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Date Posted: 14:25:29 03/02/04 Tue
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's message, "5x17R: Hostile" on 14:24:18 03/02/04 Tue
INT: Gunn's bedroom, close up of Gunn's face.
GUNN
Damn! I knew it!
CLOSE UP: A digital alarm clock. The time changes from 3:59 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.
CLOSE UP: A rifle being loaded
INT: W/H Offices - a conference room
MID SHOT: A generic "office employee" (male) loading a high-powered rifle.
PULL BACK: A table of miscellaneous office employees, some male, some female: fat, balding,
nearsighted, too old, too young, many of whom are fumbling in a confused manner with their
assigned weapons (all rifles).
CLOSE UP: Of Sirk, shaking his head and rolling his eyes at his "bunch of losers".
FEMALE EMPLOYEE (in Housekeeping uniform)
(In Spanish) Is this the Janitorial Worker's Union meeting? (looks at her rifle) I thought this was going to be a peaceful walkout.
MALE EMPL#1
She thinks it's the Janitors Union meeting.
Another male ("geek") employee, young but fat and balding, somewhat slovenly, handles his rifle like a pro.
GEEK EMPL.
I ain't been playin' "Evil Dead 3" at the cineplex arcade all week for nothing. I'm ready to rock and roll.
MALE EMPLOYEE (looks like an accountant)
I've never handled firearms before. I don't know what to do.
Camera pans to Sirk and the conference table in front of him. An elaborate occult design is chalked onto the table. Sirk stands.
SIRK
Don't worry. (he sprinkles something on the design and it flashes).
The camera pulls back and all the employees now look identical (in a little tip of the hat to Matrix Reloaded) - all of them are the same "man" - tall, slender and powerful looking in a dark suit, white shirt, tie, sunglasses, handling their rifles with ease.
SIRK
You'll all know what to do. The mission is simple. You are not to kill any of the Five. You are to herd them into their safe rooms. I'll do the rest. (looks at his watch) Alright, gentlemen - let's go postal.
The "troups" file out of the room. Sirk stands and begins a chant over the design on the table. Across from the table at the other end, a demon appears. - it is the same "Bigfoot" looking Oblivion Demon we saw foreshadowed earlier. It is big, slow and stupid but it does one interesting thing. Sirk motions to it to come toward him and it does - obliterating the conference table in the process - the demon passes thru the table and it simply ceases to exist.
SIRK (to Demon)
Follow me.
INT:
GUNN'S BEDROOM.
Lacey is dressed in a form fitting "SWAT" style uniform, including hard police-style helmet-cap with visor and a gunbelt featuring a billyclub and large gun. She is prepared for combat. Gunn is in a similar getup He is packing up the laptop.
GUNN
Showtime, baby. We get the team into the connecting safe tunnel and from there to the heliport. I have the system controls here. I only hope I can figure them out.
LACEY
When this is over, I'm gonna boink you til your ears steam.
GUNN (grins)
You're giving me somethin' to live for, baby.
They break and run, combat-ready.
INT:
W/H Science Lab.
Fred and Knox hear the alarm. Knox looks considerably more frightened. Fred is merely confused.
FRED
What the -
Suddenly Knox throws open the top of a hyperbaric chamber that is part of the lab scene. He picks up Fred in both arms and drops her into the chamber and slams the lid down, effectively hiding her. Just in time - a "disgruntled employee" (hereafter called D.E.s) enters and aims the rifle at him.
DE#1
Where is she?
KNOX
She who?
The DE shoots Knox, who clutches his side in horror and falls to the ground. The DE steps over Knox writhing in pain and surveys the lab. Another DE appears in the doorway.
DE#2
Don't waste time looking. I'm checking her office.
DE#1 aims his rifle at Knox's head.
DE#2
Don't waste time.
DE#1 exits the room without taking the second shot.
EXT: The hallway outside the lab. Gunn is racing toward it, leading with his side like a veteran LAPD cop, gun raised and pointing up. He sees DE#1 - a brief exchange of gunfire and Gunn takes out DE#1. Gunn rushes into the lab.
INT: The lab
Gunn sees Knox on the floor, hears Fred banging on the inside of the chamber lid. Gunn hauls Knox to his feet. Knox is mortally wounded but still functioning - he gasps in pain and points to the lid.
KNOX
In there.
Gunn turns to open the heavy lid. As he bends to lift it, Knox suddenly grabs a device that looks part hypodermic needle and part pistol. He puts it to the back of Gunn's neck and fires it. Gunn grabs the back of his neck and yowls. He then spins and grabs Knox by the shirt.
GUNN
You little freak, what did you just do?
KNOX (wobbling)
Gave you everything I know. (tilts his head far forward, reveals an implant on the back of his neck.) You think I learned all this crap in college?
Knox stumbles forward. Gunn flings open the chamber and frees Fred, lifting her out in a single motion and dropping her to her feet. Gunn grabs Knox and puts one of Knox's arms around his neck.
GUNN
We'll get you out of here, Knox. I just hope you know how to fly a chopper.
KNOX (weakening)
Yeah, I do. Now you do too. (collapses. Gunn throws Knox over his shoulder).
FRED (freaking out)
What's going on?
Lacey enters the room.
LACEY
I've secured the hallway.
GUNN
Get Fred to the safe room. I'll carry Knox.
LACEY (checks Knox quickly)
He's dead.
FRED (horror)
What?
Gunn drops Knox to the floor.
GUNN
Sorry, Fred. Go with Lacey.
Fred looks in sorrow and horror at Knox.
FRED
Noooo.
Lacey pulls something out of a pack in her belt. It's a kind of lightweight metallic "blanket".
LACEY
It's bulletproof. Wrap it around your head and back, pull it around your chest.
(sees Fred's hysteria) SNAP OUT OF IT! (to Gunn) They're in her office.
GUNN
Get her to the next safe room available.
The three of them leave the lab running.
INT:
Angel's Residence, Bathroom.
Angel manipulates a "shower head" and a panel opens inside the shower stall. He grabs Cordy by the wrist and they enter the "safe room" behind the panel. The door closes automatically.
INT: Angel's Safe Room
Cordy grabs a laminated 8x11 card pinned to the wall and reads.
CORDY (reading)
Welcome to your Wolfram and Hart Executive Protective Environment. The EPE or "Safe Room" has been fitted with the most efficient and comfortable requirements to ensure your security in the event of -
CUT TO:
INT: Lorne's bedroom. Lorne reads a laminated card while Aden frantically pounds the wall looking for the Safe Room entrance.
LORNE (reading)
"physical, biological, chemical and nuclear attack." Nuclear?
CUT TO:
Gunn and Lacey racing down the hall with Fred. Lacey is reeling off the memorized instructions.
LACEY
Each EPE unit has a toilet, sink, water storage, cell phone,
CUT TO: Cordy reading
CORDY
Wireless laptop featuring blueprints of your secure routing tunnels.
CUT TO: Lorne reading, holding the card in one hand, feeling along the wall with the other, as banging and then a shot is heard at their front door. Aden, next to him, continues to pound the wall.
LORNE (reading, voice betraying panic)
An air filter that pumps filtered external air into the safe room which pressurizes the secure area and (throws the card away and starts pounding the wall)
A frightened, frustrated Aden punches a hole in the wall with his fist and a panel about five feet away opens up. The two guys look at each other then dash into the hidden room.
CUT TO: Inside Angel's Safe Room
Cordy reading as Angel flings things around looking for something specific.
CORDY
Food and water supplies, first aid kit, utility items and weapons. Weapons!
Angel finds a long steel-cored billy club, and a sheathed fighting blade similar to a kitana. He swings it around expertly, like "The Highlander".
CORDY (to Angel)
Hey, close quarters here!
CUT TO:
Fred, Lacey and Gunn cornered in a side hallway. Gunn holds off firepower from one direction, while Lacey strips out of her vest and helmet with one hand, continues to fire around the other corner with her other hand. Lacey hands her vest and helmet to Fred.
LACEY
Put it on.
FRED
But you're -
LACEY
It's my job to get you to safety. Put it on.
GUNN (hands Fred a formidable looking handgun)
I know you know how to handle yourself, Fred.
She looks shaken and confused.
GUNN
Don't make Knox's sacrifice in vain.
Fred pulls herself together and gears up.
GUNN
On the count of three.
The three of them burst forward around the corner, rushing forward and firing. They take out five armed assailants and more come down a side corridor.
LACEY
I'll hold 'em. You get to the chopper.
Gunn and Fred run for it. Lacey defends the corridor. She is hit by multiple shots and falls.
GUNN (voice shows emotion)
Keep runnin', Fred.
CUT TO: INT: W/H - a dimly lit corridor on the executive floors.
Wes and Lilah walking cautiously but unhurried thru a corridor to an executive meeting room.
LILAH (opening an office)
We'll be safe enough in here.
INT: A very swank but empty executive office. Lilah casually walks to a credenza and pushes back a hidden panel. She presses a button which opens a hidden entrance to a tunnel.
LILAH
This connects us to the heliport tunnel. (She stops) Wes. Damn it, why did you go behind my back? How could you play a dangerous game like that. And involve me without my knowledge or consent. (pauses) I can see why Angel was so angry at you.
WES (not getting the connection to Connor's abduction)
About what?
LILAH
About - forget it. You love to make these grandiose gestures, don't you.
WES
I wasn't trying to -
LILAH
Give it up, Wes. Your heroic James Bond grab for my contract. Your trying to double-cross the Senior Partners, thinking you could pull it off. Stop trying to be some kind of Victorian novel man-of-action, like - (she breaks off - a realization) your father.
She sits on the desk and looks tired, resigned.
LILAH.
Do you think I would have ever brokered your soul, even after you asked me to? looks at him, angry) They presented the reanimation to me as an incentive to deliver your soul to them. So either way, they'd win. You'd give it up gladly for me, or I'd deliver you to them to win back my mortality. Wes, you keep thinking you can save me, when I've told you over and over I don't want to be saved. Let me go. Stop torturing us both with this penny dreadful love. (She breaks down in tears).
WES (tenderly)
Tears. You see. You do feel -
LILAH (screams)
Stop it! (sobbing) Let me go.
Wes nods his head, sadly, accepting the realization that they can't go on together.
WES
Goodbye, then, Lilah. I loved you.
LILAH
Goodbye, lover. I loved you too.
Wes goes into the safe tunnel and leaves Lilah behind sobbing.
CUT TO:
INT: Lorne's Safe Room.
CLOSE UP: A laptop on a small table, displaying a blueprint of the escape tunnel with a separate "web cam" window in the upper corner. The "web cam" shows about 5 D.E.s being dismissed from the room by Sirk, who enters like a gunslinger, swaggering and confident. He is followed by the Oblivion Demon.
MID SHOT
Aden fumbles with a pull down lever. There is a key pad next to the lever.
ADEN
The tunnel door won't open.
LORNE
It needs a key code. (beat) Which is on the card I left outside.
Aden and Lorne look at the web cam.
ADEN
We can take 'em.
LORNE
We can - exsqueeze me?
ADEN
He's old and it's slow. I say we rush 'em.
LORNE
And run into the waiting arms of the Rifle Clones?
They continue to watch the cam. The Oblivion Demon lumbers thru the room. It walks up to a huge Entertainment Center setup with a gorgeous sound system and a rack of CDs. It walks right thru it and the setup disappears from existence.
LORNE (shouting)
Hey, that's my Donna Sum -
Aden puts his hand over Lorne's mouth and shushes him.
Sirk wanders around the room and stops.
SIRK
Foley! I know you're here. You don't have to die with that creature.
LORNE (behind Aden's hand)
Creature!
Aden elbows Lorne to shut up.
CUT TO:
EXT: Heliport. A chopper is revving up. Gunn sits at the controls. Fred sits behind him, working the laptop.
GUNN (gently, to Fred)
I think this little legacy on the back of my neck was really meant for you, Brainiac. Knox gave me the missing information to get us out of here. Everything that's anything in Wolfram and Hart, or at least I'm hoping so. God rest him.
FRED (tonelessly)
Got it. Got the tunnel doors open.
CUT TO:
Angel's Safe Room. The Safe Tunnel entrance opens. Angel and Cordy run for it.
CUT TO:
Lorne's Safe Room. The same.
CUT TO:
Wes walking thru a tunnel. He looks like a changed man. A little less bravado but still strong and determined. We hear footsteps. Angel and Cordy turn a corner and join him.
ANGEL
Lilah?
WES
She's not a target. She stayed behind. She's getting armed security response in here to take care of the shooters.
ANGEL
What about Sirk and the Demon? Feel like cleaning up Dodge City?
Angel displays the steel-cored long club and sword he brought from his Safe Room.
Lorne and Aden appear from around a bend.
ANGEL (to Lorne and Aden)
Get Cordy to the chopper. (to Wes) C'mon, Wyatt Earp.
CUT TO: INT: Helicopter
FRED (looking at laptop)
Aden, Lorne and Cordy are on their way to the chopper. Looks like Angel and Wes have doubled back.
GUNN
I can't go cover their backs. I gotta fly this thing.
CUT TO:
Aden and Lorne walking briskly through the tunnel. Lorne stops and grabs Aden by the arm. Cordy sees they want a private moment, keeps running.
LORNE
I have to tell you something.
ADEN
You knew all along.
LORNE
I suspected.
ADEN
I had to wait until I knew your gifts were back.
LORNE
They're back alright. A little unpredictable. Gonna take a while for things to settle back in, I guess. And I think I've got a telekinesis toy surprise in the mix.
ADEN (awkward)
Lorne, I -
LORNE
You don't have to say anything. You know, tonight - when I read your destiny - (pause) I read mine too.
They share a smile and then run for the chopper.
CUT TO: INT: SAFE TUNNEL
Wes and Angel are headed back into the tunnel, armed with one kitana blade and a steel cored long billyclub. They meet Sirk and the Oblivion Demon coming from the opposite direction. The demon follows dumbly behind Sirk.
Sirk swings his cane at his side, almost jaunty. He withdraws his blade from the cane, holding the wooden cane like a club, and the blade in his other hand – he has two weapons. Angel still carries the club and kitana blade which he brought from his safe room. Wes carries none. Angel tosses the blade to Wes, who catches it like a pro.
SIKR (to Wes)
I’m going to relish this. I owe you for that sucker punch in the library.
WES
I seem to remember you were easy to take out.
Sirk mutters an incantation. The ceiling collapses behind our heroes, obstructing the way behnd them with rubble. Wes and Angel are hemmed in. Angel runs forward and “bounces” off the side wall to launch himself over Sirk’s head and land behind him. He kneecaps Sirk from behind sharply with the club and
goes for a head blow. Sirk howls but quickly counters with a magick gesture, knocking Angel back dangerously close to the Oblivion Demon.
SIRK (to the demon)
Follow me!
The demon advances forward toward Angel. Wes draws Sirk’s attention with a blade attack, so that Angel can deal with the demon. Wes and Sirk exchange sword strikes, well matched.
WES (shouting to Angel)
Don’t let the demon touch you. It’s an Oblivion Demon.
Angel swings his club at the demon. The club connects and – disappears! Angel is now defenseless.
ANGEL
Well, that didn’t work.
However, Angel quickly sees the demon is very stupid, doesn’t attack of its own volition, and only understands one command – so he stands in front of the wall, pounds it and calls
ANGEL
Follow me!
and dashes to the side. The demon connects with the wall, effectively opening a hole into a room behind the tunnel wall. The demon stupidly lurches into the room. Angel lets it lumber forward then falls in behind
it.
ANGEL
What the hell do I kill you with?
The demon continues to lurch forward, “erasing” a huge executive desk and other furnishings as it makes contact with them. It lumbers around the room, confused.
Camera returns to Wes and Sirk swordfighting.
Camera returns to Angel, who manuveurs around the demon so that he is in front of it. He pounds the outer wall of the room, which faces the outside of the building.
ANGEL
Here, Spot. Here, boy. (whistles, pounds the wall).
The demon stops moving and just looks at him.
ANGEL
Oh, right. You really are stupid. Follow me!
Angel pounds the wall. The demon lumbers forward, right thru the wall and tumbling out of the building, about 10 stories worth. It disappears before it hits the ground, dimension-shifting to avoid a fatal fall.
Angel rushes back to the tunnel in time to see Wes take a nasty "flesh wound" stab in the side from Sirk’s blade. Sirk alternates his blade strikes with blows from his cane. Enough to be giving Wes a pummeling while countering Wes’s swordwork. Stabbed and pummelled, Wes is losing the fight. Wes goes in with a
ferocious counter-attack, and disarms Sirk of his sword but Sirk moves in and slugs Wes in the face for all he’s worth, using his cane to block Wes’s blade. Sirk smiles an oily smile of pleasure as he punches Wes in the face again. Sirk brings his cane down on Wes’s collarbone, then brings his cane up from under Wes’s arm to damags Wes’s shoulder. Wes’s sword arm is now seriously disabled for fighting. Sirk casually retrieves his sword from the floor and moves in for a killing sword blow.
Angel grabs Sirk from behind by the collar and hurls him across the room. He takes Wes’s sword and swings it around, displaying his prowess with the blade.
SIRK
How very Hollywood. Let’s see if you can use it.
Angel is fast. He backs Sirk easily to the wall and disarms him of his cane. Sirk drives his sword right thru Angel.
ANGEL
You know, my ex-girlfriend would’ve recommended breaking the wooden stick and using that instead.
Angel grabs Sirk by the throat with one hand, and removes the sword with the other. He drags Sirk into the room where the Oblivion Demon has made a hole in the wall - right to the 10 story drop. Angel holds Sirk by the throat over the precipice.
ANGEL
Sirk, buddy. I’m afraid you’re going to be downsized.
He drops Sirk out the 10 story drop – DOWNsizing him quite effectively.
Angel returns to the hallway and helps Wes to his feet. The two of them climb over the rubble and continue down the corridor to the waiting helicopter.
ANGEL
So what is an Oblivion Demon?
WES (limping but conversational)
Makes anything it touches disappear. I think their favored abode is dryers.
ANGEL
So that's where all those socks go.
FADE OUT
FADE IN: EXT: Helicopter taking off
INT: Helicopter
The gang is all aboard, looking tired and quiet.
Aerial Shot: The W/H building surrounded by police cars and SWAT style maneuvers.
INT: W/H Executive Office.
MID SHOT: Lilah leaning against desk, looking at the floor, tired.
INT: Helicoptor, CLOSE on Gunn’s grim face as he pilots the chopper, then CLOSE on Fred wiping tears from her eyes, leaning against Angel’s shoulder.
ANGEL (to Fred, trying to comfort her)
It’s over.
FRED
Is it?
Aerial Shot: The helicoptor flies away from the building.
END
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