DEVIL'S NIGHT
Treatment
By
A. Crenshaw, Author
LOGLINE: When all hell breaks loose whose side will you be on, the devils or the good guys?
All the cops and newspaper reporters and not to mention street gang warlords in Detroit are gathered for a news conference in THE MAYOR'S mansion. Gesturing to the rogues gallery of crime derelicts assembled behind him THE MAYOR (played by the same guy who was the belligerent Marine in that Tom Cruise movie where he was a lawyer) announces that he has made the impossible happen and brokered a deal whereby these hoodlums have agreed to a cease fire over the Halloween weekend.
"That's right," he says all superior sounding. "These gentlemen will not, I repeat WILL NOT set fire to the city, loot stores, flip police cruisers over, and all that other horrendous shit they usually pull on Devil's Night that terrorizes us." It is explained for audiences not from Detroit that Devil's Night is the night before Halloween and it is true that all sorts of bad shit usually does happen then.
"If you really want to help the city why don't you order your men to lock these sonsofbitches up now that you have them all in one place?" This is BRACE MAVERICK who is a investigative reporter who was once a cop. "Is it because it is a election year and you need their muscle to get voted in again?"
THE MAYOR chuckles but you can tell it is an act he does not like these kinds of questions, or BRACE MAVERICK. "Careful what you say Mr. Mav-prick or you might become the news and not just report it."
Then he invites all the other reporters in for sandwiches and booze but not before saying, "Uh uh Maverick, not you."
Note: THE MAYOR and MAVERICK grew up together and were best friends until one took up a life of crime and the other a cop.
Later THE MAYOR the bad ass street toughs and pimps are hanging out at their clubhouse where a major get down is about underway. "We got to do something about that mutha@#*!! MAVERICK. If I lose the election you lose the election and you can kiss your nefarious crime empire goodbye and all this phat dope too."
LO-CO JACKSON the chieftain of the Southside Black Afro Gangsta Boyz says "Not to worry we gonna put a mutha*@#!! razor in his apple tonight if you know what I mean."
THE MAYOR winks and smiles and they all start snorting cocaine off of mirrors with rolled up hundred dollar bills, even THE MAYOR as spaced out naked stripper whores start dancing all freaky to Eddie Grant's ELECTRIC AVENUE.
ACT 2
BRACE MAVERICK pulls up to his flatiron brownstone loft on his 1968 vintage Triumph motorcycle but pauses before going in. His mail is still in the box even though his lady LACY said she was going to pick it up before dinner that night. BRACE knows that something is wrong and that it is time for him to turn it on. Just in time too because one of the Downtown Red Diablos has just squeezed off a clip from his assault rifle and turned the jack o lantern next to BRACE into pie filling.
Somersaulting over a bush BRACE frisbees a hubcap back at the guy and it catches him in the throat decapitating him in the process. Closeup of his head rolling around with the eyes still blinking kind of like "Huh? Did he just cut my head off with a hubcap? This is one bad adversary!"
Quick cut to his headless body and his finger is still locked on the trigger so that he sends a hail of bullets upwards killing a bunch of Uptown Gangsta Monkeys and Northwest Naz-T Dawgz who fall to the ground from the fire escape all bloody. They are all holding guns and hand grenades which BRACE MAVERICK grabs a bunch of them and gives these fucked up criminals a lesson in justice as if to say, "how's it feel to be my bitch."
Now we see MAVERICK killing members of the East Side Zulu Roughnecks, the Westend UnHoly Muthas, the Midtown Insane Jesters of Mayhem, even a asian gang called the Hmong Hellraisers who try to use ancient martial arts tricks and numchucks on MAVERICK and a whole bunch of other gangs too. (The audience can just tell they are about to be treated to some expert ass kicking action.)
Note: much of this is in slow motion and we hear the Cream song WHITE ROOM being played as MAVERICK delivers multiple ass kickings.
MAVERICK turns a flame thrower onto a passing garbage truck loaded with dynamite being driven by a gang guy and it blows about a hundred of these gun toting hoods all to shit. He yells "Speed kills" just before it explodes.
After he chops a guy’s arms off MAVERICK ties a bag around the guy’s head suffocating him slowly. “Paper or plastic?” The loss of his arms makes him unable to tear the bag away so he suffocates.
MAVERICK sticks a couple steaks into the pockets of another guy which makes his pack of pit bulls turn on him and eat him up when they were really supposed to get MAVERICK while MAVERICK says "Personally I'm a cat person myself."
A pizza delivery guy is walking by. MAVERICK takes the steaming hot pizza and shoves it into the face of a gang member. “Did somebody say hold the anchovies?” he askes while the guy screams from the hot cheese and sauce burning his skin to death.
On the top of a building MAVERICK kung fu spin kicks four hoods into the whirling blades of a gang helicopter where they get chopped to bits "You guys really need to pull yourselves together." (this makes the helicopter crash into the side of the gang clubhouse and it blows up and flaming guys are flying everyhwere).
MAVERICK sticks the barrel of a machine gun into a gangsta's mouth saying "fu@$ you" and then he blows the guy's brains out.
ACT THREE
MAVERICK staggers all the way upstairs and over a pile of dead bleeding gangbangers where LO-CO JACKSON and THE MAYOR are just about to turn his girl LACY into one of their zombie hooker strippers.
THE MAYOR looks at MAVERICK and says "Aren't you a little old for trick or treats MAVERICK." But all MAVERICK can see is LACY curled up against LO-CO and looking really wasted with some rubber tube tied around her arm and LO-CO is fixing to put a needle in her arm. (LO-CO is the son of MAVERICK's dead cop partner who's death made MAVERICK quit the force and become a reporter.)
MAVERICK stares at them "I can't decide which one of you pieces of human shit I should kill first so I guess I'll kill you both at the same time." He has a gun in each hand and they each take multiple shots in the chest which tears a huge hole in them as they fly backwards and stick to the wall.
Pull tight onto MAVERICK's face as he screams "Aaaaaaarggggghhhhhh!" on top of the Cream WHITE ROOM four chord drumbeat interval in slow motion. Brass bullet casings are flying everywhere.
LO-CO is still holding the needle and MAVERICK takes it and jabs it in his arm while he says "this won't hurt a bit" and then with some still in it he jabs it into THE MAYOR. "Don't you guys know you can get aids from sharing needles?"
LO-CO: See you in hell Maverick.
MAVERICK: Maybe maybe not but Where you are going it is devil's night every night so I guess you'll be happy.
THE MAYOR: Looks like you win this time Maverick.
They die on the spot from a deadly combination of gunshot wounds and drug od and massive internal injuries combined with bleeding.
MAVERICK unties LACY and hugs her "everything's gonna be ok baby." A squad of police cars has pulled up and you can tell by their faces that they can't believe all of the dead gang members. MAVERICK says "Excuse the mess it is the maid's day off." He stops a second to show them an underground tunnel that leads from the street gang clubhouse to THE MAYOR's mansion. MAVERICK walks past them with LACY in his arms. Cut to them on a beach somewhere warm and peaceful and the credits.
THE END
