Engal (Stage 1: Conception)

An homage to the tokusatsu Superhero Genre. A city adrift in space. A Detective. A missing person's case. An unseen threat. The rise of an Angelic savior.

 

EXT. CITY SCAPE - RAINING

We see the rain hit the city hard.

Insert Opening Credits

Another shot, looking strait up at the rain bearing down on us.

Pan across the city city, the borrows and so forth. City life is dead and those that are out are hiding or getting ready to hide.

JAROD (V.O.)

In the real world...there is no hope.

A poor person can be seen huddled, without warmths and perhaps without care.

JAROD (CONT’D)

Abandoned, we were forced to build as we aimlessly drift through uncharted space. Earth is a distant memory, and the current calendar year has been lost since we awoke from our sleep.

Zoom out to reveal a dome on a space colony.

JAROD (CONT’D)

We have built a new home. For all we know, we may be the last of our species. This is the real world we have learned from our parents, and this will be the cruel mistress that will rear our children.

EXT. CITY - RAINING

The rain falls on us as we look to the blackened sky.

FLASH TO

TWO HANDS HOLDING

Title card: “Stage: CONCEPTION”

We then pull out to reveal two dead bodies holding hands. This is the scene of a murder.

Two cops walk through the line mid conversation.

COP 1

I told her to get bent.

COP 2

You shouldn't talk to you sister like that.

COP 1

It’s not like we are family.

They see the two bodies, the jokes end. Silence.

They walk over the corpses.

They then look at each other. They are debating who will break the silence.

Cop 1 puts his hands over the lovers hands.

COP 2

Thinking of...

COP 1

Yeah. I am.

COP 2

Masterson isn’t going to like this.

Time fasts forward. Reporters have created a physical barrier of the scene.

COP 1

I think that’s him there.

MASTERSON (O.S.)

Excuse me.

REPORTER 1

Who the hell do you think you are?

The crowd parts, Detective Masterson appears.

MASTERSON

Detective Masterson. You are barring my way to the crime scene.

At once they swarm him.

REPORTER 1

Does this case have anything to do with the disapearances?

MASTERSON

No comment.

REPORTER 2

What brings you here?

REPORTER 3

Are we any closer to finding the perpatrators to these crimes?

He walkes through the line.

MASTERSON

Report.

COP 1

Two dead bodies.

COP 2

Person missing.

Masterson closes his eyes.

MASTERSON

Kidnapping?

COP 2

Looks like it.

He looks over the two dead bodies.

MASTERSON

Any ID?

COP 2

None.

COP 1

There were three sets of foot prints which suggests a third person.

COP 2

Family?

Masterson rubs his hands across the arms to the two hands touching.

MASTERSON

Lovers. The missing person, a child. Feet are too small and grouped together.

Outside, the crime scene... Jarod is listening in, zoom into a device under his reporters hat.

EARPEICE

“Lovers. The missing person, a child...”

Close up to Jarod’s note paper, on it the words, “13th victim.”

A WOMAN knocks over his notes.

JAROD

Excuse me!

WOMAN

You have to let me through!

JAROD

Huh?

WOMAN

My babies!

Jarod’s eyes are wide.

Her eye sheds a tear.

He bows his head and guides her through.

COP 1

Who let her through?

WOMAN

That’s my boy!

A closeup of the dead body.

INT. INTEROGATION ROOM - LATER

Masterson is sitting next infront of Woman.

JAROD (V.O.)

Johnny, her child was on a date with a certain lover. His mother made him bring his little sister along. She has since disapeared. The two lovers were killed, holding hands as if to protect one another. Teresa, the daughter, she is the 13th confirmed kidnapping victim in the past month.

WOMAN

Tell me...is it true?

MASTERSON

Yes. Your daughter was kidnapped, just like the others.

WOMAN

Oh God.

MASTERSON

It will be okay.

She grabs his hand.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Um?

WOMAN

Find her... I can’t lose her too.

He shelters her hand.

MASTERSON

My word.

 

INT. THE CITY

The camera moves through the city. We hear a montage of voices and events.

RADIO HOST (O.C.)

We have just received word of a new kidnapping.

RADIO HOST 2 (O.C.)

Police are on a city wide search, but they still have no leads.

RADIO HOST 3 (O.C.)

I will tell you what this. IRRESPONSIBILITY! What is our Mayor doing? He proposes stupid bills and plays politics while we are under attack. Let’s get to the phones.

CALLER (O.C.)

Hey man, long time listener. And I have to say that I agree completely. The officials in this city have done nothing to find that poor child and I tell you, things will get worse and our boys upstairs will do nothing but sit on their asses before anything gets done about all of this.

We see a couple walk by, they have a child. A shadow looms over them. The THING, not human, moves forward until a bright light flashes on them, its a car coming. The thing scatters away.

We, the camera, chase after it and see part of an EXOMORPH run into a hole.

INT. PRESS ROOM - LATER

MAYOR

I have called this press conference together to declare a state of emergency.

JAROD (V.O.)

Two days later. Mayor calls state of emergency. People question motives as they begin to feel unsafe.

The colony is in a state of unrest. There are no leads in the serial kidnapping.

EXT. MASTERSON’S OFFICE - NIGHT

A hand knocks on the door.

The door opens by itself.

Jarod walks into...

EXT. CITY - THE PAST

This is a memory.

Jarod walks into a scene. A hostage situation. Jarod is abstract from the action, he is guiding the viewer through this event.

Masterson comes out of his car. He takes a cigarette and he smokes it. He looks to the heavens wishing for some releif.

MASTERSON

It always rains.

His phone rings.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Hello. Chica, I don’t have a moment.

He looks up, a worried look in his face at the building.

CRIMINAL

I will blow her head clean off!

MASTERSON

I love you...

VOICE

I love you too.

Masterson hangs up the phone and things. He looks at his cigarette and inhales.

MASTERSON

God, if this ends well...

He flicks the cigarette out.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

I quit.

JAROD

It was a hostage situation. This was the first night I met Dectective Masterson.

NEGOTIATOR

We are sending someone in...

We flash to inside the building.

CRIMINAL

What are you doing?

MASTERSON

Please, just let her go.

CRIMINAL

No.

MASTERSON

Please.

CRIMINAL

You don’t understand. She has been...marked. By them!

MASTERSON

Them?

CRIMINAL

Don’t you try to entertain me! Do you want her to die?

MASTERSON

No.

CRIMINAL

Hell, she is going to die anyway. By me or...

MASTERSON

Them?

Criminal points gun to Masterson.

CRIMINAL

You. You shut up. I can see you already judging me as a crack pot conspiracey theorist.

MASTERSON

You were a scientist. Why?

CRIMINAL

...I learned to much. And no, i am not speaking theories of some stupid government takeover...

MASTERSON

Then what?

CRIMINAL

This city is a maze. We are the rats!

MASTERSON

Hand me the gun.

CRIMINAL

Why? She is going to die regardless!

MASTERSON

I... I never shot anyone before.

CRIMINAL

Shoot someone?

MASTERSON

Please...

Masterson takes out his gun and c***s it.

CRIMINAL

You would kill me?

MASTERSON

For her to live, perhaps.

CRIMINAL

I had you pegged wrong. You would kill for her to live? But she is destined to die.

MASTERSON

No one is destined to die.

CRIMINAL

That would be nice to beleive. But then again, I am dead too. I know too much.

MASTERSON

Focus on me.

CRIMINAL

I...am trying. But...

GIRL

Please, dont hurt me.

CRIMINAL

You want to save her?

GIRL

Please.

MASTERSON

I do.

CRIMINAL

You can’t you are powerless.

MASTERSON

And what about you? You are holding her up...why?

CRIMINAL

It keeps them away.

MASTERSON

They again?

CRIMINAL

They wont attack me as long as the spotlight is on me.

A figure moves in the background.

MASTERSON

I can protect you too. But please, just let the girl go.

CRIMINAL

Stay back!

The shadow aproaches. Masterson is unable to see it.

MASTERSON

I promise....

Criminal loses the last of his mind the moment he sees the beedy eyes.

He takes out the gun, pulls it to her head.

CRIMINAL

This way is the least painless.

Outside, there are two flashes of light.

MASTERSON

No. No! NO!

Masterson leaps on the girl.

Criminal falls down. He has a smile on his face.

CRIMINAL

(to the THING)

I...see you...

Criminal dies.

MASTERSON

This isn’t how it is supposed to end! Wake up! You’re supposed to be the survivor!

He turns around. A flash of darkness as the thing disapears. Masterson doesnt know what he saw.

He clenches her fallen body tight.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Come back to life. I asked for a happy ending.

Masterson looks. The dead body of the criminal has a happy face.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

I...asked...I asked the heavens. Why was I denied?

Police storm the room.

POLICE MAN

What happened?

MASTERSON

I failed.

POLICE MAN

The girl?

MASTERSON

I will notify the parents. It will be my penance.

POLICE MAN

Did you kill him?

MASTERSON

Yeah. I did. How could he. Why does he get to die happy?

We now see Jarod, he looks inexperianced.

Masterson is walking by in slow motion.

JAROD

Excuse me.

Masterson looks at him.

MASTERSON

No comment.

INT. MASTERSON’S OFFICE

Masterson gets up.

MASTERSON

You!

JAROD

Long time no see.

MASTERSON

So, I thought you were up to sensational stories. Whats her name went back into rehab again? Your professional opinion. Will she last?

JAROD

Actually I was assigned to the money situation with city hall. I covered the heiress story because the city hall story only had one agnle. And frankly I think enough people criticise without complimenting the system. I mean personally, with any issue, if you are given an angle, and your paid to look for soemthing, odds are you are going to find it.

MASTERSON

Um.

JAROD

For instance, if I was assigned to, I could make you look like the biggest loser in the force. Or I could make you look like a hero, both with clear facts and infallible logic.

MASTERSON

Jarod.

JAROD

So yes. I covered the heiress story because you can’t spin “woman goes to rehab.” Personally, I would rather die than do another fluff peice, but between covering my editors agenda, and all the celebrity gossip, there is no legit news.

MASTERSON

Your blabbering. Do you have enough friends at work to talk to?

JAROD

Sure. Why not?

MASTERSON

What brings you here?

JAROD

Kidnapping.

MASTERSON

What?

JAROD

I am assigned to a story that can’t be spun. Cold news, the rawist of the raw. The serial kidnapper.

MASTERSON

Serial kidnapping?

JAROD

The double homicide? Ring a bell?

MASTERSON

So, you think its a serial?

JAROD

I have a tip.

MASTERSON

A tip?

JAROD

A location.

MASTERSON

What?

JAROD

Don’t you remember what it was like, to be a hero?

MASTERSON

Why are you babbling? You have leeds into this case. You have to tell me.

JAROD

How about...I show you?

INT. CAR

MASTERSON

Okay, whats the catch?

JAROD

A catch?

MASTERSON

Don’t play dumb.

JAROD

Well, if I just give my information away for free, I would be left with nothing. Come now, I am not dumb. There is a reason I have an ego for being one of the best reporters in this colony.

MASTERSON

What’s your price?

JAROD

Price?

MASTERSON

Yes.

JAROD

Interview. I demand a full scale interview.

MASTERSON

If...we find something.

JAROD

I have a feeling we are going to definitely find something.

EXT. FACILITY - NIGHT

They stand outside.

JAROD

So, what shall my first question be?

MASTERSON

Where are we?

INT. FACILITY

They are walking.

JAROD

The scientist who kidnapped that girl ways back. He worked for Sci-Truth.

MASTERSON

He was spouting insanity. Naturally we checked with the organization and came up with nothing. What does that have to do with this building?

JAROD

Sci-Truth, they were an organization that had one rival.

MASTERSON

DevelopCo.

JAROD

That’s right. They once had a fued way back when over some patents. This used to be one of their main buildings.

A Shadow figures into the background.

MASTERSON

We aren’t alone.

Master points a gun to Jarod.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Is this a trap?

JAROD

Holy....

MASTERSON

What have you gotten me into!?

JAROD

The scienist...killed the girl, he was a spy against this company! He found something that made him lose his mind!

MASTERSON

What did he find?

JAROD

Remember the “they”?

Masterson is silent, he is now looking around with his eyes.

JAROD (CONT’D)

First case that can be attributed to the serial case, five blocks from here! Twelve from the other place.

Masterson lowers his gun.

JAROD (CONT’D)

I heard rumors. I looked into them. This place still has a power output system that is stronger than the central building of Sci-Truth.

MASTERSON

And?

JAROD

First case, close to here. Second, person who infiltrates loses their mind and makes audacious claims that a group of individuals are after him and the girl. Now, a girl disapears and there is an auspicious power output in this area. Plus there are rumors...

MASTERSON

(to the open area)

Who is here!?

JAROD

I told you...we would likely find something.

MASTERSON

“What” we would find seems to be more important.

An elevator door opens.

Jarod jumps.

JAROD

They want us to go down.

MASTERSON

Stay behind me.

JAROD

She is here...

MASTERSON

Someone is here...

CHILD (O.S.)

HELP ME!!!!

Masterson almost lowers his gun.

MASTERSON

She is here. My God.

JAROD

We can still...

MASTERSON

We WILL save her.

Jarod and Masterson go into the elevator.

They look at the buttons.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Basement.

JAROD

How do you know?

MASTERSON

We detectives have noses of our own. Plus, if it was above ground, someone would have noticed something along time ago.

INT. UNDERGROUND LAB

The door opens.

Masterson jumps out with his gun ready.

JAROD

This place....what Is this place?

MASTERSON

I am no scientist but this machinery doesnt look familiar.

They walk.

They get to a section and the room opens up to something else.

INT. WALKWAY

The two heroes are on a walk way above this bizzare city, if we could call it that. The landscape shows hints that there is a world underneath the “colony.” The “city” is indescribable but is clear that there is some other species or civilization existing beneath the colonly.

JAROD

Should we turn around?

MASTERSON

You wanted to seek the truth? Right?

JAROD

...for the truth.

They move on.

The walk way leads to another building. It is like a “core” to the city or civilization below.

CHILD (O.S.)

Help!

They both go on.

INT. CORE

They push open the door.

MASTERSON

Everyone freeze!

There are moniters watching over the entire colony above.

JAROD

I can see city hall...

MASTERSON

The police head quarters.

SCIENTIST

You are not supposed to be here!

MASTERSON

Who are you?

SCIENTIST

This is a top secret project. You cannot be in here.

MASTERSON

Enough with the fake stuff. What is this?

SCIENTIST

Do you have a warrant?

MASTERSON

No.

SCIENTIST

Does...anyone know you are down here?

JAROD

No....

MASTERSON

Don’t. D****t, you idiot!

SCIENTIST

Good.

The scientist morphs into an Exomorph (A bizzare monster).

MASTERSON

What the hell are you?

EXOMORPH

I am...an Exomorph. Now what is a lab rat like you doing here?

JAROD

Lab rat?

MASTERSON

We come for the girl.

EXOMORPH

You come to die.

EXT. CORE

Gunshots are head.

INT. CORE

Masterson is slammed against the wall. His ears are ringing.

He can see Jarod running as the thing is tearing up the room.

Masterson, woozy, points his gun and shoots.

The creature turns around at him.

Something happens, (he was likely hit and blacked out.)

Masterson is crawling... He is crawling.

He stops at the foot of two small legs.

MASTERSON

You...

CHILD

You came atlast.

MASTERSON

I was looking for you.

CHILD

It is not too late.

MASTERSON

I...found you.

Child hands him an object.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

What is this?

Child looks to him and smiles.

CHILD

How would you like to be the hero?

The world gets less woozy.

Masterson climbs to his feet.

The Exomorph breaks through the wall.

JAROD

HE IS COMING FOR YOU!!!

Masterson’s arm is glowing as he holds the object.

CHILD

Good luck my child.

Masterson points the object at at the creature.

The world goes white.

Fade to black.

INT. MASTERSON’S OFFICE - MORNING

Masterson walks in.

He turns on the telivision.

MAYOR

We have no new leads in the case. I want to assure my good people that...

Masterson takes a sip.

Chief walks in.

CHIEF

How goes that report.

MASTERSON

Report?

Chief looks at him oddly.

CHIEF

The witnesses you were talking to.

MASTERSON

Oh them. They... I will get right on it.

CHIEF

Oh and there is some journalist outside waiting to see you.

MASTERSON

Since when have you become my receptionist?

CHIEF

Shall I tell him to go shove that notepad up an unpleasant place?

MASTERSON

We had a meeting I think. Show him in.

Chief walks out.

JAROD

Can I come in?

MASTERSON

Um... Sure.

JAROD

You okay?

MASTERSON

I think so.

JAROD

You look...

MASTERSON

I remember the drive. I remember entering the building...

JAROD

So what happened last night?

MASTERSON

I was talking about this morning. I don’t remember. Didn’t you want to see me?

JAROD

Think. We did see each other last night!

MASTERSON

I...all I have is this dream.

JAROD

What dream? Tell me!

MASTERSON

There was this monster. He came to kill me and....

JAROD

What happened next?

MASTERSON

It died.

JAROD

Died?

MASTERSON

It was coming at me. I heard a voice. It stared me down in the eyes and... someone killed it. I saw it screaming in pain.

JAROD

Good enough for me.

MASTERSON

Why do you ask?

JAROD

I... had a dream too.

MASTERSON

Where you going?

JAROD

I have a news report I have to write about! Oh, and any leads on the case?

MASTERSON

She is alive.

JAROD

Oh?

MASTERSON

I can feel it.

JAROD

We will find her, right?

MASTERSON

Yeah.

INT. NEWSROOM - DAY

JAROD (V.O.)

All was quiet in the night as a raging inferno broke loose at the facilities of DevelopCo. In a shocking display, there were no bodies recovered. Most of the staff were given the night off in what was deemed a company holiday. No one knows how the fire started and there was no hints of arson. As of now, DevelopCo has determined to rebuild. Said one individual, “We will not die.”

Jarod is finishing typing when...

REPORTER 3

They found her!

JAROD

What?

REPORTER 3

They found the little girl.

JAROD

This is good....

The reporters face is grim.

INT. MASTERSON’S OFFICE

Masterson is watching the telivision.

NEWS ANCHOR

As of 11 this morning, a young girl’s body was found.

Masterson drops his cup of cofee.

NEWS ANCHOR (CONT’D)

They have sucessfully identified the body as...

MASTERSON

She can’t be dead.

NEWS ANCHOR

Reports indicate she has been dead for three days.

Flashback to...

The girl looks at him.

He looks at her.

End flashback.

MASTERSON

She is still alive.

FLASHBACK TO:

EXT. CORE

The Exomorph is coming after Masterson.

CHILD

Do it.

Masterson points the object

A bright light shines and envelops the Exomorph.

Jarod blocks his eyes.

EXT. FORUM - DAY

Masterson awakes to find himself on a strange world.

MASTERSON

Where am I?

There is arguing.

Masterson walks up to the top of the forum, looking down.

SPEAKER

This is perhaps the toughest decision we have.

Masterson sees how he is invisible to these people.

MASTERSON

Is this a...dream?

SPEAKER

We can’t let the human race be destroyed by these Exomorphs. We have watched them for way to long.

DEBATOR

Why though? What thanks have we gotten from them?

DEBATOR 2

They call us Angels!

DEBATOR

We are angels in myth only! To them, us Engals are some messenger of their one god!

SPEAKER

You are right though. We have watched them grow. Our fathers were there when they questioned the world around them. These people...are our children. We cannot abandon them.

DEBATOR 2

But we have been forbidden interaction between them. Any we have had in the past were few and out of our curiosity.

SPEAKER

But did we not help them advance? We showed them fire. We cried during their wars. We cheered when they reached the space.

DEBATOR 2

These Exomorphs, they would use them as cattle.

SPEAKER

I do not want that to be the future of our children.

CHILD

I have an idea.

MASTERSON

You!

CHILD

One Warrior Coin.

MASTERSON

That thing!

DEBATOR

And what pretense can we give them one of our most sacred advances.

CHILD

Thier survival.

DEBATOR

They will abuse it!

CHILD

One coin, one hero. Plus we all know they couldnt decipher the technology if they tried.

DEBATOR

We haven’t interfered for thousands of years! Why now?

CHILD

We gave them fire. Let’s give them fire once again.

SPEAKER

All for....intervention. Raise your hands.

The child smiles.

CHILD

I shall seek out a worthy hero at once.

EXT. CORE

The Exomorph looks up, to see again.

Infront of him is ENGAL.

EXOMORPH

What the?

CHILD

You foolish creature.

EXOMORPH

Who the hell are you?

ENGAL

What....am I?

CHILD

I am a ghost of mankinds past. You have messed with the wrong species.

EXOMORPH

These humans? These lab rats?

CHILD

Behold the kidnapper. Behold the murderers.

Engal looks at the Exomorph.

EXOMORPH

I will kill you both.

CHILD

I leave the rest to you my child.

She taps Engal on the shoulder and disapears.

FLASH FORWARD TO:

Phone rings.

JAROD

Detective it’s me...

MASTERSON

I remember.

FLASH BACK TO:

EXT. CORE

Engal walks forward.

The Exomorph grins.

The Exomorph charges.

Engal blocks and parries several swipes.

The Exomorph goes for a punch but Engal blocks it with his hand.

EXOMORPH

How? A human?

The Exomorph gets angry and fires an energy blast from its mouth.

The impact sends Engal back.

ENGAL

Whoa. That was tough.

The Exomorph inhales and shoots another energy blast from its mouth.

Engal blocks it with his hand, creating like a forcefield. He is fighting the impact and trying to keep his balance.

The energy beam changes color, its getting more intense.

Engal place his other hand into the energy beam and it begins to reflect it. With an adjustment the energy beam reflects back strait into the Exomorph.

The Exomorph is thrown off balance and falls to the floor.

It gets up.

Engal is right in front of him. Engal picks the Exomorph up and smashes him with a brutal punch.

The Exomorph tries to regain its footing but is tossed around with a bunch of punches. A kick sends the

 

Exomorph to the floor. 

Jarod gets up and looks on.

EXOMORPH

Who are you?

ENGAL

You are the villain of this piece.

Two blades come from the sides of Engal’s wrists. They imediately turn into flames.

EXOMORPH

You can’t kill me!

ENGAL

You won’t be my first!

The Exomorph shoot another energy beam, but Engal Deflects it with one of the blades.

In a twirl, the flame sword acts like a whip and slashes through the Exomorph.

There is a pause.

The Exomorphs drops to the floor and explodes.

The explosion causes the screen to go white.

EXT. CAFE - AFTERNOON

MASTERSON

I am telling you that girl is alive!

JAROD

I have seen the body! Now tell me more about these “engals”.

MASTERSON

Engal, we called them angels.

JAROD

And you sure this was...

MASTERSON

When I touched that coin, it showed me these things.

JAROD

Look. We have no idea what we are going up against.

MASTERSON

You mean the exomorphs?

JAROD

The whatever the hell those devils want to call themselves!

MASTERSON

You are right. Our first step, is to find the girl.

JAROD

Our?

MASTERSON

You want in right?

JAROD

Since when are you this inviting?

MASTERSON

Since I figured if this thing is as deep as we both know it is, I am your best protection until we solve this case. Unless... you want them to come after you.

JAROD

Alright.

MASTERSON

You help me solve my case and I will give you the best damn interview you ever had.

JAROD

So, you havent seen the body yet?

MASTERSON

They wont let me in.

JAROD

I can...arrange something.

MASTERSON

Oh?

JAROD

And I will check some more sources.

MASTERSON

You don’t think that you will be spotted by them?

JAROD

A good journalist should know the principle of being able to become invisible.

INT. MORGUE

Child’s body is being examined.

MASTERSON

So you sure this is her?

DOCTOR

Facial recognition.

MASTERSON

But, her fingertips seemed to be burned.

DOCTOR

That is...true.

MASTERSON

So, why would they do that?

DOCTOR

What do you mean?

MASTERSON

In my experiances with corpses, when you burn finger prints off the victim, you don’t want them to be identified. So why is the face so perfect?

DOCTOR

Maybe she burned herself?

MASTERSON

This is a strategic burn. What ever happened to victim number three?

DOCTOR

Number three?

MASTERSON

I am sorry, I think her name was Ambrose?

DOCTOR

I wouldn’t tell you.

MASTERSON

If we compile all the kindapping victims as one case, she would have been victim number three. Her body was never found last I recalled. We just called her dead.

DOCTOR

I assure you, this girl’s face is...

MASTERSON

Do you have the Ambrose file?

DOCTOR

Sure. Somewhere. I will go look.

Masterson puts his hand in his pocket.

MASTERSON

Something about this feels....

He takes out his COIN and it seems to be glowing.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

I wonder...

Masterson lifts the coin.

Child’s face turns into Ambrose’s.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Doc! Take a look at this!

DOCTOR

What the? How is this possible? What did you do!?

MASTERSON

Her face...

DOCTOR

What does it mean?

MASTERSON

It means, I still have a chance.

Phone rings.

Masterson takes out a cell.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

Hello?

JAROD

There is a hostage situation. You are not going to beleive it!

Masterson runs out.

EXT. ROOF - EVENING

A VILE WOMAN is holding GIRL Hostage.

A helicopter is circling the area.

INT. HELICOPTER

NEWSPERSON

We are here at the scene of what appears to be a hostage situation...

EXT. BUILDING

Masterson gets out of the car.

JAROD

Hostage situation, an unidentified girl, and one Woman.

MASTERSON

A woman?

JAROD

She is asking for the person who killed her lover.

MASTERSON

Interesting.

JAROD

You.

MASTERSON

So....

Cut to the battle scene between Exomorph and Engal.

Cut back.

JAROD

Yeah.

MASTERSON

I see.

JAROD

Your plan?

MASTERSON

No comment.

JAROD

Break a leg.

Masterson walks towards the building.

INT. HELICOPTER

NEWSPERSON

Someone is coming up!

EXT. ROOF

Masterson walks onto the roof.

VILE WOMAN

Who are you!?

MASTERSON

I am...Engal.

VILE WOMAN

Engal? What is an Engal?

Another CHILD walks into the screen.

CHILD 2

I am an Engal.

MASTERSON

Two of you?

CHILD 2

She is the real one. That girl there. She is the one you have been searching for.

CHILD

Can...I go...home now?

VILE WOMAN

Shut up human!

CHILD 2

That is another Exomorph. Of course you have probably deduced that. They are a species of creatures, that like us, have gained the ability to change their appearances.

MASTERSON

So it was you who was behind the kidnappings!

VILE WOMAN

The kidnappings? They were hardly kidnapings. We just have been experimenting with new potential energy sources.

MASTERSON

Energy sources?

CHILD

They....hurt me....

CHILD 2

You people, are a food source for these...things!

VILE WOMAN

Things?

CHILD 2

The Exomorphs, they hijacked your colony before it reached its destination and then activated it so you people awoke when they already harvested it.

VILE WOMAN

You know too much!

CHILD 2

Don’t hurt me. This is the man that killed that fire breathing wannabe boyfriend of yours.

Vile Woman throws Child.

Child looks scared but is picked up by Child 2.

MASTERSON

And why are you helping us young Engal?

CHILD 2

Because my child, we love you. Now go, end this charade.

Vile Woman turns into EXOMORPH 2.

Masterson turns into Engal.

Child 2 escorts Child to the stairs.

 

INT. STAIRS

Child runs into Jarod.

JAROD

You’re alive!

CHILD

Are you an....Ungal too?

JAROD

Let’s see your parents.

EXT. ROOF

ENGAL

Smile. Your on colony camera!

Exomorph 2 looks to the helicopter in the sky.

EXOMORPH 2

Let me kill you. I want to kill you! I AM DYING TO KILL YOU!

ENGAL

So your boy toy breathed fire, whats your power?

EXOMORPH 2

Glad you asked.

Exomorph 2 turns into a gust and disapears.

ENGAL

Where did...

Exomorph two forms together behind Engal and grabs him by his throat.

EXOMORPH 2

Was his death... this painful?

Engal twists his body and turns the situation into a judo throw.

Exomorph 2 gets up and in a blind rage throws random swipes.

Engal blocks the series of swipes.

He then slams his leg into Exomorphs 2 knee, side, then lifts the head of the Exomorphs and headbutts her.

Engal then tries to grab her and she turns back into the wind.

ENGAL

Stay put!

EXOMORPH 2

(laughing)

You still can’t catch me.

In a series of transporting herself, she hits Engal with a series of blows.

She then reforms far away.

EXOMORPH 2 (CONT’D)

Give up?

Engal stands strong.

EXOMORPH 2 (CONT’D)

Please? I really want to see you lose hope. But then again, with that face being covered up by that armor of yours...

ENGAL

I look good under this, what’s your excuse?

Exomorph 2 again goes into the wind.

Engal puts his arms out. He then procedes to walking in a circular manor.

Exomorph 2 attacks, but he blocks.

Through a series, he blocks each attack.

The next series, he counters each attack with a shot of his own.

She comes back to a complete form.

EXOMORPH 2

Ugh....

ENGAL

Basic combat training. They must not have taught you that.

She feints an attack, he blocks, she turns it into an after image then hits him with a second attack.

She then sets back, and does it again.

This time he grabs her fist, and uses her momentum of the second strike to throw her against a wall.

He tries to punch her but she turns into the wind.

ENGAL (CONT’D)

Stay still coward!

Exomorph 2 forms up. She is clearly tired.

EXOMORPH 2

I will kill you NOW!

She forms up fans and twirls with them.

Engal forms his two blades. They both turn into flames.

ENGAL

Then lets end this.

She blows her fans and out comes these blade like gusts of winds.

Engal blocks them.

There is a pause in the action.

EXOMORPH 2

DIE! DIE! DIE!

She throws a fury that is so large it covers the screen.

She can’t see, but when she relents, the area starts to clear up.

Engal drop kicks her through the haze of excess gust.

She goes flying.

She land on her back.

Engal starts to approach with his flame blades.

She tries to turn into gust but...she is spent.

EXOMORPH 2 (CONT’D)

I...can’t move.

ENGAL

Mercy?

EXOMORPH 2

You think you have won?

She staggers to her feet. Still unable to turn to the wind, but she tries.

ENGAL

I have you beat.

EXOMORPH 2

You think I am the last? We are everywhere. Your entire city is our playground. Your civilization is a stable in our farm.

ENGAL

You just lost the farm.

The two blades turn into whips. He twirls and lands both flame whips through the enemy at once.

A pose, the enemy falls and then, the explosion.

INT. MASTERSON’S OFFICE

Jarod tosses a news paper.

Masterson catches it.

MASTERSON

What’s it say?

JAROD

Nothing.

MASTERSON

Nothing? Huh, let me see.

He broswes through then realizes....

JAROD

I mean nothing!

MASTERSON

The case of the girl! The Exomorphs! None of it!

JAROD

Actually we got the girl.

MASTERSON

Eh?

JAROD

Page 8.

MASTERSON

Its...

JAROD

A reunion story. Nothing about the kidnapping, and nothing about any leads on the murder of those two kids who were watching her.

EXOMORPH 2 (V.O.)

We are everywhere

JAROD

You okay?

MASTERSON

Can’t be.

JAROD

I quit my job.

MASTERSON

What?

JAROD

At the paper. I quit the paper.

MASTERSON

What are you doing now?

JAROD

Sleezy conspiracey sheets. See, I figure if I report the truth, i will be laughed at since...there was a media blackout of the event. You want to know what I heard?

MASTERSON

No.

JAROD

That performance peice you did, was a scene for a movie they are shooting.

MASTERSON

A what?

JAROD

A display of special effects!

MASTERSON

How can that be?

JAROD

Simple, someone in high places is pulling alot of strings to keep this covered up.

MASTERSON

Or alot of people in high places.

JAROD

I figure the latter. Well I got to go.

MASTERSON

Where too?

JAROD

My new job. Oh by the way, that girl? She says thank you. So do her parents. Don’t you know? You are her hero!

MASTERSON

So what about my interview?

JAROD

I don’t think we need to create any unwanted attention. No?

Jarod walks out.

MASTERSON

So...”they” are everywhere.

Chief walks by the office and looks at Masterson. The two lock eyes.

The Chief leaves the field of view.

Masterson takes out his Coin.

MASTERSON (CONT’D)

So, when does our next battle begin?

 

It begins to glow.

Author's Note

Please forgive the formatting and pace as Final Draft does not convert well. Any feedback is welcomed. Also know that this was more written for fun and not for quality reasons. Will be posting the other episodes soon.