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| - London 1888 Whitechapel District [camera pans across the rooftops at night and zooms onto an alley where a streetwalker is plying her trade] Molly Lonely tonight gentlemen? [a small green flash is seen in the background in an adjacent dark alley] Druitt Still at it Molly? Molly Oh, Mr Druitt, you frightened me. No rest for the gifted, you know that Druitt Indeed I do Molly You shouldn't be in the alley jumping out at the ladies these days. What with all the troubles. Druitt What was I thinking? Forgive me. [Druitt starts to draw his walking sword behind his back] Helen John! This ends here. Druitt Helen, what a lovely surprise. Molly, I'd like you to meet my fiance. Or should I say, former fiance, Helen Magnus. Doctor Helen Magnus. Molly Doctor, I'm pleased to meet you Ma'am. Well, I'll be on my way. [Druitt stops Molly from leaving by grabbing her arm] Druitt Stay, I insist Helen John let me help you before you make things worse. Druitt And how is that possible? I've already murdered what? Seven whores. How could one more make the slightest difference? Molly Murdered? No! [Druitt grabs Molly covers her mouth and holds his sword against her throat] Druitt What more have I to lose? Helen Your power is driving you mad, John. I can help. Druitt Mr power is all I have left. [Helen cocks her pistol and aims at Druitt] Helen Let. Her. Go. [Druitt starts to release Molly] Druitt As the lady wishes. [Druitt slashes Molly's throat, Helen shoots and Druitt disappears in a green flash] [Helens moves to check on Molly, then looks up] [Lights flash on Helen and the scene transitions to Police lights] Old City Present day [Police siren and flashing lights, it is raining] Cop 1 Dispatch, This is 7 David 5 responding to a 10 11 at 129 on Willis Dispatch Roger that 7 David 5 [Cops enter building] [Helen is across the street hiding in an alley, watching] [Inside building, Russian voices] [knocks loudly on door] Cop 1 Open up! Police! [Russian voices] [knocks loudly on door] Cop 2 Let's go! Open up! [A Russian woman opens the door] Cop 1 Evening Ma'am, we've had some complaints about the noise Russian We want no trouble Cop 2 Then you don't mind if we come in? Russian No... no [woman closes door, cops kick it in and enter] Cop 2 You folks want to just come right out and tell me, why we got a call to come here tonight? Russian We have trouble early tonight but no trouble now Cop 1 Hey, what kind of trouble? Russian Please you go [woman stands in front of a door with an older woman] Cop 2 Ma'am, I'm going to enter this room. Please step aside Russian Please Cop 2 Everything will be fine [Cop 2 opens door and sees a bloodstain on the wall with an elderly man slumped on the floor beneath it, he raises his gun] Cop 2 Russo! Cop 1 7 David 5 requesting backup on that 10 11 Dispatch Roger that Cop 1 EMS response Stat Dispatch Copy that 7 David 5 [Cop2 sees something under the bed and points to it] [Cop 1 gets his flashlight and checks under the bed] Cop 1 It's a kid [Cop 1 gets down on floor and tries to get the kid out] Cop 1 Hey kid. You OK? It's Ok, c'mon. See, it's OK. Just reach out and grab my hand, OK? It's OK. Just reach out and grab my hand, just grab my hand, OK? I said come here! [hear a whip noise and a squish noise] [Cop 1 falls to the ground dead with a hole in his head] [screams] [kid stands up behind the bed] [a tentacle thing is seen onscreen, right side] [cut to Helen in alley, lots of screaming is heard] Title sequence [Fade in, night time on a darkened street, a TV can be heard] [Pan from a TV to a young boy being scared by the TV show] TV Narrator Monsters, strange creatures that walk the earth, searching for innocent victims, ready to strike at any moment. These creatures such as the legendary Sasquatch or Bigfoot can exist in any climate on Earth, in any city, in any town and some day they may be coming to visit you. Babysitter Will! Your parents are pulling in. Remember our deal, OK? Will OK [Fade out] [a curtain is blowing in the wind, a child can be heard whimpering in the background] [A young Will is cowering in bed mumbling to himself] Will Just a stupid movie Will There's no such thing as monsters, no such thing as monsters, no such thing as monsters [Goes to window and closes it] [a growl is heard] [a monster enters the room growling] [Will screams] [cut to a man sleeping on a couch] [screams transform into a ringing pager and the man jerks awake] Will Oh. Thank you. [man picks up his glasses and pager and reads message] [cut to man donning a lab coat as he approaches a nurses station] Will Somebody page me? Nurse Excuse me doctor. Have a nice nap? Will No, not really Nurse Consult, homicide suspect, real heavy hitter Will Anyone we know? Nurse Oh ho ho, man you're going to love this one [nurse hands a case file to Will] [cut to a room filled with Police] Larry This is harassment, plain and simple. You will all be hearing from my lawyer. Especially you Tom Cruise I know you are the one that shot me or was it you, huh? Detective Oh come on. Look we both know your lawyer is too freaked out to be in the same room with you, so let's kill the music and lay our cards on the table shall we? Larry OK. OK, you want me to lay it out, huh? Detective Yeah Larry Well, alright, you know your dollar store cologne stinks Detective That's funny [detective hits Larry in his injured leg] Detective You whacked six people tonight, including two cops. You think this is harassment? We're not even in the vicinity yet! [Will enters room] Larry Really? You know you could always just use deodorant. Will Hey! Whoa guys, guys, hey guys, I got it. I got it from here. OK. Larry Thank God Will Man, long time no see Larry Come to get Lieutenant Gitmo off my back? Will Cavanaugh Detective Zimmerman Will I hear you need an eval Detective Yeah, well you heard wrong. Look just patch him up, we'll handle the rest Larry See! That's a threat. They're not even trying to hide it Will Alright, alright, Joe, Joe sidebar [Will and detective move to the side of the room to talk] Detective Make it fast. Uptown wants him arraigned like yesterday. Me, I'm just dying for a chance to shoot his ass Will I know what happened tonight but Tolson used to be a patient of mine. Why don't you give me a few minutes alone with him. You know, maybe I can shake some stuff loose for you. At the very least I'll save you a disciplinary hearing Detective Alright, let's give him the room. I hope you know what you are doing. Let's go! Come on. [the 5 Policemen leave the room] Larry So, you look good Doc [cut to another room looking through a window to Will and Larry] [Helen and the nurse from before are watching] Nurse Alone with M and M, hmmm. Zimmerman always did have serious balls Helen M and who? Nurse The Manderville Monster. Did 12 years in Ivy Heights after killing his foster parents, got out a couple of months ago. I guess people don't change, do they. Helen I suppose not [Cut back to Larry and Will] Will You working on the sequel rights there Larry? Larry No way. No how. Not this time Will So then why the escort service and the bullet in the leg? Larry Ask them. One minute I'm watching the Discovery Channel and the next I'm, I'm surrounded by cops. I asked for a warrant and, and they shoot me Will Well they found you watching TV alright but you were surrounded by corpses. Did you lose your meds? Larry No, no that's not it. Will Hey, look the studio audience is gone, Larry, it's just me, alright and I need to hear the truth. Larry Alright. I dropped in on the family downstairs. All the yelling and the screaming. I'm nothing if not neighbourly, right? [Will is taking notes] Will Yelling and screaming? Larry Oh yeah! There's like 50 of them living down there. There's like young ones and old ones and it's like Red Square 24/7, you know what I'm saying? Will So, you just went down to complain about the noise? Larry I didn't kill anyone this time, promise. I heard what was going on... so I went down to check out the kid's technique, that's all. Will The kid? Larry The Rusky kid, except he wasn't a kid was he? He was... he was, ah, special Will Special, what does that mean? Larry Think about it Doc, those two cops...just Bang, Bang. Just like, like that takes talent you know? Believe me, I know. But the kid, the kid has... the kid has serious juice! Will Is that the real version Larry? Because I'm not feeling any love here. Larry On the level? Will Yeah Larry You think I whacked the Bolsheviks? Hell, fine with me. I miss my room in the Ivy, you know. But the way he took out the cops, the truth? The truth... Will Larry... Larry The kid, Will, you don't want to find him. [Cut to black, a doctor opens a cabinet door and we see the morgue from inside the cabinet] [orderlies enter the morgue with gurneys] Orderly Fresh meat! Coming through Doctor Subtle Orderly Russo, Albert and Birch, Lawrence. Two cops, bought it tonight uptown Doctor Yeah we've been expecting them, put them in holding Orderly Got four more coming later. EMS says it was a real butcher shop Doctor Aren't they all these days? [doors open again and Helen enters] Doctor Helen Helen Eleanor Doctor They're in the cold room Helen Thank you Doctor Lunch next week? Helen Love to, I'll call [Doctor starts a saw and works on a body while Helen goes through to the cold room] [close up of a body bag] [Helen opens it and begins her examination] [cut to another room with Will entering it] Will I know what it looks like but he's not your man Detective A convicted psycho just wanders into a pre existing bloodbath? Cut the crap Zimmerman, he's our guy Will Trust me. Tolson did not kill those people Detective Severe cranial lacerations, removal of grey matter. I read his jacket, this is our guy's kind of party Will Yeah, and this time he was just a guest, not the host. Larry Tolson has a very specific form of delusional psychosis, he kills for reasons that you and I think that are crazy but they make sense to him Will 12 years ago, why did he kill his foster parents? Detective Uh, I don't know. Something about their brains stealing power Will He sees people as either conduits or syphons. If he thinks you're trying to steal his energy, he feels threatened and that's when he kills. Believe me, Forensics will go through the whole nine yards and they won't find one shred of DNA to link him. Sorry man, but they pay me to do my homework. Detective OK, whoa, whoa. Zimmerman, lets just say that I buy this psycho crap defence, which you know I don't, then who the hell did it? Will That's your job, Joe. It's not mine. [cut to a body in the morgue] [pan to Helen working on another body] [she extracts something from the hole in the body's head] [it glows luminescent green as Helen examines it] [cut to someone running down an alley in the rain] [it is Alexi, the Russian boy] [a train runs past on an overhead trestle] [Alexi looks down to a grate in the ground] [cut to a subway sign] [Alexi runs past the sign, Ashley follows him] [a green flash is seen in the background] [a tall man walks forward to where Ashley just passed by] [cut to a train tunnel] [Alexi jumps down to the tracks and walks along, looking about as he goes] [Ashley follows along behind him] [cut to an overhead of a train on a trestle] [pan down through the buildings to Will walking along in the rain with Helen following] Helen Hard to believe such an outlandish story isn't it? Will Excuse me? Helen The Manderville Monster. It would have been easy to lay the blame directly at his feet and yet, you didn't. Well done. [Will stops to talk to Helen] [The rain continues to fall] Will Nice to know I have fans Helen You saw it didn't you? Will Saw what? Helen You saw the clarity of Mr Tolson's eyes when he told you who did kill those people. Will Look, not that it's any of your business but that I saw were the ramblings of a delusional psychotic. So it wasn't Tolson, it was someone just like him Helen Except such carnage could never be the work of a madman could it? The police may think it possible, but you don't Will Listen, it's late and I gotta... Helen He told you about the boy didn't he? A child capable of such murderous destruction, he just had to see it for himself. Mr Tolson was there as an admirer, was he not? Will There was no boy Helen No ordinary boy Will Look, who are you? How do you know about this? Helen I've heard such accounts many times before. As for who I am... [Helen hands Will a business card, it appears blank then the writing Sanctuary appears] [as will takes it the words "for all" appear] Helen ...a friend, I hope [Helen turns and walks back the way she came] [camera pan up to the rooftops and then traverses the old city] [and pans down to an old estate on a river across from the new city] [cut to Sanctuary logo and end]
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