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RAGE OF THE WEREWOLF
Written by Santo Marotta & Kevin Lindenmuth
11/25/98 4th draft - Copyright 1998
CAMERA PANS DOWN from stars to the Earth.
NARRATOR
On August 12th, 2001, scientists discovered that a meteorite was on a Collision course with the earth.
The large meteorite is hurtling towards the earth…
NARRATOR
Nuclear weapons were used in an attempt to destroy the deadly meteorite.
Show explosion on meteor—it breaks up into a few chunks.
NARRATOR
Although they did not destroy it completely they did manage to knock it
Off course, sending it crashing into the moon´s surface. The impact was so
Powerful that it changed the moon´s orbit, bringing it closer to earth. As a result the weather was affected, tides increased but the most astounding thing that happened was
The strange biological change certain people underwent.
Sky shot of full moon pans down to New York City—and we hear the howling of many many wolves.
CREDITS:
EXT. TIME´S SQUARE, NYC—EARLY MORNING
GRAPHIC: 2010
JAKE and RALPH, two men in their 30´s, walk across an empty intersection. Both are a bit bedraggled looking. Ralph stops, looking in the plastic bag he carries. He stops when he feels JAKE staring at him.
RALPH
I´m just making sure that I didn´t forget any of the cans—
JAKE still stares at him, disapproving.
RALPH
What? What are you looking at?
JAKE
You´re such a hyena…
RALPH
Hey, I´m not the only one scavenging, here…
JAKE
You´re right.
RALPH
You want to eat like a man, dontcha?
Jake doesn´t answer.
JAKE
Come on. I don´t like being out in the open like this—
RALPH
Me and you can kick anyone´s hairy ass, right?
Jake looks around, concerned. No one is out.
JAKE
C´mon, let´s just go—
They continue, walking past abandoned looking buildings. Finally they come to their building but they don´t go through the front way. They go up the fireescape in the back, their secret entrance.
INT. APARTMENT- DAY
Their apartment looks like a typical “guys” apartment—messy. Immediately, JAKE senses that there was someone there earlier.
JAKE
We had a visitor while we were out.
RALPH
(looking around)
Doesn´t look like they took anything.
JAKE
Yeah…I wonder what they wanted.
RALPH
Who gives a shit. Let´s watch some TV.
He turns on the television. The reception is quite good, surprisingly. On the television is the local news—
NEWS REPORTER
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has declared New
York City an “unsafe” zone and is pulling out the remainder of
the law enforcement by the end of the month. Those who are
uninfected and are able to leave should do so as soon as possible.
RALPH interrupts—
RALPH
I guess we´re shit out of luck.
JAKE
Well, I was born and raised here. I don´t want to leave.
RALPH
Not as safe as it used to be—can´t hide in the crowd anymore.
JAKE
You´re Mr. Fucking Know It All, aren´t you?
RALPH
I just know the situation I´m in. Just trying to get by—
As he´s talking his eyes never leave the magazine he´s looking at.
On the television are scenes of werewolves pillaging and attacking…
ANCHOR
With us tonight is Professor Jonathan Hull, the leading expert on the
Werewolf phenomenon. Professor, what´s your explaination for all this?
PROF. HULL
Well, Jim, we´ve established that a certain percentage of the population
possesses a latent gene that can cause lycanthropy. A sort of unbalance between
human and animal, if you will. The shifting of the moon´s orbit five years ago has accelerated this dormant gene. Just as the full moon changes the tides and some emotions in people, its influence has now increased to dangerous proportions.
ANCHOR
Thank you, Professor. (to camera) So far the disease has been contained
to several major cities in the US—Las Vegas, Houston, and New York…
Jake is sick of watching this—he goes into the other room.
EXT. OF CITY- DUSK
Jake and Ralph are walking. Ralph suddenly stops and looks up at the sky, very dramatic.
RALPH
Wait! Oh, no! The full moon´s coming out! I´m changing again!
Grrrrr! Get away!
Jake looks at Ralph with little reaction as Ralph messes up his hair, tearing his t-shirt under his open coat, growling and jumping around like a fool.
JAKE
I wish you´d stop with this bullshit you pull every time there´s a full
Moon out. You´re not a real werewolf so you might as well get over it.
Ralph continues to act nutty, jumping around like a dog.
RALPH
What do ya mean? Look at me, man! I´m a werewolf! I´m dangerous, Jake!
Jake stares at him and we see Ralph from his perspective. He looks very pathetic.
JAKE
You know you should thank God you weren´t affected so much by
The moon´s orbit. You lucked out but you´re too stupid to realize it!
Ralph composes himself—seeing that Jake isn´t going to put up with this.
RALPH
You know, I´ll take one of those DNA tests right now—it´s proof I have
The wolf genes—I´ll proove it to you (pause). Oh, come on Jake!
Why are you being so hard on me? I´m just trying to fit in!
But Jake holds up a hand for him to be quiet. He hears something.
JAKE
Shush! Listen.
RALPH
What? I don´t hear anything.
JAKE
Next block. Bounty hunters—they´ve got someone cornered!
With that, Jake bolts out of frame.
RALPH
Wait! What an idiot! I can help! Wait!
Ralph catches up with Jake who is peeking around a wall at the end of an alleyway. Three or four bounty hunters have a she-wolf cornered. She is growling at them, scared and angry. One of them pulls out a gun and net.
BOUNTY HUNTER
Got ya now, bitch. No more running!
Jake becomes angry and we see his eyes turn yellow. Before RALPH can stop him he leaps and lands in the alley behind the hunters.
RALPH
(to himself)
What an idiot!
JAKE confronts them.
JAKE
Leave her alone!
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
Jesus, this one can talk!
JAKE
I do card tricks, too…
JAKE ducks into the shadows as bullets go off. The female werewolf , only partially transformed, takes the opportunity to strike at one f her would to captures. More bullets, Jake leaps out of the shadows and slashes some of the hunters. While the ones still alive reach for their weapons, Jake gets hit several times by regular bullets while protecting the she-wolf. RALPH stays hidden—he knows he hasn´t a chance of helping!
INT. JAKE/RALPH APARTMENT:
The shewolf is on the couch, out of it, weak from the wounds inflicted by the hunters. If she wasn´t half comatose they would have to tie her down. Most werewolves have no reasoning abilities when they are changed.
RALPH
I don´t know why you wanted to bring her here—
like we don´t have enough problems.
JAKE
She´s wounded.
RALPH
She´s a wolf. She´ll heal.
JAKE
We´re not in an old horror film—if she´s hurt bad
enough she could die.
CUT TO: EXT NIGHT
A couple, both in their 20´s, are running down the street, looking over their shoulder. They duck around a corner. The guy is DAVE, the woman LISA. Although we may not see it immediately they both wear these gold medallions about their necks that have a pentagram on them.
LISA
Why are they doing this to us? Why don´t they
just leave us alone?
DAVE
It´s because they get a thousand bucks for a wolf pelt on
the black market.
Lisa looks up at the partially full moon.
LISA
It´s not even a full moon yet…we´re not even changed!
DAVE
They´ll try to capture us. God knows what they´d do to us
in a few days…
LISA
We should´ve stayed with The Leader, we were protected
there—
Dave rolls his eyes.
DAVE
Why did we leave him, again?
LISA
Because he wanted to fuck me.
DAVE
And….
She throws herself to him, hugging him.
LISA
Because I love you!
DAVE
He´d have killed me.
LISA
We did the right thing…
They are both silent for a moment. They can hear the sound of the laughing bounty hunters in the distance. Then, Lisa notices an open door to a nearby building.
LISA
Let´s go in there…
They do. DAVE goes in first, walking into shadow. But there´s an awful scream and he stumbles back out, one of his arms gone. He falls down. Someone or something throws his wrenched arm after him. Lisa starts screaming but a shape steps out—large—and a hand grabs her, lifting her off of the ground. Her feet twitch in the air. It is LAZLO.
LAZLO Nobody has their own pack, except me. How DARE you
try to leave me—are you sorry you made the wrong
decision?
She tries to talk but cant. He puts her back on the ground so she can answer. She looks at DAVE, who is moaning.
LISA
It was all my idea to leave—if I go back to you
will you leave him alone?
LAZLO
That´s what you wish?
LISA
That´s all. Then I´ll go back..
Quickly the leader goes to DAVE and puts a foot on his head.
LAZLO
This is what your wishes mean to me—
And he steps on DAVE´s head, squishing it like a ripe tomatoe.
LAZLO
You´re next—
He turns to her—
CUT TO: LATER/MORNING
RALPH walks in the front door and JAKE, waking up, sees this.
JAKE
What are you doing up so early?
RALPH
I…had a hard time sleeping. All this makes me nervous—
(he gesures to GINA). Very nervous.
As they are talking the girl transforms back into her human form, a girl named GINA. She awakens. She looks around, puzzled at the unfamiliar surroundings.
GINA
Man, that must´ve been some party. I´ve never
Woken up with two guys before…
JAKE
It wasn´t that kind of party.
She starts to get up, wobbly.
JAKE
Lay back down. You need to rest, let your healing factors
kick in.
RALPH
Do you remember anything that happened last night?
GINA
I do remember you getting shot (to JAKE) You were protecting me, right? But why weren´t you hurt?
RALPH
It´s because he´s a SPECIAL werewolf. (he says “Special” like
You do when you talk about handicapped kids).
JAKE
Shut up, Ralph.
GINA
What do you mean?
RALPH
He didn´t get it from the moon´s crazy orbit. He´s cursed.
JAKE
What about “shut up” don´t you understand?
GINA
Is he telling the truth? Are you cursed?
RALPH
Boy, is he!
JAKE
I said SHUT UP!!!
GINA
Really, are you cursed?
JAKE
Yes!
GINA
How did it happen?
JAKE
It´s a long story.
GINA
Well, I´m obviously not going anywhere soon. Like you
said, I have to let those healing factors kick in.
JAKE
Okay, fine. It all started one day when my father was a young
Man. He was out gathering wood in the mountains outside a small town in Italy. He said a beast in man´s clothing attacked him—a werewolf.
CUT TO: FLASHBACK SCENE where he gets attacked.
JAKE
The beast would have killed him if not for an arrow shot by a nearby hunter. For some reason, my father was unaffected, but two of the three children he later had were—my older brother and I. My sister was spared the horrible curse. Laslo and I didn´t feel the effects of the curse until we reached our late teens. One night during a full moon it happened…
CUT TO FLASHBACK SCENE—where he is changing.
JAKE
At that time, before the change in the moon´s orbit, I had no control over the beast inside me, I couldn´t change at will, only when there was a full moon—like with you. After the many deaths my brother and I committed the townspeople began to suspect my father, having heard the story from the hunter who saved him from the wolf. My parents, my younger sister, were burned alive in our very home. My uncle saw Lazlo and I get to safety by sending us to America. So that´s it, that´s the story.
GINA
And that´s why regular bullets can´t hurt you?
JAKE
I guess only silver bullets can, though I´ve never been shot by one, so I can´t say for sure…
GINA
So all those old werewolf legends are true?
RALPH
Cursed werewolves, bloodsucking vampires and evil demons—they all exist. They´ve just managed to keep themselves hidden from mankind.
JAKE
Stop it, you´re scaring her.
RALPH
She´s a fuckin werewolf, for Christ´s sake!
JAKE pulls Ralph aside, whispering, though she can still probably hear.
JAKE
I don´t want you telling her anything else about us, okay?
RALPH
Okay, Mr. Secret Origin.
JAKE glares at him.
JAKE
I don´t want you telling her about our other hideouts or
Anything. I don´t trust her.
RALPH
You´re the one who saved her…
JAKE
Doesn´t mean I have to like her.
He stands up, goes towards the door.
JAKE
I´m going outside for a while. Don´t make a mess.
He goes out the front door.
Ralph and Gina look at the closed door for a moment before she turns to him.
GINA
Who bit him in the ass?
INT. APT. BUILDING: DAY
Jakes goes down the front stairs of his apartment building and is surprised by what he sees when he gets
Down to the front lobby—the door is wide open and there is the corpse of a woman (LISA!), sort of mangled. But that´s not the worst part—there are scavengers—homeless looking people, who are feeding on her, like zombies. These are the individuals who have gone insane from the werewolf transformations and will eat anything. Jake half transforms and growls, scaring them away. He then turns to examine the body…and notices she is clutching something in one of her hands. It is part of one of his T-shirts.
JAKE What the hell?
Then he realizes that it was stolen from his apartment yesterday.
JAKE
Damnit!
He briefly looks outside before he shuts the door and runs back up to the apartment.
INT. JAKE/RALPH APARTMENT: DAY
As soon as he walks through the door he shuts off the television RALPH and GINA are watching.
RALPH
What did you do that for?
JAKE
Move your hairy ass.
GINA
What´s going on?
JAKE
I went downstairs and there´s a body—all over the place.
RALPH
Hey, I wouldn´t do that—
JAKE
I know, but who would? If those bounty hunters come here
Are you going to want to deal with them?
RALPH
Let´s just clean up the mess…
JAKE
Too late. There are scavengers already—
RALPH
Shit. (he looks around) And I liked living here, too.
GINA
What about me? I thought I was supposed to recuperate?
JAKE
You´re healed. Now move it. (to RALPH) Get what you need.
With that Jake goes into the other room. He starts throwing clothes into a duffel bag.
CUT TO: Various shots of a deserted looking New York city.
INT. JAKE/RALPH APT. DAY
Ralph walks into Jake´s room.
RALPH
So, who do you think did it?
JAKE
Well, it´s not a full moon for two more nights and there´s only
One other person I know who can change at will—
RALPH
Why´s he doing this to us?
JAKE
Because he hates the idea that we won´t join his pack, I suppose. Believe me, we´ve never gotten along.
RALPH
I don´t like him.
JAKE
Makes two of us. I want nothing to do with the asshole.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY- DAY
They leave the apartment building, Ralph and Jake carrying backpacks over their shoulders. Gina follows them. They walk for a while, not talking. Gina walks in front of RALPH and we see that he is enjoying the view, as it were. Then, GINA stops, catches Ralph looking at her.
GINA
Look, maybe it´s better I go off on my own. I mean
I do have a place to stay.
RALPH
You want to leave already?
GINA
You two are in trouble, right? No offense and thanks for
saving me and everything but I like the low profile. So, I´m splitting.
JAKE
Goodbye.
Jake starts walking.
RALPH
Hey, are you going to let her go?
JAKE
She can do whatever the hell she likes.
He makes eye contact with her and nods.
JAKE (to RALPH)
We´re gonna have a hard enough time without dragging
someone else along. She has no reason to stick with us.
RALPH
Well, adios, then.
Gina waves and starts walking
GINA
Thanks, guys.
They both watch her walk off.
EXT. JAKE´S APARTMENT:
The camera pans down to the corpse—but it is a different one than the one JAKE had seen.
Two cops stand over the partially eaten corpse. One cop #2, has a device in his hand. It is a DNA matcher, about the size of a cordless phone.
COP #1
Look at this mess. This is fucked up! Christ, why do
They even allow normal people to even live this city?
The whole place is crawling with those werewolf freaks!
COP #2
` You know why they´re here. They´re all criminals, tax
violaters, child abusers, you know, the scum of the Earth.
COP #1
Yeah, whatever. But to die like this? This has got to be
The worst way to go, being chewed up alive…
COP #2
Hey, check this out.
He spots the torn piece of clothing in the dead man´s hand.
COP #2
Let´s see who this belongs to—
He uses the DNA matcher on the clothes and a beeping sound is heard a moment later.
COP #2
According to the DNA on this the guy who did it
Is a Jake Malderone.
Cop looks up at the address on the building.
COP #2
Shit. This is the guy´s address, too.
COP #1
That´s pretty stupid.
COP #2
Well, criminals aren´t usually geniuses. He´s probably
Long gone by now but we should check it out. I´ll put out an
APB on him. Maybe one of the other patrols will spot him.
CUT TO LATER:
Jake and Ralph are walking through the alleyways. They are looking for food. Ralph stops by a small metal door by the ground. He opens it up and out pops a bloody head.
RALPH
I know we´re trying to be like regular human beings, eat
like them, but I´m so fuckin hungry right now!
JAKE
You stupid bastard. What the fuck is the matter with you?
Don´t you want to get out of this place? We have to act like them! Christ, you´re not even a real werewolf!
Then, he senses something.
JAKE
Wait. Come on, we have company.
At that moment we hear the sound of approaching bounty hunters. Jake and Ralph split down the alley and up the fire escape. They get away and head back for their apartment. Outside, from behind some bushes, they see police men walking around, asking questions to people. They find out from a street person , CHARLIE, that someone was murdered outside of Jake´s apartment and they´re looking for him. They find the hobo in a nearby alleyway, getting drunk as usual. They surprise him. He drops the bottle, it smashes and he gets pissed off. CHARLIE is a werewolf affected by the moon.
RALPH
Hey, Charlie!
CHARLIE
Godamn it! You see what you made me do! I outta kill
You right now you wanna be!
RALPH
Just try it old man!
They are about to go at it when JAKE gets in between. Charlie starts to grow some fangs, etc.
JAKE
Take it easy, Charlie. Ralph, make sure there aren´t any
Hunters around..
He goes.
CHARLIE
Jake, how do you put up with that guy?
JAKE
It aint easy. What´s going on outside my apartment?
CHARLIE
Quit the bullshit, Jake. You know what´s going on. Got
hungry last night, huh Jake?
.
JAKE
Why don´t you stop fucking around and tell me what´s going on? I can be a lot more formidable than my wanna be friend over there.
CHARLIE
Okay, okay. Cops said you killed a norm last night outside
Your apartment. Looks like he was important, too, some city
Official.
JAKE
That´s impossible. Me and Ralph left yesterday morning.
And there was a body, but it wasn´t any norm.
CHARLIE
Maybe. But they found pieces of your clothes near him. Matched up your saliva with the dna on file.
JAKE
Shit. I can´t believe he´s doing this to me…
CHARLIE
What you be doing?
JAKE
Just talking to myself.
CHARLIE
If it wasn´t you, then whoever did this is sure trying to make
people think it was.
JAKE
It´s probably Lazlo,
RALPH
Your brother? Why would he want to frame you?
JAKE
Because he wants me to join him, he´s insane, wants to take over the city, probably figures with me on the run I´ll eventually join him. Come on, let´s get out of here.
INT. SENATOR´S OFFICE—DAY:
This is the office of Senator Robert McNaughton. He is wearing glasses and a nice suit. He sits at his desk. His secretary buzzes him on the intercom.
SECRETARY (VO)
Sir, there´s a gentleman on the line by the name of Lazlo.
He refused to give his last name, says you know him. Shall I
Transfer the call to your phone?
McNAUGHTON
No!! I mean no, that won´t be necessary, I´ll take it on the
Vivicom. Thank you, Terry.
He turns in his swivel chair to face a computer screen, then presses a button. Lazlo appears on the screen.
LAZLO
Hello, Robert, it´s been a while.
McNAUGHTON
Not long enough, Lazlo. I told you never to call me here!
LAZLO
Watch your tone of voice with me little man, least I come there and personally rip your throat out. Are you forgetting who it was that helped put you in that fine office of yours while the rest of us are living like animals? You wouldn´t want me to tell the world that you are a fellow werewolf, would you?
McNaughton wipes his sweaty brow with a handkerchief.
McNAUGHTON
No, no please, I´m sorry. I´m sorry. Please, what can I do
For you?
LAZLO
That´s better. I want you to acquire something for me. It
Might require some doing but I´m sure you can do it.
McNAUGHTON
Yes….what is it?
LAZLO
I have need of a vampire
McNAUGHTON
(coughing up his drink) A Vampire? In heaven´s name, why Lazlo? This isn´t another one of your wild sexual escapades, is it?
LAZLO
Heaven has nothing to do with my plans, Richard, and my
Affairs are of no consequence to you. All that matters is that you obey!
McNAUGHTON
But Lazlo, please….
LAZLO
No but, Richard! You owe me and now I´m calling in the marker. A simple yes or no.
McNAUGHTON
Yes Richard, of course. I´ll make the necessary arrangements and have the body flown out to you.
LAZLO
Excellent. You´ve done well, Richard. Until next time.
McNaughton shuts off the Vivicom screen.
McNaughton Can´t wait. (Pause) Where the hell am I going to get a
Vampire?
EXT. CITY- DAY
Gina is walking alone. She goes into a building, then down the stairs to a long hallway. She looks like she knows where she´s going.
INT. LAZLO´s OFFICE:
There´s a knock on his door and he looks up but doesn´t answer. The knock is harder this time.
LAZLO
Come in.
The door opens and in steps GINA. Her personality is a bit different—more evil. She sits down in the chair, looking at him.
LAZLO
So?
GINA
So, are you going to at least thank me?
LAZLO
For doing your job?
She stares at him.
LAZLO
You´re right. You do have my thanks—
He pushes a few buttons on his computer keyboard and a grid of the city comes up. A dot glows. He points to it—
LAZLO
I know exactly where he is now—and it looks like
He´s on his way. (PAUSE) Was it hard deceiving them?
GINA
Your brother has this annoying compulsion to help
People. It was extremely easy.
CUT TO:
FLASHBACK of Gina putting a tracer on the back of Jake´s coat. It signals wherever he´s at.
LAZLO
As I told you.
He goes back to typing at his computer. Gina makes a sound, clearing her throat. He looks up.
LAZLO
Yes?
GINA
Is that it? What about my reward?
LAZLO
Your reward is coming tonight, rest assured. It is something
Very unique.
GINA
I am glad to be of service.
She gets up and leaves. Lazlo watches after her and chuckles to himself.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY- DAY:
Jake and Ralph are on the run from some bounty hunters. Up above is a helicopter, way off in the distance. They go around a corner and into an alley. They stop at the end of the alley because of two bounty hunters.
RALPH
Well, that´s no gonna work. What about the roof tops?
Jake gestures to the sky, shaking his head “no”.
JAKE
Too many copters. They´d spot us in a minute.
RALPH
Then, what?
JAKE
There.
He is pointing at a manhole cover. Ralph has a look on his face that tells us he doesn´t want to go down there.
Jake removes the manhole cover and they go down.
INT. SEWER SYSTEM
RALPH
Jeeez, this place stinks!
JAKE
Smells like your room.
RALPH
Hah hah, very funny (pause) Where are we going, anyway?
JAKE
We have to stay out of sight, they´re all looking for us.
RALPH
You´re not a regular ‘wolf. We could take on all of them!
JAKE
We? We? You need a reality check again. Me, I just want some peace.
They walk for a while—encountering some strange things along the way such as a human skeleton, rats, bats and when stepping over some water see an alligator. They eventually walk into what looks like a maintenance tunnel. There are lots of cobwebs. SOMETHING watches the two of them, though…
RALPH
Jake, look!
They look to the side and see glowing eyes staring at them and hear low growling noises. They are THE HIDDEN, those of who the moon has had a slightly different effect on. They are very dark in color, twisted features, a lot of teeth.
JAKE
Shit—
A voice is heard—of THE LEADER, VINCENT
VINCENT
This is our domain. Why do you come here?
RALPH
We don´t have to answer to you. We´re werewolves!
JAKE
(to RALPH) Will you shut the fuck up!?!
VINCENT
Werewolves, hmmmm?
He comes partially out of the shadows, toward them, growling an eerie growl. And we see that he is also a werewolf, of sorts, stuck forever half between in the transformation. Half his face is that of a wolf, the other human. He also has one wolf paw instead of a hand. He is also HUGE.
JAKE
We mean you no harm!
VINCENT grabs Jake and throws him against the wall like a rag doll. Jack becomes angry and partially transforms—eerie yellow eyes, some hair, teeth, claws. VINCENT pauses at this, regarding him.
VINCENT
You can transform at will?
Jake shrugs.
JAKE
We´re just passing through, we don´t want any trouble.
VINCENT
Your being here is enough. We---don´t tolerate
Outsiders—
Then, another one of the deformed werewolves grab RALPH and pull him into the shadows. Ralph screams.
JAKE
No, I warned you, now I can´t be responsible for what
Happens!
He changes and attacks.
There is a brief fight in which Jake and Vincent go at it. Ralph takes a bit out of the creature holding him and it releases its hold on him. We see Jake and Vincent´s fight through a series of closeups and reaction shots of Ralph. Finally, Jake rips off Vincent´s good arm. He falls to the ground in pain while Jake stands over the body, growling triumphantly. The other mutants, having seen their leader beaten, back away into the shadows once more….
RALPH
Jake, Jake, snap out of it! We have to get out before
they decide to come back—
JAKE
Okay, Okay, let´s go…
VINCENT
Stop them! Agggghhh! (in pain) They can´t be allowed
to leave—they know our secret location! You are many, they
are only two! Kill them!
The mutants come back out of the shadows and go after Jake and Ralph. The two bolt through the tunnels. Finally they duck behind a wall. A rat runs by, squealing.
RALPH
A rat! Food!
He´s about to go for it but Jake grabs him and whispers.
JAKE (whispering)
We´re being chased by mutant freaks and you´re thinking
about food?!! Give me your lighter.
RALPH (also whispering)
You´re on my ass for looking at food and now you´re
gonna have a smoke?
JAKE
Just give me the lighter, you idiot!
Jake grabs a piece of rag(s) on the floor and makes a ball and lights it up, throwing it in the direction of the approaching mutants. They can´t stand the flames and back up, making strange, fearful sounds.
Ralph looks around and sees a way out.
RALPH
Jake! This way! Looks like a way out.
They both go in that direction but not before Jake throws another rag/flame ball at the mutants.
EXT. NEW YORK
They walk down a street.
RALPH
Do you know where you´re going?
JAKE
Not exactly, but we can´t go back home. The place
is crawling with cops. Maybe we should try and get
out of this fucking city. I just want to be left alone,
you know?
RALPH
Whatever. But in the meantime maybe we should
Find a nice safe place to rest, you know—(he points)
like that warehouse, for example.
JAKE
You seem awfully anxious to go into that warehouse.
wouldn´t be because you want to find some rats, would
it?
RALPH
No, of course not! It´s just that I´m not going to be in
my right frame of mind tonight, I don´t feel so hot right now.
The full moon, you know?
JAKE
Well, just don´t try humping my leg (pause). I really didn´t
expect you to come. It´s me the cops are after.
RALPH
Hey, we´re pals, right? I´m here to back you up. I mean, what
are friends for, right?
Jake smiles and they both walk towards the warehouse. We hear their voices as they walk to the building in the distance.
RALPH
I don´t mind leaving this city anway. Me, I just want to
be able to watch a little tv, eat when I want, and howl at
the moon, you know?
JAKE
We should rest.
RALPH
Best idea you had all day.
— EXT. NEW YORK CITY – DAY: A helicopter lands behind some buildings and several men loading a long, coffin sized crate into a van. They slam the doors to the van and drive off.
INT. BUILDING/WAREHOUSE:
JAKE and RALPH step into the abandoned warehouse.
JAKE
Be careful, there might be traps—
RALPH
No one LIVES here—
JAKE
Exactly.
RALPH
Well, it looks deserted. (he looks at Jake). Look,
you know you can rip the shit out of anyone if they
bother us.
JAKE
Oh, I was just worrying about you.
RALPH
Oh.
CUT TO:
SHOTS OF THE CITY—The sun is now setting.
INT. LAZLO´s BUILDING- basement.
The same men who unloaded the coffin sized crate from the van now bring it down the stairs into the basement of Lazlo´s building. They put it behind the bars of a cage that is built to one side of the room. Crosses and garlic dangle from the bars around the cage. They set it in the middle then leave, locking the door behind them.
Lazlo watches. Slowly, the lid of the crate moves and a hand comes out, a woman´s hand. Slowly, she pushes the top of it aside and sits up. She is young looking—and very very pissed. This is KESSA.
LAZLO
Welcome to my home. The accomodations are a little rustic, but
I´m sure you can understand why..
She glares at the crosses and the garlic.
LAZLO
Bat got your tongue, eh.
She hisses at him.
LAZLO
Don´t worry, though, you won´t be here long….
He turns and leaves. She watches him, hate in her eyes. She remembers—
CUT TO:
KESSA FLASHBACK: Graphic “Two weeks ago”
INT. BUILDING:
Kessa feeds on a victim. She looks up, blood on her mouth. She realizes someone is watching her from the shadows.
KESSA
You the fuck are you and what do you want?
There is no reply.
KESSA
You´ve already pissed me off. Let´s not make it a slow and
agonizing death--
Still no reply.
KESSA
Well…let´s.
A man steps out from the shadows, a crucifex in one hand, a stake in the other. She hisses at him.
He wears the collar of a priest.
KESSA
Doing it the old fashioned way, I see. Fucking Van Helsing
wannabe.
Finally, the man speaks.
MAN
I do it with a little help from my friends….
KESSA
Fine. More food to play with.
One of them throws a stake—it goes through her arm. It surprises her. She tries to change shape but it´s not happening.
MAN
We put a blessing on the house—you can´t shift shape—
The men encircle her. She can´t stand the sight of the crosses.
KESSA
For cripes sake, just kill me—just get those good humor
Sticks out of my face!!!
MAN
We have no intention of killing you. It´s far more
Profitable to keep you “alive” as it were—
CUT TO: PRESENT
INT CAGE:
Kessa shakes her head of the memory and looks at the crosses on her cell bars.
KESSA
Sold to the highest bidder. Blood is going to flow…
INT. BUILDING
JAKE and RALPH are sitting against a wall. We hear some squealing and Ralph slowly gets up, like a cat ready to pounce on a mouse. He darts out of frame. JAKE watches. When he comes back to sit back down he has a half eaten rat in one hand. Blood covers his mouth. He is clearly enjoying his snack.
JAKE
You´re disgusting.
RALPH
Least I´m not hungry.
INT. LAZLO´s HOUSE- NIGHT
Laslo is pouring some wine into two glasses. He picks them up and hands one to his guest—GINA, who is dressed up. He raises his glass of wine in a toast—
LAZLO
To the beginning of a new world…
She clinks her glass against his and takes a sip.
GINA
So, where is this reward? Or is it something that is going to happen
Later on tonight…
She smiles at this, intention clear.
LAZLO
You´ll be getting it alright. Well, no sense in beating around the bush. Do you…want to see it now?
Disappointment flickers for a moment on her face.
GINA
` Sure--
LAZLO
Follow me—
They go down into the basement—but Gina is feeling a bit woozy. She reaches out a hand to steady herself and Lazlo takes her arm.
LAZLO
Careful.—
When they get to the bottom the stairs they see the cage—and in it is KESSA, whose head is down. She looks very much like a victim. Gina´s face brightens up.
GINA
For me?
LAZLO
All for you.
Gina steps forward, even more woozy. Perhaps we see a POV of her, all blurred, etc.
CUT TO:
GINA is now in the cage, Lazlo shuts the door behind her . She realizes what´s going on, but is drugged from the wine.
GINA
What are you doing?
LAZLO
What I have to do.
KESSA looks up from her position and she is baring her fangs—GINA looks extremely surprised. KESSA feeds!
DISSOLVE TO:
LAZLO
Enjoy?
KESSA
Tasted like dog, to be honest. (pause)
You think you´re so smart, that you have it all figured out.
But soon my kind will come looking for me!
LAZLO
I don´t think so. This whole island is a prison that may be harder to break into than out of. Besides, we should be done
With my little experiment tomorrow night. You were stupid
To be captured…
She makes a face at him.
KESSA
Let me go now and I may let you live.
LAZLO
Oooohhh.
He tosses the head at her but she movies aside. It bounces on the floor.
KESSA
You´re going to kill me?
He approaches her—looking as if he´s going to eat her.
LAZLO
Not tonight. Tonight, I just want a bite—
And he takes a bit out of her arm—her eyes widen and she realizes what has happened.
KESSA
What did you do to me?
Lazlo wipes blood off of the corner of his mouth.
LAZLO
I´m making you one of us—
KESSA
It´s heresy!
LAZLO
It´s power. And it´s all going to be mine!
CUT TO:
JAKE and RALPH
Jake is peeking out an old window.
RALPH
Are they still out there?
We see Jake´s point of view—cops walking the streets, checking around.
JAKE
We mine as well try and get some sleep. They´ll be gone
When it´s dark.
RALPH
Sounds great to me. Those hidious mutant freaks really
pooped me out.
JAKE
Yeah, well one of us has to stay awake and keep watch…
Ralph takes out a coin.
RALPH
Okay, we´ll flip and see who´s got the first watch.
He throws the coin –
RALPH
I got heads!
The coin lands on heads. Jake smiles.
RALPH
Shit in a basket. (he glares at Jake) You suck.
JAKE
Wake me up in a few hours.
Ralph walks to the window, Jake falls right to sleep…
CUT TO:
JAKE´S NIGHTMARE (BLACK AND WHITE FLASHBACK).
Two men are walking through a forest and are attacked by two werewolves. They are JAKE and LAZLO in their wolf incarnations. They attack the men, who scream in terror. The two brothers feast on the bodies.
DISSOLVE TO:
It is morning and the two brothers wake up near what´s left of the bodies. Jake is repulsed and walks away—they speak in Italian
LAZLO
Why do you walk away, brother?
JAKE
These things we do—they aren´t right. They are evil, things
Of the devil.
LAZLO
These are the things we do—who we are!
They stop walking abruptly when they hear the sound of the mob approaching their home.
CUT TO:
Angry men, with torches in hand, approach Jake and Lazlo´s home.
CUT TO:
Jake and Lazlo run towards the sounds, leaping over bushes, past trees. Running and running.
CUT TO:
The angry men are lighting what looks like a molatov cocktail (glass bottle filled with gasoline), cursing in Italian.
CUT TO:
A photograph of Jake´s parents and sister falls on the floor. The glass frame breaks.
CUT TO:
The men shake their torches in anger.
CUT TO:
Jake and Lazlo are still running towards the house.
CUT TO:
House is in flames. Photos catch fire, girl´s doll on fire, perhaps burning person.
CUT TO:
Jake and Lazlo make it to the house and are crouched behind the bushes. But they are too late. The house is totally engulfed in flames. Jake looks to Lazlo, who doesn´t take his eyes off of the flames. Jake tries to approach his home but a dead body (one of his previous victims) rises from the ground and grabs his leg, tripping him, holding him there. The corpse speaks.
CORPSE
This is your fault, for all of your sins! Your killings!
Watch, watch them burn!
JAKE
No! No! NOOOOOOOOO!!!
INT. BUILDING- present
Jake wakes up screaming and scares the shit out of Ralph, who had started dozing off.
RALPH
Yahhhhh! Shit. What the fuck is the matter with you?
JAKE
Sorry…another one of my nightmares. How´s it lookin´
Out there?
Ralph looks out the window.
RALPH
I don´t´ see them anymore.
JAKE
Let´s go—
EXT. CITY DAY—
A close up of a human skull is suddenly sprinkled upon by a fountain of water. We see that it is one of the bounty hunters, FRANK McCOY, relieving himself. His cellular phone starts ringing, but he has to wait until he´s done to answer it. The voice on the other end is LAZLO´s. We cut back and forth between the two of them as they talk.
FRANK
Yeah?
LAZLO
No one has taught you phone etiquette, have they? (pause)
FRANK
I said, “Yeah”.
LAZLO
There´s a certain ‘wolf I´m interesting in.
FRANK
What´s so special about him? You´re no longer into young boys?
LAZLO
If you weren´t so valuable to me I really wouldn´t put up with
This shit, you know…
FRANK
I am good, baby, oh yeah…
LAZLO
As I was saying, there´s a certain werewolf I´m interesting in
Capturing, alive, I might add.
FRANK
That´s way extra…
LAZLO
Goes without saying. You´ll get triple your standard fee, if that´s agreeable.
FRANK
Hey, you know how to take care of me…
LAZLO
Stay where you are an I´ll have a messenger send you over the
Equipment and information you´ll need.
FRANK
Yeah, I´ll be here. Have to rest for all the festivities tonight…
LAZLO
Don´t have too much fun.
FRANK
Oh, not me.
Frank hangs up the phone just as another bounty hunter approaches him.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
Who was that. Your mama?
FRANK
Actually, it was my retirement fund.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
Whatever. If you´re hungry, they´re serving dinner
Back at the camp…
They turn and leave.
EXT. CITY-DAY
Jake and Ralph have made it to the outskirts of the city. There´s huge fences with barbed wire. Plus what look like bounty hunters.
RALPH
Think we can take them?
JAKE
Taking them is not the problem. It´s the fence I´m worried about. Looks like it´s charged with megavolts.
RALPH
So what, nothing can hurt you except silver bullets!
JAKE
How the fuck do you know? You´re so fucking tough, you go c limb it!
RALPH
Forget it. What now?
JAKE
With the full moon tonight this place is going to get wild. I say we make our way over to the park, rest up till we can plan an escape. We´ll come back in the morning, they won´t be expecting any trouble then, especially after the Moon.
RALPH
You´re the boss.
EXT. BOUNTY HUNTER CAMP—
Men grab guns and weapons out of racks, shots of feet running by, etc. Camera pans up to FRANK McCOY, who is looking at a small computer screen in his hand. It is the tracking device that Lazlo is tracking JAKE with.
FRANK
This is gonna be like shooting ducks in an arcade.
Bounty hunter #2 overhears him.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
What did you say?
FRANK
Nothing to you, Mr. Snoop! Why the fuck are you
Always hanging around me?
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
Maybe because we´ve been hunting partners for the past
Four years? I don´t know.
FRANK
I…have to do something alone tonight.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
You´re kidding, right? No one in their right mind
Goes out alone on a Full Moon.
FRANK
I´m not in my right mind. Go with Kerwin and the others.
They´ll protect you.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
It wouldn´ve have anything to do with your “retirement
Fund” would it?
FRANK
I´d tell you, but if I tell you I´d have to kill you.
EXT. NEW YORK – NIGHT
FULL MOON is bright in the sky. Various shots of people doubling over in pain, growling, smashing things. They are all transforming into werewolves—thousands of werewolves.
INT.LAZLO´s BUILDING- NIGHT
Lazlo is standing before Kessa´s cage—she is starting to change into a werewolf as well—one with vampiric qualities (batlike ears, different fangs, etc, should be fairly unique looking)
KESSA
What have you done to me?
LAZLO
I´ve made you better—
KESSA
You die!!!
Lazlo approaches the cage.
LAZLO
You want a part of me?
All she can do is let out a growl.
LAZLO
Here—
He sticks his bare arm through the bars—and she attacks, sinking her snout into his forearm. There is little reaction on face—until he starts to change—
LAZLO
I….I can feel it!
He starts to change as well—
CENTRAL PARK- NIGHT
Jake and Ralph have made it to the park. In the distance they hear the howls of the wolves. Ralph looks in that direction as if he wants to join them. He starts to do his mimic change routine. Unknown to them McCOY is nearby, watching them.
RALPH
Arggghhh! I´m changing!
Jake watches him for a moment while he goes through his act, tearing at his shirt, etc.
JAKE
Oh, why don´t you stop!
RALPH
Admit it, Jake, doesn´t it just make you want to join them.
You know, run with the pack?
Suddenly some werewolves emerge from their hiding place in the bushes and start to approach them. Jake quickly changes into his wolf persona. At that moment the bounty hunter lets loose with a hail of bullets, killing most of the werewolves. Ralph splits after Jake uses his body as a shield to protect him. Jake is angry at this and confronts the hunter.
McCOY
So, it´s really true, you can´t be hurt by regular bullets?
JAKE
You son of a bitch! You killed them in cold blood! They didn´t do anything! And for what, so you can sell their pelts to the highest bidder!?
McCOY
I suppose I´ll do that. But it´s you I´m really after (as he says this he pulls out another gun). I had these silver bullets made
Especially for you.
The bounty hunter starts firing silver bullets. Jake jumps and rolls on the grass behind some bushes.
McCOY
They say only a shot in the heart can kill you but I´m betting that if I hit you anywhere it´s gonna hurt like a mother fucker. Care to test my theory?
He starts firing into the bushes Jake has disappeared into. He hears JAKE yell and smiles. He goes to claim his prize.
Suddenly, Jake jumps down from a tree and grabs the hunter, shoving him into a tree.
JAKE
Dog Food!
McCOY
Take it easy, take it easy. I wasn´t really gonna kill ya, honest.
JAKE
Oh, really. Why should I believe you?
McCOY
Because my employer wants you back alive. He gave me the whole low down on you, how you could be stopped and…
JAKE
Who!?!?!?!
McCOY
I don´t know…honest! I never saw him in person.
He reaches into his pocket and takes out a gold medallion, which Jake immediately recognizes. It has a picture of a pentagram on it.
McCOY
He wanted me to show you this…said it belonged to you…
JAKE
Lazlo!
McCOY
Who?
JAKE
Shut up! I wasn´t talking to you! I´ll take that gun of yours.
And this rope you have too.
Jake then ties him to a tree and throws the rest of the weapons away.
McCOY
Look, I wasn´t gonna kill you—just deliver you to him, like
he wanted.
JAKE
Well, he´s damn right about that. I want nothing to do with
him.
McCOY
Well, I think you probably should—he has your friend
by now—
JAKE looks around—calls out.
JAKE
Ralph?
McCOY
He´s caught.
JAKE
Like you—
JAKE growls at him, ferocious.
McCOY W..What are you gonna do to me?
JAKE
Me? Nothing. But they don´t look too happy with you.
Jake looks to the side and we see hungry werewolves approaching, growling.
McCOY
No, please, don´t leave me tied up here! Without my weapons
They´ll kill me!
JAKE
Like you killed those poor souls before. You scavengers seem
To forget that we were human once, just like you. Your own kind! You´re worse than an animal. They kill because of the
Genes in their bodies. You kill only for sport and greed!
Jake turns and leaves but not before taking the bounty hunter´s duffel bag with him. These weapons will come in handy later on…
McCOY
No! Wait! Please!!
The werewolves approach the tied up hunter and he screams as they tear into him as we tilt up to the FULL MOON. He screams.
CUT TO:
Morning. The sun has made its way on the horizon. City looks deserted. Ralph wakes up from where he´s sprawled out on the park bench. He spits out a bone he had in his mouth. He gets up and starts walking. He goes to the nearest telephone and makes a call.
RALPH
Yeah, it´s me. (pause). I did what you said. (pause)
I need a place to stay—I just don´t want any of your
Thugs beating the shit out of me when I come knocking…
He hangs up the phone a moment later and walks on…
INT. LAZLO´s APT.
RALPH is in the midst of talking…
RALPH
He´s coming for you, Lazlo. He knows you´re behind
The setup. I´ve done everything you asked so far—killed the
Norm outside the apartment, even planted Jake´s shjrt on
Him as incriminating evidence. Now it´s your turn—make me
Into a real werewolf! I promise to serve you loyally!
LAZLO
Fool. If you´d betray your best friend whose to say you
Would not betray me one day?
RALPH
No, never! I would never betray you! Please make me a real
Wolf and will serve only you!
LAZLO
Spineless dog shit. Did you honestly think I´d really transform
YOU into one of the better species?
RALPH
You promised! We had a bargain.
LAZLO
Yes, I promised I would change you and so I shall.
In a few moments you´ll be dead. That´s a change from
Being alive, isn´t it? Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
He lunges at RALPH and kills him horribly, There´s lots of guts and bone breaking.
CUT TO:
EXT. CENTRAL PARK—
Jake is walking around, looking for his friend. He calls out—
JAKE
Ralph! Ralph!
There is no reply. He continues on.
JAKE
Damnit.
EXT. CITY-
Jake is walking out of Central Park, no one around except a bum who has a sign near him that reads “WILL WORK FOR HUMAN FLESH”. Otherwise, the streets are empty. He looks up at the Gargoyles on buildings. Everything he sees seems to disgust him about the city—it´s written on his face.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY—
Various shots of Jake walking in New York, thinking to himself. We get the sense that time is passing.
He finally stops and pulls out a chain with a figure of Christ on a cross dangling from it. The CAMERA ZOOMS in on it—
JAKE (V0) What the hell does my brother want? All´s
I want is to get out of this city, is that too much
To ask? What the fuck does he want?
CUT TO: FLASHBACK (Black and White)
JAKE is sitting on a park bench, looking at the same cross. Lazlo comes up from behind him.
LAZLO
Praying to that God of yours again? Do you think he´s
going to cure you?
JAKE
Probably not.
LAZLO
Mother should never have given you that. It´s false hope,
pathetic faith.
JAKE
Maybe faith is all we have now…
LAZLO
You´re confused, Jake. My guidance is what you need
now. You´ve only begun to see the cruelty of man, the selfishness, the insolence.
JAKE
Yes, they can be evil at times but there IS good in
them. I can sense it.
LAZLO
You still want to be one of them, don´t you?
JAKE
And what´s so wrong with wanting to be a normal human
being? Our mother and sister were normal and they were
good people!
LAZLO
They were weak! That´s why they weren´t given the gift!
JAKE
The Gift? You call these powers a gift? To hunt and kill
like an animal? It´s more like a curse, a curse our father
knew only too well.
LAZLO
Our father was a great man! Kyou should thank that God
of yours for giving you the power we possess! You don´t
deserve it!
JAKE
Listen to me Lazlo. We must work together, seek out doctors
and find a cure, not jut for us but for the others!
LAZLO
You´re a fool! You always were. I don´t want a cure! I want to embrace it, to lead the others who are like us! I want to crush the humans to the ground until only our kind remains.
With that declaration he storms away, into the park.
CUT TO: PRESENT
EXT. CITY
JAKE Finally, he throws up his hands, coming to a decision.
JAKE
Better to get it over with.
EXT. LAZLO´S BUILDING:
He finally makes his way to Lazlo´s building. He kicks the recently killed body out of the doorway and continues on…
JAKE
Come out, Laz. I know you´re there.
LAZLO
So, you´ve come to join me at last, eh brother?
And why not, we´re still family, aren´t we?
JAKE
Cut the shit. Did you think I wouldn´t figure out it was you who set me up?
LAZLO
I was hoping you would. What better way to get you here.
I want you here at my side, to rule these pathetic weak humans who think they can hold US prisoner! It´s our destiny! We
Are strong!
JAKE
You´re babbling, like a broken record.
LAZLO
You, of all people, should understand how I feel—or did you forget what they did to our parents. To our sister?
JAKE
I feel the rage, too,but that´s not the way. What we did back at our village was wrong, evil, but now we can control it! We can help by setting an example to those who suffer from the disease.
LAZLO
Do you polish your halo everyday?
JAKE
This is insanity. Even if I wanted to help you, which I don´t,
How do you plan on taking on all of the Norms? They outnumber us a thousand to one!
LAZLO
Poor Jake. You never did have much of an imagination.
What happened to you? You were always the one that held the
Faith, always searching for that wonder cure that would make you “normal”. Common. Are you still ashamed of your heritage?
He lowers his head in shame. He doesn´t need to answer.
LAZLO
That´s a shame. Perhaps once you see what I´ve accomplished
for our kind you´ll think differently. Come on, I have something to show you.
Jake reluctantly follows Lazlo down a dark corridor and down some stairs. The place is spooky looking, with cobwebs and maybe some spiders around. There are a few body parts also lying about.
LAZLO
Do excuse the mess. It´s just so hard to find good help
these days.
He smiles an evil smile, turns and walks away.
JAKE
Look, just show me where Ralph is—that bounty
hunter said you had him.
Lazlo doesn´t answer. Jake follows…
The two walk until they come to a room with a jail cell in it. The crosses and bulbs of garlic hang from the bars. This is where KESSA has been kept. She looks very drained and sad. Jake sniffs the air in front of him.
JAKE
A vampire? You´ve captured a vampire?
Lazlo ignores Jake. Instead, he rattles the cell bars with a nearby stick.
LAZLO
Wake up my dear, wake up. We have a special guest.
KESSA
Fuck off dog breath!
JAKE
I always thought you were just a LITTLE nuts. Don´t you
realize that her kind will come looking for her?
KESSA
That´s what I keep telling him but he´s a little thick.
LAZLO
Silence! (to JAKE) Now, dear brother, it´s common knowledge that the vampire legion left this city years ago, right around the time the meteorite collision with the moon,
which brought forth more of OUR kind. (PAUSE) I had this
one shipped in especially for my experiment, which I must say has shown very pleasing results.
KESSA
(to JAKE) He plans on killing me. You know, to show what a big WOLF man he is and all….
JAKE
(to Lazlo) You should really let her go—vampires are not
good to mess with—
KESSA
That´s right. We´re gonna suck the blood out of your hides!
JAKE
I´m not going to go along with this, you know. I´m a lot
Older now, Laz. A lot has changed since we were kids.
LAZLO
(whispering to himself)
Yes, a lot of things have changed.
At this point Lazlo triggers his own transformation, into that of a monstrous hybrid of vampire and werewolf. The change is dramatic, the most dramatic transformation we have seen yet. He smiles, evilly, as he growls, getting into the pain of the change. His eyes turn yellow, his clothes rip as fur appears across his forearms. His teeth grow extra long, saliva pouring out his gaping mouth. His ears grow long and pointy.
While this is going on KESSA gets Jake´s attention.
KESSA
Get me out of here now and I promise you´ll be spared.
He turns from her to his brother, who is midway changed. When he turns back to her her demeanor is more helpless and tone more pleading.
KESSA
Please, don´t let him kill me—
Jake makes his decision. He tears away the religious artifacts from the cell bars and starts to bend them. But before he can finish creating a hole big enough for the vampire to fit through Lazlo has now fully transformed into the creature. And attacks him…
The were/bat lunges at Jake and they take down a door and end up in the next room. As they fall and roll, the bounty hunter´s duffel bag rips off of Jake. The fight continues…
Lazlo bites JAKE just as he starts to transform into his wolf form.
JAKE rolls on the floor in great pain as the vampire blood mixes with his own, transforming him into a similar looking creature to Lazlo. He is brownish in color, though, while Lazlo is black/blue. Jake stares at his brother´s yellow eyes, communicating a question which we hear. As brothers, they can speak to each other´s minds when in wolf form. Audible over their growls is what they are saying to each other….
JAKE (VO)
My god, what have you done to me?
LAZLO
I´ve given you the gift of immortality. In short, I´ve turned you
Into a better creature such as myself. You should be grateful.
JAKE looks away for a moment, staring at his hand, which is now webbed. He stares back at Lazlo.
JAKE
Grateful? Grateful? You´ve made it worse!!!
JAKE lunges at his brother, renewing the battle.
While they fight, Kessa has managed to get out of her cell. She spots the duffel bag dropped by JAKE and picks it up. She too is starting to transform but not as severe as the brothers. She now has fangs and some fur on her face and claws.
JAKE has now jumped on Lazlo´s back.
JAKE (VO)
Forgive me, brother…
And with a weird, savage growl that is a mixture of wolf and bat, Jake rips off his brother´s head. There is a lot of blood shooting out and the head rolls to the end of the room, bouncing off the wall. Lazlo´s headless body tears Jake off and tosses him to the side of the room, where he lands on all fours and growls like a savage animal. It´s here that JAKE sees the mangled body of RALPH on the ground. He is shocked—but not as shocked as he is to see the decapitated head of Lazlo (now human) staring up at him and talking. Meanwhile, Lazlo´s headless body, still wolflike, is slowly picking itself up off the floor.
LAZLO
Don´t look so sad, Jake. He deserved to die for double-crossing
You. He´s the one who really set you up.
JAKE can´t take his eyes off the impossibility before him.
LAZLO
You look surprised. Did you really think that would kill me?
Lazlo starts laughing.
Kessa enters the room, holding the bounty hunter duffel bag. And his gun. The one with the silver bullets. She fires at the headless body several times. The impact of the bullets push the body back but it does not kill it. Strangely, the head of Lazlo winces with slight pain with each bullet shot.
The body turns around to “face” her. This gives JAKE enough time to get to his feet. KESSA looks at the Lazlo creature,then at JAKE—and gestures with her head that he should do something. She fires more bullets and this time Lazlo´s head makes a sound. This gives JAKE an idea.
He reaches over and grabs Lazlo´s head—and runs into the other room with it, where the jail cell is.
LAZLO
What are you doing?
In the other room the Lazlo body is fumbling around without eyesight to direct it. It is blind. Kessa steps around it and kicks it in the ass as he darts into the other room after JAKE.
JAKE has now returned more to his human form, though he still has werewolf teeth and eyes.
JAKE
What should I do?
KESSA
We have to separate his head from his body permanently, so he
Can´t reform.—here—
She takes the head from Jake´s grasp and throws the screaming head into her coffin.
JAKE
Now what?
KESSA
We have to fill the coffin with garlic and other religious artifacts—
The stuf f on the floor—
Jake places reaches into his shirt and reveals the cross and chain given to him by his mother—we see it has burned a mark into his chest. He then rips it off and places it into the box with Lazlo´s head. It makes Jake´s hand smoke and is in pain, confused. A sideeffect of Lazlo´s “gift”. Kessa flips the lid over as Lazlo screams out—
LAZLO
No, don´t. Don´t!!!! Noooo!!!!!
Kessa pulls Jake aside.
KESSA
Okay, let´s go.
JAKE
Wait, we´re not done. He might come after us—
KESSA
I doubt it—
She starts pulling him back towards the stairs.
KESSA
We really have to go--
JAKE
Why, what did you do?
To answer this we cut to the bomb stuffed in the Lazlo werewolf´s body´s pants. We see the numbers clicking by. A countdown. It is feeling against the wall for the entrace to the jail cell room, trying to find them. But without Lazlo´s line of sight it is hard.
KESSA
You´ll see—
They scramble up the stairs—but a hand grabs her leg. She kicks it off and they continue up to outside—they run out and pause a distance away.
INT. BASEMENT
By now the werewolf body has found the head and takes it out of the box—placing it back on its shoulders. This is when Lazlo feels—and then sees-- the grenade stuffed in his pants. He explodes.
EXT. HOUSE—
There is the sound of an explosion and some flames.
Both Kessa and Jake stand and watch for a moment, before they continue. The sounds of approaching crowd—Lazlo´s followers—is heard.
EXT. CITY—
They are running down the street—Kessa pulls on his arm. They stop.
JAKE
What is it?
She is pointing at the horizon.
KESSA
Look—
The sun is starting to rise.
JAKE
What?
She makes a sound and gesure with her hands, as if something explodes.
JAKE
Oh. You think?
She nods a yes.
JAKE
Shit. Let´s go.
They both continue…
Jake and Kessa duck into a nearby building –and see that it is to the staircase that goes up. He looks at her and she shrugs. The sounds of the crowd is still behind them.
JAKE
Up we go.
He walks past her and starts up the stairs. She follows, a bit reluctantly.
On the way up they try getting in through the doors but they are all locked. They continue up.
JAKE
There must be an open floor up here—
They continue…sounds still behind them…
Finally they get to the top—and can see the sunlight leaking in through the bottom of the doorway that leads to the roof. Jake peers over the stairs and can see them coming—
He quickly takes Kessa´s arm, opens the door and pulls them through.
For a moment they´re both blinded by the light. But nothing happens.
They stand before the closed door, incredulous. Kessa examines her hands. No spontaneous combustion.
KESSA
I can´t believe it. The sun is up and I´m not frying.
I haven´t seen daylight in six hundred years…
JAKE
Must be one of the good side effects of Lazlo´s experiment.
Maybe something good came out of this for you after all.
She stares at him….
KESSA
Why did you save me back there—when your brother was
going to kill me?
JAKE
I…don´t know. I guess I have this annoying habit of helping
people who need it. (PAUSE). Why didn´t you split after we
killed him?
KESSA
I figured I´d return the favor.
There is loud banging on the door, but it holds. They hear the angry mob of Lazlo´s former followers. The door won´t hold for long.
JAKE
We´re trapped.
Kessa walks to the edge of the building and looks down. At least ten stories above the street.
KESSA
Maybe not—there IS another way out.
He stands beside her and looks down below, shaking his head.
JAKE
Don´t you think if I could have done that years ago I would have?
No, it´s part of the curse.
KESSA
No, you just need to take a step and the rest will happen—
JAKE
I told you—
KESSA
I think we can still fly.
His eyes light up.
CUT TO:
The crowd has manage to get the door open. But when they step on the roof they see that Kessa and Jake are nowhere to be seen.
ANGRY MAN
Where did they go?
CUT TO:
EXT. NEW JERSEY—
A skyline shot of New York City widens out to show Jake and Kessa standing side by side.
JAKE
I never thought I´d be able to leave that place…life´s
a funny thing.
She nods in agreement and walks out of frame.
JAKE
What now?
KESSA
Anything. Everything.
JAKE
What do you want to do first?.
KESSA
How about getting to know each other better?
She gestures for him to come to her. Intention is clear.
Jake smiles and lets out a wolfish “howl” as goes to her.
END
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