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1. EXT. OCEANSIDE ROAD. NIGHT. 1.<br />

On a ferociously stormy night, Detective Jacob Bryant preps his swat team outside an isolated<br />

Oceanside building overlooking the howling ocean. He stresses that the man known as Jonathon,<br />

a psychotic serial killer, must be taken alive; there may be other victims out there. The swat team<br />

swiftly enclose on the building.<br />

2. INT. OCEANSIDE BUILDING. NIGHT. 2.<br />

The door is thumped down and the men charge in to find Jonathon standing over a brutally<br />

tortured victim. Jonathon drops the bloody scalpel he is holding, as it is shown that the victim’s<br />

eyes have been removed. Jonathon’s eyes dart towards the open screen door leading to the<br />

balcony. As he backs away towards the screen door, Bryant senses that he is going to jump off<br />

the balcony into the unforgiving ocean below. Gun locked on Jonathon, Bryant screams for him<br />

to stop moving. When Jonathon refuses to do so, Bryant fires a scorching bullet that drives<br />

itself into Jonathon’s shoulder. However all this brings is a twisted smile on Jonathon’s face.<br />

Bryant continues to creep slowly towards Jonathon, however the killer believes he has the<br />

upper hand, bellowing “you’ll never take me alive, I will be with my lord once more” before<br />

making a running leap over the balcony. Bryant lunges after him but it’s too late. He orders his<br />

men to make sure the body is found, before cursing his failure.<br />

6 MONTHS LATER<br />

3. INT. LARGE DINING ROOM. NIGHT. 3.<br />

Detective Aaron Miller is giving a speech at an awards dinner honouring Bryant, his best friend.<br />

He describes how the murder of Bryant’s mentor as he was only starting out, drove Bryant to<br />

work harder than anyone else and be better than anyone else, so that he could bring anyone who<br />

would do such a thing to justice. It was this that made Bryant the unparalleled detective he is<br />

today, gifted with an incredible insight into the criminal mind. Bryant then comes on stage to<br />

accept the award.<br />

4. INT. LARGE DINING ROOM. NIGHT. 4.<br />

Most people have already left. Bryant, Miller and a few other men are drinking and laughing, tie<br />

off and collars undone at the only table that is still occupied. Bryant then tells them he better<br />

head off. The others call for him to stay, but he waves them away.<br />

5. EXT. PARKING LOT. NIGHT. 5.<br />

Bryant walks out into the near pitch-black car park, pulls out his mobile phone and dials. Just as<br />

he puts the phone to his ear, Bryant is grabbed from behind, he struggles momentarily before<br />

being choked into unconsciousness. We hear the thumping of his body being thrown into a van<br />

and then the van speeding off. His phone lying on the ground as the voice over from Taxi<br />

Company asks if there’s anybody there.<br />

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6. INT. EMPTY ROOM. MORNING. 6.<br />

Bryant awakes blindfolded and tied to a chair in an empty room. He calls out to Jonathon to<br />

show himself. But no one comes.<br />

7. EXT. OUTSIDE FLAT. DAY/NIGHT. 7.<br />

The Sun shows the progression of time, before the sunset and the day turning into night.<br />

8. INT. EMPTY ROOM. NIGHT. 8.<br />

Bryant is still sitting tied to the chair, blindfolded and alone in the dark, haunting room. His head<br />

finally drops, signifying that he has fallen asleep.<br />

9. INT. EMPTY ROOM. NIGHT. 9.<br />

The sound of a door being quietly closed awakens Bryant. Jonathon walks from this door, his<br />

face blackened <strong>by</strong> the darkness. Bryant’s arm is grabbed, he resists as much as he can while tied,<br />

but before long he concedes there is nothing he can do. A syringe is drawn and tapped twice,<br />

before we hear Bryant scream.<br />

The shot moves to a clock on the wall. The image of the clock with its hands spinning around 10<br />

times is visible over the top of the main action during the rest of sequence. Bryant’s screams are<br />

heard throughout the montage.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Bryant’s blindfold is torn off. His eyes are fiercely held open as an intense bright light is shone<br />

directly at them before he gets a close look at Jonathon’s face.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

With his blindfold back on, Bryant’s head is held tilted back, and a strange looking blue liquid is<br />

poured from a test tube into his mouth. He chokes as his mouth his forced closed and nose his<br />

blocked.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Gloved hands force reddened cotton balls into Bryant’s ears.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Jonathon puts on a surgical mask to his unclearly visible face, before he takes a cork out of test<br />

tube and holds it up to Bryant’s nose as a silvery gas escapes up his nostrils.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

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Bryant is still tied up on the chair but now shirtless. Jonathon paints a muddy looking liquid over<br />

his body with a brush as he continues to scream.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Only the clock on the wall as it slows down to a halt at just after 9. We then see Bryant still<br />

shirtless, blindfolded and tied to the chair. His head is drooping showing him to be clearly<br />

unconscious again. Lying next to him on a towel on the floor is an unused scalpel.<br />

10. INT. EMPTY ROOM. NIGHT. 10.<br />

The front door is broken down as Miller and a number of other agents flock into the flat. While<br />

the agents search the house, Miller rushes straight towards Bryant, and unties him before<br />

holding his unresponsive friend in his arms.One of the agents informs Miller that Jonathon isn’t<br />

here and asks if they should set up a search team. But caring only for his friend, Miller screams<br />

“forget him, a man is dying here” before medics file in and take Bryant away.<br />

11. INT. AMBULANCE. NIGHT. 11.<br />

Medics and Miller are work feverishly on Bryant in an emotionally intense ride in the<br />

ambulance. Bryant’s eyes open for a few seconds and look at Miller who yells his name and<br />

tells him he will be all right, before his blurry vision fades into unconsciousness.<br />

12. INT. HOSPITAL ROOM. DAY. 12.<br />

Bryant is in a hospital bed as Miller looks on.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Several men in black suits appear to be setting up various security devices in the room, while<br />

Bryant lies there motionless.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

A calendar on the wall of the room shows several weeks passing.<br />

DISSOLVE TO:<br />

Bryant is sitting up in his bed talking to Miller. Both are trying to make the mood more jovial<br />

than it is.<br />

13. INT. HOSPITAL HALL. DAY. 13.<br />

Detective BraedenMoore is talking to a nurse outside Bryant’s room. The nurse tells him that he<br />

is still weak, but should be able to leave in a few days. Without waiting for the nurse to finish,<br />

Moore bursts through the door to Bryant’s room.<br />

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14. INT. HOSPITAL ROOM. DAY. 14.<br />

Moore gruffly interrupts and is not greeted kindly, especially <strong>by</strong> Miller. After unconvincingly<br />

attempting to sound pleased Bryant has recovered, Moore coldly asks him about his capture,<br />

informing him that he has taken over the case. However Bryant says he only remembers trying<br />

to stay awake on the first day and failing, which is all that matters. They already know what<br />

Jonathon does to his victims. Moore then tells him that the trail is cold and that they are very<br />

close to closing the investigation. He then curtly leaves the room.<br />

Bryant is astounded and furious that they would consider closing the case when Jonathon is still<br />

on the loose. Miller then explains that Moore has put forth that the case should be closed due to<br />

a lack of leads, and his theory that Bryant, who developed a significant competitive relationship<br />

with Jonathon while attempting to catch him, was to be the last victim. By capturing him,<br />

Jonathon believed he had won, something Moore thought to be confirmed <strong>by</strong> him not making<br />

any attempt to get to Bryant while he was in hospital, nor commit any more murders. It is<br />

believed to be a waste of resources. If his recommendation is accepted it will likely be the first of<br />

several changes in Moore’s plan to streamline the agency. Bryant is however unconvinced that<br />

Jonathon will simply mind his own business.<br />

15. INT. BRYANT’S BEDROOM. NIGHT. 15.<br />

Bryant is in bed at his home, appearing to be having a haunting nightmare, before he is woken<br />

<strong>by</strong> a phone call at 3am. It’s Miller, telling him that he was right; Jonathon is back, a body was<br />

found two hours ago in the public library. Speechless, he hangs up the phone and heads straight<br />

for the library.<br />

16. INT. BRYANT’S CAR. NIGHT. 16.<br />

Bryant drives to the library, an array of emotions flow through his tired face.<br />

17. EXT. OUTSIDE LIBRARY. NIGHT. 17.<br />

Bryant pulls into a park and then exits his car. Cars and Agents surround the scene.<br />

Moore is talking to a scientist and asks him if Jonathon committed the murder in the library.<br />

Bryant walks in to point out that Jonathon would never kill in such a public place; he would<br />

have brought the body after the murder.<br />

Moore spins around angrily and tells two large men to take Bryant away. However Bryant<br />

doesn’t flinch, the two men clearly have great respect him and perhaps fear him as well, so they<br />

back off.<br />

Miller then rushes in and takes Bryant aside and tells him he didn’t actually mean for him to<br />

come down here, he’s not technically with the agency anymore. However Bryant explains that<br />

he has to know what’s going on.<br />

18. INT. LIBRARY. NIGHT. 18.<br />

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Now inside the library and talking to the scientist again, Moore asks how the body got here, was<br />

there a blood trail? Bryant then hastily dismisses the idea of a blood trail from such an intelligent<br />

and systematic killer. He would have brought the victim here after his rituals, and he wouldn’t<br />

have chosen this place <strong>by</strong> mistake. Moore then angrily and somewhat sarcastically quizzes<br />

Bryant as to what he thinks happened, before walking off in a huff.<br />

Bryant asks the scientist where exactly the body was found. He leads him to a chalk outline of<br />

the body. After getting down on his haunches and inspecting the area, he asks if there were any<br />

objects found on the victim. The scientist picks up a book from near<strong>by</strong>, that he says was found on<br />

the victim’s chest, with arms positioned to be holding it there.<br />

As Bryant is looking through the book (a strange code is written on the inside cover), his<br />

immediate superior, JackMorrison walks up to him. Clearly having great respect for Bryant,<br />

Morrison says he wishes the first time they met after his recovery was in different circumstances<br />

and that Moore said he’d been bothering him. He can stay, but tells him to try and keep out of<br />

Moore’s way.<br />

Moore joins the pair at this point unsatisfied with this situation. However Bryant points out that<br />

considering the case was closed, Moore isn’t technically in charge of this investigation any more.<br />

Knowing he is not going to get his away, he abruptly leaves.<br />

Bryant shows Morrison the book. It is a journal <strong>by</strong> the psychologist that Bryant, a criminologist<br />

himself has studied more closely than any other. It is clearly a message from Jonathon to get<br />

Bryant back and leading the case.<br />

19. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. DAY. 19.<br />

Bryant walks slowly through the bullpen. Most of the people working there turn around and stare<br />

at him.<br />

20. INT. MORRISON’S OFFICE. DAY. 20.<br />

Morrison is on the phone to one of his superiors. He argues that considering Bryant passed the<br />

psychological evaluation, he should be leading the Jonathon case. However it sounds like he<br />

finally agrees to a compromise, before hanging up the phone and exiting his office.<br />

21. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. DAY. 21.<br />

Morrison pulls Moore aside and then calls to Bryant. He tells them that they will be co-leading<br />

the Jonathon case, neither will have any more control than the other. The two reluctantly agree<br />

to this.<br />

22. INT. BRIEFING ROOM. DAY. 22.<br />

A meeting is held about the Jonathon case in which much about Jonathon is discussed. Moore<br />

speaks for most of the meeting, as information is projected onto a screen.<br />

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He calls himself Jonathon after the disciple John, who is sometimes referred to as ‘the disciple<br />

Jesus loved’. Jonathon believes that the five senses each pollute humanity from the truth of the<br />

lord, who tells him to do these things. He manipulates and eliminates these five senses in his<br />

victims, with his final ritual being to remove the eyeballs and carve the number of the victim into<br />

their back. One of the team points out that if the Desmond Lopez, (victim from scene 2) was<br />

numbered 6, and the library victim numbered 8, then there must have been a murder in between.<br />

However Moore quashes this idea, believing that although a number wasn’t carved into Bryant’s<br />

back, <strong>by</strong> capturing him, he would be counted as victim 7 in Jonathon’s mind. Bryant for the<br />

most part agrees with this, arguing that it is highly unlikely that Jonathon would have hidden the<br />

body of a different victim 7, before making such a public statement with victim 8.<br />

23. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. DAY. 23.<br />

Bryant looks through a number of files in his office, before suddenly realizing something. He<br />

rushes out of his office.<br />

24. INT. MILLER’S OFFICE. DAY. 24.<br />

Bryant tells Miller that the letters in a handwritten code from the book in the library:<br />

ERALPDJW- - - J, correspond to the first names of Jonathon’s victims. This seemingly confirms<br />

that Bryant, with the first name Jacob, was the seventh victim. He does not know the meaning<br />

behind the dashes, the change of colour and the final letter in the code however.<br />

25. INT. HALLWAY. DAY. 25.<br />

Bryant is walking up a hospital hallway with a nurse. Speaking of Lopez, she tells Bryant that<br />

his hearing is the only sense he has recovered, but he can speak, although very weakly.<br />

26. INT. LOPEZ’S ROOM. DAY. 26.<br />

The nurse shows Bryant into the room. Lopez is sitting in a chair wearing dark glasses and<br />

listening to classical music, which he turns off when Bryant comes in. They try to exchange<br />

small talk with great difficulty due to it being a struggle for Lopez to speak and Bryant<br />

uncomfortably pitying the unfortunate man.<br />

Bryant then asks if he can remember anything about his capture <strong>by</strong> Jonathon that might be<br />

helpful. It is difficult to tell exactly what he is trying to say, but it appears that Lopez thinks that<br />

at some stage there were two men in the building where he was tortured. Before he can hear<br />

anything else, Bryant’s phone rings. He looks at his phone and decides to answer. It’s Miller,<br />

another body has been found, he better come straight away.<br />

Bryant quickly apologizes to Lopez and leaves in a hurry.<br />

27. EXT. JETTY. DAY. 27.<br />

Bryant rushes along the Jetty where there are already a number of agents. He spots Miller right<br />

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at the end with a few others standing over the spread-eagled body. Incredible shock consumes his<br />

face as he looks down at the body of Jonathon. He appears to have endured the full ritual that he<br />

was thought to inflict on his own victims. Miller rolls his body over to reveal the number 7<br />

carved into his back. He then gives Bryant a bible that was found with Jonathon; several pages<br />

ripped out.<br />

Bryant is in shock, not knowing what to say. Miller says that they could be dealing with a<br />

copycat; who often kill the person they copy so that they can fully take their place.<br />

28. EXT. CEMETARY. DAY. 28.<br />

Bryant visits the grave of his mentor who was murdered when he was only starting his career.<br />

He talks to him about how he needs his guidance, he’s lost.<br />

29. INT. BRYANT’S BEDROOM. NIGHT. 29.<br />

Bryant appears to be having a nightmare about Jonathon carrying out his rituals before again<br />

being woken <strong>by</strong> a phone call. Moore tells him that victim number 9 has been found.<br />

30. INT. SUBURBAN HOME. MORNING. 30.<br />

Bryant walks into the house that is filled with agents and scientists and inspects the scene.<br />

While talking with Miller, Bryant appears to get distracted <strong>by</strong> something and indecisively walks<br />

off to miraculously find a trap door underneath some carpet that appears to have been removed<br />

before. He then pulls out what looks like drugs and equipment that must have been used <strong>by</strong> the<br />

copycat.<br />

Bryant explains that he thought there would be a trap door there, because the house is a similar<br />

old design to his own, with wooden floorboards, although they have been carpeted. He is sure<br />

they have got their break. The copycat has slipped up. Surely they will be able to find his DNA<br />

for the first time.<br />

Bryant and Miller decide to personally deliver the evidence to the lab.<br />

31. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. DAY. 31.<br />

Bryant is screaming on the phone. He cannot believe that there was nothing at all found under<br />

the trapdoor that could be linked to anyone. He slams down the phone as Miller comes into the<br />

office. Nothing is said for sometime, before Bryant looks up at him and says he doesn’t think he<br />

can keep this up much longer.<br />

32. INT. BRIEFING ROOM. DAY. 32.<br />

In a full meeting about the case, Miller is reading from some of the pages that were torn out of<br />

the bible found with Jonathon. Bryant is staring at nothing. The voices are only background<br />

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noise to him. He feels as though the case is a lost cause; everything is a lost cause.<br />

Suddenly something clicks in Bryant’s brain. Lopez said he thought he heard two men, when he<br />

was held captive. What if the ‘lord’ Jonathon referred to was not just a voice in his head telling<br />

him what to do, but the voice of a person, who he worshipped as his lord. There is no copycat,<br />

‘the lord’ sacrificed his disciple and is now carrying out there murders himself.<br />

Bryant gives his team a number of tasks, as the search for ‘the lord’ begins.<br />

33. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. NIGHT. 33.<br />

Bryant is trying to focus on reading through some documents, but needs to keep rubbing his eyes<br />

because he’s so tired. He looks at his watch. It’s after 3am. He decides to head home.<br />

34. EXT. OUTSIDE BUILDING. NIGHT. 34.<br />

Bryant comes out the door to the agency building and then heads towards some stairs leading to<br />

a car park. He stops suddenly and stares at a dumpster just outside the building, then runs quickly<br />

toward it. He looks around before rubbing his eyes again, and shaking his head as if to shake out<br />

his tiredness.<br />

35. EXT. OUTSIDE BUILDING. MORNING. 35.<br />

Bryant walks up the stairs coming from the car park to find a crowd of agents as well as police<br />

trying to move away regular citizens surrounding the dumpster he stopped at last night. He moves<br />

through the crowd hearing the two agents closest the dumpster arguing, with one saying that<br />

they’re not allowed to move it until the recovery team get here.<br />

Bryant inquires what is going on. They open up the dumpster to show a body lying on top.<br />

Bryant recognizes the man as David Kent, a former member of the agency. He tells the agent to<br />

turn the body over on it’s back. At first he refuses, but Bryant insists. He then lifts up his shirt,<br />

revealing the number 10 carved into his back.<br />

36. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. DAY. 36.<br />

Bryant is working in his office when, through his open door, he sees several agents apprehend<br />

Moore in the bullpen. Moore goes quietly, but one of the agents; Mitchell, doesn’t go with them,<br />

instead going to Moore’s office.<br />

37. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. DAY. 37.<br />

Bryant chases after Mitchell who locks the door to Moore’s office. Bryant calls out to him as<br />

he starts to walk away and asks what was happening with Moore. At first Mitchell says he can’t<br />

talk about it, but then concedes. He tells Bryant that Lopez took his own life two days ago, or so<br />

they thought. A hidden security camera showed that Moore brought Lopez the toxic pills that<br />

killed him.<br />

38. EXT. PARK. DAY. 38.<br />

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Bryant is waiting for Miller who soon arrives. They walk together through the park.<br />

Bryant tells him about Moore being questioned, believing that Lopez had more information that<br />

could have led to the identification of Moore as the other man in the building with Jonathon.<br />

Amongst other evidence, He also tells him that near the bin in which Kent’s body was found, he<br />

saw someone as he came back to work late on the night prior to it being discovered. It was dark,<br />

and he only saw a flash before it disappeared, and he dismissed it as a hallucination due to lack of<br />

sleep, but he thinks it looked like Moore. Miller seems unconvinced, but then remembers that<br />

Moore personally searched Bryant’s house while he was in hospital, perhaps he knew about the<br />

trapdoor and that Bryant would find it in the other house, so just when he thought he’d made a<br />

major breakthrough, it again turned out to be nothing. He was toying with Bryant.<br />

39. INT. CELL RECEPTION. DAY. 39.<br />

Bryant asks the guard which cell Moore is being held in? But is told that he’s been released.<br />

Bryant tries calling Moore from the phone at the reception, but he doesn’t pick up. Bryant then<br />

rings Miller on his mobile and tells him not to raise the alarm yet; Moore doesn’t know they’re<br />

onto him yet, and is likely to come back to the agency or contact someone. They just need to bide<br />

their time until then.<br />

40. EXT. OUTSIDE BUILDING. MORNING. 40.<br />

Bryant walks into the agency building.<br />

41. INT. SECURITY CHECK. MORNING. 41.<br />

Bryant puts his gun on the conveyor belt and walks through an airport style metal scanner. He<br />

exchanges good mornings with the security guard, grabs his gun, then walks through an open<br />

door.<br />

42. INT. EYE SCANNER. MORNING. 42.<br />

Bryant walks up to the eye scanning machine, which scans his eye, identifies him with voice<br />

over, and then opens a thick metal door.<br />

43. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. MORNING. 43.<br />

Bryant walks through the bullpen and opens the door to his office.<br />

44. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. MORNING. 44.<br />

He walks into his office to find a dead body sitting in his chair, facing him; victim 11.<br />

45. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. MORNING. 45.<br />

Bryant comes back out into the bullpen and presses the lockdown alarm. The alarm screams out<br />

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before people start heading towards him.<br />

46. INT. MORRISON’S OFFICE. MORNING. 46.<br />

Morrison is on the phone, while Bryant, Miller and two other agents are talking. Bryant<br />

exclaims that this is impossible. Even if this was done in the early hours of the morning when no<br />

one was here, security still would have noticed someone walk in with a dead body.<br />

Morrison hangs up the phone. He tells them that the power went out at around 3am. The security<br />

guard went to his car to get his mobile phone and report the problem.<br />

Bryant points out that he couldn’t have got into this section while the power was off, but he<br />

could have got through the security section that was supposed to be manned, and then gone<br />

through the eye scan once the power came back up.<br />

47. INT. SURVEILANCE ROOM. MORNING. 47.<br />

Bryant finds that the cameras were disabled for 2 hours after the power went out. He then checks<br />

the logs for the eye scanner, which was originally thought to be the result of the power cut. Kent<br />

(victim 10) checked in as soon as the power came back on. He hadn’t been taken out of the<br />

security registry. The ‘lord’ must have used Kent’s removed eyeballs to access the eye scanner<br />

and then get out using the fire escape, none of which was recorded on camera. It had to be<br />

someone from the agency; no one else could have pulled it off.<br />

Bryant bangs the desk and curses.<br />

48. INT. HALLWAY. MORNING. 48.<br />

Bryant and Miller come out of the security room together. Bryant tells Miller that they still<br />

can’t say anything; they still don’t have any concrete evidence. Bryant knows he will be seeing<br />

Moore soon anyway. The last letter of the code was J, which undoubtedly stood for his first<br />

name; Jacob; He was to be victim 12.<br />

49. INT. LABORATORY. MORNING. 49.<br />

Bryant walks into the lab and talks to a scientist who is working. He asks about victim 11. Some<br />

results have just come through. Two hairs were found on the body that did not belong to the<br />

victim; they belonged to BraedenMoore.<br />

50. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. MORNING. 50.<br />

Bryantrushes towards Miller’s office looking somewhat relieved and satisfied; he knows he has<br />

his man. But suddenly he stops as he is walking past his own office.<br />

51. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. MORNING. 51.<br />

He walks towards his computer, the screen is on, but almost blank. He realizes that all his files<br />

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have been deleted; the entire computer wiped.<br />

52. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. MORNING. 52.<br />

Bryant asks someone if the other computers have been wiped due to the power cut; they haven’t.<br />

He wanders back into his own office; consumed <strong>by</strong> his thoughts.<br />

53. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. MORNING. 53.<br />

Bryant slumps down into his chair.<br />

CUT TO: FLASHBACK<br />

54. INT. SUBURBAN HOME. MORNING. 54.<br />

Bryant says, “on all the victims in every crime scene, we’ve never found anything he didn’t want<br />

us to”.<br />

CUT TO: FLASHBACK<br />

55. INT. LIBRARY. NIGHT. 55.<br />

Bryant says, “He’s a very very smart man…he doesn’t make mistakes”<br />

CUT TO: PRESENT<br />

56. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. MORNING. 56.<br />

Bryant mutters to himself, “he doesn’t make mistakes”.<br />

He click on is computer. It asks for his password.<br />

CUT TO: FLASHBACK<br />

57. EXT. PARK. DAY. 57.<br />

Bryant says to Miller, “I trust you with my life. I trust you with everything…”<br />

CUT TO: PRESENT<br />

58. INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE. MORNING. 58.<br />

Bryant mutters to himself, “my password…Aaron…no one else…”.<br />

He sinks further into his chair.<br />

A colleague comes into his office with a package. He says it just came for him. He leaves and<br />

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closes the door behind him.<br />

Bryant opens the package. It’s a disk. Without thinking, he puts it into his computer.<br />

Immediately the video begins, Bryant sees himself looking back at him on the screen, but he<br />

looks different, twisted. Bryant’s other self then explains everything. He is ‘the lord’. He has a<br />

split personality disorder, resulting in his murdering side being aware of this, but his good side<br />

being oblivious to the other. Footage of Bryant’s idolized psychologist is then shown explaining<br />

the split personality condition. It is explained that his good side was weak, so the other<br />

personality gave him purpose <strong>by</strong> committing crimes that he would be able to solve. He has been<br />

the murderer for every case he was worked on. He was the one who killed his mentor, his first<br />

murder. The bad side has perfectly framed Miller, with the evidence on another disc in his jacket<br />

pocket. Bryant checks, it’s there. He sinks further into his chair before standing up; looking<br />

defiant, as though he knows he can finally set things straight.<br />

59. INT. AGENCY BULLPEN. MORNING. 59.<br />

Bryant comes out of his office and takes the disc out of his jacket pocket, before putting it<br />

through a shredder.<br />

60. INT. MORRISON’S OFFICE. MORNING. 60.<br />

Bryant enters Morrison’s office, where Morrison is with Miller, and two large guards who are<br />

holding a snarling Moore, who says he gave the pills to Lopez because he was a friend who<br />

wanted to end his life, and knows nothing about his hairs being on Kent’s body. Bryant says that<br />

Moore is not the killer, but that he is in this room. There is a long pause before he tells the guards<br />

to apprehend Miller, for he has been ‘the lord’ all along. He pulls a disc out of his other jacket<br />

pocket, and lays it down on the desk. While Miller is being restrained, Morrison exclaims that<br />

he doesn’t understand. Bryant explains that he needed to be absolutely certain before he said<br />

anything, but that it’s all there. Having such a high opinion of Bryant, Morrison allows this.<br />

Miller is dragged away screaming. Bryant says he wants to be contacted only if absolutely<br />

necessary, because he needs some time off to deal with it all. Morrison, is shocked, but agrees,<br />

stating that he knows Bryant wouldn’t have told him this unless he was positive and the evidence<br />

was concrete. Bryant walks out of the room.<br />

61. EXT. OUTSIDE BUILDING. MORNING. 61.<br />

Bryant walks out of the building and continues to walk down the street as an evil smile creeps<br />

onto his face.<br />

FADE OUT<br />

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