The Gunmen

 

SCENE 6

Back at Gunmen HQ. LANGLY, wearing a Joey Ramone t-shirt, is sat at a computer. FROHIKE and BYERS lean beside him.

 

LANGLY: 

Airline reservation database. 

What name do we look under?

 

BYERS: 

Try her old stand-by. 

Different anagrams of Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

(MORRIS appears from the back of the room, reading an old issue of The Lone Gunman.)

 

MORRIS: 

"Area 51 Exposé!" 

Ooo! Where's your new issue? 

This one's a year old.

 

FROHIKE:

 Back off, Skeezick.

 

MORRIS: 

You'll never find her that way.

 

LANGLY: 

He's right. 

No anagrams for Yves Adele Harlow.

 

(The search software running on LANGLY'S computer fails to give any results.)

 

MORRIS: 

So, who's Joey?

 

(MORRIS has noticed LANGLY'S t-shirt.)

 

LANGLY: 

What? Joey Ramone? 

Leader of The Greatest Punk Rock Band in Human History. 

Now shut up!

 

LANGLY notices MORRIS taking a little too much interest in him.

 

LANGLY: 

What?

 

MORRIS: (Sigh) 

What are you, 34, 35? 

Why don't you cut your hair and grow up, huh?

 

LANGLY: 

I need to remind you, Fletcher, that Doggett and Reyes

aren't here to save you.

 

MORRIS: 

Get yourself a real Hero, anyway. 

Not some dead teeny bopper.

 

LANGLY throws down his keyboard and gets up,

walking over to where MORRIS is sitting.

 

LANGLY: 

You want to know why

Joey Ramone's My Hero? 

 

'Cause people like you

never managed to grind him down. 

 

They never stole His Spirit. 

He never gave in, never gave up,

and never sold out. 

Right till his last breath. 

 

And He's Not Dead. 

Guys Like That? 

They Live Forever.

 

BYERS:

From the background

Langly? Just ignore him.

 

MORRIS sighs again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE 19

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

We fade in to a beautiful blue, cloudless sky overhead.

The camera slowly pans down, to reveal row upon row of perfectly aligned headstones,

commemorating those laid to rest in the Cemetery.

An old man is slowly folding away the chairs that have just been used during the funeral service.

 

Three identical coffins rest on the ground in front of the remaining chairs.

KIMMY stands next to them, paying his final respects to his fallen heroes.

He stares down at the coffins in silence.

 

KIMMY: 

(in Spanish) 

Vayo con dios, amigos.

 

He walks over to the coffins,

and touches each of them in turn, before heading off.

 

AGENTS DOGGETT, REYES, and SKINNER

are standing in a line opposite where KIMMY was standing.

DOGGETT looks over to SKINNER.

 

DOGGETT: 

Arlington. 

You must have pulled some big strings to get those guys in here.

 

SKINNER: 

It's The Least I Could Do.

 

SKINNER turns and leaves.

REYES turns to DOGGETT.

 

REYES: 

Are you ready?

 

DOGGETT: 

Yeah.

 

SCULLY is standing with YVES and JIMMY,

who is holding three folder American flags,

one for each of our fallen heroes.

 

SKINNER pauses as he passes SCULLY.

 

SKINNER: 

Dana?

 

SCULLY: 

I'll catch up. 

SKINNER heads off, following REYES and DOGGETT.

They meant so much to me. 

I'm not sure if they ever really knew.

 

JIMMY: 

Nobody knew...

What Heroes They Were.

 

YVES still can't believe how things have turned out.

 

YVES: 

It's not Right. It's not.

 

MORRIS approaches from the background.

He remembers what LANGLY had told him about JOEY RAMONE earlier in the episode.

 

MORRIS: 

No, it's not. Langly said to me, 

"The Ones Who Never Give Up,

They Never Die."

 

MORRIS pauses.

 

MORRIS: 

I still don't know What That Means.

 

SCULLY: 

It means that, like everyone buried Here, 

The World is a Better Place for Them Having Been In It. 

(She pauses.) 

It means that they're gone... 

But They Live On Through Us All.

 

JIMMY is noticeably moved by SCULLY'S tribute to the GUNMEN.

He comforts YVES, putting his arm around her.

The four of them stand there in silence, as the camera pans up and away.

 

[Fade to black]

 

[THE END]