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10 INT. SUMMERS RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM. DAY. 10
We pull back out and away from Buffy, Andrew's agitated voice
fading back into range.
ANDREW
Buffy? Buffy!
BUFFY
(blinks)
Huh?
ANDREW
What happened? You looked all
spaced out for a second there, sort
of like that sequence in
'Fellowship' where Frodo-
BUFFY
(blurts out)
The police station!
ANDREW
The what?
Buffy lunges forward and grabs the phone out of his hands.
BUFFY
The police station, Kane's there,
he's opening the Hellmouth!
Andrew jumps to his feet.
ANDREW
What? But, uh, how do you know?
BUFFY
Amy just told me, she's at
gunpoint, he's making her finish
the job! Andrew, we have to get
everybody together that we can,
right now!
ANDREW
Okay, but, uh, Giles is still at
the hospital with Marie, Xander and
Sofia are out trying to find Hope,
and Shanna's still looking after
Jackson.
Buffy pauses - Andrew's got a point. She thinks for a beat,
then marches over to the weapons chest behind the armchair in
the corner, takes out a sword, and tosses it to Andrew.
He almost drops it, but just about manages to keep a hold. He
looks back at Buffy, who has a steely look in her eyes.
BUFFY
Looks like we'd better get moving,
then, huh?
Andrew GULPS, and from his terrified look, we cut to:
11 INT. FACTORY. DAY. 11
We're looking down into an abandoned factory, rusting
machinery scrolling past us as we move towards a line of
silent conveyor belts, caked in dust.
Standing near the belts, sharing a cigarette or two, are the
vampire trio MILLER, ROTH and WHELAN, and wrapped up safely
in a makeshift cot before them is baby HOPE.
WHELAN
(checks watch)
Alright boys, it's rendezvous time.
MILLER
Who are we meetin' here, anyways?
WHELAN
'We' aren't meeting anyone, I'm
taking the kid to our employers
alone. Those were the terms.
Roth stubs out his cigarette and looks down on Hope, smiling
warmly at her.
WHELAN (cont'd)
Don't get too attached. They've got
big plans for her, from what I
hear.
ROTH
Yeah, I know... but she's just so
darned cute!
He reaches a hand out to tickle Hope, but she SQUEALS as soon
as Roth's hand comes anywhere near her.
As he withdraws it, we pull back to pick up Xander and Sofia,
sneaking along a gantry overlooking the trio below, hidden
from sight by bulky rows of pipes. They stop directly over
the vampires, crouching down to spy on them.
WHELAN
Time to get started.
Whelan walks a few steps away from the others, and we notice
for the first time a MAGIC CIRCLE drawn onto the floor in
white paint.
Sofia glances at Xander, but his eyes are locked on Hope, his
knuckles whitening as he grips his axe tightly.
She lays a hand on his to get his attention, then with a few
quick hand signals motions that they should head down and
attack the vampires from either side.
Xander nods, and as the two start to sneak down to the bottom
level, we turn our focus back onto Whelan.
He kneels in the centre of the circle, his eyes closed,
before starting an incantation.
WHELAN (cont'd)
Aprire il cerchio!
There is a WHITE FLASH, and in an instant, a PORTAL has
opened up in the air before Whelan, a howling wind blowing
from inside it buffeting him.
He turns and walks back over to Hope, looking down on her.
Hope is still making the odd wailing noise, clearly not happy
with what's going on.
WHELAN (cont'd)
(smirks)
Don't worry, kid. Once they get you
round to their way of thinking, you
won't be crying any more.
Miller and Roth watch on - neither one aware that Xander and
Sofia respectively are stalking up behind them.
ROTH
(nudges Miller)
I hope we get to see her again.
That's one cute baby.
MILLER
(eyes him)
Man, what is with you and babies?
You getting broody or something?
ROTH
Maybe, it's about time I-
CLANG! The two vampires whip round.
Xander has just bounced his axe off a nearby sheet of metal,
and he grimaces as he realises he's just blown the sneak
attack. He looks up to see Miller and Roth staring back at
him, and he manages a nervous smile.
XANDER
Uh, hi there.
(beat)
Sofia?
With a battle cry, Sofia CHARGES out from the other side of
the vampires, and before they can react, Miller gets a stake
to the chest, EXPLODING into dust, while Roth gets an arm up
in time to block Sofia's second attack.
Whelan quickly SNATCHES UP Hope and turns, making a break for
the portal.
SOFIA
Xander! Quick! The other one!
Xander races forward, closing in on Whelan - but the vampire
pauses at the entrance to the portal, turns and sneers at the
approaching Xander.
WHELAN
Too slow!
With that, he turns and JUMPS into the portal.
XANDER
No!!
Without stopping, Xander runs straight towards the portal and
JUMPS - and he sails into it, just as the portal closes with
a loud POP.
Roth is distracted for half a second - plenty of time for
Sofia to drive a second stake into his chest.
As he crumbles away into dust, Sofia runs up to the magic
circle - but Xander is gone.
As she looks all round, desperately trying to find some sign
of where Xander's gotten to, we cut to:
12 INT. CLEVELAND PD - BASEMENT ROOM. DAY. 12
Amy is still standing over the Hellmouth, but there is a
bright white GLOW around the entrance itself, and Amy's face
is screwed up in deep concentration.
Kane watches, grinning, as the light around the entrance gets
increasingly brighter, building in intensity until with a
terrific BANG, the light fills the room for an instant, and
Amy is knocked off her feet.
Kane marches past her, ignoring her as she tries to stand,
and he stops right over the entrance.
Looking down over his shoulder, we can hear the shouts and
yells of whatever's been waiting on the other side growing in
volume, and Kane starts to CACKLE.
KANE
Excellent work, Amy! I'll make sure
they put a statue up of you in
whatever's left of the city centre.
A loud, deep RUMBLING noise begins, the whole of the small
basement room SHAKING, and Kane looks around him as the
rumbling intensifies. He frowns, realising this may be too
noisy.
KANE (cont'd)
Hmm. Maybe we should have used a
few more cloaking spells...
As the rumbling continues to grow in volume, and Amy claps
her hands over her ears, we cut upstairs to:
13 INT. CLEVELAND PD - FOURTH FLOOR. DAY. 13
As the various cops and detectives on duty look around
quizzically, the rumbling from the basement rattling the
entire building, we see DAN step into frame.
DAN
What the hell is that?
COP #1
Beats me, sounds like it's coming
from downstairs.
COP #2
Is it an earthquake?
DAN
(rolls eyes)
We don't get those in Cleveland!
COP #2
Oh...
DAN
(to Cops)
Alright, let's go check it out.
Could be a burst water main or
something, we'd better find out
what's going on before the whole
damn building shakes itself to
pieces!
Dan starts to head towards the stairs, the rumbling now
starting to shake pictures off the wall and disturb whatever
isn't nailed down to the tops of the various desks, as we cut
to:
14 EXT. CLEVELAND PD. DAY. 14
With the rumbling still audible from outside the precinct,
and several passers by looking around for the source of the
noise, Buffy and Andrew step into frame. Their weapons are
hidden from view - Buffy is carrying a sports bag that is
just about hiding the Scythe and Andrew's sword - and the duo
exchange a look.
ANDREW
So... We're really going in there,
just the two of us?
BUFFY
'Fraid so.
ANDREW
No back up?
BUFFY
Nope.
ANDREW
(beat)
Not even a Plan 'B'?
BUFFY
Andrew, I'm lucky if I get a Plan
'A' most of the time.
ANDREW
(beat)
Oh.
Buffy steps towards the station, and we cut to:
15 INT. CLEVELAND PD - BASEMENT. DAY. 15
A door opens and out steps Dan, followed by the two Cops he
recruited from upstairs. The RUMBLING is louder than ever
down here, and the three officers press their hands to their
ears, Dan turning to the cops and shouting over the noise.
DAN
Spread out, find out whatever the
hell's making that noise!
The group splits up, Dan taking the corridor that contains
the room hiding the Hellmouth.
He reaches the magically sealed door and rattles the handle,
and it's obvious that this is where the terrifically loud
noise is coming from.
Dan tries to barge the door down, but it won't budge.
Taking a few steps back, he draws his handgun and takes aim
at the lock, FIRING three times.
The lock on the door starts to GLOW brightly, and Dan lowers
his gun, bemused, as more light starts to build from the
other side of the door, spilling into the corridor.
Dan raises his arms against the brightness - just as the door
EXPLODES outwards, shattering into fragments and filling the
corridor with sickly yellow light.
Dan lowers his arms, his eyes bulging at what he can see on
the other side of the door.
DAN (cont'd)
What the...
And it's from his look of confusion that we:
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT ONE
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
16 INT. FACTORY. DAY. 16
Sofia is still looking around for Xander, scanning the circle
below her for any clues as to where it sent him, but she may
as well be trying to read Greek in the dark. Frantic, she
yells out in the hope he can hear her.
SOFIA
Xander! Where are you?
As her voice echoes round the now empty factory, we cut to:
17 INT. PORTAL TUNNEL. 17
Surrounded by dizzying swirls of white and blue light, almost
like being caught in a snowstorm blowing perfectly sideways,
Xander tries to struggle forward, shoved from all sides by
the energies inside the portal.
Up ahead, he can see Whelan, also struggling his way through
the tunnel.
XANDER
Come back here!
Whelan turns, sees Xander - and GRINS, just as we WHITE OUT
and find ourselves in:
18 EXT. THE CIRCLE - FIELDS. DAY. 18
With a FLASH of white light, Xander finds himself in a very
familiar patch of waist-high grass. A snow-capped jungle lies
behind him, with a volcanic-looking mountain range beyond
that.
Xander jumps to his feet, trying to get his bearings, his
eyes widening as he sees the stilted wooden village of the
Circle up ahead - and Whelan, racing away from him through
the grass.
The sun may be up overhead, but physics work differently
round here, allowing Whelan to look up at the sun and CACKLE
defiantly as it fails to turn him to ashes.
Xander's instincts kick in, saving wondering where the heck
he is for later.
XANDER
Hope!!
Xander takes off, tearing through the grass in hot pursuit of
Whelan, who is heading straight for the Circle's village.
As Xander chases the vampire, we cut back to:
19 INT. CLEVELAND PD - RECEPTION. DAY. 19
With the police on duty now struggling to stay on their feet,
as the rumbling and vibrations continue to shake the
foundations of the precinct, Buffy and Andrew stumble into
the foyer, Buffy looking around in confusion. She shouts
across to the nearest group of cops.
BUFFY
What's going on?
OFFICER
We don't know! Something in the
basement!
Buffy throws an anxious glance at Andrew, then starts to dash
forward, weaving past the cops and making for a staircase
that leads down. The Desk Sergeant, Officer KINCAID, yells
after her.
KINCAID
Hey! Wait! You can't go back there!
She ignores his shouts and hurries on, into:
20 INT. CLEVELAND PD - BASEMENT. DAY. 20
Buffy almost loses her footing as she clatters down the steps
and into the basement, Andrew following after her.
She spots Dan, standing just where we left him, staring into
whatever he's seen inside the room containing the Hellmouth.
BUFFY
Dan!!
He looks round - double takes, and then steps backwards, his
gaze returning to the room before him.
Buffy rushes over to him, laying a hand on his arm, but Dan
only glances at her for a second before looking back into the
room.
BUFFY (cont'd)
Dan, are you alright? What did you-
Buffy FREEZES as she looks into the room too.
BUFFY (cont'd)
What the...
DAN
Yeah, that's about as far as I got,
too.
Buffy steps towards the door, staring in disbelief into the
room beyond.
As Andrew joins her, his eyes almost popping out of his
sockets, we finally get to see what's going on as the trio
step into the room itself:
21 INT. CLEVELAND PD - BASEMENT ROOM. CONTINUOUS. 21
The room, quite simply, isn't there anymore. The floor has
fallen away entirely, and in its place is a long series of
archways, curving downwards, following the slope of the newly
exposed floor.
The Hellmouth sits at the top of the slope, but that's no
longer the main attraction of the room. The missing floor has
exposed something even more spectacular - a colossal
LABYRINTH, with high, stone walls twisting into a thousand
different crazy angles and turns, stretching out for what
looks like a mile in any direction below us.
In the centre of the labyrinth, lit by the dim yellow glow of
hundreds of huge braziers and torches, stands a tall CITADEL,
the entire complex sitting inside a massive tunnel, as though
the citadel has literally tunneled its way down into the
earth.
Buffy, Dan and Andrew stand in shock for a long beat, before
Andrew breaks the silence.
ANDREW
So... are you still sure about the
whole, um, 'no backup' thing?
As we watch, we can see many thousands of figures moving
below us, starting to pour out from gaps in the walls of the
labyrinth, one destination ahead of them - the top of the
slope where Buffy and the others are standing. The army is
starting to make an awful lot of noise...
BUFFY
Oh, God... This is starting to feel
way too familiar...
Dan blinks, as if coming to his senses.
DAN
(to Buffy)
So...
BUFFY
Uh, yeah. Explanation. Okay.
Vampires? Real. Demons and
monsters? Also real. Me? Somebody
who's supposed to kill them.
DAN
Oh.
(to Andrew)
So, what, are you like the
sidekick?
ANDREW
Uh, no, I'm the backup.
DAN
(eyes him)
Right.
(beat)
We're screwed, aren't we?
Buffy turns to Dan, the look on her face saying it all.
BUFFY
We need to run.
She turns to the others, who are still transfixed by the army
of darkness pouring out of the labyrinth below them.
BUFFY (cont'd)
(urgent)
Run!!
They finally turn, the trio racing out of frame, into:
22 INT. CLEVELAND PD - BASEMENT. CONTINUOUS. 22
Buffy, Dan and Andrew barrel back out into the corridor,
Buffy leading the way as she heads back for the stairs.
DAN
Wait... wait!
Buffy skids to a halt as Dan catches up.
BUFFY
What? We have to evacuate the area
and find some way to seal that off,
now! The whole city's going to be
overrun if we don't hurry!
DAN
(mind racing)
But- who are- how did-
BUFFY
I'll explain everything later, but
right now, we have to move!
She grabs his arm and starts to drag him up the stairs, and
as Dan throws a look over his shoulder, back towards the
basement room, we cut to:
23 INT. THE CIRCLE - GRAND LIBRARY. DAY. 23
Willow sits glumly at a desk on one of the upper floor of the
library, staring out through a tall window next to her.
She suddenly spots something and sits up, blinking as though
she can't believe what she's seeing.
Looking out through the window, we can see Whelan racing
through the grass towards the village - and Xander closing
in, racing his heart out to try and keep up with the vamp.
WILLOW
Xander?
(double takes)
Xander!!
She POUNDS her hands against the windows, but Xander can't
hear her.
Willow turns and runs towards a long, spiral staircase that
leads to the ground floor, clattering down it and sprinting
for the Library doors when she gets there.
Throwing them open, Willow races outside, into:
24 EXT. THE CIRCLE - VILLAGE. DAY. 24
Looking around frantically for Xander, Willow spots him and
breaks back into a run.
Xander follows Whelan as he heads for a doorway built into
the side of an otherwise plain building.
Whelan throws the door open and leaps inside, slamming it
closed, and Xander reaches it moments later.
He throws the door open - but there's nothing on the other
side but brickwork.
Frantic, Xander PUNCHES the bricks, but they're solid.
XANDER
No... No! Hope! Hope!!
Xander doesn't see Willow bound into frame, almost in tears
of relief, until she throws her arms round him.
It takes him a second to register who it is, looking more
startled than ever.
XANDER (cont'd)
Will?
WILLOW
Xander! Xander, you're here!
She HUGS him again, but Xander prises her away.
XANDER
(serious)
Willow, they've got Hope.
WILLOW
What? Who?
XANDER
I don't know, some vampires broke
into the house and took her, Sofia
and I tracked them down but one
escaped, I must've followed him
here...
(beat)
Where the hell is 'here'?
WILLOW
Oh, this is the Circle.
XANDER
It is?
(looks round)
You gave us all up for this?
WILLOW
(urgent)
Xander! Focus!
Willow steps past him and places her hands on the brickwork
behind the door, closing her eyes.
XANDER
Can you tell where he went?
WILLOW
Yeah... Simple movement spell, this
place is full of them.
XANDER
But what about-
WILLOW
They'll know you're here soon. We
have to hide you. I'll find Hope
and bring her back, maybe I can get
you two out of here.
XANDER
No, I want to come with you, I
can't-
Willow shakes Xander once to snap him back to reality.
WILLOW
No, Xander! It's too dangerous!
Xander stares back at Willow for a beat - then lowers his
head and nods.
WILLOW (cont'd)
Come on, follow me. I know where I
can put you so they won't find you.
She takes his hand and leads him off screen, Xander finally
starting to take in the outlandish scenery around him, as we
cut back to:
25 INT. HELLMOUTH. 25
We're down in the newly-exposed Hellmouth itself, the
archways overhead framing the long, sloping path that leads
down to the entrance to the labyrinth.
Kane, smiling, holds his hands in the air as we hear CHEERS
coming from the massed hordes before him - demons, vampires,
Turok-Hahn, every kind of nasty under the sun, all clattering
weapons and shields together in a cacophony of noise.
Kane's two demons follow him, one still holding onto Amy, who
looks scared out of her skin.
KANE
Thank you, thank you!
Kane comes to a bump in the slope, forming a sort of plateau,
allowing him to look down on the thousands of creatures
massing below him.
KANE (cont'd)
It's almost time! The plan has been
set in motion, so let this be the
day we celebrate the first of many
victories!
Another CHEER from the crowd. Amy yells over to Kane.
AMY
How can you do this? How can you
let these... things out into the
world? They'll kill thousands!
Maybe millions!
KANE
Yes, I have no doubt that they
will.
Amy can't believe what she's hearing, looking out across the
sea of demons and then back to Kane.
AMY
What are you? You're not a man -
you're not human!
Kane spins on his heel and marches up to her, leaning forward
to talk straight at her.
KANE
Oh, I'm still very much human. You
want to know what one of our
greatest qualities is as a species,
Miss Madison? Greed. Sets us apart
from the animals. The difference
with them is that they know when to
stop.
(grins)
I, on the other hand, don't.
Kane turns back to face the hordes, lifting his hands in the
air again to get another CHEER.
AMY
(defiant)
She'll stop you!
KANE
I'm sorry - who?
AMY
Buffy! She'll find some way to stop
you, she always does!
KANE
(shakes head)
Not this time. She was lucky the
last time she destroyed a
Hellmouth, and plus, she had
outside help. This time, it's a
straight fight.
(beat)
She's got no chance at all.
AMY
That won't stop her!
Kane thinks on this for a second, then nods.
KANE
No, I don't suppose it will.
He walks back up to Amy, who is now failing to keep her tears
in. He leans closer to her.
KANE (cont'd)
Unfortunately, you have a more
pressing issue to concern yourself
with.
Kane calmly draws his handgun and SHOOTS Amy in the gut. She
GASPS and folds, collapsing to the floor as Kane tucks the
handgun away.
KANE (cont'd)
You've outlived your usefulness.
Amy rolls onto her side, taking deep, panicked GULPS of
breath as Kane turns back to address the demon army.
KANE (cont'd)
Alright, gather yourselves! We're
about to march on the human world
above us, so remember the one
condition for your release!
(beat; grins)
Burn it to the ground!
A final CHEER sees the army start to surge towards us.
Wide-eyed, Amy watches the army stampede forward for a beat,
before she closes her eyes, making a supreme effort of will
to focus and concentrate.
Unseen by Kane or his demon attendants, Amy's body is bathed
in a soft green GLOW, and after a beat, it fades away,
vanishing completely without a sound.
As soon as she's gone, we cut to:
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