Archive for March, 2006

31
Mar

Ghosts (12)

(shot of Tanya’s house, where she opens the door and was greeted by Jamie and Albert)

Jamie & Albert: Auntie Tanya!
Tanya: Jamie! Albert! COme give your auntie a big hug!

(Jamie and Albert hugs her)

Lydia: (appearing from behind) Thank you for having them here for a couple of days.
Tanya: You okay?
Lydia: Yeah, I’m fine. I’m sorry I can’t stay long.
Tanya: (hugs her sister) Just take good care of yourself, okay. I love you.
Lydia: Love you too. (turns to her kids) Be good to Auntie Tanya okay.

(Jamie and Albert nods)

Lydia: Give mommy a hug.

(Jamie and Albert hugs Lydia. Shot changes to Tanya who looks at them, puzzled. Lydia leaves the house to a waiting car. Jamie and Albert runs into the house while Tanya waves her sister goodbye)

(Lydia enters the car, where Daniel waits for her)

Daniel: You sure they’ll be all right?
Lydia: She’s my sister Daniel. More like a twin.
Daniel: Okay, just making sure.

(Daniel drives off)

(Tanya enters back the house, Jamie and Albert are already in the couch, watching cartoon)

Tanya: You guys want something to eat?
Jamie: No, mommy made some breakfast for us in the morning.
Tanya: (chuckles) That means you guys are hungry.
Albert: How did you know?
Tanya: I have an apple pie waiting for you in the kitchen…..
Jamie & Albert: Yippie! (runs to the kitchen)
Tanya: Careful! (proceeds to the kitchen)

23
Mar

Ghosts (11-3)

(Hall shot, Jake’s house. muffled conversation of Jake, Mick and Joshua from the kitchen. Audrey walks out of the kitchen, sits on the sofa. The telephone is beside her. Shot of audrey sitting beside the telephone that focused slowly on the telephone. Shot focused back on a sour faced AUdrey, staring at the phone.)

(Audrey picks up the phone, puts it back. Stares at it. Picks the phone again, and dials)

(Shot of Akash Rao’s bedroom, focusing on the cordledd phone. Phone rings. A hand struggles on the table, looking for the phone. Hand finds the phone. picks it up and answers)

Akash: Donald if it’s you I swear to God I will kill you. It’s fucking 2 in the morning!

(shot changes between Audrey and Akash)

Audrey: It’s me, Audrey.

(Akash sits up, fully conscious from his slumber)

Akash: You?
Audrey: Yes, me. Why, you’re not happy to hear my voice?
Akash: I’m not in a mood to fight.
Audrey: I’m not calling you to have a fight. Jake needs your help.
Akash: You sound serious. Is he okay?
Audrey: Not really. He wants to see you, as soon as possible.
Akash: Well, I can’t come over there in these two days, you’ll have to…..
Audrey: No, we’re coming there, maybe in a day or two.
Akash: To DC?
Audrey: Close. New Jersey.
Akash: Well, I guess I can free up my schedule then.
Audrey: Good. See ya then.
Akash: You’re gonna be there?
Audrey: You got a problem with that?
Akash: You haven’t changed a bit.
Audrey: Who’s sleeping beside you now?
Akash: Why do you care?
Audrey: You haven’t answered my question.
Akash: I don’t have to.
Audrey: FINE!(puts down the phone violently)

(shot changes to Akash’s room, a voice beside calls him)

Sophie: (sleepy voice) Baby….
Akash: Just a phone call. Sorry to wake you up.
Sophie: Mmmm…(snuggles on Akash’s arms)

**Anna Paquin as Sophie Moore*

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*Clarence Kuna as Akash Rao*

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23
Mar

Ghosts (11-2)

(Shot of Daniel’s hallway, where Jamie and Albert slowly creeps away to their bedroom. The lighting is still the same. Slight creaking of the wood floor was heard as they made their way to the bedroom)

(Shot changes to Daniel setting down his cell phone on the table when he frowns, as if he heard something from afar. Daniel walks towards the door, opens it and looks around)

(shot changes to Daniel Walking towards the hallway, checking for the sound. He proceeds to the kid’s room. Opens the door, and finds then in bed, fast asleep. Daniel closes the door)

(shot of the kid’s bedroom. Moments after Daniel closes the door, Jamie and Albert tilted their heard out from their blankets)

Albert: You think he heard us?
Jamie: Maybe.
Albert: What if he knows we called daddy?
Jamie: I’m not scared of him. Daddy won’t let anything happen to us.

(sound of Daniel’s room door closing)

Jamie: Go to sleep.

(shot changes to Daniel’s room. Daniel sits on the bed. Lydia wakes up and turns to Daniel’s side)

Lydia: What was it?
Daniel: Just thought I heard something.
Lydia: Oh.

(Lydia holds Daniel’s hands. Daniel kisses it)

Daniel: Get some rest.
Lydia: Not without you.

(Lydia grabs Daniel and kisses him)

22
Mar

Ghosts (11-1)

Joshua: Daniel?
Jake: Our "Paul".
Mick: His name is Daniel.
Audrey: Paul is Daniel?
Jake: Jamie said that the bloke that was here, the same guy they are with now, his name is Daniel.
Mick: Wait, WITH Daniel?
Audrey: Thought they were with Tanya.
Jake: I thought the same too.

(Jake sits down)

Jake: We need to get there now. Josh, can you arrange for the flight?
Joshua: When?
Jake: As soon as possible. I’ll prep the rest with Mick. And Audrey…..
Audrey: Contact Akash…..
Jake: Please…
Audrey:…..and it has to be me…..

(Audrey walks out of the room, fuming)

Joshua: She still holds a grudge, whosever he is.
Jake: She’s still fond of him.
Joshua: What happened?
Jake: Well, she suspected that he’s Having someone else, so they fell apart. Truth is he never did. But you know Audrey, she can be quite a hothead.
Joshua: And what happened to him now.
Jake: Now that’s the irony. He eventually ended up with the girl that she had the suspicion on.
Mick: That’s confusion if you ask me.
Jake: No, irony. The other girl’s a nobody. Things fell into places when Audrey and him broke up.
Mick: Weird.
Jake: Don’t say a word to her about this. She don’t know.

(Joshua sniggers)

Joshua: I just want to see the fun when she finds out…..
Mick: Yeah the fire and brimstone shit. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

17
Mar

Ghosts (11)

(shot of Daniel’s bedroom, Daniel talking on his cellphone)

Daniel: Well, tack the whole thing, we need it to be down by Tuesday

(voice on phone): We’ll look into it, it’ll be ready by that time.

Daniel: Good, I’ll be expecting your call.

(Daniel puts down his phone, shot focuses on background where his bed was visible. Lydia was sleeping in his bed)

(shot changes to hallway, where two figures creeps in the dim. Shot focused on the two small figures, walking silently through the hallway)

Albert: Where is the phone?
Jamie: Syyyy, It’s just down there.

(The two kids walks silently down the hallway, making it to the phone.Jamie reaches for the cordless phone)

Jamie: Give me the number.

(Albert reaches into his pyjama pocket and takes out a piece of paper and hands it over to Jamie. Jamie takes it and started to dial the number on the paper)

(Shot changes to a phone in Jake’s house. The phone started ringing. A hand reaches for the phone)

Joshua: Hello

(shot changes to and fro)

Jamie: Daddy?
Joshua: Jamie? Is that you?
Jamie: Daddy?
Joshua: No, It’s uncle Josh. Jamie, where are you?
Jamie: Where’s Daddy?
Joshua: Hold up, I’ll get him.

(Joshua puts the phone on hold and runs to the kitchen where Jake is)

Joshua: Jake, your daughter, she’s on the line!

(Jake runs quickly to the extension on the kitchen and picks up the call)

Jake: Jamie, sweetie, is that you?
Jamie: Daddy! Daddy, we missed you!
Jake: I missed you too sweetie. I missed you so much. (tears forming on his eyes). Where’s Albert?

(Jamie passes the phone to Albert)

Albert: Daddy?
Jake: Son, you all right?
Albert: I wanna go back daddy.
Jake: Don’t worry son, I’ll get you back home.
Albert: I don’t like it here daddy, I want to go home.
Jake: I know, I know. Give daddy some time and I promise I’ll come and get you. We’ll kick some football in the yard and daddy will take you to the next Gunners game okay?
Albert: Promise?
Jake: Absolutely. Now pass the phone to your sister. I miss you so much.
Albert: I miss you too daddy. (Albert passes the phone to Jamie)

Jake: Where are you now? In Auntie Tanya’s house?
Jamie: No, mommy brought us to Uncle Daniel’s house.
Jake: Uncle Daniel?
Jamie: Yeah. I don’t like him dad.
Jake: How do he look like?
Jamie: Tall, black. He was with mommy in London when mommy picked us up.
Jake: (sighs in disbelief) God! Jamie, listen carefully. Daddy will come and get you, okay. You just hang on there. But you have to promise me not to call to this number again.
Jamie: But daddy!
Jake: Jamie, listen, it’s not safe. You can’t call daddy for now. But I promise you that I will come and get you.
Jamie: When?
Jake: Soon sweetie, soon.
Jamie: I love you daddy.
Jake: I love you too sweetie.

(Shot changes to Jake’s kitchen where Joshua, Audrey and Mick was seated and looking at Jake eagerly. Jake wiped his tears and looked at them.)

Jake: Daniel?

16
Mar

Ghosts (10)

(Shot of Daniel’s house kitchen, where Lydia was seated in the table reviewing some paperwork. Daniel walks in with two mugs in his hands)

Daniel: Got your drink.
Lydia: (looks at Daniel and smiles) Thank you.

(Daniel sits down beside her)

Daniel: So how is it?
Lydia: So far so good, thanks to you.
Daniel: I’m helping where I can.
Lydia: And it’s more than enough. The DA office contacts were really helpful, at least I’ll be able to pull through in the custody case once the divorce’s been filed.
Daniel: It will hold up, you’ll win it.

(Lydia sighs)

Daniel: What’s up?
Lydia: I don’t know. (sips her coco) I’m not really happy with what happened. I hate to do it, but I know I had to. There’s just no us anymore. It’s like, everything between us disappeared, just like that, even after our marriage. We kinda fell apart and it feels like I’m waiting for the time. But I’m still not sure, I’m confused. I can’t believe this happened.
Daniel: (looks at Lydia) Hey, you did what you thought it’s right.
Lydia: I don’t know Dan, did I?
Daniel: (rests his hand on her shoulder) I believe in you.
Lydia: (Holds his hands) Thank you, it means a lot to me (pause). My sister’s skeptical about it. I don’t think she really agrees with what I did.
Daniel: It will take some time. Soon she’ll accept it.

(Daniels peeks at Lydia’s paperwork)

Daniel: When do you plan to file for divorce?
Lydia: Soon I guess. I have to talk to him first though.

(Silence)

Daniel: Are you up for it?
Lydia: I am. I don’t know if he’s ready for it. But he ’s got to accept it. It’s over.
Daniel: He’ll get the picture.

(Silence)

Lydia: Dan?

(Daniel looks at Lydia)

Lydia: Hold me

(Daniel hugs Lydia as she cries quietly on his shoulder)

14
Mar

Ghosts (9-2)

Joshua: Who’s the bloke.
Jake: Graduated from Carnegie Mellon, expert in net security and cryptology, was rumored to be involved in various security breaches in the upper echelon of the intelligence community during his early days. Do you know that he was the one who actually came up with the Melissa virus?
Mick: I thought it was this …..
Jake: Nope, he wrote it for that guy. Melissa wasn’t a stripper’s name, it was his ex-girlfriend.
Joshua: So was he implicated with the virus?
Jake: Not at all. He was so good at covering his tracks, his name never came up. So the other guy took the rap.
Audrey: We’re talking about a guy who revolutionised the whole virus generation. This is the guy who started the worms and networked virus infections.

(Joshua looked at Audrey)

Joshua: Now you sound like you’re pissed with the guy….

(silence, Jake and Audrey exchanged glances)

Joshua: Any of you got something to tell me?

(Jake coughs)

Audrey: Okay, fine. I used to date him.
Joshua: Date him? How come I…..
Audrey: You were going through your divorce so I didn’t tell you. Besides, it was a meaningless flirtation.
Mick: But you still hold something against him….

(Mick Looks at Jake)

Joshua: Can’t we get someone else.
Jake: Won’t be as good as him, and we need the best.
Joshua: Okay….Just remind me to remove his head once he’s done.

(Mick sniggers)

Audrey: Josh, no. It’s fine. Don’t do anything to him, please.
Mick: Wow, you’re still defending him….

(Audrey gave a stern look at Mick)

Joshua: What’s his name?
Jake: Many. The Virus, Carnage, The Bogeyman, The Midolithon Demon. Me and Audrey know him by his real name….
Audrey: Akash Rao.

11
Mar

Ghosts (9-1)

Jake: Killed?
Joshua: Sorry mate, you just seen a ghost.
Jake: A ghost with fingerprints….
Mick: Wait, it says killed right? Any reports on that?

(Shot of Joshua rustling through the papers)

Joshua: Well it says that the car he was on was bombed in Tehran while running coordination back there on 99′. Report’s very straightforward. He got in, car exploded, bloke got barbecued. End of story.
Mick: And no one claimed responsibility for it?
Joshua: Well, it’s the Americans, who doesn’t hate them?

(Mick shrugs)

Jake: (after deep thought) So there is a chance it’s fabricated right?
Joshua: What?
Jake: Look at it. The whole thing doesn’t make any sense. He got killed and now we see traces of him. Surely whoever’s responsible for the cover-up, assuming if there’s any would have taken all the steps to ensure this Paul character doesn’t show up anymore. I mean, give him a whole new identity….
Joshua: Well, the thing is I didn’t pull this off from SAS. This, (waves the file) is straight from MI6.
Mick: MI6?
Joshua: Classified files. Had to pull a bit of strings here and there. So, maybe his records in the States been wiped out but MI6 keeps old records and they never put it away for the shredders.
Jake: God save the Queen!
Joshua: The problem is, if this death of his is fake, we don’t have any infos on his new identity. And if he’s really dead, that’s a different story….
Mick: Which means we’re stuck either way.
Joshua: ‘Fraid so.

(Shot of Jake in deep thought)

Jake: We have to get there…..
Mick: And do what? It’s quite the dead end now.
Jake: What if (Jake stands up), we check into their files?
Joshua: Nav-Intel? You’ve got to be kidding me. Besides, it could be someone else too, like CIA or NSA. I’ve tried to get files from there but all turned up to nothing.
Jake: What if we hack in to their files?
Joshua: Hack? Into Nav-Intel?
Mick: You’re getting ambitious…..
Jake: It’s time to pull a favor from an old friend……
Joshua: Must be a hell of a friend.
Jake: (smiles) Trust me, he is.
Audrey: You don’t mean…..
Jake: Oh yes, I do mean him…..

08
Mar

Ghosts (9)

(Hall shot of Jake’s house. Jake and Audrey are going through some documents)

Jake: Well, this is all of it, I don’t have anything else.
Audrey: Well, nothing here…..except for the official ones. Either she’s damn good or there’s nothing to hide.
Jake: Let’s hope it’s the latter.

(Mick walks in from behind)

Mick: Well?
Jake: (turns around) A pile of nothing.
Mick: That was expected. Oh well, I just talked to a friend of mine in DC. A lawyer. Told him about your case, said he’ll take it if that wife of yours files for divorce.
Jake: That’s a start, thanks mate.
Mick: Got to stay prepared mate, that divorce notice’s going to come soon I’d reckon.
Audrey: You think she’ll file it soon?
Mick: Probably. She took the kids in a hurry, she got off the country at first flight, let’s see if the postal service is anywhere near efficient.
Joshua: Paul Alexander Grayson…..

(Jake, Audrey and Mick turned to the voice of Joshua behind then. Shot of Joshua holding a filesheet)

Joshua: …..our fingerprint guy….born 17th May 1969, Bachelor of Science and Law, Stanford University, joined US Navy shortly after his college educations. Three years later he was absorbed into the Navy Intelligence and was handling strategic deployment and missions control. Get a load of this….worked alongside the SAS in several joint black-ops, which INCLUDED….the 94′ joint ops in Iraq, specifically on the on-shore deployment of the troops…..rings any bell?
Jake: I was with Lydia in that op. that was our second time being together in a mission. I saved her life, and everything kinda fell into pieces. Year after that I proposed to her.
Joshua: I crossed checked him and Lydia. they have no connections at all. Basically Paul runs the show behind the curtains and never had any contacts with the agents, but he handled most of her assignments.
Mick: So he just seen her in photographs?
Joshua: Looks like it, and maybe more. After both of you got married, she was never paired with you, but instead was deployed all over Asia and the Eastern Block. All deployement was sanctioned by him.
Mick: Suprise suprise.
Joshua: He checked out to be totally clean. No records, instead he got a good rep.(Joshua hands over a sheet to Jake)

(shot changed to Jake holding the sheet)
(shot changes to the content of the sheet: a headshot of an African American Navy officer)

Jake: That’s the guy.(Hands the picture to Mick)
Mick: (looks at the picture, and passes it to Audrey) Here, you rate him.
Audrey: (Takes the picture and looks at it) Hrm, quite a looker…..
Joshua: Not a suprise if Lyd got attracted to him, eh?
Mick: Or……maybe he is attracted to her….
Audrey:(Looks at Mick) What?
Mick: (sits up straight) Well, if you trace it back, after Jake and Lyd got married, they were never together on an assignment anymore. Maybe he’s trying to separate them, so that Jake and Lyd will go apart and the feeling would be lost….I don’t know, something like that, but whatever he tried to do, it worked now, even though I’d say it took a hell of a long time for it to work, and it took even longer to show his face to Lyd.
Joshua: I wouldn’t quite say that…..
Mick: (Turns to Joshua, Jake and Audrey followed suit) What do you mean?

Joshua: Paul Grayson was killed six years ago in Tehran.

06
Mar

Ghosts (8)

(Shot of Joshua working in front of the computer, keying in some commands. Scene was bright, around mid afternoon. Joshua takes sips of tea in intervals)

(more typing)

(An expression of astonisment and disbelief formed on his face. He picked up his cell phone which was beside him and started dialling a number.)

Joshua: Eric, it’s me, Josh. I got your mail. You sure about this?

(silence)

Joshua: But I just lifted the prints this morning!

(silence)

Joshua: okay, but try cross checking with anything you can come across. FBI, CIA, NSA, Interpol….

(silence)

Joshua: Okay….just call me if you get something.

(silence)

Joshua: Okay, cheers mate!

(Joshua stared blank on the computer screen)

Joshua: Unbe-fucking-lievable!