Blade: Trinity Page #3

LARRY:

So we pass the buck to someone else?

VANCE:

Exactly. Historically, people suffering

from medical conditions have always been

our psychological scapegoats. In the

Middle Ages schizophrenia was often

attributed to demonic possession.

LARRY:

And vampires?

VANCE:

Well, there's a hereditary blood disease

known as porphyria that has symptoms

remarkably similar to the classic vampiric

traits. People suffering from this

disease are anemic, they become sensitive

to sunlight, they can't tolerate garlic --

LARRY:

Which is too bad, since my doctor tells me

that's good for the heart.

(turning to Chief Vreede)

Chief Vreede? What's your take on all the

recent rumors we've been hearing about

vampires?

VREEDE:

The only vampires I'm worried about are

the ones passing the bar exam.

(laughing)

Seriously, if vampires existed, don't you

think we'd be on to them by now? The

truth is, our streets have never been

safer. Homicides, assaults -- violent

crime is down across the board. If people

want to be concerned, they should focus on

criminals like Blade.

LARRY:

Now who's this? Tell me about him.

VREEDE:

He's a sociopath we've been pursuing.

VANCE:

Blade is a very disturbed individual.

Even the name he's chosen for himself is

troubling. According to witnesses, he

operates under the belief that a vast

conspiracy of vampires live amongst us.

You have to look at the psychiatric

underpinnings here. What does a person

like Blade really want?

Odds are, he's really trying to work out

some kind of inner trauma. He thinks he's

slaying monsters, but he's really trying

to murder aspects of himself.

The sound of GUNFIRE pre-laps over from the next scene as we --

CUT TO:

EXT. MACHINE SHOP/PARKING LOT - NIGHT

-- a MASSIVE EXPLOSION ripping through an industrial building.

Banks of windows BLOW OUTWARDS, FIRE ROlLS, brick walls

CRUMBLE, raining debris everywhere.

A SCREAMING, BURNING MAN

goes tumbling into the night air. Buoyed by the explosion,

his body flies upward, trailing fire like a human comet.

MORE MEN (VAMPIRES) race out, some of them on fire.

CLOSER:

as a FORMIDABLE FIGURE resolves out of the swirling flames.

It's Blade, striding towards us in slow-motion, body bristling

with weapons, the exaggerated sounds of his FOOTFALLS ringing

out like drums of doom.

He looks like the God of War. WHOOSH! We ramp back up to

real-time. Then faster as --

-- a TRIO OF VAMPIRE LOW-LIFES (STONE, GEDGE, and CAMPBELL)

run for their lives towards their vehicles. TWO MODIFIED

STREET RACING CARS are pulling out; a Mustang and an Eagle

Talon. Gedge is climbing into the Talon even as it starts to

move, pulling the door shut. At the same time --

-- Stone and Campbell climb atop two stretched and lowered

hardtail chopper cycles. Blade starts forward, drawing two of

his custom MACH pistols, but --

--the Mustang comes SCREAMING IN REVERSE TOWARDS him!

Blade makes a SUPER-HUMAN LEAP over the speeding car.

Momentarily upside down, he FIRES through the windshield and

engine block as he flips. Within the car, the vampires ASH.

The Mustang EXPLODES. flipping over and --

--Blade, now facing frontward again, continues to FIRE as he

lands, aiming at --

THE TALON AND THE CHOPPERS,

which haul ass out of the parking lot, swerving into the

traffic on the street beyond.

Blade KEEPS FIRING until he's out of bullets. Then --

ELLINGSON (O.S.)

No more bullets, Blade? Guess it's time

for you to fall down and go boom.

FOUR STRANDED VAMPIRES,

from the conflagration, their clothes still smoking, surround

Blade. Call them EMOND, DOH, DENLINGER, and ELLINGSON.

Blade holsters his MACH pistols. Then reaches for a wicked

looking CHAIN-KNIFE strapped to his thigh. The knife has a

button on either side of the hilt. As Ellingson RUSHES him --

-- Blade triggers the first button. ZZZING! The knife-blade

ejects from the hilt, trailing outward six feet on a razored

chain. The blade penetrates Ellingson's chest. He GASPS as

he starts to ASH. But before his disintegration is complete --

-- Blade hits the second button. The knife-blade retracts,

the razored chain WHIRRING back into the knife-hilt. Blade

SPINS, triggers the first button again --

The knife-blade FLIES OUT, the razored chain whipping around

Denlinger's throat. Blade tugs. The razor chain cuts through

Denlinoer's neck, decapitates him. As he ASHES --

-- Blade triggers the knife again. As it ejects, he whirls it

over his head, making a sound like a BULL-ROARER.

Blade drops low, swinging the razored chain. The chain slices

through Emond's legs. Emond's amputated legs ASH, the rest of

him tumbling onto the asphalt. He SCREAMS.

Blade retracts the knife-blade, whirls, THRUSTS it through

Doh's abdomen. who was coming up from behind. As Doh ASHES,

Blade returns to Emond, finishing him off --

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