Webisode 8/Transcript

Teaser Sequence
[Opening shot : the New City at night seen from across the river.]

[Cut to a darkened office building which Ashley is entering with a LRAD drawn and ready as she navigates through the office while lightning flashes outside.]

[Ashley walks past a plaque declaring the offices as those of Aubanel, Wood, Smith ---ATTORNEYS AT LAW---.]

[A disembodied voice sounds from out of the dark.]

VAMPIRE: You think you can kill me?

[Ashley pivots back and forth trying to determine her target's location.]

VAMPIRE: Many have tried. None have lived.

[The LRAD powers up and Ashley fires only to have it not work.]

ASHLEY: Damn!

[Ashley quickly looks at the sonic gun and the vampire has disappeared by the time she looks up.]

ASHLEY: Why the monologuing, if you're so bad?

VAMPIRE: Didn't your mother warn you about me?

[The vampire moves incredibly fast across the room towards Ashley.]

VAMPIRE: I'm way beyond bad!

Title Sequence
[Cut to Sanctuary opening title sequence.]

Part II, Act IV
[Numerous keepers of the dead are invading the Sanctuary.]

[Will and Magnus are running through a hallway and Magnus stops at a wall panel.]

WILL: Magnus!

[A steel door drops across the hallway behind them.]

WILL: Really?

MAGNUS: When you keep monsters in your house....

[Magnus rushes off again.]

MAGNUS: We need to lock down the entire facility.

WILL: Yeah, good idea.

[Cut to another hallway in the Sanctuary with more keepers hurrying through in search of their quarry.]

[Bigfoot arrives in the elevator and throws up the guard door with a roar. The keepers all rush at him.]

[Cut to Magnus and Will running along another hallway. Magnus runs up to a picture and opens it to reveal another security panel. Magnus punches in a security code but nothing happens.]

MAGNUS: -Oh, for God's sake.

[She grabs a 2 way radio mounted near the panel.]

WILL: -What now?

MAGNUS: [into radio] Henry?

[Henry is on the floor of the lab curled in the fetal position in pain.]

MAGNUS: [over radio] Henry, respond.

[Henry makes his way over to the console and the walkie-talkie sitting on the ledge by the keyboard.]

HENRY: [into radio] Uh, problems.

MAGNUS: [over radio] ''I know. We're being overrun.''

MAGNUS: [into radio] I need the security protocols for the entire facility operational immediately.

HENRY: [over radio] ''Witches... being... bad.''

DANU: Now, I believe you were about to let us go.

[Henry cries out in pain]

MAGNUS: Go help Henry in the lab. Make sure The Morrígan do not escape. Or anyone else, for that matter.

WILL: Wait. What about you?

MAGNUS: I don't like uninvited guests in my house.

WILL: -How is that an answer?

MAGNUS: -Go.

[Magnus proceeds down the hallway alone and picks up something heavy from a table. A keeper attacks and Magnus downs it with a low blow and then a high blow. Another one attacks but Bigfoot appears and knocks it out the window.]

MAGNUS: -Where the hell have you been?

BIGFOOT: -We need weapons.

MAGNUS: We need Ashley.

[Cut to the lawyers office where Ashley is being thrown about the room by the vampire.]

ASHLEY: Seriously. A lawyer vampire. The cliché factor doesn't offend you?

VAMPIRE: Not if you're the first.

[He kicks her into a desk.]

VAMPIRE: Hadn't you noticed? I'm not like all the other guys you date.

[Ashley stabs him with a cylindrical metal spike.]

VAMPIRE: These pants were new.

ASHLEY: Send me the bill.

[Ashley kicks him to push herself off the desk, away from him.]

[Ashley draws out a double spike but is distracted by a beeping watch which she quickly looks at to see a flashing 911 displayed. When she looks back the vampire is gone.]

[Cut to Will descending in the elevator and through the side keepers can be seen on every level.]

WILL: Good career move, Will. Real good.

[Cut to a bridge over the river and a motorbike speeds into the Old City.]

[Cut to the residential levels of the Sanctuary where Magnus and Bigfoot are battling the keepers in the Foyer despite being vastly outnumbered. They retreat to the kitchen and barricade themselves in.]

[Cut to the motorbike zooming up to the Sanctuary gates. Ashley punches in several codes but can't get the gate to open.]

ASHLEY: Crap!

[Cut to the containment cells where Henry is still working on the security system.]

HENRY: This is so unfair.

DANU: The more you resist, the more you will feel pain. -Let us go.

HENRY: -I don't work for you.

DANU: Then you'll die.

[Will runs in.]

WILL: Danu! Don't do this.

DANU: We will not be prisoners again. To you or anyone.

WILL: That's not what's going on here. We can help you.

DANU: You can't possibly promise us freedom. -We are who we are.

WILL: -You are not evil! At least, you weren't in the beginning.

TATHA: We were created to destroy men.

WILL: No, you were created to stop a war. But Merlin changed you. He made you forget who you really are. Believe me, if he could transform a monk or a knight into something out of a late night horror movie, he can make you think you're something you're not. Since when do the bringers of death have a conscience?

CAIRD: That was before.

WILL: No, no, before is who you really are. Look, please.... Believe me.

[Barricades drop down in front of the containment cells.]

HENRY: Lockdown!

WILL: What the --? Henry, Henry! You've got to unlock it! Henry, unlock it, now!

[Cut to an unknown part of the Sanctuary where the is a large circular area of water with bubbles rising. Four keepers approach it and are shot, Ashley surfaces with two guns drawn.]

[Cut to the kitchen where Bigfoot is pushing cabinets in front of the door.]

MAGNUS: [into radio] Henry, status!

HENRY: [into radio] Uh, the cells are secured, but the upper levels and the lab are still vulnerable. And the new guy wants to let the witches out.

WILL: I just wanted to talk to them.

[Will picks up the walkie.]

WILL: [into radio] Magnus, I was getting through to them.

HENRY: Oh, please, they were playing you.

WILL: Are you even qualified to talk about this?

MAGNUS: [into radio] Be quiet and listen. We are about to be overrun. Forget about the rest of the facility. Protect the lab at all costs. And find Ashley!

WILL: [into radio] Oh, okay, how do I do that? Magnus?

WILL: All right, how do you usually contact Ashley? Is there some kind of Bat Signal or something?

HENRY: -Of course not. She usually just --

ASHLEY: [over radio] -Will, Henry!

WILL: [into radio] -Yes!

ASHLEY: [over radio] -I'm in the building.

WILL: [into radio] Okay, great, so you're aware that we're up to our necks in crypt people, right?

ASHLEY: [into comms earpieace] Working on it.

[Ashley is running through the Sanctuary shooting down keepers left, right, and center. She runs out of ammunition and begins hand to hand fighting.]

[Cut back to the kitchen where Bigfoot is fighting hand to hand with the invaders and Magnus has two pistols downing as many keepers as she can but more keep coming and they are overrun.]

[Cut to Ashley who is crawling towards her gun when she is grabbed and dragged away by the keepers.]

ASHLEY: [screams] No!

[Cut back to the labs where Henry is still working with Will.]

WILL: [into radio] Ashley? Magnus? Hello?

HENRY: Okay, so it's just the two of us?

WILL: Yeah.

HENRY: We're so screwed.

[Slow pan of a now quiet kitchen where dozens of bodies lay including a bloody Magnus and Bigfoot.]

[Many scenes of more and more keepers entering various parts of the Sanctuary.]

[Several keepers enter the lab and find three containment cells open and empty and Henry lying on the floor. There is no sign of The Morrígan or Will. The keepers howl and hiss in frustration.]

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