Dominion Page #11

INT. WEEL’S MGM UNDERGROUND BUNKER – NIGHT

They enter, Claire clutching at Alex, intimately, her heart

breaking over what she just did... not sure if it was the

right choice.

Rysen and Jeep are relieved to see them; David notes the way

Claire touches Alex, the truth dawning on him.

ALEX:

(to Rysen)

Sir, what’s happening?

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RYSEN:

The angels have breached the city’s

defenses and are targeting the

reactor ventilation shaft.

Michael’s there now.

Rysen points to the screen as we see...

ON SCREEN:

...Michael, with the upper hand, about to kill WIKEN and

another angel.

As strong as Wiken is, Michael is, well, Michael. It’s no

match and we see why Vega has been so effective at defending

against the angels for as long as they have. It’s like

having Achilles on your side during the Trojan War. He is

that good.

But then we see Michael realizing the third angel has gotten

past him and is on a suicide run at the REACTOR TRANSFORMER

SHED.

While Michael’s momentarily distracted both Wiken and the

other angel attack him...

Too late, Michael sees what their plan was as a GIANT

EXPLOSION engulfs him.

The feed goes black.

END ACT FOUR:

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ACT FIVE:

INT. WEEL’S MGM UNDERGROUND BUNKER – NIGHT

The room is shocked into silence.

The lights flicker and go off, the emergency power comes on.

The room is bathed in RED LIGHT like the bridge of a

submarine.

A Soldier frantically works the monitor controls to get a

camera back up, any camera.

DAVID:

Get me a picture. Now!

The Soldier works, but all the monitors are DARK.

SOLDIER:

Senator... the reactor camera...

just isn’t there anymore. Every

camera in the city is dark.

It’s on every person’s face... they’re screwed. Alex has a

different look:
resolve. Without a word, Alex slips away to

the door... but Jeep steps in front of him.

JEEP:

What are you doing?

ALEX:

Michael needs help.

JEEP:

Michael can handle himself.

Alex goes to move around him, but Jeep shoves him back. Alex

is ready for a fight, places his hand on his sword hilt.

ALEX:

Get out of my way.

JEEP:

If this bunker is breached, every

leader of Vega is within these

walls. And Claire? She’s your

responsibility. You’re needed

here.

ALEX:

I’m needed out there more.

Alex pushes past him and reaches the DOOR as the sound of an

electrical POP stops him.

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He turns and sees the BUNKER monitors have surged back to

life, a single grainy image on every screen.

ON SCREEN:

A long range shot shows a large PLUME of smoke slowly rising

from the city center where the nuclear reactor is located.

Was located. There doesn’t look like anything is left of it.

Alex looks to Jeep.

JEEP:

You can’t help him. No one can.

EXT. NUCLEAR REACTOR COMPOUND – NIGHT

Fires burn in the courtyard, the above ground building a

blasted shell, a blinding smoke covers everything.

SUDDENLY Michael springs into view. He’s fighting the last

angel...

And destroys it, leaving just Wiken.

Wiken flees, flying straight up into the sky, dodging the

heavy gunfire from walls and tops of buildings, and escapes

into the clouds.

Michael doesn’t pursue, his wings morph back into his body as

he turns and runs to save a soldier who is on fire, helping

him and then disappears from view.

INT. WEEL’S MGM UNDERGROUND BUNKER – NIGHT

The mood in the bunker is tense, fear permeates the air mixed

with an almost coffin like sense of entrapment.

Dim lights take over from the emergency RED LIGHTS, a small

relief, but they flicker in strength as if there’s a surge in

the line.

Alex is back by Claire’s side, most people focused on the

monitor image, the smoke plume growing larger.

David puts an arm around Arika. Some of Arika’s entourage

weep openly, others are stern.

DAVID:

I assure you we’re safe, you’ll be

okay. We’ll restore order and get

Vega’s full defenses back online.

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ARIKA:

Thank you David... but it’s not my

first rodeo.

David smiles at this.

The boy, Roan, goes over to get something to eat off a

platter, snacks like he’s ravenous.

William walks over and takes Claire in his arms, more

intimate then he’s ever been with her...

WILLIAM:

I was so worried. Thank the Savior

you’re all right.

Claire’s stiff and uncomfortable being touched by William in

front of Alex. It’s a weird moment as Alex turns away,

repelled by their exchange, unable to look.

Alex makes eye contact with Rysen who just witnessed it all.

Rysen says nothing and looks away.

And through all of this, Jeep has calmly watched Alex. Never

taking his eyes off of him. As if he’s deciding something...

Then out of nowhere, ROAN, moving quicker than any child

should be able to, leaps at JEEP plunging A KNIFE (from the

food tray) into Jeep’s belly, a perfect killing blow

performed by a skilled assassin.

It’s so shocking that no one reacts right away, then women

SCREAM, guards pull handguns and fire on ROAN in the tight

space, David screaming...

DAVID:

Stop firing!

Bullets ricochet around the room, hitting one of Arika’s

women in the head. She falls over, dead.

Roan, like the other angels, has the ability to ignore

gravity. He scurries along the roof, down a wall, dodging

bullets.

But before he exits out the bunker doors one bullet finds its

mark, hits him. Then he’s gone.

Soldiers rush out after him as everyone turns their attention

to Jeep.

Jeep stands still and then goes down on one knee.

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Alex rushes to him and catches him just as he falls over.

Alex gently lowers him to the ground.

As much as the distance of years has made him bitter, this is

his father...

The light’s going out of Jeep’s eyes.

ALEX:

I need a Med Kit!!!

Alex tears open his shirt, places his hand on the wound,

trying to stop the massive bleeding. The tattoos are so dark

that it’s hard to tell blood from pattern.

The man doesn’t have much time left. Jeep looks at Alex

warmly, a father’s love filling his eyes.

JEEP:

(quietly)

You’re ready.

Then to the room he announces as loudly as his weakening body

can manage...

JEEP:

Alex Lannen is the Chosen One. The

baby foretold in final scripture,

now a man...

Jeep dies in Alex arms.

Every person in that room stares at Alex and Jeep, frozen,

not sure what to do or say.

Alex slowly stands, confused by what Jeep just said, trying

to process it. What the hell was JEEP talking about?

David Weel fills in the blanks.

DAVID:

The last words of a dying brain.

He was hallucinating. Ridiculous.

Rysen stares at Alex and then at David, William is

flabbergasted.

Claire and Alex make eye contact. She stares at him in

shock... but in her heart she knows; knows it is true.

And then the biggest shock of all tonight... as everyone

watches, the TATTOOS begin to fade off Jeep’s torso, fading

as if being reverse typed, until there are none left.

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Jeep’s upper body is bare, except for the knife wound and

blood.

And miraculously, as everyone can see, the TATTOOS HAVE

TRANSFERRED ONTO ALEX’S BODY.

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