Webisode 3/Transcript

Teaser Sequence
'''EXT. - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - NIGHT'''

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - INFIRMARY'''

[Scene opens in the Sanctuary Infirmary, Magnus is sewing up a cut on Ashley's shoulder. Will looks on with an ice pack to his head.]

ASHLEY: Mom! Take it easy.

MAGNUS: I believe we have discussed better coordinating our efforts when attempting a capture, have we not?

ASHLEY: Again, we got the ghoul, okay? Take a pill.

MAGNUS: Watch your cheek with me, young lady, especially with company present.

MAGNUS: I apologize for Ashley's unruly behavior, Dr. Zimmerman. What she lacks in refinement, I assure you she more than makes up for in skill.

WILL: -Really?

ASHLEY: -Hey, I saved your life.

MAGNUS: -Hold still.

WILL: -Yeah. Thanks.

WILL: -So I take it you guys do this a lot?

ASHLEY: -Oh, this is nothing. After our Romania trip last year, we had more plasma flowing than--

MAGNUS: Ashley, please. I don't like it when you glorify our work.

ASHLEY: An entire den of werewolves. Me, mom, and some loser Romanian Lupus Wrangler. We're low on silver tips, full moon's on the rise. That was a party.

WILL: Do you mean like "werewolf" werewolves?

ASHLEY: Mom, seriously, who is this guy?

MAGNUS: Dr. Zimmerman is our guest. Please, try to keep that in mind as you blather away. There, my darling. Good as new.

[Ashley kisses her mother's cheek in thanks.]

ASHLEY: Hate to bleed and run, but I've got to be on the Eastside in 20. Hot date. With Ernie.

ASHLEY: [to Will] Nice to meet you. Um, keep the ice going.

ASHLEY: [to Magnus] Don't wait up.

[Ashley leaves.]

WILL: So she's your daughter? Because there can't be more than, like, 12 years difference between you two.

MAGNUS: The details are unimportant. Ashley is my flesh and blood, and she plays a vital role in my work.

WILL: She bags them, you tag 'em. Yeah, well, it works for me.

[Will picks up a vial of luminous green liquid.]

WILL: So you find this inside one of the victims? Looks like some sort of phosphorous-based chemical.

MAGNUS: Secretions from the boy's appendage. Contains significant trace amounts of low-grade plutonium.

[Will drops the vial on the bed and jumps up.]

MAGNUS: But so tiny an amount is hardly lethal.

WILL: Well, yeah, that's more your department, so I'm just going to.

MAGNUS: True enough. Right now there is an urgent need for your talents, Doctor.

Title Sequence
[Cut to Sanctuary opening title sequence.]

Part I, Act III
'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - OBSERVATION ROOM'''

[Cut to Alexei with his shirt off, lying down and restrained.]

MAGNUS: [voiceover] He is by estimation 10 years of age.

[Magnus and Will stand on a walkway overlooking the room looking down to where Alexei is restrained. He is reclined in a dentist like chair with his arms fastened to the chair, his tentacle is whiplashing around the room.]

MAGNUS: [voiceover] Considering his family, I would say he was brought here via the Eastern European black market.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - OBSERVATION DECK'''

MAGNUS: Such imperfect children are often adopted by well-meaning immigrant families. Some are blind. Others have deformities, mental illness. I'm sure he seemed perfectly normal in his photograph, if they even saw one.

WILL: What the hell is that thing?

MAGNUS: I will only be able to determine his physiological state once we've gained his trust.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - OBSERVATION ROOM'''

[Cut to Will and Bigfoot entering the detention room. Alexei still has his tentacle whiplashing around. Bigfoot has a remote control in his hand.]

WILL: Okay, sit him up and release him.

[Bigfoot grunts at him.]

WILL: Uh, please.

[Magnus continues to observe from above. Bigfoot uses the remote and the chair raises and the arm locks release.]

WILL: Okay, we'll be fine. Really.

[Bigfoot leaves and closes the door.]

WILL: How are you doing? I'm just going to grab this chair here. Nice and slowly.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - OBSERVATION DECK'''

[Bigfoot enters the walkway above where Magnus is.]

MAGNUS: Watch them.

[Magnus leaves.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LAB'''

[Cut to Magnus in the Sanctuary's main lab, she's working on a computer in the center of the room with some sort of microscope / analyzer and a screen coming down from the retracting apparatus from high on the walls.]

[The high screen shows a global search in progress and comes up with a result of Chernobyl Probability Match 98%.]

[Magnus then relaxes back in her seat and then picks up the Twelfth Night playbill and contemplates it.]

SCENE FADES INTO FLASHBACK

'''EXT. - LONDON - DRURY LANE THEATRE - STREET - NIGHT'''

[Cut to Victorian England to the play itself with Magnus and Druitt leaving to get in a coach.]

DRUITT: Who are those actors? I've seen less wood sailing to Tahiti.

MAGNUS: [laughs] John, stop it.

[They enter an awaiting horse-drawn carriage.]

'''INT. - CARRIAGE - STATIONARY'''

DRUITT: I am merely saying Her Majesty was dead-on, barring that from an indefinite run.

MAGNUS: Truly dreadful, wasn't it? And your favorite play, too.

DRUITT: But for the perfect vision to my left, I would have caught up on some much-needed sleep.

[The coach driver snaps the reigns causing the horse to whine and start pulling the carriage forward.]

'''INT. - CARRIAGE - MOVING'''

COACH DRIVER: Where to this evening?

MAGNUS: A turn through Piccadilly to start, please.

COACH DRIVER: Very good, Ma'am.

DRUITT: And where are you taking me now, woman?

MAGNUS: Wherever I please. I'll not have you home before midnight John Druitt. Not before I've had my way with you.

DRUITT: [laughs] Then the night awaits.

MAGNUS: I take it you're feeling much better.

DRUITT: There's nothing like the attentions of a capable physician to cure the chronically ill.

MAGNUS: You were never ill. It was simply --

DRUITT: An element of my physiology as yet undiscovered by medicine. -You've done so much for me.

MAGNUS: -John, I hardly --

DRUITT: Let me speak, doctor. I've spent my entire life lost in a void, afraid of who I am. Of what I am. If not for you, I fear I would have remained lost. Instead, I can now see that I'm neither a freak of nature nor a devil. But a man. [he kisses Magnus's hand] Very much in love. And someone who wishes to spend the rest of his life repaying his savior for all she's done. [He takes out a ring in a box and presents it to Magnus] I promise to make you happy, Helen, for all eternity.

[Druitt and Magnus kiss and then he places the ring on her finger.]

SCENE FADES BACK TO PRESENT

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LAB'''

[Cut back to lab and Bigfoot approaches Magnus and gently places his hand on her shoulder.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - OBSERVATION ROOM'''

[Cut to the detention cell. Alexei has lashed out at Will and cut a hole through the chair back that Will is holding in front of him.]

WILL: Whoa! Hey! Time -- Time out a second, okay? Here's the problem, all right? If you keep that up, that big hairy guy is going to come back in here, and believe me, it will get ugly. The bigger problem is that he scares me more than you do.

[Alexei retracts his appendage.]

WILL: Okay, why aren't you trying to eat my brain anymore?

WILL: Okay, I think I'm getting the ground rules here. The less fear I feel, the less you want to snack on my cerebellum? Okay. [sits down]

WILL: You have a name?

ALEXEI: -Alexei.

WILL: -Alexei. That's a cool name. I'm Will. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you're not from around here.

ALEXEI: From place with no people. The dead city.

WILL: Want to tell me how this all started?

ALEXEI: Family adopt me, bring me home. But they not like me. Not after.

WILL: Yeah, not the kind of reception you were hoping for, huh?

ALEXEI: They were afraid. I tried to stop it, but only more fear comes.

WILL: So the more fear, the more it comes out. It's a defense mechanism.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LAB'''

[Cut to Magnus in the lab watching Will and Alexei on a large screen high on the wall.]

WILL: ''Well, that's perfectly normal. Whenever you feel scared, that's what's going to happen. But,''

MAGNUS: Magnificent.

WILL: you don't have to be afraid anything in here.

[Magnus returns to her work.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY - EASTSIDE - PARKING GARAGE'''

[Cut to an underground area where Ernie, an arms dealer, is opening his van and takes out some rifles.]

ERNIE: I know you like the firepower, Ash. That's why I ordered these babies specially for you. Direct from my source in Tel Aviv.

ASHLEY: You take such good care of me, Ern. That's why I keep coming back for more.

[Ashley inspects some heavy duty rifles.]

ERNIE: Sure we're kosher here, right? I mean, I know Henry doesn't appreciate any weapon he doesn't make himself.

ASHLEY: Well, Henry's gear is too experimental. I'm a traditionalist.

ERNIE: And when it's your ass on the line, amen. So what else you need? I got Kevlar, silver tips. If you're goin' after vamps, I know a brother in Prague who just received a shipment of holy water. Pressurized canisters, 5,000 psi launcher included. -Deal of a lifetime.

ASHLEY: -Stop it. You're turning me on. How much for both?

ERNIE: Both? Well, for you, Ash? Six thou.

ASHLEY: [Scoffs]

ERNIE: But, I tell you what. We start pooling our resources, do some jobs together, my contacts become your contacts and vice versa, the price goes way south, if you know what I mean.

ASHLEY: Come on, Ernie. You know my mother has a few issues with the way that you work.

ERNIE: So hate the game, not the players.

[Ernie is struck in the chest by a large metal spiked ball and collapses.]

ERNIE: That's going to leave a mark.

[Druitt is behind Ashley and she draws her pistol and starts to turn but he blocks her arm and takes her pistol.]

DRUITT: Nasty toy for someone so young.

[Ashley quickly breaks away and they fight. They break apart.]

ASHLEY: You just killed the second-best ghoul-tracker in five states. -Not to mention a friend.

DRUITT: -Clumsy me.

[Ashley attacks Druitt but he parries every strike. They again break apart and Ashley draws a knife.]

ASHLEY: Have we met before? A crypt somewhere?

DRUITT: I'm an old family friend.

ASHLEY: Oh, and no card from you at Christmas. Oh well. Next year!

[Ashley strikes out with the knife and they fight again. Eventually Druitt warps behind Ashley and momentarily surprises her into ceasing fighting. He then disarms and immobilizes her.]

DRUITT: Now, young lady. I believe it's past your bedtime.

[Druitt warps to somewhere else with Ashley.]

[Cut back to Ernie, on the ground, who is still alive. He injects something into his neck, with an epi pen, and then pulls the spiked ball out of his bloody chest.]

'''EXT. - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - NIGHT - CLOUDS PASSING BY'''

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - BEDROOM'''

[Cut to Sanctuary and Will is putting Alexei to bed in a nice four poster bed.]

WILL: If you need anything during the night, you just ring that bell. All right? I won't be too far away, Alexei. I promise.

[Alexei grabs Will's arm to stop him leaving.]

ALEXEI: Wait. You are like the other man I met. In tunnel. He treat me well, too.

WILL: What other man?

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LAB'''

[Cut to Magnus leaving the lab, the equipment is all put away. Her cell phone rings and she answers it.]

MAGNUS: [on cellphone] -State your emergency.

ERNIE: [over cellphone] -Hey, Doc.

'''INT. - OLD CITY - EASTSIDE - GARAGE - VAN'''

ERNIE: [on cellphone] It's me. You've got a problem.

'''INT. - 98TH STREET SUBWAY STATION - MAINTENANCE AREA'''

[Cut to an abandoned underground area. Ashley is tied to a chair and Druitt is giving her some water from a bottle]

DRUITT: Do not bite me.

ASHLEY: How did you know I was going to?

DRUITT: I would've done the same.

ASHLEY: Okay, now you've got my attention. And that's quite an achievement, considering your bad taste in clothes.

DRUITT: [laughs] Oh, such manners for a lady.

[Druitt moves to a table where his cane is and extracts the cane sword.]

DRUITT: But then, look at your mother. She never understood her place in the world, either.

ASHLEY: Bad enough you're a teleporting psycho, you're Republican, too?

DRUITT: Well, let's just say... ...I am a strong believer... ...in... ...family values.

[Druitt unzips Ashley's jacket with the sword and plays with her locket that has a Sanctuary S on it]

ASHLEY: Here's some free advice: kidnapping me pisses my mom off more than serving the wrong wine with fish. So I'd start running.

DRUITT: Oh.... I'm not going anywhere. Why would I, now that I finally have what I've wanted for so long?

ASHLEY: Yeah, What's that?

DRUITT: Why, you, of course. My daughter.

'''EXT. - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - NIGHT - CLOUDS PASSING BY'''

[Cut to Magnus and Will upstairs in Sanctuary approaching Alexei's room.]

MAGNUS: [voice-over] Are you quite certain?

WILL: [voice-over] Yeah, Alexei said he could

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - RESIDENTIAL AREA - HALLWAY'''

WILL: jump instantly from place to place, if you buy that, which you will.

MAGNUS: -With a kind of bluish-green flash?

WILL: -You see.

MAGNUS: It corroborates Ernest's account of her abduction.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - RESIDENTIAL AREA - ALEXEI'S BEDROOM'''

[They enter the room to find it empty with a folded note on the pillow.]

MAGNUS: -Dammit.

WILL: -It doesn't make any sense. -Alexei had no reason to run.

MAGNUS: -He didn't run. He was taken.

WILL: -What the hell is this?

MAGNUS: -Directions.

WILL: To where? There's no station at 98th Street.

MAGNUS: There used to be, before the New City was built. That's where we'll find Alexei. And Ashley.

WILL: You know who did this, don't you?

'''EXT. - OLD CITY - STREET - NIGHT - RAINING'''

[Cut to the rainy streets with a car moving fast and wildly on the roads, weaving through traffic and taking an abrupt sharp right turn. Bigfoot is driving with Magnus and Will be thrown around in the back.]

'''INT. - VEHICLE'''

MAGNUS: His name is Montague John Druitt. He was my first patient.

WILL: Meaning he's not exactly normal.

MAGNUS: Through certain genetic abnormalities, he is able to bend dimensional space at will. -Warp from place to place.

WILL: -In a blue-green flash.

MAGNUS: Exactly.

WILL: Well, I'd say "cool" if he wasn't, you know, the bad guy.

MAGNUS: Each time he does it, specific portions of his brain are damaged, causing increased dementia, paranoia, rage. I discovered all this too late. His murderous habits were already well underway. I tried to stop him, and failed.

WILL: You're sure it's him?

MAGNUS: Twelfth Night. His favorite play.

WILL: A-5, S-1? Act 5, scene 1?

MAGNUS: "And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."

MAGNUS: Each of us has our worst fears to confront, Dr. Zimmerman. John Druitt is mine.

'''EXT. - OLD CITY - STREET - NIGHT - RAINING'''

[The car takes a sharp left turn, driving on the opposing left side of the road.]

End Credits
[Cut to Sanctuary end title card.] /Credits