BACK INVENT03 23' INVENTOR'S DAUGHTER episode: bomb threat EXT NIGHT WIDE: PRISON WALL (a man dressed in all black, carrying a black canvas duffle bag, approaches the high prison wall, looks both ways, looks up left and right, puts down the duffle, unzips it, pulls out several shape-charge explosive sticks, attaches them to the wall in a rectangle the size of a door, pulls out a remote control detonator, backs away along the wall while turning on the power, a green light goes on, he leans against wall, covers his face with one arm, presses button, boom, a door-shaped hole appears in the wall, seconds later, the three Russian agents who kidnapped Colonel Abernathy run out and exit frame with the bomber) INT NIGHT WIDE: MICHAELA'S BEDROOM (light breaks into the room from the hallway as Dad opens the door and quietly approaches Michaela, rubs her arm) DAD Michaela. Michaela, sweetie, wake up. MICHAELA (rolls over, looks at window, turns to Dad, sleepy) It's not even light yet. It's not time to get up. DAD We have an emergency. MICHAELA (sits up) What's wrong? DAD Those enemy agents who kidnapped Colonel Abernathy... they escaped from prison. MICHAELA (throws back covers, sits up) You want me to capture them? DAD Colonel Abernathy thinks the new helmet system will help you track them down before they leave the country. (exiting) Get dressed and meet me down in the backyard. I'll have the beta version of your helmet ready for you when you come down. EXT NIGHT WIDE: MICHAELA'S BACKYARD DAD (now wearing a comm headset, kneels and holds the helmet in one hand and types at a laptop computer with the other as Michaela enters) Okay. Okay. Okay. MICHAELA I'm ready. DAD Good, so am I. (offers helmet) MICHAELA (takes and puts on helmet) It looks the same as the prototype helmet. DAD (puts battery belt around her waist) It's the same helmet. The major change is that I've increased the battery power. You should have enough power to use more than one of the devices at once. And the transporter and the helicopter can now support TWO full-grown men. (reads computer screen) You are go for power on. MICHAELA HELMET SYSTEM ON. MOTHER System start up. All systems go. DAD Sound check. MICHAELA Testing one, two, three. DAD I hear you. Can you hear me? Testing one, two, three. MICHAELA (thumbs up) What else do I have to know? DAD I just rigged a way for me to see whatever you're left eye piece is looking at. You can send a snap shot of what you see to my computer. MICHAELA Cool! DAD The command is SNAP PICTURE. MICHAELA (looks toward workshop) SNAP PICTURE. (a picture of the workshop appears on the computer) (looks toward house) SNAP PICTURE. (a picture of the house appears on the computer) DAD Good. Both pictures are clear as crystal. You can send pictures one after another as fast as you can say the command. MICHAELA Okay, I guess I'm ready. But where do I look for the enemy agents? DAD Well, the Army and the police are covering all airports, seaports, railroads, bus terminals and highways out of town. MICHAELA So, what's left? DAD Well, Abernathy says there's a possibility that the agents won't leave town right away. They may lay low for a while. Army intelligence says the most likely place for them to hide is in a section of the city called Little Moscow. If they're hiding there somewhere, your see-through camera should be able to find them. MICHAELA Okay. That's where I'll go, then. (bends knees) Can I go fast? DAD You may go fast. MICHAELA MOVE-ME UP NINE. (special affect: Michaela rises out of frame in an instant) EXT NIGHT WIDE: SKY MICHAELA (enters frame from below) MOVE-ME UP ZERO. (hovers) Mother, WHERE IS LITTLE MOSCOW? MOTHER (voiceover) Your heading is 0 6 3. MICHAELA MOVE-ME HEADING 0 6 3. (special affect: Michaela's body turns away from camera) (POV: left eye lens: a map of downtown superimposes over the city with a blinking red dot over Little Moscow) MOVE-ME FORWARD NINE. (special affect: her body tilts to prone, she exits frame in an instant) (shouts) Weee! DAD Michaela, you need to sneak up on them, remember? MICHAELA Sorry, Daddy. I'll be quiet. (exits frame) (jump cut: over center city) (enters frame at high speed) MOTHER (voiceover) Little Moscow is 1.1 miles ahead. At your current speed, you will overshoot the target unless you begin slowing immediately. MICHAELA WO! I mean... MOVE-ME FORWARD ZERO. (jump cut: over Little Moscow) (enters frame decelerating to a stop, body tilting upright) Daddy, I'm over Little Moscow. Where do I start looking? DAD Stand by... Michaela, according to Army Intelligence, one of the escaped agents has a cousin living in Little Moscow: 1217 West Main Street, second floor. MICHAELA MOTHER, WHERE IS 1217 West Main Street? (POV: left eye lens: street map redraws without a red dot) MOTHER The target is off to your left. Heading 3 3 7. MICHAELA Let's see... um... MOVE-ME HEADING 3 3 7. (POV: left eye lens: street map redraws, then city below rotates right until the city map overlays the city streets with a red dot appearing in the distance) MOVE-ME FORWARD FIVE. (special affect: Michaela flies out of frame) (jump cut: over cousins apartment) (POV: left eye lens: red dot overlays the roof of a two story building with a bakery on the first floor. As she approaches... MOVE-ME DOWN 5. (special affect: Michaela descends out of frame) EXT NIGHT WIDE: ROOFTOP (Michaela enters frame from above quickly) MOTHER (voiceover) Safety override in three, two, one, MOVE-ME DOWN ZERO. (special affect: Michaela slows and hovers three feet above the flat roof) MICHAELA Thank you, Mother. (POV: left eye lens: cross hairs aim at nearby roof) SEE-THRU THAT. (POV: left eye lens: image of roof is replaced with a bird's eye view of a small kitchen below in shades of green, no people) CLEAR SCREEN. (POV: left eye lens: see-thru overlay disappears, roof is visible, turns head) SEE-THRU THAT. (POV: left eye lens: image of roof is replaced with a bird's eye view of a small living room in shades of green, no people) CLEAR SCREEN. (POV: left eye lens: see-thru overlay disappears, roof is visible, turns head) SEE-THRU THAT. (POV: left eye lens: image of roof is replaced with a bird's eye view of a bedroom in shades of green, no people.) CLEAR SCREEN (POV: left eye lens: see-thru overlay disappears, roof is visible) Daddy? DAD I'm here, sweetie. MICHAELA I looked through the roof, but the lights are off and there's nobody home. DAD How many stories in this building? MICHAELA There's two. DAD Look inside of the floor below. MICHAELA The first floor is a bakery. The lights are off there too. I saw it as I was flying over. DAD (sighs) Okay, well, I guess the Intelligence boys lead us to a dead end... Wait a minute. What did you see inside the apartment. Anything unusual? MICHAELA Well, just furniture. DAD What about the kitchen? MICHAELA A stove, a frig, a sink and a table. DAD Any clues? Any thing unusual? MICHAELA Well, there were dishes piled up in the sink, and there was a bunch of junk on the table. DAD Junk? What kind of junk? Show me. MICHAELA (POV: left eye lens: cross hairs aim at nearby roof) SEE-THRU THAT. (POV: left eye lens: image of roof is replaced with a bird's eye view of the kitchen below in shades of green) SNAP PICTURE. Did you get it, Daddy? DAD I got it. ZOOM IN. MICHAELA ZOOM IN. SNAP PICTURE. DAD Good. And the junk on the table is not junk. MICHAELA What is it? DAD Pieces of clocks and timers and cell phones, some batteries and some wires. MICHAELA Maybe the kidnapper's cousin is a clock maker or something. DAD I don't like this. I don't like this at all! MICHAELA What's the matter? DAD I think the enemy agents were making bomb detonators there! MICHAELA Holy socks! DAD But there's no sign of a finished bomb there. Stand by. (sound cue: radio static) Colonel Abernathy? Howard Tuttle here. Michaela is at the cousin's apartment in Little Moscow. We found bomb making materials on the kitchen table, but no explosives. You're the weapons expert, Colonel. What do you think? That's what I was thinking too. Yes, sir. Standing by. MICHAELA What did he say, Daddy? DAD He said it's pretty clear, now, that the enemy agents have no intension of leaving the city as he thought. They're probably planning to blow up something, maybe right here in the city. He thinks that either they took the bombs with them to set them off somewhere in the city OR it's also possible that they finished only the detonators and took them with them to get some explosives. Hold on. Abernathy is on the phone. Yes, Colonel? Yes, I do know where the armory is. Right away, sir. Michaela, the colonel thinks the safe thing to do is to stake out the places in the city that handle explosives. He wants you to head over to the National Guard Armory right away. MICHAELA On my way. MOVE-ME UP 9. (special affect: Michaela ascends out of frame quickly) EXT NIGHT WIDE: SKY (special affect: Michaela ascends into frame quickly, camera follows) MICHAELA MOVE-ME UP ZERO. (special affect: Michaela slows to a stop) MOTHER, WHERE IS the National Guard Armory? MOTHER Your heading is 2 0 5. MICHAELA MOVE-ME HEADING 2 0 5. (special affect: Michaela's body turns) (special affect: POV: left eye lens: pans the city skyline until an overlay map appears with a red dot on her destination) MOVE-ME FORWARD 9. (special affect: Michaela's body tilts toward prone, she exits frame quickly) (jump cut: over National Guard Armory, Michaela enters frame and slows to a stop, tilting upward) Daddy, I'm here, but only the outside lights are on. I don't think anybody is here. DAD Stand by. Let me check the other stake outs, see if they have any activity. (pauses) MICHAELA (sees the glint of flashlights through door crack and windows) Oh, wait! Daddy! I see a flashlight. Two flashlights. Three flashlights. DAD According to Colonel Abernathy, there is no activity at the armory tonight. That HAS to be the enemy agents. MICHAELA I'll go down and take a look. DAD You be careful, sweetie, those guys are probably carrying guns AND explosives. MICHAELA I'll be careful. I promise. MOVE-ME DOWN 3. (special affect: Michaela descends out of frame) (jump cut: Michaela descends into frame slowly about twenty feet above ground beside a warehouse building) MOVE-ME RIGHT 3. (special affect: Michaela's body rotates right, then exits frame slowly) (jump cut: Michaela enters frame from the left, drifting right scanning the building, sees three men with flashlights through a window) It looks like they're coming out. ZOOM IN. (special affect: POV: left eye lens: zooms in on the left hand of enemy agent, sees three small packages stacked) MICHAELA Daddy, each of them is carrying what looks like three big bars of soap. DAD That means they already have the explosives. MICHAELA They can't do much damage with nine bars of soap. DAD If that's military grade explosives, ONE of those bars could destroy our whole house. MICHAELA Holy socks! What do you want me to do? DAD Look around for a car or a truck parked nearby. I'm sure they didn't get all the way across town on a city bus. MICHAELA Why do we care about how they got here? DAD They probably left the detonators to their bombs in their car. MICHAELA I see where your going with this! MOVE-ME UP 5. (jump cut: Michaela enters frame slowly from below) MOVE-ME LEFT 0. (POV: left eye lens: scans left, looking down at the ground) MOVE-ME LEFT 0. (POV: left eye lens: scans left, looking down at the ground) MOVE-ME LEFT 0. (POV: left eye lens: scans left, looking down at the ground, sees a van parked on the other side of a chain-link fence) ZOOM IN. (POV: left eye lens: image magnifies, sees a man-sized hole in the chain link fence) Daddy, I found their car. It's a van. They cut a hole in the fence. I'm going down. MOVE-ME THERE. (special affect: Michaela disappears) EXT NIGHT WIDE: GROUND BEHIND VAN (special affect: Michaela appears, framed by the hole in the fence) MICHAELA Daddy, I'm here. If the detonators are in the van, I'm going to take the detonators and fly away with them. DAD Be careful. MICHAELA (tries the back doors of the van, locked, hurries toward driver's side door) The doors are locked. I'll try the other doors. (tries door, locked, hurries to passenger door, sees three enemy agents round corner of warehouse and head toward the van) That door is locked too. Oh no! They're coming! DAD Get out of there! MICHAELA (POV: left eye lens: cross hairs aim through window of the van at flat floor behind front seats) MOVE-ME THERE. (special affect: Michaela disappears) DAD Good girl. MICHAELA (voiceover) Daddy, I found the detonators! DAD Where?! MICHAELA (voiceover) Here, inside the Van. DAD Michaela! I thought you moved away from the van! (agents approach side doors, opens them, climb in as Michaela exits by the back doors with three book-size detonators with dangling wires) ENEMY1 Somebody stole the detonators! Stop her! (all Enemies exit the van, pull pistols, aim at Michaela) MICHAELA MOVE-ME UP 9. (special affect: ascends out of frame quickly) ENEMY1 What the....? (sound cue: gun shots) DAD What was that? Michaela, was that gun shots? Michaela, are you alright?! EXT NIGHT WIDE: SKY MICHAELA (voiceover) MOVE-ME UP ZERO. (enters frame from below, slows to a stop) Um, yeah, I think so. But they didn't hit anything. (looks down at the detonators, only two remain) Oh, no! DAD What happened?! Did they shoot you? MICHAELA Uh, no. I... I think I dropped one of the detonators. I should go down and get it. DAD You will do no such thing! MICHAELA (looks down, sees an enemy agent scooping up the lost detonator from the ground and climbing into the truck with it, the van drives away) Oh, it's too late anyway, they just drove away with it! (looks down at the two detonators she's hugging to her chest, breathless) Daddy. Something is wrong. I can't breathe. (legs curl up) (special affect: Michaela begins spinning out of control) DAD Michaela, what's wrong? (pauses) Michaela? Michaela, what's wrong?! MOTHER Safety override: AUTOMATIC LANDING PROTOCOL. DAD Michaela, if you can hear me, I'm on my way to you. I'm sending paramedics immediately to your location. EXT NIGHT WIDE: STREET NEAR ARMORY (POV: michaela: dark screen) DAD (voice muffled) Michaela. Michaela wake up. Michaela, talk to me. You're going to be okay. (view and sound clear up slowly, blurry image of ambulance and strobe lights, an I.V. bag hangs over the gurney, gaze moves down to Dad, who's holding her hand, standing beyond Dad is Colonel Abernathy) Michaela, can you hear me? MICHAELA (struggles and is restrained by Dad, breathless) Daddy, did I drop the detonators? DAD No, sweetie, they're right here. You did good. MICHAELA What happened to me? DAD When you scooped up the three detonators, you apparently scooped up a small screwdriver that stabbed you between your ribs and punctured your lung. The paramedics had to reinflate your lung. You're going to be okay. MICHAELA (struggles to sit up) Then we have to go after the enemy agents before they bomb something. ABERNATHY Problem is, we have no idea where they went or what their target is. MICHAELA Well, they kidnapped Daddy to get the new inventions and they kidnapped you to get the new inventions. Maybe they're going to bomb the new inventions so we can't use them either. Where are they? DAD After the kidnappings, I moved all but your helmet to the army base. ABERNATHY By golly, Howard, I think she has a point there! DAD (motions) Colonel, may I have a word? (Dad and Abernathy exit frame conversing about the threat, Michaela leans on one elbow to look around, sees the helmet and the battery pack sitting on the back step of the ambulance, camera pans to Dad and Abernathy) DAD I thought the new inventions would be secure in the vault on the army base. Am I wrong? ABERNATHY Normally I would say they'd be as secure as Fort Knox, but now I think the enemy agents might have an inside man in our unit. They seemed to know that they could kidnap you on the way home from the Army base and when I was most vulnerable to kidnapping. The inside man may have given them the floor plans for the Army base and the research center. (points) What is she doing? DAD (turns head) Michaela! (camera pans toward Ambulance) (special affect: Michaela, now wearing helmet and belt, ascends quickly out of frame) EXT NIGHT WIDE: SKY (empty) MICHAELA (voiceover) MOVE-ME UP ZERO. (enters frame from below, slows to a stop) Mother, WHERE IS Daddy's prototype helmet? MOTHER Heading 1 1 3. MICHAELA MOVE-ME HEADING 1 1 3. (special affect: Michaela's body turns) DAD Michaela, what do you think you're doing?! MICHAELA It was my fault those enemy agents still have one of the bombs. I need to get it back. DAD Come down here, now! MICHAELA MOVE-ME FORWARD 9 (special affect: exits frame quickly) (voice over) Sorry, Daddy, I have to do this. (jump cut: empty darkness in sky over army base) MICHAELA MOVE-ME FORWARD 2 (special affect: Michaela enters frame slowly) (POV: left eye lens: cross hairs move over red dot superimposed over office building next to a helipad as Michaela slowly circles the building) Daddy, I'm over the army base and I'm looking down at the building where the prototype helmet is kept. I'm looking for the van that the enemy agents were in, but I don't see it yet. (sound cue: explosion) DAD What was that?! Michaela, are you alright? MICHAELA (POV: left eye lens: cross hairs move to a puff of smoke rising from the other end of the building, camera moves toward puff) I'm fine, Daddy. The explosion was at the other end of the building. It wasn't even near the prototype helmet. DAD Stand by. (partially muffled) What do you think, Colonel? Are any weapons or secrets stored on that end of the building? ABERNATHY (partially muffled) No. That's the reception area and the meeting rooms. I think the enemy agents may have used some of the explosives to blow the front door off the hinges. (sound cue: explosion followed by horns and sirens continue to end of scene) DAD I heard another explosion, then horns and sirens. ABERNATHY That means the enemy agents have entered the restricted part of the building. They're going after the vault. MICHAELA I'm going in. MOVE-ME FORWARD 9. (special affect: Michaela's body tilts to prone, exits frame quickly) DAD Going in where?! Michaela rose! Don't you dare! Michaela! Those men have guns! Michaela! INT NIGHT WIDE: ARMY RESEARCH BUILDING (Michaela's incoming flight is framed by the mangled door opening. She flies through the door, past the camera and down the hall, camera follows, she flies through a second mangled door opening and down the hall and into the darkness) (jump cut: outside the vault room) MICHAELA MOVE-ME FORWARD ZERO. (special affect: enters frame slowing, tilts up and lands gently on the floor, looks left and right slowly) (POV: left eye lens: looks left and right, red dot moves across screen showing Michaela where the vault is) SEE-THRU THAT. (POV: left eye lens: in shades of green, one agent is seen taping remaining bricks of explosive to the middle of the vault door while a second agent sets the timer and the third agent holds the flashlight. Once the explosive is attached, the second agent attaches the detonator to the explosive and pokes the bricks with blasting caps) DAD Michaela, will you please talk to me?! Where are you? MICHAELA (whispers) I'm outside the vault room. DAD You mean you're INSIDE the building?! MICHAELA They just attached the explosives and the detonator to the vault door. (POV: left eye lens: When they back away and exit the room running, the timer LEDs read 1:00. Michaela, backs around a corner to hide as the agents run by) DAD Michaela Rose, you get out of that building RIGHT NOW! MICHAELA (enters vault room) (POV: left eye lens: aims cross hairs at detonator) PULL THAT 4. (special affect: explosives and detonator fly across room and into her hands) (turns, runs to hallway) In a minute. DAD Don't "in a minute" me! MICHAELA That's how much time is left on the timer. DAD Timer? What timer? MICHAELA The timer on the detonator reads... (reads LEDs) ... 51 seconds. DAD Please tell me you're not close enough to that bomb to actually READ the timer! MICHAELA (running down the hall) Sorry, Daddy, I'm a little busy now. MOVE-ME FORWARD 5. (special affect: jumps head first, floats through the air, accelerates out of frame horizontally) DAD Michaela, what are you doing?! Michaela?! EXT NIGHT WIDE: ARMY RESEARCH BUILDING (special affect: Michaela's flight through the reception area is framed by the mangled door opening. She flies through the door and over the camera) MICHAELA Okay, Daddy, I'm outside now. Everything will be alright... in just a few seconds. DAD I don't like the way that sounds. ABERNATHY Maybe she's carrying the bomb. DAD Oh, please! Michaela Rose, please tell me you're not carrying a bomb with C4 explosives! MICHAELA (POV: left eye lens: pans in both directions, stops when enemy agents come into view, follows them, catches up to them, flies over them, sees the van in the distance) There it is! DAD There what is?! MICHAELA I found the van that belongs to the enemy agents. I can stop them from getting away. (POV: left eye lens: moves cross hairs to the pavement in front of the van) MOVE-ME THERE. (special affect: Michaela disappears) EXT NIGHT WIDE: STREET OUTSIDE THE FENCE (special affect: Michaela reappears standing in front of the van) DAD Michaela Rose, please tell me you got rid of the bomb! MICHAELA It's okay now, Daddy, I'm at the van. DAD Michaela! What did you do with the bomb?! MICHAELA (pressing bomb to the side of the van) It's right here, Daddy. DAD Michaela, that bomb is about to explode! MICHAELA It's okay, Daddy. There's still... (reads LEDs) eight.. seconds left. DAD Oh, dear God, please help my little girl! MICHAELA (turns, runs) MOVE-ME FORWARD 9. (special affect: dives forward, flies, arches back slightly, bends knees slightly, changes direction to vertical, exits frame at full speed straight up) (sound cue: big explosion) (Sky lights up Enemy Agents, who stop, turn, run away, are blown down by the explosion) EXT NIGHT OVERHEAD: SKY (special affect: Michaela orbits yellow mushrooming explosion on the ground) See, Daddy? It wasn't even close. DAD You are so grounded! No television, no internet, no telephone, no video games, no friends visiting, nothing! MICHAELA Does that mean I don't get my hundred dollar test flight fee from the Army? ABERNATHY Don't be so tough on the kid, Howard. She just single handedly saved the Army about ten million dollars worth of destruction. (sound cue: sirens) AND she helped us capture all three of the escaped enemy agents. EXT NIGHT WIDE: ARMY RESEARCH BUILDING (Military police vehicles enter frame from the left with lights and sirens as three enemy agents enter from the right running from the explosion in the background, they stop as the MPs exit their vehicles with guns drawn. Enemy agents raise hands and drop to their knees) �2013 Bob Snook. Conditions for use: Do not sell any part of this script, even if you rewrite it. Pay no royalties, even if you make money from performances. You may reproduce and distribute this script freely, but all copies must contain this copyright statement. http://www.bobsnook.org email: [email protected] BACK |