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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e85c54b7b33221ed61789d854667271b"Steve and Dustin continue their assault on the air duct, all the while Erica Sinclair is at the cash counter./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="316eb9447856c6743b7d452e6f7c1ba8""Ahoy sailors! All hands on deck!" She says, asking for attention, "Come on."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b9a16893d3ba4ede2ae692563cc01b2b"Billy, on duty in highchair, is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, eating ice cubes from a cup, and has a large beach towel covering his legs./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="324bf27856ccea15360f76b6392c70ac"El, Mike, Max, Lucas, Will and Chris are hiding behind a car spying on Billy. Max has binoculars./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="41ef712c207dd3c84932ced493bc7a31""I don't know. He looks pretty normal to me." Max says./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="81a67cc563af47fb86ce34d4b7995b37""Normal? How many times have you seen him with a shirt on?" Lucas points out./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e31ed1a6faf91c180ba8b4ae816a6d67""More than a little. He was in a tub with ice. The Mind Flayer likes it cold. Plus everything else." Mike also points out./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ab89cb5c46c2c52bcf97a00fd20aca7""But he's lounging at the pool, which is, like the least Mind Flayer thing ever." Max reasons./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="233f6474620ac6155532498e4683f9a7""Not necessarily. The Mind Flayer likes to hide. He only used me when he needed me. It's like– like you're dormant. And then, when he needs you, you're activated." Will says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5016e10c1fcb44850bc9d88f80f754ab""Okay, so we just– wait until he gets activated." Max insists./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="950a8fb18c338ce7f5b038b54aa50aba"Mike opens the door to the sauna, finding a handful of old, fat, half-naked men lounging./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="af803e8fac6f4b1369b956bf72491ecf"Mike shuts the door./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3b9bc3d0b9d3ff8c82c5798333c30c7b""I think I just threw up in my mouth." Lucas comments./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="24ddccc1d4f83bb6c2fa4ddfb7b3c6f9"Mike turns their attention to the sauna controls on the wall beside the door./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="882df1d178803e1fd6e07075fd585c00""Will it get hot enough?" Will asks./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="80a0b0df66ee2490b49619ee0b184734""Two-hundred-and-twenty degrees. We just have to figure out how to get him in here." Mike replies./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a6dc5fc34fe3c7081d47f70f94420d20""But what about Chris?" Will asks./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0ed88a6106512b8a41522a5954d163c2""We'll chuck him in there as well, even if the heat doesn't defeat him, it will weaken him." Mike answers./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ce6b14a04fdfdd25b35e9b1bf620efed""Then we lock them in. . . " Will says./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ee0cf684afd1342fe73db5aeab091406"A red 1986 Chrysler Lebron convertible is on display in the food court. It's being offered as an Independence Day giveaway. In the background we can see Scoops Ahoy./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="904b3b33d8761e08830314e9343666d1"In the back room of Scoops, Erica is peering down the air duct with a flashlight. She seems very sceptical about this half-baked plan of theirs./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c1809f5fcf644db9930635715d31e616""You don't know if you can fit?" Dustin asks her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b3bbafb94f210f321815349e52b657ac"Sitting in the highchair Billy stares with a lighter clutched in his right hand. In his left hand is a cup of ice. Sweat glistens on his face./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="32754bbe50a1c40f202614240941e8de"Most lights in the mall are off. The parking lot, empty. For all intent and purposes, the mall is closed for the day./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="df13f5203aedccc63a65f42bca4a0eab"In the back room, Erica is preparing for her mission. Flashlights are attached to a helmet./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="70b9a3d674cd5f59807c9a317e3ac56c"Static comes over the walkie-talkie, until Robin speaks through it, "Erica, do you copy?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d67544d2bcc6eb56f9a28903a9a5e19a""Mm-hmm. I copy. You nerds in position or what?" Erica asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="74dd064364e4a485d7052d9aeb35b0f4""See you on the other side. Nerds." Erica farewells Robin./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c11f20ab55160609aa4e7a47b6b58e5f"Erica is making her way. She reaches a vent grate./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5eab4fccac0c719479b3377d10600ab4""Do you– do you see anything?" Robin asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="78fb3a1de52b921649b5a390875d41fb""If I could see them, they'd be pretty shit traps, wouldn't they?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="80dee21334ecf42d2c4b3522b6c2209e"The pool is closed./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ccbedd8a8ef333217f96dce8eec0cd2"At a locker, Billy starts to get dressed. He pulls on a pair of pants./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3bb2a3d2f2059abe49eba24b7d7b985a"In a sing-songy voice Mike calls out, "Billy!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="58f2420451558d060ce5271f40ebad29"Mike, in the same tone repeats, "Billy!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7d87844dda67606a39189cd5a4d53494"The friends rush in, Mike turns on the lights. Chris stands up in the sauna and starts walking toward the door./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="19495b7536764d49e9ae07856b685c6a"Steve, using a box cutter, opens one of the Imperial Panda boxes. Inside is a large metal case. Steve turns a crank on the lid. Air hisses from it. He lifts off the lid. Vapor drifts out from a case which holds four identical cylinders./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5c7bc3378ae48cc035d73491e1638c7e""Would you stop." Dustin says, angrily at Steve./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="715c150ce5cc9c19672c2d9a08dfe084""Would you just let me do it?" Steve bites back./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="634f0539d03926f5e3055eb56156a99c""Just open the door!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="97c050a56b927fdab53a46178aaecfde"Steve pushes a different button. A vertical door closes over one of the walls./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2e0258d4cd07fe3b7d593d796cfa7d43"The room shakes. Steve notices lights outside of the room passing rapidly./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e2524d3f3a943b0ff118bb10a473cc3c""Oh, shit." Dustin says,/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5399bb880add9a08685b40a948c0fcb0"The room is plummeting./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ccb7020d7c9fc32760a6e82ae96bbb9"Billy continues yelling, "Max! Let me out of here!" He changes to a calmer tone, "Let me out." He starts breathing heavily, rapidly, "You kids. . . You think this is funny? You kids think this is some kind of sick prank, huh?" Billy spits on the window, "You little shits think this is funny?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="42e5fdc1c1ea050e956bc89aa3ab1ba4"Chris's disembodied voice can be heard also coming from the sauna, "Billy, you realize I was a part of this? I'm one of them, and yet. . . here we are." Chris's voice seems deeper and raspier, unlike anything the group has ever heard from him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b89ca12386eb3872b1379492d8d28d9c"A voice can be heard coming from the other side, "This is Mike. Do-not-hang-up. Something happened. Something bad. Our very lives could be at stake."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="26836f175da37985d46dfa3bc6139849""Did you not hear the part about the massive gun?" Dustin says, disregarding Steve's idea as a stupid one./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="59065a0feab4eeb0e36f6d532501bf41"Mike elaborates, "This book is a dictionary of mythical creatures that people are trying to prove exist." Mike begins to read the page, " "O'Kathenas (Oh-kah-theen-as), a creature that so little is known about. There are only five distinct features that It holds such as, large bull-like horns, a large masculine body, red skin, long tail and four legs. It is a shape-shifting creature with an endless thirst for blood; It is carnivorous. It has no certain gender or relatives as it is the only one of Its kind." Mike looks up from the book waiting for a response from the others./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="316eb9447856c6743b7d452e6f7c1ba8""Ahoy sailors! All hands on deck!" She says, asking for attention, "Come on."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="324bf27856ccea15360f76b6392c70ac"El, Mike, Max, Lucas, Will and Chris are hiding behind a car spying on Billy. Max has binoculars./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e31ed1a6faf91c180ba8b4ae816a6d67""More than a little. He was in a tub with ice. The Mind Flayer likes it cold. Plus everything else." Mike also points out./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ab89cb5c46c2c52bcf97a00fd20aca7""But he's lounging at the pool, which is, like the least Mind Flayer thing ever." Max reasons./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="233f6474620ac6155532498e4683f9a7""Not necessarily. The Mind Flayer likes to hide. He only used me when he needed me. It's like– like you're dormant. And then, when he needs you, you're activated." Will says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5016e10c1fcb44850bc9d88f80f754ab""Okay, so we just– wait until he gets activated." Max insists./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="24ddccc1d4f83bb6c2fa4ddfb7b3c6f9"Mike turns their attention to the sauna controls on the wall beside the door./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="80a0b0df66ee2490b49619ee0b184734""Two-hundred-and-twenty degrees. We just have to figure out how to get him in here." Mike replies./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0ed88a6106512b8a41522a5954d163c2""We'll chuck him in there as well, even if the heat doesn't defeat him, it will weaken him." Mike answers./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ee0cf684afd1342fe73db5aeab091406"A red 1986 Chrysler Lebron convertible is on display in the food court. It's being offered as an Independence Day giveaway. In the background we can see Scoops Ahoy./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="904b3b33d8761e08830314e9343666d1"In the back room of Scoops, Erica is peering down the air duct with a flashlight. She seems very sceptical about this half-baked plan of theirs./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c1809f5fcf644db9930635715d31e616""You don't know if you can fit?" Dustin asks her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e1bebe34587001232da92802d9dcb340""Are you claustrophobic?" Robin asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bdecccb3849703fa36bf5781af1cd157"Seated in a booth, Steve slides a massive banana boat over to Erica. She's surrounded by ice cream treats. Dustin and Robin look to Erica./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="79c1a52b589f553385fe2bf44d761214"El elaborates, "But if I only see you, and I'm a different species than you, then I should be with my species more."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9155cdedf055e10b6e686ec4c312215c""God, I hope it's not you. I really hope it's not you." Max says to herself./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b3bbafb94f210f321815349e52b657ac"Sitting in the highchair Billy stares with a lighter clutched in his right hand. In his left hand is a cup of ice. Sweat glistens on his face./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="32754bbe50a1c40f202614240941e8de"Most lights in the mall are off. The parking lot, empty. For all intent and purposes, the mall is closed for the day./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="df13f5203aedccc63a65f42bca4a0eab"In the back room, Erica is preparing for her mission. Flashlights are attached to a helmet./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="70b9a3d674cd5f59807c9a317e3ac56c"Static comes over the walkie-talkie, until Robin speaks through it, "Erica, do you copy?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d67544d2bcc6eb56f9a28903a9a5e19a""Mm-hmm. I copy. You nerds in position or what?" Erica asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4162b6f927b7d8b5cf7f0376402c9486"Dustin is surveilling the loading dock using binoculars. Robin, on the walkie-talkie./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="62255c785f97c5e4901a5d1502d793ee""It's all quiet here, so you've got the green light." Robin signals./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="db15d54f751690b8a6c2fe72edaf5797"Robin hears Erica through the walkie-talkie, "Can we maybe not call it that?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="74dd064364e4a485d7052d9aeb35b0f4""See you on the other side. Nerds." Erica farewells Robin./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c11f20ab55160609aa4e7a47b6b58e5f"Erica is making her way. She reaches a vent grate./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5eab4fccac0c719479b3377d10600ab4""Do you– do you see anything?" Robin asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="03b61a9c6fd72a886a59b742b743364a""Any guards?" Robin asks./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="78fb3a1de52b921649b5a390875d41fb""If I could see them, they'd be pretty shit traps, wouldn't they?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="80dee21334ecf42d2c4b3522b6c2209e"The pool is closed./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ccbedd8a8ef333217f96dce8eec0cd2"At a locker, Billy starts to get dressed. He pulls on a pair of pants./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3bb2a3d2f2059abe49eba24b7d7b985a"In a sing-songy voice Mike calls out, "Billy!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="58f2420451558d060ce5271f40ebad29"Mike, in the same tone repeats, "Billy!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d2951a89084fb976526422363ec7436c"Billy proceeds slowly through the locker room./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ab9e123b8777ef3cde8077944c52633f""I find you, it's your funeral." Billy replies./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7d87844dda67606a39189cd5a4d53494"The friends rush in, Mike turns on the lights. Chris stands up in the sauna and starts walking toward the door./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0fa08a50151e61fc132526cf6c255406"Billy also bangs on the door, but his force is not as strong as Chris's. Eleven stands in front of the others as they stare at Billy and Chris through the sauna window./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="19495b7536764d49e9ae07856b685c6a"Steve, using a box cutter, opens one of the Imperial Panda boxes. Inside is a large metal case. Steve turns a crank on the lid. Air hisses from it. He lifts off the lid. Vapor drifts out from a case which holds four identical cylinders./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5c7bc3378ae48cc035d73491e1638c7e""Would you stop." Dustin says, angrily at Steve./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="715c150ce5cc9c19672c2d9a08dfe084""Would you just let me do it?" Steve bites back./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="634f0539d03926f5e3055eb56156a99c""Just open the door!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="97c050a56b927fdab53a46178aaecfde"Steve pushes a different button. A vertical door closes over one of the walls./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1ccb7020d7c9fc32760a6e82ae96bbb9"Billy continues yelling, "Max! Let me out of here!" He changes to a calmer tone, "Let me out." He starts breathing heavily, rapidly, "You kids. . . You think this is funny? You kids think this is some kind of sick prank, huh?" Billy spits on the window, "You little shits think this is funny?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f7b4890382ac0623f39f52a4b316c0ed"Billy looks back out the window, towards the kids, "W– what is this? Open the door." Billy starts to bang and yell again, "Open the door! Open the door. Open the goddamn door!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="461d84003d212c26d693702406aac04f"Max wears a concerned expression. Billy ducks out of view. Will checks the temperature gauge./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="59d07b0a519e8b624eb29a111fb44589""We're at two-twenty." He states./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="78fa48f560000d78074266207501c84c"Billy starts sobbing, "It's not my fault."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="692432ad312e20af3202c0b4cb9beab5"Billy continues, "It's not my fault, Max, I promise you, it's not my fault."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c62fdce17afbd1c7f4ae161467d0be17"Max is peering through the window. Billy is sitting on the floor; pleading. His skin glistens in the sauna, as steam leaves his skin. It burns. Chris is kneeling on the floor, with his back hunched over; breathing heavily, almost grunting. His hoodie has turned a dark shade, he is covered in sweat while steam also emits from his body./p
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