Scene Nine

Scene Nine - Confrontation

[Booth, Layla, and the Mafia Boss are seen riding in a car.]

Layla: Okay, I get what I’m doing now, but can you please explain why we want Lincoln out of the picture in the first place?

[Booth shifts uneasily in his seat.]

Layla: I’m waiting.
Booth: Lincoln has something of mine…something that means a lot to me…

[Mafia Boss laughs a little to himself.]

Mafia Boss: Yeah, but apparently there is something special about it. If I were him, I would just get another one, it never seemed like such a big deal to me.

[Booth straightens up in his seat and takes a deep breath.]

Booth: Lincoln has what the Zhukeepers like to call “The Ultimate Weapon”. When used correctly, you are capable of doing the impossible. However, it can only be used 10 times. Needless to say, we need it back.
Mafia Boss: WHAT?! You left me in charge of something that had to power to do the impossible?
Booth: We didn’t think you would lose it. There are some flaws in its powers though; for example, even though it can give you the power to do anything, after using ten times, the next time you try to use it…it will create an explosion the size of a small city.
Mafia Boss: So wait. It has the power to do anything?
Booth: Anything…
Mafia Boss: So if I had this “Ultimate Weapon” I could eat TWO Baconators in one sitting?
Booth: (Laughing) No…

[Layla, who has been quiet for some time, stunned by this new information speaks after a short pause.]

Layla: Wait, So let me get this straight. Lincoln is indestructible thanks to Ghandy who turned him into a robot AND he currently has a weapon that can do anything that he wants and you believe I’m just going to be able to walk up and take it from him…
Booth: Well…he doesn’t know that it allows him to do the impossible.
Layla: (Speechless for a second) Then why did he take it…wait…what is it?
Booth: The “Ultimate Weapon” is disguised as a -

[All of a sudden Bananaphone begins playing at a fairly loud volume.]

Booth: What is this?
Mafia Boss: What is what?
Booth: This song?
Mafia Boss: What song?
Booth: The song playing.
Mafia Boss: Listen, I have no idea what you are talking about, okay?
Booth: Whatever, just turn it down will you?

[Song gets louder.]

Booth: Okay, it’s funny, but turn it down some.
Layla: You are guys are idiots, I hear no song.
Booth: No, seriously.
Mafia Boss: Ha, just kidding. It sounds like its coming from the trunk.

[Booth pulls off the side of the road near a forest so that he can get out and examine the trunk. Layla and the Mafia Boss exit the car as well due their curiosity. Booth puts his key into the trunk and the back door opens to reveal John Zhu squished into the back of his trunk with the radio playing Bananaphone.]

Booth: John! What a surprise!

[John steps out of the car and turns the radio off. Then with lightning like reflexes he pulls out his gun and aims directly at Booth’s forehead point blank. Without thinking; Booth, Layla, and the Mafia Boss return the favor pulling out each of their own guns. They each go back and forth changing who they are aiming at every few seconds.]

John: Well, well, well. It seems we all have come to quite the predicament.
Booth: You’ll never defeat Lincoln by yourself, it can’t be done, you will need all the help you can get.
John: Ah, that’s where you are wrong.

[As if on cue Eli emerges from the forest nearby. He is leading Lincoln and Ghandy, who seem to be defenseless against some unknown power. They walk up to John and Eli holds out a brown paper bag.]

Eli: I got what you wanted pops!
John: Very good… (He then pulls off a very sly smile and begins laughing an evil laugh.)

[During John’s laugh Lincoln, Ghandy and Eli have slowly backed up and then without notice pull out their own guns. All three are pointing at John. John panics quickly and opens the bag to find it filled with sand and rocks. He throws it behind him in disgust.]

John: You will not win Lincoln!

[The scene ends with all the main characters in a circle with guns pointed at each other.]

@#$^.