Two Winters Past

EXT. WOODS. TWILIGHT.

POPPER helps DOAN, who has almost no strength to run on his own. CHLOE ISIS and VALENTINE run behind, making sure they are not followed.

CHLOE ISIS looks repeatedly at the gun, and is breaking down. POPPER sees this. He is panting from exertion.

POPPER: Chloe, now come on. We need to think about Doan. If Doan doesn’t get out of these woods, we can’t save anything.

VALENTINE sees CHLOE ISIS looking at the gun.

VALENTINE: This belongs to you. He told me to take it.

VALENTINE gives the empty rifle to CHLOE ISIS.

CHLOE ISIS:  (Sobbing) If I find out you had anything to do with it...

POPPER: Chloe, the kid didn’t do anything wrong, now move!

CHLOE ISIS helps DOAN as he stumbles. DOAN cries out feebly. VALENTINE follows.

CHLOE ISIS: Where can we go?

POPPER: I don’t know. We’ll find a place.

VALENTINE: We can go west! Like you wanted, Popper! 17 goes all the way to Ohio, and we can find our way south from there. We’d be in Texas before Fall.

POPPER: We can’t walk to Texas.

VALENTINE: If we can get horses! It will still be slow going, but I'm sure we can find a few horses.

CHLOE ISIS: We have a person’s life we need to worry about.

POPPER: We stop at the bridge. Not even the Cooleys will come that far in one night.

VALENTINE: You know how to get to the highway from here?

POPPER: East. Then South. Then West for a long time.