Arctic Blue Page #2

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ERIC:

Anne Marie! Stop!

She glances down. Something metal is half-buried in the

dead leaves and gravel.

ERIC:

(continuing)

Don't move.

Eric runs over. He pokes at the object with a stick. With

a SNAP, a steel leg trap chomps the stick in half. Anne

Marie jumps back. Eric brushes the dead leaves on the

ground behind her and she carefully backtracks out of the

gully.

ERIC:

(continuing)

Goddamn trappers!

He angrily rips the trap out of the ground, unearthing

several others attached to one another by a long chain.

ERIC:

(continuing)

Takes nerve, laying traplines on

restricted land.

Eric slips the scope off the dart rifle and climbs up the

pipeline on foot pegs to the top of an anchoring poINT.

(CONTINUED)

3CONTINUED:
(3)

Using the scope as a telescope, he scans up and down the

Haul Road.

ANNE MARIE:

What are you doing?

ERIC:

He still might be around. I saw

fresh tire tracks coming in.

HIS POV - THROUGH SCOPE

The road and the pipeline stretch toward either horizon,

north and south. In the distance, a jeep is parked on the

Haul Road. Near it, a Man climbs down into another shallow

ravine.

BACK TO SCENE:

Eric hurries down the footpegs.

ERIC:

Man and a jeep, about a mile and

a half down.

He jumps into the Scout. Anne Marie stuffs her cameras into

the hatchback. As soon as she climbs in, Eric tears out.

4INT. SCOUT - (MOVING SHOT)

It races along the dusty gravel road at 60 MPH.

5EXT. HAUL ROAD

Startled at the APPROACH of the Scout, the Trapper uproots

his traps and runs out of the ravine. He WHISTLES and

another Trapper appears nearby.

6INT. TRAPPERS' JEEP

They pile into their dilapidated, all-terrain jeep. It's

oddly well-equipped, however. Bolted to the dashboard is an

expensive tape player and a beat-up radio beacon receiver

with a round locating screen. They zoom off.

7INT. SCOUT - (MOVING SHOT)

Eric stomps on the gas. The dust from the jeep obscures his

view but he's gaining on them anyway. Anne Marie hangs on

and squints her eyes against the choking dust.

8INT. TRAPPERS' JEEP - (MOVING SHOT)

The driver is LEMALLE (35), a tall, ugly, rawboned Canadian.

His entire outfit is made of animal hide. He has long red

hair, and a reptilian face usually twisted into a sadistic

sneer. While driving, he scans along the pipeline.

LEMALLE:

Where the f*** did you drop

Corbett off?

In the passenger seat, MITCHELL (38), chews tobacco and

looks grim. He's a squat, flat-faced Okie, with curly

matted hair and tired grey eyes. He's dressed in a brown

long coat and has a Colt .45 Peacemaker in a quick-draw

holster strapped to his leg. Despite his intimidating air,

confrontation is not his style.

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