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🩸 TITLE: "The Shapeless Monster" – Episode Scene Breakdown

🔹 Scene 1: News of the Dead 🔹

[Interior – Lucas' Office – Night]

Lucas stands by a large digital board displaying photos: two civilians and one officer—brutally murdered. The victims are all from Richard's department. James walks in, still bruised from his last encounter.

Lucas (tired but focused):

"Another case. Three dead. Civilians… and one of ours."

James (sitting down):

"Who's behind it this time? Another monster Martin made?"

Lucas (shaking his head):

"No signature. No calling card. Just brutality. Like he enjoys the art."

James (serious):

"He's fluent in murder. You can see it in the scene."

🔹 Scene 2: The Butcher in the Dark 🔹

[Cut to: Alley – Night – Static Security Cam Footage]

*Footage glitches. A *man with a disfigured face—half burned, half sliced—appears in frame. He slowly stalks a couple. One of them screams. The killer lifts a jagged knife. Blood sprays the wall. The footage cuts to black.

🔹 Scene 3: Martin's Insights 🔹

[Interior – Prison Cell – Day]

Martin sits cross-legged on the ground, playing the violin slowly as the melody echoes through the facility. A faint smirk appears on his lips as Lucas walks in, holding photos of the burned man's crime.

Lucas (cold):

"Seen anything like this before?"

Martin (glancing at the photos, then smiling):

"He didn't hesitate. That kind of clean savagery… reminds me of someone."

James (appearing behind Lucas):

"Who?"

Martin (grinning):

"A case from long ago. A man known as The Wagon. Seven feet tall, cannibalistic tendencies. Used to gut his victims and… well, serve them."

Lucas:

"That's real?"

Martin:

"Oh, very. And your killer? He's inspired."

🔹 Scene 4: Flashback – London, Seven Years Ago 🔹

[Flashback – Night – Abandoned Building, London]

Rain pours. A younger Martin stands in the dark, facing a monstrous figure: Thomas, face half-wrapped in gauze, hulking and silent. A smaller man—Michael—stands beside him.

Michael (to Martin):

"Who the hell are you?"

Martin (chuckling):

"Just a man who sees… potential."

Thomas screams—an inhuman, distorted wail. He charges, but Martin holds up a vial of blood.

Martin (calm):

"Stop. You want to kill, right? I can help you."

Michael:

"Why would we trust you?"

Martin:

"Because I'm the one who arranged the officer's death last week. That was me. And this?"

(He hands them a photograph: a younger James and Lucas.)

"These two. One day, you'll hunt them. But not yet. Wait until the time is right."

Thomas snatches the photo and snarls. Martin smiles and fades into the shadows.

🔹 Scene 5: Present Day – The Hunt Begins 🔹

[Exterior – Coastal Town – Day]

Lucas and James arrive to investigate. A tourist guide greets them — it's Michael, older now, friendlier in tone.

Michael:

"Gentlemen. Visiting the Grimmer case? That's what the villagers call it."

Lucas (confused):

"Grimmer?"

Michael:

"An urban legend. About a man who was murdered and buried… but wakes up to hunt in the dark."

James:

"Sounds like bedtime stories."

Michael (smiling):

"Perhaps. I could show you his grave. Follow me."

🔹 Scene 6: Creeping Night – First Encounter 🔹

[Later that Night – Tavern]

Lucas, Michael, and James are eating. Suddenly—

A piercing scream. A real one. James bolts outside.

He finds a woman disemboweled—Thomas hunched over her, eating her stomach like an animal.

James (shouting):

"LET HER GO!"

Thomas doesn't speak. He SCREAMS instead and CHARGES. James fires, misses. Thomas' speed surprises him. The brute slices, nearly catching James—but Lucas tackles him away.

Lucas:

"Run! We can't win this now!"

🔹 Scene 7: James and the Voice 🔹

[Interior – Hospital – Later That Night]

James lies in a bed, wounded, thinking. A whisper echoes in his mind:

Black-Coated Man (in James' mind):

"You let him win. How weak you've become."

James (aloud):

"Who are you?"

Voice:

"I live in you. Waiting. Watching. Next time, when he comes… show me your true self."

James (breathing hard):

"I will. You'll see."

🔹 Scene 8: Discovery of the Handler 🔹

[Night – James stalks Michael through the forest]

James sees him meeting Thomas, feeding him raw meat like a dog.

James (whispering):

"Got you."

He waits. Then follows again later. Confrontation. Michael turns, holding a KNIFE.

Michael:

"I suppose this was inevitable."

James (raising gun):

"You've been hiding him."

Michael (calm):

"He's not mine. He belongs to something older. But he does what he's told."

James:

"Martin sent him, didn't he?"

Michael:

"I don't take orders. I share visions. He told me you'd come. Said you're a monster too… a shapeless one."

James:

"Maybe I am."

BANG. James shoots him. Michael collapses.

🔹 Scene 9: Thomas Unleashed 🔹

[Graveyard – Night]

Lucas and James investigate. An old woman appears, clutching a samurai blade wrapped in cloth. Her eyes glow strangely.

Old Woman:

"I was waiting… for a warrior. The sword belonged to one who once fought darkness."

James (taking the sword):

"Thank you."

🔹 Scene 10: Final Shot – Martin & The Violin 🔹

[Interior – Prison Cell – Night]

Martin plays a slow, eerie violin tune. A guard watches nervously.

Guard:

"What're you smiling at?"

Martin:

"Just remembering… how I found him. Thomas. Seven years ago. A pure soul. No lies. Just hunger."

He finishes the tune. A second later, he opens his hand—inside it, the photo of James and Lucas. Old. Worn. Bloodstained.

Martin (softly):

"He's not done yet."