Sides for Eye for an Eye (lead roles: Danielle and James)



               INT. WAREHOUSE -  NIGHT

                                   DANIELLE
                         Why can't you accept it? My Dad did
                         not kill your son.

                                   JAMES
                         Just shut up and hold still. Are
                         you right or left handed?

               She slaps him with her right hand.

                                   JAMES
                         Right it is then.

               The cables have loops on each end and after threading the
               loops through the chain he secures her wrists to the cables.
               She has some freedom of movement with her right hand, but
               can't reach to the floor, nor reach up to her face.

               As this is happening they continue to talk.

                                   DANIELLE
                         There was no connection between
                         your son and my Dad. They'd never
                         even met.

                                   JAMES
                         Exactly. That's why the court
                         couldn't make a case.
                             (a beat)
                         Two weeks ago they found the body
                         of a man who used to work for your
                         father. He went missing just a week
                         after my son died. 

                                   DANIELLE
                         My Dad has a lot of employees. 

                                   JAMES
                         He was shot execution style, just
                         like my son.

                                   DANIELLE
                         So.

                                   JAMES
                         He looked exactly like my son.

               Danielle is putting it together.

                                   JAMES
                         If your father had just taken one
                         minute to talk to my son, he might
                         still be alive.

                                   DANIELLE
                         So this is about revenge?
                             (a beat)
                         It's not going to bring your son
                         back.

                                   JAMES
                         I tried to let it go. I did. But I
                         just can't live with the...
                         injustice. The whole system is
                         crumbling around us. I had to do
                         something.

               He finishes securing her to the wall and then starts to rip
               her shirt. 

                                   DANIELLE
                         Please don't kill me. 

               JAMES looks at her, suddenly compassionate like a father to
               his child.

                                   JAMES
                         Oh no, no. I'm not going to hurt
                         you. It's your father that has to
                         suffer. And I am sorry for that. 

                                   DANIELLE
                         So what? You're just going to wait
                         for him to show up and shoot him?

                                   JAMES
                             (shakes his head)
                         I tried that. It's just not in me.
                             (thinks)
                         I guess if it was, then I'd be just
                         like him.