Dominion Page #2

ALEX:

Soon, Eli. Very soon.

INT. CASINO FLOOR - MOMENTS LATER

Alex heads back through the casino toward the open exit doors

when he freezes, sensing something. A presence behind him...

He slowly turns to see the fading light from the doors

illuminating a poker table, and four ragged PLAYERS playing,

a motley CREW:
a MAN dressed in a soldier’s green army

uniform, a STRIPPER, heavy face make-up cracked and dry as if

it had been applied years before, a CHILD in pajamas, and a

muumuu wearing FAT MOMMA playing dealer.

Alex backs away, steps on a discarded WOODY DOLL: I’ve got a

snake in my...

The PLAYERS turn, revealing distorted mouths, grotesque,

disfigured with sharp rotting teeth, their eyes BLACK. Fat

Momma grins.

FAT MOMMA:

We have an open seat if you want to

join usssss.

Without hesitating, Alex opens fire, catching the Stripper in

the head. Alex bolts for the doors. And something shocking

happens... the Soldier unfurls WINGS and leaps after Alex,

inhumanly fast, while Momma flips up to the ceiling and

scurries after him.

Most chilling, the Child’s legs bend backwards, distort,

snap, mimicking a grasshopper. She bounds twenty feet

clearing the machines separating them.

EXT. VEGAS STRIP - SUNDOWN

Alex reaches the OUTSIDE, just ahead of them, and we realize

we’re at the far end of the VEGAS strip, at least what’s left

of it. This is the decrepit, ghost town version of its

former glory, a war waged here.

5.

Alex jumps into a MILITARY HUMMER and tears out... just as

the poker players reach the street. Alex guns it for them

and WHAM! - clips Momma spinning her to the ground.

The Soldier takes flight, as the Child moves like a bullet,

leaping up, bounding from building to building.

Wounded but not dead, MOMMA SLOWLY RISES TO HER FEET, staring

after the fleeing vehicle.

From HIGH ABOVE, Alex races among the ruins. And we see what

Vegas looks like now...

The strip, containing Caesar’s Palace, Mandalay, MGM Grand

and the Wynn has been converted into a fortress, the iconic

casino hotels now apartments housing tens of thousands of

people. Fifty-foot walls surround the area like a castle.

It’s lit up, a beacon, the surrounding landscape dark as the

sun goes down.

INT. HUMMER -SUNDOWN

Alex pushes the Hummer hard as the Child leaps off a building

and lands on the roof. Her arms snap-backwards, growing

longer, talons protruding from each finger as she grabs for

Alex.

Eli bites one of her arms, is about to be yanked out, but

ALEX, risking his life for his dog, pulls ELI back, and fires

into the angel’s face. BLAM! Blowing her off the Hummer.

Alex grabs a radio receiver, as they fast approach the wall.

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