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Right of Way 100
SYDNEY
You bitch! You’re madder than she is!
(re: the car)
Do you know what this thing cost to build?

He gets out to move toward her, but she SHOOTS again, knocking him back against the car with a bullet to his ample belly. He stares at her in horror and shock.

CELESTE
Not just any bitch. A great bitch!

She turns slowly and walks into the night. Sydney staggers after her a few steps, then thinks better of it and calls after her:

SYDNEY
I’ll be back for you, ya’ radge! Ponder that tonight in yer beddie-bye!

And he struggles back to his car.

INT. SUBWAY TUNNEL – AROUND THE BEND - NIGHT

Robert and the Video Technician, both in purple robes, set up a sacrificial platform in the tunnel, lit by two CANDELABRAS. Beside the platform is a small table with a bottle of wine and a filled goblet.

A hidden door in the tunnel wall slides open and two big, clean-cut Order SECURITY GUARDS emerge. One of them carries Rachel, who WHIMPERS unintelligibly. She’s been drugged out of her mind. Everyone’s wearing Order purple.

AROUND THE BEND

Napolitano approaches unseen. The LIGHT from the candelabras flickers against the walls but doesn’t carry into the part of the tunnel he’s coming from.

AT THE PLATFORM

The Guards place Rachel on the platform. Robert dips his pinkie into the wine goblet and places a drop on her forehead.

ROBERT
The merging of your spirit with the patriarchs’ is a great honor. Not many have been deemed ready to skip so many levels.

 
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Eric Estrin