Month: October 2022

                                             FADE IN:

INT. ELLIOT'S OFFICE AT THE COLLEGE - DAY

ELLIOT DUDDLEY is standing looking out the window at the
pretty college girls and handsome young men walking about.
He fumbles with a cigarette packet from his pocket and pulls
out a cigarette.  He puts the cigarette into his mouth.  He
pulls a book of matches from his pocket and pulls a match
from the book.  He strikes the match and lights his
cigarette.  He shake the flame of the match until it goes
out.  He drops the match into an ashtray on a small table at
the window.  He begins to puff on the cigarette.  He rubs
his crotch area.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Looking at those young women makes
          me so horny.

QUENTIN DARKO enters the office.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          You know smoking will kill you.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          According to Professor Wilcox
          nicotine helps protect people from
          covid.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Smart man.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Yeah.  I have been ordered to fire
          him.  I don't want to.  George, the
          current Victor, will have a fucking
          fit if I do.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          How is George handling Victor being
          caged?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          About like me.  Going through the
          motions and trying to stop my
          emotions.  How in the hell are we
          going to defeat Satan and Belial.
          It was bad enough when you all were
          just having to fight the space
          alien witches.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Arthur Ramsey has asked me to ask
          you to free Jossette.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          No.  He wants his grandmother Nette
          freed.  They are not the same
          person. I have no intention of
          freeing Nette or Barnabus.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Okay.  Say she is Nette.  Why do
          you hate her so much?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          She and Artorious murdered Victor
          in cold blood.  And then when we
          were trying to bring him back to
          life, Donny Maxtone was murdered.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Do you know why they murdered
          Victor?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Not exactly.  I don't believe any
          of their lies or stage theatrics.
          So I am guessing they were working
          for the Witches Council.  Nette of
          course wanted to take control of
          Jossette's body and managed that.
          Nortorious was probably after
          someone's body but his plan failed.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Artorious has been helpful to us at
          times.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Artorious is an excellent liar
          because at times he convinces
          himself that his is the more noble
          cause and that he is the good guy.
          On some level he does not want to
          be a bad guy.  But Nette is evil
          and that is what she wants to be.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          What about you, Elliot?  What do
          you want to be?  You have not
          always been what I would call the
          good guy in the lives we've led.
          Even when I walked in you were
          thinking about seducing one of
          those college students down there.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          I really need to learn to not talk
          to myself when I think I am alone.
          But I do love the sound of my own
          voice.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
                (laughs)
          Do you still love your wife Ellen?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          I now have my memory back but her
          memory is still muddled and
          confused.  It was not Victor's
          magic that took her memory.  I
          guess it was the Witches Council
          who stole her from me.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Are you saying that you don't still
          love her?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          With amnesia I was happy.  We were
          happy together in our simple life
          with our children and our confusion
          and ignorance. But now.  I am not
          happy.  I am angry.  And even
          though now I should feel less
          confused, in some ways I feel more
          confused. Part of my confusion
          comes from my awakening not just in
          body but in mind.  I feel things
          now that I did not previously feel.
          Yes.  I want to cheat on Ellen with
          some young thing.

Quentin's phone starts to play music.  He pulls his phone
out of pocket.  He looks to see who is calling him.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Oh fuck.  It is Alice Malokey.  I
          wonder what she wants to cuss me
          out about now or how I've wronged
          her darling husband or son.  I
          would like to fuck her darling
          Stephen up the ass until he cries.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          You serously do not want to do
          that.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          No.  I have to call her back.  And
          apologize for whatever I've done
          wrong.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Well.  Maybe you should go answer
          her in person and get down on your
          knees.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Yeah.  I guess.  Although I would
          much rather fuck Stephen in the ass
          than kiss her ass.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          What do you have against her son
          Stephen?

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          As a hunter Stephen has no fucking
          sense. I don't like his father Phil
          either but at least I can reason
          with him when they've captured
          someone I want freed.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Oh. Okay.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Stephen cares more about pleasing
          the Witches Council than doing
          right.  Phil knows it is all
          bullshit but still he plays the
          party line.  But Stephen doesn't
          play.  He is too dang serious.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          My son Stewart can also be overly
          serious.  He considered football
          his life and now he can't play.  I
          took him to the doctor earlier
          today and we had hopes but the
          doctor said no.  Even though he is
          doing better, if he starts back
          playing he could make the injury
          worse.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          I am sorry.  Couldn't you use a
          little magic to help him?

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          Now that I know things, I've
          thought about it.  But I was always
          so proud that Stewart was able to
          be a star football player without
          magic.  And I don't think either
          Witches Council would approve.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          I guess since I now run the Earth
          Witches Council I should not
          approve either but he was so damn
          good.  I hate that he can't play
          any more.

                      ELLIOT DUDDLEY
          I appreciate that.

                      QUENTIN DARKO
          Well, let me go see what Alice
          Malokey wants.  I am sure I have
          done something wrong.

INT. BARE MANSION - DAY

13 year old NAT WILKINS and 13 year old  BILLY BINGO are in
Nat's bedroom watching television.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Daniel is nice enough to mom and
          me. I like him.  But I've kind of
          noticed that a lot of people don't
          like him.

                      BILLY BINGO
          He is the law.  That makes some
          people nervous even if they have no
          reason to be nervous.

                      NAT WILKINS
          So you don't think he is an asshole
          as I suspect.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Oh.  He is definitely an asshole.

Nat laughs.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Do you have any idea what my mom
          sees him?

                      BILLY BINGO
          Well. Obviously he is not an
          asshole to her or you.  And he is
          rich.  He may not be much liked by
          a lot of people, but I bet he is
          respected and sometimes that is
          more important than being liked.

                      NAT WILKINS
          So are you looking forward to going
          hiking with Daniel and mom in the
          Hotville Swamp tomorrow.

                      BILLY BINGO
          It should be fun.  I hope there are
          lots of snakes and alligators that
          I can get pictures of.

Daniel BARE enters Nat's bedroom.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Billy, your mom tells me she has
          caught you drinking liquor.  She
          tells me that you have gotten fall
          down drunk.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I also smoke and cuss like a
          sailor.

                      DANIEL BARE
          You know smoking can kill you?

                      BILLY BINGO
          The government only tells people
          that because there are diseases
          that smoking prevents.  Also it
          helps stop people from getting fat.
          Looking at you, I'd guess you need
          to smoke more.

Daniel Bare sticks his head out the bedroom door and
screams.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Natalina, I have no idea what to
          say to Billy.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Tell me that when I grow up women
          will love me and that I will get
          lots of pussy.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Get lots of Venereal Disease, go
          blind, go insane, and then your
          dick will fall off.  It is best to
          love just one woman.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I think I would like a Harem.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Go to the Beauty Shop with your mom
          and after sitting with those women
          talking, there is no way you'd want
          a harem.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Yeah.  Men aren't really born gay.
          They turn gay when they go to the
          Beauty Shop with their mom.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I didn't say that.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am pretty sure you did.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I've got to get out of here.

NATALINA walks into the bedroom.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Daniel, did you tell them that our
          trip to Hotville has been called
          off.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Why?

                      DANIEL BARE
          A boat exploded on the Hearthville
          Lake today. I've got to investigate
          it.  I am sorry boys, but I am just
          going to be too busy.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Well. Obviously we will miss you
          being with us but can't mom take us
          without you.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          No.  I am not going into that swamp
          without a man being with us.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Oh my God.  Your mother just lost
          the right to call herself a
          feminist.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I have never called myself that. I
          like to have a  man to kill snakes,
          spiders, and also take out the
          garbage.

                      DANIEL BARE
          And here I am thinking the only
          thing you want me for is sex.

                      BILLY BINGO
          No.  She wants you for your money.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Billy.  You know that is not true.

                      DANIEL BARE
          It is okay if to some degree it is
          true.  I don't expect any woman
          would give me a second look if I
          were living under a bridge.  I
          don't want to be poor and I
          wouldn't want a woman who wants me
          to be poor.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I can't believe mom turned down
          that money from Victor Duddley.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Your mom loves your father.

                      BILLY BINGO
          So if you were mom, you would have
          turned the money down?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Hell no.  But my sister and I are
          two very different women.

                      DANIEL BARE
          What?  Are you saying Victor wanted
          to give Maureen money to have sex
          with him?

                      BILLY BINGO
          No.  Gross.  It would have been a
          business investment to help her
          start a flower shop.

                      DANIEL BARE
          So, what does Maureen loving her
          husband Frank have anything to do
          with her turning money down from
          Victor.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Frank can be jealous.

                      BILLY BINGO
          He can also be missing in action.
          He needs to get his ass home.  If
          mom had accepted that investment
          maybe dad could have quit working
          for David Jenkins out in the Gulf
          of Mexico.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Changing the subject.  I want to go
          to Hotville tomorrow.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I am sorry.  I've got too much
          stuff on my plate because of that
          boat explosion.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Don't you have people who work for
          you?  It is not really a
          complicated case, is it?

                      DANIEL BARE
          I can't talk about it.

                      BILLY BINGO
          So Nat I guess we are going to have
          to hack into the computers at the
          police department to find out what
          is going on.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Unbelievable.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          You better not.  If I catch you and
          Nat doing such a thing, I will give
          you two a spanking.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Yeah.  I am not planning on being
          caught.

                      NAT WILKINS
          You just told them what you were
          planning.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Where would be the challenge if
          they didn't know what I was
          planning?  

INT. BARE MANSION, DANIEL AND NATALINA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

NATALINA WILKINS, is sitting at an antique vanity / dresser,
looking in the mirror and combing her hair.  DANIEL BARE
comes out of the bathroom from taking a shower.  He has a
towel wrapped around him.  He is using another towel to dry
his hair.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Nat and Billy are something else.
          I hate that we will not be able to
          take them to Hotville tomorrow.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          We will go some other time.

Daniel Bare walks over to the glass french doors that open
to an upstairs balcony from the bedroom.  He opens the
doors.

                      DANIEL BARE
          It is warm tonight.  I think I
          might want to sleep outside under
          the stars.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Well.  You can do what you want.
          But I am going to sleep in the bed
          under the covers.  I feel a chill
          in the air.

Daniel Bare closes the french door.  He turns and looks at
Natalina Wilkins.

                      DANIEL BARE
          There was something supernatural
          involved in that boat explosion on
          the lake.  Some kind of demon took
          control of Bachus' body.  I've got
          to form a Hunter Group to go after
          the demon.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Is that going to put you in danger?

Natalina Wilkins stands up and looks at Daniel Bare.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Do you have any idea what kind of
          witch summoned the demon?

                      DANIEL BARE
          No.  I don't if Professor Wilkins
          was killed because of his covid
          research or something personal  I
          don't know if the murder was
          sanctioned.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          And the summoning of a demon?  Who
          would sanction that?

                      DANIEL BARE
          Satan.  Belial.  Perhaps even the
          Space Alien Witches Council.  I
          don't know.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Do you think the demon will try to
          kill other people?

                      DANIEL BARE
          Yes.

INT. BARE MANSION, NAT WILKINS' BEDROOM - NIGHT

BILLY BINGO has his phone. He makes a call.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Hey Jimmy.  This is Billy.

INT. HARRIS HOME, JIMMY HARRIS'  BEDROOM THAT HE SHARES WITH
HIS OLDER BROTHER TOMMY HARRIS - NIGHT

JIMMY HARRIS has pillow behind his back as he is sitting in
bed.  A bowl of popcorn is on a bed stand between his bed
and the bed of his brother TOMMY HARRIS.  Jimmy has a phone
in one hand and is flipping the pages of a comic book with
the other hand.  Tommy Harris is flipping the channels of
the TV. Jimmy throws his comic book aside and reaches for
some popcorn.  

INTERCUT PHONE CONVERSATION:

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          I came by your place today.  Your
          mom said that you are not home.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am with my cousin Nat at the Bare
          Mansion.

                      TOMMY HARRIS
          Tell Billy it is not nice to brag
          that he is sleeping in a mansion.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Shut up.

                      BILLY BINGO
          What?

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Not you.  My brother.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Well. Don't be rude to him.  I've
          got a big favor.  I want you and
          your brother to drive down to
          Hearthville tomorrow and then we
          will take a boat out to Hotville.
          Nat and I had planned to go hiking
          with Daniel but Daniel  called the
          trip  off because of work.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Tommy.  Did you hear that?

                      TOMMY HARRIS
          Yeah.  We can do that if mom and
          dad say it is okay.  Also, Billy
          and Nat have to get permission.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Tommy says that we can do that but
          only if we all get permission.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am sure we can get permission.
          Tell Tommy not be drunk or stoned
          when he talks to Daniel and my
          aunt.

                      TOMMY HARRIS
          You tell Billy I will be talking
          with sense and he'd better be doing
          the same.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Yeah.  I heard Tommy. I have not
          had a drank since I've been here.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          If my parents say no, I will call
          you.  Otherwise we will be seeing
          you early in the morning.

                      TOMMY HARRIS
          Not too early.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Well, as early as I can my sleepy
          head brother up and on the go.

                      BILLY BINGO
          The drive will take the two of you
          a good hour so do not get too late
          of a start.

                      TOMMY HARRIS
          Understood.

                      JIMMY HARRIS
          Understood.

END INTERCUT

INT. BARE MANSION, DANIEL AND NATALINA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

DANIEL BARE  is down on the floor doing pushups. NATALINA
WILKINS is in the bed reading a story on her Kindle. NAT
WILKINS enters the bedroom. Natalina Wilkins puts the Kindle
down.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Can Tommy Harris take us for hike
          in the Hotville Swamp?  We promise
          we will stay on the hiking trail.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          No.  Tommy Harris is just a
          teenager and I know he and Billy
          are friends but from what I hear he
          is on the wild side.

                      NAT WILKINS
          What if we promise we will only go
          with a tour group.  You know.
          Where a park ranger will lead us
          along the trail.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I will go with you and Billy can
          invite Tommy and his brother Jimmy
          Harris to come with us.  I will
          call Maureen.  She and Bess might
          want to come with us.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Okay. Love you.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Love you back.  Now you and Billy
          go to bed and go to sleep.  

Nat leaves the bedroom. Natalina picks up her phone from the
bed stand.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Hey sis.
                (pause)
          No.  Billy is okay.  I am sorry I
          am calling late.  Nat and Billy are
          insisting that we go for a hike in
          the Hotville Swamp tomorrow.  I
          know it is late notice.
                (pause)
          I know.  It is fine.  Billy is no
          trouble.  I am glad to go with them
          on the hike.  Daniel was going to
          take the boys.  That had been the
          plan.  But he is working on an
          investigation and can not go.
                (pause)
          I was wondering if you and Bess
          would like to go with us.  Billy
          has invited Tommy and Jimmy Harris.
                (pause. laughs.)
          Okay.  We will be looking for you
          in the morning.  Drive safely.
                (pause)
          Bye.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Was she thrilled with your call?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
                (laughs)
          Maureen was just worried that Billy
          was getting too much for us.  But
          actually I think she liked the idea
          of us going on an outing tomorrow
          with Bess and the boys.

                      DANIEL BARE
          What did she think about Tommy and
          Jimmy going with you?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          She likes Tommy and Jimmy.  Jimmy
          and Billy do a good bit of
          skateboarding together.  And Tommy
          has helped Billy with some school
          projects.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Billy needs help with school
          projects?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Sometimes.  You know, Billy and
          Bess fight a good bit of the time.
          They are not like Maureen and I
          were growing up.  We loved doing
          things together.  But Bess does not
          like Billy.  I guess she loves him
          but she does not like him.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I was jealous of my cousins Johnny
          and Lilly when they came to live
          with us.  When I think back, I
          could kick myself on some things.
          I guess is like me.  She enjoyed
          being an only child.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I would have hated being an only
          child.

                      DANIEL BARE
          But back to the subject.  Why would
          Billy need any help with a school
          project?  I would be shocked if he
          couldn't teach the teacher a few
          things.

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          That is true.  I don't know.  But
          anyway, Maureen likes for Tommy to
          help Billy with school work
          sometimes.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I know it is a subject that you
          prefer we avoid.  But I am going to
          ask anyway.  Are Tommy and Jimmy
          witches?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I don't know.  I don't think so.  I
          think they do know that Billy is
          special.  That is if their memory
          of that  has not been erased.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Special.  That is a word.  How do
          you think Billy is handling Iapetus
          being caged?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I don't know.  You know, like
          Victor, Billy has an alter he goes
          into that behaves like any other
          human.  I think since Billy has
          been here we have mostly been
          dealing with his alter.

                      DANIEL BARE
          And so his alter needs help with
          schoolwork and stuff?

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          Maybe.  I don't know.  I may invite
          all of them, including the Harris
          boys to spend the night here.  Will
          that be okay.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Sure.

Daniel Bare rolls over on his back from doing pushups.

INT. LEROY BARE'S SPACESHIP - NIGHT

LEROY BARE puts a small bottle down.  He mumbles a magic
spell while waving his arms.  PROFESSOR WILCOX, MINI WILCOX,
and BACHUS WILCOX each fly from the bottle in puff of smoke.
They look around with scared looks on their faces.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          Is this a spaceship?  Are you a
          space alien.

                      LEROY BARE
          No.  I am just a witch.  We use
          spacecraft juse like the space
          alien witches.

                      MINI WILCOX
          You are a witch.  Did you kill us?

                      LEROY BARE
          No.  I am trying to save you.

                      BACHUS WILOX
          But we are dead.  You didn't save
          us.

                      LEROY BARE
          I am trying to save you from being
          caged by Satan or Belial or the
          Space Alien Witches or whoever
          killed you.  I am going to take you
          to Whitehead and Bare Town.  You
          should be safe there.

On the monitors there are images of fire and smoke.

                      MINI WILCOX
          He is taking us to hell.

                      LEROY BARE
          What the hell?  What the hell has
          happened to Whitehead and Bare
          Town. I guess I know.  Belial is
          going to do to earth what was done
          to Pluto Viso.  Oh my God.

On the monitors embers of hot coal can be seen.  And there
is fire burning buildings.  And then the site of circus like
animal cages can be seen with human souls screaming for
help.

CAMERA focuses on the face of Leroy Bare.  Tears are
streaming down his face. He is crying.

                      LEROY BARE
          Hades is becoming hell here on
          earth.  It is happening.  It is
          happening.  Oh God, Amelia, can't
          you wake.  We need you.  We
          desperately need you.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          I don't understand.  

                      MINI WILCOX
          We've died.  And we are going to
          hell.  I told you we should not
          have gone to that spouse swapping
          party.

                      BACHUS WILOX
          I sucked a man's cock once.  Just
          once.  And I did not like it.  Now
          I am going to hell for that.

                      LEROY BARE
          No.  You are not evil.  Satan and
          Belial are evil.  And Bachus, why
          in the hell wouldn't you enjoy
          sucking a man's cock.  That is just
          stupid.

                      BACHUS WILOX
          He was fat.  And ugly.  But somehow
          he knew I had cheated on the test.
          And I didn't want to be thrown out
          of college.  So I agreed to suck
          his cock.

                      LEROY BARE
          Oh.  Anyway, that was his bad.  Not
          your bad.  

                      BACHUS WILOX
          I agreed to do it.  And now I am
          going to hell in a spaceship flown
          by a gay man who likes sucking
          cock.

                      LEROY BARE
          I want to help everyone here but we
          are in danger.  We've got to get
          out of here.  I've got to find a
          safe place.  Oh my God.  This is
          all worse than I could have
          imagined.

                      MINI WILCOX
          For our sins, is that how we are
          going to spend our eternity?  Are
          we going to end up like those poor
          souls in a circus bear cage
          screaming for help?  Will that be
          our eternity.

                      LEROY BARE
          It is not about your sins.  There
          are no sins.  We are biological
          animals and like all animals we do
          good and we do bad, but what is
          good and bad?  It is sure as fuck
          not for Satan and Belial to decide.

                      MINI WILCOX
          But what about God?  He must hate
          us.  He is not saving us.  He is
          not saving those poor souls.

                      LEROY BARE
          God, Amelia, is sleeping.  She
          would try to save us just like she
          tried to save the people of Pluto
          Viso.  But she can't.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          Are you sure God can't?  Are you
          sure God is sleeping?  Maybe God is
          just playing opossum.

                                             FADE IN:

EXT. BEACH - DAY

Police cars drive on to the beach with their lights
flashing. SOUND: Police Sirens.  DANIEL BARE gets out of one
of the police cars.  He looks around.  He motions for ARTHUR
RAMSEY, STEED RAMSEY, and ALICE MALOKEY to walk up to them
from where they are standing with a crowd at the shoreline.

                      DANIEL BARE
          We have several reports of a boat
          exploding.

                      ARTHUR RAMSEY
          Yeah.  I don't know who was on the
          boat.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Victor Duddley had pulled up near
          to the boat shortly before the
          explosion.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Do you think Victor had anything to
          do with the explosion?

                      STEED RAMSEY
          No.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          The real Victor has been caged.  We
          don't know who this Victor is.  He
          could be a demon.

                      STEED RAMSEY
          Victor had alters.  The
          conspirators could not cage the
          alters.  So I think Victor is
          basically the personality that is
          made up of one or more alters.

                      ARTHUR RAMSEY
          But Alice could be right.
          Especially given what just happened
          out there on the lake.  Victor
          could be a demon.

                      STEED RAMSEY
          I don't think so.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I don't know what to do.  What if
          this murder has been sanctioned?

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          We don't know who was killed yet.
          But what if it was sanctioned by
          the Space Alien Witch Council?
          What if it was sanctioned by the
          newly formed Earth Witch Council?
          What if it was sanctioned by the
          League of Satan and Belial?

                      DANIEL BARE
          Exactly.  I do not want to cross
          any of them.

                      ARTHUR RAMSEY
                (nods)
          We need to find out who was on the
          boat that exploded and  also on
          Victor's boat.

EXT. HEARTHVILLE LAKE - DAY

A red, burnt creature is shown swimming toward the Hotville
side of the lake. As the creature reaches a swampy area it
crawls from the lake into the murky swamp. Its eyes are as a
burning fire.  Its teeth are white, looking more so from the
mouth of burnt flesh.

CAMERA MOVES DOWN FROM HEAD, DOWN ARM, AND FOCUSES ON THE
FINGERS OF THE CREATURE.

The fingers look like fingers but then they begin to
transform.  Each finger changes into a hissing snake that
has small but scary looking fangs. The creature begins to
walk with his fingers touching growth in the swamp to push
the growth out of his way.  Then one of his hand of snakes
touches a bent, leaning, rusty sign that reads, WELCOME TO
HOTVILLE. POPULATION 30,000.

EXT. DUDDLEY BOAT AND DOCK  - DAY

VICTOR DUDDLEY jumps from the boat, onto the dock, and
begins tying the boat. LEROY BARE helps JUDY DUDDLEY from
the boat.  Their eyes meet and then they both quickly look
away.  Still Leroy, continues to help Judy from the boat.
ELLEN DUDDEY walks down the dock to where Victor is securing
the boat.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          What the hell happened out there.?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          The boat of Professor Wilcox
          exploded.  Professor Wilox, Mini
          Wilcox, and their son Bachus were
          killed.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          Oh my God.  What caused the
          explosion.

                      LEROY BARE
          My guess is that a bomb was planted
          on the boat.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          Murdered?

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          I would guess.  Dad blamed the
          explosion in the lab on chemicals
          but Professor Wilcox said he was
          not using any chemicals that should
          have caused an explosion. He talked
          to us.  He got back on his boat.
          We went our ways.
                (screams in tears)
          And then there is the explosion.
          And he and his family are dead.

Ellen Duddley hugs her daughter and looks over Judy's
shoulder to look at Leroy Bare.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          What is this world coming to?

                      LEROY BARE
          Something none of us ever wanted to
          see, but here it is.

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          What?

                      LEROY BARE
          Satan.  Belial.

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          You are talking crazy.

                      LEROY BARE
          I know.  But out there on the lake
          you also looked into the fires of
          hell.  An awful murder.  Do you
          feel sane?

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          No.  I feel like I am in a
          nightmare.  Have I always been in a
          nightmare and I am just now
          realizing it.  Victor.  How many
          times when you are having one of
          your episodes have you said that
          this has to be a dream.  I now know
          what you mean.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          Victor, I left your book in my
          chair on the beach.  I don't think
          I should have done that.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          It is okay.  If it gets lost I have
          copies and I can make more copies.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          What if someone reads it?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          It is just a story.  No one is
          going to believe it.  You don't
          believe it.  Do you?

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          I don't know what to believe but I
          think, no matter how crazy it
          sounds, Leroy spoke the truth.

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          I don't understand.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          There is an evil taking control of
          earth.  The balance of power has
          shifted while God sleeps and Jesus
          sits on his wall, not knowing what
          to do.

ALICE MALOKEY walks out on the dock and toward where
everyone is standing.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Never underestimate Jesus.  He is
          not that sad hebrew pansy in the
          bible who allowed himself to be
          crucified.  He is a Hercules of a
          man who has endured much and has
          had to lick his wounds but he has
          fought satan before and won.  He
          will win again.

Alice Malokey smiles.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Such hopeful words that for a
          second I felt hope.  If only I
          could trust your words.

                      LEROY BARE
          You can trust his words.  You can
          also trust that Jesus has an army
          of men and women who are ready to
          fight for him and to fight for
          earth.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          But does that army even know that
          there are real battles and real
          dangers. Are they so blinded by
          that Hebrew story they can't ever
          know the real Jesus, that Hercules
          of a man. Are they so brainwashed
          as a death cult, that they are so
          wanting for the world to end, that
          they think surrendering to evil is
          their road to salvation.

                      LEROY BARE
          When Hercules comes, they will know
          that he is part of a living God,
          that his power comes from a living
          earth, and only if earth can be
          saved can there be any salvation.

SABIAN BLACKROCK appears out of no where.

                      SABIAN BLACKROCK
          Such words.  Pure fiction.  How can
          such a sinful young man speak such
          words with a straight face?

                      LEROY BARE
          Why are you here?

                      SABIAN BLACKROCK
          My grandson is missing.  I need
          help.

                      LEROY BARE
          From whom?

                      SABIAN BLACKROCK
          I am desperate.  I need Alice
          Malokey to help me.

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          I have got to be dreaming.  This
          has got to be a dream.

Sabian suddenly notices Victor Duddley.  They stare at one
another.

                      SABIAN BLACKROCK
          What the hell?

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Exactly. And that is the reason
          that I am not helping you.

                      SABIAN BLACKROCK
          I am confused.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Yeah.  You can stay confused.  Get
          the hell away from me.

Sabian Blackrock vanishes.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          I know I sounded heartless just
          then but I couldn't help him find
          Winston even if I wanted to help
          him.  I have people looking for
          Rabbit and Winston but don't tell
          him that.

                      JUDY DUDDLEY
          Is this real?

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          It is best if you just pretend that
          it isn't real.  That way they might
          not erase your memory.

                      ELLEN DUDDLEY
          We will pretend.

Alice Malokey smiles.  She then vanishes.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Leroy, take my mother and sister
          home.  I will pretend I was the
          only one on the boat.  I expect
          Daniel Bare will be coming to speak
          to me fairly shortly.

                      LEROY BARE
          I will take them home.

EXT. HOTVILLE SWAMP - DAY

The burnt monster, the demon, dives into the murky, muddy,
swamp water and begins to swim.  An alligator quickly moves
to get out of the water.  Chirping birds begin to screech
and flap their wings.

EXT. DOCK - DAY

SOUND: Sirens.  Flashing lights. Three police cars pull to
the end of the dock. DANIEL BARE exits one of the police
cars.  VICTOR DUDDLEY is standing alone. Judy, Leroy, Ellen
are no where to be seen as the CAMERA moving about reveals.

                      DANIEL BARE
          We need information.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I will give a statement.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Whose boat exploded?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Professor Wilcox, Mini Wilcox, and
          their son Bachus were on the boat.
          They didn't survive.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Did you have anything to do with
          the explosion?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          No.  You know about the explosion
          in the lab of Professor Wilcox  at
          Hearthville college. Right?

                      DANIEL BARE
          Your father said that it was caused
          by an eccentric Professor mixing
          the wrong chemicals.  He said it
          was just an ordinary accident and
          we didn't need to investigate.  We
          were not given the name of the
          Professor involved.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          My father didn't think there was
          any foul play involved.  He
          reported what he believed.

                      DANIEL BARE
          What did you and Professor Wilcox
          talk about when your boats were
          approximate to one another?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
           Professor Wilcox was afraid he was
          going to be fired.  And I was going
          to try to talk my father out of
          firing him but if he was fired, I
          was going to hire him.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Did you consider Professor Wilcox
          smart?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Very.  He had a very brilliant
          mind.

                      DANIEL BARE
          What was he working on?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Something Satan and Belial would
          not like, a cure for covid.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Leroy has already done that, hasn't
          he?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          You know my situation.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Not really.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I am an alter.  I am George.
          Victor has been caged but I wasn't. 

                      DANIEL BARE
          Leroy was on the boat with you.
          Wasn't he?  Someone reported that
          Judy and Leroy were with you when
          you got on the boat.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          They are mistaken. I was on the
          boat alone.  Leroy and Judy were
          going to go out with me but then
          they did not.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Do you trust Leroy?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I trust Leroy.  I trust you.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Do you think trying to protect my
          cousin Leroy will earn you any
          brownie points with me?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I don't really give a flying fuck
          about you.  Why should I want to
          earn your  brownie points?  I am
          pretty sure Victor hates you.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Why does he hate me?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I am sure I don't know.

Other policemen walk up. Daniel motions for them to turn
around return to the police cars.

                      DANIEL BARE
          The explosion was accidental.  An
          accident with a gas can.  That is
          the way we will write it up.

After the policemen walk off Daniel Bare gets in the face of
Victor Duddley.

                      DANIEL BARE
          That is the way we write it up for
          the humans.  But do not be shocked
          if someone sanctions your murder.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I am not as smart as Victor. And I
          don't have his magic powers.  But I
          am quite capable of sanctioning
          murders all on my own.  Don't fuck
          with me.

Daniel Bare pushes Victor away from him.

                      DANIEL BARE
          And you don't fuck with me.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          So I guess you and I will not be
          having any homosexual sex.

                      DANIEL BARE
          You sound disappointed.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Aren't you married now?

                      DANIEL BARE
          It is an open marriage.

SOUND: Daniel Bare's phone.  He answers.  He turns it to
speaker.

                      DANIEL BARE
          How is the search and rescue going?

                      OFFICER RIOT
          We've recovered two badly burned
          but intact bodies.

                      DANIEL BARE
          There is a third.  Name again?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Bachus Wilcox.  But you will not
          find his body.

                      DANIEL BARE
          I thought you said there were no
          survivors.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          A demon has taken over the body of
          Bachus.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          What has your witness there been
          smoking?

                      DANIEL BARE
          Office Riot, put Officer Carney on
          the phone and you walk away.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          Seriously.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Do as I say.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Do you want me to make the calls to
          get Monster Hunters involved.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Other than you, do we have any
          others on the force?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          No.  Mallory quit when Sabian
          Blackrock was put over the Hunter
          Division for the Witches Council.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Sabian Blackrock is now in charge
          of the hunters.  Son of a bitch.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          I considered quiting.  But what are
          we going to do.  Our police force
          is not set up to handle demons and
          other monsters.

                      DANIEL BARE
          We may have to establish our Hunter
          Unit.  I don't want to deal with
          Sabian Blackrock on anything.
          Alice Malokey, if you can hear me,
          get back here.

Alice Malokey appears.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Were you listening.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          I was listening. I will call my
          husband and son, who are hunters,
          to work with you independent of the
          Witches Council.  But I will tell
          you that the three of us may end up
          having to leave earth.

Turns and looks at Victor.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          I know you are not Victor and you
          say you are an alter.  Can you help
          us?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Money wise.  Yeah.  But I don't
          have magical powers. Author Ramsey
          and Steed should be brought on
          board if they will agree.  I will
          definitely help but I need your
          help to get some people uncaged.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Well sure but that is easier said
          than done and when we uncage the
          real Victor, I suspect all hell
          will break lose.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I am pretty sure all hell has
          already broken lose.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Okay.  Let me see if I can recruit
          my husband and son.  Are you all
          going to bring Quentin Darko into
          this?  They don't like Quentin.

                      DANIEL BARE
          He is not my favorite person
          either.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          But I think he is going to have to
          be brought in to what we are doing.
          If we don't have the Space Alien
          Witch Council on our side, we are
          going to need the Earth Witch
          Council and he runs that.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          That is going to be a sticking
          point.  And maybe it would be
          better if they remained completely
          on the inside with the Witches
          Council.

                      DANIEL BARE
          They are earth witches.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          My husband Phil Clyde is an earth
          witch.  My son Stephen is my son
          and I am from the planet Malokey.

                      DANIEL BARE
          But my point is, how can earth
          witches continue to be hunters for
          a Witches Council that is now all
          Space Alien Witches because the
          earth witches have all been purged.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          Understood.  But I will repeat my
          husband and son do not like Quentin
          Darko.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Okay.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          I will talk to them.  I don't
          really know if they will be on
          board to be hunters where they
          might have to answer to Quentin.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          They will not have to answer to
          Quentin.  They will not have to
          have anything to do with Quentin.
                (laughs)
          You will have to deal with Quentin
          and then you will have to deal with
          your husband and son.

                       ALICE MALOKEY
          Oh, gee, thanks.  Why would you
          think I would want to deal with
          Quentin?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Because our ultimate goal is to
          send Satan and Belial back to hell,
          remove Sabian Blackrock from power,
          and give earth some level of
          freedom again.  The monsters can
          not be left in control.

                      ALICE MALOKEY
          I think I might easily forget that
          you are not the real Victor. If
          there are any arguments from my
          husband and son, I will convince
          them to work with you all.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Good.

EXT. HEARTHVILLE LAKE, BOATS - DAY

Three boats surround the burning Wilcox boat. The burnt
bodies of Professor Wilcox and Mini Wilcox are load out on
the deck of one of the boats.  Two of the boats are hosing
the burning boat down.

                      OFFICER RIOT
                (looking down at the
                 bodies)
          There is something weird here.  And
          not just what I heard of the phone
          when I was talking to Daniel.  I
          made the joke Victor Duddley was
          smoking weed, but now I have me the
          shivers.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Burned victims are an awful sight.

                      OFFICER RIOT
                (points to the burning
                 boat)
          There was an explosion right.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Yeah.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          The boat did not sink.  And it is
          still burning.  We have been
          putting water on it, and it is
          still burning.  And it has not
          sank.  It has not sank.  Let me
          repeat.  It has not sank.  Don't
          you think it should have sank.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Are you going to cause Daniel
          problems on the way he told me to
          write the report up.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          I am a team player. I will do what
          you tell me to do.  I need this
          job.  I have already be fired in
          two cities.  I don't even know why
          Daniel hired me.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          I may let you learn some things on
          this case.  And you may hear me say
          some things that will blow your
          mind.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          I am thinking my mind mind is
          already blown.

A couple of officers in diving suits climb aboard the boat
where the bodies are.  They start pulling their diving suits
off.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          We saw no sign of a third body.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          We saw no sign of Bachus Wilcox.
          Do you he and I used to play pool.
          I first thought he was queer.  He
          was the first time I heard the word
          INCEL.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          I know how you teased him.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          I liked him.  He was a good guy.
          Look at his parents.  God.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          You two don't start crying like a
          bunch of pansy homosexuals.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          Suck my dick.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
                (laughs)
          In your dreams.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          So what happened here?  That boat
          is still burning.  And why can't we
          find the body of of Bachus.  Are we
          sure that he was on the boat?

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          I hope he is still alive.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          According to Victor Duddley, a
          demon has taken control of the body
          of Bachus.  I thought he had been
          smoking weed when I heard him say
          that.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          You think a demon caused the
          explosion and fire and is the
          reason the boat is still burning
          and has not sunk.  Do you think
          there are demons around us right
          now.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          I would say you all are crazy but
          that boat is still burning and it
          has not sank.  The explosion,
          described by the people on shore,
          should have obliterated the boat.
                (looks around with a
                 scared look on his face)
          Are there really such a thing as
          demons?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          There is such a thing.  And boys,
          if you keep an open mind, I am
          going to ask Daniel to bring you
          into something you are not going to
          want to believe.  Boys, you are
          about to become what is called
          Hunters.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          Hunters? What?

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          Why are we talking about hunting
          animals like deer now?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Not deer.  Monsters.  Things that
          go bump in the night.  Demons,
          Rogue vampires, witches who have
          broken the rules, and humans who
          practice the dark arts.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          Okay.  Okay. Okay.  Let us back up.
          Let us put this damn car in
          reverse.  This case.  Right now.
          What are we up against.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          We have reason to believe that a
          demon has taken control of the dead
          body of Bachus.  We have reason to
          believe that the demon actually
          caused the explosion and fire.
          Although demons can act on their
          own, they are usually directed by
          magic spells.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          So a witch is behind this?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Could be?  But it could also be a
          human practicing the black arts and
          calling themself a witch.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          You have me confused.  Isn't anyone
          who practices magic a witch?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          There are space alien witches.
          There are earth witches.  And there
          are human witches.  Human witches
          are the least powerful and have to
          use alliances with other
          supernatural forces to exact a
          spell.  An earth witch is in their
          self a supernatural force and can
          bend reality all on their own.  At
          times their magic does ping.  It
          doesn't work.  And then they may
          call on other supernatural forces.
          The same is true of space alien
          witches.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          Alright.  Putting the car back into
          drive.  So you are saying that we
          are going to be hunting both a
          demon and a witch of some kind.
          The witch is someone with a motive
          to want Professor Wilcox and his
          family dead.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          So this witch that we will be
          hunting, can they turn us into
          frogs?

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          Given that boat there, I would be
          more scared of them exploding our
          car or our house.  How do we
          protect ourselves?  We aren't
          wishes.  Officer Carney, are you?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          No.  But there will be witches who
          will be part of the Hunter Group
          that we are forming.  And they will
          provide you all with charms and
          such so that you can use human
          magic to protect you.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          Why are you bringing us into this?
          Shouldn't the Hunter Group just be
          made up of witches?

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          You are the eyes and ears on the
          ground.  You are policemen.  You
          will be called into cases that may
          or may not have supernatural
          elements involved.  Right now you
          are involved in case that involves
          the supernatural and I want you to
          understand that.  I want you to be
          able to work with the earth witches
          on this case.  You saw what
          happened here first hand. You are
          the first investigators on this
          case.  But if any of you want to
          walk away from this case, that is
          fine.  It is understandable.  Now
          tell me, who is in and who is out.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          I am in.

                      OFFICER CLOONEY
          I am in.

                      OFFICER RICHARDS
          I am in.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          So we are all in.

                      OFFICER RIOT
          Deep shit.

                      OFFICER CARNEY
          Yeah.
                (calls Daniel on phone)
          So Daniel.  Here is the deal.  The
          boat is still burning.  It has not
          sank.  There is definitely some
          supernatural stuff going.  And I
          have just recruited four police
          officers to be part of our Hunter
          Group.

EXT. INSIDE DANIEL'S DETECTIVE CAR - DAY

DANIEL BARE is holding the phone to his ear while he is
driving. Okay.

                      DANIEL BARE
           Good deal.  We will have a meeting
          at 3:00 PM in my office.  I will
          have Victor Duddley there with me.
          I can't decide for sure whether he
          is a suspect or whether he will be
          helping us.