More Than Physical

DAVID :

[UPBEAT FRENCH SONG PLAYING.]

Does that work? 

LENNY :

[LAUGHS.]

Nothing works.

DAVID :

So why? 

LENNY :

Got to try something, 

right? I'm-I'm Lenny.

DAVID :

She of The Great Escape.

LENNY :

Says every girl I ever banged.

[LENNY LAUGHS.]

Hey, speaking of 

You got any pills? 

Huh? Smoke? 

[CHUCKLES.]

[SNIFFING.]

Glue? 

DAVID :

(Deaf to Her Pleas —

Because She’s Not Real.)

Where is He? 

LENNY :

Hey, how come 

We never Talk? 

Come on. It's Me.

Hey, y-you look good.

How's-how's the girlfriend? 

Sydney, right? Syd? 

Or the - the old bat and 

the - and the black guy.

How's — Is he —

 He's looking pretty fit.

DAVID :

(Ignores her —)

Farouk? 

LENNY 

[FRENCH SONG CONTINUES.]

Dude you got to help me.

I'm dying out here.

I'm - I'm like a pet.

Or a house plant.

I pulled out all 

my hair before.

Yesterday.

But it all came back.

Maybe that was 

A Dream, then…

Can you talk to him? Yeah? 

El Rey? The King? 

Just get me out of here.

DAVID :

Farouk? 

LENNY :

[WHISPERS.]

Please.

Please.

Put me out of 

my misery.

Please.

The Shadow King :

You found him.

Our monk.

DAVID: 

In with The Sick.

There was a handprint 

on the glass.

He's loose now inside Division 3, 

but I can't  — his mind.

The Shadow King :

The Monks of the Mi-Go Order.

Impenetrable.

Unless you know The Secret.

[SNIFFS.]

DAVID: 

When I find him and he tells 

you where Your Body is, what 

are You gonna Do with it? 

The Shadow King :

Live in it, my dear.

South of France.

Women.

Money.

Power.

DAVID :

And that's it? No super-villain-

Destroy-The-World bullshit? 

The Shadow King :

[FAROUK CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]

This word "villain" Do you know 

where it comes from? 

C'est francais.

It means, originally, "one who Lives 

in A Village." A peasant.

Do I seem like 

A Peasant to you?

DAVID :

You know What I Mean.

The Shadow King :

- No.

This is important.

Language.

The Meaning of things.

You called me A Villain.

Me, The King.

The King of Kings.

[SPEAKING PERSIAN.]

For decades I rule 

over My Country.

I'm a good King.

Strong but just.

My People, 

they prosper.

And then Your Father, 

a white man, which is 

you tell me, important? 

He comes.

Does he speak our language? 

Does he know our customs? 

And he decides what? 

That My People 

should have better?

That he knows better?

Who is he to make 

such choices? 

DAVID :

[SETS GLASS DOWN.]

You fed off me when I was a baby.

And I'm supposed to feel, 

what, sorry for you? 

The Shadow King :

Is it such a terrible thing to 

feel sorrow for Your Enemy? 

What is he, except A Brother 

with another name? 

DAVID :

We're not brothers.

(In The Background, Lenny stands

on the end of The Diving Board,

Puts a Desert Eagle to her head

and tries to blow her brains out;

but He doesn’t let her —

Instead of A Bullet, comes

A stream of bubbles —)

[POPS.]

[WATER BURBLING.]

The Shadow King :

You are still young.

You think justice 

is a glass jar.

You fill it with your 

hurt, your hate.

Don't you think I have 

my own jar? 

I'm A Refugee.

Do you know The Meaning of 

that word? Refugee.

Driven from My Home, in exile.

Prisoner in another man's body.

DAVID :

Nobody put you in My Head.

Or Oliver's.

You made A Choice.

The Shadow King :

[CHUCKLES.]

Of course.

If The Choice is 

between Death or 

Life — I choose Life.

DAVID :

Listen, I'll call you when 

I have The Monk somewhere safe.

He takes us to Your Body, 

and then You are gone. Gone.

No one ever hears 

Your Name again….

( David moves to leave, but Farouk

isn’t done Talking, yet and refuses 

to let David exit his mind — duly,

He puts David back behind 

his poolside bar — )

The Shadow King :

— Interesting, don't you think? 

You're Doing This for 

A Woman You Love who Lives 

in A Future you're going to 

Destroy if you Help Me.

DAVID :

What do you mean?

The Shadow King 

The Timeline.

She lives in A Future 

You are trying to change, 

and when You Do, 

she will cease to exist.

So really you are helping 

her to commit suicide.

Oh, and be careful 

with The Monk.

He is very --

[SPEAKS GERMAN.] 

Contagious.

See, this, uh --

[TEETH CHATTERING.] 

Madness.

They think it's me, that 

I'm infecting people.

But it's him.

He's Toxic.

He is like Typhoid Mary.

But where he goes, I follow.

So your friends think 

that I am the Mary.

Not so smart, 

Your Friends.

DAVID :

I got to —

[GASPING BREATHS.]