Sunday, March 10, 2013

Teen Wolf - Spec Script - Wolfman Dream

Jeff 'Dekal' Becker (http://www.jeffdekal.com/)

Disclaimer: No shipping here, though I appreciate the concept.  This is something I thought of and had to put down on paper, uh, my computer and decided to post it here today.

I had been thinking about it for a while, wrote out some notes and such but basically wrote it all out in two days.


Fade in...

EXT. TRAVELING CARNIVAL - EVENING
Sounds of carnival: small traveling roller coaster and screaming, barkers calling out for contestants at booths, a ferris wheel, and other elements.

Scott moves through the grounds in a hurry looking for a specific booth.

He finds Stiles at a charity dunk tank for cancer waiting to go up to be dunked.  It is clearly urgent but Stiles is being called up to take his spot.

SCOTT
Hey wait up a minute.

STILES
Just a minute.

SCOTT
No, now, I need to speak with you.

Stiles smiles to Scott then climbs up to the spot and sits.  Scott moves around to the front of the tank where he watches a young boy throw balls to try and dunk him.

As Stiles sits on the board he spots an old gypsy woman in the audience staring at him.  There is a strange connection that is broken when a young gypsy boy pulls her away.

When the boy fails Scott picks up a ball and throws it dunking Stiles instantly.  Scott then runs up to the tank as Stiles emerges from the water.

SCOTT
I need to speak with you.

STILES
I’m supposed to go again.

SCOTT
It’s an emergency.  It’s your father.

Stiles signals to someone behind stage that he would like off the board but a ball flies and he goes under again.

INT. TENT BEHIND DUNK TANK
Stiles and Scott enter and pick up towels for Stiles to dry himself.

STILES
What’s going on?

SCOTT
Your father shot someone.  I think the guy died.

STILES
When was this?

SCOTT
Earlier today, it’s been on the news.  Did he try and call you?

STILES
I’ve been busy with the booth.  I had to turn off my phone.

SCOTT
Well turn it on.

STILES
Have you seen him?  Is he okay?

SCOTT
No, it’s been pretty crazy since it happened.  When I found out I headed straight here.

Stiles turns on his phone and checks it for messages.  He scrolls through them until he finds the last one which reads that his father had been involved in a shooting but that he is fine and there is nothing for Stiles to do.

STILES
I’m never turning this off again.

SCOTT
What do we do now?

STILES
There’s nothing we can do right now I think.  I’m going to send him a text back.

An organizer asks if Stiles is okay and Stiles says that he is.  The organizer asks him if he is coming back to the booth and he looks to Scott.

SCOTT
Do you have an extra pair of trunks?

STILES
Yeah, there’s some over there in my bag.

Scott retrieves a pair of trunks and begins to change.

EXT. DUNKING BOOTH - IMMEDIATELY AFTER
Scott sits on the dunking board waiting while Stiles stares at his phone trying to find news about the shooting.

INT. DUNKING BOOTH TENT
Stiles and Scott have just dressed in dry clothes and are helping clean up.  The rest of the county fair/carnival has been shut down.

STILES
Let’s get going.  I didn’t find much about the shooting except it was at a jewelry store in town.

SCOTT
I heard it was a kid not much older than us.

STILES
Nineteen.

SCOTT
Can you imagine that?  Do you think he shot at your dad?

STILES
He had to have shot at him.

They leave the tent, walk through the empty grounds, make their way to the back where a few vendors have set up trailers and campers.  They are walking past them when Stiles spots the gypsy woman on a porch sitting in rocking chair.  The young boy, her grandson, plays at her feet with toy cars.  She stares back at them.

SCOTT
Do you know her?

STILES
I saw her earlier.

The boy looks up them.

GYPSY BOY
Hello.

SCOTT

Hi there.

STILES
Hey.

GYPSY BOY
Do you want your fortune read?  It’s free.

Stiles and Scott look at each other.

SCOTT
Come on that’s ridiculous.  It’s not real.

STILES

You’re a freaking werewolf.

SCOTT

Good point.  Well, it’s free.

Scott and Stiles walk to the porch where the old woman stares at them.

STILES
Okay, let’s have it.

GYPSY BOY

Not here silly, inside.

STILES
What was I thinking?

INT. GYPSY TRAILER
The trailer is full of decorations and furniture.  There is an old wooden table in the middle of the room.  The gypsy boy leads his grandmother to the table and retrieves a deck of tarot cards for her.  She sets them down and turns over the first card which is the death card.  Stiles and Scott are immediately frightened by the act.

GYPSY WOMAN
The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.

SCOTT
What does that mean?  Who are you talking to?

GYPSY WOMAN
There is change in your life.  Rites of passage, endings and new beginnings, but you are afraid.

Stiles is transfixed by the woman but Scott is repulsed because he doesn’t want to hear what she has to say.

GYPSY
My vision has mostly gone but I can still see you for who you really are.  You worry that you are evil but you are not though you may do evil things your heart will be pure.

SCOTT
These are all just generalizations that are supposed to scare us.

GYPSY WOMAN
Maybe, but they are also true.

SCOTT
(trying to drag Stiles)
This is creeping me out.  Come on.

STILES
Go outside and wait for me.

Scott leaves and Stiles moves to the chair in front of the old woman where he sits.

GYPSY WOMAN
Those of us who have been tainted by the world do not want to believe the reality of it because that means it burned us and we have scars from it but you are different.  You have not been burned, yet, but you bare a heavy load.  There is fear in you.

STILES
What do you know?

GYPSY WOMAN
(picks up an amulet from nearby and carries it to Stiles)
Take this.  It will help you.

STILES
It will protect me?

GYPSY WOMAN
Sometimes we do not need protection.

Stiles looks to the old woman’s wrinkled hands where she holds the amulet then he takes it from her.  He is about to put it around his neck when a young woman, the daughter, enters the trailer.

DAUGHTER
What is going on in here?  Mother you allowed strangers in the trailer with our son?

GYPSY WOMAN
They are harmless now.  They are just boys.

DAUGHTER
Get out.

STILES
I was just leaving.

EXT. TRAILER PORCH
Scott stands with his hands in his pockets as Stiles exits the trailer and stuffs the amulet in his pocket.

SCOTT
What happened?

STILES
Let’s get out of here.

INT. STILE’S BEDROOM- IMMEDIATELY AFTER
Stiles empties his pockets on his night stand, among the items is the amulet which he sets upon his wallet and touches briefly before turning away and undressing for bed.

-DREAM-

INT. AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT - EVENING
Scott and Stiles sit next to each other by a window, there is another seat beside them but the occupant keeps changing between an extra and one of their friends.

STILES

Where are we going?

SCOTT
Vegas.

STILES

Really?

SCOTT
Yeah, it’s going to be lots of fun.

Stiles smiles and looks out the window where he can see the sun setting in the distance.

STILES

Vegas.  That sounds fun.  Show girls, magic, and all of that.

SCOTT
It’s just too bad everyone else had to come along with us.

STILES
Who?

Stiles looks around the plane.  Not far from them Derek raises a glass of champagne to them.

STILES
There’s a werewolf on the plane.

SCOTT
He’s not the only one.

STILES
(motioning to Scott)
Of course.

SCOTT
No, I mean look around.

Stiles gets up from his seat and moves to the aisle.  As he looks around in turn: Jackson, Peter, and Isaac all raise glasses to him.

STILES
(whispering)
There are mother fucking werewolves on the fucking plane and they’re drinking?

SCOTT
It’s worse than that.

Stiles looks around the plane again but this time sees the Argent family in turn spread out through the plane but they all have crossbows and other weapons in their hands.

STILES
(whispering)
They have weapons?  What’s happening here?

SCOTT
I’d be concerned but this is a dream.

STILES
Right, I knew that.  What day is it?  Is it a full moon?

SCOTT
Better look and see.

Stiles climbs to the window where he looks out to see the sun is gone and he can see the full moon out in the sky.

The lights in the plane go out and all around him there are glowing eyes of werewolves.  The emergency lights kick on and Stiles realizes Scott is gone.  He hears commotion and violence all around him.  He steps into the aisle, something flies past his head so he gets down to his hands and knees and crawls to the front of the plane.

STILES
(to himself)
I have to tell the captain.  I have to tell the captain.

Stiles gets to the cockpit where he finds the door open and inside he finds Scott standing looking at a dead flight crew.

Stiles closes the door behind him.

STILES
What are you doing here?

SCOTT
I thought I could help them but I killed them instead.

STILES
You killed them?

SCOTT

Sorry.

STILES
What are we going to do?

He looks to the controls and sees that the plane is beginning to descend.

SCOTT

We could turn on autopilot or else see if someone else can fly.

STILES
They’re all killing each other.

SCOTT
Right.

STILES

I have to think.

Stiles looks around at the controls and moves into the pilot seat, straps himself in as the plane continues to descend.

STILES
We’re going down.

SCOTT
Can you fly?

STILES

One winter I spent like all of December in my room with that flight simulator.

SCOTT
I remember that.

STILES
Okay, I just need to think.

Stiles closes his eyes and grabs hold of the controls.  He pulls back on them and begins to steady their decline.

SCOTT
Look.

Stiles opens his eyes to see they are headed straight for a gas station.

SCOTT
That would be a big explosion.

STILES
Think of all of the people.

Stiles pulls down hard and grabs for the throttle control and pushes it to the limit making the plane miss the gas station.

SCOTT
That was close.

STILES
How are we going to land?

EXT. CA AIRPORT PARKING LOT LONG TERM PARKING - EARLY MORNING
Stiles and Scott walk through the parking lot towards Scott’s Jeep.

STILES
I thought we were going to Vegas?

SCOTT
No, we went already remember.

STILES
Oh yeah, right.

SCOTT
We have to get to class.

STILES
I don’t remember it much.

SCOTT
You landed the plane, we had a good time, and now we’re back.

STILES
The return flight was uneventful?

INT. ASTRONOMY CLASS - LATER MORNING
The classroom is decorated for an astronomy class.  On the chalkboard is a message saying today is presentation day.  Stiles sits at his desk not far from Scott who sits staring into space.  The rest of the class is blurred, so is the teacher.

STILES
When did we start taking astronomy?

TEACHER
Stiles no talking unless you’re presenting.  Scott it is your turn.

Scott gets up from his desk and walks to the front of the class.  We see that in the process he has lost his clothes and stands in front of the class in his underwear.  He has a star chart painted on his chest.

SCOTT
(pointing to chest)
There are many myths about the moon.  The most popular of course being the werewolf.

Stiles is troubled by what he is watching and hearing.

STILES
This is my dream.

SCOTT

Weird huh?

STILES
So why are you in your underwear?

SCOTT
It should be you.  You should be the one up here.

STILES
I don’t want it.  It’s not me.

SCOTT
Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

Stiles gets up from his desk and walks to the classroom door.  He looks back at the class where Scott has continued with his presentation.

STILES
It’s not me.  I’m not the one.

He leaves the class and begins to walk.  He is walking through the hallway when he hears his name over the loud speakers being called to the principal’s office.

INT. PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE-
Stiles walks into the principal’s office.  The man stares at him with concern.

PRINCIPAL
It’s your father.

STILES

Right, I remember that.  What happened again?

PRINCIPAL
He shot someone.  He was hurt.

STILES
I have to help him.

PRINCIPAL
(raises a silver headed cane into the air)
Take this.

STILES
Why?

PRINCIPAL
He’ll need it.

EXT. SCHOOL - NIGHT
Stiles is walking from the school.  He pulls his jacket close around himself to keep away the chill as he walks with the cane in hand.

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT
Stiles and Scott walk through the woods.

STILES

Where are we going?  I thought I was headed to see my father.

SCOTT
You are.

STILES
Something about this is familiar.  It’s like the night you were bitten.

SCOTT
I thought it was familiar.

STILES
Why are we walking out here?  Don’t I have a Jeep?

SCOTT
You’re father went out to a cabin.  He’s hunting.

STILES
I thought he shot someone.

SCOTT
(shushes Stiles)
Something is about to happen.

STILES
Aren’t you a werewolf?

SCOTT
It’s not me.

STILES
Who then?

SCOTT
You get bit.

STILES
Me?

SCOTT
We should split up.

STILES
Why?

SCOTT
So we can take it by surprise.

STILES
What are you talking about?

Stiles continues to walk and realizes that Scott is gone from his side.  He continues to walk when he hears a girl scream in the distance so he runs toward it.  He finds Lydia trapped against a tree with a werewolf approaching her.

STILES

Scott man if that’s you this isn’t funny.

Stiles raises his cane but realizes the he needs to get the wolf’s attention so he picks up a rock and throws it at the wolf hitting it in its side.  The wolf turns towards him.  He begins to back away.

STILES

Run away Lydia.

The werewolf lunges at him and he holds out his cane.  The wolf tackles him to the ground, bites through the cane and right into his chest.  Stiles screams in pain but manages to stick part of the broken cane into the werewolf making it flinch.  He then smacks it across the face with the silver head.  Stiles uses a tree to get to his feet and begins to beat the wolf until it whimpers and dies.  He looks to Lydia who is horrified.  He then sinks back on the tree.  He looks out into the darkness and sees glowing eyes, several dozen, approaching him.  He faints from the pain.

INT. STILES’ BEDROOM - NIGHT
Stiles awakes in his bed.  The room is mostly dark but we see a figure in the corner of the room.  He turns on a nearby light and we see Lydia staring at him.

STILES
What happened?

LYDIA
You were attacked.  You saved my life.

STILES
Oh good, it hurts.  I was bitten.  Am I going to become a werewolf?

LYDIA
What’s that?

Stiles looks at her strangely.

LYDIA
Is your name really Calvin?

STILES
Why would you think my name is Calvin?

LYDIA
It’s sewn into your underwear.

STILES
My underwear?

Stiles lifts up his blankets to see that he is dressed in his underwear and suddenly realizes Lydia must have undressed him.

STILES
Where am I?

LYDIA
You should rest.

Stiles shakes his head and begins to push away the covers.

STILES

I have to get out of here.

LYDIA
Where are you going?

STILES
I have to find my father.  I was supposed to take him something.

LYDIA
(holds up an unbroken cane)
Here it is.

STILES

Right I have to take that.

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT
Stiles walks through the woods using the cane as he is holding his side where he was bitten.  Scott runs out of the woods to him.  He is happy and full of energy.

SCOTT
I found you.

STILES
I have to find my father.

SCOTT
Not anymore.  We did it.  Look I got bit too.

Scott raises his shirt to show his wound.

STILES

What’s wrong with you?

SCOTT

Come on, it’s a full moon.  We have to go kill some people.

STILES

No, I’m not a monster.

Derek appears not far from them standing against a tree.  They stop walking.

DEREK
You’re not a monster.  You’re one of us.

STILES
No, this is all wrong.

DEREK
Where are you going to go?  Be one of us.  You can feel it in your blood.

Stiles looks to them then turns a different direction and tries to walk away but begins to change into a wolf.  As he changes he falls to the ground and looks up to the sky, to the moon.  The moon fades into an eye.

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT
We see three wolves running through the woods at first then several others.

EXT. GRAVEYARD - OPEN GRAVE - NIGHT -
A grave digger is down in the ground squaring off the corners with a shovel.  Above him a back hoe sits empty, not far from the machine a young man, the digger’s assistant, lounges on a pile of dirt covered in sweat and dirt.

DIGGER’S ASSISTANT
Why do we have to work at night?  It’s so creepy.

GRAVE DIGGER
Because no one wants to see this done during the day.  You know you should be down here doing this.

There is a sound of the assistant being taken down quickly and the Grave Digger peaks over the top of the hole only to scream out and fall backwards trying to get away but he hits the wall of the hole and looks back terrified.

EXT. CEMETERY - AFTERNOON
Stiles is dressed in his clothes and lies face down on the top of a mausoleum, silver headed cane beside him, watching the police who are investigating the found bodies of the Grave Digger and his Assistant.  Sheriff Stilinski arrives at the scene.  He gets out of his car and walks over to where an officer shows him two body bags.

OFFICER 1
The Caretaker and his assistant, Father O’Connor over there found them when he came to inspect the grave.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
The call said it looked like animal attacks.

OFFICER 1
That’s right.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Better get them to the morgue so we can get them processed.  Any tracks or hair left behind?

OFFICER 1
Yeah there were tracks.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Alright, let’s get a mold of them.  I have to find my son.  If you or anyone else sees him let him know I want to talk to him.

Stiles continues to watch from his spot as he can hear and see everything with his mystic wolf vision and hearing he looks saddened.

STILES
I’m right here dad.

EXT.CAMPSITE CLEARING WOODS - AFTERNOON
Derek and Scott sit by an old camp site of tree logs and ashes.  Stiles approaches them limping on his cane and they stand.  He is angry, irate.  He goes to Derek and shoves him.

STILES
I thought I killed you.

DEREK
It wasn’t me.

STILES
You bit me.  You made me just like him.

SCOTT
Stiles I’m the one who did it.

STILES
You did it?  You betrayed me.  For what?

DEREK
Stiles it’s a dream.

STILES
I know.  I want it to stop.

DEREK
How?

SCOTT
We’ll help you.

STILES
I have to think.  The gypsy woman, I have to find her.

DEREK
Good, we’ll find her and kill her.

STILES
No, don’t you get it.  I need her to help me.

EXT. COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS - AFTERNOON
Stiles walks alone through the empty grounds as he is looking for the gypsy woman.  He is unable to find her until he sees a Palmistry Sign and sees a store front unlike anything else at the carnival.  He goes to the store front and opens the door.  He looks inside to see the interior of a building.  He looks back out at the carnival as this shouldn’t exist here but it does.  He enters.

He turns a corner in the shop to see the gypsy woman in fortune teller garb sitting at a table behind a glass ball.

STILES
I have to talk to you.  My friends-

GYPSY WOMAN
Come in and sit down.

Stiles moves to the table and sits across from here.

STILES
We don’t have much time.  I think my friends are coming.

GYPSY WOMAN
And I should be afraid of them?

STILES
They may try to kill you.

GYPSY WOMAN
Why?

STILES
It’s what they do.  I have been turned into a monster.

There is a knock at the door.

STILES
That may be them.

GYPSY WOMAN
Your friends, one is tall and dark, the other is shorter and very handsome.

STILES
How did you know?

GYPSY
You didn’t know they are my friends too?

STILES
What?

GYPSY WOMAN
I see all.

STILES
Then you know what I became?  I killed someone last night.

GYPSY WOMAN
The police have found the bodies?

STILES
Yes.

GYPSY WOMAN
They are at the door.  They are looking for you.  They know you killed the men.

STILES
I didn’t do it.  I mean it wasn’t me exactly.  I wasn’t like this.  I used to be good.

GYPSY WOMAN
(laughs)
Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

STILES
Help me.

Derek and Scott enter the room behind her and signal for him to follow them.

GYPSY WOMAN
Go now.

Stiles stands on his cane.

GYPSY WOMAN
Give me that.  You don’t need it anymore.

STILES
But the bite, I’m hurt.

GYPSY WOMAN
You are healed.

Stiles hands over the cane and begins to leave with Scott and Derek but stops just outside of the room, behind a curtain where he decides to listen.  Sheriff Stilinski and another officer enter the Fortune Teller’s shop.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Where is he?  We have a report he came in here.

GYPSY WOMAN
He left.  You just missed him.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
I need to help him.  Where can I find him?

Stiles behind the curtain is about to reveal himself when Scott and Derek stop him.

SCOTT
It’s not just you anymore.  We’re all apart of this.

GYPSY WOMAN
Don’t worry officers he will find you.  When the moon is full and it is dark he will hunt you down and suck the marrow from your bones.

STILES
Harsh.

SCOTT
Let’s go.

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT
Stiles, Scott, and Derek walk through the woods.

STILES
I hate these woods.

DEREK
They are where we are safe.

SCOTT
Besides everything will change tonight.  We are going to your father’s cabin.

STILES
He has a cabin out here?

SCOTT
Don’t you remember?

STILES
No.

DEREK
It won’t matter anymore.  He’s going to die in it.

STILES
Whose going to kill him?

SCOTT
We are.

STILES
You can’t.

Stiles reaches out to stop them but they are quick to run from him.  He gives chase in human form as they transform into their wolf bodies.

He chases behind them to the cabin.

EXT. CABIN IN WOODS - NIGHT
The cabin is small and the windows glow in a dark yellow color.

STILES
Please, I know you’re safe in there but I have to save you from them.

Stiles runs to the door.  He knocks.  The door opens and Sheriff Stilinski stands there using the silver cane as a crutch.

STILES
Dad.  You have to listen to me.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Come inside.

STILES
No, wait, the full moon, I can’t.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Get in here.

Stiles enters.  The cabin is small.  He sees several guns and animal heads inside on the walls.

STILES
Dad, my friends, they are going to come here tonight.  You were trying to find me but they are trying to find you.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
I know.

STILES
You know?

SHERIFF STILINSKI
I only have to kill the head werewolf then you change back.  I did it before.

Stiles looks around the room and the animal heads are now those of all wolves.

There are scratches at the windows and the handle to the door is turned.  Stiles and his father arm themselves and move to the far wall nearly back to back.  As Stiles waits he begins to think of the fact that it is night and there is a full moon.

STILES
Dad, I can’t stay.

Stiles begins to grow hair, his nails form, he runs for the door and opens it.  He is knocked down by two werwolves who storm the room and attempt to tackle Sheriff Stilinski but he manages to keep them at bay with his stick and a chair.

STILES
Dad!

Stiles tries to resist the change as he watches his father fight with and defeat the two werewolves until he himself changes and attempts to attack his father.  He pins his father to the ground with a chair between them when his father clobbers him in the face with the head of the cane killing him.

INT. STILES BEDROOM - NIGHT
Stiles awakes in his bedroom and turns on the nightstand light.  He sees the medallion on the stand and picks it up.  He is sweaty and uncomfortable.  He gets up from his bed and walks to the back of the door where he pulls on a bathrobe.

INT. STILES HOME -
Stiles walks through the hallways and rooms until he finds his father in the living room in a recliner.  His father has a glass of Scotch in hand and a bottle at his side.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
What time is it?

STILES
I don’t know.

SHERIFF

What’s that in your hand?

STILES
This?  It’s just uh, something I got at the carnival, from a gypsy woman actually.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
Don’t trust carnie folk they’ll rob you blind.

STILES
Tell me about it.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
What’s wrong?

STILES
I just had the strangest dream.

Stiles walks to the couch and sits.  He thinks for a moment to tell his father about the dream but it is quickly escaping him and he sees the bottle at his father’s side.

STILES
I heard about what happened.  I’m sorry.

SHERIFF STILINSKI
(raises glass)
Well, what are you gonna do?

STILES
I’m just going to sit here for a moment.

They sit quietly as we fade out.