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| - PREVIOUSLY ON SANCTUARY From End of Nights 2 HELEN Name? KATE Kate Freelander KATE For the record, I’m not Cabal. DANA (on phone) Dana Whitcomb. HELEN (on phone) You have my daughter, I want her back. DANA Your daughter of you work. [Helen throws the cell phone in anger.] CLARA Will! WILL Clara, what are you still doing here? I thought you were going to evacuate with the other residents. WILL She wasn't supposed to be here. HELEN Ashley, please... ASHLEY Mom... [Ashley transports out in a flash and Helen is distraught.] JOHN Helen? [Helen turns towards John.] JOHN It's a miracle. [Ashley enters behind John.] HELEN Ashley? ASHLEY Mom... HELEN Welcome home. [Helen is sitting at her desk and awakes suddenly.] EXT CARGO SHIP [Will is walking with an Asian man on the ship. There are crates surrounding them.] ASIAN MAN The repairs on the Beijing Sanctuary will be finished in March. WILL And how long before the Moscow and London Sanctuaries are reopened? ASIAN MAN Three months, provided the contractors hold to their estimates. Tokyo, however, is a total loss. WILL Which means we have a lot of dispossessed residents to deal with. ASIAN MAN The sanctuary network survived, that's what matters most. WILL It's just...hard to keep that in mind sometimes. ASIAN MAN Yes. Clara. So many tragedies to process. WILL I take it that's our cargo. ASIAN MAN No, ours is in the hold. WILL Okay, well, I’ve got five trucks waiting, so... ASIAN MAN And the rest? WILL Magnus said you requested space for 20 abnormal refugees. ASIAN MAN Not 20 abnormals...20 containers of abnormals. Oh... [They open the hold of the ship and screeching and roaring is heard. Abnormals can be seen wandering and flying around many crates. One flies up to Will and the Asian man looking down into the hold.] NAPAEAE Whoo-hoo! I can see the light. Hahaha, oh now, that's better. whoo, man, was it hot in there! Boy, I could sure do with a lemonade. Yo Beijing, what's a guy gotta do to get a cold drink around here, huh? Huh? Ooh, you're a lot of help. I'm out of here, see you. [The napaeae flies away.] WILL We're going to need some more trucks. CREDITS INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen places a wooden box on her desk and opens it. She takes out a necklace. A cup of tea is set next to the box by Ashley. Helen look shocked and shakes her head and looks again to see it is Biggie setting the tea cup down.] HELEN Stop doting on me. It makes my teeth itch. BIGGIE Mine too. Now, eat. [Biggie has also placed a tray of food in front of Helen.] HELEN I should be helping Henry and Will. BIGGIE Oh, they're fine. Everything's running smooth as silk. [Biggie holds out a flower to Helen. She smiles up at him.] INT SANCTUARY LOWER LEVEL ROOM [Henry and Chuck are corralling an abnormal.] HENRY Oh, no, you don't. [A crawling abnormal is encouraged in a specific direction by Henry and Chuck.] HENRY Okay...this is a freaking mess. CHUCK [dodging an Abnormal’s appendage.] Whoa! So many wonderful guests! HENRY You know, we got to figure out a tagging system or something cause half these things shouldn't even be breathing the same air. NAPAEAE [laughs] Whoo! HENRY Hey! [The napaeae has taken Henry’s stylus.] NAPAEAE Whoa...Come on, come and get it, Shorty! HENRY I'm short? [Will walks in.] WILL Okay, so all grade four security risks are in the SHU. How's the food and water holding up? [An abnormal reaches around crate and tries to grab Will.] WILL Whoa! HENRY Hey, down, Smithers. Git... [Will crashes into a crate and squeaking is heard.] HENRY All right. yeah, I pulled in big favors from our suppliers got, um-- [An abnormal retching causes everyone to yelp.] WILL Whoa... HENRY Yeah, he's-he's not well. WILL Oh, God...I hope the plumbing holds up. HENRY Yeah, it's not the plumbing I'm worried about. Magnus isn't letting me reset the EM shield, it's still set to high security mode. You have any idea what kind of drain that is on our electrical system? WILL Well, I’m sure Magnus is not overly concerned about the utility bill right now. HENRY I know. I'm just saying we can't even plug in a toaster right now without blowing a fuse. I got 15 guests on the upper levels, I got another dozen in trucks waiting for rooms-- WILL Henry, Henry, look, I know, okay. Everything's a mess right now, but we can handle it. HENRY Really, well tell that to the 12 guys waiting in the SHU. WILL We can handle it, okay? Let's just give 110 percent and take it one game at a time. HENRY Okay, one game at a time. WILL It's time for you to be the man. HENRY Be the man, look out! [Will yelps] HENRY Smithers, come on! WILL Would you—could you-- HENRY Sorry... about him. All right, be the man. Be the man... INT SANCTUARY GUEST ROOM [Kate is loading a gun. She walks over and picks up a pair of bloody jeans.] KATE[chuckling] Hmm...good times. [There is a knock on the door.] KATE Hey. [Will looks around the messy room and groans in distaste.] WILL Wow...see, this is why we ask for a cleaning deposit from you when you check in. KATE Ha ha. WILL So you're really going, huh? KATE Well, I can't exactly stay. I mean, the whole attack on this place, me shooting the boss' kid with a rocket, the kid going boom...Things are just too, uh...weird now. WILL Things are usually weird around here, but I agree, they're especially weird right now. KATE Look, I appreciate you guys letting me stay here as long as you have, but you need room at the inn, so-- WILL Kate, do you want to stay here? KATE [scoffing] No, why do you ask? WILL Well, you've taken your sweet time leaving. You've obviously made yourself at home. I don’t know. KATE Well, the leg's still a bit stiff. I was planning on waiting until I was in peak condition before shipping out. WILL Whatever, look, if you're leaving, clean the place up, and if you're staying, clean the place up. KATE Yeah, yeah. WILL Garbage pickup's at 4:00. KATE Good to know. [Kate closes the door behind Will.] KATE "Garbage pickup is at 4:00." EXT DESERT [A jeep is driving in sand storm. Helen is driving over the bumpy terrain with the radio playing.] VOICE ON RADIO …season from the 1955 World Series win over the Yankees…. [Helen grabs a vase to stop it from falling off the seat next to her. The Jeep has 1957 New Mexico license plate.] VOICE ON RADIO ..States will become the modern stadium of its time. A deal not only has…. [Helen turns off the engine and grabs some papers sitting on the seat in front of the vase. A newspaper, Albuquerque Daily, headline reads: Russians Launch Sputnik. Helen gets out of Jeep and lays out a map on the hood of the Jeep and places a compass on top of it. [Biggie is heard growling.] INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen returns to the present and looks toward the closed door of her office. She can hear Will talking loudly.] WILL’S VOICE Okay, just stop! Stop being an idiot, all right? WILL VOICE Are we going to do this now? Are we going to do this now? [Helen gets up and moves toward the door. She opens the door to find Will and Biggie outside it. It appears as though Biggie isn’t allowing Will near the door.] WILL VOICE Okay, fine, and don't bare your teeth at me! I know what that means when you do that! HELEN Please, Will, come in. WILL We'll discuss this later. [Biggie smacks Will on the back of his head as he passes him to enter Helen’s office.] WILL God... HELEN I know you've had your hands full. And I really appreciate you all giving me some time, but I’m hardly the only one personally affected by recent events. We haven't spoken since Clara's memorial service. WILL Yeah which was five days ago. Magnus, what happened was...the worst thing I could possibly imagine, but it happened. And you mourning Ashley alone is not going to do yourself or anyone else any good all right. Without closure-- HELEN I know all of that, Will. WILL Then why are you delaying the inevitable? Why are you hiding in here? HELEN Simple or complicated version; your choice? WILL What are you doing? HELEN I've wanted to tell you exactly that for days, Will, but I had to be sure, and now I am. WILL Of what? HELEN I'm not mourning anything, not yet. Because I believe there's a very real chance that Ashley may still be alive. INT SANCTUARY LOWER LEVEL [Henry and Asian man are carrying a large crate into the room. Kate is watching them enter.] KATE Is that a real, live Stenopelhabilis? HENRY Not so much alive as dead. These two were the last of their kind. They bought when London was hit. KATE I didn't even know there was any left in existence. ASIAN GUY There are many species under our care. We prefer people to believe they are extinct. KATE No way, you had a male and a female? ASIAN GUY We were trying to breed them. HENRY Dr. Magnus wanted them brought here for study and safekeeping. [Kate reaching in crate and Henry grabs her arm.] KATE What? HENRY Well, you don't think I know about the tusks? That's all you see, isn't it? KATE Dude, do you know how much those are worth on the European market alone? And I’m talking for each pair. Forget about Asia, that'd be, like, double the-- ASIAN GUY Who are you? HENRY Ark-Fong Li, head of the Beijing Sanctuary, meet Kate Freelander, professional pain in the ass, Who I believe was just leaving. KATE I was, but Will asked me to stay a little longer and help out with all the newbies and stuff. Garbage detail, my idea. See ya. INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE WILL How could she have survived? And believe me; I say this wanting her to be somewhere, anywhere, alive and well. HELEN Which could very well be the case. The first attacker teleported at 18:25 hours. [Helen walks over to her desk and hit a button on the computer.] HELEN Notice the change in the EM field's strength? The second attempted teleport happened less than three minutes later. WILL Further destabilizing the field. HELEN Exactly. WIL So you're saying the EM field was unstable when-- HELEN Ashley teleported at 18:29 hours. WILL You think she got through? HELEN A further analysis needs to be done to determine exactly where she could have landed. I need you to be my emotional compass. We nearly lost the entire Sanctuary network because of my judgment. I need to know that my instincts aren't wrong. That my feelings don't end up blinding my decisions. INT SANCTUARY LOWER LEVEL [Door opens quietly and Kate enters with a flashlight. It is the room with the Stenopelhabilis crates. She goes to the computer and presses some buttons to open one of the crates.] KATE Heck, yeah. [Kate leaves computer and misses the warning message “Life Form Detected. She goes to the Stenopelhabilis and admires the tusk.] KATE Come to mama. [Fluid comes flying out and covers Kate who backs away.] KATE Oh! Okay, I’m going to gag. [A creature grunting can be heard. Kate looks in crate and then around on the floor. A small abnormal is on the floor near more fluid.] KATE I'll be damned...love child of the dead. [Kate crawls toward the baby Steno.] KATE Shh...hey...come to mama. [Kate reaches for it and it licks her.] KATE Oh, you little— [The baby steno runs off.] KATE Oh, crap, fabulous. INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Biggie and Henry are walking through a room full of crates.] HENRY If we move the kitapholus drocena here, we could put the seroslugs on the third floor by the lotus elks. BIGGIE No, lotus elk eat seroslug What about the cryo-lab? HENRY Uh, that's the only room that goes to minus 30 degrees. I was hoping to save that for the northern halcylops. Ah, what about the pradophili? BIGGIE Ooh, pradophili! HENRY Yeah, okay. [Henry and Biggie enter Henry’s array. The Napaeae flies in.] NAPAEAE Hey! ape man...and short human guy, I ordered Thai food, like, an hour ago. What, are you clowns on strike, or what? HENRY Look, annoying insect guy, you'll eat when it's your turn to eat. Oh, wait a minute, you hate me because I got wings, don't you? Because I have the freedom of flight and you don't! HENRY Yeah, that's why I hate you. Now go back to your shoebox and let us work, please. [Henry is eating a candy bar and sets a part of it down on the desk.] NAPAEAE Whoa hey you going to eat that cause I can make a serious smorgasbord out of that.] HENRY Hey listen; will you go away if I give it to you? [Napaeae picks up cookie] NAPAEAE Whoa, holy jeez! The density of these things, I can feel my deltoids. [Napaeae flies out of room but almost flies into Kate who is entering room.] KATE Oh... NAPAEAE Hey, sweet cheeks, my room, now! KATE You wish. Hey... HENRY What happened to you? KATE Oh, yeah. Well, it seems like the dead female steno was still able to carry a healthy baby, and, mazel tov, she had one. HENRY That's great! We should put it in an incubator or something. KATE Slight problem, it got away. HENRY Say again? KATE Hey, I tried to stop it, but the little bugger tried to eat me. BIGGIE They were all in stasis. KATE Mom was in stasis; Junior, as it turns out, not so much. HENRY This is not good. This is not good. We have to find it before it gets eaten by something, or vice versa. [Henry pick up some equipment and rushes out. Kate moves to follow him but Biggie grabs the back of her shirt.] BIGGIE What were you doing down there? KATE That is a very...astute question. BIGGIE Perhaps you'd like to sell me too? KATE Maybe. INT SANCTUARY GUEST ROOM [Doctor Li stops in doorway.] LI Baby Stenopelhabilis. How in the world? Oh, that's nasty food. No, no, no, no, no, not good for you at all. Here, now. Here, just let me-- [Steno snarls, Li yelps and speaks in Mandarin. He has lacerations on his hand.] EXT SANCTUARY GROUNDS HELEN I know that look. Just spill it. WILL What do you think happens after we die? You've seen more lives end than anyone else that I know. HELEN Kurt and Albert and I got into this discussion once at a Princeton football game, I think it was 1953. Albert argued that the concept of matter equaling energy, and vice versa, was far more ubiquitous than any of us could have imagined. WILL That would be Kurt Yödel and Albert Einstein? [Helen nods affirmative.] WILL Of course, look, I’m a guy hammering in stakes here you want to have a little mercy? HELEN What do I think death is? WILL Yeah. HELEN Did you ever see "Field of Dreams"? WILL Yeah, I loved that movie. HELEN The cornfield, it's rather like that. WILL I never understood what happened in the cornfield. HELEN Nobody did, that was the point. INT SACNTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen enters her office reading a book.] JOHN Helen...you're missing out on all the fun. HELEN There's food if you're hungry. Dr. Li can patch you up if you're injured, I haven't the time. [Helen continues to her desk. John is sitting in chair across the room drinking liquor. He has blood on his neck.] JOHN I wonder why. You'll be pleased to know Nikola and I are making significant headway into the cabal's operations. Individual cells exist, but the central brain trust has...been undone. HELEN You're killing them off. JOHN Well, they exist only as desperate, disconnected camps now. HELEN And Dana Whitcomb? [Helen walks to front of desk and stands.] JOHN A fugitive, but it's only a matter of time. She will answer for what she's done. HELEN With her life, will that help? Oh… [Helen holds up her hand.] HELEN On second thought, don't answer that. JOHN Perhaps once I’ve found her, I'll simply hand her over to the authorities? I don't need your blessing! [John gets out of chair and walks to stand in front of Helen.] JOHN And there is a part of you that's dying for the moment I come and tell you it's done. HELEN I'm choosing to focus on other things, John, like rebuilding. JOHN Then plan Ashley’s funeral. HELEN Not yet. Not until I say. JOHN In this delusional little game you're playing-- HELEN There is a chance-- JOHN Is there really? HELEN Yes! JOHN You may have been able to convince these others to follow you down this perverse rabbit hole, but I will not! They took her from us in the most unnatural way possible! I'm doing my part. Do yours. [John moves away and Helen hold the necklace around her neck.] FLASHBACK [Helen is driving the Jeep and the visibility is poor due to the wind blowing the sand. Helen stops when she sees a woman standing in front of the Jeep. The woman comes to stand next to the door. Startled, Helen rolls down the window.] OLD NATIVE WOMAN Gas station's five miles back. HELEN Actually, I’m trying to find Tehuatonichen. My information says it's in this area. Am I close? OLD NATIVE WOMAN Ain't nothin' round here but desert. [The old woman is wearing the necklace that Helen had on.] INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Henry, Li and Biggie are walking down hallway.] HENRY We'll track the steno, and we'll bag it with snares, or if we have to, we'll use a shock web. LI No, definitely not, and please, gently with the snares. We don't want to hurt it. [Kate walks out of one of the rooms into the hallway.] KATE Whoa, whoa, whoa! dude...snares? It's a steno. I say you set the phasers to 11 and fry the sucker. hmm? LI It was defending itself, most likely from being sold on the black market by you. [Biggie snarls menacingly.] BIGGIE We need some bait. LI We were feeding its parents bamboo leaves and shoots-- KATE Or my day-old hamburger... HENRY Shush. LI As I was saying, we have several rare genera of bamboo from the southern Yangtze region which I’m sure it will find very delicious. HENRY Let's just get this thing back in a cage before it gets eaten by something hungrier and bigger. [The others move down the hallway leaving Kate behind.] KATE I'm telling you, burgers! HENRY Thanks for the tip. KATE And the whole the snare thing, big mistake! INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE ASHLEY I can't see anything here. [Ashley is holding the laptop down for Helen to see. Helen stares up at her. She jumps and it’s not Ashley but Will.] WILL There's no evidence in the bio-scanner of Ashley escaping the EM field perimeter. HELEN I've been looking at this from the wrong point of view. I thought the de-stabilization in the field meant that she might've gotten through it. WILL What else could it mean? HELEN Well, that she simply bounced back within the field itself, re-materialized somewhere inside the Sanctuary. Think about it, Will. Why did the field weaken at the exact moment that she teleported? WILL An anomaly? A power surge because she was taking one of the super abnormals with her at the time? HELEN You're reaching. All we need to do is search for elements of Ashley’s DNA inside the Sanctuary. WILL No, no, no, you're reaching. We have had a work crew in the Sanctuary for a week, and no one has found anything that could be possibly be construed as a body. [Will crotches down to be eye level to Helen.] HELEN But they haven't been everywhere. [Helen voices becomes shaky as she becomes tearful.] HELEN She could be disoriented...or hurt. WILL Or gone. HELEN Do you really want me to stop? INT SANCTUARY BIGGIE Ground floor, lower level secured. [Biggie is talking over the walkie to the other who are in different parts of the Sanctuary. They are all carrying snares. Kate is with Henry on the lower levels.] HENRY Okay, good. Dr. Li? LI No sign yet. BIGGIE Perhaps it's sleeping somewhere. LI They only sleep at night. It will definitely be awake. HENRY Everybody stay in touch. LI Wait, wait, wait. I have him. [The steno is eating a hamburger.] HENRY Can you get it? [Li beckons by whistling and clucking] LI All right. all right... [Li tries to capture it with the snare but misses and the steno dashes off.] LI On the move, going for the lower levels. HENRY Hey, big guy, it's headed your way! BIGGIE Ready. [Biggie grunts softly] BIGGIE Got you, you little—Oh... [Biggie manages to get the snare around the head but isn’t able to tighten it in time and it gets free. Henry, Kate and Li come rushing in.] HENRY Hey, what happened? BIGGIE Oh, it jumped. LI It can't jump. Stenos don't do that. BIGGIE This one did. HENRY Oh, damn it, it's in the vent system. LI Can't you just trap it in there? HENRY Not fast enough. This is very bad. EXT SANCTUARY [A vent covering has a whole in it.] HENRY Oh, great. It's gone. KATE Well, you clearly don't need my help. EXT SANCTUARY [Henry is getting in a van. Kate is already seated in the passenger seat with a drink.] HENRY This is a disaster. KATE The titanic's a disaster, Madonna's movie career, disaster. This is nothing. HENRY You don't get it, do you? I'm supposed to be the man, and losing a one-of-a-kind baby steno does not exactly make me "the man". KATE Quite a predicament, if only you had the services of a world-class hunter/tracker at your disposal. HENRY Name your price. KATE Never say that to me unless you mean it. HENRY I'm saying it. KATE Mommy and daddy's tusks. HENRY No, no, no way. KATE The bamboo salesman and the giant walking rug are running the Sanctuary and I’m right here, healthy, willing and able. [slurps noisily] KATE Come on, Henry, do you want to be the man or not? HENRY One Steno tusk one. KATE Two sets of two or it's not worth it. HENRY One set-- KATE The female. HENRY Fine. KATE Let's roll! INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE HELEN Once the scan is complete, any biological artifacts matching Ashley’s DNA should show up. WILL If we do find something, how do we know that it's not from one of the super abnormals that attacked us? Didn't they share Ashley's DNA? HELEN I'm hopeful that there are ways to tell the difference. Either way, we should have a good idea of what really happened. [Will sighs heavily] WILL I can't tell if this is a real investigation or a train wreck. [Helen turns suddenly and Will realizes what he’s said.] WILL Oh, look, I-I’m sorry, I didn't-- HELEN No, no. Never stop doing that, being honest with me. Anything else and I will be insulted. Thanks. WILL Sancho Panza had it easy. HELEN Ashley and I always had to face tragedy and loss in our work. I taught her a saying--"nos must amitto vivo en." WILL We must let go to live on. HELEN Well done, Sancho. You know, she always faced death better than me, among many things. WILL That must've been hard, just you and her. HELEN It was worth every minute. EXT OLD CITY [Biggie’s voice] There has been an incident at Vera’s burger shack on Salisbury. [Medics are wheeling someone out of Vera’s as Henry and Kate walk up.] HENRY Just let me handle the cops, okay? POLICEMAN Can I help you folks? KATE Health Department, we got a call about a code violation. POLICEMAN Okay, go ahead. HENRY Health Department? [Henry and Kate enter building.] KATE No one ever checks. So, what did I tell ya? Burgers. HENRY Okay, shush. KATE It happened only 20 minutes ago. It couldn't have gotten far. HENRY Especially if it just ate. KATE Is it just me, or has its shoe size gone up? HENRY We're going to need a bigger cage. [Henry and Kate walk back out to the street.] KATE Just chowed down, been on the run for a while. If I was a full, tired critter, I'd want a place to lay low for a bit. HENRY Make a nest. KATE I'm thinkin' yeah. HENRY Yeah. INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE [Will sets a sandwich in front of Helen.] WILL Made it myself. HELEN I'm not hungry, thank you. WILL Okay. HELEN Will, would you please stop hovering? I can take care of myself. [Helen gets up and goes to the computers at another desk.] WILL You've barely eaten for six days. You've had hardly any sleep. Even for you, this is extreme. HELEN I'm fine. WILL Yes and no. WILL You've got a clear mind, good focus, but you also, you know...you drift off now and again. You leave. HELEN It's just memories. [Will sighs] WILL If this bio-scan comes up empty… HELEN What theory will I cook up next to keep this quest alive? WILL No, I wasn't saying that. HELEN Yes, you were. [Will crotches down next to Helen.] WILL I need to know, are you searching for closure...or a miracle? HELEN There are no such things as miracles. [The computer beeps.] HELEN It's found something. INT SANCTUARY LOWER LEVEL WILL Okay, the coordinates say it should be right... HELEN There. WILL Oh, my God. [A skeleton is stuck in the cement wall.] INT SANCTUARY LOWER LEVEL [Biggie has joined Helen and Will near the skeleton.] HELEN Once you get it free, bring it to the lab. I'll run a full autopsy. WILL I'll meet you there. [Helen leaves.] WILL Big guy, if you want me to do this-- BIGGIE No. [Biggie starts to chip away the cement around the skeleton.] EXT STREET OVER MANHOLE [Henry pulls the cover off the manhole.] KATE Oh! HENRY Wow. KATE Ok, ok I draw the line. HENRY HENRY Come on. Big kudos to the consultant, you were right about it trying to find a place to lay low. KATE That's a sewer down there. HENRY Yeah. City worker gets attacked in the sewer, we go into the sewers. KATE And the stink that never comes out of your clothes? Are we ignoring the need for new wardrobe? HENRY Get in the hole. KATE Okay, but not with this. [Kate puts down the stunner gun and loads a bullet into the chamber of her gun.] HENRY No, no, come on. Get with the program, please. KATE Hank, reality check, this thing just sent a fry cook and a sewer worker to the emergency room with lacerations. It's obviously way nastier than it was this morning. HENRY You want the tusks or not? INT SANCTURY MAIN LAB [Helen is looking over the remains as Will walks in.] WILL Anything? HELEN The remains are too burnt to determine a fingerprint pattern. What about you? WILL X-rays we were able to recover. Tissue analysis and bone density results will take a little more time. [Will hands her the tablet with x-ray of a femur on it.] HELEN This isn't Ashley. WILL How can you tell? HELEN Ashley broke her right femur when she was 12 years old. This one shows no evidence of re-calcification. These are the remains of one of the other super abnormals that attacked us. [Will sighs] WILL Okay, well, it's something. Look, I I know you were hoping for something else, but-- [Helen has become lost in thought.] WILL --Hey! HELEN I'm feeling quite tired, Will. I think I’ll lie down for a while. INT SEWER HENRY These fries look almost fresh. It's got to be close. KATE Once we do bag it, breaking it from its junk food habit is going to be a bitch. HENRY All right, these tunnels rejoin a couple blocks south of here, so you take left, I'll go right. We'll flush it out into the open on the other side. KATE Sounds like a plan. HENRY Keep in touch, and remember— KATE Stun, no gun, I got it. HENRY Yeah great. [Kate moves off down the tunnel. A large steno can be heard in the distance. Kate puts the stunner away and gets her gun.] KATE Policy-schmolicy. FLASHBACK EXT DESERT [Helen is looking through binocular next to the Jeep. A young native boy is behind her. She turns around.] HELEN Hello. NATIVE BOY What are you looking for? HELEN A place that doesn't exist apparently. NATIVE BOY Tehuatonichen. HELEN Yes. NATIVE BOY You're right, it doesn't exist. HELEN And yet you've heard of it. PRESENT HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen awakes on the couch. She gets up and leaves] INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE HELEN Einstein was right; matter into energy. WILL Right but landing where? HELEN The EM field itself. That’s what the fluctuation means. That’s why I keep seeing… [Helen stops when she realizes what she has admitted. She tries to ignore the mistake and move on.] HELEN The magnitude and amplitude of the field increased at the time of her jump. EM fields absorb energy. She could be somewhere in the EM field's buffer, trapped mid-teleport. WILL In the computer? HELEN Exactly. WILL That's insane. HELEN Ashley teleported with another super abnormal. The fluctuation could be the EM field's buffer capturing both signatures and storing them-- WILL Okay. Okay, even if she is in here, somehow, what are you going to do? You're going try to communicate with her? You going to try to pull her out somehow? HELEN If we could recreate her signature effectively, there may be a way to-to... WILL To what? HELEN There are so many variables to consider, Will, so many pieces to this puzzle. WILL Oh, Magnus... HELEN One more test. I run an exponential wave analysis. I search the EM field for her particular-- WILL Magnus! [Helen jumps and falls silent. Will moves closer and leans on desk and sighs.] WILL Okay, okay. What next? INT SEWER TUNNEL [Kate is walking slowly down tunnel. Noises from the abnormal are getting stronger as it grows closer.] KATE Come on, Junior... [Kate hears snarling above her and looks up. The steno is above her. The Steno drops to the ground and knocks Kate’s gun away in the process.] KATE Easy, now...let's take this nice and slow. [The steno snarls and moves closer to her.] KATE Do you want a piece of me, boy? Huh? Do you? You're a boy, right? [Kate wraps her coat around her arm and holds it up for protection. The steno leaps forward and bites Kate’s arm which is wrapped in the coat. It tugs on the coat and Kate falls back as she loses her grip on the coat.] KATE Ah! [Gunfire is heard and the Steno yelps and runs off. Henry has come up behind Kate. Kate grabs her gun.] KATE So, it's bigger. HENRY Yeah [The steno roars.] HENRY Move! move, move! KATE I thought you said no guns! HENRY I said no guns for you. [Kate and Henry fall in a hole in their haste to get away.] HENRY Oof! Ow. KATE Get off of me. Where the hell are we? HENRY Uh, I don't know. Looks like your room. KATE Hey...these are my jeans. HENRY Oh, man. KATE What? HENRY I think we found its nest. [The steno snarls.] KATE Okay, we got to get out of here. [Kate pulls herself up to look out the top of the hole.] HENRY Why didn't it kill you in the tunnel back there? [She sees the steno moving down the tunnel toward them.] KATE Henry, its coming! HENRY Yeah, I know just hold on a sec! KATE I'm going to empty a mag into it! HENRY No, you are not! KATE Oh, yeah, I am! HENRY Food, water, shelter...oh, Kate, wait! KATE Henry! HENRY No, no, no! [Kate fires her gun repeatedly and falls back into the hole. The steno falls on ground near Kate and the stands over her. It begins to lick her.] KATE Ahhhh! [The steno continues to stand over Kate and wags it’s tail moving playfully.] [Henry laughs.] KATE What the hell? [Henry is still giggling but tries to stop so he can talk.] HENRY Look around you. What's the first thing it did? It licked your face, ate your food, stole your clothes. You were the first thing it saw. It thinks you're its mother. [Henry laughs] HENRY I think it has your eyes. [Henry is still laughing] KATE Oh, barf. Get off. FLASHBACK EXT DESERT [Helen walks away from Jeep carrying vase toward group of natives.] HELEN I came to return this to you. It was given to me in the Amazon. [Helen hands the vase to a elder man who examines the outside markings on it.] ELDER NATIVE MAN He was Sani, our last living shaman, spirit leader of our tribe. HELEN I was asked to bring him home. ELDER NATIVE MAN For 300 years we've been waiting for his return. This means my ancestors will be at peace. [The elder woman, from before, steps forward and holds out the necklace to Helen.] ELDER NATIVE MAN We want you to have this. It was meant for you. May it guide you through dark places and into the light. PRESENT INT SANCTUARY HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen is sitting in front of the fire looking at the necklace. Will is sitting in front of the computer when it beeps. He turns to Helen.] WILL You should see this. [Helen walks over and reads the screen. “ANALYSIS COMPLETE: No sign of requested energy signature within electromagnetic field.” WILL I'm truly sorry, Magnus. HELEN Tell everyone the memorial service will be tomorrow. I need to reset the EM field. INT SANCTUARY HOLDING CELL [The steno is in a cage and Biggie, Henry, Li, and Kate are standing in front of it.] KATE There's your rare baby, Dr. Li, Intact and everything. LI Ahem, you've traumatized it. It keeps showing its teeth. KATE To you, not to me. You're just jealous because Ralphie chose me for its mother. LI You don't even know what gender it is. KATE Does it really matter? [Li says something in another language and walks off.] BIGGIE Ral-fee...It's got a--a ring to it. [Biggie smacks Kate’s head.] KATE Ow! HENRY You're growing on him. [Kate rubs her head.] HENRY Feels good, doesn't it? Being a good guy? KATE Meh. HENRY I got to admit, you're pretty good at this. KATE Back at ya, Hank. HENRY So, stick around? KATE Well, i got to get paid, don't I? HENRY Right, well, a deal's a deal. One steno set. Have fun in Maui. KATE Tell you what, hang onto them for me. I'll collect them later. See you, baby. INT SANCTAURY HELEN’S OFFICE [Helen walks into her office to see John standing waiting for her.] JOHN I see you've come to your senses. HELEN Interesting turn of phrase, all my senses tell me that she's still alive, somewhere-- JOHN Stop. Please. HELEN In the end, what she chose to do she did as Ashley, not what they turned her into. JOHN Yes. HELEN Please take some solace in that. JOHN I think not. HELEN Are you joining us? JOHN You may have found closure, I haven't. Not yet. [John brushes by Helen and leaves.] HELEN John... INT SANCTUARY CHAPEL [A opened casket is displayed and Henry, Will, Biggie and Helen stand in front of it. Biggie steps forward when Helen nods and places a doll into the coffin. Biggie moves back and Henry places a notepad in. When he steps back Will moves forward holding a single red rose.] EXT CAFÉ [Dana Whitcomb is sitting at an outdoor café enjoying her coffee.] INT SANCTUARY CHAPEL [Will places the rose in the casket and returns to stand with the others. EXT CAFÉ [Dana gets up and leaves the café. John is sitting a few tables away and puts down the paper he is holding up, grabs his cane and moves to follow her.] INT SANCTUARY CHAPEL [The team has left allowing Helen some time alone. Helen moves forward and places the necklace into the coffin. She closes the coffin in tears.] ASHLEY Nos must amitto vivo en. We must let go. [Helen turns to see Ashley standing behind her.] HELEN I can not. ASHLEY You have to, Mom. HELEN But you're...you're my life. Without you-- ASHLEY You'll never be without me, and I know that you will always love me. No matter what. [Ashley has walked forward to stand in front of her mother but then turns away to leave after she finishes talking.] HELEN Ashley! HELEN [whispering]: please... HELEN I'm so sorry.
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