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Right of Way 99


They pause for a beat and begin to make out the SOUNDS of the posse advancing on them. In the distance, they can see the play of the cops’ FLASHLIGHTS on the tunnel walls.

NAPOLIANO
Let’s go. How far do we have left?
BUDDY
About half a mile, where the path bends to the right. There’s a hidden entrance in the wall after the bend. Take this, I don't need it.

Buddy hands him the LIGHT. Napolitano scans the passageway.

NAPOLITANO
Hold on, you sure you don’t want to help me find it?

He turns back and scans the path with his LIGHT, but Buddy is nowhere to be seen.

EXT. WOLF’S LAIR – NIGHT.

The quiet of the compound is broken by a low rumbling, and then Sydney’s futuristic super-car, bursts from an underground garage. As he sits behind the wheel waiting, his face bloodied and swollen, Celeste approaches in a long negligee, a little white powder around one nostril, a glass of champagne in one hand and a small, silver-plated PISTOL extended in the other.

CELESTE
You killed my daughter.
SYDNEY
I told you, my dear, she ran away. Get in the car. Duvane says she’s turned up at the plantation.
CELESTE
You killed my husband.
SYDNEY
You asked me to. Put that thing down, for God’s sake.
CELESTE
Not much God in all this, is there?

And she SHOOTS, missing everything, but scaring the piss out of Sydney.


 
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Eric Estrin