Marked For Life

Not much to report today. Had a great phone conference with my new protege, who for now I'll call 'Mr. X.' He's got a hell of a story to tell. A rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-redemption crime story that has the mob, millionaires, private eyes, drugs, drug dealers, suicide attempts, espionage -- and a clean and sober light at the end of the tunnel.

And if I play my cards right, I'll be the one to help him tell it. Bring this amazing story to the silver screen.

Maybe even pay my bills.

This afternoon's installment from GUN-WILD is a quickie, so I can sneak it in for you. A little appertife to brighten the end of your drab, dull 9-5 existence.

Kidding. Just kidding.

We take you now to our bank heisters, who have just split the joint, leaving behind two dead cops, a soccer mom with a stroke, a dead security guard ... and two really pissed off high school girls who a now bereft of cell phones.

That's life in the big city, doll.

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INT. OLDS CONVERTIBLE - MOVING - DAY

Rod turns north up a steep hill toward Fourth Street.

Starts to slow down.

HONDO

Why are you slowing down?

ROD

This car sticks out like a sore fucking thumb.

We gotta find new wheels, pronto.

HONDO

(to Net)

And what THE FUCK was that back there?

I told you NO FUCKING SHOOTING.

NET

He wouldn’t listen.

HONDO

And the fucking COPS?

You might have KILLED one of them.

You know what happens THEN?

We’re MARKED FOR LIFE.

NET

So fucking what.

I’m already marked.

HONDO

(SMACKS Cam on the head)

And YOU!

CAM

OW!

HONDO

You didn’t make the fucking GUARD

lock the fucking DOOR!

CAM

You said he was gonna be an OLD FART.

He was built like a MARINE.

He was gonna jump me.

I had to CLOCK HIM.

(beat)

There was no TIME.

HONDO

Shit. Fuck.

(beat)

Shit.

ROD

We got the money, didn’t we?

HONDO

Yeah, but --

ROD

So we’ll hole up somewhere

and figure out our next move.

NET

I like the sound of holing up.

CAM

How about we snatch a Winnebago

and go up north?

ROD

You mean -- like a motor home?

CAM

Yeah. And I know where we can get one.

HONDO

Oh, yeah? Where?

PUSH IN ON Cam.

Her Cheshire cat grin.

CAM

My father.

(beat)

Easy pickings.

Bastard’s out of the country -- in Switzerland.

HONDO

(looks at her, smiles)

Yo-da-lay-he-fucking-HOO.

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