Blade: Trinity Page #5

-- the Talon gets some serious air, ROLLING onto its side as

it comes back to earth.

EXT. INTERSECTION - NIGHT

--WK-KRUNCH-- the wreck skids to a stop against a streetlight.

The streetlight CREAKS, CRASHES DOWN on the wreck. BYSTANDERS

gather, murmuring amongst themselves --

Gedge drags his bleeding body from the wrecked Talon. He

staggers to his feet, clutching a pistol, limps away --

BLADE'S CHARGER

pulls up. Blade climbs out, shotgun in hand. The shotgun has

an under-mounted stake launcher. Blade FIRES at --

-- Gedge. The stake hits him in the back. KNOCKING him onto

the street. Bystanders SCREAM, falling back, taking cover --

Blade approaches, puzzled. Gedge is still alive, LAUGHING.

He looks at Blade, eyes crazed, flashing his fangs.

BLADE:

Staked you with silver. Why aren't you

ash?

Gedge coughs blood, struggles to speak:

GEDGE:

Why aren't you smarter? Not a vampire,

dumbshit -- set your sorry ass up --

Gedge tugs at his fangs. They're fake, PROSTHETIC. Gedge is

looking past Blade. Blade turns, looking up --

A ROOFTOP ABOVE:

Danica is perched there. She backs into the shadows. But

Blade doesn't have time to investigate because --

--POLICE SIRENS are drawing near. Blade retreats to his

charger. He GUNS it, speeding away as we --

CUT TO:

EXT. BLADE AND WHISTLER'S REFUGE - BOAT HOUSE - NIGHT

Blade's Charger pulls up to a boat house at the water's edge.

Blade climbs out, disappears inside.

WHISTLER (O.S.)

What the f*** happened tonight?

INT. BLADE AND WHISTLER'S REFUGE - BOAT HOUSE - NIGHT

New digs. Built into the decaying boat house, retrofitted for

Blade's combat needs. Blade is taking off his body armor,

tossing weapons onto a work table. He's frustrated.

BLADE:

How should I know? He was human.

Whistler reaches for a bottle of whiskey, takes a sip.

WHISTLER:

You've been getting careless, Blade. You

kill a vampire, they ash, don't leave any

proof of their existence. But something

like this, a human corpse, it's messy --

(shaking his head)

-- you better hope nobody IDed you.

CUT TO:

INT. PHOENIX TOWERS - DANICA'S QUARTERS - NIGHT

CLOSE ON a digital video tape being slipped into a player.

PULL BACK to reveal Danica sitting before a monitor.

ON THE MONITOR WE SEE

Footage of Blade confronting Gedge, filmed from a high-angle.

Danica smiles and we --

CUT TO:

EXT. FBI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS - DAY

Establishing.

SUPER TITLE:
FBI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS

WOMAN'S VOICE

It was horrible. The one car crashed, and

then the guy in the coat was shooting the

other guy --

INT. FBI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS - OFFICE - DAY

CLOSE ON a TV screen. We are watching a news feed. A

REPORTER interviews a WOMAN at the intersection where Blade

executed Gedge. Now the reporter turns to the camera.

REPORTER:

(on-screen)

That was just a taste of the mayhem that

occurred during tonight's brazen shoot-out

that left at least four people dead. Now

apparently an anonymous citizen captured

the whole event on video --

The IMAGE FREEZES. We hear the clatter of KEYBOARD KEYS as we

pan over to an adjacent computer monitor where a series of

VIDEO CAPTURES of the event flash by us in slide-show mode.

AGENT RAY CUMBLERLAND studies the screen. Ray is a career

agent. Dedicated and dogged to the point of annoyance,

utterly humorless. His office is cramped and institutional,

devoid of any personal touches. It's also overflowing with

files, photographs, and charts concerning Blade and Whistler.

A BULLETIN BOARD

features numerous surveillance photos of Blade and Whistler in

action, along with various news clippings and two WANTED

POSTERS ("UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION - MURDER,

AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING, ARMED VIOLENCE"). Most of the photos

are blurry and indistinct -- akin to snaps taken of Bigfoot.

HALE (O.S.)

Ray! Heard we've got a lead!

WILSON HALE (20s), Ray's subordinate, rushes in, excited. Ray

stands, ripping down a photo of Blade and Whistler.

CUMBERLAND:

Book us a flight, Hale. Time to take

these cowboys down.

CUT TO:

WHISTLER (0.S.)

Pack of Reds and some matches.

CUT TO:

INT. CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY

Whistler is buying a pack of cigarettes when he notices--

A BLACK AND WHITE TABLOID

on display nearby. The cover story features a BLURRY PHOTO of

Blade's recent melee with the vampires.

Whistler picks up the tabloid, studying it. Next to the photo

is an ARTIST'S SKETCH OF BLADE. The headline reads: "GUN

TOTING PSYCHOPATH CAPTURED ON FILM!"

Whistler nods to the CASHIER, hands over some more cash.

WHISTLER:

I'll take this too.

EXT. CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY

Whistler exits the store, perusing the tabloid as he walks.

We hear the WHIR of a camera's HIGH-SPEED MOTOR DRIVE and --

A SERIES OF DIGITAL SHOTS

capture Whistler as he moves down the sidewalk.

ANGLE ON AN FBI AGENT

perched on a nearby roof, taking surveillance photos.

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