ANDREW_BERNSTEIN ANGEL BOB CHUCK_COHEN COCO COP CREEM DUTCH EICHHORST EPH FET GUS JIM JORDAN JUSTINE KOWALSKI MARCUS MAYOR_LYLE NIKKI NORA OFFICER_HARRIS PALMER PEREZ QUINLAN SAMPSON SETRAKIAN SOPHIA ZACK EPH So what’s the problem? JIM Did I say there was problem? EPH You don’t have to. You’re doing that thing you do with your eyebrows. When you’re upset – JIM I’m not upset... Just wish you’d consulted me before you offered her a job. EPH I’m consulting you now. Nothing’s written in stone. You don’t think she’s qualified? JIM No. She’s abundantly qualified. EPH Worried she’ll be too confrontational? Because I think that’s a plus. JIM So do I. EPH Oh, wait... Is it because she’s so attractive? JIM You noticed that, did you? EPH Of course I noticed it. But you’re not suggesting that would be a distraction. JIM You’re the one who brought it up. EPH No, I just said out loud what was on your mind. JIM By the way, how are things with Kelly? She still want you quit the field? Take that desk job? EPH You’re unbelievable. You honestly think I want to hire Nora Martinez because I’m frustrated with Kelly? JIM Glad to see the possibility hasn’t even crossed your mind. EPH What are you today? The morality police? I know how to separate my personal and professional relationships. ZACK Yes, please, put them through... Hello, Nana...? Yes, it’s Zack! Yeah, I’m fine. Really... It’s great to hear your voice. Really great... I never thought -- I miss you, too... So much. ZACK Just a minute, okay...? EPH It’s okay, Z. You’ve been holding it in for a long time. MAYOR LYLE Justine! JUSTINE Have a seat, George. MAYOR LYLE What the hell are you thinking? I told you I would not allow you to extort these people. You went ahead and did it anyway. JUSTINE You also told me to drive this plague out of New York. I need cops to get the job done. And cops expect to get paid –- MAYOR LYLE -- With loot stolen from the citizens they’ve sworn to protect? JUSTINE It’s a tax -- like any other tax -- for public services. My officers are putting their lives on the line every night. They have families. MAYOR LYLE I’m not here to debate you. I want your letter of resignation on my desk by tomorrow morning, or I will instruct the D.A. to indict you. KOWALSKI After all she’s done for this city? You ungrateful -- JUSTINE Here. Call the D.A. right now. Meanwhile, I’ll take this to the City Council. MAYOR LYLE Way ahead of you. I’ve already spoken to Bernstein and Morello. They agree you need to step down, and the rest of the council will follow their lead. JUSTINE Captain Kowalski, please escort the Mayor off these premises. KOWALSKI All right, let’s go – MAYOR LYLE Get your hands off me! You’re fighting on my turf now. You won’t have the same luck. KOWALSKI Out. KOWALSKI He’s wouldn’t dare move against you. You’re too popular. JUSTINE That’s exactly why he will. FET Morning. How are you? DUTCH Better. I was just about to write you a note. But I couldn’t figure out exactly how to say what I wanted to say. FET Then it’s good I’m here. I can help you compose something. DUTCH You know, I really thought I was going to die there. That I’d finally gotten into something I couldn’t get out of. But then you came. FET Why wouldn’t I? DUTCH Because I’ve been such an utter shit to you. FET That’s no reason to let you die. DUTCH You’re such a better person than I am. Seems all I do is make a mess of everything I touch. FET Aren’t you being a little hard on yourself? DUTCH Am I? Because I’m about to walk out on a man who risked his life for me. Who knows exactly who I am – and loves me anyway. DUTCH I’m going to be with Nikki. Try to make something real with her. FET I hope you do. I want that for you. Why would I wish for anything else? DUTCH You don’t make it easy, do you? FET Nothing good comes easy. FET The Councilwoman’s really getting the word out. SETRAKIAN “Fatherland, homeland.” When politicians use these words, it always precedes murder on a grand scale. JORDAN Go on. He’s expecting you. FET Pretty good security. You get a lot of munchers coming up from the subway? MARCUS Closed it off. FET Smart. MARCUS Nobody goes on or off this island without Mr. Creem’s say-so. SETRAKIAN New York’s first warlord. MARCUS Your cane. Creem said you should hand it over for safekeeping. CREEM Good to see you again, old man. Sure you don’t want to sell this? SETRAKIAN The Occido Lumen. If you really have it, I want to see it. CREEM Right to the point. I like that. SETRAKIAN May I? CREEM By all means. FET All this silver -- give a muncher a hell of a burn. SETRAKIAN That was the intention. CREEM Those suckers hate silver, huh? CREEM Guess I picked the right bling. Can bite them back. So it’s the real deal? SETRAKIAN It would be impossible to forge -- to match the parchment, the coloring, the quality -- the oak gall ink. Yes, Mr. Creem. This is genuine. SETRAKIAN And this completes our transaction. CREEM Afraid not. There’s another player. Eldritch Palmer offered me over three million for it. SETRAKIAN But we had a deal! CREEM That was then. This is now. SETRAKIAN Mr. Creem, I will use this book to end this plague. Palmer will not. FET He wants the book so nobody can stop it. CREEM This apocalypse has been very good to me. Hell, I even got my own island. SETRAKIAN This is why the strigoi are winning. They are counting on humanity to chase short-term profits and remain blind to the long term consequences. CREEM If you’re accusing me of being human, guilty as charged. SETRAKIAN Give me twenty-four hours, and I will beat Mr. Palmer’s offer. CREEM Fair enough. You both come out here tomorrow, and we’ll bid it out. Man with the deepest pockets wins. Leave the timepiece. Last Patek 1563 went for 1.57 million. I’ll credit it to your account. The balance must be paid in gold. FET Gold? CREEM Think I’m going to take Apple Pay? SETRAKIAN Tomorrow then. GUS Hey, anybody home in there? NORA How’s he doing? EPH Sleeping... EPH All through family therapy, the custody hearing, all I wanted was to get him back. To make up for all the times I wasn’t there... Now I’ve got him and none of that’s happened... NORA Where you going? EPH To see Councilwoman Faraldo. If anyone can get me travel permits to get Zack out of the city, it’s her. NORA He’ll be safer with his grandparents. But he’ll miss you terribly. Have no doubt about that. NORA Did you find anything? EPH Chloramphenicol. Clinic had some in Chuquicara. NORA I gave her some zinc, otherwise she’d be gone by now. Can’t replace her fluids fast enough. EPH We need her conscious and drinking on her own. EPH Is that Jim? NORA No, Bob... Just checking in. EPH So how long have you two been dating now? NORA Six months. EPH Already...? Sounds serious. NORA It is. EPH Really? NORA What’s that mean? EPH Nothing. Just... a cardiologist. Doesn’t seem like your type. NORA He’s the head of Cardiac Surgery at Lenox Hill. EPH Right. Sorry. So let me guess. Bob’s got a house in Westchester somewhere on the 18th fairway – NORA -- 16th fairway. EPH And he’s pushing you to take lessons. NORA We already play together. EPH You play golf? NORA Yes, Eph, I play golf. I like it. It’s very relaxing. EPH What about Bob? Does he throw his clubs when he misses a shot? NORA No. EPH Does he kick his ball out onto the fairway when he thinks no one’s looking? NORA Is that what you do? EPH Never. NORA No. Okay, maybe he did once... JUSTINE What about Cohen? KOWALSKI Left three messages. He hasn’t returned. JUSTINE If we don’t get Cohen, we’re in deep shit. SAMPSON Councilwoman Faraldo -- Detective Paul Sampson, N.Y.P.D. Need to ask you some questions. JUSTINE The mayor send you? SAMPSON The mayor’s dead. JUSTINE Jesus... JUSTINE You said he was shot inside the mansion? Where the hell was his security detail? SAMPSON Outside. They found the body. His wallet and watch were missing, along with some other valuables from the upstairs bedroom. JUSTINE But nobody’s buying that it was a robbery. SAMPSON Lyle’s assistant says you and the Mayor exchanged some words this morning. JUSTINE He threatened to fire me, and I threw him out of my office. Yes. SAMPSON What I heard was he wanted to have you indicted. JUSTINE I knew the man for more than two decades. We exchanged a lotta threats. But I sure as shit didn’t kill him. We would have resolved our differences. We always did. SAMPSON Thanks. JUSTINE Let me know if I can assist you in any way. SAMPSON Some people think they can take advantage of the chaos in this city. Get away with anything. But not on my watch. JUSTINE You mind if I have a few minutes? We worked together a long time. SAMPSON Suit yourself. KOWALSKI Can you believe that prick? JUSTINE Did you do this, Frank? KOWALSKI What...? No, of course not. JUSTINE Did you get someone to do it? KOWALSKI No. JUSTINE So none of our people were involved? KOWALSKI As far as I know. JUSTINE Find out. PALMER You have to admire this. This took vision. JUSTINE Mr. Palmer. Sorry to keep you waiting. Good to finally meet you. How’s your assistant doing? PALMER A few inches one way, and the bullet would’ve killed her. But she’s going to make a quick and full recovery. JUSTINE Glad to hear that. Come on in. JUSTINE If you came here to convince me to resign, take a number. PALMER On the contrary, Mayor Lyle’s tragic death has left the city in even worse chaos. New York needs a strong leader. And I think that leader is you. JUSTINE There are a lot of people on the City Council who would disagree with you. PALMER I’ve been on the phone with the leadership all day. I believe you have tremendous support. In fact, this afternoon at my urging, Councilman Cohen will introduce a resolution to have you appointed Special Director of Security for New York City, in charge of waging all out war on this terrible plague. JUSTINE Why the sudden impulse to help me? PALMER I need a strong partner in City Hall. We’re both fighting to save this city. Together I believe we can get the job done. JUSTINE Kumbaya. Let’s hear the rest. PALMER Well, moving forward, you’re going to need tools to fight –- weapons, trained personnel, ammunition, armored vehicles. I’ll be able to get you anything you want. JUSTINE Ah. Just like you’ve done for the Pentagon? Stoneheart supplied our troops with $300 toilet seats. Then there was that base in Iraq. Cost you $30 million to construct, and you billed the government $300 million for it. PALMER Ms. Faraldo, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR turned his back on the New Deal and formed partnerships with the very industrialists he once scorned. Because Roosevelt understood that greed was the weapon that would win the war. Yes, I am a greedy bastard. When this is over, I will be even richer. But I also intend to win. Are you interested? EPH We’re here to see Councilwoman Faraldo. COP Get back! NORA Ask Captain Kowalski -- EPH There he is. COP Captain...? KOWALSKI Let them through. CHUCK COHEN Quiet! Quiet in the chamber, please! CHUCK COHEN The final tally is 38 to 13 in favor of the Enabling Act. ANDREW BERNSTEIN This makes a mockery of our democracy! CHUCK COHEN Debate is now closed. ANDREW BERNSTEIN We will challenge this in court! CHUCK COHEN Officers, please escort the councilman from the chamber. CHUCK COHEN And now it’s my honor to present our new Special Director of Security, Justine Faraldo! JUSTINE Thank you, fellow members... Apparently, Councilman Bernstein feels passionate about his civil rights... JUSTINE And I understand that. But you know what I feel passionate about? The right of every New Yorker to be free from the vile menace that grips this city. How many of you have lost loved ones to this plague? Watched them transform before you eyes into mindless parasites? I have. My nephew, Michael Williams. I was there the day he was born. And at his bedside the day he died. Mikey fought with us to free Red Hook. He was clearing a housing project, saving women and kids, when a stinger nicked him. The day I lost Mikey, I said to myself: No more! I’ll be damned if I’m going to let these things take more of our children, our mothers, fathers, and neighbors. No, goddamn it! I’m going to stop these bastards. By whatever means necessary. I need your help. Each and every one of you. I need you. And you. And you! Because if the people of New York stand united, we can beat these things. We will fight them here in Manhattan, in Queens, in Brooklyn, and the Bronx. JUSTINE I will not stop. I will not rest, until every one of these bastards is dead on the ground. COCO She’s incredible... PALMER A vast improvement over our Mayor. EICHHORST But can you control her? PALMER Let me worry about Faraldo. EICHHORST You’re looking much better, my dear. The white has brought a new blush to your cheeks. PALMER The Lumen will be auctioned off tomorrow. We need to prepare. EICHHORST Whatever do you mean? PALMER Setrakian will be there. When I outbid him, he and his confederates will most certainly try to take the book from me. EICHHORST For that very reason the Master cannot entrust such an important task to you. I will be attending the auction. PALMER No! No. Not with my resources, you won’t. EICHHORST That’s the way the Master wants it. COCO Don’t agree to this, Eldritch. EICHHORST The Master saved your life. And this is how you repay Him? COCO He saved me because he needed Eldritch. And he still does. EICHHORST Ungrateful whore. If you do not appreciate his gift, I can easily reclaim it. PALMER If you dare touch her – EICHHORST -- You’ll do what? I’d snap her neck before you take another step. PALMER Harm one hair on her head, and you will not get one ounce of gold from me. EICHHORST The Master saved your life, Eldritch, as well as hers. Do you not remember this? If you don’t provide the funds for the Lumen, you will never get a drop more of the white. This knocks the wind out Palmer’s sails. He didn’t realize he would eventually need more. EICHHORST Oh! You thought its effects are permanent? Sorry to disappoint you. If you don’t get more soon, you shall wither and die. PALMER All right, we’ve established that we all need each other. And that we’re united by a common goal. EICHHORST Exactly. We must not allow petty differences to divide us when victory is within our grasp. PALMER My thoughts exactly. EICHHORST See to it that funding’s in place tomorrow morning. Agreed? PALMER Consider it done. COCO He’s playing you. PALMER Of course. PALMER But there’s much more to come. DUTCH Is she here? SOPHIA Yes. Inside. SOPHIA She has a chance for a better life. Please, let it happen. DUTCH Where are you going? NIKKI Mom’s friend got us papers to get out of the city. DUTCH So you were just going to disappear? Not even a note? NIKKI What, like the one you left me? “On a job. Back tonight, I hope.” I waited two days. Not a word from you. DUTCH It’s going to sound insane. I got arrested, and where I’ve been – I kept thinking, I’ve got to see you again -- Jesus -- SOPHIA You made a choice to leave. That says everything. DUTCH Let’s go home. SOPHIA What home? To that apartment you’ve appropriated? God only knows what happened to the poor woman who actually lived there. Tragedy is everywhere, and you want to play house. DUTCH I’m not playing. NIKKI Mom, would you give us a minute? DUTCH You told me to make a choice. I did. I want to be with you. NIKKI Listen to me. I’ve been feeling... weak, half crazy. I can’t sit at home waiting for you anymore. DUTCH Then we’ll stay home together. NIKKI Come on, you don’t stay home. It’s impossible. You’ve found something you believe in: this fight. But it’s not my fight. DUTCH Did she brainwash you? NIKKI It’s not her, this is all me. I want to live. JUSTINE A bioweapon... EPH We’ve already tested it on a strigoi. It infected more than a dozen others. NORA All of them died. EPH If we can get the tools to mass produce it, you could kill every one of these creatures in New York. NORA Then in the rest of the country. You could be the person who ends this plague. JUSTINE What do you think, Frank? KOWALSKI What do you need from us? NORA A bio-reaction facility, and your teams to help disperse the agent once we make it. JUSTINE If it works, we’ll help disperse it. I have no idea where to get that other thing. EPH A firm in the Bronx has one. Fzw Systems. I called them; they were not very cooperative. JUSTINE Send some people. We’ll get it. Write it down. Thanks for bringing this to me. EPH Thanks for your help. I’ve got one more favor to ask... I need two travel permits and train tickets. I need to go to D.C. to get the reactive agent I need to encapsulate the bio-weapon. And I’m going to drop my son with his grandparents -- then I’m coming back. NORA Three travel permits and tickets. NORA I’m going with you. I want to make sure Zack gets there safely. NORA They came for my uncle in the middle of the night. That’s how it was -- always in the middle of the night. So my mother said we have to get out of Argentina. Now. Because she’d been at the same meetings and events. She knew they were going to come for us probably the next night. EPH Jesus... And she never found out what happened to her brother? NORA That was the worst thing about it. We never had closure. Never got to bury him, have a funeral. EPH So where’d you go? BOB You stayed with friends, right? NORA We moved every night. Even slept in our car. Finally, we got to the US Embassy. My mom, she had worked as an assistant to the US Ambassador. He got us the paperwork to get out. EPH Amazing. BOB Yeah – EPH Your mother sounds amazing. NORA She’s the reason I’m here. You should meet her sometime. EPH I’d love that. EPH That’s Kelly. I better get going, or I’ll be in deep shit. EPH Bob, so nice to finally meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you. BOB Heard a lot about you, too. NORA Sorry. I know you’ve heard that story before. But he wanted to know – BOB -- I get it. NORA Wow, it’s late. What time are we teeing off tomorrow? BOB We’re not. NORA What? BOB I’m done. The way you talk about Eph, the way you act with him, the way you look at him. That’s why I wanted to meet him. Seeing you together, it’s obvious. He’s your guy, not me. NORA Bob, he’s married. BOB That’s your heartache. I’ve got my own. NORA Bob, this is completely ridiculous. BOB Tell me I’m totally wrong. Tell me that none of what I’m saying is true. NORA It’s not like that at all. BOB Good-bye, Nora. Good luck. OFFICER HARRIS Yo! Anybody out there? GUS Well, if it isn’t El Pisaro. OFFICER HARRIS Elizalde? That you? ANGEL You know this guy? GUS Yeah. He liked to get you away from the security cameras... OFFICER HARRIS It wasn’t personal. GUS Just doing your job, huh? OFFICER HARRIS Elizalde, please. I’ve been trapped in here for days without food. You gotta get me out. GUS Going to need your Id card to open the lock. Okay. Have it your way. OFFICER HARRIS Hey, wait. You can’t just leave me here! GUS You don’t get to say what I can or cannot do. Not anymore. GUS Yo, Perez! You still alive? PEREZ Elizalde...? What the hell you doing here? GUS Come to get you out. PEREZ Best idea I heard all day. PEREZ Could have used these three days ago. GUS From what I saw coming in, it’s a good thing the C.O. locked you up. You’re the only ones didn’t get sucked dry. PEREZ Silver? Classy. So if we fight for this guy of yours, this Quinlan, he’ll supply us with more of this shit? GUS All we need. PEREZ But why do we gotta take orders from him? GUS ‘Cause he knows how to win against these things. He’s offering us a sweet deal. Working with him, we can own this city. PEREZ You saying he can be reasonable? GUS Guy doesn’t give a shit about stuff -- so whatever we grab on the way is ours. PEREZ Then what are we waiting for? Pick up those weapons. We got a city to take. GUS Stay quiet. I want us to get out of here without having to fight. I don’t want to lose nobody we don’t have to. GUS Angel -- get them to the bus. ANGEL Follow me. OFFICER HARRIS For chrissake, let me out! PEREZ Who the hell’s that? GUS Shut up, asshole. You’re gonna wake every chupa in the place. PEREZ Payback time. GUS No -- the chupas. PEREZ So what? GUS Go for the head! ¡Disparar a la cabeza! Make your shots count! GUS Run for it! GUS ¡No toque esa mierda blanca! Let’s go! GUS There’s our ride. Let’s go. PEREZ So we can work for this Quinlan like braceros? I make these calls. Not you. Thanks for the weapons, but -- ANGEL Anyone else? GUS You can stay or you can go. FET I’ll say one thing for this for this guy, he’s got a taste for the good life. Woulda gotten on well with the Cardinal. SETRAKIAN When we see him, let me do the talking. QUINLAN Have you found the Lumen? SETRAKIAN Yes. QUINLAN Continue. SETRAKIAN Tomorrow the Lumen will be sold to the highest bidder. I need the Ancients to back me. With gold. QUINLAN The gold will not be an issue, but they’ll be reluctant to trust you with the power of the Lumen... You could use it against them. SETRAKIAN True. But the Ancients must now decide who is the greater threat to them -- an old pawnbroker with a few confederates or the Master backed by Palmer and his billions. One thing is certain. If the Master obtains the book, he will destroy us all. QUINLAN Then it seems our only choice is to trust one another. SETRAKIAN I’ll obtain the book. And after I’ve examined it, turn it over to the Ancients. QUINLAN Agreed. FET Maybe we should get this in writing. Have it notarized. EPH Well, it’s done. NORA You going to tell Zack? EPH Thank you for coming with us. NORA I wouldn’t have it any other way. EPH Nora... I want you to know I’m sorry... Truly sorry for hurting you. NORA I can see that. EPH It may be hard for you to believe... but I never stopped loving you... I still love you. NORA I know. JIM Did I ever tell you two how much I love you? No, don’t laugh. I mean it. You’re like family. Closer than my own family. Better than them. NORA Of course we’re better. It took you all this time to figure that out? JIM No. It took a half a bottle of wine for me to say it out loud. EPH I think you’ve had enough, partner. JIM Now if that isn’t the cat calling the kettle... something... JIM Shit, my keys. NORA You’re sleeping on my couch tonight. JIM No, guys, I can’t. Sylvia will kill me. NORA I’ll call her. It’ll be fine. EPH You okay? JIM You two look great together. You know that? NORA I’ll call Sylvia. JIM Eph, I was wrong. EPH About what? JIM Nora. If she’ll make you happy, go for it. Everyone deserves to be happy. Even you. EPH Even me? Gee, thanks for the affirmation, buddy. Get some sleep. EPH Was Sylvia mad? NORA Not at all. She was glad he had such a good time. EPH Wow. She’s great for him. NORA I’m so happy he found her. EPH Especially after those others. NORA Remember Michelle? EPH You mean Michelle from hell? NORA And Stephanie? EPH The one who ran random Dna checks on the hairs she found on his jacket? Yeah, she was prize. NORA But now he’s got Sylvia. Just goes to show. You only have to choose well once. NORA Something wrong? EPH Kelly filed divorce papers yesterday. NORA Wow. She actually did it. EPH And she wants full custody of Zack. NORA What? EPH Can’t believe she’s that angry with me. NORA It’s because of us. EPH What are you talking about? Nothing’s happened. NORA Yes, it has. It’s been happening for a long time. Are you really going to stand there and pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about? EPH I’m taking you to Sea Island. To be with Nana and Grandpa. EPH That’s what you want, right? ZACK Only if you’ll stay with us. EPH Zack... I can’t. Not until I beat this plague. It won’t be safe for any of us until I do. ZACK But why does it have to be you? EPH Because I may be the only one who can. ZACK By using your bio-weapon. EPH It’s not because I don’t love you, or don’t want to be with you – ZACK -- I know. Sorry I gave you such a hard time about it before. But I get it now. I want you to do it. I’ll be fine. EPH I am so, so proud of you. ZACK I’m proud of you, too, Dad. QUINLAN Mr. Elizalde. Your mission was a success? GUS Got you twenty hungry wolves. QUINLAN Good. Because your friend, the pawnbroker, will soon be obtaining a valuable book -- the Occido Lumen -- on behalf of the Ancients. The Master cannot allow that to happen. GUS Meaning he has to come out of hiding. And when he does, my guys will be waiting. QUINLAN No. I will destroy the Master. But Mr. Setrakian... I do not expect him to honor our agreement. GUS Why? QUINLAN Because I wouldn’t if I were him. Your job is to convince him to give up the book. GUS That old bird is pretty tough. What if he don’t get convinced? QUINLAN Kill him and take it.