Page 183 of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

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MICHAEL (O.S.)

Your name.

MAN

Don Makepeace. I have everything as we discussed.

MICHAEL (O.S.)

Leave it there, put your hands on your head, turn around, walk slowly towards the door.

DON

The Baby …

MICHAEL (O.S.)

At the door you stop. You wait and you do not turn round.

DON

Is the Baby here?

MICHAEL (O.S.)

If everything is as we agreed, you’ll get the Baby.

DON

How can I be sure you’ll keep your side of the bargain?

MICHAEL (O.S.)

Trust me.

Don places the case in the centre of the circle, links his hands on his head, turns, steps towards the door. Michael leaves the Baby on the floor, alone, approaches the case. He kneels, undoes the clasps, takes a breath, flips it open. His eyes widen with what he sees.

BUNDLES of bank notes. He takes one out, flicks through, but wait … He freezes, gripped by horrified realisation. Behind the first few genuine notes is BLANK PAPER. SUDDENLY the Baby SQUEALS. Don jumps. A spell is broken, because that very second …

HELL – SLOW, QUIET AND DEADLY – BREAKS LOOSE.

Pfffft. Michael sits up, as if startled by the noise. Holly eyes the Baby, wriggling in the shadows, but Gabriel renews his grip on her. Gabriel, Jonah and Elemiah barely dare breathe as they watch Michael exhale slowly, seemingly transfixed by the money. Only … Michael sinks forward until his head rests in the open case. Blood seeps on to the FAKE NOTES. DEAD.

Gabriel, Elemiah, Holly and Jonah START in sudden, horrified realisation. Their eyes search the darkness. Nothing. Gabriel’s grip on Holly momentarily lapses. She takes the chance to burst free, scrambles across the floor, through the blood, to the Baby, scoops it up, heads for the fire escape.

Elemiah runs to stop her, but: pfffft. He drops to the floor. DEAD. Holly is showered with BLOOD. She stops, stares at Elemiah, whose lifeless eyes seem to plead with her. She clutches the Baby, turns back to the fire escape, but stops again. She is face to face with a DARK FORCE.

It’s dressed entirely in BLACK. No eyes are visible through black goggles. It holds a black gun with a long, narrow barrel, a silencer. It sees the Baby, recoils, sinks back into shadow.

Gabriel scrambles up, the light catches him … Pfffft. He drops to the floor. Jonah SCREAMS, leaps on top of him.

JONAH

You can’t kill him! He won’t die! He’s divine!

The DARK FORCE re-emerges, looks for Holly, but she’s GONE.

EXT. WAREHOUSE – NIGHT

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