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        30     INT. RENGLER MANOR – HALLWAY. NIGHT.                    30

               Chris paces along again, past a doorway that is slightly
               ajar, leading into a large boardroom. Chris checks around and
               then ducks inside.

        31     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM. NIGHT.                  31

               A long, well polished mahogany table with tables arranged all
               around, and walls filled with framed photographs that Chris
               pauses to examine.

               We pan along them as Chris examines them – Rengler is seen
               warmly shaking hands with everyone from Anton LaVey and
               Aleister Crowley to Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey...

               Chris manages a wry smile at the motley crew of characters
               Rengler seems to know, before spotting something in the far
               wall.

               Hung across the whole of the back wall is a large tapestry,
               which seems to depict some exquisitely detailed battle scene
               between two hordes of dark-clothed warriors, literally
               tearing one another apart with tooth, claw and fang. A large
               tower rises out of the centre of the piece, with
               thunderclouds and lightning crackling all around it. 

               Distant sound effects punctuate the scene as we CLOSE IN to
               make out two figures standing on top of the tower, locked in
               a titanic battle.

               Chris studies the tapestry for a moment, then snaps his head
               round as he hears muffled voices talking in the corridor
               outside. Grabbing a pocket digital camera from his pocket, he
               takes a few photos and then looks for a way out. 

               Spotting a small passageway leading off to the right of the
               tapestry, he heads down there.

        32     INT. TORTURE ROOM. NIGHT.                               32

               THWACK. Another dead Doctor drops into view as we lie
               sideways on the floor, and as we level out and pan back, we
               can see that most of the doctors in the room are lying dead
               either on the floor or slumped over the operating tables,
               while the released demons exact bloody vengeance on those
               still standing. 

               Danyael joins Twist in the centre of the room as they survey
               the happy carnage raging around them. The sounds of punches
               and kicks, the clanks of heads bouncing off tables and the
               thuds of blows landing are creating a sort of rhythm for the
               scene, and after a shared look, Twist and Danyael start
               bopping on the spot to it, living out their breakdance
               fantasies in this unusual setting.

        33     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER. NIGHT.                33

               The small passageway we left Chris in opens out into a larger
               room, and Chris slows down as he walks into it, the brightly
               lit rectangular room obviously having something that captures
               his attention.

               Behind a protective wall of glass is a long and ornate
               painting, depicting some kind of chair and an attached
               device, DaVinci-style, split out and separated into its
               component parts, but viewed from a diagonal angle so the
               method of assembly can be seen. 

               We pull back a little to pick up a glass cabinet, man-sized
               but only containing one thing: a plinth with a black velvet
               cushion on it, on top of which glints two small, golden
               pieces of machinery.

               Chris peers into the cabinet at the two pieces of machinery,
               looking back across to the painting and identifying them as
               parts of the machine. 

               Chris walks up to the painting, a fascinated look on his
               face, and reaches out a hand for it but freezes at the last
               moment, correctly realising it's alarmed. 

               He steps back and draws his camera, but the glass covering
               flares up when the flash goes off and Chris frowns as he
               realises he'll have to remove the glass to get a picture. 

               He looks round the room for something to throw, but the long
               room is empty apart from those two things. With a shrug, he
               rears back and prepares to kick the glass away. Just before
               his boot lands, we cut to:

        34     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR. NIGHT.                   34

               With a collective ROAR, the angry demons, freed from
               captivity, burst out of the doors from the torture room and
               as one race towards the stairs leading up into the mansion
               proper, followed a moment later by Twist and Danyael, Twist
               brushing her hands together at a job well done. 

               She and Danyael exchange a nod before starting up the stairs
               after the demons, distant sounds of breaking glass and
               shouting voices indicating that their diversion is well
               underway. Twist pauses suddenly, and taps Danyael on the arm.
               She writes down as he turns:

               (Hang on a sec, I just spotted something...)

               She breaks off towards a doorway to the left. Danyael looks
               around, then with a roll of his eyes follows his erstwhile
               team-mate into the room.

        35     INT. RENGLER MANOR – COMPUTER ROOM. NIGHT.              35

               Twist steps into a darkened room with three desks, all with
               computer terminals on them. She flicks one on, and with the
               whirr of its tower and the clicks of its hard drive, it
               starts to boot up. 

               Danyael pulls a face at her, indicating that they should
               hurry up, but Twist holds up a finger to him to wait, before
               turning to the screen, her face illuminated by the soft blue
               glow from the monitor. 

               After a beat, she clicks on something on screen with the
               mouse and starts to type.

        36     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER. NIGHT.                36

               Chris hops up and down, grimacing with pain and holding his
               wounded hand under his armpit. Obviously his attempt to kick
               the glass failed, and his follow-up punch just succeeded in
               proving how strong the glass is. 

               A boot print on the glass stares back at Chris as he draws
               his katana, first rearing back for a swing at the glass, but
               pausing mid-way through and using its tip to cut a small
               circle out of the glass instead. 

               He waits a few beats for an alarm to sound, and when nothing
               happens he starts to cut away at the corners of the glass,
               hoping to detach the glass from the painting without
               activating the alarms.

        37     INT. RENGLER MANOR – COMPUTER ROOM. NIGHT.              37

               Danyael fidgets in the background as Twist taps away at the
               computer's keyboard, pausing to read of whatever's on the
               screen. 

               Danyael coughs once to get her attention, nodding towards the
               door when she looks round. Twist scowls and writes on a pile
               of printer paper lying on the desk next to her:

               (Important!)

               She turns back to the screen and reads on, at first frowning
               and then looking shocked, her expression one of surprise. She
               looks round for a floppy disc, finds one and slams it into
               the disc drive, saving whatever it is she's seen. After a few
               clicks from the disc, she removes the disc and dashes out of
               the room, Danyael in tow behind her.

        38     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER. NIGHT.                38

               Chris is at the far edge of the glass screen, carefully
               cutting away the last corner so that the glass will fall away
               from the painting and he can either photograph it or steal
               it. 

               Bracing himself to catch the glass as it falls forward, it
               falls against him with a meaty THUD, his shoulders flat
               against it as he tries to lower the glass carefully to the
               ground. He's halfway there when there is a tinkling sound to
               his right.

               A hairline crack is creeping across the opposite end of the
               screen, from top to bottom.

               Chris is about eight feet away from the crack. He looks
               flustered as he tries to edge slowly along the screen,
               keeping it braced as he stretches his fingers out to reach
               the crack before the whole chunk of glass breaks away. 

               Making painstakingly slow process, freezing every time the
               grass cracks a little further, Chris makes a superhuman
               effort to get his right hand just inches away from the
               crack...

               Chris' fingers snake into screen, and at the last moment, as
               the chunk of broken glass starts to fall away, his hand
               lances out and catches it, his palm flat against the broken
               piece to support it.

               Chris breathes a sigh of relief, but moments later there is
               another CRACK, and he is helpless as he turns and sees the
               glass crack at the other end of the screen, the fracture
               snaking up the screen in seconds. 

               The chunk of glass falls to the ground and SHATTERS, and a
               loud alarm klaxon sounds, the room bathed in red flashing
               lights. Chris leaps forward, hands pressed over his ears.

               In a glorious slow motion shot, the rest of the screen
               SHATTERS as it falls to the floor.

               Chris looks down at the mess of glass on the ground, and rubs
               a hand over his weary eyes. Looks like another fine mess he's
               gotten himself into. 

               He doesn't look up as we hear the sounds of running feet
               rapidly approaching the room.

                                                             BLACK OUT:



                                   END OF ACT TWO
                                      ACT THREE

                                                               FADE IN:

        39     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER                        39

               Resume. Chris stands in the room, motionless, the alarm
               bleeping constantly at increasingly loud levels.

        40     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           40

               Twist & Danyael race along.

        41     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          41

               The Angry Demons cross the Boardroom. Halfway through, they
               stop suddenly. Their anger turns to fear.

               We catch a brief glimpse of a DEMON staring at them, but we
               can't get a decent look at him. He appears to have skin of
               rock, or maybe lava.

        42     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER                        42

               The alarm stops. Chris looks bemused, and a little concerned.
               He reaches into a cleverly concealed holster, and pulls out a
               small little dagger before he approaches the door.

        43     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               43

               Rengler stares at a Filing Cabinet in front of him. (The same
               one from the Teaser.) He eyes it wearily. In his hands is a
               Prophecy. It's written in Russian. He laughs unsettlingly as
               he reads.

        44     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           44

               Twist & Danyael stop. They stare ahead, exchanging quizzical
               looks at what stands in front of them.

        45     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          45

               A plethora of blood-curdling screams abound, as blood
               splashes against the window. We can hear the sounds of some
               sort of ruckus going down in there.

        46     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ANTECHAMBER                        46

               Chris approaches the door, tentatively.

        47     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               47

               Rengler reads the prophecy out loud in subtitled Russian.

                                   RENGLER
                             (Russian; subtitled)
                         The 35th test is grave with peril.
                         The vampire with half a soul will
                         fight an enemy unconventional in
                         means. The escapee from Hell, and
                         her accomplice, will fight an Army
                         of the doomed.
                             (beat; eyes widen)
                         We do not govern the tests. The
                         results are not set in stone.

               He smiles wryly.

        48     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           48

               PAN AROUND from Twist & Danyael to the SKELETON ARMY standing
               in front of them, and back around to Twist & Danyael, looking
               a lot less confident. Twist sets her jaw and makes a few
               practice swings with her trusty bat.

        49     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          49

               Chris enters the room, looking around in horror. PAN AROUND
               from Chris to the carnage before him, noticeably the very
               dead angry demons who were headed for him. 

               PAN AROUND from the carnage back to Chris, who doesn't
               realise that behind him, stands the perpetrator of this
               gruesome act of carnage.

               Our first good impression of the creature reveals it to be an
               aptly named HELLSPAWN DEMON. Six feet in height, 240lbs, skin
               of rock and red eyes that haunt the room.

               He reaches for Chris with his large hand, but Chris spins
               around like a flash, lashing out at the arm with the dagger. 

               The dagger bounces off the demon's thick hide, causing a
               slight spark from an ineffectual hit. The Hellspawn laughs
               and BACKHANDS Chris, sending him hurtling across the room
               into the wall. Plaster rains down on him as he collapses to
               the floor.

        50     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           50

               The skeletons approach Twist & Danyael. They grab decorative
               swords off the wall as they advance, wrenching them out of
               Rengler's displays. Without warning, the skeletons suddenly
               CHARGE the duo.

               The skeletons come on with a fury. Twist & Danyael can barely
               keep up with their onslaught and are pushed backwards, the
               skeletons keeping them strictly on the defensive.

               Twist bats away one sword blow and lands a good hit back with
               her bat, knocking the creature's skull to an awkward angle,
               and it staggers away from her.

        51     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          51

               Chris slowly gets to his feet, dazed from the punch. The
               Hellspawn HITS him again. This time, Chris goes sailing into
               the window, which CRACKS slightly.

               The Hellspawn approaches, and throws its fist forward. Chris
               dodges at the last moment, and the Demon hits the glass,
               which CRACKS again.

               Chris dances round the beast and lands three solid body
               blows, followed by one ferocious PUNCH to the demon's jaw.
               After a moment to shake its head, the demon laughs it off and
               grabs Chris, throwing him across the room again.

               Chris goes smashing through a glass-table, cutting his body
               in a half dozen different places. He tries to slowly push
               himself to his feet, but the wind is well and truly knocked
               out of him

               The Hellspawn Demon laughs.

        52     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               52

               Rengler waves his hands. In front of him appear two glass
               orbs. With their help, he watches the fights in progress.

        53     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           53

               Twist chops down a skeleton in front of her, smashing its rib
               cage away with one swing and then its skull with another.
               Getting in the hang of it, she starts pushing the four she's
               fighting backwards.

               Loving every minute of it, she doesn't notice that Danyael
               isn't faring particularly well.

        54     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          54

               The Hellspawn Demon grabs Chris by his collar and raises him
               into the air, sneering at the helpless hero as he rears back
               his free hand for another killer punch.

               Chris spins his legs round, and SLAMS them into the demon's
               thigh. He buckles to one knee and Chris rolls to his feet.
               With a scoop, he grabs the dagger and starts slicing and
               punching for all he's worth.

               He has the demon on the ropes, and doesn't let up. The
               Hellspawn appears to be losing.

               Its eyes tell a different tale.

        55     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           55

               Twist takes down the four skeletons in front of her with a
               truly awe-inspiring collection of bat swipes. The assortment
               of odd bones vanishes before her.

               She turns, and sees Danyael getting increasingly pushed back
               by the last remaining skeleton, its blade pressed against his
               throat.

               Twist leaps into the frame, and with a flying swipe knocks
               out the creature's neck. Its head bounces down to the floor
               and the rest of it falls backwards, shattering into its
               component parts on impact. 

               A relieved Danyael gives Twist the thumbs up as she grins
               back and starts swinging the bat around, making lightsaber
               'swoosh' noises.

        56     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          56

               Chris grabs the Hellspawn by the back of the head and raises
               the dagger. He brings it sharply towards the demon's eye, but
               the Hellspawn stops it at the last moment. 

               Chris struggles, but it's too much. The Hellspawn lowers the
               arm, and pushes it so the dagger digs into Chris's gut. His
               face convulses in agony.

               The Hellspawn laughs again.

               Chris slowly looks at the Hellspawn with a truly sadistic
               gaze. Chris pulls his arms away, and locks both arms around
               the Hellspawn's neck. 

               With concerted effort, he SNAPS the neck, breaking it
               instantly. The Hellspawn slumps to the ground.

               Chris backs off, and with a wince of pain pulls the dagger
               from his gut.

               Staring at the blood on the Dagger. His eyes go wide.

               Chris SNARLS and approaches the barely alive Hellspawn. He
               grabs the dagger and SLAMS it down into the demon's chest.
               Chris twists the knife as far as it'll go, and the Hellspawn
               dies with a final ROAR of pain.

               Chris stands up, and looks at the dagger. After a long beat,
               he slowly LICKS the blood from the blade. When all the blood
               has been cleaned away, Chris pockets the knife. 

               He pauses for a moment and closes his eyes, as though sending
               that part of himself back into its box again. When his eyes
               reopen, he seems calm, focused once more.

        57     INT. RENGLER MANOR – CORRIDOR                           57

               Twist & Danyael walk along. Twist is still all-warm and
               tingly from the ass-kicking she meshed out to the skeletons,
               while Danyael is a little less warm and tingly, more cold and
               bruised.

               They turn a corner and see a long staircase leading down into
               the ground floor of the manor, and after a quick check left
               and right for any more bad guys, they start to descend the
               staircase.

        58     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          58

               Chris kicks through the door and into the scene dramatically,
               the doors knocked off their hinges and clattering to the
               floor. He takes one step inside and stops, sniffs the air. He
               turns around, something having attracted his attention.

               Spotting the Filing Cabinet, Chris walks towards it
               cautiously - it wasn't there a moment ago.

        59     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          59

               Chris tries to open the cabinet, but it's firmly locked. He
               puts his hand on it, and closes his eyes, and after a moment
               green tendrils of magic slowly seem to emanate from Chris'
               palm, and positioning themselves around the lock.

        60     INT. RENGLER MANOR – TORTURE ROOM                       60

               Twist & Danyael push open the door to the grim chamber and
               look around tentatively. Save for them, the room is eerily
               empty. They exchange a cautious look and then step inside.

        61     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          61

               With a soft FOOM, the lock is blasted open.

        62     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               62

               Rengler suddenly falls to his knees, gasping for air. His
               eyes snap from side to side, trying to figure out what's just
               hit him. His eyes narrow as he realises, and with a snarl he
               jumps back to his feet.

        63     INT. RENGLER MANOR – TORTURE ROOM                       63

               Twist studies an operating table. Fresh blood drips off the
               side. A disgusted look crosses her face as she ponders just
               what could have happened on this very table, and she stands,
               shivering on reflex.

               Danyael stands behind her, but suddenly shakes his head,
               touches his chest, and looks down with alarm as BLOOD seeps
               through his clothes. He looks up at Twist, concerned.

               She looks round, and her eyes bulge at his new wound.

        64     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          64

               Chris opens the cabinet. He pulls out a blank scroll, but
               before his eyes, it starts to fill with text.

               It reads: The mark of all those who seek power is to change
               the world. Money is no object, but evil is a necessary must.
               In the case of the one known as Rengler, he will create
               something that the world has never seen before, and with it
               bring a self-manufactured Apocalypse.

        65     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               65

               Rengler pulls a blank, white sheet of papyrus from a drawer
               before him. He puts his palm on it and murmurs a short
               incantation, and the sheet bursts into FLAMES.

        66     INT. RENGLER MANOR – BOARDROOM                          66

               The scroll in Chris' hand turns to fire, briefly engulfing
               his hand. He's barely able to put it out, swatting the fire
               away with his other hand, and in doing so he becomes angrier
               than we've ever seen him.

               With a scowl, he throws the singed scroll down onto the floor
               and stomps off screen.

        67     INT. RENGLER MANOR – TORTURE ROOM                       67

               Danyael's eyes glaze over, and he totters towards one of the
               operating tables, flopping onto his back on its surface. He
               begins to convulse uncontrollably as Twist dashes over,
               grabbing and squeezing his hand. She looks round frantically,
               looking for something to snap him out of it as Danyael's eyes
               roll back in his head.

        68     INT. RENGLER MANOR – ROOM                               68

               Rengler glances round at the wall of security monitors behind
               him and leans in closer on one of them.

               We see the increasingly worried Twist trying to restrain the
               convulsing Danyael.

               Rengler's face picks up. His eyes turn towards the door.

        69     INT. RENGLER MANOR – TORTURE ROOM                       69

               Twist doesn't see the door to the room swing silently open,
               and Rengler approach her from the shadows behind. She attends
               to Danyael too much to notice.

               Rengler rubs his palms together, and as she hears the sound
               Twist looks up, frowns, then snaps her head round. She sees
               Rengler at last, but it's too late.

               She reaches for her bat, but before she can get to it Rengler
               fires a BLAST of blue energy towards Twist. 

               It hits her dead in the stomach, and sends her flying
               backwards headfirst into the confines of a wall. She slumps
               to the ground, seeing stars.

        70     INT. RENGLER MANOR – STAIRCASE                          70

               Chris quickly descends. He busts down the door at the end of
               the staircase like it wasn't there.

        71     INT. RENGLER MANOR – TORTURE ROOM                       71

               Chris enters, seeing Twist & Danyael strapped down to
               operating tables with manacles, and Rengler over the side of
               the room. Rengler has the bonesaw in his hands and is dressed
               in a PVC labcoat, with gloves and goggles too.

               They stare off for a few beats. And then, it begins.

               Rengler throws the saw to the ground as Chris charges towards
               him, each gathering up a ball of magical energy in one hand –
               Chris has blue, Rengler red. They THROW their respective
               bolts at each other.

               Rengler's spell catches Chris in the stomach, just as Chris
               catches Rengler in the legs. Both are temporarily frozen to
               the spot, struggling to move.

               The spells break, and they start again. Rengler fires a black
               bolt of energy towards Chris, while Chris replies with a
               yellow ball of magic.

               At the speed they're moving, both spells have the added bonus
               of sending each man hurtling into opposite walls as they SLAM
               into each of them.

               They slowly pick themselves up. Rengler clutches his head,
               while Chris clutches his gut. Charging forward again, Chris
               readies another blast of magic.

               Chris fires his spell towards Rengler, but with a wave of his
               hand he parries it away, and with a gesture from his other
               hand pulls Chris towards him. 

               When Chris gets closer, Rengler grins, reaches behind him and
               STABS Chris in the gut with a dagger. Chris coughs up some
               blood, staring with disgust at Rengler.

               Rengler lets him fall to the ground. Chris' eyes slowly begin
               to shut.

                                   RENGLER
                         Don't give up now, Chris! Talk to
                         me...

               Chris's eyes finally shut, and we:

                                                             BLACK OUT:



                                  END OF ACT THREE
                                      ACT FOUR

                                                               FADE IN:

        72     RENGLER MANOR - STUDY. NIGHT.                           72

               We fade up on a warm study room, a log fire crackling in one
               corner, the licks of flames dancing across the rows of neatly
               ordered books, boxes, scrolls and cabinets lining the walls. 

               In the centre of the room is Chris, unconscious and strapped
               to a high-backed leather chair. He stirs, looking around him
               as he wakes up, testing his bonds but finding he can't move
               at all. He hears footsteps and tries to turn round, but can
               only see so far. 

               After a few moments, Rengler strides into the study, wearing
               a blood-soaked PVC apron and pulling off a pair of latex
               gloves. He smiles down at Chris, who glares back as Rengler
               picks up an A4 notepad from his desk and writes on it,
               turning it to face Chris.

               (How do you feel?)

               Chris throws Rengler an incredulous look, and he chuckles.

                                   RENGLER
                         My apologies, I couldn't resist.
                         Come on, Chris, play along! I know
                         your two vampire puppets downstairs
                         won't say a word either, so either
                         my spell affected them as well as
                         it did you, or...

               Rengler pauses, and places his hands over his mouth in mock
               surprise, before grinning.

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         Oops, now look at me. Let the cat
                         out of the bag, didn't I? Must have
                         been the same cat that got your
                         tongue. Now, let's try this again.

               Rengler passes the pad and a pen to Chris, who has just
               enough movement free with his right hand to write:

               (Where are Twist and Danyael?)

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         They're... well, I was about to say
                         safe, but that'd be a bit of a
                         white lie. They're not dead yet, if
                         that's what you mean.
                             (beat)
                         Or dead again, I should say.

               Chris' eyes blaze as he writes again:

               (Exactly what are you up to here?)

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         A masterpiece, Chris, pure and
                         simple. I'm a man of great vision,
                         and for years I struggled to find
                         the tools to achieve that vision.
                         Now, I have seen the way... and
                         this very night, it shall be
                         completed!

               Rengler stands and starts to pace the room, Chris never
               taking his eyes off him.

               Carefully sliding the pen up towards the bonds on his wrist,
               Chris tries to break through with the pen's tip.

               Rengler stands before the large window in the study, watching
               a storm start to rage outside.

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         Many years ago, I was travelling
                         out in some backwater country, I
                         can't remember exactly where, one
                         of those interchangeable Eastern
                         European states that feature so
                         heavily in bad Forties movies, on
                         one of my many relic hunting trips
                         abroad.

        73     INT. EASTERN EUROPEAN TEMPLE. NIGHT.                    73

               A younger looking Rengler walks into frame, dressed for
               exploration and holding a flaming torch as he pushes through
               the cobwebs of the crumbling stonework of the temple.

                                   RENGLER (V.O.)
                         I chanced across an old, abandoned
                         temple, and as I headed inside, on
                         the lookout as always for anything
                         of value I could liberate, I saw a
                         painting.

               Rengler walks into the main hall of the church, full of
               rotting wooden pews and shattered stained glass windows. His
               attention is drawn to a frieze running along the back wall
               behind the altar. 

               The wall appears to be glowing softly, his torch casting
               flickering shadows around the interior as he creeps forward
               cautiously.

                                   RENGLER (V.O.) (cont'd)
                         But it was much more than just some
                         colours splashed ungracefully onto
                         the plasterwork, it was... alive.

               Rengler approaches the painting, and as we draw closer we can
               see what he means - the picture depicts a horde of seemingly
               random monstrosities, chaotic beings all fused together in
               one mass of flesh and bone. 

               That's not the main thing, however - the whole painting is
               MOVING breathing almost, and as Rengler reaches out a
               cautious hand to touch it, it reacts to him, moving beneath
               his fingers. A look of perverse joy hits Rengler as he starts
               to realise this is something very important.

                                   RENGLER (V.O.) (cont'd)
                         At first, I thought fatigue was
                         playing tricks on me, but I soon
                         came to see that there was magic at
                         work in there. What the temple's
                         old purpose was, I haven't been
                         able to discover. The purpose of
                         the painting, I did find out - it
                         was a channel. A focus point for
                         supernatural energies, both from
                         this world and another beyond,
                         linked together and drawn to that
                         place almost like a sink tap
                         running from the side of a
                         reservoir. Tremendous power, Chris,
                         beyond my comprehension!

        74     INT. RENGLER MANOR - STUDY. NIGHT.                      74

               Rengler has a distant, happy smile on his face as he
               remembers the experience.

                                   RENGLER
                         But, alas, the well had run dry at
                         that particular spot, so there was
                         nothing to be gained from the site.
                         That's when I learned about ley
                         lines. An almost circuit board-like
                         network of naturally occurring
                         energies, criss-crossing the entire
                         planet. It was no coincidence that
                         the painting was at one of these
                         locations! All I needed to do was
                         find another, fashion a new conduit
                         and tap into all that free power...

               Chris writes something down again, making sure Rengler
               doesn't think he's using the pen to get free.

               (What does this have to do with us?)

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         Oh, nothing, really.
                         You've just interrupted my
                         preparations, and that's the kind
                         of thing I'm afraid I do frown
                         quite heavily upon. That, and the
                         fact that one of your accomplices
                         has something that I need.

               Chris raises an eyebrow, and Rengler smirks.

                                   RENGLER (cont'd)
                         All in good time. Well, I'd best be
                         getting back to work. Those
                         vampires aren't going to dissect
                         themselves! Your male accomplice
                         has a particularly unhealthy liver
                         that should provide just the right
                         amount of...
                             (feigns shock again)
                         And there I go, giving everything
                         away! Silly me, eh?

               With an evil smirk from ear to ear, Rengler exits, not before
               taking the pad and pen away from Chris. 

               When he's safely out of the room, Chris closes his eyes and
               relaxes, then tenses his arm as hard as he can, managing to
               TEAR through the bonds with some effort. With one hand free,
               he quickly gets to work on the rest.
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