CSI: NY
"Valuables"
TEASER
FADE IN:
EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY
To establish. Moving from the bustle of the city to...
EXT. HAMPTONS - DAY
Homes of the rich and famous. Extravagant. The rich going on with their lives, oblivious to...
INT. 14283 RHIANNA DRIVE - FOYER - DAY
Gunfire explodes everywhere. A woman is hit and screams as she falls. The defenders are house servants who fire back at their attacker -- one man armed to the teeth like Rambo and twice as deadly.
Bullets hit hanging pictures and expensive sculptures, showering the defenders with razor sharp shrapnel.
Behind the line of defenders, a GRAYING MAN leads ANA, a teenager, toward the stairs. Although her tank top and lounge pants are soaked in blood, the girl is unharmed. Like the rest of the defenders, she has black hair and dark skin. She hides her fear well. The graying man carries a metal case in one hand and fires back at the assailant with a military issue semi-automatic pistol.
When he runs out of bullets, the graying man pulls her onto the stairs and out of harms way. From this position he can see that the defenders were loosing. He turns to the girl, pressing the handle of the case into her hand. The man and teenager both have Tongan accents.
GRAYING MAN
Upstairs.
In typical teenager defiance, she shakes her head.
ANA
No. I'm not running. I won't--
The man smiles, laying his hands on her cheeks. He loves her, but he can't afford to be patient.
GRAYING MAN
Go, Princess. Run!
She hesitates, on the verge of sticking with her defiance. Then she sprints up the stairs. The man turns, picks up a rifle from a fallen defender, stuffs shells in pockets, and comes around the corner firing -- only to die.
INT. 14283 RHIANNA DRIVE - BEDROOM - DAY
The teenager runs into the room, slowing only to flick the light switch. The room has a large bank vault style door that is painted to match the rest of the room. Next to the door is a biometric scanner with an outline where the hand should go. At the top of the plate are two lights: red and green. The red light is currently lit.
Ana presses her shaking hand down on the plate. The red light goes off, and a turquoise light scans her palm. There is an 'error' beep before the red light comes back on. She curses in her native tongue, pulls her hand back, and pushes it down again. The same thing happens.
She freezes, listening. There is no gunfire. She looks over her shoulder, staring into the hallway. A board down the hall creaks, startling her back into motion.
Ana lifts her hand and presses it firmly against the plate. A green light replaces the red one. She grabs the door handle and pulls open the steel door, slipping into the room behind it.
The teenager turns, staring into the hall as she pulls it closed. The door clicks shut, the only sound in the now silent mansion nestled in the Hamptons.
SMASH CUT:
OPENING CREDITS.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER