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| - Written by: Sam Egan Directed by: Brenton Spencer VOICEOVER – AMANDA: PREVIOUSLY ON SANCTUARY [Scene from The Five.] Will: Why didn't he just tell me he was changing? Bigfoot: He didn't want anyone to know. And I promised him no one would. EXT STREET KAVANAUGH What's up? WILL Hey. KAVANAUGH Hey. So, I'm probably the last guy you expected to hear from, huh? WILL Uh, not the last, but definitely down there. KAVANAUGH Look, I know you quit the force and everything, but damned if this one doesn't have your name written all over it. WILL Since when did you start appreciating my take on crime scenes? KAVANAUGH The minute we rolled away from this one; a suicide two nights ago in the river district. Referred to homicide so we could vet the wife's claim that her husband shot himself in the chest. WILL The chest... men tend to shoot themselves in the head. Women usually favor the chest. KAVANAUGH So I'm told. WILL Any other reason to think this isn't a suicide? KAVANAUGH Well, crime lab's still processing. Neighbors heard shouting. No sign of break-in. The wife and 17-year-old son are the only ones that were inside. She's claiming the husband snapped. Kid's not saying anything at all. WILL Well, that makes sense. He's traumatized. KAVANAUGH The shrink that took over when you left, Dr. Mehtar, he's calling the boy a high-functioning autistic. Some kind of syndrome or something. WILL Asperger's. KAVANAUGH That's the one. WILL Okay, so you've got a troubled teen and the possible suicide of his father. Not getting why you called me. KAVANAUGH I thought maybe you could make some sense of this. WILL The kid draw this? KAVANAUGH Yup. He was drawing it when the shooting happened, according to the mother anyway. Does these in less than a minute, I'm told. And he draws them without looking. WILL Wow. That's quite the savant. KAVANAUGH Yeah. Here, check out the rest. Look at that. So, what does that tell you, huh? WILL This kid's insides are twisted in knots. KAVANAUGH He draws these from life. That's a joke. That's just a joke... look, I just figured you were the guy who loves all these oddball cases, so... WILL Yeah, these are brilliant. I mean, they're disturbing, but they're brilliant. KAVANAUGH Yeah, we found hundreds more of them rolled up on butcher paper in the closet. WILL When can I talk to him? KAVANAUGH I already got a friendly Judge to steer you the psych evaluation. Ah? One catch... you've only got 48 hours. INT SANCTUARY WILL So these are obviously his demons, nightmares brought to life. HELEN I'm reminded of Hieronymus Bosch. His paintings were rife with abnormals. WILL Was Bosch a friend of yours; high school sweetheart or something? HELEN There is such a thing as "before my time." WILL Really? HELEN Cheeky monkey. WILL Okay, check this out. Here's one I found particularly interesting. ASHLEY Oh, it's the sanctuary. WILL Yeah. HELEN His draftsman ship is uncanny; photographic in its fidelity. ASHLEY Yeah, he must have used computer imaging for this. WILL Kavanaugh said the boy was home-schooled, and apparently, the father wouldn't allow him access to the computer. ASHLEY Okay, so he copied a photo, then. WILL Well, the mother said he flew over Old City once on the only airplane trip he ever took in his life. HELEN Ten years ago. WILL Yeah, exactly ten. How did you know? HELEN That's when we did the renovation work on the North Tower. ASHLEY Okay, but the part about not needing to see the page, how does that work? HELEN Well, if the anecdotal evidence is true, then the boy must bypass the role of ordinary sight. WILL There's not much doubt about his being a savant. HELEN He may well be more than that. WILL Now, the police are obviously more interested in how the father died than in the boy's potential abnormality. HELEN Understandably. WILL I've been given a temporary pipeline to the case file. We can get their forensics in real time. HELEN What about the family? WILL Kavanaugh's made arrangements for the boy and his mother to visit us here, and I was hoping maybe you'd have time to be part of that? HELEN Wouldn't miss it. WILL Okay, cool. INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY OUTSIDE HENRY’S ROOM BIG FOOT Henry... food. Henry? INT SANCTUARY SHOOTING RANGE ASHLEY He's my father, isn't he? HELEN They always did call you a "heartbreaker" from the time I had you in a stroller. ASHLEY Come on, those were old geezers playing checkers in the park. HELEN You didn't say anything on the flight back from Rome. In fact, you haven't spoken to me since we got back. ASHLEY Yeah, well, what's there to say? HELEN Maybe that you're angry? Feeling betrayed... ASHLEY Don't put words in my mouth. HELEN I'm trying to get words out of you. ASHLEY Mom, I understand what your motives were. There were no good choices. I don't fault you. HELEN I wouldn't blame you if you did. ASHLEY Okay, well, you were worried about my feelings, right? HELEN I put you in harm's way with every swing of the pendulum, but the truth is, Ashley, I can't bear to see you hurt. ASHLEY What really hurt wasn't the news. It was that it didn't come from you. EXT SANCTUARY GARDEN PATIO HELEN Our sympathies for your loss, Mrs. Meyers. MRS. MEYERS Thank you. My son will be along. He found something to draw in the garden. He's not quite ready to talk to strangers. You have to understand Edward, he's... he's a very, um... special boy. HELEN We've seen his art. We understand how special he is. MRS. MEYERS He's done that since he first picked up a crayon. His subjects haven't always been so dark. He drew this of Robbie and me when he was only eight. HELEN Robbie's your other son? MRS MEYERS Yeah. He ran away when he was 14. HELEN I'm sorry. WILL The file said that Robbie got into trouble for starting fires? MRS MEYERS Oh, no, no, he'd stopped all that, but Glen, he-he... drove him away. WILL Was your husband... abusive to all of you? MRS MEYERS My... husband was a good man. He-he had his problems, but he loved us. WILL Feeling love and inflicting pain aren't mutually exclusive. MRS MEYERS When you're a mother, protecting your children, that's all that matters. WILL Can you tell us what happened the night that Glen died? MRS MEYERS I woke up to the shouting. GLEN You don't think I see it, huh? Laughing at your old man? Hey, you look at me when I talk to you! MRS MEYERS He'd been drinking. GLEN I said look at me! Look at me! Look at me! EDWARD I'm sorry. MRS MEYERS Stop it. Stop it... put the gun down. MRS MEYERS I was afraid the gun would go off accidentally, and then... Just like that, he turned the gun on himself. I called 911, but it was too late. I realize now that... Glen would never have hurt Edward, or anyone else. This wasn't the first time that he'd tried to take his life. It was... WILL … just so you know, the evaluation with Edward, it may take a few sessions. MRS MEYERS But... I'm at wit's end, honestly. I have to deal with the funeral arrangements, and-and Edward, he's... scared to sleep in the room where it all happened. I... HELEN You're welcome to leave him in our care. MRS MEYERS Oh. I... I... EXT SANCTUARY WILL How's it going? My name's Will. I think your artwork is pretty awesome. I've always admired people who could draw. I could never get much past stick figures myself. MRS MEYERS Edward? Dr. Magnus and Dr. Zimmerman, um... they're going to take care of you for a couple of days. No, no, no. Just give me time to do everything that I have to do. Edward... it's okay. It's okay, it's okay... it's okay. Come here. It's gonna be okay. INT SANCTUARY ELEVATOR HELEN Any luck with Henry? BIG FOOT He still won't come out of his room. HELEN This has been the rudest of awakenings. BIG FOOT I worry that he will keep spiraling down. HELEN We can provide every support, but only Henry can come to terms with what he's becoming. INT SANCTUARY LIBRARY HELEN It's nice to see you, Henry. HENRY I know I've been M.I.A. I'm sorry about that. HELEN I more than understand. HENRY It's not like you didn't warn me this day was coming. HELEN Doesn't make it any easier, though, does it? HENRY I've been catching up on some research that's long overdue on my, uh... bad self. I never wanted to know any of this. Just figured if I ignored it, it'd just go away. You know, kind of like having some disease, but being all about denying it. HELEN This isn't a disease, Henry. HENRY I can't sleep, and smells are out of control. Food tastes terrible. HELEN We both need to figure out this phenomenon. HENRY You weren't there. You weren't there, and you didn't see! HELEN If anything had happened to you, I would never have forgiven myself... HENRY Well, something did happen to me, and all I know is, I can't control it. HELEN Not as yet, no, but... HENRY Look Doc, I have spent my adult life working with abnormals, learning to accept them, even appreciate them, but now I am one... and I'm terrified. HELEN I often wonder what would have become of you if I'd left you on the Moors... to be raised by your kind. HENRY Well... at least that way I wouldn't miss being human. HELEN Oh, Henry... INT SANCTUARY EDWARD Yes. WILL I saw your light was on. Am I disturbing you? Mind if I come in? WILL Where do these come from? These creatures? EDWARD From here. WILL Does it help to draw them? Make it less scary? There were pictures of Robbie too; your brother. You must miss him a lot. When you drew that picture that night, of the monster holding the gun? Did you see what happened? How your father died? EDWARD I can't think. WILL Okay. Maybe we can talk again when you're not so tired. Good night. EDWARD Mm... huhh. INT SANCTUARY HELEN Don't worry, Edward, this machine simply measures your eye movements while you draw. EDWARD What do you want me to draw? HELEN Anything from memory; is there something you'd like to suggest? EDWARD Doesn't matter. HELEN All right, um... have you ever been to Chinatown? INT SANCTUARY HELEN When most people see, their focus shifts from one area of interest to another. When we remember, we interpolate, we fill in the blanks. WILL Which is why eyewitness testimony is so notoriously unreliable. HELEN Exactly, now Edward's visual apparatus, on the other hand, acts more like an image scanner; rapidly moving in parallel sweeps, and then archiving. ASHLEY So he really is a living computer. HELEN This rendering took less than a minute from start to finish. WILL Wow. The detail is extraordinary. HELEN With respect, this is what's extraordinary. I asked Edward to concentrate on one portion of the scene, this area here, and then, a zoom on the zoom... in this case, a face, just barely visible in the shadows, becomes this. ASHLEY Okay, so, I'm not sure I get this. Edward's got this "Where's Waldo" thing going on with abnormals? WILL And that's assuming that there wasn't an abnormal in the doorway. HELEN Perhaps he sees the monster that lurks beneath. WILL So, what are you saying? He detects the abnormals amongst us? HELEN Or simply the true personas of damaged people. ASHLEY So an abusive father becomes a monster. HELEN Exactly. INT SANCTUARY WILL Hey. You don't have to turn it off. EDWARD I've seen it. WILL Is this where some of them come from; the monsters? EDWARD I draw what I see. WILL You know, I see them, too. EDWARD Really? WILL We actually have a lot in common, you and I. EDWARD Hmm. WILL Details jump out at me, things that go right by other people. Like right now, I can see signs that you're afraid to tell me what you know. That drawing from the other night... The creature,...that was your father. EDWARD He... he wasn't always like that. He could be nice. WILL He wasn't nice that night. He pointed the gun at you. EDWARD To scare me; he'd never hurt me. WILL You're seeing it. EDWARD You don't know what I'm seeing. WILL Of course not. Your thoughts are yours. Mine are mine. You only share them if you want to. How did he die, Edward? Was it Robbie? EDWARD No. WILL Did he come back? EDWARD No. WILL Then why are you thinking about him... EDWARD You said they were my thoughts. WILL How did your father die? Did Robbie shoot your father? GLEN Hey! You look at me when I talk to you! I said look at me! EDWARD I... I thought I was going to die. I grabbed the gun. I didn't mean to kill him. INT SANCTUARY MEDICAL ROOM HELEN We've been able to verify that your body has entered a new metamorphic phase. Everything we know about proteans tells us they continue to evolve over their lifetimes. There may be powers or abilities that you gain that we can't even hope to fathom. Imagine a caterpillar arresting its metamorphosis before it becomes a butterfly. HENRY You really think it was a butterfly that brought down that snake creature? Look, I can't account for myself when I'm that thing. And what if I hurt one of you? I can't let that happen. So you either chain me up in The SHU or you tell me how I can stop all this. I need to know what my choices are. HELEN There is a surgical remedy, but it's not without its risks. It involves excising portions of both the pituitary and pineal glands. HENRY If it'll keep me human, then bring it on. HELEN I want you to think about this long and hard, Henry. HENRY Okay… Done. HELEN It could well impact who you are, how you think. HENRY What, is it some kind of lobotomy or something? HELEN No, certainly not, but could it blunt your intelligence? Alter your personality? We just don't know. Promise me you'll think about it. INT SANCTUARY WILL The more I look at the evidence, the less I believe both Ruth's and Edward's accounts. HELEN You think they were both covering for Robbie? WILL Just a sec. Hey. KAVANAUGH Hey, nice work. The stain on her robe was a dead match for the gun oil on the weapon. She obviously wiped it down. I'm getting heat to book her just on that. WILL Look, hold off, okay? I need a little more time. KAVANAUGH Come on, talk to me. WILL I saw some things in the crime-scene photos I'd like to check out on-site. KAVANAUGH Ooh, I thought we were going to keep the investigation side of this discrete. WILL Hey, you came to me, remember? KAVANAUGH All right. Oh, and you should know, Ms. Meyers tried to take possession of her husband's body. Had a quick cremation all planned. WILL Well, the M.E. Didn't release it, right? KAVANAUGH Well, of course not, but it doesn't do much for the trust factor. WILL See, this just doesn't feel right. That's why I need to see the apartment. KAVANAUGH I'll call the wife, let her know you're coming. WILL Okay, thanks. INT MEYERS RESIDENCE MRS MEYERS Please... EDWARD Please! Please! Dad? Dad! Let me out! MRS MEYERS Oh, god... oh, God. Oh... HELEN Who did he keep down there? MRS MEYERS It's not what you think. WILL What about Robbie? He got the brunt of it, didn't he? What did Glen call it? Discipline? HELEN In my experience, it's often a cover for cruelty. WILL He threatened you, didn't he? MRS MEYERS He... he said he'd take the boys, take Robbie and Edward, if I ever tried to leave him. WILL The file said that you didn't report Robbie as missing for almost five days. MRS MEYERS Glen didn't want to go to the police, in case Robbie showed up. WILL Then you'll appreciate how important it is I report any new evidence. MRS MEYERS But you... oh, ple... oh... INT SANCTUARY HELEN Will, I wasn't entirely comfortable with you making it sound as if The Sanctuary were an arm of law enforcement. WILL Well, I had to push her to get at what she was hiding. HELEN The unravelling of who killed this man and why may well yield a treasure trove of information about this abnormality. But make no mistake, I will not help compound an injustice. WILL So, what are you saying? That we withhold evidence from the authorities? HELEN If it's in service of preserving an extraordinary life like Edward's or the mother who tried to protect those sons? You'd better know that I would. WILL Then I guess one of us is going to be uncomfortable. Either way, it's down to us to sort out what really happened, and that means finding Robbie. HELEN I've been thinking, Edward has a pixel-perfect record of his father's death. WILL He says he doesn't remember what happened. HELEN Well, he was able to retrieve one image from that night. WILL His father pointing the gun. HELEN You recall I was talking about the interpolation of data to make our memories complete. WILL Yeah. HELEN If we could get Edward to render key moments surrounding the fatal shot, Henry could program the computer to fill in the missing frames. WILL So we'd have a movie of the crime? HELEN Or as near as you can reconstruct from a person's memories. WILL Huh. There's just one problem. Edward doesn't want to remember. HELEN Let's get him down here; there's no harm in trying. INT SANCTUARY ELEVATOR EDWARD Ah... INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE HENRY I've made up my mind. I saw the way that kid looked at me, and if he can see it, then it's not far from surfacing again. I want this thing gone. HELEN Despite the risks we've talked about? HENRY That would be correct. HELEN Very well; I'll schedule the surgery. INT SANCTUARY HENRY’S WORK AREA ASHLEY Henry... I think about what you're about to do and it scares me. HENRY Well, you get a look at that thing inside me, it'll scare you even more. ASHLEY I just don't want to lose the Henry I know. HENRY Look, I'm not real thrilled about it either, Ash, but no matter what I do, I'm going to wind up different. ASHLEY Yeah, but, dude, maybe the abnormal different isn't as bad as you think it might be. HENRY Come on, Ashley, you're not talking to an amateur here. We've both seen the ugly side of the abnormal world up close. ASHLEY We've also seen its wonder. Its beauty. INT SANCTUARY HELEN You said your father aimed the shotgun at you, and that you pulled it away and shot him. Can you show us that? EDWARD Mmm... HELEN Edward, this is a right hand. Why is it on the left side of the image? EDWARD Hmm... WILL This isn't your hand, is it, Edward? This right hand has a scar on it. Yours doesn't. I'm guessing this was Robbie. EDWARD No! HELEN It's all right, Edward. HELEN Was Robbie the one your father was threatening? WILL Your mom and dad issued a full description of Robbie when he went missing; this scar was one of the distinguishing marks. HELEN If he was the occupant of that little room under the floor, he'd have more than enough reason for payback... EDWARD I told you it was me! WILL Right now, they're this close to charging your mother for tampering with evidence, and that charge could turn to murder like that, unless we can... HELEN Edward! Edward... WILL It's okay. Robbie? HELEN Aahh! Edward, Edward... WILL You got him? HELEN Yeah. INT SANCTUARY ASHLEY What's his condition? HELEN Still guarded. He suffered a Grand Mal seizure. There's still a threat of subarachnoid haemorrhaging. WILL I'm sorry. If I hadn't have pushed him so hard, none of this would've happened. HELEN No neurologic deficits have surfaced, but clearly now, we have to err on the side of caution. WILL What the hell did we see? HELEN The dark side to his power. WILL It's like his eyes were shooting out heat bursts. HELEN That would explain the scorch marks on the walls of that chamber. WILL What about the marks on Ruth? HELEN I can't imagine that Edward would have inflicted those, at least not intentionally. ASHLEY And if it was the husband? HELEN Maybe they weren't cigarette burns at all. The M.E.'s file said there was evidence that the father suffered seizures as well. WILL If the father was an abnormal, he probably passed it on to Edward. ASHLEY The father's abnormality was the burning eyes power. WILL Hey, what if he could sense when it was coming on? HELEN And had himself locked away to protect his loved ones, yes. Glen Meyers may have built that chamber for himself. INT SANCTUARY WILL It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. Listen, I know I pushed you to places in your head that you weren't ready to go, and I'm sorry if... EDWARD You don't...have to apologize. WILL Is there anything I can get you? EDWARD My sketch pad. WILL I don't think that's such a good idea. EDWARD My Mom didn't do it. I can show them. INT SANCTUARY HENRY’S ROOM HENRY So obviously, you don't agree with my decision. BIG FOOT Not for me to pass judgment. HENRY What would you do? BIG FOOT I'm not the one trying to purge his abnormal nature. HENRY But if you could. BIG FOOT Deny who I am? Why? I'm not ashamed. HENRY Well, I'm not suggesting you should be, but... BIG FOOT But what? HENRY I've spent a lifetime more or less human. BIG FOOT You have yet to discover your gift. HENRY You think turning into that mongrelized human is a gift? Okay, that thing between my teeth? That's my foot. I... BIG FOOT You only see the curse in it. Every gift comes with one. HENRY What's your curse? BIG FOOT Mm... now... you are on this journey with me. It's something you'll discover. HENRY Difference between you and me is, you can control your power. BIG FOOT Yeah. And in time, so will you. Now, get to work. INT SANCTUARY WILL Now, if you feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, or you want to quit, just let me know, okay? HENRY I think I'm pretty much ready to go here, boss. HELEN Understand that the computer tries to maintain the laws of both physics and psychology when filling in the blanks. It's not without its flaws. ROBBIE Edward... Edward... EDWARD It's not safe. It's not safe out there. ROBBIE No, that's what he wants you to believe, but... GLEN You get away from him, Robbie. You're not taking him away! There's nothing out there but shame and hate. I know. I've seen it! ROBBIE It's different for me and Ed! He deserves a life! GLEN You get the hell out of here, Robbie! GLEN I never want you to experience the pain that I did. I'm so, so sorry! ROBBIE Dad... Dad! Dad, please, stop! ASHLEY Yeah, we still can't see whose finger's on the trigger. Robbie's body's blocking it. HELEN Just wait. There. The reflection in the mirror captured it all. GLEN Let go! ROBBIE Let go of the gun, Dad! Stop it! Stop it! Stop! Ah! HELEN Robbie lets go of the gun, and... ROBBIE Get back. Dad... let go of the gun! Stop it, please! Dad! WILL The father didn't have to pull the trigger. He ignited the charge directly with his eyes. EXT STREET KAVANAUGH Hey, watch the car. DRUNK You watch it! WILL Did you bring the evidence? KAVANAUGH Missing persons, Robbie Meyers. Unsolved. Right there. WILL Look, I know you want answers... KAVANAUGH Yeah, tell me about it. WILL What's the matter? KAVANAUGH The case, our case, was pulled, erased, eradicated; everything…the files, crime lab, ballistics, everything. The coroner had to surrender the husband's body to a caravan of black four-by-fours. WILL Sent by whom? KAVANAUGH Whatever's happening here is way above my pay grade. Someone, someone powerful, finds Edward's family very, very important. What, too paranoid? WILL Welcome to my world. INT SANCTUARY WILL For all we know, Robbie could be blaming himself for his father's death. We've got to try and find him. He could be hiding out of pure fear. HENRY You know, I understand that. WILL Magnus says you're, uh... going through with the surgery. HENRY Yeah. Listen, if I start growing man boobs, I'm depending on you to tell me. WILL Who knows, you might look good. HENRY Hey, this belonged to the boy, right? Robbie? WILL Yeah, I guess so. Why? HENRY Just wondering. INT SANCTUARY HELEN Your mother should be here in a couple of hours. EDWARD What about Robbie? HELEN We're making every effort to find him. WILL Why were you so afraid to tell us what, in the end, you showed us? EDWARD Mom always said it would be the end of us all if the world ever knew about him. HELEN Well, you don't have to fear that now. HELEN Hello? HENRY Dr. Magnus, it's Henry. HELEN Where are you? HENRY I'm very close to Robbie Meyers. EXT TUNNELS HELEN Henry said Robbie's been living down here all this time. EDWARD Robbie! HENRY I told you he'd be coming, didn't I? ROBBIE I've missed you so bad. EDWARD It's okay. We can both go home now. Mom's waiting. HELEN Will... EDWARD This is yours? INT SANCTUARY HENRY’S ROOM HENRY Come in. HELEN You haven't forgotten about today, have you? HENRY Oh, I didn't forget. I just kind of changed my mind. HELEN You don't want to go through with the operation? HENRY No. No, I don't. HELEN May I ask why? HENRY I'm not sure if there is any one reason. I thought about Edward, Robbie, what I might contribute if I gave the powers a chance. I guess I thought about some butterflies. Wow, I can't believe I just said that. HELEN Neither can I. Doesn't sound like you. HENRY I guess you can say I'm a changed man. THE END
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