Buffy the Vampire Slayer Page #25

The players are lined up again. Grueller is drooling. The

other team is really worried about him now.

The snap. Andy drops back and lobs it to Jeffrey. Jeffrey is

way open. He catches it easily, looks behind him as he runs.

Barber players are rushing at him. And Grueller is coming at

him too, throwing other players right and left.

Jeffrey looks a little worried. He bolts down field, toward

the end zone, Grueller on his heels.

ANGLE - BUFFY

She sees something is definitely wrong.

BUFFY:

Jeffrey...

In a flash, she races onto the field.

NICOLE:

Buffy!

JENNIFER:

What is she...

ANGLE - MERRICK

He stands, his eyes following Buffy.

ANGLE - KIMBERLY

She also see Buffy.

KIMBERLY:

Oh, wow. She's really lost it.

VAMPIRE FAN:

Party hearty.

Everybody rises to their feet and cheers as Jeffrey makes it

to the end zone.

ANGLE - THE CLOCK

Two, one, zero.

ANGLE - THE FIELD

Grueller hits Jeffrey a second before he is enveloped by other

players. Grueller, hungry with bloodlust, is confused by the

exultant crowd, snarling at people.

Buffy races for the crowd. She sees Jeffrey is all right.

Grueller makes his way out of the throng and up into the stands

even as everyone else is rushing onto the field.

Jeffrey is triumphant. He sees Buffy running for him and raises

his arms. She passes him right by and continues after Grueller,

heads up the stands. He looks after her, confused, before he

is swamped again.

ANGLE - MERRICK

He tries to make his way through the crowd.

ANGLE - TOP OF THE STANDS

Grueller reaches them and leaps over the back. Buffy sees

him, runs up and without hesitation, dives off herself.

The stands reach some thirty feet off the ground. Buffy sails

down like a diver, grabs a branch about halfway down. She

swings like a gymnast and the branch snaps. Still holding the

broken branch, she completes a perfect flip and lands on her

feet.

The vampire fan is on the ground behind her, come for her and

without stopping or even turning she twirls the branch and

sinks the broken end in his heart.

She looks around for Grueller. He is booking out, already

several yards away..

Merrick appears at the top of the stands just in time to see

Buffy take off after Grueller.

MERRICK:

Wait!

BUFFY:

(calls as she runs)

He knows who I am!

She continues to race after Grueller.

ANGLE - MERRICK

Running back down the stands, making his way through the

dispersing crowd to the nearest exit.

CUT TO:

EXT. STREET - SAME TIME

Buffy is still following, but she can't keep up. She spot a

BIKER tooling along the street on a Harley. She comes up to

the side of the road and tentatively sticks her thumb out.

The biker smiles, stops in front of her.

ANGLE - THE BIKE

Ground level, behind the bike, we see its engine revving, smoke

puffing from twin pipes.

BIKER:

Hey, babe. You want to get some

real power between your legs?

Buffy looks at the biker a moment.

ANGLE - THE BIKE

The same angle as before, ground level. Suddenly the biker's

body lands in front of CAMERA

CLOSEUP - WHEEL

spinning

CLOSEUP - HAND

revving the engine.

Buffy takes off at top speed.

BIKER:

Dyke! You're a dyke! I'm telling

the world!

CUT TO:

EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE (MOMENTS LATER)

A RUSTLING in the trees signifies Grueller's flight. Seconds

late, Buffy roars into view behind him. She navigates the

streets with less ease than determination.

Her eyes follow him off the road and she steers the bike on a

violently bumpy and erratic course through the site. She

finally hits a pile of bricks and is thrown headlong from the

bike. She hits the ground hard; she rolls into it but has

trouble getting up.

BUFFY'S POV

Grueller's smiling face appears over her.

GRUELLER:

Fall down go boom have to see the

nurse.

BUFFY (O.S.)

Grueller, God, what did they do

you?

He brings his face right next to hers. His voice is no longer

passionless; it boils up from hell.

GRUELLER:

They killed me.

RESUME SCENE:

He grabs her and hauls her up.

BUFFY:

No kidding.

She head-butts him with enormous force, sending him staggering

back. Before he can recover, she dives for a pile of discarded

lumber, chooses a nasty shard of wood.

She turns on Grueller, who is smiling again. There are two

more Vampires approaching her, surrounding her.

GRUELLER:

The Master walks tonight. This is

his kingdom, now.

They rush her. She takes one on as the second hits her,

knocking her over. They all three swarm over her, meeting her

kicks with raking claws. The two hold her in front of Grueller.

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