Daily Dialogue — January 19, 2015
JENSEN: Get me out of here, Clay…
CLAY (O.S.) (THROUGH RADIO): There’s a fire exit thirty yards north of your position.
Jensen, heading for it…
BIG SECURITY 1 (O.S.): Freeze like a statue, pretty boy!
Jensen slow turns to find THREE GUNS trained straight at him. Major security. These guys look extremely competent.
JENSEN: I’m warning you, man, I’m a lethal weapon…
Jensen turns on the big fellah.
JENSEN: It was this secret government project. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff. Anal stuff. Turned me into a dangerous Telekinetic. (wiggles index fingers) As the old saying goes — you don’t start none… there won’t be none.
Big Security 1 moves in on Jensen with a pair of handcuffs.
BIG SECURITY 1: Telekinetic your way out of this…
Jensen RAISES HIS RIGHT HAND at the guard. Fingers cocked like a gun aimed at the guard’s Kevlar covered vest.
JENSEN: Bang.
The guard is HIT HARD, BLASTED BACKWARDS off his feet! Screaming in pain, he goes down. Jensen spins, aims his left fingers at the SECOND GUARD…
JENSEN: Boom.
…and the second guard is blown backwards too, KEVLAR VEST SMOKING. Moaning:
BIG SECURITY 2: You broke my ribs…
Jensen — Fingers leveled at the THIRD GUARD…
THIRD GUARD: Please- d-don’t shoot…
TIGHT ON JENSEN: Full Dirty Harry.
JENSEN: Face down, or I’ll make your hearts stop beating with my mind.
They comply. Jensen looks down at them. Smiles. Then slowly turns looking out the FLOOR TO CEILING GLASS WINDOWS. Makes the “OK” sign out the window.
JENSEN: Thanks, Coug…
TIGHT ON THE CIRCLE OF JENSEN’S OK FINGER SIGN:
Three tight bullet holes in the glass. SMASH ZOOM out the window, 500 yards to a neighboring office tower…
INT. NEIGHBORING OFFICE BUILDING — HOUSTON — SAME
Rifle, still smoking. Hat low, the ever vigilant COUGAR.
COUGAR: De Nada.
— The Losers (2010), screenplay by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt, from the comics by Andy Diggle and Jock
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Threat. Today’s suggestion by Debbie Moon.
Trivia: The script is loosely inspired by “The Losers” stories ‘Ante Up’ (the Losers are nearly wiped out) and ‘Double Down’ (the Losers track down Max).
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Debbie: “A great use of a reversal: Jensen seems to be bluffing, his bluff is called, and turns out not to be a bluff after all…”
If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.