Priest Lake

 	  

	EXT.	SAND POINT IDAHO                  DAY         

	EXT.	SAND POINT                                          

	EXT.	ARYAN BROTHER'S COMPOUND                            

	Scott, Basso and Pond are talking to Smith.                         

					LONNIE SMITH
				(VERY UPSET)     
			No, I don't have one of your Indians!

					SCOTT
			We have an eye witness who saw your truck
			with two of your men pick up one of the
			elders.

					LONNIE SMITH
			I say bullshit to that. I have a lot more
			troubles now than one of your stinking
			Tonto's. Your illegal alien's that
			came in to pick up that Alien spore
			missed some because my people are dying
			left and right.
				(he notices Susan Pond
				looking at him)
			I see you brought the head Nez Perce
			Squaw from the federal building. Did
			she tell you that bullshit story about
			the nasty white men killing all the
			Tonto's, shit what about all the
			thousands of white men those savages
			killed. Why don't you ask her how many
			white mans scalps her Chief Joseph
			and that chicken shit tribe passed
			on to her. 

					SCOTT
			Is that true, Susan?

					SUSAN POND
			We have some scalps at the museum, but
			all we know is that they are over a
			hundred years old. We don't know if
			they are white mans or Native
			American.

					LONNIE SMITH
				(sarcastic)
			Don't know my ass.  What she didn't
			tell you was that thieving, lazy,
			forefathers used to kill each other
			for blond and red-head white mans
			scalps. They said blonde's were worth
			at least ten black.  And the red, shit
			the red, they would trade their squaw's
			for one. 
				(still staring at Susan) 
			And, why don't you tell them about old
			BO Plenty the Nez Perce Indian that
			got drunk and raped a white girl!

					BASSO

			Look, you white trash, we're not here
			to get in a shit throwing contest with
			you, we want the Indian or we call the
			FBI SWAT team and they will rip this 
			place apart. Remember, Native Americans
			are protected by the Federal Government,
			are you? I would like nothing better 
			than to put you and your red-neck friends
			in a Federal jail house for a few years.
			And you know what, when the inmates fill
			out your dance card for the night, you 
			will have a long list of all your favorite
			minorities, Afro-American, Orientals,  
			Hispanic's, and yes, maybe a few Native,
			whoop's in your language, Tonto's but
			probably not, they just don't go for
			that shit, but like you said, one of
			them will probably take your scalp
			while you're asleep. So hand over our
			Native American, or I place the call!

	Smith talks to his men in low tones and two of them leave
	and head for a large dumpster.

					LONNIE SMITH
				(clearing his throat)
			One of my boys picked on of those
			Tonto's when they caught him
			trying to steal their truck.

	In a distance they all view as his men take the Indian out
	of the dumpster.

					BASSO
				(Really pissed)
			You white piece of shit, you put him in
			that metal box in one-hundred degree
			heat! 
				(she goes to grab Smith and Scott
				holds her back)
			As far as I'm concerned you don't represent
			the White Race, you represent the Devil
			Race, and when you die, I hope you spend
			the rest of eternity with the devil that
			spawned you!

					LONNIE SMITH
				(looking at Scott)
			What is she a Lesbian?

					BASSO
				(coming unglued)
			No I'm a trained killer and that's what
			I do best, kill pieces of shit like you!
			And you know what, I have a license to,
			kill, do you?

	Smith's men turn over the Indian to Scott and Basso and he
	passes out in Scott's arms.

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	EXT.	SAND POINT IDAHO                  DAY         

	EXT.	SAND POINT                                          

	EXT.	SAND POINT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL                            

	Scott, Basso and Pond are talking to the attending doctor for
	Johnny Eagle the Indian held by the Aryan Brothers

					DR. CHASE
				(Somber look)     
			Mr. Eagle is lucky to be alive, another 
			hour and he would have expired. He will
			have to spend a couple of days in here
			so we can make sure he recovers from his
			dehydration. They also beat him pretty
			bad.  He had two broken hands, two broken
			ribs and a slight concussion.

					BASSO
				(Stern)
			We have filed charges against everyone
			in that compound, and we should have
			a federal attorney from the Justice 
			Department by morning.

					DR. CHASE
			Do you know why they did it? 

					BASSO
			We talked to the witness and she said he
			was sitting on the curb trying to help
			a dog that was hit by their truck, and
			they just came over and took him.

					DR. CHASE
			Was the witness an Indian? 

					SCOTT
			No, it was a white lady whose husband is 
			a banker in Lewiston. By the way, do
			you know what is happening at the Aryan
			Brothers compound, Smith said they have 
			sick people, with some strange disease?.

					DR. CHASE
			Matter of fact I'm now waiting for doctor's
			from The Center for Disease Control from
			Atlanta, the Chief Surgeon is having them
			flown in to identify what this virus is.

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	EXT.	SAND POINT IDAHO              MORNING         

	EXT.	ARYAN BROTHER'S COMPOUND          6:05 AM          

	Scott, Basso and Dr. Chase are at the front gate of the
	compound.
								
					LONNIE SMITH
			I'm sorry agents Scott and Basso but it you
			and your Bi . . . , friend are not welcome
			here, you will have to stay outside of the
			compound.
	Out of a mist of ground fog emerges two Military Huey
	helicopters landing in the cleared area in front of the 
	compound. CDC Doctors dressed in bio-suits jump out of the
	chopper and rush to the gate. One older man without a 
	bio-suit approaches Dr. Chase, with his hand for a
	handshake.

				DR. JOHN BEIN
		Hi. Dr. Chase good to see you,
			(shaking hands)
		It's been awhile hasn't it!

				DR. CHASE
		DR. JOHN BEIN, it's so good to see you!
		John I want you to meet FBI Agents, Dr's 
		Brian Scott and Barbara Basso.

				BASSO
		My pleasure Dr. Bein, I have followed all
		your quests all over the world, you are my
		hero! 

					DR. BEIN
			Thank you my dear.

					SMITH
			Welcome Dr. BEIN, I'm Lonnie Smith, 
			the director of this settlement. 
			You and your people are welcome
			but the FBI Agents are not, due
			to a prior problem with them.

					DR. CHASE
				(low tones)
			John, Mr. Smith the person in charge 
			of this organization is allegedly
			responsible for the kidnapping of
			a Nez Perce young man. I would 
			strongly advise the presence of
			federal agents. 

					DR. BEIN
			I understand, well I usually travel
			with federal troops, I was told the 
			FBI was here, so I came without them.
			It's up to you Mr. Smith, I will not 
			permit my people to enter the compound 
			unless we are assisted by the Army 
			or FBI Agents, your choice?

					SMITH
			I don't want the fucking Army in here.

					DR. BEIN
			We're here to help your people, so I need
			your help Mr. Smith. I will not tolerate
			profanity around women, will you please
			refrain from "gutter talk" and speak like a
			civilized man while we're here? 
	
					SMITH
			Ok, you have me over a barrel, but we 
			will be watching them.

					DR. BEIN 
			We need a large building to set up our
			equipment.
					SMITH
			My security manager will be here in a minute.
			Oh yes here he is.
			A young man in his early thirties walks up to the group.

					SMITH
			Dick, I want you to accompany the 
			doctor and stay with them at all 
			times give them the  mess hall so 
			they can set up all of their stuff.
	The young man and the group disappear into the fog 
	surrounding the entrance to the compound. They all 
	walk up to the large mess hall and enter.

	INT.	ARYAN BROTHERS COMPOUND MESS HALL

					SCOTT
			Thank you Dr. BEIN.

					BASSO
				(looking at Dr. BEIN)
			What method do you use in the removal of
			a toxic agent?

					ALVA
			Why don't we sit down at this table 
			and we'll talk about it.

					DR. BEIN
				(looking at young man)
			I will have all of your people 
			examined to see if any have
			been close enough to the Toxic 
			Agent to be infected.

					YOUNG MAN
			I'll go tell Lonnie, I'll be back,
			if you need anything just let me 
			know!

					DR. BEIN
			As you wish.

	DR. BEIN waits till the young man leaves, then addresses
	SCOTT and BASSO.

					DR. BEIN  (Cont.)
			The taxonomy of the Filoviridae is in 
			a state of flux; the family includes 
			viruses currently designated Marburg, 
			Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola 
			Ivory Coast, which are believed to be 
			endemic to Africa, and Ebola Reston, 
			which putatively originates in the 
			Philippines. The viruses are known
			particularly for their propensity 
			to cause fatal hemorrhagic fever of 
			humans with person-to-person spread, 
			but their pathogenicity varies from 
			asymptomatic infection (Ebola Reston) 
			to epidemics with death rates of 77% 
			to 88% (Ebola Zaire). 

					BASSO
			Have you had any luck finding an 
			antibiotic that will kill it?

					DR. BEIN 
			All of the viruses appear to be
			highly pathogenic for non-human 
			primates. Outbreaks of disease 
			have occurred in Europe and North 
			America in monkeys imported from 
			Africa and the Philippines, 
			sometimes with spread of infection 
			to humans. Contact with the tissues 
			of dead non-human primates was a
			source of infection for humans
			on at least two occasions in Africa. 
			Nevertheless, the lethality of the
			viruses for non-human primates 
			suggests that, like humans, non-human
			primates are incidental victims
			of infection and are not true
			reservoir hosts. The source of 
			filo-viruses in nature remains unknown, 
			but in some instances, bats roosted 
			in buildings or a cave visited or 
			frequented by people who subsequently 
			were found to have primary cases of 
			infection in outbreaks of disease in
			Africa; one patient was bitten or stung 
			by what is presumed to have been an 
			arthropod 7 days before coming down
			with Marburg disease. Informal speculation 
			has included the suggestion that filo-
			viruses may be plant viruses, perhaps 
			even asymptomatic infection (Ebola Reston) 
			involving transmission by arthropod vectors. 

					BASSO	
			So what your saying, is that you need to
			find the host so you can develop a serum?

					DR. BEIN
			Exactly, the search for the source of 
			the viruses in nature has been hampered 
			by the erratic recognition of outbreaks 
			of filo-virus infection in widely separated 
			geographic locations at unpredictable
			intervals therefore, comparatively few 
			field investigations have been reported. 
			After the 1995 epidemic of Ebola fever
			in Kikwit, Zaire, teams of scientists 
			coordinated by the Centers for Disease
			Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and the 
			U.S. Army Medical Research Institute 
			of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick,
			collected large numbers of vertebrate 
			and arthropod specimens during June, 
			July, and August, 1995.Because evidence 
			indicated that the outbreak had actually 
			started in January 1995, it was possible 
			that the virus was no longer circulating
			in its natural hosts in the vicinity of 
			Kikwit by the time ecological studies were
			undertaken. To allow for the possibility 
			that the filo-viruses manifest seasonal 
			activity in their natural hosts, a team 
			from the National Institute for Virology 
			in South Africa visited Kikwit in January 
			1996, to trap wild vertebrates and 
			arthropods in the sites investigated by 
			the other teams in mid-1995. Testing of 
			the field material is a lengthy process, 
			and no filo-viruses have been detected so 
			far. We decided to narrow the search by 
			performing pathogenicity studies with 
			Ebola virus in representatives of different 
			classes and orders of living things, 
			including vertebrates, invertebrates, 
			and even plants. The underlying assumptions 
			were that if a group of species is either 
			refractory or hyper-susceptible to the virus,
			members of the taxon are unlikely reservoir 
			hosts of the virus, whereas members of taxa 
			capable of circulating virus for prolonged
			periods without becoming ill are suspected 
			reservoirs. 

					BASSO
			Have you tried new emerging anti-biotics?

					DR. BEIN
			In vitro testing of haemolyticum isolated 
			from human infections shows susceptibility to
			erythromycin, gentamicin, clindamycin, and 
			ephalosporins. Reports of treatment failure 
			with penicillin in spite of low minimum 
			inhibitory concentrations have been attributed 
			to tolerance and to failure to penetrate the 
			intracellular location of the pathogen. 
			Erythromycin has been proposed as the drug 
			of choice, with parenteral antimicrobial 
			drugs used for serious infections. The 
			general similarity of the susceptibility 
			pattern of haemolyticum to more commonly 
			encountered pharyngeal pathogens, including
			pyogenes, makes culture and accurate
			diagnosis essential if cases are to be
			recognized for their true etiology. Its
			participation in polymicrobic infections
			requires that haemolyticum be specifically
			sought in appropriate specimens to obtain
			accurate diagnosis and to allow epidemiologic
			analysis.

					SCOTT
			Well I was only able to follow part of what
			you were saying, because I'm not a medical
			doctor. But what I was able to glean is 
			that the Aryan compound is out of luck.

					DR. BEIN
			Before we came here I looked at one of the
			infected ones at the hospital. It's a form
			of hemorrhagic fever. We had a village in
			Zaire where one native ate a monkey who
			was infected and within a week, everyone
			was dead, and I mean everyone.
									
					SCOTT
			You see we're not here to cure them, were 
			here to contain them, it's too late.

					BASSO	
			Oh my god.

					SCOTT
			What ever you do don't tell Smith what
			you are really here for or he will shoot
			us all!

					SMITH
			Some one mention my name?
				(smith is seen walking in the door)
						
					BEIN
			You better sit down. This report in my
			hand is the hospital report. And I'm 
			afraid we're not going to be able to 
			save your people

					SMITH
			It was those goddamn aliens that did
			this to us! And was the FBI who brought 
			them in here! If they are all shit canned
			agents Scott and Basso, you will never
			leave the compound.

					DR. BEIN
			What aliens?

					BASSO
			We think it was a spore or virus found 
			on a planet that exploded near the outer 
			edge of this galaxy and carried for 
			millions of years on the asteroid that
			fell into the compound.

					SMITH
			Yeah it was those damn aliens?

					DR. BEIN
			I don't understand?

					SMITH
			You know, UFO's!

					SCOTT
			We were visited by members of an 
			alien species who came here to 
			clean it up. They said they were 
			able to get all of it but I guess 
			they must have missed some.

					DR. BEIN
			You have to be kidding me?

					BASSO
			They were here.
		
					SMITH
			I didn't want them aliens here but
			the FBI convinced me that I should
			or the toxic spore will kill
			everyone! So what could I do, and 
			look now, we'll all die Anyway!


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	EXT.	F.B.I. HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON D.C.    DAY     

	INT.	F.B.I. SPECIAL UNIT -  OFFICE                   

	Agent's SCOTT and BASSO are reviewing a report from      
	the Agent in Charge of the BOISE IDAHO office, 
	covering the deaths of over four-hundred people
	living in the Aryan Brothers Compound in
	Hayden Lake, IDAHO.         			

					SCOTT
				(studying the report)
			Looks like the curse of CHIEF JOSEPH
			over the Nez Perce massacre.
				(hands the report to Basso)
			The white folks in those days,       
			weren't very nice to the Indians.
			and now it's pay back time!

					BASSO
			Talk about a vivid imagination, one has
			nothing to do with the other?

					SCOTT
			Dr. Bein called me last night to notify 
			us that the entire compound has been 
			incinerated, to completely burn out the 
			virus spore or whatever that was. 
			He also wanted us to know that there 
			were no survivors.

					BASSO
			I think it's Gods pay pack for all 
			those beautiful Native Americans 
			that were destroyed by their
			forefathers. Remember, the Lord
			say'th vengeance is mine!

					SCOTT
			I don't know, sometimes it's hard
			to hate the skinheads for doing what 
			they do, because I think it was the
			way they were raised. If a child is
			raised with hate and prejudice, then
			that's they way they will grow up.

					BASSO
				(very sad)
			So what do you suppose happened.
			I think the Aliens missed part 
			of the spore.
	
					SCOTT
			The legend states three years
			before the Millennium, white
			people will start to disappear
			in the nation of the Nez Perce
			and you know what, they did, over
			four hundred of them.
			
					BASSO	
				(Somber)
			Maybe you have something Brian, 
			how did that curse go, let's see,
			The legend says "The white man 
			will loose many men, women and 
			children until the total equals 
			what the Nez Perce nation lost
			during the Massacre."

					SCOTT
			I don't think this is the end of it!

					BASSO
			You know, I don't either!

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