Dark City Page #2

MANAGER O.S.

(Cont.)

When you gonna pay up? That's three

weeks y-owe me!

Totally confused now, Walker sees something.

WALKER:

I...

WALKER'S P.O.V. - a painting on a wall (cheap print variety) -

waves on a beach. A breeze rustles the pages of a calender, pinned

beside the picture.

TIGHT ON WALKER - MOVE IN on his ear. O.S. surf crashes on

shore. A WOMAN'S VOICE WHISPERS:

VOICE O.S.

What's your name... What's your

name...

He backs away from the painting, looks around in panic - sees a

sign:
TOILETS. An outlined hand points the way.

A PHONE on the front desk starts ringing.

The MANAGER, a squat man with glasses, steps through the bead

curtain just in time to see Walker run from the lobby.

MANAGER:

(calls after him)

Hey!

He grabs the receiver aggressively and barks into it.

MANAGER:

(Cont.)

Yeah. What?

INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

ANGLE FOLLOWS Walker as he pushes shakily through a red door, runs

down a corridor.

Pipes on the walls steam and drip water.

Walker rounds a corner, slips, nearly falls.

INT. MENS' ROOM - NIGHT

Puddles on the floor, stains on the walls.

Walker bursts through the door and into a cubicle. He bends over a

toilet bowl and VOMITS.

INT. HOTEL LOBBY - NIGHT

The manager puts the phone down. he returns to the back-room and

is just turning the volume up on hhs radio, when:

HAND-HELD P.O.V. watches him THROUGH the swaying beads hanging in

the back-room doorway. TWO FIGURES (these two are normal height)

peer into the room.

STRANGER 1

Where is John Walker?

THE HOTEL MANAGER stands, moves forward through the beads.

MANAGER:

Whatcha want him for? Friend of

yours...

The manager trails off to silence - he's noticed just how weird

these guys look.

A BLACK GLOVED HAND suddenly GRIPS the manager's neck. He

struggles, gulps for air, is pushed back against the wall.

ON THE MEN - STRANGERS - members of the mysterious group we saw

earlier. They wear long black coats, have extremely pale skin, and

are completely bald. Creepy.

STRANGER 2

Where is he?

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