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Date Posted: 23:14:00 08/28/03 Thu
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's message, "3x04: Snatch" on 23:12:45 08/28/03 Thu
INT – BENEATH THE MALL
Dawn is chained to the floor (Buffy – Get It Done) as the woman stand around her in a circle.
DAWN
You know – I can totally break out of this right?
WOMAN
Why? Because you’re the Guardian? This place is immune to your magics
DAWN
It’s not magic! It’s me!
WOMAN
Were you born with it? Were you even born at all?
DAWN
Oh great! A memo for the demon underworld – I’m not the key anymore so back off
WOMAN
But you are the key, the key to the rest of my life
DAWN
What?
WOMAN
Why do you think I chose you?
DAWN
Lucky Dip
WOMAN
Because of your life!
DAWN
You don’t know anything about me
WOMAN
You think I just chose you at random? I saw the life you have – a dedicated boyfriend, someone who used to be so in love with you they’d rot in prison…
DAWN
Used to be…
WOMAN
A sister who ran away and faked her own death, leaving her whole life behind so that you wouldn’t all have to be caught up in her past, a best friend who doesn’t hold grudges for the fact that his true love died in your cross fire
(pause)
Shall I continue to the sister who died for you? The friend who cared for you in your mothers place and still looked out for you after her death? The man who was willing to die to save you that night and ended up doing so two years later?
DAWN
No. Don’t go on.
WOMAN
You’ve got it made Princess – just how I want it
DAWN
What?
WOMAN
I’m gonna sleep with him in your bed, talk with her on your sofa, visit her in England and support him in the cell. Why do you think we’re called the snatchers sweet heart? We steal from them and keep for ourselves.
CUT TO.
INT – WOMENS BATHROOM – MALL
Faith slides in gesturing Connor to enter
CONNOR
Nice, clean.
FAITH
Don’t be so surprised there isn’t piss up the walls
CONNOR
We’re not that gross
FAITH
Believe me Connor I’ve been in and cleaned men’s bathrooms and you’re that gross. The story of me scraping skids from the ceramic walls of a diner bathroom is one that won’t be told over lunch.
CONNOR
…or ever preferably
(pause)
It ends here
FAITH
The toilet stories?
CONNOR
Her scent – it stops here
FAITH
That’s impossible
CONNOR
We spent two months being stalked, beaten and killed by infants and you think dissapearing Dawn is impossible
FAITH
Wow, you seem SO concerned
CONNOR
I don’t need to be – I can feel she’s alive
(beat)
So you should be able to
The door begins to open as someone walks in, Faith shoves Connor inside a cubicle
LADY
Hey
FAITH
Sup?
LADY
Are you using that cubicle or are you just guarding it with your life?
FAITH
Guarding. Is it important?
LADY
I’d like to use it
FAITH
Use another one
LADY
I want to use that one
FAITH
I want to win Family Fortunes but it ain’t happenin’ y’know?
LADY
So rude.
FAITH
So what?
CONNOR
(whispered)
Faith!
FAITH
(whispered)
What?
CONNOR
(whispered)
She’s not human – that woman
LADY
Is…is there someone in there?
FAITH
Huh? No it’s that syndrome – the mouth spasm
(beat)
Crap, damn, boob – I can’t help it
LADY
No. I think that somebody is in there
FAITH
So, that’s his business
LADY
His?
FAITH
Dammit!
LADY
I’m calling security
FAITH
Yeah, well I’m calling your bluff
LADY
Excuse me
FAITH
You’re a demon! I’m the slayer – so really, I’d be calling an under taker
CONNOR
(whispered)
Faith! Not her – in the cubicle next to me
FAITH
(awkward)
Oh. Well, Lady you’ve been PUNK’D please leave
The lady looks at Faith like she’s completely insane before leaving
Faith rolls her eyes at her keen undercover skills and kick the cubicle door open where a woman is standing holding Dawn’s possessions
FAITH
I don’t think they belong to you
The woman looks up at Faith before beginning to dissolve into the ground like Dawn and the woman before, Faith grabs hold of her hair as she dissolves – Faith begins to dissolve to.
INT – UNDERNEATH MALL
Faith and the woman come crashing down to the ground. Faith looks around dazed at what she sees.
FAITH
Polish ever?
She begins to stand before being battered around the back of the head, knocked down again.
FAITH
How do I have any cells left in there?
DAWN
Faith!
FAITH
Dawn?
DAWN
Up here!
Faith looks over her head where she sees Dawn in a suspended cage above a pool of water.
FAITH
They’re gonna wash you?
DAWN
Cleanse
FAITH
Of what?
DAWN
Just my life
FAITH
Nothing major then?
DAWN
No, the usual
(beat)
Faith you can’t stop them
FAITH
Sure I can, I’m the slayer
DAWN
Exactly unborn powers mean nothing down here – we need Connor.
Faith looks up to where she fell
FAITH
No time soon kid!
DAWN
Oh, don’t rush – I’ll file my nails while I’m waiting to die!
FAITH
Hey – you think I survived the streets alone with no natural magic going on?
Faith smiles at Dawn before wondering off through the underground. She comes to a turning, a tunnel where she hears crowds of women talking.
She edges to the corner, looking around enough to see but be unseen.
WOMAN
Tonight – I shall take the girls life as my own, I shall be kept above the ground and I shall rule this sad land
(pause)
The fools using their powers for good – does she not see the strength of the head Guardian? It is pure magic, undiluted and she focuses it on semi-frequent use for the good
The crowd laughs as Faith backs away, she collides with someone, raising her fist immediately – it’s Connor.
FAITH
What the-
Connor points to two of the guards/mall women laying on the floor
CONNOR
Robe?
Connor hands out a robe to Faith, she smiles at him thank fully
FAITH
Just when I got you worked out you go wriggling back into the angel corner of mystery
CONNOR
It’s genetic
CUT TO.
INT – MARIA’S SECRET BASEMENT
MARIA
How could Tara not tell me about this place?
THALIA
Can we focus on the –my stuff being in your old basement
MARIA
Well If I knew how it got there I’d tell you
THALIA
I think someone is a klepto
MARIA
You lost it at the mall freak
ANDREW
Ooh…another closet
Andrew wonders off inside the closet as Maria and Thalia continue to rummage through things
MARIA
Andrew come out of the closet!
THALIA
Hello, where’ve you been?
Andrew steps out looking a little stunned
ANDREW
Um…
THALIA
What?
ANDREW
I just saw Faith and Connor putting wimples on and Dawn was tied up in a big birds cage
THALIA
Did you eat off the floor?
Maria wonders over the closet and pulls it’s doors open, a small hole flashes at the back – she pokes her finger into it before pushing her hand through as the size increases to fit.
CUT TO.
INT – BENEATH MALL
FAITH
Did you just see a hand wave around?
CONNOR
You need sleep
DAWN
Guys – when you’re ready
CONNOR
Hang in there Dawn!
DAWN
Was that meant to be a joke?
CONNOR
No.
DAWN
Just get me down
Faith and Connor leave Dawn and wonder back down the hall to where the meeting area is – they stand into the crowd of around eleven women.
WOMAN
I see we have two late arrivals
FAITH
(Dropping hood)
I’d call us Special Guests.
END OF PART THREE
INT – MEETING HALL.
Faith makes her best non-gifted attempts at fighting and holds her own as she grabs one of the women by their hair and swings them off into another one.
Connor does a fancy one legged, no armed flip bringing his other leg down into one of the women’s faces. This turns into an elbow in one face, fist in a neck.
FAITH
Connor!
CONNOR
I’ve got it, go!
(kick)
GO!
Faith sprints down the corridor towards Dawn, only to find the head woman is already there and has begun to wind Dawn down into the font.
FAITH
Dawn!
WOMAN
You’re too late!
DAWN
No she’s not!
(smile)
She’s never too late
Faith charges at the woman but I stopped dead in her tracks as she is thrown back onto the ground.
CUT TO.
INT – MARIAS BASEMENT
THALIA
I am telling you it’s bogus
She looks on as Andrew and Maria struggle to push a chest of drawers into the closet
THALIA
It will just stick out like a big lump of wood – you’re both insane.
INT – BENEATH MALL
The woman stands at the top of the font as Faith looks up both confused yet grinning – from nowhere a chest of drawers comes pushing through the air and bats into the back of the woman’s head – Andrew tumbling to the floor behind it. The woman loses all balance and tumbles into the font – screaming as she dissolves.
The rope that was holding Dawn is now unheld and slowly unwinds before zipping down the line, dropping Dawn at speed.
She screeches awaiting the burn – she stops.
She turns back to see Faith holding the rope tightly.
END OF PART THREE
INT – MARIA’S BASEMENT
MARIA
Uh oh
THALIA
Uh oh what?
MARIA
I dropped Andrew
THALIA
Very funny
Thalia walks over to the wardrobe and looks for Andrew to be hiding.
THALIA
Oh my god! You lost him in Narnia?
MARIA
It’s not Narnia
THALIA
Not the issue!
(pause)
I’m going in – don’t come in after me, I need somebody to open this hole for me to come back.
CUT TO.
INT – BENEATH MALL
Thalia comes crashing to the ground
THALIA
Didn’t tell me there was a step
Dawn, Faith and Andrew look down at her.
CONNOR
Hate to interrupt guys but…I’m being chased.
CUT TO.
INT – MARIAS BASEMENT
She is sat impatiently in the corner as the closet bumps back and forth. She’s examining her nails
MARIA
I never get to fight!
Seconds later the closet collapses into four different directions as Thalia, Connor, Andrew, Faith and Dawn burst from it. The portal closing behind them to become a regular wall.
MARIA
Okay, one – tomorrow I am so getting some paranormal expert to check that out
(beat)
Two – you broke my friggin’ closet!
THALIA
(to Andrew)
I told you hanging out with me was fun.
FADE TO.
EXT – MARIA’S HOUSE
Thalia, Andrew, Connor, Dawn and Faith walk down the steps
DAWN
Sorry again
Maria pouts and closes the door
THALIA
So – awkward moment, Connor, Andrew – shake?
DAWN
No, stay.
FAITH
It doesn’t end well when you leave us
ANDREW
You guys don’t need to talk?
FAITH
We’ve got plenty of time to talk – I’m not going anywhere.
The two smile at each other
DAWN
But I could eat a horse
THALIA
Thank god!
Everyone begins to wonder off as Faith stands still
DAWN
You coming?
FAITH
I’ll catch up with you
DAWN
Okay
Faith smiles as they walk off into the distance, closer than ever.
FAITH
You can come out now
JONES
That was some display today – makes a ghost proud
FAITH
Do I get a certificate?
JONES
For what?
FAITH
I dunno, biggest screw up and quickest forgiven?
JONES
You’re forgiven Faith, but it’ll be a long time before it’s forgotten and you’re gonna have to learn that lesson as a self tutorial
FAITH
What?
JONES
Hey, I did what I had to do to get my wings babe, you’re back where you belong
Jones flashes Faith the proudest smile
JONES
I’ll see you around Faith
He winks at her before sparkling away leaving her smiling, holding herself as if she’s holding someone’s arms around her
FAITH
Thanks Jones.
END.
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