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Date Posted: 13:13:13 03/23/04 Tue
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TEASER
EXT: An Extremely Overgrown Area that seems to stretch for miles around
Faith and Spike fight their way through the overgrowth – Spike is pushing the bike.
FAITH
I thought you said this was a shortcut.
SPIKE
It was. There definitely used to be road here.
FAITH
Well there’s obviously not one now. Let’s turn back.
SPIKE
We’re not turning back. By the time we get back to the main road we’ll have doubled our time. We’re getting’ held back enough having to use a bike as it is.
FAITH
And whose fault was that?
SPIKE
Yeah well, I was sure he was bluffin’ then bam! Four aces. Bastard. (beat) At least he gave us a bike.
FAITH
For that I am eternally grateful. Look honestly, let’s turn back.
SPIKE
We’re not turning back. We’ll triple our time.
FAITH
So what? We’re not in a hurry. And anyway – this place is givin’ me the wigs.
SPIKE
It’s just an old road. There’s nothing to be scared of.
CUT TO:
EXT : Another part of the “Road”
A girl, in her late teens/early twenties walks through the overgrowth – she looks like a savage as her clothes are ripped, her skin is cut and her hair and body are covered in blood and dirt. She carries a sword which is covered in blood. She has a cold look in her eyes. We see her approaching someone who is lying on the ground – she raises her sword for a killing blow when suddenly she is jumped by a vampire who viciously bites at her neck – tearing her throat - and begins to drink her blood. He let’s her drop to the ground and she lands next to the person on the ground – a man about the same age as her who has obviously met the same fate. The vampire disappears back into the overgrowth.
END OF TEASER
The Darkside Opening Sequence
Starring
Eliza Dushku and James Marsters
ACT 1
EXT : Overgrown Area
Faith and Spike approach a huge steel fence – it is roughly 15 feet high and has barbed wire at the top of it.
FAITH
Oh fantastic. What now?
Spike says nothing.
FAITH
Spike? (beat) What is it? Come on let’s go back.
SPIKE
I can smell human blood.
With that he goes to climb the fence but is zapped – its an electric.
SPIKE
Bugger.
FAITH
It’s probably years old anyway.
SPIKE
It’s fresh.
FAITH
Oh.
With that he pounces up in the air and lands on the other side of the fence. He turns back
SPIKE
Come on.
He disappears into the overgrowth.
FAITH
What about the bike? (beat) Spike? (beat) Spike? (beat) I really hate it when people do that.
She jumps and lands on the other side and follows him in.
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Faith catches up with Spike – who is standing still in a clearing – staring off ahead of himself.
FAITH
Don’t do that.
He doesn’t answer.
FAITH
What the hell is with you?
SPIKE
This whole place reeks of death.
FAITH
The whole world reeks of death – you don’t go all weird when you’re out there.
SPIKE
This is different. I’ve been around a lot of death in my time, I can recognise the different scents of different types of dying. (he pauses) And this is painful death.
FAITH
Vampires?
SPIKE
Maybe.
FAITH
We should check it out then.
Just as she steps forward an arrow hits the tree she was in front of – missing her by inches. She spins round and looks at it – she turns to Spike and says;
FAITH
What the f----?
She is cut off mid-sentence as a group of 7 or 8 people (a mix of male and female, ages varied between 18 and 24) surround them – they look in a bad-way, much like the girl from before. The leader, TAP, steps forward. He stares at them coldly.
TAP
You picked the wrong people to mess with you bastards!
With that they all run at Spike and Faith.
FAITH
Humans?
SPIKE
Yeah.
Spike plasters one of them with a hard punch to the face.
Faith kicks another in the stomach and a third in the face.
Spike starts dodging and hitting punches.
SPIKE
We’re not here to hurt you kids – but we will.
Suddenly Tap tackles him and brings a stake down hard towards Spikes chest. Spike catches his arm.
SPIKE
You know kid, I really wish people would stop doing that.
He brings his head up and headbutts Tap – grabbing the stake out of his hand at the same time and pinning him down on the ground – holding the stake to his throat.
SPIKE
Call them off.
TAP
OK, OK.
The kids stop fighting.
SPIKE
Faith.
Faith picks up her backpack and approaches him. She pulls a cross out and turns to the group showing the lack of effect. She then hands it to Spike who does the same. He then helps Tap up.
TAP
Ok, you’re not Vamps. But you might be guards. How can we trust you?
Spike nods at him.
SPIKE
This is one of those situations where actions….
He throws the stake and dusts one of the kids.
SPIKE
Speak louder than words.
TAP
He was a vampire?
SPIKE
He was a new one.
FAITH
What I want to know is why are you trapped in a compound with a bunch of vampires?
TAP
It’s a long story.
FAITH
Well, we’ll very probably be here for a while.
One of the kids – DORY – steps forward. He is older than the rest.
DORY
Tap, man, we should head back.
TAP
Yeah – we should. (to Faith and Spike) We’ll fill you in – but we’d feel a lot safer elsewhere.
SPIKE
Lead on.
TAP
Ok.
END OF ACT 1
ACT 2
INT : A Cave
Spike and Faith sit together – the kids stand scattered around the cave, Tap stands in front of them.
FAITH
This home?
TAP
We have tents – but the vamps get us far too easily in those. They don’t know the cave.
SPIKE
Good job, they wouldn’t need an invite for in here.
TAP
That’s why we do our best to keep the entrance hidden.
FAITH
Not much use if you keep going out anyway.
TAP
We don’t – not usually. Two people keep watch at nights – if they see vampires approach we split up and go further into the caves.
FAITH
So why’d you go out tonight?
TAP
The watchmen saw two people clear a 15 foot fence from a standing jump. We figured you were new arrivals and we should take you out before you meet the rest.
SPIKE
We’re not demons kid.
TAP
No? What are you?
FAITH
Life stories later.
SPIKE
I think what we really need to know is what the bloody hell is going on here.
TAP
From the start?
FAITH
It would help.
TAP
OK. Six months ago a man called Frederick R. Henning saw a Japanese movie called Battle Royale. You familiar with it?
FAITH
No.
SPIKE
I am. Bunch of Japanese kids are put on an island and left to kill one another until only one is left. It’s banned in this country.
TAP
Yeah, guess the Government didn’t want ideas to be put into our heads. Anyway, Henning is a multi-billionaire and he kinda loved the movie. So he decided, in his wisdom, that he would set up a game purely for his own entertainment.
FAITH
What do you mean a game?
TAP
He took 30 people, aged from their late teens to their late twenties, all assassins, and offered them a chance to win ten million dollars. All they had to do in return was survive the Compound.
SPIKE
And by survive you mean kill everyone else in it.
TAP
Precisely.
FAITH
And so you all signed on.
She lets out a disgusted laugh and shakes her head.
TAP
Judge us if you want, we probably deserve that.
FAITH
Damn right you deserve that you stupid little piece of sh…
SPIKE (interrupting)
Let him finish the story Faith.
Faith shakes her head.
FAITH
Fine.
TAP
So anyway, that’s how it went down for the first few weeks. You killed somebody, you flagged them and the guards came and got rid of the body. It was all going fine. (off Faith’s look) Relatively speaking. Anyway, one day I’m creeping about the Compound and I discover a body that hasn’t been moved. I figure it’s fresh and the guards are on their way. But on closer inspection…
FAITH
By closer inspection you mean?
TAP
I was looking for a wallet.
FAITH
Yeah figures.
TAP
On closer inspection I discovered two puncture marks on the neck. I didn’t know what it meant.
DORY
And then I stepped forward.
TAP
Dory had found it a few hours before, and he knew exactly what had happened. Vampires. And so he filled me in and we called a truce. We hunted down everyone else in the Compound that we could find, which by this point was only about fifteen and told them what had happened. Those who didn’t believe us mostly attacked and we got rid. Those who did believe had either seen a vampire or just couldn’t bring themselves to kill anymore. So we had about ten people, the vampires have taken three from that ten, including your friend from earlier.
SPIKE
How many vampires are there?
DORY
We don’t know.
SPIKE
Roughly?
TAP
Six or seven, maybe eight.
SPIKE
Have you tried escaping.
TAP
Of course we have – they just turned up the voltage on the fence.
SPIKE
They?
TAP
The guards.
SPIKE
They’re in the compound too?
TAP
Yeah. They protect Henning.
SPIKE
He’s in the compound?
TAP
Yeah.
SPIKE
Where?
TAP
Mission control. It’s a building in the dead centre of the compound.
SPIKE
You tried getting in?
DORY
Oh yeah.
SPIKE
And?
DORY
We’re lucky to be alive. The guards have instructions to shoot on sight.
SPIKE
I’m sure I can handle them.
FAITH
Spike.
SPIKE
What?
FAITH
We are not helping these people.
SPIKE
What?
FAITH
They’re murderers.
SPIKE
So are we.
FAITH
That’s different.
SPIKE
Maybe, but a life’s a life and I will not play God.
FAITH
I will not go along with this.
She storms out of the cave. He chases.
SPIKE
Don’t walk away from this.
FAITH
Why the hell not?
SPIKE
You’re sentencing them to death.
FAITH
No more than they deserve.
SPIKE
And do we deserve it? Cos quite frankly your not exactly little miss squeaky clean conscience.
FAITH
We never killed for money.
SPIKE
No (beat) We did it for pleasure.
She hits him hard on the face.
FAITH
I never took pleasure from it.
He scrambles up clutching at his face.
SPIKE
Oh really? You sure about that? Well I did, I took hundreds and thousands, possibly even tens of thousands of lives and I will save any one life I can in the hope of taking that back.
FAITH
You never will.
SPIKE
No, I never will. But I have to try and if that means saving killers I will do it.
FAITH
I respect that. But I can’t do it.
She turns and begins to walk away.
SPIKE
Then maybe we’re not on the same path after all. You walk away from this Faith then you walk away from me. This working relationship is over. (beat) And I don’t want that despite the fact I would really love not having to put up with even more self-righteous slaying crap. You know, truth be told your just as bad as her.
She stops and he walks up to her.
FAITH
You take that back.
SPIKE
(ignoring her) We can do a lot of good together Faith. We already have. And I bloody well don’t see the point in letting one difference in opinion pull us apart. (beat) Please stay.
Faith turns and looks at him.
FAITH
I’m doing it for you, not them.
SPIKE
OK, so this is the plan….
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INT: The Cave
SPIKE
Myself and Tap here will go find this compound. Faith will stay with you and fight off any attacks that come this way.
DORY
How can we trust her?
FAITH
I don’t kill people. (beat) Anymore.
SPIKE
You can trust her. (to Tap) Let’s go kid. (quietly to Faith) Behave.
FAITH
Of course.
SPIKE
See you later.
FAITH
Good luck.
END OF ACT 2
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