Drive 1.8 - Roads Intertwined

Drive: Roads Intertwined

Genre: Action

Executive Producer: Drew Goddard

Writer: H.G. Hansen

Based on the 2011 film by Nicolas Winding Refn

Cast: Dan Stevens, Bruce Campbell, Morris Chestnut, Norman Reedus, Chloe Bennett, Aubrey Plaza, David Boreanaz, John Cena, Lee Byung-hun and Eliza Dushku

Herb (Bruce Campbell) is at his house as he looks intense. He breathes in and out as he grabs a bag from under the sink. He goes to the basement. He fills a bucket of water, grabs some towels and walks into a dark room. Herb turns on the lights to see the passenger from the car from earlier is tied to a chair with a hanger wire. The guy has blood running down his face and some worse for wear. Herb rolls up his sleeves and takes off his watch and his ring, which he looks at with regret. He turns around and breathes one more deep breath. He slaps the guy so hard he snaps back to reality. Herb starts by saying he wants every question answered and anything else, he’ll lose his patience which at this moment who be very unwise. He asks if the guy understands. He nods his head and Herb takes off the gag. The guy tries to scream but Herb quickly grabs a towel and pours some water over his face. Herb takes it off and warns him again that was just to show how serious he is. He wants to know why there is a hit on him and what Mr. S (Norman Reedus) truly wants.

Overhead view we see the burning house of Moses (Morris Chestnut) as the neighborhood is in panic. We see the “Hunting Party” get up which Ammo (John Cena) wants to check to see if Driver is alive but Long Shot (David Boreanaz) thinks they need to get out of here before authorities arrive and they have a new problem. They get into their car and drive away quickly. The camera pans to the pool in the backyard of the house. We go into the water to see Driver (Dan Stevens) floating underwater unconscious. “So what are you looking for man?...”

We see Driver’s and Moses’ first meeting together. Moses’ talks about how he never had someone come up to him for getaway jobs. Driver doesn’t speak to which makes Moses makes some jokes about him being a mute. “You know the dark and silent type doesn’t always rub people the right way.” “Works on some people…” Driver replies. “Just saying sometimes a hammer doesn’t always fix everything…” Driver smiles by how he likes Moses’ direct approach. Moses does it because it’s the only way to get things done in this town. Driver notices a photo of a woman and two kids. Moses quickly puts it away as Driver looks at his reaction. Driver accidently asks if he has a family to which Moses asks if he’s ever done something so horrible it ruins everything good around you. Driver is silent to that answer as it hits are. Moses makes a condition to not talk about personal stuff unless it’s needed. Driver nods as Moses goes to show him the car Driver will be driving for the job. Moses asks questions about previous experience with this kind of work to which Driver reminds him they agreed to not say anything to personal. Moses looks at Driver and agrees.

Driver wakes up in the water and swims up. He gasps as he struggles to get out of the pool. He breathes hard as he has no idea how long he’s been out. He sits up on the edge as he looks at the burning house and grows dull. He remembers a moment where he gets done with a job and sees Moses selling guns. Driver and he get into a fight as Driver knows one of the guns on the job was pulled on a kid. Moses agrees at that moment to sell to those he trusts. Driver hears the sirens of the cop cars and gets up to jump the fence to run away.

Mr. S is listening to Willy Nelson as he enjoys an expensive T-bone steak with a dark almost blood-colored wine. He starts talking like someone is eating with him. The camera widens and we see there is no one there but the hammer in the glass casing in front of him. He talks about how he’s close to getting Driver back into the fold. He’s close to making him realize what he’s tried to forget. “That family is everything… Without we’re just animals…” He’s interrupted by a phone call to which he is addressed about how Moses had blown up the house. Mr. S asks if Driver is okay but gets told the Hunting Party is okay and they think they know where the girl is. Mr. S is getting a little frustrated as he wants to know if Driver is okay. The police haven’t found a body yet so this makes Mr. S know Driver is still alive. He hangs up interrupting the other end’s thought and tells the hammer he has to leave to go do something real quick but will be back.

Herb is wiping his hands off as they are coated with blood and scrapes. The guy in the chair is pretty beaten up as blood drip out of his mouth. Herb congratulates him on last as long as he did. Herb hasn’t had to do that for awhile. Herb gets ready to go out but the guy manages to tell him he’s gonna die anyway. No matter what Mr. S will kill him just for getting in the way including if he lets him live. Herb is confused as he guesses his captive doesn’t pay attention to what’s around him. The guy sees plastic all over the ground to which he looks up to see Herb shoot him between the eyes. “Dumb motherfucker… Thinks I’d make a mess in my mother’s house…” Herb’s ma asks what’s that noise to which Herb reminds her he’s still trying to get rid of the rodents down there so she may have to keep her hearing aid down still. His ma remembers and asks if he’d like a sandwich at all. Herb says that would be great after he’s done cleaning up.

Daisy (Chloe Bennett) is at the safe house as she is watching a video on her phone of Mia’s birthday. She sees her and Rita (Aubrey Plaza) enjoy their time till Driver walks in with a cake. She notices how Driver looks happier than she’s ever seen him and how Mia somehow is the only reason he’s ever happy in photos or other stuff. She wishes she still was here so she knows what to do about him. A knock on the door and Daisy goes to answer thinking its Driver but to her surprise it’s a couple of goons. She wrestles with them to the point one looks to rough her up but a knife goes through his neck after he drops to the floor we see Mr. S standing proud with The Hunting Party. The goons go to fight but the Hunting Party makes quick work with Shadow (Eliza Dushku) using her skills to cut nerves, Ammo bashing a dude’s head in, Tozawa (Lee Byung-hun) using a throat punch to land a skull cracking knee to Long Shot shooting one’s kneecaps off. Mr. S apologizes for her to see all that but the kneecapped goon interrupts him. This makes Mr. S split-second slice his neck for it’s rude to interrupt when someone is talking. Mr. S smiles politely and asks to talk to her. We hear the sounds of the guy gurgling on his own blood in the background.

Herb is cleaning up as he has tightly wrapped up the guy in plastic. He hears a buzz from the phone he took earlier and opens it to see a group text of where to meet at the safe house. Herb knows this is his one chance at Mr. S as he quickly goes to take care of the body. Herb sneaks around his ma and puts the body in the trunk of his car. His ma is seen up to the car suddenly as she tells him to don’t forget about his sandwich she made him. Herb closes the trunk door, grabs the sandwich and kisses her as he tells her he just got called into work. She makes a comment that he needs to take it easy that work has been running him ragged. Herb makes a comment to himself about how that true but he just might get some days off if things go right tonight and drives off.

Mr. S and Daisy have a conversation as Mr. S apologizes how he almost got her killed at the diner. He didn’t know who she was and if he did, he would have made sure her and Rita would have been spared. Any friend of Derek’s is a friend to him. Daisy is silent while mean mugging him. Ammo asks what they do with the bodies to which S, with venom in his voice, makes a comment about feed them to strays for he doesn’t care. He notes her silence has to do with something he did. Daisy tells him he killed her sister. S makes a face and understands Daisy’s reaction then. He knows what it’s like to have someone you care about to have them ripped away. She laughs as she tells him how she knows the person he’s talking about was crazy. S is confused till he guesses Driver, or Derek he calls him, told her about their upbringing. Daisy talks about how they were made into killers to which S doesn’t think so. They were taught to survive. She thinks they made Driver a monster but S believes he was actually free to be what he’s always meant to be.

Driver sneaks up on the safehouse and goes to sneak inside to gain a clear advantage. He finds a gun and goes to sneak up on S. S talks about how they were alone and Andie helped them reach their full potential. Driver got to become the man every mob fears and he got to become the well resourced person he is. Driver grows angry by his words and points the gun up to his head. S blames Mia for trying to satirized what Driver is, making him believe he can leave his past behind. When in reality, he will never be like the sheep, he thinks like a wolf too much. “Don’t you agree, Derek?” S knows Driver is behind him with a gun as Driver tells Daisy to run and he’s gonna kill S. S doesn’t believe him to which Driver finds out the gun is empty and S pours bullets out of his hand. S makes a comment how love has made him safe.

Driver goes to hit him but Long Shot shoots him in the leg. Ammo charges at him and bearhugs him up to let Tozawa rain heavy lightening quick hits. Driver is held up as S is disappointed. He was able to handle them earlier but now that there’s another life in the room. Driver tells him he’ll rip his face off if something happens to her. S grows upset as he tries to prove his point that love and caring is what makes him weak. Only rage is how he has gotten this far. So he gonna prove it which Driver thinks he’ll hurt Daisy but actually S is gonna have Shadow do it. Shadow brings a blade to her throat. Driver tries to break free but no luck. Just before a cut could be made, the lights go out and gunshots are heard. Herb goes in and takes out Tozawa and Long Shot. Driver goes to bite Ammo’s index finger off and headbutts him to break free. Through the flashes of gun fire we see Herb and Driver fight off them but S takes Daisy with Long Shot and the rest as when the emergency lights come on we see Herb and Driver staring at each other with Herb pointing at gun at him and Driver ready to take him down.