Ashes to Ashes (52) Almost word for word...


Jeffry Daumer or John Wayne Gacy.  It's a tie.
Betty Anne McKinsey.
Most deranged serial killers.  Who's Betty Anne McKinsey?
August 16, '74, Betty Anne murders three children.  She binds and gags
the parents and makes them watch.  Kills the children slowly.
Parent's commit suicide in the next two years.
Why'd she do it?
She said it was fun.
You're making this up Captain, we would have read about it.
No, no.  You gotta remember, back in those days, that kind of sickness
was reserved for the underground tabloids rags.  We bitch about the
news nowadays, but we have things like Child Watch.  We've got stalker
laws now. First defense against evil...open your damn eyes.
  -- Tracy, Reese and Nick

Homicide, Detective Knight.
There's a corpse in the Raven.
...Who is this?
  -- Nick and Divia

It's not what you think.
How disappointing.
Actually its, uh...
I asked him to come here.  I was afraid.
Of?
I was asleep downstairs and I had a nightmare of children with their
heads cut of.  And when I woke up, I'm sure I was awake, and there was
a headless child standing over me...and then she was just gone.  So, I
came up here to call Vachon, and that's when I felt a presence.
A presence?
Something was here, I don't know what, but it was evil.
Yes... well, this is all very interesting, but I do have a club to
open.
  -- Urs, LaCroix and Vachon

Can you not feel another presence in here, father?
Yes.
What do you feel?
Evil.
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Put your hands where we can see them...please.
I think you'll find what you are looking for here...and there.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

You have no idea how the body got there?
None.
No thoughts on who the victim might be, Mr. LaCroix?
No.
Who has access to your club during the off hours?
No one.
You do have a staff don't you?
Presumably the fridges where stocked up after closing time.  When was
that?
Six a.m.  Although I don't recall any of my staff reporting
discovering a decapitated corpse in the beer fridge.
Assuming you didn't put it there after they left.
Yes, *assuming* that.
  -- Reese, LaCroix and Tracy

You spent the night at home?
The club is my home.  I went for a stroll shortly after sundown.  I
can only assume that the body was deposited while I was away.
Right!  Someone breaks in, stuffs a coprse into a fridge and gift
wraps it's head for you, just for the hell of it.
It's my understanding that discovering a motive is your job.
Perhaps you should call a lawyer.
Of course, we'd have to read you your rights in that case.  The charge
is murder one.
You may charge me with murder if you wish, based on the evidence,
naturally.
I want him held as a material witness.
  --  Reese, LaCroix and Nick

Your associates are not without character.
And your associates who might have been sleeping in the basement?
They had nothing to do with this, Nicholas.  You know that.  I have a
question for you.  How did your people come to know about the body in
the first place?
An anonymous tip.
  -- LaCroix and Nick

He may not be guilty of this, but he sure as hell is guilty of
something.
  -- Reese

Thanks for coming by on such short notice.
You forget, time is relative.
The guy who owns the Raven, LaCroix?
...Uh-huh.
We got a tip about a murder there.  All we found is LaCroix and a
victim whose head had been severed from its body.  We're holding
LaCroix as a material witness.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

Is LaCroix one of you? 
..................No.
  -- Tracy and a rattled Vachon

There was something there.  It was a presence.  It felt evil.  If it wasn't
LaCroix, what was it? 
Tracy, its natural to get a little rattled by severed heads.
Don't run me around here, Vachon, you know what I mean.  Evil is a part
of you.  Maybe that's why we'd never work.
What?
It's in you.  I can feel it and it scares me.
What's that got to do with what happened at the Raven?
I don't know.  I was hoping you could tell me.
Sorry.
Would you do me a favor?
Sure, anything.
Uh, give me a call when you get home.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

Hey?  You okay?  Did someone hurt you?  
Lucius hurt me.  My father, my son.  He betrayed me.  Even after I
raised him from the ashes of Pompeii.  He will pay for his sin.
   -- Vachon and Divia

Yeah, Captain, what's the word?
The word is...are you sitting down?  Egyptian police came back with a
positive on the Raven fridge crasher.  His name is Hamid Karam. He and
his brother Hashim are...uh, grave robbers.  
Egypt?
They were sacking a sarchophagus in the burial chambers of some priest
named Aya-Hotep in the Valley of the Kings.  According to the report,
the brother lost radio contact with Hamid about 24 hours ago.  When he
checked the tomb there was no sign of Hamid.  Only his radio and a
little blood.  ...  Are you there?
Yeah, Captain, just a little dumb-founded I guess.
  -- Nick, Reese and Tracy

We have a major problem here people.  See we're not the only ones
wondering how the hell an Egyptian national skips town, presumably dead, and
winds up a day later in a Toronto beer fridge.  Now what do you folks
have?
Uh, well time of death is about twenty-four hours.  Cause of death,
not to get to technical about it, I'd, uh, say he was torn to shreds.
By what?
Well, I was going to say it was a wild animal, but considering he was
in a burial chamber, I guess that doesn't make much sense, does it?
Well, the time frame is enough to smuggle a body into Canada, and no
wild animal dead that.  Figure out who did.
  -- Reese and Natalie

Oh come on, there's got to be some kind of rational explanation for
this.
I guess that clears LaCroix.
Yeah, I guess so.
  -- Natalie, Nick and Tracy

Clearly, I have a future as a sobering influence on the
disenfranchised.
  -- LaCroix

You're to be released...lack of evidence.  Your refrigerated friend
was Hamid Karam.  A grave robber.  He was looting an ancient burila
chamber in the Valley of the Kings.  The tomb of Aya-Hotep.
  -- Nick
The tomb of Aya-Hotep.  Chief Priest of the fair Ahk-Naton.  The son
of the sun god Ra-ahk-tun, Lord of Heaven, or some such nonsense.  His is
the middle one, flanked by two other priests, or so the people
believe.
Why have you brought me here, Divia?
It is him, my master, my true father.  He chose me, created me before
Vesuvius erupted.  
The healer, the ancient one.
Ka-Ra.  Said to be among the first of our kind.  He lived before the
pyramids were built...long before.  
Why is he in this place?
It was here that he was destroyed.  Staked, scorched by the sun.  Then
interred with the symbol of the sun god to imprison him for all time.
But who did this?  Did you take revenge on his killer?
I could hardly have done so, Lucius, since I killed him.
  -- Divia and LaCroix

LaCroix?
Yes, well I've played according to your rules for long enough,
Detective.  If I'm to be released, release me.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Javier?  Vachon?  I know you're here.  What are you doing?
Ah, make them stop!  Please, make it stop!  
Make what stop Vachon?  Make what stop?
The killing, I can't stop the killing.  Men, women, and children.
Especially children.  I see them killing and being killed.  I can't
stand the pleasure...
  -- Urs and Vachon

Vachon look at me, look at me.
Urs...
Who did this to you?
...Daughter, mother, daughter...
What's happening?  What's happening to you?
I see her visions, her memories.
Whose visions, whose memories?  Vachon who did this to you, who
attacked you?
She was so strong--evil, just a child ...aarrgh!  Get out, Urs, get
out!  Before you are destroyed here, staked, scorched by the sun.
Javier?
Urs...go please?
  -- Urs and Vachon

Tracy.  I know whose doing this.  I know why that body was in the
Raven.
Vachon?
Aahhhh..
Vachon?
  -- Tracy and Vachon

The cruelest evil is not some wretched entity manifest in cloven
hooves and bleeding goats head, but how like a child its soft
cries. The sound of all that should be cherished and protected. 
A father takes a child into his heart in pure love...unawares...
  -- LaCroix

A child's innocence and purity knows no bounds, neither does its cruelty
when evil comes upon it's soul.
Hello Lucius.  It's been a very long time.
Shouldn't all good little girls be in bed by this time?
But I'm not that kind of girl.  You know that.  Do you know what its
like to be betrayed by your own child, to be left alone in the
darkness?  Hmmm, I didn't think so.  But you will know soon enough, as
your friends die, and the fear of death drives those still alive away
from you.  Then you'll understand how it feels to be betrayed...and
alone.
  -- LaCroix and Divia

Hello?
It's Urs, I have to talk to you.
Come on up.
  -- Nick and Urs

Vachon?  Vachon, what happened?  Vachon?
What are you doing here?  You have to get out... now!
Who did this to you.  Vachon talk to me,  You said you knew who the
murderer is?  Vachon?
Her thoughts are becoming my thoughts.  
It's all right...It's okay.  You're wounds will heal.
I'm not healing.  I'm dying.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

I still don't know what killed her.
Could it be what killed Hamid Karam?
Sure, the probability is high.
Why didn't Urs regenerate?  How could she be killed if she wasn't
staked or decapitated?  What exactly are we dealing with?
Look, this might sound ridiculous, but could it be some new breed of
vampire?
<Hello Lucius, it's been a very long time...>
A new breed or a very very old one.
  -- Natalie and Nick and <Divia>

Who is she?  The young girl, Lacroix, what is she to you?   What is it?
It?  It is something that I've never told you.  Something to painful
for even me to discuss.
She said you go back a long way.  Did you bring her across?
You're still listening to the show?  I'm flattered.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Urs is dead.
You see what my young friend is doing?  One by one, people around will
be killed until I'm left alone and as isolated...as I left her.  Word
is out.  Being in LaCroix' company can be fatal.  She will kill all
of you, because of me.
Because you brought her across?
No.  I did not bring Divia across.
Then who is she?
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Do you want to die or live?   You only have moments to decide.
The gods cannot destroy me.  They do not have the power. 
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Let go your mortal bonds, general.  We must survive at any cost.  Life
can cheat death, it will always find a way.  Live or die, what is your
decision.  
To live, Divia, to live.
  -- Divia and LaCroix

She brought you across?
Spared me the fate of countless thousands, buried alive under a
mountain of ash.
Why did Divia save you?
She is my daughter.  Now you understand why I never told you who my
master is.  One could say that you are related.
Well, if she saved you back then, why does she want to hurt you now.
Where has she been?
Twenty years after Pompeii, I thought her dead and buried, along with
the guilt and the secret that one dare not share.  Perhaps it is time
to share that secret.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

I've upset you.  I didn't mean to.
Does it not trouble you to have killed your own master?
Why should it?
He was an ancient, his knowledge of our past, of our very beginnings
was worthy of respect!
You think I was wrong.  You think I'm cruel and unfeeling.
I didn't say that!
Yes, you DID!  I see how you're looking at me.  After all I've done
for you, how can you sit in judgement?
Divia, I know that I'm here because of you, and I'm eternally
greatful, but HE MADE YOU!
He thought he controlled me!  He said he brought me across because I
was young, and my evil was as pure as he had ever seen.  And he tried
to harness it.  To make me in his image.  That could not be.  I would
chose my own way.  I did what I had to do to ensure that.  
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Lucius, I want us both to experience everything that our nature
offers, without restriction.  You don't understand, do you?  We are
free to do as we please, to kill as often as we desire, bathe in
mortal flesh and blood.  to do everything that is forbidden.  No one
can stop us!  Everything we lust after can be ours, including love.
Let us do what must not be done.  Make love to me father.
Divia, NO!
Come to me, Lucius.  Do as I say.
You are my daughter!
Daughter, mother, lover.  Why can't I be all three?  You need someone
to love, Lucius, and I need you.  Yes, come, touch me!
  --  Divia and LaCroix

What can be said about a man that kills his own daughter?  I put her
remains in the sarcophagus.  The sun god on the lid acted on her in
much the same way as the cross does on us.  That grave robber must
have broken the seal.
You had no choice, but to destroy her.
I HAD A CHOICE!  I could have done as Divia asked.
And despised yourself for it.
No more so than I do now.  As a general in the emperor's army.  I
visited suffering upon my enemies in unspeakable ways.  I've seen evil
on this earth in all its forms.  And yet there was an evil in my own
child that I couldn't bear to look upon.  An evil that she inherited
from me, magnified a hundred times by the one who brought her across.
My beautiful daughter.
  -- LaCroix and Nick

How did she regenerate?  Let alone survive all those years
Perhaps the evil that permeated the tomb sustained her.  I don't know,
does it really matter?
Do you think she'll come after you?
Not quite yet.  There's more killing to be done, after all.
If you need me...
Thank you, Nicholas.
  -- LaCRoix and Nick

You have to do it.  You have to kill me.  
No.
I'll die anyway, I know that now.  Please, Tracy.
No.  Vachon, don't ask me again.
There's a whittled stake in that box over there.  Get it.  GET IT!
Bury it deep.  It has to go right through my heart.
Look, I can't.
You have to.
Vachon...
(He throws himself on the stake)
Tracy...
I'm here.
Wish me luck...
  -- Vachon and Tracy

We've got nothing on him.  
You're telling me LaCroix doesn't exist?
Not to us, he doesn't.  He's clean.
And his staff?
Well, we've checked.  They're all accounted for.  They're clean.
So we just write it off huh, and shrug.  Put it down to ghosts or
aliens or something? Come on Nick, the truth is out there!
Yeah, but maybe just not in our jurisdiction.
  -- Nick and Reese

Where's my partner by the way?
She didn't tell you? No of course not, why should she, shes only your
partner.  She said something about going to see a snitch.
  -- Nick and Reese

I never got to tell you how I felt about you.  Maybe you knew.  I hope
you did.  You changed me.  You opened my eyes.  And I'll always...love
you for that.  I'll take you to Screed, to be with your friend.
  -- Tracy

There's nothing I could do for her.  And there's no one she can talk
to about Vachon.
I'm afraid that I'm going to find myself in exactly the same
situation.  You've got a 2000-year-old little girl whose out to kill
anyone whose close to her Daddy.  And no one is closer than you.
Don't worry.  I'll watch my back.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Divia.
He told you about me?  You know why I'm here?
You've come to kill me.
Don't take it personally, but you are LaCroix' son.  Your death will
be the final blow.  It will be worse for you if you try to fight me.
But that's up to you.  Ready?
  -- Nick and Divia

If I didn't know better, I'd almost say that you had grown, my dear.
In all the centuries I've had to think of you, and what you might be
doing, I never imagined you would rise to the lofty position of
innkeeper.  But in my as yet brief taste of freedom, I've found that
nothing in the world is as I expected, or ever dreamt.
Why are you hear Divia, to gloat?
Why not?  I've won, you're alone.  Now perhaps you can begin to feel
what it was like for me.  The cenuries I expected to spend loving you
and caring for you, spent instead in darkness and isolation.  You can
not imagine the hatred I have for you.  How can you have done that to
me father?  I loved you!
  -- LaCroix and Divia

You are a sick, depraved little girl.  I always thought evil was a
finite entity, until you showed me otherwise.  Even I have my limits
Divia.
Then you are as weak as those we preyed upon.  
  -- LaCroix and Divia

Say you're sorry!
You should have stayed dead!  
You're in pain.  How I wished to see that.
Now your wish has come true and all that remains is for you to kill
me.
And deny you the pain of loneliness. No.  You must exist forever with
the knowledge that you destroyed everyone who is dear to you.  Your
friends, lovers, daughter, mother...and now your son.
What do you mean?
Nicholas, I believe was his name.  One always recognizes family.  But
he was your favorite, wasn't he?
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Your son is dead!  How does that feel?  Tell me how it feels?  
I'm not going to let you leave here, Divia.  There's enough misery in
the world already.
Oh, but there's always room for more. (She kicks him)
How are you going to stop me general.  You and as they say, whose
army?
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Poor father, does it hurt?  Tell me that it hurts?  Do you feel this?
Say you're sorry.  Tell me that you love me.  Go on.  Say it.
If you kill me, my suffering will be over.
You know, I'm not sure that's true.  Damnation when I come to think of
it, is a fitting sentence for your crime. (She pulls out the scythe)
Recognize this father? 
When we were mortal, I loved you more than the gods, and now, how can
anyone love anything grotesque as you?
  -- Divia and LaCroix

Father? 
Divia?
(Nick restrains LaCroix) No.
Don't let me die!
Divia!
NO!
Father?
  -- Divia, LaCroix and Nick

They say that there is no greater suffering for a parent than to
outlive his child.  Fortunately there are exceptions.  I never thought
I'd say this Nicholas, but for once I'm glad of your insistent search
for your humanity.  Perhaps your resurgent goodness was all that was
needed to defeat Divia's evil.
  -- LaCroix

Urs and Vachon, were young, they did not know how to deal with it.
I'm sorry for your loss LaCroix.
Urs' body?
I've had Natalie take care of that.
And Vachon?
Tracy buried him next to Screed.  She knows what they were.
Indeed, is this going to be a problem?
Vachon once told me she's a resister.  But, I've seen you work around
that.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

What exactly would you like her to remember?
That Vachon was a good friend.  A vampire who decided it was time to
move on.
A vampire?
The knowledge of our existence was Vachon's gift to her.  We have no
right to take that away.
If that is what you wish...  I will stay here with Divia until her body
has turned to ashes and then commit them to the wind.  I may even say
a prayer.
Goodnight, LaCroix.
Nicholas...
  -- LaCroix and Nick