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9 EXT. OUTSIDE LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 9
The trio cross the street as Twist nudges Chris.
TWIST
I saw you, you sneaky guy!
CHRIS
(feigned innocence)
I don't know what you could mean…
TWIST
Got a thing for Sabine in there,
eh?
CHRIS
She's very nice, yes, but I'm
trying to stay professional. We
have a job to do for now.
TWIST
Which just so happens to allow you
to spend all day in her company?
Chris allows himself a small smirk at her, which she returns
as they reach Jack's car and get inside.
10 INT. HOTEL ROOM. NIGHT. 10
Another city, another hotel room, and as usual Chris is up
late, studying some thick leather bound book while Twist
dozes on the bed, having nodded off to sleep while watching
the TV. Chris' mobile phone beeps.
CHRIS
Hello?
SPICE
(filtered; through phone)
Chris? Oh, whew! I couldn't read
your writing, it's taken me a few
attempts to get you!
CHRIS
Spice? Are you alright?
SPICE
Well… no.
11 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD - UPSTAIRS. NIGHT. 11
Spice is crouched down low in her room, behind the bed. From
downstairs we can hear shouting voices and crashing sounds -
sounds like someone's smashing up the bar. She looks pretty
concerned, glancing over to the door every few moments as she
speaks.
CHRIS
(filtered; through phone)
What's happened?
SPICE
(whispering)
There's a bunch of guys downstairs
doing a number on my bar. I have a
nasty feeling they know you and
that detective were round here
earlier…
CHRIS
I'll be right there, don't move.
SPICE
Really wasn't planning on it…
12 INT. HOTEL ROOM. NIGHT. 12
Chris hangs up and urgently shakes Twist awake as he grabs
his coat and rummages in his bag for some weapons.
TWIST
(half asleep)
Brad, no… what would Jennifer say…
CHRIS
Twist, wake up!
Twist blinks a few times and sits up.
TWIST
Oh, this had better be really damn
important, that wasn't the kind of
dream you get every night!
CHRIS
The bar's being attacked, we need
to get over there.
TWIST
And this has nothing to do with
saving a certain damsel in
distress?
CHRIS
Shut up, get your bat and let's go.
She swings off the bed and stretches.
13 EXT. OUTSIDE LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 13
Jack's car screeches to a halt outside the bar, where we can
already see some of the windows have been smashed. A police
cruiser is parked outside, and Jack heads for that as Chris
and Twist leap out of the car.
JACK
This is the guy who was on duty…
The windscreen is smashed and the cop in the front seat is
slumped to the side. Jack reaches in through the open window
and checks his pulse, shaking his head.
JACK (cont'd)
I'll get some back up, get in
there!
Twist makes a few practice swings with her trusty bat.
TWIST
It's clobberin' time!
14 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 14
The bar is a mess - tables overturned and smashed, the bar
hacked up, bottles behind the counter smashed. In the midst
of the mayhem is a pack of six VAMPIRES, laughing as they
take bats, axes and anything else to hand to the bar.
Chris and Twist walk in through the main entrance and stand
at the far end of the floor, waiting to be noticed.
One of the vamps notices them and stops, sneering.
VAMPIRE
Hey, fellas! Fellas! Lookee here!
The vampires stop their destruction one by one.
Chris has a steely look in his eyes but Twist has a broad
grin, relishing the opportunity for some action.
VAMPIRE #2
Looks like this place has some
protection after all!
VAMPIRE #3
Yeah, man, a goth boy and a punk
girl… hey, it's Evanescence!
The vampires all start to laugh.
TWIST
Chris, would you show these nice
boys what we do to people who smash
up bars on our watch?
Chris flicks his arm up and aims his wrist at one of the
laughing vamps. There is a brief glint of metal from inside
his sleeve.
There is a faint 'whoosh' sound and then the vamp ROARS in
pain, falling to the ground with a stake in his chest.
His comrades look dumbfounded, then with a snarl they turn
and leap for Chris and Twist. The duo raise their weapons and
get to the attack, one clean sweep of Chris' sword neatly
decapitating one of the vamps. Twist trades two punches with
one before grabbing the snooker cue he was using and ramming
it through his heart.
15 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD - UPSTAIRS. NIGHT. 15
Spice listens as the sounds of the fighting below continue,
trying to work out who's winning. Muffled, shouting voices
can be heard.
16 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 16
Chris and Twist have worn the vamps down to just two, and are
currently squaring off with their respective foes. Twist
staggers backwards as she takes a kick from her attacker, but
a neat flip over an upturned table has her back on her feet,
and she grabs her axe off the floor, throwing it through the
air to behead her vamp.
We follow the axe as it embeds into the wood panels behind
the bar with a solid 'thud.'
TWIST (O.S.)
Aw, he lost his head over me...
Chris beats his vamp to the ground and pins him by his throat
with one boot. He lowers his katana down.
The vamp freezes as the sword blade comes into frame, inches
from his face.
Twist joins Chris, out of breath but flushed with adrenaline.
In the background, we see Jack walk into the bar, looking
around at the wreckage. Twist turns to face him and gives him
a thumbs up.
TWIST (cont'd)
(victorious)
And they all fall down!
CHRIS
Start talking.
VAMP
Wh-what do you want to know?
CHRIS
(sternly)
Who you are and why you're smashing
this place up.
VAMP
Hey, I just get my orders, you
know? Rough this guy up, burn this
place down… I don't ask, they don't
tell.
CHRIS
Maybe I'm not making myself very
clear…
Chris sinks the sword into the vampire's shoulder. He HOWLS
in pain.
CHRIS (cont'd)
Let's try that again. Who sent you?
VAMP
Ah! I don't… I don't know! We were
just… just trying to bust this
place up… because of those stupid
rebels!
CHRIS
Rebels?
JACK
Alright, Chris, that's enough.
Jack lays a hand on Chris' arm, and he turns to look at him.
With a slow nod, he pulls the sword back out of the vampire's
shoulder, who howls in pain again. Chris throws the sword to
the ground, still pumped up and angry.
CHRIS
Keep an eye on him. I'm going to
check that Spice is okay, she's
stuck upstairs.
TWIST
I'm sure Rapunzel can handle
herself, Chris!
He throws Twist a look as he heads upstairs.
CHRIS
Never mind that, just make sure
there aren't any more of those
vampires lurking outside!
17 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD - UPSTAIRS. NIGHT. 17
Spice is listening at the door as she hears footsteps coming
up. She grits her teeth and reaches down, and when she
reappears she's holding a baseball bat. She takes a step back
as the door handle starts to turn.
The handle clicks and the door starts to slowly open…
18 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD - UPSTAIRS STAIRCASE. NIGHT. 18
Chris has the door open a little way when it suddenly flies
open, and Spice leaps out with a YELL and slams into Chris,
pinning him to the floor. He looks up at her as she raises
the bat, ready to attack.
She's a VAMPIRE! Her fangs are out but she pauses as she
realises it's Chris and not one of the vamps from downstairs.
The two stay for a moment as we hear Twist's footsteps
running up the stairs.
TWIST
Chris! Chris! You okay? I heard...
Twist comes into view and sees the vamped up Spice pinning
Chris to the ground. Spice looks over and shakes her vamp
face off. Twist raises an eyebrow.
TWIST (cont'd)
Oh.
19 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 19
The foursome are back downstairs, putting tables back upright
and sweeping up some of the damage.
Twist clears the bar of broken bottles with one sweep of her
arm, pouring what scraps she can find into a pint glass when
no-one's looking.
The surviving vampire from the fight is securely tied up at
the back of the room.
SPICE
Those trad bastards… They've been
looking for a chance to put this
place out of business for months,
and now looks like they've managed
it.
CHRIS
I think you have a lot of
explaining to do, Spice. Our little
turncoat over there mentioned
something about 'rebels.' Care to
shed some light on any of this?
SPICE
You got a spare few hours?
Chris indicates the shattered bar.
CHRIS
The house won't be open for a
while.
Spice sighs, looks round at the wreck of her bar and throws
the curtains gathered in her arms onto the stage.
JACK
The back up I called in got
diverted to a shooting a few blocks
away, they won't be here for a
while yet.
TWIST
Perfect, so Little Miss Cabaret can
fill in the blanks at last! Right?
SPICE
Looks that way.
CHRIS
Start at the beginning. Carry on
until you reach the end, then stop.
SPICE
(grins)
Lewis Carroll. Nice touch. Well,
the beginning of it would have to
be the point at which the vampire
world split into two factions, the
ones who were happy with the mayhem
and bloodshed and killing, and then
the ones like me who tried to look
for a different way of life.
JACK
What, she's a vampire too?
Twist sighs and hands Jack a chipped glass of beer.
TWIST
Sit down, Columbo, you need a
history lesson.
Jack sits on one of the bar stools and takes the drink with a
raised eyebrow.
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT TWO
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
20 EXT. FOREST. NIGHT. 20
TITLE OVER - France, Mid-Seventeenth Century.
We fade up to see a large gathering of vampires in a forest
clearing, a two fires burning either side of a makeshift
platform. An elegantly dressed nobleman is standing on the
platform, pacing up and down as the crowd of vamps chatter
nervously among themselves.
SPICE (V.O.)
We're not sure exactly when it
happened, but we do know that it
all started with a small group of
French vamps back in the mid 1600s.
They were led by a nobleman called
Bernard, an old vampire who'd
become tired of the killing he saw
his kind doing every day.
BERNARD
(French; subtitled)
My fellow renegades! The time has
come for us to leave our ways
behind and embrace a new culture!
For generations, our kind have
killed, they have drank and they
have slaughtered the innocent, the
young and the needy, all in the
name of our own selfish desires.
Well, I say no more! I will not
take another life for my own, I
will not taste another drop of
human blood, and I will not have
another death on my conscience!
A cheer from the crowd. One woman speaks out.
FEMALE VAMP
But, Monsieur, the other nests,
they have already started to hound
us! What will we do against them?
BERNARD
There will always be those who do
not see things our way. And for
that, we will always be persecuted.
But the only future for our kind is
to live peacefully alongside
humans, instead of always being at
war with them night after night,
and if that means we have to
eradicate half our own kind to
survive, then so be it!
Bernard raises his arms and the crowd cheer again, utterly
devoted to his leadership.
SPICE (V.O.)
Bernard led a kind of revolt
against the standard vamp ways,
gathering as many like-minded
people as he could and starting up
his own community.
FADE TO BLACK:
TWIST (V.O.)
So what happened?
SPICE (V.O.)
Things didn't go according to plan.
FADE UP:
The same clearing, but everything is in flames. A large pack
of wild-looking VAMPIRES run to and fro with swords and
flaming brands, setting any vamps they come close to on fire.
Flaming vampires run screaming past the camera, as Bernard
and a small group of followers fight back the attackers with
swords, staffs and their fists.
SPICE (V.O.) (cont'd)
Bernard's group was almost
completely wiped out, but a few
survivors managed to escape to
different parts of the world,
starting up the movement all over
again.
FADE TO BLACK:
21 INT. LOUNGE LIZARD. NIGHT. 21
Chris and Jack watch Spice talk as Twist helps herself to
some packets of crisps from behind the bar.
SPICE
And so the resistance began, small
cells of open-minded vampires
working all over the world, trying
to prepare for a day when they can
unite and wipe out the trad
vampires for good, and finally
start to live alongside humans
without fear of reprisal.
CHRIS
I see…
JACK
Woah, wait a minute. So, these
rebel vampires, they have a base in
this area, right?
SPICE
You're sitting in what's left of
it, I'm afraid.
JACK
So what do you have to do with the
killings round here? I mean, they
all concentrate around this place.
Have some of your members become
partial to the odd midnight snack?
SPICE
Not at all. The trads are trying to
get us out of here so they've been
killing anyone daft enough to walk
round here after midnight and
leaving them on our doorstep,
trying to get the police to shut us
down.
She stands and holds her arms out, wrists down.
SPICE (cont'd)
So what are you waiting for?
Jack laughs and pushes her hands away.
JACK
Relax. If you were going to set
this up, you've gone to way too
much trouble, so under the
circumstances I'm inclined to
believe you. Chris and I have been
friends for long enough for me to
know a fair amount about the whole
'vampire and demon underworld'
thing, but this…
(beat; swigs drink)
This is a new one on me.
TWIST
You're telling me, I thought I was
one of the only vampires in the
world stupid enough to stay off
blood! Took a few AA meetings to
work that out…
CHRIS
What happened to this Bernard?
SPICE
No-one knows. Some say he escaped
and lives on somewhere in the
world, directing all the rebel
cells through a network of agents,
some say he died defending the last
survivors. All I know is that he'd
be a real big help.
TWIST
Things not going so well?
SPICE
We're losing.
She lets the statement hang in the air - the others pick up
on what's left unsaid. Chris stands.
CHRIS
Let's see what we can do about that
while we're here. Jack, you called
us in to help you solve these
murders so let's go do that, it
should have the side effect of
clearing up Spice's little pest
problem too.
JACK
(nods)
Sounds good to me. Do you know
where we can find the local nest?
Spice reaches behind the bar and grabs her jacket.
SPICE
I'll show you myself. Some of the
staff are coming by any minute to
finish cleaning up.
CHRIS
Alright then, let's go.
TWIST
Hai!
The group leave. Jack pauses by the vamp by the door.
JACK
What about him?
Chris looks at the vamp and grins, a plan forming.
22 INT. VAMP NEST. NIGHT. 22
We're looking at the inside of the trad vampire nest - a
scruffy building with seven vampires sprawled lazily around.
A large iron door is set into one wall, and we hear a
knocking. One of the vamps gets up and heads over.
VAMP
Yeah? Who is it?
VAMP #2 (O.S.)
(through door)
It's Emil, let me in!
VAMP
About time you showed up, slacker!
The vamp starts to open the door, but as he does it's thrown
open and he's knocked to the floor. The captured vamp from
the bar is shoved inside, followed by Jack, Chris and Twist.
Spice waits in the doorway.
The rest of the vampires in the nest jump to their feet.
Chris draws his katana and rests the blade under the vamp's
chin, who backs away, terrified.
CHRIS
I'm sorry, is this a private party?
TWIST
And there was me thinking
'B.Y.O.B.' meant 'Bring Your Own
Bat!'
She raises up her baseball bat as Jack trains his gun on some
of the vamps as they take up positions, snarling at the
intruders.
CHRIS
We're here on behalf of the staff
at the Lounge Lizard, we had a bit
of a disagreement with the chaps
you sent over there, and we thought
we'd come round to sort it out.
VAMP #2
(off Spice)
You working with her now? The
turnblood?
TWIST
Hey! Watch your-
She pauses to swing her bat round behind her, cracking it off
the skull of a vamp that was sneaking up on her.
TWIST (cont'd)
I said, watch your mouth!
VAMP #3
Ah, screw this! Kill 'em!
They jump to the attack, and Jack fires his gun once.
Vamp #3 recoils as the bullet hits him. Then, with a grin, he
slowly turns back round, unharmed and laughing. He gets two
laughs out before Chris' katana sweeps into frame and takes
his head off.
Jack nods a thanks at Chris and grabs an axe that Twist
throws towards him as the rest of the vamps attack.
Taking a target each, Jack, Chris and Twist get stuck in,
Chris flicking his wrist out as before and shooting a stake
through one of the vamps.
He staggers as a chair is smashed over the back of his head,
and another vamp wrestles him to the ground. Jack doesn't
have the advantage of vampire strength but he's a trained
fighter, trading axe blows with a vamp armed with a fire
extinguisher, trying to block the axe blade.
Fighting off two vamps at once, Twist spin kicks one and
knocks him into the TV but takes a punch from the second.
TWIST
Ah, come on! My last cat hits
harder than that!
She takes another punch and stumbles backwards, but bounces
off one of the walls to drive a stake through the first vamp,
before standing over the vamp who is struggling to pull
himself out of the TV.
VAMP #4
Uh, could you… could you give me a
hand here?
TWIST
Ah, jeez…
She reaches out with one hand, then stabs down with the stake
in her other. The vamp yowls and expires as Twist puts her
hand to her mouth in mock surprise.
TWIST (cont'd)
D'oh! How clumsy of me, sorry… I
got blood all over your nice TV!
We cut across to Chris, his katana is sticking out of the
back of a vampire crawling across the ground as another steps
into frame, fists up.
VAMP #5
Alright, let's go. No swords, no
fancy weapons, mano a mano. Come
on!
CHRIS
(beat)
Alright.
He shrugs off his coat, revealing the spring-loaded stake
launcher inside one sleeve and two more stakes tied across
his chest. The vamp's eyes go wide as he sees the arsenal,
and Chris whips out one of the stakes and kills the vamp as
he stares.
CHRIS (cont'd)
Sorry, I don't do fair fights with
vampires.
One vamp left, and Jack, Chris and Twist have him cornered at
one end of the nest. He holds up his hands.
VAMP #6
Hey, uh, I surrender! Don't kill
me, man, I was only obeying orders.
CHRIS
And we're back to this again!
Alright then, do you want to tell
me who's running this little
operation, or do you want to end up
like your friends?
VAMP #6
That bunch o' deadbeats? They ain't
my friends! Yeah, I'll, uh, join
with her side.
He points to Spice, who steps forward to glare at him.
SPICE
And what makes you think I'd want
one of you creeps on my 'side,'
exactly?
VAMP #6
Because, man… we're all the same
underneath it all.
SPICE
(icily)
I'm nothing like you.
With a sudden grunt, the vamp stiffens, and as he slumps to
the floor we see Spice had a stake in her hand. Chris throws
his hands up in exasperation.
CHRIS
Spice, what did you do that for? We
needed him to tell us more about
who's behind all this!
SPICE
We've still got that one.
She points to the vamp they captured at the bar.
TWIST
Works for me, let's go!
The foursome walk over to the captured vamp, still tied up,
who has pushed himself up into a sitting position against the
sofa. Chris kneels down in front of him.
CHRIS
Well, looks like we're back where
we started then. And between you
and me…
(leans closer; whispers)
I doubt she's sold on the prospect
of letting you live. Figuratively
speaking. So let's hear it.
CAPTURED VAMP
(quickly)
There's a guy. A demon. He only
used to speak to Tony.
CHRIS
Tony?
CAPTURED VAMP
He's one of the ones you killed.
CHRIS
Ah. Sorry.
CAPTURED VAMP
Meh, I never liked the guy.
(beat)
Anyway, this demon, he'd show up
and give us lists of targets,
places to hit, people to kill.
We'd get plenty of cash and all the
fresh meat we could carry as long
as we did what he asked. Seemed
like a good gig, so we stuck at it.
Then, he asks us to start going for
that vamp chick's place, said her
and her posse were 'dangerous to
the plan' or something.
CHRIS
I see. What is this 'plan' exactly?
CAPTURED VAMP
Kill a bunch of people and make it
look like it was her fault, get the
cops to shut 'em down. It was
working too, till you came along.
CHRIS
Happy to disappoint.
Jack's radio buzzes, and he picks it up and responds.
JACK
Estes here, go ahead.
RADIO
Jack? This is Officer Ardlan, we've
got a situation down at the bar,
sir.
JACK
What's happened?
We hear the captured vamp start to snicker.
RADIO
Looks like some punks got to the
place before we did, they've set a
fire going. We've got fire teams on
their way, but I don't think
they're gonna have much left to
work with…
CHRIS
Another part of your plan?
CAPTURED VAMP
What, you thought we were the only
nest in town?
He laughs a little longer, until Chris, a hard look on his
face, lashes out with the stake still in his hand, and the
vamp croaks. He stands and heads for the door.
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