Part 30

Part 30 Reading Time: 3 minutes

EXT. SITE OF CORTLANDT DEVELOPEMENT - DAY

Howard not pleased — Howard sees the changes made to Cortlandt Homes

Howard is walking past the site. He can see that balconies are being added and around the entrance is some trimming and some columns.

Howard’s face hardens.

INT. HOWARD’S NEW OFFICE - DAY

Dominique walks into Howard’s office.

HOWARD

Why did you come here?

DOMINIQUE

Because I couldn’t stand it any longer. You’ve been away for months. I had to see you again. To see you alone.

HOWARD

Please go.

DOMINIQUE

Roark, do I mean nothing to you?

HOWARD

I can’t answer you now.

DOMINIQUE

You stayed away from me for years. I tried to forget you. I couldn’t. You knew I never would.

HOWARD

Yes.

DOMINIQUE

I never thought it’d be Gail who’d bring you back to me. Don’t you see why I can’t stand it now? Living in a house you designed, seeing you constantly as a stranger having no right to look at you, to tell you that l...

HOWARD

Don’t say it.

DOMINIQUE

Do you remember? You said once that you... For all the years we’ll have to wait. Roark, I know that you’ve known what I felt all these years. We can never change it, neither one of us. I’m going to leave Gail. You may refuse to see me again, but I’m going to leave him.

HOWARD

Before you leave him will you help me with a problem of my own?

DOMINIQUE

Yes.

HOWARD

Will you do it without asking questions?

DOMINIQUE

Yes, Roark, anything you want.

HOWARD

You’ve seen Cortlandt Homes?

DOMINIQUE

Yes. I know what they’ve done to your work.

HOWARD

Next Monday night, I want you to drive up to the side of Cortlandt. You must be alone in your car. You must make it appear you were an innocent bystander...

DOMINIQUE

Roark, I know what you’re going to do. This is a test, isn’t it? Can I equal your courage, am I still afraid for you, can I help you take the most terrible chance you’ve ever...?

HOWARD

You can guess anything you wish. Just listen. When I finish don’t tell me whether you will help me or not. If you decide to do it, say nothing but let me see you do it.

DOMINIQUE

All right. Go on.

HOWARD

Drive up to Cortlandt Monday night at 11:30.

EXT. SITE OF CORTLANDT DEVELOPMENT - NIGHT

Dominique is in a car stopped outside of the site. A SECURITY GUARD comes out to her to see what the trouble is.

DOMINIQUE

I ran out of gas. May I use your telephone, please?

SECURITY GUARD

I’m sorry, ma’am, but our phone’s gone dead tonight.

DOMINIQUE

Where is the nearest garage?

SECURITY GUARD

Way down the road.

DOMINIQUE

Would you mind going there and getting somebody to help me?

SECURITY GUARD

Sure will, young lady. Glad to.

The security guard leaves and Dominique FLASHES LIGHTS OF CAR on and off.

A shadowy figure runs across the site.

Dominique runs through the site to a trench where she will be sheltered during the bombing.

Dominique runs throught the building site — Dominique runs through the building site

There is a SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS.

When the explosions stop, Dominique run over to her car and cuts herself with a fragment of glass and lays down in the car as if wounded by the explosion.