Awakening/Transcript

Recap Sequence
HELEN: Previously on Sanctuary...

This is Hollow Earth.

What if this place is the source for all abnormals?

Both above and beneath the surface?

It's a real game-changer.

It seems to be scanning us.

" Akhkharu ."

"Blood demon."

It must be detecting traces of the source blood

in our DNA.

I'm not sure that's a good thing.

I can only assume that the gateway

has the same defenses.

Which means we'll need some kind of shield

to get past it.

And you're the only one who can build it.

Nikola!

Well, I hope you're all happy now.

I'm ordinary.

Here's to the glorious vampire race,

once mighty, now extinct.

I want my life back.

Nikola, the door!

Being a living magnet, it's not exactly on par with

being heir to the greatest race in all of history.

It makes sense, in an evil way.

Teaser Sequence
EXT - ESTABLISHING SCENE - EAST AFRICA - DESERT - DAY

EAST AFRICA

If this trip is your way of apologizing

for leaving me behind last time...

Yes?

You're officially forgiven.

I thought you might approve.

Approve? This is amazing.

The last known stronghold of Praxian society

before they retreated into Hollow Earth.

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

For all we know,

the data I collected from the holographic map

could be inaccurate.

Oh, really?

Interesting.

Uh-huh.

You know, this reminds me of when we were in Egypt

looking for tut's tomb, huh?

Ah... those wild early days:

No ground-penetrating radar, no satellite imagery.

We were barely better than grave-robbers.

Five years of searching, and then one day

Howard Carter just points at the spot.

The man was a genius, in his own way.

Also, he had excellent taste in claret.

Hello.

Dead end?

Mm-hm.

I can feel there's power

being drawn off behind here.

No visible wiring...

A doorway?

Yeah, possibly.

I could disengage the locking mechanism

with a magnetic pulse.

And you're confident of that?

Remember this moment, Helen.

We're about to make history.

Again.

Oh, my God, look at this.

It's the ancient script of the sanguine vampiris.

Vampires?

According to the map,

this was a Praxian stronghold.

Not anymore.

It says here

that my ancestors drove them from this place

and made it a fortress of their own.

Nikola, wait.

If this was a vampire stronghold,

they'd have fortifications.

The vampire shield.

Take off your bracelet!

Bracelet?

I prefer to think of it as a...

Nikola! Dammit!

Act I
"AWAKENING"

Stay still.

What hit me?

Some sort of energy beam.

This room must be defended by vampire technology.

And the source blood shield hid my vampire DNA.

It perceived you as being an ordinary human.

Oh, that hurts.

All right, how bad is it? Let me see.

No, not a good idea.

The only thing keeping my insides

from spreading out across the floor

is the magnetic field I'm generating to hold them in.

Dear lord.

All right, stay calm.

You know, you realize the thing about traps

is that they're meant to be escape-proof,

particularly when they're designed by vampires.

Well, there has to be some other way out of here.

How long can you hold on?

For the rest of my life.

UK lottery winnings,

plonk.

Canadian pharmacy, double-plonk.

Delete, delete, delete.

Why don't you let Henry

install a spam filter for you?

Same reason why

you wait until he's out of town

before setting up your new game console.

Yeah, he never just does it.

Exactly.

He always has to design

a new perfectly optimized system,

and six months later,

you're still waiting to play Guitar Hero.

Hmm.

And besides,

I'm shutting this account down anyway.

I haven't used it in, like, a year.

Just making sure there is nothing in here I need.

I definitely do not need to enlarge that.

What's up?

Nigerian prince in trouble?

Uh, no.

I just... gotta do something.

Wow, you move fast for a big guy.

What's going on?

Nothing.

I'm just going for Red Bull.

You're going for bull, all right.

Let it go, okay?

It's nothing you need to worry about.

Your pulse is thin.

You're losing blood into the cavity around the wound.

"If you cut me, do I not bleed?"

Oh, no Shakespeare, please.

Do you remember the leaves of autumn

that time we met at Oxford?

You need to stay focused.

Your body's going into shock.

That crimson dress you were wearing...

You'll start to feel cold, and then you'll want to sleep.

Yes.

You can't give in to it.

You need to keep that magnetic field going.

Any more blood loss, and...

Any sensible woman would have worn black,

you know, to fit in,

but not Helen Magnus. Oh, no.

Nikola!

Ah! Holy mother of...

You need to stay awake!

There are other ways of getting my attention.

I never knew you could be so cruel.

I'm trying to keep you alive!

Why?

I have a hole through my vital organs,

and we're miles from surgical facilities.

You are in denial.

If I could recalibrate a stunner

to cauterize the arterial damage...

You could buy me a slow, agonizing death

instead of a decent one?

Even I don't deserve that.

You need to keep the blood circulating

while we figure this out.

Helen...

You're going to have to find another date to the prom.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

EXT - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY - ROOFTOPS - NIGHT - RAINING

[Kate walks down an alley. She stops at a brick wall and searches it. She turns out the bearby light bulb, removes the brick with her knife, retrieves and stack of money and reads the attached notes. Kate then walks out of the alley]

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

INT - EAST AFRICA - PRAXIAN STRONGHOLD

You had to rush in, didn't you?

You couldn't wait ten seconds

to scan for weapons.

When have you ever known me

to put common sense ahead of intellectual curiosity?

There's only one more shot of EPI left.

You wouldn't happen to have any morphine in there instead?

If I gave you an analgesic,

it would suppress your respiration.

You'd just go to sleep.

In your arms.

And bleed out, instantly.

Also true.

Is that really what you want?

No.

Tempting as it may sound,

I have a different final request.

It's not what you think.

Read to me.

You serious?

Helen, we're surrounded

by the greatest trove of vampire knowledge

the world has ever seen.

It's killing me...

I'm being robbed of my last great discovery.

I've spent my life

trying to piece together my ancestry.

Come on, read.

All right.

"The armies of the third great kingdom gathered...

Our enemies recruited unnatural creatures

of land, and sea, and air,

marred by fin, and fur, and... Scales."

They must be referring to abnormals.

It looks like they fought side by side

with the early Praxians,

and then when the Praxians retreated

into Hollow Earth...

Those abnormals went with them.

It would explain why some of their species

are so similar to our own.

You're welcome.

"The weak who remained stayed to serve."

Ah, the golden age of vampires of which you're so fond.

The age of human slavery.

Nikola!

Keep reading.

"The warrior Queen Afina and her court

were laid to rest in state,

to rise again in the afterlife..."

No, that's not quite right.

"Kianaru"?

"After time."

"After time...

To rule into eternity."

I like the sound of that.

Maybe I'll meet her on the other side.

Wait a second.

"Laid to rest in state..."

There's another character.

Laid to rest... "Here."

Good heavens.

It's the Queen of the Vampires.

WHITE OUT

Act II
FADE IN

Just think, Nikola.

We're the first people to see this tomb

in thousands of years.

Nikola, no! What are you doing?

Help me up.

Are you out of your mind?

I'm not missing out on this.

Help me up.

Come on.

Look at her.

Perfectly preserved,

like an insect in amber.

They must have mastered crystal replication

on an atomic level.

Oh, don't sound so surprised.

These are vampires we're talking about after all.

Every advance we've seen in our lifetimes,

nothing but a pathetic attempt to recreate

what my race achieved

before the humans even left the caves.

Just leave me here among vampire royalty,

my only peers.

I have a better idea.

Move aside.

What are you doing?

If there is even an ounce of fluid

in that corpse,

a few cells of unaltered vampire DNA...

Helen, I'm shocked.

Are you offering to re-vamp me?

If you get the hell out of my way I am.

I have never been more attracted to you

than I am at this moment.

Bloody hell, what is this thing made of?

We need something stronger.

On Praxis, I used a laser scalpel

to cut through the hide of an earth-moving abnormal.

Now, it's the same principle, I just need to focus the beam...

No, no, no, you'll overload the power condenser.

Do you have a better idea?

Unprotected platinum coils?

Wolf boy...

Have a word with him about power efficiency.

I doubt Henry planned on

this kind of repurposing.

That's no excuse.

Secure the oscillator,

or you'll get vibration.

Yeah, I got it, thank you.

Yeah, well,

get this wrong,

you might as well pull the pin on a radiation grenade.

Which is starting to sound more and more attractive.

All right.

Ready or not...

Time for a field test.

Ah! Damn, it's overheating.

Yeah, I'd say I told you so,

but, you know, it wouldn't bring me

much satisfaction.

How deep?

A few millimeters.

Don't you dare! This is not over!

It's not deep enough.

Can we pull out the explosive core

and pack this borehole?

Nikola, no!

Oh, come on...

Come on!

Nikola...

Bloody hell.

Nikola!

Hang in there.

Oh, come on. Fight!

Fight.

I'm back, baby.

And it feels good.

EXT - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY - SANCTUARY - NIGHT

Hey, you know anything about, uh...

Uh, Taminsails?

Yes.

They're an amphibious abnormal

farmed for their TSH glands.

It's supposed to give a powerful high.

Yeah. The buyers get them as eggs,

they harvest the glands every six weeks,

and they just rip 'em out,

no anesthetic.

Yeah, I'd love to put a stop to it,

but these places come and go,

and the guys behind them stay hidden.

Well, what if I say

I have a line on where to find one of them?

Guy named Caster.

Operates out of a warehouse on the North Shore.

I'll make some calls.

We could coordinate with law enforcement,

get a TAC team in

and do some recon.

No, we need to move on this now, Will.

Get your law enforcement in place,

'cause I'm gearing up now.

You guys are free to join me

if you think you can keep up.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

Are you sure you're feeling all right?

Are you kidding?

I feel great,

better than I have in years.

So, how did you manage to...

wow.

Never underestimate the power of a woman's determination.

Well, the...

The stunner beam must have weakened the crystal matrix...

Oh, right, right.

It didn't have anything to do

with your fear of losing me, or...

Don't let it go to your head.

Now, can we get out of here, please?

Allow me.

Let's see...

Well, the mortar has been reinforced

with a carbon compound.

Hard as diamond.

So you can't break through it?

Well, I'm not exactly at full strength.

I'm hungry enough to drink cow's blood.

Ah.

I've got two packets of peanuts and a protein bar.

Ew, no.

All right, stand back, I'll see what I can do.

Dammit.

These walls are part of the original Praxian fort.

They were built to withstand the strength of a vampire.

So kind of you to say.

Why would they build a booby trap without failsafes?

I mean, there has to be some sort of control

to override it.

I found these markings,

thought they might be sensors,

but nothing seems to operate the door.

Right.

Well, maybe they're burnt out.

That's odd.

The crystal's degrading.

It must be a reaction

to the piercing of the outer layer.

My God.

She's alive.

WHITE OUT

Act III
FADE IN

We have to get her out of there.

We're not equipped to handle a living vampire.

Excuse me, one of us is a living vampire.

Helen, come on, this is our chance

to come face to face

with the last remnant of an extinct civilization.

I agree.

I'm just saying we need to wait until we can get

a proper team down here.

A proper team? How long is that going to take?

Come on, the crypt is disintegrating

on top of her.

I'm sorry. Once it was opened and the air got in,

all bets were off.

And I opened it, I get it, thank you.

I'm not blaming you,

but, yes, you woke her up, so now deal with it.

Do you want her to die in there?

No, of course not.

Good, because I would hate to think

that the only creature

that's not worthy of your protection

is me and my... my kin.

I just...

H-how did you do that?

I'm a vampire.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

Infrared imaging shows a hot spot

in the northwest corner.

A lot of small bodies packed in tight.

The Taminsails.

Now, we got a TAC team

covering the northwest exit.

A couple guards are coming and going,

but no customer traffic.

They keep production and sales separate

so they don't draw the cops.

These creatures have been living in captivity,

so they might be a little aggressive

when we try to move them.

Suit up, let's go.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

There's no need to be afraid.

It's okay, we want to help you.

Come on.

Do you think she even understand us?

I don't know.

This is... from you.

Your blood.

Nikola.

What did I tell you?

The most brilliant, elegant race

in history.

They solved the babel problem

by embedding communications in blood.

It's remarkable.

You've been asleep for a very a long time.

How are you feeling?

I was in stasis, not asleep.

No need to patronize me.

Noted.

Imagine a business card

with a drop of blood in the printing.

You'd eliminate cultural misunderstandings

instantly.

Global rule becomes a legitimate possibility.

Can we focus for one minute?

Yeah, right, sorry, we'll talk about that later.

I-I would love to talk about that

later...

Where's my brother?

Kalmin?

There haven't been vampires on Earth

for a very long time.

But I carry on

that legacy.

Dormant gene,

activated by exposure to pure vampire blood.

Helen, please.

Why do you have to make it sound

so clinical?

My true nature

was re-awoken

with these dormant genes,

and, uh, my vision, and, uh, my genius,

all my gifts,

from my ancestors, from you,

practically wasted

in this primitive modern world.

What about the rest of my people?

There's been a shift in power.

And our beautiful cities?

All that we built?

Yeah, it's...

All a little different than what you remember.

Thank you.

If we're the only two left, I'll have to rely on you.

It would be my honor.

I have so much to learn from you,

and that's not something I ever say.

I can attest to that.

Yeah.

And what's your story?

Are you of the kingdom?

Well, it's a... little complicated.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

Just waiting for your signal, over...

Four-three standing by.

Go, go, go!

Down! Down now! Down! Now!

That's a pretty bad move.

You guys want to walk away.

We're here for the boxes.

Let's get these boxes.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

So, you were at war with the Praxians

for centuries.

They were terrified of us.

Tried to destroy us any way they could,

and then they ran into the earth like rats.

We took over all their old forts.

But it says there that you were dead.

You were sent to the afterlife,

or "after-time".

" Kianaru " isn't the afterlife.

It's the future.

Right. Right, the future.

How could I miss that?

So, you were deliberately put into stasis

for thousands of years?

When everyone in the royal family's immortal,

it's hard to pass on the throne.

My ancestors kept trying to kill each other,

so we had to come up with a better way.

You took turns ruling.

Just so evolved.

I left my brother, Kalmin, in charge.

He was supposed to revive me.

But that never happened.

No, I've heard of Kalmin.

The legends say that he ruled for a thousand years

before he was assassinated by his youngest son,

which means that he left you in there to rot

while he kept your kingdom for himself.

But look who's still around.

You and I, Nikola,

not him.

He can have the past.

We'll take the future.

Yes.

None of us will have

very much of a future

if we don't get out of here.

Afina, can you tell us

how to reopen the door that locked us in here?

The security system was designed

to protect me from my enemies.

Anyone who broke in

would be killed instantly and sealed in with me.

Yes, the Egyptians did the same thing

thousands of years later.

How did you set it off

if you have vampire blood?

Ah, well, that's a story for another day.

The question is,

how do we get out of here now?

There's an escape hatch

behind that wall.

A human wouldn't be able to shift the weight,

but one of us could.

If you have the strength.

I'm afraid I don't.

I need to feed.

Nikola and I have devised

a regimen of nutrients

and animal plasma.

It gives you everything you need,

but we'll have to wait

until we get to the surface.

Animal plasma, that's what you eat?

Well, it's not as bad as it sounds.

It sounds terrible.

But there is a local antelope

that I used to be quite fond of.

Nikola...

Don't worry.

We'll figure everything out.

That corridor leads

to another part of the cavern.

Only my most trusted servants

knew of it,

and now you two.

Thank you.

Could you excuse us for just one minute?

I don't like this.

We have no idea where that tunnel leads.

Why would she lie to us?

The woman is used to ruling

over a population of serfs.

You don't think she's working her own agenda?

Look, if she was actually bent on world domination,

why would she complicate our trip out of here?

You're assuming that all of us are going.

You're familiar with the fox and the chicken parable?

I am.

Which are you in this story, the chicken or the fox?

The farmer.

I don't feel safe letting her go first,

and I certainly don't feel safe leaving her behind.

You have a Sasquatch for a butler

and you travel the world

with history's most notorious murderer,

and now you don't feel safe?

Helen, green is not a good color on you.

Don't be ridiculous.

She's intelligent, powerful,

remarkably well- preserved for her age,

everything I look for in a woman,

and unlike someone I know,

she's actually interested in me.

I'm not engaging in this childish conversation.

The more you deny it, the truer it is.

Oh, that's an excellent scientific method.

Thank you.

Really, really good...

I can hear you, you know.

Vampire, remember?

You need to learn to trust me.

And if I don't?

That's when bad things start to happen.

Afina!

What are you doing?

Changing the rules!

Welcome to the new age.

WHITE OUT

Act IV
FADE IN

HELEN: Nikola!

AFINA: Don't worry, he won't be disturbing us. That old trap was designed for a true vampire... A warrior, not a schoolboy.

HELEN: Why did you do that?

AFINA: When I repopulate my species, I plan to do much better than a mixed-blood mongrel. You, though, will be... quite useful.

HELEN: How? I'm less vampire than he is.

AFINA: Exactly. A blood donor that stays young and fresh forever, but without the bitter aftertaste.

HELEN: I hope you choke on it.

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

INT - OLD CITY - SANCTUARY - RESIDENTIAL AREA - ASHLEY'S BEDROOM | GYM WORKOUT AREA - NIGHT

WILL: Easy... These things are expensive. So, you want to tell me?

KATE: Tell you what?

WILL: Why this is so important to you?

KATE: $63,450. That's how much I made smuggling Tam eggs. It started when I was 17. They'd make a cash drop, I'd get the eggs, collect the balance on delivery.

WILL: Okay.

KATE: The guy I was running for said he was selling them as pets, but they weren't pets.

WILL: Well, you were a kid. You were trying to survive.

KATE: You don't think there were other ways to survive? I made a choice because I was good at it.

WILL: Yeah, you were good at finding abnormals.

KATE: Good at turning them over to the highest bidder.

WILL: You know that's not who you are anymore.

KATE: It doesn't matter, Will. It's who I was.

WILL: Yeah. Well, we all have a history.

KATE: Yeah, except mine keeps coming back to bite me in the ass.

INT - EAST AFRICA - PRAXIAN STRONGHOLD - PATHWAY

HELEN: You'll never succeed.

AFINA: I already have. I'm alive, aren't I?

HELEN: The entire human race will stand against you.

AFINA: You think so? In my experience, the human race never stood together on anything.

HELEN: Well, they won't tolerate enslavement, that's for sure.

AFINA: You really don't understand your own people, do you? They want to be told what to do. They crave it. They elect leaders for the sole purpose of taking difficult decisions out of their hands. I'm here to offer a better alternative.

HELEN: Dictatorship?

AFINA: In exchange for advancement, knowledge, progress...

HELEN: we've done just fine on our own.

AFINA: Oh, yes, you've come so far, and yet, I bet you still spend all your time fighting, over land, resources, or my favorite, conflicting beliefs. Am I right? Aw, it's all right. It's human nature, and that's why I know I'll succeed. I know you better than you know yourselves.

TESLA: Ow.

Ow...

Oh, that hurts.

Ah...

How very nice.

No, no...

Oof!

That back-stabbing, blood-sucking bitch!

HELEN: There doesn't have to be a war. We take you back to the Sanctuary. You could learn from us, see what we've become.

AFINA: And then what, we'll share power equally? Please.

HELEN: You won't win. We have weapons that could devastate the entire planet.

AFINA: Your loss.

HELEN: You'd have nothing left to rule.

AFINA: Then we'll start over. You're so shocked. It's lovely.

HELEN: You would really destroy the world just so you could conquer it?

AFINA: Why not, if it's there for the taking? Oh, come on, you didn't think you'd rule forever. For an inferior species, I'd say you had a pretty good run.

HELEN: As did you, until we defeated you.

AFINA: That won't happen again.

HELEN: We're going deeper.

AFINA: You spotted that, did you?

HELEN: I thought we were going to the surface.

AFINA: We will. We just have to make a quick stop along the way.

AFINA: There's that shocked look again.

AFINA: You know, I expected more from you, Helen. You read the legend. "Afina laid to rest to await kianaru, the time of returning."

HELEN: But not just Afina.

AFINA: That's right. Afina and her court.

HELEN: What is this place?

AFINA: My court. My warriors, and they'll be very pleased with the blood donor I've brought them.

WHITE OUT

Act V
FADE IN

Not as crude as the way you released me.

Have I thanked you for that, by the way?

I could always put you back in.

It's too late for that, I'm afraid.

The first seeds

of a new master race.

You're lucky to be witnessing it first hand...

You should not have done that.

Son of a...

Afina, come on!

I thought we had something.

Call it heat, attraction...

You and me, we were gonna...

I hate her.

Excellent.

I would have shared everything with you.

All the wonders of a new age.

While keeping me as your personal canteen?

In my time, it was an honor to serve the Queen.

I'll pass.

Suit yourself.

Hi.

Hi.

Nikola...

You're out of your depth, mongrel.

I'd rather be a mongrel

than a stuck-up inbred bitch.

Just keep her under control.

My pleasure.

I need to try and reverse the process

before the others wake up.

Nikola!

I'm fine.

You worry about that.

Wait, stop! Don't kill him!

I have a proposal.

Now you want to negotiate?

Make it fast.

The Praxians, your enemies.

They left you the surface

while they retreated into the depths of Hollow Earth.

Helen, no.

They're still there.

They have a thriving city.

More advanced than anything you had in your kingdom.

Don't do this.

Quiet.

Tell me more.

Unbelievable.

Leave the surface alone.

You can have Hollow Earth.

Take revenge on your old enemies.

That's my offer.

Damn it, no...

how do I find it?

The second level activates on a Praxian voice command.

You tell us how to leave...

I'll tell you how to talk to the map.

Humans...

I'll honor your deal, but it won't last.

Once we've conquered the world down there,

we'll be back.

I don't doubt it.

We'll be waiting.

I would have so liked to have had you for my court.

In my chamber,

there's a sensor at eye level near the door.

How do we activate it?

Blood, of course.

Now, the password.

"Gateway."

Kha harag.

That should take you where you need to go.

Which is it?

Uh... here.

What?

EXT - OLD CITY - DEAD BRIDGE - NIGHT - WINDY

Got your email. You here to return the deposit I left?

Yeah, about that. I decided to use it on a Tam farm of my own, kind of a country home for the retired.

It was you... Busted my North Shore op.

If you can call it that.

You know what, you're crazy, coming out here alone.

I'm not alone. A year ago, you could've pulled that trigger, and nobody would've cared, but I'm with the Sanctuary now. Think about that combination, their toys, my attitude? And you do not want to piss us off any more than you already have. My advice? Cash in your chips while you still can, 'cause next time, you're not gonna know what hit you. This is your only warning!

SCENE TRANSITION FLASH

Cut it a little closer than I would have liked.

What, me?

It was you who handed over the map.

How did you know

she was telling the truth about the door?

I didn't,

but I had to stop her either way.

Well, thanks for consulting me

about the suicide pact.

Sorry.

It's a shame we lost it, you know.

We barely downloaded a fraction of that database.

Small price to pay.

For my life?

For saving the world from human enslavement.

Oh, right. That too.

I'm sorry your glorious legacy

didn't turn out to be all you were hoping for.

Please.

She was an entitled bitch with a Nazi complex.

The world in her image?

I don't think so.

No, and we mustn't forget

our most important achievement of the day.

My resurrection.

Oh, here we go...

Sweet, sweet resurrection.

End Credits
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