Transcript by Jill
Tony Blake
and
Paul Jackson
Directed by
Gregory J. Bonnan
FADE IN: OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING AT NIGHT
CASSIE is making out hot and heavy with a man in her car.
MAN: Wow!
CASSIE: That's what I was going for.
MAN: That thing...with your tongue I don't know how that's physically possible and I'm a doctor.
CASSIE: Maybe you just need a little hands on training.
MAN: Any chance we can hold class upstairs?
CASSIE: Tempt me.
They lean in for another kiss when Cassie's phone goes off. She checks the message and sighs.
CASSIE: Ah damn. I gotta go.
MAN: Now?
CASSIE: Use this time to think of all the ways I can make this up to you.
MAN: (reluctantly) Okay...just tell me...is it another guy?
CASSIE: Actually it is...and two women.
FADE TO: WAREHOUSE
Mercedes, Jeep and Mustang pulls up and the women get out of their cars.
DD: What happened to us being on vacation?
CASSIE: You know Jack, any day we're not behind bars is vacation.
SHANE: The only man I know who could disappoint three women in one night! I waited months for these tickets! I had to leave before the first bottle was thrown!
CASSIE: I was this close to playing doctor with a real doctor!
DD: Well I had to leave the Dodger game in the sixth inning!
SHANE: Yeah you and fifty thousand other people.
They walk into the warehouse
CASSIE: Jack? Jack? Maybe we beat him here.
SHANE: Knowing Jack he probably got lost.
Ropes fall from the ceiling behind them and men dressed in black silently descend.
DD: Maybe we're in the wrong place.
The women turn with a start as the door slides closed. They see the men in black and take up a fighting stance.
CASSIE: Right place, wrong shoes.
The battle commences and DD's last hit was a flip, landing her on her back and she gracefully rolls to her feet.
CASSIE: Nice moves.
DD: I've always been able to think fast on my back.
Cassie and Shane share a bemused look but make no retort.
DD: No, I meant--
She is cut off by the sound of triggers being slid and they all spin around...to be faced with more men with semi-automatic weapons...and a lone male figure standing by a car,silhouetted by the headlights.
MYSTERY MAN: So, you're the She Spies... I have to say, I'm disappointed.
CASSIE: (Trying to shade her eyes) I blame the lighting.
MYSTERY MAN: You allowed yourselves to walk right into a trap, you never saw it coming. It's hard to believe the Chairman thinks you're the best he can get.
SHANE: Okay, point made!
CASSIE: You're not impressed, we get it.
DD: So what happens now?
MYSTERY MAN: You die.
The armed men open fire on the spies.
Fade into opening credits.
*Cameron Daddo appears after Natashia Williams with his title billing listed simply as CAMERON DADDO as CROSS. Jamie Iglehart is listed last. The billing listings change in the next episode and from then on Cameron receives final billing reading "and CAMERON DADDO as MR. CROSS"
END OF TEASER
FADE IN: SAME WAREHOUSE
The girls are not harmed and look over each other.
SHANE: Hey, that didn't hurt as much as I thought.
DD: I can't be dead...we wouldn't all be in the same place.
CASSIE: (shaken) Thanks for the vote of confidence.
DD: Technically, I am the only one who isn't a criminal.
CASSIE: Okay Jack, jokes over, you can come out now!
The mystery man comes into the light as the women look around for Jack.
MYSTERY MAN: Jack isn't here. And if those bullets were real you wouldn't be here either. Why wasn't one of you deployed to watch your back? It's basic espionage training... Spy Stuff 101.
DD: (warily) Come on, we're on vacation.
MYSTERY MAN: In this job there are no vacations.
CASSIE: Look, Mister whoever you are--
MYSTERY MAN: Cross. The name is Cross.
SHANE: (miffed) If you're so unhappy with our training why don't you just take it up with our boss?!?
CROSS: Jack's been reassigned. I am your new boss.
Close up on Cross that fades to exterior of an office building, all the lower floors are lit up, and a few uppper offices are as well. Transition to the interior of the office, very sleek and modern. The women look out over the busy government workers below.
CASSIE: Whoa! I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
SHANE: How did they do this so fast?!?
CROSS: (appearing silently behind them) We're the government, we can do anything.
SHANE: (mouthy) You can't balance the budget.
DD: Or save the spotted owl.
CASSIE: Or make me vote.
CROSS: (walking toward the staircase) Oh, I could waste time pointing out the fact that you're a convict and then explain the reasons why you're denied the right to vote but then... I'm not Jack.
DD: Speaking of Jack, you never told us what happened to him.
CROSS: (leading them down the stairs) Jack made his dream come true.
CASSIE: He's a lounge singer in Havana?
CROSS: The Chairman promoted him to field agent. He's stationed in Rome.
DD: He never even called to say good-bye.
CASSIE: Guess that's the business for ya, friends one day, strangers the next.
SHANE: Well it beats prison where your strangers one day then shower buddies for life.
CROSS: (stopping at a large monitor) Ladies. May I direct your attention to the screen.
A video of a young man appears and Cross freezes the image.
CROSS: Does anyone recognize this face?
DD: (enthusiastic) That's Rane kennedy! Oh,I love his music! I just downloaded his latest cd, he's so cute!
Cassie and Shane give her a look.
DD: (trying to be more professional) I mean if you're into that kind of...stuff.
CROSS: One of our listening posts picked up some chatter off mainland China. Rane Kennedy may be the target of a kidnapping.
SHANE: Since when do we care about some bubble gum popstar?
CROSS: All you need to know is I care.
Cross leads them away from the screen and Shane silently mouths off behind his back.
CROSS: For now your assignment is to go undercover, keep your eyes open and see what you can find out about the threat.
DD: Why go undercover?
CASSIE: Why not just tell them why we're there?
Cross passes a desk where an agent holds up two charts, Cross points to one, showing he is very important here.
CROSS: Analysis worked up a profile on Kennedy.
Cross accepts a file from another man as he's walking.
CROSS: He's unpredictable.
Cross reads the file.
CROSS: They're concerned if he knows he's in danger he might do something irrational, put himself in harm's way.
SHANE: So what's our cover? Groupies?
CROSS: (stops and turns) We've arranged your cover with the record company and no, you're not groupies.
DD: (challenging) You think we're too old?
CROSS: (rising to it) Hopefully too smart.
Cross leads them to another office.
CROSS: Duncan Baleu.
DUNCAN: (awed) Cassie, Shane, DD... the She Spies. I... uh... I know all about you, I think you're really reeeeeeally incredible.
The women give him a bemused look.
DUNCAN: (flustered) I mean... you know as... as spies... well of course as women too, I mean just look at you you're
Cross walks over and places a hand on his shoulder.
CROSS: Duncan.
DUNCAN: Right.
The younger man falls silent.
CROSS: Duncan's here to provide whatever we may need to facilitate your missions. Show them the device.
DUNCAN: (looks at Cross blankly for a moment) Hmm? Oh Yeah! This is a tracking device that I developed. It's a 6000 megahertz gps transmitter, it's designed to be easily attached to any surface.
He hands them the dime size tracker.
CROSS: Rane Kennedy wears a vanity necklace, supposedly he never takes it off, even bathes with it.
CASSIE: (smirking) Should I ask how you know that?
CROSS: (gives her a cryptic look) We want you to secure it to the necklace.
DUNCAN: He apparently is big on clubbing. We thought if one of you could get close enough to him--
DD: I will!
Shane and Cassie give her a none-too-surprised look.
DD: What? We're on a mission.
CASSIE: When do we start?
CROSS: Now.
SHANE: Now?!? It's two a.m.!
CROSS: (smiling) He's a popstar, likes to party, his night's just getting started.
FADE TO: A CLUB
SHANE: (waiting in line with the women) I give this guy Cross a week!
CASSIE: I don't think we'll be that lucky. Arrogant guys like him always find a way to survive.
DD: I don't mind working with someone who has strong management skills. I just think that a steady hand means a firm ship.
SHANE: Yep, if the crew doesn't mutiny first.
INTERIOR OF THE CLUB
CASSIE: Okay, let's keep our eyes open and DD... try not to get starstruck.
DD: Please, I'm a professional.
DD spots Rane Kennedy across the room surrounded by women.
DD: Oh my God! There he is!
SHANE: Focus okay. We're here on business, don't be flashing any body parts for him to autograph or anything.
DD: I'll just have him initial something.
DD hurries over and they follow.
RANE: Ladies, please join us, there's always room for new booty.
CASSIE: We appreciate the... compliment... but we're actually with Presidio Records.
RANE: Oh yeah, yeah,they told me you'd be here.
CASSIE: I'm Cassie, A $ R, Shane here handles security--
DD: And I'm DD. with publicity, hi!
RANE: Hi! (mocking DD, he rises) You know the last airhead that had your job uh, she thought I'd look good on the cover of Boy's Life and I fired her ass! Get the picture? And uh, here's a list of a few things I want in my dressing room from now on.
He hands the list to Cassie who looks at it.
CASSIE: Three dozen cherry Poptarts, virgin lambskin couch covers, four heavy load electrical outlets?
RANE: I like to plug things in.
CASSIE: I'll work on it.
RANE: No, no, you don't work on it, you do it. You see uh, your job is to make sure I get what I want, you know why? Because I'm a star. A genius. And...I deserve it.
CASSIE: (miffed) Believe me, there's nothing more I'd enjoy than seeing you get what you deserve.
DD: (steps up to Rane to diffuse the tension) Oh, I love this song! Come on, let's dance!
RANE: I don't think so.
DD: Your loss.
Rane watches her do a sexy dance and gets turned on.
RANE: (hands Shane his bottle) Hold this.
SHANE: (deposits her gum in the drink) You know whoever want to kidnap him better bring back-up 'cause it's gonna take three people just to carry his ego.
DD and Rane dance and she shoots them a look for help, he's holding her so tight she can't place the tracker on the necklace.
CASSIE: Looks like DD needs help getting that tracker on Rane.
SHANE: (hands the bottle to her) Hold this, I gotta go in.
Both women dance with him.
SHANE: You like?
RANE: Me likes. Ladies love the bling-bling.
DD manages to get the tracker on the necklace and they walk away.
STRANGER: (at the bar) Must be fun working for such a big star.
CASSIE: Between you and me, I can't wait for this job to end. (she walks away)
STRANGER: (to friend) We're gonna make her day.
FADE TO: TERMINAL ISLAND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
P.A.: Transfer prisoner Kovac.
A police van pulls up and the prisoner is walked to the gate.
P.A.: Open Gate 2.
The gate starts to open.
PRISON GUARD: Hey, where's Dale?
Both guards are shot by the men in the van who cut Kovac's cuffs off.
KOVAC: Nice work, now all we need is Rane.
FADE OUT
END OF ACT ONE
FADE IN: The girls are driving on the road in Cassie's Mercedes heading home.
CASSIE: (On speaker phone) We just left Rane's mansion.
CROSS: (In the office) Is he secure?
SHANE: Are you kidding, that place is a fortress. Cops, they could get some tips on security.
DD: We're going home to get some sleep.
CASSIE: You know, if that's okay with you?
CROSS: Don't get too comfortable. A man named Daniel Kovac escaped earlier today from Terminal Island.
CASSIE: Isn't that supposed to be a maximum security prison?
CROSS: Supposed to be. Kovac's is a geneticist, used to run a secret military program that studied people as a superior intelligence.
SHANE: What was he trying to do, build a smarter soldier?
CROSS: Basically.
DD: The few, the proud, the highly intellectual.
CROSS: Three years ago Kovac was caught trying to sell his research on the black market.
CASSIE: And we care why?
CROSS: Because Rane Kennedy was one of the kids in his program.
SHANE: Are you serious?!? That arrogant little twerp really is a genius?
DD: Guess you can't judge a brain by its body.
CROSS: We believe there's a connection between Kovac's escape and the kidnap threat. I've e-mailed you Kovac's photograph and all the data we have on the program for background.
CASSIE: Oh please, just don't tell me we have to read it now, we have to be on a music video set in four---
Cassie gapes and hits the brakes as the camera pans to an empty lot.
SHANE: We've got a problem.
DD: (shocked) Our house is missing!
CROSS: (amused) Oh... didn't I tell you? Analysis felt your old house was compromised so they moved you.
CASSIE: You moved us? Where?
FADE TO: The new house...on the beach.
DD: (gasps as they enter the deck) This is fantastic! I love the sounds of waves crashing on the beach.
CASSIE: That deck is incredible! My God, if you lay down it's very private...if you get my drift.
DD: No tan lines.
Cassie gives her a look, not exactly what she was drifting at.
SHANE: (exiting the house) Okay, love the fresh air, I even love the half-naked deck but we have one problem...three bedrooms, only one has an ocean view.
Cassie and DD both look up at the room and call dibs.
SHANE: I already called it in the bedroom.
DD: That's not fair!
SHANE: No, no, not fair is having to shower with thirty other people, this is karmic payback.
CASSIE: You can tell karma she owes us all.
SHANE: Fine! We'll choose!
DD: We shouldn't depend on luck. I think we should earn it.
CASSIE: Earn it?
DD: Yeah, like a trivia contest. Whoever stumps the other two wins.
SHANE: Well it has to be something we all know.
CASSIE: Sex?
SHANE: There's nothing trivial about sex.
DD: It depends on the man.
Cassie and Shane look at her surprised.
THE WOMEN IN UNISON DD!
DD: (smiling) What? I've been around.
SHANE: I got it! What's the one subject we've all spent hours doing?
CASSIE: I thought we just passed on sex.
SHANE: I meant movies and tv!
CASSIE: Movies and tv it is.
DD: Only, can we do this after we get some sleep? I'm really tired.
CASSIE: Hold it. Who gets the ocean view for now?
Cut to all three sleeping on the deck.
FADE TO: RANE KENNEDY'S MUSIC VIDEO ON THE BEACH
VOICE (OFF CAMERA) Great job everybody, next set up.
SHANE: Okay, in the movie "Porky's", why did they call "Meat" Tuperillo, "Meat"?
DD: Because of the size of his...you know.
SHANE: (smirking) No I don't know. I need a specific answer.
DD: His wahoo. Kickstand. Love wand.
SHANE: (chuckling) Okay.
CASSIE: (chuckling) Oh my God.
SHANE: The judges will accept 'love wand'.
RANE: Hey, DD! What's that stand for, 'dumb-dumb'? Did you place that article about me in Rolling Stone?!?
DD: Is there a problem?
RANE: It's under a piece on 'BLOW''s! BLOW sucks alright! They're a bunch of loosers and they get better placement?!?
CASSIE: (deflecting his anger) Rane, I thought that last take you did was great--
RANE: Okay it sucked! This lame-ass director you found doesn't know the difference from a key light to a flashlight! So keep your stupid opinions to yourself!
Cassie is ready to let him have it when her phone rings and she walks away.
CASSIE: Hello?
Cut to:
BRAD: Cassie?
CASSIE: Brad, hey, um...this is a really bad time can I call you back?
BRAD: I should be free some time around--
CASSIE: Thanks. (hangs up) Great.
BRAD: Hello?
Cut back to:
RANE: Don't forget, I'm the boss and you're nothing! And you, (checks out Shane's backside) got a nice bucket. (he slaps her butt and walks away)
Cassie and DD keep her from giving him a fist sandwich.
CASSIE: Okay.
SHANE: (fuming) I'm this close to killing him!
CASSIE: Wait until we save his life first.
Cross appears.
CROSS: Ladies.
SHANE: Oh, so ya checkin' up on us?
CROSS: Just enjoying a day at the beach.
The women snicker since he's dressed in a dark suit.
DD: Well, what's that? (points to the suit) Sunblock? SPF 1000.
CROSS: (ignores the jab) How's Rane?
CASSIE: Compared to a trip to my gynocologist? I'd rather hit the stirrups.
CROSS: Let's walk.
The women have no choice but to follow.
CROSS: What have you found out?
SHANE: Well, I read in that data you sent that Daniel Kovac used hypnosis on his research subjects but they don't know why.
CASSIE: If they were all as obnoxious as Rane I would have hypnotized them too.
CROSS: Shane, see if you can get Rane to talk about his experience with Kovac, specifically the hypnosis.
DD: So what about us?
CROSS: Operatives in China tell us that a man named John Miller is flying in under an alias. His photo's in your e-mail, he was Kovac's research associate, fled to China when Kovac was arrested. I want you and Cassie to pick up his tail at the airport and see where that leads you.
CASSIE: Okay.
FADE TO: THE BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF MERCY CONVENT
A phone rings as a black car pulls up to the curb.
CROSS: (off camera) Cross speaking.
CASSIE: We've picked up Miller's tail at the airport but they've been driving for over an hour.
CROSS: (off camera) Where are you now?
CASSIE: (pulls over too) Somewhere in the North Valley.
CROSS: (off camera) Stay with him, sooner or later he should lead us to Kovac. (he hangs up)
DD: Hey, that long haired guy looks familiar.
CASSIE: He was at the club last night, Probably tracking Rane.
DD: Why would four men be going into a convent?
CASSIE: Maybe they got tired of singles bars.
Cut to Cassie and DD inside the convent.
DD: You okay?
CASSIE: (uneasy) Yeah, sure.
DD: (not convinced) You look...I don't know... guilty.
CASSIE: I got thrown out of Catholic school. Never work a con on someone who's taken a vow of poverty.
The long haired man exits a room and crosses their path.
MAN: (recognizing Cassie) Hey! Hey you! You work for that record company. What are you doing here?
CASSIE: Got fired. Thought I'd try a new line of work.
MAN: (grabs her arm) Come with me.
Cassie and DD beat him up and lock him in the janitor's closet.
DD: Fighting in a convent! Now we're in hell!
CASSIE: Just blame it on me, I've already got a lot to explain.
NUN: Can I help you?
CASSIE: (uneasy) No, we're good thanks.
NUN: You look...
CASSIE: I know, guilty.
NUN: I was going to say lost... but now that you mention it, may I ask what you're doing here?
CASSIE: Well...um...we...uh...
DD: Want to become nuns?
END OF ACT TWO
FADE OUT
FADE IN: THE BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF MERCY CONVENT
NUN: (in office) Always refreshing to see young women like yourselves deciding to follow a path of faith.
CASSIE: Thank you...but there's something troubling me.
NUN: We all have our demons to deal with.
CASSIE: No. I mean, I thought I saw some men in here before. Temptation is the last thing my sister needs, she's had problems with men in the past.
NUN: Oh, don't worry, they're just some of our customers.
DD: (shocked) What kind of a convent is this?
CASSIE: You see that's exactly the type of problem my sister's had.
NUN: (realizing) No dear, that is not what's going on here! You see, with so few young women deciding to follow a spiritual life we've had to rent out the vacant dormitories to make ends meet.
CASSIE: Rent them out for what?
NUN: Data storage. We've installed seven mainframes, each with a thousand gigs of RAM. The Episcopalians are green with envy!
DD: May I see them? I...computers are my hobby and...
NUN: I'm sorry dear. Once you become an initiate you'll take a vow of poverty and you'll have to give up any hobbies like computers.
CASSIE: Sister, I'm not sure Deidre is ready for this type of life, her having been a working girl...perhaps she should speak to a priest. After all, there's a lot of soul here to cleanse.
NUN: Of course, let me see if I can find Father Jerry.
The nun departs.
DD: Thank you for making me the whore of Babylon!
CASSIE: (looking heavenward) Thanks for letting me finally put one over on a nun. Dad would be so proud.
FADE TO: THE BEACH AND RANE KENNEDY'S MUSIC VIDEO SHOOT.
VOICE (off camera) Cut!
RANE: (to unidentified man) Now that's choreography! What you were doing was the Bolshoi...on prozac! Let's set up the shoot!
SHANE: Wow...you were uh...pretty tough on that guy.
RANE: Look, the average shelf-life of a popstar is about 16 months alright, after that my CDs go into the ninety-nine cent bin, so I really don't have a lot of time to waste.
SHANE: (pulling out cigarettes) Ah, must be a lot of pressure. Want one?
RANE: What kind of genius would I be if I smoked?!?
SHANE: Oh man, I've tried everything to stop, the patch, staple in my ear, nothing seems to work. You know, I was going to try hypnosis but, uh, I'm a little nervous, I don't know anyone who's ever done it.
RANE: It's no big deal. I was hypnotized once.
SHANE: Really? For what?
RANE: Uh, some research program. I remember the guy had me close my eyes and imagine I was walking down a long flight of steps. Stuff like that.
SHANE: And...did it work?
RANE: Who knows. Maybe. I do remember about an hour later I opened my eyes...there were a couple of guys in dark suits arresting me.
SHANE: Really? For what?
RANE: I didn't ask, it wasn't about me so, uh, I didn't care.
Rane enters his trailer and closes the door and Shane dumps the cigarettes into the trash with a satisfied smile.
FADE TO: THE BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF MERCY CONVENT.
DD and Cassie are dressed as nuns to check out the dorms.
DD: I'm not just going to hell, I'm Satan's bride!
CASSIE: And I'm the maid-of-honor.
As they pass a pair of nuns Cassie's cell phone goes off.
DD: I told her not to get those musical rosary beads.
CASSIE: Hello? Brad? This is a really bad time. I know I said that before--where am I? Well...in a convent--no, it has nothing to do with you. Look, I really gotta go, I'll call you back, I promise.
DD: (when Cassie hangs up) That guy has got the worst timing.
CASSIE: I know. Makes me wonder how he'd be in bed.
They head down a path and see three men so they make a quick u-turn.
MILLER: Excuse me, sisters? Sisters? Hello, excuse me. (DD and Cassie stop walking) Uh, we seem to have gotten turned around, can you help us find the exit?
DD: Of course, just follow us. (As they lead the men away she whispers to Cassie) What now? Kovac isn't with them.
CASSIE: We lead them outside and we follow them again.
MILLER: I'm sorry, did you say something sister?
DD: Oh no, just praying.
CASSIE: For guidance.
MILLER THat's a very interesting fragrance you're wearing.
DD: Thank you, it's called Scent of...Purity.
MILLER: If I remember my days at Catholic school... nuns don't wear perfume.
The two men with him grab the women's arms and of course regret it. Cassie takes out one man then goes after Miller while DD finishes off her goon.
DD: Don't you know you never mess with a nun.
Cassie tackles Miller and finishes him off with a punch.
CASSIE: If I remember my days at Catholic school, the girls were a lot tougher than the boys.
She hauls him to his feet and heads back to DD.
FADE TO: THE BEACH AND RANE KENNEDY.
RANE: (to Shane) Come on, the trailer's right over there and we got some time.
SHANE: And my buckets gonna stay right here.
RANE: (comes over to her) You know you want to. Come on, I think older women are tight.
SHANE: Excuse me?!? You think I'm old?!
RANE: Look, not Madonna old, more like Shannon Daugherty old.
A groupie approaches.
GROUPIE: Hey, what's you doin'?
SHANE: (blocking the girl) Oh, excuse me--
RANE: It's all right, I know her.
The groupie whispers in his ear.
RANE: Sure, nothing's happening here.
He leads her to the trailer.
SHANE: Well, I can't let you out of my sight.
RANE: Great, I'd love a threesome.
SHANE: And I'll stay right here.
Rane closes the door as Cassie and DD arrive.
CASSIE: Everything okay?
SHANE: Yeah, yeah, he's just uh... getting the star treatment.
CASSIE: Don't you wish spies had groupies.
DD: Problem is, you'd have to kill them afterwards.
SHANE: Okay guys, focus. Just tell me you got Kovac.
CASSIE: We didn't but we caught Miller, they're talking to him now.
They walk over to the food table.
DD: We also got a laptop containing Kovac's research data, it showed that Kovac discovered the genetic sequence within a DNA molecule that controls human circadian rhythms.
Shane looks at her clueless.
CASSIE: I didn't get this part either.
DD: Circadian rhythms control sleep cycles, if Kovac could manipulate those rhythms his subjects could go without sleep for months or more.
CASSIE: Which might explain Rane's energy.
The see the trailer rocking.
DD: Ooh! Nestles Crunch!
SHANE: Besides creating a major pain in the butt what good is it?
DD tries to answer but her mouth is full of chocolate.
CASSIE: I'll take it from here, they think he was going to sell the code to a foreign government which would create an army of perfect warriors.
SHANE: (starts to bite a cookie) That could be worth a few bucks. (removes cookie) Fat makes you look older doesn't it?
CASSIE: Yeah, but you're not fat.
SHANE: So you're saying something else makes me look older.
CASSIE: What?
SHANE: (puts cookie down) Forget it. Alright, if Kovac has the research, why kidnap Rane?
DD: The actual genetic sequence isn't in the data. I'll bet Rane might know where it is.
SHANE: Or maybe Rane has it! Kovac hypnotized him right before he was busted. Maybe Kovac hid the sequence in Rane's subconscious.
CASSIE: I can't think of a safer place.
They glance at the rocking trailer.
DD: Uh, maybe we should give him a few more minutes.
SHANE: Okay, trivia anyone?
DD: Who's up?
CASSIE: I am.
They sit down to play.
SHANE: Alright. In what movie did Doris Day sing "Que Sera, Que Sera"?
CASSIE: Doris Day?
SHANE: My mother loved Doris Day!
DD: So did mine!
CASSIE: My uncle had a crush on Rock Hudson.
SHANE: Okay, quit stalling, you know the answer or not?
Cassie's cell phone goes off.
CASSIE: Oh, time out, I'm getting a message.
SHANE: So close!
DD: Who is it?
CASSIE: Barbara in personnel, I had her run a check on Cross.
SHANE: Ooh, I love it when you're sneaky!
CASSIE: (reads the message) Get this...Cross was one of the top agents in the department for ten years running until last year, suddenly they pulled him from field work.
SHANE: Does it say why?
CASSIE: That's all she gave.
DD glances at the trailer, now silent.
DD: Uh, guys, looks like he's between...sets.
They walk over to the trailer.
DD: Rane?
Muffled sounds from within.
DD: Rane? It's DD.
She knocks.
SHANE: Aw man, there's good moaning and there's bad moaning...
TRIO: Bad.
Cassie opens the door to the see the groupie is tied up and gagged.
CASSIE: Oh great,he's an S & M freak!
DD looks out the window.
DD: Guys, he's been kidnapped!
SHANE: Oh my God! Well they couldn't have gotten far, we can still track him down!
CASSIE: (picks up the vanity necklace) No we can't. Look like Cross was wrong, there is one thing he does take it off for.
FADE OUT
END OF ACT THREE
FADE IN: COMCENT
CASSIE: What do you want us to say?
CROSS: (leading them to his office, decidedly unhappy with this turn of events) How about mission accomplished, bad guy in custody, world a better place?!? Anything along those lines of work!
CASSIE: Sense of humor, I like that.
Cross turns and looks at her, anything but humor is etched into his face.
CASSIE: Oh, you didn't mean to be funny?
DD: We said we were sorry.
SHANE: Actually we said there was a breakdown in goal achievement.
DD: Only because we thought he'd be more comfortable with government speak.
CROSS: You want government speak? How about the She Spies program is terminated due to unforeseen and extreme circumstances?!? Oh, and don't let the cell door hit you on the way in.
DUNCAN: (enters hesitantly) Uh...I uh...thought you should know, they finished interrogating Miller. He insists that Kovac kept him in the dark about his plans, didn't trust him to know too much.
CASSIE: That's it! The Man Who Knew Too Much, that's the movie Doris Day sang that song in!
SHANE: (hissing) Right, except for your timing!
CASSIE: No, don't you get it! In the movie they kept the kidnapped boy at the consulate!
DD: Because consulates are sovereign territory!
DUNCAN: (catching on) You couldn't legally look around one even if you wanted too!
Cross gives Duncan a look.
DUNCAN: Uh...I think I've got some...stuff...to do...over there.
Duncan departs.
SHANE: We know Kovac works for the Chinese and there's a consulate in L.A.
Cross isn't interested.
DD: Oh come on, just because we thought of it doesn't mean it's wrong.
CROSS: I'd be doing the same thing if I were you, spinning wild theories--
CASSIE: What if it's not wild?
DD: It's worth a shot.
SHANE: You've got to give us a chance to make things right.
CROSS: (looking at them) Give me one good reason.
CASSIE: Because if any other agent had made this mistake they wouldn't be going to prison.
CROSS: Alright. I'll have the Chairman authorize an insert and extraction...with one condition...the information Rane has is too powerful to let a foreign power control...if you can't rescue him, your orders are to terminate him.
SHANE: Kill him?!?
DD: You've gotta be kidding!
CASSIE: That's not part of the deal, we're not assassins!
CROSS: (laying the law down) You asked for the chance to make it right.
SHANE: Yeah, you're asking for the impossible!
CROSS: Staging area, downstairs, two minutes. If you're not there I'll know your decision, and you...will know...your future.
Cross brushes past them exiting the office.
SHANE: Well this was fun while it lasted.
CASSIE: Nobody's going back to prison, we can get Rane out alive.
DD: (not so sure) Of course we can.
CASSIE: (heading out) I'll meet you at the staging area.
FADE TO: CHINESE CONSULATE IN L.A.
DD uses a mini-listening device.
RANE: (off camera) Come on man, let me go.
KOVAC: (off camera) Relax, just focus on the sound of my voice.
DD: (whispers) First floor, south-east room.
Cassie and Shane appear next to her.
SHANE: It's all set.
CASSIE: Let's go.
The trio climb the railing and stealthily make their way across the consulate exterior and climb to the roof. Looking into the skylight Cassie sees Rane and Kovac.
KOVAC: Stop resisting me Rane.
RANE: Dude, I'm not trying to do anything, alright!
KOVAC: (to Chinese agent) He's matured, his mind is stronger. There's a drug I can use to hypnotize him...but there are severe side effects.
CASSIE: (whispers) They're right under us.
A statue explodes outside, Kovac and the Chinese agent run to check it out leaving Rane alone. Cassie cuts a hole in the skylight, unlocks it and repels down to Rane as DD attaches a wire to the satellite dish outside.
RANE: Cassie?
SHANE: (off camera) Forty seconds.
CASSIE: (attempting to free him) We've got a problem! They used some really heavy cable, it's gonna take more time.
RANE: Who are you? Really?
CASSIE: Only the best A & R rep you ever had.
KOVAC: (checking around outside) Rane! Seal the grounds!
SHANE: (off camera) Cassie get out of there! Bogies heading inside!
RANE: (seeing Cassie prepare a syringe of pink liquid) What are you doing?
CASSIE: I don't have a choice.
She injects him in the chest and his head flops forward then she quickly ascends just as Kovac and the agent return. Kovac runs to Rane.
KOVAC: They killed him! Move! Move! Run!
He shoves other men toward the door.
END OF ACT FOUR
FADE OUT
FADE IN: CHINESE CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES
Cassie repels back into the room when Rane is again alone. She injects him with a yellow liquid this time as DD tosses a rope over the edge of the building.
RANE: (comes to as Cassie cuts his bonds) What'd you do to me?!?
CASSIE: Nothing, just had to stop your heart for a few seconds.
RANE: What?!?
CASSIE: No big...unless I didn't get back to you in ninety seconds.
RANE: You stopped my heart?!?
CASSIE: (freeing him) Yeah,and I can do it again so just shut up and hang on!
They ascend to the roof where DD hooks Rane up to a handslide.
DD: Okay, hold on tight and don't look down.
RANE: Look, I don't know who you are but I guess I owe you, if there's ever anything I can do, please...
DD: Just be nice to the little people.
CASSIE: (as they push him off) Alright, see you at the bottom.
Cassie follows via handslide then DD follows her as Shane catches Rane.
RANE: You too?
SHANE: All good things come in threes.
Cassie lands and gets Rane to the car then DD lands and Shane helps her out of the gear.
CASSIE: GO!
They pile into the dark SUV and speed past the consulates gates.
KOVAC: They're getting away! Stop them!
The She Spies and Rane get away.
FADE IN: EXTERIOR OF AN UPSCALE HOME AT DARK
A black clad figure enters. It's Cassie.
A man, silhouetted by a single low lit lamp, lights a cigar then faces her.
MAN: Jack gave you this address...to be used only in case of dire emergencies. Is that what this is?
CASSIE: Yes, Mister Chairman.
CHAIRMAN: Smoke?
CASSIE: Not since I went to prison. (She inhales) Is that a Cuban?
CHAIRMAN: Uh-huh. I'm impressed, take one. (He opens the box and she does) So...what is this...dire emergency?
CASSIE: I don't think we can work with Mister Cross.
CHAIRMAN: (in total darkness at his desk chair) Why? Because he gave you orders you found...distasteful.
CASSIE: We're not assassins, that wasn't part of the arrangement.
CHAIRMAN: Did you know I was planning to shut down the She Spies program?
CASSIE: (concerned) No sir.
CHAIRMAN: Yeah, I felt it had fallen short of my...ambitions. But a close friend of Jack's convinced me it was worth one more chance. That man was Quentin Cross. He put his reputation at stake to give the She Spies a chance to shine and you succeeded. Most criminals and...even some spies (the Chairman comes into the light) would have just executed that boy, by putting youselves at risk, going that extra mile, you showed me character I honestly didn't expect to find in three ex-cons. You have Mister Cross to thank for that...and yourselves.
CASSIE: (having totally misjudged Cross) Sorry I bothered you. (she turns to go)
CHAIRMAN: One more thing...this doesn't change our understanding... if anyone of you doesn't follow orders or shows any inclination to revert to a life of crime---
CASSIE: I know.
CHAIRMAN: Good evening Miss McBain.
Cassie leaves.
FADE TO: COMCENT,THE NEXT DAY
Cross is at his desk reading a file as the women enter.
CROSS: Feeling pretty good about yourselves huh?
TRIO: Yeah, uh-huh, yeah, you could say that.
CROSS: (turns to them) I suppose you feel there's nothing wrong with having coerced the lab into providing you with digitalis and potassium...which I did not authorize.
CASSIE: I'm...sure the paperwork just got lost in the mail.
CROSS: Yes...I'm sure it has. Well, since Kovac's been arrested and Rane's being debriefed ,you're all free to go home.
Trio is relieved to be relieved.
CROSS: Get some rest.
DD: Or, we could finish our vacation?
CROSS: Fine, consider yourselves on vacation...until I need you again.
SHANE: Well that could be any time!
CROSS: Which is why I would waste anymore of it standing here.
He turns away and Shane and DD hurry out but Cassie remains behind.
CROSS: (not looking at her) Is there something else?
CASSIE: I...I just wanted to say thank you.
CROSS: I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.
Cassie places something on his desk and he glances at it.
CASSIE: Don't you?
She smiles gratefully and departs.
Cross picks up the item, the cigar from the Chairman and smiles too, knowing she now knows what he did for them.
END OF ACT FIVE
FADE OUT
FADE IN: BEACH HOUSE DECK
CASSIE: (on the phone) No. No. Not at all like that. I really do want to see you Brad. Well, yeah, I guess I do have a lot of secrets but--
SHANE: (bringing out drinks) Okay, party time.
CASSIE: (hanging up) I don't believe it, Brad just dumped me!
DD: Honestly Cassie, you're better off without him, he seems really needy.
CASSIE: But he was a doctor.
SHANE: Yeah, who hangs around sick people all day, who needs that?
DD: Men are like SPAM on your e-mail, a whole new batch comes along everyday.
CASSIE: Maybe you're right, I just need a little time to get over him.
The pair look at her sympathetically.
CASSIE: Okay, I'm done.
DD: (amused) Meanwhile, we still haven't solved who gets the bedroom with the oceanview.
SHANE: Okay, in an episode of Friends what did Jean Claude VanDamm brag he could do?
CASSIE: Crack a walnut with his butt...and I think he could do it!
DD: What color underwear is Marty wearing in Back To The Future?
SHANE: Purple, that's easy,I saw that movie six times.
CASSIE: On South Park who is Cartman's father?
DD: His mother, she's a hermaphrodite.
SHANE: This is never gonna work, we're experts at this stuff.
CASSIE: Why don't we just agree to switch rooms every few months?
DD: Who gets it first?
TRIO: DIBS!
END OF ACT SIX
FADE OUT
THE END