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Recap Sequence
WILL: [voice over] Previously on Sanctuary...

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MAGNUS: This isn't a disease, Henry.

HENRY: I have spent my adult life working with abnormals, but now I am one.

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HENRY: Look, I can't account for myself when I'm that thing, and what if I hurt one of you?

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HENRY: The difference between you and me is you can control your power.

BIGFOOT: And in time, so will you.

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HENRY: Awesome!

Teaser Sequence
'''EXT. - WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT - DAY'''

[A woman, Rachel, is walking across parking lot while she is talking on the phone.]

RACHEL: You are such a dork. You said "No problem, I'll take over the feedings while you're gone" and then you crap out on me before I even leave.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY’S ARRAY - DAY'''

[Henry is working in his lab with the phone on intercom.]

HENRY: I know, but hey, secure networks tank and I'm the go-to guy. What am I going to do?

RACHEL: Yeah, last time I ask you for a favor.

HENRY: Okay, look, I can still swing by there after I'm done. It'll be like 30, 40 minutes tops.

RACHEL: Oh, 40 minutes Henry Foss time? Jack will die of hunger by then. Come on, you know he's our baby.

HENRY: Oh... Man that is cold.

RACHEL: I'm just saying.

HENRY: Go catch your flight, all right? Don't want to miss your romantic getaway.

RACHEL: Oh, Henry...

HENRY: If you can call a biochemistry conference in beautiful downtown Blackpool romantic.

[Rachel goes up to a door and uses a pass card and the door unlocks.]

RACHEL: Yeah, well, you got to admit; at least he's making an effort.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY’S ARRAY - DAY'''

[Viewers are only given Henry’s point of view in the rest of this scene.]

HENRY: All right, you're right, my bad.

RACHEL: Besides, I'm already at the lab.

HENRY: Okay, you know what? Just go, have a good time and don't worry about Jack. I'll make sure he's...

RACHEL: Oh, my God, Jack? No.

HENRY: Rachel, what's going on?

RACHEL: Wait Jack; stay there.

HENRY: Rachel!

RACHEL: Its okay, I can help you. I can help you..

HENRY: Damn it.

RACHEL: Jack! No!

HENRY: Rachel?

'''INT. - WAREHOUSE'''

[A cell phone with Henry’s picture on it is lying on ground surrounded by blood and glass.]

RACHEL: Henry... help me.

HENRY: Rachel, what's going on?

Act I
'''INT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

[Henry bursts through the door with gun drawn followed by Kate and Will.]

HENRY: Rachel! Oh, God...

[The team sees the destruction and searches for Rachel. Henry has moved into another room.]

WILL: Henry!

[Will spots Rachel lying on the ground and moves over to check on her.]

KATE: It's on the run!

[Kate has found a window broken out.]

WILL: Load tranqs!

HENRY: Oh, my God... You go after Jack. I got her.

[Henry has come over to kneel on the other side of Rachel.]

WILL: Yeah?

HENRY: Yeah.

WILL: All right, here.

[Will hands Henry a bag and runs to the door with Kate close behind him.]

WILL: Come on.

[Henry puts on gloves and then checks for a pulse.]

HENRY: Just hang on. Oh, thank God. Rachel? Rachel...

[Rachel becomes conscious and panicky.]

HENRY: It's okay.

RACHEL: No. Henry...

[Henry grasps her hand.]

HENRY: It's okay.

RACHEL: The blood! The blood...

[Rachel motions to her wounds on her abdomen. Henry looks and Rachel begins to lose consciousness.]

HENRY: No, no, no, hang on, stay with me. Stay with me!

MAGNUS: [VOICE ON PHONE] Henry?

HENRY: Hey, Doc?

MAGNUS: [ON PHONE] Calm down.

HENRY: It's Rachel.

ALTERNATES BETWEEN (INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS'S STUDY - DAY) AND (INT - WAREHOUSE - DAY)

MAGNUS: Is she...

HENRY: She's alive, but she's unconscious, and she's been cut.

MAGNUS: Are you gloved up?

HENRY: Yeah. Where's the Big Guy?

MAGNUS: He's on his way with a haz-mat transport. I'll prep the O.R..

HENRY: Do you think she's infected?

MAGNUS: [ON PHONE]I won't know until I get her into surgery Henry but if the creature did lay spores...

HENRY: Yeah, I know, Doc. She's dead.

'''EXT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

[Kate and Will have split up and Kate is on foot. Kate listens to Will over the walkie.]

WILL: I'm two blocks out, widening my perimeter.

[Will is in the van speeding between the warehouses.]

WILL: Kate? Kate? Kate, talk to me.

KATE: I saw something heading down behind the hill warehouse.

ALTERNATES BETWEEN (INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS'S STUDY - DAY) AND (INT - WAREHOUSE - DAY)

MAGNUS: How's her pulse?

HENRY: It's rapid, but it's kind of weak.

MAGNUS: Do you think you could pack her wounds?

HENRY: Yeah sure; what do I do?

MAGNUS: Right, I'll talk you through it. You need to find gauze and forceps.

HENRY: Okay.

MAGNUS: And Henry, whatever you do, do not let her blood come in contact with your skin.

HENRY: Right.

[Henry hears a vehicle pull up outside.]

HENRY: I think the Big Guy's here.

'''EXT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

WILL: Kate, are you getting close?

[Kate rounds a corner and cautiously enters a dock over looking an area where crates are stacked. She spots the abnormal Jack behind some crates.]

KATE: Easy there, Gumby; it's just little old me.

[Will speeds around a corner as Kate descends down the loading dock stairs.]

WILL: Kate, give me an update!

[Jack rises quickly hearing Kate’s walkie and charges her. Kate is forced to shoot at Jack repeatedly. Will enters where Kate is and parks the van between Kate and Jack. Jack falters but recovers quickly. Will gets out of van and shoots Jack with a stun gun; causing Jack to collapses to the ground unconscious. Will and Kate cautiously approach Jack and Kate nudges him with her foot. He doesn’t react.]

WILL: Four tranqs and a concussion stun to take him down.

KATE: Butt-ugly to boot.

ALTERNATES BETWEEN (INT - WAREHOUSE - DAY) AND (INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - LAB)

HENRY: Yeah, Big Guy's got her now. They're on their way to you. Doc, she was so pale.

MAGNUS: I'll do everything I can.

HENRY: Oh, my God, Gerald! She was supposed to meet him at the airport. I got to tell him...

MAGNUS: Henry. We'll call him. I you need to stay there. Scan and clean the room.

'''INT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

[Henry pulls the top off a case to reveal a fancy gadget. He presses some buttons then turns it on and goes to stand outside. The gadget spins and a blue light emanates from it in all directions.]

'''EXT. - WAREHOUSE - LOADING DOCK - DAY'''

[Will closes the back door to the van.]

KATE: So lizard boy here releases toxic spores.

WILL: Yeah, Henry's been working with Rachel's team for about five years. Never heard of Jack releasing his spores even once; he's supposed to be tame.

KATE: Bad call.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

[Magnus and Bigfoot begin working on Rachel. Rachel is enclosed in plastic which has zipped segments. They are opened so Magnus is able to reach her patient.]

MAGNUS: Do a c-spine, chest and abdomen.

BIGFOOT: Ready.

MAGNUS: Give her one gram ceph. Increasing oxygen to 40%, heart rate 98 and regular; pupils are equal and reactive to light.

BIGFOOT: Abdomen soft; localizes to pain.

MAGNUS: Kidneys?

[Bigfoot turns to look at a monitor.]

BIGFOOT: Clear.

MAGNUS: Good. CBC, chem panel, and gasses are all within normal range; now to the wound.

[Magnus picks up some forceps and pulls away Rachel’s clothing from her wound.]

MAGNUS: Oh, good. This one looks clean. Let's hope they all are.

[Bigfoot grasps the end of Rachel’s shirt and reveals the other wound.]

BIGFOOT: She's infected.

MAGNUS: Damn it, the spores are active.

[Magnus and Bigfoot quickly close the plastic covering.]

MAGNUS: We need to get her into quarantine before I can operate. Hopefully I can get them out before they multiply.

[Bigfoot stops, looks directly at Magnus and growls.]

MAGNUS: I have to try.

'''INT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

[Henry is waiting outside the lab door. A blue light can be seen through window in the lab door. The light goes out and Henry goes back into the lab.]

HENRY: [ON WALKIE] All right, I'm finished with the holographic scan, and I'm moving to the eradicator.

[Henry turns off the holographic scanner and moves to another gadget and turns it on.]

HENRY: All right buddy; time to go to work.

[Henry once again leaves the lab.]

'''EXT. - WAREHOUSE - DAY'''

[Will pulls up next to the warehouse entrance to see a door wide open. Henry is standing outside the lab door.]

WILL: Dude, you left the door open.

HENRY: Yeah, I'm a little busy right now; just finishing the DNA flame-out.

[Will starts to get out of van but stops when a police car speeds by.]

WILL: You hear that?

[A red light can be seen through the window this time. As it goes out; Henry moves to the door.]

HENRY: All right, french fries are done; just bagging the goods now.

WILL: Okay, head for the back alley. We'll pick you up on the fly-by.

HENRY: Just need a little more time.

WILL: The cops are coming in the front door.

HENRY: I'm almost there.

WILL: Get out!

HENRY: Never enough time.

WILL: Get out now!

[The policemen enter the lab but Henry is no longer there.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

[Rachel has been placed in a more permanent enclosure. Magnus is removing spores as Bigfoot watches a monitor.]

MAGNUS: Was Will able to get a hold of Gerald?

BIGFOOT: On his way; upset.

MAGNUS: Of course he is.

[Magnus removes a spore and places it in a container. Bigfoot initiates another scan on Rachel.]

BIGFOOT: There are too many; dividing too quickly.

[Magnus looks over to the monitor which shows several red dots which divide creating more.]

MAGNUS: Just stay sharp. You have your medicine bag?

BIGFOOT: Yes.

MAGNUS: Let's hope we don't need it.

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

[Will and Kate exit the elevator on the SHU level pushing a gurney with the abnormal on it.]

KATE: Trying to domesticate one of these things, that's like putting C-4 through the Play-Doh Fun Factory.

WILL: I don't know its cutting-edge stuff. Gerald focuses on its biochemistry while Rachel studies its behavior. They make a good team.

KATE: What I've seen of Jack's behavior, he could still use some obedience training.

WILL: The last time I saw him with Rachel, he was pretty docile. She was even teaching him sign language.

KATE: Well hey, I'm no scientist but you teach a deadly abnormal how to talk and all you'll get is a deadly talking abnormal.

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

[Henry types in some commands into his computer and then turns on the holographic scanner. A blue light emanates out and a holographic image of the lab is recreated in the blue light. Henry grabs some tape and begins outlining the image with the tape. Kate enters and waves her arm in front of the scanner.]

KATE: Oh is this the thing that scanned the room?

HENRY: Don't do that.

KATE: Need a hand?

HENRY: No, I'm good. I got a system.

KATE: I get it. You can't go to the crime scene so you bring the crime scene to you?

HENRY: Yeah, best we can.

KATE: Do the cops have one of these gizmos?

HENRY: They wish they did.

KATE: So then how'd you come up with it?

HENRY: Will and me. His specs, my program, my design; still a work in progress but it's the best we've got right now.

KATE: She a friend of yours? I mean, Magnus is on the job, so...

HENRY: Rachel and I worked together for about four years. She's been helping me to understand who I am, what I am. She wasn't afraid of it.

KATE: And the other guy is what, her husband?

HENRY: Yeah, he's like a brother to me.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - HALLWAY - DAY'''

[A man exits the elevator and rushes down the hall. Henry comes around a corner and approaches the man.]

GERALD: Where's Rachel, Henry?

HENRY: She's in the O.R..

GERALD: Is she...

HENRY: She's alive.

GERALD: Take me to her, please.

HENRY: Yeah.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

BIGFOOT: Blood pressure's falling.

MAGNUS: Give her a 500 bolus of saline. Last one in this wound.

[Bigfoot adds the solution to Rachel’s IV and then moves to initiate another scan. Many red dots appear on the image. Bigfoot’s growl draws Magnus’s attention to the monitor. She moves closer to get a better look.]

MAGNUS: Oh, dear God. The infestation's spreading.

BIGFOOT: We are too late. We can't save her.

[Gerald and Henry are looking in behind the glass.]

GERALD: Dr. Magnus? No... Rachel...

MAGNUS: Gerald. I'm so sorry.

Act II
'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

[Magnus has joined Gerald and Henry in the observation room.]

MAGNUS: I'm putting Rachel into stasis.

GERALD: To die?

MAGNUS: To slow down the progression of the spores, give me time to work on a treatment.

GERALD: There is no treatment, you know that. Once the host becomes infected the spores regenerate until the host is...

MAGNUS: I'm not ready to go there, not yet. I'm going to fight for Rachel but I need your help.

GERALD: What can I do?

MAGNUS: I need your research on Pleskidarsus spore regeneration. I may be able to create a reagent.

GERALD: But the chemical th... that halts spore reproduction it's far too...

MAGNUS: It's too caustic for human tissue I know. I think I may be able to find a way to lessen the toxic side effects.

[Gerald shakes his head no.]

MAGNUS: Gerald... I need your research.

HENRY: You can use my set-up.

[Gerald looks at Rachel and nods.]

GERALD: Okay. Show me.

HENRY: Okay, come on.

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

[Will and Kate look over the boxes which Henry has placed to represent the furniture in the warehouse lab.]

WILL: Henry's detailed scan of everything in the lab corresponds to bar codes on the cardboard. Now that we've recreated the scene we can hopefully figure out what happened.

KATE: That's amazing... in like a total geeky kind of way.

WILL: Wow, jealous much?

KATE: No.

WILL: Alright, so you be Rachel okay?

KATE: Okay.

WILL: So you enter here. Henry hears you say...

KATE: Oh, my God?

WILL: Correct.

KATE: Uh so I must see that you, Jack, are out of your enclosure.

WILL: Right, so I must have smashed, forced my way out before you entered.

KATE: I drop my cell phone. Do you rush at me?

WILL: No because the major blood spatters are here.

KATE: Oh right, right and the wounds are on the front of her body not the back.

WILL: So for some reason, you approach me?

KATE: No... No, the trajectory of the spatters...

WILL: Yeah, it doesn't match the wound pattern on Rachel's body.

KATE: Hmm...

WILL: Okay, uh, stand over me as if you're reaching for me.

KATE: Like this?

WILL: Yeah. What do you think?

KATE: Well you know it fits.

WILL: Okay, so he's down here. She's reaching for him.

KATE: Okay well the woman's either crazy or stupid. I mean monster is loose you move away from it.

WILL: Yeah, unless she couldn't believe that he would hurt her. But she ends up over here. Why?

KATE: Well, it attacks, she trips, slams into the drug cabinet.

WILL: Yeah and lands right here.

KATE: And then it finishes the attack and splits out the window. Seems straightforward... ish.

WILL: Yeah. I don't know. Nothing about this seems straightforward to me.

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

[Henry is looking in on Jack who is in the corner of his cell kneeling down with his back to the window. He senses Henry’s presence and turns around.]

HENRY: She was so good to you.

[Jack moves to other side of glass from Henry gesturing to his mouth. Henry signs back to Jack.]

HENRY: I don't care if you're hungry. Don't you realize what you did? You hurt Rachel, Jack. Yes, Rachel. You hurt her; very bad, bad Jack. Very bad, bad Jack!

[Jack signs back to Henry.]

HENRY: Yeah. You got that right.

[Henry leaves and Jack continues to sign franticly.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

[Magnus and Bigfoot are standing next to Rachel who is still enclosed in protective barrier.]

MAGNUS: Once I receive Gerald's data I'll start working on the reagent. In any case, we'll have to extract spores from Jack.

BIGFOOT: How much time?

MAGNUS: Even in stasis the tissue already damaged by the spores will necrose. Her system won't be able to handle it for too much longer.

BIGFOOT: Too young.

MAGNUS: By far.

BIGFOOT: I'll collect the spores from Jack.

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

[Jack is sleeping on the gurney in his cell as Bigfoot enters. Bigfoot sets a container on a nearby table and moves toward Jack to get the spore samples. Bigfoot is able to get the sample without Jack waking but as he places the syringe in the container; Jack wakes and starts to get up. Bigfoot restrains Jack until he calms. Jack relaxes and Bigfoot pats his arm and then collects the container and leaves the cell.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY’S ARRAY'''

[Gerald is staring as if lost in thought in front of the computer when Henry steps in the doorway.]

GERALD: Uh, just give me a couple of minutes here. I'm... I'm downloading my files from my home network.

HENRY: You need anything?

[Gerald turns to Henry and just stares.]

HENRY: Right. I'll just uh... Look um...

GERALD: I'm not blaming you.

HENRY: Yeah, I am. I should have been there.

GERALD: Henry... Not now, okay? I just, I can't.

HENRY: Okay, I'm sorry.

GERALD: She's everything to me. She's my life. She... [Clears throat] Tell Magnus all the data she needs will be on her private LAN in 10 minutes.

HENRY: Okay.

GERALD: Should give her a shot at God knows what.

HENRY: Gerald...

GERALD: Just... just go.

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

[Gerald is standing outside the glass watching Jack pace his cell. Jack turns to see Gerald and walks up to glass in front of Gerald. Gerald raises a machine gun. Jack backs away slowly as Gerald opens fire. Jack collapses.]

Act III
[Henry rushes in and wrestles the gun away from Gerald.]

HENRY: Stop! That's enough!

GERALD: Damned animal!

HENRY: What the hell, Ger?

GERALD: It killed her, Henry, it killed her!

HENRY: Hey, she has a chance.

GERALD: Nobody survives a Pleski attack. You know that and so do I.

HENRY: Ger, she has a chance.

GERALD: She's dead.

HENRY: Man...

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL- MAGNUS’S LAB'''

[Magnus is studying a microscope.]

WILL: I'm guessing he took the weapon while he was working in Henry's lab.

MAGNUS: And the pleski?

WILL: It took a couple of bullets but its skin is so tough, I don't think there should be any permanent damage. The Big Guy's with him now.

MAGNUS: What about Gerald?

WILL: He's a mess. Henry's with him.

MAGNUS: I should never have left him alone.

WILL: The guy works for you, I mean, there was no reason to think he was going to go that far.

MAGNUS: Still, it should never have happened.

WILL: Assassination attempts aside, how goes it?

MAGNUS: Well ironically, Gerald's research is proving to be quite helpful. Take a look at this.

WILL: Is this going to put me off my lunch?

[Will moves to the microscope which Magnus had indicated. She adds a solution to a Petri dish; smiling at Will’s comment.]

MAGNUS: Now, watch.

WILL: Huh, well, that works.

MAGNUS: We just have to administer the right amount, enough to kill the spores without harming Rachel.

WILL: Right, like chemo.

MAGNUS: But far more tricky to regulate. Have you figured out what happened in the attack?

WILL: No. Kate's got something she wants me to see. I'm heading to the mock-up lab now.

[Will lingers looking at Magnus.]

MAGNUS: I know that look.

WILL: Rachel taught Jack a form of sign language and I'm thinking of trying to communicate with him. Now, I know it's not a conventional way of gathering evidence and I know what you're going to say. That if you could teach a lion to speak you still wouldn't understand him... your dad's favorite expression.

MAGNUS: Because... we often make the egocentric mistake of believing that abnormals think the same way we do; that their worldview and logic patterns are similar. In most cases even with the most intelligent species they simply aren't.

WILL: I know. Their whole cognitive process is different.

MAGNUS: Yes.

[Will grins.]

MAGNUS: I'm... I'm just saying bear that in mind when you have your... chat.

WILL: Okay.

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

[Henry is sitting in a chair while Gerald paces.]

GERALD: How could you just sit there? If that was your wife on that table... if the only person who really mattered to you was... I don't know where to put all this, Henry. It lives and she dies? You tell me what you'd do.

HENRY: Honestly, Gerald, I don't know what I'd do...

GERALD: You'd kill the damn thing! You'd go all werewolf and you would take care of business!

HENRY: Wanting something and doing something about it are two different things, Ger.

GERALD: Really? You've never done anything crazy in the moment? Something maybe you shouldn't have done?

HENRY: This isn't about me. And Magnus says...

GERALD: I want to go down there in case she... I won't make any more trouble.

HENRY: I can't leave you on your own, man.

GERALD: Well, then you find someone else to watch over me; just not you.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MOCK UP LAB'''

[Will and Kate are walking through the mock up crime scene.]

KATE: Okay, tell me what you see from here.

WILL: Okay, Rachel enters; she sees the pleski is loose. Now, there's a tranq gun right in front of her.

KATE: Right, she had a defense.

WILL: But she doesn't use it. Why?

KATE: I'm thinking... because of this.

WILL: Item 163, what's that?

KATE: A syringe.

WILL: Containing what?

KATE: I don't know, but my guess is she was going for it when Jack attacked.

WILL: Okay good, so she was trying to inject him with something.

KATE: Uh huh, not a sedative 'cause that's in the tranq gun which she passes on.

WILL: Okay, bing, bang, boom. Rachel enters, sees Jack is loose, ignores the tranq gun and heads straight for the drug cabinet.

KATE: She drops the syringe before she can use it and now the big question is...

WILL: What was in the syringe?

KATE: What?

[Will was staring at something on the floor under the medicine cabinet.]

WILL: Well... It's just that I'm not totally buying the whole ready-to-go syringe theory. Item 73, what's that?

KATE: Medicine of some kind, I don't know I can't read the label.

WILL: Huh...

KATE: So whatever was in that vial...

WILL: Was what she was trying to inject Jack with.

KATE: Right... Okay, I will talk to Henry. See if he can generate a more detailed view of the 3-D scan.

WILL: All right, I'm going to go check on Gerald.

[Will turns to walk out of lab.]

KATE: Hey, Will...

WILL: Yeah?

KATE: This is what you did before you came here, right? Like fancy detective work, CSI stuff?

WILL: Yeah...look, in the real world forensics is under-staffed, under-funded and backlogged to the nines.

KATE: Oh. Well, score one for the criminals, then.

WILL: Put it this way, if I had this tech to work with you'd have been behind bars years ago.

[Will leaves.]

KATE: No, I wouldn't.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY’S ARRAY'''

[Henry is watching a video on his monitor. The video is of Rachel who is standing in front of Jack. Jack is in a glass enclosure.]

VIDEO

RACHEL: A new sign is deemed acquired only when reported by three independent observers, namely myself, Gerald, and...

[Henry’s upper body appears on the screen. He is apparently the one filming the video.]

HENRY: Uh me. Hi.

[Henry ducks back behind camera.]

RACHEL: I'm trying to be serious here.

HENRY: Yes, you should be very serious. It's very serious, don't laugh.

RACHEL: I'm not!

HENRY: And don't smile. Now, you focus. Ready? Go.

[Henry’s face shows on the screen.]

HENRY: This woman is clearly insane; do not believe a word that she says.

[Henry goes back behind camera.]

HENRY: Okay, yeah, anytime.

[A sound is heard and the camera turns to show the door opening and Gerald leaning on the wall holding a cupcake alight with candles.]

RACHEL: You remembered.

GERALD: Ha ha! Ta-da! Watch out, watch out...

HENRY: Dude, that is clearly not going to feed three people.

GERALD: Then you can eat the melty bits.

RACHEL: You're the best.

GERALD: Happy anniversary, baby.

[Gerald kisses Rachel.]

HENRY: Oh, wow, awkward and that's on film. I'm going to be sick.

GERALD: Okay, make a wish, make a wish...

[Rachel blows out the candles.]

RACHEL: Done.

GERALD: Yay! The energy... the Gods have blessed this union.

[Kate walks into Henry’s array and sees the video Henry is watching.]

KATE: Wow...

[Henry quickly shuts off the video.]

KATE: She’s beautiful.

HENRY: What do you want?

KATE: Need to ID something on the floor, sector 34, item 73.

HENRY: The label's hidden.

KATE: I know. Looks like Rachel was trying to inject the pleski with something. Though why she didn't just tranq the sucker, I have no idea...

HENRY: Look, you don't know her, all right? Don't even try.

KATE: Dude, just trying to solve a case here, that's all.

HENRY: It's fine. I'll enhance the area and I'll focus on the sector. Just give me an hour.

KATE: Henry, I know she means a lot to you...

HENRY: Give me an hour.

KATE: Right.

[Kate leaves Henry to his work.]

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

[Will walks in and observes Jack huddled in the corner hugging a blanket. Jack turns and sees Will. He approaches the glass slowly. Will waves and signs to Jack.]

WILL: Hi. I'm... I'm Will.

[Jack just stares at Will.]

WILL: Uh...I'm sorry, never mind.

[Just as Will turns to leave Jack starts signing back.]

WILL: Are you hungry? You're hungry. But you have food, it's there.

[Jack angrily knocks the food off the table and then signs to Will.]

WILL: Bad Jack? I'm sorry, I don't understand. I don't understand.

[Discouraged and frustrated Jack returns to the corner.]

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY’S ARRAY'''

[Henry and Kate are looking at the monitor on Henry’s computer as Will enters.]

WILL: Anything?

KATE: Still working on it; how was your chat with Jack?

WILL: Huh... Turns out he doesn't have much to say, except I think he feels bad about what happened which, isn’t very monster-like.

HENRY: I tried looking through the vial to the label on the other side. It didn't work. Look, if you look at that piece of glass right there, it kind of acts like a mirror, right?

WILL: Yeah.

HENRY: Well, if you focus on that sector, kick up the res, flip it around...Betamethasone.

WILL: Betamethasone?

KATE: What is that, some kind of sedative?

WILL: No, it's just a common immunosuppressant.

KATE: Are you kidding me? She went for that over a tranq gun?

HENRY: There's got to be a good reason.

WILL: Yeah, I'm betting there is.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.'''

[Magnus is injecting a drug into Rachel’s IV when Will enters.]

WILL: Hey.

MAGNUS: I've given her 30 milligrams of the reagent. We'll see how she responds to the treatment.

WILL: We found something in Rachel's lab. I think she was trying to inject Jack with betamethasone.

MAGNUS: What? Are you certain?

WILL: She was going for it instead of the tranquilizers. Does that make any sense?

MAGNUS: Actually, it might. But it would suggest that Rachel knew that Jack's ACTH levels were too high.

WILL: How so?

MAGNUS: In Siberia, the pleski's native habitat, there's a rare fungus Cordyceps siberienses. Now when the pleski's exposed to even small amounts it increases their ACTH levels.

WILL: Which over-stimulates the adrenals.

MAGNUS: Exactly, now Rachel's research was based on the premise that the cordyceps fungus was the sole reason that the pleskidara are deadly; and that without its influence they're a gentle, intelligent species. It was a controversial theory even in the abnormal research community.

WILL: Okay so, wait. So if Jack was somehow exposed to the fungus, then...

MAGNUS: It would explain how he escaped from his enclosure.

WILL: And why it took so many tranquilizers to bring him down. But why would he be exposed in the first place?

MAGNUS: Could it have been a shipping container that was somehow contaminated? Knowing Gerald and Rachel, that doesn't make any sense. They'd be so careful to screen for that.

WILL: Well, I'll do a blood test, check the ACTH levels.

MAGNUS: I'll talk with Gerald.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS’S STUDY'''

GERALD: Are you crazy? Of course we don't keep corticeps in our lab or anything similar.

MAGNUS: There's a possibility that Rachel suspected that Jack had been exposed.

GERALD: Can I cut into your Matlock speech here for a second? And pardon me, okay but the pleski attacked Rachel because of its nature not because it was on drugs! She wanted to believe it was tame but you can't take an instinctive predator and teach it to love people.

MAGNUS: You and Rachel must have had some very interesting discussions about this.

GERALD: What do you mean?

MAGNUS: Her work was spent trying to prove that the pleskidara could be socialized and yet you, quite obviously, believe the opposite.

GERALD: I support her in her work. I just...don't let her know that I think it's completely useless.

MAGNUS: And yet you allowed her to continue working with a dangerous species?

GERALD: Come on, Magnus, you know Rachel all right, she's made up her mind about something that's, you know...

MAGNUS: She's a very able researcher.

GERALD: Yeah, I admire her passion, I do.

MAGNUS: But she spent more time with the creature than she did with you.

GERALD: Yeah, she did. I thought this... getaway would…uh....would help change things. Maybe if we spent a little more time together, I...But now... What if she dies? What happens? Another able researcher gets hired and we all continue on playing with Jack? Is that what happens?

MAGNUS: We're testing his blood for ACTH levels. If the results are negative...I'll lock him away for good.

GERALD: Of course you will. Excuse me.

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

[Magnus and Bigfoot have moved Rachel to a normal bed.]

BIGFOOT: She's been stable for more than an hour. Good news?

MAGNUS: Possibly.

GERALD: She's out of quarantine?

[Gerald and Henry move up to glass enclosure.]

MAGNUS: I don't want to create false hope but the rate of spore division has diminished significantly.

GERALD: You're certain?

MAGNUS: They're beginning to die. We believe she's no longer contagious.

[Suddenly multiple alarms sound on the monitors.]

MAGNUS: She's flat-lined. There are toxins in her bloodstream. The treatment's killing her.

Act IV
'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - ISOLATION ROOM'''

MAGNUS: Second epi in; charging to 300.

BIGFOOT: Epi in.

[Bigfoot has administered the drugs. Gerald moves to go around Henry but Henry prevents him.]

HENRY: No, let them work.

MAGNUS: Come on, fight!

BIGFOOT: Charged.

MAGNUS: Clear. Time.

BIGFOOT: Four minutes.

MAGNUS: I've given her epinephrine, atropine, shocked her...

BIGFOOT: Seven times.

[Magnus turns to Gerald.]

GERALD: No...

MAGNUS: We need an alternative.

BIGFOOT: Too risky.

MAGNUS: She's dead either way.

[Bigfoot picks up his medicine bag and takes something out; placing it in Rachel’s mouth.]

GERALD: What are they giving her?

[Bigfoot massages Rachel’s throat until she shallows. Rachel gasps.]

GERALD: Rachel!

MAGNUS: Hold on. Normal sinus.

BIGFOOT: Lucky.

GERALD: Thank God.

MAGNUS: I need blood, cardiac and liver panels.

[Magnus moves to glass to speak to Gerald.]

MAGNUS: The reagent's taking its toll on her system. We'll keep her monitored but I can't guarantee that the treatment won't kill her before it runs its course.

GERALD: I'd like to be with her.

[Gerald turns to look at Henry and then back to Magnus.]

GERALD: Alone.

[Magnus nods her accent.]

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

[Magnus is standing leaning against the wall beside a door. Will and Kate come around a corner and approach Magnus.]

WILL: How's Rachel?

MAGNUS: Alive for now.

KATE: You should see this.

[Will hands a tablet to Magnus.]

WILL: Jack's blood results; the ACTH levels are higher than normal dropping from a previous spike. I'm checking his food remains for traces of this Siberian fungus.

MAGNUS: Well, why his food? Rachel would be the most careful about that I should think.

WILL: Um...

KATE: The pleski told him.

WILL: He kept making the sign for "eat". Look, I tried to think outside of my egocentric way of communicating but I'm wondering if Jack maybe somehow knew that his food was being poisoned.

KATE: Or it's just hungry.

WILL: He hasn't eaten anything since he got here.

MAGNUS: Let me know what you find.

[Magnus walks past Will.]

WILL: Magnus...

[Magnus turns back to Will.]

MAGNUS: It doesn't look good.

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

[Gerald is sitting next to Rachel holding her hand and massaging her head.]

GERALD: It's stupid. I was going to surprise you. This trip wasn't to Blackpool for a convention, it was uh... to Paris. A real honeymoon finally. This shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have been...

[Gerald looks up to see Henry watching outside the door. Henry enters.]

GERALD: Can I have a private moment with my wife, Henry?

HENRY: I know, Ger. I'm sorry. This is my fault.

GERALD: I can't spend two minutes with her, without you showing up. I can't take her to a movie because you two have already seen it. First it's coffee with Henry and then it's a dinner here and there. Pretty soon it's all about whether or not you're available. You know that she actually blushes when you walk into a room and you know it and you insult me every time, pretending that it wasn't happening.

HENRY: She's with you, Ger, not me. I never did anything.

GERALD: You don't have to, Henry, you are... you're everything that she wants me to be.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MOCK UP LAB'''

[Will stands studying the room.]

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

GERALD: But I took care of things. Something had to be done.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MOCK UP LAB'''

[Will is still studying the room when Kate enters.]

KATE: Mystery of the amped-up lizard... solved.

[Kate opens a laptop and shows Will.]

WILL: Damn.

KATE: Yeah. Last three feedings were rife with delicious Siberian fungus.

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

HENRY: You did this. You made this happen?

[Henry moves around bed and gets in Gerald’s face.]

HENRY: This is Rachel!

GERALD: You're such an idiot, Henry.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MOCK UP LAB'''

WILL: Only two people had access to his food supply.

KATE: So unless blondie was going for suicide by pleski....

WILL: Where's Gerald right now?

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

[Gerald turns away from Henry.]

GERALD: I wasn't trying to kill Rachel.

[Gerald picks up a knife off a table and turns back to Henry.]

GERALD: I was trying to kill you.

[Henry backs away.]

HENRY: Oh, man, don't.

GERALD: Come on, Henry. Let's see your real face, huh?

HENRY: No!

[Gerald stabs Henry.]

Act V
'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - ISOLATION ROOM'''

HENRY: No!

GERALD: It's alright buddy, let it come.

[Gerald slashes at Henry’s arm.]

HENRY: No! Don't...

[Henry starts to transform but stops it.]

GERALD: Come on Henry, turn! One of us is checking out Henry and if you stay human it'll be you!

HENRY: Don't do this.

GERALD: Come on!

MAGNUS: Gerald!

[Magnus enters the room holding a gun on Gerald.]

MAGNUS: That is enough! Drop it.

GERALD: Look at her. I don't want to live when she's gone. Oh, but you'd take care of that though wouldn't you, buddy boy? Huh? If I just mess you up just a little bit you'd take care of business. You'd take care of me, wouldn't you?

HENRY: Stop...

GERALD: Then you'd have to live with it!

MAGNUS: Gerald! Think logically. You do NOT want to take this action.

GERALD: Come on, freak!

[Gerald slashes at Henry when suddenly the alarms sound again drawing everyone’s attention to Rachel. Magnus moves to care for Rachel and Bigfoot goes for Gerald.]

MAGNUS: She's crashing again!

[Bigfoot easily restrains Gerald as Magnus administers a drug into Rachel’s IV.]

HENRY: Doc, is she?

[The alarms stop and regular rhythm returns.]

MAGNUS: She's stabilizing.

[Will and Kate enter.]

WILL: Are you okay?

[Henry looks at Rachel and then tearfully replies to Will.]

HENRY: No.

'''EXT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - GROUNDS - DAY'''

[Will is sitting on a bench near Rachel who is in a wheelchair.]

RACHEL: So...how does someone recover from something like this?

WILL: By not blaming yourself for what happened.

RACHEL: Our marriage wasn't working. I should have said something. I should have stopped myself.

WILL: From what, feeling things? I'm sure you tried at some point or another but that doesn't work.

[Henry walks up.]

RACHEL: Hi.

HENRY: I can come back.

WILL: No, no. Uh we'll... we'll talk later.

[Will leaves and Henry moves to sit on bench.]

RACHEL: Hey, you.

HENRY: Hey.

[Henry slowly sits down grimacing.]

RACHEL: Ow.

HENRY: Wow, you look terrible. Where the hell's your make-up bag?

RACHEL: Stop it.

HENRY: Yeah...you see that's the problem; I can't. You and I got too close Rachel and I went there willingly.

RACHEL: Because I gave you permission; I don't know why I... I think I was afraid to admit that I'd made a mistake with Gerald. I chose the wrong person.

HENRY: No, you're not in love with me, Rachel. I'm just the third wheel to keep you guys upright while you figured things out. I bought in too much.

RACHEL: You really don't think that's all you were to me? Henry... I am in love with you.

[Rachel holds Henry’s hand.]

HENRY: Then why did you marry him?

RACHEL: Because he was the one who asked. Because you were always too scared to open up to me. Is it because of what you are? Did you think I wouldn't accept that?

[Henry doesn’t answer and looks to the ground.]

RACHEL: Oh, my God... You don't love me.

HENRY: Rachel... we... can't be together.

RACHEL: Henry...

HENRY: Because Gerald's my friend, and... I'm so sorry.

'''INT. - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS’S OFFICE - DAY'''

[Henry walks into Magnus’s office and sits in a chair in front of her desk.]

HENRY: I know what you're going to say and you're totally right. It's all on me.

MAGNUS: Not all, but enough. I know you thought you were helping Rachel and her relationship with Gerald, but...

HENRY: I was just making it worse. I just wanted to be there for her. You know, be someone she could count on. Be a friend.

MAGNUS: But things changed.

HENRY: Yeah.

MAGNUS: That's usually when it's best to come clean. You can't let who you are keep you from getting close to people, Henry.

[Henry stands up but hesitates.]

HENRY: Hey, Doc... Thank you for saving her.

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