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(GUNSHOT)

STAN:

This is

Judgment Day!

Tonight, a loving sister

seeks retribution

for a cold

and calculated killing,

A lifetime criminal

who tried to keep

his felonious past a secret

finally gets his just deserts,

Will justice prevail?

Only time will tell,

as Declan McMahon faces

Judgment Day,

And so Declan McMahon

begins his date with destiny,

In a case that shocked many,

McMahon was convicted of

first-degree murder

for the brutal slaying

of former police officer

Katelyn Channing,

Heather, can you tell us

anything about

McMahon's demeanor?

HEATHER:

Oh, yes, I can, Stan,

As he was throughout

most of his trail,

McMahon seems aloof,

I'd even say arrogant,

An angry, troubled young man

to the bitter end,

STAN:

Let's take a look back,

You've been quoted as saying

that this program,

Judgment Day,

is a moral outrage,

Is that before or after

I called you voyeuristic scum?

You guys didn't

report the trail,

you wallowed in it,

If you feel that way,

then why are you taking part?

I don't have much of a choice,

Declan McMahon, you have been

sentenced to death for the

murder of Katelyn Channing,

You have chosen

to decline execution

at the hands of the state,

For the record,

is that your choice?

For the record, screw you,

I will remind you then

that pursuing to the agreement

that you signed,

the state is

no longer responsible

for your well-being,

The manner in which you

will die is out of our hands,

Is this still your choice?

Yeah, just like it's

your choice to

kill an innocent man,

This isn't justice,

it's the haves culling

the have-nots,

If that were true,

I can't think of anyone else

I'd rather see culled,

-(STRUGGLING)

-Understandably, emotions here

are running high, Stan,

but no higher than in the mind

of Allison Channing,

sister of the murder victim,

What could possibly be going

through that poor girl's mind

at a moment like this?

STAN:

I know what

I'd be thinking,

and it couldn't be heard

on prime time,

Let's hear the judge's

final instructions,

Declan McMahon,

I know remand you

from corporal punishment,

God have mercy on your soul,

(GAVEL BANGS)

-(GAS HISSING)

-Ahhh!

For those of you

new to

Judgment Day,

what you have

just witnessed is

the Justice Channel physician

injecting Declan McMahon

with a specially designed

sterile microchip

that has been keyed in

to the specific frequency

on the taser

that Allison Channing

will be using

while pursuing McMahon,

By design, her weapon

will not harm anyone else

who may happen to stray

in front of its deadly payload

of 10,000 volts,

Within 50 feet of the microchip,

the taser should be able

to knock McMahon down,

Within three feet,

coup de grace distance,

its crisp crackle of payback

is guaranteed to kill,

Just this morning

I spoke at length

with Allison,

She told me that not a day

goes by that she doesn't

think of her sister,

You loved Katelyn,

I miss her so much,

Kate didn't deserve

what happened to her,

-I'm sorry,

-It's okay to cry,

She believed that

doing the right thing

was very often

the hardest thing

a person could do,

And you believe that

delivering justice personally

to your sister's killer

is the right thing?

(SIGHS)

Well, I was raised

to believe in forgiveness,

but I don't know if

forgiveness is necessarily

the right thing

in a situation like this,

Would Katelyn

want you to forgive?

I don't think so,

As most of our audience knows,

Allison Channing will have

24 hours to catch Mr, McMahon,

And when she does,

our viewing audience will vote

on whether they want

Allison to kill him or not,

though the final decision

will be Allison's,

However, if Mr, McMahon

can avoid being caught,

his sentence will be

immediately commuted

to life imprisonment

with no hope of parole,

Still, a fair enough prize

for a man facing

the death penalty,

You should also point out,

Stan, that the microchip

placed under McMahon's skin

can be used by the producers

of

Judgment Day

to make sure

McMahon obeys

all the rules of the pursuit

as they were laid out to him,

And just like

Allison Channing's taser,

this little device

can cause McMahon considerable

pain and discomfort,

Any attempt to kidnap or harm

anyone he may

come in contact with

during the course of the show

will lead to an agonizing dose

of electrical current,

Likewise, any attempt

to disable the convict cam

we've embedded in his left eye

will also lead to punishment,

STAN:

McMahon will have to

rely on his wits,

If he is to survive,

it won't be because

he grabbed someone

or found a safe place to hide,

Not that the public

would let that happen,

There's a lot of animosity

out there towards McMahon,

Not only was his victim

a woman and an

ex-police officer,

but she was

handicapped as well,

crippled in the line of duty,

His trail was the highest

rated event ever seen

on the Justice Channel,

15,000,000 people

witnessed the verdict

in breathless anticipation,

I think it's safe to say

his appearance here

on

Judgment Day

should prove equally popular,

Declan McMahon,

As is customary, you will be

given a 20 minute head-start,

Ready?

(BEEPING)

I didn't kill your sister,

Everything you say

and everything you do

only makes this easier,

I almost look forward

to killing you,

Mr, McMahon,

I suggest you get a move on,

Is this the last time we'll

see Declan McMahon alive?

Stay tuned,

Judgment Day

will be right back,

CONTROL VOICE:

There is nothing wrong

with your television,

Do not attempt

to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling

the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you

with a thousand channels

or expand one single image

to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination

can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control

all that you see and hear,

You are about to experience

the awe and mystery

which reaches from

the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits,

CONTROL VOICE:

In the face

of violent crime,

the thin line between justice

and vengeance

can grow ever thinner,

But what happens when society

becomes as violent as the

criminals it seeks to contain?

-How's my hair?

-MAN: It's gorgeous,

Thank you,

-MAN: Back in 10 seconds,

Stan,

-(STAN CLEARS THROAT)

-I'm still waiting

for my low-fat decaf,

-MAN: Nine, eight, seven, ,,

-Six, five four, ,,

-(CLEARS THROAT)

Ah, ah, ah, ,,

Three, two, ,,

Welcome back to Judgment Day,

We are now three minutes

and 22 seconds

into convicted murderer

Declan McMahon's lead time,

In two minutes, an unmarked

Judgment Day

van

will drop McMahon

at an undisclosed location,

From there, he's on his own,

Now, once those 20 minutes

have elapsed,

we invite you to phone us

with your convict sightings

at our 1-800 number

or email us with your

digital images at our website,

Remember, a confirmed tip

can be worth $1,000,

JACK: And I know we've been

beating it into our audience

how special tonight is

at considerable cost

to the network,

isn't that right, Ev?

-You want an exact accounting?

-Oh, I'll give them

an exact accounting,

I'm missing five fingers

and one testicle

that the network's

holding as collateral,

(CHUCKLING)

Ev, do you want to add anything?

The network loves

what you people are doing,

it's changing the face

of television as we know it,

Okay, now look, I just want to

impress upon you how

important tonight is, okay?

Tonight is our Baghdad,

all right? What the Gulf War

did for CNN, Declan McMahon

is about to do for us,

Already I'm clocking

13 million warm bodies,

and that's before the hunt

has even begun,

And I'm guessing those numbers

are gonna double

as the show goes on,

What does that mean?

That means that by the time

Declan McMahon

is zipped into his body bag,

the Justice Channel will

have gone from the

little network that couldn't

into a player

thanks to us,

So let's do it, people,

Come on, Let's get out there

and do it, And remember,

keep it crisp,

I want pace, Pace, pace,

All right? Let's go,

Fly, kids, fly, There you go,

(SIGHS)

"Changing the face

of television,"

You really are

Mr, Inspiration, aren't you?

You don't think

that's what you're doing?

Jack, the van

just dropped off Declan,

Ah, great,

Where'd we drop him off?

An industrial park,

just North of here,

JACK: Wonder why

he wanted to go there,

Let's go full screen,

So, Ev, you haven't mentioned

the big meeting,

How'd it go?

Is the network gonna

pick up our show or not?

Well, it was

a spirited discussion,

There was some

resistance of course,

it's a big step for, ,,

(HUMMING)

Punch line,

They wanna order 22,

Yes! Oh, I told you they were

hot for us, didn't I?

Provided the show

delivers the numbers

you said it would, which, ,,

I think you've already done,

Well, it looks like you

and I are going to be

joined at the hip

for a little while, huh?

I must say I'm quite thrilled

for you, Jack,

-Thrilled for both of us,

-Hmm,

Well, I'm thrilled to hear you

say that, Ev, because, ,,

To be honest with you, I heard

a slightly different version

of how that meeting went,

-Really?

-Yeah, really,

I heard that you tried to

talk the network out

of picking up our little show,

What was it that you said?

"If you insist on continuing

with this series,

"I find it highly

irresponsible, but if that's

what you want to do,

"I can keep Jack in line,"

-Am I close?

-I guess you had

a few friends in the room,

A few more than you,

that's for sure,

Look, Jack, I don't want you

to take this the wrong way,

When you pitched the show

to the network, nobody

was a bigger fan than me,

These first specials,

they've been really amazing,

But weekly?

That scares me,

Well, of course it scares you,

Ev, because you're a dinosaur,

One of those leaf-eaters

the other dinosaurs

liked to fuck with,

We put that many criminals

on the street week after week,

we're tempting fate,

If even one

innocent person gets hurt

-because of us, ,,

-No one is going to get hurt

except for the criminals,

Evvie, look! 16,000,000

viewers are tuned in

to what we're doing right now,

That's more people than

voted in the last election,

It's a great show, Jack,

no one's disputing that,

We do what the cops,

the courts and the prisons

wish they could do,

We catch

and we punish criminals,

To Mr, and Mrs, John Q,

Mustard-Stain out there,

we are justice,

Jack, I think you're

blowing it just a little

out of proportion,

Really?

Well, that's very funny,

I thought I was understating it,

Jack, McMahon's

going into a building,

JACK: Man, I wish

that convict cam had sound,

Dawlish Security,

He's going to see his brother,

(PANTING)

Stay back,

I don't want 'em to see ya,

It's not like they won't

figure it out, bro,

-Hey, you okay?

-What do you think?

I know they're

gonna figure it out,

I'm counting on it,

I just don't want the TVs,

audience getting

too far ahead of me,

I want them to see it

in a certain way,

Get that

security camera footage?

Yeah, It wasn't easy,

but wait till you see it,

You were right about it

being messed with,

You were framed,

-Can you show it to me?

-Look, meet me,

You know the place,

Yeah, Yeah, okay then,

100 bucks says Dooley turns

his brother in before the

20 minute countdown hits zero,

You really think

the rest of the world

is as cynical as you are?

Hmm, Yeah, I do,

Does that mean

you take my bet?

Hardly,

-STAN:

Back from commercials

in 3,, ,

-Don't pout, Ev,

-It makes you look more

wrinkled than you already are,

-

2, 1,, ,

Time is almost up

for Declan McMahon,

Remember, callers, be prepared

with both an address and

nearest cross-street

when reporting

a fugitive sighting,

Stand by, phone lines

will be opening in minutes,

Heather, how are things

at your end?

Stan, they're fitting Allison

with the hunter cam,

Allison, McMahon still says

he was framed,

Does that bother you?

It saddens me

more than anything else,

I mean, you'd think that after

the trial and all the appeals

he'd finally just say

"You know what?

I did it, I'm sorry,"

Allison, woman to woman now,

do you think he's

counting on you being soft

at the moment of truth?

Well, if he is,

he'll be disappointed, because

I will do the right thing,

HEATHER:

And on that note,

Declan McMahon's

20 minutes are up,

Good luck, Allison,

Back to you, Stan,

All right, here we go,

The phones are ringing

off the hook, she's a winner

with our audience,

Hey, put that away,

I don't trust this

McMahon character, I want to

be prepared just in case,

Ev, if you zap him

too many times, you're gonna

piss off our audience, okay?

People want to believe in

the purity of the chase here,

The drama, the danger,

If you quick-kill him,

I'll strangle you,

STAN: Already the sightings

are coming in

fast and furious,

All of them point to the

Stadium Industrial Park,

Heather, has

Allison gotten work?

She has, Stan,

and she's speeding

in that direction,

STAN:

Still the question

on everyone's mind remains,

Why hasn't McMahon

put more distance between

himself and Allison Channing?

Go to the convict cam, now,

Ready convict cam, go!

JACK:

Declan, move it!

You can get away from her,

What the hell is he doing?

Get me an audience vote now,

I can prove my innocence,

I have actual proof,

-Save it,

-Just let me show it to you,

Please, come on,

It's a trick, He's going to

do something to her,

"Please"? Is that what

my sister said before

you stabbed her to death?

-Give it, ,,

-(CAMERAMAN GRUNTING)

-(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

-Ahhh!

JACK: You can't kill him yet,

honey, it's too early,

Our ratings will go

right in the friggin' toilet,

Where's the audience vote?

(GRUNTING)

Allison, come on, Come on,

Ask yourself,

before you pull

that thing again, please,

If I'm guilty, why, ,,

Why aren't I running away?

-(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

-Ahhh!

The audience vote

is running 70-30

to kill him now,

Right, Then they'll all

turn off their

friggin' TV sets,

Go ahead, Go ahead

and finish him off, honey,

Kill me while you're at it,

(HOARSELY)

You're not a killer, come on,

Don't let them

turn you into one,

Let me show you the truth,

(GRUNTING)

Whoa! Son of a bitch!

-Wait a second, let him go,

-He could have killed her,

he's getting away!

Ev, let him go,

He didn't hurt her,

Let him go, Ev, We need a show,

Are you okay?

JACK:

Ev, ,,

Listen to me, We need a show,

New life for Declan McMahon,

Clearly he's decided

to make this

a little more difficult

trying to disorient us

by moving his convict cam,

I can't watch this,

What's the matter, haven't you

ever been to Sundance?

This kind of crap wins awards,

Throw it to Heather, will you?

Okay, ready two, and go two,

Allison, are you all right?

I'm fine, more scared than hurt,

He said that he could

prove his innocence,

Any idea what he meant?

No, and to be honest,

I really don't care,

And so the hunt continues,

Back to you, Stan,

STAN:

Remember, callers,

be prepared with both

-an address and

nearest cross-street, ,,

-What's he doing now?

It looks like he's on

some kind of fire escape,

EVERETT: Fire escape,

I'm really starting

to like this guy,

Great, I'm starting to hate him,

Looks like he

backed into that building,

Oh, what the hell

is he doing now?

Maybe he's taking a breather,

But this is TV, Mr, McMahon,

we have a very short

attention span,

And the rules explicitly state

that hiding out

is strictly verboten,

You can stun him,

Do not kill him,

Just a couple

of seconds, okay? Got me?

That's very big of you, Thanks,

(BEEPS)

Again?

(BEEPS)

Huh, tough little monkey, huh?

High threshold of pain,

that means a great

third act climax,

No one's gonna be

channel surfing

when our little lady

pins him down, that's for sure,

Ooh, look at our ratings,

18,000,000 and still climbing,

Tell Stan to kick in

the file stuff, would you?

It should probably

come as no surprise that

Declan McMahon is cagey,

From his beginnings

on the meanest streets,

he showed a remarkable

ability to improvise,

Burglary, breaking

and entering, grand larceny,

But clever lawyers

and technicalities

kept McMahon from serving

any more than a few months,

By the time he was 25,

he was already on his way

to becoming a career criminal,

And then, a respite,

McMahon tried to go straight,

He changed his name,

and with the assistance

of his brother,

applied for a job

at Dawlish Security,

where he crossed paths with

former police officer,

Katelyn Channing,

who learned the truth about

McMahon and his criminal past

and confronted him with it,

only to pay the ultimate price,

On the night of August 21st,

McMahon went to Katelyn's

apartment to surprise her

stabbing her 14 times,

And then to cover his tracks

tried to make it look

like a robbery,

-McMahon's nefarious plan, ,,

-Damn him,

he's just sitting there!

-Hit him again!

-

, ,,found moments later

with his victim's blood, ,,

(GRUNTING)

Dooley, hurry up, man,

Ahhh!

Ah, see, He's inside somewhere,

EVERETT: Is that an office?

-Bro, are you alright?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah,

-Sorry it took me so long,

-It's okay, it's okay,

Stay back,

Don't you want to see this?

Nah, not yet,

I don't want to give it away,

Just tell me what you found,

Nothing, and that's the point,

-Nothing?

-There's 10 hours

of security footage here,

Everything the lobby camera

recorded five hours

before you showed up at

that cop's apartment

and five hour afterwards,

And you were the only person, ,,

Well, except for

the other tenants,

on the tape,

Okay, Dooley,

now you're losing me,

because if there's

no one else on the tape,

I am so screwed here,

Oh, there's someone else

on the tape all right,

only you can't see him,

They went frame by frame and

they removed every little bit

of whoever was there

ahead of you, Everything

except for frame 2-5-9,

What's there?

That's the one

little piece they missed,

I almost missed it too,

it's real subtle,

you should check it out,

Nah, I'll take it with me,

I've been here

too long already,

They're going to be onto me,

gotta go,

What difference does it make?

I mean, this is

the proof you need,

I wish I could see

every cop's face

when the truth hits TV land,

This is not gonna be easy, man,

Don't make yourself crazy, bro,

You got 'em,

What if the cops didn't do it?

No, my whole plan was to show

the whole world how far the

cops went to try and get me,

But now that I know this, ,,

Maybe those people

at

Judgment Day, ,,

What? You're nothing to them,

Just call it a hunch, okay?

But if the cops know

that I wasn't the guy

they'd be backing off,

They'd be looking

for the real killer,

Yeah, I guess, and the network

would have the technology,

Remember that bozo

they assigned to me

for my attorney?

Well, he tried to get the tape

it took him almost a week,

Maybe this was the reason,

I guess it's possible, but why?

That's the million dollar

question now, isn't it?

Until I find out the answer

there's not point

giving away what we know,

I need to buy some time,

You got something

sharp around here?

You mean like a knife?

No, more like a, ,,

Like a grapefruit spoon,

JACK: Whoa,

what the hell was that?

What the hell just happened?

Damn it, if some lowlife

just mugged my convict

I'll kill him,

We've lost signal

from the convict cam,

That's it, I'm

pulling the plug right now,

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on,

We have a sighting

and we have an address,

We know where he is?

Ev, relax, will ya?

We'll get 'em,

We always get 'em,

See? Overreacting as usual,

my friend,

Would you like me

to hold that thing for you?

Why aren't people

reacting to him? Where are

the phone calls?

It's the ski mask!

Oh, that smart S, O, B, !

(JACK LAUGHING)

Nobody knows it's him because

he's wearing a ski mask,

Brilliant, Five stars, Yes,

Is that Maple Street?

Is he downtown?

Look, the terraces, the pistons,

EVERETT: The World

Trade Center,

Bad move, Declan, bad move,

Alert the public

to a possible ski mask,

Come on, you gotta admit

this is sort of fun,

don't you think?

Yeah,

A real blast,

JACK: That's the spirit,

Our rooms are $59 a night

or $7 an hour depending

on how long you are here,

Towels are $2,50 extra,

sheets $5,

Don't need 'em,

Privacy on the other hand

will cost you more,

$20 buy you 20 minute,

STAN: So as

Allison Channing and our

Judgment Day

video crew

race towards

the World Trade Center,

a kill-shot

may at last be imminent,

Will McMahon slip away again?

Heather Cattrell spoke

with this cagey criminal

several days ago,

You've complained that the way

you've been presented

on this show is inaccurate,

Everything you've done

is painting me as a killer,

Do you deny

your criminal history?

If you're asking me if I was

a model citizen, no, I wasn't,

But I wasn't the

hopped-up little thug

you portrayed me as either,

Oh, now wouldn't you say

that that's splitting hairs?

I mean, by any other color,

isn't a thief a thief?

Oh, yeah, a thief's a thief,

A murder's a murderer

if that's what

you want to him to be,

Alright, Dooley,

You said frame 259, come on,

Come on,

-(BEEPING)

-Where's the guy?

There,

The corner,

Come on, come on,

Zoom, baby, zoom,

What is that?

(READING)

STAN:

Allison Channing

and her hunter cam

are closing in on Declan,

What kind of a friggin' moron

hides in a public place?

Thought this guy

had more sense than that,

Unless, ,, Unless he wants us

to know where he is,

Does that scare you, Jack?

Maybe this guy is just

a little bit smarter than you?

You know something, Ev?

I've decided I don't want you

keeping me in line,

I don't think it's up to you,

Where is the damn thing?

Oh, I know, Network's

gotta have somebody

in my face,

Heaven forbid

they let me just do my job,

Give me the kill-fob, Jack,

But you know what?

I bet I can talk them into

giving me somebody younger,

Somebody hipper,

Somebody with real

cojones

in his pants

instead of Depends,

Give me the damn kill-fob, Jack!

Come and get it,

-(CRACKLING)

-JACK: Oops,

You son of a bitch!

Jack, she's getting close!

Turn around,

I said, turn around!

Oh, my God,

Get a camera on me, now!

HEATHER:

Ladies and gentlemen,

never before has a criminal

gone to such lengths

to spare himself

what he deserves,

Declan McMahon has removed

his own eyeball

in order to rid himself

of the camera that we've

planted in his head,

Go to commercial break, now!

Go to commercial,

Oh, my God! What an act break!

This guy is fantastic!

Johnny Citizen has got to be

filling his shorts right now,

Jack, this thing is useless!

For God's sake, that maniac

could be anywhere!

Yeah, exactly, and look

at our numbers, 24,000,000

served and loving it,

Hey, when we come

out of commercial, I want you

to go to that piece of tape

I had you shoot

where the shrink calls Declan

a "dangerous sociopath",

Our audience is gonna freak!

I'm pulling the plug, This is

Everett Costello, over

at Just, ,,

(BANGING)

I'm saving you from yourself,

Believe me,

Don't you think

the network is drooling

over these numbers?

24,000,000 to one says you lose,

Tell Stan to offer $5,000

for the first confirmed

sight of our boy

and $10,000 for the first

piece of digicam

with Declan's face on it,

MAN:

Okay,

You really think the network

is that irresponsible?

Oh, geez,

You still don't get it, do you?

Nice,

Again, that's $5,000 for

the first confirmed sighting,

$10,000 for verifiable digicam,

Our operators are standing by,

Heather?

Thanks, Stan,

Allison, you've

heard the reward, you've seen

people's reactions,

What do you do now?

Go home and wait, Until

someone decides to help me,

there's nothing more I can do,

And there you have it,

A despondent Allison Channing

asked you viewers to help

bring this

criminal to justice,

Have you seen this man?

If so, call us here

at

Judgment Day... at

(READING)

It should have been all over

once they found Dooley,

Man, that kill-switch,

Why haven't they used it?

(MAN SHOUTING IN LOCAL

LANGUAGE)

(DOOR HANDLE RATTLING)

That's him! Stop!

We know who you are!

Stop!

(SHOUTING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE)

Look, you don't seem to get it,

I'm running out of time,

This man killed my sister!

I was promised a chance

to avenge her death,

And you'll get your chance,

Just don't blow it

when you do,

And why are your people

constantly second-guessing

me on the air?

It's a TV show,

People like a character arc,

We're just trying to give

your personality

a little more dimension,

My personality does not

need more dimension,

I just want what I was promised,

I want to kill Declan McMahon!

(DIAL TONE)

You so interested in killing?

Let's get started,

If you fail your sister,

if Declan evades you

for the full 24 hours,

how will that make you feel?

Pretty terrible, I guess,

Like I let her down,

But then again, I think that

Kate would know how much

I wanted to do right by her,

Tighten two,

Ready two, and go two,

Okay, folks, Let's get

the crime scene

re-enactment up

-followed by

the trial highlights,

-(DOOR OPENS)

How long before

we can get that on the air?

30 seconds,

Let's do it in 20,

I don't want to

lose our audience,

Ev! Hi, how're you doing?

Welcome back,

Where've you been?

Excuse me,

Ready three,

I just spoke with the network,

They couldn't be happier

with how things are going,

They've got advertisers

screaming at them

to get them on the air,

Hell, they're even thinking

22 episodes won't be enough,

that maybe they'll turn over

their whole prime time

schedule to

Judgment Day,

(CLICKS TONGUE)

What can I tell you, Evvie,

It's a brave new world,

There's no part in it for you,

So it seems,

Which is why I told them I quit,

Oh, geez, Evvie, I'm sorry,

I almost feel like it was

kinda my fault,

Glad I could make your day,

(SCOFFS)

My day?

How about my day, my week,

my whole friggin' year, pal,

Okay, folks, let's

whip up a frenzy,

Somebody get me McMahon,

I've seen all the evidence

I need to know

what you're capable of,

You've seen

what they wanted you to see,

Oh, what? Like this

particular picture, huh?

Look, why don't you

just shoot me

and get it over with?

You're right, you know,

I should take a chance,

Stand behind the truth,

Hmm?

I didn't kill your sister,

You were found

outside of her apartment with

her blood all over your hands,

Yeah, but she was already dead

when I got there,

I don't deny that

I threatened her,

That was stupid,

Me going there,

that was even more stupid,

But I had to do something

for my brother, Dooley,

She was gonna

have him fired for

bringing me to the company,

What, she was

gonna fire your brother?

Yeah, And he was

always there for me,

Just like Katelyn

was always there for you,

He put his ass on the line

trying to help me go straight,

Oh, firing me,

that was one thing,

but firing Dooley?

Well, why did you break in?

You think if I just

buzzed Katelyn she would have

opened up her doors to me?

I've done a lot of bad stuff

in my life and

I'm not proud of it,

But I've never killed anybody,

And all the same, somebody

wants me to go down for this

and they want it badly enough

that they altered

the only piece of evidence

that would have cleared me,

-Well, why would they do that?

-I don't know,

But the proof's right here

on the disk,

This is the security tape

taken from the lobby camera

of your sister's building

the night she was murdered,

And I'm on here,

There's somebody else

on here too who

came in in front of me,

Except now they're not

on the tape 'cause they've

been digitally removed,

They're counting on you to

kill me no matter what,

And they're counting on me

to give you

all the reasons to do it,

And I say go ahead,

But before you do,

just take a look at the disc,

Come on,

The camera takes a picture

every four seconds,

It takes more time than that

to get inside the door

into the lobby,

So either he's

the fastest man alive, or

like you say, someone

wiped out those frames,

You have a picture

of the man's reflection

but not the man who made it,

You'd better be careful,

You keep thinking

about all this, you're gonna

start to believe me,

Well, so what?

So there was a pizza guy,

I mean, all that says

is that someone

in the building orders pizza,

It hardly proves that someone

else killer her or that

someone's trying to frame you,

Okay, fine,

he's just a pizza guy,

maybe he's not the killer,

but maybe he saw the killer,

Maybe he saw nothing at all,

but it points back to

the same question, doesn't it?

Why make him disappear?

I want to do the right thing,

I'm sure you do,

Now, I think I can

find this guy,

At the very least,

I know where he works,

I just need a little time,

Can you give it to me?

I'd really like to know what

the people at

Judgment Day

are going to think about this,

I'll meet you back here

in two hours,

No,

Here, Take my cell phone,

It'll be safer,

Thanks,

Declan? You screw with me,

I'll hunt you down,

And I will kill you,

So you were in contact

with your brother

during his trial?

Look, I felt bad for him,

It was my fault

he even applied for the job

at Dawlish Security

in the first place,

At what point did he

arrange to meet with you

to go to your apartment?

Look, my brother is

an innocent man,

We have proof,

Whose idea was it

to cut out his eye?

Mind if I ask him

a few questions?

Who the hell are you?

I'm from the network,

(SCOFFS)

Is that right?

And I suppose you think that

means that you can just, ,,

Detective, my network

prosecuted Mr, McMahon,

we still hold his life

in our hands,

I think I can get

his brother here

to tell us where he is,

You see,

unlike Detective Meacham,

I'm not hamstrung by the law,

A pizza delivery guy did it?

Well, to be honest with you,

Jack, I really don't know

who did it,

Only, there was a pizza guy

on the tape, but someone

had him removed,

Boy, that is puzzling,

And it does seem to suggest

exactly what Declan said,

that there was somebody else

in the building

right when he said there was,

So then he might be

telling the truth,

You know,

my network executive,

Everett Costello

has been itching to juice

Declan since the get-go,

He's been nervous as hell

about this whole thing,

and now I see why,

He obviously altered

this surveillance tape,

But why would he

do something like that?

He hates me

and he hates the show,

Imagine what would happen

if it got out that

we went after an innocent man,

We'd be yanked

right off the air,

and rightly so,

See, network people live

in a constant state of fear,

And nothing makes them

more fearful than

a show like ours,

Well, I want to meet this man,

I want to hear it

straight from his lips

why he would do

such a terrible thing,

I'm sure you do, but we

have to be a little more

careful than that,

I mean, we have to think about

Declan's safety right now,

Believe me, if Everett

wants him dead, he'll figure

a way to make it happen,

I should

get in touch with Declan,

I'd like to meet with him,

do you think he'd do that?

I think so,

Let's hope so,

Everett Costello tried to

rewrite this show, but we

caught him just in time,

Wait till he sees the ending

I have in mind for him,

JACK: That's

ri-god-damn-diculous,

Of course Dooley

knows something,

How much is it gonna cost

to get a cop to

pistol whip the S, O, B, ?

Oh, don't give me that,

everybody's got a price,

Up mine? Up yours, fella,

We're about to

come out of commercial,

What do you wanna do now?

Go to the crime scene

re-enactment again,

Just do it!

And so with nightfall

approaching, the overriding

question still remains,

Where is Declan McMahon?

-MAN: The night

of August 20th?

-(STAN SPEAKING ON TELEVISION)

Yeah, He delivered a pizza

over to the Wellesley

on Grover,

And you're looking

for him because?

I stiffed him over the top

and it's been

eating me alive ever since,

You sure you've never

been in here before?

I could swear I've seen you,

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure,

I get that a lot,

Is she in the book or what?

I don't think I can help you,

The guy who was

delivering that night, Joey,

he doesn't work here anymore,

The last I heard,

he was in jail,

Juvenile hall actually,

they got him

for breaking and entering,

I didn't know he had

a rap sheet when I hired him,

Juvie? How old is he?

Told me he was 19,

Turned out

he was 16 by a couple

of minutes, I think,

What's the matter with you?

Hmm? Oh, nothing,

Just realized something,

After several hours

of questioning, the police

released Dooley McMahon

saying that had no grounds

on which to hold him

any longer,

HEATHER: Rumor has it that

you used a grapefruit spoon

to remove

your brother's eyeball,

-Is that true?

-I'm not

talking about this, okay?

Do you know where Declan is?

Just get out of my place!

Is it true that when

the police cornered you, you

tried to squish the evidence?

HEATHER: With the release

of Dooley McMahon,

the hunt for Declan

takes another strange turn,

Where is

Katelyn Channing's murderer?

Who else may be in danger

at this very moment?

Yeah, that Joey,

Wouldn't surprise me at all

to find out he

was some kind of, ,,

(THUMPS COUNTER)

STAN:

, ,,'til this mentally

deranged man has been caught

and finally punished,

Killer,

Dooley!

I know why they set me up,

Why was that?

He's from the network,

-You sons of bitches,

-Look, it's okay,

he wants to help,

Why is that, so you can give

your ratings a little boost?

You guys have taken the whole

idea of right and wrong

and turned it

into a freaking game show,

Yes, we have, haven't we?

Did you find him?

The guy in the security tape?

DECLAN: Oh, yeah, I found him,

His name is Joey, He's only 16,

Too young for the death penalty,

That's why Jack needed you

to be guilty no matter what,

He had no show otherwise,

You didn't know that, right?

No, but I should've,

(CELLPHONE RINGING)

-Allison,

-Declan,

I showed the security tape

to the producer

and he was shocked,

The network did this to you,

The executive on the show,

his name's Everett,

He'll do anything to stop you,

-Is that right?

-Yeah, but you're

gonna be okay,

The producer wants to

meet us here in a few minutes,

so you gotta come back,

-Mmm-hmm,

-And, Declan, ,,

I'm sorry,

You don't need to apologize,

Allison, it's not your fault,

The set the both of us up,

Dooley,

The producer wants

to meet with me,

He says you're the bad guy,

Well, he would know,

wouldn't he,

How do I know

he's not telling the truth?

I guess you're gonna

have to take my word for it,

If you do go,

half the police force

will be waiting for you,

Oh, I'm counting on it,

-So you are going?

-Mmm-hmm,

-In that case, ,,

-Easy,

You're gonna need these,

And it looks like

we're going to view the murder

re-enactment scene yet again,

is that right?

Uh, ,, Declan McMahon

has just been spotted

on a motorcycle

travelling South

in the direction of downtown,

Hi,

Hi,

Sorry if I'm early, I, ,,

I just wanted to make sure

everything would

go just right,

Now, where was he

when you called him?

I don't know,

What are you doing?

Oh, you won't need this anymore,

Well, looks like

our boy's almost here,

You know, I have to thank you,

This is gonna be a great finish,

When Declan gets here,

he's gonna kill you,

What are you talking about?

You saw the tape, you know

that Declan's innocent,

Yes, but he appears

to be guilty,

People want him to be guilty,

Who are we to

take that away from them?

You should want him

to be guilty too,

Otherwise, who pays for

your sister's murder?

Look, I wanted justice

for my sister,

You call this justice?

Killing an innocent man, ,,

There are bigger issued here

besides one man's

guilt or innocence,

If that means that guys

like Declan McMahon

are expendable, well, ,,

(CLICKS)

So be it,

Understand?

Yeah, I think I do,

(DIALING)

Okay, I think this will work,

Smash-cut

to Allison's apartment,

The

Judgment Day

producer arrives,

he tries to make

a deal with Declan, ,,

-Yes, this is an emergency,

-But Declan is beyond reason,

-My name is Allison Channing,

I live at, ,,

-He turns the gun on Allison,

(GRUNTING)

Now you're a murderer,

how does it feel?

I'll get back to you on that,

-(GRUNTS)

-(YELLING)

You murdering bastard,

I grab for the gun

and I shoot him in the leg,

Ahhh!

But he keeps coming,

So I have to shoot him again,

Ahhh!

But Declan still keeps coming,

So I do what I have to do

I kill the bad guy,

Fade to black,

My God, the camera!

Ready for your close up, Jack?

No, that can't be, ,,

No, ,,

No,

No, No!

(YELLING)

No!

MAN:

Let's go to a commercial,

Let's go, let's go,

So much for Judgment Day,

Looks like you've

got your wish, Ev,

We're history,

Oh, I don't know about that,

I'd say we've got at least

one more episode in us,

(GUNSHOT)

So, tell us, Declan,

Being on the other side

of the gun,

Do you still consider this

a moral outrage?

DECLAN: Yeah, I do,

HEATHER: Then why are you

doing it?

Don't have much of a choice,

(SOBBING)

No, No, Please, ,,

No! No, please, no, ,,

No, ,,

CONTROL VOICE:

To those who would corrupt

the search for truth

be warned,

the sword of justice

cuts both ways,

-(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

-(JACK SCREAMING)