Webisode 1/Transcript

While tracking a young boy with a dangerous abnormality, Dr. Helen Magnus encounters Dr. Will Zimmerman, a psychiatric resident who may have what it takes to become her new protégé.
== Cold open ==
=== Teaser sequence ===
EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOT - NIGHT
London 1888Whitechapel District
[Camera pans across the rooftops at night and zooms onto an alley where a streetwalker is plying her trade.]
EXT. OUTSIDE "THE TEN BELLS" - NIGHT
[A small green flash is seen in the background in an adjacent dark alley.]
[Druitt starts to draw his walking sword behind his back.]
[Druitt stops Molly from leaving by grabbing her arm.]
[Druitt grabs Molly covers her mouth and holds his sword against her throat.]
[Magnus cocks her pistol and aims at Druitt.]
[Druitt starts to release Molly.]
[Druitt slashes Molly's throat, Magnus shoots and Druitt disappears in a green flash.]
[Magnus moves to check on Molly, then looks up.]
[Lights flash on Magnus and the scene transitions to police lights.]
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EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOT - APARTMENT BUILDING - STREET - NIGHT - RAINING
OLD CITY PRESENT DAY
[Police siren and flashing lights, it is raining.]
[Cops enter building.]
[Magnus is across the street hiding in an alley, watching. The overflowing dumpster next to her has a company logo on it:]
ccdsCEDAR CRESTDISPOSAL SERVICES
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALLWAY - OUTSIDE APARTMENT 36
[Inside building, Russian voices.]
[Knocks loudly on door.]
[Russian voices.]
[Knocks loudly on door.]
[A Russian woman, Jagna, opens the door.]
[Jagna closes door, cops kick it in and enter.]
INT. APARTMENT 36 - LIVING AREA
[Jagna stands in front of a door with an older woman.]
[Birch opens door and sees a bloodstain on the wall with an elderly man slumped on the floor beneath it, he raises his gun.]
INT. APARTMENT 36 - BEDROOM
[Birch sees something under the bed and points to it.]
[Russo gets his flashlight and checks under the bed.]
[Russo gets down on floor and tries to get the kid out.]
[Hear a whip noise and a squish noise.]
[Russo falls to the ground dead with a hole in his head.]
[Screams]
[Kid stands up behind the bed.]
[A tentacle thing is seen on screen, right side.]
EXT. OLD CITY - ALLEY - NIGHT
[Cut to Magnus in alley, lots of screaming is heard.]
=== Title sequence ===
[Cut to Sanctuary opening title sequence.]
== Part I, Act I ==
EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - STREET - NIGHT - 1980's
[Fade in, night time on a darkened street, a TV can be heard.]
SANCTUARYTHE LOST WEBISODES PART 1
INT. WILL's HOUSE - LIVING ROOM
[Pan from a TV to a young boy being scared by the TV show.]
INT. WILL's HOUSE - YOUNG WILL'S BEDROOM
[A curtain is blowing in the wind, a child can be heard whimpering in the background.]
[A young Will is cowering in bed mumbling to himself.]
[Will goes to window and closes it.]
[A growl is heard.]
[A monster enters the room growling.]
[Will screams.]
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INT. HOSPITAL - BREAKROOM - PRESENT DAY
[Cut to a man sleeping on a couch.]
[Screams transform into a ringing pager and the man jerks awake.]
[Will picks up his glasses and pager and reads message.]
INT. HOSPITAL - NURSES STATION
[Cut to Will donning a lab coat as he approaches a nurses station.]
[Nurse hands a case file to Will.]
INT. HOSPITAL - MEDICAL ROOM - INTERROGATION
[Cut to a room filled with police.]
[Kavanaugh hits Larry in his injured leg.]
[Will enters room.]
[Will and detective move to the side of the room to talk.]
[The five policemen leave the room.]
INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - OUTSIDE MEDICAL ROOM
[Cut to another room looking through a window to Will and Larry.]
[Magnus and the nurse from before are watching.]
INT. HOSPITAL - MEDICAL ROOM - INTERROGATION
[Cut back to Larry and Will.]
[Will is taking notes.]
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INT. HOSPITAL - MORGUE
[Cut to black, Eleanor the coroner opens a cabinet door and we see the morgue from inside the cabinet.]
[Orderlies enter the morgue with gurneys.]
[Doors open again and Magnus enters.]
[Eleanor starts a saw and works on a body while Magnus goes through to the cold room.]
INT. HOSPITAL - MORGUE - COLD ROOM
[Close up of a body bag.]
[TAG: "RUSSO, ALBERT TOD: 18:30 A-36 194"]
[Magnus opens it and begins her examination.]
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INT. HOSPITAL - CHART STATION
[Cut to another room with Will entering it.]
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INT. HOSPITAL - MORGUE - COLD ROOM
[Cut to a body in the morgue.]
[Pan to Magnus working on another body.]
[She extracts something from the hole in the body's head.]
[It glows luminescent green as Magnus examines it.]
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EXT. OLD CITY - ALLEY - NIGHT - RAINING
[Cut to someone running down an alley in the rain.]
[It is Alexei, the Russian boy.]
[A train runs past on an overhead trestle.]
[Alexei looks down to a grate in the ground.]
EXT. OLD CITY - MONTGOMERY STREET - SUBWAY ENTRANCE - NIGHT
[Cut to a subway sign. "Subway Montgomery Street GFT".]
[Alexei runs past "GREENS' ELECTRONICS" and the subway sign, Ashley follows him.]
[A green flash is seen in the background.]
[A tall man walks forward to where Ashley just passed by.]
INT. SUBWAY - STATION - TUNNEL
[Cut to a train tunnel.]
[Alexei jumps down to the tracks and walks along, looking about as he goes.]
[Ashley follows along behind him.]
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EXT. OLD CITY - NIGHT
[Cut to an overhead of a train on a trestle.]
EXT. OLD CITY - STREET - NIGHT - RAINING
[Pan down through the buildings to Will walking along in the rain with Magnus following.]
[Will stops to talk to Magnus.]
[The rain continues to fall.]
[Magnus hands Will a business card, it appears blank then a design and the writing "SANCTUARY DR. HELEN MAGNUS M.D. D.T.C.X.B." appears.]
[As Magnus lets go, the words "FOR ALL" appear on the card.]
[Magnus turns and walks back the way she came.]
EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOT - OLD CITY - NIGHT
[Camera pan up to the rooftops and then traverses the Old City.]
[Camera pans down to an old estate on a river across from the New City.]
== End credits ==
[Cut to Sanctuary end title card.]
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