sib3x09
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TEASER
FADE IN:
1 INT. MOTEL ROOM - NIGHT 1
Right where we left them, the team all stare in shock at
SANCTUS, who waits in the doorway.
TWIST, DIEGO, NAOMI, DANYAEL, SYREN and JULIE have all just
heard his surprise announcement, but there are no prizes for
guessing who's the first to respond.
TWIST
You what?!?
SYREN
(jumps up)
Do you mean it?
DIEGO
How is it even possible?
JULIE
Don't ask questions like that!
DANYAEL
One of us had to say it!
NAOMI
(to Danyael)
Wait, you mean Chris as in Chris
Berkeley? I thought you said he was
dead?
SYREN
Have you found him? Is he still
alive?
TWIST
He wasn't 'alive' to start with,
princess.
JULIE
(scolds)
Twist!
TWIST
What? She's the one getting her
logic ass backwards!
DANYAEL
Oh, so you pick now to correct her?
DIEGO
Everyone, please! Let him speak!
SANCTUS
(beat)
May I come in?
JULIE
Uh, yeah, yeah, of course.
Sanctus steps inside, closing the door behind him.
SANCTUS
Thank you.
TWIST
Nu-uh. Civilities later. Answers
first.
SANCTUS
I think I've found a way to find
Chris.
TWIST
That's not what you said first. You
said you know of a way to find
Chris. Big difference.
JULIE
Maybe you should just tell us?
DANYAEL
Yeah, we've all had a pretty rough
night...
NAOMI
Very rough.
DANYAEL
... so we could use a pick me up.
Sanctus shrugs off his coat, taking a seat as the others wait
expectantly.
SANCTUS
My search for some kind of
artefact, ritual, spell or anything
else to locate and retrieve
Christopher hasn't had a great deal
of success in the months since he
was lost, as you all know.
TWIST
And yet we still get our hopes up
every time you call.
DANYAEL
You do?
SYREN
I do.
Twist rolls her eyes as they wait for Sanctus to continue.
SANCTUS
My search has taken me all round
the world, paying visits to some of
the least well-known, isolated and
often downright bizarre
practitioners of magic, searching
for anything with the necessary
power to locate him.
JULIE
And you've found it here?
SANCTUS
Not exactly. But I now know exactly
what I'm looking for, so with your
help I plan to retrieve it and use
it.
He reaches into his coat pocket and fishes out a fragile,
battered scroll, unfurling it and carefully handing it to
Julie.
The others hover round her shoulders as she scans it - the
scroll depicts a spherical, metal device covered with
carvings and markings, surrounded by text in an unknown
language.
JULIE
What language is this?
SANCTUS
I'm afraid I haven't been able to
decipher it. That's one of the
reasons I contacted you all.
DANYAEL
You could've just swung by now and
then, you know?
SANCTUS
(grins)
All I know for sure is that the
object you're looking at has the
power to reach across time and
space, find an individual and drag
them back to our time.
TWIST
Yeah, but in how many pieces?
SYREN
So we can use this to bring him
back?
SANCTUS
I believe so.
Syren's never been so excited, but the others are all looking
more cautious.
SANCTUS (cont'd)
So, Julie, can you translate the
writing around the image of the
orb?
JULIE
I, uh... I'm not-
DANYAEL
Sure she can.
DIEGO
Where is it being kept?
SANCTUS
That's the other thing I haven't
been able to learn yet.
TWIST
Back up. You find a drawing of
something that looks like a big
fricken marble and tell us it can
bring Chris back, but you have no
idea where it is or how it works?
SANCTUS
(beat)
No.
Twist throws her hands up in frustration.
SANCTUS (cont'd)
And I'm afraid that's not all.
NAOMI
Something tells me you guys hear
that a lot...
DANYAEL
What else?
SANCTUS
We're not the only people searching
for this artefact, and the group
we're up against...
let's just say they're a force to
be reckoned with.
TWIST
So are we, when we miss our morning
coffee.
SANCTUS
This time, I'm deadly serious. Tell
me, have any of you heard of the
Trinity?
Diego's expression flickers for a beat, and he realises
Sanctus is looking straight at him, but none of the others
notice.
DANYAEL
The who?
SYREN
I've not heard of them.
TWIST
Are they big and bad, capital B?
SANCTUS
I was hoping one of you could tell
me. I've been unable to learn
anything about them.
Sanctus glances at Diego again, but this time he keeps his
face straight as we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF TEASER
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
2 INT. VAN - NIGHT 2
Driving through the rain, Sanctus rides shotgun as Diego
drives, the rest of the team listening in the back. Julie is
engrossed in something on her laptop.
SANCTUS
So far, all I've found out about
this mysterious 'Trinity' are vague
references and mentions hinting
that they've been in existence for
many hundreds of years, and are
fearsome warriors and magic users.
DANYAEL
Sound like our kind of people.
JULIE
Why would they be after this
sphere?
SANCTUS
I don't know, but we can't let them
get to it whatever their intentions
for it.
SYREN
Maybe we can work out some kind of
deal with them? Something that lets
us both use it?
TWIST
You have way too much faith in
humanity.
DIEGO
Which way now?
He looks round - the team are approaching a freeway exit that
shows they're heading towards Seattle.
JULIE
Next exit, straight into the city.
NAOMI
What exactly are we looking for?
JULIE
This old contact of mine, somebody
who specialises in finding things
that don't want to be found.
TWIST
Like Danyael's spine?
She nudges him playfully, but he's wearing his Serious Face
so her joke dies on its feet.
JULIE
If anyone can help us locate this
sphere, it'll be old Monkton.
(to Naomi)
You sure you want to tag along for
this? This is probably going to get
pretty messy.
NAOMI
Messy, I can handle.
TWIST
Taking care of yourself in a fight
is one thing, but we're about to go
play in the big leagues.
DANYAEL
Twist...
TWIST
I'm serious, Spook. No point
bringing your new girlfriend along
if we're just gonna have to watch
her back the whole time.
There's a venomous edge to Twist's words which doesn't go
unnoticed, and Naomi shies away from the hostility.
DANYAEL
Don't talk to her like that.
NAOMI
Danny, it's okay.
DANYAEL
No, it's not.
(to Twist)
She's a good fighter, and she knows
exactly what's out there. I want
her in on this.
Twist turns to Julie, then Diego, looking for somebody to
back her up, but it seems the majority vote is with Danyael.
Twist huffs loudly.
TWIST
Fine. But if she gets staked, you
have to carry her body.
Syren looks a little upset to hear that, so Danyael gives her
hand a quick squeeze as he clambers back to Julie.
DANYAEL
Anything yet?
JULIE
(off laptop)
My translation software's really
struggling with this one. Whatever
dialect this is, it's something
old. Like, dawn of civilisation
kind of old.
TWIST
Isn't anybody going to address the
pretty obvious question here?
A beat as the others turn to her.
SYREN
What do you mean?
TWIST
Say we find Chris. What are we
bringing back?
SYREN
I don't understand...
TWIST
I saw what happened to him before
he fell into that... whatever it
was. Big honkin' sword through the
heart, little wispy bits of white
stuff floating out of the wound.
Sanctus frowns at that.
DANYAEL
Twist, we can't-
TWIST
Guys, even if we find this thing
and somehow manage to get it
working, we have to face up to the
possibility that we're just gonna
be bringing back a corpse. A real
one. Not something half vampire.
A moment of silence falls as the others consider this.
SYREN
That's better than not having him
here at all.
That settles it for her, although the expressions on the
others' faces say they're not so confident.
3 EXT. SEATTLE - STREET - NEXT 3
The van is parked outside a run-down building sandwiched
between two old apartment blocks.
4 INT. RUN-DOWN BUILDING - NEXT 4
Julie stands before a thick steel door, the newest thing in
the otherwise bare room, the others gathered behind her.
NAOMI
These informants really know how to
live in style, don't they?
DANYAEL
I think it's in the job
description.
JULIE
Let me do the talking. Monkton and
me go way back.
She KNOCKS three times, and waits until a hatch SLIDES BACK
in the door. A pair of suspicious-looking EYES peer out.
VOICE
(muffled through door)
Who is it?
JULIE
Julie Kingston, here to see
Monkton. Tell him I brought guests.
VOICE
The chief ain't seein' anybody
tonight.
The hatch slides closed again. Julie frowns, waits a beat and
then KNOCKS again. The hatch slides open once more.
VOICE (cont'd)
Look, lady, I told you-
CLICK. Julie pokes her HANDGUN through the slot, pressing the
barrel right between those eyes.
JULIE
Maybe I should've asked nicely.
(stern)
Monkton. Now.
A beat - and then there's a CLICK as the door is unlocked.
Withdrawing her gun, Julie tucks it away as the door swings
open.
On the other side stands a scrawny man (EDDIE) with a
SHOTGUN, already levelled at Julie's chest. He stands before
a short corridor leading deeper into the building.
EDDIE
Leave yer weapons at the door.
Newly-implemented security policy.
Julie shoots him a look, but obligingly lays her handgun down
on a table by the door.
As the others troop past, following Julie down the corridor,
it's only Diego who brought a weapon inside, laying his sword
down with a quick glance at Eddie.
Julie stops by another door towards the end of the corridor,
KNOCKING again and waiting for:
VOICE
(through door)
Who is it?
JULIE
Julie Kingston.
A beat, and then the door opens to reveal MONKTON - a little
chubby, pretty average-looking save for the circle of small
HORNS sticking out from under his floppy fringe.
MONKTON
Kingston? Been a long time.
JULIE
I was busy. What's with all the
extra security?
MONKTON
I've been getting a lot of unwanted
attention lately. Seems there's a
lot of demand for someone of my
talents.
(looks across others)
Who's this? Your band?
TWIST
Do we look like a band?
MONKTON
I dunno, but you sure look like a
groupie.
Twist's jaw drops, but Danyael wisely holds her back from
laying one on Monkton.
JULIE
We need some help finding
something.
MONKTON
So does everybody who makes it this
far. Come on in.
He waves the others inside, and they step into:
5 INT. MONKTON'S PLACE - NEXT 5
They find themselves in a large room, much cosier than the
plain concrete outside. Large bookshelves cover the walls,
filled with books, files, maps and all manner of paper
stuffed into every available inch of space.
Rows and rows of precariously-stacked TV sets blare out a
dizzying network of images, every one tuned to a different
channel and only half of them speaking English.
Dominating one wall is a huge, old-fashioned computer console
that looks like its been cobbled together from PC over the
last fifty years - old and new components fight for space,
presided over by a large display screen currently showing a
satellite view of the planet.
DANYAEL
(impressed)
Not bad.
TWIST
You think? I'm getting severe retro
clash from all these styles going
on here.
MONKTON
Hey, it may look a mess, but if
there's anything on this world you
need to find, then this is the
place to start looking.
Sanctus is browsing the shelves as Syren is drawn to the wave
of sounds coming from the pile of TVs.
Julie takes the scroll from her bag, unfurling it and showing
it to Monkton.
JULIE
We need to find this.
He takes the scroll, squinting at the writing around it.
MONKTON
What language is that?
JULIE
Beats me. You help figure that out,
I'll slip in a bonus.
He heads for a battered swivel chair in front of the mammoth
computer system, shoving stray pieces of equipment aside
until he locates a scanner, carefully placing the scroll
inside.
He starts rattling away at a keyboard as Naomi joins him,
studying the computer system.
NAOMI
How does all of this work?
MONKTON
Beats me.
SANCTUS
You didn't put all of this
together?
MONKTON
Do I look like a guy who could do
that? No, I... I guess you could
say I inherited all this about
twenty years ago.
TWIST
'Inherited' as in stole it, or did
you just beat up the previous
owner?
MONKTON
(to Julie)
I'm not appreciating the doubts
that one's casting over my
character.
Julie throws Twist a look, who rolls her eyes and backs off.
MONKTON (cont'd)
I found this place sitting
abandoned, figured out how to power
it up and since then I've been
keeping it going as best I can.
He indicates the mish-mash of technology before him.
MONKTON (cont'd)
I rely on the kindness of my
clients to keep me in spare parts.
DIEGO
Forgive me for stating the obvious,
but if you don't know how it works,
how can we expect you to help us?
MONKTON
Just because I don't know doesn't
mean it won't work. Observe.
He types in a new command and a scan of the scroll appears on
the screen. Monkton hits a button marked 'Execute,' and then
sits back with his hands behind his head.
MONKTON (cont'd)
This could take a while. Get comfy.
The view of the globe up on the screen starts to zoom in,
columns of writing and images flickering past at dizzying
speed as the screen starts to split into dozens of smaller
views.
One by one, the screens go dark until only a few remain, with
more rows of information filling the gaps. There are three
screens left highlighted, each zooming in on a specific
location.
SANCTUS
Astounding...
MONKTON
Ain't it? As best as I've figured
out, it's something to do with just
cross-referencing lots of
information, very quickly. You set
your search based on what you're
after and Bono does the rest.
SYREN
'Bono'?
MONKTON
Yeah, after the song. You know,
'Still Haven't Found What I'm
Looking For'?
Danyael grins as three different PRINTERS come to life, each
one spewing out sheets of paper covered with tightly-bunched
lines of information.
MONKTON (cont'd)
This thing's got archives going
back decades, and new info pours in
all the time from sources I can't
even begin to start counting.
TWIST
So, what, this is basically a
magically-assisted version of
Google?
MONKTON
(thinks)
Actually, yeah.
Julie tears off the nearest printout, studying the results.
JULIE
We've got three possible locations
for the sphere. All in the USA, all
within the sites of old temples...
DANYAEL
Yeah, cause we always have such
great luck with those.
JULIE
... and also, all within this area,
give or take.
MONKTON
Chances are two of those results
are just slight variations on what
you're actually looking for. That's
how Bono works.
JULIE
We'd better split up. Three teams,
one location each.
SANCTUS
Won't that leave us under-staffed
if we encounter this 'Trinity'?
A thought hits Sanctus at that, and he approaches Monkton.
SANCTUS (cont'd)
Can you run another search for us?
MONKTON
You got payment?
SANCTUS
Money won't be an object.
TWIST
(whispers to Diego)
We need him to come visit more
often...
MONKTON
What's the target?
SANCTUS
Bring up everything you can on an
organisation called the Trinity.
Monkton types the command in and waits, and once again the
screen is filled with scrolling columns of information.
MONKTON
This one's gonna take a while. You
got a contact number?
JULIE
Here, use mine. The rest of you,
get back to the van. We can't
afford to sit still on this one.
Julie passes Monkton her phone as the others head for the
exit, Naomi tearing Syren away from the TVs.
Twist, meanwhile, is caught peering at Monkton, who turns to
face her.
MONKTON
Something wrong?
TWIST
What's with the horns?
MONKTON
You'd have to ask my mother.
He turns back to his work, and as Diego calls for her again
Twist finally turns and leaves, as we cut to:
6 INT. VAN - NIGHT 6
It's just Julie and Sanctus now, driving out past city
limits. Neither of them speak, until:
SANCTUS
Diego is hiding something.
JULIE
What? What makes you say that?
SANCTUS
Call it vampire intuition. It's
something I suspected when we were
last working together. There's a
lot about him that we don't know.
JULIE
You think he knows something about
the Trinity?
SANCTUS
Perhaps. I can't be sure yet.
JULIE
Then let's hope he has a good
reason for keeping it quiet.
Sanctus turns to look out through the window, his expression
troubled, as we cut to:
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