Chapter 14 (Episode I)

**Chapter 14** is the fourteenth chapter of The White Shapes: Episode I - The Rise of the Shapers. It was written by Donald Newton.

## Plot

The group of survivors must fight for their lives when Wexler and his gang attack them.

## Full Chapter

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - MORNING

The early morning sun shines over the Lopez home.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Everyone is around the living room as Sierra is playing hangman with a large white paper on the wall. She has a few letters written over the blank line. A few body parts of the hanging man such as his head and chest has already been drawn on.

SIERRA: Gage!

Gage takes a moment to think.

GAGE: UH...X

Sierra shakes her head as she draws an arm on the hungman.

GAGE: AHHH!

People laugh over Gage's disappointment.

SIERRA: Amanda!

Amanda takes a moment to think.

AMANDA: An M?

SIERRA: Yes!

Sierra writes an M over a blank line.

AMANDA: (cheerfully) YAY!

Sierra turns back to everyone.

SIERRA: Anthony!

Anthony thinks for a moment.

ANTHONY: UH...oh...an...

GUNFIRE shatters the windows nearby Anthony. Everyone ducks down.

EXT. EAGLE POINT NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY

A group of Shapers hear the gunfire and decides to investigate.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

ANTHONY: Is everybody okay?!

CLAY: Yeah!

Sierra and Andy are scared and nearly going to tears.

DANI: (to Sierra and Andy) It's okay. It's okay. Just stay down.

SAM: It's him, isn't it? It's Wexler!

Anthony carefully and cautiously moves to the window, moving the shades to see through the window.

ANTHONY'S POV.

Wexler and his entire gang stands on the street, facing the Lopez home, and pointing guns at the house.

BACK TO SCENE

Anthony is NOT surprised by this.

ANTHONY: Yep. It's that son of a bitch. I knew he wasn't going to honor the deal.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DAY

Wexler signals for his gang to hold their fire.

WEXLER: Hey, Lopez! Why don't you come out and face me? If you guys surrender now...I'll let the children go. I promise.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - MORNING

Sam doesn't believe Wexler's words.

SAM: Lying sack of shit!

ANTHONY: Jackson, check the back. If none of them are out there, I want you and Amanda to take the children and run.

Jackson nods and carefully rushes to the back door while continuing to duck below the window line.

WEXLER: (from outside) Come on, Lopez! The longer you wait, the worse it'll get.

Jackson checks the window to the backyard.

JACKSON'S POV.

The other half of the gang, being led by Ernie, has surrounded the gates around the backyard. There is no escape.

BACK TO SCENE

JACKSON: Shit!

Jackson crawls back to the living room.

JACKSON: Blocked on every direction.

This horrifies everyone.

AMANDA: (to Anthony) What do we do?

ANTHONY: Relax, everyone. I predicted that they'd surround the house. That's why we set everything up yesterday. Now is the time to execute our plans. Everyone...get into position.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - MORNING

An impatient Wexler still stands on the street outside the Lopez home.

WEXLER: I'm going to give you two more minutes. If you don't surrender, we're barging in and taking you all out...including the children. (pulling out his watch) I'm staring at my watch now.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - SIDE OF THE HOUSE - DAY

Three of Wexler's gang members sneak to the side of the house on the bedroom section. They open a window and sneak in.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - MASTER BEDROOM - DAY

The three gang members look around the bedroom. One of them slowly peeks into the bathroom. Suddenly -- POW! POW! Clay uses a nailgun to shoot the first one -- DEAD.

The other two spin to Clay. But before they can open fire -- Amanda and Gage sneaks up on them from behind and slashes their throats, killing them both.

The trio walks out into the hallway.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - GARAGE - DAY

Nicole opens a tool cabinet to find a large amount of balloons already filled with fluids. Meanwhile, Chris is making sure that a wire connected to the garage door is prepared to be triggered.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - BACKYARD - DAY

The window to the back den opens. The gang surrounding the backyard points their guns at open window.

ERNIE: Come on out! You got nowhere to go.

Suddenly -- SPLASH! Multiple balloons are thrown out the window. Many of the balloons land on the ground, creating a trail of the fluid on the ground to the gang members outside the fence. But many actually hit the gang members. Ernie is one of them to be soaked by the fluid from the balloons.

ERNIE: What the fuck?

Ernie sniffs the fluid and is horrified upon realizing that the fluid is -- GASOLINE.

ERNIE: Oh, shit!

INT. BACK DEN ROOM - DAY

Chris and Nicole light up two books and throws them out the window.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - BACKYARD - DAY

The books land on the gasoline puddles out in the yard. The yard starts to light up and the flames follow the trail of gasoline that has lined up between the gasoline that hit the gang members and those that hit the ground on the yard. This leads to the fire engulfing many of the gang members including Ernie.

Ernie and the engulfed gang members scream as they burn to death.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - FRONT YARD - DAY

Wexler hears their screaming and sees the smoke from the backyard and realizes that his men have been attacked.

WEXLER: (to himself) Shit! (shouts) First Wave...ATTACK!

And with that -- a small group of the gang CHARGES at the house.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Four gang members bust through the door. But by doing so -- they step on BALL BOMBS -- BOOM. This causes smoke to block their vision inside the house.

GANG MEMBERS: I CAN'T SEE!!

Anthony, hiding behind a chair, pops out and shoots the four gang members dead.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DRIVEWAY - DAY

Three gang members unlocks the garage door and pops it open.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - GARAGE - DAY

The three gang members storm the garage -- TRIPPING THE WIRE. This leads to an AXE slamming into the chest of one of the gang members.

As the two remaining gang members react in shock to this -- CHRIS pops out of hiding and shoots the other two.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DAY

The last remaining three members of the "First Wave" shoot out a bedroom's windows before climbing through the window.

INT. GUEST BEDROOM - DAY

Upon climbing into the bedroom through the window, the three gang members see SOMEONE sitting on a bed and pointing a gun at them. They open fire on this person. They unnecessarily waste all of their bullets on this single person.

After they cease the fire, they realize that it's one of their dead fellow gang members that was killed in the master bedroom by Clay.

Suddenly -- GUNSHOTS come out of nowhere, killing the remaining three members of the "First Wave." We find bullet holes all over the closet door, which opens, revealing Clay inside with one of dead gang members' rifles that he has just used to kill them.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DAY

Wexler becomes furious at the lack of progress that his gang is making.

WEXLER: SECOND WAVE! GO!

The second wave prepares to attack. But before they can -- SHAPERS ATTACK FROM BEHIND. Multiple members of the second wave are killed by Shapers, while other members defend themselves against the Shapers.

A Shaper attacks Wexler. But before it can stab him, Wexler fires two rounds at it's chrome eye. The first round damaged it's chrome eye and the second round killed it.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - HALLWAY - DAY

Three gang members, who have snuck in through one of the bedrooms, exit out of the bedroom and walks out to the hall. They have their guns pointed forward, prepared to shoot anyone.

Before they can go any further -- BANG! BANG! BANG! They are shoot from above. The ceiling storage door opens -- Amanda peeks out.

INT. LOPEZ CEILING STORAGE - DAY

We find that hiding with Amanda is Linda, Dani, Sierra, and Andy.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - HALLWAY - DAY

With the three gang members dead, Sam comes out of hiding from the closet and takes one of their rifles.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - KITCHEN - DAY

Sam enters the kitchen right on time to see the remaining surviving second half of the gang from the backyard charging the back door. As the gang members storm the back door -- SAM OPENS FIRE.

The gang members don't have a chance.

As Sam continues to fire on incoming intruders, he doesn't see a GANG MEMBER sneaking in behind him from the front door. The gang member points his gun at Sam. He's about to shoot Sam when -- CLAY POPS OUT OF NOWHERE -- BANG! The gang member drops to the floor dead.

Sam turns around to find that his son has just saved his life.

CLAY: You okay, Dad?

SAM: Yeah. You?

CLAY: Never better.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DAY

The Shapers are attacking a big part of the remaining gang members. The others, feeling outnumbered by the Shapers and seeing that their fellow gang members have all been killed inside the house, abort the attack and run away.

A now solo Wexler feels abandoned by his gang.

WEXLER: FUCKIN COWARDS!!!

Wexler proceeds to shoot many of his own gang members as they are attempting to run away. Now with all of his gang members dead, Wexler becomes infuriated as he stands alone. He walks off screen.

INT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Everyone is together in the living room (Clay, Sierra, Sam, Linda, Nicole, Chris, Anthony, Amanda, Dani, Sierra, Gage, and Jackson). They hug each other in relief that they all survived this attack.

CLAY: We did it. We took them out.

AMANDA: But where's Wexler?

Everyone realizes that it's NOT over yet.

ANTHONY: He's still out there. (nodding his head) But I'll take care of him.

Anthony walks out the door.

EXT. LOPEZ RESIDENCE - DAY

Anthony steps out to the front yard to find roaming Shapers and multiple bodies of both Shapers and Gang Members. But NO Wexler.

ANTHONY: WEXLER!!!!

Several Shapers have heard Anthony's shouting and turn toward him. But he proceeds to open fire on them, killing them after shooting their chrome eyes. He runs out of bullets as more and more Shapers head towards the house.

Immediately after running out bullets -- WEXLER TACKLES HIM from behind. The two begin to fight each other.

WEXLER: (as he throws Anthony) FUCKER!!!

Wexler decks Anthony in the face, which Anthony quickly returns back to him. The two men throw each other around the yard. Wexler kicks Anthony hard in the leg, making Anthony scream and bend down. Wexler grabs Anthony's hair and punches him hard in the face.

The impact of the punch puts Anthony to the ground. He grabs his face. Weakened and injured, Anthony is unable to defend himself as Wexler continues to brutally attack him. Punching him multiple times in the face.

Anthony is all bloodied up and bruised up. He cannot fight anymore. Satisfied with the pain that he's inflicted on his long time enemy, Wexler stops the punching and stands up, leaving Anthony on the ground.

Wexler pulls out his gun and stares down the injured Anthony.

WEXLER: You should have killed me yesterday when you had the chance. Now...after all these years of us going after each other...you lose.

Wexler points his gun at Anthony's head. But before he can pull the trigger --

VOICE: (o.s.) ARGGHHH!

Wexler spins around only to see -- CLAY SLIDING BY AND SLASHING HIM IN THE CHEST WITH A KNIFE.

WEXLER: AHHH!

Wexler grabs his chest wound with one hand. He attempts to point his gun at Clay with his other. But Clay quickly grabs his wrist with one hand, raising it up in the air -- BANG -- and PLUNGES his knife into Wexler's heart.

Wexler gasps in pain as blood spews out from his mouth. He's mortally wounded.

Clay pulls his knife out of Wexler's chest and pushes the dying man onto the ground. Wexler lies on the grass, bleeding to death.

Clay helps the injured Anthony up.

CLAY: I got you, brother.

Anthony is able to successfully get up. He turns to witness Wexler takes his final breath before dying.

ANTHONY: After all this time...we finally got him.

CLAY: Yes, you did.

Anthony and Clay realize something and look up to see -- A LARGE HERD OF SHAPERS coming for the house. The gun shots, the screaming, and the fire have all attracted the Shapers to the house.

CLAY: Oh, shit!

We get an EXTREME AERIAL SHOT of the entire neighborhood being blocked and crowded with SHAPERS. The group is trapped as the Shapers suround the house.

WE SMASH TO BLACK

## Deaths

* Ernie - Burned to death by Chris and Nicole.
* Wexler - Stabbed in the heart by Clay Foster.
* Multiple members of the Wexler Gang - Killed by Clay, Anthony, Amanda, Sam, Chris, Nicole, Gage, Jackson, Wexler, and Shapers.
* Multiple Shapers - Killed by Anthony, Wexler, and the Wexler Gang.

## Trivia

* Final appearance of Wexler's gang.
* Final appearance of Ernie.
* Final appearance of Wexler (alive).