SWITCH                                                                       An Original Screenplay by                          William Klausman FADE IN: EXT:  SUBURBAN PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOOD – NIGHT It is a typically cold, moonless night in the Maywood Park section of Oregon’s largest city, Portland.  No street lights to shine, the neighborhood is dark and motionless.  Not even the FEMALE DRIVER of the maroon MINI VAN notices the slight breeze lift and carry a few remaining leaves of a maple tree softly to the manicured lawn below.  The MINI VAN is parked in front of a colonial house that, too, is dark.   There is a sudden bright flash in one of the upper windows. Seconds later a MAN IN A TAN COAT quietly exits the house through a side door and onto the driveway.  As he slips a silenced automatic weapon into his pocket, he stealthily walks to, and enters, the MINI VAN’s passenger side.  As the maroon MINI VAN slips away, its headlights illuminate the occupant’s name on the mail box.  It reads “THE SHARPS.”                      ...then somewhere in mid script... INT:  BILL GALE'S OFFICE – DAY The office door explodes inward and crashes to the floor.  GALE hits the floor, draws his gun, and peers over the desk through the airborne debris.  A shadowy image stands in the middle of the doorway, shotgun aimed at the desk.                               NORQUIST                    Gale!  You there?                                        GALE                    Stop or I’ll blow your friggin’ head off.                               NORQUIST                    No ass hole.  You shut up and listen.  If                    you value your life, you’ll tell me where                    you took Teeney. The dust settles, and Gale recognizes AGENT NORQUIST from a prior meeting.  Gale is more confused, but ready.                                       GALE                    Norquist? FBI.  What the hell—                              NORQUIST                    Quit stalling shit head.  I’m going to                    blow your office from here to hell unless                    you give me what I want.  Do you copy? ROBERT TEENEY now appears in the blown-out doorway, behind Norquist’s view.                                GALE                    (Yells loudly to catch Norquist off guard)                    Watch it Teeney! Gale lunches over the desk, catching Norquist before he fires again.  Gale plunges his elbow into Norquist’s groin and wraps his other arm around the back of Norquist’s knee joints.  Gale's head plunges into Norquist’s thigh, breaking the bone.  Norquist is out cold.
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