Free Dreamsongs - Volume II by George R. R. Martin Page B

the bracelet over to Tom.
     
    TRAGER
     
    Your conversation
will be monitored and recorded.
     
    The matron unlocks the door. Tom enters.
     
    INT. - CAT’S CELL - CONTINUOUS
     
    Cat looks up slowly.
     
    CAT
     
    Toe Mas.
     
    Cat gets up. She sees the bracelet. Her eyes
WIDEN. She moves across the room, reaching for it.
     
    CAT
     
    Mine! Give it, Toe
Mas.
     
    TOM
     
    First we need to
talk.
     
    Cat doesn’t take no for an answer. She
reaches for the bracelet. Tom holds it out of her reach.
     
    CAT
     
    Give it now.
Needing it now. Coming soon. Coming after.
     
    TOM
     
    Who is coming
after?
     
    CAT
     
    Darklords!
Manhounds! Give!
     
    TOM
     
    Tell me what it is
and you can have it back.
     
    Cat almost spits the word at him.
     
    CAT
     
    Geon. Give it now!
     
    Tom tosses it to her. Cat snatches it out
of the air, slides it back onto her arm. It seems to calm her.
     
    TOM
     
    What does it do,
Cat? What’s it for?
     
    CAT
     
    Finding doors.
Doors between . Doors away.
     
    Backing away from Tom, Cat extends her arm,
hand tight in a fist. She turns in a slow circle, sweeping the room.
     
    TOM
     
    What kind of doors?
Cat, what are you doing?
     
    She ignores him, concentrating. The device
can’t find a reading in this enclosed place. It stays dark.
     
    CAT
     
    No good, no good, no
good .
     
    TOM
     
    Cat, where did you
get that? And the gun, the air gun .. .
     
    (off her blank look)
     
    The weapon, the ...
     
    Frustrated, Tom does a pantomime of lifting
the gun with both hands, firing, with appropriate sound effects.
     
    TOM
     
    You know ... phut
... BOOM!
     
    He shapes an explosion with his hands. Cat
giggles.
     
    CAT
     
    Phut BOOM?
     
    TOM
     
    Right. The phut
boom. Where did you get the phut boom?
     
    She looks at him as though he were a moron.
     
    CAT
     
    Hand cannon, Toe
Mas. Stealing it. Not-for-men, hand cannon,
     
    (beat)
     
    Needing it, taking
it.
     
    TOM
     
    What did you need
the hand cannon for?
     
    CAT
     
    Shooting. Killing,
     
    (off his reaction)
     
    Getting away ,
Toe Mas.
     
    Cat is getting more and more agitated. She
looks around the sealed room desperately, searching for a way out.
     
    CAT
     
    Lights out! Darklords coming soon.
     
    TOM
     
    The . .. darklords.
Is that a gang?
     
    CAT
     
    Darklords masters. Darklords owners.
     
    TOM
     
    And the ...
manhounds?
     
    CAT
     
    (whisper)
     
    Thane ...
     
    Tom can see the fear on her face now. This
conversation is getting to her. She tries the door to the room. It’s locked, of
course. Cat spins away in frustration.
     
    TOM
     
    Hey, take it easy.
I don’t know who these people are, but they can’t get to
    you here. You’re
safe.
     
    Instead of calming her, that just drives
her WILD. Grabbing up a CHAIR, she swings at the mirrored window with all her
strength. It bounces off the glass. Cat swings it again and again. The mirror
begins to BREAK. A spiderweb of CRACKS fissures out.
     
    CAT
     
    (screaming)
     
    Not safe! Not safe!
Not safe!
     
    The mirror SHATTERS, showering the hall
outside with pieces of one-way glass. Cat is about to leap through the broken
window when Tom grabs her, restrains her.
     
    TOM
     
    Cat, stop. Don’t
...
     
    He holds her tight, trying to comfort her,
as the door opens and Cameron and the Matron come running in.
     
    DISSOLVE TO
     
     EXT. - CANYONS - NIGHT
     
    A densely wooded canyon outside Los
Angeles. Thane stands on a precipice, looking down at the city lights. His face
is a mask. A woman comes up beside him: DYANA. He senses her presence.
     
    THANE
     
    So many men, Dyana.
Their lights go on forever.
     
    DYANA
     
    This is but a
shadow of the trueworld, the master says.
     
    THANE
     
    Perhaps the masters
of this world say the same thing of our own.
     
    Thane turns his head very slowly toward the
east, as if he is listening to something no one else can hear.
     
    DYANA
     
    What is it? Do you
have a reading? Is she using the geosyncronator?
     
    When Thane speaks,