
The truth that makes
men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
--Herbert Agar
Wednesday, October 08,
2003
1:56 pm
Weslaco, Texas
***The scene opens in front of the Dunn family home. Wilson is standing on the porch banging on the front door. He looks around trying if anyone is home.***
WILSON: Dad?!
Come on I know your home!
***Wilson shakes his head and walks off the porch. He’s about to leave when he sees something on the ground. He walks over and picks up a letter. Wilson glazes at it for a few second. He realizes what it is.***
WILSON: Oh no…he knows…goddamn it…
***Wilson shakes the paper dry then folds it up and puts it’s in his jacket pocket.***
WILSON: He must have finally found someone that could
tell him what it meant…shit…how the hell did he get it?
***Wilson walks off to
his car shaking his head in disbelief.***
Thursday, October 09,
2003
5:47 pm
Charlotte, North
Carolina
***The scene reopens with a shot of David Dunn passing a Charlotte City Limits sign. He’s still wearing the same clothes from a few days ago. He’s still walking his way around the United States. After way down the road he notices a key sitting down next to a bike which the chain seems to have been broken off. David walks up to the end and kneels down in front of the kid. David looks him over and sees that his leg has been scraped a bit.***
DUNN: You okay kid?
KID: Yea…
***A tear rolls down
the kid’s cheek.***
DUNN: Oh don’t cry man. Here let me check out your bike…
***David moves over to the bike and notices that one of the bolts in the chain came loose. David swings his bag around and pulls out a pair of pliers. A few seconds later he finishes off the chain. He hooks the chain back up to the gears.***
DUNN: Here…
***David picks up the
bike and places it in front of the kid.***
KID: You…you fixed it!
***The kid jumps on the
bike and rides off.***
KID: Thank you mister!
***David nods his
head. He then proceeds into the city
more.***
Thursday, October 09,
2003
9:59 pm
Charlotte, North
Carolina
“St. Paul Church”
***The scene reopens inside the holy house of god. The scene moves up to see David kneeling upon hundreds of lit candles with a cross standing above it all. David looks up at the cross with no emotion…he just stares there as if he was waiting for an answer. Suddenly a Priest walks out of the shadows of the church and stands next to David. David looks up at the Priest.***
PRIEST: You’re a little late for mass my son.
DUNN: Didn’t come here for mass.
***David looks back up
at the cross.***
PRIEST: Seems you came here searching for answers.
DUNN: Answers I know…it’s the questions I seek.
***The priest leans against one of the wooden bench sits in the church.***
PRIEST: What are the questions you looking for?
DUNN: You wouldn’t understand.
PRIEST: Oh I wouldn’t? Why not give me a try my son.
***David closes his eyes and opens his mouth…yet…the words won’t come. It’s as if there on the tip of his mouth just waiting to come out…only they got suck along the way.***
PRIEST: What’s wrong?
***David opens his eyes
and shakes his head.***
DUNN: I don’t even know why I came here.
***David gets up off the ground and is about to leave when the priest stops him.***
PRIEST: Why did you come here? If you were looking for something to settle
your problems then this isn’t the place for you. God helps those who help themselves.
DUNN: You know what…I’m sick of hearing that
shit. All my life I’ve heard god this
and god that…what help has he ever done for me. Huh? Something bad
happens god works in mysterious way.
Something good happens, it’s god’s will. God helps those who help themselves…sure. I’ve busted my ass since birth. I’ve lead a good life. I tried to do everything the lord would want
me to do…only…only everything about him is a virus. “Trust in god!” My trust
in him ended a long time ago.
PRIEST: My son you must have faith.
DUNN: Faith…faith for a god that has made my life
a living hell. Every turn seems to be a
lie. Then one day I’m revealed the true
Truth…and you know what I found out…it’s a virus. Explain that one father.
Explain why god seemly is never there for you. But yet everyone wants you to believe in him.
PRIEST: I don’t have the answers…all I can tell you
is to believe.
DUNN: Great answer…this is why I stopped believing
in him along time ago.
***David pushes the priest out of the way and starts making his way to the door.***
PRIEST: Then why did you come here tonight?
***David stops dead in his tracks. He turns his head back at the priest.***
DUNN: I always like giving people second
chances…just like I thought…I shouldn’t have.
***David walks out of the church and onto the
street, leaving the priest inside confused at what David said and what must be
troubling him.***
Friday, October 10,
2003
6:04 am
Baltimore, Maryland
***The scene reopens as a 18-wheeler pulls up in front of a
small diner in the middle of Baltimore.
The side door opens and David steps out. He nods to the truck drive as he grabs his back and close the
door. The truck honks it horn a few
times then drives off. David throws his
bag over his shoulder and makes his way into the diner. Once in he notices not a lot of people in
the diner. Just a few people at the
counter and the people working there.
David makes his way to the back of the diner where he sits down in a
corner booth. A gray hair old waitress
walks up to David and hands him a menu.
David hands it back to here.***
DUNN: Just coffee
please.
WAITRESS: Coming
right up.
***The waitress walks away as David leans his head up
against the back of the booth seat.***
DUNN: …
***Suddenly David’s cell phone rings. David reaches into his jacket and pulls his
phone out. The name on the phone
reads…”Wilson’s Cell”. David shakes his
head and turns the phone off.***
DUNN: I don’t feel
like talking to him right now.
***David puts the phone back into his jacket. Right about then the waitress returns with
his cup of coffee. David cracks a smile
at her then she walks away.***
DUNN: It’s always
the same…another day…another town…
You never really know what’s going to happen to you one day
to the next. I guess that’s fine for
now…but in the long run…it seems almost depressing. Is this my life? No. My life ended the day I was born. The day that happened it marked the day that
one day…my life would end. So in the
mean time what has happened…I’ve suffered.
I suffered everyday from morning to night. Everyone goes on with there business like if nothing was
wrong. There is though. They just haven’t gotten it yet. When your born right after you open your
eyes for the first time to see that bright light as you come out of your
mother…your days are just plain numbered.
That’s part of the truth about everything in this hell that we call
life. If more people could just
understand that one part, then I think a lot of this stupid shit wouldn’t be
happening in the world today. It’s okay
I guess…when there time comes they’ll be surprised…like they didn’t know death
was coming for them…only…it was…it always was.
They just never noticed him standing behind them as they walked through
there short pathetic life.
It’s things you don’t notice that will hurt you I guess. It’s those little moments where something
happens…it was going to happen…but you tell yourself you didn’t know. So where does that leave you…nowhere.
Static…two men going through life without a clue at what’s
standing next to them. Death itself. They speak about being good a wrestling…how
there unbeatable and what not. Death
doesn’t care how good you wrestle.
Death doesn’t care if you’re good to your parents or made the honor roll
at school. All it cares about is
finishing you off when your time is up.
Gentlemen…for one of you…your time is up…I made that perfectly clear
before. Raven…I told your path isn’t
this. I wish you would have responded
to what I had to say…but alas you didn’t.
When a man walks a path that isn’t his…death is sure to
follow. It’s in death’s nature you
see. A slip on the ropes…SNAP! Your neck’s broken. Pyro fires at the wrong time…AHH! You’re burned to death. Death moves quickly to those who have chosen
the wrong path. Of course…stepping up
against a man who knows the truth…the truth about you…the truth about
everything…is equally as dangerous.
Only maybe I think you know this.
Maybe you took my words to heart.
It could be right now that you’ve changed your path…a path that could
get you killed…someday…or even tomorrow.
This could be the reason for your silence. That doubt must have finally rang out of your head making you
come to terms with the words that I’ve spoken…the truth….the virus.
I hope this is the case for you Raven…I really do. I meant what I said…I would do everything in my power to show you why the path you are walking is wrong for you. It’s still not too late if you haven’t realized I’m not playing some stupid childish mind game. I’m being dead straight with you Raven. Don’t make me do something I might regret. Don’t make me watch you suffer…it’s not your time yet
Raven. You’ll suffer…but
it shouldn’t be so soon…sadly…
If you wish…the lesson you were going to learn in the
future will be show to you here in the present. You will suffer…you will feel the same pain as I have…as everyone
will…you will learn the ultimate lesson in life…and…in death…
The Truth is a Virus.
***David picks up his coffee and drinks a sip of it. He leans over the counter and grabs a
package of sugar. David shakes it a bit
then opens it up and throws it in his coffee.***
DUNN: Raven…as I’ve
said…your path is a failed one…it’s only causing everyone surrounded by you
pain. As your doing to Wrec right
now. He’s young…he’s a rising star in a
place surround by darkness. As you hurt
yourself…you hurt him. He will
suffer…but not now…or…maybe he will.
You being by his side only hurts his chances at anything on his
path. So why stay by his side? You helping him last Tuesday set your paths
the same you see…your both partners now.
Your both going to try to defeat me…your both going to have to come at
me…if not…you’ll both fail. So that’s
why I’m saying Wrec’s path is failed…not because it is…but because Raven will
destroy it…
Wrec I’m telling you because I see a lot of you in what I
use to be. If you wish to prolong
yourself in this world and on your path…let Raven just fade away. The suffering that will follow him is only
going to bring you down. Don’t let
it…learn the truth Wrec. Find out why
he’s the virus…find the strength to break free the chains and move on to
something better than a man who is still just a scared little boy.
Wrec…this isn’t a mind game…this is the truth…a truth that Raven
doesn’t want you too hear…a truth he doesn’t even want to hear himself. Learn the truth…embrace it. Only then will you start back on your chosen
path and leave Raven alone where he belongs….away from here.
You must believe these words Wrec…you must. I speak the truth because I know the
truth. I’m trying to get through to you
like I’m sure everyone else has in the past.
It’s already begun but it doesn’t have to end in such a bad way. You can make it out of this darkness and
step up to your rightful place on the path of life.
Now I’m sure your not listening…your dismissing my words as
if they were a joke. There not…I feel I
can’t get through to you. I now have to
show you things that he doesn’t want you too see…that he can’t even let himself
see. At Riot Wrec…at Riot you will
learn that his path is wrong and it’s dragging you down into a pit of suffering
you could never imagine. Pray for
yourself Wrec…don’t pray for Raven…pray for yourself…he’s already a lost
cause…but you…but you are the one who can still go far…pray for the pain to end
quickly…pray that you can make it out alive…pray to learn finally…why…the truth
is a virus…
…Enough Said…
***The scene fades to black.***
