creed1x09
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FADE IN.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - HALLWAY - NIGHT
PRIEST, still in his preacher garbs with guns and other
weapons plainly visible, pounds on a shut door.
It slides open, revealing a frazzled SALOME in pajama pants
and a t-shirt, rubbing her eyes.
SALOME
(blearily)
Priest?
She starts signing all of her words as she speaks.
SALOME
What's going on?
PRIEST
Drop the act. Your shirt's on
wrong.
Salome looks down at her shirt and notices that is indeed,
inside out. She sheepishly grins.
SALOME
Damn.
(beat)
This is about your friend?
PRIEST
(nodding)
Your god damned science project can
wait. We're on a manhunt.
He storms off, not letting her reply.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - ARMORY - NIGHT
JACE, a full bearded black man, is in the middle of mopping
the tile floor of Haven's Armory.
Priest comes in, getting two steps inside the door, before he
stops and looks around.
PRIEST
(frowning)
Jace, where is everyone?
JACE
(turning around)
What?
(blinks)
Oh, hey Priest. I heard about your
friend. I'm sor-
PRIEST
Where is the rest of the Field
Squad? Everyone's supposed to be
gearing up.
JACE
Your Pops rolled in and called a
meeting. Thinkin' they'd be in the
conference room.
Priest turns and leaves without another word.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - CONFERENCE ROOM - NEXT
Priest throws the doors open, cutting into a discussion
between BISHOP, ROX, LOKESH, and SAGE.
Lokesh and Sage are also still in their preacher garbs.
PRIEST
Thought I told you two to restock?
Lokesh points his thumb towards Bishop.
LOKESH
Yeah, but he said come here for
game planning first and he's got
seniority.
SAGE
Emphasis on the senior.
Bishop throws Sage a withering glance.
SAGE
Sorry.
PRIEST
(teeth clenched)
What's there to gameplan for? These
sick bastards sell kids into
slavery and now they've broken out
of prison.
BISHOP
(sighs)
Priest...
PRIEST
We did things the nice way turning
them over to the cops last time and
that didn't work out. So now we do
it our way.
He pulls out a gun and COCKS it, more for dramatic effect
than anything else.
PRIEST
(off gun)
We take a bunch of these and pump
enough bullets in those assholes to
spell our names in their corpses.
(to Bishop)
And I'll do my god damned push ups
later. Now let's get moving!
LOKESH
Okay, fine. Let's go. Where exactly
are we going?
PRIEST
What?
SAGE
Where do we start looking? Jackin
Jills is shut down and we don't
know where these freaks were based
in the city.
Priest opens his mouth to respond, but words fail him.
PRIEST
We... could start with Rhonda's
boss again.
ROX
(passive)
We were just talking about that,
actually.
PRIEST
(barking)
How about we start with his
kneecaps and see if he's more
cooperative after one of them is
blown off? Why are we talking about
this? In a few hours, these guys
are gonna be out of the city,
probably out of the country!
Priest's shoulders are heaving up and down. The adrenaline is
surging through his veins.
Salome slips by him and takes a seat next to Rox. Bishop
briefly glances at her before turning his attention back to
Priest.
BISHOP
Priest. I know you're upset about
Jacob. Let's sit down and-
Priest storms out again. Bishop rolls out after him.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - HALLWAY - NEXT
CLOSE UP on Priest as he strides down the hall.
A GUNSHOT blasts the fluorescent light above his head. He
jumps, startled, and turns around.
RACK FOCUS on Bishop in the background, further down the
hall, slipping a gun under his wheelchair.
PRIEST
Was that necessary?
Bishop signs all of his words back to Priest while saying
them.
BISHOP
It was either that or throw
something at you.
PRIEST
(exasperated)
Dad-
BISHOP
I'm not turning you loose on this
city without a direction to point
you in. A berserker rage is only
going to get someone hurt.
Priest sighs and crosses his arms.
PRIEST
Funny. I thought we were in the
business of punishing the guilty.
BISHOP
We protect the innocent.
PRIEST
Yeah. Today. Got any idea which
side of the bed you'll wake up on
tomorrow?
BISHOP
You're not trying to protect anyone
or defend this city. You want
vengeance for Jacob's murder. That
is not what we're about.
Priest scoffs and throws his head back with a smile.
PRIEST
So you making it a priority to kill
the leader of Tribe every time they
get a new one has nothing to do
with Grandpa's murder, right?
Bishop's face tightens. No response.
PRIEST
(smirks)
Do as I say, not as I do, huh? You
made me the leader and now you're-
BISHOP
You lead the Field Squad, but I run
Project Haven. And what kind of
leader are you right being now? If
I wanted some fly-by-night to be in
charge, I would've picked Tanya.
Priest's scowl drops. His expression melts to one of defeat.
BISHOP
You're not to leave Haven until we
know how we're going to proceed. Go
take a shower and clear your head
while we work on tracking them
down. Join us whenever you're
ready.
Priest mock salutes.
PRIEST
Yes, sir.
He turns and leaves. Bishop rolls away in the opposite
direction.
INT. WINTERS' RESIDENCE - BEDROOM - NIGHT
SHAYNA WINTERS is standing next to a nightstand holding a
video camera. The red light indicates that it's recording.
A lamp on the nightstand provides the only light in the room.
Two SHADOWS are prominently visible on the wall behind her. A
large figure stands behind a smaller one, the latter bent
over at the waist.
The low pitched GRUNTS of an adult man and the WHIMPERS of a
small child are the only sounds in the room until Shayna's
phone interrupts.
She shifts the camera to one hand and checks the call screen
on her phone with the other.
SHAYNA
Hold on a second, baby. This is our
contract labor.
She answers the call.
SHAYNA
Shayna Winters.
The two shadows separate. The larger grows, coming towards
us.
JULIAN WINTERS, bare chested, comes to stand next to his wife
while wrapping a towel around his waist.
INTERCUT WITH:
INT. MEDICAL LABORATORY - PATIENT ROOM - NIGHT
ANGEL moans as GISELA BRYNN dabs her badly bruises ribs with
a damp cloth.
ANGEL
(irate)
Next time you hire some fucking
mercs, make sure you give 'em every
god damned detail about the job!
SHAYNA
I told you not to contact me at
this number.
ANGEL
It's a prepaid phone from a gas
station, bitch. Calm the fuck down.
Now why didn't you tell me the
Preachers were gonna be there?
SHAYNA
(shocked)
The... what? The Preachers were
there?
Julian rolls his eyes.
JULIAN
Oh, Christ.
In the foreground, a SMALL BOY, his head low, walks across
the frame.
SHAYNA
So you didn't finish the job?
ANGEL
No. And I lost some troops in the
process. Just thought you might
wanna know.
Angel hangs up.
END INTERCUT
Still in the lab, Angel jerks and slaps Brynn's hands away.
ANGEL
God damn it, watch it with that
shit!
BRYNN
I'm a chemist, not a physician. You
need to go to a real hospital.
Angel SHOVES her out of frame.
ANGEL
Then go be a chemist! Cook up some
painkillers for me.
Angel adjusts her position and lays back on the bed, taking
great pains to do so.
ANGEL
(pained)
Fuck me.
INT. WINTERS' RESIDENCE - BEDROOM - NIGHT
Julian finishes putting a shirt on.
JULIAN
So those kids are still alive?
SHAYNA
Apparently. God damned Preachers
saved them.
JULIAN
So what do we do now?
Shayna takes a seat on the bed.
SHAYNA
Nothing if I can help it. Our
foreign friends are probably on
their way back home by now. Let's
just wipe our hands of this and
make sure it can't blow back on us.
POLAK (O.S.)
So our best clients would leave us
out in the cold?
WHIP PAN to the doorway where MILAN POLAK stands, holding a
gun to the head of Julian's trembling, prepubescent lover.
His child slaver ring associates, JIRI KOLAR, KAZIMIR SMIDA,
and DUSAN HRUBY flank him on both sides.
POLAK
Well, that's not very nice. I
thought we becoming friends.
BACK TO the Winters. Shayna looks up at her husband, who
looks more frightened than the young boy.
POLAK
Relax. We are not here to cause
trouble. We just need resources to
get out of country and apparently
all roads out of Seraph are blocked
by police.
SHAYNA
We're done helping you.
POLAK
You will be in a few hours. Should
you care to terminate business
arrangement now-
He aims the gun at Shayna and cocks it.
POLAK
We shall be forced to terminate
you. Understand?
Husband and wife share another worried look.
INT. PROJECT HAVEN - CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
Sage leads the way in with Bishop, Sage, Rox, and Lokesh
behind him.
LOKESH
You can't tap Gehenna's security
footage?
BISHOP
Gehenna doesn't maintain any
connection to the outside world.
ROX
No internet, no phones. All the
communication is done by courier.
They're Nazis about it.
Salome looks at Rox, curious.
ROX
Spent some time there when I was a
teenager.
SAGE
Something's not right though.
Sage sits down in front of the main console.
SAGE
The only guy that got killed in the
escape was the one that contacted
us. Coincidence?
ROX
You think they found him out?
BISHOP
Them or someone helping them.
SAGE
(typing at the console)
Got a few other ideas too.
The entrance opens and Salome runs in. TANYA is behind her,
though in no particular rush.
SALOME
Priest is gone!
Rox and Bishop turn around.
ROX
He's what?
SALOME
I went to check on him just now and
he's not in his room.
BISHOP
("not surprised")
I expected as much. Doubt he ever
made it there in the first place.
(turning back around)
Sage, run a trace on his suit.
SALOME
Ain't gonna work. It was on his
bed. So was his signal watch.
Bishop frowns. Wasn't expecting that.
BISHOP
Pull up an inventory from the
Armory. Let's see what he took.
Sage obliges, taking a few seconds to execute that command.
BISHOP
(glances to Tanya)
Thought you had work?
TANYA
Caught the news about Early. I
traded cuts with another girl so I
could be first out. Where do you
need me?
BISHOP
I'll let you know in a bit.
SAGE
Let's see, a few stunners and a
couple of non-lethals are missing.
(reads)
And some deadly force stuff.
Rox taps Lokesh's arm and points at the screen. She mouths
"how?"
LOKESH
(whispering)
All of our gear is tagged so we
know where it is. Just in case
someone does, well, what Priest is
doing right now.
BISHOP
What about body armor?
SAGE
All accounted for. Even the
heavyweight stuff we used back in
the day.
(beat)
All the vehicles are here too 'cept
the one Bekah took on her trip.
ROX
So what's he doing? Taking the bus
and a duffel bag?
Sage leans back in his seat.
SAGE
That doesn't make any sense. Priest
might be pissed, but he's not
stupid enough to go out there
without-
(blinks)
Wait a minute.
He leans forward again and pulls up a new security feed on
the main screen. It shows an empty, human-sized display case.
LOKESH
Oh crap.
SALOME
He took the Omega suit.
ROX
The what? You guys need to give
better tours.
BISHOP
It's the prototype for a new armor
Bekah's been working on. Priest
knows it's not tagged, so we
wouldn't be able to trace him.
Everyone stands in silence for a moment.
TANYA
(realizing)
Oh God. I think I know where he's
going too.
All eyes go to Tanya save Sage, who goes back to work at the
console.
TANYA
He's-
BISHOP
(stern)
I don't care. Suit up and get him
back here. Consciousness is
completely optional.
Tanya smirks.
TANYA
You got it.
She leaves. Once she's out the door:
SALOME
Uh, don't you think you should've
sent someone with a little more...
tact to talk him down?
BISHOP
He's too angry for tact and I need
the rest of you working on this.
(to Sage)
Sage, ideas?
SAGE
Just a... there we go. Here's the
feed of the exit station.
A security feed of a train station comes up on the main
screen. Gehenna's Warden and a few guards are held at
gunpoint by the slaver ringleaders as they leave the train.
LOKESH
Well, that's fishy.
ROX
What?
LOKESH
Nothing on the news said anything
about hostages.
ROX
Maybe they just let them go?
Bishop shakes his head.
BISHOP
In this city, always assume the
worse. Sage, get names and
addresses on the people in this
video. And run a background check
on the warden.
Bishop turns around to address the rest of the team.
BISHOP
Suit up and hit the road. We'll get
you the addresses of the guards.
Rox raises an eyebrow.
ROX
Me too?
BISHOP
No. I need you on another
assignment.
(to Salome)
How far into your science project
did you get?
Rox's jaw drops. Salome grins.
ROX
You gotta be kidding me.
INT. WINTERS' RESIDENCE - BEDROOM - NIGHT
Shayna and Julian cross paths as they both pace back and
forth on their phones.
SHAYNA
Billy, I don't give a shit about
the Mayor's order. I hired you to
cut through red tape, not tell me
about it.
JULIAN
Excellent. Have the plane fueled
and ready to go in two hours.
SHAYNA
Eight hours? I don't think so.
You've got one. Make it happen.
JULIAN
My wife's handling the city
blockade. That's not your concern.
Just get the damn plane ready.
They meet in front of the bed and simultaneously hang up.
Polak is sitting in a chair with the boy in his lap, stroking
his hair. The rest of the ringleaders are nowhere to be
found.
POLAK
So things are set for departure?
JULIAN
It's a private airfield. Plane's
too small to get you far, but it'll
at least get you out of Seraph.
POLAK
Excellent. Now pack your bags.
You'll be accompanying us.
(off their looks)
Worse comes to worse, we'll be
needing leverage. Besides, I've not
forgotten your failure to get rid
of our outstanding shipment.
Julian and Shayna don't move a muscle. Polak cocks his gun
and aims it at them, never looking away from or stopping his
stroking of the boy's hair.
POLAK
This is not request. This is order.
Understand?
INT. CAR - NIGHT
CLOSE UP on a profile of Bishop, looking straight ahead. His
expression deadly serious.
He lifts a Beretta (handgun) into frame and slides a clip
into it.
PULL BACK to reveal the car's being driven by MANNY, Haven's
false apartment landlord from episode 1x03.
They ride in silence until Manny taps Priest on his shoulder
to get his attention.
MANNY
Priest, I've known you since you
were a little boy.
Used to watch you when your old man
was out putting monstruos in the
ground.
PRIEST
And?
MANNY
Sometimes, he used to scare me.
I owe him my life and I'll always
be grateful, but there were times
when I would look into his eyes and
what I saw there... scared me.
PRIEST
And what was it you saw?
Manny takes a moment to respond, pausing to swallow a lump in
his throat and cough first.
MANNY
Nada. I would see... nothing. And
those were the nights he was at his
most dangerous.
PRIEST
Your point, Manny?
MANNY
I'm getting the oddest sense of
deja vu right now. Just saying.
(beat)
I can't take you all the way there.
I'll drop you a couple of blocks
away.
PRIEST
You gonna tell Dad where I am?
Manny chuckles to himself.
MANNY
We both know he's already figured
it out. I wouldn't be surprised if
he meets you on the front steps.
Priest turns his eyes back to the road.
PRIEST
I wouldn't either.
INT. SERAPH POLICE DEPARTMENT PRECINCT - FIRST FLOOR - NIGHT
The station is mostly empty. Just a few stragglers in uniform
and two detectives in suits making notes on a dry erase
board.
CLOSE UP on an air vent high in the way. A cloudy, yellow GAS
starts to seep in.
WIDE ANGLE of the whole floor as the gas quickly spreads.
The few cops in the building scatter like rodents, covering
their mouths in a vain attempt to shield their lungs from the
gas.
TILT UP to the ceiling as a dark figure quietly drops down
into the gas filled room.
LOW ANGLE from the ground as a uniformed officer falls flat
on his face, out cold. The dark figure lands just behind him.
TILT UP from the ground as the figure stands up.
It's PRIEST, wearing what looks like a leather body suit with
thin plates molded around every moveable body part (legs,
arms, shoulders, etc. The mask looks the same as those from
the other suits.
A large gun is strapped to his back and the signature WHITE
COLLAR is around his neck.
He steps over the sprawled out bodies making his way towards:
INT. SERAPH POLICE DEPARTMENT PRECINCT - EVIDENCE ROOM - NEXT
CLOSE UP on a surveillance camera in the corner above the
doorway. A hail of bullets shatters it.
The door has a hand scanner set next to the knob. Priest
shoots it off and flings the door open.
He opens a large book on a table just inside the door, the
EVIDENCE LOG, and flips through the pages until he gets the
one he's looking for.
FADE TO a few moments later. Priest is up on a ladder
searching a high shelf. He grabs a small plastic bag off the
shelf just before the ladder is KICKED OUT from under him.
He drops to the ground and throws a backfist the instant he
lands. An arm comes up in frame to block it and Priest is
KICKED back into a wall.
He draws a gun and aims at his attacker.
REVERSE ANGLE to reveal a Preacher holding a gun on him. The
mask is lifted high enough to reveal the face behind it.
Tanya.
They speak in hushed tones.
PRIEST
(scoffs)
He sent you to talk me down?
TANYA
No, he sent me to kick the shit out
of your stubborn ass and drag you
back to Haven. Jesus Christ, you
broke into a god damned police
station!
Priest holds up the plastic bag. A small FLASH DRIVE is
inside.
PRIEST
I copied the list of clients from
Jackin' Jills before those hit men
showed up.
TANYA
You think they'd go to one of them
for help?
PRIEST
Big operation like this, their
customers gotta be upper class.
People with connections like that
could get them out of dodge. We've
only got a small window here to
nail these bastards.
Tanya doesn't respond.
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