Sins of the Innocent 3

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Scene 1
(Washington DC, several shots of important landmarks in the city at night, a box in the first frame reads “about one year before the death of Dan Darsow”)
Lightmore: Everyone is different. People like different things and have different opinions. Everyone looks different. Some people have long hair and others have short hair. Some people have dark skin while others have light skin. Some people are born into privilege while others are born into poverty. Just like human beings are different in these ways they are also different in a way that no one could ever imagine.
(cut to Lightmore standing in front of an assembly of well dressed people, he’s standing on a stage behind a podium, he’s over to the side)
Lightmore: These people have abilities far beyond the scope of what we agree to be normal. This is no joke ladies and gentleman; there are humans with real super powers in the world.
Person in Crowd: Mr. Lightmore we do not wish to be mocked with such flights of fancy.
Person in Crowd 2: We deal only with reality not with fiction. Go take this presentation to a comic convention.
Lightmore: I speak the truth. For years there have been reports of paranormal activities linked to people. In fact there are cold hard facts to back it up.
Person in Crowd 3: Go on with this travesty of a proposal then and prove to us this nonsense of yours.
Lightmore: (the lights dim and a projector shows a picture of a DNA helix on the wall to the right of Lightmore) DNA is the fundamental building block of life. It stores the genetic code, which determines how a person will look and how there body will be. We know that things can go wrong from birth or during a person’s life that can alter the DNA in ways that are harmful or cause abnormalities. But we’ve found out that these changes in human genetics can also cause “enhancements” to the person. (the projector now shows the arrest photo of Death Wish) This is Parnell Roberts a.k.a. Death Wish. He’s serving four life sentences in Riker’s for going on a two month long killing spree. He’s a paranoid delusional ex-soldier who wants to die in a blaze of glory. He left clues to where he would kill next to lure the cops to him and wrote “Kill Me” in blood near the victims: hence the nickname Death Wish. (switch to a picture of Death Wish in police custody projected) When they finally caught up with him he was held up in a gas station holding two people hostage. To get the police’s blood boiling he killed one of them and threw the unfortunate fellow’s head through the front window.
Person in Crowd 4: I hope this little story has a point.
Lightmore: It does, sir. A police SWAT team stormed the building and found him with a gun to the other hostage’s head. They had no choose but to shot him.
Person in Crowd 4: So, your point Mr. Lightmore.
Lightmore: (the picture changes to a shot of Death Wish without his shirt on, he has red bruises all over his chest, stomach, and face) They unload enough ammo to kill twelve people into him and he didn’t die. In fact the bullets bounced off of him and merely hurt him enough for him to be unable to not resistance anymore. They examined him and found that his muscle and bone density is about ten times that of a normal human. It makes him virtually bulletproof and enhances his strength far beyond a man of his size.
(the lights go back up and the projector turns off)
Person in Crowd 5: How do we know that you’re not just lying to us?
Lightmore: (holds up papers) I have the results of the medical examination right here.
Person in Crowd 6: This is rubbish.
Lightmore: Please just calm down. I’m sure after I’m done we can have an orderly discussion on this subject.
Person in Crowd 7: Why didn’t you just call a meeting to tell us about the little green men stealing garbage from the trailer park.
Lightmore: This is serious. Don’t you people understand that importance of this subject?
Person in Crowd 8: But surly you don’t understand the importance of our time. Why don’t you just go home and watch Star Trek like a good little geek.
(the crowd laughs, Lightmore gets pissed and walks off)

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Scene 2
(Metro City, various shoots of the run down streets of the decaying metropolis)
Vincent: Metro City: poster city for urban decay. You can practically see the city fall apart right in front of your eyes. You hear all the bullshit about your environment affecting you and causing you to be how you are. Well, if you lived here you’d almost believe it. Not a day goes by that I don’t see a story in the newspaper about some one that used to be a good, honest person being a criminal, crack whore, rapist, you get the picture. I’d leave this hellhole but there’s a really good Chinese place two blocks from my apartment. Ok, that’s not a good reason; let’s just say I’m stubborn and don’t trust moving services. This isn’t a pretty place in fact if you get a good look at it in daylight it hurts your eyes. Places like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh maybe crime infested and awful places to live but at least they’re nice looking for the most part. Sigh….Metro City’s dead but no one bothered to let it in on it yet.
Scene 3
(a rundown street, Vincent is sitting on a wooden crate, he looks bored, Braddock comes up to him and looks down on him)
Braddock: It looks like you’re off on a day well spent.
Vincent: Everything about this place just makes me want to shoot myself.
Braddock: That’s why normal people have cable.
Vincent: Nothing’s good on TV anyway. Plus if I saw the TV families’ happy lives I’d probably want to drown myself in my bathtub.
Braddock: Conform and accept the fact that life sucks and the whole world is going to hell so you can enjoy yourself.
Vincent: (looks up at Braddock) There is so much wrong with that statement I don’t even know where to start.
Braddock: You could start by getting a real job like normal people.
Vincent: Braddock, one no one in this town is normal. Two your job is assistant supervisor of handling toxic materials. That’s not a real job.
Braddock: It is so a real job. I have to make sure that the supervisor is making sure that the handlers are doing their job to the minimum safety standards set by the government.
Vincent: You see that’s not a real job. (the scene stops) Let’s just stop right here for a moment. (shoot of Industrial Waste Management Inc.) Braddock works at Industrial Waste Management Inc.. (shoot of handlers with gas masks and rubber gloves moving steel drums marked biohazard around) They get bio-hazardous material and find places to dump it at so that future hippies will find it and bitch about long after the company has folded. (shoot of old paint cans, bundles of asbestos, buckets of old, dirty motor oil, leaky drums, and a duct taped cardboard box marked “Kevin Cosner Movies”) They have a warehouse full of harmful stuff stored improperly which somewhat makes me wonder how come everyone in this city doesn’t have cancer. (barrels being loaded into a truck) They ship the stuff off to various dumping sites or as they call them “secured storage depots” around the world. They also are a subsidiary of Fenris Solutions which makes me think that they’re solution to our hazardous waste problem is just simply giving other countries hazardous waste problems. (cut back to them)
Braddock: It is so a real job: I get bossed around by some asshole and I don’t have to worry about not getting paid.
Vincent: I only got shifted once….twice….ok a whole bunch of times but that still doesn’t mean that my job isn’t real. Hell I get to make my own hours, not have to worry about the incompetence of my fellow workers, and if I want I can be drunk and naked on the job.
Braddock: Freedom maybe nice but I prefer to actually earn hard cash. Which is what I’m off to do. So see you later, Vinnie.
(exit Braddock)
Vincent: (puts his head back to the wall and looks straight up) I wished I had a student so I could get my water turned back on.

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Scene 4
(Lightmore is sleeping in his bed at his hotel, a knock comes at the door)
Rutherford: (from outside the room) House keeping.
Lightmore: (groggy) Go away.
Rutherford: (from outside the room) Come on I got a schedule to keep.
Lightmore: (sits up in his bed and is rubbing his eyes) Just come back later.
Rutherford: (from outside the room) My boss will be pissed if I don’t do the rooms in order.
Lightmore: Ok I’m coming.
(Lightmore gets up and opens the door, Rutherford B. Hayes (in an old Members Only jacket, tight dress shirt, black wrinkled necktie, black jeans, and dirty, duct tape covered tennis shoes) walks in and shuts the door behind him)
Rutherford: I saw your speech yesterday Mr. Star Trek Geek and need to talk to you.
Lightmore: Who the hell are you?
Rutherford: (hands Lightmore a card) Rutherford B. Hayes from Special Crimes Advance Problem Solvers. We need to talk now but not here.
Lightmore: Just let me put some pants on.
Rutherford: No time for that, this is important government business.
(Rutherford grabs Lightmore by the arm and throws open the door, he drags Lightmore out)
Scene 5
(Rutherford and Lightmore (who still doesn’t have pants) are sitting across from one another at a booth in a fast food joint)
Lightmore: This can’t be the best possible place to talk.
Rutherford: Trust me this is a most excellent place to talk.
Lightmore: Why the hell did I come with you? You can’t be a real government agent. Damn if I didn’t just wake up I’d never have come with you.
Rutherford: I’m as much of a government agent as Pretty Sammy is a magical girl.
Lightmore: What?
Rutherford: Pretty Sammy she’s a magical school girl that fights against injustice in the land of the rising sun but that doesn’t have anything to do with us.
Lightmore: Ok enough games, what do you want?
Rutherford: I’ll tell you when my special order gets here.
(Romeo (dressed as a fast food crew member) comes up to the table with a tray that has a bag on it)
Romeo: You’re special order sir.
(Rutherford takes the bag off the tray and places it on the table, exit Romeo)
Lightmore: This is just some kind of sick game isn’t it? Listen I don’t know who set you up to this but I need to leave town because I got a ton of work to do if I ever want a group to fund my research.
Rutherford: (pulls a wrapped burger out of the bag) I hope they got my order right.
Lightmore: I don’t fucking care if they made your stupid burger right. I’m leaving right now.
Rutherford: (unwraps the burger and then lifts the bun up and looks inside) Damn, I pacifically asked for no secret messages. (takes the piece of paper that is inside the burger and hands it to Lightmore) Here you look like you could use the fiber.
Lightmore: (takes the paper and reads it) This is an address.
Rutherford: (gets up to leave) Well maybe you should go there, cocheese. (starts walking towards the door)
Lightmore: Where the hell are you going?
Rutherford: To clean some pools.
Lightmore: (as Rutherford walks out) Did I just wake up in The Prisoner?

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Scene 6
(Metro City, “Darsow Championship Kendo School” storefront, cut to the inside, Vincent (dressed in traditional Japanese attire for Kendo) has a Shinai (wooden kendo sword), he takes a couple of swings and hears the front door open, Vincent looks to see who’s coming in mid swing and falls down, enter Ryoko “Kissy” Suzuki)
Ryoko: Are you all right?
Vincent: (sitting up) Yeah but I’m not so sure about the Invisible Man. (gets up)
Ryoko: Uh?
Vincent: Nothing. (puts out his right hand) I’m Vincent Darsow the instructor and only person at this dojo.
Ryoko: (shakes his hand) I’m Ryoko Suzuki but my friends call me Kissy.
Vincent: Like the Bond girl from You Only Live Twice.
Ryoko: Yeah, my one friend is a real Bond nut.
Vincent: If you’re here to take classes, I got no students and nothing but free time.
Ryoko: Good because then I’ll get all of your attention.
Vincent: Have you ever taken another martial art or had kendo instruction before?
Ryoko: No but I’ve wanted to learn kendo for a long time and just found out that there was actually a school for it here in Metro City.
Vincent: Nobody knows this place is here and I hardly make enough money to support myself let alone advertise. But enough about my financial woes: why do you want to learn the way of the sword?
Ryoko: I’ve wanted to learn it since seeing it in various anime titles.
Vincent: Anime?
Ryoko: Japanese cartoons.
Vincent: I don’t really watch TV yet alone cartoons. I’m a movie fan myself. I can just put what ever I want in the VCR and don’t have to worry about having what the networks think is cool and hip shoved down my throat.
Ryoko: You have a VCR.
Vincent: As I said: I’m on the verge of having the government pay me to sit on my ass all day. But getting back to the kendo: it’s not all fun and games you know. It takes a lot of practice and discipline to master.
Ryoko: How old are you?
Vincent: Why do you want to know that?
Ryoko: I’m just curious to how old my new master is?
Vincent: 22.
Ryoko: I thought it would take someone longer to reach the ability to take on students.
Vincent: I’ve been taught the art of kendo ever since I was old enough to walk. And since my father died three years ago I’ve promised to carry on his teachings but there aren’t a lot of people in this town that want to learn.
Ryoko: Well I do.
Vincent: If you have nothing better to do we can get started now.

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Scene 7
(Lightmore (now fully dressed) is standing in front of a door of a beat up crappy looking house in the bad part of DC)
Lightmore: (looking at the piece of paper) This is the right address. Of course that guy could have sent me here to get killed.
(the front door opens and Burchwood is standing there in a shabby suit)
Burchwood: Hello Mr. Lightmore. Please come inside.
(Burchwood walks inside and Lightmore follows, the inside of the house is bare with white paint peeling everywhere)
Lightmore: Ok I’ve come to a crackhouse in the middle of one of the worst urban areas in America because a message in a burger told me. I want to know what this is all about?
Burchwood: You may call me Burchwood my real name is not one that I would like to disclose with my wife let alone a person I just met like you. I had agent Hayes contact you today because I need to talk with you. This is just a place picked at random to make sure this talk would be as private as possible. This god damn city has too many ears.
Lightmore: So are you the head of whatever that agency Hayes is from?
Burchwood: Special Crimes Advance Problem Solvers: no I am not the head but I practically am. I’ve invited you here today because of your interesting research in parahumans.
Lightmore: At least someone in this city thinks it’s interesting.
Burchwood: You see SCAPS deals with problems that other branches of the US government can’t deal with themselves. Either it’s out of their jurisdiction, illegal in nature, or they have no idea of how they should handle it. In our work we have ran in people that are parahuman in nature on many occasions. You see Mr. Lightmore the world is full of freaks and things that are beyond the explanation of mainstream professionals. We could use a man like on the team.
Lightmore: You want to hire me.
Burchwood: Only if you can really provide the goods. I have a job for you to test out the usefulness of your research and knowledge. That’s if you’ll take it.
Lightmore: If I pass the mustard and became a member of your group can I get the money and resources I need to continue my research?
Burchwood: Of course you can. I’ll take it that you want in so I’ll send Romeo to your room later to brief you. He’ll also come with you on the mission to help you out and evaluate your usefulness to us.
Scene 8
(Metro City, a pizza pallor, Vincent and Braddock are sitting at a booth eating)
Braddock: Ok you’re making this person up. You just got so desperate that you subconsciously created this person so you’d have some kind of purpose to your fake job.
Vincent: She’s as real as the sterility rate at your place of employment.
Braddock: That’s just one of the things those liberal bastards that write the newspapers make up.
Vincent: I suppose they made up finding the bodies in those barrels.
Braddock: Well accidents do happen.
Vincent: Somebody killed them with an ice pick and hide their corpses there.
Braddock: Actually I think it was a meat hook.
Vincent: You see is that a normal work place occurrence?
Braddock: No but it has nothing to do with the hazardous materials that are contained there.
Vincent: Seriously, will it take nothing less then you going bald or start bleeding from every orifice to realize that working at a toxic waste disposal company is not a good idea?
Braddock: Probably.
Vincent: But while you’re rotting from the inside out at least I can start making some money.

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Scene 9
(Lightmore is in his hotel room laying on his bed, Romeo opens the door and comes in, Lightmore sits up as he comes in)
Lightmore: How’d you open the door?
Romeo: (holds the key card up) I stole the key from the front desk.
Lightmore: You’re from SCAPS right?
Romeo: Right. (Romeo takes a plane ticket out and hands it to Lightmore) Tomorrow at 8 AM a plane is leaving from the airport to Metro City. You be on it or we’ll pretend you don’t exist.
Lightmore: What’s the mission?
Romeo: A job for the FBI. They want us to arrest or get rid of two criminals named: Mad Hornet and Snakebite.
Lightmore: “Get rid of”, you mean kill?
Romeo: Only if absolutely necessary.
Scene 10
(Metro City, nighttime, The Flipside night club, Mr. Smile (in a big overcoat and floppy fedora, his face covered in shadows) is sitting at a table in an elevated private area, the area is enclosed in glass and has a sliding door with steel steps leading to the main level of the club, a bunch of men in suits are standing on the other side of the table)
Affair: Where’s my money Mr. Smile?
Royal: Yeah, I went through all kinds of hell just to get you that black plague sample and I except to be paid.
Mr. Smile: Mr. Affair. Mr. Royal. You both along with the others will be paid in full I promise as soon as Sharky gets back from Chicago.
French: I don’t give a fuck about Sharky, Smile. I don’t do things for people without getting what’s coming to me. I get my money now or I’m out.
Mr. Smile: So you want what’s coming to you, uh. (Smile points to French, one of the men unravels a garrote from his wrist and walks up behind French, he strangles French and drops his dead body to the ground) Does any one else not want to wait for Sharky to get back? (the mob guys have a look of fear and dread in their faces) Good, I thought you fine gentlemen would see things my way.

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Scene 11
(Chicago, daytime, the outside of a very tall building, a man comes flying out of a window and plummets to the street, cut to Blackmate and Vargas standing in front of the shattered window looking out, the room is a very luxurious office)
Vargas: I guess Sharky doesn’t have any happy thoughts.
Blackmate: Idiot, the cops will be here soon. I told you to quit over doing it.
Vargas: Sorry boss but he deserved it.
Blackmate: I don’t care. I try to keep a legitimate front going but lately I’m beginning to think that it’s not going to last.
Vargas: I told you before that once I get going I can’t stop until the other guy is broken completely.
Blackmate: Switch to decaf or take yoga, Vargas.
Vargas: I’ll get me one of them stress balls.
Blackmate: Just leave or you’ll do something dumb in front of the police. Oh Vargas I won’t be back after I deal with the authorities until tonight. I got a lot of stuff to do today.
Scene 12
(Vincent’s dojo, Logan is sitting along a wall with his cowboy hat pulled over his eyes, Vincent is mopping the floor)
Logan: About two years ago me and some of my army buddies were in Iraq. We were just camping out in the desert: you know survivalist, are you man enough stuff. Well we get 30 miles from Baghdad and it’s midday by now so we have lunch. We were following the trail of the coalition forces back in 2003 because Kirk was there but never got to Baghdad. So we were taking about the war and how the new leaders are almost as bad as the old ones. You know how they support terrorists and build up chemical weapons but the UN does shit about it now. After a while Kirk has to take a leak so he goes walking off to piss behind a shrub. He gets twenty feet from us and an explosion goes off and sand flies up into the air. We all turn to see what the hell happened and it ain’t pretty. Kirk stepped on a landmine left over from the war. He just laid there on the ground staring at the sky. Both his legs were blown clean off and blood was flowing like a river from him. I get down and take his pulse because I’ve seen guys live thru worst. His pulse is real weak but at least he has one. So now we’re 30 miles from Baghdad without transportation and a dying man. I want to try to get him to the city but the other guys don’t think he’ll make it. We get in an argument; I mean we were yelling so loud Allah must have heard it. I have no idea how long we argued but when we finally stopped Kirk was dead. Now it couldn’t have been longer then maybe thirty minutes, which wouldn’t have been enough time to carry him to the city. Hell, he could have died as soon as we began yelling like women. But all of that didn’t matter. The fact is that our friend was feeding the desert with his blood and we where to busy calling each other every name in the book to act like a soldier should when he loses a brother in arms. We just didn’t talk and buried him on the spot that he died. After that we couldn’t bring ourselves to see each other let alone talk. But, last week we finally quit being stubborn and got together. We went back to Iraq. To 30 miles from Baghdad and paid our long overdued last respects to our good friend.
Vincent: That’s some story there, Logan.
Logan: There’s a point to it.
Vincent: (points to himself) Was I suppose to take something away from this story?
Logan: Always say your final good byes no matter how long it takes.
Vincent: This is about my father.
Logan: You didn’t go to his funeral. You don’t visit his grave. It’s been three years, go make your peace.
Vincent: You know I can’t.
Logan: He’s gone to the Lord’s domain now. God’s forgiven him, so should you.
Vincent: Never Logan.

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Scene 13
(Blackmate is standing at a lookout on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh, he’s leaning his back on the guardrail, he’s black overcoat is blowing in the wind, Maxwell Tsung and Jacob Watermaster come up to him)
Tsung: What’s this about Industrial Waste Management Inc.?
Blackmate: Ever hear of a mobster named: Mr. Smile?
Tsung: No.
Blackmate: Well, he’s got his hand in your dirty cookie jar.
Watermaster: What do you mean?
Blackmate: There’s a rumor going around Metro City that bodies where found in waste barrels at the place. They were said to have been killed by a meat hook. A meat hook so happens to be Mr. Smile’s favorite toy. I go to Metro and look into the matter. It seams like Smile thinks that he can use your resources to dispose of his problems.
Watermaster: We’ve been burying bodies for some gangster? Christ, if the papers ever catch wind of this we’re in for some major shit.
Tsung: How long has this been going on?
Blackmate: I don’t know but it might be years. I still have my guys shaking down his rabble trying to find out. But there’s a lot more interesting stuff going on in Metro City.
Tsung: Like what?
Blackmate: Smile’s been buying favors from the other mobsters in town. Hell, he got Tony Royal to get him a black plague sample. On top of that he sent his underling Sharky to broker a deal with me.
Watermaster: What kind of deal?
Blackmate: He’ll expose just how you handle toxic materials if you don’t give him Vanilla and he knows what that is.
Tsung: How does this man know about your connection to Fenris?
Watermaster: More importantly, how does he know about Vanilla?
Blackmate: Dryer’s not dead. He’s been feeding Smile information for safekeeping. I wouldn’t have even known this if that runt Sharky didn’t tell me.
Watermaster: You’re information network is severely lacking Blackmate. We should have known about this, months ago.
Blackmate: Nobody’s perfect Watermaster. So do you want me to deal with this?
Tsung: We’ll deal with this matter. You just keep an eye on it for us.
(in a puff of black smoke Blackmate teleports away)
Watermaster: How do you think we should handle this?
Tsung: We’ll call Rachel and have her bring us this Mr. Smile’s head.
Scene 14
(a cab driving along the highway going into Metro City, the section is elevated and the road is empty, you can see downtown a few miles to the right of the highway, cut to Lightmore looking out the window from the outside)
Lightmore: (to himself) Metro City, this maybe my last chance to prove myself. No matter what I must not fail.
Scene 15
(Vincent’s dojo, Vincent getting a kendo sword shot straight to the mouth, Vincent spits out blood and rubs his mouth, Ryoko comes over to Vincent)
Ryoko: Crap, I’m sorry.
Vincent: (blood coming out of his mouth) It’s ok. I shouldn’t have had you spar with me on the second lesson. (wipes the blood off with the back of his hand) Maybe we should call it a day.
Ryoko: Ok. You want to go get lunch?
Vincent: Sure I got nothing else to do today except exist.

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Scene 16
(Mr. Smile sitting at his desk in The Flipside, he’s talking on a phone)
Mr. Smile: Sharky’s dead. Damn I thought Blackmate would have more respect for the situation that I’m putting his bosses in. Well then it’s time for the backup plan. If Blackmate doesn’t want to play the game then his corpse will send a nice message to Fenris Solutions.
Scene 17
(Vargas is in Blackmate’s office on a cell phone)
Vargas: What is Blackmate paying you for? If you can’t stop one lone man with a fucking chain then how can you call yourselves security? I’ll handle him. Don’t worry I’m still pumped from the physic lesson I gave our friend from Metro City.
(close up of the elevator, the doors open revealing a ninja dressed in old fashion Japanese peasant clothes and a wicker hat (think Raiden), he holding a chain with a sickle attached to one end with both hands, he’s twirling the end with the sickle around, he walks into the room and him and Vargas stare down each other)
Ninja: Where is Blackmate?
Vargas: You’ll be dead in two minutes so you don’t need to know.
Ninja: Die dog.
(the ninja throws the sickle end at Vargas, Vargas dodges the blade and grabs the chain with his right hand, he yanks the chain hard and the ninja comes flying at him, he catches the ninja with the chain and wraps it around the ninja’s neck, he yanks the chain up with both hands and the ninja grabs the chain around his neck trying the prevent his own choking, the ninja pushes the heel of his right foot into the top of Vargas’ right foot, Vargas winches in pain and loosens his grip, the ninja reaches up and grabs Vargas’ head and toss him over him and onto the floor, the ninja takes the chain off of him and tosses it to the floor, the ninja takes out a sai and holds it between the prongs, Vargas gets up and the ninja rushes him, Vargas tries to dodge but gets the blade straight in his left shoulder, Vargas gets really pissed and grabs the ninja by his throat, the ninja stabs the blade in more and Vargas tightens his grip, the ninja suffocates and lets go of the sai, Vargas drops him and pulls the sai out, he looks down at it)
Vargas: This guy gave the damn security trouble. (throws the sai down into the ninja’s chest) I guess even money can’t buy good help, present company excluded.

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Scene 18
(Ryoko and Vincent are sitting across from one another in a booth at a diner-like restaurant, Vincent is eating a burger and fries, Ryoko is eating grilled cheese and onion rings)
Vincent: The Prime Directive says that The Federation can’t go around interfering in less advance planets’ business. But Kirk ignores it like it’s just a suggestion. If he was in the military of today they would have discharged him by now.
Ryoko: I thought you said you didn’t watch TV.
Vincent: I don’t but when I went to high school I caught reruns everyday after school.
Ryoko: Well, I never liked Star Trek. Captain Kirk seams like the type of person that rather have sex then save the universe and Spock’s ears just looked stupid.
Vincent: But Spock’s cool. He’s got the Vulcan nerve pinch, the Vulcan mind meld, and is very logical.
Ryoko: He’s still a big dork with elf ears.
Vincent: How about evil Spock?
Ryoko: Who?
Vincent: In the episode “Mirror, Mirror” Kirk and the away crew gets transported to an alternative dimension where The Federation is evil. Spock has a goatee and is one bad mother fucker.
Ryoko: Why does the evil version of everyone always has a goatee or mustache?
Vincent: Because all people with facial hair are inherently evil: like Hitler, Stalin, Ted Turner, and Walt Disney.
Ryoko: Walt Disney was not evil.
Vincent: Ever seen Song of the South, The Lion King, Atlantis, or just watched the Disney channel, which Braddock creepily watches every time I go over to his place? That man’s legacy of evil must be stopped.
Ryoko: OK, you can’t possibly tell me that The Lion King is evil or reflects the evil of Disney.
Vincent: It’s a kid’s cartoon where the “hero” kills his uncle. Plus the music makes me want to vomit.
Ryoko: I’ve seen way more violent “kid’s cartoons”.
Vincent: That’s because instead of making good, quality shows for children they cater to the lowest common denominator so idiot college students will watch the junk and waste their money on the merchandise. Because no matter where in the world you are sex, violence, and stupidity sells.
(Logan comes in and sits next to Vincent, he takes some of his fries and eats them)
Logan: If stupidity really does sell then why don’t you have more students?
Vincent: Because nether me or my trade is stupid.
Logan: A smart person would just use a gun.
Vincent: Uh, Ryoko this is Logan.
Ryoko: Nice to meet you.
Logan: So you’re the hot little number that’s going to help Vincent here pay his bills.
Ryoko: “hot little number”, what else has Vincent told you about me?
Vincent: (looks straight into Logan’s face) There’s no need for you to do that.
Logan: (lifts the brim of his cowboy hat up so he’s looking straight into Vincent’s eyes and stares for a second before turning to look at Ryoko) He thinks you’re the prettiest girl that he’s ever seen. (Vincent tries to cover Logan’s mouth with his hands but Logan catches him with his arm and pushes him into the booth seat) He went on to say that you are the most interesting person’s he’s meet in a long time. Hell, he told me he wants to ask you out on a date but just too embarrassed to say the words. (moves his arm from Vincent)
Vincent: Aren’t you a little old to do something like that?
Ryoko: I think it’s sweet that he’s asking me out for you. That’s a sign of true friendship.
Vincent: If he was a true friend he’d know when to keep his mouth shut.
Ryoko: If you want to go out on a date I’m game.
Vincent: (delightfully shocked look on his face) You really mean that?
Logan: Don’t mind him, he’s never had much luck with girls. In fact in the eighth grade there was a girl (I forget her name) that he had a huge crush on. She lured him into the girl’s bathroom and handcuffed him to the toilet.
Ryoko: (laughs) Is that true?
Vincent: It’s not funny. Thanks to that I’m forever know as The Pervert.
(Ryan walks up to the table)
Ryan: Hey Pervert.
Vincent: You know that was years ago, you could just let it go.
Ryan: No I think I’ll keep it up until you die and then have them put “Here Lies The Pervert” on you tombstone.
Vincent: Ryoko this is my best friend Ryan. Ryan this is my new student Ryoko.
Ryan: I’ve see that you already met Logan.
Logan: You know the offers still on the table beautiful.
Ryan: You’re old enough to be my father. Plus the fact that you watched me grow up from a kid because you’re Mr. Darsow’s friend just makes the fact that you keep asking me out creepy and wrong.
Logan: Vincent told me that you want to find a mature guy to date for once.
Vincent: I figured who would be more mature then a man that serviced his country in the armed forces. Plus you two already know each other so your half way to a date anyways.
Ryan: You mean that he keeps freaking me out because you told him too.
Vincent: I think that you’d make a cute couple.
Ryan: You’re dead!
(Ryan lunges over Logan at Vincent but Vincent gets on top of the table and Ryan eats booth seat, Vincent jumps over Ryoko’s head and Ryan gets on the table and follows suit)
Logan: This is normal for them.
(Vincent runs pass the table followed by Ryan)
Vincent: If you still want to go out on a date call me later.

[PTMidnite]

Scene 19
(Lightmore and Romeo are in a crappy, dirty motel room, Lightmore sniffs the air and then bends down to smell the his bed, he stands back up straight and looks at Romeo)
Lightmore: Surly we can stay at a better hotel. I don’t think this mattress has ever been cleaned and those yellow stains frankly scare me.
Romeo: No we’re not to draw any unwanted attention. Because we’re to make sure that nobody knows that we as in SCAPS is here.
Lightmore: What’s with all the secrecy and spy stuff? Because if this agency is top secret then what are we going to do if the police arrest us while trying to catch those criminals and what do we do once we get them if they’re not dead.
Romeo: SCAPS isn’t a secret of any kind we just don’t like to advertise our existence. The less the public knows the better. The problem with groups like the CIA, NSA, and FBI is that everyone on earth knows that they exist and where their headquarters and even where field offices are at. With us the general public either doesn’t know of us or thinks we’re an enigma. Trust me all of this is just to keep our ambiguity and ensure we can operate the way we like and keep the local authorities off our asses.
Lightmore: But this place still is unfit for human occupation.
Romeo: You don’t want to stay here fine. Then the deals dead.
Lightmore: I think that I can get use to it for now. It won’t take long for my ol’factory to get burnt out.
Romeo: (looks under the bed and pulls a attaché case out from under it, he puts it on the bed and opens it, there’s guns and grenades in it plus a file, he takes the file out and hands it to Lightmore) This is all the information that the FBI could give us on our targets.
Lightmore: (opens the file and looks inside) Jack “Snakebite” Kirby and Stan “Mad Hornet” Lee wanted for at least five murders. Snakebite is said to have venomous fangs and Mad Hornet can control hornets with his mind. (looks up at Lightmore) If we can catch these guys and have news coverage then the world can see that I’m right.
Romeo: There are people in very high places that make sure that things like this don’t become household knowledge. Because don’t you find it odd that you’re example Death Wish wasn’t in the newspapers or on TV.
Lightmore: I realize that without interference that parahuman activities would be widespread information. That’s why it will probably take something very public to get people to listen to me. But why can’t we stage a very public event of our own to prove me right.
Romeo: I’m not doing anything that would jeopardize the mission.
Lightmore: Ok, a guy can try. I know the FBI goes after murderers but why are these two such top priorities; it says here that they aren’t even on the top ten most wanted list?
Romeo: I don’t know but some very powerful people in our government must be putting pressure on them for them to come to us.
Lightmore: How do you know that?
Romeo: This isn’t anything that the spooks can’t handle and there’s buzz from their HQ that someone mysterious within the government wants these two dead as soon as possible.
Lightmore: You said we’d have to kill them only “if absolutely necessary”.
Romeo: I didn’t think you’d come if I told you we were going to assassinate criminals for our country.
Lightmore: This all better be worth it.