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Good Blood Bad Blood

Synopsis: Logline: Raped, beaten, and left for dead, a strange young woman’s disappearance from her hospital room begins a journey into myth and murder. alternate: A vampire’s bite destroys the AIDS virus. Synopsis: Good Blood, Bad Blood: Paul Thorsson is young, a few years out of internship, his idealism and enthusiasm waning under the stark reality of the ER. A severely beaten young woman, Isabel, is brought into the ER, barely alive. In the course of treating her he sees almost no change in her near-death condition for five days. When he comes to see her on the morning of the sixth day, she is miraculously improved. During his examination he discovers two tiny puncture wounds on the side of her neck which he is sure weren’t there before. The next day she is gone, checked out by her family doctor, Doctor Chavez, from Mexico City. While trying to determine how this was allowed to happen, he is buttonholed by David Banner, the hospital’s medical examiner, who insists they must talk in pri
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Genre: Mystery
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INT. ISABEL'S CABIN -- MOMENTS LATER

ENRIQUE enters the cabin. The light from the companionway reveals the girl on the filthy cot, her back to the door. Gently, ENRIQUE rolls her onto her back.

ENRIQUE:

Madre Dios!

Her face is bruised and torn. Both eyes are swollen shut and blood dribbles from her mouth and nose. He leans down close and listens to her breathing. He checks the pulse at her neck.

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INT. THE BOAT'S WHEELHOUSE. -- MOMENTS LATER

ENRIQUE returns and stomps up to JULIO. He punches him in the face knocking him to the floor.

ENRIQUE:

You stupid f*ck.

JULIO jumps to his feet and glowers back. A knife appears in his hand.

TOMAS:

See. I told you. He beat her to death.

ENRIQUE:

(to Tomas, but his eyes never leave Julio)

She's not dead, not yet. But she might as well be. Her face is ruined. She is worth nothing to us like that.

(eyes the knife in Julio's hand, suddenly slaps it out of his hand)

Five thousand dollars, he would have paid for that one. Young and pretty. He could have worked her for ten years, maybe more. Now....

(he stares out the window at the Galveston skyline)

Five minutes from shore and it's all for nothing.

TOMAS:

What do we do now?

ENRIQUE:

Dump her.

TOMAS:

But we can get something for her.

JULIO:

Yeah. Her face will heal.

ENRIQUE:

Her face won't heal. She won't live through the night. Dump her.

TOMAS starts to rise.

ENRIQUE:

Not you.

(to Julio)

Julio.

JULIO:

We are too close to shore. We should wait until --

ENRIQUE:

Dump her, goddamn it! The fucking sharks will take care of her.

JULIO:

What if --

ENRIQUE:

Now!

(points at the knife on the floor)

Or do you plan to pick that thing up and use it?

JULIO:

(under his breath)

The whore deserved it.

ENRIQUE:

What did you say?

JULIO:

We will find another.

ENRIQUE:

You will find another. And that one you won't have.

Julio goes to dispose of the body.

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INT. ISABEL'S CABIN -- CONTINUOUS

JULIO unties Isabel's wrist and ankles tossing her about without any concern.

JULIO:

You stupid whore. Look what you've done.

He touches the side of his face. He spits on her.

JULIO:

Puta!

He bends and picks her up roughly.

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EXT. THE DECK OF THE BOAT -- CONTINUOUS

JULIO drops her over the side.

JULIO:

Stupid whore.

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INT. PAUL'S SLEEPING OFFICE -- NIGHT

PAUL is asleep in a cramped cot when there is an anxious knock on the door.

ROSALIE:

(through the door)

Paul! Wake up. Ambulance coming in. Four minutes. Beating victim. Sounds pretty bad.

PAUL:

(groaning)

All right. All right. I'm awake.

PAUL sits up, struggles for consciousness, then looks at the bedside clock. It is a few minutes past three. He throws the covers aside and walks to the wash basin where he hurriedly splashes cold water on his face.

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Robin Roberts

I spent too many years studying Physics, Math, English, and Psych. As a boy I was torn between two passions: science and literature. I have worked as a technical writer for a NASA contractor, had a play produced in Portland in the 80’s, and been involved in two community college tutorial programs, writing the tutor handbook for one of them. I taught MGM’s (mentally gifted minors) in the 70’s and in the 90’s poetry and science to seventh and eighth graders at the small elementary school nearby. Over the course of those years, I have written several reams of poetry and more than a dozen novels (nine-published). And, of course, I write every day because… above all, I am a storyman. I have lived on a sailboat and in France and currently live on a mountaintop in Eastern Oregon and spends his days writing, working the ranch, and walking in the forest. 

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