Apportation
By
Elliot Bell
Co-writen by Emily White and Vicky Charles
*WARNING* - CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND BLOOD.
THIS POST WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE FINISHED FILM.
SCENE 1. INT. WAREHOUSE. DAY.
Black screen. MUFFLED sounds echoing. GUARD 1 and GUARD 2 are sitting around a small table playing cards.
GUARD 1:
Do you think he knows?
GUARD 2:
Looks pretty out of it to me.
SAM CARPENTER walks in, wearing a black suit and a black fedora which hides her face.
SAM CARPENTER:
Never be fooled by appearances boys. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
The guards stop when they see Sam and stand up from their seats to face her.
SAM CARPENTER:
Anything to report?
GUARD 2:
No Boss. He hasn’t said anything; just sat there staring at the floor.
Sam places her hat on a spare chair and removes her jacket and hangs it on the back of the chair. Sam walks over to PAUL who is wearing a shirt and trousers, his shirt is slightly open, a open locket showing a image of a girl. The locket’s glass is shattered and has dried blood on it.
First person perspective. Flickering lights as a hood is removed to reveal PAUL CARPENTER handcuffed to a chair. His eyes strain in the light and he tries to focus. Sam looks indifferent and stands at a distance, gazing away rather than making eye contact with PAUL.
SAM CARPENTER:
I presume you know why you have been brought here, sweetie?
PAUL CARPENTER:
How about we stop wasting each others time?
Sam gestures for GUARD 1 to punch PAUL. As his fist meets his face the skin beneath cracks like porcelain, glowing fiercely before fading and returning to normal. GUARD 2 steps backwards and raises his gun.
GUARD 1
(whispers) What the hell?
Sam looks unmoved, almost amused.
SAM CARPENTER:
(shouting out to the world, melodramatically)
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you: Paul Carpenter. The indestructible.
(to PAUL)
We could do this all day, or you could give me what I want?
PAUL glares at Sam, his eyes dark as his interrogator steps towards him menacingly and stoops to his level, face to face.
SAM CARPENTER:
Where is the weapon?
(pauses, and then says teasingly)
Go on, you know you want to tell me, go on... before I get bored. And we both know what that means.
(pauses)
Sam smiles knowingly at Paul over her shoulder as she turns and paces over to Guard 2. teasingly playing with guard 2’s tie when she pulls out small knife and stabs the guard in the lower back collapsing him to his hands and knees, then slowly pulls the knife back out.
GUARD 2:
(Whaling in pain)
SAM CARPENTER:
Oh dear. Such a shame that I knew
he was working for you.
Sam grabs the guard by his head and places the knife near his throat and pulls slowly letting the guard choke on his on blood. Guard 3 is waiting outside and comes in to check everything is OK.
GUARD 3:
Everything ok boss?
Sam throws the knife on to the floor.
SAM CARPENTER:
It’s fine!
Sam puts her hands in a praying position, tapping her fingers together.
SAM CARPENTER:
Oh how tiresome it is when one is kept waiting.
PAUL CARPENTER
I would have thought you’d learned that lesson by now.
Sam glares down at PAUL, her temper beginning to flare.
SAM CARPENTER:
(agitatedly)
Where is the weapon?
PAUL CARPENTER
(smiling)
Are you really sure you want to play this game?
Sam punches PAUL, his jaw cracking slightly upon contact as his face shatters and glows, and then returns to its usual complexion. PAUL smirks as he cracks his neck from side to side.
SAM CARPENTER:
You really do make things difficult don’t you?
GUARD 1 backs away slowly, the tension in the air rising as Sam pulls a gun out from the back of her trousers, pressing it between PAULS’ eyebrows.
SAM CARPENTER:
I suggest a different strategy... I ask you: ’where is she?’, and you say...
Sam grabs the locket from Paul’s neck as a tear begins to run down her face as if she is desperate to find the little girl. She cocks the gun and presses her finger to the trigger as PAUL lifts his hands from behind his back where they were once restrained. Sam immediately fires the gun, but in mid trigger PAUL teleports it to the back of Sam’s knee. The noise echoes around the warehouse, and Sam looks down in dismay at her bloodied kneecap.
SAM CARPENTER:
(breathless, slight high pitch noise)
PAUL CARPENTER:
(laughing)
Oh man! That looks like it hurts! Does it?
Sam falls to her supporting knee.
PAUL CARPENTER:
You seem stuck for words; here let me help you up.
Sam clutches her knee, trying to stem the bleeding as she staggers away slowly. PAUL gives her an apologetic look, and then approaches the injured woman. PAUL grabs Sam’s neck and teleports them both across the warehouse, slamming Sam into the wall, whose hands are now trying to pry PAUL’S away from her throat. Paul teleports to the chair and kicks it towards her and picks her up and slams her on the chair, then teleports to the knife on the floor and slams it in between her legs on the chair.
PAUL CARPENTER:
(whispers in her ear)
I’m saving you till last.
Guard 3 runs in and is confronted by PAUL. PAUL teleports the knife and throws it at GUARD 3, but as he does he teleports the knife towards him impaling him. Guard 3 begins to pry the knife from his body while Paul moves on to his next victim.
GUARD 1 is lifting his weapon. As he does PAUL teleports towards him, tripping GUARD 1 over and grabbing him by the scruff of the neck. PAUL pushes him straight to the ground, a glowing trail follows as the force builds with speed. GUARD 1 is teleported to the other side of the warehouse and comes sliding across the floor. PAUL teleports to his position, and, upon touching GUARD 1, teleports him inside of GUARD 3. Instantaneously GUARD 1 and GUARD 3 explodes into a bloody mess, smeared all over that corner of the warehouse.
Paul strolls up towards Sam uncontrollably warping and cracking.
END
