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I'll remind you.
1. MEMENTO MORI
TEN HOURS UNTIL DAWN
21:02
HAYDEN
PATH TO CABLE CAR STATION
[Setting: Entrance to Blackwood Pines. The camera zooms out of the sign welcoming people to "Blackwood Pines" that hangs from a wooden gateway. Hayden's bus pulls up and he gets off with his bag, walking through the gate. The Stranger is holding a machete, watching him from a distance. Hayden starts walking up the mountain but hears a weird noise.]
HAYDEN. Had a crush on Kate.
Generous. Friendly. Active.
Hayden: Hello? Is someone there?
[En route to Cable Car Station he comes across a metal gate with a note stuck on it.]
[ NOTE: The gate's busted, Climb over! – Victoria ]
[Hayden quickly scales the wall by the gate, jumping to the top.]
Hayden: Wow... Hey little guy! You hungry?
[He spots a squirrel scurrying along and kneels down offering it some food but it scurries away when his foot slides on the snow.]
Hayden: Dammit. Hey, hey... It's okay... That's it. Come on.
[This time the squirrel approaches him and eats the food out of his hand.]
Hayden: Wicked.
[On his way up he reads a sign about the Indigenous People and Butterfly Prohecies. He arrives outside the cable car station but no one is there.]
Hayden: Victoria! Are you here?
Hayden: Your bag's here, where are you? You're not in the bag are you?!
[Hayden sees her phone poking out of her bag, and it's vibrating.]
Hayden: Hello, what do we have here...
[SNOOP]
Hayden: Oh.
Hayden: Look who it is...
[2 Messages Received: Taylor.]
Victoria: Hey nosey.
Hayden: Oh! Victoria.
VICTORIA. Has a crush on Taylor.
Academic. Irreverent. Confident.
[Victoria is wearing a thick yet fashionable dark blue coat with yellow trimmings and multiple layers underneath. She has on a gray plaid skirt, and black leggings.]
Hayden: Fuck you scared me.
Victoria: I'm sorry asshole, are you my secretary?
Hayden: Hey, it was buzzing –
Victoria: Awesome. Well, thanks for letting me know. I can take it from here.
[Victoria snatches the phone out of his hands.]
Victoria: Oh! So! I found something kinda amazing.
Hayden: What is it?
Victoria: Hmpf I'm not gonna tell you, you gotta see for yourself. It's this way.
Hayden: Where...
Victoria: Right around here. Gonna blow your tiny, tiny brain.
Hayden: Woah, have you seen this?
[ Poster: WANTED
MILGRAM, VICTOR
Sex:Male
Height: 6'2" (1.88m)
Last known address: Blackwood Pines
Last seen: 03/16/1998... ]
Victoria: Yeah. You think we'll get a visit from America's most wanted?
Hayden: Looks like someone thought so.
Victoria: Oh come on. This place is abandoned most of the year. No one comes up here.
[Victoria stops in front of a shooting range, a couple guns are lying around. There are barrels, hanging sacks, bottles, and cans set up for shooting.]
Victoria: Ta Dah. Pretty cool, right?
Hayden: Yeaaaaaah...
Victoria: Oh come on! Look at these beauties.
Hayden: "Beauties" is not the word that comes to mind. Why is this even here?
Victoria: What do you mean?
Hayden: What the shit is a shooting range even doing at the base of a ski lodge?
Victoria: Have you ever met Nathan's dad?
Hayden: Yeah...
Victoria: He thinks he's like, Fuhrer Grylls or something. Wanna try?
Hayden: No way, this is all you sister.
Victoria: Alright, let's do this.
21:11
VICTORIA
CABLE CAR STATION
[Victoria shoots some of the targets in quick succession.]
Hayden: Wow. Nice shootin' girl.
Victoria: Alright. I'm bad! I'm a badass!
Hayden: Not trying to disappoint you but I'm gonna go ahead and guess it was a wild case of beginner's luck.
Victoria: Pfft, get real.
[She no-scopes a bottle.]
Hayden: Well, anybody and their mother could shoot a bottle that big, that close.
[Victoria sees a squirrel jump on top of one of the barrels but decides against shooting it, instead shooting the bag hanging furthest away than the others. Hayden laughs appreciatively.]
Hayden: Nice shot.
Victoria: Your ass just got saaaacked.
Hayden: Hilarious.
Hayden: Hey, sharp-shooter, our ride is coming.
Victoria: Wait, I'm just getting the hang of this.
Hayden: Come on tex', the cable car.
[They start walking back to the cable car station.]
Hayden: Man, it is... it's definitely weird coming back up here after a whole year.
Victoria: Yeah. I swear, the moment I got here it just all came flooding back.
Hayden: Hey, that's weird the doors locked.
[Hayden tries opening the cable car station door, but it wont budge.]
Victoria: Yeah, Nathan wanted us to keep it locked. To keep people out.
Hayden: He said that? What people?
Victoria: I don't know. He said they found people sleeping in the station one time.
Hayden: Weird.
[Victoria hands Hayden the key to unlock the door.]
Hayden: After you.
Victoria: A real gentleman.
[Inside the cable car station Victoria finds a control panel with a tv hooked up to it, switching through all the security cameras scattered throughout the lodge and the surrounding grounds.]
Hayden: I swear the car was closer.
Victoria: I guess we'll just have to wait.
Hayden: Now I wish I took up your offer of killing time at the shooting range. How long do you think this will take?
Victoria: Well, it's a big mountain.
Hayden: Yeah. You know, it's so beautiful in the day, but at night it gets this weird vibe, like a sleeping giant.
Victoria: Wanna share that peace pipe you've been smoking?
Hayden: What?
Victoria: You get poetic when you're blazed. Ala, "The Sleeping Giant of Blackwood Forest."
Hayden: Not even high dude.
[Victoria looks at a poster on the wall showcasing the "Hotel and Sanatorium" of Blackwood Pines.]
Victoria: What a crazy place to set up house. No matter how rich you are.
Hayden: They're not so rich. They only bought a mountain!
Victoria: And half of Arcadia Bay.
[The cable car arrives.]
Hayden: Finally. You coming?
Victoria: Well I was just gonna stay here, buuut... yeah of course I'm getting on the freakin' car moron.
[They both sit down.]
Hayden: Just like going to the prom.
Victoria: Here we go.
Hayden: Right!
Victoria: Hashtag adventure begins.
Hayden: I hope this was the right thing to do.
Victoria: What?
Hayden: You know, getting everyone together on the anniversary. I mean Nathan seemed really pumped about us all doing something didn't he?
Victoria: Yeah, no, he definitely did. I haven't seen him so excited about something in... forever.
Hayden: Good, good. It's hard to tell with him and I've been worried.
Victoria: No no, it was... it was a good idea.
Hayden: I hope everybody else feels the same way.
Victoria: We're all here aren't we?
Hayden: Thanks. Good talk.
[Hayden playfully punches Victoria on the shoulder.]
Victoria: Can we just... stop talking about what happened and enjoy the trip.
Hayden: You know what? You're right.
[They sit in silence for a few seconds but then a thought comes to Victoria.]
Victoria: Do you know how Nathan and I met?
Hayden: No...?
Victoria: Ok. Third Grade. Nathan sat in the back of the room, I sat in the front. We didn't even know each other existed. But the kid sitting next to Nathan started strap snapping the training bra on the girl in front of him so the teacher made him move to the front – where I was sitting!
Hayden:Where are you going with this?
Victoria: I... got moved to the back.
Hayden: And next to Nathan?
Victoria: Yeah. That's how we met, and became friends. To this day.
Hayden: A match made in heaven.
Victoria: Or hell.
[Victoria grins devilishly.]
Victoria: If it weren't for the fact that Dana Ward hit puberty like three years early and on that day decided to wear a low cut shirt that showed off her training bra, everything might be different? You could be riding this cable car alone, or talking to some other person entirely. Boom: Butterfly effect.
[Chloe is sitting on a bench outside the cable car station, her right foot resting on her left knee. She's smoking a cigarette. Chloe is wearing a black beanie, her hair is bright blue. She's wearing a large black winter jacket and her favorite punk boots.]
CHLOE. Max's childhood friend and sometimes girlfriend.
Stubborn. Mischievous. Persuasive.
21:17
CHLOE
UPPER CABLE CAR STATION
Chloe: I have the power!
[She flicks her finished cigarette butt into the snow and jumps up off the bench.]
Chloe: Okay the minions are arriving, time to meet and greet.
[Hayden bashes against the cable car station door, scaring Chloe.]
Chloe: AHH! What the fuck?
Victoria: CHLOE! HEY!
Hayden: PRICEFIELD! OVER HERE!
Chloe: Sheesh, are you guys having a really weird stroke?
Victoria: We're stuck in this stupid thing.
Hayden: Can you please let us out? Pretty please?
[Chloe punches the button to let them out, it turns green.]
Victoria: OH. My. God. I thought we were goners. Another ten minutes with Hayden and I would have cut off my own ears.
Hayden: Real nice, Viccy.
Victoria: You love me, hun.
Hayden: Yeah right... uh huh.
Victoria: Bwip!
[Victoria snatches the letter Chloe is holding out of her hands.]
Chloe: Hey!
Hayden: Victoria!
Victoria: I'm just doing like Hayden taught me... Other people's private thoughts are my own personal playground, sad face.
Hayden: Don't be a bitch.
Victoria: Oh my, seems that someone has rekindled the flames with our good friend and dear retro selfie master Maxine Caulfied.
Hayden: Vic –
Victoria: Aaand... what kind of sizzling erotica might our Class Prez be capable of imagining. I wonder...?
[INSIST]
Chloe: Give that back you tool.
Victoria: Tool and die, that's my motto.
Chloe: You're such an idiot. Max is my business.
Victoria: Uh... yeah whatever keep your secrets. Max will tell me eventually.
Hayden: Come on Chloe, you can tell us. We can totally keep secrets.
Chloe: It doesn't matter dudes. You'll figure it out eventually.
Victoria: Alright alright, let's just get up to the lodge already. Getting tired of all this nature and junk.
Chloe: See ya later, I'm gonna chill here for a while. See who else is coming.
Victoria: [whispers] You mean Max?
Chloe: Beat it, losers.
Victoria: Uh, huh. Hayden?
Hayden: Did you see this view? I mean, holy shit. Sometimes you forget to just stop and take it all in.
[Scene change to Brooke and Warren walking up the mountain.]
Brooke: Seriously, couldn't they have built the lodge like right where the cable car ends?
BROOKE. Warren's new girlfriend.
Intelligent. Resourceful. Forthright.
Warren: It wouldn't have been as pretty, if it was near the bottom.
WARREN. Max's Ex.
Intelligent. Ambitious. Motivated.
Brooke: And where's a bellboy when you need one!
[Warren struggles with picking up both his and Brooke's bags as they walk up the pathway.]
21:24
BROOKE
PRESCOTT LODGE GROUNDS
Brooke: Brr... Gettin' chills...
Warren: We're almost there.
Brooke: No I mean... gettin' kinda creeped out.
Warren: Oh. Yeah.
Brooke: Gonna be weird seeing everyone up here again.
Warren: Definitely not gonna feel like the regular Vortex party. I mean, what do you think –
[Max jumps out of side, scaring the shit out of Warren and Brooke.]
Warren: Woah! Max?!
Brooke: JESUS!
Max: Hahaha!
MAX. Warren's Ex.
Geeky. Brave. Confident.
Max: You guys!
Brooke: MAXINE!
Max: You really, really should have seen your faces right there.
Warren: Max. I almost hit you just now.
Max: Nice one.
Brooke: Max, you're the worst.
Max: Come on guys, we're all friends here, right? No need for violence, just a little harmless fun! We're up in the woods! It's spooky! Come on, let's get into the spirit of things!
Brooke: The spirit of things? Seriously? What's up with you?
Max: Sorry just trying to lighten' the mood, dude, don't be like that.
Brooke: Like what?
Max: The way you're being. You always get like this.
[THREATEN]
Brooke: Max, you better step off. Warren and I are together now, and that's just the way it is. I'm not gonna tell you again. Do we understand each other?
Max: I thought we could move past all this, we used to be friends B. But, yeah, fine.
Warren: Max –
Max: No, no no, it's super cool. I'm just gonna head down the road, be all mature and shit by myself over here. Lok.
Brooke: I think she got the message.
Warren: You know, you're kinda hot when you get all apha-girl on me...
Warren: Ah, crap.
Brooke: What?
Warren: Hey hun, could you take your bag the rest of the way?
Brooke: What, why?
Warren: I need to go find Hayden.
Brooke: Ok...?
Warren: I'm really sorry, I forgot I had something I needed to talk to him about... before we get all the way up there.
Brooke: Are you serious right now Warren? This really can't wait? We're almost there.
Warren: Please it's important, Brooke. Comee onnn.
[AGREE]
Brooke: Alright... Fine... I guess I'll take your bag as well and pack horse it the rest of the way... but you owe me one.
Warren: Huh?
Brooke: I'm literally breaking my back for you, Warren. You better be quick.
Warren: Yeah of course. Be careful.
Brooke: See you soon, sweetie.
Warren: Thank you.
[Taylor is looking through some binoculars above where Max, Warren, and Brooke had their encounter.]
Taylor: Ohh!
TAYLOR. Has a crush on Victoria, maybe.
Inquisitive. Trusting. Appreciative.
21:32
TAYLOR
PRESCOTT LODGE GROUNDS
[She sees Max and Warren talking to each other. Max holds Warren's hands, he then strokes her face.]
Taylor: Well... Hello! Somebody's getting a little "friendly"... and not in the "friend zone" sort of way. They might need to re-check the expiration date on their big breakup.
[She continues watching them when Brooke suddenly appears right in from of her eyesight.]
Taylor: Oh My God! God!
Brooke: Whoa haha! Sorry Tay, I didn't mean to scare you –
Taylor: Jesus Christ Brooke.
Brooke: Well I did mean to 'kinda' scare you, but not for real scare you...
Taylor: Oh my god. You always do this!
Brooke: Hey, wow, I didn't realize you'd be so damn scared alright–
Taylor: Yeah, whatever... it's okay... it's fine...
Brooke: What were you looking at anyway? See anything juicy with that thing? Wish I coulda brought my spy droid with me...
Taylor: Uh –
Brooke: Lemme check it out.
[MISLEAD]
Taylor: Nah, it's kinda busted. It's not, it's not like really interesting... it's just–
Brooke: What? For real? I bet I could fix it, shouldn't be too complicated.
[AGREE]
Taylor: Ah... sure. Help yourself.
Brooke: Alright... let's see what we have.
[Brooke sees Warren and Max hugging it out.]
Brooke: Aw, fucking asshole. Seriously, Warren? What the hell!
Taylor: Hey, listen – it's probably nothing... Well, yeah–
Brooke: Nothing? You think?
Taylor: Well yeah.
Brooke: Max is always trying to take everybody for herself. Ergh, what does this make me?!
Taylor: I don't kno–
Brooke: Goddammit.
[Brooke angrily walks away from the binoculars and throws Warrens bag onto the sidewalk for him to pick up on the way up.]
Taylor: Brooke...
21:41
CHLOE
UPPER CABLE CAR STATION
[Setting: Cable car station. Chloe is sitting on the bench again. She checks her phone, when a snowball nearly hits her right in the face. Start listening to "Obstacles" by Syd Meyers: [YOUTUBE URL + watch?v=vrXpFh2IHZY]]
Chloe: Ahh! SuperMax is here! Snowball fight... I am such a good bad influence on you.
Max: Put yer hands where I can see 'em brigand. We've got you surrounded.
Chloe: Avast sea dog, I am the great Captain Clash, and I will never surrender to the Queen's guard. No matter how hot she is.
[GRAB SNOWBALL]
Max: I- Well, I dunno, when you put it like that... Hey!
[Chloe throws the snowball at Max, hitting her square in the face.]
Max: Oh!
Chloe: Boo ya!
Max: Are you cereal? You're gonna pay, you know that?
Max: Where are you hiding?
[Chloe sneaks around the corner of the park bench and hits Max again]
Max: Whoa! Aw man!
Chloe: Keep up hippie!
Max: Hey!
[Max throws a snowball at Chloe, but she ducks out of the way, dodging it.]
Chloe: You snooze!
[A blue jay lands on the park bench. Chloe makes another snowball.]
Chloe: Hello... come on! Hey SpiderMax!
[Chloe throws the snowball at Max hitting her, again.]
Chloe: Boom shakka lakka!
Max: Ok... no you got me... fair enough... ok.
[Chloe runs away. The blue jay moves position.]
Chloe: You can't hide from me, Max. I know all your tricks!
[Chloe ignores the movement from the blue jay and instead hits Max, again.]
Max: Whoa!
Chloe: That's right!
Max: Oww! I'm gonna find you, Chloe!
Chloe: And then what?
Max: Whoa-ho!
Chloe: No more!
Max: Oh yeah, oh "more"! You're going down-!
Chloe: Ahh!
[Max grabs Chloe from behind and they fall down together into the snow.]
Max: Gotcha! It's done! Done city.
Chloe: So did I go down?
Max: Uhm, I don't think so.
Chloe: Mmm... I think you'd know so if I did.
Max: Alright, alright.
Chloe: My my, so are we calling it my favor, then?
Max: You're a worthy opponent, Ms. Chloe the Snowball Queen.
Chloe: Okay that sounds vaguely dirty.
Max: My lady.
[KISS MAX]
[Chloe pulls Max in closer for a passionate kiss. Chloe reluctantly breaks the kiss.]
Max: Wowser.
Chloe: Save some for later, SuperMax.
Max: Endless reserves... We should get up to the lodge.
Chloe: Yeah. It's so nice out here though... pretty breathtaking.
Max: I mean, I could stay out here for pretty much... ever... Provided I was making out with you the whole time.
Chloe: Just "making out"?
Max: Quote, unquote.
Chloe: Well I think we might freeze to death somewhere in between those quotes.
Max: Yeah.