Screenplay BtVS Season IV - Sleeping Roses are Red - part I
Marc
Season: IV
Episode: cancelled
Title: Sleeping Roses are Red.
FADE IN:
Begin first sequence:
EXT. FLY OVER FORREST OUTSIDE SUNNYDALE, EARLY EVENING
CUT TO:
EXT. FORREST - SAME
[We are in the forrests surrounding Sunnydale, there's music on the
background - electric guitars fading as the voice of Inca-Soldier Véleran
speaks, stronger when Véleran is silence. As the camera comes near we see
Xander & Anya (struggling with the holding hands part) following Willow and
Giles; they walk towards a formation of rocks while Buffy leads the
formation.]
VOICE VÉLERAN:
(raspy, dark toned voice)
'You think that, dust as I was, I was impatient to be alive once more - but
haste is the roar of mortals; I stream on a primeval level. Although my body
was porous as old parchment, my seraphsoul walked an odyssey in the other
realm.'
[Giles is reading from a scroll, seems puzzled. The group gathers round hem,
except Willow who seems distracked. The camera follows her when she walks
around - as she approaches the rockformation, an entrance opens - she walks
in without telling the others. At the moment she disappears, Xander notices
where's she going and at the same time the camera slams into the ground.]
CUT TO:
INT. CAVE - EARLY EVENING
[The cave is strangely lit (the light comes from mirrors that hang in the
corridor as we will see later on) - dusk glides in it, roots from the trees
above crack trough the ceiling and the ground is covered with death leaves -
as we pan across several dark corners we find Willow bending over a stone
altar/bed where a manshaped form lies; these are the remains of Véleran -
once a fighter against evil, now a dried out mummy-like skeleton. With her
eyes closed Willow kisses him.]
VOICE VÉLERAN:
'Combed with dead, she covered me with life; kissed my brow and my clotted
blood thinned, flowed and my heart jumped - once, twice and then steady. How
long had I been gone? - I could not tell. Was it one year? A thousand? I
didn't care to know; life - weak, fragile like all life is at birth - struck
my veins. Little by little I opened my withered eyes.'
[As Véleran opens his eyes, the cave comes alive - roses grow unnaturaly
upon the ceiling and outfold, even the light seems stronger. Willow still
stands near the stone bed, she has this nervous expression on her face an
breaths fast.]
VOICEOVER VÉLERAN:
My heart pounded, my nostrils quivered when I smelled the flowers, the sweet
odeur popped up as it had been locked up in a jarr - it's scense was so
powerfull that the leaves of the roses twirled off the helm - a red rain
covered me and the girl with the glow vermilion in her hair.
(beat)
I know this girl!
CUT TO:
Credit Sequence:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
"Sleeping Roses are Red"
INT. CORRIDOR OF THE CAVE - EARLY EVENING
[Buffy, Giles, Xander and Anya walking - we track alongside. There are
strange shaped mirrors placed against the wall, passing the sunlight into
the cave.
XANDER:
'Well I saw her going, but this sure resembles the batcave.'
GILES:
(irritated)
'Don't act like you never been in a cave before.'
XANDER:
'So - considering the past and all - you now I'm walking on tiptoe right?'
ANYA:
'My brave boy.'
XANDER:
'Man!'
CUT TO:
INT. CAVE - SAME
We see the gang - Buffy leading - comming out the corridor and entering the
cave, the sunlight streaming in from outside. As the look around - amazed by
the growing flowers - they see Willow kissing the mummyfied body.
XANDER:
(horrified)
'Yuck!'
CUT TO:
INT CAVE - SAME
[As the gang comes near.]
XANDER:
'Why kiss a mummy?'
ANYA:
'Same why the princess kissed the frog?'
GILES:
(pushes up his glasses)
'No no, mummy Xander - according to the scroll his bodyfluids drenched, - he
dried out.'
[They stand around the stone bed]
BUFFY:
'For a sleeping beauty he looks like the grim reaper!'
WILLOW:
(measured as if she just wakes up)
'What?'
[Suddenly the skeleton Véleran rises - reaching his hand slowly toward Willo
ws cheeck. Buffy reacts fast and grasps the hand.]
BUFFY:
'Not so fast - o yuck! - his skin feels like burned paper!'
[The hideous face of Véleran looks at her, then he opens his mouth, his
teeth sink into the hand that holds him. As he drinks her blood, Buffy slams
him a few times on the head - then for the first time we see the strength of
Véleran as he throws her to the other side of the cave. In a few seconds we
see his face become more human: a young, hansom fella, with long black,
native-style hair. Becoming younger is obviously a consequence of the blood
drinking.]
BUFFY:
(getting up)
'Oké - that grim reaper was just a wild guess. Delete answer A - I go for
the D of Demon.'
[As Véleran stands up, she takes fighterposition, blood drippes from her
wounded hand on the floor.]
VÉLERAN
(his fingers gestured to Willow)
'Juanna!'
(beat)
'How pale you look?'
BUFFY:
'Mistaken identity, that's Willow.'
XANDER
'You go tell him girl.'
[Buffy rushes towards Véleran, but as he sees her coming, he rises his hand.
Vélerans obviously has magical powers, the roots of the old oaks that
cracked the ceiling, grow and grasp Buffy. As the others come into action,
the roots also grasp them - within seconds the gang (except Willow) is
trapped.]
XANDER
(struggling against the roots)
'Oh common, Beanstake Willie!'
(pause)
'And who's idea was it again to check this place out? - Buffy?'
BUFFY:
(also struggling)
'Hey! It was not me! It was Giles!'
GILES:
(looking wondered to the roots)
'No, not me.'
ANYA:
'It was Willow.'
[They all look to Willow who seems not to care her friends are trapped.]
BUFFY:
(whispers)
'What's wrong with her.'
XANDER:
'She plays the damsel in distress part and then Buffy for the rescue?'
GILES
'I'm afraid not.'
CUT TO:
[start of second story-line]
INT. CORRIDOR OF WILLOW'S AND BUFFY'S DORM - EVENING
[We see Tara - clearly nervous - knocking on Willows door - no answer, as
she wants to leave, Spike appears and he's uptight.]
SPIKE:
'What! The witch not home?'
TARA
[As if she feels this one is not to be trusted, she stays silent]
SPIKE:
'And who the bloody hell are you?'
TARA:
'I am, I am..'
SPIKE:
'Going to sing that Etheridge song for me, are you? - If the witch and her
friends come in, don't mention me, - I'll find the myself!'
[He walks away - a male student walks by, his arms loades with books and
paper.]
SPIKE:
'BOO'
[As the frightened student drops everyhting, Spike laughs. Tara doesn't move
'till Spike has left the building.]
---- end of this part...commercial break of a few days... still writing on
part two ---
Marc
P@rick
[Screenplay Buffy The Vampire Slayer]
Whoa! Nice story. Looks very professional as well. You do this a lot?
Anyway, I'm looking forward to part two.
Bye, Patrick
who's still working on his part of the abe Buffy story