Webisode 4/Transcript

Teaser Sequence
'''INT. - OLD CITY - 98TH STREET SUBWAY SATATION - MAINTENANCE AREA'''

[Opening scene of a dark and rainy street which then descends below ground past pipeline tunnels and subway tunnels to where Ashley is tied up with Druitt and Alexei is playing on the stairs with a marionette.]

DRUITT: What would you do if you did manage to free yourself? Attack me? Or go after the boy and hope I didn't interfere?

ASHLEY: Oh, I'd definitely do you first... [sneers] ..."Dad".

DRUITT: Yes, I wouldn't believe it, either. Such an outlandish, not to mention sordid tale.

ASHLEY: I know my mother. You're not even close to her type. For starters, she likes her men sane and a lot less talky.

DRUITT: Oh, she liked me well enough when she agreed to marry me.

ASHLEY: Okay, well, you have me. You have the ghoul. What's next? My butt's getting cold.

DRUITT: Imagine spending every hour of every day, every penny of your fortune, trying to find someone, only to discover you were looking in the wrong bloody century. Imagine the frustration, the anger, as the search went on, a fool's errand. I moved from decade to decade, holding on to the one hope that I would finally land in the right time and place... ...to find you, Ashley.

ASHLEY: My father is dead.

DRUITT: Who told you that?

DRUITT: Oh, the good doctor? My God, her gall never ceases to amaze me! Who is she to play nursemaid to every deviant who's lost its way? Or more to the point, to decide that you should never know your own flesh and blood?

DRUITT: -Who is she to say?

MAGNUS: -I'm her mother, that's who!

Title Sequence
[Cut to Sanctuary opening title sequence.]

Part I, Act IV
[Will is crawling through a ceiling crawlspace]

WILL: Yeah, this is why I busted my ass in medical school. To crawl around dirty tunnels, chasing mutant psychos.

WILL: Okay. Keep it together, Will. The monsters are down there, not up here.

[Bigfoot crawls in with Will and scares him.]

WILL: I thought you were going to wait in the car.

BIGFOOT: [growls]

DRUITT: Helen... ...you look... ...wonderful.

MAGNUS: Stop playing games, John. You got what you wanted.

DRUITT: Indeed. A family, at last. You played your cards very patiently. Well done. As if that could prevent this moment.

ASHLEY: Mom, please tell this guy there's a nice padded cell in his future.

MAGNUS: Quiet, Ashley.

MAGNUS: Be reasonable. How could I tell her the truth?

DRUITT: How could you not?

MAGNUS: You murdered eight innocent women.

[Bigfoot attempts to interfere in the scene below them.]

WILL: [whispers] No! Not yet.

ASHLEY: I'm still waiting for the "it's a total lie" part. Mom, he's not my dad, right?

MAGNUS: Please. This is neither the time nor the place.

MAGNUS: Whatever you're going to do, don't.

DRUITT: Actually, it is you who's going to do it all, Helen. Look what you've made of our daughter! A foul-mouthed, willful, violent child. But at the core... ...a needy little girl... ...who just misses her dad. And this... ...your beloved creatures. the damned souls you so tirelessly try to save. It is all up to you, Helen. Make your choice! What will it be?

ASHLEY: [to Alexei] Don't.

[Alexei extends his tentacle towards Ashley. Magnus shoots Alexei and Druitt warps to Magnus.]

DRUITT: This is entertaining.

[Will drops down from the crawlspace.]

MAGNUS: I know you are quick, John, but if memory serves, bullets are quicker.

DRUITT: Memory is a fickle companion.

[Druitt grabs Magnus and disarms her.]

WILL: [to Ashley] No, don't! Let me.

WILL: Alexei, wait.

MAGNUS: What now, John? I die like one of your whores?

DRUITT: Tell me what choice I have.

[Magnus drops a syringe down from her sleeve into her hand.]

ALEXEI: You want to hurt me.

WILL: No, I don't. I want to help you. Other people might be afraid of you, but I'm not.

ALEXEI: Why?

WILL: Because... ...there's no such thing... ...as monsters.

[Bigfoot runs in, Druitt warps and materializes with his hand through Bigfoots side. Bigfoot drops to the ground but then Druitt staggers and looks down to his thigh where the syringe is sticking out.]

MAGNUS: Forgive me, John.

DRUITT: You can't control her forever, Helen.

MAGNUS: Stop. You'll never survive.

[Druitt warps away. Magnus and Ashley go to help Bigfoot.]

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

[Will walks past the containment area in the Sanctuary.]

WILL: Easy, guys.

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

[Will approaches Bigfoot asleep on a table with an IV attached to his arm.]

WILL: You actually exist. I was.... I am scared of you. But I know it's just the idea of you. The concept. You see, I saw this movie when I was a kid, and I had an over-active imagination, and.... Never mind. Just get better.

BIGFOOT: Will. You used to live over in Barron County.

WILL: Yeah, when I was a kid. East Hills.

BIGFOOT: 1123 Seneca Boulevard. Before I met the doctor, I -- I was angry. I enjoyed scaring people. Kids. I knew that movie was playing that night, and.... And I'm sorry.

WILL: It was you?

BIGFOOT: I know it is late in coming, but... ...no hard feelings?

[Will shakes Bigfoot's hand.]

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

[Will and Ashley enter the library.]

WILL: Sure you're okay?

ASHLEY: I wasn't at my best back there.

WILL: Well, considering the situation --

ASHLEY: Yeah, well, if you're thinking about working here, um, you should really see this.

[Ashley starts a hologram video player.]

BARNEY: ''Will you stop fiddling with that thing? Let's just get this over with. Huh? Come on, make yourself useful or something, huh? Go get me a cream soda. What the heck was I talking about? Oh, yeah. New guy, if you're watching this, that means she's dragged you into this whole little circus of hers, huh? Well, I was once young like you. A year out of medical school. It was 1932 or something. I was finishing night shift at the hospital, walking home, she came outta the shadows, this woman. She hands me this business card. After that I was just caught in her web. You know, we were studying the abnormals, and we got to be very close. We had a... A special bond, Helen and I. She had ideas about things--''

ASHLEY: He rambles a bit here.

[She fast forwards the video.]

BARNEY: ''I begged and I pleaded with her to stop. I didn't think I could take it anymore, you know? Different things from the fridge--''

ASHLEY: No, no.

[Fast forwards the video.]

BARNEY: ''...been given an opportunity to learn things. Things that no one else can ever know. And there will be risks. There will be sacrifices. At best, a chance of light death, is maiming, could be in the cards. But what is that in the face of knowing the truth, the truth about humankind? Oh. Hey, glue guy. Glue guy, I just lost another fingernail. What do I gotta do? Where are you? Ah. Don't sneak up on me like that. Anyway.... Good luck, new guy. Just keep your head up, keep your eyes open. And stay away from anything, anything radioactive. I don't care how cute and fluffy it is. And you tell Helen.... You tell Helen that.... Tell her that Barney says hello. She'll know what that means. Anyway, I gotta get someone to husk down my corns--''

WILL: Nice.

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

[Will enters Magnus's study.]

MAGNUS: Leaving, Dr. Zimmerman?

WILL: Well, after watching Barney TV, can you blame me? Look, I just wanted to say thank you. It was a lot of fun. -As traumatic as it was.

MAGNUS: -You're turning down my offer.

WILL: Yeah. I already have a job.

MAGNUS: At that zoo they laughingly call a hospital. Cold-hearted bureaucrats and uneducated sloths.

WILL: Hey, don't forget about the free jello.

MAGNUS: Ah. So why linger? Off you go.

WILL: Is Alexei....?

MAGNUS: I've secured a place for him at a special school I know. He'll be fine.

WILL: And what about Ashley? Some pretty heavy news about her dad.

MAGNUS: I will deal with my daughter, have no fear. Was there something else?

WILL: Yeah. Yeah, it's you. And Druitt. Something about it still doesn't make sense to me.

MAGNUS: Pray tell.

WILL: Barney, 1932. And the way you talk. Those "Sherlock Holmes" expressions. I mean, who says "pray tell"? And Druitt was the same way.

MAGNUS: Proper use of the Queen's English is a lost art.

WILL: No, no, no. Let's just forget about the very disturbing fact that you have a basement full of monsters and your butler shouldn't exist. Let's talk about you and this guy, okay? You claim that your first patient was Montague John Druitt, a man who also happens to be Scotland Yard's prime suspect in the Ripper killings in 1888.

MAGNUS: I told you he could bend dimensional space. -Why not time as well?

WILL: -So he's the actual Ripper? Come on, you can't know that, not for sure.

MAGNUS: Indeed I can, Dr. Zimmerman. I was there.

WILL: So you can travel through time, too?

MAGNUS: I cannot.

WILL: But you said that Ashley was your flesh and blood, so --

MAGNUS: She is. I kept the embryo frozen for over a century, until I could bear the loneliness no longer. I brought it to term, believing John was gone for good. I underestimated his determination.

WILL: How is any of this possible?

MAGNUS: When you treat beings with extraordinary powers, sometimes the rewards are.... Well, unexpected.

WILL: -So that means that you....

MAGNUS: -I am 157 years old.

WILL: [laughs]

MAGNUS: Weren't you leaving? Your gratuitous jello awaits.

WILL: You know, I hoped that at least you would be normal.

MAGNUS: Sorry to disappoint.

WILL: Can you promise me that I'm not going to end up like Barney?

MAGNUS: No, I can't do that. But I can promise you the adventure of many, many lifetimes. Shall we begin?

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