Scene 36
Ext. Monrovia Three Days Later – around lunchtime.
Jefferson has been living at the beach, sleeping in an old burnt-out car, while he tries to locate his aunt’s house. He has ventured into a busier part of Monrovia where he is trying to find some food scraps to eat.
THOMAS
Jeff Kollie? Is that you? You and me were at school together.
Thomas is carrying an AK-47, and is wearing a baseball cap, the front of which displays the distinctive letter “B” of the Boston Red Sox. He is standing guard for his compadres, who had begun to entertain themselves with an obviously very pregnant young woman.
JEFFERSON WILLIAMS KOLLIE
I didn’t recognize you with your baseball cap on. And your face looks different. Thomas!
THOMAS
Yeah, I’ve been doing some growing up.
O.S.: I bet you can’t guess if it’s a boy or girl!
Angle on:
The six armed young men surround the pregnant lady who can see where this is going and tries in vain to avoid them.
FIRST YOUNG MAN
A boy!
SECOND YOUNG MAN
No, I bet it’s a girl.
THIRD YOUNG MAN
Three of us say boy and three say girl. A dollar each to who’s right from who’s wrong!
The pregnant girl is creaming and struggling as they hold her down and cut open her abdomen. The screaming stops.
THIRD YOUNG MAN
(holding up the fully formed foetus to examine it) Pay up! (yelling) Look, it’s a boy! (throws the helpless little baby into the gutter and wipes his hands on the tatters of the dead woman’s clothing)
Jefferson watches it all in wide-eyed horror as his old schoolmate runs off with the pack of drug-addled murderers as they piled itself onto the back of an old pickup truck and take off down the street.
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