Meetings All Day

Scene 1:
Outside of a biker bar, the sign over the door says “Dante’s”. A row of motorcycles are lined up along the front indicating that the place is packed.

FX: Ring! Ring!

Pepe: (from French) Hello? Yes, it is I Pepe.

Fletcher: Do as I say if you want to live.

Pepe: Pardon?

FX: click.

Scene 2:

Big fat Pepe is sitting in the back office with a floozy on his lap and the dead phone in his hand.

Floozy: Who was that baby?

Pepe: …

Scene 3:

Kane, in full bug form, bursts through the back wall of the bar. With one hand he slaps the floozy off of Pepe’s lap and with the other he throws the fat Frenchman over his shoulder. In the next moment he is back out the way he came.

Scene 4:

Fletcher and Shanahan are hiding in an alley across the street from the bar. Fletcher is carrying a cell phone. Bikers are coming out of the bar and running around. Eventually some get on their bikes and take off in both directions down the road.

Shanahan: I think that’s the signal.

Fletcher: After everyone clears out, you go in the front, I’ll take the back. I want to go though the place, especially Pepe’s office.

Shanahan: Got it.

Scene 5:

Kane is carrying Pepe below him as he flies up through the clouds. Pepe is screaming his lungs out. The bug appears to be smiling.

Scene 6:

Shanahan is standing over a few knocked out bikers massaging his knuckles. Fletcher is in the office working at the computer.

Fletcher: Damn it, I can’t get past this encryption. We are gonna have to bring this stuff to Madeline. Her people can crack it.

Shanahan: Is it time?

Fletcher: Oh, right.

Scene 7:

Fletcher pulls out his cell phone and makes a call. High above Montréal Kane is holding Pepe at arms length; with the other hand he’s carrying a ringing cell phone. He puts the phone to Pepe’s ear.

Fletcher: A few days ago, you received a call from Chip “The Chopper” Chapman. You told him about the heroin shipment and he told us. Chapman made a mistake and told Boucher what he did. He will pay for that. Now it’s your turn. Boucher has doubtlessly changed his plans. You will reveal them to me now. Your life depends on it.

Pepe: I’ll tell you everything! Don’t let me die like this! I know where the drugs are!

Fletcher: Excellent. Take my associate to them. Now.

Pepe: It’s like three hours away…

Fletcher: Do it or die.

FX: Click.

Pepe: …take highway 15 north…

Scene 8:

Back in the Montreal hotel room: The XTF-3 Madeline and Gerard are going over printouts and laptops.

Madeline: This intelligence from “Dante’s” is excellent. It’s going to take time for our forensic accountants to go through it…

Gerard: I’m more interested in Kane’s report, did you find the heroin?

Kane: Heroin is the least of our worries, gentlemen (and lady). Pepe took me to a lumber yard three hours north of Montreal. They have a number of buildings there where the cut trees into planks. No big deal right. But in building number six, it’s a different story. A different truck pulls up, but planks still come out. I had a closer look and…

Madeline: They are disguising the heroin to look like wood, and shipping it to the states to hide it. Boucher must have really been scared when he learned we were on to him.

Kane: Exactly.

Gerard: If the Americans find out how much H is crossing the boarder, they’ll shut the whole thing down.

Kane: Costing us 100’s of millions of dollars a day, as the politicians drag their heels to figure it out.

Shanahan: I ran the plates on the truck. It belongs to a farmer who lives close to the mill. We should go check it out right away.

Gerard: This farm isn’t close to any water ways. They must be flying it in. But we would have detected that much air traffic…

Fletcher: Let’s go find out what this farmer’s been growing.

Gerard: By the way Kane. What did you do with Pepe?

Kane: I let him go.

Beginners Luck

Scene 1:

Underground brick sewer system- y’know the kind that don’t really exist. The Chopper is bound to a ripped out RV seat by metal ribbons. 8ball is next to him bound the same way. Sounds are coming out of the darkness around them. They are both terrified.

FX: Scraping, Splashing, Laughing.

Scene 2:

Fletcher and Kane are hanging out. Kane has only partially activated the suit changing his right hand into a huge claw which he’s scraping against the wall. Fletcher kicks up some water.

Kane: So have you every interrogated someone before?

Fletcher: Never on my own. I’m trained in a number of psychological techniques.

Kane: O.K. lets give this a shot then.

Scene 3:

Fully changed Kane comes barreling down the sewer, grabs 8ball, and continues with him into the darkness behind The Chopper, laughing. Fletcher walks out the darkness all cool.

Fletcher: Unless you want to get eaten like your friend over there, I suggest you tell me who’s supplying the Angels with the heroin. We know its coming in from abroad.

Chapman: What are you cops? Where’s my lawyer!?!

Fletcher: Do I look like a cop to you?

Chapman: You want a piece of the action? We can talk! I have money! We can work together!

FX: Screams from the darkness.

Fletcher: He likes to eat his prey live, he says its better for the digestion.

Chapman: I don’t know who the supplier is! Only Mom deals with that guy?

Fletcher: By “Mom” you mean your boss Maurice Boucher, the Angels number one guy?

Chapman: Yeah, Boucher! I can make a call, I know a guy who knows when the next shipment is getting in…

Fletcher: …and Mom deals with the incoming shipments personally, right? You can use my cell.

Scene 4:

Gaston, Madeline and the rest of the XTF-3 are meeting in a Montreal hotel room.

Kane: …so they are getting the next shipment on Wednesday.

Fletcher: All we have to do is keep tabs on Boucher, like every other intelligence group in North America, and hit this mystery supplier when he (or she) brings the goods!

Madeline: Excellent work. What did you do with the bikers?

Fletcher: Some of the bikers got away, but we delivered Chopper and another one to the local authorities.

Gaston: You did what?!?

Shanahan: I would like to say that I was in the hospital during all of this…

Gaston: Now that Chopper has been processed through the system, what’s stopping him from informing Bouchard about what’s happened?

Fletcher: Uhhh…

Kane: I thought you said you did this before Jack!

Fletcher: Hey look I got the info we needed!

Madeline: Beginners Luck. That information is now compromised. Now we're back where we started.

Gaston: Maybe not. I have a plan.

Biker Breakdown

Scene 1:

Through the front windows of an RV we see 8Ball, the driver, having a conversation with Switch. They are both obviously Hells Angels bikers.

8Ball: What a dump? Now that I’ve been to “Winterpeg” I know never to come back!

Switch: Why would anybody decide to live in the middle of nowhere?

8Ball: I hear ya. How much longer do you think the Main Man will have us driving around. The cops ain’t stupid, the longer we go…

Switch: We keep driving until Chapman says we don’t! Don’t start wigging on me 8ball. My old man used to hit me with a bat wrapped in barbed wire, those kids back there will survive.

8Ball: Hey, my mom used to hide crack in my diaper, I get it, but those kids ain’t like us. They judges kids….

Switch: And my old man was a felon, shit happens brotha, that’s why I joined the Angels…

Switch and 8ball: “So we can cause the shit”. (laughter)

FX: Thump!

8Ball: Something definitely hit the roof.

Switch pulls his gun. A weird silver sci-fi piece.

Switch: Time to cause some shit.

Scene 2:

The roof of the RV is pulled back from the front by unseen hands. The interior of the vehicle is revealed. A man wearing powered armour is standing over a number of kids. His armour is white with blue streaks with a matching axe 2 meters long. His eyes move to where the roof was but see’s nothing.

Scene 3:

Pete’s fist comes through the wall next to the RV cabin door. He takes a moment to fiddle with the door from the inside and swings it open on the moving vehicle. With no other targets around The Chopper takes a swing at Shanahan.

Scene 4:

With a nasty gash across his chest Pete goes skidding along the road after getting knocked off the RV. Fletcher passes him on a motorcycle, a Hells Angel biker can be seen lying on the road in the background.

Fletcher (T): Shanahan is down. He’s going to have to wait until after those kids are safe.

Scene 5:

The beast appears. Standing on what is left of the roof of the RV Kane becomes visible. His visage is bug like with four extra arms; alien and menacing at the same time. He jumps in swinging with massive claws, The Chopper manages to block. Their eyes lock.

Scene 6:

Fletcher is weaving in and out of laser fire. The other three bikers are taking shots at him with strange silver sci-fi pistols. A shot pierces his force field burning a small hole into his flesh.

Fletcher (T): These guys are starting to piss me off.

Scene 7:

Fletcher turns his bike around and starts in on the other bikers, head on. In the background the Choppers axe is thrown out of the roof of the RV.

Scene 8:

Chopper’s battle suit is heavily damaged. Blood streaks are marring the white surface.

Chopper: Who are you guys?!?

Scene 9:

Kane rips the breast plate off of The Chopper and throws it out the roof. 8ball and Switch are terrified.

Kane: You and I are going to have a chat. Heh heh.

Scene 10:

Shanahan is surrounded by a bunch of sad kids in school uniform. A few of them are bandaged, blood can be seen through the gauss. Pete chest is covered in his own blood. The police arrive and secure the crime scene.

Police Officer: O.k., Mr. Shanahan lets have it again.

Shanahan: It’s like I said officer. I was walking down the street and saw that the RV was carrying those kids that were shown on the news. I did everything I could to help but the bikers got away. When is this ambulance getting here, I think I need to get this looked at.

Police Officer: Sit tight sir, they will be here soon. You’re a damn hero if you don’t mind me saying.

Shanahan: Thanks.