TUESDAY - THE NIGHT BEFORE
The room is dark. Marco is pressed up against the headboard of his bed staring at the window. The fan ominously whirls in the hall. Bob appears in his window and enters the room. Bob moves down on top of him. His hand moves between his legs. Marco fights with all his might to keep staring at his face. To know it. To unlock it. His hands go up. He holds his face... squeezes it as he moves on top of him. "Who are you...Who ARE you...!" Slowly, what he always knew deep inside of him becomes clear. Bob becomes his own father, Luigi. He screams and passes out into hell.
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LAST MORNING OF MARCO'S LIFE
Marco stares at a bowl of soggy cereal. His mother sits at the dining room table smoking. He pushes his spoon around in the cereal. Luigi stares at him.
"Marco, I would like to talk to you. Is something wrong?" Marco gets up and leaves the room. Luigi stares at the empty door. He waits for a moment and then follows him. His wife, nervously, watches him go. Marco is getting his school materials together when Luigi enters. "Marco. What's wrong this morning?"
Marco, eyes of fire, whispering a threat, "Stay away from me." Never taking his eyes off him, he works his way around him and leaves the room. Luigi watches his son go. His face changes. He knows Marco knows... and he knows what he has to do.
Marco walks to school. All the beautiful, natural sounds of morning sound like hell to him. Distorted chants from hell. At school, Marco studies the clock hand going round and round. Every sound in the room is distorted. The bell rings in slow motion. Marco rises from his chair. The chair he will never sit in again.
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It's 10pm. Marco needs his fix so he drives to Dylan's before it got too late.
"Let's ditch this place and party." Dylan says.
"Not tonight. Just give me something to take home to hold me over till tomorrow."
"Why? Why not? Where are you goin'?"
Marco smiles and leans forward. He kisses him and Dylan responds. "Dylan, I'm goin' home. To bed... my nice warm bed..." They kiss again. He looks up and listens for his parents. Dylan whispers, "We can do it right here."
"Dylan..." He sees that Marco is not in the mood.
"You don't want me. You just want the stuff, don't ya?" Marco stares at him. Dylan continued, "It's okay." He reaches in his pocket and gives her a nice bag of coke plus pills. "Dylan's got it."
Marco, taking the packet, "Thanks, Dylan." looking at the packet, "And my little round friends, too." Dylan takes him to the door. He gives him a small kiss, "Good Night".
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Midnight...Marco's room, the phone rings. "James... Yes, okay... No, James, I do love you, but... Okay, I'll meet you in fifteen minutes... " He hangs up the phone and does another line of cocaine then swallows down a handful of red round friends from Dylan - the pills."Fifteen minutes... god, why did I say that?... what did I say?..."
James drives up. Luigi's face appears looking out the front window. Marco jumps on the bike behind James and off they go.
James and Marco drive through the night. James brings the bike though the woods and stops in the little clearing. James tries to kiss Marco, he pushes him away. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"That's right. There's no place left to go is there, James?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know it and I know it."
"What is wrong with us?... We have everything."
"Everything, but everything."
"Oh, Marco..."
Mimicking him, "Oh, Marco..." he gives him a terrible slap.
James says ironically, "You always hurt the ones you love."
"You mean the ones you pity."
"Say anything you want... I know you love me and I love you."
Marco slips "I do love you." he whispers "Let's get lost together." They kiss again. Hot. Hands everywhere. Marco breaks away, he screams in terror at something behind James. "What?" He's confused. Marco is obviously hallucinating.
"Shit, maybe he'll kill you."
"What?"
"When he finds out."
"What?"
"Dylan killed a guy."
"What are you talking about? Dylan didn't kill anybody."
"You want to see...?"
"See what?"
Marco, disgusted "Right. Open your eyes, James. You don't know me. Even Ellie doesn't know me. Your Marco disappeared... It's just me now."
James grabs him trying to control him. He twists out of his arms. "How 'bout this, James?" he lifts his hand and gives him the finger. James ignores the finger and kisses him, but he's gone ice cold. "I think you want to take me home now, James." He leads him back to the bike. He won't start it.
"Oh, quit crying. I've had enough of your fucking caring." He kicks the bike to a start. Behind him, Marco watches and silently starts to cry. Marco and James on the bike make their way down to Sparkwood and Twenty One. Marco leans way back on the bike, looking up at the trees as they fly by in a dark blur.
"The trees... the trees..." Marco screams with agony and tries to get off as they approach the light. He falls off as they skid to a stop. James, confused and terrified, "Marco..."
Marco crawls back up and puts his hands around James' neck. "JAMES, I LOVE YOU!" For a moment he focuses on James. He looks like the Marco that James loves. Innocent and Beautiful. Marco turns and sees the woods. It pulls her. He releases his hold on James and runs into the waiting darkness. The red light swings in the wind above James. It turns green, but he doesn't move. When the light turns red again, James guns the engine and lifts the bike up on its back tire. James screams then roars down the road.
Marco runs up thru the woods. At the Packard Logging Road Marco meets Jacques, Buck and Felix all standing around Buck's red corvette.
Jacques smiles, "Right on time, baby."
"Buy me a ticket to The Great Went." Marco says, crypically.
"We're on our way, Baby."
"Let's go. Let's go all the way..." They pile into Buck's 'Vet and peel down the dirt road.
Jacques' cabin...The foursome getting roasted and toasted - very high. Jacques starts to tie Marco up with some light rope. Drugged and screaming, "Don't tie me up, tonight. Don't tie me up." Jacques and Buck laugh. Jacques starts to tie Marco up while Buck holds him. He struggles and screams begging them not to do it. With Marco tied up, Buck starts to tie up Felix. Later, both boys are half naked and have been tied up. Jacques is straddling Marco and is hurting him badly. Buck puts a One Eyed Jacks thousand dollar poker chip in his mouth. "Bite the bullet, baby."
Like a ghost Luigi appears in the window. No one sees him. Marco continues to scream. Buck gets up and goes for the bottle of bourbon. He takes a swig and then steps back to Jacques and Marco. "Let me have a little of that." referring to Marco.
"Let me have a little of that, baby." Jacques says, pointing at the bourbon. Buck holds the bottle tight. Jacques stands up and decks Buck with his big French Canadian paw. He grabs the spilling bottle from the floor and stumbles outside.
When Jacques comes out of the cabin, Luigi trips him, grabs the bottle and breaks it over Jacques head, knocking him out cold. Buck hears the crash and comes outside. He sees Jacques bleeding on the ground. He panics and weaves down the hill to his corvette and takes off. Luigi goes into the cabin. His smiling eyes are on Marco, and he screams, knowing whats going to happen.
Philip Gerard, the one-armed man, runs like a madman up the trail towards Jacques' cabin.
With the face of the devil, Luigi double time marches Marco and Felix out the cabin door and through the woods. Marco, screaming - pleading for his life. "DADDY... DADDY..."
Gasping for breath Gerard arrives at the cabin too late. He stares at the open doorway. Jacques lies passed out at his feet. Gerard cocks his head straining to hear something. He hears distant screams. "Bob, I can hear you singing."
Luigi hauls the two boys into a train car. He slides the door shut and it is completely quiet. The two shudder in the corner as he circles them. Luigi grabs Marco and begins to wrap twine around his arms bending the arms back. Marco whispers, "Are you going to kill me?"
Luigi hoists Marco up so that he hovers facing the floor a foot off the ground. He places a mirror on the floor directly under Marco's face. Luigi fulls pages of Marco's diary out of his pocket and shoves them in his face, "I always thought you knew it was me!"
Gerard arrives outside. He bangs on the train door. "LET ME IN. LET ME IN." The door opens a little bit because Felix is pushing it with his feet. Gerard reaches up to help him when suddenly he flies over his head having been hit. Felix hits the ground, his unconscious head bent back at an odd angle. Gerard listens to the sounds of murder inside the train car...Marco screaming. Knife entering flesh. Bob screaming. Bloody knife through the air. Luigi screaming. Gerard leans in to take a look and steps back laughing. He yells out for Bob to hear. "THAT'S HIS OWN DAUGHTER YOU'RE KILLING!" He continues to laugh and runs away from the train car. A few moments later Luigi stumbles out of the car carrying the body of Marco Del Rossi wrapped in plastic. Luigi's shirt is puffed out - a bloody towel inside. Luigi lowers the plastic shrouded Marco into the river.
the end