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FADE IN:
EXT. PARK - NIGHT
PULL BACK from a huge full moon to REVEAL the park. It's
late and the park is empty. We move through the trees and
bushes and find --
A CAR
Parked in an enclosed clearing of grass. Tress and bushes
surround the clearing. From inside the car we hear VOICES.
ALEX (O.S.)
I can't believe this is how I'm
spending Friday night.
CUT TO:
INT. THE CAR - CONTINUOUS
Sitting in the car are ALEX, seventeen, tall, shaggy black
hair, and good looking in a cheeky way. Sitting with him in
the back is ASH, seventeen, shaved head covered by a beanie
hat, and quite muscular. In the front of the car is MIKE,
sixteen, thin, long blonde hair, and SIMON, seventeen, dark
brown hair and a little on the tubby side.
Sitting on the dashboard are two eight packs of beer. Four
of the cans are gone.
MIKE
Oh come on Alex. What are you
afraid of? Who do you thinks
going to bother us?
Ash turns from the front seat and looks back at Alex.
ASH
Mike's right. At this time of
night. We own this place. The
park, heck the whole damn city if
we wanted.
SIMON
Alex know this. He's just a
little upset because he had a big
ol' fight with Sarah. Isn't that
right?
Alex looks out the window of the car, looking a little
hurt, and angry.
ALEX
It's not funny guys. Things feel
really bad at the moment, and not
just with Sarah. I've been
pissing everyone off, even my mom
and dad.
Ash tosses Alex another beer and smiles.
ASH
Lighten up. You've got no reason
to be this down. Like we said,
tonight we own this city. We have
nothing to--
Ash looks up and out of the front windshield at something
we don't see. All of the colour drains from his face.
ASH
--fear.
ASH'S POV -- Standing around the front of the car are
DANIEL, BO, and LEON. They are all dressed in Gothic attire
and look very suspicious.
ALEX
(to Ash)
Hey you okay?
Alex follows Ash's gaze, as do the two in the front.
SMASH! Bo drives his fist through the windshield, grabbing
Mike and dragging him, SCREAMING out of the car.
ASH
No! Mike!
CUT TO:
EXT. PARK - CONTINUOUS
Bo drags Mike out of the car and onto the grass. Alex, Ash,
and Simon get out of the car in a panic.
ALEX
Hey! Get the hell off him.
Bo grabs Mike and lifts him off the ground.
BO
(to Mike)
Look at that boy. Your friends
look real worried about you.
Mike tries to pull himself away from Bo, but his grip is
too tight.
BO
(to Mike)
And you know what? They should
be.
And on the last word he brings his face right up to Mike
and it changes, right before our very eyes into a nasty
looking vampire, sloped brow, yellow eyes and fangs.
SIMON
Oh shit! What the fuck is that?!
Bo sinks his teeth into Mike's neck. Daniel and Leon step
forward as Bo drinks the blood from Mike's body, their
faces have also changed.
Alex, Ash, and Simon all make a run for it, all of them
running off in different directions.
Leon is about to take chase in the same direction Alex
headed off but Daniel stops him.
DANIEL
No. That ones mine.
Leon nods.
CUT TO:
EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE PARK - MOMENTS LATER
Alex comes running out of the bushes, he trips, but doesn't
fall and continues running.
We hear SCREAMS from Ash, and Simon in the distance, and
then nothing.
Alex stops and turns, looking back in the direction of the
screams.
ALEX
No.
He turns back in the direction his was running and stares,
despair creeping onto his face.
Daniel stands not two feet in front of him, grinning.
DANIEL
Thought you could get away,
didn't you?
ALEX
(scared)
W-What did you do to my friends?
DANIEL
Me? Nothing. But those other
guys. They're probably killing
them as we speak.
ALEX
What the hell are you?
DANIEL
Don't worry. You'll find out soon
enough.
He bares his fangs, grabs Alex and buries them into his
neck.
BLACK OUT:
INT. ALEX'S HOUSE - DREAM/FLASHBACK - NIGHT
Alex is in mid conversation/fight with is parents JOSH, and
JUDY. Standing watching the row is Alex's eight year old
sister KATIE, she holds onto a cuddly teddy bear.
ALEX
Please! Just one more chance!
JOSH
Sorry son. We have to put our
foot down on this. Your grades
are terrible, do you even turn up
at college?, And I won't even get
started on your attitude
problems!
JUDY
Alex, your Father and I just want
what's best for you, but these
mood swings your having. You're
not taking drugs are you?
ALEX
(shouting)
No! What do you think I am,
Stupid?
Katie hugs the bear tighter as the fight gets louder and
louder.
ALEX
And I don't have an attitude
problem, I just get down once in
a while! So cut me a break. All I
want to do is go to one fucking
party!
Katie looks shocked at what Alex has just said.
JOSH
(angry)
Alex Ramos! How dare you use
language like that in front of
your Mother and Sister!
You're going nowhere tonight, or
this week. Now get to your room!
Alex grabs his coat from the chair.
ALEX
Stick it! I'm gone.
Alex begins to walk away but Katie gets in his way.
KATIE
Alex. Please don't go.
ALEX
Not now Katie. Dad can't treat me
like a prisoner. I've got to get
out. I'll see you later.
Alex pushes past her, and out of the door.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH - DAY
The church is old, and abandoned. The windows are boarded
up, not allowing any light inside. The ground floor of the
church has been cleared, all of the pews are stacked
against the walls.
Lying on the ground in the center of the church is Alex,
unconscious.
Scattered around him are a flock of DEAD pigeons, each one
in a pool of it's own blood.
Alex beings to come too.
ALEX
-- later. Uh, what's going on? I
feel so weird.
He pulls himself up onto his feet, swaying slightly. He
looks about his surroundings, taking them in.
ALEX
Where am I?
He looks down at the dead birds.
ALEX
This has to be some kind of
dream.
DANIEL (O.S.)
No dream Alex. This is quite
real.
Alex looks about, scanning the area for the source of the
voice.
ALEX
Who are you?
From one of the darkened corners of the church, Daniel
steps out of the shadows. He lights a candle and moves
toward Alex.
Alex stares back and Daniel in horror.
ALEX
You! You killed my friends.
Alex backs away, moving deeper into the church. Daniel
follows.
DANIEL
You still have no idea who I am.
Do you?
Alex continues backing away.
DANIEL
After what we done I'm surprised
you've forgot.
ALEX
I don't know what your going on
about. And I'm not going to let
you kill me too!
Alex runs up the stairs to the second level of the church.
The second level is one huge balcony that looks down on the
ground level of the church.
DANIEL
You still don't understand. You
cannot be killed since you no
longer really live!
Alex stops.
ALEX
What?
DANIEL
You do "live". But not in the
normal way. You are now and
forever will be a vampire.
Alex bursts into nervous laughter.
ALEX
A vampire. There is no way that
I'm a --
Alex's face suddenly changes, morphing into the vampire
visage.
ALEX
-- vampire.
Alex touches his face feeling it, the bumpy brow, his sharp
pointy teeth.
ALEX
I can't be. No! No!
Alex starts moving backward, distraught. He turns and runs
toward the edge of the balcony.
ALEX
I won't believe any of this! I'm
not a vampire!
Alex leaps off the balcony, dropping twenty foot down onto
the ground floor. He lands unharmed, and heads off towards
the front doors of the church.
ALEX
I'm going outside, where the sane
people are!
Daniel drops down from the balcony, also landing unharmed.
DANIEL
No! Don't go out there. You can't
survive!
Alex reaches the doors and starts to pull them open.
ALEX
Leave me alone!
He pulls them open and in pours the sunlight. Alex staggers
back in pain, SCREAMING.
He begins to smoulder and smoke, but continues trying to
leave the church. He eventually falls back, into the
church.
ALEX
Help me! Make it stop! Make it
stop.
The doors slam shut, and Daniel moves over to Alex, who is
barely conscious.
DANIEL
You have to accept what you are.
This is your new life. Rest. It
will be night soon.
CUT TO:
EXT. CITY - DAY/NIGHT
We see the skyline of the city as the sun sets, day turning
into night.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH - NIGHT
We join Daniel and Alex, who seems to have calmed down a
little, in mid conversation.
Alex is sitting, his head in his hands, on one of the steps
leading up to the altar. Daniel stands in front of him
talking.
DANIEL
You really can remember. Can you?
Alex looks up at Daniel a unknowing look on his face.
DANIEL
We were friends. A long time ago.
A beat.
DANIEL
Until that day in the field.
Realization crosses Alex's face.
CUT TO:
EXT. FIELD - FLASHBACK - DAY
We are moving through tall, dry grass. We come to a
clearing where two eight year old girls play. There is a
picnic set up in the middle of the clearing surrounded by
dolls, and a tea set.
The girls drink the pretend tea and giggle.
GIRL#1
More tea Jennifer?
GIRL#2
Yes please.
Girl 1 pour the "tea" into a cup.
Watching the girls, hidden by the long grass is ten year
old Alex and Daniel.
ALEX
Go on.
He hands him a book of matches and a firework.
DANIEL
I don't want to. Come on Alex
lets just play something else.
ALEX
Go on think of how funny it'll
be.
DANIEL
Please Alex. I don't want to do
it.
ALEX
If you don't do it I'll tell the
guys at school that you chickened
out.
Daniel looks down at the firework and then back up at the
girls, who are still playing.
THE GIRLS
Get up from their picnic and begin playing with their
dolls.
Suddenly the firework drops from the sky and lands in the
middle of the picnic.
The girls stop and look at the firework, on the side of the
firework it reads: "HIGH EXPLOSIVE" this isn't a firework
at all.
The fuse is lit.
ALEX AND DANIEL
Watch as the girls run from the firework.
BOOM!!! The firework explodes taking out the whole area,
including the girls. Alex and Daniel are knocked off their
feet by the blast.
Alex quickly gets to his feet, trying to shake the ringing
from his ears.
ALEX
Daniel come on! Come on! We've
got to go!
Daniel doesn't move.
GIRL#1'S MOM
Jennifer! Honey are you okay?
The Girl's Mom SCREAMS!
Alex turns and makes a run for it. Leaving Daniel.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH - CONTINUOUS
ALEX
Daniel. Oh god. I remember. But I
thought you were in a detention
center.
DANIEL
I was released a six months ago.
But when I came out I was
changed. I met people inside who
taught me things I never knew
existed in this world.
ALEX
Vampires.
DANIEL
Vampires. But they aren't the
only things that exist. There is
a whole other world out there
that nobody know about.
ALEX
So what? You thought you'd do
this to me? Make me a vampire.
DANIEL
I've been watching you for months
now. I was going to kill you and
leave you for dead but when I saw
how miserable your life was I
though this was the perfect
punishment for you, for letting
me rot for all those years. Now
you have to rot.
(beat)
Forever.
ALEX
I never meant for you to take the
blame. I was going to come
forward but they had already
convicted you. I was scared.
DANIEL
You were scared? When your
labelled a child killer it's not
a barrel of laughs you know.
There's one thing I always wanted
to know. Did you know that it
wasn't a firework?
ALEX
No. Not at all. I'm sorry for
what happened. But turning me
into a vampire? I'd have rather
you killed me! I'll die before I
kill and drink blood.
DANIEL
You've already drunk blood. In
the time that you were changing I
fed you my blood, and the blood
of pigeons.
(beat)
We need blood.
Alex climbs to his feet, shaking his head in disbelief.
ALEX
I'd rather face sunlight than
drink blood.
DANIEL
You have no choice.
ALEX
I'll always have a choice.
Alex heads towards the entrance to the church. As he passes
Daniel he tries to stop him.
ALEX
Leave me alone! You had no right!
Alex explodes, smashing Daniel in the face with his fist.
Daniel seems un-phased by the blow, and turns back to face
Alex, he has a tiny cut on his lip, which heals right
before our eyes.
DANIEL
You only get to do that once, you
got that?
But Alex is gone, out of the front doors and off into the
night.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET - NIGHT
Is deserted. Alex comes running down the street and comes
to a stop outside of a shop. He stops as if to catch his
breath but realizes he doesn't need too.
ALEX
I've been running for hours, and
I'm not even tired. Weird.
He is about to head off again but something catches his
attention in the shop window. He stares into the shop
window, a little shocked and confused.
THE WINDOW
Alex stares at his fading reflection in the window. He
steps back, away from the window with a dazed look on his
face.
ALEX
It's true. I'm a vampire.
Alex looks down at the ground. Wrapped around his foot is
the front of a newspaper. Alex reaches down and picks it
up. On the front of the page is Alex's picture, the
headline reads: "Boy missing for one month".
ALEX
A month! Mom and Dad must be
going mental. Oh no, Katie.
Alex drops the paper and runs off.
CUT TO:
EXT. ALEX'S HOUSE - KATIE'S ROOM - NIGHT
Katie is fast asleep in her bed, cuddling her teddy bear
tight. Her bed is covered with other stuffed animals and
toys.
On the bedside table is a picture of her and Alex. Alex is
cuddling her and she is smiling.
We watch her sleep for a moment and then move across the
room to the window, where Alex stands, watching.
ALEX
Katie. I--
Alex doubles over in pain.
CUT TO:
EXT. ALEX'S HOUSE - KATIE'S WINDOW - CONTINUOUS
Alex is kneeled over, holding his stomach, on top of the
garage by Katie's window.
We can't see his face, but we can hear his MOANS, and
GROANS of pain.
ALEX
It hurts.
As he lifts his head up we now see that he is wearing his
vampire face. Drool drips down from his gleaming white,
fangs.
ALEX
Must feed!
Alex straightens up and looks back into the window, he
begins BREATHING HEAVY. Trying to fight off the urge to
feed.
ALEX
The girl.
Alex steps back.
ALEX
No. Not her! Got to get away from
her.
Alex turns and jumps off the roof.
CUT TO:
INT. ALEX'S HOUSE - KATIE'S ROOM - CONTINUOUS
There is a CRASH from outside. Katie stirs and looks
towards the window, and the sound of the noise.
KATIE
Alex?
CUT TO:
EXT. ALLEY - MOMENTS LATER
Alex comes crashing into the alley, knocking over trash
cans. He supports himself against the alley wall. He ROARS
in pain.
CLOSE ON ALEX'S FACE
His face is more animal/monster, than human now.
He ROARS again and falls to the ground.
ALEX
(in pain)
Feed! Blood!
BO (O.S.)
What do we have here?
Alex looks up. Standing above him is Leon, and Bo.
LEON
Didn't we kill your friends?
Leon and Bo laugh.
Bo kicks Alex.
BO
So Daniel changed you huh?
Wondered where he'd been. Always
knew it was a mistake turning
him.
LEON
When we're finished with you boy.
We'll take care of him.
WHAP! A shard of wood BURSTS through Leon's chest.
He gasps and turns to ash revealing Daniel standing holding
the shard of wood.
DANIEL
Is that right?
Bo GROWLS and VAMPS OUT.
BO
You fucking traitor.
Bo attacks driving Daniel back to the closed off end of the
alley.
Daniel parries a couple of Bo's blows but he is stronger
and faster.
Bo grabs Daniel by the throat and tosses him into the
opposite wall, shattering the wall.
Brick and rubble fall to the ground, along with Daniel's
body.
BO
I knew it was a mistake changing
you. I should have feed off you
with the rest of your family.
Bo reaches down and picks up the shard of wood off the
ground.
BO
It's funny what a small piece of
wood can do.
He raises the shard.
Alex grabs Bo's legs knocking him off balance. Bo falls
back onto a pile of broken crates.
BO
No.
Bo looks down at his chest. Sticking out of his chest is a
piece of the broken crate. He disintegrates into Ash.
Daniel, a little dazed gets to his feet. He brushed the
rubble, and dust off himself. He looks down at Alex who is
nearly out cold.
DANIEL
You need to feed Alex or you will
die.
Alex opens his eyes.
ALEX
(groggy)
Then I'll die. I don't want to
live like this.
Daniel moves to Alex, and crouches down beside him.
DANIEL
You don't understand.
A RAT
Scurries past Alex. Daniel picks up the rat.
DANIEL
You have been given a great
chance. A chance to live forever
and all you have to do--
ALEX
Is kill. I can't do that.
DANIEL
People kill every day. What's one
human life to them, a couple of
days in the news and then
nothing. Written off as a missing
person. Just like you.
Alex GROANS, as the hunger gets stronger.
Daniel offers him the rat. Alex looks at it, not knowing
whether to take it or not and then does, biting into it.
We can hear SLURPS as Alex feeds off the rat.
DANIEL
You can't live off rats, and
pigeons. Eventually the blood
lust will take over and next time
you won't be able to stop
yourself.
Daniel help Alex get to his feet and they head out of the
alley.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS
They continue down the street.
DANIEL
Anyway. That rat should have
given you enough energy for a
little while. What do you say we
hit a club?
ALEX
A club?
DANIEL
Yeah. Come on Alex, don't you
listen to anything I say? There's
a whole other world out there.
It's not just all about killing,
some of us are actually pretty
normal people who enjoy doing
normal things.
Alex shoots Daniel an uneasy smile "normal".
ALEX
So where's this club then?
Daniel smiles and puts his arm around Alex.
DANIEL
Now that's more like it!
Alex suddenly stops, his gaze fixed.
DANIEL
What's wrong?
Daniel looks into the coffee shop.
ALEX'S P.O.V. -- The small coffee is shop is packed full of
customers. We follow a pretty waitress as she saunters from
a table to table, taking people's drinks orders.
BACK TO SCENE
ALEX
Continues watching the waitress.
DANIEL
Come on buddy! We've got to get
going before all the good girls
are taken.
Then Daniel realizes who Alex is looking at.
DANIEL
Oh. So you've already got your
eye on someone? We're talking
about the waitress, right. Damn
she's a little hottie!
Alex snaps out of his stare and laughs slightly.
ALEX
Down boy. That's Sarah. She's a
(beat)
Friend.
DANIEL
Oh, you mean girlfriend?
ALEX
(sad)
A long time ago maybe. But things
change, people change, and I mean
literally.
Alex takes one last look and walks away.
ALEX
Come on.
Daniel follows.
They both cross the street and head down another darkened
alley. As the walk through the alley we hear someone COUGH,
and then the sound of "WATER RUNNING".
A short baud guy is in the middle of taking a piss. He
turns and sees Daniel and Alex.
GUY
What the hell are you two doing?
Piss off! Can't you see I'm
trying to have a god damn piss?
Alex and Daniel ignore the guy and continue walking.
GUY
Fucking faggots.
Daniel stops, a LOW GROWL building in his chest. When he
turns to face the guy, his face is in VAMP MODE.
In a flash he grabs the guy by his throat and has him
pinned up against the wall.
DANIEL
(angry)
What did you say?
GUY
(panicking)
Nothing! Nothing!
Alex grabs Daniel's arm and tries to calm him down.
ALEX
Whoa! What are you doing? Let the
guy down!
DANIEL
Are you fucking serious? This guy
deserves to die!
Daniel tosses the guy across the alley into the opposite
wall. The guy falls to the ground, sobbing.
DANIEL
Get up you piece of shit.
Daniel grabs him by throat and tosses him to Alex.
DANIEL
Feed!
Alex looks down at the guy's neck, and then back at Daniel.
ALEX
No.
He releases the guy, who runs off out of the alley.
DANIEL
What the fuck was that about?
ALEX
I told you. I'm not going to kill
anyone. No matter who they are.
I'm not a killer, like you.
Alex turns and starts off down the alley.
DANIEL
You can't walk away from me! I
made you! I should have killed
you for what you did to me!
Even when I decided to make you
suffer forever I took pity on you
and took you in. Taught you about
us and our ways.
(beat)
You will feed or you and everyone
around you will die! I'll make
sure of that!
As he shouts at Alex, we see that he is more upset than
angry. Alex keeps on walking and leaves the alley.
Daniel grabs a trash can and with all his strength launches
it into the wall of the alley.
DANIEL
Fuck!
CUT TO:
EXT. COFFEE SHOP - NIGHT
Sarah and two other workers talk as they cross the car park
after work.
SARAH
No guys. I'm fine I'm not in the
mood for a drink tonight.
WORKER#1
Come on Sarah, please.
SARAH
Sorry.
The group splits, the other workers leaving Sarah to walk
across to her car several yards away alone.
She feels like someone's watching. She stops, and scans the
car park for someone.
SARAH
Hello?
No answer. She reaches into her bag and searches for her
keys as she picks up pace to her car. She looks around
again. No one.
She pulls out her keys and puts it in the lock, then hears
someone LAUGHING.
SARAH
Come on guy's, this isn't funny.
Another SOUND. Closer.
She fumbles with her keys and they fall to the ground. She
bends over to pick them up but kicks them by mistake under
the car.
SARAH
Shit.
Sarah, really scared now, crouches to try and retrieve her
keys. But as she looks beneath the car, she sees --
FEET, two, standing right on the other side of the car.
Sarah freaks, leaves her keys and takes off running, away
from the car, and back toward the coffee shop. She turns
and looks behind her. No one.
She turns round and bumps into someone.
It's Daniel in complete vampire face. He GROWLS and we --
FLASH CUT TO:
EXT. CHURCH - NIGHT
A crowd of people surround the front of the church. The
blue lights from the police cars, and ambulance light up
the front of the church.
Alex comes out of a near by alley and sees the scene. He is
about to turn and walk in the other direction when he
sniffs the air.
ALEX
Blood?
He pushes his way through the crowd, to the front. He
stops, a wave of horror flooding his face.
SARAH'S BODY
Lying on the steps of the church. Her head is twisted at a
unnatural angle and her vacant eyes stare up towards the
sky. There is blood everywhere!
Uniformed officers and forensics work on the scene
collecting evidence.
Alex tries to catch his breath. He hangs his head, about to
vomit. He looks back up at the body, at the blood.
ALEX
(angry)
Sarah.
A tear rolls down his cheek. He goes to walk away, which is
when he notices --
Daniel standing in the crowd opposite, grinning. In his
hand is Katie's teddy bear. He turns and runs off.
Alex pushes his way out of the crowd and sprints off at an
inhuman speed after Daniel.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET BY THE PARK - CONTINUOUS
Daniel comes running by at a remarkable speed. He reaches
the gates of the park and leaps up into the air, at least
twelve feet, over the fence and lands safe on the other
side.
He turns and sees Alex running toward the fence. He smiles
and heads off deeper into the park.
CUT TO:
EXT. PARK - NIGHT
Daniel comes running through the bushes into a clearing.
Tied to a tree is Katie, who is scared and has been crying.
DANIEL
Don't worry girl. It'll soon be
over.
Daniel drops the teddy and watches the bushes, waiting,
ready for trouble.
Alex bursts out of the bushes in vamp mode. He sees Katie.
ALEX
Let her go Daniel!
Daniel laughs.
DANIEL
Was that a threat? From you?
ALEX
It was more than just a threat!
Daniel PLOWS into Alex.
Alex slams into a tree, hard. Daniel swings at him but Alex
ducks out of the way, grabbing him from behind and pushing
him up against the tree.
Daniel kicks back, against the tree sending Alex tumbling
to the ground.
Daniel lunges at him, Alex grabs a nearby glass bottle and
smashes it hard across his face.
Daniel stops his attack, ROARING as blood pours from his
face. Alex scrambles to his feet.
ALEX
Just let her go. This is between
you and me.
DANIEL
Let her go! Are you mad? Your
going to watch as I feed off her.
Drain every last drop of blood
from her, tiny, feeble body.
Daniel lunges at Alex. The two vampires grapple. Clawing,
leaping, punching, kicking, moves beyond human capacity.
Alex swings Daniel hard into a park bench. It shatters
sending wood scattering across the ground.
Daniel is back up on his feet.
DANIEL
(furious)
I don't get it! I forgave you!
He punches Alex in the face, hard.
DANIEL
You were spared from death!
WHAM! Again.
DANIEL
You had a chance to live forever!
BAM! Again.
DANIEL
All you had to do was feed once
in a while. Kill one human!
SMASH! Again. Alex falls to his knees. His face a total
bloody mess.
Daniel grabs him by his hair, and pulls his head up to his.
DANIEL
(pointing at Katie)
I've decided. I'm not going to
kill her. I'm going to turn her!
Like I did you. But she will
feed, and be mine!
Alex eyes narrow, pure rage building up inside of him.
ALEX
You'll never lay a god damn
finger on my little sister.
Alex grabs Daniel's wrist, crushing it hard. Daniel winces
in pain and releases Alex from his grip.
They both face off. Silence as they stare at each other.
Alex glances down. By his feet is a piece of broken wood.
Daniel charges, ROARING. Alex braces himself. He reaches
down and grabs the piece of wood brining it up just in time
to SLAM it into Daniel's chest and into his heart.
Daniel stumbles back, looking down at the piece of wood
sticking out of his chest. He has a shocked and dumbfound
look on his face.
DANIEL
(a whisper)
H-h-how could you? I made y-
He is cut off as his body turns to ash.
Alex collapses against a tree in his face changing back to
normal.
Katie stares at Alex, stunned stupid.
Alex gets to his feet and moves over to Katie. He unties
her and they just stare at each other, silently connecting.
He picks up the cuddly teddy and hands it to her.
There is a RUSTLE in the bushes and two POLICE OFFICERS
burst out into the clearing, guns drawn.
Katie stands by the tree. Alone. Holding onto her teddy.
CUT TO:
INT. ALEX'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
CLOSE ON THE TV
It's the news. There is a pretty blonde NEWS REPORTER on
screen:
NEWS REPORTER
Eight year old Katie Ramos has
safely been returned to her home
after last night's attempted
kidnapping. Katie was found in
Newbury Park late last night by
police officers, there are no
suspects as yet. In other news--
The screen goes BLACK as we PULL BACK and see Josh getting
up from the couch. He tosses the remote down onto the
chair.
Katie sits by the window, looking out into the night. Judy
enters the room.
JUDY
Josh, Katie. Dinner's ready.
JOSH
Okay, Hon.
(beat)
Our little Katie is all over the
local news.
(beat)
Nothing about Alex though.
Judy's begins to well up and Josh embraces her.
JUDY
God I miss him so much Josh. I
pray that he's okay.
JOSH
Me too honey. Me too.
The stop hugging and Judy wipes away a tear and turns her
attention to Katie.
JUDY
Katie, honey?
Katie is waving to someone outside.
JUDY
Who are you waving to?
KATIE
Alex.
JUDY
That's sweet dear. And we all
hope he's out there.
Katie continues staring out into the night.
KATIE
(a whisper)
He is. I know it.
CUT TO:
EXT. ALEX'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
Katie waves one last time and turns to leave.
We PULL BACK, revealing we were looking in the window.
It's raining. There is a RUMBLE OF THUNDER and then a FLASH
of lightning, which lights up the night.
We continue MOVING BACK until we stop at a tree where a
shadowy figure stands watch. Alex. He waits, still and
silent as his little sister exits the living room with her
parents, his parents.
ALEX (V.O.)
I know I can never go back. Never
be part of their lives ever
again. There is this whole world
out there. A world of darkness
and evil. A world they never need
to know about, and I swear I'll
protect them from it. No matter
what!
He turns, grim and steps off the tree branch, dropping down
onto the street, into darkness.
FADE TO BLACK.
THE END
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