WOLF

Written by: Nick Kish

2007-05-02


Seven Days

01. Intelligence Test   The year is 2016 and David Singue is on his way to New York City for the first time.  He is 13 years old and a very intelligent young man.  He is on his way to Columbia University for a special Intelligence Testing for young adults in the New England states.  David knows that this test is being given to kids his age in various regions across the country.  He is being driven from his hometown of Keeseville, NY, which is due north of NYC next to Lake Champlain, by his parents.  As he gets his first glimpse of New York City, he is in awe and amazement at the grand city.  Arriving at Columbia, David is taken to an Orientation session and then testing is to begin.  David doesn't find the tests too difficult, but he soon figures out that some of the questions have been written to gain personality and characteristic traits.

02. New Friend   After the tests, the children and their families are divided into smaller groups and are given a tour of the campus.  Almost immediately, David meets a young boy and they soon find that they have a lot in common.  The young boy's name is Kurt Naurl and he is from Brooklyn.  David is fascinated with life in the city and Kurt tells him all about it.  David and Kurt continue to talk with each other through most of the tour and, shortly, become friends.  They even talk their families into having dinner together that night.  After dinner, they talk Kurt's parents to showing David and his family around the city over the rest of the weekend.

03. Car Accident   Six and a half months later, David is 14.  After finishing an e-mail to Kurt, his father calls him down for breakfast.  As gas is nationally in low quantity, David's parents are carpooling to work and dropping him off at school.  It is a normal Tuesday in every way.  On the way to school, their car is hit hard by another vehicle and David suffers a concussion to the head.   David can't see anything as the paramedics show up and take him to the hospital.  He keeps asking about his parents but no one answers as he is taken into emergency surgery.  After a few hours of surgery, David is taken to a room where he wakes up but he still can't see because of the bandages from the surgery.

04. The Plan   While laying there and no one answering his questions of his parents, David's mind wanders.  He thinks of many things and his mind eventually drifts toward a movie he saw the previous weekend about some people robbing a bank.  He then starts thinking about how he would do it.  What would he do differentially?  How many people?  What about the police?  Through the course of the afternoon, David thinks of the perfect plan to rob a bank.  Right down to the last detail of having an inside man and a couple exit vectors, he thinks of all the details.  And he lays there, quite content with himself.  Until his thoughts are interrupted by a doctor coming in.   Taking David’s hand, the doctor tells David that his parents had been killed in the accident.   David's mind reels with the news.  It seems unreal and distant and unbelievable.  Yet, he feels smothered in the great multitude of emotions and feelings it brings on.

05. Learning to Shoot   A little over two years later, in the beginning of January, David had received a bee-bee gun for Christmas from his grandfather, Mike, and was going to be taught to shoot.  He had been living with his grandparents in Roosevelt, MN since shortly after his parents’ funeral and he was 16 years old.  It had snowed a few inches the night before but that wasn't about to stop David from going out with his grandfather and his new gun.  The two hiked out into the woods while David's grandfather explains a few of the responsibilities and rules about using any weapon, including a bee-bee gun.  Through out the morning, David seems like a natural and is shortly doing very well, if even only a little comparable to his grandfather.

06. First Girlfriend   When they get home, David tells his grandmother all about it to keep his mind off of his date later on that night.  Eventually, David gets ready and goes to pick up Kim Benjamin and they head off to the school dance.  He has dated Kim a few months but the two weren't officially that serious, despite that David wanted to be.  The Winter Dance proved to be more fun than he thought it was going to be.  He hung out with a few friends, but mostly with just Kim.  Later in the evening, David found himself with alone with Kim and the two begin talking about their feelings for each other and that they both wanted more of a relationship.  Looking back, David knew that was the moment they had reached a new level in the relationship and that Kim was his first love.  He never forgot about Kim and the times they spent together.

07. Marine Sniper   It has been almost a year since David joined the Marines after graduating high school.  After a grueling boot camp, David joined the Sniper Division because he was a very good shot and showed a particular moral flexibility.  He is 20 years old and about to go on his final mission to graduate Sniper School.  On the chopper ride out to his drop point, he writes a letter to Kim, who is still his girlfriend.  After being notified that they are a few minutes from the drop point, he tucks the letter in his pocket.  The chopper slows down as it lowers closer to the ground and one of the crew helps him hook up to a drop line.  He quickly drops the 50 ft to the ground and immediately disconnects the line and heads out into the woods as the chopper takes off.  David checks his maps and compares them to his surroundings, gathering his bearings.  He must navigate the woods to reach and take down his target.

08. The Wolf   It is a pretty long walk to the target site but David has a lot more experience in the woods than the Marines had provided.  He has little trouble and arrives early with a few hours to spare.  Shortly after arriving, he encounters a wolf in the woods.  It runs off and, because he has some extra time, he decides to track the wolf for a while.  His tracking takes him a quarter of a circle around from where his target is. He catches up to the wolf but only notices it too late as it attacks him.  He wrestles with it a little before pulling a hand gun and shooting the wolf once in the head.  He checks his time and sees that he doesn't have time to get back to where he is supposed to be, but he can hit the target from a different angle than planned.  So David sets up his gear and waits for his target.  Shortly there after, his target shows and David hits very accurately.  The experience with the wolf really changes David.  He is a different person.  Word of his experience soon travels around the base and he is given the nickname Wolf, which he likes enough to decide to keep.

09. Partners in Crime   A year and a half later, David is 22 and is in the middle of his tour of duty for the Marines.  He is a very accomplished sniper and his nickname Wolf is widely known.  He is on a mission with two Marines, who are supposed to provide cover for him.  The other two Marines are Tony Carnine and John Donner.  They have to traverse across a mountainous area to get to the target and are on schedule to arrive near the area the next morning.  While walking, they talk about a variety of things and, eventually, get to know each other quite well.  Tony's uncle is a mob boss in Queens, NYC.  John used to be a lineman in college and wants to get into law enforcement or security after the marines.  Through the conversation, David's mind drifts a little and he remembers his plan of robbing a bank, considering Tony and John as team members.

10. Plan in Motion   About a half mile from the target area, the three marines set up camp for the night and then continue their conversation.  David briefly tells the story of his car accident and how he came up with a plan for robbing a bank.  He goes over most of the plan, not getting into too many specifics.   Tony and John really like the idea and offer their assistance if he ever decided to go through with it.  They settle in and go to sleep.  As he drifts off to sleep, David begins to seriously consider the plan and decides to write to Kurt to see what he thinks about it.  David knew he had only to get Kurt on board and he would have everybody he needed to pull it off.  But he also knew that Kurt was not going to be easy to convince.

11. Democracy   Just under two years after his first of several missions with Tony and John, David is on a cargo plane with fifteen to twenty other various military personal heading towards a Minnesota Army Base.  David is 23, his tour with the Marines is complete, and he is going home.  Kim is there to pick him up and she mentions that he seems different.  There are hints that the two have been drifting apart for a few years now but they still greet each other enthusiastically.  Inside the hanger, where the other soldiers are meeting families and friends, an officer tells everyone that the president has an announcement to make.  Everyone watches as James Rayzac, the president, announces the formation of The United Global Democracy (UGD) as his answer for world peace.  Rayzac explains that the UGD would be a world government put over all other governments.  He answers a few questions but explains that the specifics would be provided later.

12. New Beginnings   On the drive home, David and Kim are swept up with everyone else discussing the liberal president's grand announcement.  David agrees with the president in that something drastic was required for such a large undertaking as world peace.  Kim disagrees with his method, in that she says a world government is not the answer to world peace.  The casual discussion becomes heated and eventually becomes an argument about their relationship.  As the two argue, Kim brings up David's plan of the bank robbery, which he's seriously considering by now.  David defends himself but Kim lays down an ultimatum that if David intends to go with the plan, that she would leave him.  They don't talk for the rest of the drive.  When they get home, David heads to his room but instead of packing he sits on the bed, thinking.  He packs up a few things, gets on his motorcycle, and leaves.   He has no intentions of returning.

13. The Robbery   Two days after David's birthday and a little over a year later, David (now 25 years old) and his crew wait outside of the bank in Columbus, OH.  They sync their watches and then walk in.  John is the inside man and provided info on the bank.  Tony utilized his family's mob connections and he provided most of the equipment and vehicles.  Kurt is the wheelman and organized the various exit vectors for everybody.  David was the mastermind and was on demolitions.  The cameras had been disabled along with the alarm the previous night.  Everything went according to plan and the four exit the bank, forcing everyone from the bank to leave as well.  Shooting guns in the air, the people run in chaos, and the crew head for their respective vehicles parked at different spaces.  Kurt and John in one car, Tony in another car half a block away, and David will be taking his motorcycle.  Once David is sure everyone is out, he blows up the bank.

14. The Woods   Arriving at the rendezvous (their hotel room) first, David quickly grabs his bag and readies his things.  He pulls a note from his bag and a small amount of money (about 10% each instead of the 25% each as they had originally agreed) and leaves it on the table.  He has no intention of waiting for the rest of the guys as he has made other plans.  David leaves town and travels about 30 miles north of Columbus, pulling off the highway and heading to a small state park.   He parks his motorcycle on the side of the road and heads into the woods.  A few hours later, as a much dirtier David approaches the road, he sees a squad car and an officer who looked like he was calling in the his plates.  Then he realized what had happened back at the hotel but he continues to the road, accepting his fate.  Upon seeing him, the officer pulls his gun on David and orders him to the ground.  After the station confirms the officer's suspicion that the motorcycle was involved in the robbery he had heard about earlier in the day, David is put in the back of squad car, knowing he had been turned in.