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Wanna Be  - part 1
Avenue C, Alphabet City, New York
A woman, accompanied by two children is pushing a double baby stroller down the street. It is clear she is the mother of all the children. The boy is older and taller than the little girl. The woman instructs the little girl to tell Daddy that she wants to go to the park. The woman explains, that even though she doesn’t want to go to the park, that Kiden (the little girl’s name) can be a big help to her mom. While Kiden and her Dad are at the park, Mom and the rest of the kids will buy a birthday cake and meet them both back at home. The mother refers to the older boy as Ty and says he is going to carry the cake.
The woman and the children walk across the street and enter the police station. She asks Pat, the man behind the desk, to phone her husband and let him know his family is here.
A policeman appears and Kiden runs to him calling him “Daddy”. The father greets his family with hugs for all of them. The woman asks if he can watch Kiden while they make a quick trip to the store. He tells her that he only has three more minutes before he is off shift and they can go to the store as a family. Ty starts to tell his Dad that he can’t go to the store with them but Kiden interrupts and asks to be taken to the park. Before he can reply to his beloved little girl, Mom tells him that she is very active today and she just needs a break for a few minutes. After all, they will all meet back home very soon. The frustrated mother and the rest of the children leave the police department and head for the store.
The confused father looks down at his little girl and tells her that he will punch out and then they will go to the park and get ice cream also. Kiden rewards her Dad with one of those big smiles only little girls can give their Dads. Father and daughter leave the police station happy to be in each other’s company. Its plain to the other people on the street that she is definitely Daddy’s little girl. He takes to her the local ice cream stand, where they thank Nino for the wonderful treat they get.
Daddy is in the middle of explaining to Kiden that he knows all about the cake and asks if she wants the slide or the swings first. They can both here a car screeching around the corner. The devoted father is the first to spot the gun and he quickly shoves his precious little girl roughly to the ground; inadvertantly making her drop her ice cream treat. The car pulls up on the street in front of them and the passenger of the car takes aim with the gun. He fires twice and strikes the cop once in each kneecap causing him to fall. While he is falling the shooter files again into the right wall of the chest. The young Kiden is sitting on her rump, legs stretched straight out in front of her. She sees the whole scene.
The two things that she remembers the most are the sound of the gunshots and seeing her father lying in the street covered in his own blood. She hears a voice calling her name from somewhere far off, as if she is in a dream, asking if she is ok.
The present time
Flash forward to a young looking teenager sitting on a commode in the ladies room. She has short stringy blond hair, is wearing a pink tube top (shoulders and arms bare), and in her right hand she is holding a small blue pill. Around her neck is along metal chain with a baby pacifier on it for decoration. Her friend outside the stall calls to her to hurry. She wants Kiden to come dance with her before her last hit wears off. She also wants to know if Kiden is going to take her hit or just look at it. It is very evident that both scantily dressed teenagers are stoned on drugs.
Kiden takes the pill. As she exists the stall she tells her friend Kara to “shut up”. Then she grabs her friend’s hand and drags her back to the dance floor. The club is crowded, the music is loud, flashing lights are everywhere, and all the clubbers are having the time of their lives. Most are stoned on more than one drug, all are scantily clad, and most have a tattoo, a piercing, or both.
45 Essex Street
A teenage girl is sprawled across her bed tangled in the sheets and blankets. The alarm rings loudly, time is 7 am; her fist comes off the bed to turn it off. Her mom opens the door to her room to tell her that she is not staying home sick from school. The girl starts to get sleepily to her feet. Mom tells her that she needs to stay home and get the room clean and organized and then asks why her daughter is so sleepy. The girl claims that she has spent most of the night studying with Kara, her friend. Mom doesn’t buy it and proceeds to tell the girl what her father would do if her were still alive, the girl interrupts by muttering something about divorce. The upset mother repeatedly asks her daughter to repeat the sentence. Kiden only gets dressed and finishes the conversation by screaming, leave me alone, repeatedly at her mom.
Two twin boys, half Kiden‘s age, walk by repeating the phrase don’t touch me, as they get ready for school. One of the twins stops long enough to tell Kiden that he heard from another young friend that she is a “slut”. Kiden turns from the kitchen to tell her little brother off when Ty makes his presence in the kitchen known by asking her how Kara liked the drugs he gave them. Kiden tells Ty it was da bomb. He asks Kiden to remind her friend that he is giving them the drugs at the discount rate. Kiden tells him that she knows what he is saying and she wanders on into the kitchen for breakfast.
As she enters the kitchen she sees her mom’s car keys next to her purse on the counter above the dishwasher. She strides quickly across the room and starts to go through the purse. She doesn’t hear her mom approach until her mom speaks to apologize. Kiden hides whatever she has in her hands behind her back as she turns to face her mother. Kiden tells her mom that she was in the wrong and everything is “ok”. Her mom wants to know if they can just sit and talk, at least once, without fighting. Kiden puts her mom off till she gets back from school. Her mom agrees that today after school will be fine. They both tell the other they love each other, Kiden with head hung low; to avoid looking her mom the eyes or getting a parental kiss.
After Kiden sees that her mom has left the kitchen with no intention to return; she takes a look at the pack of cigarettes she has taken from her moms purse. Kiden smacks the pack against her hand several times in desperation, but the pack is empty.
Kiden heads out the door, down her steps, and into the street. A drug dealer not more than 10 feet outside the door hits on her. She tells Eugene to causally to “get a life” as she walks on by him.
Kiden strides across the street and into the local convenient store. The owner is the same man who sold Kiden and her father ice cream on that fateful day in the distant past. She begs a lighter off of him and thanks him. He says things for her are always “on the house” as her father was like a member of his own family. Nino sees a young man reading a magazine and shouts past Kiden at him. Kiden tells him that a different young man has just shoplifted a magazine he is not old enough to buy while he was paying attention to the other young man.
Nino comes out from behind the counter to confront the would-be shoplifter. This gives Kiden the opening she was looking for; she reaches for the nearest cigarette pack. He tells her to put it back and the returns speaking to the young man. She tells Nino she will see him later as she lights up a cigarette and heads out the front door of the store to school.
Avenue D and East End, 8:45 A.M.
Kids can be seen playing handball on a city court behind a tall chain link fence. There is graffiti on the two cement wall sides of the court. Four street tough kids are playing handball. One calls another by the name “Gordo” and says he wants him to play better.
Gordo turns and tells Hector that he won’t mess up anymore. Hector agrees and launches a small blue ball at Gordo‘s head scoring a direct hit. All the kids send the victim on his way with jeers.
Kiden finds her friend Kara sitting on the cement, back against the fence, watching the game. Kara tells Kiden that last night, she thought she would not be able to get out of bed this morning. Kara tells Kiden that when she returned home, her Mom was “passed out” and she, herself, cried herself to sleep in front of the TV as she came down from last nights high. Kiden jokingly tells Kara that her emotional state form the night before is probably a “sign of brain damage”. Kiden then proceeds to share with her friend her secret desire that she wishes her mom would just “pass out”. Kiden further shares that she believes her mom is trying to hard at the “super mom” thing and has “the talk” planned for later this afternoon. Kara asks Kiden if she ever wishes that her teacher could write an excuse so she wouldn’t have to listen to it. Both girls laugh at the thought, but Kiden tells her friend the idea is “stupid”.
Kara repeats the saying “stupid is as stupid does” only have Kiden ask if she got it from her mom or a one of the “hippie” boyfriends that are hanging around her house. Kara tells Kiden that she is just jealous because she wishes she had her life. Kiden says the only thing she wishes is that her mom had a boyfriend to concentrate the misery on instead of her. Kara chimes in that this method works for her.
A small blue ball that has bounced over and onto Kiden’s bare midriff interrupts the girl’s conversation. Kara looks surprised as the gang wannabe approaches to retrieve his ball. He tells Kiden that her catch was good and then calls her “Morticia”. Kiden smartly replies to Kara the at least Hector does have one.  Hector tells her to show a little “respect” and give him the ball. She takes this as the perfect moment to confront Hector. She quips, you gonna bust some caps cause you think your in a gang? He tells her that she has the right idea. She tells him to get lost. He then asks if she realizes that smoking is bad for her health. The two teenagers give each other the gang territorial stare in silence. Hector suddenly slaps Kiden on the right cheek, open handed but very hard and calls her a bitch. He also grabs the ball from the stunned Kiden.
Hector turns his back, problem solved, and begins walking away. Kiden, stunned, caresses her reddened cheek. She looks more angry than embarrassed. Suddenly, she strikes, by grabbing Hectors golden earring in his left ear. She quickly yanks, ripping the ring from the ear. Kara, surprised, gets up and runs to Kiden to see if she has really lost her mind this time. Hector grabs for his ear in pain and asks his buddy, Paolo, for a shank (razor blade type knife that folds to fit in a pocket). Paolo is already getting the shank for his friend without hesitation.
A teacher, Ms. Palmer, calls to the inner city playground for the kids to settle down as she makes her way over to the incident. She demands to know what is going on. Hector and his friends just look tough and say nothing. Kiden does the same. The teacher grabs Kiden by the collar with one hand and Hector by the collar with the other. Ms. Palmer tells Hector he is going to the nurse despite his protests. The teacher tells Kiden she is going to the guidance counselor. They are the talk of the playground even after they are removed.
Hector tells Kiden that she has just ruined his new jacket and he threatens her life. As Ms. Palmer drops him off at the Nurses office and takes Kiden away, she blows him a kiss.
Kiden‘s Class.
Mrs. Palmer is in the middle of discussing Martin Luther King when Kiden strides in as if she owns the world. Kiden answers her question by stating, We are all doomed. Ms. Palmer asks for the counselor‘s note and Kiden nonchalantly tosses it at her teacher as she goes to find her seat. Ms. Palmer reinforces her teaching by telling the class that Kiden not completely wrong in her answer. A classmate says teasingly that this is the first for the semester. Kiden stands up and takes a bow from her assigned seat. Kara, who sits behind Kiden, whispers that they really are in trouble with Hector and his gang.
Kiden reminds her what reputation the boys will have if they beat up on a couple of girls.
Kara, however, goes on about how the gang will rip their eyes out. Kiden tells her to go ahead and leave. The bell rings and class is dismissed. Kara says she is way to scared to walk home by herself, kiden turns to her friend and sees the fear in her friend‘s eyes.
Kiden agrees to walk home with Kara and they leave the classroom together.
Hectore sees them walks toward them from behind. As he approaches, he calls to them as Mortician and cousin it. He then shoves Kara away from Kiden. Kiden turns and goes after him. Hector proceeds to wrap his hand around Kiden‘s throat. Kara gets up from the floor and asks Hector to stop and then tries to break up the fight. Hector tells some of the nearby girls to get Kara. The girls pull Kara away and push her to the ground while they kick and hit her. Kara begs for them to stop but the beating continues. Finally, Kiden is so angry she cannot hold her temper back anymore; she struggles free from Hector and attempts to reach Kara. Hector and his friends once again grab her and punch and kick her to the floor. Kiden screams Stop it at the top of her lungs”.
Sunddenly, the beatings and noises cease. Kiden opens here eyes only to behold a dreamscape. She is the only real person and the others are all frozen statues. Kiden stands and takes in the surreal sight around her. She walks over to where Ms. Palmer is frozen in panic. Then she walks over to where Kara is frozen in the midst of a beating. She talks to Kara but her friend remains frozen in place. She then walks toward Hector, realizing that this is real and it is very cool. She places a finger on Hector‘s arm to let him know he is not very tough. To her surprise a loud snapping sound is heard as his arm breaks.
Kiden finds herself once more surrounded by unruly teenagers as Hector grabs his arm and screams like he is being killed. One of Hectors friends screams for someone to call an ambulance. All Kiden can do is stand there, hands over her face in shock. She has no idea what happened, let alone how it happened.


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Wanna Be - part 2
East 25th Street, New York
A man is standing at a stove cooking fried eggs and bacon. He leaves the eggs sunny side up as he sets them on a plate next to the crisp bacon. The plate is part of an elaborately decorated breakfast tray complete with orange juice. He walks up the stairs carrying the tray while a Garth Brooks singing softly on the radio downstairs.  He cautiously opens a door, only to have a pink bunny slipper tossed at him.
He cheerfully states, “Somebody is awake”. A female voice sleepily asks if Garth Brooks is still legal on this side of the Mason-Dixon line? Mrs. Palmer is trying to sit up in bed and wake up. The man is Sam, her husband, who has brought her breakfast in bed. He reminds her that she has no choice but to wake up because it is a “school day”.
45 Essex Street
Kiden is eating a bowel of cereal as her older brother, Tyler, enters the kitchen. He asks her if their mother is still asleep. She tells him that it is way too early in the morning for him to start with her. He then asks if she is feeling “warm and fuzzy” towards their mother for not grounding her. Tyler has cut his hair very short exposing the hoop earrings he is wearing to public view. He tells Kiden she is lucky to have him for a brother so the position of “black sheep of the family” is already filled. In other words, his actions make hers look angelic by comparison. Tyler continues to press his luck by asking Kiden if it is true that she broke Hector’s arm. Kiden tells him to drop this subject as she covers her face. Tyler then proceeds to tell his sister that he heard Kara peed herself as he grabs a milk carton from the refrigerator and drinks directly form it.
Tyler hears their mom yell his name from down the hall. He mumbles “morning” to her as she strides into the kitchen already dressed. In response she holds up a small plastic bag with white powder and demands he tell her what it is inside. Tyler says he can explain, but then denies that the contents belong to him. Ty’s and Kiden’s younger brothers enter the room and immediately make fun of him for getting busted by their mother.
 Their mother takes the bag and its contents to the bathroom while Ty struggles to free himself from his younger siblings. Ty frees himself giving each of them a hard shove into the wall. Kiden watches the scene with a look of shock and horror on her face.
 Ty enters the bathroom as his mom flushes all the contents of the plastic bag down the toilet. Kiden sits at the breakfast table and hears the heated exchange of words between her mom and older brother. She also hears her younger brothers complain about their rough treatment to their mom. She hears the toilet flush, and all she can say is the phrase “stop it”. She repeats this phrase over again slowly to herself. Kiden begins to develop a far away look in her eyes.
East 25th Street, New York
Mrs. Palmer is struggling to get out of bed while her husband Sam tries to find out why she has been so moody lately. She promises to call him before she does anything drastic like shoot up the school. Sam does his best to let her know that he is really serious but she reminds him that she has a responsibility to the kids she teaches. He tells her that is exactly why she is known as “The Mother Teresa of Giuliani High”. She tells him that her nickname is funny but she does kind of like it. He tells her he thinks its very sexy. She teases back by stating that he would never throw her out of bed. He answers by grabbing her and pulling her down onto the floor. He tells her he would just to be able to “do” her on the floor. On the breakfast tray the vase with the flower has been knocked over but the food is untouched.
45 Essex Street
Kiden’s twin brothers are in the hall screaming how Ty has injured them. Ty and his mom are in the bathroom arguing. He is telling her that her actions will get him killed. Mom tells him that he should have realized that before bringing the poison home. Kiden is sitting at the kitchen table, tears in her eyes, repeating “stop it” softly to herself. Ty grabs his mom by the front of her T-shirt while his younger brothers beat on his back and tell him to leave their mother alone. Kiden leaves the table and goes down the hall to her family. She screams “What is wrong, can’t this family ever be normal for a few seconds? I hate this!!”. Kiden’s family stares at her in disbelief. Kiden then turns and leaves the house slamming the door behind her. She never hears her mothers words of “Kiden … wait”.
Rudolph Giuliani High School
From the high school entrance to the metal detectors the students walk through, one gets a clear feeling of an inner city high school. Hector is met by his friends just as he enters the hall. His buddies start the day by teasing him about his newly broken arm, which is now in a cast. Hector tells them to “shut up” and cusses Kiden out for placing him in this embarrassing situation. A High School Security Officer approaches the three of them. Hector tells the officer that he has it and hands the officer a rolled up brown bag with a twenty dollar bill rubber banded to it. The officer pockets the twenty while examining the bag, and hands the bag back to Hector.
Principals Office of the High School
Kidens is seated in the chair opposite the principals desk. From the way her refers to her as Ms. Nixon and his tone of voice, she knows she is in serious trouble. Seated to her left is Ms. Palmer who had the idea for this conversation in the first place, according to the principal. The Principal tells Kiden that he thinks she’s on drugs because of her violent behavior and mood shifts. He thinks they should take her downtown and test her. Kiden fakes having something in her eye, but otherwise offers no response to the principal. Ms. Palmer reminds Kiden that the Principal is only interested in the name of the person that started the fight as well as the name of the person who broke Hector Morales arm.
Kiden sits still in the chair, hands entwined and says nothing for a long time. She knows she can’t talk without implicating herself and the weird thing that is happening to her. She knows she must keep silent about what she doesn’t understand. Deep inside she knows the reaction the will have, so this is a move or self-preservation more than anything else. Finally, Kiden breaks the silence by asking if she is going to be suspended or if she can just go? Angrily, the principal tells to her to leave and she replies ‘thanks’ as she heads towards the door.
Ms. Palmer tells the Principal that she believes Kiden is a good kid. All Kiden needs is for Ms. Palmer to sit and talk to her. The Principal replies that if he were in Ms. Palmer’s position he wouldn’t be able to leave the room fast enough. Ms. Palmer says she understands and heads toward the door. Principal Weisman says he doesn’t believe her because she is still in the room. Ms. Palmer replies “yes Sir” as she leaves the room and calls the principal an “idiot” under her breath.
Hallway of the High School
Kiden leaves the principal’s office in a really bad mood.  Kara sees her best friend through the crowd and calls for her to wait so she can catch up. Kara asks Kiden if she is ok. Kara tells Kiden that she saw her coming out of the principal’s office. Kiden claims she is ok. Kara tells her she doesn’t look like she is ok. Ms. Palmer passes them while elbowing her way politely through the crowd of teenagers to her classroom. Kiden tells Kara that how she feels has nothing to do with Principal Weisman and everything to do with what happened to her yesterday. Kara still insists Kiden is talking about breaking Hector’s arm. Kiden grabs her best friend by her shoulders and looks seriously into her eyes as she starts to tell Kara what really happened to her. Kiden stops mid sentence as she sees someone past Kara; someone elbows Ms. Palmer in the stomach on the way to his class and nearly knocks her down. Kiden finally breaks down emotionally, puts her hands on either side of her face and tells Kara that she is unsure if its all in her head or she is really freaking out. Kara tells Kiden that her actions are scaring her. Kiden tells her, “That makes two of us.” Kiden turns to walk down the hall, away from Kara, but Kara goes after her. Kiden tells Kara that she needs a smoke and is leaving.
 A familiar voice close by catcalls “Mor-Tee-Cia”. Kiden turns to see Hector and his friends. Hector is standing in the hall waving his unbroken arm at her. He claims he has something to share with her and hopes she does not mind that he did not gift-wrap it. Hector reaches into the brown bag he showed the security officer before and reveals a small semiautomatic gun. As Hector unveils the weapon, Ms. Palmer approaches from the crowd behind Kiden. Ms. Palmer requests Kiden to wait, so she can talk to her.
Ms. Palmer sees the gun and leaps in front of Kiden telling Hector to stop. Meanwhile, Hector utters an expletive and fires. Kiden screams “stop” at the top of her lungs and suddenly things are quiet. Cautiously she opens her eyes only to see the bullet frozen in mid air in front of her. She is astonished as it is aimed directly at her forehead. She looks past the bullet to the group to teenagers around Hector. She attempts to communicate with them but they ignore her and remain frozen in position. Kiden tells them that the joke is funny but it’s over now, she even admits that she was scared.
Kiden looks behind her and finally gets the idea that they are all frozen in place but her. She is suddenly overjoyed at the turn of events and skips joyously over to Hector. She lightly touches his gun and asks him how tough he is now? She is surprised that the gun is hot and sucks her finger to cool the burn. Then she starts to tell Hector what she is going to do to him when things suddenly come to life. The gun goes off in Kiden’s ears making her cover them. Hector looks at Kiden completely startled as the recoil of the weapon throws him backwards to the ground.
Frantic screams of help draw the crowd’s attention to Kara, on the floor of the hallway holding Ms. Palmers body. Blood can be seen on the lower left of her green blouse. Blood that is running in a stream to the floor of the hallway. Ms. Palmer’s eraser, papers, and notebook lie in front of her where she dropped them as she fell.
East 25th Street, New York
Someone is knocking loudly on the door. Ms. Palmer is staring off into space while her body is sprawled in a padded chair. The apartment, once tidy, is now a mess. Clothes and newspapers litter the coffee table and floor. Ms. Palmer is in her bathrobe and wearing slippers. The door opens and the front room light is flicked on. She looks up from the chair to see Principal Weisman. He greets her and asks her why the front door is unlocked. She calls him a “glutton for punishment” to which he replies that he is just “bullheaded” She stares up at him. He says its has been at least 6 months since the accident. He also tells her he knows about Sam, but she interrupts his flow by asking about Kiden. He tells her that Kiden is still missing. It seems no one has seen her since the shooting. She interrupts him again by telling him that she can never go back. She attempts to stand and tells Sherman it really wasn’t his fault. She also tells him that “its ok”. As he states he is leaving he picks up a picture: It’s a wedding picture of just the bride in the bridal gown. It has clearly been ripped in half. Startled by this realization, he drops the picture. Cameron Palmer screams as if she has been re-injured as she goes to the floor to pick up the broken glass. He apologizes but she tells him to just go.
He turns and leaves her crying, on the floor, looking at the picture.
A while later, a different knock. The door opens cautiously when no one answers. Someone calls a greeting and enters the room cautiously. This person sees the picture of the bride on the wall is crooked and attempts to straighten it. This person also sees the messy front room and follows the mess into the kitchen, where opened, uneaten, days old, Chinese takeout containers are observed jumbled together on the table. Suddenly, the visitor notices the newspaper clippings on the table. All the clippings are of the same incident: teacher shooting at Rudolf Giulani High School. Among them is a Christmas card, signed by Sam.
 The mysterious visitor notices an empty medication bottle lying sideways on the table. The label states the medicine is Vicodin, a well-known narcotic painkiller. With a half whispered statement of “oh, my god, the visitor runs for the bathroom. Bloody water is clearly seen dripping against the pristine white of the bathtub. The visitor says “oh, no,” and runs to the aid of the person in the bathtub. Kiden gently lifts Ms. Palmer’s head above the water to keep her from drowning.


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Wanna Be - part 3
Hotel Brasil, West 31 Street, New York, New York.
 The window of this hotel looks out over a neon sign, which lights up the night. A young teenage girl sits up in the bed and hugs the sheet to her covering up her torso. She has long straight hair. A guy gets out of the bed and slides into his pants. He tells her she is great as usual. He tells her that her talents should take her far in this huge city. He removes a money clip from his pants pockets and states matter of factly "Same as always?". The girl gives no answer as he throws a wad of money onto the bed and tells her that it is no easy for him to find a girl with her unique talents. He tells her that she is the best at what she does as far as he is concerned. As he stands with his back to the bed to put on his shirt, multiple scratch marks are visible slicing the skin in all directions. It is very clear that she has drawn blood and he has enjoyed himself.
 East 25th Street, New York
 Kiden is sitting in the blood soaked bathroom of her former teacher as paramedics load her pale body onto a stretcher. The cop tells Kiden that she has lost a lot of blood and she has taken a lot of vicodin so there is no way for them to know if she will be ok or not. The cop asks if she called it in. Kiden only says "huh?" and then "yeah". The cop then asks how they know each other and Kiden claims that her former teacher is her friend. The cop wants to know if Kiden had been called for help to which she replies a quiet, embarrassed no. The cop then asks if Kiden lives there and she also says no. The cop then asks if she just stopped by but this time he gets no reply from Kiden. He reminds her that she was asked a question, but Kiden only asks the cop if she can ride in the ambulance.
 34 Street and Park Avenue
 A small girl stands by the streetlight in the middle of the night. She is wearing a short skirt, fishnet stockings and a low cut vest for a blouse. She has put on a fur lined jacked that is open to the front as a way to keep warm. She is wearing a choker with a red pendant on her neck and her hair is very straight. On closer examination, it is plain to see this is the same girl from the fleabag hotel earlier. The pavement is shiny as if from a recent rain and the wind is blowing. A yellow pimp car pulls up in front of the girl and a window rolls down. The man in the back seat of the car gives her a sarcastic "Sorry I'm late".
 NYU Hospital
 Kiden is seated backwards on a chair beside the hospital bed of her former teacher. Ms. Palmer is laying pale and silent in the bed. Beside her bed is the IV machine she is hooked up too. Kiden observes the blood and other fluids running into Ms. Palmer and looks, wide-eyed, at the heart monitor that is also attached to the IV pole. This is the only indication that Ms. Palmer is still among the living. There is another tube coming from Ms. Palmers left nostril and it is hooked up to a suction machine that works noisily.
 A tear begins to fall from Kidens eye so she lies her head down on her hands to have herself a silent cry at the state her former teacher is in.
 A movement happens in the bed and Ms. Palmer moves her head in Kidens direction and says a simple word: "hey". At first, Kiden responds with a tentative reply and then suddenly looks up and smiles at her former teacher with a much more excited response.
 The Flatiron District.
 In a crowded downtown strip club a man sits at a table snorting white powder up his nose through a straw. Beside him sits the girl we have seen in the hotel and on the street. She sits and stares past her surroundings. The man is referring to himself as her "Zebra Daddy" and he complements her on keeping her "high-roller jobs" pleased. When the customers are happy, daddy is happy and very inclined to keep her happy. He tells the girl that her current living arrangements beat living on the streets and someday she should at least say thank you to him for giving her this chance. Suddenly he grabs her arm and demands to know what she has been doing to his property? He is referring to the peculiar scratch marks present on her left forearm. He is in the middle of demanding that she hand over whatever she is using to cut herself with when his phone rings. It is obvious to the girl that her pimp is making a business deal over the phone. He requests fancy diplomat plates in addition to the usual price. He assures the client that they only use the best homes and hangs up. He tells another girl to get her fat behind in gear and come over to him.
 A young teenager with purple hair dressed in strapless low-cut, short, leather dress approaches him. She is eating chips. He gives her a slip of paper and tells her to get to the job quickly. She looks at the slip of paper with a shocked expression. She claims that this is the john that put her in the hospital last time she met him. The pimp apologizes to her saying that he would never put her in harm's way. She thanks her daddy. Suddenly, he slaps the chip bag out of her hands and asks her if he looks like he is running a charity organization. He grabs her by the throat, and tells her to never question him, and to always go where he sends her, the threat is heavily implied. He asks the scared teenager, who is now on the floor, if she has anything else to say because the customers are waiting. She replies no and picks herself up off the floor and leaves to do as she is told.
The darkhaired girl just sits on the couch and observes this rough treatment that her pimp hands out to another girl. She makes no attempt to help the girl as a look of horror slowly creeps across her face. Instead of slash marks as before, her forearm is now covered with X's.
 East 25th Street, New York
 Cameron Palmer’s kitchen. Much cleaner than it has been weeks. Kiden and her former teacher are eating chicken noodle soup at the table. Cameron tells Kiden that they need to talk. She tells Kiden that she appreciates her life being saved and Kiden staying until she is fully recovered, but soon she will be well and Kiden will have to go home. After all, her mother must be worried and the police must be searching for her. Kiden replies that she has just been away and its no big deal anyway. Cameron tells her she has been gone for over six months. Kiden tells Ms. Palmer that things are more complicated than they appear. Ms. Palmer states she is not the first teenager to ever run away from home. There is nothing she can say that she won’t understand. So, Kiden simply blurts out the truth and confides in Ms. Palmer that she is a mutant. Kiden looks serious and for a minute so does Ms. Palmer. The Ms. Palmer grabs her sides and bursts out laughing as if this is the first good joke she has heard in ages. Seeing Kiden's upset looks she apologizes and says that Kiden has been through a lot but it doesn't necessarily mean that she is a mutant. Kiden makes another attempt to explain herself and that she has been gone longer than six months. Ms. Palmer tells Kiden that she wants the truth and not a childish fantasy. Kiden reminds Ms. Palmer that she got shot because of her power. Ms. Palmer turns and tells her to never joke about that in a serious voice. Kiden tries to tell her former teacher that the bullet she took was meant for Kiden so it is Kiden's fault that her life fell apart. Kiden states that she showed up because she was told to get Ms. Palmer. Ms. Palmer angrily turns to Kiden to ask who told her? The only thing Kiden can tell her is that he told her to come to this address. This is too much for Ms. Palmer to take in one day; she runs into the bedroom and slams the door in Kidens face. Through the door, she asks Ms. Palmer how she thinks Kiden showed up at her front door?
 Ms. Palmer takes a minute to compose herself before she opens the door. When she does, she wears a serious look on her face that stops Kiden short. Ms. Palmer tells Kiden that she is thankful but Kiden needs to give up the childish fantasies and return to her normal life right now. Kiden tries to explain that she can't but Ms. Palmer threatens to call Child Services and tell them where Kiden is. Kiden asks if this can wait till morning, Ms. Palmer tells her that the call can wait till morning but not any longer than that.
Hotel Brasil, 12:33 AM
Neon lights shine in the darkness through the motel window. They are reflected back in the pupil of a young teenage girl. The darkhaired teenager undresses herself slowly in front of the large mirror in the hotel room. She is in the middle of removing her bra when the man she was with before enters and tells her to keep it on for tonight. He claims that he missed her and wants to try something a little different tonight. He takes off his shirt revealing the healing scratch marks. In the small of his back, in the waistband of his pants, he reaches for, and pulls out, a knife. He tells her more than asks her that she does not mind at all. A look of horror crosses her face as realization of what he is about to do dawns on her.
East 25th Street, New York
Kiden is nestled comfortable on Ms. Palmers couch with a pillow and blanket. In her sleep she calls out the word "Daddy" over and over again. In her dream, her father is covered with blood from the gunshot wound that he has received; he sits up and tells her Hotel Brasil 202. She wakes screaming and then says "oh god, not again" to herself in a terror stricken tone of voice. She hears Ms. Palmer call her name as she hastily scribbles the address down using a felt tip marker and a note pad. Kiden does not reply to Ms. Palmers repeated questions, instead, she tears off the notepaper with the address written on it and leaves through the front door. Ms. Palmer arrives in the front room only to find Kiden is gone. She sits on the couch, formerly Kidens bed, and observes the bleed through onto the next sheet of paper from the felt tip pen. She can still faintly see the address that Kiden so hastily wrote only seconds before.
Hotel Brasil
Kiden rushes down the street and confirms the address by the glow of the neon lights. She brushes past a girl going in the opposite direction as she rushes up the stairs to the second floor. Kiden sees the hotel room door slightly ajar a goes to investigate as a cab drives up in the street below. Kiden does not see Ms. Palmer exit the cab and rush up the stairs behind her. Kiden is still standing at the door in shock at the scene of carnage before her as Ms. Palmer approaches and calls her name. Kiden does not respond, only points and Ms, Palmer steps closer until she can see the scene for herself.
The body immediately in front of them is of the man and is covered with blood. The bed is also soaked in blood. Still on the bed in bra, panties and fishnets, sits the darkhaired. A slightly shocked look on her face, two metal claws extended from her left hand. The metal claws are poised over fresh slash marks on her right forearm. All she says to her newly arrived visitors is the word "hi".


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Wanna Be - part 4
The Bronx, NYC, 1:32 p.m.
Its a normal afternoon on the street. Close up on a storefront, store name: Panaderia Ventura. Inside, a grandmotherly looking woman is giving a teenager a bag and thanks her for all her hard work. It is evident the teenager is just getting off shift.
The Bronx, NYC, 2:24 p.m.
The store’s name is Njarian’s Grocery. Inside, a man calls the teenager by name: Tatiana. He tells her that the shelf she has been working is good enough. She insists she can do more but he tells her that if she is late, Asheck Ferrarah will never forgive him for it.
The Bronx, NYC, 3:45 p.m.
The store’s name is Ferarrah’s Fish Market. A man dressed in a butcher’s apron offers to cut her some fresh for her and her family. Tatiana tells him that she and all her family are vegans, but thanks himfor the offer. The young teenager takes out the trash and finishes her work. She gathers her purse and two large brown bags and leaves the store for the long walk home.
 She whistles softly to herself as she walks past closed shops. Boys hanging out on the street corner stare after her as she passes them. She walks through a park past two old ladies that remark on her passing. She walks purposely past a chain link enclosed basketball court. The young men there cease their game to stare at her as she passes by. Tatiana looks straight ahead of her the whole walk never noticing the stares the boys give her. She slows her stride as she approaches a vacant cement pad next to a crumbling wall. It is clear this building has seen better days. She calls to the vacant lot telling her little ones that it is Ok for them to come out. Slowly, kittens, cats, dogs, even puppies emerge from their well chosen hiding places to greet her. She reminds them all to play nice, as there is enough food for them all. A few birds gather about to receive their share. Tatiana feeds, pets and plays with her animal friends,
Kiden’s Flashbacks
Kiden remembers the first time she used her power at school. She isn’t even sure how her power works, just that using it seems to lead to terrible events. Kiden remembers when Miss Cameron was shot. Kiden was so scared the only thing she could think to do was run away as fast as possible. She overheard the Doctors at the hospital talk about how much blood Miss Cameron had lost and how bad off she was. Kiden knew she couldn’t go home or back to school. She also knew the cops were looking for her. So, Kiden turned to the only option available for her, the street.
 At first, life on the street wasn’t all that bad. One night, though, some men saw her and referred to her as “fresh meat”. The men cornered her and she knew rape was the only thing on their minds. She got scared, then angry. Fortunately, her power kicked in and slowed down time. Kiden thinks that she has to get angry to turn her power on. She knows for certain that all she has to do is touch someone to turn the power off. Once her determined would-be-rapists were frozen in place, Kiden decided to leave her power turned on for a while. She went for a long walk. The feeling of euphoria overwhelmed her. As she is waking she notices the raindrops all around her frozen in place. She notices the people and cars on the streets that she walks down are also frozen in time. Kiden loves having the whole world to herself and has no idea how far or how long she has walked.
Kiden believes that four months went by in her time, equaling three days in the real world. She knows that she has not felt hungry or thirsty but she feels her hair could use a trim.
 Kiden sees a young man with a large German Shepherd on the street corner. The young mans sign indicates that he is begging for money to get food for the dog. She decides to reach out and touch this young man. She talks to him and discovers that his name is Alex and he really does have a large family. Alex refers to the other friends he has as his Tribe. They are homeless teenagers but they protect each other.
 For the next five months Kiden worked the streets with Alex. They used signs and even dumpster-dived to find things they could use, mostly food others had thrown away. Kiden remembers being happy. Until the day Alex decided he was homesick. Kiden thought about her family and decided to call them. Hearing her mom’s voice on the phone, she hung up. Kiden decided to hitchhike her way back home.
Alphabet City (Kiden’s Flashbacks)
It takes Kiden two days to hitchhike back to her old neighborhood. The first person she runs into is her drug dealing older brother Ty. He asks her why she has returned. Kiden tells him that she was just worried about mom. Ty informs his younger sister that their mom has found a guy, is getting remarried, and is moving the whole family to Long Island next month. He tells Kiden that things have been great since she has been gone.
Kiden gives Ty a shocked looked but turns around and walks off. When Ty asks her where she is going she doesn’t bother to answer him. Ty’s friend congratulates him on being cold as Kiden walks away.
 Kiden curled up to sleep that night on the remains of a cardboard box and spread newspaper over herself to keep warm. She thinks that coming home was not in any way a good idea. It is during this night, that she remembers seeing her father for the first time. He just appeared out of nowhere with a job for her to do.
Flash forward to present day: Corner of East 23rd Street and Second Avenue, 3:53 p.m.
Kiden, Miss Cameron and the young prostitute they found are in a restaurant eating lunch. Kiden is explaining to Miss Cameron that the first time she saw her father, he directed her to Miss Cameron’s address. She tells her former teacher that is how she found her and saved her life. Kiden also states that her father told her she needed Cameron and Cameron needs her. Cameron Palmer tells Kiden that she needs to quit speaking in riddles and just say what she needs. Kiden says she can’t because she doesn’t know why she needs her. Cameron Palmer tells the girls the meeting is over and the time has come to get Kiden home. Kiden makes her last desperate plea by grabbing Cameron’s arm and telling her that her dad said she would understand. Cameron tells her that her dad was wrong. Kiden still maintains that there is no way she can go back to her family. Cameron tells her to grow up, that neither of these things has anything to do with the other. Kiden tells Cameron to forget about her and asks Miss Palmer what they are going to do with the girl. After all, the police are probably looking for her because they think that she murdered her john. For the first time the prostitute speaks between bits “I didn’t kill him”.
The Bronx: 4:30 p.m.
Tatiana opens the door to an apartment and says, “Hi everyone, I’m home”.  Dogs, cats, and birds of various shapes, sizes and colors rush to greet her. It is evident her affection for them is returned as she squats on the floor to pet them. Another young teenager opens a door and stops into the hallway to greet Tatiana. She returns the greeting and refers to her sister as Laurie. Tatiana asks Laurie where their mom is at, only to be told that mom is on another hot date with a guy who works the night shift. The girls go into the kitchen to ready food for all the animals when the door springs open and in steps their mom with a clearly younger man following her. She introduces the younger man as her date, Reuben. The girls turn to stare at Rueben when one of Tatiana’s parrots takes a notion to investigate the stranger. Tatiana tries to call her bird, Berretta, back but it is too late. Rueben strikes out at the parrot and knocks the poor bird across the room and into the wall. Tatiana runs to the aid of her injured pet. Gently picks the bird up to see how badly hurt it is. Mom fusses over Reuben and demands that Tatiana apologize to him for the reaction of her pet. Tatiana proffers a halfhearted apology and her mother takes Rueben off to her bedroom for some TLC after the terrible treatment he has received from the crazed bird.
The prostitute’s story
She remembers the john showing up and pulling the knife out. He took off his shirt and sat down on the bed. He called her over to the bed and ordered her to tell his wife and kids that he had done some bad things in his life and he was sorry for all of them. At the end of his confession, the John casually stabbed himself in the gut with the knife and fell onto the bed. The girl, being dressed in only her bra and panties, thought the John had meant to use the knife on her and found herself in shock. After all, in her line of work she couldn’t very well call the police, they would think she committed the murder. It wasn’t very long after that that Kiden and Miss Cameron showed up at her hotel room.
Cameron Palmer’s living room, present day.
The girl is seated comfortably on the couch and is telling Kiden her story. Kiden is seated in a nearby chair listening intently. Cameron Palmer is getting her coat on so she can return Kiden to her home. They both notice Kiden staring at the couch beside the girl. Miss Palmer asks Kiden what is wrong? Kiden only stares at her dad in his bloodied police uniform sitting on the couch beside her.


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Wanna Be - part 6
An Apartment In NYC:
A light-skinned woman with short hair black hair and brown eyes is looking at her own reflection in the mirror in a steamy bathroom. A young black man in his early 20ies can be seen behind her. Through his form, the rest of the apartment can be clearly seen. His ghostly form is wearing a red running suit with a gray t-shirt. Around his neck is a gold chain with dog tags. His hair is in cornrows, slicked back over his head and joined together at the back. His hair ends at his neck.
 The woman hears a phone ring and comments to herself that it’s a stupid phone. She is totally unaware of the young man in ghostly form behind her. He appears to reach toward her and she falls to the floor of the bathroom not moving or making a sound. The black man’s ghostly form leaves the bathroom and returns to his body seated in the chair in the living room. As he regains possession of his faculties, he reaches for his cell phone.
Zebra Daddy is on the other end of the phone and asks him where he is at. The young man gets up, picks up a newspaper, and leaves the apartment to make his way to the street. Bobby claims he is just visiting a friend. Zebra Daddy tells him to say his good-byes as his skills are needed elsewhere. Zebra Daddy states that he needs his “Felon”. Bobby stutters “I….I don’t know” into his cell phone as if he is unsure. Zebra Daddy assures him that all he wants to do is talk, a very important talk. With no hesitation, Bobby agrees to see Zebra Daddy very soon.
 Bobby absent-mindedly drops the paper he is holding to make another call. The wind blows the paper down the street exposing the headline “L-Bo Back in town: Paparazzi smother diva at the four seasons.” The picture next to the headline matches the young woman he just left laying on the bathroom floor of the apartment he just left.
As Bobby exits the building, he speaks his name and address into the cell phone.
Abandoned Warehouse in the Bronx:
Tatiana tells Kiden to not order her to be quiet her not to be upset. She reminds Kiden that she has never experienced a day as bad as hers. Kiden tries to apologize and tells Tatiana that she understands how hard this to believe. Tatiana disagrees and finds Kiden to be completely believable. She states that she does believe that an image of Kiden’s dead father told Kiden to rescue her. She even believes Kiden can slow down time. Tatiana points to X-23 and says the razor sharp claws coming out of her hands and feet are kind of creepy. Tatiana then turns to Cameron and states that she even believes she is Kiden’s high school teacher who has been dragged into this for who knows what reason. Tatiana states that all of this is perfectly cool. Especially since she has turned into Tatiana the dog-faced girl this afternoon. Tatiana tells the group that she thinks the transformation alone makes anything Kiden says believable.
 Kiden tells her to calm down. However, Tatiana continues to state that all she wants to do is go home and get some sleep. So she can wake up tomorrow and know that today was some sort of horrible dream. Kiden asks her if she seriously believes that will work? Tatiana replies, “watch me” and turns to leave group there. Kiden and X-23 just sit there and watch her go.
An of Kiden’s dead father suddenly appears, but its X-23’s voice which states “She can’t go back”. X-23 turns to Kiden to ask, “What did I say?” as Kiden covers her face with her hands in shock.
The Flatiron District.
Zebra Daddy and Bobby are sitting on a couch in Zebra Daddy’s apartment. Zebra Daddy is actually crying on Bobby’s shoulder. He is crying about a girl he loved so much that she was his life. She left suddenly without warning and never returned. Zebra Daddy claims that he has been heartbroken ever since and nothing has ever been the same. Bobby says he is very sorry to hear about this. Zebra Daddy shows Bobby a picture of X-23.
Zebra Daddy says he needs his “Felon” to bring his little girl back to him. Bobby tells him that he doesn’t do that anymore because it affects his health. Zebra pleads with Bobby by calling him “G” and says he only needs Felon one more time. Bobby explains that he gets sick, really sick in his head.
Bobby gets up to leave and Zebra Daddy asks if he is still saving up to get himself and his little brother out of town. Bobby says he is still a little short. Zebra asks “how short?”. The reply is “5 Clevelands”. Zebra tells him to find the girl and he will double that amount. Bobby stops in his tracks. Zebra repeats his offer and reminds Bobby he can leave town after this job. Bobby says he doesn’t know what to say. Zebra tells him to just say he will do it. Bobby says he and his little brother can sure use the cash. Zebra reminds him again how soon he can leave this town behind.
Bobby finally agrees with Zebra. Daddy says he can start by talking to Tonya. She works for Zebra and has said that she saw the girl hanging out with two other girls.
As Zebra dials the combination to his safe, Bobby confirms that all he wants is the girl back with no one hurt. Zebra tells him “No questions asked” and gives him half up front. He says Bobby can just tell him where she is and leave the rest up to Zebra Daddy. Bobby takes the money and as the two men hug he tells Daddy that the Felon is back in town. Daddy assures him he won’t forget this and reminds him to be on his guard. Bobby agrees.
Bobby takes the picture and heads toward the elevator. Before he gets on the elevator he asks Zebra Daddy if the girl has a name. Daddy replies “#$% if I know” as he is dialing his cell phone.
As soon as the phone is answered, he says “Yo Diesel! ‘S Daddy. Get a crew together, my place. NOW!”
The Bronx, Tatiana’s Home:
Tatiana is relieved to be home. She puts her key in the lock and opens the door. What she sees as the door opens is her mom and Reuben on the couch in a compromising position with a sheet that barely conceals what they are doing.
Shocked, she asks he mom what she is doing. Her mom reminds her whose house it is and demands to know why she isn’t at school. Before she can answer her mom tells her to get back to school. However, the cats begin growling at her before she can close the door. Beretta, the bird, attacks her. Skeeter also begins to attack her. Her mom yells at her to get out! She also reminds Tatiana how sick she is of all the animals in the house. Tatiana turns to run from the apartment as he mom yells behind her “Are you covered in blood? What did you do?”
 Tatiana is chased to the top of the stairs by cats, which have always been her friends before. In her blinding run she mis-steps and falls. As she gets to her feet she sees Kiden leaning on the handrail at the bottom of the stairs. Kiden simply states ‘It is not a dream”.
District X, Manhattan 7:35 a.m.
Bobby wakes his little brother and lifts him gently out of bed. He takes him to the kitchen table and tells him he is facing a busy day. He makes breakfast and tells his little brother that their ship has just come in. As he feeds his sibling he tells him its nothing bad, just one more job for Zebra Daddy, so they can leave this place. He tells his sibling they will move to Vegas where he can work at a casino and get his little brother into a clinic. The clinic will help him walk and talk as good as everyone else. His little brother sits there looking at him and never says a word. Bobby says he knows they have talked about him not using his skills anymore but he feels he is getting better.
Bobby tells his sibling that just last night he was sitting in bed and he could “almost remember… them, almost” as tears runs down his cheek. An older black woman with short hair knocks on the door as she enters she says “hello” and tells him the door was open.
Bobby greets her as Mrs. Aba.
On his way out the door he hands her money, tells her he is in a hurry because he has some work today. He also tells her his little brother still needs to go to the bathroom. Bobby slams the door shut leaving Mrs. Alba to care for his sibling.
Manhattan, 8:05 a.m.
Bobby walks down a crowded street in front of a cheap hotel. He sees a girl coming out the door and asks him if she is Tonya. She asks him who is asking. He tells her “Zebra Daddy.” Tonya tells Bobby she is done for the night. She digs through her purse and hands Bobby the piece of paper she found there. She tells him that this is the address she gave Zebra Daddy. Tonya assures him that one of the girls lives at this address and adds that she doesn’t know anything more about any of the girls. She says she is sorry she even mentioned it to anyone.
East 25th street 8:18 a.m.
Out on the street, it’s a bright sunny morning and people are out doing their usual morning activities. Bobby walks past them up the wooden staircase to the apartment building that matches the address he was given by Tonya earlier that morning. As he approaches the floor he is seeking, he hears a dog bark from behind an apartment door. An older woman wearing a pink jogging suit opens another apartment door. She carries a baseball bat and at her side is a small shaggy growling dog. She asks him what he wants while brandishing the baseball bat. Bobby raises his hands slightly to indicate that he is unarmed and means no harm as he apologizes and takes several steps backwards. Bobby is standing in front of an apartment covered with police tape. The woman identifies him as one of Cameron’s students and he readily agrees. She tells him that she has no idea when or if Mrs. Palmer will be returning to her apartment.
Giuliani High School 8:30 a.m.
Bobby is talking to a group of girls on the grounds of the high school. They tell him how Mrs. Palmer was shot by Hector and now Hector is in juvenile detention for the crime. Bobby tells them that he heard Mrs. Palmer was seen hanging out with two other girls. One of the girls tells him he is cute and asks why he is so curious.
Off to the side, Bobby notices Tatiana walking alone hugging her books close to her. He asks the girls who she is. One tells him she is nobody while another tells him she is one of the girls he is asking about.
Bobby turns and runs after Tatiana, yelling at her to wait for him. He catches up to her and slows his pace to walk with her. He asks her where she is rushing to. She asks him if she knows him. He tells her not yet but she wants to know him. Tatiana stops dead in her tracks, looks him right in the eye and asks him if he came to threaten her because the other girls asked him to. Bobby assures her that he just wants to ask some questions regarding Mrs. Palmer. She tells him he has the wrong girl and turns to leave. Bobby reaches out to touch her while angling his body against the fence. He says “I was afraid.” and Tatiana finishes his sentence with “you’d say that”. Bobby explains to her that he is in complete control of her. He says that unless she tells him what he wants to know, he will walk her over to the biggest girl in the group, slap her face, and leave Tatiana on her own to deal with the outcome.
Alleyway in the Bronx
Kiden is busily going through a dumpster, looking for food or anything she can use. Mrs. Palmer sits on the trunk of an abandoned vehicle nearby. Tatiana is talking to Kiden while she forages. She tells Kiden that she used to have fantasies of what it would be like to live on the street. However, she has learned that it really sucks. She complains that she is “cold and hungry and…” She is interrupted by Kiden handing her a sandwich she found in the garbage and saying “Bon appetit..” Tatiana reacts with a look of disgust on her face.
 Mrs. Palmer just sits there with a smile on her face. Tatiana asks her what she is smiling at. Kiden asks Mrs. Palmer if she is ok. After all, she has been sitting here since she woke up this morning. She tells Kiden that just a short few days ago she was resting at home. She had a home. And look at her condition now. Kiden agrees that their life has been crazy lately. She tells Kiden that her comment has been misunderstood. What she meant to say is that as much as she tries to tell herself that he is responsible or the way she is currently living, she can’t escape the conclusion that Kiden is the one who is really responsible for all of this. She tells Kiden that she believes in her powers, her visions, but this does not give Kiden the right to destroy her life, not once, but twice.
 Kiden apologizes to Mrs. Palmer and explains that it is as if someone else is controlling their situation. Mrs. Palmer tells her to cut the crap. She claims that there has never been any “us in all of this”. She tells Kiden that this all about her and her Daddy fixation. Somehow, she feels she has been drawn into it and is now stuck in it. She tells Kiden that she finally understands why Kiden’s mom’s life got so much better after Kiden left. Kiden covers her face with her hand and turns away from her teacher.
Essex street:
Bobby is talking to Zebra Daddy, updating him on his girl’s activities. He tells Daddy that the girls is hanging out with a local named Kiden Nixon who has a mom and three brothers in Alphabet city. He tells Daddy the other girl is Cameron Palmer, a high school teacher. He reminds Daddy that no one is supposed to get hurt, but his gang destroyed Cameron’s apartment. Daddy claims that the signals got mixed and it was an accident. All he wants to know is where the girls are. Bobby tells him that they can be anywhere as they are currently living on the streets. Daddy tells him he is disappointed to receive this information from someone as reliable as Bobby. Bobby reminds him that they are probably planning on leaving town and will eventually return to the apartment to get the rest of the stuff they need before they leave. He suggests that Daddy station a couple of guys outside the apartment and wait. Zebra Daddy says he will do that but he doesn’t want Bobby leaving till after this job is done. Bobby asks what he means by “done”? Daddy tells him done as when he gets the rest of the money and the girl is back where she belongs.
Zebra Daddy asks Bobby how he knows they won’t go back to the neighborhood girls’ home instead. Bobby tells him that there is no way she is ever going back to her family. Bobby leaps from the white guy’s body he has possessed and back into his own. The white guy slums to the sidewalk. He takes the cell phone from him and punches him in the jaw to make sure he stays down. Bobby walks off down the sidewalk as if nothing has happened.
Alleyway in the Bronx
As Kiden walks away from Mrs. Palmer to continue dumpster diving, Tatiana asks if they are just going to wait around until Kiden sees her dead father or are they going to come up with a plan. After all, all Kiden has been doing is digging through a dumpster all morning. As Tatiana finishes her sentence, Kiden pulls a day planner from the trash. She opens it to discover drugs in small bags and an envelope pinned to the front cover.
District X, Manhattan 7:35 a.m.
Bobby is making an attempt to feed his little brother alphabet soup. He tells his sibling that he knows he worries when he comes home late. Bobby assures him he would never forget to come home. He tells his little brother that he had to use his gift a bunch of times today. He hangs his head and says he just can’t bring himself to lie to the child. Suddenly, the figure of Kiden’s dead father appears behind his little brother. Bobby drops the soupspoon and puts his hands up to protect himself from the horrific vision.


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Wanna Be - part 5
Hotel Brasil, eighteen hours ago;:
Kiden rushes up the crowded hotel stairway to find the room she is seeking. She is followed closely by Cameron who calls her name and doesn’t bother apologizing to the unfortunate working girls she bumps into in during her mad dash to follow Kiden. The girl enters to find a horrific scene. Cameron arrives two seconds behind her and immediately goes to the aid of the injured man. After assessing his condition, she informs Kiden that he is dead.
Outside the open door of the hotel room, the working girl that Cameron ran into is making a cell phone call to her Daddy. She identifies herself as Tanya to him and informs him that he has trouble he needs to take care of. He asks what in the world she is talking about. Tanya tells him that the trouble involves one of his girls, the creepy one. Tanya also informs him that this creepy girl is leaving with two other “bizzos”.
Daddy gives her instructions to follow the trio to wherever they are going and to call him when they get there. Tanya promises she will do as he says.
 Cameron and Kiden take X-23 back to Cameron’s apartment and assure her she will be safe there. On the way, Kiden tries to explain how she knew where to go. Tanya follows close at their heels and makes a phone call to Daddy and tells him the address of where the trio have gone.
Cameron’s Apartment, now:
Cameron and Kiden are in the middle of trying to get X-23 settled in when Kiden has another vision of her father sitting on the couch next to X-23. She tells the others what she sees but none of them can share her vision. Cameron keeps asking her if she is ok. Kiden’s father tells her to “get out” and fades from her sight despite the fact that she desperately begs him to stay. Kiden collapses in a heap of tears on the couch right where her father’s lap should have been but he is no longer there.
Front Door, Cameron’s Apartment, Now:
Several young men, dressed in suits and ties appear and call the trio out. Daddy kicks the door down and tells the others to feel free and fire. The men burst into the apartment in a barrage of automatic gunfire.
As the men are breaking down the front door, the trio are making their quick escape out the back via the fire escape. Kiden is the first to reach street level and she shouts encouragement to Cameron who hesitates but changes her mind as the gunfire explodes into her former residence.  X-23 is nearly to street level when her claws pop out. She is startled and lets go of the fire escape and drops the last five feet to street level. Kiden immediately notices and her eyes bug out as she covers her mouth in shock.
At street level, the trio hears Daddy order a cease-fire. As he looks around the apartment he sees that no one is there. He grabs Tanya by the face and lets her know is displeased that he has been given false information. He accuses her of telling the girls he was coming so they could escape his wrath.
Two hours later in a nearby alleyway:
Cameron realizes that the guy after X-23 was in reality her pimp. She wonders out loud how she got mixed up in this when all she wanted to do was teach high school. She asks Kiden what they are going to do now. After all, her home has just been shot up and they have nowhere else to go. Kiden’s only reply is to grab her head in anguish and plead with her deceased father to help them out of this mess.
The Bronx, NYC, 7:24 a.m.:
Tatiana is on her way to school when she sees a small brown and white dog get hit by a car. She goes to the aid of the injured animal and discovers its right hind leg is broken and it is losing a lot of blood fast. The car that accidentally hit the dog stops and a frustrated man emerges to talk to her. He claims he did not mean to hit the dog. She obtains a tie from him and immediately stops the bleeding. The dog licks her as if it knows she is helping it. The bystander who loaned her the tie asks her if there is anything else she needs. She asks him for a ride to the nearby free animal clinic where she volunteers. He agrees and gets a towel out of the trunk to wrap the injured animal in. Tatiana assures her injured friend that he will be just fine.
Meanwhile in another alleyway Kiden digs through a dumpster in search of anything she can find. She emerges with a burger that has one bite missing from it and proclaims to her friends that breakfast is now served. X-23 and Cameron look on in absolute shock. Cameron asks her if she is joking around. Kiden tells her that it is not her fault that Cameron fled her apartment without money, credit cards, or ID but adds sarcastically that she will continue looking to find something more to “her majesty’s liking”. As Kiden continues her search she suddenly finds herself kneeling in the dumpster over her father. He tells her “This is what I want you to do”.
Bronx vocational high school:
Tatiana arrives late for her class and finds the teacher telling them where to turn in the textbook as she walks in. She apologizes to Ms. Parker for being late but her teacher tells her to just take a seat. Chester, a boy in her class, asks her what happened but she tells him not to start with her this morning. He replies by calling her frigid.
Suddenly, a noticeably bad smell permeates the classroom and the teenagers start commenting on it. However, Tatiana suddenly begins to hear multiple voices inside her head. She hears one of the girls thinking she is too weird to be invited to a party. Other voices agree that she is totally weird. She finds herself overcome with nausea and falls from her desk as she starts to vomit. One student calls for someone to get the nurse. Chester comments that she is swimming in her own vomit.
 Ms. Parker attempts to settle the students down and turns to ask Tatiana just what she thinks she is doing. As the teacher turns, everyone notices exactly what is wrong with Tatiana. Tatiana has now taken on the appearance of a brown and white K-9 and begins to howl.
Subway Train, same morning:
The trio have made their way onto an above ground train car. Cameron is telling Kiden that this is crazy. Kiden points out doing what her father says to do did not seem crazy when it came to leaving the apartment by the fire escape route. Cameron has no reply to that and silence falls over the trio.
Outside the Bronx Vocational High School:
A student is talking to a security guard. She is telling him that tonight her mom has a narcotics anonymous meeting when she is interrupted by a large brown and white K-9 shaped creature breaking through the window they had been standing in front of. The creature runs off down the street with torn clothes clinging to its body. The security guard and the student are sitting on the ground in shock. He tells her that she has homework she should do and she readily agrees with him.
The creature is soon followed by a mob of angry students from the vocational school. They are running after it, shaking their fists in the air and calling it a mutant. It is very clear that they are angry, disgusted and intent on causing harm to the creature they are in pursuit of.
As the creature runs down the crowded New York Street it attracts the attention of a mutant hating gang equipped with baseball bats.
Subway Train, same morning:
Kiden sees a street sign that says Gun Hill Road and the trio exit their ride at her insistence. They just stand there looking around. Cameron asks her if she is sure this is it. Kiden tells her to give it a few minutes and something will happed to indicate which direction they should go in.
A half-human/ half-k-9 creature runs upright down the same side of the street with the mob in hot pursuit. The pursuers shove the trio to the ground. Cameron grabs Kiden and tells her to get up. Kiden states that this is what her father wanted them to see and she takes off in pursuit of the angry mob.
Eventually the creature transformation begins to wear off leaving Tatiana on her own to deal with the angry mob. She chooses an alleyway to run down but soon discovers it’s a dead end with a black feline that is not happy to see her. She turns to leave the way she came but angry men with baseball bats block the route. They yell and shout that she is a mutant and needs to be dealt with. She tells them she is no mutant but that she is just like them.
 Kiden takes a short cut through a warehouse and as she arrives on the scene the angry mob is now running for its life.  As the crowd disperses Kiden is left to face a large black feline creature that clearly intends to do her harm. Cameron states that she has a bad feeling about this and Kiden agrees. However X-23 steps in front of both of them and approaches the violent creature. The two mutants stare each other eye to eye. Something in the feline creature recognizes a fellow predator, maybe even a fellow friend.  X-23 extends her hand and the feline creature sheathes its claws and places a paw in her hand. The two move toward each other and as they hug the feline creature starts to cry all to human tears and says “What have I done?”. X-23 turns the creature around and leads it toward Kiden and Cameron and out of the alley. Away from the small dead body of the slain feline in the alley.


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Wanna Be - part 7
District X, Manhattan, 8:13 p.m.:
Bobby sees an apparition of a police officer with blood trickling from his mouth (Kiden’s dead father). The apparition is standing just behind his little brothers’ chair. Bobby gets a good look at the right side. He frantically asks who the apparition is and tells it to get away from his little brother.
The apparition assures Bobby that he is not here to hurt anyone.  Bobby is shocked and demands to know how the apparition knew his name. The apparition goes on to tell him he has done some very bad things on this day. Bobby still claims that he has no idea what the police officer is talking about.
Kiden’s father urges him to think harder and claims that four young ladies are in danger because of his actions. Bobbie’s right hand goes to his forehead and he slumps over as he suddenly remembers Zebra Daddy and the three ladies. Only now is he told there are four involved.
 Bobby looks at the police officer helplessly and wonders aloud what he can do about it right now. Kiden’s father assures him that he does know what he can do about the situation he has helped to create. Bobby points out to the apparition that he can’t leave his little brother here by himself. The officer tells him that’s a chance he will have to take and asks the little brother for agreement.
The Flatiron District, 8:19 p.m.:
Zebra Daddy is sitting at a desk snorting white lines as the other brothers he has called here arrive. Ad they gather, he stands and says he was beginning to think they weren’t coming. He tells them that he is sure they know what they are working for but he wants them to know who they are working for as well. Zebra Daddy assures them that this meeting isn’t just about money or his own pride. He claims that it’s about the way they each live their lives. He tells them it’s about some low life female that thought she could run out on him and give the other girls ideas of doing the same. They all agree that this is bad. He tells them this action means war and they agree with him on that.
The Bronx, 8:23 p.m.:
The girls and Cameron Palmer are relaxing in an alley. Kiden is sitting on some cardboard boxes with a notebook, writing things down. X-23 and Cameron are observing their surroundings while Tatiana reasons out what has happened to her. She suddenly comes to the conclusion that she gets her powers from the blood of animals. She asks the rest of the group if she is the only one who sees the irony in this strange twist of fate. She suddenly chokes and says she wants to wash the blood off and go home. She bends over, covers her mouth with her right hand and walks away from the group.
Cameron walks over to Kiden and says she just wants to apologize. Cameron claims that she has not been right in her head since all the shooting started. Kiden assures her that an apology is not necessary. Cameron insists on apologizing and says that all the things that have happened have helped to clear the deadwood out of her life. Kiden tells her she doesn’t understand. Cameron asks if she ever told Kiden about her husband, Frank. Kiden shakes her head in reply. Cameron says that he ran out on her after the accident because she had changed. Cameron claims that she spent time in limbo like Kiden and just needed someone to wake her up.
District X :
The ghostly police officer bends over the child in the chair and asks him what he has to say to his big brother over here?
The Bronx:
Kiden apologizes to Cameron for messing things up so bad. She claims she is lost. The visions make her feel lost now.
The Flatiron District:
Zebra Daddy arms his minions. He assigns them into two groups. He instructs Diesel to lead Team A and Gutierrez to lead Team B. He tells them to get out there and bring the girl back.
District X :
The little boy on the chair opens his eye and looks directly at his older brother, Bobby. Bobby is astonished and asks the apparition how?
The Bronx:
 Kiden tells Cameron that she really does feel lost. She has no idea what to do next. She says that she thought there was a purpose to all of this. Cameron interrupts her and says they should head back to her apartment to get her credit cards and some money she left in a coffee can. Kiden asks her if she is crazy after all and claims that this is the worst thing they could do. Kiden tells her that the bad guys are probably still waiting there to kill them. She blames all of this on the visions.
The Flatiron District:
Zebra Daddy instructs Team B to hit the streets and ask everybody if they have seen the girl he is after. They begin asking the street people in the area.
District X :
Bobby sits in shock as he voices aloud that his little brother just moved. The apparition reminds him to do the right thing and then vanishes. Bobby asks his little brother where the man went and then tells his sibling that he has to go somewhere and he will be right back.
The Bronx:
Kiden stops her protest in mid sentence as she sees her father’s image suddenly appear behind Cameron. Kiden tells Cameron that they must go to her apartment right away. Cameron responds with a confused look.
The Flatiron District:
Team B hits the streets and does not take no for an answer as Zebra Daddy has instructed them to do. Zebra Daddy call’s Team A and they report that they are at the teacher apartment where they were instructed to go.
Manhattan, 9:40 pm:
Tatiana asks Cameron why they are going to her apartment when Kiden didn’t think this was a good idea. Cameron tells her that Kiden had a vision and changed her mind. Tatiana replies “One of her visions?” Cameron tells Tatiana that she is now a believer in Kiden’s visions and she trusts Kiden. Besides, she wants to see this situation through. Tatiana asks Cameron exactly what situation she is going to see through. Cameron tells her that if she has a problem than she might get back on the train and go home to her mother.
Tatiana hugs herself as she remembers being bit by the cat and changing and her mother yelling at her to get out. She looks at the ground and says she can’t just go home. Cameron advises her to follow Kiden like she does and not to say anything. Tatiana looks for Kiden and asks Cameron where she went. They look around and see Kiden standing at a mail box. Cameron asks her what she is doing but Kiden only replies that she thought she saw someone she recognized.
 Essex Street, Alphabet City, 9:44 pm:
The twins are playing happily in the living room while Kiden’s mother talks on the phone in the background. She is trying to explain to the moving company that she needs the moving men in two days and not on Tuesday like they want. Irritated, she asks the person on the phone if anyone at their office actually speaks English.
Ty picks this particular time to come in the front door like nothings happened, but the huge black eye on his face tells a far different story. His mother reacts with shock and he reminds her to watch her language in front of the kids. Ty attempts to tell her that he has some important information about Kiden but she asks him to hold that thought while she tells the moving company not to give her any attitude and to get someone on the phone who is capable of writing down the right information.
The twins are still busy accusing each other of having cooties. She agrees with the moving company that they will be here in two days and tells them they should have the signed contract. After making sure the arrangement is made, she tells them she needs to go, says goodbye and hangs up as the new man in her life walks in the door. She tells him how glad she is to see him. The stress from moving and dealing with the twins shows plainly on her face and he asks her if she has had a long day.
As one twin informs her that Danny has hit his head against the sink, she lays her head on his shoulder and states that it will be nice to have more room for the boys. He asks her what is wrong and exasperatedly she tells him he already knows what is wrong. She tells him she can’t believe they are leaving without her little girl, Kiden.
He tells her he understands how she feels and reminds her that even the police have failed to find Kiden. She says that she understands all that but it doesn’t change how she feels. He attempts to assure her that they will never stop looking for Kiden. He tells her that if Kiden is alive she will find them before they find her.  She expresses doubt about Kiden finding them and questions the move altogether. He reminds her that she needs to do the right thing for the kids that she lives with and moving to a better neighborhood would be a good thing. He reminds her that Ty is now a drug dealer at his young age.
Suddenly she remembers that Ty had something he wanted to tell her. She turns her attention to him and notices he has put a cold steak over his injured eye. He flashes back to how the eye was injured and claims that there is nothing he needs to tell her.
238 E 25th Street, 9:52 pm:
Diesel is perched on a rooftop talking to Zebra Daddy over the walkie talkie. Diesel claims that he has something from his location. He says he sees four girls headed this way. Zebra Daddy asks if his boo is there and Diesel replies yes. Zebra Daddy gives Diesel orders to not do anything till he gets there. Then he calls for Team B and asks where they are at.
Gutierrez assures his leader he is taking care of business. It is evident he has just finished knifing someone. Zebra tells him that his business can wait and he needs to get his team on the East side with Team A. The reply is “will do.” And Zebra tells him he is a good man. Zebra Daddy proceeds to do coke lines before he leaves to take care of business himself.
Meanwhile, on the street below, Cameron positions Kiden and Tatiana behind some boxes in an alleyway. She tells them to wait here in case there is any trouble. This way they can call the cops and get out before they become involved. Tatiana asks her what she will do and she assures them she will think of something. Cameron points to a window on the second floor and tells them that is her kitchen window and to watch for her to turn the light on. That will be her signal that everything is ok. She tells them not to move from behind the pile of garbage and girls agree with her.  The girls watch Cameron disappear in the crown on the street as she heads for her apartment.
Diesel reports to Zebra Daddy that the oldest girl is heading toward the building. He speculates that this is the teacher. Zebra Daddy tells him to move as he knows what to do and assures Diesel he will be on the scene in two minutes flat.
Cautiously, Cameron enters the building and begins her climb up the two flights of stairs to her apartment.  She approaches her door, gently removes the crime scene tape placed there by the police and enters. She stops and listens to her empty apartment but does not hear anything out of the ordinary. She goes to her bedroom and gets her money and credit cards from her wallet stashed in her dresser. She head s into the kitchen and opens a can of food. She is about to turn the light on when a hand intercepts hers and one arm goes around her throat while the other is clamped tight over her mouth.  A man’s threatening voice tells her “not a word”; she doesn’t even get the chance to scream.
Below in the alleyway, Kiden tells Tatiana that she is getting anxious and is reminded that it has only been a minute and a half since Cameron left them. Roles are reversed as it is now Tatiana who tells Kiden to relax. Kiden impatiently stands up and tells her friend she can feel that something is wrong.
Suddenly, a familiar voice tells her that this is a set up. She looks up to see the apparition of her father and he tells her to run from this right now before any more time goes by. She asks him about Cameron and her tells her that its to late for her now. He reminds her that it has always been too late for her. He tells her that the young man with him is going to lead her to safety and he is her only way out. Bobby and Kiden exchange glances of disbelief.
 Tatiana asks X-23 who Kiden is talking too as she sees no-one there. Kiden’s father insists it’s the only way despite her protests. Her father is begging her to do as he says when all the girls hear Cameron’s anguished screams from the apartment. Before they can react Kiden finds herself face to face with Gutierrez and his Team B.
Zebra Daddy’s car hurtles into the alleyway in a shower of cardboard boxes. Zebra Daddy exits the car and asks Felon what he is doing at this scene. Kiden reacts with a shocked look when she sees they clearly know each other. Felon asks Zebra Daddy what this is all about since he was promised that no one would get hurt.  Zebra Daddy tosses this questions aside with a whatever comment and tells his boys to get what they came here for.
Diesel is holding a gun to X-23’s head and Zebra Daddy tells him to put it down. He hold out his hand towards X-23 and tells her how much he has missed her. She goes to him and puts her head on his shoulder. As they walk to the car, he tosses the words “waste ’em” over his shoulder. He turns his attention back to X-23 in the belief he is safe.
However, X-23 has other ideas and she does what she does best after unsheathing her weapons. Before Diesel can react he sees Zebra Daddy cut to ribbons in front of him. He only has time to utter an astonished “Daddy!” before the young woman gets to work on him and the rest of the boys present in the alleyway.
Tatiana hugs the building for safety and Kiden cowers as she is splattered with blood. However, one young man remains standing and he takes aim at X-23. Kiden springs at him. She hits him upside the head and warns him to leave X-23 alone. He lowers his weapon and cradles his blood dripping head in tears.
Felon looks at the gang member holding a gun on him in the eye and takes complete possession of his body as his own slumps to the ground. He aims at the young man holding his head and shoots point blank. The gun recoil knocks his possessed body out leaving him free to return to his own body. Once in his own body he looks around and realizes he has no idea who he is.
Cameron and Tatiana are looking at the carnage around them as they realize they still hear screams and men’s shouts from the kitchen window. As Kiden calls Mrs. Palmers name a change comes over Tatiana. She now calls herself Cataina. She heads for the apartment.
Behind a parked truck, Zebra Daddy is still alive but injured. One of his boys finds him sitting on the ground and asks him if he is ok. He tells his boy to shut up and grabs the gun he is holding. One of the other men asks if that is his boo and points to X-23. The girl unsheathes her claws and goes into action before Zebra Daddy can even reply. Blood flies everywhere as she cuts them to ribbons.
Cameron is fighting for her life with the man in her apartment. She even gets lucky and knocks the weapon from his hand. They get closer to the window as they struggle.
Cataina is slowly making her way up the outside of the building by digging her clays in between the bricks. Suddenly, Cameron falls through the window and Cataina is quick to catch her before she falls to the ground. Cameron apologizes for her yelling at her earlier in the day.
In the alley below, Zebra Daddy grabs a gun, aims it at X-23s’ head and yells “enough” at the top of his lungs. He tells her it has been fun and this is a nice ending. This is just like the legend of Romeo and Juliet. He tells her he loves her and the states “welcome to my legend” as he pulls the trigger. Blood sprays everywhere and X-23 falls to the ground.
 Kiden looks on in horror and yells “NOOOOOOOOOO!” She flashes back to the fateful day when her life changed forever. The day her father was shot.
Cataina loses her grip on Cameron, who then makes her final plunge to the alleyway below.
Kiden suddenly remembers the face in the car that drove away and left her father in the street to die. She knows beyond a shadow of a doubt she has just seen that face shoot one of her closest friends. She yells stop and the world around her explodes in a rainbow of color as she slips in between the seconds on the second hand of a clock. She is now in the between time where none of the others can follow or see her.
 All she sees is Zebra Daddy’s grinning face. She approaches him and tells him she knows it was him. She welcomes him to the “no” time where she is the only monster, or the boss. She draws back her fist to hit him as hard as she can and flashes back to when she broke Hector’s arm; then to when Ms. Palmer was shot. She tells him that a few days ago she had a home. Now, she blames him for the life she has because it all changed the day he shot her father in front of her.
 Suddenly she notices Ms. Palmer frozen in mid-fall. As she places a mattress beneath the falling frozen Mrs. Palmer, she realizes she has bought into his fantasy of controlling others.
Without warning reality slips back to current speed and Mrs. Palmer finishes her fall. Kiden looks over at her on the ground and says “hey”. Ms. Palmer returns a shocked and dazed look at Kiden. Ms. Palmer had expected to be splattered all over the alley upon landing.
Zebra Daddy takes a minute to relocate his target and sticks the gun in her face. He tells her can’t have any witnesses. He never hears another girl come up behind him. He only knows she is there as she runs him through with her claws. Zebra Daddy falls to the ground dead in front of Kiden.
The sound of sirens ring through the night in the city. The girls realize it’s the cops. Ms. Palmer tells them this is the end of the road. Tatiana asks what they should do. A young black man picks himself up off the ground of the alley and tells them his name is Bobby Soul and he lives on Mulberry Street in District X. He holds his hand out to them and assures them that if they come with him they will be safe. Tatiana asks him why he should be trusted; after all, it was clear that Zebra Daddy knew him.
Ms. Palmer tells the group they don’t have much of a choice as the cops will be here any second. Kiden assures then there is always a choice. She gazes into his face and asks him if they really can trust him. After a few seconds of exchanging a glance he assures them they can and Kiden says Okay.  She takes his hand and reminds him not to let them down. He says he won’t. Ms. Palmer announces that they are going with Bobby. Tatiana expresses doubts about this decision but is finally talked into going along. Secretly, Kiden tells Ms. Palmer that her contingency plan (in case this doesn’t work out) concerns the New York Post Office.
The girls walk off into the night with Bobby leading them back to his apartment that he shares with only his little brother. He assures them they will all be safe there until they can figure out what is going on.
Meanwhile at Bobby’s apartment, a hand turns off the X men cartoon on television and a bloody ghost assures the young child sitting at the table that everything will be over real soon. As Kiden’s father fades out tears fall down the child’s face.
Epilogue: Essex Street, Two Days Later:
A moving van is parked in front of a house and men are loading it. A green station wagon parked nearby has its luggage rack loaded down and tied down as if ready for a long trip. A man and Kiden’s mom are in the front seat. Twin boys play in the next seat and Ty is crowded in the third seat with boxes. The twins ask the famous question “Are we there yet?” The man asks her if she is ok and she says yes. As they drive off none of them notice the postman running behind the station wagon and waving a letter. The postman finally gives up the chase and stands there in the middle of the road looking at the letter which is from Kiden.