The Crow: City of Angels Page #25

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darker.

EXT. CHURCH - DAWN

Ashe exits the church, finding haven in a shadowed doorway. He

reaches into his pocket, removing the wedding ring Sarah had

given to him...

CLOSE ON THE RING

as Ashe turns it over in his hands, seeing the word "FOREVER"

inscribed on the inside of the band. He slips it on his finger.

GRACE (O.S.)

(CONCERNED)

Are you all right?

Ashe looks up to see...

GRACE,

the drugged-out girl that Sarah helped at the beginning of the

film. She's looking good now, clean of the poison that once possessed

her. And damned if she isn't holding Gabriel in her arms.

GRACE:

Long night, huh?

Gabriel MEOWS to Ashe. Ashe reaches out and scratches the cat's

ear.

GRACE:

Isn't he cool? I found him on the street. I was going to take

him home with me.

ASHE:

You should. Looks like he needs a home.

GRACE:

Well, see ya.

She smiles at him and starts off down the street. Gabriel turns

around in Grace's arms and peers back at Ashe from over her shoulder.

Ashe moves out from the shadows into the steadily growing light,

watching them. We see just a hint of hope in his eyes - hope

that someday he and Sarah will be reunited.

As we hold on Ashe's face, Sarah's VOICE-OVER begins.

SARAH (V.O.)

I believe there's a place where the restless souls wanter...

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. LIMBO - DAWN

The same scene as the beginning of our film. We've made a circle.

A heavy mist hangs before us - endless and impenetrable. And

out of that primordial fog a CROW materializes, flying towards

the camera in slow motion.

SARAH (V.O.)

Burdened by the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter

Heaven...

Presently a second shape materializes - a FIGURE ON HORSEBACK,

galloping after the Crow.

SARAH (V.O.)

And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly

searching for a way to rid themselves of their pain - in the

hopes that somehow, some day, they will be reunited...

As the dark rider comes towards us, we realize that it's Sarah

whose baleful eyes are now shining behind the irony mask war

paint.

SARAH (V.O.)

...with the ones they love.

CUT TO:

EXT. FREEWAY OVERPASS - DAWN

Ashe is back on his bike, racing beneath the cathedral-like arches

of the overpass. As he sweeps past a concrete pillar we...

CUT TO:

EXT. LIMBO - DAY/NIGHT

Sarah on her horse, galloping in parallel action. As she sweeps

last a tree we...

CUT TO:

EXT. FREEWAY OVERPASS - DAWN

Ashe on the bike. Now we intercut between the two doomed lovers,

each on their respective steeds. Worlds apart, and yet, somehow

traveling the same road.

We are intercutting faster and faster, until the sound of HOOFBEATS

and the MOTORCYCLE'S ROAR are indistinguishable.

Until the two figures themselves begin to blur.

Faster and faster and faster until we...

CUT TO BLACK.

Over the darkness we hear Sarah's final words to Ashe:

SARAH'S VOICE

If two people really love each other, nothing can keep them apart...

(BEAT)

Nothing.

THE END:

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