Choices Continued Act III

ACT III

EXT. Cemetery leading into a small forest                                                     Scene18

A small cemetery that leads off into a number of trees with rows and rows of headstones, before reaching the gloomy forest. 

LEILA

We’re here.

MICHELLE walks down the cemetery rows toward them with a frightened, anxious look in her eyes.

LEILA

Michelle I’m Leila, Lila’s twin sister and this is Andreo who I mentioned over the phone.

MICHELLE

It’s nice to meet you.  I can’t believe all of this is happening.  But the CO is not new to me.  I’ve heard about the awful things that they do to people, without ever quite knowing why they do it.  Everyone has a motive right?  People kill for money, fame, power, but why this?  I surely didn’t know their connections had traveled all the way to our precinct.  It’s almost like a story you hear, but are disconnected from until the characters come right up to your door.

ANDREO, walks off a little to the right from the group with a thoughtful gaze and Leila has the same blank stare.

LILA

What are we going to do?

MICHELLE

We’re going to fight th….(her voice trailed off as a gunshot rang out)

Everyone falls to the ground at this point, dodging incoming gunfire.  LEILA screams.

LEILA

Michelle’s been hit!  She’s been hit!

ANDREO crawls over to put a firm compress on her wound with his shirt.  She’d been shot in the arm.

MICHELLE

You have to leave me.  Get to the car where my laptop is.  Insert the codes into it and send them to my brother Dywane Shelley.  He’s the Secretary of Defense and we can trust him.  I already alerted FBI members that I think we can trust.

LILA

No! We won’t leave you here.  I won’t leave you……to die!

MICHELLE

I’ll be fine.  Go!  Now! My car is in a clearing in the woods.  Your life…our lives depend on it.

ANDREO, LEILA, and LILA, get up off the ground and begin running toward the woods where Michelle’s car is located, with a violent group of men right on their tails.

ANDREO

Do you see the car?!

LEILA

It’s up ahead! Keep running!

LILA, stumbles and almost falls to the ground.

LEILA

Get up! Don’t quit on me now sis.

LILA, gets her balance and they make it to MICHELLE’s car finally.

DAVID

So tell me, did you really think you were going to get away with stealing from me?

DAVID, steps from behind the car and several men follow him.  They begin to circle the trio.

DAVID

Where are the codes?

ANDREO

Gone!  You’re too late.  They’ve already been sent.  You’re going to rot in jail for what you’ve done!

DAVID

And who is this runt?  Little boy, I don’t believe I was talking to you.  Grab him.

Two men grab each of ANDREO’s arms and drag him a little ways from the girls.

LEILA

Andreo!!! David you monster let him go!

DAVID

You tell me where my codes are and I’ll think about it.

LILA

We’re not telling you anything!  You murderer!! Why? Why our mother?

DAVID

Your mother was just one in a million.  Only difference is, she got in my way more.  So don’t feel special.  Now tell me where my diamonds are before one of my friends accidentally kills yours.

LEILA

You won’t do it.

DAVID, snaps his fingers and makes a cutting noise across his neck.

His henchmen jerk ANDREO up and pull out two guns from their waist, aiming them at his head.

LEILA

No!!! Okay, okay….we have the codes.  Andreo just give them to him. 

LILA

Le what are you doing?!  We can’t…..

LEILA

Shutup Lila… Andreo give them to him now.

DAVID

You better listen to your little friend.  I can’t be responsible for what these criminals do. Hahaha!

ANDREO, pulls the diamond with the codes out of his pocket and hands them to the men.

The men push ANDREO, LILA, AND LEILA on the ground.

LEILA

You got the codes.  Now let us go!

DAVID

See, I would, but I just can’t leave around the three of you.  You know too much.

LILA

You liar!

LILA, spits in the area DAVID is standing in.

DAVID

How cute.  Lila is trying to be the daring one for once.  You’re pathetic, just like her weak mother was.  By the way, I’ll have almost as much fun killing you as I did her.

DAVID, takes out his own gun and points it at each of them slowly.

DAVID

Now which one of you should I kill first?....Maybe the big mouth sister over here.  The CO experiment will never die.  We’ve got connections in every precint.  It started with me.  At first we’d go to bars.  I’d seduce a woman and then we’d go back to her house where my men would follow.  We’d kill her and then take her money, but there’s not much money in that.

LEILA

You’re a piece of crap David!

DAVID

…So I thought its got to be a better way to profit off of this.  So we all found women who’d just come into money like your pathetic mother after your father died.  We’d marry them and then kill them….be gone with their money before anyone catches on.  Only, police started to piece it together.  But anyone can be paid off.

ANDREO

One day somebody is going to take you down.  You can’t get away with this!

DAVID

Oh but we have been getting away with it…. For ten years….and you and these brats aren’t going to stop me now.

DAVID, points the gun at LEILA first and begins to squeeze the trigger, just before a shot rang out.

DAVID falls to the ground.

The men surrounding the trio start to run just as police sirens can be seen and heard in the clearing.

MICHELLE, is there still standing up with her gun in hand from when she shot DAVID.

LILA

Michelle!!! But how’d you??... We thought that you were dead!

LEILA

Yeah we left you back in the cemetery and now here you are saving our life.

ANDREO, had scrambled to his feet and grabbed the laptop from the car, inserting the diamond flash drive into the computer. 

DAVID, lay on the ground now moving as police caught up with is accomplices and handcuffed them.

POLICEMAN

He’s still alive.  We need a medic!

LEILA, walks over to where DAVID is laying and crouches down next to him.

LEILA (in a shaky voice)

You killed our mother you piece of crap….Now I hope you rot in hell for it.

LILA(picking her sister up)

Leila, come on….He’s not worth it.  Let’s go home.

ANDREO and MICHELLE walk over.

ANDREO

Its over….I sent the codes to the Secretary of Defense.

MICHELLE

They’re in good hands with my brother.  The CO experiement is no more thanks to you guys.

LEILA

Well Li looks like you did alright this time.  You found somebody that we could trust.  The choice that you made back at the bus stop wasn’t so bad after all.

LILA, walks over and hugs her sister and whispers something to her.

LILA

We did it for mom…. And for justice.

Fades out:

 

Dissolves to: Credits

(END ACT III)