Series: Shadow Stalker
Episode: 3.13 ? The Old Ball And Chain
Writer: Alex Goddard aka "Lex"
Editor and Proof Reader: Alex Hart aka "Alex"
I do not claim credit for any of Joss Whedon's original concepts, plot lines and characters. The featuring of his creations in this series is simply for my pleasure and your pleasure as a reader and not at all for financial gain as I do all this for free! All characters, plot lines and original concepts not affiliated with Joss Whedon belong to me. Season Three of Shadow Stalker starts alongside Season 5 of Angel and is in association with its "sister series", Rogue Redemption by Amber, and other affiliated series such as Chosen by Heather; BtVS Seasons 8 + 9 and AtS Season 6 by Alex Hart and Haven, which is also by Alex Hart. Enjoy.
TEASER
OPEN ON ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
SONG: THE TING TINGS ? GREAT DJ
The beat of the song begins to sound as we see a smiling CATE approach a large decorated box. She opens it and shivers seeing what is inside.
CATE: Come to mama...
She turns around and shows the other inhabitants of the room what is inside... (The music below plays throughout)
"Fed up with your indigestion
Swallow words one by one
Your folks got high at a quarter to five
Don't you feel you're growing up undone..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
DANTE is shuffling a deck of cards but then he stops.
DANTE: Let the game begin boys...
He begins passing a card to each player: XAK, LANCE, BROGAN and TRAFFORD. They look at one another, a mixture of playful seriousness in their expression. (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing but the local DJ
He said he had some songs to play
What went down from this fooling around
Gave hope and a brand new day..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
There are various shots of the people CATE are in the room with.
SEPHY, ECHIDNA, ELISE, SHELTER and SOFIA all sat on SEPHY'S bed with her. They're each handing one another an item from the box: it's all beauty products. ELISE and SHELTER look at them all confused while CATE and SOFIA look more in their element, and begin applying nail polish to SEPHY and ECHIDNA. (The music below plays throughout)
"Imagine all the girls
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums
Oh..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
XAK AND CHARLIE'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
The camera pans around the room. It is empty. XAK is obviously not here ? he's playing poker - but there's no CHARLIE either... and she's not in her mother's room... (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing was the same again
All about where and when
Blowing our minds in a life unkind
Gotta love the bpm..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KAIA'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
The camera pans around to show KAIA'S room being empty too. She isn't in SEPHY'S room or at poker.
Where were they both? (The music below plays throughout)
"When his work was all but done
Remembering how this begun
We wore his love like a hand in a glove
There's a future plays it all night long..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
XAK and the boys are all laughing at the poker and as TRAFFORD bluffs his way into winning the round he collects all the chips much to DANTE'S annoyance who tries taking some from him. (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing but the girls
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
The girls laughing. (The music below plays throughout)
"Imagine all the girls
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
The boys laughing. (The music below plays throughout)
"And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee..."
FADE TO ? UNKNOWN
DARK ROOM ? INT.UNKNOWN BUILDING ? NIGHT
(The music below plays throughout)
"And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums..."
The sound of the upbeat lyrics descends into a slow whisper. The sound is drowned out by the echo of dripping water and soft breathing unconscious breathing..
The camera pans around the floor of a dark room. There are three people in the room. Three women...
One of them begins to rouse. A woman with blonde hair. The hair however is matted with water and blood making it seem darker than actually is.
It's KAIA.
Her eyes open and close, confused and finding it hard to adjust to the darkness around her.
KAIA: (weakly) Ow...
She goes to lift her hand to clutch her head and the source of the bleeding. She brings her hand higher to her head and as she does she recoils from the pain causing her leg to twitch. As her leg twitches she feels her leg pulled down by the clanking of metal. She's chained to something.
She looks down to see that her feet are in shackles and the chains from those shackles are attached to another woman. CHARLIE.
KAIA'S eyes widen and her breaths become quick and sharp as she sees CHARLIE isn't moving.
KAIA: (whispering) Charlie...
CHARLIE'S eyes flicker open. Her head is bleeding too and her face scratched, a light cut emitting some blood from it. She looks up and around, confused.
CHARLIE: (groggy) Wh-Where...
KAIA: (panicking) I don't know!
She looks tearful as she looks around the dark and small room, her eyes squinting. She pulls at her chains, annoyed.
CHARLIE: (breathless) What's going on?!
KAIA: (frustrated) I don't know what's happening... I'm chained up just as much as you are... You tell me?! God, do you think the others know? What if they don't?!
CHARLIE looks around, trying to regain more focus as for a moment she thinks she sees two of KAIA. She isn't. When she focuses she realises she isn't seeing two of her rival... she's seeing two separate women in front of her. One of them is KAIA, the other is...
KAIA (O/S): (scoffing) God and I'm stuck with you of all people...
CHARLIE realises who the other woman is.
CHARLIE: (whispering, ignoring KAIA) Oh no...
KAIA (O/S): Oh god, what if they really don't know we're here... wherever here is...
CHARLIE: Kaia! Just shut up...
KAIA: What?!
The camera pans down to show the woman has her neck snapped and is lying in the puddle... She looks like she's been dead for a while...
CHARLIE: (quietly) I'm sorry...
As the woman fills the screen completely, the two witches disappear from view.
KAIA (O/S): For what?
CHARLIE (O/S): (whispering) There's something you should know...
The dead woman in the room with them is CONSTANCE KYLL. There's a tape recorder taped to her hand. A note is attached to it, which reads "Play Me"...
CUT TO BLACK
END OF TEASER
Episode: 3.13 ? The Old Ball And Chain
Writer: Alex Goddard aka "Lex"
Editor and Proof Reader: Alex Hart aka "Alex"
I do not claim credit for any of Joss Whedon's original concepts, plot lines and characters. The featuring of his creations in this series is simply for my pleasure and your pleasure as a reader and not at all for financial gain as I do all this for free! All characters, plot lines and original concepts not affiliated with Joss Whedon belong to me. Season Three of Shadow Stalker starts alongside Season 5 of Angel and is in association with its "sister series", Rogue Redemption by Amber, and other affiliated series such as Chosen by Heather; BtVS Seasons 8 + 9 and AtS Season 6 by Alex Hart and Haven, which is also by Alex Hart. Enjoy.
TEASER
OPEN ON ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
SONG: THE TING TINGS ? GREAT DJ
The beat of the song begins to sound as we see a smiling CATE approach a large decorated box. She opens it and shivers seeing what is inside.
CATE: Come to mama...
She turns around and shows the other inhabitants of the room what is inside... (The music below plays throughout)
"Fed up with your indigestion
Swallow words one by one
Your folks got high at a quarter to five
Don't you feel you're growing up undone..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
DANTE is shuffling a deck of cards but then he stops.
DANTE: Let the game begin boys...
He begins passing a card to each player: XAK, LANCE, BROGAN and TRAFFORD. They look at one another, a mixture of playful seriousness in their expression. (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing but the local DJ
He said he had some songs to play
What went down from this fooling around
Gave hope and a brand new day..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
There are various shots of the people CATE are in the room with.
SEPHY, ECHIDNA, ELISE, SHELTER and SOFIA all sat on SEPHY'S bed with her. They're each handing one another an item from the box: it's all beauty products. ELISE and SHELTER look at them all confused while CATE and SOFIA look more in their element, and begin applying nail polish to SEPHY and ECHIDNA. (The music below plays throughout)
"Imagine all the girls
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums
Oh..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
XAK AND CHARLIE'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
The camera pans around the room. It is empty. XAK is obviously not here ? he's playing poker - but there's no CHARLIE either... and she's not in her mother's room... (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing was the same again
All about where and when
Blowing our minds in a life unkind
Gotta love the bpm..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KAIA'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ ? NIGHT
The camera pans around to show KAIA'S room being empty too. She isn't in SEPHY'S room or at poker.
Where were they both? (The music below plays throughout)
"When his work was all but done
Remembering how this begun
We wore his love like a hand in a glove
There's a future plays it all night long..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
XAK and the boys are all laughing at the poker and as TRAFFORD bluffs his way into winning the round he collects all the chips much to DANTE'S annoyance who tries taking some from him. (The music below plays throughout)
"Nothing but the girls
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEPHY'S ROOM ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
The girls laughing. (The music below plays throughout)
"Imagine all the girls
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah..."
CUT TO ? ATLANTIC OCEAN
KITCHEN ? INT.KALIPSO SYNDICATE HQ - NIGHT
The boys laughing. (The music below plays throughout)
"And the boys
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And the strings
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee..."
FADE TO ? UNKNOWN
DARK ROOM ? INT.UNKNOWN BUILDING ? NIGHT
(The music below plays throughout)
"And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums..."
The sound of the upbeat lyrics descends into a slow whisper. The sound is drowned out by the echo of dripping water and soft breathing unconscious breathing..
The camera pans around the floor of a dark room. There are three people in the room. Three women...
One of them begins to rouse. A woman with blonde hair. The hair however is matted with water and blood making it seem darker than actually is.
It's KAIA.
Her eyes open and close, confused and finding it hard to adjust to the darkness around her.
KAIA: (weakly) Ow...
She goes to lift her hand to clutch her head and the source of the bleeding. She brings her hand higher to her head and as she does she recoils from the pain causing her leg to twitch. As her leg twitches she feels her leg pulled down by the clanking of metal. She's chained to something.
She looks down to see that her feet are in shackles and the chains from those shackles are attached to another woman. CHARLIE.
KAIA'S eyes widen and her breaths become quick and sharp as she sees CHARLIE isn't moving.
KAIA: (whispering) Charlie...
CHARLIE'S eyes flicker open. Her head is bleeding too and her face scratched, a light cut emitting some blood from it. She looks up and around, confused.
CHARLIE: (groggy) Wh-Where...
KAIA: (panicking) I don't know!
She looks tearful as she looks around the dark and small room, her eyes squinting. She pulls at her chains, annoyed.
CHARLIE: (breathless) What's going on?!
KAIA: (frustrated) I don't know what's happening... I'm chained up just as much as you are... You tell me?! God, do you think the others know? What if they don't?!
CHARLIE looks around, trying to regain more focus as for a moment she thinks she sees two of KAIA. She isn't. When she focuses she realises she isn't seeing two of her rival... she's seeing two separate women in front of her. One of them is KAIA, the other is...
KAIA (O/S): (scoffing) God and I'm stuck with you of all people...
CHARLIE realises who the other woman is.
CHARLIE: (whispering, ignoring KAIA) Oh no...
KAIA (O/S): Oh god, what if they really don't know we're here... wherever here is...
CHARLIE: Kaia! Just shut up...
KAIA: What?!
The camera pans down to show the woman has her neck snapped and is lying in the puddle... She looks like she's been dead for a while...
CHARLIE: (quietly) I'm sorry...
As the woman fills the screen completely, the two witches disappear from view.
KAIA (O/S): For what?
CHARLIE (O/S): (whispering) There's something you should know...
The dead woman in the room with them is CONSTANCE KYLL. There's a tape recorder taped to her hand. A note is attached to it, which reads "Play Me"...
CUT TO BLACK
END OF TEASER
As the screen remains black for a moment, a moon begins to fade into view and then the words in bright white?SHADOW STALKER. They fade as quickly as they appeared.
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