Story and screenplay by Lathaniel Bacon
Based on 20th Century Fox's "Logan" using characters from Jim Davis' "Garfield"
Revised Final Draft
Zoom in
House in desert is shown in the the house is a broken Garfield sitting on a cot, unknown bottles surround Garfield's bed presumably alcohol.
Thump
Pan to a crack in the rooms door. Garfield gets up and quickly limps to the door. Garfield opens the door, and an expression of terror flashes upon his face. Pan down to see Jon on the floor, grasping at his chest Garfield grab a bit of hair on his head and gets a flashback
Cut to
screen blurs as you see Garfield driving a car Odie in the back and a worried Jon in the passenger's seat.
Cut back to
Garfield lets go of head and kneels down to Jon
Garfield
(grunts)
No time for anaesthetic
Garfield kneels down and extends his lasagna claws, then proceeds to conduct a triple bypass on Jon.
Fade To
Garfield's deteriorated life is shown to audience as a montague. First we see Garfield cleaning up himself, and the bathroom after the surgery. Next we see what Garfield does for a living. Begin a montage of Garfield driving all sorts of people of different personalities in an Uber, people are enjoying themselves while Garfield keeps a disgruntled look the whole we cut to Garfield at a cemetery he looks at a row of them and takes a drink from a flask that was concealed in his jacket. A woman with a girl approach him
Woman
Garfield! GARFIELD!
Garfield quickly flees the scene
House Night
Garfield walks inside the house to see Jon, recovering well.
Jon
How much you get?
Garfield hands Jon a paper bag
This isn't enough Garfield
Jon hands back the paper bag and Garfield turns around.
Jon
Garfield I know about your plan.(pause) The boat... Jon intensely stares at Garfield, you know I can't do water.
Garfield
It's what's best for Odie…
Jon
Where are you gonna get sixty thousand dollars anyway? I know you're forty thousand short.
Garfield starts to walk outside but is stopped by...
I know about the lasagna bullet.
Garfield goes to his room
Shed outside house
A cell phone rings outside of the shed that Odie is in and Garfield picks up the phone
Unknown man
Very impressive, Garfield
Garfield
(with aggression)
Who is this
Unknown man
The names Nermel, big fan of yours...I think you might of had a run-in with something I'm looking for
Garfield's eyebrow raises
a little girl...
Garfield
Well you're not gonna find her with me
Garfield then hangs up the phone and a text message appears on the phone "I'll keep in touch"
Garfield enters the room, we see Odie bound to a wheelchair
Odie
Who was that? (Odie's facial expression and voice tone shifts to confused) Wait, who are YOU!?
Garfield
No one Odie.
Garfield reaches into his jacket and pulls out a paper bag, turning his back to Odie, very slowly he pulls out and assembles a syringe and attempts to conceal it
I just…
Odie
NO! NO YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME THE SHOT!
Odie begins to roll himself out of the room as best as he can
Garfield lunges at Odie, knocking him out of his wheelchair, Odie has a telepathic seizure and Garfield gives Odie the shot while struggling to deal with the pain from the seizure, we see Jon in pain back in the house.
Odie struggles but ultimately gets overcome by Garfield
Odie
I hate you Garfield
Garfield
(picking up Odie and placing him in a bed)
See you remember me Odie
Odie
How could I forget. long pause while Garfield get Odie into bed he begins to leave the room I was thinking, no remembering… What happened to us? We were at the school and… What happened?
Garfield gets a worried look
Odie
(eyes widening)
Garfield, what did you do?
Garfield
(voice weaker, saddened)
I didn't do anything Odie.
Garfield's car night
Garfield looks at his phone to see an uber notification. He starts the ignition exiting the area
Cut to
Garfield approaches an old motel and the woman and child from the cemetery come out of a room Garfield starts to turn around but the woman grabs a bundle of cash then proceeds to drop said bundle in Garfield's hand. Garfield turns to the woman.
Garfield
Where are you going?
Woman
North Dakota. Just the girl. You get this much now, the child has $20,000 more in her bag for when you get to the border.
On the dash of Garfield's car we see a pamphlet for a boat "$60,000"
Garfield
Fine.
Garfield gets in his car, and starts it. The girl gets in the back and he drives off.