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ACT FOUR
40 INT. AMY'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER 40
The gang's exactly where we left them - reeling at the thought
that Tori and Suzi are going to be evil spell fodder.
JESS
So what do we do?
Dawn's face hardens for a second - she knows what she has to do.
DAWN
We? Nothing. I have to take care
of this.
JAKE
If you think you're doing this
alone, think again. Suzi's my
friend.
AMY
And sitting here hasn't done me
any good tonight.
DAWN
You're supposed to be the one
who's all "the slayer is alone."
Amy opens up a cabinet on one side of the room - it's filled
with weapons - and pulls out a mean looking sword.
AMY
The watchers council and I have
our differences.
DAWN
Well it looks like I can't get
rid of you.
(beat)
Thanks.
Amy tosses the sword to Dawn, who tests it balance like a pro.
DAWN (CONT'D)
Ooohh. Sword.
Willow walks up to the weapon cabinet and pulls out a crossbow.
She levels it for a second, checking out the aim.
AMY
(to Willow)
You sure you'll be okay with
that?
WILLOW
('nuff said)
Buffy's best friend here.
Jake eyes the weapons and pulls out a cross and a bottle of holy
water.
JAKE
(off everyone's looks)
I just got bitch-slapped by a
vampire your size.
(points at dawn)
I like my danger, you know...
safe.
Jess pulls out a similar arsenal, while Amy picks up a nasty
looking battle axe.
JESS
Do you think that they're going
to be at the St. Louis I
cemetery?
DAWN
(to Amy)
Does the ritual need to be
performed in a certain place?
AMY
The book was rather vague on that
fact.
DAWN
Okey-doke. Will, it looks like
you're up to bat.
Willow nods, then turns to Amy.
WILLOW
Amy, what's your occult
components stock like.
She motions for her to follow. They head across the foyer into
another room.
AMY
I haven't updated it in a long
time, so any newfangled spells
requiring quasi-distilled
suspensions won't work.
JAKE
Did she just use the word
newfangled?
DAWN
She's British.
JAKE
Not like I could forget.
41 INT. AMY'S HOUSE - STOREROOM - NIGHT 41
This room of Amy's house is filled with shelves sporting every
kind of crazy spell component possible. It's lit via some
recessed fixtures in the ceiling and it has a table in the
center.
Amy's standing by the door, while Willow is searching the
shelves, every so often taking something and putting it into a
bag she holds. She looks like a kid in a candy shop.
WILLOW
That's the last of it.
(beat)
You do know that your collection
rivals some online wicca
superstores, right?
AMY
Hmm, really? You should get me
their web addresses.
Amy leads her out and WE FOLLOW THEM into:
42 INT. AMY'S HOUSE - FOYER - CONTINUOUS 42
Everyone has convened in the foyer, with a space to once side
where Willow can do her spell.
DAWN
Will. You have everything you
need?
WILLOW
Ready. Does anyone have something
of hers? It'll make it easier.
(beat)
No? Well here goes.
Willow pours some sand in a circle on the floor and sits cross
legged in the center of it. She takes out a small mortar and
pestle from her bag, quickly crushes some ingredients up and
places the bowl in front of her.
Her eyes closed, Willow begins to whisper something in Latin
which we can't hear. Suddenly, the circle of sand around Willow
begins to GLOW SILVERY-WHITE.
WILLOW (CONT'D)
Locus unus quisnam est absentis
Willow opens her right hand, and lets some GLOWING RED POWDER
fall into the bowl in front of her. The moment it hits the bowl,
RED SPARKS engulf her. Then it's over, and all that's left is
Willow - no circle, no bowl, just Willow.
WILLOW (CONT'D)
The St. Louis I Cemetery, now.
SMASH CUT TO:
43 EXT. ST. LOUIS I CEMETERY - NIGHT 43
The cemetery hasn't really changed any in a few hours - except
where the Mambo's ritual circle once was, there are two large
stakes in the ground with our girls gagged and tied to them.
8 VAMPIRE CULTISTS circle the two girls and their VAMPIRE CULT
LEADER, hooded and cloaked stands in the center chanting in a
demonic language. The girls strain at their bonds, but it's no
use.
The vampire leader notices the girls straining at their bonds
and stops chanting for a moment. He speaks in a Southern accent.
VAMPIRE CULT LEADER
Now why would y'all want to be
leavin' us?
(to the group; re: the girls)
Your deaths will usher in a new
era in this city. An era where
chaos will destroy all - The
apocalypse!
He begins to chant again.
DAWN (O.S.)
You know what the trouble is with
apocalypses?
We HEAR a WHIRRING sound, like a stake being thrown.
ANGLE: A VAMPIRE
suddenly has a stake poking out of his chest. He looks extremely
confused as he EXPLODES into dust...
REVEALING - DAWN
standing on top of a nearby tomb with the sword in her hand. WE
CRANE UP until we're nearly level with her.
DAWN (CONT'D)
They never go the way you plan.
The cult leader stops chanting and spins around to glare at
Dawn.
VAMPIRE CULT LEADER
Who the hell are you?
DAWN
(hesitantly, at first)
Me? I'm Dawn, and I'll be killing
you real soon.
VAMPIRE CULT LEADER
The ritual must go on!
(to his group)
Kill her!
With that, the fun really starts:
ANGLE: DAWN
jumps down off of the tomb and lands behind CULTIST #1,
DECAPITATING him in one smooth motion - He's DUST. CULTISTS #2
and #3 try to attack Dawn from two sides, but she's manages to
evade them.
She BACK KICKS #3 behind her and ELBOWS #2 to her side, then
spins around completely to hit #3. He blocks her swipe and kicks
her to the ground, but misses his follow up hit when Dawn rolls
to one side and gets to her feet, breathing hard.
#2 and #3 try to double team Dawn. They get the upped hand - it
looks like Dawn's about to crumble, but she manages to PARRY one
of #3's blows with the flat of her sword and quickly counter
attack, slicing him in half from bottom to top. Each half TURNS
TO DUST before it hits the ground.
Dawn advances slowly on vamp #2. She gets close and tries to
spring forward and surprise him, but it doesn't work. The vamp
drops to the ground and uses Dawn's own momentum to flip her off
her feet.
ANGLE: JESS
Chucks a broken-off bit of a mausoleum at the vamp, trying to
distract him. It works - it hits him in the back of his head and
he spins around with a look of fury in his eyes.
The look EXPLODES into DUST as a battered and bruised Dawn jabs
a random bit of wood through his heart.
Suddenly, Dawn is LIFTED up from behind by CULTIST #4 and THROWN
against one of the tombs, cracking some of the stone work with
the impact and dropping her sword. She recovers pretty quickly,
dodging a cinder-block THROWN by #5 by spinning to one side.
She springs forward to fight more vamps.
ANGLE: AMY
is valiantly trying to hold her own against CULTIST #7, but gets
knocked over some rubble on the ground and drops her axe. She
ROLLS out of the way of an attack by #7 and scampers back until
she's against one of the tombs.
Amy stands herself up and faces #7 who now has her axe and is
brandishing it and sadistically smiling. That smile turns to
annoyance and pain when Jake dumps a bottle of HOLY WATER on
him. His flesh starts to BURN and SMOKE and he staggers back.
Just then, Willow fires a crossbow bolt at him from the top of a
nearby tomb. It pierces his heart - he's DUSTED.
AMY
I really almost had him.
JAKE
Of course you did.
(holds out his cross)
You want my cross?
ANGLE: A PILLAR
Just before Dawn is thrown clear THROUGH IT. She lands on her
feet, however, and stares down the trio of cultists advancing on
her.
Dawn jumps up and grabs a hold of the overhang of one of the
tombs and SWINGS her legs at the advancing vamps, catching #4
smack in the face and sending him staggering back. Dawn lets go
of the overhang and drops back down to face:
VAMPS #5 and #6, who double team Dawn. Dawn PARRIES punches and
kicks from the two vamps until she sees and opening, KICKING #5
and SPIN KICKING #6.
JESS (O.S.)
Dawn, catch.
Jess chucks a sharp wooden stake at Dawn, who CATCHES it just in
time to STAKE #4 behind her and #5 in front of her. 2 more vamps
are DUST.
DAWN
Thanks.
JESS
(seeing something)
Watch out!
VAMP #6 starts to SWING Dawn's sword at Dawn's exposed neck, but
before he can, he's MAGIKED to the floor by Willow, and STAKED
by Amy.
Now all's left is the VAMPIRE CULT LEADER, who's wildly
gesturing and chanting. Suddenly, A RED CIRCLE OF ENERGY appears
above him and his chanting gets more intense.
SMACK!
Dawn's KICK sends the vamp FLYING into the wall of a tomb - the
ENERGY DISSIPATES. The vamp picks himself up slowly.
VAMPIRE CULT LEADER
You can't stop us. It's destiny.
The VAMP LEADER rushes and kicks Dawn in her injured shoulder,
making her gasp in pain. The vamp smiles at her suffering and
lands another hit on her shoulder. Dawn sinks to the ground and
grabs her shoulder, panting for breath.
VAMPIRE CULT LEADER (CONT'D)
We're like a virus, first one...
Somehow, Dawn manges to spring up and cut him off she exchanges
a few blows with the vamp before sending him skidding across the
cemetery with a well placed kick. That hurt! Dawn, beat up but
not finished, faces the vamp and glares at him.
DAWN
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know: first
one, then another yada, yada,
yada.
Dawn advances on the vamp slowly, picking up her sword from
where it's stuck in the ground along the way. The vamp's in the
process of getting up. She gets to him before he does.
DAWN (CONT'D)
The thing about Destiny is...
Dawn CHOPS the vamp's head off and he EXPLODES into DUST.
DAWN (CONT'D)
We each make our own.
Dawn walks over slowly and unties her friends, then turns to the
whole group.
DAWN (CONT'D)
(exhausted)
Let's go home.
TORI
I thought you'd never ask.
44 EXT. THE BOOT BAR & GRILL - THE NEXT NIGHT 44
The Boot's not so busy tonight - there's no live band - so the
ambiance is definitely relaxed. The whole neo-scooby gang is
here, minus of course Amy, and interestingly enough, Dawn.
They're sitting around in a couple of chairs and sofa's on the
ground floor talking while Tori's getting some coffee at the
bar.
PETE
I can't believe you let me miss
that.
JAKE
(sarcastic)
Oh yeah, 'cause getting beat up
by creatures that aren't supposed
to exist is tons of fun.
PETE
Let's see, would I rather be
involved with the Ghostbusters
here or reading my math textbook?
Tori sits down with a cup of coffee.
TORI
I of the near death experience
will take math any day.
SUZI
I really agree. And I hate math.
JESS
You realize that nothing's going
to be the same ever again 'round
here. Just because we stopped the
ritual doesn't mean the baddies
will just go home.
JAKE
Don't you ever look on the bright
side of things?
SUZI
Hey Egon, which bright side?
He thinks about this for a second.
JAKE
We... uh... have our own resident
supergirl?
(beat)
Egon?
SUZI
Speaking of Dawn. Where is she?
She said she'd meet us here
tonight.
TORI
She had something important to
do. I'm sure she'll show up.
Jake can't contain himself any longer:
JAKE
(to Suzi)
Egon? If I have to be a
Ghostbuster, there's no way I'm
Egon.
Suzi just smiles.
45 INT. DAWN'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT 45
Dawn is sitting on her bed dialing her phone, while Willow sits
nearby. Dawn finishes dialing a puts the phone to her ear. We
hear RINGING and the SOUND of SOMEONE PICKING UP as we begin to
PULL BACK towards the windows.
BUFFY (O.S.)
(filtered)
Hello?
DAWN
Hi Buffy. There's something I
have to tell you...
An that's all we hear as we PULL BACK through Dawn's window and
continue CRANING BACK AND UP until Dawn is only a small figure
framed in her window.
46 EXT. ST. LOUIS I CEMETERY 46
WE CRANE DOWN from above the cemetery - it looks perfectly
normal, no sign of the craziness of the day before. WE CONTINUE
TO CRANE DOWN in front of the Tomb of Marie Laveau until we:
PASS THROUGH
the ground to a tunnel underneath, hewn of dirt. It's dark in
here, save for a SHIMMERING PURPLE GLOW coming from somewhere
above us. WE TILT UP to see a gaping hole in the bottom of the
tomb, it's edge covered with CRACKLING PURPLE ENERGY. We:
PUSH INTO
the blackness of the tomb, MUSIC SWELLING, until the darkness
forces a...
BLACK OUT.
END OF SHOW
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