Hellboy Page #12

INT. SERVICE SHAFT 2 (SET) - SAME

another passage. There they bounce off of dripping water

pipes and jutting steel I beams, until they finally break

through a mesh/insulation ceiling and directly onto --

INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM STATION - DAY

A subway platform. Full of people.

The two fighting creatures land on the ticket booth -- in an

explosion of coins, glass and steel!!! Some bold New Yorker

in the crowd start picking up handfuls of change.

The dust clears, revealing a large crater in the platform

floor.

Sammael hits Hellboy. The Red Giant lands on a line of

turnstiles, uprooting them all.

Sammael flies through the air, unfolds its bone scythe.

Hellboy rolls away. Sammael misses: the tip imbeds itself in

the floor and then -- TCHAKKK!!! -- in a concrete column.

Sammael pulls, bringing down part of the ceiling. More SCREAMS

from the fleeing public.

A mezzanine above Hellboy collapses, bringing the ceiling,

steel cables and office furniture down onto the Red Giant.

Sammael takes a step towards the crowd and roars --

Then, BAMMMMMM!!! A desk flies up into the air. Hellboy's

stone hand emerges, triumphant.

HELLBOY:

Hey, Chunk-face!

He climbs out of the crater. Sammael growls.

HELLBOY:

You can do better than that. Big

monster like you.

Hellboy rips off one of the turnstile bars and hits Sammael

again and again.

HELLBOY:

See? It hurts! You shouldn't hit

people!

Sammael blocks the last hit and throws the bar away. It embeds

itself in the tile wall.

Sammael punches Hellboy, a hard uppercut.

Hellboy flies up, crashing through the plate glass of a second

mezzanine above the platform. He skids on the tile floor,

scraping a jagged line with his stone hand.

He slides past a group of BYSTANDERS and into a row of backlit

subway ads. He lands in a shower of glass and debris on a

wooden bench, breaking it in two.

Sammael climbs up into the mezzanine.

Hellboy gets up -- his back bristling with glass shards --

and hears a WAIL: a YOUNG GIRL is pointing at A BOX OF KITTENS

abandoned on a bench.

YOUND GIRL:

My kittens!! My kittens!!!

HELLBOY:

Aw, crap.

Sammael charges!!! Hellboy scoops up the box, holds it high!!

Using his bone blade, Sammael pulverizes the bench.

Next, Sammael slashes at Hellboy, scattering a dozen shrieking

citizens.

Illuminated by sparks and shorting lamps, Hellboy advances,

blood dripping from his forehead and nose.

Hellboy starts to reload, but -- Sammael's tongue shoots

out. Hellboy throws the kitten box in the air and -- traps

the tongue with his stone hand --

HELLBOY:

Second date. No tongue!!

-- while catching the box with his tail. The kittens are

fine.

Using the tongue, he throws Sammael out a glass window.

Sammael dangles above the tracks, but he re-joints himself

and grabs a handhold on the train wall above the tunnel.

From here, he pulls on Hellboy, sliding him toward the jagged

glass.

Sammael pulls harder, enters the tunnel.

Hellboy fights to free himself, but his sweaty face is

millimeters away from being sliced by the glass. All seems

lost, when...

WHAAAAA!!!!!! A train appears out of nowhere heading straight

for Sammael.

It splatters the thing against the tunnel wall and plows on.

Sammael's body sprawls motionless at the side of the tracks.

OMIT:

INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM - SAME

HELLBOY:

I hope that hurt.

He gives the cats to the young girl --

YOUNG GIRL:

Thank you --

HELLBOY:

My job.

OMIT:

INT. SUBWAY TRACKS (NEXT TO STATION) - SAME

Hellboy approaches Sammael, whose remains are wreathed in

BLACK flame. A huge CROWD looks on from the end of the

platform.

HELLBOY:

(a whisper)

This time. Stay dead, willya??

He moves away. The BLACK flame flickers out.

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

Under the water, BLACK light blooms within TWO OF SAMMAEL'S

EGGS as a fantastic methamorphosis starts. The embryos burst

out, gyrating in the water, swelling and distending.

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

Badly wounded, Abe peers from his hiding spot. Sammael's not

there.

He quickly swims to the surface, his weird blue blood trailing

behind him. The water boils with energy and BLACK LIGHT.

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

Abe staggers out of the pool and hides behind a crumbling

shower stall. Behind him, two SHAPES come to the surface.

Shaking, Abe pushes his belt locator and collapses.

CUT TO:

INT. SUBWAY TRACKS (NEAR THE STATION) - DAY

Hellboy's locator belt crackles to life. BLUE.

HELLBOY:

Abe -- ?

INT. BEAM-SUPPORTED UNDERGROUND TUNNEL/ STORAGE ROOM - DAY

Back in the tunnel, Quarry and moss move filing cabinets and

rotten bozes full of files. One of them gives out and papers

spill all over.

MOSS:

Jesus --

Their locators light up.

QUARRY:

Abe --

Suddenly -- a noise! The agents leap up and sweep their

flashlights over the columns... Nothing there.

QUARRY:

Moss, what the hell was that?

Then, TWO SILHOUETTES cast long shadows. Powerful footfalls

boom like thunderclaps.

Agent Quarry raises his gun and fires at the dark shapes.

Useless:
the things plow on.

Moss hurriedly straps on his flame thrower. After a few

seconds, a green light beeps, READY.

The muzzle of the flamethrower vomits a 30 feet long gout of

fire into the blackness.

The men pause:
silence!

Quarry turns on his flashlight, hand trembling.

QUARRY:

Whatever it was --

BAM!!! SAMMAEL'S TONGUE uncurls from the shadows and lands

on Quarry's face, pulling him into the dark. His flashlight

bobbles and strobes, lighting up a nightmare:

TWO SAMMAELS stand in the tunnel. One of them gleefully

squeezes Quarry. The man's screams are muffled by the

creature's fleshy lips wrapping around his head.

Moss runs as fast as he can, jumping and tumbling through an

obstacle course of beams. Turning, he readies the

flamethrower. The SECOND SAMMAEL lands on Moss's back,

breaking his spine.

CUT TO:

INT. ABANDONED SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

Hellboy enters to find Abe, bleeding but alive, leaning

against the tile, blue blood all around him. Hellboy tries

his walkie-talkie. Turns on his locator. It sparks. It's

damaged and broken.

HELLBOY:

(into his walkie-talkie)

We need an ambulance. Now!! Over!!

INT. CENTER OF THE TUNNEL LABYRINTH (SET) - DAY

Clay stumbles around, lost. He stops under a grate.

HELLBOY'S VOICE

(on the walkie-talkie)

Who's there? Clay? Come in, someone.

CLAY:

Clay, Code 30, this is Clay, over...

Behind Clay, Kroenen drops down from an overhead pipe, through

shafts of gray light. He brings forth his customary long

blade. Clay turns in time to see Kroenen coming at him. He

fires. Kroenen stabs.

Twin rivulets of blood run from Clay's nostrils.

INT. TUNNEL LABYRINTH - CONNECTING SHOWER ROOM (SET) - DAY

Hellboy hears the gunfire, starts running.

INT. CENTER OF THE TUNNEL LABYRINTH (SET)

Clay falls to the floor.

Kroenen stands there, unfazed by Clay's bullets in his chest.

Dust pours from his wounds and piles up neatly at his feet.

He hears Hellboy coming.He places the knife on the floor,

then lies down and plays dead.

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