THE BLACK HOUSE - PAGE 5 & 6




• EXT. MUTANABBI STREET ROOFTOP - NIGHT
  
• Near the roof’s edge, three stories up. MISTER JORDAN (35), a big, fit guy, as should be a former Navy SEAL. In solid black special forces gear, no insignias or rank markings. He looks through high tech binoculars at a building across a wide street. Below is the bookselling bazaar district. Outside the green zone.
  
  SUPER: MUTANABBI STREET
  BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  
• Behind him, shifting around impatiently, is LAURIANO, an 17-year-old cholo in Dodgers’ blue who couldn’t be much more out of place.
  
• LAURIANO
  
• You don’t got any Scooby snacks?
  
• Mister Jordan reaches into a flap pocket and pulls out a pack of cookies and flings it over his shoulder. Lauriano catches it and starts snacking
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• Now shut up.
  
• Jordan’s headset BEEPS.
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• Jordan, go ahead.
  
• MARYA (HEADSET)
  
• Confirmation on Al-Haque. Well, sort of.
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• What’s sort of?
  
• MARYA (HEADSET)
  
• Just-- You don’t want to know. And I don’t want to say it. Mission is green. Fox out.
  
• Lauriano adjust his radio earpiece.
  
• LAURIANO
  
• I hear dat.
  
• Lauriano takes off his shirt, then MORPHS INTO A WEREWOLF. He’s the same size and general shape he was before, but has fur, sharp teeth, a snout and, most importantly for this, haunches.
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• If the Old Man is supplying Al-Haque like the intel says, then there’s no telling what heebie jeebie junk he’s got in there. Immobilize him out of the gate.
  
• Lauriano SNARLS in reply, then runs and leaps off the roof’s edge, clears the street and lands on the other roof.
  
• MISTER JORDAN’S POV - BINOCULARS
  
• Old Man’s rooftop. Lauriano lands and proceeds to a large vent.
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• And I don’t give a rat’s ass if your great granddad was the chupacabra. You do what I tell you. Do not kill. Yet.
  
• Lauriano looks back at Jordan across the street, acknowledging the order. He MORPHS INTO A COMMON WOLF and jumps down a vent. Image changes to THERMAL. Jordan moves his view down to a top floor window. Visible are Lauriano’s HEAT SIGNATURE moving down the vent and the Old Man’s, in the top floor window.
  
• RESUME SCENE
  
• Mister Jordan watching. Calm, then dismayed, Lowers the binocs, trying to get a look with his naked eye.
  
• MISTER JORDAN
  
• Sonuvabitch.
  
• Pun intended.