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INT. ABORTION CLINIC - HALLWAY - NEXT
The hiss of STATIC, as if over a radio.
ROX (O.S.)
Salome, what are you doing?
Salome comes around the corner, checking each exam room.
SALOME
(screaming)
Lecia! Analecia Little!
EXT. ABORTION CLINIC - DAY
Two firefighters are chopping the chains with a FIRE AXE.
They're thrown back when the doors EXPLODE.
Tanya and Sage lead a few of the families into the arms of
several PARAMEDICS on the scene.
Sage waves for the firefighters to follow him.
SAGE
(coughs)
Come on! There are more inside!
INT. ABORTION CLINIC - EXAMINATION ROOM - NEXT
Salome throws the door open.
TILT DOWN to a doctor laying face down on the ground with
blood seeping through the back of his scrubs.
Salome kneels down and checks his pulse.
A MOAN off screen gets her attention.
WHIP PAN to a middle aged black woman pushing herself up from
the floor next to the bed. Salome crawls over to her.
The woman lifts her head.
SALOME
Mrs. Little?
GERALDINE LITTLE, Analecia's mother, starts coughing as the
smoke fills her lungs.
SALOME
Are you alright?
Geraldine's eyes bulge and she quickly scans the room.
GERALDINE
Oh my God. Lecia!
Salome helps Geraldine get to her feet.
GERALDINE
My daughter. They took my...
She trails off and passes out, falling into Salome's arms.
SALOME
(strained)
Base, get someone back here.
Tanya dashes into the room a half second later with two
firefighters behind her.
EXT. ABORTION CLINIC - DAY
Geraldine is on a stretcher being dragged towards an
ambulance. Salome is running alongside her.
SALOME
Hey. Hey, who took your daughter?
GERALDINE
They had... masks. All black.
One of the paramedic pushes Salome away from the stretcher.
PARAMEDIC
Hey, back off! She's not gonna make
it if we don't get her some oxygen.
Salome steps away and runs over to a COP wrapping a blanket
around a pregnant, teenage girl.
She grabs the cop by his arm and spins him around.
COP
What the-
SALOME
Hey, there's a girl missing. Name's
Analecia Little. Black, sixteen,
and pregnant. Analecia Little. Find
her! Got it?
Sage comes over and pulls Salome away.
SALOME
Analecia Little! You got it?
COP
(nodding)
I got it. I got it.
The cop walks out of frame.
COP (O.S.)
Hey, get on the horn! We've got a
missing girl!
INT. VAN - DAY
Inside Haven's hollowed out surveillance van.
Tanya's driving. Salome is in the passenger seat with her
mask off.
SALOME
Stupid fucking-
(hits the dashboard)
- bitch! Why the fuck would you
take your kid to get an abortion
when another hospital just got
burned down.
TANYA
Ego's a motherfucker. Especially
with parents flexing authority over
their kids.
SALOME
Shit!
BACK OF THE VAN
Sage is sitting in front of the miniature console with his
mask off and a set of headphones on.
SAGE
(calling out)
Hey, Bekah and Lokesh checked into
the anti abortionists crowd. Dead
end. There was a rally they were
all at across town.
Salome joins him in the back, running her hands through her
hair.
SALOME
Damn it! She's probably bleeding
out in an alley someplace and-
ROX (O.S.)
(via coms)
Why her?
SALOME
What?!?
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Rox is busy working on... something.
ROX
Why just take your friend? Or the
one girl earlier?
SALOME (O.S.)
The fuck does that have to do with
anything?
ROX
Two clinics torched. Two fetuses
missing. If some sick fuck's out
there collecting unborn kids, why
not take every pregnant chick in
the house? Why those two?
SALOME (O.S.)
Does that matter?
She reaches down out of frame and pulls up a piece of paper.
INT. VAN - DAY
Sage swivels around in his seat and strokes his chin.
Salome slaps it away.
SALOME
Don't start with that analytic
bullshit! My friend is missing!
SAGE
Bollywood's got a point. Got a
theory to go with it?
ROX (O.S.)
The fathers.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Rox scans the paper and nods.
ROX
It'd have to be someone with a
personal grudge against those two.
SAGE (O.S.)
Alright, look up who the proud
Papas are.
ROX
Got the first victim right here in
my hand. Isadora Reyes had four
prenatal check ups with a... Ciegue
Sicario.
She starts typing into the console.
RACK FOCUS to the doorway in the background where Bishop is
silently observing. He smiles, like a proud father, and
leaves.
BACK TO ROX
ROX
I'm sending over his address. I
couldn't find anything on Salome's
friend.
SALOME (O.S.)
It's the stepdad.
Beat.
TANYA (O.S.)
Well, that's just fucked up.
SALOME (O.S.)
Get Bekah and Lokesh on the other
girl's cum donor.
We'll take the pervert. Look up the
name Dorsey Edwards.
FLASH CUT TO:
INT. UNKNOWN APARTMENT - BATHROOM - DAY
From the point of view of the shower head, DORSEY EDWARDS,
late forties, black, build of a lifelong steroid abuser,
stands under the water, letting it run over his body.
The shower curtain COLLAPSES around Dorsey as Tanya, Sage,
and Salome (mask back on) pounce on him.
DORSEY
(struggling; muffled)
What the fuck?
He throws Sage off of him into the bathroom door with one
arm. Sage yells as his body punches a hole in the cheap
plywood.
Tanya throws her own weight back and yanks Dorsey head first
into the mirror of the medicine cabinet.
Dorsey howls in pain and drops to the ground. Salome rips the
curtain off of him and dunks his head into the toilet. While
he's gagging on the water, she slams the toilet seat down on
top of his head.
Tanya jumps on top of the seat, pressing all of her body
weight down onto it.
Sage scampers to his feet and KICKS Dorsey in the balls from
behind! Dorsey howls in pain again.
SAGE
Bitch!
Salome kneels down and points a gun into Dorsey's face.
Despite his mouth and cheeks being mushed by the toilet seat,
he takes notice of the gun and who's holding it and stops
struggling.
SALOME
(almost hissing)
One whiff of bullshit and my
partner standing on your head there
is gonna shit in the upper bowl and
flush it down into your face.
Where's Analecia Little?
DORSEY
Lecia? I don't know.
Salome looks up at Tanya.
SALOME
You had chili for lunch, right?
DORSEY
(frantic)
She and her mom were caught in a
fire at some abortion clinic!
Lecia's missing. The cops are
looking for her!
TANYA
You know about that?
DORSEY
Yeah, I... I was just on my way to
the hospital.
Salome COCKS the gun.
TANYA
Hey! He's talking.
SALOME
(ignoring Tanya)
You don't seem in too much of a
rush, seeing as how you stopped for
a shit, shower, and shave.
Dorsey doesn't respond, unless you count the heavy panting.
SALOME
You know where she is!
DORSEY
No!
SALOME
Stop fucking lying. Oh, fuck this!
Salome presses the gun to his forehead.
DORSEY
Some people called, asking for
Lecia awhile ago! I told 'em where
she was!
SAGE
Who were they?
DORSEY
Lecia was gonna give the kid up for
adoption. I signed the registration
papers for her. Her mom didn't
know. That's who called.
TANYA
The agency?
DORSEY
No! The parents! The ones that were
gonna adopt the kid!
Salome looks up to Tanya and nods her head. Tanya hops down
from the seat. Dorsey recoils from the toilet, butt scooting
to the door.
Sage and Tanya draw weapons on him. His eyes widen and he
holds his hands up to ward them off.
DORSEY
Lecia told me earlier that she
talked to some minister and now she
wants to keep the kid for herself.
Told her mom and she flipped her
shit!
TANYA
And you told these people all this?
DORSEY
Yeah! That's all I know, I swear!
SALOME
The fire was almost an hour ago.
Why aren't you hauling ass to the
hospital to be with your wife?
Dorsey looks away.
Salome PISTOL WHIPS him across the face.
SALOME
I asked a fucking question!
DORSEY
Geraldine's been a god damned cunt
since she found out I... I-
Salome almost spits out her interruption.
SALOME
Fucked her underage daughter and
got her pregnant? Now why would she
be mad about that?
DORSEY.
(whining)
She was threatening to press rape
charges if I tried to stop the
abortion. I just got a promotion at
work. I can't lose my job.
SALOME
You self serving piece of-
She PISTOL WHIPS him again. He slumps over and spits out a
mouthful of blood.
SALOME
We need their names. Now!
INT. VAN - DAY
Salome slams the door shut behind her. A second later, Tanya
and Sage open the door and climb in.
SALOME
Base, we need an address for a
couple named-
ROX (O.S.)
(solemn)
Salome, they found your friend.
(beat)
Too late. I'm sorry.
Sage bows his head and moves up front. The engine fires up a
moment later.
Tanya takes her mask off and puts her hand on Salome's
shoulder. Salome shrugs it off.
SALOME
Like I was saying before you
interrupted, we need an address.
INT. ADOPTIVE PARENTS' APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - DAY
PAN AROUND the living room, showing off the cheap, non
matching furniture. These are thrift store kind of people.
The front lock is BLOWN off by a gunshot and the door is
kicked open.
Tanya, Salome, and Sage barge in, weapons cocked and ready.
BIRD'S EYE VIEW of the living room as the three of them fan
out to search the apartment.
TANYA (O.S.)
Got something.
Sage and Salome come out of adjoining room and cross the
living room into:
INT. ADOPTIVE PARENTS' APARTMENT - BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
Tanya stands up from a kneeling position and steps aside as
Salome and Sage come in.
Inside the closet are several red plastic cans of GASOLINE
and a huge bag of plain white rags.
TANYA
Amateur arson kit.
She picks up one of the jugs with no effort and shakes it.
TANYA
Partially used.
ROX (O.S.)
Hey, our other team checked in just
now. Reyes was gonna give up her
kid too. They just left her
adoptive hopefuls.
SAGE
Same shit as here?
ROX (O.S.)
Yeah, except they were actually
home and fessed up. The adoption
agency's behind this.
Salome stomps out of the room. Tanya and Sage watch her
leave, then turn to one another.
Tanya shrugs.
TANYA
Alright, let's go visit the baby
brokers then.
She drops the jug she was holding.
INT. ADOPTION AGENCY - MAIN OFFICE - DAY
A couple dozen people mill around what looks more like a
child daycare than a formal office.
EXT. ADOPTION AGENCY - DAY
Haven's van squeals to a stop just outside the agency. Tanya,
Sage, and Salome pile out.
Moments later, a loud engine, gas guzzling MUSCLE CAR with
dark tinted windows roars by them and CRASHES through the
front entrance.
TANYA
Hell of a way to knock.
INT. ADOPTION AGENCY - MAIN OFFICE - NEXT
All of the people in the building draw automatic weapons and
open fire on the car. Both of the car doors open, letting
Bekah and Lokesh roll out.
TILT UP as Tanya and Salome run up the back of the car,
spring off the roof, and LEAP into the air, emptying their
entire clips into everyone in sight.
Tanya lands on a desk and rolls off of it, narrowly avoiding
one of the workers leaping on her.
On the floor, she rolls under the desk and pumps bullets into
his chest through the wood.
Salome lands in a crouch on the ground. She pulls a knife
from her boot and slashes up with it as she stands up, nearly
cleaving a woman charging at her in half!
Sage comes in and drops down next to Bekah.
SAGE
I take it back about preferring you
in charge! At least Priest always
had plans!
They both stand and start shooting.
Lokesh runs around his car door, a gun in each hand, firing
away. He gets tackled from behind and knocked into a desk.
Tanya hip tosses a man over her shoulder and snaps his neck
once he hits the ground. A bigger man rushes her at her from
behind.
He lurches forward and drops to the ground, revealing Salome
behind him turning her gun to cap someone else.
Lokesh struggles to free himself from the man holding him by
his waist. He jumps up to get his feet on the desk and
BACKFLIPS out of the grasp.
Landing behind his opponent, he jumps straight back and guns
him down. Still in midair, he swings his arms out to his
sides and shoots down two more on either side of him.
Salome has a redhead woman in a one armed choke from behind.
She raises her knife to slit her throat when:
BEKAH (O.S.)
Stop!
WHIP PAN to Bekah walking over.
BEKAH
She's the last one left and we need
some answers, darlin'.
WIDE ANGLE of the room. Bekah's right. Everyone else is dead.
Salome spins the woman around and points a gun in her face.
Four more guns COCK out on frame. A quick 360 turn around the
woman shows everyone had a gun on her now.
BEKAH
Be a sweetie and fill us in on what
you been up to.
REDHEAD
You monsters come in here...
killing good people and-
SALOME
Good people? That why they shot at
us?
Salome takes a step forward and pushes the nozzle into the
redhead's forehead, forcing it back.
SALOME
You fuckers burn down clinics, kill
people, and cut unborn kids out of
pregnant young girls. We're the
monsters, here?
The redhead is nervous if her wide eyes and heavy breathing
are anything to go by.
REDHEAD
(panting)
They're... they're killers too. We
were saving those kids' lives.
LOKESH
(disgusted)
By taking others?
REDHEAD
They're murderers! All of them. You
think they deserve any clemency?
Salome lowers her gun and pushes the woman into a seat.
SALOME
What do you do with them? The
fetuses?
The redhead eyes everyone, weighing her options.
INT. ABORTION CLINIC - BASEMENT - NEXT
The redhead opens a door from the outside and flicks on a
light switch.
The Field Squad step in and stop at the doorway. Sage and
Lokesh each hold one of the redhead's arms to keep her in
place.
SAGE
(dumbfounded)
Sweet... mother of shit.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Rox leans forward in her chair. Her jaw's on the floor.
INT. ABORTION CLINIC - BASEMENT - DAY
Opposite the Squad and the redhead is a massive INCUBATION
CHAMBER taking up the whole wall.
There are still developing FETUSES sitting in countless small
pockets of the structure.
A HIVE.
TANYA
What the hell is this?
REDHEAD
We liberated those children from
their would-be killers.
SAGE
You've killed this many women?
REDHEAD
This isn't just Seraph. It's half
of the whole state. They gestate in
our machines until they come to
term.
The three women of the Squad step forward.
SALOME
(knowing)
And give them to people who want to
adopt.
REDHEAD
For a price.
Salome whirls and FIRES. The redhead's head snaps back as the
bullet catchers her between the eyes.
Sage and Lokesh let her lifeless body fall to the ground.
Salome turns back around and walks up to the hive. She
reaches out, almost, but not quite touching one of the
fetuses.
TANYA
Uh... so what do we do?
(looks to Bekah)
You're in charge, Two Tons o' Fun.
Everyone jumps as a WHEEZING sound echoes through the room.
They all pull their guns and quickly scan the room.
A unseen VOICE speaks to them, raspy, male, and very creepy.
VOICE (O.S.)
Those girls don't know... the gift
they carried inside them.
The voice wheezes again.
VOICE (O.S.)
To carry life, bring life, is God's
greatest present and they would
shun that blessing.
TANYA
(out loud)
I got a hollow point gift or two if
you wanna bring your ass out of
hiding.
Another wheeze.
Bekah points out in several directions and everyone starts to
search for the source.
VOICE (O.S.)
Those girls are not the only ones
to throw away their blessings from
above. There are others. They will
be punished too.
Salome notices a camera mounted in a ceiling corner.
VOICE (O.S.)
Their gifts will be taken and
shared with those who would
appreciate them.
He wheezes again.
BEKAH
Who made you Robin Hood?
VOICE (O.S.)
(beat)
All in due time.
Salome SHOOTS the camera, ending the conversation.
Everyone sort of just... stands around. Not sure what to do.
EXT. ABORTION CLINIC - EVENING
TILT DOWN from the setting sun to the destroyed entrance to
the clinic.
Police and paramedics are all over the place now. Huge metal
canisters, each needing two people to carry them, are being
hauled out of the clinic.
Black body bags are also being brought out.
REVERSE ANGLE to the crowd watching and TILT UP to the
rooftop across the street where the Field Squad watches the
clean up.
None of them say anything.
Bekah puts her hand on Salome's shoulder. Salome bows her
head and places her hand on top of Bekah's.
INT. HOSPITAL - RECOVERY ROOM - NIGHT
PAN LEFT from the door, across the darkened room, to
GERALDINE LITTLE hooked up to a iron lung machine and the
requisite heart monitor.
She's awake. Her eyes are open, staring off into space.
INT. HOSPITAL - FRONT LOBBY - NEXT
Salome, in street clothes, stands in front of a METAL
DETECTOR with her arms and legs spread as a security guard
too fat to be a real cop pats her down.
He gives a nod of approval and another guard hands her purse
over to her.
She walks down the hall in no particular rush.
Her face tightens when she comes up on Dorsey sitting on a
bench next to a sporting the bruises and bandages from his
run in with her team.
He stands up when he notices her.
DORSEY
Hey, you're Lecia's friend, right?
Salome nods, ever so slightly. He'd be dead if she had a gun
right now.
DORSEY
(nods at a door)
She's, uh, in there.
Salome stares a hole through him.
INT. HOSPITAL - RECOVERY ROOM - NEXT
Salome comes in and doesn't bother trying to shut the door
quietly. Geraldine looks up when it SLAMS.
GERALDINE
Get out.
SALOME
(stern)
I'm not here to fight.
GERALDINE
If you hadn't taken her to see that
preacher, putting ideas in her
head, my daughter would still be
alive.
SALOME
(sharp)
Ms. Little!
Geraldine quiets down. Doesn't lose the attitude in the body
language though.
SALOME
(somber)
I lost my friend today. You lost a
daughter. I don't... want to fight
right now.
The anger in Geraldine's expression fades. She slumps deeper
into her bed.
Salome crosses the room to stand at Geraldine's side.
SALOME
Would you mind... if I said a
prayer? For her?
Geraldine swallows a lump in her throat and nods. Salome
takes her hand and closes her eyes.
SALOME
Heavenly Father, our Lord and
Savior. We ask that you take care
of our dearly departed daughter..
and friend.
(gulps)
Take her soul into your paradise
and give her the peace she couldn't
find in this life.
Salome's face tightens up again, though her voice remains
soft.
SALOME
We also ask that you punish those
responsible for this.
(beat)
Like her murderous, controlling,
cowardly bitch of a mother.
Geraldine's eyes snap open. She tries to pull her hand away,
but Salome maintains her grip.
SALOME
Her mother, who was so wrapped up
in her own bullshit and anger that
she would force one child to kill
another.
Salome flings Geraldine's hand away and opens her eyes.
GERALDINE
You. Have no right to judge me.
SALOME
Why not? I'm in the same boat. I
know what it means to be a mother
responsible for the death of her
child.
Salome sits down in a chair next to the bed.
GERALDINE
(frowns)
What?
SALOME
I had a baby a few years ago. My
Dad didn't want me to keep it. But
all that changed when he saw my
son's eyes for the first time.
(beat)
Me? I was a lazy sack of shit. One
day, Dad was at one of his three
jobs and I had to give my boy a
bath. Felt like watching a movie
instead. So I ran the water... put
him in... put my movie on. The
float he was sitting in just...
flipped.
(beat; clears throat)
I didn't find him until I got up to
piss when the credits were rolling.
She slaps her knees and gets up from the chair.
SALOME
So when it comes to being selfish,
shitty parents, you and me? We can
relate.
Geraldine's eyes lower. She can't bear to look into Salome's
anymore. The guilt sets in, nice and heavy.
SALOME
At least she doesn't have to live
with the guilt of killing her own
kid. That cross is yours to bear.
And it only gets heavier with time.
Believe me.
Salome heads for the door.
GERALDINE
(choking up)
She was not ready to be a mother.
SALOME
(not turning around)
I guess that makes three of us.
Salome opens the door and leaves.
INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - DAY
Salome gently shuts the door behind her.
DORSEY (O.S.)
Hey, what the hell is this about?
She heads for the exit, passing by Dorsey, currently being
HANDCUFFED by two cops.
We stay on her face as she walks, letting the arrest shrink
into the background.
COP 1
Dorsey Edwards, you're under arrest
for statutory rape.
DORSEY
What?
COP 1
You have the right to remain
silent.
Salome SMIRKS.
HOLD on Dorsey and the cops as Salome walks out of frame.
BLACK OUT.
END OF SHOW
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