Chapter 4
The meet to between Johnny and Kai
Kai runs around corners, still trying to loose the cops. Running smacks into Johnny and without slowing down, kai leaps toward him, twisting in mid- air like a cat. Johnny throws a punch. Misses. Goes down under Kai's tackle and then he let's his claw out of his hand and slide together on the polished floor. Before they even come to rest kai moves his hand close to Johnny's face.
"What day is it? The date?" Kai asked.
"Thursday...uh...May twelfth!" Johnny said, scared
"What year?" kai asked, Viciously.
A gun was placed near kai's head, by a security guard.
"Get up! Put your hands on your hand!" the security guard said.
Kai looks down at Johnny, then at the security guard and then back at Johnny. An evil smile spread across kai's face, his eyes turned all black. A shot whines off the metal side of an escalator behind kai's head. He vaults the escalator rail, leaving the amazed Johnny lying on the floor. Kai bounds up the frozen steps, pocketing the .38 Police Special in his coat. Cops dash through the maze of aisles, converging at the escalators. Whip panning with kai, as he hurtles between displays. Holding his sword he runs on. A door opens quietly and kai slips out. As he moves like a panther along the narrow catwalk. Tilt down to include the first lapd cruiser parked at the mouth of the alley. Kai drops cat-like beside the unattended police car. Cautiously, he opens the door of the cruiser, removes the RIOT GUN, an Ithaca pump model, from the dash rack and slips it under his coat. Cradled in a vertical position, the shortened weapon is virtually invisible. He walks out onto the street and away, unhurriedly, an innocuous pedestrian soon lost in the rain.
STREET/NEARBY.
Kai enters a telephone booth. Harsh light rakes across his face, outlining the long scar. He opens the directory, leafs through it.
Kai's finger slides down a column. Stops beside the following listings in the big metropolitan white pages:
Bladebreakers: 687-555-1904 White tigers: 687-555- 5203 All stars: 687-555- 1537 The majestics: 687-555- 2619 The demolition boys: 687-555-9037
CITY STREET - Next MORNING
The night's rain has given way to a typical Tokyo. Morning of diffuse sunlight. GIRL on a MOPED as she walks threw traffic. Mariah is 14, small and delicate-featured. Pretty in a flawed, accessible way. She doesn't stop the party when she walks in, but you'd like to get to know her. Her vulnerable quality masks a strength even she doesn't know exists. Mariah maneuvers nimbly, apparently in a hurry.
BIG BOB'S RESTRAUNT...
Mariah buzzes into the parking lot of Big Bob's Family Restaurant and chains the moped to the icon of Big Bob himself. The fiberglass cherub holds up his mammoth hamburger in perpetual homage to whatever deity watches out for fat kids. Mariah removes a stack of school textbooks from the luggage carrier and tunes to go into the restaurant.
"Watch this for me, big buns!" Mariah said.
INT. BIG BOB'S/DINING AREA
HIGH WIDE SHOT prominently featuring a VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERA F.G. as Sarah enters below. She passes under another video eye as she crosses the main floor of the wholesomely appointed eatery. Sarah goes through the swinging Staff doors under a third camera.
Mariah glances up as Breen's voice rasps from a ceiling speaker.
"Mariah?" BREEN asked.
She answers the empty hallway.
"Yes, Chuck?" Mariah asked
"Come to the office, please!" Breen said.
She turns back toward the office door at the end of the corridor. Mariah opens the door to Breen's closet control center.
"Mission control to Chuck, come in!" Mariah said.
"You're late!" Breen said.
Mariah is undaunted.
"Aren't I worth waiting for?" Mariah asked.
"Not really. Do you think you can get here on time if I put you on the floor as a waitress?" Breen said.
"I don't know. I kind of had my heart set on being a cashier the rest of my life!" Mariah said.
"The pay's the same but you'll make more in tips!" Breen said.
"Thanks, Chuck. I need the money. Can I still work the hours around my classes?" Mariah said.
Breen turns to punch up a display on the restaurant's small accounting computer. Mariah looks over his shoulder as he modifies the week's schedule.
"Mmm. same schedule's okay!" Breen said.
"All right!" Mariah said.
"Can you handle it?" Breen asked.
"It's not brain surgery, Chuck!" Mariah said.
Breen hands her an apron ceremoniously.
"Here you go. You're a Bob's Girl now. Nancy will check you out!" Breen said.
"I won't let the fat kid down!" Mariah said
PARKING LOT
Mariah was walking to the Bladebreakers house, and bumped into Johnny! They both starred at each other for along time!
"Mariah, you won't believe who I saw!" Johnny said.
"Who?" Mariah asked.
"Kai!" Johnny said.
"WHAT you saw kai?" Mariah said.
"Well, actually! I bumped in a guy, who looks like kai! I mean he had the same hair colour; the eye colours were the same! He even had those tattoos on his face!" Johnny said.
"Since you said, that! I saw the same guy, watching me threw the restaurant window!" Mariah said.
"I'm on my way to the Bladebreakers house! You?" Johnny asked.
"I was going over to the Bladebreakers too!" Mariah said.
"Would, you like to go to the Bladebreakers house, together?" Johnny asked.
"Sure!" Mariah said.
Johnny and Mariah both walked to the Bladebreakers house and stopped! They had this feeling that they were being followed, by someone! Once in awhile they both stop and look around.
5 minutes later.
They finally made it to the Bladebreakers house. Johnny rang the doorbell and Rei answered the door.
"Johnny and Mariah! What are you doing here?" Rei asked.
"Can we come in?" Mariah asked.
"Sure!" Rei said, while moving to let the two teenagers in the house.
Johnny and Mariah walk in to the house and in to the living. They both sat down, at the same time.
"Rei, go get everyone to come here!" Johnny said.
"Okay, but they are just in the back yard!" Rei said, go to get them.
Kai runs around corners, still trying to loose the cops. Running smacks into Johnny and without slowing down, kai leaps toward him, twisting in mid- air like a cat. Johnny throws a punch. Misses. Goes down under Kai's tackle and then he let's his claw out of his hand and slide together on the polished floor. Before they even come to rest kai moves his hand close to Johnny's face.
"What day is it? The date?" Kai asked.
"Thursday...uh...May twelfth!" Johnny said, scared
"What year?" kai asked, Viciously.
A gun was placed near kai's head, by a security guard.
"Get up! Put your hands on your hand!" the security guard said.
Kai looks down at Johnny, then at the security guard and then back at Johnny. An evil smile spread across kai's face, his eyes turned all black. A shot whines off the metal side of an escalator behind kai's head. He vaults the escalator rail, leaving the amazed Johnny lying on the floor. Kai bounds up the frozen steps, pocketing the .38 Police Special in his coat. Cops dash through the maze of aisles, converging at the escalators. Whip panning with kai, as he hurtles between displays. Holding his sword he runs on. A door opens quietly and kai slips out. As he moves like a panther along the narrow catwalk. Tilt down to include the first lapd cruiser parked at the mouth of the alley. Kai drops cat-like beside the unattended police car. Cautiously, he opens the door of the cruiser, removes the RIOT GUN, an Ithaca pump model, from the dash rack and slips it under his coat. Cradled in a vertical position, the shortened weapon is virtually invisible. He walks out onto the street and away, unhurriedly, an innocuous pedestrian soon lost in the rain.
STREET/NEARBY.
Kai enters a telephone booth. Harsh light rakes across his face, outlining the long scar. He opens the directory, leafs through it.
Kai's finger slides down a column. Stops beside the following listings in the big metropolitan white pages:
Bladebreakers: 687-555-1904 White tigers: 687-555- 5203 All stars: 687-555- 1537 The majestics: 687-555- 2619 The demolition boys: 687-555-9037
CITY STREET - Next MORNING
The night's rain has given way to a typical Tokyo. Morning of diffuse sunlight. GIRL on a MOPED as she walks threw traffic. Mariah is 14, small and delicate-featured. Pretty in a flawed, accessible way. She doesn't stop the party when she walks in, but you'd like to get to know her. Her vulnerable quality masks a strength even she doesn't know exists. Mariah maneuvers nimbly, apparently in a hurry.
BIG BOB'S RESTRAUNT...
Mariah buzzes into the parking lot of Big Bob's Family Restaurant and chains the moped to the icon of Big Bob himself. The fiberglass cherub holds up his mammoth hamburger in perpetual homage to whatever deity watches out for fat kids. Mariah removes a stack of school textbooks from the luggage carrier and tunes to go into the restaurant.
"Watch this for me, big buns!" Mariah said.
INT. BIG BOB'S/DINING AREA
HIGH WIDE SHOT prominently featuring a VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERA F.G. as Sarah enters below. She passes under another video eye as she crosses the main floor of the wholesomely appointed eatery. Sarah goes through the swinging Staff doors under a third camera.
Mariah glances up as Breen's voice rasps from a ceiling speaker.
"Mariah?" BREEN asked.
She answers the empty hallway.
"Yes, Chuck?" Mariah asked
"Come to the office, please!" Breen said.
She turns back toward the office door at the end of the corridor. Mariah opens the door to Breen's closet control center.
"Mission control to Chuck, come in!" Mariah said.
"You're late!" Breen said.
Mariah is undaunted.
"Aren't I worth waiting for?" Mariah asked.
"Not really. Do you think you can get here on time if I put you on the floor as a waitress?" Breen said.
"I don't know. I kind of had my heart set on being a cashier the rest of my life!" Mariah said.
"The pay's the same but you'll make more in tips!" Breen said.
"Thanks, Chuck. I need the money. Can I still work the hours around my classes?" Mariah said.
Breen turns to punch up a display on the restaurant's small accounting computer. Mariah looks over his shoulder as he modifies the week's schedule.
"Mmm. same schedule's okay!" Breen said.
"All right!" Mariah said.
"Can you handle it?" Breen asked.
"It's not brain surgery, Chuck!" Mariah said.
Breen hands her an apron ceremoniously.
"Here you go. You're a Bob's Girl now. Nancy will check you out!" Breen said.
"I won't let the fat kid down!" Mariah said
PARKING LOT
Mariah was walking to the Bladebreakers house, and bumped into Johnny! They both starred at each other for along time!
"Mariah, you won't believe who I saw!" Johnny said.
"Who?" Mariah asked.
"Kai!" Johnny said.
"WHAT you saw kai?" Mariah said.
"Well, actually! I bumped in a guy, who looks like kai! I mean he had the same hair colour; the eye colours were the same! He even had those tattoos on his face!" Johnny said.
"Since you said, that! I saw the same guy, watching me threw the restaurant window!" Mariah said.
"I'm on my way to the Bladebreakers house! You?" Johnny asked.
"I was going over to the Bladebreakers too!" Mariah said.
"Would, you like to go to the Bladebreakers house, together?" Johnny asked.
"Sure!" Mariah said.
Johnny and Mariah both walked to the Bladebreakers house and stopped! They had this feeling that they were being followed, by someone! Once in awhile they both stop and look around.
5 minutes later.
They finally made it to the Bladebreakers house. Johnny rang the doorbell and Rei answered the door.
"Johnny and Mariah! What are you doing here?" Rei asked.
"Can we come in?" Mariah asked.
"Sure!" Rei said, while moving to let the two teenagers in the house.
Johnny and Mariah walk in to the house and in to the living. They both sat down, at the same time.
"Rei, go get everyone to come here!" Johnny said.
"Okay, but they are just in the back yard!" Rei said, go to get them.