Fugue/Transcript

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

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - HALLYWAY - NIGHT

[A closed wooden door to a guest room is shown. Suddenly, Will is shown crashing through the door, flying backwards from inside the room out into the hallway. In the process, the door was broken off its hinges into multiple large pieces.]

WILL: [groans in pain]

[creature shrieking, stunners blast]

WILL: [wincing]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - GUEST ROOM - NIGHT

[vase smashes]

[stunners blast]

MAGNUS: Will!

WILL: This is not good!

MAGNUS: Dammit, it's not working. [to Declan] Boost to full power!

WILL: No, no, no, hold on a second.

WILL: [to creature] Please... Don't do this. Please, don't do this.

MAGNUS: Oi!

WILL: Where are you going?

MAGNUS: Just keep it in here!

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - ELEVATOR - NIGHT

[elevator dings]

[Magnus enter the elevator and ascends to another floor.]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - RESEARCH LAB - NIGHT

[Magnus removes a stunner from the top of a weapon crate and opens the lid of the crate. She removes a super stunner, attaches a small object to the handle grip, and then turns to leave the room.]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - GUEST ROOM - NIGHT

[Magnus enters the room and quickly charges and shoots the super stunner at the creature. The large electrical blast shocks and incapacitates the creature, causing it to fall unconscious to the floor].

DECLAN: A full stun charge did bugger-all.

WILL: Are you sure you've never seen anything like this before?

MAGNUS: This is entirely new.

[The creature is revealed to have been a metamorphically-changed Abby Corrigan.]

WILL: Abby... what happened to you?

Act I
"FUGUE"

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - GUEST ROOM - NIGHT

MAGNUS: Secure isolation room. Someone needs to stay with her at all times.

DECLAN: Agreed.

WILL: It's okay, Deco.

DECLAN: We'll make the place nice for her, mate.

WILL: You said this would stop.

MAGNUS: I know. Something's preventing the DNA inhibitors from working.

WILL: Three transformations in 24 hours? Magnus, she's getting stronger and crazier.

MAGNUS: I realize that, Will.

MAGNUS: [she sighs] We'll find something, I promise. Get in touch with Henry. I'll be in the lab.

EXT - OLD CITY - ALLEY - NIGHT

HENRY: [into cellphone] We're backtracking from the first incident. Look, I know things are crazy over there, but seriously, it's like working with one hand tied behind my back here.

[Will's voice crackles through the cellphone]

HENRY: [into cellphone] Uh, okay. I'm just going to pretend that's your frustration talking--

[click]

HENRY: And you're welcome.

GAVIN: How is she?

HENRY: She's not good.

GAVIN: Another episode?

HENRY: She's sedated now. She's under watch.

GAVIN: Dr. Magnus said that she'd be fine.

HENRY: These things take time, Gavin. It would be nice if we could find something to help her out.

GAVIN: Well, I don't even know what we're looking for. A cocoon? A husk? Excrement?

HENRY: Okay, will you stop with the list-making already? Please?

GAVIN: Sorry.

HENRY: And stop with the constant apologizing!

GAVIN: Sorry. My mother was... Canadian.

HENRY: Mazel tov. Okay, so, you get the call, and it's about a... super-large gorilla, really?

GAVIN: Well, protocol is we check every tip.

[Henry shuts the case]

GAVIN: Which began here, a block by block search.

HENRY: Which we just retraced. Now, are you sure you never found, saw, smelled anything?

GAVIN: No. Just suddenly Abby wasn't Abby anymore.

[Henry sighs heavily]

GAVIN: I didn't know people could change like that.

HENRY: Yeah, well, they can. Some of us more than others. It's just rare to be able to control it like I do.

GAVIN: S-Sorry, you... you mean you can change into...

HENRY: Know what a werewolf is? Close enough.

GAVIN: Oh, my god.

HENRY: Oh, don't worry, Gavin. I haven't devoured a Canadian in months.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - RESEARCH LAB - NIGHT

WILL: You've been studying transformations since the 19th century, and still we're in the dark about this?

MAGNUS: I am trying everything, Will. Every DNA lock I try, the creature overcomes it. This is a genetic tidal wave, and I have no idea how to stop it, let alone what started it.

WILL: It's a virus, she's the host...

MAGNUS: I will find a way.

WILL: I know what it's like, Magnus, to lose yourself. It's happened to me twice. Your body is not your own.

MAGNUS: I need information, anything to help us understand what we're dealing with. I'm going to reduce her meds slightly just to let her resurface.

WILL: It's so risky, Magnus.

MAGNUS: You need to talk to her, Will. You need to try to keep her grounded in this reality if you can. Anything, no matter how obscure, could give us a way to cure her. I know how close you two are, and that may be our best weapon at this point.

WILL: [he sighs] I'm sorry.

MAGNUS: It's all right. We'll fix this. We always do.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM

[monitors beep steadily]

[door lock beeps]

DECLAN: The same?

WILL: No seizures, no transformations for the past four hours.

DECLAN: Get some rest. I've got her.

WILL: I'm fine.

DECLAN: You've been with her for two days, Will. You need food and sleep.

WILL: I'm not leaving her.

DECLAN: Okay, then. Me neither. Music?

WILL: Yeah, sure. Nothing too loud, though.

DECLAN: Don't worry, mate. My Sex Pistols days are long gone.

[gentle clavichord plays]

[urgent strings join in]

ABBY: [singing] ♪ Where am I? ♪

WILL: Abby?

ABBY: [singing] ♪ Will, what's wrong with me? ♪

[background music continues]

WILL: Thank God, we thought we'd lost you.

ABBY: [singing] ♪ What? ♪ ♪ Why can't I understand you? ♪

WILL: Are you--

ABBY: ♪ Don't be like that just speak to me! ♪

WILL: I am speaking to you.

DECLAN: Is she--

ABBY: ♪ What's the matter with both of you? ♪

WILL: Abby, stay calm.

ABBY: ♪ I can't understand you ♪

WILL: What the hell?

ABBY: ♪ Please just speak to me! ♪

DECLAN: She's singing.

WILL: Why is she singing? Abby?

ABBY: ♪ Oh, my god ♪ ♪ Something's very wrong with me! ♪

Act II
INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - OBSERVATION SIDE

MAGNUS: Of course, right there. It's fascinating.

WILL: The superior temporal sulcus, right?

MAGNUS: It's where we process complex aural patterns. Her synapses are firing like mad.

WILL: So when she speaks, it comes out as song?

MAGNUS: Because her DNA is being over-written, she can only perceive certain harmonic frequencies.

WILL: Music?

MAGNUS: Music.

WILL: Well, explains why she couldn't understand me when I spoke to her.

MAGNUS: It may be the only way that she can communicate with us.

WILL: No.

MAGNUS: - Yes--

WILL: - No.

MAGNUS: We need to find out what happened to her.

WILL: [sighs] After you.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - PATIENT SIDE

[door lock beeps]

MAGNUS: Hello, Abby.

MAGNUS: ♪ Abby, can you hear me? ♪ ♪ Do you know where you are? ♪

ABBY: ♪ You look so worried ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ You've been here for two days ♪ ♪ We've never left your side ♪

ABBY: ♪ There's something you're not telling me ♪

WILL: This is insane.

ABBY: ♪ What did you just say? ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ Do... Do you recall ♪ ♪ anything ♪ ♪ before you woke up? ♪

ABBY: ♪ Don't avoid the question ♪ ♪ Am I going to die? ♪ ♪ Magnus? ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ Your body's been taken ♪ ♪ Something new and deadly ♪ ♪ Something we've never seen ♪

ABBY: ♪ Have I become a monster? ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ We never use that word ♪ ♪ You remember nothing? ♪ ♪ Some kind of creature? ♪

ABBY: ♪ An alleyway... ♪

WILL: In the fifth ward.

MAGNUS: ♪ Something attacked you? ♪

ABBY: ♪ I don't remember! ♪ ♪ I just woke up here ♪ ♪ I need to know ♪ ♪ To know the truth now ♪ ♪ No matter how bad it is ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ Your condition is grave ♪ ♪ Don't know how to save you ♪ ♪ But we won't give up ♪

ABBY: ♪ I feel so tired ♪

MAGNUS: ♪ Abby... ♪ Abby?

EXT - OLD CITY - FIFTH WARD - ALLEYWAY - NIGHT

GAVIN: Okay, so, seeing as how we can't exactly call in a full forensics team-- your call, not mine-- I say we do a door-to-door canvassing of the neighborhood. Someone's got to have seen or heard something.

HENRY: If someone saw something, it would be headline news. Most abnormals are pretty good at staying out of sight.

GAVIN: Yes, we're dealing with monsters, but the basic tenets of detective work still apply here--

HENRY: Dude...

GAVIN: Sorry. I said the "M" word. Please don't werewolf on me.

HENRY: HAP. Hyper-accelerated-- Never mind. Scan the area, full spectrum.

GAVIN: Where are you going?

HENRY: I'm going to talk to red-list dealers in the area.

GAVIN: Criminals?

HENRY: Yes, criminals, which is why I'm not bringing you with me. You might as well have a big sign on you that says "Narc." Call me if you find anything.

[beeps scanner on]

[scanner chimes]

[beeping steadily]

GAVIN: Uh, Henry?

HENRY: I said I'll be back!

GAVIN: I found something.

[Henry grumbles]

[scanner beeping steadily]

HENRY: Thermal residue.

HENRY: It's coming from...

[scanner beeping rapidly]

[beeps scanner off]

HENRY: Ugh.

[Both coughing and gagging]

GAVIN: That is a cocoon, isn't it?

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - BIOSAFE ROOM

MAGNUS: You say you found this against a brick wall?

HENRY: Behind some garbage.

GAVIN: Actually, I found... it.

HENRY: So, what, is it red-list?

MAGNUS: Likely. It's very similar to the larval pocket of a galvanic blood tick.

GAVIN: Um, what?

MAGNUS: They often partner with parasitical organisms, ones specifically designed to mutate human DNA. They're extremely rare. One would never be found in an urban environment by accident. Which means this cocoon was deliberately placed in that alleyway in order to test this parasite on a human victim.

HENRY: So somebody puts the parasite into the blood tick, Abby finds the blood tick cocoon...

MAGNUS: And becomes infected with a microscopic parasite we've never even heard of before.

GAVIN: Wait, the cocoon was placed in the alley by whom?

HENRY: Hollow Earth insurgents.

MAGNUS: We've never seen a parasite mutate this rapidly. We can't even identify it.

GAVIN: So all these angry monsters-- abnormals-- from the center of the Earth. They did this?

MAGNUS: They're tracking us. They would have known that Abby is connected, however discreetly, to my Sanctuary. They'd want to know if I could prevent the mutation or not.

HENRY: You were totally set up. Doc, this is very bad.

MAGNUS: If that creature becomes fully realized, then normal human beings will become a means to populate the surface with Hollow Earth abnormals.

HENRY: Total foothold scenario.

GAVIN: So Abby is a test case for a full-on monster invasion. Excuse me. I need to go throw up.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - PATIENT SIDE

WILL: My mom used to sing to me. In fact, when I... can't remember her voice, I just think of all those cheesy songs she used to sing to me. If I... If I fell down, or if I couldn't sleep, if I had a nightmare, she'd sing to me. And then after she died... So thanks... for contracting the one condition that makes me do something I hate. Look, I'll make you a deal. I'll try to sing... if you stick around a little while longer. That sound like a deal?

WILL: Just... ♪ Stay... ♪ ♪ Just stay... ♪ ♪ Abby, please ♪ [Gavin enters the observation area] ♪ Just stay... ♪ ♪ Just... stay... ♪

[Will looks up and sees Gavin on the other side of the glass. He quickly and angrily gets up out of his rolling chair and exits the patient area to confront Gavin.]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - OBSERVATION SIDE

[Gavin tries to walk away, but Will rounds the corner and shortens the distance between them.]

WILL: [angry] Hey!

GAVIN: I didn't mean to intrude.

WILL: [angry] Did you mean to be such a waste of space that she had to do your job for you?

GAVIN: Okay, I... can see that you're in pain--

WILL: [angry] Maybe I'll rejoin the FBI, and your girlfriend can become the mutant of the week.

GAVIN: I'm sorry.

WILL: [angry yelling] Did you keep her in sight? Did you even know that she'd found that stupid cocoon?

GAVIN: How do I make this right?

WILL: [angry] You can't.

[Will turns right and walks away back the way he came.]

[Gavin then turns left to leave the area.]

EXT - ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - NIGHT

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - PATIENT SIDE

[Abby is laying on the hospital bed with Will sitting in a chair to the right side of her bed.]

[♪♪♪]

[Abby wakes up and looks to Will.]

ABBY: ♪ Will! ♪

WILL: Hey-- [clears throat] ♪ How are you feeling? ♪

ABBY: ♪ Will. Your name is Will. ♪

WILL: ♪ Abby... ♪

[Abby looks like she's about to fall asleep again, when she suddenly opens her eye again, revealing them to be solid black / deep red.]

ABBY: ♪ No, not Abby! ♪

[Abby sits up and Will gets out of his chair to stand and slowly backs away.]

[♪♪♪]

ABBY: ♪ There's only me ♪ ♪ And I'm in control now! ♪

[Abby turns to the left side of the bed. She rips off the heart rate finger monitor, causing the machines to sound a flatline tone.]

ABBY: ♪ What is this place? ♪

[Abby continues to raise her arm, looking at the I.V.]

ABBY: ♪ This feeling I have? ♪

[Abby rips out the I.V. and puts her arm down]

WILL: ♪ I want to talk to Abby ♪

ABBY: ♪ Have you felt this feeling before? ♪

[Will turns and moves to the table against the right wall by the door and picks up a syringe.]

ABBY: ♪ Being alive like never before ♪

[Will tries to fill the syringe from a vial.]

WILL: ♪ What have you done to her? ♪

[Abby stands and walks forward towards the left wall in front of her across from Will.]

ABBY: ♪ Lightning in my veins ♪

[Abby touches the door of a medical cabinet. Will is still struggling to fill the syringe.]

ABBY: ♪ Every minute I breathe ♪

WILL: ♪ Who are you? ♪

[Abby turns to look at Will and starts to walk towards him.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm the thing you fear the most ♪ ♪ I'm here to give you a dose of reality ♪

WILL: ♪ Don't want to talk to you ♪ ♪ I'm only talking to Abby ♪

[Abby closes the distance between them. As he backs into the table, he raises his right arm above his head with the syringe ready to strike her, but Abby quickly and strongly grabs his arm just below his wrist, stopping him.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm the sickness without a cure ♪

[Abby spins him around like they are in a tango hold.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm the loved one who disappears ♪

[She pushes him backwards toward the bed.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm the thing in the dark ♪

[Abby looks towards the syringe.]

ABBY: ♪ The dream that feels real ♪ ♪ The light that goes out [Abby yanks his arm, causing him to drop the syringe.] the terror you feel ♪

[Abby looks back at Will and pushes him backwards onto the bed. She seductively and predatorily crawls over him.]

ABBY: [Abby grabs his head and moves her face closer to his. Will is painfully uncomfortable.] ♪ I want to feel so much more than this ♪ ♪ Come on, handsome give us a kiss ♪

[Abby suddenly sits up and Magnus and Declan appear at the door.]

ABBY: ♪ Let's start again a new evolution... ♪

[door lock beeps]

[Magnus and Declan enter the room. Magnus goes to the table Will was at earlier to fill a syringe.]

ABBY: ♪ A small warning ♪

[Abby is now back to being almost face-to-face with Will.]

ABBY: ♪ It's gonna get bloody ♪

[Abby reaches forward and roughly caresses her right hand over his head.]

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

[Declan grabs Abby from behind, pulling her back and off of Will.]

ABBY: ♪ You're gonna wish I was never born... ♪

[Will quickly gets up off the bed and stands.]

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

[Magnus finishes loading a syringe and quickly moves towards Abby as Declan holds onto her.]

ABBY: ♪ You're gonna wish you were never born... ♪

[Magnus grabs Abby's right arm.]

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

[Magnus injects Abby in her right shoulder.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm gonna like being born! ♪

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

[Declan continue to struggle to restrain and hold back Abby.]

ABBY: ♪ I'm gonna like being born ♪

[Abby lets out a breathily abnormal gasp and collapses unconscious on the bed. Magnus and Declan look from Abby to Will and have concerned questioning looks about what just happened while Will looks from them to Abby as he tries to regain his breathing.]

Act III
INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - OBSERVATION SIDE

[door lock beeps]

HENRY: Hey. Any, um...

WILL: No. The sedation's still holding.

HENRY: Look, anything you need, bro. I'm a guy that turns into a giant man-dog. I'll give you blood, kidney, stem cells, you name it. Why don't you take a break, go make a sandwich or something. For me, not you. I got her, Will.

WILL: You remember that song that you and Erika sang to us at that pub in Dublin?

HENRY: The Parting Glass?

WILL: Yeah. I always liked that song.

HENRY: ♪ Oh, if I had money enough to spend ♪ ♪ And leisure time to sit a while ♪ ♪ There is a fair maid in this town ♪ ♪ Who sorely has my heart beguiled ♪ ♪ Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips ♪ ♪ Alone she has my heart in thrall ♪ ♪ So fill to me the parting glass ♪ ♪ Good night and joy be with you all ♪

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LAB - NIGHT

MAGNUS: Greetings, everyone. Sorry for the delay. How are you all holding up?

FELIZ: Hello, Helen. Some problems, I'm afraid.

DECLAN: Complications have arisen.

[all replying at once]

YUSUF: Need some answers right away--

JASMINE: A few concerns about our direction--

MAGNUS: Okay, one at a--

DECLAN: The sand ray's giving birth in a zone that's not been cleared.

FELIZ: Funds have been diverted to a traceable account.

YUSUF: People are not safe in the city any longer.

JASMINE: The government's asking for our tax returns.

MAGNUS: Fine, let me-- [background music begins]

FELIZ: I suggest you switch to gold. It's easier to unload.

DECLAN: Is there something we can give her to ease her labor pains?

YUSUF: I don't like the use of force, but we need some more protection.

JASMINE: A dummy corporation won't make this go away.

JASMINE: We need a new accountant.

YUSUF: A shipment of new guns.

DECLAN: I think she's having triplets.

FELIZ: We need to transfer funds.

JASMINE: Risk of intervention.

YUSUF: Risk of losing lives.

FELIZ: Risk of going bankrupt.

DECLAN: Risk of getting hives.

FELIZ: I love money!

MAGNUS: [to all] Stop!

MAGNUS: [to Declan] The sand ray needs some sugar, and keep her in the shade.

MAGNUS: [to Feliz] Gold's a bold suggestion, but too risky, I'm afraid.

MAGNUS: [to Jasmine] Who cares about an audit? We've been through that before.

MAGNUS: [to Yusuf] Your guns arrive tomorrow. Let me know if you need more.

DECLAN: - But--

FELIZ: - Um--

YUSUF: - Thank you.

JASMINE: - Doctor!

MAGNUS: [rhyming] Risk in doing business? Since when is that hot news? Have we ever shied away from things that others wouldn't do? If you think we've lost our way, feel free to step aside. There's other pressing business. I'm afraid we're out of time.

Declan: Magnus? You okay?

MAGNUS: [clearing throats awkwardly] Yes. Sorry. Where were we?

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - SECURE ISOLATION ROOM - PATIENT SIDE

Abby? No.

EXT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - SOUTH TOWER - ROOF - NIGHT

[roar of traffic below]

[♪♪♪]

WILL: Abby? Listen to me.

WILL: ♪ Abby, come down from there ♪ ♪ This is you and me I know you're frightened ♪

ABBY: ♪ No, it's better this way ♪ ♪ I don't know who I am ♪

WILL: ♪ I'll help you through this ♪ ♪ You know I've been there before ♪ ♪ Listen to me ♪

WILL: ♪ You feel ♪ ♪ Lost, out of control ♪ ♪ Like a ship in a storm ♪

ABBY: ♪ Feels like I'm drowning ♪ ♪ I'm going to die ♪

WILL: ♪ We'll find... ♪

ABBY: ♪ It's getting worse ♪ ♪ It's taking control now ♪

WILL: ♪ A way... ♪

WILL: ♪ Don't you give up hope... ♪

BOTH: ♪ I'm fading away ♪

ABBY: ♪ Would you do any different? ♪

WILL: ♪ A way... ♪

ABBY: ♪ Please just let me go ♪

WILL: ♪ I've been holding back ♪ ♪ You've been holding back ♪ ♪ I don't want to lie to you anymore ♪

ABBY: ♪ Please just let me go ♪

WILL: ♪ Do you think I'm the one? ♪ ♪ 'Cause I think you're the one ♪ ♪ There, I said it ♪ ♪ I can't take it back ♪

ABBY: ♪ Please just let me go ♪

WILL: ♪ This is not how it ends ♪ ♪ Here amongst friends ♪ ♪ A future we'll never see ♪ ♪ Abby, please... ♪

ABBY: ♪ You were holding back I was holding back ♪

WILL: ♪ Just stay.... ♪

ABBY: ♪ I know it's hard but it's time to let me go ♪

WILL: ♪ Just stay.... ♪

ABBY: ♪ It's taking control ♪

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

ABBY: ♪ I'm losing control... ♪

ABBY: ♪ I love you, Will ♪

WILL: Abby!

Act IV
EXT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - SOUTH TOWER - GROUND - NIGHT

[snarling]

[stunner blasts]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - RESEARCH LAB - DAY

WILL: How bad?

MAGNUS: Completely new pathways in half her cerebral cortex.

WILL: You said the singing would help keep her human.

MAGNUS: And it did... temporarily. We've tried every musical key, even subsonic frequencies. This isn't a virus, Will. This is a new life form overtaking her entire physiology.

WILL: You think there's no cure.

MAGNUS: I think... we should prepare for the worst.

WILL: No, no. I do not accept that, okay? There is a way to save her. We just haven't found it yet.

MAGNUS: The timeline is not good.

WILL: Well, then put her on ice until we can understand this.

MAGNUS: Cryogenics might just kill her outright, or make the creature even stronger. We have no idea.

WILL: [yells in desperate anger] Well, figure it out!

WILL: What is the point of this entire place if we can't save the people that...

WILL: Oh, Magnus...

MAGNUS: It's not over yet.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - LIBRARY - DAY

[♪♪♪]

GREGORY: [sings] ♪ I will go ♪ ♪ Wherever you lead me ♪ ♪ On rivers of roses or rain ♪ ♪ I will follow the signs that you leave me ♪ ♪ The mysteries of joy and of pain ♪ ♪ I will search for light in the darkness ♪ ♪ Though I stumble through shadow and shade ♪ ♪ Oh, if you are with me ♪ ♪ Of whom shall I be afraid? ♪ ♪ You have lifted me up when I've fallen ♪ ♪ And driven the ghosts from my door ♪ ♪ You have comforted me in my sorrow ♪ ♪ Wiped my brow when I've been sick and sore ♪ ♪ You have shared in all of my triumphs ♪ ♪ And blessed the crops that we laid ♪ ♪ Oh, if you are with me ♪ ♪ Of whom shall I be afraid? ♪ ♪ Oh, if you are with me ♪ ♪ Of whom shall I be afraid? ?

MAGNUS: Of course. It makes sense.

GREGORY: Do you see it now, sweetheart?

MAGNUS: Thank you, Father.

GREGORY: Never lose faith.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS'S STUDY - DAY

WILL: All right, I'm listening.

MAGNUS: Of course there are risks, but hear me out. My father had a theory about the origins of abnormal life, specifically that of the most powerful beings amongst us, vampires, HAPs, shape-shifters, that their particular DNA aggressively sought to define itself.

WILL: Which is how those races were born.

MAGNUS: Exactly. Now, she is being consumed by cells that are determined to become something more. I've been working on this night and day. This is the only solution we have, Will.

WILL: Tell me.

MAGNUS: If we harvest a larval segmented annelid and implant it into her stomach wall, there is a chance that the invading DNA will be attracted to the simpler, more malleable life form.

WILL: Wait a second, so... you're talking about creating another creature and putting it inside of Abby?

MAGNUS: If it takes, the annelid will develop rapidly, within hours, but Abby's system will sustain no further damage.

WILL: Okay, that sounds positive.

MAGNUS: Until... the new life form reaches maturity. At which point, it will emerge from her body... rather violently.

Act V
INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - MAGNUS'S STUDY - DAY

WILL: This is your solution? Why don't you just bore a hole in her brain, or use leeches?

MAGNUS: Once this new creature leaves her body, I can save her--

WILL: Are you willing to bet her life on that? Because I'm not.

MAGNUS: There will be trauma, Will, I realize, but if I time this right--

WILL: No. That's not what's happening here, is it? See, you're so intoxicated by the possibility of creating some amazing new life form that you're ignoring other options.

MAGNUS: That is not the case, I assure you.

WILL: Growing a monster inside my girlfriend, and then patching her up after it chews its way out is not an answer!

MAGNUS: I've already started an ovulation cycle on the annelid.

WILL: What?

MAGNUS: I intend to harvest the larva within the hour.

WILL: Like hell you will.

MAGNUS: My only concern is for Abby's well-being. It's my call. This is what we're doing, Will.

WILL: We'll see about that.

MAGNUS: Henry, Declan, we have a situation.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HOLDING CELL

WILL: Nice work, H. your finest hour.

DECLAN: Will--

WILL: You too, Deko. Hope you're proud.

HENRY: The doc is trying to save her life.

WILL: If it were Erika down there, you wouldn't be such a suck-ass right now!

HENRY: Dude, don't push me.

WILL: Oh, I'm just gettin' started!

DECLAN: That's enough, both of you!

DECLAN: As soon as this is over, you're free.

[engages lock]

DECLAN: Watch him. Magnus' orders.

[kicks chair angrily]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - ABNORMAL CELL - GIANT SALAMANDER

DECLAN: You are sure about this?

MAGNUS: Prep the O.R.

DECLAN: You know, I've done combat medicine, but I'm not a surgeon. If you'd rather someone else was with you...

MAGNUS: We're dealing with a hybrid species, Declan. If something goes wrong, I need you there.

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

MAGNUS: Upper abdomen for the incision point. Scalpel.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HOLDING CELL

WILL: What about patient consent?

HENRY: It's not your call.

WILL: Doesn't that count for anything?

HENRY: It'll be over soon, so just take--

WILL: She's gonna be dead soon, Henry!

HENRY: You're letting your emotions run the game, dude.

WILL: Oh, and what are you suddenly, huh? Mr. Stoic?

HENRY: I trust Magnus, Will. So should you.

WILL: Please, man... Please, Henry? I've got to get out of here! I gotta get out of here!

HENRY: Don't do it!

[stunner blasts]

WILL: 534...

WILL: 534!

[door lock beeps]

WILL: Thanks.

GAVIN: You're welcome.

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

MAGNUS: Gestation time, two hours. Ultrasound shows rapid growth, but no movement.

[alerts blare]

DECLAN: Blood pressure's crashing.

MAGNUS: Six units of blood on standby. Saline wide open. We'll need containment.

DECLAN: On it.

MAGNUS: This is happening more rapidly than I'd hoped.

DECLAN: Heart rate's in the red. She's going into shock.

MAGNUS: Keep this IV in her!

DECLAN: Magnus!

MAGNUS: Keep her still! I need to give it an exit point! There's too much movement. I can't make a clean incision. She needs more sedation!

[wrenching and tearing]

MAGNUS: Dear God.

[monitor flatlining]

Act VI
INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - O.R.

MAGNUS: Containment, quickly!

MAGNUS: One milligram epi, stat!

DECLAN: Magnus...

MAGNUS: Crash cart!

[flatline drones as all else falls silent]

[♪♪♪]

DECLAN: Charging!

MAGNUS: Clear!

[crash pads surge]

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

MAGNUS: Clear!

WILL: ♪ Just stay... ♪

DECLAN: No.

MAGNUS: Again! 360!

DECLAN: Charging!

MAGNUS: Clear!

[monitor begins to beep]

DECLAN: We got her.

[♪♪♪]

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - GUEST ROOM - DAY

ABBY: [moans groggily]

ABBY: Hey, you.

WILL: Hey.

ABBY: You okay?

WILL: [sighs] No. Traumatized. But too much singing will do that to a person.

ABBY: From what I heard, it was... kinda romantic. I'm okay.

WILL: [quietly] Come here.

ABBY: I'm okay. Really. I won't be wearing a bikini anytime soon.

WILL: This time I was sure... I mean, I really thought--

ABBY: Hey. If this doesn't disaster-proof our relationship, nothing will.

WILL: I feel like I'm cursed. I feel like... anybody who gets close to me has got a target on their back.

ABBY: But you didn't lose me. And you won't. Okay?

WILL: I can handle monsters. I can handle death. But I can't...handle... singing.

ABBY: But you're so good at it.

WILL: No, I'm not good at it, so just stop, okay? And I have a mountain of paperwork to do because of you, so...

ABBY: - Ooh...

WILL: - You owe me.

ABBY: Go. I'll be here.

INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - UPPER LEVEL - HALLWAY - AT WINDOW - NIGHT

MAGNUS: There you are. Haven't seen you all day.

WILL: I just needed some space.

MAGNUS: As long as you're not hiding from me.

WILL: [chuckles ruefully]

MAGNUS: Will, you obviously have something to say to me.

WILL: Besides thank you for saving her?

MAGNUS: That's not very sincere. Out with it, please.

WILL: It worked. It did, but... that procedure should have never happened. But you never met a compromise you didn't steamroll right through. This hit close to home...

MAGNUS: And...

WILL: You shut me down.

MAGNUS: You've been a wonderful soldier, Will. You have done everything I've asked you, and more. You could run this Sanctuary, hell, the entire network, brilliantly, because you always fight for what you believe is right, even when we disagree. I'm not too proud to admit that I am very used to getting my own way. Sometimes to a fault.

WILL: Right... Don't think you're going to melt me with that... [with an accent] ...British charm of yours.

MAGNUS: Perish forbid.

MAGNUS: You never compromise, Will, and that's the man I hired to be my protégé.

WILL: How am I doing?

MAGNUS: Honestly? I couldn't be more proud.

End Credits
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