The Jack Londoners
by
Mark H. Leland
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FADE IN:
EXT. FOOTBALL FIELD - DAY
YOUNG BOYS (ages 8-10) play a Saturday Pop Warner football
game.
With over-sized helmets and shoulder pads, they look more
like bobble-heads than gridiron greats.
A small band of PARENTS cheer from the sidelines.
SUPER:
“OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA”
EXT. HUDDLE - DAY
The quarterback, DOMINICK (10), African-American, taller than
the other kids, leads the offense.
DOMINICK
Let’s make Coach proud. Sprint
option half back -- that way!
(he points left)
On two.
The only four boys listening to Dominick are: KLONDIKE (9),
Caucasian, RAZZLE (8), African/American, and two Latinos,
HECTOR (9) and SERIO (8). They all make eye contact.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
Break!
Dominick grabs a little boy heading the wrong way and leads
him up to the line.
Across from his team, a bigger team.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
Blue thirty-two, ya mama is a fool,
hut one, hut two!
He rolls out to his left and just before he’s tackled, he
pitches the ball to Razzle.
He picks up key a block from Klondike, another block by
Hector, some nifty moves, and Razzle is in for a touchdown!
Coached, by BUCK (75). He wears a cap that says JACK LONDON
SQUARE and his rugged Pella shirt hangs over his belly.
2.
TOM, a Pop Warner father and his attorney, congratulates him.
TOM
Just like you drew it up, huh
Coach?
BUCK
That’s why we call him Razzle
Dazzle.
TOM
Good news, the adoption papers came
through late last night, Dominick
is now your son.
Buck is momentarily choked up as Hector misses the extra
point.
BUCK
Good effort Hector! One more thing
Tom, to add to my will.
TOM
Sure.
BUCK
The mansion goes to all five of my
boys, but stipulate they when they
are of age, they have to convert it
into a foster home -- for troubled
boys.
TOM
You feeling okay, Buck?
BUCK
Yeah. Just wish Millie was here to
see them grow up.
CUT TO:
EXT. KINCAID’S BAYHOUSE RESTAURANT - JACK LONDON SQUARE - DAY
Buck and his five boys, Dominick, Hector, Klondike, Razzle,
and Serio, wearing football pants and T-shirts, exit the
restaurant.
3.
BUCK
What does my favorite square,
burger, and author all have in
common?
BOYS
Jack London!
BUCK
With Jack, you’re always in capable
hands.
Buck picks his teeth when he clenches his chest: a HEART
ATTACK.
The boys think he is playing.
BUCK (CONT’D)
Call 911!
A nearby WOMAN rushes to Buck’s side.
WOMAN
I’m a nurse. Can you hear me?
you okay?
Are
Dominick knees at Buck’s side.
BUCK
You take care of the boys now....
Buck’s eyes roll back as the nurse places two fingers on his
carotid artery and watches his chest. Nothing.
WOMAN
He’s not breathing....
She begins applying CPR.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. GRAVEYARD - DAY
Sad and long faces. Buck’s coffin is lowered into a grave.
A huge turn out - men that Buck coached over the years.
Dominick stands next to a CRYING Razzle, Hector, Serio, and
Klondike.
4.
DOMINICK
We’re changin’ the name of the
gang.
SERIO
What’s wrong with The... The Black
Gorillas?
DOMINICK
We’re changing it to The Jack
Londoners. In honor of our father.
KLONDIKE
With that name? We ain’t gonna get
no respect.
DOMINICK
They’ll learn to.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - NIGHT (DREAM)
Dominick has his wrists being held against a table by a group
of Latino men in white suits. One man presses up a DRILL
button and lowers it towards Dominick’s hand.
CUT TO:
INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT
Dominick awakes from his nightmare on a couch - a young man
now.
SUPER:
“10 Years Later.”
A basement home of the five grown stepbrothers. Couches,
clothes, flat screen, dirty dishes, and -LIL WAYNE, pumped through an Onkyho HT-3200 stereo.
Also on the wall, a blown-up picture of BUCK next to his dogs
and sled from The Iditarod race. A Mixed Martial Art DVD
plays on a 52” Sony Plasma.
5.
DOMINICK -- (20) tall and lanky. Still their QB/leader. He
wears a long Pierotucci leather jacket that he never removes.
Written in cursive on the back: “The Jack Londoners.”
HECTOR -- (19) wearing Dickie pants, a hoodie, dark glasses.
He has too many tats, the one on his upper lip, spelling
‘Maureen.’
He reads a text from his Blackberry.
HECTOR
From Mario -- Kingston Crypts, in a
Lexus, at San Leandro and High St.
RAZZLE
Dangerously close.
RAZZLE -- (18) he has a scar running from the temple to the
back of his shaved head. Wearing British Knight tennis
shoes. He’s texting, hat on backwards.
SERIO -- (18), earrings, sporting Echo pants, and very
handsome and immature. He wears headphones and occasionally
blurts out some lyrics.
KLONDIKE -- (19) big and strong. ‘Jack London tats’ cover
his always bear arms. Levi Jeans, Chuck Taylor shoes.
He sets down the book he’s reading: An Idiots Guide to
Chemistry. Above him, a poster from the 1979 film: The
Warriors.
KLONDIKE
Let’s get ‘em and hit Taco Bell on
the way back.
RAZZLE
Bit fuckin’ obvious comin’ into our
‘hood so direct.
HECTOR
T-BUK must be thinking Oak Town is
his again.
DOMINICK
Let’s ‘drill.’
Serio opens a mini-suitcase and straps a wrist cross bow to
his left hand. He places some arrows in his inside vest
flap.
6.
Razzle grabs some software disks; Klondike grabs a bloodstained BILLY CLUB mounted on the wall.
CUT TO:
EXT. MANSION - TRESTLE GLEN, OAKLAND - NIGHT
The five walk outside their darkened 1920’s Neoclassical, ten
room dilapidated home. Dominick stops Klondike and points
back out the house.
DOMINICK
Unless we get some funds soon,
we’re goin’ to loose the house.
Klondike nods as they pile into a five year old LINCOLN
ESCALADE.
INT. ESCALADE
Dominick drives, Razzle sits in the passenger seat.
the glove compartment --
He opens
-- a MAC glides out to his lap. He pops a disk entitled:
‘City Operations’ into the computer.
Serio, Hector, and Klondike sit in back swivel chairs.
Dominick weaves between cars before coming to a stop at a red
light. Razzle hits a button on his computer -- the light
turns green.
RAZZLE
(looks at cellphone)
T-Buk is in a Lexus.
CUT TO:
EXT.
CITY OF OAKLAND - 96TH STEET - NIGHT
The Escalade is a two cars behind a shiny red Lexus.
INT. ESCALADE
Razzle sees the Escalade and the Lexus from a camera on his
computer.
7.
There!
RAZZLE
Just ahead.
He points to the Lexus.
CUT TO:
EXT. 96TH STREET AND CHERRY STREET
The LEXUS GX pulls over at this quiet cross street.
A WHITE CLOTH appears in the back window. The Lexus pulls
over to the side of the road, followed by the Escalade.
CUT TO:
INT. LEXUS
Music from Rapper CHRONIC is turned down as Jamaican leader TBuk, nose pierced, pulls the car over.
FRELOW, his second, sits in the passenger seat. Three other
wiry gang members are crammed in the back. All wear big
medallions -- THE KINGSTON CRIPS.
They all have long dreadlocks, sagging jeans, and black
vests.
T-BUK
Here da plan. I play ‘bad cop’ you guys play ‘badder cop.’
EXT. 96TH AND CHERRY STREET
T-Buk and Frelow step out, T-Buk with his hands held up high.
Dominick steps out in ear shot of Razzle.
Serio, Hector, and Klondike.
He’s joined by
T-BUK
Hey ma Londoners. I’m here to pass
on a special invite from: The
CRAZIEST One. ‘El Mas Loco.’
DOMINICK
We know about the convention in
Mexico.
8.
T-BUK
Shit. You know about The Cartel’s
plan to expand to Oak town?
HECTOR
No crab to you smokers, but the
Jack Londoners always represent Oak
Town. All over the world.
T-BUK
Then we have a problem...
DOMINICK
(to Razzle)
See that street cleaner?
RAZZLE
Yes.
DOMINICK
Get his Lexus.
KLONDIKE
What’s that T-Buk?
T-BUK
Only one of us can represent my
city.
The Londoners LAUGH as the Kingstons walk towards them.
Razzle furiously types in commands and the street cleaner
ROARS to life.
T-Buk WHISTLES and from behind some hedges, garbage bins, and
parked cars, more Kingstons appear. Ten in all.
The Londoners assume a natural karate stance.
SERIO
Gangsters behind hedges, knew you’d
be cheatin’.
Serio loads an arrow on his wrist cross bow and calmly shoots
an attacking Kingston in the THIGH.
SERIO (CONT’D)
‘Down goes Frazier.’
Dominick greets a Kingston with a jump kick followed by a
straight and jab punch to another.
9.
Between the two gangs, a FLURRY of snap kicks, jump kicks,
and roundhouse kicks; blocked by backhands, open hands, and
hammer fist blocks.
Klondike jabs the end of his billy-club into a Kingston’s
face. He’s met by a roundhouse kick to his head.
Razzle manipulates his computer joystick and the street
cleaner plows into T-Buk’s Lexus!
T-BUK
Motherfucka!
T-Buk lands a scissor punch on Dominick, whom responds with
his own parallel punch and U-punch into T-Buk’s gut. As TBuk goes down, he grabs Dominick’s leather jacket, but his
hands are slapped away.
DOMINICK
Don’t fuck with the jacket.
A well choreographed fight scene ends with Hector grabbing
Frelow’s foot and smashing it into a fire hydrant.
T-Buk gives another distinct WHISTLE and The Kingstons
retreat into a nearby SUV and drive away.
INT. SUV
Frelow shake his head.
FRELOW
That plan sucked!
T-Buk looks at his burning Lexus.
T-BUK
(beat)
I gotta better one.
BACK TO SCENE
The Londoners catch their breaths.
RAZZLE
We ain’t goin’ south of the border,
are we?
10.
KLONDIKE
Have to now.
DOMINICK
El Mas talked about ‘community
money.’ We need to repair the
home. Let’s see if El Mas is
bullshittin’?
SERIO
Don’t you read the news?
acid for torture, women
decapitated...
Vats of
RAZZLE
They like to ‘drill’ through hands.
SERIO
We don’t need to be goin’ to
Mexico.
HECTOR
It’s a party - we’ll have a good
time.
KLONDIKE
That’s right.
CUT TO:
INT. MAIN CABIN - AEROMEXICO - DAY
The Jack Londoners are seated five across in the center of
the plane. Surrounding them, are some ten other GANGS also
attending El Mas’s gathering.
Some notable gangs:
THE 7TH ST. PANTHERS. Los Angeles -- dressed in Rockaware
sweatpants, hoods, dark glasses.
THE GREEN GANGSTERS.
Hemp.
THE LIBRARIANS.
Dressed in green jump suits made of
Hot girls with reading glasses.
SF SLIDERS. Dressed in striped overalls, pink scarfs,
colored sunglasses.
11.
A Green Gangster puts his seat back; an SF Slider behind him
slams it forward.
INT. STEWARDESS AREA
Two STEWARDESSES fret about the gang members.
STEWARDESS
What is going on? How’d all these
freaks end up on our flight?
STEWARDESS #2
If they start fighting, what are WE
supposed to do?
INT. MAIN CABIN
Serio looks around angrily.
RAZZLE
Serio, what’s the deal, you lookin’
to start trouble?
SERIO
Trouble? Shit. Escape exits.
Lighting gonna hit us any minute.
What?
RAZZLE
Not even raining.
SERIO
Don’t you read the news? Climate
change - high altitude lightning!
That Brazilian plane. Chicks half
naked, BLAM! They never found the
black box. Mama!
He stands up and addresses the whole plane.
SERIO (CONT’D)
Did you hear that? They never
found the black box!
PANTHER
Shut the fuck up!
SERIO
I’ll kill you first!
12.
Serio lunges at the Panther, but Dominick stands and grabs
him, his long leather coat and height give him an
unmistakable presence in the cabin.
DOMINICK
List'n up dogs! Drinks are on The
Jack Londoners! A pop to El Mas
Loco and The New World Order!
The gangs CHEER and starts chanting:
LOCO...
EL MAS LOCO, EL MAS
CUT TO:
EXT. SWIMMING POOL - HOTEL VIRREY DE MENDOZA - DAY
Superimpose:
Morelia City, Mexico
Gangs, in swim trunks, from North America, Mexico, Central
America, South America, Europe, Russia, China, and Japan
ruffle their peacocks.
A fight breaks out.
the brawl.
Huge Samoans, known as BUTLERS, break up
Under a thatched misted hut, the Londoners soak it all in.
HECTOR
Told ya it’d be a party.
Emerging from the hotel are FOUR stunning, dark-haired and
dark-skinned, buxom Latinas. Their G-strings turn a lot of
heads, including Serio, who stares at their butt tatoos: Las
Malditas.
SERIO
My man!
He high-fives Hector. The Londoners watch as Las Malditas
come upon a Canadian gang, noted by their Canadian flag
tattoos on their biceps, sitting in a prime location.
Some words are exchanged. Using Brazilian Jiujitsu, the
girls pin three of the Canadians.
The rest of the Canadians slink off leaving the lounge chairs
for their leader -- DANIELLA (22) and her sidekicks LUSCIOUS
(21), SIMONNE (19) and CATALINA (19).
13.
SERIO (CONT’D)
Ohh - dey bad, BAD girls.
He jumps in the water and swims over to them.
Razzle puts a dollar bill on the table, Klondike nods.
RAZZLE
No way.
Serio says something to Daniella, whom nods. Serio
extricates himself from the pool and settles in a vacant
lounge chair next to Daniella.
Klondike scoops up the dollar.
EXT. LOUNGE CHAIRS
Las Malditas mist themselves with suntan oil.
SERIO
Where you locate?
DANIELLA
Ciudad Juarez.
SERIO
Club Med, girl, compared to Oak
Town.
Think so?
paradise.
LUSCIOUS
Come by, we’ll show you
SERIO
I’d like that!
LUSCIOUS
He good lookin’ - maybe he’ll
become one of the disappeared.
The girls LAUGH.
SERIO
Yeah, yeah. ‘The disappeared.’ I
can become one of them. Who dey?
A waitress walks by and Serio plucks a drink
14.
CATALINA
Watch out for the punch.
SERIO
Why?
DANIELLA
It’s laced with ecstacy.
She toasts him.
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INT. DANIELLA’S ROOM - DAY
Equatorial sweat glistening, Serio and Daniella engage in
some high flying sex.
He’s on top, until she grabs his wrists and flips him from
top to bottom. He attempts the same on her --- a dismal failure.
EXT. DANIELLA’S ROOM
Razzle falls off Klondike’s greasy shoulders trying to get a
peak of the action.
CUT TO:
EXT. HOTEL VALET - DAY
An assembly line of gangs, dressed in their colors, wait for
limousines to transport them to the convention.
The Jack Londoners gawk at the sights.
In front of them, THE WALL STREETERS dressed in blue Armani
suits and plaid fedora hats. Their leader, SHORTSALE uses a
three iron golf club as a cane.
Behind them, a gang with members throughout Mexico, THE DEATH
SQUAD, Los Escuadrones de la Muetel. They sport Mohawks and
have these spiraling, mesmerizing tattoos leading from their
torsos up to their cheeks.
Moving down the line, we have gangs ranging from DOMINATRIX
to KILLER MARIACHIS.
15.
Hector and Dominick spots Daniella, Luscious, and the two
other Malditas.
DOMINICK
Ride with us?
Why not?
LUSCIOUS
Nice jacket.
T-Buk appears with four Kingstons, two of them on crutches.
Ma homies!
T-BUK
Happy to...
DOMINICK
Fuck-off T-Buk.
T-BUK
Hey sorry ‘bout the other night.
tried to stop Frelow - crazy
mofuck!
(to Malditas)
Hellooo ladies.
SERIO
Keep walking T-Buk.
T-BUK
Sure baby blue -- let’s have some
fun in Mexico.
RAZZLE
How’s your car?
T-BUK
(whispers)
You’re dead.
Serio high-fives Razzle.
SERIO
Razzle dazzle!
DANIELLA
Who’s that?
SERIO
Oak Town’s wannabe mayor.
I
16.
A limo pulls up and they excitedly jump in.
CUT TO:
INT. LIMOUSINE - DAY
Klondike pour some Grey Goose cocktails.
The Limos wind their way up a dirt road with lush tropical
forests on one side and cliffs on the other side.
A lake comes into view with a VIRAGE super-charged boat tied
up to a dock.
CUT TO:
EXT. GONDOLA STAGING AREA - DAY
The limo comes to a halt in front of a sleek circular
building housing six person GONDOLAS.
Thick cables rise up to a El Mas’s Masada like structure
a hilltop.
on
Before gang members enter the gondola area they pass through
metal detectors.
For those carrying firearms there’s a BIN prior to the metal
detectors. It’s filling up rapidly.
Serio gently places his mini-crossbow briefcase where he can
retrieve it.
BUTLER
If you have any weapons, please
place them in the box before you
enter the gondola.
CUT TO:
INT. GONDOLA
The Londoners press their faces up against the window and
enjoy the vantage point above the tree tops.
17.
INT. GONDOLA ARRIVAL AREA
The brothers step off the gondola and follow the Malditas
through a tunnel.
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EXT. EL MAS LOCO’S COMPOUND - DAY
The tunnel opens up to a large grassy area. A huge mansion
on the right; a small soccer stadium on the left.
They are immediately handed a glass of Champagne by a BUTLER.
BUTLER
To the stadium please. Cross the
bridge - follow the path to the
stadium!
Dominick leads the way.
EXT. BRIDGE OVER STREAM
Daniella admires the stream when something catches her eye --- an acid burned arm of a woman.
She flinches.
Serio peers down in the water.
SERIO
That’s not real, is it?
that’s not real.
Tell me
EXT. STADIUM GROUNDS
More CARNIVAL type atmosphere. More drinks and hors
d’oeuvres are served by butlers.
Rival gangs salute one another.
BUTLER
Have your tickets ready!
Dominick waves five tickets in the air.
CUT TO:
18.
EXT. SOCCER STADIUM - DAY
A seating capacity of ten-thousand.
part costume ball.
Part gang convention,
At one end of the stadium, an elaborate STAGE with a huge
MODEL covered by a cloth.
The Londoners are seated five across in the left portion of
the stadium, near an exit tunnel and not too far from the
stage.
An Asian Gang, THE RED DRAGONS are seated to their left -shrunken heads adorn their necklaces.
To the Londoner’s right, sit Las Malditas, and behind them,
two rows back, T-Buk, Frelow, and his Kingston cohorts. TBuk glances around nervously.
EXT. STAGE
An ALLIGATOR, with a diamond necklace and leash is led onto
the stage by EL MAS LOCO.
The crowd murmurs. Affable, moustached, smiling -- an
executioner in a cashmere suit.
“WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS” by Queen blares throughout the
stadium. The crowd roars with applause, he’s their messiah.
EL MAS
Brothers and sisters! The battle
for Mexico is over! The Cartel has
won! I present to you, The New
World Order!
Like a showman, he pulls back the sheet revealing a grand
scale model of a HOSPITAL with the name: The Gabriella
Muneca Gonzales Children’s Hospital.
EL MAS (CONT’D)
Over the course of this weekend,
The Cartel will educate your gangs
how to turn narco dollars into
hospitals, schools, libraries, and for profit prisons in the United
States - run by us!
The crowd stands and CHEERS.
19.
EL MAS (CONT’D)
First, please, a warm welcome for
my son and daughter, Pavellon and
Gabriella!
PAVELLON, mid-twenties, glasses, dapper in his Corneliani
suit.
He pushes six year old GABRIELLA’S wheelchair onto stage next
to EL Mas.
She’s paralyzed from the waist down, cute and lucid.
waves to the crowd.
She
EL MAS (CONT’D)
As many of you know, my daughter
suffers from Muscular Dystrophy.
This is the first of a dozen
children hospitals to be built
throughout North America. By
winning hearts, The Cartel wins
votes!
The Jack Londoners are caught up in the excitement.
makes his way behind them.
T-Buk
EL MAS (CONT’D)
The New World Order has a new
vocabulary: community
reinvestment, manufacturing,
research and development, green
technology. Administrated by us!
The stadium starts chanting:
Run By Us!
T-Buk pumps his fists and then as if bowing his arms in
deference to El Mas --- he aims both wrists at him and CLENCHES.
Suddenly El Mas takes a step back and looks at his chest.
EL MAS (CONT’D)
What is this?
Two BLOOD red holes enlarge on his chest.
He falls flat on his face.
Gabriella SCREAMS!
The stadium goes quiet.
20.
T-BUK
(screaming)
It was The Jack Londoners! He shot
El Mas! The homie in the coat!
T-Buk points at Dominick; the crowd LOOKS.
The alligator, now on its own runs over to El Mas and begins
eating his legs.
His daughter SCREAMS again.
Pavellon runs to his father and grabs his arms, engaging in a
tug-of-war with the alligator. He looses.
As the stadium watches El Mas being eaten, Dominick signals
to his crew and they scamper towards the exit tunnel.
Finally, Pavellon and some bodyguards wrests his father’s
torso from the alligator and drag him off stage.
Another bodyguard steps up with an Uzi and shoots the
reptilian.
The chase beings.
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EXT. GONDOLA ARRIVAL AREA
Coming to a stop after a full sprint, The Jack Londoners are
greeted by FOUR SAMOAN BUTLERS.
With a running start, Hector lands a superman punch; Razzle
strikes one in the head with spinning back kick and Dominick
takes out another with a left head kick.
A butler grabs Serio and is about to crush him when Klondike
rips off a metal pipe from a wall and smashes him in the
back.
Get in!
DOMINICK
Razzle!
Razzle goes to the gondola control panel and jams the lever
to “ON” position. He yanks out all the wiring and jumps into
the gondola as WHOOSH -- it’s shot out over the gulch.
21.
THE MAYAN MAYHEM, jump in the gondola behind them. They are
followed by THE HANCOCKS, wearing hockey masks and Chicago
Blackhawks jerseys.
INT. GONDOLA
The Londoners catch their breath.
SERIO
What the fuck just happened?
DOMINICK
T-Buk shot El Mas and accused us.
SERIO
Well let’s ‘un-accuse’ us!
DOMINICK
Hector - twitter the world. T-Buk
is the killer!
(beat)
We gotta get outta of here and
fast!
CUT TO:
EXT. PARKING LOT
A LIMO DRIVER swats at an insect and answers his cell phone.
Yes sir.
LIMO DRIVER
I understand.
He WHISTLES, and is joined by four of his LIMO LIZARDS -- all
carrying tire irons.
INT. GONDOLA
As their Gondola approaches the staging area, Dominick spots
the Lizards.
DOMINICK
We got company -- front and back.
RAZZLE
We need weapons.
22.
SERIO
There’s a bin full of ‘em down
below.
DOMINICK
Grab what you can. Razzle you get
us a limo. You got about a minute.
EXT. GONDOLA STAGING AREA
The gondola cradles into its nest; it looks empty. The Limo
gang looks up to the next gondola approaching - the Mayan
Mayhem - faces pressed up against the glass.
Suddenly, the gondola door is kicked open and Hector
somersaults out. He springs to his feet and attacks a limo
driver with a flying knee to the chest.
The other four Londoners roll out and block the tire iron
blows with downward and parry blocks, followed by straight
punches to the face. Beautifully choreographed.
Dominick and Klondike yank the irons from the lizard’s hands
and crack-back on their foreheads.
A crumpled heap of Lizards is all that remains. His jacket
blowing in the wind, Dominick stands over them.
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EXT. PARKING LOT
Razzle jumps into the drivers seat and begins hot-wiring a
limousine.
The others run to the weapons drop bin and grab what they
can: Dominick, an AR 15; Serio retrieves his suitcase;
Klondike, a 2x4 piece of wood.
They jump in the back of the limo and Razzle peels away just
a bladed SICKLE smashes into a side window. The Mayhem.
EXT. DIRT ROAD
The Londoner’s limo is being chased by three other limos.
The back wheels slide around a curve spewing rocks.
23.
The limo with the Mayans takes a turn too fast -- it skids
off the cliff!
The Hancocks, close behind, fire some bullets at The
Londoners.
INT. LIMO
Dominick cocks his assault rifle.
HECTOR
Create a road block!
Dominick hangs out the back window and fires into the
Hancock’s front tires sending it spinning.
The other limos can’t stop in time and smashes into the back
of the Hancock’s limo. A fireball erupts.
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EXT. BACK TO SOCCER STADIUM - DAY
People are running about in hysterics over El Mas’s death.
One woman WAILS on her knees. Daniella, with the other Las
Malditas, checks her cell phone.
DANIELLA
(reading)
From the Londoners - they didn’t
kill El Mas.
LUSCIOUS
Who did?
T-Buk.
help.
DANIELLA
These foreigners need our
CUT TO:
INT. LIMO - DAY
Serio looks out the back window.
SERIO
What now? Home?
24.
DOMINICK
Head fuckin’ north.
wheels, for that.
Ditch these
He points to the Virage supercharged boat.
EXT. LAKESIDE DOCK
The Londoners run down to the dock towards the Virage.
Razzle runs into a dock house and comes out waving some keys.
Klondike grabs them from him.
RAZZLE
You can’t drive a boat.
KLONDIKE
Buck sent me to waterski camp.
What?
RAZZLE
You didn’t go to math camp?
KLONDIKE
Only you.
Klondike puts the key into the ignition, primes the throttle,
and FIRES up the two twin Evinrude E-TEC 300 engines.
He guns the throttle down and they roar off just as the limos
come to a screeching halt at the base of the dock.
CUT TO:
INT. GABRIELLA’S BEDROOM
Gabriella is lying on her bed, drenched in sweat, yet
shivering. Pavellon holds her hand and stares down at her
compassionately.
A doctor and two nurses are in attendance.
phone RINGS.
PAVELLON
Yes.
(beat)
Capture the gang in my boat and
bring me that eye witness!
(MORE)
Pavellon’s cell
25.
PAVELLON (CONT'D)
(looks at sister)
Papa will be avenged.
CUT TO:
EXT. VIRAGE BOAT
Serio smiles and opens up his little briefcase:
mounted cross-bow with five explosive arrows.
a wrist-
He puts it on his left wrist and loads an arrow.
KLONDIKE
Where to?
DOMINICK
There!
He points to a small beach across the lake.
Above, a Bell Jet Ranger HELICOPTER appears and fires at the
Virage. Bullets just miss the Londoners.
Dominick flips around his weapon and fires, but it jams!
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
Shit!
This time, a bullet hit Hector’s arm -- a patch of his skin
splatters away.
SERIO
(to himself)
Wind speed - five knots.
He aims at the helicopter and with his left thumb, presses a
button.
The mini-arrow rockets towards the helicopter, EXPLODING the
right side windshield. It becomes flaming ball and smashes
into the water.
The Londoners look over to Serio -- where did that come from?
SERIO (CONT’D)
Six knots.
26.
EXT. LAKESIDE ROAD
On a roundabout road, the limos tear around the lake in
pursuit of the Virage.
They are joined by an enormous custom black Hummer H3 Alpha
with a satellite dish mounted on the roof and GUN TURRETS all
around.
CUT TO:
EXT. LAKESIDE BEACH
Klondike guns the boat up on the beach and it stops a few
inches from a tree. Everybody jumps out.
DOMINICK
(points to a trail)
This way. We run steady - look for
opportunity.
They disappear into a trail shaded by grove upon grove of
avocado trees.
CUT TO:
EXT. TRAIL - DUSK
At a healthy clip, the Londoners follow a trail now through
deciduous rainforest trees.
EXT. TRAIL
Dozens of gang members give chase.
EXT. TRAIL
The Londoners hurdle a small stream.
EXT. TRAIL
The other gangs jump the same stream when... they’re passed
by a motorcycle gang, THE IMMORTAL SKULLS -- riding Husaberg
FE 390 motorcycles.
Skull and crossbones jackets, black helmet masks.
27.
EXT. TRAIL
As the Londoners are running, a faint TRAIN WHISTLE.
DOMINICK
Kick it!
Full on sprint.
EXT. BRIDGE
Dominick emerges from the trail, which turns into a rickety
bridge spanning the rail tracks below.
Chugging down the railroad, a twelve car BOX TRAIN
transporting TOMATOES.
DOMINICK
Gonna have to jump!
SERIO
No fuckin’ way!
Dominick leads the way to the center of the bridge. He
straddles the rail and leans over looking at the tomato box
cars passing beneath. He hands his leather coat to Razzle.
DOMINICK
Take this.
RAZZLE
What?
DOMINICK
In case I don’t make it.
A leaping SCREAM and --- he SPLATTERS into the tomatoes, landing inches away from
the thick metal edge of the boxcar.
SERIO
No fuckin’ way!
DOMINICK
More to your right!
Now!
There’s only four box cars left. Razzle and Hector take the
leap and sink waste high into the tomatoes.
28.
Klondike does a CANNON-BALL displacing an enormous amount of
fruit.
SERIO
(while jumping)
Mama!
Serio lands safely.
The tomato train rounds a bend and disappears.
Silence... when the Immortal Skulls appear.
They stop at the entrance of the bridge. Their leader,
RAINES, sees nothing. Other gangs arrive and pass them up on
foot while crossing the brige.
CUT TO:
INT. PAVELLON’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Pavellon sits behind a 19th century Spanish oak desk looking
at an untouched glass of Scotch; he’s disheveled and
distraught.
BODYGUARDS with Kalashnikovs stand around the office. TBuk and Frelow are off to his right; off to his left,
THREE SAMOAN BUTLERS have hoods cinched around their
heads.
In front of them, a 50 gallon drum of ACID.
PAVELLON
Before you tell me what you
witnessed, T-Buk, I must tend to
some ‘personnel matters.’
He nods to his bodyguard, who is wearing a special titanium
glove. He grabs the back of one of the hooded men’s heads
and pushes it into the drum.
A horrible, muffled SCREAM. After a couple of seconds,
Pavellon nods and the guard pulls up the head or what’s left
of it.
Skins drips off the bone -- no lips, just teeth.
let go and the body slumps to the floor.
The guards
29.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Security lapses like this cannot
happen again.
He nods and his guards slams down the wrist of a second
hooded man.
Pavellon grabs a drill and puts a 1/4” hole through his hand.
Even through the hood, the SCREAM is agonizing. The man
slumps.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Now, T-Buk. What did you see?
T-BUK
Those mo’fuckin’ Londoners - always
instigatin’ shit. I lookin’ at
this fine chiquita, near Dominick,
and shit if that homie no flip out
his Glock from under his wrists.
POP POP, El Mas... poor El Mas...
poor Gabriella.
PAVELLON
Plausible.
(to guard)
Hook him up to a polygraph machine.
T-buk forces a smile.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
If you are lying, I will personally
drill a hundred holes into you for a year.
T-BUK
Fuck yeah.
PAVELLON
Let our international friends know reward for The Jack Londoners is
ten million dollars. Alive!
CUT TO:
30.
EXT. BOX CAR - NIGHT
Riding the night train, Dominick gazes up at the Milky Way.
He’s mesmerized. The Londoners have dug out seats in the
tomatoes.
Razzle looks at his Blackberry.
RAZZLE
Two texts. One from Daniella, one
from Pavellon. Which one first?
SERIO
Daniella.
RAZZLE
Hottie says: Head to Ciudad
Juarez. Will make contact.
(beat)
Head of Mexican Cartel: ten
million for us alive!
KLONDIKE
Every gang will be after us.
DOMINICK
We head to Juarez. Hope Daniella
gets us across the border.
He looks at the starry sky.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
So beautiful. Let’s dream big.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
EXT. PATRZIMARO TRAIN STATION - MORNING
Dominick wakes to the eyes of small ten year old BOY staring
him in the face.
DOMINICK
What the fuck?
BOY
Diablo negro?
31.
The train has stopped in a lazy Pueblo. Roosters COCK-ADOODLE-DOO and peck about the base of the train; goats chew
on grass.
THREE BOYS (10) are helping themselves to tomatoes.
speaks to them in Spanish.
Hector
HECTOR
What’s happening boys? Don’t mind
us - we travel in comfort, eh?
[Que paso ninos, no se nosotros
estamos comodos].
BOY
(pointing at Dominick)
El es diablo negro?
HECTOR
No, el es un buen hombre. Llevate
los tomates, marcharte y mantente
callado.
He flips them some pesos.
EXT. TRAIN STATION PLATFORM - MORNING
The five Jack Londoners study a faded map of Mexico. Dominick
fingers their location.
DOMINICK
We’re here. Some four-hundred
miles from Ciudad Juarez. We
alternate, train, car, train, foot until we get there. Klondike, you
and Serio look for some wheels over
there.
(points)
We’ll look that way.
EXT. WALL SURROUNDING HACIENDA
Klondike gives Serio a leg up to peer over the wall.
SERIO
A white Bronco.
KLONDIKE
How we goin’ to get the gate open?
32.
SERIO
(looking)
There’s a gate opener - on the
visor.
EXT. PUEBLO STREET
Other than a few donkeys and closed businesses, Dominick,
Razzle, and Hector walk down an empty dirt road.
EXT. HACIENDA
Serio hot wires the Bronco underneath the steering column;
Klondike sits in the passenger seat.
Yawning, four members of the Mexican Death Squad gang walk
out onto the porch. They’re scrawny and emblazoned with
characteristically disconcerting spiral tattoos up their neck
and face.
They all have multiple ‘tear drop’ tattoos under their eyes indicating the number of people they’ve killed.
DEATH SQUAD LEADER
I must be dreamin’. Fuckin’
gringos in my Bronco.
SERIO
Homies! Help us out, we’re after
the Jack Londoners. Fuckin’ killed
El Mas! Ten million reward.
DEATH SQUAD LEADER
Who the fuck are you?
KLONDIKE
We’re the... Ernest Hemingways.
Serio looks at him, and then at his ‘Jack London’ tattoo.
TEAR DROP
Ernest Hemingways? That’s funny
gringo. I love Hemingway. Well
then, say ‘farewell... to your
arms!”
He unsheathes a huge machete.
33.
Klondike grabs a nearby five-gallon metal gas can and blocks
the machete swing.
Serio executes a low sweeping leg kick followed by a jab and
a straight punch -- down goes a Death Squad member.
Two take his place and Serio and them exchange a series of
jabs, straight punches, and open hand blocks.
Klondike takes a punch in the face and then blocks the next
punch with the metal gas can. He swings it around in a
violent circle mashing the heads of two attackers.
Serio lands a crescent moon kick on another and crunches his
final opponent with a thrust kick to the abdomen.
KLONDIKE
Let me drive, I gotta practice.
SERIO
NOW?
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
Serio driving, the Bronco SKIDS around the corner spooking
chickens and Hector.
SERIO
Get in!
Hector, Dominick, and Razzle pile in.
INT. BRONCO
Dominick unfolds a map.
DOMINICK
Stay off the main roads, avoid the
obvious. Pavellon will spare no
expense. Move it Serio!
EXT. DIRT ROAD
The Bronco flies over a dirt hill.
CUT TO:
34.
EXT. HILL TOP - DAY
The black Hummer H3 Alpha, with circulating satellite dish,
is parked on a hilltop overlooking a green valley.
INT. HUMMER
Four Wall Streeters surround British Shortsale, who sits in a
large swivel chair in front of a command council and a couple
of thirty-three inch monitors.
Shortsale guides a joystick. On the monitor, images beamed
back from a DRONE airplane. A speeding white Bronco appears!
SHORTSALE
Hello, why the hurry mate?
have a look.
Let’s
His SECOND sits in a smaller chair next to him wearing
headphones. He rotates a knob and the image zooms in.
‘Jack Londoners’ tatoo on Klondike’s forearm.
SHORTSALE (CONT’D)
(standing up)
Plug in their coordinates and route
us there.
SECOND
Estimated time to rendezvous thirty-five minutes. Or, I could
press this button and blow them
back to Oakland?
SHORTSALE
Are you kidding? Bite the hand
that feeds us? Pavellon’s made us
millions speculating currencies.
CUT TO:
EXT. INTERSECTION - DAY
A SCORPION crawls along a dirt road.
into oblivion by a golf club.
SHORTSALE
It’s in the hole!
Suddenly, it’s swatted
35.
He and his four associates wait at this remote, dusty
intersection with their Hummer behind them and golf clubs in
their hands.
A cloud of dust approaches.
The Bronco.
INT. BRONCO
Serio sees The Wall Streeters.
SERIO
Road block.
DOMINICK
Shit, so soon?
SERIO
I can go around?
DOMINICK
No, we need their wheels.
RAZZLE
(looking at Hummer)
Yes we do.
EXT. INTERSECTION - DAY
The Bronco comes to a stop and The Londoners get out -Dominick with his AR-15.
DOMINICK
From New York?
SHORTSALE
From New York. Nice coat.
DOMINICK
Maybe you know my cousin? Fellow
Wall Streeter - Andre Chapman?
SHORTSALE
We know Andre, his golf swing is
the worst in Manhattan. No
weapons.
Dominick nods, drops his AR-15; the Wall Streeters drop their
golf irons.
36.
SLOW-MOTION FIGHTING
A Wall Streeter’s face is hit by foot from a side snap kick
from Hector; another Wall Streeter’s face is hit by a lunge
punch -- sweat and blood fly; still another is kicked in the
stomach by Dominick.
Serio is hit in the face; Dominick removes his coat and uses
it to deflect punches.
FAST-MOTION
The two adversaries rapidly exchange snap, thrust, and jump
kicks; straight, reverse, and jab punches.
The momentum is on The Wall Streeters -- Klondike has his
legs swept from under him by a huge Wall Streeter, who then
puts him into a guillotine choke hold.
Razzle does a round house kick to his head and he lets
Klondike go. Fight momentum turns to The Londoners -- with
Dominick doing a crescent moon kick into a chest and Razzle
doing a haymaker punch into a face.
Two of the remaining Wall Streeters grab their golf clubs.
Swing, swing. Klondike grabs one, rips it from the Wall
Streeter’s hands, and backhands the handle into the man’s
forehead.
Shortsale is the only one still standing. He twirls the golf
club around like a baton. One hand to the other, he swings
it so fast he catches Hector in the leg and Razzle in the
shoulder.
But Dominick closes on him catching the golf club with his
jacket. He snaps it in half and The Londoners pummel him
mercilessly.
CUT TO:
EXT. INTERSECTION - LATER
The Immortal Skulls appear -- menacing like Ring Wraiths.
They survey the downed Wall Streeters and move on.
CUT TO:
37.
EXT. ALLIGATOR FEEDING AREA - DAY
Pavellon, in an immaculate suit, watches as his men feed the
alligators.
T-Buk, Frelow, and three other Kingston Crypts are shoved
forward by Pavellon’s bodyguards.
PAVELLON
Hello Kingstons. You look a little
nervous - as you should be.
T-BUK
We, we love El Mas.
PAVELLON
Relax. You passed T-Buk. You even
passed on the question: Do you
like Mexico?
Pavellon walks up and SHOOTS another Kingston member in the
head. He falls back into the alligator pit and is swarmed
and then devoured.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
He lied. Said he liked Mexico when
in reality, he didn’t.
(beat)
My father had grandiose plans to
integrate Oakland into The Cartel.
I will realize his vision.
EXT. PAVELLON’S COMPOUND - VALET PARKING AREA
T-BUK, Frelow, and his men wait for a limo.
FRELOW
How the fuck did you pass the liedetector test?
T-BUK
Fifteen hits of mescaline.
CUT TO:
38.
INT. HUMMER - DAY
Serio is driving with Klondike in the front seat. In back,
Razzle sits in the main swivel council seat fiddling the
space age equipment at his disposal.
RAZZLE
This thing’s hooked up to its own
fuckin’ satellite. Guided weapons,
police communications,
wanna make a stock trade?
KLONDIKE
Buy Apple. Symbol A-A-P-L.
RAZZLE
Done.
Razzle flicks some switches and a machine gun scope comes
into view on the monitor.
RAZZLE (CONT’D)
A fifty caliber machine gun.
When he adjusts some more buttons, there’s an internal
RUMBLING from within the vehicle.
A targeting image of the Hummer’s surroundings comes into
view. Razzle moves a targeting icon around the monitor with
a joystick. A half built, abandoned house comes into screen.
RAZZLE (CONT’D)
Laser guided missile.
DOMINICK
Test it.
Razzle presses the red button atop the joy stick -- there’s
RUMBLING beneath their feet.
EXT. HUMMER
A mechanized slot opens between the driver’s side door and
the passenger door and a Mini AIM-9 SIDEWINDER missile is
launched.
It explodes into the house sending wood splints high into the
air.
39.
INT. HUMMER
RAZZLE
It works.
Suddenly, Pavellon’s face comes on the monitor.
PAVELLON
Wall Streeters. Answer!
They look at one another, then Dominick.
scoots Razzle out of the seat.
He pauses, and then
DOMINICK
Pavellon, sir. I’m afraid The Wall
Streeters relinquished their ride.
Sir, we did not kill your father!
PAVELLON
My, my. If it isn’t The Jack
Londoners. I’m afraid T-Buk, being
an honest man, says you shot him.
Honest?
DOMINICK
Call off your wolves!
PAVELLON
Come in. Explain what happened -to my sister. No harm will come to
you.
DOMINICK
(beat)
Okay.
PAVELLON
There’s a Pemex gas station,
outside the town of Los Altos,
about seventy kilometers from you.
DOMINICK
We’ll be there.
Pavellon disappears from the monitor.
RAZZLE
It’s a trap.
I know.
DOMINICK
Plot an alternate course.
40.
A VOICE crackles from a small speaker in the back next to
Razzle.
DANIELLA (V.O.)
Calling London. Two Malditas
calling London!
The Londoners perk up.
Daniella.
SERIO
Where are you?
INT. CESSNA AIRPLANE
Daniella is piloting a Cessna Skyhawk with her copilot
Luscious.
DANIELLA
Thought you could use some eyes in
the sky.
Luscious looks through some binoculars.
LUSCIOUS
Road block. Dead ahead!
INT. HUMMER
SERIO
(yelling)
We’re turnin’ around.
take the wheel.
Klondike
KLONDIKE
Can’t drive, remember?
Serio doesn’t care. He crawls over equipment trying to get
in the back to talk to Daniella.
While Klondike tries to get a hold of the wheel, they hit a
POTHOLE sending Serio sprawling into the controls. He lands
on the RED button on the joystick.
The now familiar RUMBLING begins again.
Shit!
SERIO
What happened?
41.
RAZZLE
I don’t know! Shit. Whatever
happened, I can’t undo it!
On the monitor, there’s a LOCK on the Cessna.
AIM-9 Sidewinder is launched.
Another mini
HECTOR
Daniella listen! Do you have
parachutes?
DANIELLA (V.O.)
Yes.
Why?
HECTOR
Get them on and jump! There’s a
missile gonna jack you any second!
Jump!
INT. CESSNA
Daniella and Luscious grab their chutes and clip the belt
around their wastes. Luscious looks out the front and sees a
white streak approaching.
LUSCIOUS
Move it!
They open their respective doors and leap when --- the missile splits the Cessna in half.
EXT. SKY
Daniella calmly pulls her chord and the chute opens.
LUSCIOUS IS HYPERVENTILATING.
Eventually, she’s able to pull the chord.
INT. HUMMER
On the monitor, they see a vague outline of a chute.
SERIO
Let’s find them.
42.
DOMINICK
Yeah. Why the fuck is Klondike
driving?
CUT TO:
EXT. STREAM - DAY
The Hummer comes to a sliding stop in front of Daniella
kneeled over a stream rinsing off her face. She stands, her
dark, voluptuous body has scratch marks from landing in the
trees.
The doors open and The Londoners rush out.
DANIELLA
Thanks for the welcoming missile.
SERIO
It was Razzle...
RAZZLE
Shut-up!
LUSCIOUS
Let’s find Lucille.
CUT TO:
INT. HUMMER - DAY
With Luscious in the vehicle, Dominick, Razzle and Daniella
study a detailed map on the monitor.
DANIELLA
Even this road, Pavellon will have
a road block. Luscious, you okay?
Luscious shakes her head.
LUSCIOUS
My head really hurts.
CUT TO:
EXT. TROPICAL DECIDUOUS FOREST
The Hummer barrels down a dirt road.
43.
INT. HUMMER
Daniella lifts up a small cover on the council revealing
three blue buttons. Underneath, it reads: DRONE.
DANIELLA
More toys.
She flips a switch and on a side monitor opens revealing the
DRONE plane.
Razzle moves another joystick and the aerial view from the
drone changes. Razzle pats the Hummer.
RAZZLE
The gift that keeps on giving.
DANIELLA
Federales!
DOMINICK
Zoom in.
As Razzle manipulates the joystick, the monitor view changes
until a twenty car ‘Federales’ SUV road block comes into
view.
The SUV’s are aligned in the shape of a “V.”
DANIELLA
Crash the drone into the roadblock!
RAZZLE
Let’s see if I can’t fire off a
missile first.
He locks the laser-guided target finder on the SUV at the
point of the ‘V’ and gently squeezes his thumb.
No mini sidewinder this time, but a full blown AIM-9 launches
from the drone.
It follows its laser guidance system into the lead Federales
and explodes into a fantastic fireball.
INT. HUMMER
DANIELLA
Let’s get the rest.
44.
Daniella puts her hand on Serio’s and together they guide the
joystick. They crash the drone plane into the remaining
SUV’S.
EXT. ROADBLOCK
More vehicles are catapulted into the air. As the Hummer
speeds through the wreckage, the surviving Federales shoot at
it.
They’re met by FLAMES launched from each side of the Hummer
igniting men and machine.
INT. HUMMER
RAZZLE
Gotta have the flame-thrower.
EXT. ROADBLOCK
Men on fire, die agonizingly. A familiar VOICE comes over
the radio clipped to the lapel of a man covered in burns.
PAVELLON (V.O.)
Colonel? Colonel Saldivia!
happened?
What
EXT. ROADBLOCK - LATER
Through the flames, the motorcycles of The Immortal Skulls
come into view.
CUT TO:
EXT. RIVERBANK - DAY
Four of the Londoners consult a map, but they’re distracted;
Daniella and Luscious, topless, discreetly cool off in a pool
formed by the river.
DOMINICK
Low on gas. Roads are too
dangerous.
Silence.
Razzle pops up behind Dominick.
45.
RAZZLE
Santa’s here!
He thrusts forward two compact steel trunks.
the words: INFLATABLE MATERIAL.
On the outside,
RAZZLE (CONT’D)
We can go rafting river.
KLONDIKE
That’s river rafting.
No.
No.
SERIO
We should stay on land.
Daniella approaches squeezing water from her hair.
DANIELLA
These should do.
She flips up the hatches on the trunk and grabs a paddle
extending it to a greater length.
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
More my size.
She twirls it around and then unruffles a Kodiak raft.
SERIO
Can’t we just drive the Hummer down
the river?
EXT. RIVER - DAY
In Razzle’s raft, Hector, Dominick, and Luscious.
leave the Hummer, Razzle waves a tearful goodbye.
As they
Serio, in another raft with Daniella and Klondike, grips a
little hand rope tightly and fakes a smile at Daniella.
EXT. RIVER
Daniella and Klondike paddle one raft; Dominick and Hector
paddle the other.
Suddenly, they enter some class THREE rapids!
46.
Both rafts maneuver left avoiding rocks, then right and...
they’re flushed out at the end. All smiles.
CUT TO:
EXT. RIVER - AFTERNOON
Other than a few hundred flying insects, the river is still.
Dominick pulls out his cell phone and check messages; Razzle
notices and pulls out his -- followed by Serio, Hector and
Klondike.
As they read their texts, they begin to chuckle.
LUSCIOUS
What’s so funny?
DOMINICK
We take care of some Foster kids.
HECTOR
We just need a home for them.
LUSCIOUS
Do they know you’re in a gang?
DOMINICK
We fight to keep the gangs out of
the hood. For it to work -- we
have to be the baddest.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. RIVER - AFTERNOON
The sun peaks behind some hills and the slow moving water
begins to churn. The rafts are separated by a hundred yards
when Klondike, pokes his head up.
Everybody has fallen asleep.
calm to class FOUR rapids.
Quickly, the river changes from
KLONDIKE
Hey guys! Dominick! Wake up!
Quick paddle to shore!
In the other raft, Dominick, Luscious, Razzle, and Hector
poke their heads up. They look around frantically. Dominick
and Hector grab their paddles and try to paddle to shore.
47.
Behind them, Klondike and Serio power their raft safely to
the riverbank with Daniella inside.
EXT. WHITE WATER RAPIDS
Dominick and the three others are trouble. They go over some
enormous rocks and bounce side to side. Finally, the raft
gets turned around and FLIPS!
Rag dolls at the mercy of the river. Their heads above
water, the four are hurled... over a ten story waterfall!
Dominick’s jacket flutters like wings as he falls.
EXT. BOTTOM OF WATERFALL
Razzle’s head appears... and then Hector’s.
for air further downstream. No Luscious.
Dominick gasps
DOMINICK
(shouting)
Find Luscious!
Razzle and Hector swim back and dive below.
himself to shore.
Dominick drags
Serio and Daniella scale down the falls.
Klondike does a beautiful swan dive into the pool and drags
Razzle to safety.
RAZZLE
The undertow. Unbelievable!
Luscious.
Daniella runs up and down the riverbank, hysterical over
Luscious’s disappearance.
Lucille!
DANIELLA
Lucille!
She runs into the river, but Serio restrains her.
She begins to sob.
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
You don’t understand -- I’ve known
her all my life!
Hector looks down river and frowns.
Silence.
48.
Look.
HECTOR
The Red Dragons.
Down river a quarter mile, standing in the middle rope
suspension bridge that spans the river, four members of the
Asian gang, The Red Dragons, wait.
Shrunken heads still adorn their chests.
Daniella sees them.
DANIELLA
You keep looking. I’ll take care
of this.
As they pace the riverbank looking for Luscious, they watch
in amazement as Daniella runs onto the wooden bridge, and in
a flurry of straight punches, scissor blocks, and snap kicks -- she disposes of three of the Dragons.
The last Dragon lands a side kick sending her back-peddling
when, the wooden plank beneath her CRACKS.
She FALLS, but grabs on with one arm.
The Dragon moves towards her when she swings her right leg up
and kicks the wood plank in half underneath him.
He tries to grab a rope as he falls, but misses. He tumbles
into the rapids and disappears quickly.
She pulls herself up and looks back to The Londoners.
raises her fists in the air, and SCREAMS.
She
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
Luscious!
SERIO
She wear da pants in the family.
CUT TO:
INT. FUNERAL PARLOR - AFTERNOON
Pavellon cringes in emotional pain at his father’s coffin.
He’s surrounded by bodyguards and business associates.
49.
In the corner, his sister Gabriella is sitting in a
wheelchair. She’s still in shock and stares ahead blankly.
Pavellon pounds his fist on the coffin.
PAVELLON
Not even a body to view!
(he breathes)
Gangs, hunting alone, is not
working. Send out the word: work
in unison! Ten million per gang!
CUT TO:
EXT. RIVERBANK - AFTERNOON
The Immortal Skulls ride up and rev their engines. Across
the river, the abandoned rafts. Patiently, the Skulls ride
on.
CUT TO:
EXT. FOREST - DUSK
The five Londoners and Daniella run along a tiny path made by
the local animals: lynxes, skunks, and armadillos.
They’re tired. Serio drop his little briefcase, stops,
curses, and retrieves it.
CUT TO:
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - DUSK
They’re keeled over, gasping for air, next to some litter by
the tracks.
DANIELLA
(panting)
Thes’ tracks head north.
a migrant train.
Probably
She laughs; Dominick and the boys sit down -- exhausted.
CUT TO:
50.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
A train WHISTLE awakens all six.
backs.
They stretch their sore
DOMINICK
We stagger. Daniella first, Serio,
Razzle, Hector, Klondike, and me.
The train comes into view. There are some thirty boxcars and
on top, a small, bustling village of mostly young migrating
men from Central America.
Card games, cooking, music -- kerosene lights.
Clementine.
A goat named
After a few boxcars pass, the group jumps on, until Dominick
pulls himself up last behind Klondike.
EXT. BOX CAR TOP - NIGHT
Serio and Daniella carefully maneuver through resting
migrants covered in blankets, chickens and barking dogs until
they meet up with the others down the way. Quietly, they sit
down.
Hector finds himself close to an economic MIGRANT and his
twelve year old daughter -- OLIVIA.
HECTOR
Where you from?
MIGRANT
El Salvador.
HECTOR
How’s life in El Salvador?
MIGRANT
Uncertainty. That’s what The
Cartel creates. Now they want
half the salaries from our
teachers. What will happen next?
A prison, in itself.
HECTOR
Will it change?
MIGRANT
It has to.
51.
HECTOR
(to little girl)
Hello, what’s your name?
OLIVIA
Olivia.
HECTOR
Hello, Olivia.
CUT TO:
EXT. BOX CAR TOP - NIGHT
The Migrant worker taps on Hector and gestures to the end of
the boxcar.
FIVE FIGURES stealthily move towards them -- THE BRAVA [The
Brotherhood]. Neo-Nazis from Russia.
A WOMAN in their way gets tossed into the darkness. The
Migrant raises his eyebrows towards the other end of boxcar,
another gang approaches, The 7th Street Panthers. They’re
still wearing hoods and dark glasses.
Wake up!
HECTOR
Comin’ from both sides!
Klondike and Danielle leap up and assume a parallel stance
against The Panthers. Serio fires an arrow from his wrist
cross-bow striking a Panther in the neck -- he falls off the
train.
Hector, Dominick, and Razzle face off against The Bratva
delivering a returning wave kick, a lunge punch, and jump
kick respectively.
The Bratva’s counter with downward blocks and chasing
punches.
Serio loads another dart and fires it, hitting a Bratva gang
member in the leg.
Razzle gets knocked back and trips over a suitcase; a 7th
Streeter stomp-kicks him.
Another picks up a kerosene light and throws it at Klondike,
hitting him in the head and catching his sleeve on fire.
52.
Daniella blocks four alternate punches thrown at her by
Panthers, but takes an axe kick in the jaw.
Dominick dishes out a liver shot and then a roundhouse kick
into another Bratva’s ribs.
BRATVA LEADER
(to Dominick)
You won’t find your color in mother
Russia -- we put blacks in Gulag
and have our drunk, mentally ill
fuck them.
DOMINICK
Fuck raciest mother Russia.
Dominick tags him with a scissor punch and a double kick.
But, the others Londoners are losing, taking a barrage of
straight punches and jump kicks. Live chickens run
everywhere!
Klondike uses vertical knife blocks to thwart punches while
trying to put out the FLAMES on his sleeve.
His feet are swept from him and he rolls off the boxcar -- he
manages to grab a hand rail -- dangles over the side.
Olivia tries to run past a Bratva member, but he backhands
her and she rolls off the other side of the train; she barely
holds on.
Suddenly, the Bratva Leader stiffens up and tries to pull
something out of his back. A large KNIFE put there by the
Migrant.
Another migrant smashes a huge wine bottle on the head of
another Russian. Daniella pulls up the Migrant’s daughter,
Olivia, and leads her and her father to safety.
Serio pulls Klondike up and douses the flames.
Razzle takes an elbow in the face and is thrown between
boxcars landing hard on the coupler.
A 7th Streeter jumps down and strangles him. He’s sucking
the life out of Razzle, when he musters a twist move and
shoves him off the coupler!
53.
The 7th Streeter’s foot bounces off the rail, then is mashed
under the train wheel. He’s minced to pieces.
Serio and Dominick simultaneously kick each side of a
Bratva’s head -- crunching it.
Daniella and Klondike join them and they finish off the last
of the 7th Streeters and Bratvas with simultaneous jump kicks
to their chests sending them flying off the train.
The village regroups.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
(breathing heavily)
Razzle, take that body.
He indicates the body of a 7th Streeter.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
Put my coat on him.
SERIO
You’re givin’ up your gear - no!
DOMINICK
Just this once.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. AERIAL VIEW - SUNRISE
As the train rolls on, the topography changes from rain
forest to desert.
CUT TO:
INT. PAVELLON’S OFFICE - EARLY MORNING
Pavellon is on the phone when his second, LIEUTENANT MEDINA
enters.
LIEUTENANT MEDINA
Sir, we just got word they’re on a
train to Ciudad Juarez.
Medina moves to a set of computer monitors, types in some
commands, and up comes a train map of Mexico. A light BEEPS
on the northern section of the map outside of Ciudad Juarez.
54.
PAVELLON
Send in the Apache.
visual feed?
Do we have a
LIEUTENANT MEDINA
Yes.
PAVELLON
Once we ID them, target only their
boxcar. That’s one of our drug
shipment trains.
LIEUTENANT MEDINA
Also sir...
He opens the door revealing a dirty and wet Luscious.
She stares blankly ahead, in shock.
PAVELLON
Beautiful.
LIEUTENANT MEDINA
We found her half dead on the banks
of the Lerna River.
Pavellon snaps his fingers. She doesn’t respond. He goes to
his desk and pulls out an enormous Tiffany diamond necklace.
He waves it in front of her face.
PAVELLON
You deserve to be a Cartel princess
and -- entertain I.M.F. officials.
(whispers into her ear)
Sound good?
She suddenly snaps out of her trance and grabs the necklace.
LUSCIOUS
Sounds bad.
CUT TO:
EXT. APACHE HELICOPTER GUNSHIP - MORNING
An AH-64 Apache Helicopter Gunship makes a sweeping turn.
Below, the migrant train.
55.
INT. PAVELLON’S OFFICE
Medina adjusts some knobs and a visual feed from the gunship
appears on the monitor.
PAVELLON
Find The Londoners.
Zoom in.
The image combs over the sleeping migrants and chickens,
until it comes upon three SLEEPING figures - one with
Dominick’s Jack London jackets on.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Sleeping beauties. Destroy it!
INT. APACHE COCKPIT
The pilot presses a red button.
EXT. APACHE HELICOPTER
With its trademark menacing tilt towards its target, the
gunship launches two missiles, one from each side.
EXT. BOX CAR
It’s obliterated!
The rest of the train continues on.
INT. LIVESTOCK BOX CAR
Half sleeping, they react to the explosion. Dominick,
Hector, Razzle, Klondike, Serio, and Daniella are up close
and personal with pigs, chickens, and bales of marijuana.
SERIO
(looks at the birds and
pigs)
Mama died from the bird flu. Daddy
died from the swine flu. I’m gonna
die from both.
INT. PAVELLON’S OFFICE
Pavellon watches.
A slight smile comes across his face.
56.
PAVELLON
(up to heavens)
Papa. You’ve been avenged.
CUT TO:
EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF CIUDAD JUAREZ - NIGHT
Before the train reaches the station, The Londoners and
Daniella jump off the train.
DANIELLA
We’ll be safe at my aunt’s.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
EXT. BOXCAR WRECKAGE - MORNING
At the smoldering location where the boxcar was destroyed,
INVESTIGATORS, wearing white protection suits with surgical
masks, comb the area.
The Immortal Skulls arrive unnoticed.
An Investigator takes off his mask and opens his cell phone.
He holds up a severed arm with the words ‘Bratva’ tattooed on
the forearm.
INVESTIGATOR
(into cell phone)
Pavellon, sir. No evidence the
Jack Londoners were killed. Only
body parts from the Bratvas and -The 7th Streeters.
He kicks over a burned body.
INT. PAVELLON’S BEDROOM
Pavellon sits upright amid burgundy satin sheets and
Luscious.
PAVELLON
My Russian friends.
assessment?
Your
57.
INVESTIGATOR (V.O.)
They’re still alive, in Ciudad
Juarez by now.
He hangs up?
PAVELLON
Do you know where they’ll go in
Juarez?
LUSCIOUS
I have an idea.
She holds up a key dangling from her necklace.
CUT TO:
EXT. CIUDAD JUAREZ - MORNING
The most violent city in the morning sunlight.
SUPERIMPOSE:
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO
A beautiful Hacienda surrounded by a mammoth security wall.
INT. HACIENDA BEDROOM - MORNING
Daniella opens the door to a high ceiling, plush bedroom
where Klondike and Razzle are crashed.
DANIELLA
Wake up!
INT. KITCHEN
On a Durango dining table, there’s a huge plate of huevos
rancheros and toast. Everybody digs in. Daniella holds up a
‘manhole cover remover’ - a steel rod with snake tongue tip.
DOMINICK
What’s the plan?
DANIELLA
About five blocks from here,
(lifts steel rod)
through a manhole.
58.
She holds up a KEY around her necklace.
Luscious.
The same one as
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
To a special VIP tunnel across the
border. To El Paso.
RAZZLE
VIP?
DANIELLA
You’ll see. Once we’re across, I
say adios. It’s Sunday. You’ll
see some strange sights on the
streets. ‘The Disappeared.’ Don’t
be frightened.
SERIO
What’d you mean? That sounds like
supernatural shit!
DANIELLA
Mothers crying out for their
daughters. Daughters crying out
for their mothers. Ghosts.
SERIO
(quivering)
Oh... shit.
DANIELLA
Over the last ten years, about
eight-hundred Juarez girls have...
disappeared. All young.
DOMINICK
Sold into prostitution?
DANIELLA
By The Cartel.
Silence.
Daniella checks her cell phone.
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
Text from Pavellon last night:
‘All Juarez gangs. Kill
Londoners.’
*
59.
SERIO
Better to die from gangs than
ghosts.
CUT TO:
EXT. HACIENDA - FRONTERA DISTRICT - MORNING
Daniella peeks out a door built into a pre-cast concrete wall
that surrounds the hacienda.
Coast clear, she motions for The Londoners to follow.
EXT. L. GUZMAN STREET
The Londoners are in disguise, sort of, wearing long sleeve
shirts and baseball caps with “IMPERIA” emblazoned on the
front.
Save for an old man sweeping, they hurry down the empty
street following Daniella.
EXT. CORNER L. GUZMAN AND LAGUNA DE BALCAZAR STREET
She halts the others and peers around the corner -- right in
the face of THE SWINE FOOS.
They’re wearing 3M particulate respirator masks and have
large needles in round belt holsters.
Klondike elbows one in the face.
scene delicately choreographed.
With needles in play, fight
Two Swines whip out their needles but Dominick and Serio
thrust kick them out of their hands. Hector drops his
opponent with a knee shattering side kick.
Daniella drops a Swine with a neck chop.
They hurry on.
EXT. INTERSECTION OF LAGUNA DE BLACAZAR ST. AND LAGUNA ST.
MARCOS
Serio stops and his jaw drops. In the middle of the street,
a MASS OF WOMEN in long flowing robes, like white Burkas -and only one eye is exposed.
60.
While the mothers are clearly twirling on the ground, ‘the
daughters’ appear to be floating just off the ground.
“THE DISAPPEARED.” Daughters WAILING for their mothers.
Mothers, WAILING for their missing daughters. Ghosts indeed.
Serio grabs Klondike’s hand.
The spinning cloud descends upon The Londoners and Daniella.
Guilty or innocent? The mothers and daughters pass around,
through, and OVER them. Innocent.
Serio has peed himself.
Behind him, four members of The Mexican Death Squad run into
the cloud of the WAILING ghosts.
The ghosts move on -- four corpses remain behind!
Klondike grabs petrified Serio and they hurry off.
EXT. LAGUNA DE BUSTILLOS STREET
The Londoners and Daniella are in a dead run. From the
alleys, abandoned buildings, and other crags, gangs appear.
THE PIT BRAWLERS. This gang’s trademark: ferocious dogs on
leashes -- a crossbreed of Pit Bull and Mastiffs (THE LAND
SHARK DOGS).
THE ACAPULCO ARSONISTS -- black fire helmets and carrying
compact flame throwers.
RUMBLING RAMPS. Skateboarders carrying billy-clubs.
all fall in line chasing the Londoners.
They
EXT. VALLE DEL YAGUI STREET
Under a myriad of telephone wires, the chase continues down
Valle del Yagui St.
EXT. INTERSECTION OF VALLE DEL YAGUI STREET AND IMPRESONERES
STREET - MANHOLE
Daniella stops at a manhole, but before she can insert the
manhole cover remover, The Ramps are upon them. One lands a
jab with his billy club to Dominick’s liver.
61.
Hector greets one with a scissor punch; Razzle strikes
another with a lead-hand power punch.
Two Ramps club Klondike before he grabs each billy-club and
yanks them together. Two heads violently collide.
Serio loads his wrist-crossbow and fires, loads again and
fires -- hitting a Land Shark Dogs and a Pit Brawler.
Daniella inserts the manhole cover remover and lifts up the
steel dish. She jumps down, followed by Serio, Hector, and
Razzle.
Klondike swings his dual billy clubs like a Sensei, striking
down the remaining Ramps and Dog Fighters.
He puts the manhole cover back in place and just as The
Arsonists arrive.
As the Arsonists claw at the manhole, they look up in awe.
Pininfarina Executive Helicopter lands right next to them.
Luscious steps out. She places a stick of dynamite in the
manhole and lights the fuse.
LUSCIOUS
I’m in charge now.
INT. SEWER
The five trudge through knee high muck.
Serio inhales.
SERIO
(mimicking)
‘Let’s go to Mexico...”
BOOM!
The SHOCK WAVE is deafening.
DANIELLA
Hurry!
INT. FORK IN THE SEWER
At a fork in the sewer, Daniella leads them to the left.
A
62.
BACK TO INTERSECTION OF VALLE DEL YAGUI STREET AND
IMPRESONERES STREET
The manhole lands across the street and Luscious, the
Arsonists, and the return of two more gangs, the Green
Gangsters and SF Sliders, disappear under the street.
The street is suddenly empty. Then, The Immortal Skulls ride
up. Skull Leader, Raines, kicks over the body of a Ramp,
revealing his youthful face.
RAINES
So young. Find out where these
sewers lead.
INT. SEWER
Daniella halts at a seemingly innocuous spot. She wipes away
some grime -- a tiny hole. She removes her key from her
necklace and inserts it in a dark hole. She turns the key.
CREAK - a steel door opens into a hidden tunnel.
KLONDIKE
Whoa!
DANIELLA
Everybody in. To your right.
hoses.
Some
She ushers everybody through the concealed door.
INT. FORK IN THE SEWER
Luscious leads the gang caravan through the sewer -- at the
fork -- they too go left.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
They rinse off with hoses over a marble floor and look around
in amazement.
Daniella lifts some large levered circuit breakers and bright
overhead lights come on, illuminating an airport walkway
escalator that stretches as far as the eye can see.
Among the cobwebs, there are some high-end retail outlets
albeit closed: Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Coco Channel.
63.
RAZZLE
Holy shit!
DANIELLA
Cost a hundred grand for this key.
Back in the day - this place did
brisk business twenty-four seven.
She lifts a last lever and the moving walkway escalator
starts up to a speed of FIVE miles per hour.
DOMINICK
Where does it lead?
Texas.
DANIELLA
Pretty cool, huh?
HECTOR
The land of minium wage, no thank
you.
DANIELLA
I meant the tunnel.
There’s a CLANK outside the door.
Shit!
DANIELLA (CONT’D)
Guess what?
SERIO
What?
DOMINICK
Time to start running.
They sprint down the escalator.
INT. SEWER
Luscious inserts her key. She pulls back the heavy door; the
Arsonists first, followed by the hemp and gay ass-kickers!
INT. VIP TUNNEL
The Londoners and Daniella in a full run. Klondike in the
back. With the extra speed from the escalator, they’re
moving.
64.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Luscious and her group on the dead run.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Daniella -- passes under tunnel light after tunnel light.
INT VIP TUNNEL
Ditto Luscious.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Serio looks up.
More and more lights are not working.
SERIO
It’s getting dark!
DANIELLA
Keep running!
INT. VIP TUNNEL
The Londoners look up nervously -- the last light.
They disappear into total darkness.
FOOTSTEPS.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Soon after, the Arsonists, Luscious and the rest vanish into
the dark.
LUSCIOUS
Light the way fools!
An Arsonist gives his FLAME THROWER a burst and we get a a
brief glimpse of a coffin like tunnel.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
FOOTSTEPS.
BREATHING.
DARKNESS.
65.
DOMINICK
Shit. The tunnel roof is getting
lower.
DANIELLA
I hear them!
A burst of light and a COLLISION of bodies.
KLONDIKE
Keep going! I’ll handle this!
A SCUFFLE.
We hear the sound of faces getting PUNCHED.
A FLAME, coming from Klondike, lights up the tunnel igniting
two Arsonists. An unconscious Arsonist lies at Klondike’s
feet.
He unleashes another flame blast -- just missing Luscious.
flame races past Klondike’s head before he returns fires.
An Arsonist rolls around on the escalator trying to
extinguishes the flames... Klondike runs on.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Klondike, alone, runs down the tunnel occasionally igniting
his flame thrower to light the way.
Dominick!
KLONDIKE
Serio!
Silence.
SERIO
Here!
Man.
KLONDIKE
Glad to see you!
DANIELLA
Keep lightin’ the way!
He gives a burst from his flamethrower.
INT. VIP TUNNEL
Under the light of some butane lighters, Luscious winces as
an SF SLIDER removes burnt clothing from her back.
A
66.
The escalator transports them along.
LUSCIOUS
We don’t have much time.
Let’s go!
She dashes off.
CUT TO:
INT. MENTAL WARD - ROOM
Pavellon is stroking the hair of Gabriella. In her
wheelchair, she’s positioned in front of a tall window
overlooking a beautiful lawn.
There’s a KNOCK and LT. MEDINA enters holding some
photographs.
LIEUTENANT MEDINA
Sir. We’ve just received these
photos from our Chinese friends.
Pavellon looks at them -- shocked.
T-Buk.
PAVELLON
Get me my helicopter.
INT. VIP TUNNEL END
The escalator comes to an abrupt end and The Londoners take a
spill, piling into one another. Klondike fires the flame
thrower. A hand rail ladder leading up a tube to the
surface.
DANIELLA
Up there!
Dominick scurries up the ladder followed by Razzle, whom
lights his lighter. A metallic wheel. Dominick tries to
unscrew it. He GRUNTS.
DOMINICK
Klondike!
Klondike pushes his way up and grimaces as he turns the
wheel. It unscrews. He pushes the top back. Dirt falls in
his face.
67.
EXT. ATV [ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES] RENTAL LOT - OUTHOUSES
Behind some deluxe Andy Gump outhouses, Klondike lifts
himself out, followed by the others.
With tents scattered about, they’ve arrived at a massive new
outdoor ATV rental and tour outfit . A sign reads: Texas
ATV Trails Grand Opening!
RAZZLE
This place looks good!
SERIO
America!
DOMINICK
Block this hatch?
DANIELLA
I don’t remember this place?
HECTOR
Cause it’s new.
Klondike picks up an outhouse and places it on top of the
hatch.
DOMINICK
Serio, poke a hole in the shit
house.
Serio looks at him, laughs and nods. He loads his wrist
crossbow and fires an arrow into the bottom of the outhouse.
Human waste floods over the hatch.
EXT. RENTAL COUNTER
There’s four staff members renting vehicles to various
parties. Dominick steps up to a helpful GIRL with a “U of
Texas at El Paso” sweatshirt.
DANIELLA
Three of those. Please.
She points to three, two seater Polaris Ranger RZR’s [RAZORS]
ATVs.
68.
GIRL
Certainly, I’ll need three drivers’
licenses and a credit card.
DOMINICK
Hector.
HECTOR
What?
DOMINICK
Credit card.
HECTOR
Use yours man!
DOMINICK
Hector, not now.
Across the lot, the OUTHOUSE is shoved aside and Luscious and
other gangs pour out like termites.
Whoops -- right into the crap!
DANIELLA
Keys, please!
Hector sets down the card; Daniella hops over the counter and
grabs some keys.
She sprints towards the Razors; followed by The Londoners.
GIRL
Hey!
CUT TO:
EXT. ATV RENTAL LOT - STAGING AREA - DAY
They jump on the Rancher ATVs and pair off as such:
Dominick/Hector; Serio/Daniella; and Hector and Klondike.
They REV the powerful engines and move forward.
Klondike, who reverses it into another ATV.
HECTOR
Why are you driving?
KLONDIKE
Good point.
Except
69.
They switch and hurry to catch up with the others.
CUT TO:
EXT. ATV RENTAL LOT - DAY
Luscious catches sight of Klondike’s accident and motions for
The Arsonists, SF Sliders, Green Gangsters, Death Squad,
Librarians, THE NIGERIAN NIGHTMARES, BOSTON SOUTHIES, TOKYO
TIGERS, and LA MARAS from El Salvador to all follow her.
They BICKER about the smell.
EXT. ATV RENTAL LOT - STAGING AREA
The gangs overwhelm the staff and steal dozens of single
seater black Honda ATV FOURTRAXS.
CUT TO:
EXT. CHIHUAHUAN DESERT - DAY
An empty Texas desert save some scattered coyote bushes.
Three Polaris Ranger Razors ATVs come into view --- chased by dozens of Honda ATV Fourtraxs!
EXT. DIRT ROAD
The Londoners, past scraggly Desert Willow trees.
A Tokyo Tiger close in.
a sword, Razzle ducks.
One speeds next to Razzle and swings
Serio uses his wrist crossbow and shoots the Tiger’s tire.
He wobbles sideways bumping into another ATV.
A three, Fourtrax ATV crash ensues -- bodies fly everywhere!
EXT. DIRT ROAD
Two Southies appear on each side of Hector and Klondike
waving chains. One swings and the chain misses Klondike, but
WRAPS around the roll bar.
70.
Hector guns it and the thrust yanks the Southie, attached by
the chain, out of his ATV.
He’s dragged along the road, SCREAMING, until Hector take a
sharp turn smashing him into a boulder. The arm comes off.
EXT. ROCKY OUTCROP
The Londoners and Daniella come to a quick stop.
DANIELLA
Anyone got a plan?
RAZZLE
Middle of nowhere - we’re screwed!
KLONDIKE
Buck would want us to go to higher
ground and make a stand.
DOMINICK
Yeah.
Wheels spinning in the dirt, they race away.
CUT TO:
EXT. DRY RIVER BED
Four Nigerian Nightmare Fourtraxs have outflanked
The Londoners and race straight towards them.
DANIELLA
What the...?
It’s a game of chicken.
No one flinches!
Dominick and Razzle’s ATV collide with another sending them
into a SPIN.
Two Nigerian’s ATV Fourtraxs are clipped and sent tumbling
end-over-end.
Serio and Daniella roll over, but land right-side-up.
Hector and Klondike stick their fists out and each BELT a
Nigerian as they pass.
The Londoners regroup and motor forward.
71.
Not far behind, Luscious and dozens of ATVs fly over a ridge,
scaring off a clan of ROADRUNNERS.
CUT TO:
EXT. COLLAPSED BRIGE - DAY
They come upon a missing ten foot section of a bridge
spanning a rocky, dry riverbed.
DOMINICK
Hold on Razzle Dazzle!
Dominick gathers speed, and as they make the jump!
Their back wheels just clear.
The others do the same.
Their pursuers aren’t so lucky -- for every ATV that clears
the jump, one does not. They die in a rocky explosion.
CUT TO:
EXT. HILLTOP VANTAGE POINT - DAY
The Londoners and Daniella come to a stop, calmly get off
their ATV’s and prepare to fight.
DANIELLA
Always wanted to die in a desert.
Really?
SERIO
You’ve thought about this?
KLONDIKE
Constant bickering.
They look upon dozens of approaching gangs. Klondike sees a
rattle snake next to a dead Blue Palo Verde tree
Luscious brings the pack to a halt some fifty yards below
them. She gets off her ATV.
DANIELLA
Lucille?
LUSCIOUS
Sorry best friend.
She fondles her diamond necklace.
72.
LUSCIOUS (CONT’D)
Found a new one.
She turns and yells at the gangs behind her.
LUSCIOUS (CONT’D)
We can’t take you back to Mexico!
Kill them!
Just then, a crew of some twenty Immortal Skulls ride up
behind The Londoners.
The Londoners turn and prepare to fight them, when RAINES
holds up a ‘peace sign.’ He takes off his black helmet;
shades stay on.
RAINES
California Narcotics Enforcement.
We’ve been looking for you.
He has dirty blonde hair, green eyes; they work for the CNE -California Narcotics Enforcement.
DOMINICK
What da fuck?
RAINES
My father was a friend of Bucks.
You want to get back to Oakland
alive?
SERIO
Yes!
His crew of six dismount and assume an immovable stance.
Running full speed at -- The Arsonists, SF Sliders, Green
Gangsters, Death Squad, Nigerian Nightmares (what’s left),
Librarians, Boston Southies, Tokyo Tigers and La Maras.
Klondike grabs that nearby rattlesnake and throws it at La
Maras.
With their thick motorcycle gloves, two CNE agents rip off
logs of columnar cacti and swing them around striking some SF
Sliders.
On the ground, Serio fires off a wrist arrow, avoids some
kicks, and fires off another.
73.
Dominick and Razzle go from an X-stance into a reverse
roundhouse kick stunning two Green Gangsters.
Other CNE agents lead with lunge, mountain and double fisted
punches. The punches are met by The Southies with downward,
backhand, and vertical knife hand blocks.
Daniella hits Luscious with a U-punch and she responds with a
sweeping leg kick. Rapid straight punches met with speedy
backhand blocks.
ROW OF FIGHTERS
U-punches, uppercuts, liver shots, hooks and haymakers -- The
Londoners and the CNEs dispense opponent after opponent.
La Maras and The Death Squads use snap, thrust, jump, side,
roundhouse, back, and stamping kicks and shift the momentum.
Luscious lands a stunning side kick into Daniella’s stomach
and she goes down. These two go out it the whole time.
A Tokyo Tiger cracks Dominick’s kidney with a crescent moon
kick. Klondike is pinned and pummeled by four Green
Gangsters.
Serio and Razzle are hit with consecutive punches.
agent has his neck twisted and broken.
A CNE
The other gangs slowly move in -- their numbers too large.
Klondike is pinned and has his face CUT with a knife.
The Jack Londoners and the CNE are getting their asses
kicked.
ALL LOOKS LOST.
Dominick, amid a punch to the face, peers up and sees a
blurry outline of a helicopter.
INT. AGUSTA EXECUTIVE HELICOPTER
Pavellon pulls a HOOD off of T-BUK. With his hands bound,
he’s forced to look at the fight below.
T-BUK
I swear Pavellon sir! I had
nothin’ to do with killing El Mas it was Frelow!
74.
Frelow is behind him.
FRELOW
Fuck you T-Buk!
PAVELLON
Satellite photos... say otherwise!
He kicks T-Buk out the door!
EXT. HILLTOP
Daniella and Luscious are fighting evenly when THUMP!
T-Buk lands directly on top of Luscious.
Followed by Frelow.
Her back SNAPS.
BACK TO HELICOPTER
Pavellon frowns at Luscious’s dead body.
PAVELLON
Sorry.
He leans out and speaks through a bullhorn.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Cease fighting! Cease fighting!
The perpetrator of my father’s
murder has been caught - caught by
a satellite photo. Cease fighting
and return home!
The fighting stops.
He throws out bundles of money.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Sorry for your troubles!
The helicopter flies off.
SERIO
Sorry?
DOMINICK
(to Raines)
Thanks man. You saved us.
75.
RAINES
Thank Buck. We’ll take the dead
gang members in and collect the
reward, under your name.
Dominick nods.
RAINES (CONT’D)
We don’t exist.
DOMINICK
We could use it.
RAINES
I know - for the kids.
DOMINICK
For the kids.
Daniella cradles Luscious’s head. Serio goes to her,
followed by Dominick, Razzle, Hector, and Klondike.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
EXT. - KINCAID’S BAYHOUSE RESTAURANT - JACK LONDON SQUARE DAY
The Londoners come out of Buck’s favorite restaurant with TEN
FOSTER BOYS, ages five through twelve.
Hector’s arm is in a cast; Klondike has a small band-aid
covering a huge facial scar. Dominick as a new leather coat.
Jack London Square is all decked out in balloons and ribbons.
RAZZLE
What’s goin’ on?
No idea.
DOMINICK
Is that Pavellon?
There are rows of seats full of prominent citizens and city
officials.
The MAYOR, a JUDGE, a POLICE CHIEF in uniform. Chamber of
Commerce signs are posted. They APPLAUSE for --- Pavellon, all smiles. He hands the Mayor an oversized
check for Five Million Dollars!
76.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
Razzle, Serio, takes the kids to
the van.
Dominick walks over to the edge of the event.
PAVELLON
We have here today representatives
from California’s judicial, law
enforcement, and political
establishments. With this new
agreement, CP Enterprises will open
California’s first ‘for profit
prison.’ Taxpayers will save
millions, and with our model for
rehabilitation, prisoners will
themselves become tax payers!
There’s a round of applause.
PAVELLON (CONT’D)
Also, in memory of my father, I
give this check, for five million
dollars, to the City of Oakland for
The Gabriella Muneca Gonzales
Hospital For Diabetic Teens.
He pulls back the sheet revealing -- another grand model of a
hospital.
Dominick catches sight of Raines and four other CNE Agents,
sitting on their bikes.
Raines.
DOMINICK
What’d you doin’ here?
RAINES
Hello Dominick. New coat?
DOMINICK
New coat.
RAINES
Did your non-profit receive all the
‘reward money’ from the Feds?
DOMINICK
All three hundred grand.
you.
Thanks to
77.
RAINES
Did you, blow it all on shoes?
DOMINICK
Sure did.
He points to his Foster kids getting into a Dodge Caravan,
all with NEW SHOES.
DOMINICK (CONT’D)
What’s goin’ on here?
RAINES
N-I-M-B-Y.
A WAITER hands Pavellon some Caviar.
Nimby?
DOMINICK
What da fuck is that?
Raines nods to the same WAITER.
Pavellon begins to GAG.
He falls over cupping his throat.
Raines lowers his shades.
RAINES
NIMBY. Not In My Back Yard Pavellon. See ya round, neighbor.
He fires up his bike and they drive away.
surrounding an already dead Pavellon.
There is chaos
MAYOR
Call 911!
CUT TO:
EXT. TRESTLE GLEN MANSION - DAY
Two Caravans pulls up next to a completely remodelled and
painted home. The Jack Londoners and their Foster kids pile
out.
Dominick looks on proudly.
DOMINICK
(to himself)
All done Buck.
78.
SERIO
Home sweet home!
FOSTER KIDS
Home sweet home!
THE END