Hellboy Page #11

CUT TO:

OMIT:

INT. BEAM TUNNEL AREA - BENJAMIN INSTITUTE - DAY

An explosion of sound and light as a subway train passes

through a dank tunnel. Then, light beams sweep the encrusted

walls and steel columns.

Clay and some B.P.R.D. agents hold flashlights. Two of them --

MOSS and QUARRY -- carry FLAMETHROWERS.

Hellboy and Abe bring up the rear.

INT. STORAGE ROOM - DAY

They enter a store room piled high with filing cabinets,

typewriters and school desks. A turn-of-the-century mural

depicts happy boys doing charitable acts. A Latin phrase

("VIRILITER AGE") encourages them to behave like men.

QUARRY:

(reads a map)

We're in the cellar of the Benjamin

Institute. Turn-of-the-century

orphanage. Closed since they moved

the sewers in '51.

Abe removes his gloves, hyperextends his palm and senses the

air. Then the surface of the water.

ABE:

There's a pulse. And it's coming

from --

Debris and dust seem to float from the water's surface and

towards Abe's hand.

ABE:

there --

They point their flashlights at a bulkhead.

ABE:

cistern on the other side. Most of

the eggs are there --

They move some filing cabinets and stare at a blank concrete

wall.

AGENT QUARRY:

No way in.

CLAY:

We should go back and request

permission to --

BAMMM!!! Hellboy's stone hand cracks the concrete. He starts

pounding, again and again, like a jack hammer.

CUT TO:

INT. (SET/LOCATION BUILT SUGAR FACTORY) FURNACE ROOM - DAY

Makeshift living quarters tucked below a maze of furnace

ducts. Scores of old clocks fill the room with TICKING.

At a desk, Kroenen calmly repairs a mechanical hand: his

own.

His face is partly exposed. Under his leather mask, horrible

lidless eyes glitter over a skull-like grin, made of raw

gums and taut skin.

As Hellboy's pounding reaches his ears, he rises, like a

spider whose web has twitched. The mechanical hand rattles

blindly on the table.

He opens an ancient leather folder and extracts an engraving

depicting Sammael. Carefully places it on the table. Then he

opens a drawer and, from an envelope, takes two torn pieces

of paper. He puts them in a pouch in his belt.

INT. STORAGE ROOM - DAY

The wall collapses under Hellboy's attack.

HELLBOY:

Are you coming or not?

Clay smiles uncertainly back. Hellboy moves in.

CLAY:

(to Quarry and Moss)

You two, check this dump, then join

us --

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

A large oval room of rusting metal, with pipes spilling water

through a large GRATE on the floor.

Abe studies it, senses something, and nods. With superhuman

effort, Hellboy lifts it. Hundreds of roaches pour out.

ABE:

I'm glad I'm not human. This place

would be an embarrassment.

Below, a vast cistern. Abe drops in two CHEMICAL FLARES.

INT. UNDERWATER - CHAMBER (SET TANK) - DAY

The flares sink, illuminating floating office furniture and

torn paper...

INT. UNDERWATER CHAMBER 2 (LOCATION: R. WAREHOUSE CELLAR)

In the lower depths, they pass shadowy industrial ruins.

Settling on the bottom they reveal the hulk of a waiting

SAMMAEL.

OMIT:

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

Abe pulls off his breathing apparatus. Activates the locator

on his utility belt. Hellboy does likewise. BEEEP! The devices

synchronize.

Hellboy extends a metal reliquary containing a small bone.

HELLBOY:

There you go, Doctor. This should

cover your tailfin -- On loan from

the Vatican, a bone from Saint

Dionysius. Ugh. Looks like a pinky.

Abe ties the reliquary around his hand.

ABE:

Remind me why I keep doing this.

HELLBOY:

Rotten eggs and the safety of mankind.

ABE:

Oh, right --

As transparent nictomembrane lids cover his eyes, Abe dives.

INT. UNDERWATER CHAMBER 2 - (LOCATION R.WAREHOUSE) - DAY

Underwater, ABE finds an entire control room. 1940's magazines

float by, like paper jellyfish. The amber light of the

chemical flares gives the room an eerie other-worldly feel.

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

Waiting above, Hellboy chews a Baby Ruth and pokes around.

Finds a pile of children's shoes covering some yellowing

albums. In the albums, a myriad of sad faces, the orphans

from the past.

Some of the faces have been cut out. There's an unfinished

letter to Father Christmas, dated 1866.

Clay stands below a grate, admiring his hair implants with a

hand mirror.

CLAY:

See? It's thicker. Isn't it? It's

not that doll-hair thing --

Suddenly, something moves. Hellboy shines his light into an

adjoining tunnel. Kroenen is standing there, like a deer

caught in headlights.

HELLBOY:

Son of a -- !

The figure darts away. Hellboy tears after it, gun in hand.

CLAY:

Red, wait!

Clay tries his radio. Static.

CLAY:

Red's on the move!! I'll cover him!!

He pulls out his gun and runs after Hellboy.

INT. TUNNEL LABYRINTH (SET) - DAY

Clay arrives at an intersection of sewer tunnels. The glow

of Hellboy's flashlight is visible somewhere ahead, his

booming footsteps rapidly receding. A veritable labyrinth.

CLAY:

Damn it, Red.

INT. UNDERWATER CHAMBER 2 (LOCATION R. WAREHOUSE) - DAY

Abe nears the bottom of the cistern. As his feet touch bottom,

a cloud of silt fogs the water. He picks out a translucent

egg!

Suddenly, something big glides by. Abe turns: sees nothing.

He places the egg in a glass canister. Now eggs are floating

everywhere, undulating in the water like amber fireflies.

Abe swims slowly, collecting them one by one.

Some of them are snugly wedged between two rusty machines.

Abe's reliquary gets caught in a lever and snaps loose!! It

lands --

on a grate on the floor. Abe swims down and tries to grab

it, but it falls through. Abe curses and stands up --

-- only to find himself FACE TO FACE with Sammael!!

The monster rakes Abe across the chest; dark blue blood begins

to flow. Abe shoves himself into a long, concrete fissure.

Sammael can't fit through, but the tongue darts out, missing

Abe by inches. Sammael scratches at the walls, trying to

reach deeper, screaming in rage.

Abe screams too, emitting a trail of bubbles.

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM - DAY

The bubbles burst on the surface. Watching them is a SECOND

SAMMAEL.

INT. INTERSECTION (LOCATION /BUILT SUGAR FACTORY) - DAY

Hellboy stops, disoriented. No trace of KROENEN. He sniffs

the air, then steps through a non-descript portal.

INT. (LOCATION/BUILT SUGAR FACTORY) FURNACE ROOM - DAY

Hellboy stands in Kroenen's quarters. An array of gas masks

dangle from ducts overhead. Glued next to the walls are dozens

of old photos of children.

He discovers the Sammael engraving.

HELLBOY:

"Sammael:
seed of destruction. Death

becomes the fertile ground."

Suddenly:
drool drops from above: Sammael hangs from a beam.

HELLBOY:

(turning)

Didn't I kill you already?

Sammael lunges, hurling Hellboy through an open service

shaft...

...and it's a long way down.

When Sammael leaps, Hellboy throws him over the edge. Sammael,

however, grabs Hellboy's tail and pulls him over the side.

OMIT:

INT. SERVICE SHAFT (NEW LOCATION SET) - DAY

They crash through pipes, wiring and ducts and slide off

down a duct and into --

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