King and Maxwell: Summer Adventures Season #1 Episode #1 Movie Script

FADE IN:

EXT. DOWNTOWN STREET WASHINGTON DC - DAY Early morning. The Capitol Building framed at the end of adowntown street. And we're moving, gathering speed, lookingbehind our direction of travel, so that what we see is onlyrevealed once we've passed... A loud SMASH! as we pass through an intersection and theaftermath of an auto crash, dazed drivers getting out oftheir cars... And we're still gathering speed... More carnage on both sides of the street, parked cars sideswiped, signposts, trashcans and a mailbox crushed... Waterrocketing skyward from a shattered fire hydrant... And now we're passing a speeding sedan, skillfully driven bya woman who we’ll come to know as MICHELLE MAXWELL, 30s.

Leaving the sedan behind as we draw up alongside the vehicleshe is pursuing... An empty Greyhound Bus, the driver amiddle-aged man named EDDIE FINCH, who’s wearing a furryanimal costume.

A moment more to establish the chase, then the bus swerves, Finch over-corrects and the Greyhound flips onto its side andslides down the road, showering sparks and shedding sheetmetal before grinding to a stop, blocking the street.

Finch scrambles out as the sedan brakes violently behind thebus. Michelle leaps out, gives chase, giving us our firstgood look at her. Tall. Athletic. Dangerously beautiful.

EXT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY Finch runs up a flight of steps to a Government building.

The sign on the door reads: Senator J. Patrick Brady. He rattles the door. Closed. He spins back to face Michelle, pulls a handgun. Michelle stops in her tracks, eyes himsteadily.

MICHELLE:

You shoot better than you drive, Eddie?

FINCH:

Don’t come any closer!

He tightens his grip on the gun, clearly nervous. A beat, then a cell-phone rings. Finch’s cellphone.

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MICHELLE:

You going to answer that?

Finch, flustered, pulls out his cell-phone.

FINCH:

Yeah?

MAN’S VOICE (phone filter) Put the gun down.

FINCH:

(looks around nervously) Who says?

MAN’S VOICE The guy behind the laser sight.

FINCH:

What laser?

MAN’S VOICE The one on your furry little chest.

Finch glances down, sees a RED LASER DOT centered on hischest. He sucks in a breath. Slowly puts the gun down.

MAN’S VOICE (CONT’D) Now tell the nice lady she owes me tenbucks.

FINCH:

He says you owe him ten dollars.

Michelle sighs, moves forward, kicks Finch’s gun clear asSEAN KING, 30s, steps from the shadows at the top of thesteps. Tall, handsome and armed with a disarming smile, acell phone and a combo PEN-LASER-POINTER. Finch realizes he's been duped.

SEAN:

Didn’t I tell you this is where he’dend up?

MICHELLE:

You were so confident, why didn’t youmake it a hundred?

SEAN:

Because you don’t have a hundred.