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Blood Money Part 1 November 30, 2000 (Green) Written by: Shawn Ryan & Mere Smith |
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Teaser |
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EXT. CORDELIA'S APT - NIGHT - STOCK ESTABLISH INT. CORDELIA'S APT - NIGHT CLOSE ON WESLEY -- grim-faced, eyeing an unseen opponent. WESLEY CLOSE ON GUNN -- also grim-faced. GUNN WIDER -- a Western Tableau -- Wes and Gunn face one another across Cor's dining room table. (Don't see what's on table.) WESLEY Gunn's eyes flick to Wesley's fist as he brings it up slowly. GUNN Wesley opens his hand. In it are three dice. PAN FROM Wesley's open hand to table where a Risk Game is in its final stages. Gunn brings up his hand, in it are two dice. Both men roll their dice simultaneously. Beat, then: GUNN Wes sits dejectedly. WESLEY GUNN WESLEY CORDELIA shuffles in from her bedroom in bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, looking sleepy (not glamour make-up and coif.) CORDELIA WESLEY CORDELIA WESLEY CORDELIA GUNN They both look at him. CORDELIA GUNN WESLEY GUNN Beat. Wes looks to Cor. WESLEY She shakes her head, just a little sadly. Another beat, the three of them accepting the inevitable. WESLEY WESLEY CORDELIA WESLEY GUNN Cor grunts, grabs card. GUNN WESLEY GUNN WESLEY GUNN Cor suddenly grabs her head and falls (simultaneously with Gunn's last line above) violently out of their THREE SHOT, catching Gunn and Wes unaware. ANGLE - FLOOR CORDELIA They both lean down -- she is in the throes of a terrible vision. (We won't see it.) They help her sit up. WESLEY GUNN Her eyes pop open. She's just seen something horrible. CORDELIA Gunn and Wes grab weapons, head for door. Cordy lies back on the floor. CORDELIA As her eyes close, EXT. STREET #1 - NIGHT ANGEL makes his way down the sidewalk, head lowered. A GUY ON A BICYCLE zips toward him, and Angel sidesteps him, keeps moving, looking back over his shoulder at the guy. When Angel turns back around, he runs SMACK INTO a GIRL (ANNE) carrying a box full of clothes. The box goes flying, spilling its contents on the sidewalk. ANGEL He crouches down, starts helping her re-pack the box. ANNE ANGEL ANNE Angel picks up a particularly garish striped shirt. ANGEL Anne laughs. ANNE ANGEL'S POV -- the BOX, marked "East Hills Teen Center". ANGEL Anne looks at the box. ANNE ANGEL Anne turns, looks, grabs a jacket lying on the sidewalk. ANNE Angel stands, holding the box. Anne throws the jacket into it, and is about to take the box from his hands when -- ANNE She bends down, picks up her PURSE, slings it over her shoulder, then takes the box from Angel. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL An awkward pause. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL Angel nods. As she heads off, Angel turns and watches her go. Almost as though she's touched him somehow -- INT. ANGEL'S HOTEL - ANGEL'S ROOM - NIGHT Angel walks through the door, moves to his desk. Takes something out of his pocket, starts to put it on the desk -- ANGLE ON: AN OPEN WALLET, being placed on the desk. The driver's license says: ANNE STEELE, and, sure enough, there's Anne's picture. Angel has stolen her wallet. The camera MOVES OFF the wallet, down the desk, seeing a SURVEILLANCE PHOTO OF ANNE. The camera then ARMS UP to the WALL, to find a line of PHOTOGRAPHS -- all of Anne, in various locales and at different times. As we TRACK DOWN this line, we come to the last photo: Anne, talking to LINDSEY MACDONALD. BLACK OUT END OF TEASER |
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Act One |
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INT. MERL'S LAIR - NIGHT MERL, our demon informant, is putting on his jacket, moving to the door. As he reaches for the knob -- BOOM! The door flies open, smashing Merl in the face. Angel stands in the doorway. Merl holds his nose, apparently in great pain. ANGEL MERL Angel just looks at him. Merl drops the hand, and the act. MERL Angel nods, steps over the threshold, looks around the room. ANGEL MERL ANGEL MERL ANGEL Merl sighs, walks over to a beanbag chair, sits. MERL ANGEL MERL ANGEL MERL ANGEL MERL Angel takes that in, nods, moves to the door. Merl stands. MERL ANGEL He turns to the door, then turns back again. ANGEL He leaves. Off Merl, insulted -- INT. SEWER TUNNEL - NIGHT A long dark tunnel, scary. We hear FOOTSTEPS. Gunn and Wes, armed to the teeth, move into frame. GUNN Wes nods. GUNN Wes nods again. GUNN WESLEY Quiet beat as they move on. GUNN WESLEY GUNN WESLEY They hear just a TREMENDOUS ROAR from the end of the tunnel. They fall silent, edge up to the opening, combat ready. They exchange a look -- they then both sneak a quick look around the corner, Wes high, Gunn low, weapons ready. They whip back fast, both flattened against the wall. They speak in urgent whispers. WESLEY GUNN They are so scared. WESLEY GUNN Again they sneak a look. WESLEY They pivot into the cave and pivot right back out as a HUGE STREAM OF FLAMES shoot right past. GUNN Another beat, they look at each other and -- both let out KILLER WAR CRIES -- WES AND GUNN And charge around the corner out of sight. Off their war cries, INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - NIGHT Anne talks to a HISPANIC WOMAN, mid 20's. ANNE The Woman nods, moves off. Anne turns around to see: ANNE'S POV -- Angel is standing in the middle of the room, carrying a brown paper GROCERY BAG. ANGLE ON ANGEL, as Anne approaches. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL They shake hands. ANGEL He shows the contents of the bag to Anne -- clothes. ANNE She takes the bag, and they move over to a table that has other clothing donations on top of it (boxes and bags with clothes in them, etc.) ANNE Anne sets Angel's bag down, then pulls out the top item -- a lacy, frilly DRESS. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL Anne finishes unloading the clothes, turns back to Angel. ANNE ANGEL ANNE INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - ANNE'S OFFICE - NIGHT Anne enters (sans bag now), Angel behind her. ANNE ANGEL ANNE Angel notices the COT tucked back behind the desk. ANGEL Anne sees what he's looking at. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL Anne beams. Off Angel -- INT. MERL'S LAIR - NIGHT Merl is tying up the trash. He picks up the bag, moves to the door -- BOOM! The door FLIES open, knocking Merl down. MERL REVEAL -- the doorway, where BOONE stands. BOONE Merl sizes up this very large, intimidating demon. MERL Boone steps into the room, towering over Merl. BOONE MERL Boone takes another step toward Merl, his BOOT landing on Merl's HAND. Merl winces. MERL BOONE MERL Boone lifts his boot. Merl cradles his hand. Boone starts wandering around Merl's lair, not even looking at Merl. BOONE MERL BOONE Merl gets to his feet. MERL BOONE Boone finally turns to face Merl. His stare is lethal. BOONE MERL Boone turns around again. Merl starts sidling to the door. BOONE MERL BOONE MERL Boone turns, and Merl freezes, mere inches from the door. Boone crosses and suddenly GRABS Merl around the throat. BOONE INT. WOLFRAM AND HART PARKING GARAGE - NIGHT A pair of shapely legs quickly step through the deserted parking garage. CAMERA ARMS up past the briefcase to reveal LILAH moving to her car. Shmucky with the bait. She's sensing something… a woman alone in a place like this would, anyway. She hurries to her car. Aims her key chain, disarms the alarm. INT. / EXT. LILAH'S PARKED CAR - PARKING GARAGE - NIGHT Lilah climbs behind the wheel. Pulls the door shut, locks it. She inserts her key into the ignition. Senses that presence again. Shakes it off. Starts her car. Puts it in reverse. Adjusts her rearview mirror -- CLOSE REARVIEW MIRROR Just the empty backseat and the parking garage beyond. LILAH Looks over her shoulder and GASPS -- ANGEL Is sitting in the backseat. ANGEL LILAH ANGEL All she can manage is a tiny head shake. ANGEL She makes an instinctive move for the driver's door -- Angel's hands clamp down on her shoulders. She can't move. LILAH ANGEL LILAH ANGEL LILAH ANGEL LILAH ANGEL Angel leans in over the back of the seat, cheek-to-cheek. ANGEL And WHOOSH. Angel's gone, the back door creaking open. Off Lilah, scared shitless -- EXT. LOS ANGELES SKYLINE - NIGHT TO DAY Flashy-cutty transition… INT. WOLFRAM AND HART - LINDSEY'S OFFICE - DAY Lindsey and a noticeably perturbed Lilah. LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY LILAH Before Lindsey can respond, his INTERCOM buzzes. ASSISTANT (V.O.) LINDSEY ASSISTANT (V.O.) Mildly perturbed, Lindsey moves to the door, opens it. Boone stands there. Lindsey keeps his cool. LINDSEY Boone enters, moves past Lindsey. BOONE Beat. Lindsey shuts the door. LINDSEY BOONE LILAH BOONE BLACK OUT END OF ACT ONE |
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Act Two |
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INT. WOLFRAM AND HART - LINDSEY'S OFFICE - DAY Boone talks as he glides around the room as if he owns it. Lindsey and Lilah stand, not totally unintimidated. BOONE LINDSEY BOONE LILAH BOONE LILAH Boone looks at them with disdain. BOONE LINDSEY BOONE LINDSEY BOONE LILAH BOONE LILAH LINDSEY BOONE Lindsey opens the door to the hallway, indicates for Lilah to exit with him. She does. Lindsey follows after her, closing the door behind him. INT. WOLFRAM AND HART - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS Lindsey and Lilah huddle, speak in hushed tones. LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY LILAH As Lindsey sheds mock tears and wipes at his eyes with his artificial hand -- LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY INT. ANGEL'S HOTEL - ANGEL'S ROOM - DAY Angel stands in front of the wall with all the photos, arms crossed. For a moment, he just stares at them -- then he picks up Anne's wallet, looks at her driver's license… INT. CORDELIA'S APT - DAY Wes and Gunn, in fresh clothes but bruised and battered from their fight, regale Cor with last night's adventures. The guys drink 40 Dogs from the can. WESLEY GUNN WESLEY GUNN WESLEY GUNN WESLEY GUNN CORDELIA WESLEY GUNN CORDELIA GUNN WESLEY Gunn slams a beer into Cor's hand. GUNN WESLEY CORDELIA They smash beer cans together. Oh yeah, there's spillage, Cor's laughing now. They drink, then: CORDELIA WESLEY GUNN Wes and Gunn smash their 40 Dogs together again, drink. CORDELIA GUNN They exchange a look, all head for the door. GUNN WESLEY Cor and Gunn stop on a dime. COR AND GUNN WESLEY CORDELIA WESLEY CORDELIA GUNN CORDELIA WESLEY COR AND GUNN CUT TO: INT. MERL'S LAIR - DAY Merl enters his lair, carrying some Chinese take-out. He gets one step through the door before he's GRABBED by a pair of BIG HANDS. His Chinese food goes flying. CLOSE ON MERL -- being SLAMMED face-first into a wall, then pinned there. He (and we) can't see who's holding him. MERL He gets SLAMMED into the wall again. MERL LILAH (O.S.) We WIDEN TO REVEAL that Lilah is sitting on the edge of Merl's card table. Two BEEFY THUGS accompany her, one of whom now spins Merl around to face her. MERL LILAH MERL LILAH Beefy Thug #1 SOCKS Merl in the face. Merl yelps. MERL LILAH Beefy Thug #1 cocks his arm back for another punch. MERL LILAH INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - ANNE'S OFFICE - NIGHT Anne is working at her desk, filling in a ledger, when she hears a noise, looks up. Putting her pen down, she rises from her desk, moves to the door, exits -- INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - NIGHT Big schmucky el bait here. The place is dark, deserted. Anne makes her way to the main area, not a little scared. ANNE Nothing. Just some really loud silence. Anne takes one more look, then, as soon as she turns to go back to her office -- ANGEL (O.S.) Anne muffles a shriek, whips around to find Angel standing in the middle of a space that, two seconds ago, no one was in. He holds a fat manila envelope. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL A beat. ANNE Angel opens the manila envelope and spills its contents onto a ping pong table nearby. ANGEL He puts it on the table, on top of the pictures. ANGEL Anne looks from the wallet to Angel, starts edging backward. ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL Anne stops. ANNE ANGEL A beat, as Anne takes that in. ANNE ANGEL ANNE But before Angel can respond, the door opens. It's Lindsey. ANNE Lindsey moves to Anne, protective. LINDSEY ANNE LINDSEY ANGEL LINDSEY ANGEL But just as Angel takes a step toward Lindsey -- BOONE (O.S.) Angel stops, looks at the door, where Boone stands. BOONE Angel looks highly confused. Lindsey speaks to Anne, but never takes his eyes off Angel. LINDSEY ANGEL Boone steps into the room. BOONE Suddenly METAL COILS SHOOT out of his wrists (CGI), wrapping around his hands like brass knuckles. BOONE And with that he RUSHES Angel. They begin a knock-down drag-out fight. At first it's the usual -- Angel kicking some ass. But then Boone knocks Angel UP AND OVER the ping-pong table -- then KICKS the table at Angel, smashing him between the table and the wall. Angel comes back, swinging hard -- but Boone coldcocks him with one of his brass-knuckled fists, and Angel's nose starts to BLEED. Then his mouth. Then he gets a CUT over his eye. It turns out Boone is pretty much kicking the shit out of him. ANGLE ON ANNE, horrified. Lindsey, standing in front of her (where she can't see), can't stifle a smirk. Boone sidekicks Angel in the gut, sending him flying across the floor, next to the door. Angel looks up at Boone, unfamiliar fear in his eyes -- -- and Angel runs right out the door. Boone is about to go after him, but -- LINDSEY Boone turns, pissed. Lindsey approaches him. BOONE LINDSEY A beat, then Boone moves off, still pissed. Lindsey returns to Anne. LINDSEY Off Anne, bewildered -- BLACK OUT END OF ACT TWO Continue on to Part
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Blood Money Part 2 November 30, 2000 (Green) Written by: Shawn Ryan & Mere Smith |
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Act Three |
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INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - NIGHT Lindsey and Anne stand, talking. ANNE A beat. LINDSEY ANNE This takes him back a bit. He changes tack -- LINDSEY ANNE LINDSEY ANNE This gives Lindsey pause. Brief pause, but pause nonetheless. LINDSEY A long beat, as Anne tries to figure this out. ANNE LINDSEY EXT. STREET #2 - NIGHT A bookstore, a coffee hangout, a newsstand... that kind of thing. It's bustling along the sidewalk where we find a nervous Lindsey and a manic Lilah walking. LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY Lilah stops him. LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY A beat, as they both pause, then slowly turn their heads. The camera PULLS BACK to reveal the numerous people, sitting, walking, milling nearby. Lilah and Lindsey both realize that discussing it in public is exactly what they're doing right now. Everyone and everything seems suddenly suspicious to them. LILAH As they both scan the are for Angel's hiding place -- LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY LILAH LINDSEY Lindsey whips out his cell phone and punches in some numbers. LINDSEY INT. EAST HILLS TEEN CENTER - ANNE'S OFFICE - NIGHT Angel enters as Anne is distractedly organizing papers. ANNE ANGEL ANNE Her tone is distant, cold. ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE Angel interrupts her, holds up a DIGITAL VIDEO TAPE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE ANGEL ANNE They stare at each other a moment. EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT A LIMO pulls up to the main entrance. A VALET dressed in a cowboy hat and chaps opens the door, letting the well dressed COUPLE (dark suit for him, dress for her) out. As the couple enters the museum, a SECURITY GUARD (suite, tie, earpiece) passes through frame. He leads us to ANOTHER SECURITY GUARD. The two men exchange an "all is okay" nod and move off in different directions, their eyes peeled. As they do -- HOLLAND (V.O.) EXT. PARK - DAY - VIDEO We see HOLLAND in CLOSEUP now, looking directly into camera. He wears a fatherly looking sweater. HOLLAND We PULL BACK now to reveal Holland is petting a friendly collie who frolics at his feet. We continue pulling back to see that Holland's image is on a HUGE LARGE SCREEN TV and we are actually in -- INT. MUSEUM - BALLROOM - NIGHT Site of the big party. In fact there are 3 or 4 smaller LARGE SCREEN TVs also spread around the room, which is filled with as many mingling extras in expensive suits and dresses as we can afford. WAITERS and WAITRESSES dressed as cowboys and dance hall girls, respectively, cater to this ultra-rich crowd. HOLLAND The shot of Holland widens to reveal a (not unattractive) HOMELESS TEENAGE GIRL, shivering on a park bench. Holland continues talking to camera as he walks towards her. HOLLAND Holland looks at the girl for the first time, offers her his hand. She takes it, rises from the bench. Holland looks back at camera. HOLLAND The video image changes to an EXTERIOR SHOT of the TEEN CENTER, followed quickly by INTERIOR SHOTS of the center. Through the next series of scenes, the TVs show shots of teenagers reading books, playing ping pong, painting in an art class, etc.., in the background. The camera pans down to reveal -- ANNE, taking big sips from her champagne glass. She looks around uncomfortably, then returns to her glass. LINDSEY (V.O.) INT. MUSEUM - SECURITY OFFICE - NIGHT Lindsey, Boone and DWIGHT, the head of security for tonight's shindig. DWIGHT REVEAL ZORN, a vampire detector, hood over his head, sitting in a chair in the back of the room, facing away from them. LINDSEY |