Sherlock Holmes Page #4
A WOMAN IN WHITE LIES INSIDE A CRUDELY-PAINTED PENTACLE
(five-sided figure), lit with candles at each corner.
Her eyes roll back in her head, trance-like. A sword has
been placed at her feet.
A HOODED FIGURE KNEELS INSIDE A DOUBLE CIRCLE next to the
pentacle. This is LORD BLACKWOOD. We do not yet see his
face.
ANOTHER HOODED FIGURE stands on the edge of the ceremony,
shrouded in shadow. We do not see his face.
Suddenly, the woman rises up like a broken puppet, as if
pulled to her feet by invisible hands.
Some kind of ritual is about to climax.
Holmes and Watson head down, fast, not caring if they
make a noise or not. Their footsteps echo.
9A 9A
INT. CATHEDRAL CRYPTS
The second hooded figure moves back and melts into the
shadows.
Still kneeling, still hooded, Blackwood chants softly,
Latin incantation repeating and repeating.
ON THE WOMAN as her lips start to move in time with the
incantation. This is spooky, real, powerful stuff.
Holmes and Watson leap from the stairs to Blackwood's
level.
Blackwood simply ignores them. The Latin incantation
never stops.
Holmes is closer to the girl, Watson closer to Blackwood.
WATSON:
The girl.
(CONTINUED)
7.
9A CONTINUED:
9AThe girl bends with alarming and mechanical suddenness,
picks up the sword and turns it on herself, ready to
plunge the point into her heart.
Holmes lunges, grabs the woman's arm, disarms her and
pulls her out of the pentacle. She collapses.
Simultaneously and eerily the candles extinguish and a
rush of air departs the tunnel.
Blackwood throws back his hood. We finally see his face.
His eyes are intense, he is tapped into something dark
and cruel.
Holmes and Watson are shocked at his identity.
WATSON:
Lord Blackwood?!
Blackwood applauds softly, strangely.
BLACKWOOD:
Well done, Holmes. And Watson as
well.
Watson raises his gun, trains it on Blackwood.
WATSON:
Stay right there.
Blackwood raises his hands in front of him, almost
mockingly.
BLACKWOOD:
Tell me, doctor, as a medical man,
how did you like my work?
(beat)
The fifth one was so scrawny, it
was over before I'd finished the
first incision.
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