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TEASER
FADE IN:
1 EXT. FOREST ROAD - DAY 1
PAN DOWN over a long, empty stretch of road down the middle
of a dense, misty forest.
The distant sound of CAR is followed by a small SEDAN
tearing down the road, foot to the floor.
The car ROCKETS past, disrupting a flock of birds from a
nearby tree as we CUT TO:
2 INT. SEDAN - NEXT 2
With loud MUSIC blasting from the stereo, inside we find
JACKIE and ELWOOD, a couple in their late twenties, howling
with delirious laughter.
Jackie has a large CASE open across her lap - and inside are
bundles and bundles of CASH, which she grabs handfuls of and
shakes gleefully at Elwood.
JACKIE
I can't believe it! I mean, I
just... I can't believe it!
ELWOOD
Believe it, baby. Five jobs, five
wins, and now we are goin' over the
border to start it all over again!
He lunges across the car to KISS her hungrily, the sedan
SWERVING dangerously as he does so.
Wrapped up in their euphoria, their eyes are a long way from
the road ahead, even as Elwood keeps glancing out front.
JACKIE
I love you, baby.
ELWOOD
I love you too.
JACKIE
Hey, you managed that without
saying 'honey bunny.' I'm
impressed.
More laughter, another KISS, and then Elwood leans back into
his seat:
Just in time for his eyes to pop out in horror as he yells:
ELWOOD
Ah, shit!
3 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NEXT 3
The sedan is bearing down at incredible speed on a gray WOLF
standing in the middle of the road!
4 INT. CAR - NEXT 4
Elwood STANDS on the brakes, the case flying from Jackie's
lap and spilling its contents all around the car.
5 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NEXT 5
The car SKIDS and skitters to a halt, leaving a long tire
trail behind it as it jinks towards the wolf:
CRUNCH! The car SLAMS into the animal, flinging it backwards
and sending its body bouncing off into the trees.
Wheels smoking, the sedan finally comes to a stop, a white
knuckled Elwood behind the wheel.
6 INT. CAR - NEXT 6
Neither of them move for a long beat. Jackie finally nudges
him, voice quiet.
JACKIE
Go... go see if it's okay...
ELWOOD
'Okay'? Baby, we were doing forty
when I hit that thing.
JACKIE
(snaps)
Just go and see!
ELWOOD
(beat)
You remember the part where we
robbed a bank and had half the
city's cops on our trail, right?
JACKIE
Elwood! Just... just do it. Please.
Grumbling, Elwood unbuckles his seat belt and climbs out of
the sedan, SLAMMING the door to make Jackie flinch.
7 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NEXT 7
Examining the front of the car, Elwood finds a smear of BLOOD
across one headlight.
ELWOOD
(mutters)
God damn thing...
He scans the surrounding area - and sees another SMUDGE of
blood leading off into the trees a little further back up the
road.
8 INT. CAR - NEXT 8
Jackie watches as Elwood jogs through the treeline,
disappearing from view.
She settles back down, starting to gather up all the stray
notes strewn throughout the sedan.
9 EXT. FOREST - NEXT 9
Muttering and cursing every step, Elwood trudges through the
dense undergrowth, pushing past branches and bushes until:
He steps into a small clearing and sees the WOLF, lying on
its side with its eyes closed. There's no blood on its body,
but a few drops on the floor lead up to its resting place.
Elwood pauses, scratching his head, before he cautiously
approaches.
ELWOOD
Alright, alright... easy, now... I
ain't here to hurt ya... again.
He crouches next to the wolf, checking its torso - no signs
of breathing.
He SIGHS, pulling a face and looking back over his shoulder
towards the road.
ELWOOD (cont'd)
Hell.
Behind him, the wolf STIRS but he doesn't notice, finally
starting to turn round:
And with a SNARL, the wolf LUNGES at him and clamps its JAWS
round his throat!
Elwood SCREAMS, the animal SNAPPING its head side to side
frantically as he claws to pull it off.
ELWOOD (cont'd)
Get off me! Get off me!
The wolf REARS its head back, tearing away flesh and sinew
with a SNAP and spraying BLOOD into the air!
Elwood stumbles back, one shaking hand trying to staunch the
blood spurting from his neck.
The wolf, now very much alive and well, just GROWLS as he
staggers away from it, fangs dripping with fresh blood.
Almost blind with fear and pain, Elwood lurches back through
the woods, CRASHING into trees and bushes as he tries to
reach the road:
10 INT. CAR - NEXT 10
Jackie waits, drumming her fingers impatiently against the
dashboard. She looks down, checking the case, then back up:
SLAM! She SCREAMS as Elwood's blood-stained face appears at
her window, fists POUNDING against the glass!
JACKIE
Elwood!
He tries to speak but can only GURGLE, sliding down to the
road at last.
Frantic, Jackie is still SCREAMING as she scrabbles for the
door handle - but freezes when she hears a GROWL.
She turns - and sees two more WOLVES on the other side of the
road, staring straight at the car.
Jackie feels round with one hand and LOCKS her door, looking
across to the lock on Elwood's side.
Breathing quickly, shaking with fear, she starts to ease
herself across the car...
WHAM! She SHRIEKS as another wolf JUMPS at her window, jaws
SNAPPING as it hammers the glass with its bloody paws.
She quickly shuffles into the driver's seat and LOCKS the
door - and then GASPS when she looks out through the
windshield to see:
Half a dozen more WOLVES, line astern ahead of the car. She
whips round - half a dozen more are waiting behind her.
11 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NEXT 11
The wolves have the car surrounded, more loping out of the
forest to join those already waiting.
12 INT. CAR - NEXT 12
Jackie fumbles for the ignition keys, starting the engine
again and slamming the car into gear:
And with a CRASH, the rear windscreen BURSTS in as two wolves
barge their way into the car!
Jackie SCREAMS, hands up to defend herself as the wolves
POUNCE towards her...
13 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NEXT 13
Jackie's SCREAMS mingle with the BARKS of the wolves as the
car ROCKS from side to side.
Fresh BLOOD spatters across the windows from within, more
wolves clambering up and in through the shattered windshield.
PULL BACK to see more wolves feasting on Elwood's tattered
body, picking the carcass clean.
PULL BACK more to find a larger, lone wolf standing back from
the others, surveying the carnage with keen eyes as we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF TEASER
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
14 INT. TRUCK STOP - BATHROOM - EVENING 14
Inside this dark, grimy rest room, lit by flickering strips
of neon, VIVIAN approaches the mirror.
She looks herself up and down - no makeup, hair a straggly
mess, looking like she hasn't rested for days.
She fills the sink with water from the shuddering taps, hands
on the basin, head down.
She SPLASHES water onto her face as if it'll make any
difference, running hands back through her hair.
Staring at her reflection again, she remains silent for a
long moment...
CRACK! She PUNCHES the mirror as hard as she can, fracturing
the glass and her own features as they stare back at her.
Vivian checks her hand, now nursing a few light cuts from the
broken glass, when she hears:
A KNOCKING from off screen. She turns towards the door.
TWIST (O.S.)
Vivian? You okay in there?
VIVIAN
Yeah...
(sniffs)
Yeah, I'm good. Just be a sec.
TWIST (O.S.)
Well, alright, but you know Chris.
When he says it's time to go, that
boy wants to go.
FOOTSTEPS as Twist walks away, and Vivian takes one last look
at herself, two dozen images of herself looking back.
15 EXT. TRUCK STOP - NEXT 15
Vivian walks round a corner and heads towards the waiting
BLACK VAN, where TWIST, DANYAEL and LYRA are waiting.
DANYAEL
I think that set a new record for a
restroom stop, Vivian.
VIVIAN
(rolls eyes)
We don't need to pee, Danyael.
LYRA
You don't?
TWIST
Now look what you've done. Bright
Eyes here is gonna need another
science lesson.
LYRA
(weary)
Twist...
TWIST
Relax, relax. Kidding. Eesh! Did we
all get a humour bypass after last
week or something?
VIVIAN
What we went through... it's not
something anyone should have to
suffer.
DANYAEL
Amen.
CHRIS (O.S.)
Is everyone ready?
They turn as CHRIS approaches, several newspapers under his
arm and a bag of groceries in one hand.
TWIST
Ship shape and ready to hit the
ocean waves, cap'n.
CHRIS
Here. This is our next destination.
He passes round the papers. Each one is different, but every
one has the same headline - unexplained wild animal attacks.
CHRIS (cont'd)
There's been a spate of these all
round this region over the last few
months, escalating each time.
LYRA
A spate of what?
CHRIS
Sorry - animal attacks. People
found torn to shreds in a series of
unlikely places.
DANYAEL
'Unlikely'?
CHRIS
As in places wild animals have no
business being.
VIVIAN
What makes this something we'd look
into?
Chris glances at Twist at Vivian's use of 'we' - but she
stays quiet.
CHRIS
When we were rescuing those
akercocke a few weeks back, I saw
something in one of the labs - an
animal skull.
TWIST
Big whoop, Parker's probably the
kind of guy who bakes vampires dry
and then glues googly eyes to them.
CHRIS
Not these animals. What I saw...
was a werewolf skull.
Chris waits for that to sink in.
TWIST
So?
CHRIS
(sighs)
Werewolves are virtually extinct in
this country, Twist. There's a
concentration of them in Europe, a
more militant group called the
Lupans, but over here they were
hunted to extinction over a hundred
years ago. Now, there's just
rumours of a few small packs still
scraping a living.
VIVIAN
That's bad news. If Parker's
managed to find himself some wolf
specimens...
CHRIS
Exactly. Just another set of DNA
traits he can engineer into his
soldiers.
LYRA
I'm confused - how do you know
those attacks were by werewolves?
I mean, couldn't they just be
actual animals?
Chris leans forward and taps the paper Twist is holding.
CHRIS
Read that one.
TWIST
Says that this dude and his girl
had just robbed a bank near the
border when their car was found out
in the woods a few miles away from
the Canadian line - and they'd both
been eaten alive.
She creases her face, but Chris just nods.
CHRIS
And the rest.
Twist reads the article, eyebrows rising in surprise.
TWIST
They didn't find the money.
DANYAEL
What? You mean... you mean whoever
killed them took it?
CHRIS
Exactly.
Danyael steps up into the van's passenger compartment.
DANYAEL
So what are we waiting for? If
there are werewolves out there,
then we've gotta find 'em before
Parker does.
He takes Lyra's hand and helps her step up.
CHRIS
It'll take us a few hours to get
there, so get some rest.
Chris heads round the van to get in the driver's seat,
leaving Twist with Vivian.
TWIST
So...
VIVIAN
I'm fine.
TWIST
No, you're not.
VIVIAN
(sighs)
No, I'm not.
TWIST
We don't have to talk about it, ya
know. I mean, yeah, we had that
whole big bonding epiphany thing,
sure, but still...
VIVIAN
We're not exactly at the warm
fuzzies stage yet.
TWIST
(smirks)
Hell, no.
Twist starts to climb into the van, when:
VIVIAN
Twist...
(beat)
Thanks.
Twist smiles, nodding for Vivian to join them, and as she
pulls the van's side door shut, we DISSOLVE TO:
16 EXT. FOREST ROAD - NIGHT 16
PAN DOWN over the scene of the murders of Jackie and Elwood -
POLICE TAPE cordons off the road both directions, and CSIs
and POLICE are keeping a heavy presence.
FURTHER BACK, the van rolls to a halt at the tail end of a
long line of traffic, with cars up ahead having to turn round
at the police blockade.
17 INT. VAN - NEXT 17
Chris rubs his chin thoughtfully, turning to the others in
the back.
CHRIS
We're here.
ANGLE ON the rear of the van - and everyone is asleep. Chris
frowns, deftly HONKING the horn to jolt them awake.
TWIST
Wah! Whussa...
DANYAEL
(yawns)
Aw, man...
CHRIS
Rise and shine, everyone.
TWIST
(rubs eyes)
Who are you, my dad? What the hell
time is it?
CHRIS
Early. But nonetheless, we're here.
Vivian clambers into the passenger seat, trying to stretch
within the confines of the cabin.
VIVIAN
Police blockade?
CHRIS
So it would seem.
VIVIAN
Let us out here, then. We can get
up close, scout the place out and
be back before you get anywhere
near that line.
CHRIS
Someone needs to stay with the van.
VIVIAN
Nope.
She points up ahead - a small CAR PARK waits off to one side,
a spot for hikers to leave their vehicles.
Chris nods, turning the van towards the car park's entrance -
ignoring the angry HONKS of the cars he's cutting up behind.
TWIST
So! Let's hear the plan.
VIVIAN
Best if we split up into teams.
We're looking for animal tracks,
but so will the police and rangers,
so we'll have to avoid them.
CHRIS
Twist, you're with Danyael. Vivian,
Lyra, with me.
TWIST
But -
CHRIS
Let's go.
He parks the van inside the car park, exiting without another
word.
Twist glances at Danyael, who is loading up his bag. She
pouts, pulling open the side door and exiting:
18 EXT. FOREST - CAR PARK - NEXT 18
Danyael passes bags out to the others as the group assemble
round the van.
CHRIS
Alright let's go over this. Twist,
you and Danyael take the left hand
side of the woods, we'll take the
right. We'll deal with getting
round the police if we have to.
VIVIAN
No confrontations, right?
CHRIS
Absolutely. Werewolves are bloody
dangerous things - they heal
quickly, they're easily as strong
as any vampire and they also travel
in packs. Plus, they can track you
for miles without you even knowing
they were there, so keep sharp and
run like buggery at the first sign
of trouble.
TWIST
Trouble? As if.
CHRIS
Twist, I mean it.
She rolls her eyes, SNAPPING a stick of gum.
DANYAEL
Is it just me, or has she been even
cockier than usual since we rescued
her?
TWIST
(sharp)
It's not 'cockiness,' Danyael.
I just know now that I am meant for
greater things, and I know that
even if the worst happens to me, my
boys'll come and get me.
She smiles, turning and heading for the woods.
VIVIAN
Must be nice.
Chris pats her on the shoulder as he straps on his bag.
CHRIS
That's what we do for each other.
Vivian manages a faint smile as the team divides into two
groups, trekking off towards the forest as we CUT TO:
19 EXT. FOREST - NIGHT 19
ANGLE ON a pair of RANGERS, flashlights sweeping the gloom as
they head away.
Twist and Danyael slowly rise from the cover of some bushes,
watching the departing rangers.
DANYAEL
They'll give up soon. It's getting
too dark even for them.
TWIST
But not for us, huh?
She slips away, RUSTLING through the undergrowth as Danyael
follows her.
TWIST (cont'd)
What do you think they want?
DANYAEL
Who, the werewolves?
TWIST
Well, yeah. I mean, they've been
killing people for food, that much
I can understand. Thing's gotta
eat. But why take the money?
DANYAEL
Beats me. Maybe they're saving up
to buy some new furs.
Waiting as distant VOICES from the rangers float past,
Danyael hunches down next to Twist.
TWIST
Danyael... can I ask you something?
DANYAEL
That depends entirely on what it
is.
TWIST
What did you see?
DANYAEL
Hmm?
TWIST
When we were all halfway to La La
Land on space dust. What did you
see?
DANYAEL
(shifts)
Y'know... stuff. Why?
TWIST
Just curious. Everyone else has
spoken about it - except you.
DANYAEL
And why'd you suppose that is?
TWIST
C'mon, Spook. Ain't nobody here but
us chickens. You know you can tell
me.
DANYAEL
(beat)
Nope.
He rises, resuming his search, and Twist follows.
TWIST
Aw, come on! What was so bad?
Vivian almost got persuaded to go
up in flames y the ghosts of people
she's hurt or killed. Is what you
saw worse than that?
DANYAEL
It's all subjective.
TWIST
Or... was it something to do with
me?
He glances round at her, then carries on going. Twist grins.
TWIST (cont'd)
I knew it! Alright, what was it?
Spill.
DANYAEL
No! Twist... can we just drop this?
TWIST
Not until you tell me what -
DANYAEL
(snaps)
I saw Naomi. Alright?
She's quiet, watching his reaction.
DANYAEL (cont'd)
She... it was back when we... when
we took care of her.
TWIST
Me too?
Danyael holds her gaze, then looks away and nods. He takes a
few more steps before she closes in, laying a hand on his
shoulder.
TWIST (cont'd)
I came back, Spook.
He stops, not looking at her.
TWIST (cont'd)
She didn't kill me. I'm right here.
DANYAEL
For how long?
TWIST
As long as you'll have me.
(off his look)
Sorry. Bad choice of words.
DANYAEL
Can we just drop this, please? I...
I don't want to think about it any
more.
(beat)
Or her.
She raises her hands and steps back, letting him trudge off
ahead.
TWIST
(sighs)
That boy...
She follows. STAY ON the area of woodland they just left.
SOMETHING MOVES in the foliage behind them - just a whisper
of movement, nothing more.
20 EXT. FOREST - NEXT 20
WITH CHRIS and the girls as they continue their sweep, spread
out several paces apart.
CHRIS
(to Lyra)
Anything yet?
LYRA
(frowning)
Lots of things... it's hard to tell
one trail from another. Lots of
energies, all intertwining.
VIVIAN
Any of those energies suggesting
fur and fangs to you?
LYRA
It doesn't work like that.
VIVIAN
How does it work?
(off looks)
I'm sorry, but nobody really tells
me anything, in case you hadn't
noticed. I have to find stuff out
for myself.
CHRIS
That's not entirely true.
VIVIAN
It is when it comes to Lyra.
Chris glances at Lyra, smiling.
VIVIAN (cont'd)
Hey! I saw that.
CHRIS
Saw what?
VIVIAN
Very definite tender moment, right
there.
He looks over - Vivian's grinning. She's teasing.
CHRIS
Oh, yes. Har bloody har. Come on.
He keeps moving, letting Vivian have her chuckle.
As they move on, STAY ON a thick tree trunk as the trio move
past it and on into the woods.
From around the trunk slips a lithe form, wrapped in shadows
until a beam of MOONLIGHT shows up:
A young black WOMAN, her eyes GLINTING in the light as she
observes the team, before melting silently back into the
shadows, and we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT ONE
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