CHAPTER 10: A STRAIGHT FACE

INT. HALLWAY

Rick walks through the hallway, passing empty rooms.

RICK
Spencer? Where are you?

Rick sees a door with blood on the handle. He takes out his gun and enters the room.

INT. ROOM

He looks around. Nothing is broken and appears no struggle occurred inside.

RICK
Hey Spencer are you in here? Are you okay? Where are you?

Adrian comes behind him.

ADRIAN
Right here.

Before Rick can do anything, he is hit in the head with a crowbar and falls unconscious. Adrian sets him on a chair by one of the computers and uses the rope to tie him to the chair. He picks up the gun off the floor. He removes Rick's holster and snaps it to the side of his belt. He puts the gun inside. He takes Rick's wallet out and looks through it. Rick wakes up dazed.

ADRIAN
Well what do you know, there are security guards in here. Rick Crenshaw is it?

RICK
Who are you?

ADRIAN
You ask a lot of questions don't you? I'm the guy who's been killing everyone in my path to find a man named Walter Bennett. You know him?

RICK
Never heard of him.

ADRIAN
Everyone I've run into has already used that excuse. He caused an injury to my wife and killed my unborn baby. He was experimenting with some bullshit experiment. The WB-18. I looked through some of the papers she had. I know you know him.

RICK
I don't.

Adrian opens his wallet and looks at the pictures.

ADRIAN
You wouldn't want anything to happen to her would you?

Adrian shows him a picture of Dawn. Rick tries to get out of the chair.

RICK
Touch her and you're a dead man.

ADRIAN
I don't think so.

Adrian tosses the wallet aside.

ADRIAN
Where is he?

RICK
What do you want with him?

ADRIAN
I just want to talk.
(laughs)
I couldn't say that with a straight face.

Adrian sees the pink iPOD sticking out of Rick's pocket. He takes it out and looks at it.

ADRIAN
What's this doing in here? Faggot shit!

He throws it and the iPOD smashes against the wall. He leans in closer to Rick.

ADRIAN
Where the fuck is he?

RICK
Fuck you.

Adrian takes out both katana blades and holds them like a pair of scissors at Rick's neck. He walks behind him while still holding the blades close to his neck. He holds both blades in one hand and pinches the top of his shoulders. Rick faints. Adrian hears a group of people talking outside the room. He takes the gun out and rushes over to the door. He peaks outside and sees four scientists. One of them is in a wheelchair. The scientists enter the room across from him. He leaves the room.

INT. NEXT ROOM

Adrian busts into the room and points the gun at the scientists. They are all terrified.

SCIENTIST 1
What is the meaning of this?

ADRIAN
Up against the wall now and shut up.

The scientists comply.

ADRIAN
I want to know where Walter Bennett is.

WHEELCHAIR SCIENTIST
I don't know where he is.

ADRIAN
Oh, so you know him?

WHEELCHAIR SCIENTIST
Yes. I know him. There is no need for violence. It never solves anything.

Adrian hits him with the butt of the pistol and everyone screams. Blood trickles from the scientist's mouth.

SCIENTIST 2
Have you gone mad? He is in a wheelchair.

ADRIAN
I don't care. I'm going to settle the score with this dickhead.

SCIENTIST 3
Revenge is not the answer.

Adrian kicks him in the knee and the scientist falls down. One scientist tries to hit Adrian with a pipe wrench but Adrian hits him in the face. The scientist goes down in pain.

SCIENTIST 1
Stop this! Please.

Adrian picks up the pipe wrench. He shoots the scientist in the head and everyone screams.

WHEELCHAIR SCIENTIST
What kind of person are you? What are you going to gain from all this? This is sick. Revenge does not make you feel good, it makes you feel worse.

Adrian shoots him in the head until his head explodes all over the room. Then, he shoots the other two scientists and leaves the room.