ANGEL CHIEF_CONDUCTOR COCO COLE CONDUCTOR CREEM DYLAN EICHHORST ENGINEER EPH FET GUS HOMELAND_SECURITY_AGENT JAMES JORDAN KELLY MARCUS NORA PACO PALMER QUINLAN RUDY SETRAKIAN THE_MASTER TRAIN_WORKER ZACK FET Hey there. NORA Think you’re going to be safe enough? FET Should get me to the grocery store and back... NORA We’re ready to leave. FET Good luck. When will you be back? NORA A few days? A week? Who knows? I’m through trying to make plans. FET But you are coming back. NORA New York is my home. For better... but mostly for worse. FET I got so tangled up with the emotionally volatile, bisexual, computer hacking, artist nut job... I’m wondering now, did I miss out on something...? NORA Maybe you’ll have it all figured out by the time I get back. FET You know what? I bet I will. FET Be safe, okay? NORA Always. EPH You can’t tell me you’re actually going to miss this place...? ZACK A little. ZACK Mr. Setrakian, I’m leaving. SETRAKIAN Very well. Travel safe. EPH Let’s get a picture. Get in there, Zack. This way, Professor. Smile. EPH Not big on good-byes, I take it? SETRAKIAN Not when you’ve said as many as I have. EPH Good luck getting the book, Professor. SETRAKIAN And good luck to you, Doctor. NORA Take care of yourself. Get some sleep. Make sure Fet cooks for you, okay? SETRAKIAN Maybe you should write that all down for me. NORA I want you to be just as pleasant and charming when I get back. FET We’re kissing now? C’mere, Zack. FET Take care, big man. Send me a postcard. ZACK Yeah, right... FET It’ll show up in a couple a years. FET Thought this was a quick trip down the coast and back. EPH With a stop or two around D.C. We still have friends and contacts there. FET To get your bio-bomb put together? EPH If we can get our hands on the reactive agent in D.C., we can produce our bio-weapon in quantity. Then we’ll come back up here. Councilwoman Faraldo’s pledged to help us disperse it. FET Don’t know where we’ll be, but when you get back -- NORA We’ll find you. EPH All right, let’s get going... COCO You need to make them respect you, Eldritch. COCO They cannot succeed without you. PALMER They seem very certain that they can. COCO Remind them that they can’t. COCO You don’t have to die. And we never have to lose what we have. Ever... FET So how much gold are we talking about here? SETRAKIAN ...Gold? FET Yeah, gold. The thing we’re using to bargain for the Lumen? How much do the Ancients have? SETRAKIAN I have no idea. FET No idea. Doesn’t that kind of make it hard to bid? SETRAKIAN One way or another, we will get the Lumen. FET One way or another? SETRAKIAN We win it. We take it. Or we die trying. FET Yeah, let’s skip that third option. JORDAN It’s the pawnbroker. Let him in. FET I got a question for you, Professor. Kind of a variation on that third option... FET What if Creem transfers the gold, kills us and keeps the Lumen for himself. SETRAKIAN He doesn’t want the Lumen. Creem values one thing more than gold -- his life. He knows if he keeps that book, the Master will destroy him. FET I hope you’re right. FET Look like the competition’s arrived... COLE You folks are lucky. You’re on the last train out. There’s full-on rioting going on over there in the other part of the station... NORA Why is this the last train? COLE National Guard’s taking all the trains out to New Jersey. I hear they’re loading them up over there for some kind of D-Day attack. TRAIN WORKER Two bag limit! No one will be allowed on the train with more than two bags! NORA How long until the train arrives? TRAIN WORKER You guess is as good as mine. EPH It’s going to be okay, buddy. Why don’t you play a game or listen to some music while we wait? NORA The right thing to do is usually the hardest thing to do. EPH It’s going to be very tough... You know, once we get back to D.C... and we get a fresh shot at putting the bioweapon together... maybe it’ll mean a fresh shot for us, too... NORA Let’s focus on getting there. EPH I know, I have no right to ask – NORA No, you don’t. EPH No one else can drive you crazy like I can. Just keep an open mind, that’s all I ask. GUS All right, this here is Mr. Quinlan. He’s responsible for us getting you all out of jail. PACO This freak? He’s one of them, man! QUINLAN I am not one of them. PACO I’ll tell you what you are -- you’re dead! QUINLAN You’re half-right. QUINLAN Anyone else? QUINLAN Gentlemen. Human life is fleeting. I have watched many men perish, good and bad. The act itself, the dying, is the same. QUINLAN How would you men like to be remembered? As human animals, marginalized and locked away in cages? Or as warriors. Fighters of the highest order... QUINLAN What point of honor have you men spilled blood for in the past? A woman? A street corner? Your ethnic heritage? QUINLAN Today you fight for one tribe: humankind. You fight for one turf: New York City. It no longer matters what color you wear, or what color your skin is. What matters is the color of your blood. Red versus white. Your allegiance has been forsworn. QUINLAN Today you are no longer prisoners of your past mistakes. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. I will either find a way or make one. Today you will define who you are. Today you will spill white blood and change the future. Are you with me? QUINLAN Then let us fight. CONDUCTOR Everybody needs to find a seat. Keep your luggage out of the aisles! CONDUCTOR The train is full, but every ticketed passenger has a seat! So please be courteous! We hope to depart within the hour! RUDY Within the hour! We are already so late, how will we make up the time? CONDUCTOR We won’t. Wanna let go of my arm? RUDY But I have a connection to make in Miami. CONDUCTOR Everybody on this train’s got places to go, sir. Including me. RUDY This is an outrage. I need to get out of New York right now! EPH So does everybody here. CREEM Welcome, Professor -- glad to see you made it. This should be a good time. But first, we’re going to need you and your friend here – to check all your weapons. CREEM You’ll get ‘em back at the end. Now how about a drink? SETRAKIAN No, thank you. CREEM I’ll have one for you. CREEM Now we just need you to register and verify your gold funds with James right over here... CREEM Good luck, Professor. CREEM Who’s this guy? MARCUS We’re gonna need your weapons. EICHHORST I have no weapons. CREEM Who are you? EICHHORST I am Thomas Eichhorst. Mr. Palmer’s emissary. I will be bidding in his place. CREEM You got the gold, you can bid. Just register your funds right over there... EICHHORST Of course. CREEM I’ll get the book, and we’ll get the show on the road. SETRAKIAN Where is Palmer? EICHHORST This transaction is much too important. I have the honor of acquiring the Lumen. EICHHORST Here is my account information, which all will be verified. EICHHORST How ironic that our duel should end not with a fight but with a simple transaction in gold. SETRAKIAN I assure you, Eichhorst, our duel shall end with a transaction in silver. But for now, yes -- winning the Lumen and besting both you and Palmer will give me great pleasure. EICHHORST That will never happen. SETRAKIAN So the Master passed you over for a third rate musical act. Does it hurt at all to be bound by loyalty to one so obviously unimpressed by you? EICHHORST Does it not pain you to tally all that I have taken from you already? Knowing that in a few minutes I shall add to it the book on which you have staked your very last hope? SETRAKIAN You are a creature of filth, Eichhorst. A crude monster. A suit and makeup cannot hide that fact, no matter how much you think it does. EICHHORST Were it up to me, I would suck you dry and then snap your neck, denying you one final time. But do you know that the Master has a plan for you? Yes, He wants you to turn, to bear witness to that which you have been fighting against for so long. SETRAKIAN Never. I will release you, Eichhorst, to die like the soulless appendage you are. FET I’m pretty sure he’s right. EICHHORST So says the slab of beef. CREEM Easy -- hey -- easy. Why don’t you all step back? FET Too bad we’ve got all these gangbangers watching us. I’m dying for the chance to stick a piece of rebar in your right ear and watch it come out the left. JAMES Both credit lines are verified. The bidding is about to begin. CREEM All right, here we go. Both your banks in Switzerland have agreed to convert funds into gold based upon the current exchange rate. Highestdollar value bid wins. CREEM Let me think of a number to start at – SETRAKIAN Five million dollars. CREEM All right, five it is. EICHHORST Ten million. SETRAKIAN Fifteen. CREEM Fifteen million dollars. Do I hear twenty? EICHHORST Thirty million. SETRAKIAN Fifty. CREEM All right, hold on. Let me catch my breath here. Fifty million dollars. That’s where we stand? EICHHORST One hundred million. CREEM Hold on, we’re going up in increments of – SETRAKIAN -- Two hundred million. EICHHORST Three hundred million. CREEM Whoa. I think we can see where this is going. You’re willing to going all the way with this, right? SETRAKIAN Of course. CREEM And you? EICHHORST Yes. CREEM Then I propose both sides go all in. The one with the most gold will win the book for exactly one dollar more than the losing bid. Deal? SETRAKIAN Agreed. EICHHORST Yes. CREEM All right. James will check each account to find out the limits... James...? JAMES All set, boss. CREEM Let’s start with for Mr. Setrakian. What’s the grand total? JAMES 323 million dollars. CREEM 323 million. Okay. This is some kind of book. James, how about the German...? James is conferring on the other phone – CREEM ...What’s he got? JAMES $351.8 million. CREEM Sold to the German -- for $323 million plus one buck. Transfer the gold to my account. Right the hell now. EICHHORST The great game is over. Nothing on this earth can stop the Master now. EICHHORST Place it in the canvas bag for me, please. CREEM For 323 mil, hell, I’ll gift wrap it if you want. Soon as I get confirmation your gold is in my bank. JAMES Yo, Creem... CREEM The German’s access to the Swiss bank account has been rescinded. EICHHORST That is ridiculous. Obviously a mistake has been made. CREEM No mistake. They checked twice. Access to the gold account was withdrawn. Sorry, you’re out of luck. Looks like it’s yours, old man. Congratulations. I was rooting for you. EICHHORST Allow me to call the bank and rectify the situation. CREEM $323 million is $323 million. I ain’t rectifying jack shit. CREEM That was your last warning. CREEM Try it. Go ahead. Do your thing. CREEM Step away. SETRAKIAN It seems at the end of the day Eldritch Palmer would rather I have the book than allow it to fall into the hands of the Master. Interesting. EICHHORST I congratulate you, A230385. EICHHORST I congratulate you greatly. Enjoy this victory. Savor it. Remember it. Plant it in your memory. EICHHORST I will see you soon. CREEM All right party’s over. Off my island. CREEM Thanks for making me rich, old man. It’s gonna be dark soon. Hope you set some money aside for a helicopter or something. FET 323 million smackeronis. Yeesh. SETRAKIAN Be vigilant. The attack could come from any direction. FET Why didn’t you arrange for any backup? Those Ancients paid a lot of gold for this thing, you’d think they’d want to help. SETRAKIAN Mr. Fet, there is something I neglected to tell you. I am not giving this book to the Ancients. FET Okay... So we’re ripping off one gang of immortal munchers... and looking to throw down against another? SETRAKIAN That is an accurate assessment. SETRAKIAN How much farther? FET Almost there. You know, you could have told me about double-crossing the Ancients -- SETRAKIAN We need to move! FET Hang on! FET Come on! FET Go, Professor! FET Uh-oh. EICHHORST Professor, as always, your victory was fleeting. EICHHORST Bring me the book... and the professor. SETRAKIAN Let them know we won’t go easily. EICHHORST The Born. ANGEL Go, go! QUINLAN Do you see me through him?! You were wise not to come here yourself. Cowardly, but wise. THE MASTER I fear no one. QUINLAN Nor I. CHIEF CONDUCTOR Thanks, folks, for your patience. We have been cleared for departure, and train number 323, with stops in Washington D.C., Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Orlando, and terminating in Tampa/Miami, is underway. NORA Go back to sleep. RUDY Finally. EPH Long trip ahead of us. I’m going to hit the Club Car before it runs out. Sandwiches and drinks? NORA Waters, please. EPH Be right back. DYLAN Great to be underway, huh? Where You headed? EPH Savannah. DYLAN Nice. I’m going all the way to -- DYLAN The hell is that? Something on the tracks? EPH Shit. ENGINEER Holy Christ! We gotta stop! HOMELAND SECURITY AGENT No! Throttle up! Plow through them! Do not stop! EICHHORST Eldritch, you have crossed a line which cannot be uncrossed. PALMER Did you really believe that I am a man to be trifled with? COCO Who are you to give orders? Eldritch’s pact is not with you. EICHHORST My dear, you will not speak unless spoken to. PALMER She can and will speak her mind. You still don’t understand I do not take orders from you. EICHHORST You humiliated me at the auction. You cost us the Lumen. But your most grievous crime... was betraying the Master. PALMER Please. It’s only Setrakian. My security team can have it back in our hands before he’s translated the title page -- but only if you and your Master pay me the respect I goddamned deserve! EICHHORST How dare you – COCO -- How dare you! Without Eldritch’s influence, without his abilities, without what he has done – EICHHORST -- I see who is deciding things. COCO We want to live on as we are. We want the white when we need it. You will help us; we will help you. But as equals. That was, as I heard it, the bargain. EICHHORST What do you think, mein Meister? PALMER I see I’ve finally warranted your attention. PALMER These new terms -- the white for immortality -- do not materially affect our agreement. Use me and my resources as necessary... but do not take me for granted ever again. THE MASTER The terms of our agreement remain unchanged. EICHHORST She has a new mate now, Eldritch. Devotion is a beautiful thing... PALMER No... no... ZACK Nora, what happened...? NORA We’ve derailed. NORA Zack. Get your dagger. RUDY Silver. What are you... where are you going? Tell me what’s happening! ZACK What about Dad? NORA We can’t wait. He’ll find us. Come on! EPH Zack. NORA We have to run for it, Zack. I don’t know how far back the station is... it’s our only chance. NORA Come on! EPH Zack?! Nora?! EPH Okay. We’ll do this here. NORA Watch out for the third rail. Zack, we’re close to the station. Come on! NORA Stay behind me. When I say “run,” you run. Get to the station. Wait for your father or me. Got it? KELLY Zack. NORA Come and get him, bitch. NORA What are you waiting for! Come on! NORA Now, Zack! Run!! ZACK Stop! ZACK No! ZACK No -- let her go! Please! Stop! ZACK No! KELLY Zack... KELLY Zack... ZACK Let me see you. FET There she is. Home free. GUS Hey, pawnbroker! GUS I should shoot you just for making me walk through a damn sewer. FET Back off, man. Just walk away. GUS I’m talkin’ to Mr. Setrakian. You made a deal, old man. I’m here to see that you honor it. FET Who is this, anyway? SETRAKIAN A former customer. I am not giving this book to you or to the Ancients or to anyone. I am going to walk on to that boat, and either you are going to shoot me, and Mr. Fet is going to shoot you, or... FET This guy... QUINLAN Hello, Professor. You were saying? SETRAKIAN Mr. Quinlan, you did not come all this way to do the Ancients’s bidding. I know who you are. QUINLAN Do you. SETRAKIAN I know what you want. It’s not this book. GUS Same old pawnbroker, making deals. Watch out, Q, you gonna end up with a busted clock. SETRAKIAN The Ancients will destroy this book rather than allow its secrets to be revealed. And when they do, they will destroy the one item in this world the Master desires. QUINLAN But so long as this book exists... SETRAKIAN It is bait. You want the Master? He will come for whoever possesses it. That I guarantee you. EPH Zack! Nora! EPH Nora...? Nora!! EPH Oh god... EPH Ohmygod... What about Zack? Where’s Zack? Where is he? NORA She took him. EPH She... turned him? NORA No. Took him away with her... NORA Stay back. Don’t come close. EPH No, no, we can manage this. I can -- we can figure this out. NORA I already hear his voice in me. I feel his will creeping into mine. I don’t want him to hear any of your words. I don’t want him to see you with my eyes. EPH Nora – NORA I would come back for you, Eph. You and Zack... EPH Don’t leave me – NORA There’s no other choice... EPH Noooo!!!!!!!!! FET I don’t know about this... FET Well? SETRAKIAN Somewhere in here is the key to the Master’s origin. And, hopefully, his demise. FET But you can figure it out, right? SETRAKIAN In time, yes. FET In time? We got a stolen book in a stolen boat, sailing down a river with no idea where we’re going, Mexican gangbangers and a halfbreed strigoi on board, Ancients and the Master after us... I’m sure we have plenty of time. FET And on top of everything else, I think I left my toothbrush back at my place. SETRAKIAN Long ago, I pledged my life to opposing these monsters. Since then, I have lost everything dear to me, driven to the edge of madness in my quest forknowledge... and vengeance. Now, one step away from victory, why do I feel more trepidation than triumph? What insidious plan does the Master have for humankind? SETRAKIAN Six million years ago, a single female ape bore two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees; the other, our own grandmother. But for a few ounces of brain matter, we could be the creatures locked up in zoos and research laboratories. But if you live like cattle, you will be treated like cattle. We have become overconfident as a species. We ignorantly believed in our primacy over all else – over all other species -- over our planet itself. SETRAKIAN Will we perish under our own greed and selfishness? Or will we overcome and survive? SETRAKIAN A short time ago, our current reality was beyond imagination. Now we have one last chance to win back our world... SETRAKIAN In order to defeat the Master, we must be as cold and ruthless and savage as he is... and yet without becoming... monsters ourselves.