Nokosee and Stormy: Love & Bullets a book and Native American Screenplay

2009-08-17T16:09:00.001-07:00

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These are the first 8-pages of the sequel to Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminoles. You can read the scene depicting the shooting down of a Predator drone over the Everglades here.

EXT. COLLEGE CAMPUS-- NIGHT
A breeze drops leaves from trees in the lonely quadrangle. They blow toward the campus Rathskeller. LAUGHTER RISES.

INT. RATHSKELLER-- NIGHT
STORMY, wearing a plaid mini skirt and her Doc Martens, is sitting at a crowded bar with EDDIE, her boyfriend before she met Nokosee. She's nursing a draft. He's playing beer pong with some frat boys at a table behind Stormy. He yells, she turns to look.

FRAT BOY is yelling and prancing with both hands held high. Eddie is pointing across the table.

EDDIE

Drink it, loser!

LOSER picks up the plastic cup with the ping pong ball and hoists it to his mouth. He drinks it down in one gulp and slams the cup down on the table.

Stormy is nonplussed and turns back to the bar.

FRAT BOY grabs Eddie in a drunken headlock. They stumble into Stormy. She spills beer on herself.

STORMY

Goddamit, Eddie!

EDDIE

Hey, c'mon, Stormy, get with the program.

STORMY

Screw you.

EDDIE

You wish.

Stormy gives him the finger, grabs her full face crash helmet and walks away.

Eddie lunges after her and grabs her wrist.

Stormy spins around, drops her crash helmet, gets loose, latches onto his hand with both of hers and gracefully takes Eddie down to the floor.

Frat Boy is impressed.

FRAT BOY

Whoe, dude, she just whipped your ass.

Eddie tries to get up but Stormy applies some kinda kung fu pressure thing on his wrist and he cries out and falls back to the floor.

EDDIE

Let me go, bitch, or I'll--

STORMY

(squeezing)

You'll what?

Eddie cries out again and starts slapping the floor.

STORMY (CONT'D)

I didn't think so.

She throws his arm aside and he rolls over onto his back.

She steps up and looks down at him.

STORMY (CONT'D)

I don't know what I ever saw in you.

She turns, looks for her helmet and starts to walk away.

Eddie makes a move to stop her.

Stormy whips around and

Slams him hard aside the head with her crash helmet.

Eddie goes flying into

The bar and crumples in a heap.

Stormy looks at the others.

They are speechless, frozen in mid-brewski hoisting.

Stormy.

STORMY (CONT'D)

You all make me sick.

She turns, pushes through the parting crowd, and walks toward the door.

EXT. RATHSKELLER-- NIGHT
Stormy is strapping on her crash helmet as she walks out of the building. She walks over to her H-D Sportster, throws a leg over it, starts it up and drives away.

FADE OUT.
FADE TO:

EXT. STORMY'S HOME-- NIGHT
Stormy drives up the driveway and parks her bike in front of the old wooden garage in the back of the house.

INT. STORMY'S KITCHEN-- NIGHT

Stormy enters the house through the kitchen. She puts the crash helmet down on the kitchen table.

LISA (O.S.)

That you, Stormy?

STORMY

Yes, mom.

INT. STORMY'S HOME (LIVING ROOM)-- NIGHT

Lisa is watching TV with her boyfriend.

LISA

You're home early.

Stormy walks into the living room and up the stairs.

STORMY

Yeah.

LISA

Can't you say hi to Larry?

STORMY

No.

Larry shrugs and Lisa rolls her eyes.

INT. STORMY'S BEDROOM-- NIGHT
Stormy opens the door to her bedroom and closes it behind her. She goes to her bureau and opens a drawer. She digs through some clothes and removes something. She turns and exits the bedroom.

INT. STORMY'S BATHROOM-- NIGHT
Stormy opens the door to the bathroom, enters and locks the door behind her. She drops her jeans and underwear and sits on the toilet. As she pees, she fiddles with something below frame.

She brings up a pregnancy tester, looks at it-- stares at it. Tears well up in her eyes and roll down her cheeks. She wipes them away and gets up.

Stormy looks in the mirror and brushes her short blonde hair back. She has to catch her breath and bends toward the sink. She's breathing hard and trying not to cry when she looks back up at the mirror but it doesn't stop the stampede of tears.

She picks up a pair of scissors off the glass shelf below the mirror, pauses for a moment, and then starts cutting her hair. Huge chunks start falling away.

The hair falls around her Doc Martens.

INT. STORMY'S BEDROOM-- NIGHT
Stormy rifles through another drawer and comes up with a wad of cash.

She rams it into her Harley jacket, grabs a duffle bag of clothes and exits the bedroom, slamming the door behind her.

INT. STORMY'S LIVING ROOM-- NIGHT
Lisa turns to the SOUND of Stormy bounding down the steps.

LISA

Stormy!

Stormy doesn't stop. For the first time we see she's wearing a ragged Mohawk.

Lisa pushes away from Larry and gets up.

LISA (CONT'D)

Stormy, where are you going?

INT. STORMY'S HOME (KITCHEN)-- NIGHT
Stormy grabs her crash helmet.

STORMY

I'm outta here, mom. I'll send you a post card.

Stormy opens the door and exits just as Lisa rushes in.

LISA

Stormy, you made a promise to your father and me!

EXT. STORMY'S HOME-- NIGHT
Stormy, duffle bag across her back, throws her leg over the Harley and starts it up as Lisa throws the door open and rushes outside.

LISA

You're supposed to go to college!

Stormy squeals out in a circle and roars past her mother down the driveway. Lisa runs after her.

LISA (CONT'D)

Stormy, don't go back there! You'll only get yourself into more trouble!

Stormy pauses before entering the street and looks back.

Lisa is running down the driveway.

LISA (CONT'D)

Stormy, don't do it!

Stormy, hidden behind the tinted black visor, turns and roars off.

Lisa runs out into the street.

LISA (CONT'D)

Stormy!

Stormy turns a corner under a streetlight and disappears.

Lisa stops short.

LISA (CONT'D)

Stormy!

FADE OUT.
FADE TO:

EXT. AERIAL ON HIGHWAY- DAY
Stormy is passing cars, hellbent for leather.

CREDITS/MUSIC RISE.
Please click to hear Mink DeVille's She's a Mixed-up, Shook-up Girl.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. AERIAL ON MOUNTAIN ROAD-- DAY

Stormy is rolling into winding mountain roads.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. HIGHWAY- DAY
Stormy, now head-on, is looking more and more like she's channeling Marlon Brando.

She roars past a sign welcoming her to Florida.

She unstraps her helmet and throws it away.

The helmet rolls down the embankment.

Stormy faces the wind and as she struggles to keep her eyes open, a smile grows on her face. She twists the throttle and

EXT. AERIAL HIGHWAY- DAY
Roars down the road.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. STRIP MALL-- DAY
Stormy turns into the parking lot of a Calle Ocho strip mall in Miami.

She drives up and parks in front of a tattoo shop with signs in English and Spanish in its windows. She gets off her bike and enters.

INT. TATTOO SHOP-- DAY
A heavily tattooed CUBAN MAN with a Holocaust haircut greets her like an old friend. Stormy opens her H-D purse and slaps down a crumpled drawing on the counter. The man picks it up and looks at it before turning to her with an, "are you sure?" look. She nods, grabs his arm and leads him around the counter to a back room.

Cuban Man draws a razor through the shaving cream across her temple, cutting away the last ragged stubble.

He starts tattooing her temple.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN ON:

EXT. SEMINOLE RESORT-- DAY
Stormy rides into frame and stops. Curved spears sporting eagle feathers arc across the sides of her shaved skull. Her blond Mohawk is now standing upright. Red tips have been added.

She gets off her bike. It's parked next to Osceola's Spear, JT's custom chopper. She looks around.

Tourists are staring at her. Someone takes her picture.

She gives them her best Billy Idol sneer and turns away.

The remote TV trucks are still littering the resort's parking lot.

She turns away and

Gets off her bike. She walks over to Osceola's Spear, kneels next to it, and pulls something out of her

motorcycle jacket. She opens it up.>

It's a tool kit.

She looks under the gas tank and runs her hands down the bike's backbone. She pulls out some wires attached to a chrome box,

Looks around

And snips them with wire cutters.

EXT. SEMINOLE RESORT-- DAY
TV REPORTER is in the middle of a live report.

TV REPORTER

The summer fires are finally coming under control thanks to--

Stormy, riding Osceola's Spear, drives into the middle of a live remote broadcast. The TV REPORTER has to jump out of the way. She grabs his mike and turns to the camera.

STORMY

Hi, remember me? Just thought I'd let you know Stormy Jones is back

in town and I just stole JT Osceola's bad ass bike.

A heavyset SECURITY GUARD is pushing people aside and rushing toward camera.

Stormy guns the chopper and roars away. She turns back and yells.

STORMY (CONT'D)

Tell Nokosee to keep an eye out for me!

The security guard stops short as the TV reporter and the TV cameraman, still shooting, join him.

EXT. BUSIMMANOLOTOME'S CHICKEE-- DAY
A TV screen shows Stormy driving away.

NOKOSEE, wearing only a loincloth, is watching TV inside the family chickee. He turns to the side.

NOKOSEE

Dad, she's got Osceola's Spear!

CREDITS/MUSIC END.

To read the beginning of Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole script, please click here. To read the last few pages of that script, please click here. To discover the book, please click here. To read the FBI's blog re Nokosee and Stormy, please click here. To read Stormy's blog taunting the FBI, please click here.

Nokosee & Stormy

Nokosee and Stormy: Love & Bullets a book and Native American Screenplay