ACT 4- Little Blue

(With Vein)

[VEIN IS SAT ON A CHAIR ACROSS FROM A DESK, THE ROOM HAS NO WINDOWS AND LIFE-LOCK IS PACING.]

LIFE-LOCK- You need to keep those kids' mouths shut

VEIN HELTZ- You manipulated them!

LIFE-LOCK- And I'll also be the one to save them! I have the power to spread your work and tell the world how glorious our clinic is!

VEIN HELTZ- Wait… you wouldn't just leech money off the dying folk?

LIFE-LOCK- Oh! Heavens no. I like my money after all. You should know that by now, Vein.

VEIN HELTZ- This is why I didn't tell you. You're selfish and ruled by greed! Mother have blessings on you that she won't cast you aside once you find your way to a cold muddy grave.

LIFE-LOCK- Fighting words! And yet… [LIFE-LOCK LEANS DOWN TO DEFY VEIN'S SOUR WORDS. HE WEARS HIS MASK STILL AND THE FAINT SOUND OF HIS BREATH HITTING THE LEATHER IS EERIE.] I see no fight in you! 

[VEIN FREEZES AT THOSE WORDS KNOWING WHAT LIFE-LOCK WAS ABOUT TO REFERENCE.] 

LIFE-LOCK- After all who would pat you on the back when you finally return home.

VEIN HELTZ- You have the cure wrong…

[LIFE-LOCK JUMPS AT HIS DEFEATED CLAIM.]

VEIN HELTZ- It's my blood. Immune blood not uninfected… [VEIN LOOKS DOWN AT HIS LAP IN HELPLESS DEFEAT.] If this is the only way this cure will be released. Then it's me you need.

LIFE-LOCK- Really? [HE GROWLS IN FRUSTRATION.] Well now I need to silence the doctors I've already used. 

[LIFE-LOCK GRINS AS HE MAKES HIS WAY TO THE DOOR, HE OPENS IT BEFORE WAITING.]

LIFE-LOCK- Thank you, Vein! Your sacrifice is in good hands when it's for my benefit!

[LIFE-LOCK LEAVES. VEIN SIGHS NOT TRYING TO FIND A WAY OUT OR EVEN STRUGGLE.]

VEIN HELTZ- I'll be with you all soon, Maa…

(With Monty)

[MONTY LOOKS AT HIS LEGS, ONE HAD BEEN AMPUTATED. THE PAIN MEDS BEING THE ONLY THING MAKING THEM THINK IT WAS FAKE AND HIS EYES WERE SIMPLY SLEEPY. HIS LEG END JUST BELOW THE KNEE. HE FINDS A LARGE CRUTCH THAT IS PERFECT TO LEAN ON. HE BEGAN TO HOBBLE OUT THE DARK ROOM. HE FINDS THE SIDE BARS THAT ARE USUALLY ON THE WALLS AND USES IT TO WALK FASTER. HE SUDDENLY HEARS FOOTSTEPS APPROACH AND HE QUICKLY HOPS INTO A ROOM.]

[LOOKING AROUND AT THE ROOM THERE'S ANOTHER PERSON FAST ASLEEP IN A SIMILAR SET UP AS HIS OWN. BUT INSTEAD OF MISSING A LEG IT WAS THEIR ENTIRE ARM. MONTY HEARS THE FOOTSTEPS GET LOUDER AND HE HIDES UNDER THE BED.]

(With the Wieraks)

[NOTICUS WATCHES THE DOORS PART READY TO SEE VEIN BEING HURT BY LIFE LOCK LIKE LAST TIME, HOWEVER IT WAS SILENT. LIFE-LOCK WAS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN.]

BELLAVA WIERAK- What? Where is he?!

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Strange, a whole floor for your own and you are nowhere to be seen?

NOTICUS WIERAK- Dang, this man was living like a king!

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Oh yeah… I forgot he lives here like that 6th floor freak.

NOTICUS WIERAK- Watch it! That's my boss you're talking about.

BELLAVA WIERAK- [CLEARS THROAT] Guys. Sorry to interrupt your squabble but Life-lock is no where to be seen. Does he have another office?

NOTICUS WIERAK- Don't look at me… [HE SIGHS KNOWING HE ISN'T THE BRIGHTEST TO ASK.]

BELLAVA WIERAK- Fine. Look around for any ideas where he may be. 

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Sure thing, boss lady.

[THEY ALL SPREAD OUT AND LOOK THROUGH HIS THINGS. BELLA SHIVERS KNOWING IF THE SITUATION WAS DIFFERENT, SHE WOULD BE FIRED ON THE SPOT. SHE JUMPS AS A GROWL FROM SAVIUS SUDDENLY RINGS OUT.]

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- This is useless! The guy's work is even crappy handwriting or a different language. 

BELLAVA WIERAK- Yeah, sadly Life-Lock isn't good at his English.

NOTICUS WIERAK- Hold up. Do you think Monty going missing is connected to Vein? [HE RUSHES OVER TO THE COMPUTER AND STARTS SCROLLING DOWN TO THE LATEST PLAGUE UPDATE.]

BELLAVA WIERAK- Oh maybe! [SHE SMILES AS SHE LEANS ON HIS SHOULDER.]

NOTICUS WIERAK- Here! It says floor -1. The basement?

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- That's impossible! Me and Lelly would have spotted something.

NOTICUS WIERAK- Unless… he took them some were afterwards. 

BELLAVA WIERAK- Where could he hide them all? 

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Wait, I might know…

[MAKES THEIR WAY TO THE ELEVATOR AND SAVIUS PRESSES THE BASEMENT BUTTON.]

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- So there's this door in the basement with blacked out windows, master key card only. It's possible that's where he could be quarantining them. But it goes past the main office, if he was to go there, we would have seen him more than what we have. 

BELLAVA WIERAK- Think he could smuggle a group of doctors through there?

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- It's possible, only because I wasn't in that day because we were dealing with personal matters at home for half the day.

NOTICUS WIERAK- Bella you went to the zones to be tested; how come you don't know about this? 

BELLAVA WIERAK- Because I came back as okay and all the uninfected where aloud to leave as soon as they wanted. All the ill ones would be taken after. But it doesn't make sense still. How did he get them down this elevator without causing a commotion through the basement?

[THE DOORS OPEN AND THEY LOOK AT SAVIUS WHO LOOKS CONFUSED. THEY STEP OUT THE ELEVATOR AND SAVIUS LOOKS AROUND.]

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- This isn't right. We should be in the waiting room in the basement. But this is a hallway.

BELLAVA WIERAK- Well, we are in the basement. There's no windows anywhere. 

NOTICUS WIERAK- Freaky… 

[NOTICUS LOOKS BACK AT THE ELEVATOR AND AT THE BUTTONS. EVERY BUTTON LOOK AS WEATHERED AS THE REST OF THE BUILDING, EXCEPT THE TWO BOTTOM ONES.]

NOTICUS WIERAK- This is his master elevator, only accessible by supervisors. He changed the buttons he added the sub-basement to his elevator. 

BELLAVA WIERAK- That's why when I used his elevator last time I was sent to the floor below mine. 

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- So this freak has another floor no one knows about? Why would someone need to hide in a basement when looking after patients?

NOTICUS WIERAK- I don't know but I don't like how he has Vein! Come on.

BELLAVA WIERAK- Wait! Shouldn't we get the Bobby involved?

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Calm down Bella, there's three of us and one of him, what's he gonna do?

[THEY START TO MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN THE HALL.]

(With Monty)

[MONTY LOOKS AT THE APPROACHING FEET AND THEY SEEM FRANTIC TOO. THEY MOVE TO THE PERSON SLEEPING AND BEGIN TO SHAKE THEM.]

MAYA WILLS- Hey! Wake up! Come on! The Supervisor is crazy! We gotta go!

[THE DOOR THREATENS TO PUSH OPEN AND MAYA SLIDES UNDER THE BED AND JUMPS AT THE SIGHT OF MONTY BESIDE HER AND SHE SHUSHES HIM BEFORE THE BOOTS WALKED IN.]

LOCK-LIFE- Sorry, Dr. Jens. Apparently, I had our treatment wrong. Time to hide the evidence. 

[A EAR RINGING BANG PIERCES THE ROOM, BARING IN MIND ARMS WHERE NOT INVENTED YET. THE TWO HIDING HAD NO IDEA WHAT THAT HORRID SOUND WAS. LOCK-LIFE'S BOOTS WALK OUT THE ROOM AND MAYA SLIDES FROM UNDER THE BED HELPING MONTY UP BEFORE BACKING AWAY IN HORROR.]

[MONTY WOBBLES FOR A MOMENT BEFORE SEEING WHY SHE WAS HORRIFIED. A CORPSE LIED THERE WITH A HOLE IN BETWEEN HIS EYES THAT OOZED BLOOD. A PUNCTURE SO DEEP THEY HAD TO LOOK AWAY. MONTY HOPS BACK FINDING THE WOMAN'S SHOULDER FOR SUPPORT.]

MONTY KARDO- What weapon can make that type of wound?!

MAYA WILLS- I don't know but I don't want to be on the receiving end. Your leg!

[MAYA LOOKS DOWN AND LOOKS SORROWFUL AND MONTY SIGHS. MONTY REALIZES THE RED DOTTED LINE ACROSS HER NECK AS IF ABOUT TO BE SURGICALLY BEHEADED.]

MONTY KARDO- I'm trying not to think about that! Please, we need to go. Come on!

MAYA WILLS- Okay, I'm Maya, let me help you.

MONTY KARDO- Monty, now let's go before that cracker double backs on us.

[AS MONTY AND MAYA LEAVE THE ROOM ANOTHER RATTLING SHOT ECHOS THE HALLS. AS THEY LOOK AT ALL THE EXIT SIGNS IT BECOMES CLEAR THEY NEED TO WALK PAST LIFE-LOCK, ANOTHER BANG. AS SOON AS THEY GET TO THE ROOM LIFE-LOCK HAD ONLY JUST WALKED IN MONTY AND MAYA BOLT IT. WEIGHED DOWN BY MONTY'S MISSING LEG THEY ARE SLOWER THAN FIRST THOUGHT. THEIR FOOTSTEPS HEAVY, ALERTING LIFE-LOCK NEARLY IMMEDIATELY.]

[LIFE LOCK SLAMS THE DOOR OPEN WITH HIS FOOT AS HE YELLS IN PURE RAGE.]

LIFE-LOCK- DON'T MAKE MY JOB HARDER!

MAYA WILLS- Go! GO!

[MAYA LIFTS THE CHAIR THROWING IT AT LIFE-LOCK TO SLOW HIM DOWN AS SHE TURNS BACK AROUND AND STARTS HELPING MONTY HOP FASTER. MAYA SEES THE CHAIR THROW LIFE-LOCK ONTO THE FLOOR AND HE SCRAMBLES AS HE FIDDLES WITH THE WEAPON. AS LIFE-LOCK POINTS IT AT THEM BOTH MAYA SHOVES MONTY THROUGH THE DOOR THAT LEAVES THEM CRASHING THROUGH STORED WHEELCHAIRS AND FOOD TRAYS MAKING A LOUD CLASH.]

MONTY KARDO- Oh dang! OH dang!

MAYA WILLS- Move!

[SHE PULLS MONTY UP AND THEY BOTH STUMBLE AS LIFE-LOCK KICKS THE DOOR OPEN. MONTY IS QUICK TO ACT AND LANDS A PUNCH ON LIFE-LOCKS FACE BEFORE HES HAULED AWAY BY MAYA. SHE CRASHES THROUGH ANOTHER DOOR WHICH SENDS THEM ONTO A CORRIDOR, SHE TRIPS ON A LOOSE TILE AND IT SENDS THEM BOTH FALLING TO THE FLOOR. MONTY IS QUICK TO BARRICADE THE DOOR WITH HIMSELF. HE LOOKS TO MAYA.]

MONTY KARDO- MAYA! GO! Go get help! You'll be faster without me, go, I'll hide!

[MAYA LOOKS CONFLICTED FOR A MOMENT BEFORE STANDING UP AND SPRINTING TO FIND THE EXIT. MONTY HOLD THE DOOR AND HE CAN FEEL LIFE-LOCK USING CHAIRS AND WHEELCHAIRS TO RAM THE DOOR OPEN. BUT MONTY REFUSES TO BUDGE USING A MOUND OF DIRT TO STOP HIM FROM SLIDING.]

(With Wieraks')

BELLAVA WEIRAK- Where would they all be?

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Well from how partly made this area is, I'd say he doesn't care where they are. 

NOTICUS WIERAK- You got that right, there's dirt spilling through the cracks of this place like a sand timer.

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Probably because it is. I bet one wrong move in this place will make it fall apart. 

BELLAVA WIERAK- So, logically this is part of the halls are extended off the actual building, we should be quick in finding them all.

[SUDDENLY LOUD FOOTSTEPS FROM THE END OF THE HALLWAY, MAYA APPEARS AND WAVES TO THEM.]

MAYA WILLS- Help! Please. We are in trouble! The doctor I'm with is under attack!

NOTICUS WIERAK- What?! Where?!

[NOTICUS CHARGES FORWARD, BELLAVA AND SAVIUS NOT DARING TO GET IN HIS WAY. AS MAYA POINTS DOWN THE HALL NOTICUS CHARGES TO FIND ANY FORM OF DISTRESS. BUT HE ONLY FINDS MONTY SAT AGAINST A DOOR.]

NOTICUS WIERAK- Monty! 

[NOTICUS RUNS TO HIS SIDE AND SEES HIS LEG AND SHAKES AS HE HOVERS HIS SHAKY HANDS OVER HIM.]

MONTY KARDO- Don't worry, the pain meds' haven't worn off. I'm so glad you're here.

MAYA WILLS- Where's that crazy guy?

MONTY KARDO- He gave up. It's Lock-life. He's had most of us killed already. Me and Maya were running from him and well. I barricaded the door.

BELLAVA WIERAK- Damn. Maya? Is it? We need you to take Monty up to the ground floor and get help! Use my pass. They can only use a supervisors pass on that elevator. Be quick, yes?

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- What are we waiting for?

NOTICUS WIERAK- If he has even plucked a hair from Vein's head, he has more than the Bobby to worry about!

MAYA WILLS- Okay! Come on, Monty.

[MAYA PICKS MONTY UP AND SAVIUS KICKS THE DOOR DOWN HOLDING A PIPE AS DEFENSE.]

MONTY KARDO- Wait! He has a weapon. If he points it at you, you need to duck and get away. It's… terrifying.

[MONTY'S GRIP ON NOTICUS'S SHOULDER TIGHTENS AND NOTICUS BARKS A LAUGH.]

NOTICUS WIERAK- Don't worry, Monty. He'll be out cold before he can even lift his arm.

(With Vein)

[LIFE-LOCK ENTERS THE ROOM AND PULLS VEIN UP BY HIS ARM BEFORE FORCING HIM OUT THE ROOM IN A CALVE-KILLING PACE.]

VEIN HELTZ- What did you do?

LIFE-LOCK- So, if I'm not wrong; Immune people like you are the cure! So, I need proof. 

VEIN HELTZ- I don't believe for one second that you intend to free humanity from this plague.

LIFE-LOCK- Oh, I do. If they can afford it!

VEIN HELTZ- Medical care is free, we are all humans we all want to thrive and live, it's why we are paid by the weight of our good deeds by the people. You plan to abuse this system for no more than your own greed.

LIFE-LOCK- So be it. I don't care about a bunch of northerners anyway!

VEIN HELTZ- You're cruel. A horrid man.

LIFE-LOCK- Yes, yes, I am!

[VEIN IS LEAD TO A CHAIR WHEN LIFE LOCK PULLS (scene that works to the medieval bloodletting methods.)

[SAVIUS KICKS ALL THE DOORS DOWN ONE BY ONE AND THEY ENTER THE ROOM OF (the dude) THEY REEL BACK AND VOMIT ONTO THE FLOOR BESIDE THEM ALL AND BELLAVA SHIVERS IN DISGUST.]

NOTICUS WIERAK- What in the under world can create such damage to someone?!

BELLAVA WIERAK- That Life-Lock was weird, but he must have had help for this one. 

NOTICUS WIERAK- He made quick work of everyone here, and he's nowhere to be seen. He must be with Vein. Come on we need to be quick!

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Oh mother! You guys owe me a round after this!

[SAVIUS MAKES IT TO A DOOR THAT THEY COULD HEAR A LOW HUM FROM.]

BELLAVA WIERAK- A generator, it's huge! Bet this powers the whole floor. 

NOTICUS WIERAK- Bet Life-Lock would come running to turn it back on! Savius, stay with Bella and when Life-Lock returns, stall him however you can. Just don't get caught; Monty said his weapon only needs to point at you. I'll go search for where Vein is.

SAVIUS KIRKMAN- Alone?

NOTICUS WIERAK- I won too many fights to fear one guy.

BELLAVA WIERAK- We got your back, Hurry!

[AS BELLAVA AND SAVIUS MAKE THEIR WAY ROUND THE GENERATOR NOTICUS MANAGES TO MAKE IT A COUPLE HALLWAYS DOWN. BELLA SEES A SWITCH AND PULLS IT AS SAVIUS PULLS ANOTHER PIECE OUT THE GENERATOR.]

[LIFE-LOCK HISSES AS THE LIGHT FADES AND THEIR LEFT WITH THE SUBTLE LIGHT OF THE LAMP.]

LIFE-LOCK- Lazy piece of metal! Hold right there, Vein. I'll be back in a sec.

[LIFE-LOCK SLAMS THE DOOR OPEN AND MAKES HIS WAY DOWN THE HALL. AS HE WALKS DOWN THE SECOND CORNER NOTICUS EMERGES FROM A PLANT AND MAKES HIS WAY QUICKLY DOWN THE HALLWAY.]

[BELLAVA SEES SAVIUS POINT TO A SWITCH THAT COULD STALL HIM LONGER AND SHE GOES TO MOVE TOWARDS IT UNTIL THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN FORCING THEM BOTH TO DUCK. LIFE-LOCK NEARLY IMMEDIATELY STARTED FIXING THE GENERATOR AND IN A RECORD TIME THE LIGHTS WENT ON.]

[SAVIUS WATCHES AS BELLA EDGES CLOSER TO THE SWITCH UNAWARE OF THAT IT WOULD BLOW HER COVER. HE REACHED TO CRAWL TO HER BUT WAS FORCED TO STAY WHERE HE WAS AS THE LANTERNS LIGHT PEERED DOWN THE AISLE BESIDE HIM. BELLAVA SWITCHED IT AND A LOUD CLUNK RATTLED THE AIR FOLLOWED BY HURRIED RUNNING. A BULLET TEARS THROUGH HER ANKLE BUT HER ADRENALINE IS TOO HIGH TO CARE]

[AN EAR PIERCING BANG RATTLED THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY A THUD OF A DOOR. BELLAVA HELD HER HEAD IN HER HANDS AS THE BULLETS TORE THROUGH THE DOOR THAT SERVED AS HER SHIELD.]

LIFE-LOCK- BELLA! WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE, I GUESS YOUR BROTHERS HERE TOO. NO WORRIES I'LL GLADLY SHOW YOU WHAT THIS LITTLE INVENTION DOES!

[AS LIFE-LOCK KICKS THE DOOR OPEN BELLA SQUEALS BEFORE SAVIUS GRABBED HIM FROM BEHIND AND TRIED TO WRESTLE HIM AWAY. IN THE PROCESS SAVIUS IS INJURED AND BELLAVA PLAYS DEAD IN THE CLOSET. LIFE-LOCK SCOFFS AT THE SOON TO PASS AND ALREADY PASSED PEOPLE AND SWITCHES THE ROOM BACK ON BEFORE STORMING OUT THE ROOM.]

[BELLAVA STANDS AND LIMPS TO SAVIUS HOLDING HIM UP AND CHECKING HIM OVER.]

BELLAVA WIERAK- Dang it!