Setting- Chinese restaurant
Date- Thanksgiving day- 11pm
Detective Sahi, 33, sits at a darkened table, finishing up her turkey. She was the only customer in there. Hair cropped, suit pressed; looks more like a cadet than a detective.
The waitress walks over with the check, Chinese, 25, gorgeous, all smiles.
"Happy Thanksgiving, Detective." The waitress says as she refills Sahi's water.
Sahi gets up and pays the check in cash.
"No fortune cookie?"
"My boss told me cops don’t like fortune cookies." The waitress replies.
Sahi ponders this, amused. She’s smiling at her.
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Setting- SAHIS SEDAN - PARKED/SAIKEI GARDEN - NIGHT
Sahi starts her car, watches the fog disappear from her windshield while listening to cross chatter on the police
radio. She peers out at the restaurant, she can see the waitress busy inside.
DISPATCH:
"...caller reported an RV matching
the description -- vehicle is
parked at a rest stop off of Route
forty-six, northbound, past exit
four -- any available units?"
Sahi considers, still watching the waitress -- she picks up her radio..
"This is 1340, I’m five minutes
away. Heading over --"
Sahi throws the car in gear, pulls out of the Chinese restaurants drive way.
COP 1
"This is 1212, responding."
COP 2
"1080 -- responding."
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Setting- Gas station
Time- 11:13pm (still Thanksgiving day)
The gas station lot appears to be empty but for the parked RV facing the adjacent woods. But as the angle
widens we see another vehicle, parked across the way, cloaked in darkness...
A cop car, with two uniformed cops sitting impatiently
inside, late twenties:
CARTER and WEDGE.
Sahi drives up beside them and everybody gets out of their vehicles.
Sahi draws her sidearm, following behind Carter and Wedge as they approach the RV
Carter and Wedge are maybe ten feet from the RV’s side door when it's engine roars to life. It starts backing up, positioning for the on-ramp.
Carter and Wedge look to Sahi -- What now?
Then, going the wrong way on the on-ramp, another copy car blocks the RV's escape, forcing it to change course, angling right for the adjacent woods now, accelerating until...
The RV smashes through the trees, burrowing into the woods for a few yards until it grinds to a halt--
Sahi runs up behind the RV, Wedge and Carter right behind her, trudging over the newly flattened forest,Lost in the smoke, Sahi moves up alongside the RV.
She peers through the portal glass on the side door. A giant branch punched through the windshield, reaching all the way to the back of the RV. Nobody’s there. He tries the door, it’s locked --
Sahi kicks down the side door of the RV. Sahi moves inside, gun at the ready, her crazed eyes scanning the RV’s dark interior...
She sees something, aims her gun down at it..
YOU ARE READING
Taken
Mystery / ThrillerMichael Jackson faces a parents worse nightmare when his 9 year old daughter, Eden and her friend Maddie go missing. the only lead is an old RV that was parked on the street. the head of the investigation, Detective Sahi arrests the driver of the RV...
