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| - [Opening scene of a dark and rainy street which then descends below ground past pipeline tunnels and subway tunnels to where Ashley is tied up with Druitt and Alexei is playing on the stairs] DRUITT What would you do if you did manage to free yourself? Attack me or go after the boy and hope I didn't interfere? ASHLEY Oh definitely do you first [sneers] Dad DRUITT Yes, I wouldn't believe either. Such an outlandish not to mention sordid tale ASHLEY I know my mother, you're not even close to her type. For starters she likes her men sane! And a lot less talky. DRUITT Oh she liked me well enough when she agreed to marry me ASHLEY OK well you have me, you have the ghoul. What's next? My butt's getting cold. DRUITT Imagine spending every hour of every day. Every penny of your fortune trying to find someone only to discover you were looking in the wrong bloody century. Imagine the frustration, the anger as the search went on a fool's errand. I moved from decade to decade holding on to the one hope that I would finally land in the right time and place and find you Ashley. ASHLEY My father is dead DRUITT Who told you that? Oh the good Doctor. My God, her gall never ceases to amaze me. Who is she to play nursemaid to every deviant who's lost it's way? Or more to the point to decide that you should never know your own flesh and blood! Who is she to say HELEN I'm her mother that's who! [cut to Sanctuary title sequence] [Will is crawling through a ceiling crawlspace] WILL Yeah, this is why I busted my ass in medical school. To crawl around dirty tunnels chasing mutant psychos. OK keep it together Will, the monsters are down there not up here. [Bigfoot crawls in with Will and scares him] WILL I thought you were going to wait in the car? BIGFOOT [growls] DRUITT Helen, you look wonderful HELEN Stop playing games John. You got what you wanted. DRUITT Indeed. A family at last. You played your cards very patiently, hmmm well done. As if that could prevent this moment ASHLEY Mom please tell this guy there's a nice padded cell in his future HELEN Quiet Ashley. Be reasonable, how could I tell her the truth? DRUITT How could you not? HELEN You murdered eight innocent women WILL [whispers] No! Not yet ASHLEY I'm still waiting for the it's a total lie part! Mom! He's not my Dad, right? HELEN Please this is neither the time nor the place. Whatever you are going to do, don't! DRUITT Actually it is you who is going to do it all Helen. Look what you have made of our daughter, a foul mouthed, wilful, violent child. But at the core? A needy little girl who just misses her Dad. And this your beloved creatures, the damned souls that you so tirelessly try to save. It is all up to you Helen. Make your choice! What will it be? ASHLEY [To Alexei] Don't [Alexei extends his tentacle towards Ashley. Helen shoots Alexei and Druitt warps to Helen] DRUITT This is entertaining [Will drops down from the crawlspace] HELEN I know you are quick John but if memory serves, bullets are quicker DRUITT Memory is a fickle companion [Druitt grabs Helen and disarms her] WILL No! No! Let me. Alexei wait HELEN What now John? I die like one of your whores? DRUITT Tell me what choice I have? [Helen drops a syringe down from her sleeve into her hand] Alexei: You want to hurt me! WILL No, I don't I want to help you. Other people might be afraid of you but I'm not Alexei: Why? WILL Because there's no such thing as monsters [Bigfoot runs in, Druitt warps and materialises with his hand through Bigfoots side. Bigfoot drops to the ground but then Druitt staggers and looks down to his thigh where the syringe is sticking out] HELEN Forgive me John DRUITT You can't control her forever Helen HELEN Stop you'll never survive [Druitt warps away. Helen and Ashley go to help Bigfoot] [Will walks past the containment area in Sanctuary] WILL Easy guys [Will approaches Bigfoot asleep on a table with an IV attached to his arm] WILL You actually exist. I was, I am scared of you . I know it's just the idea of you, the concept. You see I saw this movie when I was a kid and I had an over active imagination and ... never mind. Just get better. BIGFOOT Will, you used to live over in Barren County WILL Yeah, when I was a kid, East hills BIGFOOT 1123 Seneca Boulevarde. Before I met the Doctor I was angry. I enjoyed scaring people, kids. I knew that movie was playing that night. I'm sorry WILL It was you? BIGFOOT Mmmhmm I know it is late in coming but no hard feelings? [Will shakes Bigfoot's hand] [Will and Ashley enter the Sanctuary liibrary] WILL You sure you're OK? ASHLEY I was not at my best back there WILL Considering the situation ASHLEY Yeah well if you're thinking about working here you should really see this. [Ashley starts a hologram video player] BARNEY Will you stop fiddling with that thing. Let's just get this over with. Come on make yourself useful with something huh? Go get me a cream soda. What was I talking about? New guy if you're watching this that means she's dragged you into this whole little circus of her's huh? Well I was once young like you a year out of medical school 1932 or something. I was finishing night shift at the hospital, walking home she came out of the shadows. This woman she hands me this business card after that I was just caught in her web. You know we were studying the abnormals and we got to be close Oh yeah, a special bond Helen and I. She had ideas about things. ASHLEY He rambles a bit here [fast forwards the video] BARNEY I begged her, I pleaded with her to stop. I didn't think I could take it anymore. You know different things from the fridge ASHLEY No, no [fast forwards the video] BARNEY been given an opportunity to learn things. Things that no one else can ever know and there will be risks, there will be sacrifices. At best the chances of like death is maiming it could be in the cards. But what is that in the face of knowing the truth. The truth about human kind. Oh, Hey. ?? guy ?? guy I just lost another fingernail. What I gotta do? Where are you? Oh. Don't sneak up on me like that. Well anyway good luck new guy. Just keep your head up, keep your eyes open and stay away from anything, anything radioactive. I don't care how cute or fluffy it is. You tell Helen, you tell Helen that... tell her that Barney says hello. She'll know what that means. I'll get someone to husk down my corns WILL Nice [Will enters Helen's study] HELEN Leaving Dr Zimmerman? WILL After watching Barney TV can you blame me? Look I just wanted to say thank you, it was a lot of fun, as traumatic as it was HELEN You're turning down my offer WILL Yeah, I already have a job HELEN At that zoo they laughingly call a hospital. Cold hearted bureaucrats and uneducated sloths. WILL Hey don't forget about the fee jello HELEN Ah. So why linger? Off you go. WILL Is Alexei... HELEN I've secured a place for him at a special school I know. He'll be fine WILL And what about Ashley? That's some heavy news about her Dad. HELEN I will deal with my daughter have no fear. Was there something else? WILL Yeah, yeah, it's you and Druitt. Something about it still doesn't make sense to me HELEN Pray tell WILL Barney 1932? And the way you talk those Sherlock Holmes expressions. Who says Pray tell? And Druitt was the same way. HELEN The use of the Queens English is a lost art WILL No, no, no. Let's just forget about the very disturbing fact that you have a basement full of monsters and your butler shouldn't exist. Let's talk about you and this guy, OK? You claim that your first patient was Montague John Druitt a man who also happens to be Scotland Yards prime suspect in the Ripper killings in 1888 HELEN I told you he could bend dimensional space, why not time as well? WILL So he's the actual Ripper? Come on, you can't know that, not for sure HELEN Indeed I can Dr Zimmerman. I was there. WILL So you can travel through time too? HELEN I cannot WILL But you said that Ashley was your flesh and blood so HELEN She is. I kept the embryo frozen for over a century till I could bear the loneliness no longer. I brought it to term believing John was gone for good. I under estimated his determination WILL How is any of this possible? HELEN When you treat beings with extraordinary powers sometimes the rewards are well unexpected WILL So that means that you HELEN I am 157 years old WILL [laughs] HELEN Aren't you leaving? Your gratuitous jello awaits WILL You know I hoped that at least you would be normal HELEN Sorry to disappoint WILL Can you promise me that I'm not going to end up like Barney? HELEN I can't do that. But I can promise you the adventure of many, many lifetimes. Shall we begin? [cut to Sanctuary end credit]
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