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Jeff Long's 'Werewolves' [Part 3 of 4]
By Aragorn
EXT. DESERTED TOWN – DAY
The van drives into the deserted town from the beginning of the
script and drives down the streets until it reaches Main Street,
where the damaged jeeps are, and where the old Base Camp used
to be. The van stops and everyone except Gentry gets out and starts
gearing up.
KATHRYN
Ok, by the sounds of last night, he
already has an entire pack of werewolves
again. It’s daytime now, so they’ll be
hiding, but if we see anyone, we shoot
to kill. As soon as it starts becoming
evening, we all meet back here. Seth,
you take Jeff with you. I’ll take Yvonne.
Mark, you stay and guard Gentry and the
van. Let’s rock and roll.
They go off into their groups as Mark sits on the area of the
van where the side door slides open and close.
MARK
(Mumbling)
Why do I always get the crappy job?
GENTRY
(V.O.)
Because Yvonne and Jeff need to be trained
more, and since Kathryn and Seth are the most
trained, it’s up to them to do the training,
and someone has to stay here to be a bodyguard.
MARK
Being a middle child sucks…
We cut to a montage yet again, similar to the one near the
beginning, where we see the two pairs searching various places in
the town, always coming up empty-handed. During these montages, we
also see, but don’t hear, Seth talking to Jeff and Kathryn talking
to Yvonne, also showing some actions with their hands. It’s obvious
they’re explaining the hunting and different methods and rules, ect.
During a few clips we keep cutting to the sun going lower and lower
in the sky.
EXT. DESERTED TOWN – EVENING
Mark is still in the same spot, however he’s laying back, and
snoring loudly. Gentry is inside the van, reading a book. A shot
goes off, causing Mark to jump awake, stumbling as he stands,
and point his gun out.
Kathryn, Yvonne, Seth, and Jeff are standing there. Kathryn’s gun
is pointed at the sky.
KATHRYN
Wake up, sleepy-head.
SETH
It’s almost night.
MARK
You find anyone?
KATHRYN
No. Which means they’re hiding someplace.
Gentry, get that tracker turned on. If this
is a trap, I’d like to at least have some
kind of an advantage.
GENTRY
(V.O.)
Yes, mam.
KATHRYN
Everyone else, change your ammo.
Kathryn, Jeff, Seth, Yvonne, and Mark empty the regular ammo out
from their guns and load them up with explosive rounds. The entire
process takes about half a minute.
GENTRY
(V.O.)
Tracker up and running!
KATHRYN
Good.
JEFF
Now what?
KATHRYN
Now we wait.
EXT. TOWN – MAIN STREET – NIGHT
Night has come and the moon and stars are out. Everyone is
sitting or standing around, bored out of their minds. Kathryn is
staring up at the stars, gazing.
KATHRYN
I sometimes wonder if there’s a God up
there someplace, watching us.
JEFF
I used to think there was one. A long
time ago. But things change.
MARK
I know there’s a God because I kill
werewolves for a living. Honest-to-
goodness werewolves. Pure evil. And
there has to be pure good to weigh
the scales. I know there’s a God.
I just don’t understand him.
GENTRY
There’s no doubt some rational explanation
for werewolves. We just haven’t figured
it out yet.
MARK
Gentry, not everything can be explained by
science and text books. One day you’ll
learn that.
GENTRY
I’d rather die then admit to that.
SETH
You keep coming with us out into the
field and that just may happen yet,
Gent. But don’t worry. Us big strong
men…
Kathryn and Yvonne cough.
SETH
(Con’t)
…And women, well protect ya!
Everyone laughs, but the laughter is interrupted by a loud Beep.
Beep. Beep noise.
GENTRY
The tracker!
Gentry climbs inside the van as everyone else stands up.
KATHRYN
All set?
Everyone gives her the thumb’s up sign. She turns to Jeff,
who has a nervous look on his face and is shaking slightly.
KATHRYN
You ok?
JEFF
Yeah, I’ll be fine.
She eyes him for a moment longer, not really believing him,
but then turns her attention out away from the van.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
KATHRYN
I hope we’re prepared…
Beep.Beep.Beep.
YVONNE
What’s going on?
GENTRY
(V.O.)
It seems the faster it beeps, the closer
they are. Even I didn’t know about that
until now. Interesting…
Beepbeepbeep
There’s a loud howl from right behind them and everyone suddenly
whips around and takes a few steps back as a werewolf jumps from
the other side of the van and lands on the roof. It stands to
it’s full height and howls again. All the while, the tracker
beeping like crazy.
Kathryn raises her gun first and fires. There’s an explosion and a
second later, there’s a spray of blood, and nothing on top of the
van. However, the beeping from the tracker is still going nuts.
Kathryn rushes around to the other side of the van and the werewolf
is there, laying on the ground, but it’s legs are missing. It’s
only there from the waist, up. It snarls at her and uses its hands
to ‘walk’ towards her, picking up pace. She lowers her gun and fires
straight into it’s head, causing brain, flesh, and fur to explode
everywhere.
Kathryn walks back around to the others.
KATHRYN
Only one. Must have been a scout. Testing
us. This pack is smart. Maybe it’s part of
the whole new thing they got going on.
SETH
The only werewolf that was probably different
was the one that escaped from the last pack
that was here. Everyone he Turns well be the
new type of werewolf too.
KATHRYN
Exactly. That’s why we have to kill this
pack as soon as possible, before it gets
out of hand.
Suddenly the beeping starts again and gets much, much, much faster
until there’s the sound of a small bang and smoke starts rising up
from it.
GENTRY
(V.O.)
Uh guys. The tracker just broke. Too many
targets approaching too fast. It couldn’t
keep up.
Seth and Kathryn look at each other, then back out into the
darkness.
SETH
Shit.
One howl is heard, and then another and another and another,
and so on.
KATHRYN
Halogen lights!
Everyone flips on the lights on their guns, except Jeff who’s
using his twin 9MM’s, and the lights fall upon werewolf after
werewolf as we see that they are completely surrounded.
KATHRYN
Fire!
Everyone opens fire, shots slamming into the werewolves, blowing
them up. Not all shots got their heads however, and the remaining
bodies do their best to continue to move forward. Seth lowers
his gun and blows up one moving torso, then changes directions
and blows up another.
Three werewolves jump and land on top of the van, snarling. Mark
and Yvonne turn around and fire, killing the two on the sides.
The middle one leaps down onto the ground and punches Mark, sending
him flying back through the air. It moves in on Yvonne, snarling.
She punches it, but the punch doesn’t phase it at all. It grabs
her by the neck and pulls her close. All of a sudden Yvonne’s face
gets splattered with its brains as the body falls to the ground.
She looks over and sees Kathryn with a gun pointed in her direction.
Kathryn turns back and continues firing.
Mark stands up from where he had fallen and sees that he’s behind
the pack of werewolves. He raises his gun and fires, blowing one
up from behind.
KATHRYN
Where the fuck did they all come from?
SETH
Maybe we didn’t get all of them last time.
They could have just all been hiding.
A werewolf ducks below a shot and runs up to Seth, lifting his
gun up, causing him to be lifted up. Seth kicks it in the chest,
but nothing happens. It throws Seth off to the side, but keeps
his gun. It snaps it in two and drops the pieces to the ground.
Seth lands between two werewolves. They both turn to him and
go to slash at him. He ducks at the last second, causing the
two werewolves to slash each other. That just pisses them off
and they turn on each other, attacking each other. Seth rolls
out from under them and comes back up to his feet.
Kathryn fires her gun, but it clicks on empty. She uses it as a
bat to hit the nearest werewolf in the jaws, causing its head
to snap to the side. It snarls and faces her again as she drops
the gun and takes out her sword.
KATHRYN
Come on you hairy bastard!
She swings her sword, but the werewolf steps back out of the
way. She takes a step towards it and slashes again, cutting it
across the chest, causing it to yelp. It swipes at her and she
jumps back, and when it moves towards her, she moves towards it
quickly, and slices at it’s head, decapitating it. The body falls
to the ground. She turns and slashes at another werewolf.
Mark, from behind the werewolves, is about to fire, but gets pulled
to the ground. He turns over and sees a werewolf torso walking on
its hands, up his body. It stops at his stomach and is about to sink
its teeth into him when Mark raises his gun and fires, blowing the
werewolf torso up.
Mark looks like he’s going to puke as he stands up. He turns and
fires one last shot into the pack of werewolves, before his gun
goes empty. He throws it down and takes out a stick of dynamite.
He takes out his lighter and lights the end of it and sticks it
into the tank of one of the ruined jeeps.
MARK
Fire in the hole!
Mark runs and ducks as there’s a gigantic explosion, the one jeep
blowing up, the explosion causing the jeep next to that to blow
up, and the one next to that, ect, in one massive explosion.
When the explosion ends and the smoke clears, there are far less
of the werewolves as before. A couple of them are on fire, but
seem to be ignoring it as they move in. All around, from everyone,
all we hear is the clicking of empty guns.
Kathryn slashes at a werewolf with her sword, but it blocks with
its claws and uses such force when it swipes, that it knocks her
sword out of her hand. She backs up against the van as the werewolf
steps closer to her.
Seth takes out a dagger and stabs a werewolf in the neck with it
and pulls with all his might to the side, spraying blood everywhere.
The werewolf’s head falls to one side, hanging on by a few strands
of flesh. Seth raises a fist and slams it down, knocking the head off the rest of the way. He turns and slashes at another werewolf, but it blocks by grabbing his arm and tightening until he lets go of the knife. Then it picks him up and throws him. He slams into the side
of the van, almost knocking it onto its side, and falls to the ground.
Kathryn helps him to his feet.
Yvonne is now using her gun as a bat, but no werewolf is near her.
She backs up to Kathryn and Seth.
Mark is still behind everyone, but a werewolf has noticed him and
starts to move towards him.
Kathryn, Yvonne, and Seth brace for the worst, when Kathryn looks over
and sees that Jeff is standing there, in shock, having not fired.
KATHRYN
Jeff!
The werewolves close in around them.
KATHRYN
Jeff, God Dammit!
A werewolf reaches them and grabs Kathryn by the throat, lifting her up. It moves its head in, ready to feast on her. There’s three consecutive bangs in a split second, and the werewolf drops Kathryn
and then falls down, dead, a half-inch hole in the side of its head,
brains splattered. Two other werewolves are in the same state. Kathryn looks over and sees that Jeff is facing their direction, something in his eyes. Hatred.
SETH
Holy shit! He killed three of them faster
then I could blink!
YVONNE
And he used normal rounds!
Jeff turns and fires six times, as fast as he could, and within
a couple seconds six werewolves dropped dead.
Jeff takes a few steps from his spot, ejecting a clip from one of
his guns and putting a new one in. He raises both his guns again
and fires a few more times, taking another few down.
SETH
He’s like a…a god damn robot or something!
There’s a werewolf that has Mark on the ground, leaning over him,
about to tear into him, when Mark hears a bang and it slumps over.
Mark stands up and brushes himself off.
He looks over and sees Seth and Yvonne jumping inside the van. He
runs, but hears the sound of heavy footsteps running behind him.
He sees Jeff point both guns at him and he closes his eyes as he
runs. He hears a couple bangs and then opens his eyes. He looks
behind him and sees two werewolves bodies laying on the ground,
brains splattered next to them. Mark reaches the van and jumps
in.
Kathryn picks up her sword and puts it away.
KATHRYN
Come on Jeff, we’re getting out of here!
Jeff fires at the last four werewolves. Three of them going down.
The other jumps at the last second, and lands on Jeff, knocking
him to the ground.
KATHRYN
Oh hell.
The werewolf has Jeff’s arms pinned down as he leans in to bite
into him. Kathryn runs over and swings her sword down, but makes
sure not to swing it down all the way. The werewolf gets decapitated
and the sword stops inches from Jeff’s throat. She puts her sword
away and helps Jeff to his feet.
KATHRYN
Come on Jeff, it’s over. It’s over.
They run back to the van and get in, closing the door. Mark starts
to drive the van away, when a loud howl breaks the night’s silence,
followed by another, and then another.
KATHRYN
It’s him. And he’s letting us know that
this wasn’t all of them.
SETH
Motherfucker.
GENTRY
How’d it go out there?
KATHRYN
Well things went bad at the beginning.
Speaking of which, what happened Jeff?
JEFF
I…I froze. I was mesmerized by it all.
Part of me was telling me that it was all
impossible.
KATHRYN
After things turned bad, Jeff here unfroze
and saved us, and here we are.
YVONNE
You should have seen him.
GENTRY
He was pretty good?
SETH
Pretty good? You ever see a spaghetti
western?
GENTRY
That good?
SETH
Fuckin’ better.
YVONNE
Talk about fast shooting.
SETH
Like a fuckin’ machine gun from hell!
They all laugh and cheer, except Jeff, as Mark drives the van
away.
EXT. CITY – HOTELROOM – NIGHT - LATER
The team is in a different hotel now. Everyone is asleep,
exhausted and relieved from the hunt earlier. Everyone except
Jeff and Kathryn. Jeff is sitting by the window, guns on the table
next to him. The door to the bathroom opens and Kathryn walks out,
a towel wrapped around her hair. She walks over to Jeff. They
whisper as they talk.
KATHRYN
A shower feels good after a night like
tonight. I have a question for you.
Jeff looks at her.
JEFF
Shoot.
KATHRYN
Do you ever sleep?
JEFF
Sometimes. Got a lot on my mind again,
after tonight.
KATHRYN
You alright?
JEFF
Yeah, now.
KATHRYN
Do you think you’ll be fine when we go
back in?
Jeff doesn’t say anything for a minute, but eventually nods.
KATHRYN
What made you unfreeze anyway?
JEFF
Your scream. I didn’t care if what was
happening was impossible or not, it was
happening and you were going to die if
I didn’t snap out of it. I lost you once,
and after all this time, I’ll be damned if
I loose you again.
Kathryn smiles and blushes a little. She leans in and kisses him
on the lips. We can tell by Jeff’s eyes that he was caught off
guard. She pulls away.
KATHRYN
Goodnight, Jeff.
Kathryn goes over to one of the beds and climbs under the covers,
closing her eyes. Jeff watches her as she sleep.
INT. CITY - HOTELROOM – DAY
Jeff had fallen asleep at the desk by the window. He opens his
eyes and rubs them, groggily. He looks around the room and sees
only Gentry and Yvonne.
JEFF
Where’s Kathryn and the rest?
YVONNE
They went back to the town to burn the
remains of the dead. Just to make sure.
They left me here to watch over the place
and Kathryn said to not wake you cause you
don’t sleep nearly enough.
Jeff smiles and looks over at Gentry, who is at another
smaller table, working on fixing the Tracker.
JEFF
How’s that coming along?
GENTRY
I didn’t even know it could beep as fast
as it did last night. It’s going to be hard
to fix. I don’t even know what I had done
with it to begin with! But just give me
enough time and I’ll figure it out though.
JEFF
Is there still hot water?
YVONNE
I think so. I was the last one in the
shower and it didn’t turn cold on me.
JEFF
Good. I’m going for a shower.
Jeff turns and walks into the bathroom, closing the door.
YVONNE
Do you think he’ll stay?
GENTRY
Who knows?
EXT. TOWN – MAIN STREET - DAY
Kathryn, Seth, and Mark pull up to where they had the fight the
night before and get out of the van.
SETH
Why does Mark always get to drive?
KATHRYN
Because Gentry is busy with his inventions,
I don’t have my license, and well, you
shouldn’t have been allowed to get your
license. And with all the weapons and guns
we have, we don’t need police attention on
us. Now let’s dispose of these bodies and
quickly.
Kathryn takes out her sword and goes around to the bodies that
still have heads attached, and swings down, decapitating them,
one at a time. Seth leans into Mark.
SETH
That woman scares me.
Mark smiles as him and Seth reach inside the van and take out a
couple tanks of gasoline.
SETH
Let’s burn these motherfuckers, eh Padre’?
MARK
Burn them back to Hell.
They start pouring the gasoline all over the dead bodies and
body parts. Kathryn finishes lopping off the heads, with Seth
and Mark finishing up right behind her.
KATHRYN
Who wants to do the honors?
SETH
I will.
Kathryn gives Seth a pack of matches and Seth takes one out and
lights it.
SETH
Not so badass now, are you, ya fuckin’
rat bastards?
And with that he throws the match down and the gasoline lights,
the area going up in flames.
SETH
Ye-haw! Bring out the marshmallows!
The three of them laugh. Suddenly through the laughing, we can
hear clapping. They stop laughing and the clapping continues.
It stops.
MALE V.O.
(Laughing)
Very funny! You’re a funny guy.
They rush to the other side of the van and there’s a man in a
trench coat standing there. Kathryn gasps.
KATHRYN
It’s him!
She whips out her handgun and points it at him. The man laughs
some more.
MAN
You and your guns. When you’re one of us,
you’ll have no need for such toys.
Kathryn fires. In the split second that it takes for the bullet
to reach him, he moves out of the way, and catches it between
his fingertips. He lets it drop to the ground.
MAN
As you can see, when I became one of the
evolved werewolves, more then just my werewolf
half was affected. My human half was as well.
Soon enough, evolution well have us being able
to change at will during the day. Just you wait.
Mark and Seth are empty-handed, their guns left in the van, the
door on the other side of the van. Kathryn steps back. She lowers
her gun as she does so. The man steps towards her.
MAN
Ahh, the face of the one who ordered my
pack dead. Such a beautiful face for a
killer.
MARK
What do you want with us, devil-beast?
The man turns to look at him.
MAN
Revenge. I will kill all of you, have no
doubt about that. But I enjoy playing with
my food first. Nasty habit, I know.
Kathryn quickly raises her gun, but before she can fire, the man
whips around and knocks it from her hand.
MAN
You’ll make a fine werewolf…Kathryn.
The man smiles and then turns and walks back to his motorcycle that’s
there and drives off, coat flapping behind him.
Kathryn stands, stunned.
KATHRYN
(Quietly)
He knew my name.
(Louder)
He knew my fucking name!
SETH
This is some fucked up shit we’re in now.
MARK
Let’s just get out of here.
KATHRYN
We’re all going to die…
INT. HOTELROOM – DAY
Yvonne is watching TV, Gentry still working away, when Jeff steps
out of the shower. Without taking her eyes off the TV, Yvonne
speaks.
YVONNE
Gentry, why don’t you take a break? I saw
that there’s an electronics’ store just
down the street. You can see if there’s
any parts you need.
GENTRY
That’s actually a good idea. Might make
things easier if I find something I need.
Be back in a while.
Gentry lays the device down on the table and gets up and leaves.
Yvonne turns off the TV and looks over at Jeff.
YVONNE
I was awake last night.
Jeff looks over at her.
JEFF
Really? I didn’t notice.
YVONNE
I pretended I was asleep. I didn’t want
to interrupt you…
JEFF
(Cutting her off)
Interrupt me? I didn’t do anything but
look out the window all night.
YVONNE
Let me finish. As I was going to say, I
didn’t want to interrupt you…and Kathryn.
Jeff sighs.
JEFF
You heard all that?
YVONNE
I heard all there was to hear, and I saw
all there was to see.
JEFF
Yeah, well it’s nothing.
YVONNE
Didn’t look or sound like nothing to me.
JEFF
I’ve seen how her and Seth act around each
other. I’m not blind.
YVONNE
From what I’ve been told, they have a kind
of brother-sister relationship going on, but
that’s it.
Jeff turns and looks out the window at the street below, not saying
anything.
YVONNE
She still loves you too, you know.
Jeff turns back to her and opens his mouth, about to say something,
but closes it. He opens it a second later.
JEFF
You think so?
YVONNE
It’s a women thing. Trust me, I know so.
Don’t you?
Jeff looks at the floor.
JEFF
Yeah, I guess I do.
Suddenly the door slams open and Gentry walks in, followed by Kathryn,
Seth, and Mark.
GENTRY
I met up with them downstairs on my way out.
They have something important to say.
Yvonne and Jeff look over.
YVONNE
What is it? What’s happened?
KATHRYN
We’re fucked!
SETH
Kathryn, how about you let me explain
this. He showed up. The target. He was
a human at the time, but just as dangerous
as any werewolf. He dodged and snatched a
bullet, all in a split second. He knocked
Kathryn’s gun away just as fast. He’s fucking
with us. He admitted that he could have us
all dead by now…and I believe him…but he
enjoys playing with us first. Like a cat
and a mouse.
MARK
That’s not all.
SETH
No, it’s not. He knew Kathryn by name.
Silence in the room. Jeff is the first to speak.
JEFF
Kathryn, you’re out.
Everyone turns to look at him as if he was crazy.
SETH
I don’t think you have the authority to
make that…
JEFF
I do, because I love her.
Kathryn seems to snap out of the daze she’s been in and she looks at Jeff.
JEFF
It’s blown. They know you’re name, Kathryn!
Change your name. Change your occupation.
If you don’t, every hunt from now on will
be a trap. And there will be a time when
not even I will be able to save the day.
KATHRYN
What about the Team?
JEFF
Same as before, only as the hunters again,
not the hunted. Seth can be in charge.
KATHRYN
You honestly think I can do that?
JEFF
You have to! I don’t want to loose you
again. Not after all this time.
Seth looks hard at Jeff.
SETH
You haven’t seen her in 5 years! You can’t
love…
Jeff turns and punches Seth in the face, knocking him back.
JEFF
Don’t you dare tell me how I feel.
Seth gets up and charges Jeff, tackling him at the waist, knocking
him back into a wall. Jeff knees Seth, causing him to let go.
Mark goes to break it up.
MARK
I really don’t think…
Jeff and Seth both push him out of the way.
JEFF AND SETH
Shut up!
Seth swings at Jeff, but Jeff dodges. Jeff swings at Seth, but
Seth blocks it. He goes to kick Jeff, and hits him in the chest,
causing him to stumble back.
KATHRYN
Knock it off!
The two stop, right before they were about to punch each other,
and look at Kathryn.
KATHRYN
If I leave, who’ll lead the Team? Not
Gentry. He’s not trained. Not Yvonne. She’s
too much of a novice. Same with Mark. And
definitely neither two immature idiots who
can’t even hold different opinions without
trying to kill each other.
Kathryn breathes in and out, closing and opening her eyes again.
KATHRYN
Jeff, I can’t quit just because they know
my name. Is that all it takes? Is the next
pack going to do the same? If they know
that all they have to do is find out who
we are and they can run us out, then it’s
game over. They win. We can’t let that happen.
Jeff sighs.
JEFF
Kathryn, I don’t think I’d be able to
handle seeing you get killed.
KATHRYN
You won’t have to!
There’s a moment of silence.
KATHRYN
Everyone but Jeff, out.
SETH
But Kathryn…
KATHRYN
Out!
Seth slams his fist on the table, cracking it. Then he turns and
storms out of the room. Yvonne nudges Gentry and Mark.
YVONNE
Come on. They need some privacy.
Yvonne gently pushes them out the door, closing it behind her. Jeff
and Kathryn are left facing each other, alone.
KATHRYN
Look Jeff, if you really want me to quit
That badly, then I will. But not yet. I
have to see this through. I won’t be able
to sleep at night, wondering if there’s a
pack of evolved werewolves out there, getting
more and more in numbers, and possibly even
evolve more. That’s too big of a risk on
this world. Don’t think I’m not scared.
Tears come to Kathryn’s eyes.
KATHRYN
(Con’t)
I’m scared as hell. For the first time in
five years, I have something to live for.
I don’t want to die. Or worse, Turn. I know
how scared you are that something is going to
happen to me, because I feel that fear as well.
But I have to see this through. You must understand that.
Jeff stood, tears in his eyes.
JEFF
I do.
KATHRYN
After this, I’ll quit. I swear to you I will.
I’ll leave the Team in Seth’s hands and me and
you can go live a normal life away from all
this, ok?
Jeff nods.
JEFF
Then let’s get this finished.
KATHRYN
Just what I was thinking.
JEFF
How did they find out your name?
KATHRYN
Their human half has evolved as well,
becoming more and more like their werewolf
half. Maybe they also got a better sense of
hearing as well, and one of them was close
enough to hear my name get mentioned. We
only know what he looks like, not anyone
else in his pack. They could be anyone we
pass on the street. He likes playing with us.
He might even know all our names.
That makes Jeff silent.
KATHRYN
I need to go find Seth. Calm him down. I’ll
be back soon.
JEFF
Ok.
She leans in and kisses him again. She turns, smiling, and walks
out of the room. After she leaves, Mark, Gentry, and Yvonne walk
back in.
YVONNE
So what’s the verdict?
JEFF
She’s gonna finish this hunt, but after that
both me and her are outta here. Taking off
someplace and starting over.
YVONNE
I understand.
MARK
Can’t speak for Seth though.
Jeff shrugs.
JEFF
Not much he can do about it. He does have
quite a kick though.
Yvonne, Mark, and Gentry chuckle. Jeff smiles.
EXT. HOTEL – FRONT DOORS – DAY
Seth is standing outside the hotel by the main entrance. Kathryn
walks out and stands by him.
KATHRYN
I’m sticking around. At least until the
end of this hunt.
SETH
So that’s it? Anything we might have had:
out the window.
KATHRYN
I’ve told you before that nothing could
ever happened between us.
SETH
You’re letting a scared little boy…
KATHRYN
(Cutting him off)
Of course he’s scared! I’m scared too. I’d
be even more scared if he wasn’t scared.
SETH
He’s not just scared about you. He’s scared
of the werewolves. He even admitted to that.
KATHRYN
It takes an insane person not to be scared
of them.
SETH
So I’m insane now?
Kathryn smiles.
KATHRYN
Oh, definitely.
Seth looks at her sternly, but then a smile breaks out.
SETH
So what now? Well he be too scared for
our next ‘meeting’ with them?
KATHRYN
I don’t think he’ll ever not be. They’ll
never stop scaring him.
SETH
Then what do we do?
KATHRYN
Nothing. Sooner or later they’re going to
piss him off. And that won’t be a good thing.
INT. HOTELROOM – DAY – LATER
Everyone is in the room, sitting around.
MARK
So what’s the plan?
KATHRYN
This guy seems fixated more on me then
the rest of you. He approached me. He
talked to me. He said my name. He also
knows I’m the leader and I’m the one that
gave the order to kill his pack. To him, I’m
more responsible then anyone else and he
wants me more then the rest of you. He’ll also
come for me himself. He wants that privilege.
Tomorrow morning we’ll go back to the town.
We’ll wire one of the houses with explosives
and I’ll stay inside of it as bait…
JEFF
(Cutting her off)
No way!
KATHRYN
It’s the only way Jeff. Don’t worry. I’ll have
an escape route behind me so I won’t be hit in
the blast. He seems to be the ring leader here,
so with him gone, it shouldn’t be hard to track
down and kill the rest of them.
SETH
So what do we do for the rest of today?
KATHRYN
Relax for once.
INT. HOTELROOM – EARLY EVENING - STORMY
Yvonne lays on a bed, watching TV, Gentry is still working on the
Tracker, Seth and Mark are playing cards, and Jeff and Kathryn stand
out on the balcony, holding hands as they look at the city life
below them. The sky is dark, not just from the evening sky, but
from rain clouds. Thunder rumbles and rains begins to fall. Jeff
and Kathryn run back inside, laughing at something.
SETH
What’s so fuckin’ funny?
KATHRYN
Just discussing old times.
JEFF
Hey, we’re going to my bar. Anyone want to
join us?
Seth eyes the cards in his hands a few times over, and then lays
them face-down on the table. He eyes Jeff and Kathryn.
SETH
Not me. I think I’m going to rest before
tomorrow.
MARK
I don’t drink, but I do wish to hang out
with the rest of you.
YVONNE
It’s not like there’s much on TV anyway.
GENTRY
I’ll go. I think I have the Tracker fully
fixed.
KATHRYN
Good news, Gentry. Alright guys, let’s go.
Take it easy, Seth.
They all head out, and after they’re gone, Seth takes one of
Jeff’s guns and throws it as hard as he can at the door.
SETH
Motherfucker!
INT. VAN – EVENING - STORMY
The van, Mark drives down the street, windshield wipers going
full speed. Lightning flashes and seconds later thunder booms,
rumbling the van.
YVONNE
This is a mighty big storm.
KATHRYN
We don’t even need the Tracker on nights
like this. Wet dogs smell bad enough, but
can you imagine a wet werewolf? Pheeew-eeee.
Talk about a warning.
They all break up laughing, even Jeff.
JEFF
Normally the bar’s closed on such stormy
nights, so with any luck, it’ll just be
us there.
Kathryn looks at him seductively.
KATHRYN
Well then, I guess we’ll have to make sure we
don’t drink too much.
JEFF
Well I do have my own room upstairs.
The two smile.
YVONNE
Now, now children, none of that.
Everyone starts laughing some more.
GENTRY
I already feel drunk and we haven’t even
gotten there yet!
KATHRYN
Hey Jeff, back before I left I remember
that you used to write a lot. Short stories
and stuff. How’d that go?
JEFF
Well I finished that one novel about the
Grim Reaper. That got published, but didn’t
do too good. Then I did a movie script about
a super hero named Nightboy, and that got
bought by some guy, but I never heard anything
about it since. That was three years ago.
I stopped writing after that.
GENTRY
That novel about Grim Reaper. That was
‘School Day’, wasn’t it?
JEFF
(Surprised)
You read it?
GENTRY
I own a copy. I love it!
Jeff laughs.
JEFF
Well if we survive the next few days, I’ll
sign your copy.
MARK
We’re here.
The van comes to a stop across the street. They get out into the
raging storm, getting soaked in seconds. They rush across the street
and Jeff takes out his keys, unlocking the door, opening it, allowing
everyone to go in before him.
INT. BAR – NIGHT - STORMY
The entire bar is dark. We can hear the rain drumming on the outside
of the building. Lightning flashes and lights up the inside. In
the instant of light, we are able to see a single figure standing
at the bar, his back turned.
JEFF
Who the hell is that?
No answer.
He reaches over and flips the light switch. The empty bar lights
up and they see that it’s the other owner of the bar.
JEFF
Oh thank god, it’s just you Trevor. What
are you doing here?
No answer. Everyone looks at each other as Jeff slowly approaches
his friend and co-owner, TREVOR MELTON.
JEFF
Trev, is everything alright?
Suddenly Trevor’s skin begins to ripple.
JEFF
What the…
He trails off as there’s a bone crunching sound and Trevor gets
bigger and more muscular, fur sprouting out all over his body.
His clothes rip and fall to the floor. He whips his head around
and his face is a werewolf’s face, snarling. The Trevor-Wolf
backhands Jeff, sending him flying back across the bar and
slamming into a wall. He falls to the floor and moans.
KATHRYN
Shit! Our weapons are in the van!
The Trevor-Wolf takes a step towards them and howls. Kathryn runs
and jumps, kicking it in the snout, causing it to snap its head
to the side, snarling. She uses all her strength and punches it
in the face.
Mark uses the distraction time to run to the other end of the bar
and throw a table upside down, breaking off a table leg, making sure
He breaks it in such a way that the end is sharp.
Kathryn throws another couple punches, but the werewolf punches her
back, sending her flying up, hitting off the roof, and crashing to
the floor, breaking a table. Gentry turns and runs out of the bar.
Yvonne starts taking shooters off the tables and throwing them at
the Trevor-wolf to distract it. It snarls as it turns on her.
Mark reaches the Trevor-wolf and catches it by surprise as he swipes
the broken table leg sideways like a sword. The werewolf howls in
pain as its neck slits, but just slightly. Not enough to decapitate
it. It punches at Mark, but he ducks and when he comes back up again,
he rams the table leg through the werewolf’s head, right between the
eyes. Blood squirts out all over Mark as he digs it deeper, going
through the brain. He rams it even deeper, and it comes out the back,
torn brain matter on the end of it.
The body falls with the table leg still in the head.
JEFF
How the fuck is he a werewolf? I’ve seen
him at night before!
Suddenly we hear a low growl and another werewolf leaps from the
second floor landing and lands in the middle of the floor.
At that moment Gentry runs back into the bar.
GENTRY
Kathryn!
She turns and Gentry throws her sword to her, which she catches and
unsheathes as soon as she has hold of it.
GENTRY
Mark!
Mark turns and sees Gentry about to throw him a handgun.
MARK
Pass it to Jeff!
Gentry turns and throws it to Jeff, who catches it, whips around,
and fires.
It misses however, because the has werewolf started changing into
its ‘wolf’ form, so it is slightly lower by the time the bullet
reaches it, causing the bullet to fly over its head and embed
into a wall.
JEFF
I missed?
KATHRYN
Get over it and fire again!
Within seconds the werewolf is a Big Wolf and it leaps and lands
on Kathryn, trying to bite into her face. She uses the sword to put
up to block it’s teeth, and while she’s at it, she pushes up with
all her strength, cutting the sword through the werewolf’s mouth
and out the back of it’s head, causing the top half to fall away.
Kathryn crawls out from under the body and gets to her feet.
KATHRYN
Gentry, why didn’t the tracker go off?
GENTRY
It’s in the van and the bar is out of range.
We would have needed a receiver in here.
KATHRYN
We need to search the rest of the bar.
As Mark, Yvonne, and Jeff start searching every bit of both floors of
the bar, Kathryn and Gentry walk over to the Trevor-Wolf’s dead body.
Kathryn looks at Gentry.
KATHRYN
We have to be absolutely sure.
She raises her sword and swings it down, decapitating the Trevor-Wolf.
Gentry flinches, closing his eyes.
A few minutes later Jeff, Yvonne, and Mark return.
MARK
Nothing. Place is empty. Seems like this
guy here…
He points to the second werewolf.
MARK
(Con’t)
…came here and Turned Jeff’s friend. It
was another trap. They knew we were headed
here.
KATHRYN
Which means…
She trails off. Everyone looks at each other.
YVONNE
The hotel room…
KATHRYN
Oh god…Seth…
Everyone takes off running out of the bar, through the rain, and
into the van.
INT. HOTEL – NIGHT - STORMY
The group runs through the hotel’s hallways like insane people.
They reach their hotel room and see claw marks in the wall by
the door. Kathryn throws the door open and everyone piles into
the room as lightning flashes and thunder booms.
The room is dark, the light broken. The place is trashed. Everything
knocked over and knocked down, the beds with deep gashes in them,
the window broken, rain pouring into the room. But no sign of Seth.
Kathryn runs to the window and looks out, but there’s no body on
the ground below. Everyone else is searching the room. Jeff grabs
his guns and cocks them.
Kathryn throws her sword on one of the beds as she rushes and looks
in the bathroom. Nothing.
KATHRYN
Maybe…Maybe he got out in time.
YVONNE
Yeah, he probably did.
KATHRYN
We need to go look for him.
She goes over to the closet to get a dry jacket, but when she
opens it, she screams and steps back. Everyone crowds around and
they all gasp. Seth’s body is in the closet, sitting on the floor,
leaned up against the wall. His body is full of gashes and rips,
a huge gash from a bite, in his arm. Kathryn quickly turns away
JEFF
Gentry, get her out of here!
GENTRY
Come on Kathryn.
Gentry takes Kathryn by the shoulders and leads her out of the room.
MARK
Someone has to do it. Lady Kathryn’s not
in any state to.
YVONNE
Jeff?
JEFF
What? Why me?
MARK
Because…You’re second in command.
JEFF
Christ! Is that what you guys think? Look,
I’ll do it, but only for Kathryn’s sake.
Jeff goes and grabs Kathryn’s sword and walks back over. Mark and
Yvonne drag the body out of the closet. Jeff breathes in and out
and raises the sword. Suddenly Seth’s eyes open and he gasps a
breath of air. Yvonne notices that his arms are slightly more hairy.
YVONNE
Do it! Do it now!
Jeff rams the sword down, slicing Seth’s head almost all the way
off, hanging on by only a few strands of flesh.
JEFF
They know we’re here, and they can easily
find us no matter where we run. I’m tired
of running. This all ends tomorrow.
Jeff rams the sword into the floor, sticking it there, and then
storms out of the room.
9/13/2004 1:21:28 PM
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