The Phantom Platoon
TRAILERCreator Mike Colonna
Log Line: A disgraced Plastic Surgeon joins the Marine Corps. He becomes the lone survivor when his platoon drives over a IED.
IPHONE ALARM BUZZES
INT: Westwood - Los Angeles - Morning
Dr. Frank Gallo is spooning with his wife in bed. Gallo rolls out of bed naked, lies on the floor face down, starts doing pushups.
His wife slides over to the edge of the bed, Gallo naked face down on the floor. Kathy Gallo rolls out of bed and climbs on Frank Gallo’s back, he continues doing push-ups, grunting and groaning while lifting his wife up and down. Gallo hits the floor lies for a second, rolls over on his back and his wife is now facing him. They kiss while rubbing their bodies together.
Gallo is brushing his teeth. Getting ready to fly out the door for his first appointment at his plastic surgery center. Kathy Gallo catches him while he’s facing the mirror in her tshirt, wraps her arms around him and begins nibbling his ears.
KATHY GALLO
That was wonderful. Want another
shot at it?
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO
Later baby, this is a big shot
Hollywood star, I can’t be late.
KATHY GALLO
I’ll show you what a big Hollywood
star looks like, give me five minutes in bed.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO
Honey, you’re too much.
Towel drops, he turns and they embrace, Gallo is in a hurry. Gallo dressed in a white shirt with a tie, rushes throughout the kitchen, the toaster pops, he grabs a slice of bread, check to see if Kathy is looking and pops open a bottle of pills. He takes two, makes sure she’s not watching.
She meets him at the front door, hugs and rubs his body with hers.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO (CONT’D)
Later baby, I’ve got to perform a
miracle.
Doctor Gallo walks into the operating room. Betty Gaynor, famous movie star, in her 50’s is lying on her back surrounded by two nurses with face masks. She’s ready for her face lift. Doctor Gallo, looks at the large light overlooking the operating table, it’s blurry.
Looking up from the Operating table, the needle from the anesthesiologist is seen entering Betty Gaynor arm. She’s is losing conciseness, Gallo is looking down at Gaynor, everything is getting blurry.
He operates, something goes horribly wrong. Doctor Gallo collapses and is helped to a wheel chair. Kathy Gallo answers the phone
KATHY GALLO
Hello
HOSPITAL OPERATOR
Mrs. Gallo, Doctor Gallo is in the
ER. He needs you as soon as possible’
KATHY GALLO
I’ll be right there.
Kathy Gallo rushes to her car, speeds off, going faster than the speed limit allows, she runs a red light and a large truck T-Bones her car on the passenger side. The car explodes. Kathy is in a hospital bed, life saving liquids are piped into her arms, her head is bandaged. Doctor Frank Gallo arrives. Dazed he attends to Kathy Gallo.
Her pulse is weak. He bends over to console her bruised and bandaged body. A load beep from the her monitor indicates she’s flat lining. Gallo yells for help, nurses rush in,
Kathy Gallo heart stops beating.
EXT. LOS ANGELES - STATE COURT BUILDING - AFTERNOON
BAILIFF
This court will come to order.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO is standing behind the defense table. He stands with his attorney.
BAILIFF (CONT’D)
The State of California Medical
Board versus Doctor Frank Gallo.
Fade in
A BRIGHT STARRY NIGHT - FULL MOON
Billions of stars glitter behind a full moon. We pull back off the sky, and hear hustle and bustle under a street bridge in LA’s huge freight train yard.
PANNING DOWN
A lone soul nestled under a blanket beside 10 homeless people, snoring, arms folded behind his head with his eyes gazing into the sky.
His thoughts are on times gone by.
FLASHBACK
INT. Beverly Hills - Operating room - Morning
Three nurses prepare a female patient for plastic surgery. A face lift. Dr. Gallo enters, seems disoriented, has popped pills to give him more energy. A famous movie star lies on an operating table waiting for Dr. Gallo to do his magic face lift. Between Gallo and the anesthesiologist something goes horribly wrong.
Gallo Loses his license at a Board of Inquiry.
Walks into an Army recruiting center and joins the Medical Corps. Becomes am intelligence officer.
His convoy, somewhere in Iraq, drives over a huge roadside bomb hurling his Humvee 20 feet in the air. Gallo attends to the wounded and is awarded a medal of valor.
Gallo is discharged, looks for work in LA but is turned down at every interview. With no future, Gallo becomes a resident of skid row.
EXT. Sixth Street Bridge - Midnight - Los Angeles
Gallo hears an explosion on the bridge. Startled he rushes to the top of the bridge and sees a police car that appears to have hit some type of land mine. A lone female officer is dazed and trapped in the front seat. Gallo jerks open the passenger side and pulls the police officer out of the car.
Gallo turns on her vest radio and shouts for help.
Gallo
Officer Down. Does anyone copy?
The officer begins to regain consciousness. Police cars are racing toward the accident. Sirens blaring. The officer reaches into her shirt pocket and gives Gallo her card. She pushes Gallo away and signals him to leave before her fellow officers arrive.
Gallo moves quickly from the scene, as he does he notices a the moon catch some type of glass shinning from a six story building nearby.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
KATHY GALLO
That was wonderful. Want another
shot at it?
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO
Later baby, this is a big shot
Hollywood star, I can’t be late.
KATHY GALLO
I’ll show you what a big Hollywood
star looks like, give me five minutes in bed.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO
Honey, you’re too much.
Towel drops, he turns and they embrace, Gallo is in a hurry. Gallo dressed in a white shirt with a tie, rushes throughout the kitchen, the toaster pops, he grabs a slice of bread, check to see if Kathy is looking and pops open a bottle of pills. He takes two, makes sure she’s not watching.
She meets him at the front door, hugs and rubs his body with hers.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO (CONT’D)
Later baby, I’ve got to perform a
miracle.
Doctor Gallo walks into the operating room. Betty Gaynor, famous movie star, in her 50’s is lying on her back surrounded by two nurses with face masks. She’s ready for her face lift. Doctor Gallo, looks at the large light overlooking the operating table, it’s blurry.
Looking up from the Operating table, the needle from the anesthesiologist is seen entering Betty Gaynor arm. She’s is losing conciseness, Gallo is looking down at Gaynor, everything is getting blurry.
He operates, something goes horribly wrong. Doctor Gallo collapses and is helped to a wheel chair. Kathy Gallo answers the phone
KATHY GALLO
Hello
HOSPITAL OPERATOR
Mrs. Gallo, Doctor Gallo is in the
ER. He needs you as soon as possible’
KATHY GALLO
I’ll be right there.
Kathy Gallo rushes to her car, speeds off, going faster than the speed limit allows, she runs a red light and a large truck T-Bones her car on the passenger side. The car explodes. Kathy is in a hospital bed, life saving liquids are piped into her arms, her head is bandaged. Doctor Frank Gallo arrives. Dazed he attends to Kathy Gallo.
Her pulse is weak. He bends over to console her bruised and bandaged body. A load beep from the her monitor indicates she’s flat lining. Gallo yells for help, nurses rush in,
Kathy Gallo heart stops beating.
EXT. LOS ANGELES - STATE COURT BUILDING - AFTERNOON
BAILIFF
This court will come to order.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO is standing behind the defense table. He stands with his attorney.
BAILIFF (CONT’D)
The State of California Medical
Board versus Doctor Frank Gallo.
Fade in
A BRIGHT STARRY NIGHT - FULL MOON
Billions of stars glitter behind a full moon. We pull back off the sky, and hear hustle and bustle under a street bridge in LA’s huge freight train yard.
PANNING DOWN
A lone soul nestled under a blanket beside 10 homeless people, snoring, arms folded behind his head with his eyes gazing into the sky.
His thoughts are on times gone by.
FLASHBACK
INT. Beverly Hills - Operating room - Morning
Three nurses prepare a female patient for plastic surgery. A face lift. Dr. Gallo enters, seems disoriented, has popped pills to give him more energy. A famous movie star lies on an operating table waiting for Dr. Gallo to do his magic face lift. Between Gallo and the anesthesiologist something goes horribly wrong.
Gallo Loses his license at a Board of Inquiry.
Walks into an Army recruiting center and joins the Medical Corps. Becomes am intelligence officer.
His convoy, somewhere in Iraq, drives over a huge roadside bomb hurling his Humvee 20 feet in the air. Gallo attends to the wounded and is awarded a medal of valor.
Gallo is discharged, looks for work in LA but is turned down at every interview. With no future, Gallo becomes a resident of skid row.
EXT. Sixth Street Bridge - Midnight - Los Angeles
Gallo hears an explosion on the bridge. Startled he rushes to the top of the bridge and sees a police car that appears to have hit some type of land mine. A lone female officer is dazed and trapped in the front seat. Gallo jerks open the passenger side and pulls the police officer out of the car.
Gallo turns on her vest radio and shouts for help.
Gallo
Officer Down. Does anyone copy?
The officer begins to regain consciousness. Police cars are racing toward the accident. Sirens blaring. The officer reaches into her shirt pocket and gives Gallo her card. She pushes Gallo away and signals him to leave before her fellow officers arrive.
Gallo moves quickly from the scene, as he does he notices a the moon catch some type of glass shinning from a six story building nearby.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
KATHY GALLO
Hello
HOSPITAL OPERATOR
Mrs. Gallo, Doctor Gallo is in the
ER. He needs you as soon as possible’
KATHY GALLO
I’ll be right there.
Kathy Gallo rushes to her car, speeds off, going faster than the speed limit allows, she runs a red light and a large truck T-Bones her car on the passenger side. The car explodes. Kathy is in a hospital bed, life saving liquids are piped into her arms, her head is bandaged. Doctor Frank Gallo arrives. Dazed he attends to Kathy Gallo.
Her pulse is weak. He bends over to console her bruised and bandaged body. A load beep from the her monitor indicates she’s flat lining. Gallo yells for help, nurses rush in,
Kathy Gallo heart stops beating.
EXT. LOS ANGELES - STATE COURT BUILDING - AFTERNOON
BAILIFF
This court will come to order.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO is standing behind the defense table. He stands with his attorney.
BAILIFF (CONT’D)
The State of California Medical
Board versus Doctor Frank Gallo.
Fade in
A BRIGHT STARRY NIGHT - FULL MOON
Billions of stars glitter behind a full moon. We pull back off the sky, and hear hustle and bustle under a street bridge in LA’s huge freight train yard.
PANNING DOWN
A lone soul nestled under a blanket beside 10 homeless people, snoring, arms folded behind his head with his eyes gazing into the sky.
His thoughts are on times gone by.
FLASHBACK
INT. Beverly Hills - Operating room - Morning
Three nurses prepare a female patient for plastic surgery. A face lift. Dr. Gallo enters, seems disoriented, has popped pills to give him more energy. A famous movie star lies on an operating table waiting for Dr. Gallo to do his magic face lift. Between Gallo and the anesthesiologist something goes horribly wrong.
Gallo Loses his license at a Board of Inquiry.
Walks into an Army recruiting center and joins the Medical Corps. Becomes am intelligence officer.
His convoy, somewhere in Iraq, drives over a huge roadside bomb hurling his Humvee 20 feet in the air. Gallo attends to the wounded and is awarded a medal of valor.
Gallo is discharged, looks for work in LA but is turned down at every interview. With no future, Gallo becomes a resident of skid row.
EXT. Sixth Street Bridge - Midnight - Los Angeles
Gallo hears an explosion on the bridge. Startled he rushes to the top of the bridge and sees a police car that appears to have hit some type of land mine. A lone female officer is dazed and trapped in the front seat. Gallo jerks open the passenger side and pulls the police officer out of the car.
Gallo turns on her vest radio and shouts for help.
Gallo
Officer Down. Does anyone copy?
The officer begins to regain consciousness. Police cars are racing toward the accident. Sirens blaring. The officer reaches into her shirt pocket and gives Gallo her card. She pushes Gallo away and signals him to leave before her fellow officers arrive.
Gallo moves quickly from the scene, as he does he notices a the moon catch some type of glass shinning from a six story building nearby.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
EXT. LOS ANGELES - STATE COURT BUILDING - AFTERNOON
BAILIFF
This court will come to order.
DOCTOR FRANK GALLO is standing behind the defense table. He stands with his attorney.
BAILIFF (CONT’D)
The State of California Medical
Board versus Doctor Frank Gallo.
Fade in
A BRIGHT STARRY NIGHT - FULL MOON
Billions of stars glitter behind a full moon. We pull back off the sky, and hear hustle and bustle under a street bridge in LA’s huge freight train yard.
PANNING DOWN
A lone soul nestled under a blanket beside 10 homeless people, snoring, arms folded behind his head with his eyes gazing into the sky.
His thoughts are on times gone by.
FLASHBACK
INT. Beverly Hills - Operating room - Morning
Three nurses prepare a female patient for plastic surgery. A face lift. Dr. Gallo enters, seems disoriented, has popped pills to give him more energy. A famous movie star lies on an operating table waiting for Dr. Gallo to do his magic face lift. Between Gallo and the anesthesiologist something goes horribly wrong.
Gallo Loses his license at a Board of Inquiry.
Walks into an Army recruiting center and joins the Medical Corps. Becomes am intelligence officer.
His convoy, somewhere in Iraq, drives over a huge roadside bomb hurling his Humvee 20 feet in the air. Gallo attends to the wounded and is awarded a medal of valor.
Gallo is discharged, looks for work in LA but is turned down at every interview. With no future, Gallo becomes a resident of skid row.
EXT. Sixth Street Bridge - Midnight - Los Angeles
Gallo hears an explosion on the bridge. Startled he rushes to the top of the bridge and sees a police car that appears to have hit some type of land mine. A lone female officer is dazed and trapped in the front seat. Gallo jerks open the passenger side and pulls the police officer out of the car.
Gallo turns on her vest radio and shouts for help.
Gallo
Officer Down. Does anyone copy?
The officer begins to regain consciousness. Police cars are racing toward the accident. Sirens blaring. The officer reaches into her shirt pocket and gives Gallo her card. She pushes Gallo away and signals him to leave before her fellow officers arrive.
Gallo moves quickly from the scene, as he does he notices a the moon catch some type of glass shinning from a six story building nearby.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
INT. Beverly Hills - Operating room - Morning
Three nurses prepare a female patient for plastic surgery. A face lift. Dr. Gallo enters, seems disoriented, has popped pills to give him more energy. A famous movie star lies on an operating table waiting for Dr. Gallo to do his magic face lift. Between Gallo and the anesthesiologist something goes horribly wrong.
Gallo Loses his license at a Board of Inquiry.
Walks into an Army recruiting center and joins the Medical Corps. Becomes am intelligence officer.
His convoy, somewhere in Iraq, drives over a huge roadside bomb hurling his Humvee 20 feet in the air. Gallo attends to the wounded and is awarded a medal of valor.
Gallo is discharged, looks for work in LA but is turned down at every interview. With no future, Gallo becomes a resident of skid row.
EXT. Sixth Street Bridge - Midnight - Los Angeles
Gallo hears an explosion on the bridge. Startled he rushes to the top of the bridge and sees a police car that appears to have hit some type of land mine. A lone female officer is dazed and trapped in the front seat. Gallo jerks open the passenger side and pulls the police officer out of the car.
Gallo turns on her vest radio and shouts for help.
Gallo
Officer Down. Does anyone copy?
The officer begins to regain consciousness. Police cars are racing toward the accident. Sirens blaring. The officer reaches into her shirt pocket and gives Gallo her card. She pushes Gallo away and signals him to leave before her fellow officers arrive.
Gallo moves quickly from the scene, as he does he notices a the moon catch some type of glass shinning from a six story building nearby.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
EXT. SIX STORY BUILDING - LATE NIGHT - LOS ANGELES
GALLO enters the slum looking building and rushes up to the fourth story where he detected the flash of moonlight off of glass.
He quietly opens the door. A disposable cell phone, a cigarette butt are on the floor next to the window.
The apartment is vacant.
Gallo pulls the officers card from his pocket.
Two men are fast footing it down the back fire escape, they get to the alley, a black van moves quickly through the alley, stops, the side door opens. The two middle eastern looking men jump in and are immediately shot by the driver of the van.
INT: Los Angeles - Hospital- Morning
Gallo walks through the hallway passes an armed police officer guarding the injured officer. Gallo’s nodded in.
Bruised but not in serious condition, the female officer gives Gallo a slight smile of approval.
EXT: SIX STORY BUILDING - MORNING - LOS ANGELES
Gallo walks the alley and picks up a spent shell.
A nervous young homeless couple appear at the end of the alley. They have information.
A license number, description of the van, a blurred description of the driver.
Gallo is returns home under the bridge. His confidant is Jack Corker, an 85 year old ex Navy Seal during the Korean War.
Gallo shares his information with Jack.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
EXT. PHONE BOOTH ABOVE BRIDGE - AFTERNOON.
GALLO dials officer in hospital bedroom. She answers.
EXT. La downtown apartment district
Gallo is sleeping on a park bench activity in an apartment building, he sees a black van making a left turn toward the two story apartment building. Van stops, three middle east looking men open the back doors and begin removing file size cardboard boxes and entering the building.
A man and a woman in their early thirties with backpacks enter the building.
Gallo is wired, he describes the van, the activity, a few minutes later a SWAT team has the building surrounded, they rush the entry, get to the apartment and all hell breaks lose.
Smoke bombs, explosions, bodies flying out of windows, suicide vests, the whole nine yards.
EXT. LA Freight Yard - Sunset
Aerial of the vast train yard, panning down to two freight trains passing, in opposite directions,, engines roar. a closer look, Gallo is standing between the trains as they pass, his image turns into a shadow as it dissolves into the Sunset.
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