[Movie Script]Hostage

Hostage

by
Robert Crais
based on his novel
March 29, 2002
FADE IN:



EXT. A HYPERBLUE LOS ANGELES SKY -- DAY



The sky is overlaid with the slow whup-whup-whup of an LAPD

helicopter flashing through the frame, here and gone.
LAPD radio transmissions crackle like static electricity

around a dirty clapboard bungalow that looks like the

puckered asshole of Eagle Rock.
A man's terrified voice screams invisibly from the house --
                     MALIK'S VOICE


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