Int. John's Hotel Room - Evening

MEG (Sorvino) is still watching TV and smoking. John walks in, carrying three paper bags.

MEG: (sniffs) Chicken Lo Mein? JOHN: Tacos. Do you stereotype everyone, or do you have a problem with Chinese?

John tosses her one of the bags. He takes a soda out of one of the other bags and hands it to her before he sits down at the desk, taking his food out of the bags. Meg looks in her bag and takes out a foil-wrapped taco. She looks in the bag again, finding and taking out a mail file. She looks at the file, then at John, thoughtfully.

MEG: (toying with the file) I'm a product of my enviroment. My father wasn't exactly a paragon of forward thinking. JOHN: He taught you how to shoot. MEG: (beat or pause) For all the wrong reasons.

Meg tucks the nail file in her pocket. John opens the window again. She self-conciously puts out her cigarette.

JOHN: My father taught me how to shoot. MEG: (starting to eat) Yeah? JOHN: He was a general in the Chinese Army. An important man. MEG: "Was" as in what happened to him? JOHN: The Cultural Revolution. He was...reeducated. MEG: What does that mean? JOHN: All people who disagreed with Chairman Mao were made to be loyal. Many were beaten, tortured, ostracized. MEG: And how did a general get "reeducated?" JOHN: (long, guilty beat or pause) By his son.

Meg is speecified by this revelation. She stops eating.

JOHN: We should be going soon. MEG: Sure.

This excerpt is another conversation between CYF and Mira Sorvino. CYF & Sorvino wait for a character named "Tojo" to bring them the guns they just bought. Also we learn why CYF's character "John Lee" is a hitman and why didn't CYF pull the trigger in the first excerpt at the top of this page.

Ext. Arcade - Night

JOHN and MEG walk outside. PEOPLE are filtering in and out of the arcade, walking up and down the pier.

MEG: You're going to pay him with marked money. JOHN: We need to save the rest.

MEG lights a cigarette.

MEG: Tell me something, John. Why did you start doing what you're doing? In the first place. JOHN: I was in the Army. They taught me. MEG: I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about killing strangers for money. JOHN: (uneasily) I made a promise to my father. For his forgiveness. MEG: For reeducating him. JOHN: When I was young, I was taught that Mao was more than anyone. More than my father. It was a long time before I understood what I'd done to him.(beat or pause) He died broken and in shame. I promised him I would get my sister and mother out of China. MEG: The women in that picture.

Panicked, John reaches for his wallet.

MEG: Jesus, John. I took a look. JOHN: (angry) That wasn't your right. MEG: (angrier) Bullsh*t. I have a right to know everything. My @$$ is out on the line, John. People want to kill me. JOHN: And I've been protecting you. MEG: You've been using me to get something you need, like every psycho, sleaze, or operator I've ever met. The minute you disappear -- which you will -- I'm on my own again. JOHN: Isn't that what you want? MEG: What I don't want is half the LA mob looking to grease me through no fault of my own. JOHN: (bitterly) Better I should be a good soldier again. Kill when I'm told. MEG: (points at him with her cigarette) It's not just about me, John. Your family is stuck in China because you got religion. (picking up on his anger; pressing) And for what? Frances-f**king-Turrell? JOHN: (in the heat of the argument) Not Turrell. A child.

Meg is silent. Confused.

JOHN: The prosecutor's son.

A beat of silence. Then Meg grabs him and kisses him. The kiss melts from shock into a brief flash of sexual charge. Still embracing him, Meg whispers in his ear.

MEG: Don't turn around.

Her POV -- RYKER and COLLINS, dressed like tourists, walking up to the pier.

MEG: It's the guys from the passports.

John stiffens.

JOHN: Are you sure? MEG: Why wouldn't I be?

Collins and Ryker walk pass them, seeing only a couple locked in an embrace. They walk around the side of the arcade building.

~Schempf's "The Replacement Killers" Review:~

"The Replacement Killers" stars Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.....two vigilantes on the run from crime-boss Terrence Wei. Chow Yun delivers a stunning performance, maybe generic, but still classic....His line: " I'll need guns/I'll eat buns" (who the hell can understand this guy?) will never be forgotten. He spun through the air with such grace, and killed us all with his Allen Lam-like charm...Mira Sorvino, the forbidden fruit to all young Jorges, startled us all with her mean-bitch, take-charge attitude, but a her black panties were irresistable...*Schempf stands erect* I give this one an 8/10....Chow Yun-Fat is Jackie Chan's sensai..... Violence: 8/10 The gun-fight scenes werre incredible, similar to that of "Desperado", but in an Asian/John Woo sort of way....A nuclear explosion or two away from a ten. Comedy: 0/5 Most of the laughing was directed at Chow Yun's inability to annunciate Nudity?: No, but we did see Mira Sorvino in her stockings and garter....But she never revealed chest, unlike her performance in the HBO special "Norma-Jean and Marilyn" Cossacks or Nazis?: Police Detective Stan Zedkov aka "Zeebo/Zeedo" was the lone cossack in this one, btw, he did have a gay latin lover... What I would Change: The same thing I would change about every movie with no nudity in it, add nudity...maybe a gun-fight in a strip-club....every great movie has a strip-club scene at some point.

-Jorge Schempf