Lord of Illusions Page #4

QUAID:

Get away from the door!

Butterfield shakes his head. Quaid FIRES. The bullet.

strikes the wall beside Butterfield's head. He retreats,

growling like a rabid animal. Quaid kicks the Sanctum door

open, and enters.

INT. NIX'S HOUSE - SANCTUM - DAY

QUAID:

Swann?

NIX:

(to Quaid)

Here he is.

Swann stumbles into the middle of the room, the whites of his

eyes blood-red.

NIX:

Take a look, Swann! These are your

friends.

On Swann, reeling like a drunkard as he looks up at Quaid and

Jennifer.

JENNIFER (V.O.)

What have you done to him?

SWANN'S P.O.V.

of Quaid and Jennifer. To Swann's eyes, their faces seem to

be MORPHING. Their humanity is MELTING AWAY. What's left is

like a jellyfish with black, soulless eyes: PRIMEVAL MUCK.

QUAID (V.O.)

Swann. It's okay.

Quaid reaches for Swann, who retreats in horror, shaking his

head violently.

SWANN:

Don't touch me. He's got... got

into my head.

NIX:

You want to be like that, Swann?

Mud and sh*t?

Swann turns away from Quaid and Jennifer in disgust.

SWANN'S P.O.V.

of Nix, his arms outstretched in welcome. His face has an

aura of pulsing light.

NIX:

Come here. Share the power.

ON a GUN, leveled. .We don't see by whom. The trigger is

pulled.

The bullet strikes Nix's back and explodes out of his chest.

ON SWANN, staring at Nix.

SWANN'S P.O.V. of Nix, as the aura of light dies.

Just for a moment - a terrible moment - Swann glimpses

something else. MORPHING out of Nix's features. A NIGHTMARE

FACE with waves of DARKNESS emanating from the middle of its

forehead.

Swann covers his eyes.

NIX:

(raging, terrifying)

Swann! Swann!

Nix staggers, letting out an ungodly HOWL, and drops to his

knees, clutching the WOUND. As he falls, he reveals the

ashen Girl, who is still holding Swann's smoking GUN.

NIX:

(a roar)

Help me!

Swann shakes his head, ridding himself of Nix's mind-

control.

SWANN:

Jesus-

INT. NIX'S HOUSE - PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE SANCTUM - DAY

Pinon stands guard, his gun pointed on several cultists.

1ST CULTIST

(with distressing

confidence)

You can't kill him.

2ND CULTIST

He'll just rise up again!

INT. NIX'S HOUSE - SANCTUM - DAY

On Nix, doing just that: rising up. Right hand clamped to

his bloody chest, left hand reaching for Swann.

NIX:

Help me!

Quaid FIRES at him again. Strikes his shoulder. And again.

Strikes his leg. Nix collapses to the ground,

JENNIFER:

Quickly!

They have come prepared for this. Swann now takes from his

jacket the three strange pieces of METALWORK. There are

SCREWS in then all.

NIX:

(seeing)

Swann? What are you doing?

SWANN:

Binding you.

He clamps one of the pieces over Nix's EYES. It fits like an

eyeless mask. Nix thrashes and SCREAMS. Swann lays his

hands on the side of the mask, and � LIKE MAGIC -- his touch

makes the screws tighten of their own accord, grinding into

Nix's flesh and bone with a gut- wrenching SOUND. BLOOD runs

from the screw-holes.

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