Drive: Pilot
Genre: Action
Director: Drew Goddard
Writer: H.G. Hansen
Based on the 2011 film by Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Dan Stevens, Peter Capaldi, Jessica Paré, Bruce Campbell, Morris Chestnut
Driver (Dan Stevens) waits under the darkness as he listens to traffic report in his car. He sits waiting as the clock hits 10:42 pm and he sets up his watch onto the steering wheel and sets it for 5 minutes as now the clock says 10:45 pm and he starts it. He sits back as he listens to the timer and the toothpick resting between his teeth. "There are a hundred-thousand of streets in the city..." The clock ticks down. "You don't need to know the route..." A bang goes off in the blackness as Driver pays no mind. He changes the car to drive as he slowly drives up to a better position. "You give me a time and a place; I give you a five minute window...." The street light shines on the Driver's mouth as his tooth pick unmoved. "Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours...." The driver takes to his glove box and pulls out a police scanner and turns it on to the right frequency. He listens for any reports as one comes into about a possible break in. The timer gets to two and a half minutes. "No matter what." A door is heard blasted open as the driver looks to see and looks away. "Anything that happens a minute either side of that..." The driver grips the steering wheel, hearing the sound of leather gloves against the leather of the steering wheel.
"And you're on your own... Kapeesh?" Three dudes run into the back seat as one has a shotgun and panty hose on his head and the other three have ski masks and bags of money with guns. The scanner talk to a squad car about going to check the situation. The car begins to roar to life then a gun shot at the nearest one to the right near window.
The guy on the right head's explodes as the other two panics. The driver races down the street then into an empty road till a police car from behind pulls up siren blaring. The two guys scream at each other how they are done for. The middle guy screams what to do about Frank.
Then the driver turns a sharp corner that quickly opens the back right door to push Frank out of the car. The left guy screams about the money with Frank but the Driver doesn't care. The door slams shut by the speed. They go off through the narrow alley as the cop is behind. He goes left as it tries to dodge the incoming cop car as the other in the alley tail ends the incoming cop car making it fly into a pole.
The police scanner alerts all officers as driver hears a helicopter fly over them. The driver sees they are close to the light and takes a detour off almost making the car going into it crash into the wall.
The driver hears the panic of the two as the left one breathes heavy. He grabs his shotgun and looks at the driver who glances at him and makes a look at him in the rear view mirror.
"Fuck it." The left guy goes out of the window and starts to shoot his shotgun at the helicopter. The car roars even louder as three cop cars come in full force. The guys keep firing at the cops as he hits one. The car on the left gets the steering shot as it loses control under its max speed and flips over and onto another incoming car. Cop cars begin to shoot. The left guy gets hit and blood sprays in the air. The guy drops the shotgun and slides into his seat. A bullet flies into his neck and puts his left hand holding his neck. His buddy begins to freak out and grab a rag off the floor but the guy chokes on his own blood.
The driver looks at the incoming stop light and the traffic of the city as he brings his hand to the emergency break. The left guy fades slowly as his friend tries to save him. The driver pulls the emergency breaks as the lights on the opposite sides turn green and the fusion slides quickly around the middle without hitting a single car and into the other lane. The cop cars get embraced by the incoming traffic of cars as both directions the cars smash into the police. The driver quickly drives fast into the lane as the driver goes into the left that heads for the ghetto.
The middle guy tries to tell dead Gary they're saved. The driver goes down the hood as the driver pulls into a garage. The driver looks at his watch. The driver opens the door and grabs Gary and throws him to the ground. The middle guy goes at him but the driver catches him and slams him onto the car with his forearm crushing his throat. You see the anger on the Driver's face and the intense look "Your stupid friend is dead." He squeezes a little tighter as he reminds him he made it. The driver lets go as the middle guy drops to the floor and looks at the bloody mess of his friend with the door still open.
The driver leaves as he knocks on the door and it opens to reveal a big black man, Moses (Morris Chestnut). The driver gives the keys and the man nods in response and goes in and the Driver out.
Driver stops and turns to look at his friend and says "And make sure baby Sherman gets the hell out too." The driver walks down the garage path and onto the road as we see black 1967 Mustang on the side. The driver opens the drunk and pulls out a coat and puts it on.
It’s a satin coat that shows a Smooth tan scorpion behind. Driver zips it up and gets into the car. He sits peacefully as he looks to sees the color of police sirens. He puts the key in and drives off as he looks around and gets out of dodge. The driver sighs and turns on the radio.
Night by Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxx plays as the title in hot pink "DRIVE" display over the city of Phoenix, AZ. The driver drives around as road signs and places show. Till we get in front of the driver and it fades to black.
The driver walks down the hallway of his apartment floor. He gets to his room 209 and unlocks the door. Driver places the groceries down and takes a step but hears the crushing of glass under his boots. Driver says as he looks around and sees the kitchen which has a pot of boiling water foaming out onto the stove. Driver quickly turns it off and keeps looking. He sees the bedroom light on. He sees blood on the floor. He opens the door to his bedroom to find Mia (Jessica Paré) with her neck slit open and her eyes open. Her wrists are slit too as she holds a red rose where her hands are. Driver begins to breathe hard and shake uncontrollably. He buckles down as he crouches down and cries.
Driver looks up and sees Detective Officer Herb Lake Winston (Bruce Campbell) in front of him. Driver is now in his seat at the police station as he also has a cup of coffee in his hands. "You know you haven’t said a word since this all happened. Well except when to call the police.” "I... didn't... F***ing... kill... my... wife...." Herb puts his hands up in defensive that he’s just doing his job.
He reminds him he was the last person to see her… but he interrupts him. Herb is shocked at the few words "Just say dead.” "Well did she have any enemies?" Driver shakes his head. "What about you?" Driver looks up confused by that. He repeats the question again. Driver looks away from the officer as he briefly goes back years ago… “You start the rest of your life. Any dreams you have, ore plans, or hopes for your future... I think you’re going to have to put that on hold...”
Goes back to the dinner scene with Rose. Rose stares at Driver, “For the rest of your life, you’re gonna be looking over your shoulder.” Driver is in his car sitting in the police parking lot. He looks down at the steering wheel. “I’m just telling you this because I want you to know the truth.” He slams hammer fist onto the horn as it sounds off and hits the steering wheel again and again till he’s a raging animal inside till he stops suddenly with an exhausted look on his face.
(Roxanne by The Police) 1967 mustang drives down the street as he passes all the club lights and bars in town. Driver goes to the back and drives into employee parking. The music dies as Driver sits back and looks at the door with the big bouncer outside standing by. The driver goes to reach under the passenger seat and pulls out a huge blunt hammer. The driver looks at it and measures the weight. The driver then goes for a box filled with sunglasses and wigs. He takes the ones that make him look like a greasy but rich customer with the expensive Gucci glasses.. He sighs and gets out but takes off his jacket and places it in his seat.
Driver walks through the door as he looks around as the lights ahead are flashing (Poppin Off by Watch The Duck plays.) We see that the handle of the hammer is in the back-pocket with a bit of blood dripping. Driver walks out passes working girls that laugh and pay no mind. Driver dodges and moves out of others way and gets to a door that leads to the kitchen. He doesn't hear the bartender and keeps walking as the small group look at him. There are a set of stairs at the back and Driver walks up. A guy goes down to tell him he’s not allowed. Suddenly the guy flies down the stairs as Driver now heads up still and the guy crashes into some pots and pans.
Driver gets to a door and knocks in a tune. The eyesight opens and sees Driver ‘Oh shit” A opera musical plays out as [Slow Motion] Driver kicks in the door as there is a big room with a Colombian dances at one corner in a cage and three dudes snorting coke on a wooden table and on a red fuzzy couch. The guy at the door falls back. Driver goes to the guy sitting next to the door, pulls out the hammer and hits him on the side of the head. He goes inside for his gun and shoots the three guys and shoots them before they get theirs. The girl shouts, the doorman goes for the driver, knocking the gun away. Driver head butts him and punches his throat. The doorman goes for his gun but the driver beats him and fires it in its holster and shots the door man’s foot. Driver goes for the hammer on the ground and in one motion he grabs it and slams the tail end under the doorman’s jaw. The doorman is limp as the group of five going up the stairs fires an unholy share for bullets and the driver turns to use the body to take the bullets. The hammer holding the body. The guns shot flames and the bullet keep hitting either the dead guy or the background and extra bullets onto the three dead guys on the couch all the pictures or items with cushioning and feathers flying. [Stop Slow Motion] Finally they stop at once to reload.
Driver takes on foot and kicks the body off the hammer to fling it at the group. Driver dives behind the door and places it up. He looks around and sees the tank of oxygen for the dude who’s passed out and places it in front of the door. He sees a fancy lighter with tweedy bird on it dressed in 49ers attire and black paint under his eyes.
The group gets the dead body off them. Driver turns the knob but it doesn't turn. The group start to go up the stairs as the opera singer reaches a high note. Driver looks back at the hammer on the floor next to him and grabs it. Driver sets the hammer in his hands and looks at the girl “Duck” The girl looks at him scared and confused.
{SLOW MOTION} Driver quickly knocks off the knob with the hammer, oxygen hisses out of the tank, and turns the door over with the open tank of oxygen. Driver sets the light out and opens the eyesight and throws the light through. The lighter falls as the opera singer keeps the high note. The group stops in front of the door and sees the lighter all the way to the point tweedy meets the oxygen.
The tank explodes as Driver dives away from the door with his hammer and covers the guy he knocked out. Flames shoot out from the tank and engulf the group of dudes and leads all the way down to the kitchen scaring the club and the kitchen crew. The fire alarm sounds as sprinklers go off trying to minimize the flames. The opera music goes to a complete stop.
Driver is covered in wood shredding from the blast and dust as he coughs and look up with one half of his glasses completely gone and the lenses gone for the other half. His wig is messed up and to the side as he tries to get up and sees the guy he knocked is OK and the girl is crying under a desk praying to God.
Driver sits up and coughs to look at the aftermath. He sees the whole room is wrecked and the junkie is on the floor with one of them burned on one side. Driver blanks his face and tries to get to his feet and groans wildly. He holds on side as he limps walking over to the desk and goes to look at the girl who is crying out of her wits. He watches her as she looks at him. He talks in Columbine to her. She in her own time and points at a big Maroon leather door. Driver looks and thanks her. Driver turns to the door as the girl gets up from the desk and runs out of the room not before she sees the burned bodies, screams and faints.
Driver clicks his tongue and looks back and sees the gun chamber on his left and tries to open it but it’s locked. Driver takes his hammer and smashes the glass in. Driver grabs the military grade shotgun. He looks at it and looks impressed and takes out shells. He shakes a few in his hands as some land on the ground. Driver loads the gun and hmms the tune of Poppin Off. He cocks the gun and gets to the chorus and aims.
The door knob is blown off and the door swings easily off. Driver stands with a shot gun aimed in the darkness as one light is shown on a desk and a man with his chair to the door. The chair turns around and a man with a nice million dollar suit. There are TVs for the cameras to the side. Driver breathes as he shows no remorse for this man.
Peter Ridge (Peter Capaldi) is shoved into a chair as Driver has taken him to an empty warehouse with one light over the chair on one light bulb. Peter straightens out his suit as he makes a joke about killing for the suit. Driver doesn't reply. He stands in the shadows with a toothpick in his mouth. He looks at Driver and sees how motionless he is. Peter chuckles as he crosses his legs. “You know, you are the first person I think ever that has the mob wanting to kill, but too scared to do it? I gotta say that takes some serious balls and talent to have that fear.”
Peter looks at Driver as he just doesn't show what he is thinking. “One tough cookie, you are. I heard of your little fiasco in LA. One million dollars. Lives were lost. You killed two of the main shot callers in Hollywood. One I knew very well and liked and the other, a Fucking dumb Jew, who I am glad is dead. Guess the waves finally crushed Nino. About time, God Forbid.” Driver speaks softly “Who did it?” Peter is set back. “From now on, everything you’ll say will be the truth... Not one word other. If I find out I can’t get what I want…” Peter’s eyes flash to horror as Driver lets go and slowly stands back up and stands tall in the light. Driver’s shadow covers Peter as he doesn't break eye contact. Peter stalls which upset Driver to the point he screams at him to answer. Driver slams the hammer on a metal case next to Peter stare at the hammer stained with blood. Peter takes a glop and clears his throat. Driver gives him one more chance but Peter can’t in fear for his life. Driver grabs Peter and lifts him up to meet his face in a very scary, forceful way. Peter shouts out “S!!” Driver stops as he almost has the razor blades between Peter’s lips. Driver looks at Peter with that intense look and shoves Peter down. Peter cries out as he becomes relieved.
Peter calms down as he thought Driver would hurt him. Peter’s face becomes blank and all hope he just got disappeared as Driver goes for the light as Peter screams out in pain as the hammer can be heard cracking something.
(“Find You By Zedd (Feat. Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant) plays on the radio. The roads of Phoenix are bared at the dead of night. He narrates how he isn’t a monster, a hero, or a killer. He sees the nightlife in the city. We go to Peter as police rush into the warehouse. Peter holding his mouth as blood leaks out.
Driver sits in his car looking at the beautiful park with a hill that shows the town straight ahead, where Driver is talking to Peter, “I want you to give a message....” Driver is seen washing the hammer in a metal sink that he brought and using a towel to get any that are left. “I will find him.” Driver stares out at the rising sunrise. He gets out of the car as he turns it off and walks up in front of the car to get a good look at it. “Tell him... I will kill him.” Driver puts the hammer into a gym bag. “Tell him Mia is going to be at peace when I find him.” Driver sits down on the hood. “And when I do... And I will.... I don’t care who I have to find, beat, or even kill... This will all be over until one of us is died.”
The cop looks around and finds it clear as one of them goes up to Peter and asks him what happened. Back to the former scene, Driver gets done cleaning whatever he picked up and turns to Peter who is breathing slowly and steady. “You got all that? Hate for the medication to mess up your next and only job.” Driver throws whatever he picked up at Peter and stands up puts his sink into the case and grabs his bag and walks off. Driver walks into the darkness as we go down as see the thing Driver threw at Peter are five teeth to his upper row of teeth. Driver watches the sun shine up and over the city. The light rises up to the driver till it reaches all of him.
If the opening scene is any indication of what we're going to see on an episodic basis, then I'm all in. Drew Goddard, even though he's a bit inexperienced, has crafted a stylish, moody show that will certainly please fans of the original film.
"Violent, stylish and fast-paced, Drive offers everything you ask a prenium action series to do. The premise offers a world of possibilities to Godard and Hansen, but even if they chose a rather cliche vengeance plot, I'm sure all of it will be worth it.
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