EXT. SYDNEY’S OFFICE - DAY

Sydney is reviewing some reports, when Broots comes in, trying but failing to hide his anxiety.

BROOTS

Syd! Syd!

SYDNEY

Calm down! What is it, Broots?

Broots retrieves a DSA disc from his shirt pocket and hands it over to Sydney.

BROOTS

You have to go to see this!

SYDNEY

What is it?

BROOTS

Don’t ask. You have to watch it to believe it!

Sydney nods, puts the disc on the DSA reader and begins watching.

ON SCREEN – BLACK AND WHITE

Lyle and Jules are in Lyle’s office.

Jules retrieves a small picture from his pocket and hands it over to Lyle.

JULES (O.S.)

I’ll be leaving to Carthis in a few minutes. While I’m gone, I want you to kill this man.

Lyle examines the picture.

LYLE (OS)

Any preferences?

JULES (OS)

Make it painful.

(smiles)

Use your imagination.

The address is on the back of the picture.

Lyle flips the picture to read the address.

ON SYDNEY

He gasps as he sees who the target is.

SYDNEY

My God! That’s Ben Miller! Miss Parker...

BROOTS

We have to warn her, Syd!

SYDNEY

Yes. Maybe there’s still time to stop it from happening.

Sydney grabs his cell phone, dials Miss Parker’s number.

She answers.

MISS PARKER (V.O.)

(ice cold voice)

What?

SYDNEY

(sighs)

So you already know... I’m sorry about Ben, Parker.

MISS PARKER (V.O.)

How do you-

SYDNEY

Broots found a DSA that showed our new boss delivering someone the assignment. I called you as soon as I learned of this, but-

MISS PARKER (V.O.)

Who was it?

SYDNEY

Parker, right now, I don’t think you-

MISS PARKER (V.O.)

Damn it, Syd! You didn’t see him! He was tortured! Someone tortured a man that could have been my father!

Tell me who’s the son of a bitch who killed him!

SYDNEY

Lyle was handed over the assignment, but I’m not sure if he-

The call is finished on Miss Parker’s end.

Sydney puts his cell phone down and sighs.

SYDNEY

We were too late, Broots. She probably go after Lyle now.

BROOTS

What about you? What’re you gonna do?

SYDNEY

I’ll pray.

BROOTS

(surprised)

For Lyle?

SYDNEY

For her soul.

In the meantime, find out if Lyle really went through with the assignment.

BROOTS

You don’t think he’s capable of it?

SYDNEY

I know he is. But something tells me, the real threat is the new Perrgodak.

Find out everything you can about him.

BROOTS

I already did that. I found nothing except the tip that led Miss Parker to Carthis.

SYDNEY

There’s got to be something else, Broots!

BROOTS

I’ll do what I can...

Broots leaves Sydney’s office. Sydney closes the DSA reader and returns to his papers.

INT. THE CENTRE. CORRIDOR

We follow Broots to his station. He goes to an empty desk, puts down his papers on Perrgodak (the snapshots, the search results, the project files) and tries to make sense of it.

INT. PARKER FAMILY HOUSE. MR. PARKER’S OFFICE – MORNING

Miss Parker walks inside the office and walks straight to the shelf.

Still the same shelf, but the height has changed.

The book is still there. Gaining dust. She removes it slowly.

No one around to see her discomfort.

She sits at the desk and opens the book.

The painting of an angel

A turn of the page.

THE PARKER FAMILY

Int. the centre. Tech room

Broots is now writing the name Perrgodak.. Under it, he writes the three anagrams he had previously come up with.

Unaware of his movements, Broots makes a circle right in the middle of the word with his pen. The word GOD catches his attention.

BROOTS

It can’t be...

He writes the letters G-O-D down and crosses the letters from the original word. Now he has PERRAK.

INT. PARKER FAMILY HOUSE. MR. PARKER’S OFFICE – MORNING

Miss Parker flips to the third page. The book falls from her hands and hits the desk.

On the open page, we see an old black and white picture of Jules.

The date September 8, 1902. The name: Theo Parker.

TO BE CONTINUED ON THE SECOND PART

OF MY POST IOTH QUADROLOGY

THE HIGHER THEY ARE…