The Crow: City of Angels Page #13

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I needed to see you again.

Ashe moves towards Sarah's paintings, pausing to study the one

of the woman being cradled in the arms of her ghostly lover.

He touches the woman's face.

ASHE:

She looks like you.

After a long moment, Sarah responds.

SARAH:

I paint what I see.

Ashe approaches Sarah. He points to the wedding ring which hands

from her neck.

ASHE:

Were you married?

SARAH:

It belonged to a friend.

ASHE:

Where are they now?

SARAH:

A better place.

Sarah turns the ring around her finger, fidgeting with it.

SARAH:

What about you?

ASHE:

Danny's mother left after he was born. She was a drug addict.

SARAH:

(NODDING)

I lost my mother the same way.

ASHE:

Small world.

Sarah reaches for a cigarette and lights up, taking a long drag.

Ashe notices a number of scars on her forearm, possibly some

track marks...

Sarah catches him looking, self-consciously pulls her hand back.

SARAH:

(meeting his gaze)

I left Detroit because I wanted to put the past behind me.

(STRUGGLING)

The problem is, I know how it ends. Blood. Violence. I don't

want a part of it anymore.

Gabriel approaches Ashe. He crouches, runs his fingers along

the cat's back.

ASHE:

What happens to me when I finish what I'm supposed to do here?

SARAH:

You go back.

ASHE:

What if I don't want to go back?

Sarah looks away.

SARAH:

Then you're damned

INT. JUDAH'S TOWER, CAMPANILE - NIGHT

CLOSE ON A VIDEO MONITOR. We're watching the tape documenting

Ashe's death. We see Ashe's face sinking beneath the water's

surface. The image freezes.

CURVE (O.S.)

It was him. It was that son of a b*tch we dumped off the pier.

I know it.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL Judah, Curve, and Kali gathered around the

monitor. Sibyl waits nearby. Curve is snapping open an envelope

of Trinity, sniffing up the contents.

JUDAH:

I thought you killed him.

CURVE:

I shot him in the head!

KALI:

He's a ghost.

CURVE:

No such thing as ghosts.

KALI:

(POINTEDLY)

Then who killed Spider Monkey and Nemo?

Curve starts pacing, growing more apprehensive.

CURVE:

All I know is, he's f***ing with us. The Crow's his symbol, right?

That means I'm marked. It means he's coming for me now!

KALI:

I thought you said you didn't believe?

Curve turns on Kali, furious, ready to strike her. In a flash,

Kali has one of her katanas out.

Curve backs away, bristling.

CURVE:

Look, you want to tell yourselves some bullshit fairytales, that's

your business. But i'm not gonna sit here with a f***ing target

on my chest. I'm going to take this motherf***er out!

SIBYL:

You won't stop him with bullets or knives. He doesn't feel pain.

He doesn't bleed. Don't you see? His soul has crossed over. He's

come back from the other side.

Curve looks like he's going to be sick from fear. But Kali and

Judah are listening intently.l

JUDAH:

So how do you stop a man who's already dead?

SIBYL:

Can you look destiny in the eye without flinching?

Judah studies Sibyl's shadowed face.

JUDAH:

You tell me.

A stare-down ensues. Judah doesn't avert his gaze.

SIBYL:

The Crow is the source of his power - his link between this world

and the next. Sever that link and he's as vulnerable as the next

man.

CUT TO:

INT. SARAH'S LOFT - NIGHT

Ashe pushes through a curtain, turns towards Sarah's vanity --

SEES the knick-knacks and mementos gathered there, then SEES

the ceramic irony mask which hangs above. Ashe approaches, reaching

a hand out to trace its features.

At the bottom of the mirror, a FADED POSTCARD has been tucked

between the frame and the glass. Ashe pulls it free, studying

it...

CLOSE ON POSTCARD

A carnival midway set on the beach, people strolling along a

boardwalk, golden sand and blue skies. WORDS at the top of the

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