BROOKLYN_GUY BUCK DUTCH EICHHORST EPH FET HASSAN JAX JIM MAYOR NORA RECAP RIVERS SETRAKIAN SUBWAY_ANNOUNCER TV_REPORTER UVC VAMPIRE VAMPIRES VAMPIRE_2 VAMPIRE_3 EICHHORST You have two bosses now. The ones at the CDC ... and me. JIM I waved that van through. At the airport after you sealed it. They paid me a little bit of money to do them a favor, all right? JIM FET I’ve seen them in the tunnels. FET Something big. RIVERS RIVERS FET Okay, then. EPH You’re saying we kill the Master and that’s somehow going to stop this plague. SETRAKIAN Yes. EPH That makes no biological sense! How does that work? SETRAKIAN At every turn, everything I have said has proven to be correct. EPH Yes, but-- SETRAKIAN This is no different. SETRAKIAN EICHHORST I give you another day of life, Jew. JIM Are you all right? NORA Are you okay? SETRAKIAN Am I injured? No. But we have missed our opportunity. And there will be consequences. JIM How did it move like that? SETRAKIAN The vampires you’ve seen before are newly formed, in the earliest stages of maturity. EPH I shot him in the leg. SETRAKIAN Had you struck bone, it might have hobbled him. NORA Are you saying gun shots don’t kill them? SETRAKIAN It’s hard to wound them fatally with a gun. Strigoi flesh heals rapidly. But silver burns them. It’s been many, many years since Eichhorst tasted such pain. By wounding him, we have sent the Master a message. I do not think we will have to wait long for his reply. JIM I really, really don’t like the sound of that. SUBWAY ANNOUNCER NORA Tunnels are the perfect ecology for them, aren’t they? Dank, dark, devoid of sunlight. JIM Everybody knows vampires don’t like sunlight. EPH Not vampires: viruses. The die-off rate for any genome-based pathogen exposed to direct ultraviolet radiation is over 90 percent. NORA That’s why sun desiccates them. And at nighttime they have free reign. JIM It’s nighttime now. New York City is an open buffet. EPH Unless ... EPH We could find a way to simulate our own sunlight. EICHHORST JIM Shit. It’s closed. EPH Where’s another medical supply company? JIM UVC light? Bushwick. NORA Here, can you wait a minute? EPH Hey! Wait! Hey! Hey! Hey! EPH Well, I guess we’re staying here. EPH That window over there. NORA We’re breaking in? We’re burglars now? EPH Burglers, vigilantes, vampire killers ... add it to the list. EPH All right, get ready for an alarm. JIM Must be a silent alarm. Hurry. NORA Hold up, wait. NORA You hear something? JIM I think it was outside. EPH Let’s just do this and get out of here. FET Say something so I know you’re not one of them. JIM Put the gun down. We tried the door. Nobody answered. This is a legitimate medical emergency. We broke in to requisition supplies. FET Requisition, huh? You look like a bunch of looters to me. EPH We’re from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Who are you? FET I’m a looter. JIM Right here. They were right here. JIM The UVC lights--they were--they’re gone. FET I guess you’ve seen these sons of bitches, too, huh? JIM Hey, what are you going to do with those lights? FET Same thing as you, I bet. Sunlight fries these big munchers. That means ultraviolet radiation. UVC light is the strongest there is. EPH We need those lamps. FET You’re the airplane doctor. I saw you on TV, right? Huh. Aren’t you some kind of dangerous criminal or something? JIM Hey, pal, police are going to be here any minute. FET Ah, no, they’re not. I took out the phone lines at the junction box. No alarm. Besides, by my guess, the cops have bigger things to worry about by now. Don’t you think? FET Any reward for turning you in? EPH No, sorry. FET Too bad for me. Very good for you. SETRAKIAN You encountered these creatures? FET Sure. I exterminated a couple. SETRAKIAN You say “exterminate”? FET That’s what I do, Pops. I’m a city exterminator. FET So the government’s getting in on the fight, huh? EPH Not officially. NORA What are you going to do with 12 lamps? FET I’m not gonna run out for a while. NORA NORA So it’s every man for himself already? If so, then this battle is over before it even began. FET I’ll tell you what. I’ll give you three. NORA Three? FET What? Grandpa wants one? NORA We’ll take six. Half. FET I can survive with six but only six. EPH Hey, why don’t we get some phones--those pay-as-you-go types? NORA Cell phones aren’t working. Something about the networks. EPH Well, eventually they’ll be working and we’re gonna need a way to communicate. JIM Might as well load up on food and drinks while we can. NORA Let’s make it quick. SETRAKIAN Go ahead. I’ll be right along. FET How’d you get here, Pops? SETRAKIAN We travelled by subway and taxicab. FET I wouldn’t go back that way if I were you. The subway tunnels, that’s where they are. Dozens of them. SETRAKIAN Thousands, I should think. These tunnels ... you know them well? FET Very well. TV REPORTER A bizarre attack at Leisure Horizons, an assisted-living facility in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, has claimed the lives of four people. TV REPORTER His son appeared there before noon-- HASSAN Machine is slow tonight. TV REPORTER --and viciously assaulted his father in a corridor outside his room. JIM Look, I know it’s good. Can you please just swipe it again? TV REPORTER His father, Victor, was arrested from Leisure Horizons. JAX Credit card machine’s down. Shit. I don’t have any cash. DUTCH Shocking. Here. The ATMs are going to be a problem for the next few days, so ... JAX I know that face. What’d you do, you and your crew of weirdo hackers? DUTCH Nothing much ... unless you want to use a computer or a cell phone. JAX Seriously? Why? DUTCH ‘Cause someone paid me a lot of money to do it. You used to think I was a genius. JAX Did I? SETRAKIAN How may we get in touch with you? Perhaps we could help each other. FET I work alone. SETRAKIAN Where else have you seen these vampires? FET Vampires? No, no, no, no, no. No, not like Dracula. No, they don’t have any fangs, or anything like that. They’re, they’re more like rat-people, you know? SETRAKIAN You’ll excuse me. NORA He’s right, you know. EPH Who? NORA That exterminator. I grew up with food shortages, people fighting over goods, medicine. There’s gonna be looting and panic and vigilantes. EPH Aside from us, you mean. EPH Nora! Time to go. JAX DUTCH What the hell?! DUTCH Oh my God! Crazy old man with a bloody sword! SETRAKIAN MASTER’S VOICE Professore. VAMPIRE SETRAKIAN Unholy filth. JAX VAMPIRE FET VAMPIRE FET A nail gun, huh? Interesting. VAMPIRE FET What? You want some more, huh? EPH Jim! C’mon, let’s go. BROOKLYN GUY Screw this! FET So, what, you can speak to these things? JIM Give me the phone! NORA Jim! HASSAN I have to count this first! JIM NORA Watch out for the pump! VAMPIRE VAMPIRE 2 VAMPIRE 3 VAMPIRE 3 JIM I need a plug! Where’s the outlet?! HASSAN Over there. But don’t touch that! VAMPIRE FET Jim! This is why I carry rebar! SETRAKIAN Wait! There’s too many. I need your help. EPH Now or never! EPH Aim for their heads! NORA Forgive me. JIM Come on! JIM Come on! VAMPIRE JIM Come on! JIM Come on! I got him! VAMPIRE JIM Ow! SETRAKIAN Inside. Now! JIM Well, at least we know the light works. EPH Not through glass--it’s a natural UV barrier. Filters out 80 to 90 percent of UV radiation. NORA Jim--what happened? JIM Scraped when she knocked me down. EPH ‘Kay, go to the restroom, wash it out. HASSAN GO OUT! All of you! I’ll call the police! FET Go ahead, Apu! Fire it off in there! Go deaf! BUCK Look, I don’t want no trouble. I’m just a working man here. You let me go, I’m outta your hair. EPH We all want to get out of here. BUCK Then why’d you just lock us in? DUTCH Hey! Hey! What the hell is going on? What are those things? SETRAKIAN Strigoi. Vampires. DUTCH He’s kidding, right? FET Does he look like he’s kidding? NORA Look at us. EPH It’s us or them. NORA I know. EPH If we charge these lamps, we can walk out of here. JIM Okay. FET These glass windows aren’t keeping them out. What are they waiting for? SETRAKIAN Reinforcements. We have very little time. FET I need the rules. What kills these things? Aside from direct sunlight. SETRAKIAN The brain stem must be destroyed or severed from the spinal cord. FET So, beheading or rebar bashing. What about guns? SETRAKIAN Lead rounds can maim them if they strike bone. Flesh wounds heal without pain. Only silver truly hurts them. They fear it. FET Silver sword, silver bullet. And that nail gun that you have there? Aside from the silver nails--what, a standard issue? SETRAKIAN From Home Depot. FET Vasiliy Fet. It’s good to know you. SETRAKIAN Abraham Setrakian. Pleasure. JAX Nine-one-one isn’t working. All I’m getting are recorded messages! DUTCH Obviously. JAX You did this too? DUTCH A little less volume, please. JAX Oh my God! What have you done? We’re-- DUTCH Shut up or I’m gonna punch you in the mouth! EPH Hey! Get out of there! We need your help! HASSAN Extension cords and food and hydrogen peroxide. I make list of everything you steal. EPH We’re not stealing anything. EPH Listen, everybody. We need your help. We’re doctors from the Centers for Disease Control. There is a plague that’s spreading through New York City-- DUTCH Is it a plague or is it vampires? Because he said vampires. EPH It’s a transformative disease that makes people predatory and extremely dangerous. But we have an idea about how to get us all out of here tonight. BUCK Sorry, man. Good luck with all that. But I got shit to do ... EPH You’re not gonna never make it. Trust me. BUCK Trust you? Hell, I don’t even know you. How can I trust you? EPH No, sir, please, listen to me. If you go out there, you will be killed. NORA Hey! What are you doing! STOP! DUTCH Stop! Stop! Nikki! EPH Hey, no! VAMPIRES JAX VAMPIRES FET Son of a bitch. She made it. DUTCH She did. She made ... That bitch. You said not to run! EPH They’re not following her ... EPH They’re not here for her. SETRAKIAN They’re here for us. DUTCH “Us”? Who’s “us”? Not us. You! FET We go to my truck. It’s right over there. SETRAKIAN It’s too far. We won’t all make it. BUCK My bread truck’s right over there. Anybody else wants to go now, I got plenty of room in back. DUTCH Are you kidding? I’m in. SETRAKIAN This is what they thrive on. Fear, panic, divisiveness. There is strength in numbers. We must make a plan, and act together. BUCK I got a plan. It’s called beat ‘em to the truck. Just you and me, then. You ready? EPH Oh, come on. VAMPIRES BUCK BUCK DUTCH Oh my God. This can’t be happening! EPH Nobody leaves until we all leave! JIM So, are we stuck till morning? SETRAKIAN We won’t make it till morning. We won’t even last another hour. JIM We won’t? SETRAKIAN Many more will be coming. Soon they’ll swarm and overrun us. EPH They can communicate with each other now? SETRAKIAN They are connected to the Master who sees through every strigoi eye. EPH He sees through them? SETRAKIAN When will you decide to believe me? TV REPORTER TV REPORTER Here is what he had to say to reporters in front of City Hall earlier today. MAYOR FET Gimme 25 Powerball quick picks, Apu. HASSAN I am Hassan. FET Hassan, 25 Powerball quick picks. Make one of them a winner. HASSAN Lottery machine is down. Credit card machine down. Nine-one-one down. FET Well, fifty dollars’ worth of scratch tickets, then, huh? My luck can only get better. EPH Maybe in a tight cordon with the UVC lamps and the weapons, we can make a break for it. NORA How about the other cars in the garage? FET One’s got no engine. One’s got no wheels. JIM I stuck around to help. Let me know if there’s anything else I can do. NORA Jim, what is that? JIM What? NORA Come here. JIM What? I don’t like that look. JIM Hey, careful. That’ll burn. NORA Close your eyes. JIM Nora, Eph, c’mon. Talk to me. EPH Your cheek. JIM Yeah, it got cut. EPH I think you got nicked. JIM It’s just a scrape. NORA Jim ... EPH It’s a worm. EPH I need tweezers, a lighter .... and where’s that hydrogen peroxide? SETRAKIAN Doctor, a word, please. EPH I need paper towels, gloves, and a knife. JIM What? EPH I’m going to cut it out of you. JIM What are you going to do with that box cutter? NORA Here, drink this. JIM NORA The stinger must have grazed you. Maybe that’s all it takes to transmit the parasite. EPH Do you feel it anywhere? JIM Anywhere? I can feel it everywhere now! JIM Am I going to end up like the airplane pilot? EPH Not if we get it before ... JIM Before what? EPH Before it reproduces! JIM FET They’re on the roof. FET And at the back door. C’mon. JIM JIM What do you see? EPH Not too close. I don’t want them digging in any deeper. JIM Deeper. Get it out already. FET They’re looking for multiple points of ingress. Just like any other vermin. JIM Can you see it? I think I can feel it around my eye now. EPH I’m not going to lie to you-- JIM Get it out! EPH The skin on your face is very thin and it’s full of nerve endings. This is going to hurt like a bitch. JIM I don’t care! Just get it out! Get it out! JIM JIM DUTCH Okay, how fast can we move the wheels from this car to that one? EPH JIM What’s happening?! EPH That’s it. EPH All right, almost there. Good. Got it. Don’t move. Don’t move. NORA Don’t lose it. NORA Got it. FET Almost there. DUTCH You better hurry up. They’re up to something. EPH It’s not pretty, but it’ll hold till we get you to a hospital. JIM JIM You cut my face open. EPH I did, didn’t I? JIM Yeah. I could have turned into one of them. NORA Don’t even think about it. JIM You two saved my life, my soul. Thank you. EPH I think we may have stumbled onto a potential treatment here. NORA An early intervention protocol. EPH Something new. I don’t want to go so far as to say a cure ... HASSAN Help! Oh God! Someone come quick! HASSAN Help! You can’t come in here! HASSAN Get him out! VAMPIRE HASSAN Help! EPH They’re using tools now. SETRAKIAN Not just tools. A distraction. EPH What are you doing? Wait for us! EPH Are you gonna tell me what we’re doing out here? SETRAKIAN It’s cutting our power. VAMPIRE EPH That didn’t stop him. SETRAKIAN I didn’t hit him in the head! SETRAKIAN Don’t distract me! NORA Here’s some candles-- EPH Hassan, give us some batteries. FET They’re coming in! DUTCH NORA The garage! DUTCH Get in here! DUTCH Help! Let go! FET The car! I’m almost done! Somebody block the door! SETRAKIAN Fall back! Fall back! FET We’re getting them on all sides now! We can’t wait any longer. EPH How much more time do we have left in those lamp batteries? FET If we get 20 minutes out of these things, I’ll be amazed. SETRAKIAN That means we have 20 more minutes of life--if that. SETRAKIAN The bread truck is our only hope. JIM Okay, that didn’t work out so well for the actual bread truck driver who still has the keys, by the way. DUTCH And once you get outside with those things, that truck is a lot further away than it seems. SETRAKIAN Fine. We’ll put it to a vote. Who wants to stay and die? SETRAKIAN The longer we allow ourselves to be distracted from our only goal--survival--the more likely we are to fall short of achieving it! Mr. Fet, you spend your life engaging vermin in this city. Perhaps you have some suggestions for getting us from here to there? DUTCH Hey, what shall I do? EPH Take those bottles over there; empty them in the bathroom. EPH They’re trying to rip off the HVAC unit and get in through the venting. They’re getting more lucid, aren’t they? SETRAKIAN In one month they will be fully mature. EPH Like Eichhorst? SETRAKIAN No, not like him. There are a few to whom the Master grants greater power. They retain parts of their former selves. Eichhorst is one of the chosen. Even among the strigoi, there is a caste system. EPH No offense, but every time I talk to you, I come away feeling worse. FET Hassan, it’s time to come out of there, okay? All right? You’re coming with us. HASSAN It’s safe here. FET Don’t be a fool, Hassan. You want to die inside a cigarette box? HASSAN I stay! I wait for police! And who pays for this? FET It’s a $250 winner, all right? Keep the change--you earned it. DUTCH Want some? DUTCH Sure? EPH Yeah. DUTCH Your loss. EPH Sorry--what was your name? DUTCH Dutch. Dutch Velders. DUTCH How has this happened? EPH There’s no short answer. Let’s get this done. JIM Pretty crazy, right? For you to save my life in here only to get stung out there. EPH I think Setrakian’s right; we just need to stay together. JIM It was inside of my face! Eph, what you did was incredible. EPH We can talk about it later. Let’s just focus on getting out of here. JIM Sorry. I knew what I was doing was wrong. I just didn’t know how wrong. All I can do now is just try to make up for it. EPH I got it. I appreciate it. JIM What? JIM Are you kidding? Whatever--everything’s fine. I don’t feel anything. I can’t feel anything. EPH Sh. JIM It’s fine. JIM Oh shit. JIM Oh shit. I’m done for, aren’t I? EPH We’re going to take you to the hospital. We’re going give you antiparasitics. We’ll try chemo. We have a lot of tools at our disposal. JIM You couldn’t save Captain Redfern! JIM Oh shit. JIM You’ll have to kill me. EPH We’re not killing you. SETRAKIAN We don’t have time for this debate! We have to go now. JIM You have to release me. That’s the expression, right? EPH That’s not a solution. JIM You killed the others! It was a solution for them! EPH That was different. JIM I want to know the truth. Once I turn, I’m going to go after them, right? SETRAKIAN The ones you love. Yes. SETRAKIAN The cruellest feature of this dark curse is that the bond that joins you in life--human love--is corrupted into the need to consume those closest to you. JIM Sylvia. My parents. EPH Don’t listen to him, Jim. We can fight this. We just need to get you out of here first. SETRAKIAN You cannot save him! We don’t have time for this nonsense! EPH This is my friend! SETRAKIAN Exactly. So the humane thing-- EPH The humane thing is to treat him! NORA He comes with us. We don’t have to decide this now! JIM Nora! I’d rather be dead than turn into one of them. SETRAKIAN Your impulse is always to save, I know. Save your friend’s soul. Release him; do it now before he turns! EPH Don’t listen to him, Jim. You know modern technology-- JIM No! Stop it! EPH --better than I do. We can help you! SETRAKIAN It’s too late! EPH No! No! NORA EPH WHAT DID YOU DO? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! FET Because you couldn’t. EPH WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT? FET He wanted to die. And you were arguing when we need to be moving! FET I did your friend a favor. NORA It was not your decision to make! SETRAKIAN NORA Jim, I’m so sorry. SETRAKIAN Here they come! FET Hassan! Last chance! VAMPIRES FET Doc. EPH You get stung, I won’t hesitate to return the favor. FET That’s the spirit, Doc. That’s the spirit. FET Stay together! FET Ah, I need a credit card! NORA You don’t have a credit card? FET I’m currently in dispute over my credit limit. EPH Why doesn’t that surprise me? FET A zip code? EPH 11215! EPH What’s the holdup! FET I’m awaiting authorization! DUTCH I don’t know how to tell you guys this but-- FET NORA Give me the bucket! FET Gasoline doesn’t want to be a liquid. It wants to be a vapor. So go fast, okay? NORA Okay. FET Nora! NORA Okay! FET Hold them back! Hold! DUTCH Hurry! FET Get the light over here! FET Behind you! FET Put the light here! FET I’ve got you covered here! Over here! BUCK FET Enough! FET FET Good, good! FET Go, go, go, go! NORA My light! My light went out! DUTCH I got it! FET Go, go, go, go! DUTCH I’ve got it! FET Go! EPH Come on! FET Go! DUTCH Go on! FET To the truck! DUTCH Go! Go! C’mon! C’mon! DUTCH Hurry! Quickly! FET Doc! Keys!