Two Winters Past

EXT. DEPOSIT. NIGHT.

In the darkness, we see only the odd foundation or broken road marking the town that once remained. All the buildings and trees have been cleared for a kill-zone. Across the zone we see a school building illuminated by fire-light. The light source is obscured by a wall. 

LOGAN: Those men died so you could be alive. You want to still question my motives? We could have used you as bait, could have given you to those monsters, but I am going to save your life, and I am going to save your soul.

HOLT: Fucking kill us! You piece of shit!

LOGAN:  Motherfuckers! See, I know those words too.

LOGAN approaches HOLT, menacing.

LOGAN: Preachers going to assign extra praying to this one.

HOLT: And put Aiden on a cross, and rape the shit out of Tiff...

LOGAN: (offended) You think we rape? We are men of God! We take no wives, and we know no woman.

HOLT: Buncha fags?

LOGAN strikes HOLT. HOLT strains to attack LOGAN. Two BARABAS throw him down and keep him down at spear point.

LOGAN: It was your sin that got your girl killed. Her blood is on your hands, my friend, but you are going to pray, and you are going to attone.

TIFF: What will you do with me?

LOGAN: You will cook and you will serve and pray. There are others, you will be permitted husbands when the area is safe. As you can see, we ain’t got everything cleared out of these woods. You will all be expected to walk a patrol, and you boys is going to be doing some heavy lifting. We got work for you.

They reach the wall, which stands twelve feet high. From the base, we cannot see any of the base that illuminated the school.

LOGAN:You Now look at that beautiful wall. You gonna make that wall bigger. Gonna pull cars off the highway. We stack 'em, and smash 'em, and fill them with rocks. Probably have Aiden Quartermass up there burying. He’s looking as scrawny in person as he does in them music videos.

LOGAN takes a spear from BARABAS and waves it to gain the attention of the men walking the wall. A gate wide enough for a single man has been left open between the walls. The barn doors that shutter the entrance are open. BARABAS run out to assist.

LOGAN: I want a room for these people and men to stand guard. I want food, and get those gates shut. We saw monsters.

The wall circles the campus of a high school. Fires burn in the yard and candles in the windows. The building is alive. 

HOLT, TIFF, and AIDEN are lead away by BARABAS. 

We follow LOGAN as he walks in another direction. 

INSERT: KOTE. He is a middle-aged man with thin, wispy hair. 

LOGAN: Good to see you, Kote.

KOTE: You saw cannibals?

LOGAN:  They killed two more men.

KOTE: Stokes wants to see you.

LOGAN: It can wait. I’m going to pray, and then I’m going to bed.

KOTE: He said it was urgent.

LOGAN: He can find me in the chapel. He doesn’t have long.

KOTE exits running.