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1

(suspicious, angry)

How dare you challenge me! I, whokept everyone safe all these years.

Ever since you got here everythinghas been unraveling. You’re a

curse. A fool guided by pointlessqueries.

9 stands staunch.

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9

(gritting teeth, angry,

determined; effort at endas 9 pulls the staff outof 1’s hand)

And you are a blind man guided byfear.

6 holds onto the key around his neck, looking afraid.

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6

The sky... the sky is breaking....

A shadow comes over them with a faint sound of somethingoutside. 1 starts to back away.

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1

Sometimes fear is the appropriate

response.

The WINGED BEAST tail crashes through the stained glasswindow and breaks into the floor right next to 9.

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6 looks bewildered and doesn’t move. 5 pulls him out ofdanger.

6

(whispering, reflexively)

The source... the source...

5, 6, 8 and 9 huddle together. Suddenly the Winged Beastcomes crashing in the window behind them, knocking over thethurible and splashing hot coals all over the floor.

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SEQ. 140 - Winged Beast Attacks

SEQ. 140 - INT. CATHEDRAL/CLOCKTOWER - CONTINUOUS

5, 6, 8 and 9 see the Winged Beast emerge from the smokepouring out of the upset thurible.

The Winged Beast SHRIEKS at them. It catches its foot on the

runner leading up to 1’s empty throne. The hymnboard/

calendar topples away to reveal 1 hiding behind it. 1instinctively clutches his staff causing the bell at the topof the staff to RING and attracting the Winged Beast’sattention.

1 flees. 8 charges the Beast but it SCYTHES its wing towardshim and knocks 8 across the floor. 8 slides across the floor

to 1, who stands next to 6’s picture of the Cat Beast.

1 pushed the picture of the Cat Beast away to reveal a HIDDENPASSAGEWAY. 1 runs away as 8 looks at the others for a briefmoment before also running away.

The Winged Beast turns its attention to 9, 5, and 6. The

ragdolls run for the bucket and bell-ropes, but 9 trips. The

Winged Beast advances towards him. 5 reaches out to 9. 9

gestures to him to continue without him.

As 9 recovers himself and makes a break for the bucket, 5starts to lower the bucket down. Just as the Winged Beast isabout to catch up with him, 9 LEAPS down the shaft and landsin the bucket with 5 and 6.

Angrily, the Beast lashes its harpoon tail down at them,

piercing the bottom of the bucket. The bucket rocks and 6 is

sent FLYING OUT but 5 CATCHES him in the nick of time.

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The Winged Beast starts reeling its harpoon tail in. Jerkingback and forth, the bucket ascends, drawing the ragdollscloser and closer to the Beast.

9 spots a SMALL LEDGE next to a stained glass window.

He opens the side of the bucket and gestures that they shouldjump.

The others hesitate, but then 9, 6, and 5 jump out of thebucket onto a swinging rope, and onto the ledge. The WingedBeast plummets down the shaft after them.

SEQ. 140 - EXT. CATHEDRAL/CLOCKTOWER - CONTINUOUS

The ragdolls squeeze through a small crack in the stainedglass emerging onto a ledge overlooking the Cathedral’s roof.

9 sees 1 and 8 running across the roof and points to 5 and 6to look down there. Down on the roof, 1 and 8 see 5, 6, and

9. 1 pushes past 8 and runs farther out, towards the frontof the Cathedral. 8 follows.

Suddenly, the Winged Beast SMASHES through the glass behindthem. It struggles to get through the window but can’t quitefit.

6 is very vulnerable out there.

9 turns to 5.

9

Take him inside.

9 now climbs out on the gargoyle purposefully.

The Winged Beast FLIES UP into the air, circling lazily. 1

and 8, running on the top of the roof, are very exposed.

Hawklike, the Winged Beast sails towards them.

8 steps up to defend 1. He flips his salt-shaker helmet downover his face as armor, pulls out his scissor knife andstands his ground... waiting... waiting for the Winged Beastto soar in closer...

And then, at the last possible moment, he HURLS his scissorknife at the Winged Beast. It flies through the air andcatches in the Beast’s propeller.

Knocked off balance, the Beast swoops down. 1 ducks out of

the way but it knocks 8 off his feet. 8 slides down the

sloped edge of the roof, towards GAPING HOLE.

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Just as 8 is about to fall into the hole, he catches on tothe edge. His other blade plummets through the hole as hehangs, desperately... his grip SLIPPING...

9 catches up to where 1 is.

SEQ. 140 - INT. CATHEDRAL - SAME TIME

6 and 5 run down the banisters towards the crashed plane.

seems to pull 5 in a particular direction.

SEQ. 140 - EXT. CATHEDRAL - CONTINUOUS

The Winged Beast circles around and sets its harpoon tail toshoot. 1 squints into the sun as the Winged Beast, backlit,

swoops down towards them. He sees a glare come from the tinroof. 9 gets an idea. He gestures to 1 to help him. 1

scowls, but has no alternative but to help him.

9 peels back a piece of the roof, with 1 helping him. The

roof’s

GLARE:

beams right into the eyes of the Winged Beast, momentarilyblinding it.

The Beast flinches just as it FIRES its harpoon tail at them.

Blinded by the glare, it MISSES and almost hits 8.

The harpoon imbeds itself into a rafter inside the Cathedral.

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SEQ. 145 - Wing

SEQ. 145 - EXT. CATHEDRAL/CLOCKTOWER - CONTINUOUS

8 falls onto and then slides down the harpoon’s line,

swinging into the Cathedral and landing on the wing of theairplane embedded in the side of the Cathedral, right next to5 and 6. 8’s weight on the harpoon’s line has pulled it moreand more taut...

The Winged Beast is pulled hard into the roof and slidesdown, knocking into 1 and 9.

1 and 9 PLUNGE into the Cathedral and onto the plane wing,

where 8 catches them in midair before they hit the wing.

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The Winged Beast plummets after them onto the wing. It picksitself up, spots the cowering ragdolls, and opens up hisbladed beak screaming.

The Winged Beast starts to charge them when suddenly-

7 DROPS DOWN from a high parapet and leaps onto the WingedBeast’s neck.

1 and 8 stare in surprise. 9 stares in delight and relief.

1

(stunned and surprised)

7?

Immediately, the beast throws her off towards the others.

She’d dropped her spear; she goes to pick it up and

immediately, her leg is IMPALED by the WingedBeast, which has fired its harpoon. She is impaled next tothe guys.

7

(lightly)

I thought you might need some help.

But as she speaks, the Beast begins to reel her in. She

fights viciously.

9 jumps and grabs on to 7 as she’s being pulled away.

7 (cont’d)

(yelling)

My spear!

5 grabs her forked spear and hands it to her. She grabs herforked spear and stabs it into the plane. The harpoon’scable is pulled taut between her leg and the Winged Beast.

9

(yelling to the others)

The cable! Cut it!

8 runs to recover the blade that slipped from his grasp as heslid down the roof, then runs over and SLICES with all hisbrute force through the cable. The cable flies up in the airand WRAPS itself around the propeller on the end of the wing.

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