FIVE & SIX:

Angle on girls in the car -- Jessica is jumping out.

JESS: They need help over there!

DEE, SHAREEN & KATIE (small): aw cripes!

SEVEN:

In the paddy wagon, the Hero Killer is bending back the sheet metal which separated the back from the driver's seat. He's pulling at it from the corner, where we can see obvious bullet holes. We can see the head of an apparently dead officer on the front seat.

HERO KILLER (thought balloon): Well placed bullets have loosened this sheet metal...ah! And another dead cop means another gun!

EIGHT:

A foot on the gas pedal.

SFX: VRRRRRRR

NINE:

The reporter who wanted a closer look gets one:

REPORTER: We've made our way through the running masses, officers are afraid to shoot, because a stray bullet could--

TEN:

Tight panel. He looks to his side, where the speeding wagon [police truck] is inches from his face, speeding ever-closer.

REPORTER: Aaaaah!!!!

ELEVEN:

Officers are aiming their guns at the truck, others are scrambling to their cars.

OFFICER (into radio): Hold your fire! We'll follow him! Clear the streets and get him!

TWELVE (this panel sports no frame):

Jessica has shed the long coat and re-applied her mask to her face. She looks the part of a superhero.

ONE:

The truck heads down the street, crowds still moving, police cars heading out.

TWO:

Close on Hero Killer, smiling, manic, he's spinning the wheel...

THREE:

Shot of various people in crowd, pointing...

FOUR:

The truck's made a sharp turn and is heading into the square where the crowds were gathered, and some onlookers still stand.

FIVE:

Sharpshooters are gathering on two or three buildings in the vicinity...

SIX:

Jessica is running straight towards the truck

SEVEN:

Angle in car: Shareen is apparently driving backwards.

DEE: What are you doing?!

SHAREEN: Trust me.

EIGHT:

Police cars are surrounding the square...

NINE:

Officers on foot are gathering the rest of the onlookers...

TEN:

Jessica is waving for Hero Killer's attention as the truck comes speeding her way.

ELEVEN:

The truck gets nearer...

TWELVE:

It crashes into another car!...A 1988 Mercury Cougar.

ONE:

Hero Killer shoots at the girls through the window of the police truck...

VISUAL EFFECT: GUN BURSTS

TWO:

All four've ducked behind the car.

SFX (if off-panel): BANG BANG!!

JESSICA: If he'd hit me, it'd have slowed him down!

SHAREEN: Uh, right, for maybe a second!!

DEE: We crashed through a cop car barricade to save you!

THREE:

Katie's looking the other way, hand on a car window as if she's about to get up...

The other three are arguing...

JESSICA: I didn't ask to be saved! I think I had it handled!

DEE: Whatevah! We need to think how to get this guy!

SHAREEN: With my cell phone and the police radio in the car, and if Katie distracts hi--

FOUR:

Katie's stood up.

SHAREEN: Katie! Wha--

KATIE (small): Don't worry, I've got this.

KATIE: Mark...it's enough.

FIVE:

An officer with a megaphone...

OFFICER: Throw down your weapon...come out with your hands on your head!

SIX:

Smaller panel, he tosses two guns out of truck...

SEVEN:

He gets out...

HERO KILLER: Katie...

Top left corner...small panel, an inset...

Mark's pulled a gun on Katie.

MARK: ...It's just my nature, Katie. I was nev--

ALL OF PAGE:

SFX: KA-POW!!

Mark, the Hero Killer, is shot straight through the back!!...

Bottom right:

Small panel, inset...The officer/sniper who got him looks towards his victim.

Panel ONE (1/3 of page or so):

The women look upon Katie's dead brother.

Jessica has put an arm or two around her...

JESSICA: Katie, turn away...

KATIE: He wouldn't have shot me.

SHAREEN: You just...never get used to seeing a thing like that.

DEE: What the hell were they doin'?

DEE 2 (bigger): What were you cops doin', this is his sister!

KATIE: I don't believe he would have shot me.

TWO:

A police ambulance and two cars have driven up...

DEE: You unbelievably, small-minded, savage gangsters with badges!

THREE:

An older man, of powerful bearing, gets out of a police car...

FOUR:

Two female officers are walking Katie away from the scene with Jessica nearby...Shareen is behind Dee, watching over her shoulder.

DEE: Commissioner Atlas!  You a sight!  But your boys--

ATLAS: Put in your paper. They did what they needed to do. Besides, we've a problem, Dee.

ATLAS 2: My men caught this guy, because I told them where to go. It was assumed, after the information received from LA, he would go after Maximum Man's family next.

DEE: Okay. Not a big deal. I mean, you did what you hadda.

ATLAS 3: The problem, Dee, is that someone else out there knew Dan's secret I.D. -- someone had to tell the hero killer!

FIVE (if necessary):

Close on Dee, worried.

Panel ONE:

They're in a hotel room.

Shareen is on the phone; Dee is next to her as support. Katie is standing by the window, looking out on Railway City. Jessica sits in some RCPD sweats, her costume draped over a chair, she's got her knees up on the chair, sipping a grande cup of coffee.

SHAREEN: Mom! Finally!...Yeah, I been calling all over LA. I tried the Church but Reverend James wasn't there....Yeah, well, find him, find you, that's what I figured.

SHAREEN 2: You guys are both okay? Yeah, put him on.

JESSICA: Oh, thank goodness!

JESSICA 2: Dee. What do you want to do now?

TWO:

Dee gets up...

DEE: I dunno. I mean, I've dealt with gangs in my reporting here and there, an' some feel the family's off-limits, others think it's a good way to bargain with your enemy.

DEE: I don't know the "rules" of supervillains.

THREE & FOUR:

Katie slides open the glass door and steps out onto the balcony.

FIVE:

Shareen is still on the phone in the background.

JESSICA: I've got a lot to make up for. I mean, I don't think it's too late to make good on the promises I made John when we got married.

DEE: Girl, you can't do things for him anymore. From here on, you gotta do for you!

JESS 2: It is for me...But it's in honor of him...them. Are you in?

ONE:

Shareen's off the phone

SHAREEN: Well, everything's okay. But I'm heading back to LA...

SHAREEN 2: What?

DEE: Superlady here wants us to...what do you want us to do?

JESS: I don't know. I'm being stupid.

TWO:

Shareen bends down and looks her in the eye.

THREE:

SFX: SLAP!!

Shareen smacks Jessica.

FOUR:

Jessica wide-eyed.

JESS: You !@$% !@$&# @#!!

SHAREEN: Oh shee--

FIVE:

Jessica kicks Shareen in the gut.

SIX:

Shareen gets hold of her leg after being kicked.

FIRST SEVERAL PANELS:

Jessica falls, turns on her stomach, and sweeps Shareen's leg, making her fall.

Jessica stands over Shareen, fist back, ready to punch. Shareen is laughing.

SHAREEN: Oh crap! Okay, okay!! Hold on, mad dog!

NEXT PANEL:

JESS: What the--?! What was that about?

SHAREEN: I just wanted to see if you could handle yourself at all. Not bad.

DEE: You're crazy, Shareen! Jessica there was gonna kick your little black hide!

NEXT PANEL:

SHAREEN: Yeah, it ain't so little...I gotta admit, guys, I've always wanted to do this.

DEE (disgusted): What? Be a superhero?

SHAREEN (proud): Be a superhero!

NEXT PANEL:

DEE: Am I the only sane one?

JESS: What about the people that might come after you? We should be prepared.

DEE: Yeah, fine if they come after me.

SHAREEN: What about her?

SMALL PANEL:

They look out towards the balcony where Katie stands.

ONE:

The three ladies come through the door.

DEE: Katie? We wanna talk to you. We may not be safe just yet.

TWO:

Katie doesn't face them.

KATIE: I know. If someone knew Maximum's identity, they might have discovered where Robert and I were.

SHAREEN: Well, heck, that never occurred to me.

THREE:

KATIE: I hate to say it, but our best defense...

JESS: Is a good offense?

KATIE: No. Our best defense...

FOUR:

This panel, at least 2/3 of the page, is a medium Close on Katie, the others are in the foreground, facing away from the reader (but Dee should be favored a bit in the shot).

KATIE (cont'd): ...is a tall, solid fortress with a steel infrastructure, numerous escape routes, and an almost overwhelming vastness that'll give you three (Because I take no part in "battles") room to learn how to fight the super bad guys our husbands couldn't thwart with their combined might in all their years! It'll not be a headquarters, girls...it'll be a lair, a trap -- and they'll come to us!

A large art deco Railway City skyscraper should be conspicuously placed over Katie's shoulder. A (no longer working) skycar line leads into the top of this building. The moonlight shines down on the industrial skyline of Railway City...

DEE (arms crossed): Hhm...

DEE 2: ...Guess I'll lead.

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