Thursday November 29, 2007

"Baby Shocker"

"Cameron. What are you doing here?" Tracy says looking over at Cameron standing near Benji who is now sitting up against the wall of the small cave.

"I was walking through here and I discovered this man laying here, in this spot." Cameron explains.

"Well, excuse me. Let me get this man the attention he needs right away." Professor Williams says interjecting whilst he walks over to Benji.

"Hi, you'll be O.K. son. Are you new to Foxport? I don't remember having seen you around here before." he says thinking it strange to see someone this deep in the forest. "Cover your eyes with this." He says pulling out a handkerchief from his shirt pocket.

Benji places it over his eyes as the professor helps him to his feet.

Cameron and Tracy deliberately walk behind the professor as they make their way out of the cave.

"I felt a kick from the baby today." Tracy says in a quiet voice.

"That's wonderful." Cameron says, followed by a gentle kiss on her cheek. "Our baby."
Tracy looks up at him in disbelief.

Did this mean Cameron was going to become to Tracy's child after all?

Wednesday November 28, 2007

Professor Williams lets Tracy lead as they make their way deep into the forested area of Mayberry Park.

Somewhat exhausted, Tracy carefully tries to retrace her steps.

When they finally find Benji, they are shocked to see that he isn't alone...

*****

Ally pulls the body into the house and heads downstairs with it to the laundry room.
She covers the body with a heavy blue plastic mat and heads upstairs to her room and phones Mark Summers again.

"Hello?" Mark answers from the master bedroom at the Williams estate.

"Hi Mark it's me Ally."

"Ally man, I can't talk right now, O.K.? Trevor's here, Professor Williams' son, and he's having trouble- I think it's a seizure or something."

"Oh, my God, O.K. - I'm still on my way. I think the body of the man who I found is still alive. I was about to start the car and then I noticed that his eyes were open. I've brought him into the house. I've dragged him into the basement. Maybe I should wait for you? What do you think? When can you get here?"

Mark says, "Sure, now is not a good time- I'll call you back in a bit".

They hang up. Mark now makes the connection of who the body might be.... Xavier.

He turns around and notices Bryon checking Trevor's wrist.

"I don't feel anything Mark. I don't feel a pulse!" Bryon panics.

--
The person who watched Ally drag the body into house closes their drapes as Ally looks outside her window, checking to see if anyone had noticed her bring the body into the house.

Tuesday November 27, 2007

"Reunited"

"Bryon what are you doing in here man?" Mark asks again.

"Mark, I'm glad you're O.K.! That was crazy what happened earlier...." Bryon realizes by Mark's expression he's suspicious about why he's in the kitchen, so he quickly says, "I was just about to head upstairs and I stopped in here-- got a drink" he slips what he found back into his pocket whilst reaching for a small glass next to the sink. Mark doesn't notice.

"You're in rough shape" Byron says as he continues focusing on Mark's leg bandages. "I should ask you the same question" still covering for being found in the kitchen.

"Yeah, shoot me. I'm ignoring the good doctor."Mark says as he limps over smiling heroically.

"I was unable to get Xavier, I rode after him in my car on his bike but he got away. What about Trevor? How is he?"

Mark says, "Not as well. Not so good. His father has told me that he's slipped into some kind of special coma. He may even lose sight in one of his eyes."

"Oh, no." Byron says, feeling somewhat guilty.

"It's not your fault Byron" Mark says noticing Bryon's hurt. "We are all just friggin' just lucky to be alive-- all of us."

"You're right" Byron says.

All of a sudden there is a blood curdling scream from upstairs.

"Oh, my God! That's Trevor."

"That doesn't sound good" Bryon says, as they both hurry out of the kitchen and quickly up the stairs.

Monday November 26, 2007

Inside the car, Professor Williams inquires from Tracy to know more about what happened in the park.


"This has been an unbelievable day!" the professor says, exhaling heavily.



A knowing silence fills the atmosphere.



He turns to Tracy.



"Tell me what's happened with you."


"I don't know. I was out in Mayberry Park. Painting. Relaxing. I met someone who took me into the forest area. Before I remember, the land just fell beneath him-" she tells him.

Tracy clutches her stomach suddenly.

"Ouch." Tracy says.

Professor Williams looks over.

"Are you alright?" He says.

"Yes." Tracy smiles, before she pauses and then says:



"I'm pregnant- I just felt my first kick."

"Congratulations." the professor smiles, knowingly. "Congratulations."

*****

After sucessfully hiding inside the kitchen letting the professor and Tracy pass by coming down the back stairs, Byron watches the professor and Tracy now drive off the estate property seconds after coming out the closet he hid in.

Now with the coast clear and alone, Byron reaches into his back pocket and looks more carefully at what he's found on the stairs a moment ago.

"Byron, what are you doing in here?"

Byron freezes and turns around.

Friday November 23, 2007

"OK, leave the body there and drive to the Williams mansion here on Corner Cove. I've been hurt by some maniac and I can't leave the estate or drive or anything like that. I'm supposed to be laying here until Professor Williams gets back..."

"O.K. I'll drive right over. I don't recognize him. How could someone have just appeared here in Foxport?" Ally says.

"I have no idea." Mark says agreeing, knowing that he might be responsible.

They both hang up.

Ally steps over Xavier and opens the car door. She slips the key into the ignition and turns several times but the car won't start. She looks out the car window at Xavier.

His eyes open wide and his body begins to shake. Ally gets out of the car and instead of dragging his body into the car to safety she leaves the shed and pulls the lifeless body along side the house.

Little does she know that someone is watching her...

Thursday November 22, 2007

Mark answers.

The red head is still frozen in her spot-- staring at Xavier's lifeless body next to the car.

"Hi Mark, this is Ally. Ally Blade. You've got to come over here right now... There's a dead body in the car shed at the back of my house!"

Wednesday November 21, 2007

"To the Rescue?"

As she makes her way up to the front driveway leading up to Williams' estate, Tracy can can tell that something isn't quite right by the feeling in her stomach.


She buzzes in.


"Hello?"

"I Professor Williams? This is Tracy Cinte. There's been a terrible accident in Mayberry Park. Someone has fallen into small landslide accidentally. I've managed to pull them to safety and they are having some trouble seeing. They need immediate attention. It doesn't look good."


"O.K., please come in. I'm in the master on the second floor to the left when you come up the stairs. The front door is open. Walk past the main stairs along the hall and you'll find the back way up."


The gates slide open.



Upstairs in the master bedroom, Mark Summers is now conscious and appears somewhat stable. A large whit gauze bandage consumes the entire lower part of his leg.


"I was coming in and that's when I saw him running across the yard-" Mark explains before Tracy enters.


"Hi Tracy. This is Mark."


Mark and Tracy make eye contact briefly.


Tracy looks over and sees Trevor.

"There was a shooting today- that I'll tell you about on the way- Trevor isn't going to make it."

Tracy covers her mouth.

Her mind immediately pauses when she sees the faint resemblance between Benji and Trevor. She confirms her suspicions. She looks over at the professor now- the resemblance is striking.


"Where is this person exactly?" asks the professor bring Tracy back slightly.


"I'll have to come with you- it is quite a ways away." she explains.


"O.K. Mark, you stay here. Please don't get up, please just try and rest here- there's been another situation in Mayberry Park that doesn't seem to be connected in any way but it is an emergency nonetheless".


Mark nods strong, reaffirming him before Tracy and the prof exit, leaving Mark alone with Trevor laying next to him.


Mark waits until he hears the back door close before he gets up to open the window.


Mark's cellphone rings-

Tuesday November 20, 2007

"Another Chapter of Revelations"

Bryon quickly places what he sees it into his pocket...

*****

Over, in Mayberry Park, Tracy manages to bring Benji up to ground level.



"I can't see..." Benji says. His voice is full of fear.



Tracy replies comfortingly, "I understand. Let me make sure you're OK first and I'll go and get help. You're going to be fine Benji, I promise."



"My eyes are BURNING! Please, please go and get help now! Go to Professor Williams' -- you know who he is right?"



Tracy nods, yes.



"That's my dad. He doesn't know that yet, but please just go-- it's complicated- I'll tell you when I can- just go..."



Tracy is shocked-



"Tell him what's happened and please come back right away, O.K.?... I'm worried that I'll lose my eyesight damn it if you don't hurry back..." Benji exclaims.



"OK. I'll be back as soon as I can." Tracy says softly, tearing up, but still shocked by Benji's revelation.


Does that mean Benji and Trevor are... brothers?!

Monday November 19, 2007

(Williams Estate, main house: View from front lawn looking up towards the master bedroom on the second floor where Trevor and Mark are being cared for)

Upstairs in the master bedroom, Professor Williams attends to Mark and his son Trevor, both brutally injured by Xavier's gun blast just hours ago.

Tired, shocked but hopeful, Professor Williams lies them both unconscious to rest side by side.

Whilst giving care, he waits patiently for the phone to ring; he's expecting a call from someone in Foxport who may be able to assist him with the care of the two men and someone who may also know exactly what caused the situation hours earlier.

Out front, Bryon drives up to the visitors entrance on the Williams estate property and makes his way into the house through the back entrance.

As Byron heads up the stairs he notices something strange laying out the floor on the second floor landing.

He reaches to pick it up-

Friday November 16, 2007

The mysterious redhead, the 'schoolgirl' who found Trevor's lab samples in Mayberry Park, exits her house through the front door and walks along the side of the house to the back to get her car...

As she opens the car shed door, she's shocked to see Xavier's body laying next to her car.

She screams out in shear terror.

Thursday November 15, 2007

"Hi Valerie. It's me Professor Williams. Trevor is loosing vital signs. There was a terrible incident at the house today. Mark Stanley's son was here visiting here see look at my new patient.... I don't know what's doing on. He was in the house and apparently shot Trevor for god knows what reason in the foyer downstairs"

There's a pause.

"I'm not sure he's going to make it."

The scream of Valerie's voice can be heard through the handset:

"Noooooooo!"

Mark Summers appears in the doorway and quickly collapes near the foot of the bed.

Wednesday November 14, 2007

Tracy bolts to her feet, careful not to cause herself to fall into the huge hole in the ground.

Tracy says, "Benji!... Oh, my God."

She looks into the pit and can see him laying lifeless at the bottom.

She turns and runs to get help, but as she does, she hears a faint cry from behind.

Turning back, she's hears Benji!

"Help..."

Tracy frantically looks around and grabs for a trench coat she sees nearby.

She throws it into the pit and holds it tightly at one end with both hands.

Benji's eyes, still closed, struggles to reach out with his only good arm....

"I can't see! Oh my God! I can't see!"

*****

Byron races his way across to the roadway after Xavier, but a car driving down the road unexpectedly prevents him from crossing without getting hit.As Byron slows to a stop and waits on the car, he watches Xavier limp away quickly, disappearing off into the distance.

He's escaped. Again. Bryon thinks.

"Oh, no." Bryon mumbles to himself, defeated.

*****

Mark Summers limps too.

Blood, dirt and debris from his fall outside worsen the pain from the gunshot wound to his leg damage.

Entering the Williams' main house through the back door, he makes his way upstairs in search of Professor Williams...

Upstairs, Professor Williams carefully pulls the bullet out from Trevor's chest.

He gets up and looks out the window to take breath and check on Byron outside.

He realizes things outside must have gone badly. Byron is nowhere to be seen...

He turns, walks back, and slumps himself next to Trevor in a large chair bedside. He looks at Trevor.

Thinking deeply for some time, his hand finally reaches for the telephone sitting on the bedside table.

He dials-

Tuesday November 13, 2007

The ground of the cave floor is muddy, like damp clay.

Tracy lays down to rest, exhausted from the hike there. Benji rests beside her...

Without saying a word, Tracy removes her wig and lays it next to her painting.

Benji smiles.

He begins to kiss her passionately... the light from between the trees shines all around them making them look as though they are two bears in hibernation.

Benji gets up gently and walks over excitedly to where his photos are.

As he turns and walks back towards Tracy, as if out of nowhere, the dirt below his feet crumbles and gives way. The earth literally disappears from beneath him. Swallowed by the earth- not enough time to hear his scream. It is dark and Tracy can barely see enough to comprehend what she is really seeing...

"Ahhhhhh!" the shriek from her voice is enough for anyone for miles to hear as she realizes what has just happened....

*****

Professor Williams tests Trevor's blood levels over again. Nothing.

In the professor's analysis, Trevor appears to be slipping into a comatose state...

He cuts open Trevor's shirt. He picks up a set of large tweezers and carefully begins to operate.

*****

Bryon's car screeches to a halt as Xavier looses control and spins violently and erratically into an narrow street way.

Xavier crawls off the ground, supports himself against the wall. He looks back just as Bryon slams the car door shut-

Monday November 12, 2007

"Benji's Hideaway"

Benji kisses Tracy. Passionate, strong, aggressive, wet.



Tracy taste's Benji's ruggedness.



The condition inside Benji's hideaway is dark, musty, masculine.. strange. Tracy's opens her eyes briefly coming out of their kiss.



Benji turns her around gently, covers her eyes with his hands and begins leading her to the back of the cave.



"Take a look" Benji tells Tracy. He removes his hands.



"Wow" Tracy says.



This view outside into the forest deep within Mayberry Park is stunning:

Friday November 9, 2007

"This is it" Benji says as he pushes the huge rock to the side.

"This is where I've been living for the last while while things get better for me."

Tracy is speechless. She looks into the dark vast narrow passageway. Never would she have imagined that Benji would have lived... in a cave, practically underground.

"Wow" she states. "I don't know what to say really".

"How about... 'Can I come in?'-- Come on, we're almost there..." Benji offers.

Benji walks into the dark cave. Tracy follows still curious but feeling protected.

Thursday November 8, 2007

Nothing.
No pulse.
Professor Williams drops Trevor's limp wrist, which falls onto bed and flips over.
He runs out of the room and heads downstairs to the lab.

*****

Xavier scales the fence and races to Mark's motorbike.

He hops on and races up the hill. His white hair trailing off as Bryon watches a killer get away.
Bryon notices something strange when Xavier jumps onto the bike. One of his legs is artificial. The silver steel of the machine-like leg glimmers underneath Xavier's pant bottom as he rides off under the sun.

"Damn it." Bryon says to himself in anger at the thought of Xavier getting away. Seeing Xavier's leg, Bryon gets a flashback to earlier when he noticed Xavier sitting strangely in the guest house. Byron knew that something was wrong. Never would he have suspected that it had something to so with Xavier missing a limb or that he was probably was sitting strangely because he was carrying a gun.

Moreover, that it should have confirmed one thing to Bryon: His friend Sebastian and Xavier were the same person.

Admitting he knew who Xavier was, also meant revealing something shocking about himself.
Byron panics... He has a plan to cover up. He can't let anyone know.

He looks back towards the house for two minutes and then races towards the parking area behind the stable and gets into his car. He drive up to the gates, opens it, and races down the lane after Xavier.

*****

Still reeling from the sight of Tracy with someone else, Cameron decides to take another look...

Tracy is now gone.

Cameron looks around and sees nothing.

...

Benji lifts a branch for Tracy to carefully walk under it. Benji continues to lead her into the forest.

"Where are we going?" Tracy says curiously yet eagerly.

Benji smiles and walks up ahead.

Tracy looks at Benji's firm back muscles as he takes the lead. Somehow... she feels protected.

Benji turns around... "You O.K.?"

Tracy smiles...

Wednesday November 7, 2007

Xavier races to the front gate but notices Mark Summers on the other side. He quickly runs along the fence.

Mark jumps off his motorbike and races after him. The two are nearly neck and neck immediately.

Bryon, who is farther off on the front lawn raises the gun and fires two blasts from Xavier's gun...

B-A-N-G!... B-A-N-G!

One of the bullets hits Mark Summers in the leg-

"Ahhhh.. damn it!" Mark screams out! He falls hard to ground.

Bryon continues his pursuit on foot as Xavier turns around and races back towards the front gate again-- he's headed back to steal Mark's motorbike.

*****

Upstairs in the guest bedroom, Professor Williams slings Trevor off his shoulder and unto the bed. Trevor's shirt is soaking wet with blood. His skin now no longer has a reddish quality, but ghostly white.

The professor quickly checks for a pulse-

Tuesday November 6, 2007

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Monday November 5, 2007

(Inside the main house Xavier still has Professor Williams and Bryon at gunpoint.)

Like Carey, Mark Summers thinks about blast at the Waters mansion a few days before on his ride home. "That's so... strange", he mutters to himself, as he races his motorbike up the winding hills...

As Mark continues weaving through the uphill roads, he drives past the Williams estate. Doing his "job", Mark takes a casual look over the grounds but his eyes linger when they catch something peculiar behind the black fence lining the property grounds: the family horse is tied up in an unusual place: in front of the house; not as usual in the back stables.

Professor Williams was usually very strict with where the horses where to stay...

Mark is never the nosy type in his work or otherwise, but he will be curious as to why something like this might be. The thought perhaps of there being something wrong crosses Marks mind as he slows down his white and silver motorbike.

Was someone staying at the estate? If so, why had no one told him? After all, we was the security grounds keeper for the whole of Foxport and yet he had heard of no news of any recent arrivals in town.

Mark reverses and swings up into the lane way. Just to be sure. Better to be safe than sorry. He rolls down the window and buzzes in...

Friday November 2, 2007

"Where it All Started... In the Beginning"

Cameron looks around Mayberry Park- trying to find more clues on the origin on the mysterious photos and, more importantly, the mysterious cameraman... Cameron goes back to the area where he'd found the film canister...

Nothing.

Taking stock of what has been happening lately, Cameron decides to go back to where it all started... under the bridge. Maybe, he thinks, there is more information there. Tracy's pregnancy, Trevor's mysterious captor, Tracy doing a drawing of Trevor in the nude... Cameron gets unpleasant flashbacks of those moments.

As Cameron walks across the bridge he can see Tracy on the hill up ahead.

Perfect. A chance to talk more about what's been going on, Cameron thinks to himself.

Cameron decides to take cover behind the nearby tree to surprise her, but is horrified when he moves in closer and discovers she is talking to someone....

*****

Carey sits on the terrace with a fancy drink. She ponders the explosion that happened a few days earlier. What had really happened that day? Surely it wasn't a gun blast.. or was it? Carey can't be sure exactly...

Mark suddenly opens the back door and shocks Carey. He slides the screen door open and sticks his head outside:

"Hey Carey, sorry to shock you like that..." Mark apologizes.

"I'm going to have to head back to my place tonight. You wanted to talk about things with me and we can do that later. I've gotta head out..."

"Sure. See you soon."

Mark walks out onto the terrace and gives Carey a kiss.

In an upstairs window, Samantha looks down on them. She gets a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.

*****

"Don't move! I'm %&*$@ serious!" as Xavier reaches down to pull his gun, Byron notices a tear fall down Xavier's pale cheek.

Byron blocks the professor from moving forward with one hand and extends his other arm in front of himself-- hoping that Xavier won't shoot.

....

Trevor's chest starts jolting and convulsing erratically. A wheezing sound can be heard, he's loosing the ability to breath...

Thursday November 1, 2007

"Trouble"

Trevor is loosing blood on the floor in front of the grand staircase.

Bryon arrives at the house and looks into the window. The door is locked. Bryon races around the house to see if he can get in through the back. He notices a window open near the side of the house. He climbs in and races towards the front of the house. He runs into Professor Williams walking through the dinning room-

"Oh my goodness. Trevor is in serious trouble. We must get to him immediately! He's been shot!"

"What!? What are you talking about?"

As Byron leads the professor out, they are stopped suddenly as Xavier appears in the doorway.

"Don't you two even think about moving!" Xavier commands. Anger and rage fill Xavier's face.

The two men freeze, eyes wide open!