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Date Posted: 12:04:41 07/21/02 Sun
Author: Noggins
Subject: Act IV
In reply to: Noggins 's message, "Act III" on 12:00:16 07/21/02 Sun

ACT IV

Scene: Hyperion Hotel, Lobby [Int.], Night
FRED dives for cover as several non-corporal demons nose-dive toward her. She is grabbed and pulled up through the air.

FRED
Help!

GUNN pulls himself up.

GUNN
Fred!

FRED is pulled even higher. She struggles against her captors. They release her. She falls. Falls. Falls... and lands in GUNN's arms.

FRED
Thank you! Thank you!

GUNN
I'm here for you, baby.

GUNN suddenly falls to the ground. Spirits wrap around his legs and drag him across the floor.

GUNN
Aaaghhh!

GUNN is pulled through a door. It closes behind him.

CORDELIA lifts above the ground and starts spinning around.

CORDELIA
Okay! This is a lot more fun when I'm doing
it myself...

ANGEL
Cordy!

ANGEL runs to CORDELIA. He is thrown straight up and hits the high ceiling before coming crashing down onto the hard tiled floor with a crunch.

CONNOR looks around desperately. Spirits come down to him. He swipes his knife at them. They move out of his way, not because it can hurt them but because they're playing with him. He gets more and more frustrated.

CONNOR
Gah!

CONNOR runs forward, hacking and slashing at nothing.

His eyes open wide. He is hurled across the room into a wall. He manages to stay on his feet. He is thrown again into the opposite wall. He is thrown a third time. He collides with ANGEL. They both hit the floor.

ANGEL
Connor! Are you...

CONNOR
I'm fine. We just need to... agh!

CONNOR is lifted up. He skids across the ground and is knocked out when his head hits the wall.

ANGEL
Connor!!!!

FRED
We have to do something.

CORDELIA is dropped onto the floor. She looks up.

CORDELIA
We have to contain them in a body! We
can't bind them when they're free!

ANGEL
Any idea of how we're going to do that?

CORDELIA
I think I can direct them into someone. I'm
not sure but I learnt a lot when I was with...

CORDELIA is lifted up and tossed across the room by two different groups of spirits in a weird game of catch!

The reception door is kicked open. GUNN comes running into the lobby.

ANGEL looks desperately up at CORDELIA.

ANGEL
We need to do this now! Put them in me!

CORDELIA is dropped. GUNN runs in to catch her.

GUNN
Me. Do it to me.

ANGEL
What?!?

GUNN
I've got one of these things in me already!
I may as well give it some company. Put
them in me!

ANGEL
No!

ANGEL is hurled into the wall.

GUNN settles CORDELIA down.

GUNN
Put them in me!!!

CORDELIA looks at him.

CORDELIA
You're sure?

GUNN
Do it!


Scene: Hyperion Hotel, Lobby [Int.], Night
The spirits are causing complete chaos. Furniture is being hurled in all directions. FRED tries to hold onto the desk to keep standing. CONNOR is still unconscious on the floor.

CORDELIA looks up at the spirits. Her eyes begin to glow. She lifts off the ground.

ANGEL watches nervously. He holds GUNN down.

The spirits are drawn towards CORDELIA. They spin around her. She looks down at GUNN. The spirits fly towards him.

GUNN is knocked back as the spirits enter his body through his skin. He glows momentarily then collapses.

CORDELIA comes back down.

ANGEL
Now what?

CORDELIA
This is the part I can't do.

She takes her necklace off from around her neck. She throws it to ANGEL.

ANGEL catches it.

ANGEL
What's this?

CORDELIA
An ordinary run of the mill crystal. The book
you got me reading said we need it to bind
the demon.

ANGEL
You read that?

CORDELIA
Shut up and get it done before I demand
another pay rise.

ANGEL
Do what?

CORDELIA
Oh. Yeah.

She pulls out a sheet from a book out her back pocket. She hands it to ANGEL.

CORDELIA
(continued)
Read this. I can't say a word of it.

ANGEL
And how old was the book you ripped this
out of?

CORDELIA
Only fifty years. Who'd have thought you'd
own something printed in the last two centuries.

ANGEL
(sarcastic)
Thanks...

ANGEL folds out the piece of paper.

GUNN suddenly gets up looking manic.

GUNN
No! You can't do this! They need a body!

GUNN jumps to his feet. He runs at ANGEL, knocking him down.

GUNN
(continued)
They need a body!!!

GUNN begins to punch ANGEL. Over and over and over.

ANGEL grabs GUNN'S fist.

ANGEL
Stop! Gunn would want this to stop! Get
out of him!

ANGEL kicks GUNN from on top of him. He reaches for the pad, looking at the words.

ANGEL
(continued)
K'uartos Izanbe jorolae. Juanis qua'polis
trynalis.

GUNN jumps at ANGEL again, with the intent of killing him.

GUNN
Stop! They need a body!!!! They tell me that
they...

CORDELIA pulls GUNN away from ANGEL.

CORDELIA
Finish it!!

ANGEL
Uh... hailest. Qainl'as voz. Philisio.

He holds the crystal up. It begins to glow.

ANGEL
(continued)
K'uartos Izanbe jorolae. Qainl'as voz. Philisio.

GUNN falls back. The spirits float out of his body. They hover above him for a moment then fly into the crystal. ANGEL is knocked back.

The crystal necklace flies across the ground and comes to a stop at the bottom of the stairs.

ANGEL looks towards it. CORDELIA does the same.

FRED runs to GUNN. He starts coming to his senses.

GUNN
Is it over?


Scene: Street [Ext.], Night
WESLEY slowly walks down a street. He is a complete mess, his top shirt button undone, his jacket on lopsided. We see him pull up a bottle in a brown paper bag. He takes a large gulp.

He looks up. We PULL OUT and see for the first time that he is standing outside the Hyperion Hotel. He stares at the building sadly.

He staggers along the car park and up the steps towards the entrance. He leans forward to look inside.

WESLEY'S POV. We PAN ACROSS and see that the lobby is a mess. Eventually we see the group are hugging.

WESLEY stands watching this for a while then stagger down the steps. He stumbles. He only just manages to keep his balance and stay standing. But all his strength fades away.

He slumps to the ground and starts sobbing.


Scene: Hyperion Hotel, Angel's Office [Int.], Night
ANGEL hangs the crystal necklace around a small statuette of a demon. He looks at it.

GUNN
(off-screen)
I don't think it suits it.

ANGEL turns around. GUNN is standing by the door.

ANGEL
I told you to go home and get some rest.

GUNN
That's the funny thing about me. I don't like
resting until I know everything's settled.

ANGEL
Everything is settled. You're un-possessed,
the demons are trapped in this crystal and
as long as no one breaks it they won't get
free again...

GUNN
Yeah. But something doesn't feel finished.

ANGEL
I'm really grateful for what you did back there.
I would have done it... I didn't want any of you
to put yourself through it... having one demon
inside you... trying to take control... That's
something I've lived with for two centuries and
it never gets easier. But you let hundreds of
them inside you...

GUNN
Ah, it was nothing.

ANGEL looks pointedly at GUNN.

GUNN
(continued)
Okay, actually it was pretty damn awful but
you know me. Gotta make it look like it didn't
do anything... But for a while there I knew
what madness was...
(smiles)
...and after everything I thought about you,
I'm really surprised you're so... sane.

ANGEL
Gee. Thanks.

GUNN
It's scary but kinda comforting at the same
time.

ANGEL smiles.


ENDING CREDITS

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