Blade: Trinity Page #23

SOMMERFIELD:

Zoe, go find some place to hide, sweety.

Zoe hesitates. Sommerfield senses it and lashes out with her

cane, BANGING a rack of equipment, startling the girl.

SOMMERFIELD:

Damnit, go! Get out of here, Zoe!

The girl scurries away. Sommerfield TAP-TAPS with her cane,

moving towards the storage area. She finds a gun cabinet,

feels around with her hands, locates an electronic pistol.

INT. NGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - STORAGE AREA - NIGHT

Sommerfield enters. Dex and Hedges are sprawled on the floor

before her, having been slaughtered. Blood is everywnere.

She doesn't see them, of course. But we do.

THE CAMERA SHIFTS AROUND,

revealing Whistler crouched right behind her!

She's unaware of his presence. And as we watch, his facial

features shift. We hear the sickening sounds of CARTILAGE

POPPING and we realize that it's Drake, not Whistler.

With mounting dread, Sommerfield turns towards the sound. And

then Drake is upon her, rushing forward with a GROWL.

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - BATHROOM - NIGHT

As Sommerfield's AGONIZED SCREAMS echo through the warehouse,

Zoe rushes into the bathroom, looking for a place to hide. She

considers the lockers, discounts them. Then settles on --

A HEATING GRATE:

near the floor. It's about fourteen inches wide -- just

barely big enough for her to squeeze into.

Zoe kneels, prying the grate off. Inside, a heating duct

extends four feet before making a ninety-degree turn upward.

Zoe climbs into the duct feet first, scooting her body

backwards. Then she reaches for the grate, securing it back

on, sealing herself inside.

INT. HEATING DUCT - NIGHT

Zoe waits. It's cramped and claustrophobic inside the duct.

She's managed to force herself all the way back to the ninety

degree turn by curling up into a near fetal position.

ZOE'S POV (THROUGH GRATE)

Mostly tile floor and a small portion of the open doorway

leading to the hallway outside.

She listens, trying to hear past the sound of her own

BREATHING which has been magnified because of the ducting.

The screams from the outer rooms have stopped. Then --

ZOE'S POV (THROUGH GRATE)

A pair of boots appear in the doorway -- Drake.

Zoe holds her breath. We HEAR Drake searching the bathroom,

opening the lockers and bathroom stalls.

ZOE'S POV (THROUGH GRATE)

Drake's boot-clad feet pass by the grate

again, closer, tn~s time. They pause for

an interminable moment --

Zoe shuts her eyes. She can't stand it. Finally, we hear

Drake's FOOTSTEPS receding away. Relieved, Zoe takes in a

breath and opens her eyes --

ZOE'S POV (THROUGH GRATE)

Drake's face is right there. pressed up against the other

side of the grate, staring at her!

Zoe SCREAMS. With a ROAR, Drake rips the grate off. He tries

to climb inside, but the width of the duct is too narrow to

accommodate the size of his upper body.

Instead, he reaches his right arm in, extending his clawed

hand as far as he possibly can. Zoe WHIMPERS, trying to

compress her mass into an even tighter ball --

ON DRAKE'S HAND,

having reached the limits of its extension -- his fingertips

only a few scant inches from Zoe's face.

Zoe's been allowed a moment's reprieve. He can't reach her!

But then we hear the sound of POPPING CARTILAGE. Of TINY

BONES shifting beneath Drake's flesh. Drake's fingers are

elongating, snake-like Reaching for Zoe's face, rapidly

closing the space whici1 separates them --

CUT TO:

EXT. LUNA PARK/GARAGE - NIGHT

The real Blade and Abigail are returning. The sliding garage

door opens and the Land Cruiser glides inside.

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

Blade and Abigail enter. The place is dark. They know

instinctively that somethong is wrong.

Blade tries a nearby light. The power is out. They both draw

their weapons. Blade turns on a FLASHLIGHT. They move onto

the darkness --

SHADOWS loom everywhere. It's like a tornado touched down

inside. Equipment lies smashed, tables and chairs have been

overturned. Sommerfield's lab area has been destroyed.

ABIGAIL:

King --

Blade and Abigail rush to the infirmary area, but King is gone

and the place has been trashed. They move into --

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - STORAGE AREA - NIGHT

-- the back area. They find Dex and Hedges on the floor,

their bodies bled, desecrated.

ABIGAIL:

(realizing)

Zoe -- where's Zoe?

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - VARIOUS - NIGHT

With increased urgency, Blade and Abigail search the

headquarters -- the bathroom, the garage, every nook and

cranny. With each moment, Abigail becomes more panicked.

ABIGAIL:

Where is she?!

They can't find her anywhere.

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - SHOWER AREA - NIGHT

Blade and Abigail enter. A thin stream of BLOOD snakes its

way across the shower tiles. Taey follow it, discovering --

SOMMERFIELD,

her body propped up mock-crucifixion style in the showers. On

the wall nearby, someone has written a message in blood:

"IMMORTALITY WILL COME TO SUCH AS ARE FIT FOR IT"

ON BLADE:

He knows damn well who left him the message.

As tears streak down Abigail's cheeks, she rushes to

Sommmerfield's body. Together, she and Blade get her down.

Abigail clutches Sommerfield, slowly rocking the body in her

arms. Blade puts a hand on her shoulder.

BLADE:

Use it.

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