Hellboy Page #7

LOADING DOCK / ALLEY

Sammael dashes by, followed closely by Hellboy, running full

tilt.

A ten-wheeler backs up, effectively blocking their way. A

few workers load pumpkin boxes in it.

WORKER 1

What the hell is that??

Without slowing down, Sammael jumps onto the trailer, denting

the roof then jumping off and into a CROWDED CARNIVAL area.

A small carrousel and refreshment stand flank a pumpkin patch.

Full of curiosity, Sammael pauses a second to inspect a Trick-

or-treater dressed as a GOLDEN DRAGON.

Hellboy catapults himself onto the trailer's roof.

3 WORKERS

(chorus)

Whoa-whoa-whoa-

Hellboy jumps and lands heavily on top of the driver's cab:

CRASH!!!

The driver is almost crushed under the steel. He screams,

showered by thousands of glass shards.

Myers is a few steps behind.

MYERS:

(into headset)

We'll hit the street in a minute.

We're heading towards civilians...

He squeezes between the vehicle and the alley wall. The

vendors are yelling at him.

MYERS:

Yeah, yeah, crazy costume, uh? Trick

or treat!!

EXT. WEST SIDE STREET - NIGHT

Sammael runs past a group of trick-or-treaters, and jumps

straight into the street. Cars swerve, avoiding a collision

as Sammael lands on the opposite sidewalk. The TRICK OR

TREATERS scream.

Hellboy appears. He too dives straight into the traffic as

Myers follows --

He runs into the road... and a 4X4 speeds straight at him!

Seeing this, Hellboy runs back, and lands next to Myers,

holds out his STONE HAND and stops the 4x4 dead in its tracks.

The impact somersaults the car over them both. It lands with

a thud on the street, air bags exploding. Myers almost faints.

Other cars stop, tires squealing and horns blaring. A major

traffic jam.

HELLBOY:

Are you okay?

Myers opens his eyes, nods.

HELLBOY:

Good. Stay here.

He moves after Sammael.

OMIT:

EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT

Hellboy follows the GLOWING GOOP into an adjacent alley. At

the far end he sees a metal grate has been moved. Sammael's

gone.

He comes up to the opening, then jumps in.

EXT./INT. STUNT TRACKS TUNNEL - NIGHT

He lands on a subway track. Sammael is a few yards away.

Seated.

HELLBOY:

Waiting for me, Sammy?

A train horn blares. A headlight approaches!! Hellboy smiles

and puts away his gun.

HELLBOY:

Uh-oh -- between a rock and a hard

place --

But Sammael sprints towards it!

HELLBOY:

Aw, crap --

Sammael unhinges a long, scythe-like bone from his forearm,

then jumps at the front car --

OMIT:

INT. STUNT TRACKS / FRONT 1/4 CAR - NIGHT

smashing through glass and steel and raining sparks. Landing

inside with a ROAR!!! --

EXT./INT. THE SUBWAY - 2 TRAIN CAR SET - NIGHT

SAMMAEL's tongue punches through the doors as he races through

one -- two -- passenger cars and out the --

STUNT TRACK REAR 1/4 CAR

-- rear of the train, back onto the tracks.

INT. STUNT TRACKS - NIGHT

Landing there safely.

INT. THE SUBWAY TRACKS (STUNT TRACK) - NIGHT

Now the train hurtles at Hellboy, who grimaces and does his

best --

INT. STUNT TRACKS FRONT 1/4 CAR

He leaps, but HUMPF!! He's hit! His legs rattle over the

tracks.

INT. UNDERCARRIAGE - STUNT TRACKS - FRONT 1/4 CAR - NIGHT

Inches from the wheels, he punches his stone hand through

the steel floor and grabs a handhold. Steam and sparks explode

everywhere.

The TRAIN DRIVER grabs a fire extinguisher and starts slamming

it against Hellboy's head.

HELLBOY:

Hey! Hey! I'm on your side!!

BAMMM!!! He goes under!!!

INT. STUNT TRACKS FRONT 1/4 CAR

The train whizzes overhead, grazing his horn stumps, making

sparks fly!! After the train passes, Hellboy sits up, forehead

smoking. Sammael is gone. A trail of GOOP is glowing. He

follows it, until it ends abruptly.

He looks ahead:
no trace of Sammael... Then a fat drop of

glowing goop hits his hand.

HELLBOY:

Aw, I forgot --

He looks up. Sammael hangs from the ceiling, then drops.

Then the creature lifts Hellboy in a ferocious bear hug.

Hellboy twists around and cracks open the jaws of the

creature, like King Kong and the T-Rex.

Sammael staggers back and -- in an impossible maneuver, re-

knits his jaws together! Then he uses his bone scythe to

tackle Hellboy and -- TCHAKKKK!! -- pin his shoulder down. A

deep wound.

Sammael's mouth starts to open! Hellboy looks at the sparking

THIRD RAIL a few feet away.

Sammael's tongue rears back, a snake ready to strike.

HELLBOY:

Screw you.

Hellboy grabs the rail. An electrical discharge consumes

both creatures and burns the frame like flashpaper. Hellboy

lets go, his hand and body smoking. Sammael -- very crispy --

is convulsing in a cloud of smoke. He grows still.

Wreathed in smoke, Hellboy shakes off the shock and uses a

flame on his arm to light a cigar.

HELLBOY:

I'm fireproof.

(puffs smoke, kicks

the body)

You weren't.

OMIT:

EXT. WESTSIDE HIGHWAY - NIGHT

A huge traffic jam clogs the highway. The totalled 4X4 is

being TOWED AWAY. Several TV CREWS interview witnesses.

Myers -- his arm freshly bandaged -- signs a police form.

His radio beeps.

HELLBOY (V.O.)

Myers??? How's your arm?

MYERS:

My arm is fine. Where are you??

Myers moves away from the POLICE OFFICERS.

MYERS:

(sotto voce)

Where are you???

INT. SUBWAY TRACKS (STUNT TRACK)

Hellboy walks away from the smoking Sammael carcass.

HELLBOY:

I just fried Stinky. Tell Father

I'll be home. He shouldn't wait up.

EXT. WESTSIDE HIGHWAY - SAME

MYERS:

Wait -- Wait -- You can't go anywhere --

I gotta go with you --

INT. SUBWAY TRACKS (STUNT TRACK)

HELLBOY:

No, no, no, it's fine: I do my job,

I take a break.

MYERS (V.O.)

No. Stop. Don't do this -- Listen to

me -- Tell me where you are --

HELLBOY:

Myers?

MYERS (V.O.)

Yes?

HELLBOY:

Goodbye.

He turns off his belt locator and moves away into the darkness

of the tunnel.

In the foreground: BLACK light escapes from Sammael's charred

body.

INT. MAIN ABANDONED BATHS ALCOVE - NIGHT

An abandoned shower room. A series of sinks and stalls, lined

with dirty white tile. A phonograph nearby plays Wagner.

Kroenen stands next to it.

ILSA is nearby, a straight razor glinting in her hand. She

stands over Grigory -- his back to us -- lovingly shaving

her master's scalp. She grabs two GLASS EYES from a table.

Places them in Grigory's sockets -- his back to us -- as he

turns, a glass eye shifts lazily into position. He opens his

hand:
in it the pale BLACK light that escaped from Sammael's

body. He cradles it like a precious stone.

GRIGORY:

(smiling)

Sammael has fulfilled his destiny...

Die in peace and be reborn again and

again...

He closes his fist.

ILSA:

Only seven more days to the eclipse,

Grishka...

Rasputin stands, his neck and shoulders rising, engorged by

moving flesh beneath his human skin. Ilsa stares in

fascination.

GRIGORY:

The child will be there. And so will

we all -- Won't we?

Behind him, in the darkness of a tunnel: TWO SAMMAEL

silhouettes appear.

CUT TO:

OMIT:

EXT. MACHEN LIBRARY ENTRANCE - NIGHT

A sleek black limo drives past the crowd and stops outside.

FBI agent TOM MANNING emerges.

INT. "MAGIK EXHIBIT" HALL - NIGHT

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