Revenge
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Note: Although
just titled "Revenge", everyone should recognize this script as being the third
in the Evil Leaper trilogy, "Revenge of the Evil Leaper".
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ACT ONE
ALIA Al feeds the data into the handlink, then reads it back. OBSERVER (off handlink) Angela Jenson. Nicknamed Angel. Age nineteen. Arrested for selling marijuana. It was an election year and they threw the book at her. SAM What has Ziggy got on me. OBSERVER Just a second. We've got Ziggy in overload trying to cover the two of you. (beat) One of the women in the waiting room says she's Liz Tate. Elizabeth Tate. In for murder. The other's in a state of shock. SAM (to Alia) My name's Liz. Liz Tate. Can you remember that Angel? OBSERVER Says it was the fifteenth time her husband had beat her and she shot him. SAM That's not murder, that's self-defense. OBSERVER Not according to the jury. Sam looks around to find a filthy mirror hung behind some mops. He takes a rag and wipes it enough to see Liz. SAM'S POV - LIZ IN MIRROR She is an attractive woman, whose eyes show the stress of a hard life. A thick gash runs down her forehead. ALIA'S VOICE Liz? WIDER ANGLE INCLUDING ALL Sam turns back and looks at Alia and then at Al. Alia's eyes are closed. Sam I'm right here. ALIA Someone is coming. In the distance I can see.... OBSERVER What's she talking about? SAM Who's coming? ALIA (frowning) I...I don't know. She's looking for something. EXT. VOID - ON ALIA She stands in the coral nothing watching. Frightened. ALIA'S VOICE I'm afraid, Liz. ALIA'S POV A figure in the distance approaches. She's getting closer. Her stride is strong and purposeful. INCLUDING ALIA AND WOMAN She stands, her eyes frozen, but her body turns to face the woman. The woman comes through the clouds enough to see she is ZOEY. As she closes in on Alia there is a moment of tension and Alia puts out her hand. Zoey walks right past Alia and away. Alia turns and watches. SAM'S VOICE Your name is Angel Jenson. INT. BROOM CLOSET - ON SAM, AL AND ALIA - SFX She sits calmly, her eyes still closed. Her hand extends through the air. Slowly, she lowers it. SAM You only know what Angel knows. OBSERVER How can she protect herself? At best she's got a little piece of Angel's memory. SAM (to Al) It'll have to be enough. (to Alia) I want you to find Angel. Her pain, her hope, her past. Every piece of her that's left. That's all you are now. Only Angel. Do you understand? Alia nods and Sam watches as she sinks deeper into Angel. OBSERVER I hope you know what you're doing. SAM Angel? (beat) I'm going to count to three and when I do, I want you to open your eyes. OBSERVER Aren't you supposed to give her a secret word or something to get her back to Alia? SAM You will stay Angel Jenson until I say the word.... OBSERVER Rumplestiltskin. ALIA Rumplestiltskin. OBSERVER (off Sam's look) Well, it worked for him. SAM (realizing) She heard you. Say something. OBSERVER Can you hear me Angel? She nods. OBSERVER Maybe you switched her brain waves close to your own. SAM What's your name? ALIA Angel Jenson. SAM Angel, on the count of three you will wake up. You will remember only what I told you. (beat) One -- two -- three. Alia's eyes flutter open. Just as she starts to get her bearings there is a bang and the door swings open, right through Al. Sophie reaches through a startled Al, pulling Alia out the door. Al jumps, backing out of her way, definitely shaken by her aggressiveness. SOPHIE All right, tea time's over. Get out here. INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - DAY - ON ALL Al stands waiting as Sam and a dazed Alia are taken and seated in the hard wooden chairs outside WARDEN MEYERS' office. One of the guards is a tight stocky black woman named VIVIAN. She speaks to Sophie. VIVIAN He's off the phone. You first. Sophie crosses to the office and gives a short knock. WARDEN MEYERS' VOICE Come in. INT. WARDEN MEYERS' OFFICE - DAY - ON SOPHIE She enters the room and starts talking. She obviously respects this man or fears him. CAMERA follows Sophie as she makes her way around the room. WARDEN MEYERS' VOICE Are they ready to talk? SOPHIE Angel's ready to crack, but Tate, she's tough. WARDEN MEYERS She's a survivor. Besides, three years in a state penitentiary has that effect on people. Makes them mean. Hard. (beat) Just how I like them. Sophie stops just off of Meyers' desk. We see the profile of a strong-boned African-American man of about fifty. His hair attractive, with flecks of grey to give him a look of powerful distinction. He wears a sensible suit with sensible brown shoes. He sits, reading over a report. SOPHIE Why don't you put the thumbscrews on. Make them squirm a little. It always amazes me when you put the fear of Meyers on them, just how quick they fold. WARDEN MEYERS Let's just make sure one of them hangs. That way everybody's happy. INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - ON ALL Sam and Alia wait just outside the door. Al pounds on the handlink. SAM (to Al) Why am I here? VIVIAN You're here because you were stupid Liz. Really stupid. OBSERVER I'm getting something Sam. SAM Stupid? VIVIAN How long you been in here, Tate? OBSERVER Three years on a life sentence. SAM Three years. VIVIAN Then you should know enough not to mess with the Bennings. SAM Bennings? OBSERVER Ziggy says there's a seventy- three-point-two-percent chance you're here to keep Elizabeth Tate from being executed for killing a fellow inmate, named Carol Benning. ALIA We didn't kill her. VIVIAN (genuinely, to Alia) I understand what you went through when they put you in that box. I couldn't take it either. But I can't help you. Not this time. ALIA (Swiss-cheesed; to Sam) Carol told you the truth. SAM Told me what. ALIA I...I can't remember. VIVIAN If you didn't do it tell them who did and walk away. Don't let tehm put you back in there. OBSERVER (to Angel) Don't say anything Angel. Not around this group of Nazis. NEW ANGLE The door opens and Sophie comes out. SOPHIE Come on ladies, showtime. OBSERVER I'm going back to see what I can get out of Ziggy. (beat) Watch her. He punches the handlink and we.... INT. WARDEN MEYERS' OFFICE - MEYERS - SFX hears the ring of the chamber door. Meyers sits reading a file when suddenly he is covered in a Quantum wash of red. When it subsides Zoey sits in his place. She lifts her hands, studying them and a smile breaks across her face, as we: FADE OUT
ACT TWO Zoey turns and looks at him, her memory starting to fall into place. THAMES Lothos says there's a seventy-nine point nine percent chance that when she leaped, so did the good Doctor Beckett. (beat) Which means find Sam...find Alia. SAM If we knew anything we'd tell you. THAMES Find out what wrong Sam Beckett is here to right, and the rest is history. Zoey crosses to the doro and opens it. She gestures to Sophie, who enters the room. ZOEY My guests claim they know nothing. SOPHIE That's a crock. Fiddler was cleaning the toilets when Liz and Angel dragged Carol in. Thames starts adding data to the handlink. As she listens, Zoey crosses to the desk and picks up a manila file and starts to read. SOPHIE Fiddler couldn't hear what they were saying 'cause that little accident last spring blew out her ears. But she saw Carol all bent over. Next thing she knew, these two ran out and left her there, dead on the floor in a pool of blood. THAMES Carol Benning, age twenty-eight. In for possession and robbery. ZOEY (reading) Autopsy says she was stabbed. (to Sam) Which of you did it? SAM We didn't. SOPHIE So Fiddler's a liar? THAMES Girl after my own heart. When in trouble...deny...deny...deny. ZOEY (to Sophie) I want to talk to Fiddler. NEW ANGLE Zoey comes extremely close to Sam ZOEY (about Sam and Alia) Our friends here aren't being very cooperative. SOPHIE Maybe I pulled them out of the cooler too soon. ZOEY I guess you did. (beat) Why don't you escort them back. I'm sure a few more days in isolation will make them remember. Alia turns to Sam; she becomes very edgy. ALIA I don't want to go back in there. THAMES (enjoying this) Ooo, this little one's got a case of the shakes. SOPHIE Angel got a bad case of claustrophobia. We practically had to knock her out to get her in. ALIA I can't go back! SAM It'll be all right.... ALIA No. No, it won't. She grabs Sam's arm. There is panic written across Alia's face. Sam sees it and his mind starts to race. SAM Warden, sitting in a small dark room and thinking about something that we have no information on isn't going to help either of us. (beat) Why don't you let Angel and me go back into the community. Find out what happened. THAMES And the big one wants to be a stooly to protect the little one. Sweet. Zoey crosses to the desk. ZOEY Why should I? SAM Because if you put us back in a box nobody will find out anything and Angel and I will get the rap. ZOEY The rap? How perfectly Forties. THAMES Liz is right. You won't get anywhere because nobody is going to...to... ZOEY Nobowy will rat to the Warden? THAMES I love prison stories, they're so colorful. SAM Exactly. But they might talk to us. There is a long pause and Zoey sits at Meyers' desk. ZOEY (looking at Sam) You go back on C-Block. (to Alia) You go back into the box. (to Sam) As an incentive to have you find out the truth. ALIA No! ZOEY No? (beat) You don't have the slightest choice in the matter. SAM No. We both go back on the block or you can get your own information. ZOEY Illusions of power. A very foolish thing for a prisoner to have. (to Sophie) Take Angel back to the cooler. Angel freaks. Sophie rips the door open as Sam rushes to Alia's side. SOPHIE Vivian! Kat! I need a hand here. FEATURING SAM AND ALIA Sam pulls her to him. He looks into her eyes and speaks very firmly and very straight. SAM You'll be all right. ALIA I won't. I...I'm claustrophobic. I.... SAM I know you are, Angel. It's okay. ALIA But I.... SAM Listen to me. Just breathe and go back to the mountain. I'll get you out of there as soon as I can. (beat) Wait on the mountain. With that, Alia is pulled away by Vivian and another guard. She stares at Sam, her eyes locked onto his until she is gone. FEATURING SAM He turns back to Zoey. He's pissed but calm. ZOEY What do you mean, wait for me on the mounta, Liz? SAM Just a dream we have. ZOEY You have twenty-four hours to find who killed Carol or the death report will read stabbed by Elizabeth Tate and Angela Jenson. SAM I'll need free access to all the other inmates. ZOEY Do whatever you want. Just do it fast. (to Sophie) Take her back to C-Block. Sam looks at Zoey. Their eyes are in a deadlock. Sophie places a hand on Sam and he turns. Sophie and Sam exit the room. NEW ANGLE ON THAMES AND ZOEY The door closes and Thames crosses to the middle of the room, showing himself off and sings to the tune of "A Pirate's Life For Me". THAMES Yo ho, yo ho, a hologram's life for me. (beat) Bloody brilliant, that machine! Don't you think? Zoey gets up and rounds Meyers' desk, going back to the mirror. ZOEY Just tell Lothos to get me data on every inmate in here. THAMES My, my, aren't we the testy one. ZOEY Don't play with me, Thames. I want Alia and I don't want anything happening to her before I've had a chance to rip her head off. THAMES (off handlink) All we know is that she Leaped into this prison. We were just locking onto her brain waves when she vanished. ZOEY How the hell could she vanish; she connected to my mesons? THAMES We don't know. Lothos calculates once you Quantum Leaped somehow it affected the transmission. ZOEY Well, reconfigure. THAMES We did that. ZOEY And? THAMES And so far we're 0 for 0. ZOEY Damn! (beat) I want you to go back and talk to whoever leaped into the holding chamber. THAMES More bad news, darling, there's no one in the holding chamber. ZOEY That's impossible. THAMES When dealing with Quanta, nothing is impossible. ZOEY Run a trace on the last nanosecond before you lost her. Rerun the Leap a million times, but get me a lock on Alia. FEATURING THAMES - SFX He is obviously disappointed. THAMES Oh Zoey, sweetheart. I was at least hoping to stroll through the women's shower once or twice. I mean, after all, it is my first day as a hologram. Zoey crosses right up in his face. She is dead calm. ZOEY Now, Thames! (beat) Or did youforget that I'm on borrowed time here? THAMES You're here until you do what you're supposed to do. ZOEY (beat) I have a forty-eight-hour window after my first Leap to get home. After that the percentage drops with every Leap. (beat) Now get back there and do what I told you to! Thames looks at her and punches his handlink. CLOSE ON ZOEY Behind her we hear the water door open and shut. Zoey turns back one more time to the mirror and adjusts herself. She smiles approvingly. ZOEY Well, perhaps for the sake of science I should find out how the other half lives. CLOSE ON MIRROR - MEYERS He buttons the buttons on his double-breasted jacket. On his smile we.... INT. PRISON - CELL BLOCK B - SUNSET - ESTABLISHING The long rows of cells clang shut. The hallowed halls echo with each slam and remind us there is no way out. INT. CELL - SUNSET - ON SAM He sits pouring over whatever books and/or papers that fill Liz Tate's quarters. He stops and looks at a small digital clock that sits on her desk. SAM'S VOICE OVER I've been Leaping long enough to know that when you cross minds with a phobic, whatever fears they have now belong to you. (beat) Alia was holding for the moment, but I had to ask myself...how long. How long before what was left of Angel cracked and Lothos could lock onto Alia. OBSERVER'S VOICE We've got problems, Sam. NEW ANGLE INCLUDING AL He stands near the double bunks that line the walls of this sis-by-six grey cell. OBSERVER Sam, Ziggy says there's another leaper. SAM She's picking up Alia. OBSERVER We've counted her, Sam. SAM They sent someone after Alia? OBSERVER Bingo. (beat) Ziggy's hoping we discover them before they discover you and definitely before they get to Alia. Sam stands. He starts to pace. SAM Did you check on Alia? OBSERVER She's not looking too great, Sam. (beat) I went down to talk to her but all she's doing is rocking back and forth and saying something about it wasn't her. SAM What wasn't her? OBSERVER Doesn't make sense to me either. (beat) She just kept saying it wasn't her. Sam paces, pondering on what Al has just said. SAM Maybe it's Alia talking. OBSERVER Trust me, if it was Alia, Lothos would have zeroed in on her like a Patriot on a SCUD. SAM Then it's residual from Angel. OBSERVER Residual what? SAM Memories. WOMAN'S VOICE H-h-how's Angel? Sam and Al turn. NEW ANGLE INCLUDING FIDDLER A heavyset woman whose nerves twitch and jump with every paranoid glance. There's something mentally flawed about her. FIDDLER I...I didn't mean to get you in no trouble. They just said, Fiddler, what did you see and I told 'em. I told 'em. Sam and Al exchange a look, and Al begins adding data to the handlink. SAM What did you see, Fiddler? She twitches and itches. Al shrugs, he's doing the best he can. FIDDLER I...I was cleanin'. (with pride) On bathroom duty. That woulda meant it was Thursday, 'cause I always clean the toilets on Thursday. SAM And you do a real good job, too. FIDDLER Yeah, I do, don't I? SAM What happened? FIDDLER You and Angel came in and you was fightin' about somethin'. (defensive) I couldn't hear what, though. SAM Then what? OBSERVER I'm getting something, Sam. (beat) Fedelia Jimmerson.... FIDDLER Then Carol come in, she was crying and real upset, there was blood on her and she was holding herself.... OBSERVER Arrested in 1981 for kidnapping.... FIDDLER She was real scared. But like I said, I couldn't hear nothin'. SAM What was she afraid of, Fiddler? OBSERVER It turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and she was released this year. FIDDLER I don't know but she was real scared. SAM Sophie's got a different version of this story. NEW ANGLE Al goes back to the handlink. OBSERVER Something weird's gonig on here, Sam. After Fiddler was released, she vanished. Ziggy's got nothing. Zip. FIDDLER Looks like she was beggin' you for help. SAM From Liz. I mean me? FIDDLER Yeah. Angel went to get towels. (beat) Then Miss Sophie and her gang run in and Carol just fell over, dead. (snapping her fingers) Whiter than a sheet, she was. Blood all over the floor. And I'd just cleaned it. SOPHIE'S VOICE Ain't this nice. NEW ANGLE INCLUDING SOPHIE She stands hinged in the doorway. Fiddler all but cowers like a frightened puppy. Sam and Al turn to face her. She enjoys intimidating Fiddler. SOPHIE Kind of like a family reunion, ain't it? OBSERVER What's Mean Jean here after? SAM The Warden told me I have twenty-four hours. She checks her watch. SOPHIE Actually you only got sixteen. (beat) How time flies when you're having fun. (to Fiddler) Take a walk. She gives Fiddler a hard look and she all but vanishes out the door. OBSERVER What is this one, an escapee from a B-movie? SAM Since I know this isn't a social visit, why don't you tell me what you want. SOPHIE I don't want nothin'. But the Warden... (double entendre) ...wants you...to come talk to him in his room. (beat) I'll pick you up in ten minutes. (beat) Just in case you want to...freshen up. OBSERVER Uh-oh. Sophie gives a lascivious smile and exits as the handlink beeps and whines for attention. Al reads it. OBSERVER History's changing, Sam. Not only does Liz die but now so does Angel. On Sam's look of concern, we.... FADE OUT
ACT THREE Thames crosses next to her and whispers sensually into her ear. THAMES This is our destiny, Zoey. You were always the one who was supposed to carry out his plan. ZOEY It's all a matter of timing, isn't it? THAMES And time. As they stare into each other's eyes, we.... CUT TO
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From the expression on their faces all shit's broken loose. Sam is up and pulling Alia to her feet. VIVIAN Meyers is on the rampage! (beat) You didn't tell me he was expecting you. You didn't tell me you were going under. ALIA (knowing; to Sam) Meyers wanted to seduce you. MASTERSON Everyone knows what the hell going under means. Now get back in that box. Alia panics, backing up against the wall. ALIA No. SAM You can't put her back in there. MASTERSON You must be stupid and crazy! SAM You can't put her in there. It'll kill her. MASTERSON If she doesn't get in that box, I'll kill her myself. ALIA No! Alia starts to bolt and Sam grabs her. VIVIAN Wait! Wait! I'll take her to the old transfer tunnels. MASTERSON They're condemned. Besides, Meyers will skin me alive. NEW ANGLE - FEATURING VIVIAN AND ALIA Vivian reaches out for Alia but she presses herself tighter against Sam. VIVIAN I don't know how long I can keep you down there but at least it ain't the box. Alia looks to Sam SAM It's the only choice you've got. VIVIAN Whatever the hell you're gonna do you better do it fast. SAM Go! Go! MASTERSON I can't let you out of here! Sam cold-cocks her, nodding to Alia and Vivian. They exit. Alia turns back and gives one last frightened look. Sam goes into gear. He drags Masterson into Alia's cell, takes the keys and locks the door. Sam squats outside the door and waits. INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - NIGHT - ON VIVIAN AND ALIA They race down the partially lit halls until Vivian hears someone coming. She slams Alia into a narrow passage way and presses in on top of her. They don't breathe. After a beat, Zoey and Sophie flash by. CLOSE ON ALIA AND VIVIAN There is a moment as the danger passes. Vivian looks, and then beckons Alia to follow. INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT - OND ZOEY AND SOPHIE Zoey's expression is vehement as they approach the last corridor before isolation. SOPHIE Masterson said Liz was down here. ZOEY Who moved her? Zoey rounds the corner and stops. ZOEY'S POV Sam sits against the sealed door to the isolation room that held Alia. INT. ISOLATION CHAMBER - HALLWAY - FEATURING SAM Zoey glares at Sam and then moves in like a snake on her prey. Her voice is calm and even. After all, this was dessert. ZOEY You stood me up. SAM Angel needed me. ZOEY Mother, murderer and psychotherapist. Is there anything you don't do? SAM Some things. NEW ANGLE - SFX Zoey circles Sam. She's just playing cat and mouse, and enjoying every minute of it. Sam's stalling for time. ZOEY You really shouldn't have stood me up, you know. (beat) I had all these fun things planned for us. SAM Let Angel out. ZOEY Ah-ah-ah. First business then pleasure. Okay. (beat) Who killed Carol? The imaging chamber door opens at the exact same time the water door opens behind Zoey. Al and Thames enter. OBSERVER We're running out of time. Ziggy projects their computer is about to locate Alia. SAM What can I do? THAMES Lothis thinks he's picking up transmissions from Alia. ZOEY Where? THAMES Right there! ZOEY (yelling to Masterson) Open the door. FEATURING SAM He steps in front of the door, blocking it. THAMES The last transmission was from in here. ZOEY Get out of my way. NEW ANGLE - SFX Furious, Zoey reaches for Sam and as she grabs him to pull him out of the way. (I want to do a double morph here. I want Sam and Zoey to ripple into Liz and Meyers and then back to Sam and Zoey.) They react to the morph with shock and horror. WIDER ANGLE ON AL AND THAMES Al's jaw drops and Thames' eyes widen to the size of dinner plates. WIDER ANGLE ON AL Sam throws Zoey to the ground and blasts pasts Sophie, knocking the woman into the wall. ZOEY Stop him! SOPHIE Him! What? ZOEY Stop him. Get a lock on him and find him. Right now. Thames is out with a pop. Sophie hits the escape sirens and they scream to life. Zoey is transfixed on the door. ZOEY Open it. (beat) Open the door! Terrified, Sophie unlocks the heavy steel door and swings it open. ON ZOEY The shadows fall across her face as she steps into what she thinks is her final confrontation with Alia. It only takes one nanosecond to see the body in the chamber is Masterson. Her eyes flare. TIGHT ON ZOEY Her fists are clinched, and her face is twisted in total rage as she turns and we reveal Al watching and we.... ZOEY No! FADE OUT
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INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - NIGHT - ON
ZOEY She freezes for a bit and almost does a double-take in disbelief. VIVIAN This is no time to be funny, Liz. SAM (emphatic) I'm not Liz. I'm a man named Sam. And Meyers is a woman named Zoey. VIVIAN Meyers is a woman. ALIA (memory) Zoey. ON SAM AND ALIA Suddenly the sirens stop. Sam panics, knowing that he might trigger Alia's memory. He grabs Vivian's arms as she tries to grasp what he's saying. SAM (to Vivian) These are horrible people. They've traveled across time to kill Alia...Angel, and you're our only hope. Sam's face pleads for her help. Alia stands there, a lost soul. Vivian doesn't know what to think. VIVIAN This is unreal! SAM Forget reality, Vivian! This has nothing to do with anything you know. If you don't help us right now, there'll be no stopping them! You have to help us! VIVIAN Wait a minute! (crazed) If I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone I just need a damn minute! (beat) All right. All right. I know how I can get you out. (beat) This better be a flashback from some drug I did in the Sixties. Sam and Alia exchange a look as we.... EXT. COURTYARD - ON ZOEY, SOPHIE AND THAMES The courtyard is abuzz of activity. Guards run in every direction. Two sets of German shepherds search the area. THAMES Lothos has lost them. We've got nothing! SOPHIE Look, we know they can't get out of the complex. ZOEY Do we really? SOPHIE (pointing) The only way out of here is that gate or that one, and neither of them opens without keys. (beat) Anything else getting out of here is moving on four legs. INT. TRANSFER TUNNELS - SAM, ALIA AND VIVIAN It's dark and drippy. They are wet and filthy as they move through the slime. Vivian stops and hands him a good-sized pair of wire cutters. VIVIAN There's an electric gate at the end of it. Give me five minutes. I'm gonna blow the power. When I do you got fifteen seconds to cut the lock and get out before the backup generator kick in. (beat) I'll be right behind you. ALIA Why are you doing this? SAM Does it matter? ALIA Yes. (beat) I want to know why some people help other people. VIVIAN 'Cause my whole life I never did anything really special and if a tenth of what you told me is true, this is really special. (beat) Just once I want to be the good guy. Sam gives her a hug and pulls Alia into the darkened tunnel. We hold on Vivian a beat and they are gone. As she turns we.... CUT TO
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NIGHT - ZOEY AND THAMES They track into the woods. Thames POPS back in. They all stop. The sounds of the dogs close in. OBSERVER ...now the whole party's here. SAM They're here? THAMES (to Sam) Not yet! (yelling to Zoey) Zoey! Over here! Sam pulls Alia in a different direction. THAMES You're wasting your time. (beat) You're dead. Thames POPS out and so does Al. NEW ANGLE Sam and Alia make their way up a small embankment. They are breathless and exhausted. ALIA I can't run away from myself. SAM We have to turn ourselves into someone else, we might.... Just as they crest the hill, they are blinded by a wash of white light. NEW ANGLE FEATURING ZOEY She steps into the Jeep's headlights and stands motionless, backlit by the blinding illumination. A shotgun sits poised in her hands. ON ALL Sam and Alia freeze in the flush of light like a deer caught before the kill. Al and Thames are there. ALIA Run Sam. Save yourself. She's after me! SAM No. With that Alia backs away from Sam, holding her arms out and trying to draw fire from Sam. ALIA Here Zoey! You and me! OBSERVER She's going to shoot! CLOSE ON ZOEY Her eyes are filled with hatred as she raises the gun. She is locked onto Alia. There are no more words. SAM'S VOICE Alia! CLOSE ON ALIA She stares back, calm, cool, resigned to her fate. CLOSE ON SAM He yells up to the heavens. SAM No! In God's name, don't let this happen! WIDER - SFX Sam lunges for Alia to drag her out of the way but it's as if she steps directly into the line of fire. The crack of three shots break the night. At the same time a FLASH of Quantum blues rushes over her. The bullets slam into the blast of white light, dissolving into a void. WIDER ON ALL The Quantum light subsides and instead of Alia, the real Angel fills the frame as if someone has dumped a bucket of ice water on her. She looks to Sam and then to Zoey. There is a moment of silence. Each of them has an expression of shock. Thames punches into his handlink as it screams and whines at him. THAMES Lothos lost her! OBSERVER Yes! ZOEY That's impossible. She Leaped! THAMES She didn't Leap back! (beat) We lost her! Zoey's cold eyes turn on Sam. ZOEY (to Sam) But we have you. As she raises the gun, Vivian steps into frame inches from Sam, holding a rifle. FEATURING SAM AND ZOEY In a blur he grabs the gun and pumps off a shot. Zoey fires, but Sam pushes himself and Vivian out of the way. FEATURING ZOEY Hit. She drops her gun and stands staring in disbelief. Thames flickers in and out behind her. He yells to Lothos. THAMES She's dying! Leap her out! Leap her out! WIDER ON ALL - FEATURING SAM AND ZOEY - SFX Her hateful glare dissolves into a flood of light. The evil red fingers engulf Zoey. As she dissolves, so does Thames. Suddenly, the real MEYERS stands where Zoey once was. There is a bullet hole in his suit. Vivian stands in shock knowing that Meyers was shot but is obviously untouched. Vivian looks on in amazement at Sam. VIVIAN Far out. At that moment two other vehicles pull up. One, a State Trooper car and the other, Sophie and other Mallard guards jump out. Just then Al's handlink goes nuts. OBSERVER Sam, you've got to talk to the troopers. Sophie crosses next to Meyers as the State Troopers gather up the real Angel. SOPHIE (re Sam) Get cuffs on her and put her in my car. (Vivian) And you're under arrest for helping these prisoners escape. NEA ANGLE FEATURING SAM He holds his hands up to be cuffed. One of the troopers crosses to Sam. OBSERVER Liz says Meyers is the one responsible for Carol's death. Sam yells loud enough for every one to hear. SAM Meyers killed Carol Benning. MEYERS (Swiss cheesed) What the... OBSERVER Carol and Meyers had been having an affair, she got pregnant.... SAM Meyers got Carol pregnant. MEYERS That's a lie! OBSERVER ...he forced her to have an abortion. When she started to hemorrhage he let her bleed to death. SAM Meyers forced her to abort and when it failed he let her bleed to death. SOPHIE She's nuts! OBSERVER (beat) Ziggy says a Doctor Garcy. Paula Garcy knows everything. SAM (to State Trooper) Doctor Paula Garcy knows everything. Sam is up in the Trooper's face as he puts the cuffs on him. One of the other guards grabs Vivian. NEW ANGLE FEATURING MEYERS Meyers is in total confusion. He scrambles for control. MEYERS Arrest these prisoners. VIVIAN What do I do? SAM Get Garcy's records to the authorities. NEW ANGLE Again the handlink whines and beeps. SAM What happens? OBSERVER Bingo! Meyers and Sophie take the fall and Angel and Liz get paroled. (beat) Vivian ends up running Mallard! SAM (to Vivian) Trust me, everything's going to be all right. Two guards take Sam. Vivian calls after them. She nods to Angel. VIVIAN What about your friend? OBSERVER We don't know where she went but we know she didn't go back to them. (beat) Wherever she is, she's free. SAM (to Vivian) She's gone Vivian. We did it. (beat) We've got to be the good guys. There is an unspoken knowledge between Vivian and Sam. They exchange a smile as a blast of blue light engulfs him and he.... QUANTUM LEAPS
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