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INT. FBI HEADQUARTERS - DAY A train of agents carry in confiscated equipment from Jody's apartment: computers, monitors, a toaster, etc.--everything (except the arcade game). At a desk across from Cho and Ellis, Jody watches the parade. Ellis types on his laptop computer in silence. JODY (referring to Ellis's computer) '486? ELLIS Fifty-five mega-hertz. Beat. JODY You like it? ELLIS Ehh, I'll upgrade soon. JODY I got a 80 mega-hertz at home. Agent Rollins walks by with Jody's computer. ROLLINS Not any more. JODY (to Ellis) Isn't this a little extreme?! CHO Standard procedure. ELLIS (returning to the questioning) So, according to you, (reading from notes on computer) you had no idea that Clay was selling information, and...all these "gifts" from Clay were just tokens of affection? JODY (shrugs) Yeah. ELLIS (to Cho) She's gonna have to wear a wire. JODY (hesitant) I don't know about that. ELLIS (turning serious) Ms. Young, we have you intimately linked with a known hacker and over a dozen electronic crimes profiting millions for a syndicate of crooked investors. (stands, steps forward...) A room away, we hold a pile of contraband you can not explain and two gigabytes of encrypted files you won't let us access. (overboard) You're facing charges that could put you away for twenty to forty years--time you're are not ready to lose for some punk who seduced you with trinkets and attention. Jody crumbles. Ellis steps away and leans against a file cabinet. Cho covers. CHO (calm; sincere) Right now, we can't take Jack, but we're not gonna let Clay go free. You can take the fall or help us catch him as the crook he is. Jody looks at the fuming Ellis, the compassionate Cho, then turns away to think. Subtly, Cho turns to Ellis who gives him a little shrug. It's all an act--standard procedure. JODY (resolute) What do I do? CUT TO: INT. VAN - DAY Agents stir about the back of the agency's windowless van, making preparations for a bust. Guns, vests, and riot-gear fill one side; electronic monitoring equipment lines the other. Jody, opposite Ellis, watches Rollins load a shotgun. ELLIS (to Jody) We're not going to grab him unless he has his disks and notes. The cartridges SCRAPE down the metal barrel and CLICK at the bottom. Jody is mesmerized. As soon as you see that he has the waist pack, give us the signal. Ellis grabs Jody at the biceps and yanks her to attention. Jody! When you see the bag, just cross your arms and back away. We'll take care of the rest. JODY (referring to the shotgun) Is that really necessary? ELLIS (off Jody's look) You're still with us, right?! JODY (collects herself) Yeah. CHO (calling out from the front seat) 3rd Street! Ellis looks to Jody; she nods. ELLIS (to driver) Stop here. Everyone sways forward as the van slows and stops. Ellis opens the door for Jody. ELLIS Ignore the wire and just act normal. Jody quietly steps out and turns around; Ellis gives her a coach's "go get 'em" nod. Behind him, three heavy-armed agents are ready, willing, and able to apply overwhelming force. Without enthusiasm, Jody slowly closes the rear door of the van. CUT TO: EXT. PARKILL BUILDING LOADING DOCK - DAY Jody stands near the dumpster where she first met Clay. Absentmindedly, she scratches her chest. Feeling the microphone under her shirt, she stops. JODY (to mic) Sorry. She hears a CAR ENGINE and looks up. CLAY'S CAR drives past the FBI van, up to the loading dock. JODY hops down from the loading dock as Clay steps out of his car. He's not wearing the waist pack. CLAY (humble) I'm glad you wanted to talk. Jody looks around, distracted and nervous. I'm sorry I misled you. I thought I was making it easier by not letting you know... JODY (interrupting) Let's not talk about it Clay. CLAY (surprised) Don't you want an explanation? JODY Not now. INT. VAN - DAY Ellis and Rollins listen to the conversation through headphones. In the front seat, Agent Cho watches the scene with binoculars. CLAY (O.S.) If it's any consolation, I've only made a fraction of the money Jack pulled in. Excited, Ellis takes notes. Amtron's merge must have been the biggest... JODY (O.S.) (interrupting) I can't believe you did this to me. Ellis stops writing and freezes with his pen on the page, anxious for more. THE TAPE REEL spins slowly, recording the sound of FOOTSTEPS ON PAVEMENT. EXT. PARKILL PARKING LOT - DAY Jody and Clay walk around the car to the trunk. JODY I trusted you. CLAY I know. They both look away for a long awkward pause. Jody remembers her purpose. JODY So how much did you win off me? CLAY (shrugs) Nine companies...$5,000 for the first,... (thinks) $6,000 for the second... JODY (hands on hips) Get your calculator. Obediently, Clay turns to the trunk. CHO'S POV - THROUGH BINOCULARS Clay inserts the key in the lock, turns the key,... ELLIS (V.O.) Get ready. ...and opens the trunk. JODY looks inside. JODY'S POV - OPEN TRUNK Clay pushes aside some junk to reveal...his waist pack. JODY stands motionless--no signal. She reaches into the trunk, unzips the bag, and pulls out the calculator. INT. VAN - DAY ELLIS What's she doing?! CHO (mystified) Computing her earnings. Ellis presses the headphones to his ear. EXT. PARKILL PARKING LOT - DAY Clay watches Jody punch numbers into the calculator. CLAY I can give you whatever's left. She lifts the calculator in front of his face. JODY No, let's add it up. THE CALCULATOR displays an message using upside-down numerals: "ShISh." CLAY obeys. JODY (pressing buttons on the calculator) Five thousand times nine equals... THE CALCULATOR reads: "ELLIS." CLAY's eyes search the parking lot. CLAY Ahh... What's 5 times 9? They can't multiply to save their lives. INT. VAN - DAY Ellis listens closely, waiting for the answer. EXT. PARKILL PARKING LOT - DAY They hover over the calculator that has no answers. JODY Ahh...fifty-four. CLAY (correcting her) Forty-five! JODY Right, forty-five. Do you have the money here? CLAY No. Jody types another message. JODY (holding out the calculator) Where's your bag? THE CALCULATOR tells Clay to "LIE." CLAY looks back to Jody. CLAY (performing) It's at my place. JODY I'll have to come by and get my jack knife. CLAY (anxious to leave) Good. Great. It's really great you're giving me a second chance. Jody types a message. JODY (unconvincing) Oh, yeah. She hands him the calculator. He reads the message. THE DISPLAY reads: "GO2hELL." CLAY smiles and pitches the calculator in the trunk. CLAY Well. (backs away) I gotta go. He slams the trunk closed and walks around the car, scoping the parking lot. He spots the van and averts his eyes. JODY watches him go. CUT TO: INT. VAN - DAY Ellis slams the headphones on the console. ELLIS Damn! (rubs his eyes) Put her under house arrest. CUT TO: INT. OUTSIDE JACK'S OFFICE - EVENING A key ring crashes onto Diane's desk. She looks up from a report to see Clay standing over her. CLAY (desperate) I gotta borrow your car. DIANE I didn't drive. CLAY (takes his keys back) Shit. DIANE What's going on? CLAY Jody went to the feds. DIANE What! CLAY I may disappear for a while. Jack appears at the door of his office. Seeing Clay, he rushes over and interrupts. JACK (hushed) Clay, I'm dying. (pulls him over to the side) I need some new information! OFF TO THE SIDE CLAY The feds are on to me. JACK What! How do you know? CLAY I got a tip from a friend. JACK (suspicious) Is this friend involved? CLAY No. JACK (grave) No partners Clay. CLAY I know. Jack walks to the window, pondering what to do for a moment. JACK I'll handle this. CLAY What can you do?! JACK (defensive) Clay, I'm not without connections. Go home and pack, wait for my word. Clay scampers out. Jack rushes into his office and makes a phone call. JACK (O.S.) (into phone, hushed) Remember that favor you owe me? CUT TO: INT. CLAY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT In only the illumination of a penlight, Clay frantically packs his things. BUZZ! Someone's outside. Clay presses the "talk" button on the gate intercom. CLAY John? STATIC AND STREET NOISE BLAST from the speaker. VOICE (unrecognizable within the noise) Yeah! Clay buzzes him in, opens the door, and returns to packing. He stuffs his laptop and other equipment into a large duffel bag then walks off-screen to the bedroom. The living room is quiet. Outside the door, DISTANT FOOTSTEPS approach. From the bedroom comes the sound of HANGERS RATTLING in a closet. After a minute, Clay re-enters the living room with a pile of shirts draped over his arm. He looks around--no John. He drops the clothes and slowly walks to the door. CLAY John?! Clay pulls a driver from the set of golf clubs in the middle of the room and creeps behind the open door. A FIGURE steps through the doorway into the room. CLAY prepares to swing. The Figure reaches for the light switch and turns it on. CLAY checks his swing. It's only John, dressed in sweats, hair still wet. JOHN Damn, this new place is a maze! CLAY (putting down the club) Thanks for coming so quick. Clay turns off all the lights, except his penlight. JOHN Are you alright? CLAY (emotionally drained) I will be when I'm out of here. (beat) Thanks for helping, John. They share a quick, guy hug. JOHN Hey, anything for you. CUT TO: INT. CAR ON CITY STREET - NIGHT CU ON CLAY Clay drives with windows open, escaping the city. The high beams from the car behind him reflect off the rearview mirror into his eyes. He squints. Approaching a red light, he applies the brake. EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT CLOSE ON BEAT-UP SKYLARK Illuminating in red, three cold faces fill the car behind Clay. The driver jerks the wheel to the left. THE SKYLARK squeals into the open, left turn lane. CLAY looks out the left window--horror breaks over his face. THE SKYLARK races up to the Clay's white Prelude and stops. Two Uzi's pop out of the side windows and riddle the car with bullets. A hand throws a molitof cocktail through the window. CLAY'S CAR explodes into flames. The Skylark races away. CUT TO: EXT. SKYLINE - DAWN The sun breaks over the horizon; it's a new day. EXT. CEMETERY - MORNING Ashes pour from an urn into the ground. REVEREND (V.O.) ...Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. DIANE AND JODY stand side-by-side on the inside edge of the gathering of mourners. Most of the people disperse, except a couple in their sixties, Clay's FATHER and MOTHER, feeding one another tissues. Clay's Father wears a tie we've seen before, sent with condolences from Jack Cole. JODY AND DIANE walk from the site in silence. Diane's been crying; Jody's still in shock. JODY Did you ever meet his parents? DIANE No...You? Jody shakes her head. They walk a few more paces in silence. John chose an bad time to disappear on one of his wilderness road trips. JODY I wish I could disappear. Diane reaches for Jody's hand, which Jody gives. They grasp tightly, but do not cry. ON THE DRIVEWAY Ellis stands next to the FBI sedan; Cho sits behind the wheel. Ellis approaches the two women. ELLIS I'm sorry about Clay. Diane and Jody ignore him; they release their handhold, walk around him, and reconnect. Ellis turns. If you let us take him, he'd still be alive! The words hurt Jody, already burdened with guilt. Agent Cho hops out and opens the rear door for Jody. The women hug once more then Jody steps into the car. Ellis approaches and slams the door closed on Jody in the backseat. PAN FORWARD ALONG CAR EXT. STREET OUTSIDE JODY'S APARTMENT - DAY CONTINUE PAN FORWARD ALONG CAR TO THE FRONT SEAT (LATER) Agents Ellis and Cho sip coffee, watching out the driver's window into Jody's apartment, a few feet away. CHO She's taking it pretty well. Ellis nods, sympathetic. CUT TO: INT. JODY'S APARTMENT - DAY Jody plays furiously on the Ms. Pacman arcade game, the one piece of electronic equipment remaining in her barren apartment. UP CLOSE, tears fill her eyes. She yanks the joystick desperately. ON SCREEN, brightly colored ghosts chase Ms. Pacman through a maze. JODY raises a hand to smear the tears off her cheek. ON SCREEN Ms. Pacman eats a pulsating pod, turning all the ghosts blue. She chases the ghosts and gobbles them for points. The game's speed and volume increase with Jody's emotions. JODY slowly turns her grief into determination. She blinks the last tears out of her eyes. HER HAND controls the joystick with refined precision. ON SCREEN Ms. Pacman fakes and dodges around the five ghosts, once again in hot pursuit of her. JODY looks outside where... INSERT - AGENT'S CAR OUTSIDE ...the two agents are preoccupied: Ellis takes notes and Agent Cho flips through Road & Track. ON SCREEN Two of the ghosts converge on the motionless Ms. Pacman. "GAME OVER" appears on the screen. JODY looks back down at the screen. ON SCREEN "HIGH SCORE." Jody is prompted to enter her initials. Instead, she spells: O-U-T. JODY swats at the button. CLICK! The back panel of the machine flops open. She smiles. She stoops and begins to pull out her hidden stash of equipment: laptop computer, cellular link, etc.--gifts of the late Clay Campbell. CUT TO: INT. AGENTS' CAR - DAY Ellis and Cho sit quietly. The magazine page CRACKLES as Cho slowly turns the page. Then quiet again. Suddenly, the top of the roof caves with a LOUD METALLIC CRUNCH. The agents start. Two roller blades skate down the windshield, across the hood, and off the bumper. Jody has made her escape! EXT. STREET OUTSIDE JODY'S APARTMENT - DAY Jody races down the street with a backpack full of high-tech equipment. She rounds the corner before Cho starts the car. EXT. HILLY RESIDENTIAL STREETS - DAY JODY tucks into a squat and streaks down the incline. THE FED'S CAR screeches around the corner and barrels down after her. JODY turns onto a... CUT TO: EXT. HIGH-TRAFFIC STREET - DAY JODY races down the sidewalk, hoping on and off the curb, slaloming around pedestrians, jumping a dog. THE FED'S CAR tracks her on the side. THE AGENTS watch Jody through the side window when she grabs a meter and makes a sharp left turn, directly behind the car. JODY slips through the traffic to the opposite side. Turn signal flashing, the agents try to merge over two lanes and make a U-turn. The traffic HONKS and slows to a crawl. CUT TO: EXT. ALLEYWAY - DAY Jody is well down an alley when the agent's car swerves in. THE CAR closes in, accelerating down the straight-away. In the distance, she can see that it's a dead-end. INSIDE ELLIS (looking at Cho with concern) You see that this is a dead-end. CHO (intoxicated by speed) Yeah! THE CAR accelerates to ramming speed. JODY rapidly approaches the wall. Trashcans and doorways whiz by. THE CAR closes in on her. JODY spots her escape: a fire-escape ladder hanging over the alleyway, fifty feet from the dead-end. She readies herself... THE CAR closes fast. JODY reaches up, grabs the ladder, and swings up, over the speeding car and back down to the pavement. CHO'S FOOT slams on the brakes. THE CAR skids and crashes into the wall. ELLIS AND CHO are shaken but not hurt. ELLIS Nice fucking driving. ELLIS turns to look out the back window. JODY skates down the alley and disappears around the corner. ELLIS (referring to Jody) No backing out now. CUT TO: