Sides - The Expendables

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INT. - CHURCH - DAY

Sitting in the PEW is a man known only as CHURCH. He is all

business. Hard in mind and soul. Fear and subtly is alien to

this individual. His eyes belong in the skull of a predator.

CHURCH

You can call me Mr. Church - It’s

not my real name.

CHURCH

But you don’t need to know my real

name, just like I don’t need or

want to know your real name.

BARNEY

Then what do you want to know?

CHURCH

That you can deliver. Have you ever

heard of Vilena?

BARNEY

No.

CHURCH

A dirt patch of an island in the

Gulf. There are certain resources

on Vilena - The interests I


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represent want to invest a large

sum of money on this island.

Following this?

BARNEY

...Yeah.

CHURCH (tense)

You look bored.

BARNEY

It’s my bone structure.

CHURCH

(removes his sunglasses)

Let’s take off our glasses.

Barney

Why?

Church

It’s more honest - You know what I

mean.


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CHURCH’S eyes bore into BARNEY’S trying to get a read on

where he’s coming from.

CHURCHMuch better - The President of the

country, General Ruben Garza,

overthrew the government and

for the past year or so, his death

squads have decimated the

population - He even had

two of our company’s soil

researchers killed, we’re told

he was in on the execution.

He hands a PICTURE over from a FOLDER.

BARNEY studies the PHOTO. This one of a tin pot despot of a

man, in an over medaled uniform, his eyes hold the hint of

madness.

CHURCH

(pushing the drama)

That’s Garza. His so-called ‘Red

Guards’ kill unarmed woman and

children without thinking twice.

BARNEY (unaffected)

...Yeah.


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CHURCH

You have any children? Mr. Ross?

BARNEYI relate. I got a truck and a

seaplane. *

CHURCH

Right - Anyway, the majority of the

people go hungry while -

BARNEY

Wait -

CHURCH

Yes?

Barney

Let me stop you, what people eat

isn’t my concern, what they pay is.

CHURCH

No foreplay here.

(tensing) The people I represent

won’t do business with a government

that could collapse in a few years


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or one that could become more

radical.

CHURCH stares straight into BARNEY’S eyes. He hands over aFOLDER.

CHURCH

More details - And we have arranged

a contact - A well financed

mercenary operation could succeed.

BARNEY

You’re wasting my time. What d’you

want?

CHURCH

(barely holding it

together)I don’t like your

attitude.

BARNEY

Makes two of us. What do you want?

CHURCH

Garza permanently removed.

BARNEY

Furniture’s removed - Be specific.


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CHURCH (hardens)

We want him gone -

BARNEY

- Dead?

CHURCH

Yes, dead. His soldiers dead. His

half-assed government, dead.

Specific enough?

BARNEY

Yeah.

CHURCH

Well?

BARNEY

How many outfits did you ask before

you got around to us?

CHURCH

Why?

BARNEY


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Ten? Twenty?

CHURCH

What’s it matter?

BARNEY

Must be gettin’ desperate.

CHURCH

This your way of starting

negotiations?

Barney heads back to his truck. Once inside, he takes out a

MINIATURE VIDEO CAMERA and withdrawing the MEMORY CHIP, puts

it into the PC on the seat beside him. Hitting the play

button, he studies the CLOSE-UP FOOTAGE of CHURCH requesting

he attack the island of VILENA. Having seen enough, he

closes the LAPTOP and the scene goes black.

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