The Crow: City of Angels Page #6

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SARAH:

What do you want from me?!

The Crow CAWS, then takes flight.

CLOSE ON SARAH:

Calm now, realization and a sense of purpose dawning.

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EXT. DOCKS, COMMERCIAL WATERFRONT - NIGHT

We descend towards the empty docks, pushing out into the mist-shrouded

water, then down into the ocean's murky depths.

PRESENTLY THE BODIES OF ASHE AND DANNY

come into view, caught up in a tangle of razor wire.

CLOSE ON ASHE'S FACE

Unaltered by the ravages of time. His eyelids flicker, dreaming.

A SINGLE TEAR escapes, flowing down his cheek. We push on INSIDE

HIS HEAD...

We see brief MEMORY FLASHES of he and Danny together...

INT. ASHE'S GARAGE - NIGHT/DAY (MEMORIES)

Danny stretched out on the floor of their garage, painting a

picture...

Danny and Ashe rough-housing, having a water fight...

Danny sitting in Ashe's lap as Ashe reads aloud from a story.

ASHE:

(READING)

"...midway through our life's journey I came to myself within

a dark wood where the straight way was lost..."

Danny asleep, curled up next to his father. Ashe reaches out

and strokes Danny's hair...

CLOSE ON ASHE'S FACE

His dead eyes suddenly open. Confusion. Pain. Fear. A stream

of bubbles rushes from his mouth, obscuring our view.

ASHE'S POV

As the bubbles clear, Danny's face comes into focus just a few

inches from his own.

Ashe panics, jerks back. The razor-wire barbs cut into his flesh.

The more he struggles, the tighter the coils become, slashing

his hands and face, shredding his clothes. He's caught in his

son's embrace, the two of them thrashing about in a grotesque

underwater ballet.

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EXT. RIVER STYX BRIDGE - NIGHT

The headlights of Sarah's Galaxy cut through the fog. She pulls

up just in time to see the Crow disappearing into the mist which

cloaks the bridge. Sarah follows, trying to keep up with the

bird.

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EXT. UNDER WATER - NIGHT

Ashe's struggles become more and more violent. He thrashes, churning

up a cloud of bubbles. We are intercutting quickly now, between

Ashe's turmoil and...

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EXT. DOCKS, COMMERCIAL WATERFRONT - NIGHT

Sarah reaches the pier where Ashe and Danny were executed. She

climbs from her car...

THE CROW:

flies on ahead, landing atop one of the piles, staring down into

the water.

AND AS SARAH:

starts toward the bird we...

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EXT. UNDER WATER - NIGHT

Ashe tears his hands free, clawing his body away from the barbwire,

swimming to the surface in a storm of bubbles...

FLASHBACKS:

of subjective POVs. The killers walking down the jetty, marching

Ashe and Danny to their deaths and...

EXT. DOCKS, COMMERCIAL DISTRICT - NIGHT

We are beneath the jetty now in the present, looking up through

the slats as a FIGURE (Sarah?) makes its way to the water...

Camera CRANES UP from beneath the jetty to reveal Sarah standing

there in silhouette...

EXT. UNDER WATER - NIGHT

Ashe is propelled towards the surface.

EXT. DOCKS COMMERCIAL WATERFRONT - NIGHT

Ashe suddenly bursts from the sea with his arms outstretched.

A hellish Venus on the half-shell. Gasping, full of terror and

rage. He lets loose a TORTURED HOWL.

ASHE:

digs his fingers into the wood-rot pulp of the pilings and claws

his way up to the jetty. He collapses down onto the wooded slats.

ASHE:

crouches before us, his face hidden from view. He reaches out

his hand, touching an unmistakable BLOOD STAIN... Danny's blood

stain. This triggers more painful memories...

EXT. DOCKS, COMMERCIAL WATERFRONT - NIGHT

Images from Ashe and Danny's execution assault him. BANG!!! Kali

FIRING her gun. Ashe SCREAMING. Danny's body slumping forward

like a marionette whose strings have been severed.

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EXT. DOCKS, COMMERCIAL WATERFRONT - NIGHT (PRESENT)

Ashe lifts his head, WAILING. He's covered from head to toe in

ocean-bottom silt. Blood from the razor-wire wounds has smeared

across his face in patterns which eerily recall the Crow make-up.

Strips of the wire still cling to his arms and chest, the barbs

buried deep in his flesh.

Reliving the violent moment is more than his mind can bear. Ashe's

eyes roll up into his head. The world spins around him. But even

as the lights are going out, Ashe glimpses...

A DARK FIGURE:

standing in front of him. It's the last thing Ashe sees before

consciousness escapes him.

SARAH:

emerges from the shadows, staring down at Ashe in wonder.

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SUPER TITLE:

"OCTOBER 31ST - ALL HALLOWS EVE"

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