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FADE IN:
15 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 15
Chris is still watching the incoming clouds as Syren tries to
drag him away, Inman marching over with a few of his
colleagues.
INMAN
Alright, that's enough! I don't
know what you guys are trying to
pull here, but we can't...
He trails off, looking to the skies.
SYREN
Chris, please! We have to get
inside! We can't stay out here!
INMAN
What the hell...?
The CLOUDS are drawing closer, the BUZZING rising in
intensity every second - until Chris realises what's coming.
BUGS. Thousands, maybe millions of them; over-sized, jet
black mosquitos, each one the size of a dog!
Chris takes about half a second to process the threat,
getting to the best course of action - running.
TWIST
What's going on?
CHRIS
Get inside! Everybody!
Waving his arms to alert the CDC personnel to the swarm,
Chris tears back towards the closet solid-looking building.
Inman isn't far behind, with the rest of the team breaking
and running as the horde of insects closes in.
TWIST
What the ever-lovin' Britney Spears
are those things?
SYREN
Just go! Go! Fast as you can!
Behind them, the first wave of the swarm SWOOPS down to the
street, descending on a team of CDC agents and engulfing them
in a wave of black bodies and buzzing wings.
Their SCREAMS ring out down the deserted street as the bugs
tear through their suits and attack them.
Twist, looking back, grimaces as she puts her head down and
doubles her speed.
Diego reaches the door of a large building where Chris waits,
and on his signal they KICK the thick doors open.
DIEGO
Get inside!
Syren and Twist race through, with Inman and a handful of CDC
agents close behind.
CHRIS
Come on!
Inman has no choice but to obey, even as more of his men are
picked off by further clusters of bugs.
16 INT. BUILDING - NEXT 16
Once Inman and is men burst through the door, Chris holds the
doors closed as Diego and Twist HEAVE a heavy desk across the
door frame.
There's a SMASH as one of the windows shatters - and despite
the planks across the frame, several of the bugs start
pushing their way inside!
DIEGO
(points)
There!
He's at the window in a heartbeat, SLICING the bugs in two as
Twist joins him, BASHING another with a SPLAT.
CHRIS
We can't stay here.
SYREN
They'll get in, no matter where we
try and hide.
INMAN
The hell is she talking about? What
are those creatures?
Twist hears another noise - and sees more of the bugs
literally CLAWING their way through the walls!
TWIST
Chris! Hate to use a cliche, but
they're coming outta the god damned
walls!
Chris looks round - more HOLES are appearing as the bugs
tunnel their way inside.
CHRIS
Alright, everybody stand back.
Diego and Twist back away from the window - more bugs are
already squirming through the gaps.
INMAN
My God...
Inman's heart sinks as he realises there's no way out - bugs
are almost inside in all directions!
Chris closes his eyes, calm even as Syren clings to him in
fear. He places his hands together and lowers his head...
... and a shimmering field of BLUE ENERGY rises up, starting
about a foot away from the walls and circling the team.
Inman gapes, but his surprise is short-lived as first one,
then two more windows BURST OPEN under the weight of the bugs
outside, waves of the insects streaming inside!
DIEGO
Here they come...
The first bugs hit the forcefield - and bounce right off it!
TWIST
Yes! Score one for team Twist, you
rotten bastards!
The bugs can't get through, despite covering every available
inch of space in the room.
SYREN
Chris...
He lifts his head, laying a comforting hand on Syren's arm.
CHRIS
It'll hold.
He turns to Inman, who along with his men looks suitably
dazed by what's going on.
CHRIS (cont'd)
There'll be time for me to explain
later. Right now, we need to work
out some kind of plan of attack.
INMAN
We... what?
CHRIS
Those creatures have obviously been
attracted by the storm, and after
seeing what they did to your men
outside, the chances of survival
for anyone asleep in this city are
falling by the moment.
Inman exhales, trying to process these impossible conditions.
CHRIS (cont'd)
Now... what's CDC policy concerning
insect swarms?
Inman blinks, but then a bizarre SCREECHING sound begins to
reverberate round the room.
The team cover their ears as the screech quickly builds to a
painful intensity.
TWIST
Where's that coming from?
SYREN
(darkly)
It's them.
Sure enough, the SCREECH is being made by the insects, their
wings beating at an incredible speed to amplify the sound of
their legs rubbing against their chitinous bodies.
The cacophony rings out for a few more moments, before the
insects start to pull back.
The team watch as the bugs stream back out through the
entrances they dug for themselves, emptying the room.
INMAN
Now what?
DIEGO
I believe they are searching for an
easier meal.
CHRIS
Which means we don't have long
until they come back...
One of Inman's men suddenly WILTS, slumping dead away to the
floor with a heavy THUD!
CHRIS (cont'd)
... or any time at all.
Inman goes to his colleague and rolls him over - he's ASLEEP.
He angrily looks up to Chris as we CUT TO:
17 INT. VYRA HOUSEHOLD - DAY 17
Danyael steps into the front room. He double takes as he
realises he's in the same house, but the details have changed
now - along with the decor.
NAOMI
It's a few years later. In case you
were wondering.
Naomi joins him, and Danyael's eyes fall on her mother,
slumped on the sofa with an empty bottle next to her.
NAOMI (cont'd)
I'm about to come home from school
and find her.
Danyael turns as the front door opens, and sure enough
there's the fourteen-year old TEEN NAOMI, her Goth rock
stylings showing through her neat school uniform.
TEEN NAOMI
Mom? Ash? I'm back.
She enters the living room proper, rolling her eyes when she
sees her mother's sprawled form.
TEEN NAOMI (cont'd)
Ah, damn it. Mom, come on. Don't
let people see you like this.
She tries to lift her mother up, but she's dead weight.
Undeterred, Teen Naomi tries again, but as he mother flops
back don she starts to twig something is wrong.
TEEN NAOMI (cont'd)
Mom?
She goes round to her, patting her mom on the cheek and
giving her a few shakes.
TEEN NAOMI (cont'd)
Mom, come on! Wake up! Mom!
(firmer)
Mom!
ASHLEY (O.S.)
She won't wake up...
Teen Naomi turns - her little sister ASHLEY, now nine, sits
huddled out of view behind the armchair. She hugs her knees.
TEEN NAOMI
Ash, what's wrong with mom?
ASHLEY
(shakes head)
Didn't come to fetch me, had to
walk home. Thought she was asleep.
Growing more frantic, Teen Naomi starts SHAKING her mother
more violently.
TEEN NAOMI
Mom, come on! Don't do this! Wake
up! Wake up!
Danyael steps back, rubbing his chin as he processes what
he's seeing.
DANYAEL
I... I never knew.
NAOMI
Like I said. Didn't want anyone's
pity.
(sighs)
My mom just... gave up. She didn't
want to be here any more. I just
hope she's happier wherever she is
now.
(hangs head)
If I'd gotten home from school a
little earlier instead of hanging
out with my friends, maybe she'd
have -
DANYAEL
Don't.
He turns on her, sympathy turning to anger.
DANYAEL (cont'd)
Don't use this as an excuse.
NAOMI
I'm not! I -
DANYAEL
You murdered one of my friends. And
that's my fault. I'm the one who
let you get close enough to us to
do it. If you think showing me all
this is gonna make me forgive you,
then you've got -
NAOMI
Julie wanted to die too.
Danyael stops. Can't quite believe what he's just heard.
DANYAEL
How can you even say that?
NAOMI
Danny, it was... she'd given up. I
recognised the look in her eyes.
She was just waiting for somebody
to finish what her mind had already
started.
Incensed, Danyael lashes out and SLAPS her, but she calmly
turns back to face him.
NAOMI (cont'd)
Did that help?
He knots his fist, frustration rising.
DANYAEL
Get me out of here.
NAOMI
Danny -
DANYAEL
Get me out of here now!
He GRABS her by the shoulders, and we WHITE OUT to:
18 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 18
Chris and Diego are first to exit the building, swords drawn
as they cautiously venture out into the street.
The others follow, Inman's jaw hanging at the sight laid out
before him.
The entirety of his CDC team are DEAD, bodies sprawled across
the floor and almost picked clean to the bone, tattered
remnants of their yellow hazmat suits fluttering in the wind.
INMAN
(disbelief)
This... this can't be happening, we
weren't in there more than a few
minutes!
SYREN
That's what they do.
She walks past him, her expression sullen as she navigates
back over to Chris.
SYREN (cont'd)
We don't have much time.
CHRIS
I'm aware of that.
There's a RUMBLE of thunder from overhead - the storm's here.
CHRIS (cont'd)
(to Inman)
I'd recommend you and your men seal
your suits again, Agent Inman.
INMAN
But what about you?
CHRIS
We don't need them.
Inman isn't about to argue - he and his team are quick to
pull the bulky headpieces of the suits up and seal them.
The others assemble around Chris, Diego skewering a dead BUG
from the ground. Twist wrinkles her nose.
TWIST
No, you can't keep it.
DIEGO
(off bug)
Does anybody recognise this?
CHRIS
Syren?
SYREN
What?
CHRIS
You seemed to know what these
things were a while before anyone
else, and I get the distinct
impression you've encountered them
before now. Care to fill us in?
Syren exhales, rubbing her arms against the cold.
SYREN
I... I don't know what they're
called, they're something... I
remember them.
DIEGO
From when?
SYREN
From when Sueno was trying to help
me with my memories.
I was in a lab, trying to free some
animals marked for research, and...
(shivers)
One of them attacked me.
TWIST
(beat)
That's it? Nothing else? Like, say,
how to stop a few million of them?
SYREN
(shakes head)
It's just flashes. Fragments. But I
know that they're bad. They're
parasites, mutated by magic
centuries ago. They're attracted to
magic.
CHRIS
So the only reason we haven't heard
of them before...
DIEGO
... is because there's been nothing
like this to bring so many of them
together.
SYREN
There's something else.
She turns and points, off into the distance.
SYREN (cont'd)
An energy source, something strong.
I felt it when we arrived, but it's
getting stronger all the time.
TWIST
Reckon it's linked to the storm?
CHRIS
It's worth a look. Syren, go with
Twist and Diego. I'll stay here
with Agent Inman, see if we can't
learn a little more about how the
storms causing this sickness.
Syren nods and heads off, Twist and Diego following. Chris
approaches Agent Inman, safe inside his hazmat suit.
INMAN
I don't understand... why aren't
you being affected? All the reports
we have indicate victims go under
less than five minutes after first
exposure!
CHRIS
(grins)
Let's just say I'm not like the
other boys.
(beat)
Agent Inman, we have a unique
opportunity here to learn more
about this storm and its effects,
information that could potentially
save millions more lives. Can I
count on your support?
Inman looks from side to side, then SIGHS.
INMAN
Doesn't look like I have much of a
choice, does it?
Chris grins again, cocking his head towards the CDC Command
Vehicle - a huge truck and trailer - as we CUT TO:
19 INT. WHITE SPACE - DAY 19
Danyael and Naomi face each other, back in the featureless
white expanse.
DANYAEL
No more games. No more flashbacks.
Just get me out of here.
NAOMI
I can't.
DANYAEL
Can't, or won't?
NAOMI
Alright, then - I won't.
DANYAEL
Damn it, Naomi!
He tries to walk away from her, but there's nowhere he can
go. She pleads with him:
NAOMI
You haven't seen everything I want
you to yet! There's more you have
to understand!
DANYAEL
I can't see how! How can anything
you have to show me justify what
you've done! What you're going to
do? You're one of the bad guys now!
NAOMI
I'm not!
DANYAEL
You've killed people already, and
you're gonna kill a whole hell of a
lot more if I don't stop you.
NAOMI
No... no, Danny, I don't want to
kill anyone else.
DANYAEL
(shakes head)
I can't believe that.
NAOMI
I want to help them. That's what
all this is about. But you have to
know why.
She takes a breath, TEARS in her eyes.
NAOMI (cont'd)
My mom... I think about her every
day. I keep going back to that day
I found her, with Ash just sitting
and watching her, too scared to do
anything... I think about us being
taken into foster care together,
about everybody saying they'd take
care of us now, but how none of
them could do anything to help
either one of us!
(beat; blurts out)
That's why she ran away!
Danyael exhales. More sad stories.
NAOMI (cont'd)
Screw this. I'm just gonna have to
show you.
She advances, grabbing his hand before he can react, and we
WHITE OUT back to:
20 INT. CDC COMMAND CENTRE - DAY 20
With a HISS of hydraulics, Inman leads Chris and the other
CDC agents back into their control centre - a high-tech
laboratory on wheels, lined with monitors, equipment and
facilities.
Inman turns and waits as the heavy door slides back into
place, sealing the trailer with another HISS.
INMAN
(to his men)
Alright, air's clean.
He removes his suit's headpiece, joining Chris as he stares
at a map on the wall.
It's like his own, back inside their van, only more up
market, with red LED's flashing over affected cities.
INMAN (cont'd)
So now you see what we're up
against here.
CHRIS
I've already got a fairly good
idea.
INMAN
CDC offices in Alaska, Cincinnati,
Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia,
Pittsburgh, North Carolina - even
Puerto Rico - all say the same
thing.
CHRIS
It's spreading, and you have no way
to control it.
INMAN
Over half the country's on a full
scale bio-terrorism alert already.
Now we have these bugs as well?
Chris looks over a bank of monitors; each one shows a
different part of the city - and each one shows thousands
more of the BUGS covering every surface.
CHRIS
Then I think we'd better get
cracking on a solution.
PUSH IN on the monitors, showing the scale of what the team
are up against, before we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT TWO
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
21 EXT. STREET - NIGHT 21
Danyael walks down a long, dark street, moonlight flooding
down from above as he passes through clouds of steam from
vents below.
NAOMI (O.S.)
Danny, wait!
She hurries into frame to catch up with him, but he keeps his
head down.
NAOMI (cont'd)
This is stupid! What are you going
to do? Just keep walking?
DANYAEL
Until I find a way out of here,
yeah.
NAOMI
We're gonna miss it.
DANYAEL
So?
NAOMI
This one, you'll want to see.
He stops. She catches up to him, moving to face him.
NAOMI (cont'd)
Come on. One more, and then if you
want to go... we'll go. I promise.
DANYAEL
(scoffs)
And yet, I don't trust you.
She reaches out and takes one of his hands.
NAOMI
We went through a lot together...
didn't we?
DANYAEL
(beat; quiet)
Yeah.
NAOMI
And I know I've out you through a
lot more since then...
He SNATCHES his hand back.
NAOMI (cont'd)
Would it help if I said I was
sorry?
DANYAEL
For which part?
NAOMI
Julie.
DANYAEL
(beat)
No.
TEEN NAOMI (O.S.)
Ashley? Ashley!
Danyael looks up, and Naomi watches his reaction.
DANYAEL
Is that...
NAOMI
Me? Yeah.
(beat; extends hand)
Let me show you.
Danyael hesitates, but reluctantly lets her lead him on.
22 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 22
Back with Twist, Syren and Diego, they head down another
street full of dark, silent buildings as heavy rain washes
across them.
TWIST
(cursing)
For the love of Justin! Can't any
of these apocalypses not frizz my
hair to hooey?
DIEGO
Perhaps you should wear a hat next
time.
She turns to glare at him, but sees he's grinning. Twist
can't help but grin back, until Syren calls out:
SYREN
Up here.
She points to a FIRE ESCAPE, lit by a flash of LIGHTNING, and
Twist reaches up to hook and pull the ladder down with
Duggan.
TWIST
Ladies first.
Syren blinks, and Twist rolls her eyes.
TWIST (cont'd)
I meant you, Diego.
He takes one of Syren's arms and loops it over his shoulders.
DIEGO
Just hold on to me, chica.
She dutifully hangs on tight as he starts to climb, and with
Twist starting to follow we CUT TO:
23 EXT. STREET - NEXT 23
Naomi and Danyael turn a corner to see Teen Naomi, a little
older and wrapped in a thick coat, walking down the street.
TEEN NAOMI
(calls out)
Ashley! Ashley!
Various BUMS and other members of the city's nightlife eye
her up as she walks past, but she tries not to notice.
DANYAEL
What's going on?
NAOMI
This is about a week after Ashley
ran away from our care home. She'd
just turned thirteen. Soon as she
went missing, I hit the streets to
try and find her. She was all I had
left.
Teen Naomi comes to a stop as two shady looking guys walk
past her, and she keeps her head down.
NAOMI (cont'd)
I was out here every night looking
for her, from the second I got in
until just before I had to go to
college.
A POLICE CRUISER rolls to a halt alongside Teen Naomi, and
she watches as two COPS step out from it.
NAOMI (cont'd)
But I never found her.
Danyael frowns, not following as we WHITE OUT to:
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