Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
John Leguizamo: Paul
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[first lines]
Concession Girl : [squinting] You, um... Would you... your light...
Paul : What? Oh, uh...
Concession Girl : My bad.
Paul : ...I'm such a moron.
Concession Girl : How's the flick ?
Paul : Ah... Ah, you know. Adam Sandler gets in a mess, wife gets pissed, rinse and repeat, predictable, formulaic, fart jokes...
Concession Girl : Yeah.
Paul : You wouldn't like it.
Concession Girl : Mmm. How would you know what I like?
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Paul : There's this island, this island right off the Carolinas, called Roanoke. In 1857 it was the first English colony, 117 men, women and children are living there. And one day a boat comes from London with supplies, but lo and behold, there's nobody to supply, cuz everybody's gone. The whole entire colony completely vanished, left everything behind: food, livestock, clothing. They sent search parties, looking for everybody for days, and the only thing they find, you know what they find? One word, one word just scratched, scratched on a fence post. Croatoan.
James : Croa-what?
Paul : Croatoan.
Rosemary : What does it mean?
Paul : I don't know, nobody knows. It's just a big mystery. Maybe it's just a message from the Indians. Or maybe it's just a word, just a last word. Nobody knows for sure. But maybe it's... maybe it's a warning. A warning like an error warning your computer gives you right before it crashes.
Luke : A warning for what?
Paul : Does it really matter? Somebody just hit the restart button. And the lost colony was just this little warning right before, right before this big reboot.
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Paul : When I was lying there waiting for the bus, I had time and I went through the list, all the ways everyone could just disappear. Flesh-eating bacterias, nanotech run amok, a particle collider accident, parallel universes, neutron bombs, gamma ray bursts...
Luke : [cynically] Alien abductions.
Paul : Singularities, worm holes, black holes...
Rosemary : Stop it!
Paul : Thing is, the math doesn't add up. The math doesn't add up.
Rosemary : My boy is missing,
[points at James]
Rosemary : his mother.
Paul : It just doesn't add up.
Rosemary : This is no accident, there's a reason.
Luke : You gonna lay your Catholic guilt on us now?
Rosemary : So why are you here, Luke? You know?
Luke : No idea, and I don't care.
Rosemary : You should, we all should. Why didn't we go with everyone else?
Paul : Because.
Rosemary : Why?
Paul : Like when you shut down a movie projector, it doesn't just stop on a dime, it winds down. We're the last spin on the reel before it stops for good.
Rosemary : I know I've done things in life, awful things, I've hurt people. I made mistakes, we all have.
Luke : So what are you saying, that this is punishment? For what?
Rosemary : That's between you and...
Luke : And God? Between me and God? I think God's closed up shop just like everyone else.
Rosemary : Don't say that!
Luke : [yanks James out of his chair] You trying to tell me that he deserves this shit?
Rosemary : Leave him alone!
Luke : I think you're just pissed off cuz Jesus didn't beam you up!
Rosemary : Stop it!
Luke : No! We don't need some fucking left behind sermon. What we need to do is
[lights start flickering]
Luke : oh no, oh no!
[bar goes dark]
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Paul : [concussed] I was working at the Fairlane Center when the whole mall went dark. All the people were all gone. So I was on my out of there, and then something came out of the dark and hit me. I was taken somewhere, I don't even know how I got there, but I walked till I found the bus shelter.
Luke : Taken?
Paul : Taken, I don't know where. But there were these voices, these whispers. No bodies. No faces.
Rosemary : Souls.
Paul : Or shadows. And it was dark in there. So I started screaming, but there was no noise. I was like I was fighting, fighting for air, like I was fighting to exist.
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Luke : We have to get out of here.
Rosemary : [about Paul] He can't be moved.
Luke : [slams the table] Don't you get it? Why we're here? At this exact place? The light.
Rosemary : The light protects us.
Luke : Protects us? Ever see moths fly into a flame?
Paul : What are you trying to say? You trying to say that this is a trap?
Luke : A trap, a dead end. But whatever's out there is in here now. Point is when the generator dies, we die.
Rosemary : Maybe that's how it should be.
Luke : What?
Rosemary : All of us have seen them, those souls out there in the dark. How do we know they're not the people we all lost calling us over? How do we know that that's not Heaven and this is... if my boy's with them, then that's where I'm meant to be. And if he's not, then I ain't going nowhere till I find him.
