Shawn Coynes Excel Story Grid Spreadsheet for the Silence of the Lambs

SCENE WORD COUNT

STORY EVENT

1

1690

FBI trainee Clarice Starling is summoned by FBI Section Chief Jack Crawford and recruited for "an Interesting errand."

2

1821

After his clumsy advances are rebuffed, Dr. Frederick Chilton torments Starling as he ushers her underground to meet Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

3

2923

Starling meets Lecter, who is amused by her but contemptuous until she proves her mettle, then he gives her a valentine.

4

1003

Starling seizes the opportunity to dig deeper into the Lecter case, but is rebuffed by Crawford when she offers to help. (speech in praise of the villain Lecter inside of the Raspail case file)

5

525

Crawford tends his comatose and dying wife and then reassures himself that he is not dying in fact he is well.

6

1637

In a note, Crawford praises Starling's Lecter report and rewards her with clearance to follow up on the Raspail car clue from Lecter but she fails to track down the whereabouts of the car. (Obligatory Investigation and red herring scene)

7

682

Crawford tells Starling about Miggs' death and then schools her with the "ass u me" deconstruction, gives her the opportunity to follow the Raspail clue further.

8

70

Letter poem, sorry about Bella, Jack

9

3620

Starling and Yow go to storage unit Starling finds Lecter's "valentines" and the head in the jar

10

662

11

1505

Starling goes to see Lecter after securing the mini storage area by calling for backup. "why don't you ask me about Buffalo Bill?" Lecter admits to killing Raspail and eating his sweetbreads Lecter asks for a view and says he'll help with BB if Crawford agrees to give it to him. Buffalo Bill has a two story house

12

1758

Starling in school, pulled out, given a gun and told to meet Crawford at a Quantico airstrip. She's going to help fingerprint BB's latest "floater"

News team monitoring police channel shows up before cops after Starling calls in the head in the jar While Starling prevents them from getting inside Her aggression doing so is filmed and she becomes the "story"

Crawford gives her the BB case file to read on the plane

13

2165

Starling reads the BB file, killed at least 5 in last 10 months, skinned post mortem dumps them in River…lots of exposition Crawford goes over where they are headed

14

3776

Potter West Virginia fingerprinting

15

1160

Crawford and Starling talk about the case, Starling is dropped at Smithsonian to get information about bug cocoon. Before she leaves Crawford explains why he disrespected her at Potter WV proving that he cares about her feelings

16

2287

Starling gets information about bug cocoon

17

999

Catherine Baker Martin is Abducted

18

330

Procedures for Senate Member Family abduction authorial exposition

19

344

20

2576

Starling learns of Abduction Left out of Memphis trip Called back in after a day cooling her jets in class at Quantico

21

1121

Starling hears from Crawford that Buffalo Bill killed Klaus (bug in his throat too) and not Raspail, like Lecter said…Starling has to talk to Lecter again

22

1440

Crawford explains that Lecter must know who Buffalo Bill is and that he's playing a very long game

Crawford gets call from FBI Director and they talk about what to do next, Senator sends a lear jet to pick up Crawford and take him to Memphis

23

934

Jame Gumb singing in shower tucking penis and testicles behind legs

24

770

Starling meets with Chilton again before gaining entry to Lecter

25

2654

Starling interviews Lecter

26

1202

Catherine Martin in the hole washing

27

707

Starling calls Crawford outside the Maximum Security after her Lecter Meeting

28

2609

Another Lecter/Starling Interview Faustian bargain soul for worldly gain

29

1264

Lecter gets cell cleaned Remembers Raspail's story About Jame Gumb

30

1231

Chilton confronts Lecter in his cell, threatens him, then facilitates his escape

31

1594

Crawford tries to get transsexual info from Johns Hopkins gives doctor and hour then finds out about Chilton's ploy and Lecter's departure for Tennessee Tells Director to let them go TURNING POINT Crawford knows that someone will die at Lector's hand

if he'd taken out of Baltimore. Let's them go because he needs Lecter to solve case

32

481

Lecter put on the plane to Tennessee

33

556

Starling gets news from Crawford about Chilton's screw up at Howard Johnson's She sews the frayed part of her blazer. She won't have a problem getting to her gun like her father had

34

3033

Crawford picks up Starling

35

1695

Senator Martin interviews Lecter in Tennessee

36

1126

Jame Gumb Considers his moths in his basement black room with night vision goggles

37

4085

Starling goes to Catherine Martin's house to find out about her not letting rage and frustration keep you from thinking…

38

3014

Starling meets with Lecter at old courthouse

39

2319

Lecter escapes

40

2603

Lecter Escapes II

41

335

42

1821

Crawford explains to Starling and the reader how Lecter did it Starling is in deep trouble she'll be recycled if she doesn't stop working the case

43

1284

Pilcher explains the significance of the moth…skull on its wings named for two rivers in Hell customs forms could help her find the importer. Very rare

44

1567

Catherine strategizing how to kill him she gets the dog close to falling down the well but is unsuccessful

Lecter escapes to Airport in Ambulance

45

579

Crawford learns that Lecter was bullshitting about "Billy Rubin"

46

531

Lecter in St. Louis, Marcus Hotel

47

561

Starling comes back and gets help from Ardelia

48

485

Bella Dies she leans forward then dies Starling is now the closest relationship Crawford has to a sympathetic human being

49

2361

Preparations for the hide harvest. Gumb's mom on video first

50

2761

51

473

52

1499

53

771

Starling gets permission from Bimmel father to look at Fredrica's room

54

853

Crawford hears from Johns Hopkins and gets name of killer, Jame Gumb

Starling wakes in the middle of the night anger pushes down the fear

Starling asks Crawford to go to Ohio

The procedures to killing Gumb's victims Martin has taken Precious off stage

55

2288

Starling figures out that Buffalo Bill sews

56

1784

Phone call tells Starling FBI is on the case the killer is in Calumet City

57

1628

Starling interviews Hubka who gives her "Mrs. Lippman's" family address

58

508

59

4000

HOSTAGE RESCUE team in air ready to bust down door

Starling kills Gumb

60

774

61

1011

Starling checks in with Crawford watch news

62

1172

The ugly truth about Gumb Frederica was his friend even writing him a nice note from the pit

Starling comes home a hero but has to take exams

63

361

Starling plans to go away with Pilcher

64

921

Lecter at the Marcus Hotel changing his appearance by himself writing letters

96299

TURNING POINT

VALUE SHIFT

POLARITY SHIFT

POINT OF VIEW

Ignored to Chosen

-/+

Action Crawford gives Starling a job

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Chosen for Merit to Used as Bait

+/-

Revelation The reality of FBI life vs. Fantasy, and Lecter's ferocity

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Unwanted to Welcomed

-/+

Revelation Lecter knows Starling better than she knows herself How will he use that knowledge?

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Encouraged to Discouraged

+/-

Action Crawford says "no."

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Death to Life

-/+

Revelation Crawford lives in death

Omniscient Jack Crawford

Success to Failure

+/-

Revelation car was destroyed

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Discouraged to Encouraged

-/+

Action Crawford gives new assignment

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling

dismissive to concerned

+/-

Revelation Lecter knows about Bella but not from Starling

Omniscient Jack Crawford

Progress to Breakthrough

+/++

Revelation Head in Jar

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Stymied to Victorious

+/-

Action Starling stops Media

Omniscient

confident to confused

-/+

Action Gets Lecter to Talk

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

humiliated to proud

-/+

Action Starling gets Called up to the Majors

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts

in Italics

Glamour to Grotesquery

+/-

Revelation The Killer File

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Clueless to Evidence

-/+

Revelation moth in mouth

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Respect to Intimacy

+/++

Action Crawford tells Starling why he disrespected her

Omniscient Clarice Starling NO THOUGHTS IN ITALICS

Capable to Incisive

++/+++

Revelation cocoon was home grown, not indigenous to U.S.

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling her thoughts in italics

Progress to failure

+++/---

Revelation Omniscient the woman's mother Catherine Baker Martin is U.S. Senator

Omniscient Reportage

Contained to Unbounded

---/----

Revelation Six/Seven Days before she's dead

Omniscient Jack Crawford

Outside to Inside

-/+

Action Crawford calls Starling back onto the case

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Being Useful to Being used

+/-

Revelation There was a cocoon in Klaus's throat too

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

A tool to a Colleague

-/+

Action Crawford sends Starling back to talk to Lecter again

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

Life to death

+/-

Revelation The killer's state of mind

Omniscient Reportage

Imposing to Controlling

-/+

Action Starling humiliates Chilton to get what she wants

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts in Italics

in control to vulnerable

+/-

Action Quid Pro Quo

Omniscient Clarice Starling NO THOUGHTS IN ITALICS

Revelation He wants a vest with tits on it.

captive to prey

-/--

Revelation fingernail from another woman in the hole

Omniscient Catherine Martin

Player to Tool

+/-

Action Starling confronts Crawford about being used

Omniscient Intracranial Clarice Starling Her thoughts

in Italics

vulnerable to powerful

-/+

Revelation BB was turned down for sex change

Omniscient Clarice Starling

a break to a breakthrough

+/++

Revelation Identity of Jame Gumb and relationship to Raspail

Omniscient Intracranial Lecter His thoughts in Italics

Action Lecter's routine changed Closed to Open

++/--

Action Chilton switches the deal Lecter will be sent to Tennessee

Omniscient Intracranial Lecter His thoughts in Italics

failure to win to setback

-/+/-

Action Crawford tells FBI to let Lecter go the TN.

Omniscient Crawford Point of View His Thoughts in Italics

to solve case

contained to unleashed

+/-

Action Barney taken off Lecter detail

Omniscient Reportage

outside to inside

-/+

Action Starling fixes coat

Omniscient Starling Point of View Her Thoughts in Italics

protégé to pro

+/++

Action Starling gets Lecter's stuff from his cell

Omniscient Crawford Point of View

Cold to Hot

-/+

Revelation BB is Billy Rubin

Omniscient Senator Martin Point of View Thoughts in Italics

contemplative to active Gumb will kill the next day

+/-

Revelation Harvest in 24 to 48 hours

Omniscient Jame Gumb Point of View

wanted to unwanted

+/-

Revelation Catherine had acid and dirty pictures

Omniscient Starling Point of View Thoughts in Italics

Action Starling told to go back to DC

Out to back in

-/+

Revelation He covets

Omniscient Starling Point of View

imprisoned to free

+/-

Revelation metal in mouth

Omniscient Lecter

imprisoned/free

-/--

Revelation Pembry's alive

Omniscient Sergeant Tate

free/freer

--/---

Action Ambulance goes to Airport

Omniscient Attendant POV

safety/risk

+/-

Revelation If Starling keeps working the case she'll be recycled

Omniscient Starling Point of View Her thoughts in Italics

good even better

+/++

Revelation Moth is very rare someone raised it

Omniscient Starling Point of View

capture release

+/-

Action Precious doesn't fall into hole

Omniscient Catherine Martin Point of View Thoughts in Italics

bad to worse

-/--

Revelation Lecter leaves message that Billy Rubin is dead end

Omniscient Crawford Point of View

bad to worse

--/---

Revelation Lecter took car not plane

Omniscient Lecter Point of View

Bad to it's going to be okay

-/+

Revelation Starling will beat the hearing

Omniscient Starling Point of View

hope then death

+/-

Action Bella dies

Omniscient Crawford Point of View

bad to worse

-/--

Revelation Gumb is an expert tailor

Omniscient Gumb Point of View

ignorant to knowing

-/+

Action Starling reviews the case file, can't help herself

Omniscient Starling Point of View her thoughts in italics

knowing to acting

+/++

Action Crawford gives Starling all of his money

Omniscient Crawford Point of View

death to life

--/++

Action Martin kidnaps precious

Omniscient Gumb Point of View

hope to encouragement

+/++

Action Bilmmel's father agrees to show Starling room

Omniscient Starling Point of View Her thoughts in Italics

hopeless to hope

---/+++

Revelation Doctor tells

Omniscient Crawford

Crawford about Jame Gumb

Point of View thoughts in ital.

unknown to known

-/++

Revelation BB can sew

Omniscient Starling Point of View thoughts in ital.

In the game to out of the game

+/-

Revelation FBI has Gumb in its sites

Omniscient Starling Point of View thoughts in ital.

stagnant to moving forward

-/+

Revelation Frederica sewed a lot for Mrs.

Omniscient Starling Point of View

Lippman

thoughts in ital.

close to very close

+/++

Action FBI about to knock down door

Omniscient Team Commander Joel Randall POV

death to life

+/++++

Revelation moths goat smell

Omniscient Gumb Point of View thoughts switches to Starling Point of View thoughts after the moth giveaway on the back of his robe then back to Gumb point of view after Starling smells the goat the smell of the schizophrenic from

the cell next to Lecter Back to Starling after the gunshots hero to regular FBI agent

+++/++

Revelation washing machine like a great maternal heartbeat

Omniscient Mapp's Point of View

protégé to pro

+/++

Revelation Lecter is long gone

Omniscient Crawford Point of View

sadness to exploitation

-/--

Revelation Lecter knew it was Gumb from the start. He used the FBI to get his freedom

Omniscient

duty to fun

-/+

Revelation Starling going away with Pilcher

Omniscient

duty to fun

+/-

Revelation Lecter will kill Chilton and will watch Clarice

Omniscient Lecter Point of View

PERIOD/TIME

DURATION

LOCATION

Thursday Morning 6-Feb

Fifteen Minutes

Bottom Floor, half buried in earth FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia In suite of offices

Friday 11:30 a.m. 7-Feb

Fifteen Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Friday 11:45 a.m. 7-Feb "Valentine's Day is only a week away"

Thirty Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Friday Afternoon into Late Evening 7-Feb

Twelve Hours

Outside Hospital Back to Quantico

Friday Evening 7-Feb

Five Minutes

Crawford Home Arlington, Virginia

Monday Morning 10-Feb to Wednesday 12-Feb 1600 Hours

Two and a Half Days

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia

Wednesday 12-Feb 1600 Hours

15 Minutes

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia

(2 days since she spoke)

Wednesday 12-Feb 1615 Hours

1 Minute

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia

Saturday 15-Feb Evening, Dark

Three Hours

Baltimore Split City Mini-Storage (Baltimore City split from Baltimore County in 1851)

Saturday 15-Feb Evening, Dark

Twenty Minutes

Mini Storage Unit

Saturday 15-Feb Later that Evening

Thirty Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Monday 17-Feb Morning

One Hour

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia to

Airborne on Blue Canoe

Monday 17-Feb Morning

forty five minutes

Airborne to Potter West Virginia

Monday 17-Feb early afternoon

Three Hours

Potter Funeral Home

Monday 17-Feb Evening

Twenty Minutes

Car ride to FBI headquarters

Monday 17-Feb Evening to Early Morning Tuesday 18-Feb

Four Hours

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Early Morning Tuesday 18-Feb

Fifteen Minutes

East Memphis Tennessee Stonehinge Villas

2:45 A.M. Tuesday 18-Feb to 6:30 A.M.

Four Hours

Memphis FBI Washington D.C.

6:30 A.M. Tuesday 18-Feb

Three minutes

Crawford's Car at a rest stop Arlington, VA

7:50 A.M. Tuesday 18-Feb

Twelve Hours

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia to Smithsonian

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening

One Hour

Smithsonian

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening

Thirty Seven Minutes (37 miles to hospital from Smithsonian)

Surveillance Van to Baltimore State Hospital

for the Criminally Insane

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening

Twenty Five Minutes

Jame Gumb House

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening 10:00 p.m.

Ten Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening

Forty Five Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Tuesday 18-Feb Evening

Twenty Minutes

Jame Gumb House Basement

Wednesday 19-Feb 2:00 A.M.

Five Minutes

Orderlies' Lounge Baltimore State

Hospital for the Criminally Insane Wednesday 19-Feb Early A.M.

Forty Five Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Wednesday 19-Feb Daybreak

Fifteen Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Wednesday 19-Feb Daybreak

Fifteen Minutes

Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

Thirty Minutes

Gender Identity Clinic Johns Hopkins Office

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

Fifteen Minutes

Tarmac in Baltimore

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

Ten Minutes

Bad Motel Near Hospital for the Criminally Insane Bedroom

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

Ten Minutes

Walking outside Hospital

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

One Hour

Memphis Air National Guard hangar Briefing Room (office)

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

Fifteen Minutes

Jame Gumb House basement

Wednesday 19-Feb Morning

One Hour

Stonehinge Villas East Memphis Catherine's bedroom

Wednesday 19-Feb Afternoon

One Hour

Old Memphis Courthouse Top Floor

Wednesday 19-Feb 6:00 P.M.

One Hour

Old Memphis Courthouse top floor

Wednesday 19-Feb 6:30 P.M.

One Hour

Old Memphis Courthouse top floor to Bottom

Wednesday 19-Feb 7:00 P.M.

15 Minutes

Ambulance

Wednesday 19-Feb 7:00 P.M.

One Hour

Crawford's House Arlington, VA Study

Wednesday 19-Feb 8:30 P.M.

One Hour

Smithsonian Insect Zoo

Wednesday 19-Feb 9:30 P.M.

Fifteen Minutes

Jame Gumb's House in the well

Thursday 20-Feb 12:30 A.M.

Ten Minutes

Crawford's House Arlington, VA Study

Thursday 20-Feb 12:00 A.M.

Three Hours

Marcus Hotel St. Louis Bedroom

Thursday 20-Feb 1:00 A.M.

Thirty Minutes

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia Bedroom

Thursday 20-Feb 3:00 A.M.

Ten Minutes

Crawford's House Arlington, VA bed

Thursday 20-Feb 3:00 A.M.

One Hour

Gumb's House bed

Thursday 20-Feb 5:00 A.M.

One Hour

FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia Starling's bed to laundry room

Thursday 20-Feb 8:00 A.M.

Fifteen Minutes

Steps of an Arlington Funeral Home

Thursday 20-Feb 9:00 A.M.

Fifteen Minutes

Gumb House

Thursday 20-Feb 12:00 P.M.

Fifteen Minutes

Belvedere Bimmel House Outside in the yard

Thursday 20-Feb

Ten Minutes

Crawford's FBI Headquarter

12:00 P.M.

Office

Thursday 20-Feb 12:30 P.M.

Fifteen Minutes

Belvedere Bimmel House Frederica bedroom

Thursday 20-Feb 12:45 P.M.

Ten Minutes

Belvedere Bimmel House phone call in entryway

Thursday 20-Feb 1:00 P.M.

Ten Minutes

Franklin Insurance Agency Belvedere, OH

Thursday 20-Feb 1:00 P.M.

Ten Minutes

In the Air 24 Passenger Jet over Chicago

Thursday 20-Feb 4:00 P.M.

Thirty Minutes

Jame Gumb House Belvedere Ohio

Friday 21-Feb 12:05 A.M.

Six Hours

Washington National to Van to Quantico

Friday 21-Feb 6:00 A.M.

Twenty Minutes

Crawford's FBI Headquarter Office

Days/weeks later

Days/weeks later

indeterminate

Days/weeks later

Days/weeks later

The Old DC-6

Days/weeks later

Days/weeks later

Marcus Hotel

ON STAGE CHARACTERS

NUMBER

OFF STAGE CHARACTERS

FBI Trainee Clarice Starling

2

"people who do not ask for favors" "Berry's stuff" "my father was a marshal" "thirty-two known serial murderers" Serial Killer Psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter Serial Killer "Buffalo Bill" Dr. Chilton Prince Andrew Will Graham Red Dragon Francis Dolarhyde Picasso Nurse "The Director"

58 year old Dr. Frederick Chilton Clarice Starling Alan (orderly outside Chilton's office) Barney (subterranean Orderly) A voice (Miggs)

5

"a lot of detectives" Dr. Lecter Special Agent Jack Crawford Office girls Nurse Lecter mangled doctors Aldo Ray

Clarice Starling, trainee Hannibal Lecter Barney Miggs

4

Jack Crawford Frederick Chilton, Ph.D. Alan Reporter Will Graham Buffalo Bill Benjamin Raspail Five women BB has used "your mother" West Virginia Starlings or Okie Starlings?

Section Chief of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Dept. Jack Crawford 2

census taker Clarice Starling Jack Crawford Ardelia Mapp

3

Lecter Raspail President of Balt. Philharmonic Conductor of Balt. Philharmonic Raspail's Family Other Lecter victim families Everett Yow Miggs

53 year old Jack Crawford Bella

2

day nurse

Clarice Starling John Brigham, firearms instructor Lomax Bardwell A foreman at Sipper Salvage Ardelia Mapp Dr. Chilton's Secretary

6

Jack Crawford The Director Raspail Personnel at the Baltimore County Courthouse A Friendly Clerk Buddy Sipper Lecter Dr. Chilton The Coroner The District Attorney

Jack Crawford Clarice Starling

2

Miggs Lecter Chilton Overnight Orderly Raspail Everett Yow

Jack Crawford

1

Hannibal Lecter

Clarice Starling Everett Yow

2

Raspail Bernard Gary Miggs Starling's Father Starling's Brother

Jonetta Johnson Clarice Starling Everett Yow Assistant Cameraman, Harry Cameraman

5

Authorities WEYE Mobile unit

Clarice Starling Hannibal Lecter

2

Buffalo Bill Miggs Raspail Klaus (R's Lover) Jack Crawford

Clarice Starling Brigham, gunnery sergeant

2

Jonetta Johnston Hannibal Lecter National Tattler Melvin Purvis

y in 1851)

Ardelia Mapp Jack Crawford Buffalo Bill Marine Jimmy Price Bella Gramm and Rudman Clarice Starling Jack Crawford

2

Will Graham (Crawford's last protégé) Jimmy Price Buffalo Bill The Bimmel Girl from Belvedere Ohio The next one he grabbed The one after has never been identified The Varner woman The Kittridge girl from Pittsburgh

Clarice Starling Jack Crawford Sheriff's Deputy Dr. Akin two young, one old deputy two state troopers Chief Deputy deputy Sheriffs and troopers Oscar "Jess"

10

Someone from DA's office Sheriff Perkins Mrs. Perkins field services commander from Charleston Some officers from CIS "Claxton" Buffalo Bill mountain midwife "her" "her folks" granny women, wise women, herb healers Dr. Lecter Lamar "the girl from Akron" Billy Petrie Jabbo Franklin Bubba Franklin

Duke Keomuka Satellite Monroe game warden Dorothy FBI switchboard wire room across Country Major wire rooms in the east 3 officers from WVA CSI Jeff (Crawford Driver) Jack Crawford Clarice Starling

3

Lecter Buffalo bill Mengel case Jane Doe J. Edgar Hoover

Guard at Smithsonian Clarice Starling Noble Pilcher Albert Roden Ardelia Mapp

5

Jack Crawford Smithsonian chairman Buffalo Bill The Black Witch Moth

Catherine Baker Martin Her Best Boyfriend Buffalo Bill/Jame Gumb

3

Mom Junior U.S. Senator from Tennessee

N/A

Memphis Special Agent in Charge Senator Ruth Martin FBI technicians The Reactive Squad The Hostage Rescue Team Catherine Baker Martin

Jack Crawford Director of FBI (Alpha 4) (Tommy)

2

Catherine Martin Phil Adler from White House President Senator Martin Bella

Clarice Starling Gracie Pitman Crawford's Secretary Ardelia Mapp Crawford

5

Ardelia Mapp Burroughs Stafford Crawford Catherine Martin Buffalo Bill Dr. Alan Bloom of U of Chicago Francis Dolarhyde Garrett Hobbs Stevie Wonder Emily Dickinson Albert Roden Hot Bobby Lowrance Starling's Father brothers and sister memory of her mother Jeff, Crawford's driver

Smithsonian Guard Clarice Starling Jack Crawford Jerry Burroughs Klaus (head) Bobby

6

Catherine Martin Dr. Angel Raspail Buffalo Bill Hannibal Lecter

Jack Crawford Clarice Starling

2

Raspail Lecter Will Graham Alan Bloom Buffalo Bill

Catherine Martin Klaus Six Victims Tommy, the FBI Director Lecter's Origami Chicken Frederick Chilton Jame Gumb Dog, Precious person in well

3

Fats Waller

Clarice Starling Frederick Chilton Alonzo

3

Lecter Baltimore D.A.

Alonzo Clarice Starling Barney the orderly Lecter

4

Jane Austen Catherine Martin the Late Miggs Jack Crawford Sammie the new Miggs Eldridge Cleaver Senator Martin

Catherine Martin Jame Gumb Precious

3

Senator Martin

Clarice Starling Jack Crawford

2

Kimberly Jane Emberg Lecter Martin Buffalo Bill

Alonzo Barney

Lecter Starling Barney

3

Buffalo Bill Chilton

Lecter Barney Orderly

3

Raspail Jame Gumb Klaus

Chilton Lecter

2

Starling Jack Crawford Klaus Bella Crawford Senator Martin Buffalo Bill

Jack Crawford Dr. Danielson Jeff the driver

3

Alan Bloom Buffalo Bill Catherine Martin Senator Martin the Director Chilton Attorney General of Maryland

Governor of Maryland Hannibal Lecter Chilton State Troopers Barney Lecter

4

guards in Tennessee Sammie

Starling

1

Chilton Crawford Starling's mother the crow from her childhood

Crawford Starling Jeff Barney

4

Chilton Catherine Martin Senator Martin Jimmy Hoffa Tylenol Killer Lecter Buffalo Bill Klaus Raspail

Senator Martin Jack Crawford Hannibal Lecter Chilton Brian Gossage

5

Dr. Allan Bloom Catherine Martin Paul Krendier from Justice Major Bachman from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Buffalo Bill Hostage Rescue Team Clarice Starling William "Billy" Rubin Benjamin Raspail

Jame Gumb Catherine Martin

2

unknown bodies in basement

Clarice Starling Tennessee State trooper at apt Senator Martin Paul Krendler Brian Gossage A technician several policemen

7

Catherine Martin Dr. Lecter Mr. Copley Jack Crawford William Rubin Buffalo Bill Chilton Bella Kimberly from Potter West Virginia three Seans

Starling Lecter Vernon Pembry, T.W. guard on Lecter floor Sergeant C.L. Tate three state trooper guards

6

FBI Agent Copley Chilton Billy Rubin

Officer Pembry Office Boyle Lecter

3

Chilton Starling

15 Policemen Sergeant Tate 2 Relief Corrections officers Sweeney (collects the tray) Berry Howard

10

Lecter Pembry Boyle Catherine Martin

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Krendler Crawford Marcus Aurelius

Bobby Jacobs Murray Officer Johnny Peterson Ambulance attendant Ambulance driver Lecter

3

Starling Crawford Nurse

3

Bella Copley in Memphis Lecter Burroughs Chilton Krendler Senator Martin Billy Rubin Alan Bloom (never on stage) FBI Assistant Director John Golby The Chief Gunny, John Brigham Catherine Martin Klaus Bjetland The Pilcher Fellow from Smithsonian Crawford's driver Jeff

Starling Smithsonian guard Pilcher

3

Wilhelm von Ellenbogen Dr. Roden

Catherine Baker Martin Precious Jame Gumb

3

Martin's housekeeper, Bea Love

Crawford

1

Lecter Raspail and his motor home Klaus Copley Benson Jerry Burroughs at NCIC bilirubin…Billy Rubin…coloring agent in shit Senator Martin Chilton Marilyn Sutter Starling

Lecter Hotel Clerk

2

Lloyd Wyman Myron and Sadie Fleischer Pavilion Robert J. Brockman Memorial Library

Ardelia Mapp Starling

2

Kim Won John Brigham Chimel versus California Schneckloth versus Bustamonte the Katz principle Krendler Hot Bobby Lowrance Gracie

Crawford Bella

2

Jame Gumb Precious

2

Gumb's mother

Starling Ardelia Mapp Lecter's notes

3

Chilton Senator Martin Krendler Lecter Crawford Raspail Catherine Baker Martin Kimberly (one of the victims from WV) Buffalo Bill Burroughs Billy Rubin Bella Barney Fredrica Bimmel

Crawford Starling

2

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Starling Stacy Hubka Boss at Franklin Insurance Agency

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Jack Crawford in laws Starling

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Starling Crawford

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John Grant Mrs. Lippman Frederica Bimmel Ardelia Mapp Starling

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Callie arrives at Dulles airport and is picked up and taken into Arlington by Wilder. He tries to pump her for info about her trip to Jordan; she tells him little. He tells her he's taking her to meet with Wilhelm Brockman, a Dachau Camp survivor

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Brockman tries to convince Callie of the importance of continuing the mission of recovering Leila and Haddad. She tells him to stop selling her, she will consider the idea. He smiles and sends her off to the hospital

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In Foz do Iguacu, informant waits in a tavern until a shadowy figure arrives. It's the drug lord of Foz. The drug lord leaves the tavern, and the informant follows him to a bus stop bench. On the bench, the informant gives info he's gathered on THE FARM: location, size, and that "packages" are being sent there from cities as far wide as Rio, Asuncion, Buenos Aires. Drug lord tells informant to go back and get more, then, abruptly, sprays him with the DEVIL'S BREATH, then knifes him, and calmly leaves …

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Callie meets Taft at St. E's

Value Shift

Who tried to kill me?

Polarity

Characters

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descriptions all that stuff where should we begin? she gives him the chip. Interrogation room etc. Praise of Taft. 20

Haddad (father) and Leila (daughter) have made it to the fake apartment in CDE They are waiting for their phony IDs so that they can live in Brazil. Haddad can't sleep, worrying that someone might still be on his trail.

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We see Callie's sad life in DC: She eats at Popeyes, gets gas in run-down Anacostia, gets hassled as she gets smokes in a convenience store. She shows her hand tattoo and the guys hassling her take off, scared.

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Back in the basement of St. E's hospital, Taft is explaining to Malcolm, who is strapped to a chair, who Walter Freeman was, how he invented the lobotamy and how he used to perform them. Taft shows him instruments, how they work, what they do to the brain. What's on your mind, Malcolm?'

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Wilder meeting with Callie accounting of what happened in Jordan How did the bomb happen? he has to be first phone call after she gets father and daughter where are they? I don't know yet…

Find the girl, you find your killer

Who beat you up? leverage on someone above him. deals with him. 24

Taft deciphering chip thing finding subway locations around the world, money bank transfers from father to subway several cities where they could go he figures something out about steganography that tells him tri border It's the best and quickest place you can disappear and be reborn as someone else

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Callie at home, forgot to call Taft. She gets a phone call from Taft at the flat of her Colombian neighbor down the hall. You're going to the Tri-Border Region to run down Haddad and his daughter.

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Drug/lord killer in Foz do Iguacu goes to cyber café and gets a hit order on Callie, sent via steganography. It is signed 'Wilder.' Reader won't know it was sent by Brockman.

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Callie drives to her little horse farm in western Virginia, meets with her "father" who is watching the place and living in a small cabin. She has second thoughts about going to the Tri-Border Region, goes to say so long to her two horses.

Time

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ACT THREE Chapter

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At the Little Grandma Hotel in downtown Ciudad del Este, Callie buys pistols, a machine gun, plastic explosives, timers and detonators from an underground arms dealer. The stuff is loaded into her vehicle, a white Chevy SUV, which is driven by a local Paraguayan driver.

Value Shift

Polarity

Characters

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The weapons deal establishes a sense of place: anything goes atmosphere of the Tri-Border Region.

Callie

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A father and daughter check into a luxury Brazilian hotel called 'Hotel das Cataratas.' Their identities show they are from Blumenau, Brazil. The reader does not know the hotel is in Foz, and does not know the identities of the two people, but girl's puppy tips the reader to the fact that they are Haddad and Leila. They settle in for a luxuriant two-week stay.

The worst is over; let's lay low in style. Reader sees Haddads eat and sleep well. The nightmare is over.

Omniscient

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Callie goes to nearby casino and meets Taft's fixer, Moses. She says: Isn't it risky to move so much weaponry across borders? He smiles and tells her not to worry, that her automobile will be laundered' and everything will be waiting for her at her hotel. She gives Moses photos and the particulars on the Haddads, and asks him to leverage his contacts in the police and underground to find them.

The Haddads have been here four weeks. How many new IDs could they have? How will I possibly find them? Moses explains how docs are forged and how in this case the docs would come from Blumenau, a Brazilian town settled in 1850 by German immigrants and later used by Nazis in the 1950s to get new IDs and hide from the Nazi hunters from Israel.

Callie

Moses: With 3 new IDs, they are practically invisible. They won't show up on your grid.

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The Chevy crosses the Bridge of Friendship and is stopped on the Brazilian side by the Brazilian federal police. They comb the car. As they do, Callie runs through different scenarios in her head on how to get out of the predicament. Kill the cops? Escape back to Paraguay? That fucking Wilder must have done this. And that Moses is good for nothing. But then, miraculously, the feds find none of the guns she just bought at the hotel. They are as stunned as Callie. Everybody looks dumbfounded. They wave her on through and into Brazil. How did Moses do it?

Brockman is tracking Callie for insurance, but she has no idea it's him who is authorizing the surveillance. Mistakenly, Callie thinks that Wilder is behind it. He's just the straw man, though.

Ari Carlebach goes to St. E's to meet Taft. They share a little reminiscence. Carlebach says, 'Sorry about what happened to you over there in Egypt.' He tells him that he has asked the Institute to keep him properly supplied, to take good care of him in the Box. I know you're handling Callie; the best place for her to deliver the Haddads is THE FARM. Also, I want that STENT back, at any cost.

How are you doing here? How is our girl doing? The Institute supports you. When Callie checks in, have her take the Haddads to The Farm. And not to Va. Farm (Carlebach is being sent by Brockman, but neither Taft nor the reader realize this.)

Callie goes to her hotel. In the underground parking lot she hears someone calling to her from a white van. Inside it is Boz, a CIA asset in southern Brazil who is a specilist in computer hacking and electronic surveillance. Boz shows her how he is going to track the Haddads from the van. He will use a radio wave scanner to sweep the streets for a hit from the girl's

Boz can cross-reference the girl's ID with the iPhone and the Facebook database. Boz can find the girl by scanning for the microchip in her arm.

Callie threat of action: callie thinks out how she has to react w/violence

Just like old times, Taft says.

Omniscient Taft and Carlebach

Callie and Boz omnisicent

implanted microchip. 'Easy as pie,' Boz says. He then explains other gadgets: recognition software and a database of photos from Facebook can be used to ID people instantly using an iPhone. He sweeps Callie's white Chevy, finds a GPA tracking device. 'Amateurs,' he says of the Brazilian federal police. 'We'll use it against them.' Callie gets a mssg in a pizza delivery box: It's from Moses. Meet me at the Falls tomorrow. 34

Next day at a catwalk beneath the Iguacu Falls, Moses tells Callie he's already found the Haddads. When Callie asks him where they are, he turns and looks up at the luxury Hotel das Cataratas, atop the hill. Callie's reaction: Damn, this old guy comes as advertised. Reversal: low tech beats high-tech surveillance.

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Callies hurries up the hill to the hotel, and scours the hotel. She can't find them. Finally, she goes to the pool out back. Haddad sees her first, and freezes; he thinks she's come to grab them again. A female bodyguard dressed as a waitress grabs the two and leads them into the building, but leaving Leila's dog behind in her haste. The bodyguard signals to another male bodyguard; he tells Callie she will be escorted off the grounds. Callie flips him into the pool, runs out and sees Haddads being put in a van and speeding off. There are no cars about; Callie hails a double-decker tourist bus to follow them.

He will drive up and down the streets of the city using a van that is dressed up as a political campaign van. (He thought of monitoring the passport and photography places. But they probably already have their papers.)

Moses explains how the car was 'laundered' and the weapons delivered. He asks her why she's here: Does it have anything to do with THE FARM? What are you talking about Moses?

Callie and Moses omniscient

Callie

Haddad: sees Callie, freezes, he's just seen a ghost. He sees her first; she notices she is being watched.

When the van veers down a path toward the river, Callie leaps off top of bus, grabs the tree limbs, but crashes to the ground. 36

At THE FARM, Hannah Werner, the old Nazi bitch, is presented as a sweet old lady. She's having the staff prepare rooms for everyone and making sure there is enough food picked from the "Garden of Eden."

Omniscient Hannah Werner

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Callie races through the forest down to the Iguacu River. She commandeers a boat to chase the Haddads, who have fled down the river on a motorized raft. But where the Iguacu River meets the Parana, the raft flips over and Callie loses them. She crawls up on the river bank and heads off to find Boz.

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Boz, sweeping the city in the van, finds Callie. He tells her he's got good news and bad: He knows where the child is -- but he also knows who she's with: Remo, in the drug lord's slum, The Queijo (The Cheese, in English. It's called the Cheese because it's a rat-trap of a slum, and the cheese has drawn in the "rats," the poor.). She says to him: Let's go and get them! Boz says: Are you nuts? They call Taft on the SAT phone for advice. Taft tells Callie that once she picks up the Haddads, to take them to THE FARM, a place near Blumenau in the neighboring Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. How do I get them out of the Drug Lord's slum? He runs the place

Boz and Callie Taft tells Callie to brings the Haddads to the FARM and to ship him the STENT once it is removed.

Callie will look to Moses to help her figure out how to penetrate Remo's lair.

like a feifdom! That's your problem, Callie. 39

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Haddad and Leila are welcomed to the Queijo by Remo. He takes them on a tour of his mansion, and shows them the grounds out back where the Devil's Breath trees are cultivated. Haddad notices the workers' faces are covered in surgical masks. Remo apologizes: I'm sorry your child is upset with the masks; there is a reason for them. Let me tell you why.'

The following day, Callie springs the Haddads from the drug lord's mansion. As Moses has advised her, she pretends to want a job on Remo's Devil's Breath staff, which get picked every morning. She gets the Haddads out through an underground tunnel to the Parana River, where a boat is waiting for them with Boz at the wheel. Callie gets Haddad to go along without a fight because she brings the French dog, which she has recovered from the hotel staff, and because she had a connection with Leila. Also, she explains to Haddad what she knows about the STENT and tells him they can remove it at the FARM. Remo, the drug lord, chases them to the FARM.

Haddad Remo explains that he is the Subway's main contact in the southern cone of South America. He will

protect them.

Moses explains how you get into the compound: You get picked among a group of itinerant lab workers

Trust moment: You have to trust me keep your mouth shut. Stop thinking and come with me. Callie gives Leila the dog on the boat.

Omniscient Callie

Haddad: This woman who saved me in Jordan. She almost died. I'll trust her.

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On the ride to The Farm, Callie explains to Haddad why she has been involved in his case: she works as a private contractor for OCI. She explains what OCI is, how it was created by Reagan, how it has a blank check, how bad they are at their job, how they only recovered 1 kid, and she was the one to do it. That's why she was asked to take his wife's case. 'I'm for hire, I don't work for anybody.' She then retells her return to the States from Egypt, her meeting with 'this old guy who's knows a lot of people in the State Dept,' Brockman.

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Callie and the Haddads arrive at the FARM. It's amazing, like something out of a British fantasy: beautiful, clean lush country paradise with horses and glades. Hannah Werner greets Haddad. She tells him that she will take care of the STENT and the child. After they go inside, Werner talks to Callie. As they talk, there is a shot: Remo, who has followed Callie to the Farm, has tried to kill Werner, but misses. He is corraled by Werner's henchmen and taken away to a horror room.

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Werner escorts Callie to her bedroom: the room where Callie was raised as a little girl. Werner apologizes for the violence but says Remo is a dangerous man. He will be handled by the police. Sorry you had to see that. He is a brutal man, and those kind of people only understand one thing. I wanted to personally show you this room because it is my favorite room here. My dear friend Ari Carlebach stays in this room. Speech in praise of Carlebach, his expertise as a researcher and physician. The work he has been doing on the STENT will change the world. He is my light.

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Callie, Haddad and Leila go to the outdoor adoption party jubilee, arranged by Werner. Werner talks about the settlement of the Valley of the Europeans, her phony background, her surgical qualifications to get Haddad to relax about the next day's surgery. Callie's suspicions about Werner mount.

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In the hallway outside the butcher block in the 'Castle,' where surgical experiments on children are conducted on the FARM, Werner is about to go in and operate on Leila, who is sedated on the the OR table. But she gets called away (Off camera: Werner is called by her helpers to respond to the fact that one of the twins has woken from her pre-operative, druginduced stupor and escaped. After Werner excuses herself, Haddad tells Callie he doesn't feel comfortable letting this old lady operate on his kid. He will do it himself. He begs Callie to help him. What do I do? Callie says. Just keep an eye out for Werner and don't let that crazy bitch into the OR. Callie says yes. Haddad scrubs up, puts on surgical garb, asks Callie for her belt so he can immobilize his daughter, goes back into the OR and puts the knife to the back of his daughter's head …

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Callie is standing guard outside the OR. Werner comes back and asks her what is happening. Callie explains that Haddad had to do the surgery himself. Callie sees something has changed in Werner's grandmotherly demeanor. Werner goes into the OR and asks Haddad what he is doing. He tells her that he removed the STENT but that he has to ask her: Why is so much operating equipment missing? What kind of surgeon are you? Werner approaches him, saying 'Calm down, calm down, everything will be fine.' And in a quick motion, she swipes his jugular. She then turns to Leila. All is lost…

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Callie bursts into the OR, sees a blood smear leading to a corner, sees one of Haddad's feet sticking out awkwardly, and sees Werner leaning over the girl. She charges Werner, knocks her away from the girl; Werner was about to attach an IV containing poison into the girl's arm. The force of the jolt knocks over the IV stand, and Werner, simultaneously. Werner falls and lands on the back of her head. The hook from the IV arm penetrates the back of Werner's neck at the base of the skull - exactly the place where the STENT was put into Leila. Werner dies a death of poetic justice.

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Callie is in the horse stable, not 50 yards away from the FARM main building. Calm, like the horse pro that she is, she saddles a stallion, talking to it in Portuguese as she readies the horse, and escapes with the child on horseback into the forests.

ACT FOUR Value Shift

Haddad says: I came with you out of faith. Now please tell me I wasn't stupid. Callie tells him: No, don't worry, we are going to save your little girl. We're taking her to a sanitary, lovely place where someone will remove the STENT. Everything will be cool.

Polarity

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Callie reveals what the OCI is, what she does for a living.

Chapter ends with them arriving at beautiful farm.

As Werner talks to Callie she uses a nickname that was Callie's name at The Farm when she was a little child. Taft remembered the name, and mentioned it to Callie's "father" in Virginia, when Callie was brought to the States as a 5-year-old.

As Werner talks to Callie she uses a nickname that only Callie's 'father' in Virginia knew. Callie is struck by this. How does this woman know my old nickname? As it happens, Taft heard the name when he was asked to bring Callie to the States as a 5-year-old girl, and he mentioned the nickname to Callie's father in Virginia.

Omniscient Callie reveals Callie what the State Dept is

Omniscient Callie

Some tells: So many security guards for an orphanage, stables of horses, fact that Werner doesn't mind if Leila eats ice cream the night before her surgery, her odd background.

Callie POV

Omniscient The tell: this is a butcher block and Haddad recognizes it. To the layman's eye, the OR looks okay, but Haddad sees it lacks a lot of key surgical equipment, staff and things like blood and plasma …

Haddad: Where is your team? Nurses? You had the wrong set of scalpels. This was like operating with a butter knife. Where is extra blood? What I just did basically was fucking impossible. Calm down, Werner tells him, approaching him, you are under a tremendous amount of stress. She holds up her hands, innocently.

Callie; then CUT TO Haddad's POV; then CUT TO Werner for the kill

Callie omniscient

Time is short, but Callie does this the right way so that the horse does not buck. She does not impart any nerves to the horse; she's cool as ice.

Callie omniscient

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(Open with background on MRI doctor.) At the United Medical Center in Anacostia, Washington, Taft is led into an MRI room. The nurse asks the accompanying guards to leave the room, explaining that any metal around an MRI machine can be deadly. (Vignette on flying scissors killing a patient.) Taft is eased into the cylinder and the machine is turned on. Later, the doctor notices Taft is bleeding from his upper right arm. (Off-camera, the iron-core microchip is ripped out of Taft's arm by the MRI macine, like a reverse bullet.) The staff patches Taft's arm. The doctor puzzles over the MRI results. Nothing is wrong with Taft. Take him back to St. Elizabeth's, he tells the orderlies. The ambulance heads back to St. E's, but on the way swerves suddenly, pulls over, then after a pause makes a U-turn and heads for I-95, away from St. E's. (After a linebreak, in a single paragraph like a newspaper report, the reader learns that the ambulance is found at a highway rest stop, three mutilated bodies inside, carved up, and Taft missing.) Taft has escaped. The next morning, Callie is in Taft's quarters at St. E's. Wilder has ordered her to go. Ari Carlebach is there and starts questioning her. She was one of the last to see Taft at St. E's, and he was her handler. She tells him she doesn't know where he is, and although she notes the drop of blood in the model city of Budapest, she tells Carlebach she has no idea where Taft went. Callie asks Carlebach how Taft got away. He tells her Taft faked his symptoms ingeniously. Ari gets desperate. His dilemna: He must get Callie to tell him where the STENT is w/o tipping his hand on the stent or his prior relationship with Taft. Finally, he pulls out a gun and tells Callie he tried to do this nicely, and to start walking. He is

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Callie is completely immobilized and strapped into Taft's chair. Carlebach demands she hand over the STENT. She says she doesn't have it. A pity, he says, because I will have to torture you and then dispose of you in the REMOLATOR. No one will ever know you existed. You will be nothing but fertilizer for my posies in my NYC penthouse garden on the Upper East Side. But Callie turns the tables: She sneezes, and asks him to take the hanky in her shirt pocket and wipe her nose. 'I don't want to go out with snot all over my face, Doc.' He takes out the hanky, notices something inside it, opens it and sees a gray powder: The DEVIL's BREATH powder that Callie got from Haddad (off camera) during the ride to the FARM. Callie does the only thing she can do: She blows the powder into Carlebach's face. The doctor is wholly and instantly stunned by the powerful drug. He falls prey to it. Callie tells him to release her from the chair. Dutifully, he does. She tells him to sit in the chair and gives him a message to pass on to his superiors. Then Callie leaves him.

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The next day, the setting is Callie's house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Callie is teaching Leila how to saddle a horse in the barn, when Wilder enters. He and Callie take a walk outside of the barn. She is expecting him to take the child away but instead Wilder informs her that in recognition of what Callie has done, several 'benefactors' are prepared to give her off-the-books money to pay for Leila's care, which will allow Callie to keep the child during the summer months and put her into a private school in the DC area in the fall. Wilder won't reveal who the benefactors are … This is just what Callie secretly wanted unconditional love, from a child like Leila.

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CODA: The previous day, after Callie departs: There are footsteps in the corridor of St. E's and an unidentified man enters the BOX and walks over to Carlebach. What happenened, Ari, the man asks. She blew a powder in my face. A gray powder? Yes. Why didn't I think of it? The Devil's Breath… Yes, that girl is indeed SPECIAL, says the mystery man. He then asks Carlebach to crawl into the REMOLATOR, asks him if he's nice and cozy, and hits the start button …

ACT FIVE Value Shift

Polarity Characters

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Omniscient Taft

Callie omniscient

Callie omniscient Off camera: Brockman is watching the whole thing on camera. Taft liked to video tape his sessions, and had a hidden camera in the room.

Callie omniscient

Brockman is the mysterious benefactor … He will think how he can use Callie to track down Taft in the next book of the series.

Omniscient Carlebach Brockman might be the killer, but the reader won't find out until Book 2 or 3.