Savages

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Chon catches up with Magda, in shock, stumbling around the desert, and grabs her wrist.

He knows what he needs to do, if they’re to get away. They all know it—if they let this girl live, they run tonight and can never come home again.

Chon looks over.

O shakes her head.

Ben does the same.

Chon rips the tape off the girl’s mouth, then her wrists. He shoves her toward the Suburban. “Get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here now.”

She staggers toward the car and gets in. A few seconds later the car rooster-tails out of the dirt and onto the highway.

Chon walks over to Ben and O.

Just as Ben

Collapses.