Lucas holds Brooke's hand tightly in his... Although he walks slightly in front of her, he often looks at her.
LUCAS : It'll be okay... We're almost there. We'll cut through the labyrinth... It's the most discreet and I know the way by heart.
Still in nun's outfit, It's a bit of a role reversal. Lucas dressed all in leather... In bad boy mode, a style in which Brooke had rarely seen him but which she loves. And she, still disguised as an old-fashioned nun... The contrast is surprising but amusing. Fortunately, they are the only ones to enjoy this spectacle since Brooke can hear the chimes from the church...
LUCAS : The mass has just started... It'll make things even easier for us.
BROOKE'S THOUGHT : I hope your brother was polite enough to go! Even if by now... He may have already realized the subterfuge!
And as Lucas stops before entering to cross the courtyard... He scrupulously observes the surroundings.
LUCAS : Let's go, running... Above all, let's not hang around even if we meet someone, okay?
BROOKE : Don't let go of me.
LUCAS : I'm not letting go of you and I'll never let go of you again...
Lucas takes advantage of this moment to place a delicate kiss on the front of Brooke's hand that he brings close to his lips. Brooke's eyes are lost in Lucas's for a few seconds and she believes... More than anything, she wants to believe it. With a little push in their crossed hands, Lucas gives her the go... They go straight ahead, crossing the courtyard and the cobblestones have never seemed so rough to Brooke as when they run on them. Once they've crossed, they arrive in the garden next to the nuns' building... The one near which Brooke left Felix and his gang of mobsters in the basement dining room... She sees the entrance to the labyrinth in front of them on the right... But she also sees... The one she didn't want to see.
Sitting comfortably on the stone bench under a large tree, Felix enjoys a new bunch of grapes.
FELIX : My brother! Finally!
LUCAS : ...
Lucas, stopped in his tracks, freezes in front of Brooke... He already protects her with his body in front of the threat embodied in front of them. As Felix stands up at his ease, Lucas just has time to whisper to Brooke:
LUCAS : Trust me, I'll get us out of here... But if I tell you to run... Leave without looking back.
Brooke's blood stops circulating and her throat tightens like never before... This idea absolutely does not suit her. But it is already too late to answer her. Felix is only a few meters away from them... His evil smile stretches more and more... Until his mouth deforms a little and emits a shrill whistle.
FELIX : PFFUIIIIIT!
As if Lucas knew what that meant, he turned around to see that Felix's men are running towards them. Surrounded, Lucas remains mute and as if he was thinking... Brooke wonders what since they are trapped. Felix waves to his men so that they maintain the current distance.
FELIX : So you don't say hello to your brother and your old friends, Lucas!?
LUCAS : Hello to you too, Felix. I would have stayed to chat... But as you can see, Brooke and I were about to leave.
Felix's smile widens again and his gaze falls on Brooke. He stares at her intensely with his dark eyes.
FELIX : Brooke... I thought I had met Sister Karen. Hello my darling...
BROOKE : ...
FELIX : As soon as I saw you, I told myself that it was a great waste that a girl like you had entered the orders... And then, I followed you... I don't know why but my intuition is always good in these cases... In the case where someone tries to fool me... And I hate that. But I must say that you did me a favor!
BROOKE : I did what I had to do!
FELIX : It was a beautiful role play, I must admit...
Felix applauds with his gigantic hands dotted with a few tattoos.
FELIX : She's smart and tough, your little nun who isn't one... So what is it?
Felix addresses Lucas... Whom he openly enjoys provoking by talking about Brooke. Lucas is seething.
FELIX : You feel less guilty about banging a nun, Lucas!? Or should I say, Father...!? Unless the idea of a frightened virgin excites you... Have you become debauched and perverted to this point!?
LUCAS : Don't talk about her like that... I didn't become cruel like you, and I never was!
FELIX : Oh, I see I touched your heartstrings... Yet, we weren't so different, you and I, at the time... And I also had a wife I loved... And two beautiful children who were going to take over the reins... But you took everything from me! And you ran away! Like a coward!
LUCAS : Felix, your wife wasn't happy... With this life, with this violence. She lived with fear in her stomach.
FELIX : I would have protected her! She was what mattered the most to me...
LUCAS : Are you sure about that!? You could have protected them from anything and everyone!? Like mom, dad, and Chris?!
Felix's gaze changes at the mention of the murder of his parents and his little brother, a mixture of rage and pain.
FELIX : I wasn't the leader of the gang yet, things would have been different if I had been!
LUCAS : Maybe Felix, maybe... But you had also become the number one enemy for our rivals... You exposed them to all that... To this life that they hadn't chosen, and she didn't want it... It wasn't about you Felix... But about the life she would have had with you. And that of her children. You know... She cried so much that night... To leave you, to leave you alone, to abandon you... But every time she looked at the little ones, she knew that this is what she had to do... Despite her pain.
Felix listens to Lucas without flinching... His eyebrows are furrowed and his expression remains threatening when he looks at him... But Brooke senses that his explanations interest her and answer questions that have remained unanswered until now...
LUCAS : I know you came to take revenge... On me, on the suffering I caused you, on the brotherly betrayal... But you must know that I too have paid my dues to society... I lived as a recluse, I sacrificed myself. And after all these years, it seems that I finally have the right to happiness. And I don't want to let it pass me by.
Brooke feels Lucas speaking to her too in a certain way since he tightens his grip on her hand at the same time.
LUCAS : I love you my brother, whatever you think and whatever you've told yourself for years... I'm not asking for forgiveness or your clemency... But I'm going to take my chance.
Lucas and Felix stare at each other for a few seconds...
FELIX : ...
LUCAS : ...
Suddenly, Lucas squeezes Brooke's hand and pulls her with all his might towards the entrance of the labyrinth.
LUCAS : Run with me and above all don't stop!
Without thinking, Brooke follows Lucas who at the same time takes charge of pulling her by the arm... He quickly cuts to the right. Brooke can already hear Felix's footsteps and his whistle that cuts through the air to alert his henchmen to join him.
FELIX : Don't let them escape, damn it!
While running and weaving between the alleys, Brooke is reassured to see that Lucas is on his turf... She is terrified but she runs as fast as she can, her ribcage is about to implode.
BANG!
A gunshot rings out and she hears the sound of the bullet splitting the leaves and branches of a nearby hedge.
BROOKE : Fuck, are they shooting at us!?
LUCAS : Get down Brooke, they won't be able to see us!
BANG! BANG!
Brooke's legs are nothing more than two trembling cotton swabs that are nevertheless active in a mad race. A race to stay alive... A race to escape murderers who are shooting at them like rabbits! Lucas also has his gun out... He keeps it in his other hand, the other still holding Brooke firmly. But soon, Brooke feels like they've taken a big lead... She hears some of them swearing they're lost.
MAN : What the fuck, damn it!
MAN : I'll find you Lucas!
A few seconds and aisles that seem endless to Brooke later...
LUCAS : I think we'll lose them soon... Keep it up, you're doing great, my pretty!
After a few well-chosen turns, Lucas shows Brooke a hole under a fence... Under a thick hedge.
LUCAS : Come this way, I'll follow you!
Brooke gets on her stomach and crawls under the trellis... Lucas follows her for a few seconds. Quickly, they get on the motorcycle, without helmets... No time for the moment.
BROOKE : Start it, come on!
But Lucas doesn't budge... Felix blocks his way, his gun pointed at them.
FELIX : You're not going anywhere!
Brooke lovingly hugs Lucas' waist, as if it were the last time... She spontaneously rests her head against his upper back to breathe in his scent before staring at Felix too...
FELIX : You know, Lucas... What hurt me the most... Is that you left too! You, my brother that I adored!
LUCAS : If I hadn't left, you would have had to kill me Felix, you know that... I betrayed you, you should have set an example. You would have been forced to shoot your brother in cold blood... I wasn't going to do that to you too.
Felix continues to point his gun at Lucas... But he closes his eyes for a few moments...
FELIX : Maybe we could have found another solution... A less radical solution... That day, I lost another brother...
Lucas opens the stand of his motorcycle to rest it on it... He gets ready to get up and straddle it.
BROOKE : Lucas! What are you doing!?
LUCAS : I'm just gonna do what I should have done a long time ago, Brooke...
Lucas then walks up to Felix, Brooke notices he didn't pull out his gun.
LUCAS : I'm gonna say goodbye to my brother...
Lucas stops when the gun hits his chest. He spreads his arms a little, completely at his mercy.
LUCAS : Felix, you have a choice... Kill me... Here and now and get your revenge. But that won't give you back your wife or your children. Or let me go out of sight. All you have to do is say that I managed to escape and your honor will be safe. You know, it's not because I didn't choose the same voice as yours that I don't admire you... You've always been a role model for me, at least as far back as I can remember...
Without trembling, Lucas places his hand on his brother's shoulder.
LUCAS : Choose, my brother...