Blade: Trinity Page #31

By the time Cumberland and his men have entered, fanning out

through the atrium, all they find are a series of corpse

shaped piles of ash and singe marks.

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

In the weeks that followed, the rest of

the world's vampires also perished.

(beat)

We'd finally won.

ON CUMBERLAND,

surveying the scene, frustrated by what he's found. Then we

hear SHOUTS coming from the back of the atrium.

AT THE BACK OF THE ATRIUM

they find Blade. He's dead, slumped against a wall. There's

no sign of Drake. The vampire king is gone.

INT. FBI MORGUE - DAY

CLOSE ON Blade's face, his body being wheeled on an autopsy

gurney. PULL BACK to reveal that we are in an FBI morgue.

Cumberland and Hale stand nearby, overseeing everything as --

A TRIO OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS

lift Blade's body onto an autopsy table. They turn on a bank

of overhead UV lights. The lead examiner reaches for a

scalpel. But as he touches the scalpel to Blade's chest --

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

And Blade? Cumberland and Hale finally

got their body --

BLADE'S FACE

changes. We hear a series of POPS and CRACKS as subdermal

cartilage begins to loosen and shift. At the same time, the

skin begins to lighten as melanin is gradually leached away.

ABIGAIL (V.0.) (CONT'D)

-- but it wasn't the one they were banking

on.

ON CUMBERLAND AND THE OTHERS

as they react with varying degrees of shock.

BACK TO THE BODY

We realize that it's not Blade lying before them. It's Drake.

Somehow, even in death, the vampire king managed to take

Blade's shape and temporarily retain it.

ABIGAIL (V.O.)

The virus didn't kill Blade. But the

authorities very well could have. So in

the end, realizing that own his people

were doomed, Drake decided to give Blade a

gift.

(beat)

ABIGAIL (CONT ÔD)

By taking Blade's shape, he bought Blade

enough time to escape. Offering Blade a

second chance at life - -

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SEASIDE CLIFF - DAY

A bright summer day. Blade stands at the edge of a cliff,

looking out over a sun-struck ocean. For the first time since

we've seen him, he's not wearing armor or sunglasses or

handguns or rifles. And were it not for the sword he holds,

we might even mistake him for an ordinary man.

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

And so Blade took it.

Blade flings his sword over the cliff, into the ocean below.

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

We never saw him again.

UNDERWATER:

We see the sword sinking, reflecting the refracted sunlight

from above as it twirls end over end.

BACK TO BLADE:

At peace with himself at last. After a moment's reflection,

he turns and walks away.

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

He disappeared completely.

(beat)

But that's what heroes do. They simply

fade out. And in this way --

A SERIES OF DISSOLVES

as Blade moves further and further away from us, dwindling

into the horizon until he disappears entirely.

ABIGAIL (V.0.)

-- they become legends.

FADE TO BLACK.

Over darkness we hear the sound of TRAFFIC.

EXT. THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB - NIGHT

FADE IN. We are moving towards a local punk dive wedged into

a crowded block in the meat packing district.

A DOORMAN (LUCIUS) stands outside, checking CUSTOMERS' IDs.We

hear HILLBILLY THRASH MUSIC coming from within.

ANGLE ON KING AND ABIGAIL

approaching. King holds his four-barreled rifle. Abigail

peels away, disappearing into an alley as King nears the front

door. The doorman recognizes King, knows he's trouble.

KING:

Evening Lucius.

LUCIUS:

King, what the hell are you doing here?

KING:

Just a little sport hunting.

INT. CLUB CROWBAR - NIGHT

A BAND belts out a cover of Sam and the Shams' Little Red

Riding Hood. The band members look a little lupine. As King

weaves his way through the crowd, Lucius hurries alongside.

LUCIUS:

Ain't no vampires left, King. So who do

you have to hunt?

KING:

That's an interesting question, my friend.

And I've got a question for you in return.

INT. CLUB CROWBAR - BACK AREA - NIGHT

As King pushes his way through to the bathrooms, we hear an

UNEARTHLY ROAR coming from the men's room.

KING:

What do you get when you cross a vampire

with a werewolf?

The door to the men's room EXPLODES OPEN. Abigail comes

flying out. She hits the far wall of the hallway, slides to

th floor. But she's up in an instant, pulling a knife on --

KING:

(raising his four-barrel)

A fur coat that sticks to your neck.

A HILL-BILLY HIPSTER WERE-CREATURE,

wearing a blood-soaked Stray Cats-style suit. The ephedrine

nightmare creature looks at King, opening his elongated snout

to flash a set of razor-sharp canid teeth.

KING:

Don't you know fur is murder?

As King FIRES point-blank into the were-creature we --

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