of torture. They made you overly fuckin paranoid. HOLDEN(v.o.) Not true. MIKE(v.o.) You saw Taxi Driver. Remember the main guy? Travis Bickle? The same thing man. Overly paranoid. HOLDEN(v.o.) He wasn't paranoid. He was insane, that's a given. But he wasn't paranoid. MIKE(v.o.) Same thing. HOLDEN(v.o.) IT IS NOT THE SAME THING. (beat) Paranoid is when your very suspicious, or overly cautious. You think that someone is out to get you. That isn't insane. Insane is when your fucked up in the head. MIKE(v.o.) Not true. HOLDEN(v.o.) NOT TRUE? MIKE(v.o.) If you really think about it, they could be in the same league. Someone could be insane by being paranoid. They think that the government has implanted a chip up their ass to watch their every move. They're both paranoid and insane. They're paranoid by being insane. The insanity makes them paranoid. (beat) You get what I'm saying? MIKE(v.o.) But then there's the crackheads. HOLDEN(v.o.) What about crackheads? MIKE(v.o.) Are crackheads insane? They're paranoid. HOLDEN(v.o.) Technically, they are not insane when it comes to their paranoia. It's the drug that is making them paranoid. Not they're psychosis. MIKE(v.o.) I gotta take a piss. HOLDEN(v.o.) Knock yourself out. OFFSCREEN: the sound of someone moving around out there. MIKE shivers, he's done taking a piss. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - HALLWAY - NIGHT MIKE exits the bathroom and continues down the hallway. He zips up his pants since he forgot to in the bathroom himself. The TV has been turned up real loud(almost to block out a noise). MIKE Holden? MIKE'S POV: He looks in to the living room. It's empty. No one is there. MIKE Funny. SUDDENLY(in slow motion): HOLDEN appears from out of the shadows with a Axe that fireman use. END OF SLOW MOTION MIKE turns around, and then he lets out a gasp. MIKE What the fuck -- WHAAM!!! HOLDEN swings as hard as he can. MIKE gets the full force of the AXE right upside his head, up near the temple region. Blood doesn't have time to fly from the grewsome impact. SLOW MOTION: MIKE crashes to the white carpet floor. BLOOD slowly flows from the nasty hole where his head should be. It runs down his face and on to the white floor. HOLDEN I'm not fucking insane. THEN: Holden pulls out a pistol from behind his waistband. The gun was tucked away at the back of his pants. He surveys it, checks to see if it's loaded. It is. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Where'd you get the gun, my lad? HOLDEN Stole it off a guy at the bar. Bathroom. DAD(o.s.) Stole what, son? HOLDEN flips around, the gun aimed at his father. DAD barely comprehends what is going on since he is only half awake. There's a LONG PAUSE, and then the dad fully comprehends what's going on. DAD What are you doing with a gun, son? HOLDEN Nothing. LONG PAUSE. DAD Nothing? LONG PAUSE. DAD (looks to the body on the floor) Who is that? Is he dead, son? HOLDEN Mike. Yes, he's dead. I finnaly got to use that bat you gave me when I was eleven. Why, that was nearly ten-fucking-years ago. DAD Watch your language -- HOLDEN How 'bout fuck no. I've been living under your house rules for twenty-one years. I proved that I was a responsible fucking kid. And what do you do? Send me up to Happy Valley, the world's "most cheeriest mental hospital" DAD You were hearing voices, Holden. You even told me yourself. It was for your own good. What was the voice? What'd you call it? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Peter, Peter pumpkin-eater...... LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN Peter, Peter pumpkin eater. DAD Yeah, "Peter, Peter Pumpkin-eater". EXTREMELY LONG PAUSE. DAD Now, what's with the gun son? Are you going to kill me? HOLDEN (beat) Yeah. HOLDEN fires a shot in to his DAD, who wasn't even expecting it. He hits DAD dead-center in the chest, sending DAD flying in to the wall. BLOOD splatters on the wall. Yet DAD is not dead, he wheezes from being shot in the lungs. DAD (writhing against wall in pain) You little bastard? Have you not had a good life? Your an ungrateful little shit -- BAAM!!! Holden pulls the trigger, executing his dad, blowing his DAD'S brains out all over a nearby plant. HOLDEN surveys the body. CLOSEUP: A tear runs down HOLDEN'S face. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT(rain) MOM is wide awake. She has heard the two gunshots and she is SCARED. She is panting, sweating from all of her fear. She can't even put on her slippers, but it doesn't even matter: The DOOR swings open, and there is HOLDEN, pointing the GUN at here. She backs up to the window, as he takes aim at her. She SCREAMS: CUT TO: EXT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM WINDOW - NIGHT ANGLE ON: The window as the GUNSHOT rings off. Blood splatters up against the window, the blood sliding down the glass slowly. The mom's scream was cut short by her evil son. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT The GUN is still smoking. The BODY of his mother is lying under the windowsil, blood everywhere. She toke the bullet right through the eye. HOLDEN just looks down at her, now crying his eyes out. HOLDEN(v.o.) Don't look at me like that. Look at me cry. Is that not a man with remorse in his eyes? But fuck it. Look at it from my angle. You try and fucking live with being up in that hospital. Just fucking try it. OFFSCREEN: The sounds of the boy and girl crying. Then, the sound of a window opening. HOLDEN looks out of the bedroom door, listening to the crying. INT. THE KIDS BEDROOM - NIGHT Holden booms through the door. The little girl has half of her body out of the window. They are both trying to escape. HOLDEN busting in scares the little girl so much that she stumbles out the window, SCREAMING. EXT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - NIGHT The Little girl falls out of the window, SCREAMING all of the way down. She hits the ground, landing on her head. She snaps her neck, killing her immediately. Now, all is silent. INT. THE KID'S BEDROOM - NIGHT The Little Boy tries to leave, but his big brother Holden towers above him. HOLDEN I'm not gonna fucking kill ya. BOY Then why'd you kill Sandy Sue? HOLDEN I didn't kill her. She gets easily startled. Don't you know it's dangerous to be trying to leap out of a window. That's two stories. You could die. The BOY is crying his eyes out, afraid. SUDDENLY: Holden pulls out the gun and places it to the BOY's head. This scares BOY so much that he automatically pisses his pajamas. Holden looks down at the piss, and smiles. HOLDEN Wimp. WHAM! Holden smacks him upside the head with the Gun, knocking the little boy unconscious. HOLDEN aims the gun at him, thinking. Should I shot the kid or not? He stares down sympathetically, and then puts the gun away. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - THE LIVING ROOM - NIGHT The TV is still blaring. It did a somewhat good job of blaring out the gunshot noises. He stares down at the body of MIKE, the pool of blood getting bigger, staining the carpet. HOLDEN (looking at body) Paranoia is not the same as insanity. FADE TO BLACK: In white, AGAINST BLACK: "Act 2: Welcome to Portland" HOLDEN(v.o.) As soon as I killed them all, It toke the money out of my parents safe under their bed. All 10,000 of it. FADE IN: CLOSEUP - TV SCREEN ON TV: An old Japanese Anime cartoon from the 70's. PULL BACK TO: INT. MOTEL ROOM - EARLY MORNING HOLDEN awakes violently on his hotel bed. There's bags under his eyes. On the nightstand next to his dirty bed is the murder weapon: the 9- Millimeter. Holden's eyes shift from the Anime cartoon to the Pistol on the nightstand. There's a KNOCK at the door. HOLDEN (tired) Who is it? HOLDEN slowly grabs the PISTOL on the nightstand. MAID(o.s.) Housekeeping. HOLDEN (tired) What? MAID(o.s.) Housekeeping. HOLDEN (sighs, whispers to self) Good. Only housekeeping. HOLDEN puts the gun back on the nightstand. HOLDEN (yelling O.S.) Can you come back later? MAID(o.s.) Yes, sir. INT. HOTEL - BATHROOM - morning HOLDEN undresses in the bathroom. HOLD ON HIM. O/S: we can hear the shower running. Some of the mist from the shower moves past his face. It SLOWLY begins to fog up the camera is he dissapears O/S, and we can hear the shower curtain opening. NEWSCASTER(v.o.) In the late evening hours, Ronald Foster Wendy Foster, and Sandy Sue Foster, three local residents were found dead. Their bodies were discovered early this morning by a neighbor who called the police. (beat) Sandy Sue Foster, the young 8 year old girl of Ron and Wendy Foster, seemed to have been tossed out of her window, while her brother Wally was died on the way to the hospital this morning from a severe blow to the head with what looks like a Pistol. There was a friend of the family found also dead in the house, Michael Williams, who was killed by a massive blow to the head with a Baseball Bat. (beat) The polices' main interest in questioning is the oldest child, Holden Foster, who is missing from the home. (beat) That's a total of 5 people found dead in that sleepy suburban home. INT. BATHROOM - LATER HOLDEN is now fully dressed and drying his hair in the bathroom. He wears a shirt that spoofs Dunkin Donuts. It says: "FUCKIN GONUTS". He wears a pair of baggy blue jeans. HOLDEN (singing to self) Twist and shout, yeah twist and shout.... HOLDEN'S POV: He opens up the bathroom drawer and inside the bathroom drawer is a ziplock bag filled with Marijuana. HOLD ON the bag of weed. He pulls it away. HOLDEN I know what this is. He opens the ziplock and sniffs inside it. HOLDEN Reefer. Tight. EXT. MOTEL - COURTYARD - MORNING HOLDEN stands out in the Courtyard of the sleepy HOTEL. It was only a few hours ago that the bodies were found in his home. He now has on a Windbreaker to cover up the "Fuckin Gonuts" shirt. He walks up to the pop machine and inserts his money. He picks: DR. PEPPER. HOLDEN(v.o.) It was around 6 O'Clock that morning when the police found the dead. It's 8:00 right now, so I have to move fast. I figure I'll lay low in Portland. SUPERIMPOSE: Albany, Oregon, 8:05 a.m. HOLDEN(v.o.) I toke the car I left at the bar and used it. I wasn't drunk. I was faking it. I got to the Hotel at about 2:00 in the morning. Five hours of sleep did me good. Never imagined the first place I would sleep in since Happy Valley was a hotel in a small town about halfway to Portland. HOLDEN'S POV: His eyes shift away from the Pop machine to the Managers office. The manager is eying him funnily. Holden's eyes shift from the Managers officer to the sky above him. The sky is cloudy, with rays of sunshine barely breaking through. MANAGER(v.o.) Can I help you? INT. MANAGERS OFFICE - MORNING HOLDEN stands before the MANAGER. The MANAGER is an old man with gray hair. He's probably in his late 50's, early 60's. He wears a t-shirt with the neon sign for the hotel on it. HOLDEN Uh, yeah. I came to you about the free car wash. MANAGER What free car wash? HOLDEN (points to sign) On your sign. It says by renting the suite, if that's what you wanna call it -- MANAGER -- it is a suite -- HOLDEN(cont'd) -- that yoy get a free car wash. LONG PAUSE. MANAGER So, what's your point? LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN (raising voice) Make nice on your offer. I bought your fuckin suite, or slum, whatever the hell you want to call it. And if you just so happen to read your sign, "with rental of suite, FREE CARWASH!!!". I bought the room, and that means I get the damn free carwash. EXTRA LONG PAUSE. MANAGER So, what's your freaking point? HOLDEN gives the Manager the "finger". HOLDEN GIVE ME THE FUCKING CARWASH!!!! O/S: The sound of a car engine starting. INT. HOLDEN'S STATIONWAGON(moving) - I5 - MORNING SUPERIMPOSE: Driving up 1-5. HOLDEN sits back in his unwashed car, pissed off. He curses under his breath at the manager. He has the RADIO up at full blast, the speakers blaring, rattling the windows. We can't hear what he's saying as the radio is too loud to hear. ON RADIO: "Main Offender" by The Hives HOLDEN(v.o.) Things to do on my list: change license plates on the stationwagon. Second thing on my list? (beat) Buy a new car. INT. NORCOM HIGH RISE - MORNING HOLD TIGHT: Computer Screen. There's typing going on, an E-MAIL being sent. PULL BACK: To reveal BECKY, the woman of so much interest to Holden and Mike. Lie they say, she's very hot. She has long brown hair, light blue eyes, and nice sized breasts, not to small and not large so they seem creepy. PERFECT. MAN(o.s.) Becky? BECKY? BECKY looks up to see her Boss, MR. ACKLEY, who stands looking over her shoulder, drinking a cup of coffee from a green porcelain mug. ACKLEY(mid 40's), wears a armani suit(grey) and tie(red). Becky's startled by him. She nearly jumps out of her seat. BECKY You startled me. (beat) What is it, Mr. Ackley? ACKLEY Did you get the memo today about the office picnic? It's saturday. BECKY Yeah, I got it. ACKLEY And you do know that it's supposed to have families involved. Right? BECKY Yes. Is it required to have a spouse? ACKLEY Well, yeah. We like to encourage employees to bring around their spouses in order to show their spouses what types of environments they work in, and the people they work with. BECKY But I don't have a -- (does the rabbit ears) -- "SPOUSE" ACKLEY I know that. We need to work this problem out. You don't have a spouse, and a spouse is kinda required. How will we work this out. BECKY (playful smile) Oh, would you like me to go with you Mister Ackley? LONG, UNCOMFORTABLE PAUSE. ACKLEY (slightly uncomfortable) You see, that wouldn't work. You see, I have been happily married for a long 25 years. Her name is Becky too, as a matter of fact. And I am so in love with her, happily married, we're in love. I love her very much. And she loves me. We have two beautiful kids, Jeffrey and Eloise. So you see, I could never go with you, because I am married to Beck -- NOT YOU, my wife Becky. And I am so in love with her, happily married, we're in love. I love her very much. And she loves me. We have two beautiful kids, Jeffrey and Eloise. So you see, I could never go with you, because I am married to Beck -- NOT YOU, my wife Becky -- BECKY -- SIR! ACKLEY Yeah? BECKY (beat) Your repeating yourself and you are rambling on. Not to be rude obcourse. I'm just pointing that out. LONG PAUSE. ACKLEY Oh. Thank you for pointing that out Miss Miller. I do that when I get nervous. I repeat myself. I do that when I get nervous. I repeat myself. (whispering to self) Your doing it again Robert. Hold it together, just walk away. ACKLEY leaves, walking down the hall mumbling to self. BECKY (under breath) Fucking fruit. EXT. NORCOM HIGH RISE - NOON BECKY is in the back alley of her office building, "Norcom Industries". She is smoking a ciggarete. EXT. PORTLAND, OREGON - NOON The clouds outside are still overcloudy, but rays of sun are still poking out from the clouds. The highways and the freeways leading in to city are packed with commuters........ MOVE SLOWLY DOWN to the freeway, and the camera picks up on a lone stationwagon, and it's Holdens........ CUT TO: EXT. HOLDEN'S CAR(moving) - NOON HOLDEN'S car drives a long the highway leading in to Downtown Portland. He taps the wheel to the beat of a song playing on the radio. From the inside of his car he sees the "Welcome to portland" sign. HOLDEN(v.o.) I'm in Portland right now. VOICE(v.o.) Right now? HOLDEN(v.o.) Yeah, right now. I just passed the sign. VOICE(v.o.) What sign? HOLDEN(v.o.) (long pause) The fucking "Welcome to Portland" sign! What one do you think, man?! VOICE(v.o.) Hey, if your gonna be a damn smartass I wont help ya! HOLDEN(v.o.) Alright, I'll be there in 10. Peace out. CUT TO: INT. BELTIMONT HOTEL - AFTERNOON HOLDEN is up at the front desk of a ritsy hotel, holding his luggage. The LADY at the frontdesk talks in to a headset, talking to a man on the other line about his hotel reservations. Holden is next, so he steps forward. HOLDEN Uh, yeah, hi. I had a reservation -- LADY -- name, please. HOLDEN Ward Stradlater -- LADY -- Cash, Debit, Check or credit? HOLDEN Cash ma'am. The LADY takes awhile to pull up his reservation on the computer. LADY Here you are, Ward Stradlater. That's a Lovely name -- HOLDEN -- Thank you -- LADY -- and your room is room 241. I hope you enjoy the presidential suite! The LADY turns to a nearby BELLBOY. LADY Take Mr. Stradlater's bags up to room 241, the presidential suite. The BELLBOY takes the bags and walks O/S HOLDEN Can I leave and my stuff will be there? LADY Sure. EXT. OLD GARAGE - AFTERNOON HOLDEN'S stationwagon pulls up outside an old beat up car garage. There looks like there hasn't been any business in years. The only other car there besides Holden's is a beat up Ford Pick-up truck. INT. OLD GARAGE - OFFICE - AFTERNOON HOLDEN sits at a desk inside an office inside the old beatup Garage. Behind the desk is a spanish man, who we'll soon get to know as LUPE. He wears a designer suit and he smokes a cigar. His hair is in the form of a "Jerry Curl". LUPE You got me at a real bad fucking time, nigga. HOLDEN You said you'd get me out of the damn country. No questions asked. LUPE Yeah, I know it, but shit dawg. You got me at such short notice. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN You knew what I was gonna do. I called you from my house last night. You knew what was gonna go down. LUPE The whole motherfucking country knows what went down. Your all over the fuckin' knews my brotha. Word is that CNN is making you out to be a cold-blooded psycho, fuckin' killing his damn family with a Pistol, and then that friend of the family....Mike, with the fuckin louisville slugger. That was some cold-blooded shit. (beat) Where are you staying at? HOLDEN An old friends house. Her names Becky. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Liar, liar, pants on fire...... PAUSE. LUPE How's your head doing? HOLDEN What? LUPE Well, last time I heard from Dan Rather, you are one crazy motherfucker. You still hearing the voicess? HOLDEN No. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) What about me? (beat) Liar, liar, pants on fire...... HOLDEN(cont'd) No more voices. LUPE Good. Are they telling you what to do if you get caught? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Tell them everything..... HOLDEN To keep my mouth shut...... LUPE Fucking right my friend. LUPE has a manila folder on his desk. He looks through it. HOLDEN (looking at folder) Is that my getaway plan? LUPE Yes it is. LUPE hands Holden a picture from the Manila folder. PICTURE(closeup): A 1972 Red Firebird HOLDEN It's a beauty. LUPE Your goddamn right. Runs like a champion too. I got her off a dead friend of mine. Name was Howie Antolini. He got beat up a lot in high school with that name. HOLDEN Why? Because it rhymed? LUPE No, because his name was Howie. Would you want to go through High school with a name like 'Howie Antonlini'? HOLDEN I know how the kid feels. 'Holden Foster'? They'd always come up to me and say, 'your last name wouldn't happen to be Magroin'? LUPE I don't get it. HOLDEN 'Holden Magroin'. Do you not fucking get it? LUPE I get it. LONG PAUSE. LUPE Was Mike one of those guy who referred to you as 'Holden Magroin'? What'd he do? HOLDEN Looked at me wrong. LUPE That's cold-blooded. HOLDEN But those kids who actually said 'Holden Magroin', they were lucky sonofabitches. I wasn't crazy back in middle school. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN What time should I come by? I plan to leave early tommorow morning, noon by the latest. I'm hoping to reach canada by as early sunday night. LUPE 10:30 sound good? HOLDEN Yeah. And can I have the I.D. too? LUPE Sure. CLOSEUP ON I.D.: It has Holden's picture and it says WARD STRADLATER. HOLDEN Ward Stradlater. You got the name I wanted. LUPE Where'd you come up with Ward Stradlater? HOLDEN Catcher in the Rye. LUPE Never read it. HOLDEN You should. It's a great book. HOLDEN gets up and leaves O/S: HOLDEN(o.s.) See yah Lupe! LUPE Be her by 10:30. (under breath) Motherfucker. LUPE immediately picks up the phone and dials three numbers as WE..... CUT TO: INT. THE SHORE SHACK - NIGHT SUPERIMPOSE: 7:30 p.m. PEOPLE crowd around, dancing their hearts out to the beat as the song is mixed and played softer and louder by the DJ..... PAN TO: HOLDEN sits at the back of the club, sipping a glass of Gin & Tonic on the rocks. He has his sunglasses on, trying to act cool. He wears his nicest clothes, and he is biting down on the toothpic that came from the drink. HOLDEN(v.o.) I felt like giving myself some pleasure before I went to go see Lupe about getting my ass out of the country. Two GIGGLING GIRLS come walking up to HOLDEN'S seat. GIGGLING GIRL #1 Are you Orlando Bloom? HOLDEN (long pause, suavely) Maybe I am, maybe I'm not....... GIGGLING GIRL #2 ARE YOU?! WE LOVED YOU IN LORD OF THE RINGS! LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN (suavely) No, I'm not. Sorry to burst your bubble. I personnaly think I look more like Elijah Wood if I do say so myself. Can you not tell Elijah Wood from Orlando Bloom? I GUESS NOT. LONG PAUSE. GIGGLING GIRL #2 Jerk. The TWO GIGGLING GIRLS walk away, leaving Holden in his seat, grinning from ear to ear. HOLDEN You just passed up pussy, Holden my dear boy. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) You fucking queer. That was some fine ass pussy, and you just gave it all up. Fuckin butt-plugger. A WAITRESS come by and stops at Holden's table. WAITRESS Can I get you anything else? HOLDEN Um, another Gin and Tonic on the rocks if you please. WAITRESS Coming right up, sir. The WAITRESS walks away. HOLDEN pulls out a ciggarete and begins to light it. HOLDEN(v.o.) I needed to get out of the city. I'm not good at covering my tracks I guess. Or I just didn't feel safe. DANCER(o.s.) PUT THAT FUCKING CIGGARETE OUT! HOLDEN (yelling O/S) FUCK YOU! GO FUCK YOURSELF! I'LL SMOKE IF I WANT! The WAITRESS returns with Holden's gin and tonic on the rocks. HOLDEN takes another drag on his ciggarete. HOLDEN Thank you, m'am. The WAITRESS leaves O/S. The DJ puts on a new record, a remix of "Misty Mountain Hop" by Led Zeppelin. Holden screams "YEAH!" since this is one of his favorite songs, being the LOTR fanatic that he is. He silently begins to sing along to the song. HE LEAPS UP ON TO HIS TABLE AND BEGINS TO ROCK OUT TO IT!!! There's a few whistles and hollars from some of the dancers O/S. DANCER(O.S.) ROCK ON ORLANDO BLOOM! ANOTHER DANCER(o.s.) OVER THE HILLS, WHERE THE SPIRITS LIE! TO THE LAND OF MORDOR WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE! INTERCUT SCENES: INT. BATHROOM - SHORE SHACK - NIGHT HOLDEN steps in to the bathroom. TRACKING SHOT: Holden moves to the mirror, checks his hair to make sure the gel is still sticking and to see if he looks as cool as he feels. Holden then moves to the urinal, where he begins to take a piss. CUT TO: EXT. DANCE FLOOR The DANCERS dance their best. CUT TO: INT. BATHROOM HOLDEN continues to take a whiz. CUT TO: EXT. DANCE FLOOR The DANCERS dance their best. CUT TO: INT. BATHROOM HOLDEN continues to take a whiz. CUT TO: EXT. DANCE FLOOR The DANCERS dance their best. CUT TO: INT. BATHROOM HOLDEN continues to take a whiz. CUT TO: EXT. DANCE FLOOR The SONG finishes up INT. BATHROOM With a kick of the leg, Holden finishes the long piss. He zips up his pants and pulls out a new ciggarete. He LIGHTS it, and begins to wash his hands with the sink. INT. THE SHORE SHACK - NIGHT HOLDEN exits the bathroom. As soon as he gets out, the same WAITRESS comes back and gives him another drink. HOLDEN quickly gulps it down, and hands it quickly back to the waitress. He begins to leave. EXT. THE SHORE SHACK - NIGHT HOLDEN exits the building, and takes a smell of the air coming from the COLUMBIARIVER. He takes a drag on his ciggarete. The only other people on the block besides him is the PEOPLE praying to get in to the "Shore Shack". He checks his watch: 7:45 P.M. HOLDEN(v.o.) I have about two hours and fifteen minutes to kill. Plenty of time to run in to an old friend. BECKY(o.s.) Holden? HOLDEN? IS THAT YOU?! HOLDEN (to self) Becky? He turns around. Sure enough, there's Becky, looking as fucking pretty as ever. She wears her hair long, it running down her skimpy white shirt that doesn't cover her middrift. She wears a very tight skirt too. HOLDEN (grinning) And there's Becky, looking as fuckin pretty as ever! He looks her up and down, turned ON by her. BECKY runs up and gives holden a great big hug. BECKY I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU! HOLDEN Me too. They look at eachother, seperate, and then RE-HUG. They seperate again. HOLDEN (looking at sign) You trying to get in? BECKY (looking at sign) No, not really. My friend Sally was trying to. She dragged me along. I don't even like nightclubs. HOLDEN Me neither. BECKY Then what are you doing here? HOLDEN Nothing much. Bored. Looking for something to do before I go back to my hotel. BECKY How's your family? HOLDEN Fine. FLASHBACK: INT. FOSTER HOME - FLASHBACK <> THEN: Holden pulls out a pistol from behind his waistband. The gun was tucked away at the back of his pants. He surveys it, checks to see if it's loaded. It is. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Where'd you get the gun, my lad? HOLDEN Stole it off a guy at the bar. Bathroom. DAD(o.s.) Stole what, son? HOLDEN flips around, the gun aimed at his father. DAD barely comprehends what is going on since he is only half awake. There's a LONG PAUSE, and then the dad fully comprehends what's going on. DAD What are you doing with a gun, son? HOLDEN Nothing. LONG PAUSE. DAD Nothing? LONG PAUSE. DAD (looks to the body on the floor) Who is that? Is he dead, son? HOLDEN Mike. Yes, he's dead. I finnaly got to use that bat you gave me when I was eleven. Why, that was nearly ten-fucking-years ago. DAD Watch your language -- HOLDEN How 'bout fuck no. I've been living under your house rules for twenty-one years. I proved that I was a responsible fucking kid. And what do you do? Send me up to Happy Valley, the world's "most cheeriest mental hospital" DAD You were hearing voices, Holden. You even told me yourself. It was for your own good. What was the voice? What'd you call it? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Peter, Peter pumpkin-eater...... LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN Peter, Peter pumpkin eater. DAD Yeah, "Peter, Peter Pumpkin-eater". EXTREMELY LONG PAUSE. DAD Now, what's with the gun son? Are you going to kill me? HOLDEN (beat) Yeah. HOLDEN fires a shot in to his DAD, who wasn't even expecting it. He hits DAD dead-center in the chest, sending DAD flying in to the wall. BLOOD splatters on the wall. Yet DAD is not dead, he wheezes from being shot in the lungs. DAD (writhing against wall in pain) You little bastard? Have you not had a good life? Your an ungrateful little shit -- BAAM!!! Holden pulls the trigger, executing his dad, blowing his DAD'S brains out all over a nearby plant. HOLDEN surveys the body. CLOSEUP: A tear runs down HOLDEN'S face. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT(rain) - FLASHBACK MOM is wide awake. She has heard the two gunshots and she is SCARED. She is panting, sweating from all of her fear. She can't even put on her slippers, but it doesn't even matter: The DOOR swings open, and there is HOLDEN, pointing the GUN at here. She backs up to the window, as he takes aim at her. She SCREAMS: CUT TO: EXT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM WINDOW - NIGHT - FLASHBACK ANGLE ON: The window as the GUNSHOT rings off. Blood splatters up against the window, the blood sliding down the glass slowly. The mom's scream was cut short by her evil son. INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT - FLASHBACK The GUN is still smoking. The BODY of his mother is lying under the windowsil, blood everywhere. She toke the bullet right through the eye. HOLDEN just looks down at her, now crying his eyes out. HOLDEN(v.o.) Don't look at me like that. Look at me cry. Is that not a man with remorse in his eyes? But fuck it. Look at it from my angle. You try and fucking live with being up in that hospital. Just fucking try it. OFFSCREEN: The sounds of the boy and girl crying. Then, the sound of a window opening. HOLDEN looks out of the bedroom door, listening to the crying. INT. THE KIDS BEDROOM - NIGHT - FLASHBACK Holden booms through the door. The little girl has half of her body out of the window. They are both trying to escape. HOLDEN busting in scares the little girl so much that she stumbles out the window, SCREAMING. EXT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - NIGHT - FLASHBACK The Little girl falls out of the window, SCREAMING all of the way down. She hits the ground, landing on her head. She snaps her neck, killing her immediately. Now,all is silent. INT. THE KID'S BEDROOM - NIGHT - FLASHBACK The Little Boy tries to leave, but his big brother Holden towers above him. HOLDEN I'm not gonna fucking kill ya. BOY Then why'd you kill Sandy Sue? HOLDEN I didn't kill her. She gets easily startled. Don't you know it's dangerous to be trying to leap out of a window. That's two stories. You could die. The BOY is crying his eyes out, afraid. SUDDENLY: Holden pulls out the gun and places it to the BOY's head. This scares BOY so much that he automatically pisses his pajamas. Holden looks down at the piss, and smiles. HOLDEN Wimp. <> BACK TO: EXT. SIDEWALK - THE SHORE SHACK - NIGHT HOLDEN stares blankly at BECKY. BECKY (excited) What're you doing up her, anyways? HOLDEN I'm vacationing. Never been up here. I don't even think I've ever left the Eugene city limits! BECKY You and your Eugene. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN (smiling) I should ask you the same thing. MIKE(v.o.) Yeah. She had a couple of GPA points below the required for Stanford. Her dad pulled some strings with the board down there and got her in. She's didn't go though withit. (beat) She got a conscious. BECKY I live up here! MIKE(v.o.) Nope. She just toke the cushy secretary job. She got an apartment with the money. HOLDEN In portland. BECKY (mock retard face) DUH! DUH! DUH! STUPID! HOLDEN play hits her in the arm. HOLDEN I'm stupid? Look who's talking miss Stanford dropout. BECKY Huh? HOLDEN Nevermind. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN You wanna go get a drink? CUT TO: INT. FANCY BAR - NIGHT(rain) The RAIN picks up outside. They BOTH have drinks infront of them, both drinks have little pink umbrellas shoved down in the glass. Holden plays with his straw. His drinks a "Scotch and Soda". (As their conversation starts, as each one talks, camera moves in to a CLOSEUP of their face) HOLDEN Did you ever get sick of it all? BECKY (caught off-guard) What? Sick of what? HOLDEN I mean, did you ever get sick of school? BECKY Well, sure, everyone did. Who didn't? But we all didn't leave, because it was school. We had to go by law. HOLDEN I know, I know. But just that feeling that you were never gonna get out? BECKY takes a minute of two thinking. While she drinks, HOLDEN takes a sip of his drink. BECKY Sure, I guess. But you get a lot out of school than a sick feeling. HOLDEN I agree! Most people do. But I never did. (begins to quote Catcher in the Rye) Look, here's an idea. How would you like get the hell out of here? Here's my idea. I know this guy down in Greenwich Village that we can borrow his car for a couple of weeks. He used to go to the same school I did and he still owes me one-hundred bucks. What we could do is, tomorrow morning we could drive up to Montana and Washington, and all around there, see. It's beautiful as hell up there, It really is. (grabs Becky's hand, over-excited) No kidding. I have about a hundred and eighty bucks in the bank. I can take it out when it opens in the morning, and then I could go down and get this guy's car. No kidding. We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then, when the dough runs out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married or something. I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime and all. Honest to God, we could have a terrific time! Wuddaya say? C'mon! Wuddaya say? Will you do it with me? Please! LONG PAUSE. BECKY You love that book too damn much. You truely are weird, quoting whole passages from "The Catcher in the Rye". HOLDEN Well, you should know. I have no life. My favorite drink is even Scotch and Soda, next to a Frozen Daiquiris. (cheesy grin) BECKY You always were in love with books, and you hated movies. And the movies you loved were based on books. Your favorite song was Misty Mountain Hop. (pause) Have you seen Lord of the Rings yet? LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN No. Not yet. But I did see the Rashki cartoon version. BECKY Who's Rashki? HOLDEN The guy who wrote "Frodo and the nine fingers of doom". BECKY Never heard of it. HOLDEN Many haven't. LONG PAUSE. (in Becky's next speech, camera is moving in on a closeup, slowly) BECKY You know, I remember when you wanted to be an author. You were always up in the stands during lunch, writing in that little journal of yours. Or, you were always reading, but you were always reading the same thing over and over. What was it that you were always reading? HOLDEN Bauwolf and Lord of the Rings. BECKY Those were two of them. But what was that other one? We read it in class. HOLDEN Catcher in the Rye. BECKY THAT'S IT. You were always reading that. HOLDEN You read it a lot too. BECKY Yeah, well maybe once a year. You, your name is even Holden. How many times would you read that? Three times a year? HOLDEN Maybe. But I never read that wolf book. I glanced through it once or twice, but I don't even think I read it. The waitor brings them both a bottle of champaigne to drink. The waitor walks off and they continue to talk while HOLDEN takes the cork out of the bottle. BECKY Soooo....... (pause) What have you been up to Holden? How is everything on the home front. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) The bitch doesn't know........ HOLDEN Fine. You know my parents. Same nagging motherfuckers as ever. (smiles) I had to take this vacation to get away from them. They were driving me off the wall. BECKY smiles. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Or maybe she does know.........snuff her. HOLDEN Do you have any aspirin? EXT. PORTLAND ZOO - NIGHT BECKY and HOLDEN walk together through Portland zoo. They pass by the lions cage. BECKY is enthralled by the sight of the baby lions playing together by a little pond in their habitat. BECKY (eyes lit up) Will you look at that, Holden? HOLDEN looks down at the baby lions playing. HOLDEN Nothing special. BECKY Nothing special? (huge grin) They're so cute. HOLDEN Your very beautiful Becky. BECKY turns to HOLDEN, stunned. Her heart melts, a flirty grin across her face. BECKY (flirty grin) Oh......thank you Holden. Your not so bad yourself. SUDDENLY: She kisses him, passionately. HOLDEN (stunned) That was nice. BECKY smiles. BECKY I love catching up with old friends. HOLDEN (smiles) Me-fucking-too. EXT. HOLDEN'S CAR(parked) - NIGHT Holden's car is parked outside Lupe's old garage. Lupe's car is gone. Holden lights up a ciggarete and slowly exits the car. As he EXITS the car, we catch a glimpse of a gun behind his waistband. HOLDEN(o.s.) Here we go....... INT. LUPE'S OLD GARAGE - NIGHT HOLDEN walks in to LUPE'S office. It looks as if it has been cleared out, as if no one had lived there. HOLDEN stands there for nearly a minute, confused. He looks through the office, and finds only one thing.......a NOTE. HOLDEN (reading aloud) Holden, I had to go visit from friends in Vancouver. I'll be back the day after tommorow. Stay put until I get back. Sincerely, Lupe. (to self) WELL, FUCK ME! HOLDEN (looks at letter, repeats) Holden, I had to go visit from friends in Vancouver. I'll be back the day after tommorow. Stay put until I get back. Sincerely, Lupe. (to self) WELL, FUCK ME! CUT TO: INT. ELEVATOR(moving) - BELTIMONT HOTEL - NIGHT HOLDEN waits as the ELEVATOR goes up to the floor his room's on, Floor 75. He reads the "Catcher In The Rye" while he waits. THEN, The ELEVATOR GUY turns to HOLDEN and says: ELEVATOR GUY Innarested in having a good time, chief? Or is it way past your badtime LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN What do you mean? ELEVATOR GUY Interested in some fucking pussy tonight, my main man? LONG PAUSE. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) You've read this before. HOLDEN'S POV: He stares down at the book, the Catcher in the Rye. HOLDEN (hesitant) Me? ELEVATOR GUY Yeah, you. How old are you Slugger? HOLDEN Uh, Twenty-one. ELEVATOR GUY Uh huh. Well, how 'bout it? Y'innarested? One-hundred bucks a throw. 150 bucks the whole night. Till noon. One-Hundred bucks a throw, one-hundred and fifty bucks till noon. HOLDEN Um, OK. ELEVATOR GUY Well, just a throw or until noon? I have to know. PAUSE. HOLDEN Just a throw, I guess. ELEVATOR GUY What room ya in? HOLDEN Two-forty one. ELEVATOR Alright. Is fifteen minutes good enough for ya, chief? HOLDEN Uh yeah, I guess. INT. HOLDEN'S ROOM - NIGHT SUPERIMPOSE: 15 minutes later......... OVERHEAD SHOT: HOLDEN sits on his bed, smoking a ciggarete, the belt to his pants loosened, ready for the callgirl to arrive at any moment. He checks the nightstand, and inside the drawer is one Trojan condom. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) You have read this before! HOLDEN I have? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) YES! Think. HOLDEN Catcher in the rye? GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) Correct-a-fucking-mundo. SUDDENLY: There's a knock at the door. HOLDEN Who is it? CALLGIRL Daisie. HOLDEN Daisie? Daisie who? DAISIE The elevator operator told me this number. HOLDEN leaps out out of bed and quickly opens the door. There is the callgirl, DAISIE. She is just what a large sum of money would get him. A gorgeous blonde with nice sized knockers, a beautiful smile, and she is skinny. He shuts the door. HOLDEN How much will this be? (looks her up and down) You seem like a very high class hooker. DIASIE smiles. Instant hard-on for HOLDEN. TRACKING SHOT: Holden walks over to his nightstand. He grabs the condom, and turns back around. He is amazed at what he sees: DAISIE is there, topless and licking her lips. DAISIE Your so very, very cute. I could just swallow you up. DIASIE slowly walks over, shedding her pants and panties. WE SEE EVERYTHING, with her in her birthday suit. She then goes over to Holden and unzips his pants. He shakes with nervousness and she feels his dick. HOLDEN(v.o.) Your very beautiful Becky. BECKY(v.o.) (flirty grin) Oh......thank you Holden. Your not so bad yourself. HOLDEN(v.o.) (stunned) That was nice. BECKY(v.o.) I love catching up with old friends. HOLDEN(v.o.) (smiles) Me-fucking-too. He suddenly backs away from DAISIE, a looks of guilt in his eyes. DAISIE (licking lips, feeling boobs) What's wrong? Am I not sexy enough for you? Or do you just want me to suck your cock? DAISIE grabs him by the shoulders and throws him on the bed. She gets on top of him, thrusting herself on top of him. She gives him serious tongue action. He stops her, breaking away. HOLDEN I can't do this. DAISIE (feeling his dick) But baby, I was just getting started. HOLDEN I don't feel very much like myself tonight. I've had a rough night. Honest to fuckin God. DAISIE (confused) What? HOLDEN I'll pay you and everything, but do you mind if we don't do it? DAISIE gets up off the bed. HOLDEN sits on the bed, thinking if he really doesn't want to have sex with the lovely daisie. HOLDEN I'm awfully sorry. She smiles, and sits down on his lap. DAISIE (very flirty) Awww, I was hoping we could do some naughty stuff, you and I, if you know what I mean. She begins to kiss his neck. DAISIE You look like a guy in the movies. You know. Whosis. You know who I mean. What the fuck is his name? He was that archer from Lord of the rings. HOLDEN (faking dumbness) I don't know. DAISIE Sure you do. HOLDEN No, I'm not a big movie fan. I like books more. HOLDEN feels her breasts and then gets her off of his lap. DAISIE (confused) Why the fuck did you tell the Larry you wanted a girl for, eh? If you weren't gonna do it, why'd you call for one, eh? HOLDEN pulls out his wallet and pulls out 100 bucks. HOLDEN (offering her the money) Here, take the money. She takes it. HOLDEN Good-bye. As she walks out of the door, she gives holden the finger. DAISIE So long, asshole. FADE SLOWLY TO BLACK AGAINST BLACK, there's the sound of knocking on the door. INT. HOLDENS ROOM - NIGHT HOLDEN opens the door, it's LARRY the pimp and DAISIE. LARRY Hello, my main man. You still owe me a fifty bucks. HOLDEN I do not. I gave her one-hundred. We didn't even do nothing. LARRY But still, one-hundred and fifty for the throw. HOLDEN You said one-hundred bucks for a throw. It would be a throw, that's what I paid for. LARRY Hand it over. DAISIE is over at the nightstand, going through HOLDEN's wallet. HOLDEN Stay outta my wallet, you fucking whore! LARRY punches HOLDEN in the stomach and pulls out a pistol. He aims it at HOLDEN, who quivers on the floor. LARRY kicks him. LARRY I went through all that trouble to get you a fucking girl and then you don't even do nothing. Larry bends down and presses the pistol to HOLDEN'S head. LARRY Fuck off asshole. Larry kicks HOLDEN in the stomach, and walks out. HOLDEN waits until they leave and says: HOLDEN (wheezing) I'm gonna fucking kill you........ INT. HOLDEN'S ROOM - bathroom - NIGHT Holden crawls to the toilet and begins to puke in to the bowl. HOLDEN(v.o.) I felt as if that bastard Larry really had pumped a bullet in to my stomach, and I was wounded. EXT. FREEMONT HOTEL - NIGHT LARRY, the pimp and DAISIE the hooker, both smoking a ciggarete outside of the hotel. They don't see HOLDEN, pistols out, walking slowly up behind them. INTERCUT: Closeups of Holden, Daisie and Larry's faces. HOLDEN(v.o.) I was so pissed. I was out for revenge. I was initially just going to kill Larry, but Daisie was the only witness. HOLDEN goes up and puts his arm around LARRY's neck and presses the gun to the lower part of LARRY'S back. DAISIE backs up, horrified at the sight of the pistol. LARRY (nearly crying) Crazy bastard....... HOLDEN (in larry's ear, wrathful) MOTHERFUCKER, HITTING ME, PUTTING A GUN TO MY HEAD, STEALING OUT OF MY WALLET, I SHOULDA POPPED YOU RIGHT THERE. (more menacing) YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO MY FATHER IS. MY DAD IS MARTIN BARZINI. LARRY (crying, scared) The.......mobster? HOLDEN (menacing) YEAH! (looks to Daisie) YOU TALK, HALF OF THE FUCKING COSA NOTRA WILL BE ON YOUR ASS. BAAMMM! Holden pulls the trigger. The bullet explodes out of LARRY's stomach, leaving a massive exit wound. Larry tries to scream, but it comes in gasped breaths. Holden lets him go, and watches as LARRY falls to the ground, bleeding like a pig. HOLDEN then pumps three more rounds in to the now dead carcass of LARRY. He laughs maniacally and runs across the street in to the night....... DAISIE (looks down at $100 bill) I quit. CUT TO: EXT. PARKING LOT - MORNING HOLDEN walks around the parking lot of a convenience store. He looks sickly, as if he was going to puke. He studies the inside of each and every car, maybe hoping to see a car that is unlocked and has no alarm system. HOLDEN(v.o.) I didn't feel safe no more. The whole Lupe thing was freaking me out. I was leaving tommorow, and I had nowhere else to go except to canada or home, which I couldn't do. (beat) I needed a car. HOLDEN gives up and just walks away from the parking lot. EXT. USED CAR DEALERSHIP - NIGHT HOLDEN walks around, looking at used cars. None tickle his fancy. HOLDEN(v.o.) Stealing one was my first choice. Now, too my last choice: dealing with those slimy used car dealers. CUT TO BLACK IN WHITE, against black: "ACT 3" FADE IN: STILL PICTURE UP: Black & White photo of the body of Mike, dead on the floor of Holden's house. A large pool of blood is formed around his head where he was hit with the AXE VOICE(v.o.) We largely believe that the culprit of this mass murder is the one Holden Foster, the son who has returned that morning from the mental institute "Happy Valley" (beat) The first victim of Mr. Fosters killing spree was one Michael Beregond, who was smacked over the head with a Baseball Bat with full force by the mass-murderer. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Black & White photograph of DAD, lying up against the wall, where blood is smeered all over it. His whole top of his Pajama suit is just covered in red blood. VOICE(v.o.) Victim number 2: Ward Foster, patriarch of the Foster family. Ward Foster we believe was second to be killed, coming down the stairs to confront someone who was downstairs. Neighbors said they heard an argument shortly before a few muzzled gunshots. Ward was shot a total of two times. The first shot was high in the chest and pierced one of his lungs. The second bullet came a few moments later by witnesses reports, thus meaning the second shot was the execution shot to Ward's temple. CUT TO: STILL PICTURE: Black & White photo of the body of MOM, lying on her bedroom floor, shot. Brains & Blood are all over the windows and some of the wall. It is a nasty site. VOICE(v.o.) The matriarch of the Foster family: June Foster, dead from a single bullet to the temple. She was found dead by her window, nowhere to run. This was one cold-blooded motherfucker. VOICE #2(v.o.) We better get this asshole. CUT TO: SCREEN BLACK HOLDEN(v.o.) I was all alone. I couldn't go back to that hotel, Lupe was nowhere to be found and all I had was Becky. I could go to her, but maybe it was the paranoia getting to me. Why would a friend of mine rat me out. But yet, it was national news: "kid shoots up family, on the loose. Possible suspect is Holden Foster". I was nuts to go to her house, honest to god I really was. SUPERIMPOSE: "The next evening" FADE IN: INT. BECKY'S APARTMENT COMPLEX - DUSK HOLDEN waits outside of BECKY'S apartment, room 25. HOLDEN Open it Becky, open the fucking door -- The door opens and standing in the doorway, dressed sweatshirt and a pair of tight blue shorts. BECKY Hello Holden. What're you doing here? HOLDEN I need a place to stay. BECKY (looks around apartment) C'mon in. INT. BECKY'S APARTMENT - DUSK HOLDEN and BECKY sit on her couch, watching her TV. ON TV: "Nightline" with Ted Koppel. BECKY I think I've seen this episode. HOLDEN You a big nightline fan? BECKY Kinda. You? HOLDEN I tuned out after Koppel came on. BECKY But hasn't Koppel always been the host? HOLDEN smiles and looks at Becky. Their eyes meet. HOLDEN Nothing gets by you. Holden gets up out of his seat and begins to walk around the room, looking and studying the apartment. Becky follows closely behind him, watching his every move. He does this for a couple of minutes......and then he stops at the mantle over the fireplace. Hung above the mantle is a BATTLE SWORD, with weird writing inscribed up and down the blade. HOLD ON BLADE: BECKY(o.s.) I was the only child in my family. My dad was too. He got this as a present from his father who had it crafted by a blacksmith. He loved that sword, and he passed it down me. HOLDEN(o.s.) You know how to use a sword? BECKY(o.s.) No, it's just for show. I find it barbaric. CUT AWAY FROM SWORD Becky and Holden are looking in to eachothers eyes. HOLDEN Why barbaric? BECKY I dunno, it's fighting, like two cavemen in a contest over who has the bigger muscles. I find it almost disgusting. HOLDEN Well, that's a very biased opinion. BECKY Only biased towards stuff I find true. Holden walks up and kisses her. She doesn't push him away. They're in a tongue lock. Holden begins to feel her breasts. Then, she pushes off and slowly takes off her sweatshirt. She's wearing a black bra(you know what that means). HOLDEN You know how long I've wanted this? BECKY No. She then takes off her BRA. CUT TO: SCREEN BLACK We don't even get the see the sex scene. All we hear is the noises: the grunting, the moaning, every little sound that goes with sex, yet we don't even get to see an image, just the noises......for the entire 4 minutes, lying there in the dark. But you can imagine what's going on........ CUT TO: INT. THE BEDROOM - LATER HOLDEN and BECKY lie in naked embrace, lying cosmicly locked after the love-making, tired and in eachothers arms. They both look high, but they're high of their bliss. They barely move under their sea of blankets. BECKY That.......was so good. LONG PAUSE. HOLDEN ......yeah. Becky laughs. HOLDEN(v.o.) Finnaly, I got some fucking action while I'm in this godforsaking country. And it was with Becky. It wasn't with the callgirl, it was with Becky. (long pause) BECKY. It just rolled off my tongue. They don't talk(long pause), they just listen. BECKY I know Holden. HOLDEN (quivering) What? BECKY It's all over the news. HOLDEN What's all over the news? (beat) What're you talking about? WHAT'S ALL OVER THE NEWS? Becky looks up in to Holden's eyes. She's breathing very loud. BECKY Don't play dumb with me. HOLDEN I'm not. I don't know what your talking about. She just smiles. HOLDEN(v.o.) I was playing dumb. I knew what she was talking about. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) She's gonna rat you out.......KILL HER! BECKY I love you no matter what. HOLDEN What're you talking about? She stares at him. There is an uncomfortable silence. BECKY I know about Happy Valley....... I know about it all. It's on the news, everyone in the goddamn damn country nows about you. LONG PAUSE. Holden shakes, nervous, horrified that she knows. HOLDEN You know about that? MIKE(v.o.) I didn't tell her a thing. BECKY I didn't tell you. I love you, and I don't care. It doesn't take a genius to know why your in Portland. (beat) Your leaving. Holden still shakes. BECKY(cont'd) Your leaving the country. Your gonna go to Canada. Arent't you? Are you Holden? That is what your doing, RIGHT? Holden still shakes. BECKY(cont'd) HOLDEN? SUDDENLY: Holden seems to be going in to a seizure, he lays on his back, in a shocked sord of state. All sounds are MUFFLED: Becky's pleas for it all to stop, the sound of the springs of the mattress creaking, and the CRESCENDO OF MUSIC as it hits full blast....... HOLDEN(v.o.) Something hit me, like a voltage or a deep shock, like I'd been hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat. I wasn't myself. ALL IS QUIET. Becky is crying. She looks down on him, her knees planted, sitting on his chest. Tears stroll down her face. It looks as if Holden is dead, as if all life is gone from him. LONG MOMENTS go by, her crying is the only sound around us. BECKY (whimpering) No......no, no, no......... BECKY'S POV: She looks down at his face. SUDDENLY he awakes and he grabs her by the throat swiftly, with one intention, the throttle her to death. He grabs on to her by the throat, she trys to fight him off. CUT TO: FLASHBACK - HOLDEN appears from out of the shadows, clutching a genuine red fire axe, ready to swing it. It soon becomes clear to us that he's aiming it at MIKE. END OF SLOW MOTION MIKE turns around, and then he lets out a gasp. MIKE What the fuck -- WHAAM!!! HOLDEN swings as hard as he can. MIKE gets the full force of the Axe right upside his head, up near the temple region. Blood doesn't have time to fly from the grewsome impact. SLOW MOTION: MIKE crashes to the white carpet floor. BLOOD slowly flows from the nasty hold where his temple should be. It runs down his face and on to the white floor. HOLDEN I'm not fucking insane. THEN: Holden pulls out a pistol from behind his waistband. The gun was tucked away at the back of his pants. He surveys it, checks to see if it's loaded. It is. BACK TO: INT. BECKY'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - NIGHT Becky cries and trys to scream, but Holden presses on top of her, strangling her. GHOSTLY VOICE(v.o.) THAT'S IT, LADDY, KILL HER, KILL HER..... CUT TO: FLASHBACK - INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - NIGHT HOLDEN fires a shot in to his DAD, who wasn't even expecting it. He hits DAD dead-center in the chest, sending DAD flying in to the wall. BLOOD splatters on the wall. Yet DAD is not dead, he wheezes from being shot in the lungs. DAD (writhing against wall in pain) You little bastard? Have you not had a good life? Your an ungrateful little shit -- BAAM!!! Holden pulls the trigger, executing his dad, blowing his DAD'S brains out all over a nearby plant. HOLDEN surveys the body. CLOSEUP: A tear runs down HOLDEN'S face. BACK TO: INT. BECKY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT CLOSEUP: A tear runs down Holden's face. He doesn't even look down at her. Her voice can be heard, gasping for air as the last moments of her life get closer. He begins to full on weep. CUT TO: FLASHBACK - INT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - NIGHT The GUN is still smoking. The BODY of his mother is lying under the windowsil, blood everywhere. She toke the bullet right through the eye. HOLDEN just looks down at her, now crying his eyes out. OFFSCREEN: The sounds of the boy and girl crying. Then, the sound of a window opening. HOLDEN looks out of the bedroom door, listening to the crying. BACK TO: INT, BECKY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT Becky is dead. HOLDEN is over her dead body. He cries uncontrollably. HOLDEN(v.o.) I felt no remorse with what I did to my family, or Mike. But, with what I did to Becky, I felt pain and sorrow. I regretted it. CUT TO: FLASHBACK - EXT. HOLDEN'S HOUSE - NIGHT The Little girl falls out of the window, SCREAMING all of the way down. She hits the ground, landing on her head. She snaps her neck, killing her immediately. Now, all is silent. FLASHBACK - INT. THE KID'S BEDROOM - NIGHT The Little Boy tries to leave, but his big brother Holden towers above him. HOLDEN I'm not gonna fucking kill ya. BOY Then why'd you kill Sandy Sue? HOLDEN I didn't kill her. She gets easily startled. Don't you know it's dangerous to be trying to leap out of a window. That's two stories. You could die. The BOY is crying his eyes out, afraid. SUDDENLY: Holden pulls out the gun and places it to the BOY's head. This scares BOY so much that he automatically pisses his pajamas. Holden looks down at the piss, and smiles. HOLDEN Wimp. WHAM! Holden smacks him upside the head with the Gun, knocking the little boy unconscious. HOLDEN aims the gun at him, thinking. Should I shoot the kid or not? He stares down sympathetically, and then puts the gun away. BACK TO: INT. BECKY'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT Holden walks around the living room, fully dressed. His face is red from all the crying he was doing. he looks down at a book on the dresser. BOOK: "Lord of the Rings" HOLDEN (reading title) The lord of the rings. Holden walks away and then he sets his eyes once again on what hung over the mantle: THE SWORD. HOLDEN The sword. He runs up and takes the sword off the mantle. Sitting above the fireplace is a sheath. He puts the sword in the sheath and walks right out of the room. He doesn't even look back. EXT. PORTLAND STREET - NIGHT TRACKING SHOT: We follow Holden's car as it drives slowly down the portland streets. The CAR turns down the streets and is slowly making it's way to the "Shore Shack", the Nightclub he went to when he first got to Portland. INT. HOLDEN'S CAR(moving) - NIGHT Holden's face is still red from his crying. He smokes two ciggaretes at the same time. The radio is on high. ON RADIO: "Layla(piano exit" by Derek & The Dominoes CLOSEUP: Holden's ashtray is filled with ciggaretes. He's been smoking like crazy ever since he got to Portland. INT. SHORE SHACK - NIGHT Holden sits at the same table he was sitting at when he was there the first time. The same WAITRESS as last time walks up. WAITRESS (cheery) Can I get you something to drink, sir? HOLDEN (rude, monotonous) Yes. WAITRESS (cheery) Anything in particular? HOLDEN (rude, monotonous) Scotch on the rocks. The WAITRESS walks away. Holden lights up another ciggarete. It is the last ciggarete in his pack. HOLDEN (looking in to pack) Last one. Shit. INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT Holden walks in to the bathroom of "The Shore Shack". In the corner at the end of the sinks are two men, DRUG DEALERS, leaned up against the free wall, talking about miscellanous shit. They're both of hispanic looking origins. DRUG DEALER #1 Cancel that shit right now -- DRUG DEALER #2 (to Holden) -- What the fuck you looking at? PAN OVER to HOLDEN, who indeed has been listening to their conversation and has been looking at them. Holden gulps, nervous. DRUG DEALER #1 Can we get you anything, man? You wanna get high. Ya innarested? HOLDEN pauses, hesitant to talk. DRUG DEALER #2 now has a menacing look on his face, and he pulls his shirt up to reveal a Glock 9-Millimeter tucked behind his waistband. DRUG DEALER #2 Or.......are you a fuckin narc? suddenly: DRUG DEALER #2 comes up with a bottle from beneath his coat. He hits Holden over the head with it. HOLDEN falls hard to the floor, and we switch to an overhead shot: HOLDEN (injured) Why.....did......you......do.......this? DRUG DEALER #1 Let's get the fuck outta here and tell Lupe. HOLDEN(v.o.) That fucking bastard. I had half a mind to go and chop his fucking head off. Infact, I did. FADE TO BLACK TITLE IN: "The next morning" CUT TO: INT. BEAT UP OLD GARAGE HOLDEN explodes through the door, pissed. In his hand is the sword he stole from BECKY's house. HOLDEN TIME TO DO ASSHOLE! HOLDEN nearly drops the sword at the sight he sees. Standing infront of him are FIVE MEN, CLOAKED IN BLACK, all clutching sword, ready to kill Holden. HOLDEN(v.o.) You gotta be fucking killing me. Am I dreaming this shit? You have to be fuckin kidding me. Am I fucking kidding myself? <> The first MAN in BLACK charges at Holden, sword drawn. Holden parries and deflects the shot, leaving the man wide open as Holden stabs him through the place between his chest and Stomach. HOLDEN(v.o.) I don't know how to use a damn sword. <> MAN IN BLACK #2 charges at Holden, he is a better swordfighter than his first colleage. He and Holden go at it for atleast 20 seconds, reflecting eachothers blows. HOLDEN(v.o.) Who the hell are they? SWASSSHHHH! Holden chops the man's arm off. The MAN is stunned, looking at his missing limb which fell to the ground. He drops to his knees as Holden moves to the next person. HOLDEN I AM INDESTRUCTABLE! BAAMM! HOLDEN takes the butt of the third man's sword right to the face. He falls, but not for long. The THIRD MAN IN BLACK tries to stab at Holden, but he dodges the stab. MAN IN BLACK #3 DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKER! HOLDEN slashes the third man's foot. He upstabs, slicing the man up from the stomach to the chest, killing him instantly. HOLDEN FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. There's two men left. <> HOLDEN(v.o.) This is getting trippy. WHAAMMMM! Holden decapitates MAN IN BLACK NUMBER #4. HOLDEN(v.o.) I am a GOD. <> MAN IN BLACK #5 cowers before Holden, who looks down at him, sword drawn. HOLDEN Where's Lupe now? MAN IN BLACK #5 I dont -- HOLDEN decapitates him too. FADE TO BLACK "Fight Music" by D-12 plays silently against the background FADE IN: EXT. FERRY - DECK - EVENING TRACKING SHOT of Holden as he walks along the deck of a Ferry, his sword gone. "Fight Music" is still playing in the background. HOLDEN(v.o.) I screwed myself over. But that's okay. Holden finds a bench on the ferry. He looks out towards the sunset that is setting over The Columbia River....... CUT TO BLACK "Fight Music" by D-12 hits full blast END CREDITS The End