A ROOM, LOCATION UNKNOWN
Red is interrogating Nik, Liz’s ER doctor. Nik tried to save Liz’s life but failed. The interrogation room is the same as the one Red used in 3:12 The Vehm to execute the man who had attacked Liz in a supermarket parking lot
Nik is terrified
NIK : Given her abrupt drop in blood pressure and pulse, I diagnosed a placental abruption. We performed a successful emergency C-section. She was having chest pains, shortness of breath… classic symptoms of an amniotic fluid embolism. Her lungs were no longer functioning. I had to get her to a trauma unit. We were losing her. And she went into arrest.
RED : That’s enough.
NIK : I kept her alive long enough to become a mother.
RED : What a desperate thing to say.
NIK : I don’t want to die.
RED : Everyone dies someday.
OPIUM DEN
An elderly Chinese woman opens a secret wall in a restaurant and descends the stairs to an opium den. Red is sleeping fully clothed on a thin mattress recessed into the wall
ELDERLY CHINESE WOMAN : Time to go, Mr. Red. Time to go.
Red mumbling
RED :No. No, no, not yet. I want another one. I want another one. I paid and I want another.
ELDERLY CHINESE WOMAN : No. You go. It’s Friday. It’s too long for you. You go.
Red groans, coughs loudly
Red gets up and heads out, leaving behind his pistol and fedora
The chinese woman, calling him back
ELDERLY CHINESE WOMAN : Mr. Red.
RED : Mm.
Red turns back and takes his hat but not the gun
NEW-YORK/ A STREET
Red seems to be in a stupor
A taxi almost hits Red. The driver rolls down window and calls out
CABBIE : You trying to get yourself killed?
Red gets in the cab
RED : Cape May. Cape May, New Jersey.
CABBIE : That’s 200 miles away.
Red counts out five $100 bills
CABBIE : Cape May it is.
In the cab, Red remembers Liz's death
Flashbacks:
RED : « Don’t go, Lizzy. Please, don’t go. »
Baby coos
TOM : « Now go. And stay away from us. »
CAB
RED : Everyone dies someday.
CABBIE : You say something?
CAPE MAY / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Electric razor buzzes as Red shaves while leaving a message for his lawyer, Marvin Gerard
RED : Marvin, it’s Raymond. I’m taking a leave of indeterminate length. Suspend all transactions. Pay off all my outstanding debt. If you need additional funds to cover any shortfall, execute a wire transfer from Barbados. Dembe has a power of attorney letter on file should a signature be necessary.
He hangs up
Red to the cabbie
RED :How much for the cab?
CABBIE : No, you’re good.
RED : No, no. How much do you want for the cab?
CABBIE : You’re kidding, right?
Red plops many thick stacks of bills on the car hood, hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions
CABBIE : That’s plenty.
GREASY SPOON
Red stops for breakfast at a greasy spoon, orders bacon and eggs.
RED : Thank you
He notices a woman seated in a booth by the window. She sees something and hurries out. A man comes into the restaurant and uses the rotary dial pay phone
A HOUSE ON THE BEACH
Red arrives at an inn just behind the sand dunes. It is closed for the season. He pushes through the gate.
THE BEACH
The beach at Cape May is deserted. Red takes a folding lounge chair and opens it on the beach. He looks out to sea. The day is dull and cold. Red suddenly sees the same red-haired woman from the restaurant sitting on the beach. She takes off her coat and a necklace and walks into the water a ways, then dives in
RED : Hey! Hey! No! Stop!
Red runs, shedding his coat, suitcoat and hat along the way, then runs into the 40 degree water, looking for the woman. A large wave tumbles over him. He rescues the mysterious woman and drags her onto the beach
THE HOUSE/LIVING ROOM
Red helps the woman walk to the white inn building, into an apartment, and helps her down onto a rug on the floor in front of a fireplace. He covers her with a sheet and places two decorator pillows under her head
RED : I’ll find a blanket.
THE HOUSE /RECEPTION
Red sees a woman behind the desk
WOMAN BEHIND THE DESK : May I help you?
Red has just taken a blanket and some matches from a closet in the lobby. He turns around. The woman is gone
THE HOUSE/LIVING ROOM
Red breaths heavily
Red starts a fire in the fireplace, then he lies down on the floor next to the woman, pulling the blanket over both of them and cradling her head on his arm, his other arm pulling her close to him
RED : You’re okay. Talk to me.
The woman whispers
WOMAN : It’s not that he died. It’s not even the way he died. It’s in the things I said to him… just before he died.
They fall asleep
THE HOUSE/FIRST FLOOR, A ROOM
Red wakes. It’s lighter outside. Red is alone on the floor. He is wearing a tee-shirt and shorts. He pulls his pants on and climbs the stairs. He finds the woman peering out of a window
RED : Hello? You okay?
WOMAN : There’s someone here. Outside. He’s here to kill me. There. There he is. See his shadow?
RED : Stay away from the window.
Red grabs an ax and heads outdoors
RED : I found the intruder. He put up a fight. I had no choice but to kill him.
He has a torn black kite
WOMAN : You must think I’m crazy.
RED : No.
THE HOUSE/KITCHEN
RED : We’ll have hot water soon.
WOMAN : There’s wine. And I can make a risotto.
THE HOUSE/BATHROOM
Red, cautious, holding the ax behind his back
WOMAN : Do you think we’ll have hot water tonight?
RED : By the time we finish dinner, it should be hot.
THE HOUSE/KITCHEN
RED : This is superb. The rice is just right.
WOMAN : Canned mushrooms. Best I could do.
RED : It’s excellent. You aren’t hungry.
Electricity crackles
RED : Who’s trying to kill you? Does it have something to do with what you told me before?
WOMAN : I’m sorry?
RED : You said you lost someone. Harsh words were spoken. Words you regret.
WOMAN : I was out of my mind. There was no one. Just me.
RED : You don’t have to lie.
WOMAN : Neither do you. You’re no hungrier than I am. You’re not enjoying a single bite of that.
RED : I told you this is….
WOMAN : Superb. The quality of the cooking is wholly irrelevant in this case, isn’t it? Given the circumstances.
RED : And those are?
WOMAN : You tell me. Tell yourself. Say it out loud.
RED : ... It was a Hobson’s choice. There was a woman and her child. Both were doomed. Both would die. I could either save one or lose both. I chose the child. It was… it was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. Worst thing by far.
WOMAN : You didn’t have a choice.
RED : There’s always a choice. I was arrogant. I presumed that there was an order to things, that there was… that if I nourished and protected and taught the child, she would be safe… …and happy.
WOMAN : And she was neither.
RED : No matter what I tried to do, all I brought her was misery and violence, and eventually…
WOMAN : Death.
RED : Yes.
WOMAN : And now you’re dead. You believe there’s nothing left for you.
RED : It’s that obvious?
WOMAN : Nothing about you is obvious. What brought you here?
RED : I honestly don’t know.
WOMAN : You’ve been here before.
RED : Once, a long time ago. I was a very different person then. You.
Knock on door, door buzzes
Red opens the door
RED : What can I do for you, Officer… Duncan?
OFFICER DUNCAN : We got a call from a neighbor. He noticed lights inside.
RED : Oh, Yeah. I was afraid that might happen. That’s why the candles… didn’t want to alarm anyone.
OFFICER DUNCAN : I take it you’re not trespassing.
RED : Oh, good God, no. Jack and Ida are old family friends. Offered the place for the weekend.
OFFICER DUNCAN : Mind showing some identification?
RED : No, no, no. No problem. I’ll be right back.
OFFICER DUNCAN : If you don’t mind, I’d prefer waiting inside.
RED : Of course. My mistake. Please, please. It’s a bit chilly out. Wait here. I’ll get my I.D.
Red goes into another room and selects from a set of driver’s licenses under various names, then returns to the front room
RED : I’m sorry you had to come all the way out here on such a cold night.
The officer looks in the kitchen and sees the candles, food and wine from dinner
OFFICER DUNCAN : Didn’t mention you had a friend.
RED : Yeah. My wife, Abigail. She’s feeling a little under the weather.
OFFICER DUNCAN : Didn’t touch a bite, it looks like.
RED : No. I can go upstairs and wake her, if you’d like.
OFFICER DUNCAN : No. No, that’s okay. Everything appears in order. You said you’re a friend of Jack and Ida’s.
RED : Yes, I said I was a friend. Poor Jack. Miss the hell out of that man.
OFFICER DUNCAN : Yeah, yeah. It’s a crying shame. Ida just hadn’t been able to keep the place up since he passed. Enjoy your stay, Mr. Donnelly.
RED : Thank you, Officer.
Officer leaves
WOMAN : He knows.
RED : I don’t think so. He’d have to be very good at hiding it. We’ll see. Water should be hot.
THE HOUSE/BATHROOM
The woman is bathing. Red is seated on a couch some distance away
WOMAN : How did you know Jack was dead?
RED : I didn’t say he was dead. I said I missed him.
WOMAN : Still, why would you miss him?
RED : State of the place. Hasn’t been maintained. A man wouldn’t let that happen if he was around.
WOMAN : You said “Poor Jack”?
RED : “Jack’s Shack.” He took pride in that. Decorated it, carved his name on it. It’s falling apart. I figured he was either sick or dead.
WOMAN : Could have been Ida.
RED : I went with Jack. Men don’t usually last as long as women.
WOMAN : You sound like an actuary.
RED : I am, in a way.
WOMAN : Have you ever killed anyone?
RED : That’s an odd question.
WOMAN : Have you?
RED : Yes. Many. But never anyone who didn’t deserve it.
WOMAN : Me, too.
RED : I know.
WOMAN : How?
RED : There aren’t a lot of us. You learn to recognize it.
WOMAN : Yes.
FIRST FLOOR
Later, glass shatters
Red looks for the perpetrator
THE HOUSE/BATHROOM
WOMAN : Behind you
.Red and the man fight inside the bathroom
MEN : Oh!
Woman grabs the man from behind and slams his head against a mirror, then the sink – several times. He collapses dead onto the bathroom floor
Red coughs
WOMAN : You all right?
RED : Yeah. Thank you. You know him?
WOMAN : It doesn’t matter. He’s one of them. Not the first, not the last.
They wrap the body in the plastic shower curtain and clean up the blood . Red keeps his phone.
THE HOUSE/LIVING ROOM
The woman is playing
« Rain, in Your Black Eyes » by Ezio Bosso on the grand piano
Red sits on the couch
RED : Why did you go into the water? What made you decide?
WOMAN : You’ve never killed anyone who didn’t deserve it.Yes.That is a fine thing. A noble thing. But not terribly difficult.
RED : That’s true.
WOMAN : Have you ever spared someone who deserved to die?
RED : There was a woman I loved. She was… my life. My heart. And she died. She left behind a little girl. One last, precious piece of herself.
Flashback :
RED : « She’ll need protection. »
TOM : « Only if you’re in her life. Go. Stay away. I won’t let you make the same mistake with her… …that you made with Liz. »
RED : I would give anything to be a part of that child’s life, but a man made it clear I would never see her… hold her… watch her grow. And I knew in that moment, I would never be any part of that beautiful little girl’s life. Because…
WOMAN : He was her father.
RED : And to harm him would be to harm her. A mortal sin. Her mother is gone. The father is what she has left in the world.
WOMAN : Her father.
RED : Yes.
Intruder's cellphone vibrates
On cellphone
MAN : Gregory, do you copy? Did you copy that?
Woman breaks the phone in half
WOMAN : We don’t have much time. They’re coming.
THE HOUSE/GARAGE
RED : This’ll work. I’ll drive.
Red loads the man’s body into back of a black SUV in the garage. The mysterious woman turns to walk away. Red grabs her arm
RED : I’m not leaving without you.
WOMAN : Yes, you are.
RED : No. I’m not.
WOMAN : Those men are after me. It’s my problem, not yours.
RED : You made it my problem the moment you walked into the ocean.
WOMAN : I didn’t ask for your help. Let me go.
RED : No.
WOMAN : Why not? What difference does it make to you?
RED : Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing…
WOMAN : We’re wasting time.
RED : I have. June 29, 2003. I was meeting two associates at the Marouche restaurant in Tel Aviv. As my car was pulling up, a 20-year-old Palestinian named Ghazi Safar entered the restaurant and detonated a vest wired with C4.
WOMAN : Let me go.
RED : The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn’t hear. The smoke… It was like being underwater. I went inside. A nightmare. Blood. Parts of people. You could tell where Safar was standing when the vest blew. It was like a perfect circle of death. There was almost nothing left of the people closest to him. 17 dead, 46 injured. Blown to pieces. The closer they were to the bomber, the more horrific the effect.
WOMAN : Stop.
RED : That’s every suicide. Every single one. An act of terror perpetrated against everyone who’s ever known you… Everyone who’s ever loved you. The people closest to you… the ones who cherish you… are the ones who suffer the most pain, the most damage. Why would you do that?
The woman whimpers
RED : Why would you do that to people who love you?
WOMAN : I have no choice.
RED : There’s always a choice.
WOMAN : Is there? That little girl. The one you told me about? The one whose father you spared? What would you do if you knew… knew… that as long as you drew breath, as long as you continued to exist, her life would be in danger? She would be hunted, and she would be killed. What would you do?
RED : What would you do?
WOMAN : My child is being raised by someone else. I am her mother… and I am death to her. So this is what I’m doing. I never wanted this.
RED : I know.
WOMAN : Then go.
RED : I can’t.
Together, Red and Woman booby-trap the house. A bomb made from a propane tank. A live electric cable left in a sink with the water left to overflow. A mantrap made from cable and piano wire... Pounding music heightens the tension
THE HOUSE/ ROOM
At night, vehicule approaches : there are six or seven men
WOMAN : You still have time to go.
RED : I don’t know your name.
WOMAN : Don’t be ridiculous, Raymond.
HOUSE
Action sequence. In brief, the interlocutors are all dispatched, some by the booby traps. The woman pushes one man off a balcony. There is a brief gunfight. Red slashes one man’s throat. The woman stabs one man in the chest. One man is hung in the mantrap...
WOMAN : You okay?
RED : We need to clean up and clear out.
WOMAN : You get the car.
In the morning, Red seeing the car, different from the one in the evening : unusable, old
RED : There’s something wro…
Red sees that the kitchen and other rooms are immaculate, untouched, as though he had just arrived. He goes to the staircase and shouts up
RED : Hello?
Red climbs the stairs, searching for the woman
RED : Where are you?
Red looks out the window. He sees the woman again walk into the ocean, exactly as before
RED : No. No, no, no.
Red runs down the stairs, out of the inn and across the beach.
BEACH
He looks at the surf pouring in. This time, the woman is nowhere to be seen
An old man has been using a metal detector to look for treasure under the sand. He is now digging for something
RED : Hey! Did you see a woman walk into the water?
TREASURE HUNTER : No. I didn’t see no woman.
RED : You sure?
TREASURE HUNTER : Yeah. I’m sure. Mister, the only living soul I’ve seen on this stretch in over two weeks is just you.
RED : Just me.
TREASURE HUNTER : Yep.
Red recalls moments he had with the woman, but this time he speaks woman’s words
RED : « Canned mushrooms. Best I could do.»
RED : « Behind you.»
Red plays on the grand piano
Returning to the present, Red queries the treasure hunter
RED : Just me.
TREASURE HUNTER : Yep. Just you.
The treasure hunter finds a necklace buried in the sand
TREASURE HUNTER : Hello.
Though it is almost completely encased in sand, Red recognizes the necklace
RED : Could I, please? Please. I want to buy it.
Brings out a thick wad of bills
TREASURE HUNTER : Ain’t worth anywhere near that.
RED : It is to me.
TREASURE HUNTER : Okay, then.
Red goes to the water’s edge and lets a wave wash over the necklace
Red reads aloud the Russian inscription on the back of the necklace
RED : To Katarina, love Papa.
Suddenly, the mysterious woman appears at Red’s side
WOMAN : You had no choice. It was me or Masha.
RED : I’m sorry.
WOMAN : Raymond, you did save me. Through her. It was the only way. You chose well.
The woman reaches out and places her palm against Red’s cheek, stroking it
TREASURE HUNTER : Hey, Mister!
Red turns around
TREASURE HUNTER : You okay? Seem a little lost.
The mysterious woman is gone
RED : There’s someone I need to see.
Red turns and walks away from the shore
Adapté du site «The Blacklist Classified», mise en page par mnoandco
