BACKSTORY PAGE
Previously On. Runs along the left side of the page interspersed with downsized panels from the previous issue where/if space permits.
A disaster unlike any other. A meteor has struck a major American metropolitan area directly. The entire Dallas/Ft. Worth region has been devastated, but even as it slowly recovers, an infection has begun to spread across the city ruins killing some, and changing others.
Allister Dewitt; Son of a Texas minister, college sophomore, student athlete, and infected. Alister’s body is being corrupted by an alien virus brought to earth. He is stronger, and faster than he ever was before. However, his arm has been horribly twisted and mutated. His mind and personality may also be in the process of alteration.
The good news is that the infection is an alien bacterium with no resistance to earth antibiotics. The bad news is that the bacteria is the only thing keeping Alister alive. The worse news is that Alister isn’t the only infected. A cult has begun to preach in the streets claiming that the meteor was a sent from God, and that the infection is a blessing…
Character Bios. Runs along the right side of the page and each section is matched with a close up of the character’s face.
1. ALISTER DEWITT: Born and raised in a small town outside San Antonio, Alister had a happy childhood and was close to both his parents and his older brother. His father was the reverend of the rural area’s small country church and he a was smart and active youth. He left for Arlington to attend university.
2. GEMINI:                           A strange woman with a mysterious past. She appears to be in her early twenties with a figure most would consider perfect. She’s also displayed great intelligence and knowledge of computer science. Although she tries to hide it, she speaks with a very light English accent.
3. FATHER LEO:                  Father Leo is an ordained Catholic minister holding a Ph.D. in Theology from Notre Dame. Although initially considered to be on the fast track for promotion within the catholic hierarchy, Leo has been hesitant to leave his local community where he is an important civil rights activist.    Â
4. VIRGO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Virgo was born in rural Texas, but left home as a teenager when her conservative parents objected to her transsexuality. She spent time in Austin as a street artist, before becoming involved in Socialist activism and other far-left causes.
5. DR. ALISON RICHARDS:          Dr. Richards is one of the world’s foremost experts bio-chemistry. Although she’s barely in her thirties, she is science wunderkind of the first order. She could have had a position at any university in the world, but chose Sothern Methodist University to be close to her ailing mother, who passed away before the impact event.
6. DR. CASTOR:                   The CEO of Castor Pharmaceuticals. He holds multiple degrees in biology as well as medicine. In addition to his pharma business, he also has investments in several other major industries and is one of the richest men in the world. He is the official face of the government’s relief efforts.
7. THE CONCIERGE: The Concierge follows Dr. Castor wherever he goes. She was a test subject for Castor Pharmaceuticals most cutting-edge research on genetic manipulation and hormonal effects on human growth. This has given her physical abilities at the peak of human potential.
8. DWAIN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dwain grew up on the wrong side of town and was forced to become involved in gangs in his youth just to survive. Unlike many gang members, however, he was smart and competent as well as trustworthy. These traits brought him to the attention of La Costa Nostra, who made him one of their chief enforcers.
PAGE ONE (five panels)
Panel 1. An establishing shot of the SMU campus. KRISTOF’s voice emanates from a window of the science building. Soldiers are still on patrol outside.
1. KRISTOF (OFF): It must be here!
Panel 2. KRISTOF is sitting at the computer in DR. RICHARDS’ office. His fangs are distended and he is almost in a state of bloodlust.
2. KRISTOF: The good doctor is the foremost expert in rare blood diseases in the world. There must be something in her research I can use to formulate a cure. There must!
Panel 3. DR. RICHARDS approaches her office door in confusion, while KRISTOF’s voice and the noise comes from inside.
3. KRISTOF: This bagged blood is so thin! I can hardly think for this damned hunger!
4. FX: CRASH!
Panel 4. DR. RICHARDS enters the office where KRISTOF has smashed the monitor.
5. KRISTOF: Control yourself, Kristof. This curse has made me so damn histrionic I-
6. KRISTOF: Someone comes…?
7. DR. RICHARDS: What are you doing in my office!?
Panel 5. DR. RICHARDS looks at KRISTOF in fear, while he tries to restrain his frenzied desire for blood.
8. DR. RICHARDS: What are you?
9. KRISTOF: Dr. Richards? You must stay back! It’s too dangerous I-
10. KRISTOF: But it is too late now… for both of us…
PAGE TWO (one panel)
Panel 1. Intro page, the title and credits appear. Kristof bites Professor Richard’s neck while she is overcome with terror.
1. KRISTOF: I must feed!
2. DR. RICHARDS: AUGH!
PAGE THREE (six panels)
Panel 1. DR. RICHARDS has collapsed and KRISTOF holds her in his arms. He pulls himself away from her neck with blood running down his chin.
1. KRISTOF: NO! I mustn’t kill her! Not when she may be my only chance.
Panel 2. KRISTOF staggers towards the window. DR. RICHARDS lies on the floor, still bleeding from the bite on her neck.
2. KRISTOF: The scream will bring someone to help her. I must get away, must flee!
Panel 3. KRISTOF stands at the open window, but he looks back at the pool of blood. DR. RICHARDS is beginning to recover and holds her head.
3. KRISTOF: But it calls to me! The precious vitae sangre. It holds me in chains, I try and escape its binding… But it pulls me back!
Panel 4. Soldiers burst into the room followed by SAM, a research assistant. DR. RICHARDS sits up and SAM goes to assist her.
4. SAM: Dr. Richards!
5. SOLDIER: You there! Hold it, you’re under arrest!
Panel 5. The soldiers move to grab KRISTOF, but he leaps out the window.
6. KRISTOF: FOOLS! Can’t you see you only place yourselves in greater danger by your attempt to apprehend me?
7. SOLDIER: Grab him! Don’t let him get away.
Panel 6. KRISTOF climbs up the wall while bullets impact around him.
8. SOLDIER (OFF): He’s one of those freaks! Open fire!
PAGE FOUR (five panels)
Panel 1. KRISTOF climbs up onto the roof of the building.
1. SOLDIER (OFF): He went up to the roof! After him!
2. SOLDIER (OFF): Someone call in air support!
3. KRISTOF: Idiots… can’t they understand that I’m trying to protect them…
Panel 2 A close up of KRISTOF with his head in his hands, overcome by angst.
4. KRISTOF: Protect them from myself… from what I’ve become…
Panel 3. KRISTOF looks off towards the horizon where a helicopter is on the way.
5. KRISTOF: Enough melodrama! Control yourself, doctor. You must escape before reinforcements arrive.
Panel 4. The soldiers burst out onto the roof which is illuminated by a searchlight from the helicopter, but KRISTOF is gone.
6. SOLDIER: Where the hell is he!?
Panel 5. KRISTOF glides away from the science building which is now swarming with military.
7. KRISTOF: You must survive… to bear this curse again… for at least one more night.
8. ALISTER (CAPTION): They’re swarming like ants out there.
PAGE FIVE (five panels)
Panel 1. ALISTER looks down out the window. Soldiers are forcing everyone off the streets.
1. ALISTER: It’s bizarre.
2. ALISTER: I always thought Texas would be the last place to accept this fascist crap.
Panel 2. ALISTER looks back into the apartment where GEMINI is preparing their dinner of MREs. Both of them are dressed down because of the heat.
3. GEMINI: Funny, I kind of figured it would be one of the first.
4. ALISTER: Well, we have a difference of opinion then.
5. ALISTER: Not that it’s the soldiers’ fault. The guys down there are just following their orders and doing their jobs. Heck, my brother might even be one of them.
Panel 3. ALISTER sits down at their table and scarfs down his food while GEMINI eats at a more reasonable pace. ALISTER also has a second portion ready to go.
5. GEMINI: He’s not. His unit is helping with relief operations outside the city.
6. ALISTER: How do you know that? I don’t remember ever mentioning my brother to you.
Panel 4. ALISTER slows down as he begins to reflect on everything that has happened.
7. GEMINI: I’ve been researching your entire family. We’re still trying to find your parents remember?
8. ALISTER: I guess I’ve just gotten used to not knowing what happened… I don’t think I’m going to like what we find… if we do find anything…
Panel 5. GEMINI moves next to ALISTER and embraces him.
9. ALISTER: I’m sorry… I just-
10. GEMINI: It’s okay. Hey- we don’t know what we’ll find yet, so let’s just stay positive, alright?
PAGE SIX (six panels)
Panel 1. A close up of ALISTER and GEMINI’s faces close together.
Panel 2. ALISTER and GEMINI kiss.
Panel 3. ALISTER and GEMINI kiss more passionately.
Panel 4. Both of them realize what is happening and break away from each other.
1. GEMINI: This might not be a good idea.
2. ALISTER: Right…
Panel 5. ALISTER grabs a pillow off the bed. GEMINI still looks flustered.
3. ALISTER: I think I’m going to sleep on the floor tonight.
4. GEMINI: You don’t have to…
5. ALISTER: I think we’ll both be more comfortable.
Panel 6. GEMINI hands ALISTER a pill bottle.
6. GEMINI: Oh! I asked around and got a few more antibiotics for you.
7. ALISTER: Good, maybe they’ll help me clear my head.
PAGE SEVEN (five panels)
Panel 1. An establishing shot of the apartment exterior. It is now morning.
Panel 2. The interior. ALISTER is waking up on the floor.
1. ALISTER: Oof.
Panel 3. GEMINI turns over in bed to check her tablet.
Panel 4. ALISTER sits up and stretches. GEMINI looks over at him anxiously.
2. GEMINI: We have to get over to the SMU immediately.
Panel 5. An establishing shot of a coffee shop just off of campus. The voice comes through a boarded window which ALISTER, GEMINI, and DR. RICHARDS are sitting behind.
3. GEMINI (OFF): Are you alright?
PAGE EIGHT (five panels)
Panel 1. A close up of DR. RICHARDS, she holds her forehead and tries to avoid the sunlight coming in through the boards.
1. DR. RICHARDS: I’m fine now, except for this damn migraine.
Panel 2. The reverse shot of the conversation. ALISTER and GEMINI are sitting next to each other. GEMINI looks sympathetic, ALISTER looks very serious.
2. GEMINI: It’s no surprise. You must be under a hell of a lot of stress with all this-
3. ALISTER: Do you think this creep was one of the infected?
Panel 3. A shot of all three of them sitting at the table together. They’re drinking bottled water and eating packaged food rations.
4. DR. RICHARDS: I don’t know. The military certainly seemed to think he was, and he certainly wasn’t normal, but I don’t know.
5. GEMINI: We should stay with you in case he comes back.
Panel 4. A close up of DR. RICHARDS putting on a pair of sunglasses.
6. DR. RICHARDS: I don’t think that will be necessary. I’ll be careful.
Panel 5. DR. RICHARDS places a flash drive on the table.
7. ALISTER: Are you sure?
8. DR. RICHARDS: I know how to take care of myself.
9. DR. RICHARDS: Here are some of the earliest results of your tests. I just managed the keep the troops from figuring out what I was working on.
PAGE NINE (six panels)
Panel 1. GEMINI puts the flash drive into her tablet. ALISTER reads over her shoulder.
1. DR. RICHARDS (OFF): We still don’t know how or why this bacterium is changing you, but we have found some interesting effects however…
Panel 2. A close up of the information on the tablet. Images of DIMITRI’s infection are shown.
2. DR. RICHARDS (OFF): The tissue replaced by the bacteria has significantly higher muscle and bone density, that would explain the super-human strength you’ve reported exhibiting.
Panel 3. More infection related images.
3. DR. RICHARDS (OFF): It also seems to be interacting with your bodies natural healing to regenerate injuries at an incredible rate… but by replacing the damaged tissue with infected flesh.
Panel 4. More infection related images.
4. DR. RICHARS (OFF): All of this requires an extraordinary amount of energy. Your supercharged metabolism is probably the cause of your new appetite.
Panel 5. More infection related images.
5. DR. RICHARDS (OFF): The sweat glands in your infected flesh also seem to have been altered to emit a chemical we haven’t been able to identify yet, but I believe it may be some kind of pheromone. Have either of you noticed any signs of increased sexual desire?
Panel 6. ALISTER and GEMINI look awkwardly at one another.
6. ALISTER: Well, I-
7. DR. RICHARDS (OFF): I’ll take that as a yes.
PAGE TEN (six panels)
Panel 1. A close up of DR. RICHARDS yawning.
1. DR. RICHARDS: All the information is in on the drive, so you can go over it at your leisure. We should have more findings over the coming days.
2. DR. RICHARDS: Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to get some sleep, I’ve been up all night.
Panel 2. ALISTER, GEMINI, and DR. RICHARDS stand up at their table.
3. GEMINI: Are you absolutely sure you don’t want someone to stay with you?
4. DR. RICHARDS: I’m fine, really.
Panel 3. ALISTER and GEMINI bid farewell to DR. RICHARDS out on the street.
5. ALISTER: We’ll look into this psycho business, so you have nothing to worry about.
6. GEMINI: Stay in touch so we know you’re okay.
7. DR. RICHARDS: I will, thanks.
Panel 4. DR. RICHARDS watches ALISTER and GEMINI leave.
Panel 5. SAM approaches and sees DR. RICHARDS turn and walk away. He calls after her but she doesn’t respond to him in any way.
8. SAM: Dr. Richards!
Panel 6. SAM runs after DR. RICHARDS, who goes around a corner.
9. SAM: Doctor, wait a minute!
PAGE ELEVEN (five panels)
Panel 1. SAM goes around the corner and is surprised to find that DR. RICHARDS has vanished.
1. SAM: She must not have heard me.
2. SAM: But where did she go?
Panel 2. Establishing shot of ALISTER and GEMINI walking together down the street.
Panel 3. GEMINI turns to look at ALISTER.
3. GEMINI: So… super powers huh?
4. ALISTER: I’d like them better if they weren’t eating me.
Panel 4. ALISTER and GEMINI look awkwardly at one another.
5. GEMINI: I suppose I can understand that.
6. GEMINI: And what about the other thing…?
7. ALISTER: What ‘other thing’ are you talking about?
Panel 5. ALISTER and GEMINI are approached by the by a group of CULTISTS including the ones ALISTER and FATHER LEO have had a confrontations with previously.
8. GEMINI: You know what I-
9. CHURCH CULTIST: Child of the meteor! Please wait a moment, my lord!
10. ALISTER: Now who is this yahoo?
PAGE TWELVE (seven panels)
Panel 1. ALISTER and GEMINI look at the CULTISTS wearily.
1. ALISTER: Look, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why don’t you just leave us alone.
Panel 2. The CHURCH CULTIST points to the CULTIST who talked to ALISTER at the university, he bows in contrition.
2. CHURCH CULTIST: We know this one has offended you, child of the meteor.
3. CULTIST: I most humbly beg your forgiveness, my lord.
4. CHURCH CULTIST: The Mother sent us to you. She told us to lead you to her.
Panel 3. ALISTER and GEMINI try to walk away, but the CULTISTS follow them.
5. ALISTER: That’s great, but I really have no idea what a ‘child of the meteor’ is, so if you don’t mind?
6. CHURCH CULTIST: Then I must also beg your forgiveness, but the Mother has already commanded that you be brought before her.
Panel 4. ALISTER turns to stare down the CHURCH CULTIST.
7. ALISTER: You saying this is going to turn into a tussle?
Panel 5. The CHURCH CULTIST indicated a patrol of soldiers nearby.
8. CHURCH CULTIST: We will not fight you, but we may perhaps draw unwanted attention to you and your friend.
Panel 6. A close up of ALISTER while he grits his teeth and considers the situation.
Panel 7. ALISTER prepares to leave with the CULTISTS, but GEMINI tries to stop him.
9. ALISTER: Fine, but you let her go.
10. GEMINI: Alister, you can’t-
11. ALISTER: It’ll be okay. I’ll meet you back at the apartment.
PAGE THIRTEEN (five panels)
Panel 1. Establishing shot of a community center which has been taken over by the cult. It is near the impact point and heavily damaged, and is guarded by cult members with assault rifles.
Panel 2. ALISTER indicated one of the men with rifles as they approach the entrance.
1. ALISTER: Friendly first impression.
2. CULTIST: You cannot be blind to the dangers in this city now.
3. CHURCH CULTIST: We intend only to protect ourselves, my lord.
Panel 3. The CULTISTS open the door for ALISTER.
4. CHURCH CULTIST: I know we have offended you with our initial introduction, but please, I ask you to keep an open mind about us and the work we do. At least until you have learned more about us.
5. ALISTER: Fair enough, lead on.
Panel 4. ALISTER and the CULTISTS walk through a lobby which looks like a makeshift hospital ward.
6. ALISTER: What is this? Some kind of hospital?
7. CHURCH CULTIST: Yes. Mother says that it is our duty to care for these people.
Panel 5. ALISTER observes a cultist nurse caring for a sick child patient.
8. ALISTER: And why is that, exactly?
9. CULTIST: They are lesser children of the meteor. Their bodies are imperfect vessels which cannot contain the inner light, but they still bear the touch of divinity.
10. CHURCH CULTIST: Mother tells us to watch over them and easy their pain however we may.
PAGE FOURTEEN (five panels)
Panel 1. A close up of ALISTER. He seems to have softened towards the cult.
1. ALISTER: Antibiotics. Give them antibiotics.
Panel 2. The CULTIST seems upset, but the CHURCH CULTISTS motions for him to be silent.
2. CULTIST: We have our own means to care for-
3. CHURCH CULTIST: Enough, brother.
4. CHURCH CULTIST: I apologize, my lord. We have few resources and do our best to help as we are able.
Panel 3. The CHURCH CULTIST ushers ALISTER along while the other CULTIST remains behind and watches them indignantly.
5. CHURCH CULTIST: I’m sure Mother will tell you more herself.
Panel 4. The CHURCH CULTIST opens a door for ALISTER and ERIKA’s voice comes from inside, but she remains unseen.
6. CHURCH CULTIST: Mother, may I present-
7. ERIKA: ALISTER!
Panel 5. ALISTER steps into a makeshift throne room where ERIKA sits with several cultist handmaidens. ERIKA is a beautiful dark-haired woman in an elaborate pope-esque cult gown.
8. ALISTER: Erika, I- I’m glad to see you’re okay…
9. ALISTER: What the heck is going on here?
PAGE FIFTEEN (seven panels)
Panel 1. ERIKA gets up and walks towards ALISTER, her gown trails along behind her. She motions for everyone else to leave. ALISTER seems disconcerted. The CULTISTS do as she commands and leave together.
1. ERIKA: Everyone out. I want to speak to Father alone.
2. ALISTER: Father…?
3. CULTISTS: Yes, Mother.
Panel 2. The door to the room closes and ERIKA embraces ALISTER who looks very stiff.
4. ERIKA: It’s so good to see you!
5. ALISTER: Whoa, whoa!
Panel 3. ALISTER holds ERIKA at arm’s length. She smiles at him devilishly.
6. ALISTER: Erika what are you doing here? What is this Father business?
7. ERIKA: Well, they call me the Mother, and you’re my boyfriend so I just thought it made sense. Really half the stuff I tell these guys I’m just making up off the top of my head.
Panel 4. ERIKA holds ALISTER by the arm and leads him back towards her throne. She presses herself against him.
8. ALISTER: We had one class together and I tried to ask you out once.
9. ERIKA: And I said yes.
10. ALISTER: Then you stood me up.
11. ERIKA: That’s all in the past…
Panel 5. ERIKA sits back down and ALISTER sits on a stool beside her.
12. ERIKA: I’d rather talk about the future, our future.
13. ALISTER: I’d rather talk about what exactly you’re doing with this weird cult.
Panel 6. ERIKA holds ALISTER’s bandaged hand and begins stroking it. ALISTER looks bewildered, but also intrigued.
14. ERIKA: Oh, don’t mind them. I feed them a bunch of religious mumbo jumbo because I don’t think they’re ready to handle the truth.
15. ALISTER: Which is?
Panel 7. ERIKA leans forward towards ALISTER who seems to be falling under her spell.
16. ERIKA: I’m infected, just like you, just like those people out there. But we have the genetics to adapt to the infection, to become the next stage in human evolution.
17. ERIKA: The parents of a new species.
PAGE SIXTEEN (six panels)
Panel 1. ALISTER stands up.
1. ALISTER: You’re taking advantage of these people with this cultist garbage.
Panel 2. ALISTER begins to walk towards the door while ERIKA watches him, bemused.
2. ERIKA: You’re not still into all that Christian mumbo-jumbo are you.
3. ALISTER: I am, as a matter of fact.
Panel 3. ALISTER stops and turns around.
4. ERIKA: Don’t you consider that a little trite, now that you’re a mass murderer?
5. ALISTER: What the heck are you talking about? I haven’t killed anyone.
Panel 4. A flash back to ALISTER’s battle with the military in issue one.
6. ERIKA (CAPTION): Are you sure? You don’t remember a little scuffle and a couple dozen casualties during your escape from that research facility?
Panel 5. ALISTER looks disturbed. ERIKA has followed him and is holding his hand again.
7. ALISTER: No, I don’t. And how do you know about that facility?
8. ERIKA: The government takes our brothers and sisters there to study them. One of my men saw you escape and then recognized you later at the cathedral.
Panel 6. ERIKA holds his hand up to her cheek.
9. ERIKA: They’re hunting us, all of us. That’s why we need to stick together. You don’t have to stay here with me, just promise to stay in touch.
10. ALISTER: I- sure. Okay.
PAGE SEVENTEEN (six panels)
Panel 1. ALISTER walks back through the hospital ward. The CULTISTS watch him leave.
1. CHURCH CULTIST: I hope we’ll see you again soon, my lord.
2. ALISTER: Yeah, got it.
Panel 2. ALISTER steps outside of the cult building.
3. ALISTER (CAPTION): What a bunch of nutcases.
Panel 3. ALISTER walks home while lost in thought.
4. ALISTER (CAPTION): At least their keeping those poor sick people away from the military.
5. ALISTER (CAPTION): That smell, familiar…
Panel 4. ALISTER looks across the street at DR. RICHARDS who is walking in a daze.
6. ALISTER: Doc Richards?
Panel 5. DR. RICHARDS goes inside an apartment building.
7. ALISTER (CAPTION): Did I just smell her? God, help me.
Panel 6. ALISTER walks on, distracted by his own problems.
8. ALISTER (CAPTION): What am I going to do…
PAGE EIGHTEEN (five panels)
Panel 1. GEMINI is pacing back and forth in her apartment.
Panel 2. ALISTER climbs in through the window and GEMINI rushes to meet him.
1. ALISTER: I’m back.
2. GEMINI: Oh, thank God.
Panel 3. ALISTER and GEMINI embrace.
3. ALISTER: Well, this might just be the happiest anyone’s ever been to see me walk in the door.
4. GEMINI: You climbed in through the window.
5. ALISTER: Same thing.
Panel 4. ALISTER and GEMINI sit down and hold each other close.
6. GEMINI: What did those cultists want with you?
7. ALISTER: They think the bacteria is some kind of divine gift. They’re run by this girl I know, Erika. She’s infected too.
Panel 5. GEMINI looks disconcerted.
8. GEMINI: Girl you know how?
9. ALISTER: I had a class with her last semester. One class, General Biology.
PAGE NINETEEN (five panels)
Panel 1. ALISTER is chuckling while GEMINI has started pacing again.
1. ALISTER: She says we’re the next step in human evolution. I’m not sure that her one year of pre-med qualifies her to offer an opinion on the subject, but there it is.
Panel 2 ALISTER looks up at GEMINI who appears worried.
2. ALISTER: In all though, I think they’re harmless. They’re actually doing some good work, caring for the sick.
3. GEMINI: Are you certain you can trust your own impartiality?
Panel 3. GEMINI sits down again and they begin to have a more serious conversation.
4. ALISTER: What are you asking me, exactly?
5. GEMINI: I mean that this Erika may have the same pheromones you have, or perhaps even stronger. How can you be sure you weren’t under her influence while you were there?
Panel 4. ALISTER smiles to try and break the tension.
6. ALISTER: I am capable of controlling myself, even in the presence of a pretty girl.
Panel 5. ALISTER stands and heads towards the kitchen.
7. ALISTER: Now, I am starving. Let’s rehydrate something.
PAGE TWENTY (six panels)
Panel 1. A view from above. DR. CASTOR enters his own office where MR. FOX, MS. KIDD, and the CONSIERGE are all standing and waiting for him.
Panel 2. DR. CASTOR sits down at his desk while everyone else waits.
Panel 3. The same view as the previous panel but everyone has come into motion. The CONSIERGE holds out a tablet to him.
1. DR. CASTOR: Alright, I’m here. Please begin.
2. CONSIERGE: The military has finally chosen to inform us that an infected attacked the SMU campus this morning.
Panel 4. DR. CASTOR looks at the tablet, which contains images of KRISTOF from soldiers’ body cameras.
3. CONSIERGE (OFF): There was some equipment damaged, and a supply of Red Cross plasma was spoiled.
4. DR. CASTOR: Donated blood?
5. CONSIERGE (OFF): Yes sir, for a field hospital they have on campus. One professor sustained minor injuries, gunfire was exchanged, but no other casualties.
Panel 5. DR. CASTOR hands the tablet, with a picture of KRISTOF on it, to MS. KIDD. He keeps facing the CONSIERGE and speaks to her.
6. DR. CASTOR: You two, find this man. Interrogate this professor to find out what he wanted.
7. DR. CASTOR: You contact the joint chiefs and tell them to communicated the necessity for speedy cooperation with to General Ross. We’ve already lost half a day; I don’t want a fuck up like this to happen again.
Panel 6. Everyone leaves to carry out their instructions. DR. CASTOR watches them go.
8. MS. KIDD: Yes sir.
9. CONSIERGE: With pleasure.
PAGE TWENTY-ONE (six panels)
Panel 1. A close up of DR. RICHARDS staring straight forwards. The light of the setting sun is on her face.
Panel 2. The same shot, but part of her face is in shadow as the sun sets.
Panel 3. The same shot, the sun has set entirely and DR. RICHARDS comes out of her trance.
Panel 4. DR. RICHARDS holds her head and looks around in confusion.
1. DR. RICHARDS: What…? Where am I…?
Panel 5. DR. RICHARDS is horrified as she realizes that she is in a penthouse with a pair of dead bodies on the ground at her feet, a man and a woman.
2. DR. RICHARDS: Oh my God!
Panel 6. DR. RICHARDS backs away in a panic but collides with an unseen dark figure.
3. DR. RICHARDS: What- What the hell?
PAGE TWENTY-TWO (one panel)
Panel 1. DR. RICHARDS looks up at KRISTOF who looms over her. He is covered in blood and she is horrified.
1. KRISTOF: Rest easy, my dear.
2. KRISTOF: I’m afraid you’re not going anywhere.