Rapture (Unfinished)
R A P T U R E ! FADE IN: We are flying through the night sky. Two helicopters come into view, all filled with Special Armed Forces. We are then - INT. HELICOPTER - NIGHT One man inside of the helicopter - Steffen Cyrus, is loading his gun. He takes out a photo from his bag on the floor. The photo is of two men. One with a deformed left eye and the other is wearing a black robe and we can't see his face. He holds the photo up for his team to see. STEFFEN (holds up a photo) These are the men we are after gentlemen. Charles Dumenza and his brother Salazar Dumenza. These men are the people responsible for the attacks that are happening all across the world. Our mission is to capture or neutralize. Alive is a bonus but is not necessary, so lock and load men. Any questions? SOLDIER Why is one of the targets wearing a black robe? We can't see his face. How do we know who to look for? STEFFEN There has been no photo taken of him without the robe. If we see anybody wearing a black robe we give them the chance to surrender or we shoot. Any more questions? There is silence. STEFFEN (CONT'D) Good. Let's go put an end to this nightmare. Steffen then puts the photo back in his pocket and takes another one out. This time of a woman and a little girl. INTERCUT - The woman and the daughter are screaming, fire burns all around them. As we begin to fly over a city, Steffen stares out of the chopper, down at the city which is burning. Smoke rises higher than the skyscrapers and the sound of people screaming can be heard over to the noise of the helicopter blades. The chopper begins to lower down. It hovers over a small building and the Armed Forces lower a rope which leads down to the roof. They then begin to repel down. Steffen stands up, picks up the bag from the floor and puts it over his head. He grabs the rope and repels down to the roof. EXT. ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS All seven of the Armed Forces are on the rooftop. The ropes drop and the choppers fly away. Steffen walks to the edge of the building and looks down to the street. We zoom onto the street and we are- EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS Cars are burning, buildings are being set alight and civilians are being chased and hunted by some horrible creatures. The creatures have melted faces, they can run very fast. These are - The Umbra. One of The Umbra jumps on top of a civilian and bites a huge hole in the mans neck, killing him instantly. The Umbra then grabs the mans arms and rips them straight from their sockets. BANG! A gunshot can be heard. The Umbra looks up at the roof with the Armed Forces on and a bullet goes straight into its head. The Umbra disintegrates into ash. EXT. ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS Steffen is looking through the sight on his sniper rifle he is carrying, smoke is coming from the chamber. STEFFEN One down, a hell of a lot more to go. We zoom out from the top of the roof and we are now looking over the entire city. Every building has been destroyed and smoke rises from the streets. A huge explosion can be heard. Suddenly - a 747 plane begins to crash straight towards the city. FADE TO: EXT. FALLING - CONTINUOUS The 747 plane is crashing towards the city. People at the windows of the plane are screaming and terrified as they all fall to their doom. One hand smashed against the glass of a window. The skin on the hand is melting. A huge skyscraper comes into view. The plane heads straight for it. EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS The Armed Forces are now running through the street, putting bullets into the heads of every Umbra that they see. Once the street is clear of all the creatures, a rumbling noise can be heard. All Armed Forces look up at the sky and see the plane heading into the skyscraper and BOOM! It crashes straight into it. A huge explosion fills the sky with fire and smoke and the skyscraper comes crumbling down. The Armed Forces run up the street, all separating as they run inside of different buildings, apart from two of them. Steffen Cyrus and his partner, Jake Tyler run into the same building. INT. BUILDING - CONTINUOUS Steffen and Jake shut the doors behind them but the pressure from the smoke and dust outside blows it open, causing them both to fly across the room and straight into the wall. Dust and smoke fill the room while they are both knocked out. DISSOLVE TO: "RAPTURE, 2011" EXT. FOREST - NIGHT It is dark. It is cold. It is stormy. Rain lashes heavily onto the ground and heavy winds sweep through the land, blowing through branches on the old, scary looking trees that stand tall right in the heart of Rapture. A castle can be seen in the distance. It is old, run down and its windows are smashed, its rocks are crumbling and its large wooden doors are full of cracks. A silhouette of a person comes into view. Walking slowly and cautiously. We zoom in to reveal a man- Robert Smith. Robert is carrying a flashlight in her hand along with a leather briefcase in the other hand. He continues to walk through the forest, alone and afraid. The sound of animals lurking in the trees cause him to jump and shake. A small cabin comes into view. On the outside it looks newly built. Robert walks towards it. INT. CABIN - CONTINUOUS Robert enters the cabin; Inside the cabin it is empty, all apart from one wooden table that sits in the centre of the room. Robert walks over to it and places down the flashlight along with the briefcase. He takes off his jacket and places it over the briefcase. The sound of moans and cries of pain can be heard coming from a room to Roberts right. This catches his attention and he begins to slowly walk to the door. Before entering the room, Robert closes his eyes and he lets out a big sigh. INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS In this room, there is only one bed in the centre of the room. A young, blonde haired boy lays asleep on the bed. This is - Henry Smith. Robert walks over to the bed. Looks down at Henry, who is tossing and turning and sweating. He picks up a towel from the floor and wipes the sweat away. Kneeling down next to the bed, Robert attempts to wake him up by gently tapping Henry on his shoulder. ROBERT Wake up son. He does not wake. Again he attempts to wake up but taps harder. ROBERT (CONT'D) Come on son, wake up. There is a slight moan. Then Henry opens up his eyes slowly and stares at his father, who is smiling. ROBERT (CONT'D) Hey there buddy. How are you feeling? Henry sits up on the bed. HENRY I feel awful daddy. I feel so bad! ROBERT Hopefully that is going to change soon. Remember my friend Charles? He is coming over and he is bringing over a special drug that himself and his brother have developed. They both believe that this will cure you. Henry pulls his blanket over his head, frightened. HENRY No daddy! No more drugs, please! Confused, Robert sits on the edge of the bed and pulls down the blanket then wraps his arms around Henry. ROBERT What's wrong? Why don't you want this? HENRY I am just so scared daddy! I am scared of needles and drugs! Robert sighs. ROBERT I know you are son. Everybody is scared of something in their life, do you want to hear something what my father, your grandfather told me? Henry nods. ROBERT (CONT'D) He said to me 'Son, you can't let your fear define you. You must face it and confront it. You are scared of the dark and that is understandable but tonight, i want you to get into bed, turn out your lights and sit there for a moment. Sit there in the dark and say to yourself "I am not afraid". Then once you have confronted it, you can beat it!' (pause) Now i want you to do that, Henry. I want you to confront this fear and you will be able to beat it! Promise me? Henry smiles. HENRY I promise. He then laughs. ROBERT What's funny buddy? HENRY You.. (coughs) You were afraid of the dark! Robert laughs also. ROBERT Of course! I used to believe their were monsters lurking in the dark. Robert stands to his feet, grabs his sons hand and helps him up to his feet and then both of them make their way out of the bedroom. INT. CABIN - CONTINUOUS Robert and Henry enter the living area. A strange noise and a shadow from outside the window catches Roberts attention, he turns with caution. As he walks over to the window to check it out, there is nothing there. Just the darkness of the forest and the heavy rain lashing down. Then suddenly, loud banging at the door can be heard. Robert freezes on the spot, fear in his eyes as he stares at Henry who is terrified. There is another loud bang. Robert panics, but then a voice coming from outside can be heard. MAN Robert, it's Charles. Open up this god damn door will you? There is a look of relief on Roberts face as he begins to laugh. He walks over to the door. As Robert begins to slowly open the door - BANG! It flies open and Robert gets knocked straight to the ground - a strange man has barged into the cabin with a gun. MAN (CONT'D) Where is it? Robert, laying on the ground with his hands up looks confused and afraid. ROBERT Where is.. Where is what?.. MAN Don't act stupid with me! Where the hell is the drug? Roberts eyes widen. ROBERT I don't know what you are talking about, just lower down the.. MAN (shouts) DO NOT FUCKING LIE TO ME! If you don't tell me where it is i will put a hole in your sons head. Then suddenly BANG! The man drops to the floor with a hole in his head. Robert stares at the door. Standing there is a man in a black suit. This is- Charles. CHARLES Not if i put a hole in yours first. (to Robert) Hey there, Robert. Sorry about that! This villager has been seeking out the drug to save his wife' life. Charles is also carrying a leather briefcase. Robert rises to his feet as Charles enters the cabin. ROBERT Man am i glad to see you! But why not save his wife? I'm sure there is enough of the drug to save her too. CHARLES Because she is dying from internal bleeding. The drug won't fix that. It only fixes those who have organ failure and diseases such as cancer and polio. Like your son for example, this drug will cure should cure his heart disease with no problem. ROBERT It should? I thought you said it was a sure thing!? CHARLES This drug has not been tested on humans yet. We are not sure if it will work but we are pretty confident that it will. We tested it on animals and it worked like a charm. Just have a little bit of faith. Charles walks towards the wooden table and carefully places his briefcase down next to the one that is already there. Something catches Charles' eye - Henry hiding behind the table. CHARLES (CONT'D) Hey there kiddo. Don't be afraid. Henry stands up and rests against the table. CHARLES (CONT'D) So are you ready for this? There is silence. Henry stares at his father then stares back at Charles and gives him a very unconvincing nod however Charles ignores it. CHARLES (CONT'D) (to Robert) Open up that briefcase that i just brought with me and there should be two vials and a syringe in there. One of the vials should have the number 1 engraved onto it. Take it out and hand it over to me, along with the syringe. Robert walks up to the briefcases and opens one of them up. There are two vials inside and a syringe just like he said. The syringe is however quite small. The other vial has the world "Dumenza" engraved onto it. ROBERT Dumenza? That's a weird name for a drug isn't it? Charles begins to laugh. CHARLES We named it after mine and my brothers second name. Robert then takes out the vial with the number one engraved onto it and hands it over to Charles. ROBERT Is this the syringe you want? It looks a little bit small for a syringe. CHARLES Yep, that's the one i want. It is the only fucking syringe in there! And it is small because you only need a small dose of the drug. ROBERT Listen you obnoxious little shit. Don't talk to me like that in front of my son! CHARLES (laughs) Calm down. Just hand over the syringe and lets get on with it. Robert takes out the syringe and passes it over to Charles. ROBERT What is this first shot for? CHARLES It's to make the heart ready for the drug. It stimulates all the organs including the heart and there is no chance of his body reacting against it. However if the worse comes to worst, we inject him with the Anti-Dumenza and it will wipe out the trace of the Dumenza from his body. (to Henry) Come over here mate. Henry walks towards Charles and kneels down in front of him. Charles grabs his arm and inserts the syringe into his arm. Inside of the syringe, a strange looking egg forms inside the syringe before entering Henry' body. CHARLES (CONT'D) Once we see him getting cold sweats, we inject him with the Dumenza so get it ready. CUT TO: INT. CASTLE/THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS Quiet. The room is empty and the walls are covered with large painting and golden cases are scattered all around the room. A large golden throne sits in the middle of the room. Two militia enter the room and walk up to the throne. A man who was hidden out of view - stands up from the throne. He is wearing a hooded, black robe and we can't see his face. This is- Salazar. MILITIA #1 They have all arrived sir. They are all ready. The man speaks. His voice deep and scary. SALAZAR Good. Charles should be back shortly with the drug so begin to prep them for conversion and i will be down in a while. The militia nods his head and they both leave the room. We pan around to the front of the throne. The seat is see through and we can see a machine. A glass tube sits in the middle and five smaller tubes come off and lead into the ground below. Salazar walks towards two large double doors and opens it up. We are now- EXT. CASTLE/BALCONY - CONTINUOUS On a balcony. Rain continues to pour down heavily and we are overlooking the entire island. A large forest, a village and a lake can all be seen. SALAZAR (V.O.) Pretty soon the entire population of earth will become mine. Those who try and stop me will be eradicated from existence. The time of the Umbra have arrived. We zoom down from the balcony, into the dark forest and onto the cabin. We are- INT. CABIN - CONTINUOUS Back inside of the cabin. Henry is laying on the floor and is beginning to suffer from cold sweats. CHARLES It is time for the Dumenza. (to Henry) This injection will be injected directly into your heart Henry. Now there is no need to worry as the substance i just gave you will have numbed your body and you will not feel any pain. Henry pulls up his T-shirt, crying. Charles takes out a black marker from his pocket and draws an X where his heart is. CHARLES (CONT'D) Here it goes. Charles stabs the needle straight into Henry' heart. He screams out in agony as Robert holds him down to stop him from shaking. After a lot of screaming and pain, Henry stops and there is silence. After about ten seconds, Henry stands to his feet and smiles. HENRY (excited) Daddy, i think it is working. I feel so much better! In excitement, Robert hugs Henry and then kisses Charles. ROBERT I bloody love you Charles! You are my life saver! HENRY And mine, literally! Charles smiles and stands up, he places the Dumenza and the syringe back into the briefcase and puts both of them next to the door. CHARLES (to himself) Just wait for it. After a lot of hugging and celebration, Henry drops to the floor then begins to shake uncontrollably. ROBERT (scared) What the.. HENRY!? Robert grabs Henry and holds him in his arms. ROBERT (CONT'D) Quickly Charles, hand over the Anti Dumenza. This stuff is going to kill him! He does not get a reply. Charles begins to laugh as he walks for the door. CHARLES Did you really think that you were going to leave here alive? You are nothing but two test dummies. We needed a lab rat to see if this drug works and you were the only person stupid enough to let me try. Your son will soon become like the creatures my brother and i longed to create. You don't have such luxury. Charles takes out a gun and points it at Robert. ROBERT What the hell have you done? CHARLES I have turned him. He will become a monster, an animal. An immortal shadow walker. An Umbra. Once the drug has taken its full effect, Henry will become one of the many of the most powerful hunters this world will witness. Henrys eyes begin to go bloodshot. ROBERT I am going to stop you, Charles. You are evil. I am going to kill you! I will not let my son become a monster! Charles looks at Henry and sighs. CHARLES The drug works. We know that. But lets have it your way! He then points his gun at Henry, pulls the trigger - BANG! Heny is dead. ROBERT NOOOOOOO! Robert bursts into tears, picks up the empty vial with the number one engraved onto it and throws it straight off of Charles' head, causing him to stumble back against the door. Then he races towards him, knocks the gun from his hands and begins punching him none stop and so fast like rapid fire until Charles is knocked out. Robert then stands up, walks over to his sons dead body. ROBERT (CONT'D) (crying) I should have listened. I am so, so, so sorry! Robert picks up the gun from the floor and points it at Charles' head and shoots him straight through his left eye - but he isn't dead. Charles wakes up and his eye begins to heal. Then he stands up. ROBERT (CONT'D) (afraid) I thought... i thought this drug hadn't been tested? CHARLES It hadn't been tested on humans. I am not human. I was made by Salazar in the castle. I am one hundred percent pure Umbra. Charles dives on Robert, takes the gun from him and takes out the clip, inserting a different one into the gun. CHARLES (CONT'D) I think i have changed my mind. You do have the luxury. Charles presses the trigger but instead of a bullet coming out, a small needle shoots out, injecting Robert with the drug. Robert then begins to shake. His eyes go bloodshot and then his skin begins to slowly melt off. He becomes crazy and then stands up as the conversion takes its full effect. Robert converts into an Umbra. Eyes red, melted skin. FADE TO: INT. BUILDING - NIGHT Steffen wakes up. The room is now filled completely with dust and smoke. He crawls over to Jake who is still knocked out and attempts to wake him up, he fails. As it is getting harder to breath, Steffen picks Jake up and carries him up a large flight of stairs which leads to the second floor. EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS Coming out of the smoke and dust are lots and lots of Umbra. They run inside of the buildings that the Armed Forces are in. CUT TO: INT. BUILDING #2 - CONTINUOUS An Armed Forces shoots at the Umbra, straight through the head killing all that comes through the door. After they stop entering, he runs away out of a door. CUT TO: INT. BUILDING - CONTINUOUS Steffen has reached the top of the stairs with Jake on his shoulder, he is just about to enter a room when he hears a loud screech coming from behind him. STEFFEN Oh shit! Steffen runs into the door, lays Jake down against the wall shuts the door. Putting a cabinet in the way to keep it locked. He then points his gun at the door. BOOM! Banging on the door begins to happen. The door shakes and just when it is about to come off its hinges, the banging stops. Then the screeching can be heard again. The sound of ripping can be heard. STEFFEN (CONT'D) (into comms unit) Alpha to HQ, we have a man down and are being pursued by the Umbra. HQ (O.S.) HQ to Alpha, we are sending in reinforcements. Make your way to the rendezvous point. HQ out. STEFFEN Copy. The banging starts again. Then a large, sharp object smashes through the door and destroys it into tiny little pieces. However it is not an object - it is his arm. It has mutated into a large sharp blade. STEFFEN (CONT'D) What the hell! Steffen shoots at it but the Umbra deflects the bullets off of his arm. The Umbra charges at Steffen, pinning him against the wall trying to stab him. But then - BANG! BANG! BANG! Three bullets shoot through the Umbras head. All just missing Steffen - Jake has woken up. STEFFEN (CONT'D) About ten seconds ago wouldn't have been to bad Jake. JAKE Sorry, i was a little preoccupied. Y'know, being knocked out and all that. What do we do now? STEFFEN We have to make our way to the rendezvous point and wait for reinforcements. Let's go. Steffen and Jake walks out the door that leads to a balcony. CUT TO: EXT. STREET #2 - CONTINUOUS Calm. The street is quiet and there is no smoke there and no Umbra. The other five Armed Forces have regrouped and are walking perfected formation. One in the front, two behind and then another two behind them. The two at the back are facing behind them, cautiously. Smoke in the background can be seen, rising high. The Armed Forces make their way down the dark street, checking every alley way they come across. CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Civilians are looking through their letter boxes and windows at the Armed Forces. CUT TO: EXT. ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS A strange figure can be seen on the rooftop of a house at the end of the street, staring down at the soldiers. We zoom in to reveal - Charles. He takes out a phone and dials. CHARLES I have them in sight. What are your orders? A voice replies. Deep and scary - Salazar. SALAZAR (O.S.) You are to kill them. Do not let them get to their destination. Charles hangs up the phone and walks out of view. CUT TO: EXT. STREET #2 - CONTINUOUS The soldiers reach the end of the street and come to a dark alley. ARMED FORCE #2 You want us to go down there? ARMED FORCE #1 Yes, it is the only way to the rendezvous point. Switch on the flashlights and lets advance with caution. All of the Armed Forces switch on their flashlights and one by one begin to enter the valley. In front of them, a shadow comes into view and stands there - Charles. The soldiers stop walking. ARMED FORCE #1 (CONT'D) (shouts) YOU THERE, LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS! The sound of skin ripping can be heard. Skin on his arms peel off, then suddenly his arm turns into a gun. BANG! What looks like a large ball of blood fires in the air and it hits Armed Force #1 on his arm. His skin and clothes melt. It is ACID! ARMED FORCES #2 OPEN FIRE!! All of the Armed Forces open fire at Charles, hitting his upper torso but it does no damage. Charles then fires another ball of acid at Armed Force #1 and this time hits him in his face. His skin slowly peels off from his face, his eyes start to melt and he screams in pain. In complete agony, he attempts to pick up his gun but he can't. CHARLES You will not reach your destination. Your blood is mine. (shouts) ATTACK! Lots of Umbra jump from balconies above them, attacking and kill them all, except for one. Armed Force #1 is barely alive, breathing heavily as he gasps for air. Charles walks up to him. ARMED FORCES #2 What the hell... what the hell are you? CHARLES We are the Umbra. The beginning of the end of the world. (pause) The new race of humans. Charles shoots one more ball of acid at Armed Force #2 and watches as his face slowly melts off. Charles' arm mutates back to normal. CUT TO: EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. - NIGHT We are flying over the city, again fire rises from it and then the only building untouched comes into view. The white house... CYRUS (V.O.) Do not let them enter the building. We must protect the President! We zoom into the white house and we are- INT. WHITE HOUSE - CONTINUOUS At the front doors of the white house. Lots of secret service are keeping it shut. One of the secret service - Cyrus Smith, is reloading his weapon. CYRUS How many of them are out there? SECRET SERVICE #1 A lot, i don't know how much longer we can hold out here. CYRUS You need to do everything you can. We can't let these monsters take over the white house. Now i am going to go check on the President, hold your ground! Cyrus runs off down the hall. CUT TO: INT. WHITE HOUSE/OVAL OFFICE - CONTINUOUS The President is in the oval office. Secret service are in the room with him and are forming a ring around him. The windows to the oval office smash, Umbra jump in and the secret service shoot them. More and more jump in until they are overthrown and killed. The President backs away towards the door but trips. One Umbra walks up to him and we see somebody familiar - Robert. UMBRA/ROBERT President! You and your country will burn! The Umbra throws a needle at the President and it sticks into his neck. Then - BOOM! The door to the oval office blows open, knocking the Umbra back. Cyrus runs through the door, shooting each of the Umbra in the room. Once they are all dead, he runs to the president and lifts him up - his eyes are bloodshot. CYRUS Sir? What's wrong with your eyes? PRESIDENT The.. son.. of.. a.. bitch.. (pause) GOT ME! The President knocks Cyrus across the room and straight into the wall. The President begins to convert. His skin melts and he turns to Cyrus - runs towards him. He is on top of Cyrus and tries to kill him but Cyrus manages to push him away and then picks his gun back up - points it at the President. CYRUS Mr. President, i don't want to do this. Back away! The President continues to walk closer to him. CYRUS (CONT'D) I mean it. Back away or i will shoot! The President jumps at Cyrus. Cyrus pulls the trigger and shoots him straight in his head. The President of the United States is dead! Cyrus looks down at the Presidents dead body and drops his gun. Backs away. CYRUS (CONT'D) What have i done? Cyrus runs out of the oval office. CUT TO: INT. WHITE HOUSE - CONTINUOUS The doors to the white house are nearly broken down. Cyrus comes running around the corner. SECRET SERVICE #1 What's the situation, sir? Cyrus doesn't reply. SECRET SERVICE #1 (CONT'D) Sir? CYRUS The situation. I have just killed the President of the United States. All of the secret service freeze. Draw their weapons and point them at Cyrus. CYRUS (CONT'D) Guys, take it easy! He had been converted, there was nothing i could have done! SECRET SERVICE #1 YOU COULD HAVE WAITED FOR A CURE! CYRUS By the time someone had created the cure, he would have been long gone. I have served him for 12 years. How do you think i feel? Now put that gun down unless you are going to use it. There is a slight silence and pause. The secret service all lower their weapons and carry on blocking the door. CUT TO: INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT A young boy comes into view, wearing desert clothes. He walks over to the side of the room which has a crack in it. He stares through the crack and all he can see is a never ending land of sand.
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