Part 11

INT. RUSTY HATCHET

A rat emerges from a puddle of beer and urine under the toilet door. It scurries along the skirting board. A GUNSHOT blows the rat apart, leaving a dripping hole in the wall. BIG DAVE the landlord, fifties, built like a barn door, with a full head of brown hair and a shirt and tie, is staring down the barrel of a smoking magnum.

BIG DAVE

Only one way to deal with a rat.

The hairy, tattooed, leather-clad bikers in the bar drunkenly ROAR with LAUGHTER, glasses are SMASHED, beer goes flying. A solitary figure raises his empty glass at the end of the bar. Big Dave holsters his gun and turns.

BIG DAVE

Same again Tel?

He begins pouring the pint, the pub has gone quiet. Everyone is looking towards the door. Big Dave looks up. Dan is standing there. Big Dave puts the pint in front of Terry who hands over some coins and takes a sip. All eyes follow Dan as he walks to the bar. Big Dave puts the money in the till and walks over. The drinking and SHOUTING resume.

Big Dave folds his arms.

BIG DAVE

Don't think this is your sorta boozer son.

DAN

I'll have a pint.

Dave pats his holstered weapon and picks up a glass.

BIG DAVE

Suit yourself.

He pours the pint, not taking his eyes off Dan. A scrawny bearded biker in a leather waistcoat staggers into Dan, spilling half his pint down himself.

BIKER

You shtoopid cunt. Look whatshyou made me do

He launches a punch at Dans' face but his fist stops an inch from the nose. The biker stares in disbelief, beer dripping from his beard. He violently SHRIEKS as his fist crumples like a tin can and blood spurts sideways out of the knuckles and across the bar. Blood splashes onto Big Dave's soft Italian leather shoes. He looks down at the blood. Looks up in disgust. He pulls out his Magnum and SHOOTS the WEEPING biker in the face. The bar erupts, bar stools are seized, a pool cue SNAPS on the back of Dan’s head and five bikers rush him, knocking him down with fists and bottles. Big Dave SHOOTS at a biker. The round misses and blows a seated woman's knee away. She crumples to the floor. Glasses fly across the room, SMASHING on the walls. A glass smashes into the side of a mans face. Big Dave ducks a flying glass that smashes behind him. He hits a red button under the bar and grabs the till. He dives out a steel door behind him and slides it shut.

The bouncers, TINY and LENNY, massive bald and gurning with violence, rush in brandishing sledgehammers. Tiny grabs the nearest biker with one hand. He throws him against a wall like a bag of compost. Lenny BREAKS a man's leg with his hammer. Two bikers lunge towards Terry who SMASHES his glass into the face of one and grabs the other by the ears, NUTTING him square in the face, the bikers nose disintegrating under the force of Terry's skull.

The five bikers fly off Dan and across the room. One CRASHES into the cigarette machine. One SNAPS his spine on the edge of the bar. Another flies into the large tear-up in the middle of the pub. Two fly into the path of the bouncers. Tiny swings his sledgehammer, caving in the back of the bikers head like a piece of fruit. Lenny grabs the other biker by the throat. He holds him aloft with one hand and SHATTERS his ribs with a thick toothed knuckle duster in the other. He CRUSHES the man’s windpipe, pops his eyes out. Throws him through the CRACKED floorboards.

Dan pulls himself up, holding the bar, blood pouring from several facial wounds. Tiny comes up behind Dan and raises his hammer. Terry grabs the wrench out of his work bag. He throws it at Tiny. Dan looks up and sees Tiny in the broken mirror behind Terry. The wrench speeds up rapidly in mid-air, leaving a faint blue smoke trail. The wrench is embedded in Tinys' left eye. Lenny storms over. He grabs Dan by the lapels and lifts him off his feet He lifts him up to his face

LENNY

Haaaaaaaaate!

Dan stares at him calmly.

DAN

Put me down.

The rage subsides from Lenny's face. He drops Dan to the floor.

LENNY

Get out.

Terry rushes over and puts an arm round Dan, looking up at Lenny cautiously

TERRY

Come on mate, that's our cue.

They move towards the back door. Lenny turns back towards the main tear-up

LENNY

Come on then you cuuuuuuuuunts!!!