BACK SPOOK02 23' SPOOK911 episode: hostages EXT NIGHT WIDE: COUNTRY CLUB PARKING LOT NANNY (exits car wearing a long dress with long sleeves and high heels, goes around to passenger side, looking around constantly, opens door, Katie doesn't exit, Nanny motions for Katie to exit car, Katie pauses, exits car wearing a party dress.) KATIE Why won't you talk to me, Nanny? NANNY What good does it do to talk to you? You ignore everything I say. I tell you that you can't go to the fall dance because you're still grounded. And, yet, here we are at the fall dance. KATIE My mom said I could go. NANNY Tell me how it happens that your mom doesn't call or write for over a week, but suddenly we get a package from her containing a party dress and shoes with a note commanding me to let you go to the dance. Isn't that a coincidence?! KATIE So, you're mad at me for involving Mom? NANNY Katie, you know that's NOT my biggest concern! KATIE You're worried that somebody will kidnap me. NANNY I'll bet you never even mentioned the word kidnap to your mother, did you? (motions, walks to trunk) KATIE (follows) It's the fall dance. What could go wrong at a dance? NANNY Too many entrances and exits, too many strangers, not enough security guards. The waitresses and the bus boys haven't been vetted. Should I go on? (opens trunk) KATIE (sees the array of weapons and electronic gear in the trunk) Wow! What's all this?! NANNY Your dad bought all of these things to keep you safe in conditions like these. You know that locket your dad bought you for your birthday? KATIE Yeah. (looks down, holds locket) NANNY He told you never to take it off. KATIE I know. I've never taken it off since my birthday, not even in the shower. What does that have to do with all... (points) this stuff? NANNY He got that locket from this trunk. KATIE You're kidding. NANNY No. Hidden inside that locket is a GPS locator that tells me where you are at all times. KATIE But this locket is empty. (opens locket) See? NANNY The GPS is built into the locket. It's empty because I needed space in it for... (lifts a tiny box from trunk, opens it, reveals what looks like an in-ear hearing aid) this. KATIE A hearing aid?! I'm not deaf! NANNY It's not a hearing aid. It's called an earwig. It's a two way radio. KATIE Why do I need a two way radio in my locket? NANNY Just in case we get separated, I may need to communicate with you. So, in an emergency -- any emergency -- the first thing you should do is insert this earwig into your ear. Got it? KATIE Got it. NANNY (offers earwig) Got it? KATIE (takes earwig, encloses it in locket) I got it, Nanny, you can count on me. NANNY One more thing. In an emergency, you will be tempted to be a hero. Don't... repeat... do not try any heroics until you hear from me. KATIE Of course. We're partners. NANNY (closes trunk, exiting frame with Katie) If you go to the ladies room, I go with you. KATIE You don't have to go into the stall with me, do you? INT NIGHT WIDE: COUNTRY CLUB DANCE FLOOR (Kids dance to "YMCA", then music slows, all the while Nanny constantly scans the room during the whole scene, Katie slow-dances with a boy, Nanny approaches Katie.) LEROY (intercepts Nanny smiling) Well, look at the nanny all spruced up! I've never seen you in a skirt before! NANNY Yeah, well, cherish the moment. If I have my way, it will never happen again. LEROY May I have this dance? NANNY I came here to chaperone. LEROY Come on! Loosen up. It's a party! Live a little! (extends hand) NANNY Okay. One dance. (they dance, Nanny scans the room, Leroy slides his hand up and down Nanny's back) LEROY Is this a back brace you're wearing under your dress? NANNY No. It's a bullet-proof vest. It goes with the nine millimeter Biretta semi-automatic I have strapped to my thigh. LEROY (looks at watch, backs away) Oh, look at the time! (points to exit, exits) I have to... be... some... where... NANNY (smiles briefly, then looks panicked, head on a swivel, looking for...) Katie?! (exits frame running) EXT NIGHT WIDE: COUNTRY CLUB PATIO NANNY (approaches three other adults in party clothes) Have you seen Katie Worthington? WOMAN1 No. Have you seen Candie Helmsly? WOMAN2 We were looking for our kids too. We checked the restroom. They're not in there either. NANNY When did you last see them? WOMAN1 I... I don't know. Inside, I guess. WOMAN2 Yeah, inside. NANNY None of you saw them leave the dance floor? WOMAN1 No. WOMAN2 Me either. NANNY Last I saw Katie, she was talking to a waitress at the punch bowl. WOMAN1 Now that you mention it, I saw mine talking to a waitress too. NANNY (raises hand) Excuse me? BUS BOY (enters frame) Yes, maam? NANNY Where is the waitress who was stationed at the punch bowl? BUS BOY Oh, we don't have a waitress stationed there. NANNY Rats! BUS BOY I can fetch someone for you. NANNY No, thank you. (to parents) I think something happened to them! WOMAN1 You mean like smoking or drinking or drugs or something? NANNY Worse. WOMAN2 What do you mean?! NANNY (cell phone buzzes, pulls out phone from bra, reads phone screen. It reads "FORWARDED". Walks away, puts phone to ear, feminine voice) Worthington Residence. BAD GUY (voiceover, electronically modified) Mrs Worthington? NANNY Yes, this is Elaine Worthington. BAD GUY We have taken your daughter hostage. NANNY Please don't hurt my daughter! (digs into pocket, pulls out second cell phone, dials 911, both phones to ears) 911 (voiceover from the other phone, softly as Bad Guy gives the instructions) I'm sorry, all emergency phone lines are busy at this time. (Nanny grimaces, drops phone to side) If you have an emergency, please stay on the line. Otherwise, please call 555-4168. BAD GUY (simultaneously with 911) If you want her back alive put $100,000 in a paper bag and drop it into the trash can at the entrance to the city park at the corner of Elm and Seventh Street. Do you understand? NANNY Please don't hurt my daughter! BAD GUY Do you understand?! NANNY Yes. Let me see. I put $100,000 in a paper bag. BAD GUY Drop the money into the trash can at the entrance to the city park at the corner of Elm and Seventh Street. Do you understand? NANNY The trash can in the park at Elm and Seventh Street? BAD GUY That is correct. NANNY We don't have that much money in the house. And the banks are closed. It may take two or three hours to borrow that much money from friends. BAD GUY You have one hour. (click, Nanny pockets phone, other cell phones ring on patio, parents answer phones one by one. Nanny kicks off shoes, runs to parking lot, lifts dress over head, tossing it aside, revealing black knee length body suit with pistol strapped to thigh) EXT NIGHT WIDE: COUNTRY CLUB PARKING LOT NANNY (phone to ear, opens trunk, revealing an arsenal of weapons and gadgets, opens cases, pockets gadgets, inserts ear plug into ear, dawns black ski mask, rope loop over shoulder, all while speaking on phone) 911 (voiceover) 911 emergency. What is the nature of your emergency? NANNY I have inside information into the kidnap for ransom of children from Hillcrest Country Club. Please patch me into the watch commander assigned to that response. 911 I'm sorry, we don't have any reports of a kidnap for rans... Ah, wait a minute. We have more calls coming in now. I'll patch you through. INT MORNING SPLIT-SCREEN: COMMAND TRUCK (Two way phone conversation) (pause) GRIMLY This is Lieutenant Grimly. You have inside information about a kidnap for ransom in progress? NANNY Yes, my name is Butch Bellamy. GRIMLY A woman named Butch? NANNY Stay focused. I am the body guard of one of the hostages and I have already prepared for this emergency. Here is the SIT-REP at this moment: GRIMLY SIT-REP? NANNY Just listen! I know of at least four hostages confirmed. (pulls second cell phone from pocket, pushes buttons, screen shows map and blinking red target) The hostages are being held... at... at the Hillcrest Academy... on the third floor. GRIMLY (writes, points at writing for Sarg, nods) How could you possibly know all that already?! NANNY Listen up! You will want to set up your SWAT command post on the corner of Hillcrest and Oak Streets. GRIMLY You can't tell us where to set up! NANNY Just listen. I am now about a mile from the school, so by the time you get here and set up your command post, I will have an updated SIT-REP for you. GRIMLY YOU will have a SIT-REP for me?! NANNY Just listen. At the corner of Hillcrest and Oak Streets, is a U.S. Mail drop box. I have taped an envelope to the underside of that box containing blueprints of the school and suggested approaches to the building and entry points for a hot breach. GRIMLY You've got to be kidding me! NANNY Whatever you do, do not enter the building until you hear from me. I will call you from inside the school. (pockets phone) (end split-screen) GRIMLY You can't go into the school! (to Sarg) She hung up. Who does she think she is? SARG (shows map) Lieu, it looks like the best place to set up our command post is here at the intersection of... (points, reads map) GRIMLY & SARG ...Hillcrest and Oak Street. SARG How did you know? GRIMLY The woman on the phone told me. SARG A woman? GRIMLY Look up a woman named Butch Bellamy for me. SARG A woman named Butch? GRIMLY Just do it! INT NIGHT CLOSE-UP: CRAWL-SPACE NANNY (lifts ceiling tile, sees Katie sitting on the floor against the opposite wall at the end of a row of four kids, whispers) Katie, if you remembered to put that earwig into your ear, do not look at me, do not look for me, do not answer aloud. Just touch your ear with your finger CASUALLY. INT NIGHT SPLIT-SCREEN: CLASSROOM (Katie casually pushes the hair behind one ear, looks around) With your fingers, tell me the total number of bad guys you saw tonight. (Katie puts hand on leg, shows four fingers) Total number of hostages? (Katie shows four fingers on both hands) That means they split the hostages into two groups of four? (Katie nods slowly) How many bad guys in the room with you? (Katie shows one finger) I'm assuming the other room has one bad guy guarding them too? (Katie nods slowly) How many bad guys in the hallway? (Long pause: Katie shows one finger, shrugs slowly) It's okay. I disabled one bad guy down on the first floor. (Jump cut: bad guy is tied up, mouth taped shut sitting beside the mops and buckets in the janitor's closet) That leaves only one of them outside in the hallway. Alright, Katie, you wanted to do more dangerous justice projects. In about three minutes you will have what you want. (Katie suppresses a smile, looks to see if anyone is watching) Are you ready? (Katie nods) Wait for my command. (Nanny drops ceiling tile in place) (end split screen) (phone to ear) INT NIGHT SPLIT-SCREEN: COMMAND TRUCK GRIMLY (phone to ear) This is Lieutenant Grimly. NANNY (crawling slowly) This is Butch Bellamy. I assume your command post is in position by now. GRIMLY Well, if it isn't Lieutenant Buttercup Bellamy! NANNY Don't call me Buttercup. Only my mother calls me Buttercup. Do you want my SIT-REP or not? GRIMLY Your military record said you were kicked out of Delta Force. But it doesn't say why, BUTTERCUP. NANNY My commanding officer called me Buttercup, so I fed him his teeth. Now, can we focus on my SIT-REP? GRIMLY I'm listening. NANNY We have eight hostages confirmed, four each in two adjacent rooms on the third floor southwest corner of the building. There is one perp inside each room plus one perp guarding the third floor hallway confirmed. The final perp, who was guarding the first floor main entrance, has been disabled and is tied up in the first floor janitor closet. GRIMLY (points to computer) I'm looking at the diagrams you left for us under the mail drop. We can do a soft breach through the back entrance and up the back stairs; then a hot breach through the... NANNY Negative. Negative. Give me ten minutes. (pockets phone) GRIMLY Ten minutes?! For what? Hello? She hung up. (pockets phone) (end split screen) NANNY (lifts a ceiling tile revealing the guard in the hallway) Katie, things are going to have to happen quickly, so I need you to listen carefully. We need to get the attention of the guard in your room. Do your ghost thing and turn the knob on the door and then let it go. INT MORNING SPLIT-SCREEN: CLASSROOM (katie casually pantamimes the turning of the door knob) (special affect: knob turns, returns) NANNY When the bad guy approaches the door to see who's outside, you pull the door open hard. (Perp approaches door cautiously, peaks out through window in door. Katie pantamimes the grabbing of the door knob and pulling the door, eyes squinting in pain, small movements. (Special affect: Door slams perp in the face. Birds chirp) (Perp passes out backward. The kids rush to take his gun and sit on him. Katie remains seated) Katie, the bad guy in the hallway is on his way to your class room. When I count down to zero, slam the door closed. Three, two, one, zero. (Perp appears in doorway. Katie squints, joins hands and makes a subtle CPR motion toward the door.) (Special affect: Door slams perp in the face. Birds chirp) (Perp passes out backward.) Katie, you and the kids pull that bad guy out of the hallway into the classroom. Leave the door ajar and take cover across the room. KATIE (stands, crosses to door) Kids, help me pull! (opens door, kids pull perp into classroom) NANNY Katie, in just a moment the bad guy in the other classroom will come and see what happened to the guard in the hallway. When I count down to zero, you slam the door shut. (end-split screen) INT MORNING WIDE: HALLWAY PERP (opens door, pokes barrel of gun out, shouts) Number Three, what's going on out there? Number Three? Number Three? (pokes head out, looks both ways) Number Three! You're not supposed to leave the hallway. The boss is going to be mad at you. (turns) You kids stay right where you are. If you move, boom. Stay. (steps into hallway, creeps toward other classroom) Number Three, where are you? You're not supposed to leave your post without permission. Number Three? You are in big trouble now! The boss is going to cut your share of the ransoms. NANNY (voiceover) Katie, the bad guy from the other classroom is on his way to your classroom. When I count down to zero, slam the door closed. PERP (approaching door) Number two, have you seen number three? Is he in here? NANNY (simultaneously) Three, two, one, zero. (Katie grits teeth, squints, joins hands and makes a subtle CPR motion toward the door.) (Special affect: Door slams perp in the face. Birds chirp) (Perp passes out backward.) Katie, you and the kids pull that bad guy out of the hallway into the classroom. Then, send the kids down the back stairway to the first floor. (phone to ear) Lieutenant Grimly, Code Four third floor. All secure. All four kidnappers disabled. The hostages are on their way down the back stairway. Go for soft breach. INT NIGHT TWO-SHOT: TOWN CAR (Nanny and Katie enter and close doors, Nanny mounts her cell phone on the dashboard) KATIE Can I talk now? NANNY You may talk now. (starts engine, drives) KATIE Why didn't we go out the front entrance with the other kids? NANNY Because I didn't want them to see me. KATIE Why didn't you want them to see you? NANNY What were the other kids saying about what happened? KATIE They said a ghost pushed the door closed and knocked out the bad guys. Oh! If they saw you, they would think YOU did it by remote control! NANNY Exactly. KATIE So, you want them to think a ghost did it! Casper the friendly ghost! (cell phone rings) NANNY (pushes button) Nanny speaking. INT NIGHT SPLIT-SCREEN: CLASS ROOM GRIMLY (stands over three kidnappers all of whom are hog-tied with duct tape) Bellamy! Where are you? NANNY I'm in my car. GRIMLY I thought you were in the building! NANNY I was. GRIMLY We had the building completely surrounded! How did you get out?! NANNY I'm sure you're not calling because you miss me. GRIMLY Oh, yes! One of the hostages is missing! You confirmed eight hostages, but only seven came down the back stairway. NANNY The other hostage is with me. GRIMLY You mean TWO of you left the building without being seen?! NANNY Officially, we were never there. GRIMLY What's the hurry to leave?! NANNY We have to catch the kidnapper. GRIMLY We have all four kidnappers in custody! NANNY But you didn't catch the inside man. GRIMLY Inside man?! NANNY Perhaps I should use the term inside WOMAN. She is also the mastermind behind the kidnappings. GRIMLY How do you know all this?! NANNY (stops car at curb) Listen, I'd love to stay and chat. But we have to follow the money. GRIMLY The money! You're at the site of the ransom drop! (to Sarg) We need to get over to the ransom drop! NANNY Lieutenant, you need to stay out of this. GRIMLY You're telling the police to stay out of a ransom drop?! NANNY If you come here, you'll merely arrest the person picking up the ransom. GRIMLY Of course we will! That's our job. NANNY But the guy who picks up the ransom is not the inside woman. GRIMLY How could you possibly know that?! NANNY Look, I have to go. But your time is best spent searching the crime database for previous kidnap and ransoms of multiple victims. This kidnapping was well rehearsed. You'll find that this M.O. was done at least once or twice in other cities. You need to find out what and who they all had in common. I'm betting that the victims all went to private schools like ours and they were all kidnapped while attending events away from the school. The inside woman works as a secretary in the office or as a teacher's aide. (clicks off phone) (end split-screen) GRIMLY She hung up on me again! That woman is infuriating! SARG But she's been right on the money so far, Lieu. EXT NIGHT WIDE: CITY PARK (Nanny, now dressed in business suit, drops a paper bag into the trash can, walks away) INT NIGHT TWO-SHOT: TOWN CAR (Nanny enters, closes door, picks up night scope, peers out windshield) NANNY What time is it? KATIE Ten thirty-two. Maybe she won't show up. NANNY She won't. KATIE Then why are we waiting here? NANNY Because she's going to hire another flunky, like those loosers who were guarding you. And she'll send him to pick up the ransoms. KATIE (points) Here comes someone on a bicycle. NANNY Right on time. EXT NIGHT POV: CITY PARK (view through night scope: kid stops bicycle at trash can, looks around, pulls plastic bag from trash can, drops it in his bike basket, speeds away) EXT NIGHT MONTAGE: CITY STREETS, SIDEWALKS, ALLEYS, FENCES (Kid rides at top speed all downhill to the harbor, finally stops in alley next to a diner, waits in darkness. Moments later, Nanny's town car pulls to curb a block away) INT NIGHT TWO-SHOT: TOWN CAR NANNY (stops while looking off to the left, points to cell phone screen) He's in that alley across the way. KATIE You put a GPS locator in our ransom? (phone rings) NANNY (nods, pushes button on dash-mounted phone) Nanny speaking. GRIMLY Bellamy! Where are you? I'm here at the park and you're not! NANNY (peering through night scope) I'm down at the river. GRIMLY The river?! What are you doing down at the river?! NANNY This is where the inside woman is going to make her getaway. If you want to make an arrest, it will be at the boat launch at Biltmore Avenue. What did you find out about the other kidnappings? GRIMLY You must be psychic, Bellamy! There were three previous multiple kidnappings with this same M.O.. NANNY All of them were in large cities with access to harbors or rivers. GRIMLY You ARE psychic! How could you possibly know that?! NANNY That's how she gets away without being stopped at police roadblocks. GRIMLY (reads) The previous kidnappings were in Seattle, St Louis and Norfolk, Virginia. All have access to water! And you knew it was a woman. NANNY In the previous kidnappings, she hired four flunkies to do the kidnapping and then left them high and dry without paying them. GRIMLY I know how you know so much, Bellamy! YOU are this inside woman! NANNY Nice try, Lieutenant. If you look at the dates for those previous kidnappings, you'll see that I was in the army serving in Afghanistan. Keep looking. You'll find that one of the suspects in those previous kidnappings worked in the same private school as the kidnap victims. That's how she knew which of the students came from the richest families and when they would all be at an outside event. (click) (end split-screen) GRIMLY She hung up on me again! That is really irritating! Head for the river. Lights and sirens! EXT NIGHT POV: BOAT LAUNCH DOCKS (Night vision scope scans the boats tied up to the dock. One boat's engine is highlighted) NANNY (points) That one there. KATIE That's the getaway boat? NANNY Yes. KATIE How do you know? NANNY This night vision scope sees hot objects brighter than cold ones. The engine on that one is warmed up and ready for a getaway. (offers scope to Katie) KATIE (scans boats with scope) Cool. (points scope at Nanny's face) NANNY (points) Take cover. Things are going to happen quickly. (Lights and sirens in the distance, Nanny and Katie hide in a nearby boat.) KATIE (focuses on the dark female figure running toward them carrying the plastic bag with ransoms) That's Mrs Barrett! She's the new secretary in the school office! I thought it was kind of odd that she would take a job as a waitress at the country club! NANNY How did she get you outside to the kidnappers? KATIE She told me that Daddy had come back from Africa. EXT NIGHT WIDE: BOAT DOCK (As Barrett runs down the dock, a snake-like water hose rises up from its coil and wraps around the plastic bag just under Barrett's hand as she passes by, snagging it and pulling it from her hand. The bag lands on the dock. Two steps later, when Barrett tries to stop and turn toward the bag, she appears to be pushed into the river. As she swims back to the dock and climbs out, Grimly's hand grabs the back of her collar) GRIMLY You're under arrest for kidnap and ransom. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. SARG (picks up plastic bag, digs through it) Here's the trash bag from the park. It looks like several small packets of hundred dollar bills. Looks like we caught her red-handed, Lieu. GRIMLY You have a right to remain silent. Say, where's Bellamy? BARRETT I don't know any Bellamy. GRIMLY Not talking to you. Didn't Bellamy say she was here at the boat launch, Sarg? SARG That's what she said. BARRETT Who's Bellamy? SARG (Picks up white card from the dock) What's this? (reads card) It's a web site address: www.spook911.org. GRIMLY That's got to be Bellamy! She was a spook in Delta Force. BARRETT Funny you should say that. I just felt somebody push me into the river. But when I looked, noone was there. Maybe it was a spook! SARG There's no such thing as a spook. INT NIGHT TWO-SHOT: TOWN CAR (Nanny and Katie enter and close doors, fasten seat belts) KATIE Is it okay if I talk now? NANNY (drives away) Yes. KATIE Is it okay if I smile? NANNY (drives away) No, you're still grounded for two more days. �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 |