Chapter 14: Movie trailer.
Scene: Interior GARAGE. Low ceiling, rows of semi-futuristic cars lined up neatly. No movement. Camera holds, not moving.
SFX: Faint tires squealing, engine revving.
No movement
SFX: Engine revving growing louder. Sirens heard.
A car, a mixture of an SUV and a BMW roadster, crashes into view. It is going far too fast for such an enclosed space. Behind it, sinister Tank/Hummer hybrids storm into frame. CLOSE UP - Car Windshield: Camera closes in on LMNO, focused behind the wheel, a grimace on his face, and ERIN, looking anxious and terrified. LMNO mouths some words.
SUBTITLE - LMNO: Well, hold on then. It’ll be a tight fit.
PAN to ERIN as she grips the dashboard.
CUT TO: A small opening in the garage wall, barely larger than the car LMNO is driving.
SFX: extremely loud gunshot.
CUT TO: A ragged and ugly hole appearing in the rear fender of the Car. The implication is that the police are using extremely powerful firepower to bring down LMNO and ERIN.
CUT TO: LMNO’s foot jamming the gas pedal to the floor.
CUT TO: The car leaping forward, heading straight for the opening. It fits, just barely, as sparks fly, the metal and concrete battling each other.
SFX: Squealing and screeching more annoying that 1983-era Neubauten.
CUT TO: CLOSE UP of ERIN, screaming.
ERIN: Slow the fuck down! There’s a turn!
CUT TO: The first of the Tanks slamming into the opening. They are too big, and the resultant crash is understandably horrific. The Tanks behind it swerve, attempting to avoid crashing, but fail.
SFX: Impossibly loud and flaming explosion.
CUT TO: LMNO, eyes wide.
CUT TO: LMNO POV: a 90-degree left turn in the tunnel.
CUT TO: LMNO wrestling with the steering wheel. Sparks illuminate the hard line of his jaw as he attempts to keep himself and ERIN alive.
CUT TO: The car barely making the turn as flames from the explosion follow them through the tunnel, then recede.
LMNO: Are there any more of those turns I should know about?
ERIN: No, I think that’s the only one.
LMNO: I’m sorry to say, we’re probably going to have to ditch the car.
ERIN: OK, genius, how do you propose to get to the Ocean then? No, let me guess. You know somebody.
LMNO: Actually, yes.
CUT TO: LMNO POV: the tunnel getting wider. LMNO’s hands unclench from around the steering wheel, and he relaxes slightly.
SFX: Engine noise diminishes somewhat as the car slows.
CUT TO: ERIN’S apartment building, exterior. A small garage door opens, and the car, battered and beaten, slowly pulls out.
PAN TO: Down the street, a caravan of tanks surrounds the main entrance of the building. Cops in full military/riot gear are running into the building. None seem to notice the car.
CUT TO: Car slowly pulling away, and soon out of sight of the police.
CUT TO: Car, interior.
LMNO: Let’s hope the heliplanes don’t notice us.
ERIN: Yeah, let’s. So now that you’ve brought the cops to my apartment, left at least one body next to the elevator, destroyed and probably killed the cops in the tanks that were chasing us, wrecked my car, and are about to subject me to what I can only assume will be extreme psychological torture, What do you propose to do?
CUT TO: CLOSE UP, LMNO.
LMNO: How about some pizza?
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