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20 INT. W&H - CONFERENCE ROOM - SAME 20
Lilah is professing all that she knows across the room, but
Lindsey isn't paying the slightest bit of attention to any of
them now. His thoughts are on Holland. And on Eve.
Finally, he stands up and walks toward the door.
REGIONAL HEAD #1
Where do you think you're going?
LINDSEY
Look, find me however you want.
Innocent. Guilty. Honestly, I
couldn't give less of a damn. I've
got things that need to be taken
care of.
REGIONAL HEAD #3
If you walk out of this meeting --
LINDSEY
Death, dismemberment? That threat
lost its appeal after the first few
times it happened to me.
21 INT. W&H - CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 21
Lindsey steps out of the office, never missing a step as he
dials his cell phone.
LINDSEY
Gunn, I'm about to need a major
distraction. Yeah, it's time.
He hangs up the phone and keeps his pace down the corridor.
Finally, he enters --
22 INT. W&H - HOLLAND'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS 22
Still without missing a step, he walks directly into the
office and:
LINDSEY
Hey, Holland...
As soon as Holland turns around, Lindsey DECKS him with a
huge RIGHT HOOK.
Holland crumples to the floor, and Lindsey shakes his fist,
stretching his fingers out.
A faint ALARM starts to sound, presumably triggered by his
attack on Holland, but Lindsey looks ready for it as we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT ONE
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
23 INT. FBI SAFEHOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY 23
Eve is standing in front of the others now. Everyone is
either sitting along the chairs and couches or standing in
the corners, waiting on her tale.
EVE
First off, 'in the beginning'
wasn't like that book tells it.
There wasn't an infinite darkness,
then light, the heavens, and some
naked people. There was just
infinite darkness and a lot of
pissed off demons.
Everyone looks to each other. A sense of ominous foreboding
already creeping in with her story.
24 EXT. OLD EARTH - NIGHT 24
A scene of sheer horror. Darkness is more than prevalent.
It's absolute. Loud, guttural sounds of ELDER DEMONS echo on
forever and the chill of death almost forms a blanket around
it all.
Furtive movement off in the abyss of shadows as something
runs for its life, ducking between shrubs and the occasional
stunted tree.
EVE (V.O.)
No one knows what started it. Not
even the partners. If there is
some primordially immaculate being
that set things in motion, then
it's kept it quite from the start.
All that's known for certain is
that they were there. The demons,
when it started. They were there
and there were no rules to play by.
As the source of the movement moves closer, we can finally
tell that it's a HUMAN! Not a pre-homo sapien, but a regular
enough looking man, though several steps down the totem pole,
obviously. He's not clothed, heavily bearded.
As he hurries across the frame, he's --
-- SNATCHED out of his sprint by a massive demon. Dozens of
long TENTACLES form a solid exoskeleton around a scaled
interior, twenty feet high.
EVE (V.O.) (cont'd)
And even though you guys thought
she might just be a little
conceited, Illyria never
embellished about the old days.
She was one of the first of the
elder demons.
The man SCREAMS in horror as ILLYRIA toys with him, slowly
ripping the flesh from his bone as others of her kind make
their way over.
EVE (V.O.) (cont'd)
And it didn't take her long to
become the most feared amongst the
others.
Various shapes of horrific fantasy make their way over, some
almost floating, some slithering. Each seems oddly pleased,
as evinced by their own carrion ululations.
EVE (V.O.) (cont'd)
If there was anyone pulling the
strings on Earth back in the day,
it was her. She told the others
what to do. How to do it.
WESLEY (O.S.)
Wait...
25 INT. FBI SAFEHOUSE - DAY 25
Eve is staring back at everyone, a welcome sight to the
pictures in her head.
WESLEY
They had a spoken language?
EVE
Not really. I mean, they made
sounds.
(cringing)
Horrible, horrible sounds, but they
used some sort of telepathy that
everyone understood. Even the
humans.
ANGEL
Humans? In the beginning?
EVE
Well, they weren't frolicking in
some candy assed garden, but yeah,
they were there. And the vampires
and the werewolves. Only they
weren't werewolves yet.
They were lower class demons who
eventually found a way to survive
in humans.
WESLEY
And the same with the vampires?
EVE
They didn't use a guise back then.
They were just the bloodsuckers
that fed on the scraps that the
bigger demons left behind.
Spike looks to Angel.
SPIKE
Makes you proud, doesn't it?
WESLEY
Good God.
EVE
Let's hope so. 'Cause it's going
to take more than a pep talk to
beat this thing.
GWEN
Is it too late for me to order that
plane ticket to Australia?
SPIKE
Make it somewhere less sunny and
I'm right there with you.
ANGEL
(to Eve)
And where are the partners during
all this?
EVE
The partners aren't that old. It
would be a few millennia before
they were even born, or formed, or
forged. However you want to think
of it. I don't know how to explain
how they come about, but even when
they did come about, they weren't
like Illyria. They didn't start
out at the top.
26 EXT. OLD EARTH - NIGHT 26
An ancient battlefield. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of the
elder demons are fighting. Each one on no particular side.
Only striking out at the others with their own talents.
EVE (V.O.)
You guys know this much: the elder
demons got tired of picking on the
small prey pretty quickly and
turned to warring amongst
themselves. I guess it was more of
a challenge. Some kind of
gladiatorial games to keep them
occupied while they weren't
thinking of new ways to destroy the
world or themselves.
Illyria is seen in the middle of it all. Surrounded by other
demons, but killing them one by one, using her tentacles to
slash through them.
EVE (V.O.) (cont'd)
You also know that they didn't die
like we do. Death wasn't the end
for them. The smarter ones learned
to resurrect themselves.
We PULL BACK from the chaos of this war to find a group of
silent onlookers. Elder demons in their own right, but
nowhere near the scale of some of the larger demons in the
war.
These are the SENIOR PARTNERS. Three of them. The WOLF, the
RAM, and the HART. None of them look in the slightest like
their monikers. Each are horrid in their own way, but not
overly discernible from the other.
Only some ten to fifteen feet tall with grotesque fangs
projecting from flat, squat heads, and several sets of horns
poking through greyish black skin.
They only stay silent and watch.
EVE (V.O.) (cont'd)
And this is where the partners
started to distance themselves from
the others. Instead of battling
amongst themselves, they watched.
They learned... Everything. They
were among the first to learn how
to breach dimensions.
WESLEY (V.O.)
How did they learn it?
27 EXT. OLD EARTH - MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER 27
The partners are alone behind a huge mountain. They're busy,
obviously working on some kind of rital. A huge MAGIC CIRCLE
has been etched on the ground before them.
EVE (V.O.)
They listened. To the world around
them. There was no science. There
was only instinct and intuition.
It's like the monks at the Buddhist
temples. They spend years in
silence to achieve Zen or whatever
and understand nature. The
partners had about infinity times
over to do the same thing and
eventually they understood things
like time and space, not like you
and I understand it, but a visceral
perception that was above
understanding and knowledge.
Just then, a powerful portal opens up in front of them and
the partners step into it to --
28 EXT. PYLEA - DAY 28
The partners step into the sunlight. Obviously out of place
in this world of beauty.
EVE (V.O.)
And it was then that they realized
what they were going to do. What
they had to do to survive.
29 EXT. OLD EARTH - NIGHT 29
Another huge battle. This time, the partners themselves are
involved, but holding their own against the bigger demons.
EVE (V.O.)
There was no way that they could
keep up the struggle against the
more magnificent demons of their
own world, and it was only a matter
of time until they found their way
and spilled into the other worlds
as well. And they were wise enough
to know that the time of the demons
would eventually come to and end.
30 INT. FBI SAFEHOUSE - DAY 30
Wes is taking this all in, almost giddy at learning these
primordial secrets.
WESLEY
So they formed a plan to outlast
the others by going into a
voluntary exile.
Eve nods.
EVE
They chose the world's first
lackeys and started setting things
in motion, conquering peoples of
other dimensions and corrupting the
weaker species that might survive
the eons here on earth.
ANGEL
Humans.
EVE
Among others.
Wes forces a chuckle.
WESLEY
Original sin.
EVE
And so every human from then on had
a piece of evil in them and it only
grew from there.
KIRSTEN
So much for Kane and Abel.
SPIKE
Wait... What about The First? I
thought it was the original big bad
that turned everyone into
bludgeoning hatemongers.
EVE
Just another game. When you're the
only elder left, you can make that
claim. It's real name was
Quetzalcoatl, and it was one of the
elders, older than Illyria even,
but not the first.
WESLEY
And how did it survive all the
wars, not to mention time itself?
EVE
No one knows. Though they don't
like to admit it, it's probably the
one elder that was as wise as the
partners themselves... Only it was
just as happy to do battle as all
the others.
ANGEL
So, wait... The books we found in
Pylea?
EVE
All part of the plan.
ANGEL
For this world or theirs?
EVE
That's the genius of this plan,
babe. They're not just going for
one or the other. You've got to
hand it to the guys because when
they go, they go for broke. They
want it all.
31 INT. W&H - HOLLAND'S OFFICE - SAME 31
Lindsey is being pulled off of Holland by Wolfram and Hart
SECURITY AGENTS.
LINDSEY
You son of a bitch!
HOLLAND
(to security)
Take him to the holding area. Put
him next to Mathias Pavane so he'll
have someone as crazy as he is to
talk to.
The Agents try to haul Lindsey off, but he THROWS them aside
and grabs Holland by the jacket, pinning him against the
desk.
LINDSEY
You go behind my back to kill my
girlfriend?! You knew she was
alive, didn't you? You knew she
was alive and you hid her from me!
HOLLAND
Lindsey, it would be wise to let me
go.
Lindsey seems to back off for a moment, but it's all for show
with:
LINDSEY
Yeah, but I always wondered how
Angel felt when he let those two
vampire bitches murder you and your
family. And I gotta tell ya', it
sounds like a helluva lot more fun.
Lindsey reaches back to punch him, but as he does he starts
CONVULSING and falls to the ground to REVEAL --
-- Lilah standing behind him with a small DEVICE in her hand.
LILAH
You have no idea how fun that was.
Lindsey glares back at Holland and then Lilah and the device
in her hand.
LINDSEY
What the --
HOLLAND
What did you expect, Lindsey? That
the partners would go through all
the trouble of bringing someone
like you back just to entirely
trust that you wouldn't revert to
your old ways? You have a failsafe
of your own.
LILAH
It's like a shock collar for a bad
dog.
HOLLAND
Smaller in scale than Angel's, but
just as effective. More so, I'd
say, given that Angel survived his.
LINDSEY
So what, you're going to kill me
now?
HOLLAND
We're not. I think the partners
will want to take care of this
personally.
LILAH
Guess there's going to be a job
opening now.
But before any guards can be called or Lindsey can be fully
subdued, the red lights begin to flash again in the building.
LINDSEY
Maybe not.
Holland quickly flips on the television and there on the
screen, is a raging hurricane in progress. The REPORTER
comes on the screen with:
REPORTER
And if you're just joining us, our
breaking story this hour - a freak
hurricane has appeared literally
out of nowhere in downtown Los
Angeles, rated an F5 by the
meteorologist's office.
F5 is the highest possible rating
for hurricane strength, and only a
handful have ever been recorded.
Holland stares on, nearly in shock. Lindsey's eyes drift to
the shock device, forgotten in Lilah's hand.
The TV shows scenes of devastation - ruined apartment blocks,
rising flood waters, piles of cars thrown around like toys.
REPORTER (cont'd)
No one likes to speculate at a time
like this, but the probable
estimates already put the death
toll into the hundreds, possibly
thousands.
As Holland and Lilah continue to stare at the screen, Lindsey
quickly takes the device out of her hand, throws it on the
ground, and stomps it into pieces.
They both only stare back at him, not knowing what to say.
LINDSEY
Well, after seeing that, I'd say
that court's adjourned, wouldn't
you?
He leaves the room as Holland and Lilah are still baffled.
LILAH
This is really it, isn't it?
Holland has actually lost his typically calm demeanor and
looks near panicked.
HOLLAND
I've got to go to the white room.
He leaves Lilah alone in the room. She ducks her head in her
hands and sits on the corner of the desk.
32 EXT. FBI SUBURBAN - LATER 32
Out on the street, strong STORM WINDS whip round, bowing over
trees, street lights and anything else tall enough.
Kate and Sonia exit the vehicle. Sonia's looking around with
a sense of urgency, but Kate is only standing beside the
vehicle with an assumed purpose.
SONIA
(shouting over noise)
So, what's the emergency? Demons,
demon worshippers, Techno fans?
KATE
Sonia, I'm not quite sure how to
tell you this and I'm not sure how
you'll take it coming from me --
SONIA
Coming from you? Are you kidding?
You saved my life.
Kate forces an awkward smile.
SONIA (cont'd)
You could tell me I'm dying and I
wouldn't hold a grudge.
With that, the smile disappears from Kate's face and she
stares at the ground for a moment.
SONIA (cont'd)
Wait... Am I --
KATE
We found a common denominator with
the other Priori patients. The
human body was never made to stand
up to all the changes that you've
underwent.
She lets that hang for a moment before she quickly jumps back
in with:
KATE (cont'd)
They weren't all the same. The
results varied from person to
person, but even the lucky ones
have been nearly crippled by the
rapid advancement of the aging
process.
Sonia thinks it over for a moment and takes a deep breath.
SONIA
Wow.
(beat)
Not holding a grudge, but... Man.
That's not something you hear every
day.
KATE
I know. And I'm sorry that I had
to tell you. I just didn't want to
do it in a room full of people.
SONIA
No, I -- Thank you. I really
appreciate that.
(beat)
And look, if you don't mind, can we
keep this between ourselves?
KATE
Of course.
SONIA
I just don't want everyone worrying
about me when we've got bigger
things to focus on.
KATE
But you will tell them?
SONIA
Yeah, of course.. Just not right
now. Actually, I'm glad we've got
this chance because there's
something I needed to talk to you
about too.
KATE
Oh?
SONIA
(nods)
You know those --
Kate's phone rings. She holds up a polite finger to Sonia
and answers it as we FADE TO:
33 INT. FBI SAFEHOUSE - SAME 33
Angel's phone interrupts Eve's story as he hurries up answers
it.
ANGEL
(into phone)
Yeah. Kate... Are you sure?
Yeah, I'll see you in a minute.
He hangs the phone up as he looks to the others.
ANGEL (cont'd)
There's a hurricane that sprung up
out of nowhere.
WESLEY
What?
ANGEL
Right in the middle of downtown.
It's already torn through over a
dozen blocks.
(beat)
Apartments, projects... Everything.
Everyone is already aware of what that probably means and
their heads drop.
ANGEL (cont'd)
They say it's already killed well
over ten thousand, most likely over
twenty by the time it's done.
(to Eve)
Could this be it?
EVE
Oh, that's it. The first was Earth
barely avoiding being destroyed,
which it was with the comet. And
the second is a hellish natural
disaster that kills by the
thousands. That's the death knell,
kids.
(more somberly)
We're all going to die.
ANGEL
Not if I can help it.
WESLEY
Have you told us everything?
EVE
That's pretty much it for the
history lesson.
No one moves until:
GWEN
Where are they now?
EVE
Come again?
GWEN
The senior partners. They're still
-- alive? -- somewhere, aren't
they? Pulling the strings.
EVE
They've got a cozy little dimension
of their own tucked out of the way.
GWEN
Then why can't we go there? You
know, take the fight to them.
Wes looks up to Angel.
WESLEY
She's got a point. If we cut the
dragon's head off...
He lets it hang before Eve jumps back in.
EVE
While I admire your enthusiasm,
it's easier said than done, Wes.
The Partners knew that if they left
the front door open that someone
would eventually come ringing the
doorbell.
SPIKE
What the hell is that supposed to
mean?
EVE
No one knows how to get there
except the partners themselves.
The home office, as it's lovingly
referred to... It's a mystery to
everyone other than those three.
KIRSTEN
I thought you knew everything that
the partners knew now.
EVE
I do. That's the thing. They've
erased all traces of it, even from
their minds.
WESLEY
You're saying that even they don't
know where they are?
EVE
They know where they are in
relation to our dimension. They
couldn't communicate with us
otherwise. Let's just say that
they've covered their tracks
really, really well. And they're
not going to reveal themselves
until this all goes into motion.
She looks at her watch.
EVE (cont'd)
Which should start sometime in the
next few hours.
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT TWO
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