Part Three - Undaunted Part Four

LATE SUMMER 2007

COSTA VERDE, CALIFORNIA

Exterior - Sam's Comics - Trevor exits from the employee entrance in the alley. He re-assembles his cell phone and turns it on.

It reads: "1 New Message"

He selects it and the point of view closes in on the screen: MEETING

Trevor - Something is wrong. Repetition. Then the unexpected. Escalation. The Pattern is changing.

[Fringe]

Trevor breaks thought and disassembles the cell phone.

Trevor - This is my last chance. Erase the last of my self-doubt. Take care of unfinished business.

Several hours later…LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Trevor walks up to a house, one floor, surrounded by a white picket fence. The fence is dilapidated and broken off in some parts. A realty sign with 'FORECLOSURE' is in the front yard. He opens the front gate carefully and slowly. The front door is open and rocking in the breeze.

Inside, the living room is bare and stripped down, similar to Stephen Canfield's home in Volume 3. Trevor hears footsteps. A homeless man appears from the hall. The man freezes up after seeing Trevor.

[Volume Three]

Trevor - "I have two questions. Answer them and I never saw you."

Bum - "Shoot."

Trevor - "How long has this house been vacant?"

Bum - "Came here back in uh…April. Foreclosure sign was already up."

Trevor - "Was there anything in here when you first came?"

Bum - "Place was cleaned out. I only use it for sleeping. Bunch of scratches in the corner room, though."

Trevor - "Thank you. You've been very helpful."

Bum - "If you want it, no problem, man."

Trevor - "It doesn't belong to me."

Trevor walks into the hallway, right past the homeless man.

Bum - "You're one of them, aren't you?"

[Heroes, Motifs, The Company, One of Us, One of Them]

Trevor pauses in the hallway with his back turned to the homeless man.

Trevor - "I'm nobody."

[Odyssey]

Trevor keeps on walking to the corner room. There is only one window and it is sealed. It is closer to the ceiling than the floor. The carpeting is still in. There is a strip of wallpaper still up on one side of the room.

Trevor places his right hand flat on the wallpaper and stares at it. He rips the wallpaper off and throws it behind him. The wallpaper drifts to the ground. The point of view shifts back to the wall.

The DNA Symbol is scratched into the wall, maybe from a pocket knife, at about waist level.

[Heroes, Motifs, The DNA Symbol]

Trevor traces his index finger along through the carving at each point from top to bottom like he formed an 'S'

Trevor - "I never did figure you out."

[Implied past about nightmares]

Trevor turns to leave and looks down at the wallpaper. A folded piece line paper is taped to the backside of the wallpaper. Trevor rips it off and puts it into his back pocket. He paces out of the backdoor through the kitchen across from the room.

LATE AFTERNOON

SAFEHOUSE

A small, square room. There is an industrial metal desk in the center. Trevor is seated staring at the piece of paper.

Trevor - One more sliver of information. I need this. I do.

He tears along the taped portion. A folded roll of US Dollar Bills tumbles out. The Bill on the outside is a $50. The inside of the line paper that can be seen reads: "You can find us here:"

Trevor - "December 14, 2001. That was another life. That was someone else. If I were still the same, I'd go and I'd say, "I'm alive. I missed you both. We have so much to catch up on.""

Without reading the paper, Trevor crumbles it into a wad and hurls it into the corner enraged and frustrated. He turns and swats the money to the floor. He reaches under the desk and walks forward. He kicks in the wall, revealing a passage, and leaves.

Exterior - Explosion

TWILIGHT

Interior - The Angry Skunk Bar - Trevor drinks a bottle near the bartender, Milosh. He polishes his glass glancing at Trevor.

Milosh - "You should slow down, pal."

Trevor - "Please don't be a stereotype, tonight."

Milosh shuts up and walks away glaring at Trevor. He holds back. Trevor is a stranger and he doesn't know what his power is. A man sits down next to Trevor. Milosh looks at him, waiting for an order.

Man - "Let me catch my wind first, barkeep."

He puts his hand into the shady bowl of nuts like a spider attacking its prey. He tilts his head toward Trevor. Trevor doesn't notice or doesn't care.

Man - "You look a little lost."

Trevor - "We're all a little lost."

Man - "And the kids, they used to be brilliant. All they had to do to make it right was runaway to the circus."

Trevor - "Goats have kids. People have children."

Man - "Ah yes, but you couldn't tell the difference, could ya?"

The man cackles at his own joke.

Trevor - "I was never into the circus. The clowns were the worst."

[The Carnival, Samuel Sullivan]

Man - "It's a common fear…"

Trevor - "They remind me too much about the real world."

The man is intrigued.

Man - "How so?"

Trevor - "They reflect back to us the comedy and tragedy of our lives. How we try in vain to hide who or what we really are, only to end up like pale-faces spirits lost in our bodies."

The man motions to Milosh and points at Trevor.

Man - "I'll have what he's having."

Man - "That's why it feels so good to be yourself, doesn't it?"

Trevor - "What's that supposed to mean?"

Man - "Well…what'd you want to be when you grow up?"

Trevor - "Someone else. Anyone else. A child wouldn't know what he wants to be as a man."

Man - "I said astronaut."

Trevor laughs and takes another drink.

The man reaches over and touches the ring of condensation that formed under Trevor's drink. He shapes it into something. Trevor looks.

Man - "You should come with me. Take in a show."

The water mark is shaped into a DNA Symbol.

[Heroes, Motifs, The DNA Symbol]

Trevor stands up normally and tosses money on the table.

Trevor - "I don't lean that way, but I'm flattered."

Man - "You won't have to hide anymore. Don't have to be alone."

Trevor - "I am alone. No matter where I go, who I'm with, or what I do."

The man drinks from his bottle.

Man - "Suit yourself, then. I can tell you're not circus material."

He looks back, Trevor is already gone. He cracks a smile and turns to Milosh.

Man - "Maybe it's time to head east and find some greener pastures."

Bird's eye point of view - The man leaves the shady bar and strolls away. Pan up to the other side of the street, Trevor is watching from the rooftop.

Trevor - Strike three. There is another faction. They are watching others. Recruiting others. Killing. Why? Are we warheads in a new and unseen arms race? The escalation is already happening.

James teleports in behind him.

James - "There you are. Everyone's waiting."

Trevor - "Then, let's go."

James - "What, no comeback this time? No witty retort?"

Trevor grabs his left arm.

Trevor - "Now."

James eyes study him and realize Trevor's urgency. They teleport away.

UNDAUNTED PART FOUR: OFFER - in Heroes title font -

DECEMBER 14, 2001

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

NYU Tour Guide Stooge - "And that concludes the official tour. If you will follow me, there will be a reception with light refreshments and snacks."

The crowd files into the nearby building except for a group of three: a mother, a father, and Trevor.

Mom - "That was nice."

Dad - "Yeah."

Mom - "Well, hon, what did you think?"

Trevor - "Nice."

[Vague reference to Butler dinner in Volume Two]

Mom - "They offered you a full scholarship."

Trevor - "I'm sure they do that for all the kids who graduate high school early."

Trevor's dad laughs.

Trevor - "Let's go get some lunch."

Dad - "I thought you'd never ask."

They walk away from the building smiling and laughing. The point of view shifts into bird's eye. Trevor looks up toward the camera (to the sky) and can't stop looking for some reason as he walks on. The view shifts to the sky. The Eclipse.

[Heroes, Motifs, The Eclipse]

TO BE CONCLUDED - in Heroes font

NEXT: UNDAUNTED PART FIVE: UNPREDICTABLE

Trevor Tanaka returns to the Garden of the Gods and finds himself at the forefront of a rare meeting with every Undaunted member in attendance. What is going on? How will they react to Trevor's news? Don't miss the conclusion- a lead in to the upcoming Volume 5: Redemption airing on September 21. Coming Soon!