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NYC, Manhattan Island: black boy Perrigrin catches up to blond boy pal Kestrel and
they discuss inventor Henry who made a baby bouncer that didn't work last year. A
bald man asks them if they want to do his thang, his gang are looking for little
dudes to do jobs. Kestrel tells them the kids they recruit have not been seen around
any more. The man leaves, making a peace sign. Perri worries that Kes is going to
get them snuffed.
Jingles, a bald guy tells blond girl Nightingale that this area is all dried up.
Jingles used to be called Head Hunter when he was pimping crack whores. The two work
for a big guy.
Henry, a scientist who lives in a high rise and has a pony tail tells Perri he needs
a brain to try out the glider wings like Kestrel is.
Boys in bat costumes and wings are let out of a dark zeppelin. Perri looks over the
side, "Shit, that's a long way down!" Kess jumps, "Shut up, Peregrine!"
Kess flies up in a move that the suit is not supposed to do. The captain of the zeppelin
wants the flight suit and glider wings that Kess wears. His wings only glide but
Kess's manoeuvre. Flying bat boys fire guns at Kess but split up on him. One jumps
off a ledge onto him. Kess tells him he will kill them both. The kid says, "Then
we die!" Kess elbows the kid's face and the kid falls. Kess looks at one boy
before he fell, "Huh...Gerry?"Two other boys in bat wings come, firing
guns, "Die! Die! Die!" This one might be Gerry. One hits a skyscraper and
is splattered and falls down the wall. The other is ripped of his wings and falls,
still firing his gun. Kess knew the kids... they were street kids. Kess lands and
tells his two friends.Henry suggests they sleep on it.
Nightingale tells Jingles to scrap another boy off the streets. Gerry vanished months
ago and they thought he went home.Kess tells Perri it was like they were crazy. The
boys see a van that is around when their pals vanish. They cut through an alley and
ditch the van at the Hudson. Or they try to. Kess, blocked by Jingles, kicks him
between the legs and knees in him in the head. They run. Nightingale drives at the
boys in the van. Perri is grabbed by two bald men in the back. Kess yells,"Perri."
As Nightingale drives at Kess, he falls off the pier but makes it a splashdown, his
shirt riding up. He finds himself on the beach under the pier amid garbage, "Perrigrin?" |