Moonlight (2007–2008): Season 1, Episode 8 - 12:04 AM - full transcript

ANNOUNCER:
Previously on Moonlight:

MICK [VOICE-OVER]: I wanna
help people. That's why I became a PI.

Twenty-two years ago, I took a
case that changed my life forever.

BETH'S MOTHER:
Someone took my daughter.

Everything's gonna be all
right. You're not gonna do this.

[SHRIEKING AND CRASHING]

MICK: Over the years,
I tried to stay close.

In case she needed me.

We make a good team.

Beth doesn't remember me,
and I'm the one who rescued her.

BETH: Were you
married? MICK: She's dead.



How did that happen?

You don't know, do you?

MICK: I get shot.

Occupational hazard.

And even though I don't have
to worry about lead poisoning...

there is maintenance to be done.

Aside from silver buckshot...

vampires can actually
just leave a bullet in.

Bullets, shrapnel,
it doesn't matter.

But try getting through a
metal detector with that in you.

Our skin reforms.

Perfect, a clean slate.

But those old wounds?

They still ache sometimes.



BETH [ON COMPUTER]: in an
Internet news exclusive. Buzzwire is one...

MICK: You humans have
your own coping mechanisms...

when something goes wrong.

Some of you obsess.

Some become vengeful.

BETH [ON COMPUTER]: Charismatic
cult leader and mass murderer...

Donovan Shepherd's long stay
on death row comes to an end...

in just 20 minutes.

MICK: And, of course, some
of you block the whole thing out.

ALL [CHANTING]: Let
him live! Let him live!

Officials had hoped that staging
the execution at midnight...

would reduce the number of
clashing death-penalty protesters.

More importantly, the number
of what Shepherd calls his family.

PROTESTOR [CHANTING
OVER P.A.]: Thou shalt not kill.

DA Quinlan, do you feel that
justice is being served tonight?

Absolutely. This man
ruined a lot of lives.

Hopefully his death will
provide some closure.

Why are none of the people
Shepherd calls "family"...

being admitted?

The law doesn't recognize a
bunch of fanatics as family members.

Only relatives of the victims
of Shepherd's rampage...

[PHONE BEEPING]

including the lone survivor, a brave
young woman named Audrey Pell.

BETH: Thank you.

It was Miss Pell's testimony
that sealed Shepherd's fate.

She was only 10 years old...

when she hid in a closet and
watched him murder six people...

including her parents.

Miss Pell?

I'm Beth Turner.

I'm not giving any interviews.

Oh, I just wanted to
see if you were okay.

I don't even know
if I can watch.

Does it feel like justice?

Yes.

I want Shepherd gone
from this earth for good.

[DOOR OPENS]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Thank you all for being here.

I know this is difficult...

but I just wanna lay out
what's going to happen now.

Mr. Shepherd should be
done with his last meal by now.

And he'll be given
a chance to pray.

It's time, my son.

Excuse me.

[SCREAMING]

Hello, sweetheart.

I see you.

He can't hurt you anymore.

Mr. Shepherd will now
be allowed his final words.

Power can lead a man
down a dangerous path.

It can blind him to things
like reason, kindness, mercy.

I've had many years to
think about my actions.

My choices, things I've done.

I don't regret a bit of it.

I seek no forgiveness.

Just the blood of
those who crossed me.

And you know who you are.

I will live on.

And you will die
screaming my name.

[BUZZING]

[EKG FLATLINES]

BETH [ON TV]:
Donovan Shepherd died...

by lethal injection
at 12:04 a.m.

His final words
were no benediction:

"I seek no forgiveness.

Just the blood of
those who crossed me."

- All right.
- Yeah.

BETH [ON TV]: "I will live on. And
you will die screaming my name."

SHEPHERD FAMILY:
Scream his name! MAN: Yeah.

SHEPHERD FAMILY
[CHANTING]: Scream his name.

Scream his name.

MAN: There she is. Get going.

[CROWD CHATTERING]

WOMAN: You cannot kill him.

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

Oh, this is lovely.

Are you sure this is okay?

You barely know me.

I could just call
someone that I know.

At 5 in the morning?
Don't be silly.

You don't wanna be
on your own tonight.

- Yeah.
- So just make yourself at home, okay?

Thank you so much.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

Hello?

SHEPHERD [ON
PHONE]: Hello, sweetheart.

I see you.

BETH: Audrey, you okay?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

AUDREY: Shepherd.

Beth, I saw him.

He was out there.

Honey, there's no one there.

AUDREY: Donovan
Shepherd was out there.

You believe me, right?

Audrey, we saw him die.

Look, you got an untraceable phone
call from some idiot who freaked you out.

No.

He said the exact words
he used 14 years ago:

"Hello, sweetheart. I see you."

I never told anyone he said
that to me, not even at the trial.

- That means it had to be him, right?
- Maybe not.

You've heard of
post-traumatic stress, right?

- Oh, it's not my imagination.
- No, I'm not saying it is.

But maybe seeing
Shepherd at the execution...

brought back memories and
made you hear those things.

You sound like you
know something about it.

Well, we have more in
common than you think.

I was kidnapped when I was 4.

I don't remember
much, not faces.

But I do have dreams.

And flashes.

Sometimes they
can seem very real.

So you keep reliving your past?

More like I block it out.

That's the only way
I can keep sane.

I just...

I wanna feel safe.

MICK: Come in.

Well, it sounds like you guys
had a pretty rough night, huh?

What makes you think I can help?

Well, I realized she might have
actually seen someone out there.

Shepherd has a lot of followers.

If you'd seen the guys
outside the prison...

I watched your report.

Certainly was a rainbow
coalition of psychos.

BETH [ON COMPUTER]: It's
chaos here, as police escort witness...

BETH: See the guys
with the infinity scars?

MICK: Yeah.

BETH: They call
themselves Shepherd's family.

Have any of these guys
bothered you in the past?

There were always crank
calls and letters, online stuff.

Usually when Shepherd
was up for parole.

But no one has ever
followed me home before.

Hey, it's okay.

- I'm gonna look into this, okay?
- Thank you.

Okay.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

It's my grandmother.

Everyone's worried
like I'm made of glass.

AUDREY: Excuse
me. BETH: Answer it.

Go ahead.

AUDREY: Hey, Grandma.

She's gonna stay with me
until we know what's going on.

She's really gotten under
your skin, hasn't she?

Yeah.

There's something in her eyes.

It's like she hasn't had a
decent night's sleep for 14 years.

I could have been her.

I mean, after the kidnapping.

- Okay.
- You're a survivor, Beth.

Yeah, but it's ironic.

Audrey's demon was in
prison, and she never felt safe.

The police never found
the woman who took me...

but somehow I always felt safe.

So about tonight. Uh...

We could park outside
your house, keep an eye out.

I am a night person after all.

No, I'll be okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna start online,
check out Shepherd's family.

[BETH GIGGLES]

AUDREY: So how do you know Mick?

Um, we worked on a case
together a couple of months ago...

and, um, we kind
of stayed in touch.

And there's nothing
going on there?

I only ask because I noticed the
extra toothbrush in the bathroom.

Oh, that's Josh's.

And he's your boyfriend?

Yeah.

Things are a
little iffy right now.

He's out of town.

I've kind of been,
uh, distracted.

[PHONE RINGING]

Oh, it's Buzzwire again.

Oh. I'll call them later.

Beth, I don't wanna get
you in trouble with your work.

If you need to go in, please go.

I'll be fine. I'll veg out, watch
Pride and Prejudice again.

Okay, well, I just have to
post the execution follow-up...

pick up a couple photos.
I'll be back about 10?

Get out of here.

- See you.
- Bye.

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

MICK: Donovan Shepherd
was big for a while.

He had the grunge charm of Kurt Cobain
and the media savvy of Donald Trump.

A lot of people thought he
was the voice of a generation.

It's too bad he went
Manson in the end.

Irony is, even after being
executed for murdering six people...

he's more popular than ever.

[WATER RUNNING]

[LOCK CLICKS]

[WATER RUNNING]

MICK: A lot of lost souls took
Shepherd's call for blood seriously.

Family values at its worst.

1050 Ventana was the
address of the '93 massacre.

It was also the user name of someone
who posted unlisted information...

on the DA...

the judge...

every jury member...

and Beth's address.

Where Audrey's staying.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

[GASPING]

[NO DIAL TONE]

[GASPS]

MAN: I'm back.

No, you're dead.

[GRUNTING]

MICK: Who the hell are you?

AUDREY: That's not the same
guy I saw outside your window.

It's gotta be. I'd pick him
out of a lineup for Shepherd.

He's even got the scar.

Shouldn't we call the police?

[MAN GRUNTING]

I think Mick wanted
to talk to him alone.

- You can't do this, I
have rights. MICK: Yeah?

You broke into a private home,
I have the right to shoot you.

- I'm still considering that option.
- Pfft. You're not a cop.

That's right, so I don't have to fill out
paperwork when I kick your ass again.

Did you follow them home after
the execution and call Audrey?

No.

Whose website is that?

A prophet doing Shepherd's work.

Go ahead, put me in jail.

Others will come, continue
the work, and she'll die.

[SCREAMS]

You call your troops off.

I wouldn't know how.

You'll never know the
love that Shepherd teaches.

The loyalty.

So enlighten me.

Soon you can see for yourself.

One of the biggest producers
in town is a friend of Shepherd's.

He's gonna make a movie.

MICK: Sometimes I
hate living in Hollywood.

[SCREAMS]

MICK: I thought about being
an actor back in the '70s.

But I think I really just
wanted to be Steve McQueen.

There is a difference.

Producer's name is Jerry Drake.

I guess he's a big deal, but
I don't really read the trades.

Hi. Is Mr. Drake here, please?

Maybe. Do you
have an appointment?

You can tell him I came all the
way from 1050 Ventana to see him.

[SMACKS LIPS]

Follow me.

MICK: Boy.

Too bad he couldn't afford
a place with a view, huh?

Do you want something to drink?

No, thank you.

Horrible what happened
on Ventana Drive.

It's funny how one tragedy
can ruin a word forever.

"Ventana." Just means
"window" in Spanish.

And a columbine
used to just be a flower.

Listen, Mr. St. John,
my time is money.

A lot of people say that...

but I actually had my
accountant run the numbers.

- You're 10 grand in the hole.
- Wow.

And me without my checkbook.

I'm interested in your
Donovan Shepherd biopic.

Variety said that you
guys were friends...

but I don't see those
pictures on the wall.

Oh, we used to
hang out, in the '80s.

Donny was fun.

Then, uh, I got a movie
set up, and he got crazy.

So were you friends to the end?

Enough to get
him on the phone...

when I heard he was recording
his memoirs from prison.

I thought killers couldn't
profit from selling their stories.

- You don't wanna touch that.
- This feels real.

Is this from that sword-and-sandals
thing that you did?

- Sparta.
- Sparta. That's it.

Yeah, still the highest opening
weekend for a March non-sequel release.

Look, Donny didn't
profit from anything.

That 800,000 went
into a survivors' fund.

And buying his story
was just good business.

So is inciting people to murder
a part of that good business?

You didn't hide your IP
address as well as you thought.

Guess I should have
hired the web guy from MIT.

No, you encouraged
those fanatics.

And last night, one of
them attacked Audrey Pell.

Is she all right?

What do you care?

Her murder would make a
better ending to your biopic, right?

I did nothing illegal.

Maybe we could find a
part for you in the movie.

How about this?

Anything happens to Audrey...

and your story is gonna
have a whole different ending.

And I don't
think you'll like it.

BRONWYN: Jerry, here's Les.

You must be something special.
He never has me hold calls.

Is that drink still on offer?

It's always on until it's off.

- Wait right here. MICK: Okay.

Damn.

BETH: Are you positive you're up for this?
- Yeah.

Shepherd's gone, but I
still feel like I'm losing it.

If one of these mug
shots is the guy I saw...

maybe I can get some closure.

- Hey, Beth, how are
you? BETH: Good.

I think I've got
everything we need.

Is the DA ready for us?

I just got back. Let me check.

[SCREAMS]

MIRIAM: Oh, no.
BETH: Oh, my God.

He's back.

- Audrey, he's not, no.
- No.

Shepherd loves to set the
scene. This is how he would do it.

If he were alive, but he's not. We
just watched him die, remember?

- No. COP 1: This way.

COP 2: We need to clear
this room. AUDREY: No.

COP 1: What happened here?
MIRIAM: I don't know, he's gone.

SHEPHERD [ON RECORDING]: If I
have done my work wisely and well...

my story will have
no final chapter.

Father Garza has told me time and
again that it's never too late to change.

I say, it's never too late to find
a way to finish the work I started.

Nobody saw or heard anything.

But all this blood.

Yeah, and no sign of a body.
You know, I really think he's dead.

What do you think is going on?

I think that Shepherd's family is
more loyal than we ever thought.

And they have a
sick sense of irony.

The DA got permission to keep
some trial mementos in his trophy case.

One of them was the knife Shepherd
used in the Ventana murders.

- Oh...
- Yeah.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

- Hey.
- We got a real problem.

BETH [ON PHONE]: I
know. The DA's gone missing.

He's probably dead.

- He won't be the last. Where are you?
- I'm headed for Buzzwire.

I'll see you there.

Shepherd's fingerprints
were on the knife...

but the cops assume they're old,
preserved from the original crime.

Yeah? I'm not so sure.

Listen to this.

Shepherd's memoirs were
mostly messianic ramblings.

But a couple of days before the
execution, everything changed.

SHEPHERD [ON RECORDING]:
Like Saul on the road to Damascus...

I've seen a light and
been given a choice.

Death is just a horizon,
and I will rise like the sun.

Blood is the key to
death's locked door.

Blood is the key? Is that a...?

Yeah, becoming a vampire.
I didn't even consider it.

A vamp couldn't
survive long in prison.

There's constant supervision,
there's no access to blood.

- So it's not possible?
- It is possible.

If it happened right
before the execution.

So how do you start a
manhunt for a dead man?

You verify the dead part.

[SCOFFS]

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

MICK: An executed man's body is
held in the prison morgue for 10 days.

If Shepherd's turned vamp,
I'll find an empty drawer.

Okay, we've got a body.

And I found the DA.

Shepherd's risen, all right.

And he's pissed.

When most guys have
houseguests, the checklist is obvious:

anything moldy in the fridge,
any private magazines left out.

For me, it's a little
more complicated.

The windows and
doors are all reinforced.

The locks are 10-inch
steel strike dead bolts.

There is electronic surveillance
on the front door, so you'll be safe.

You have to excuse the mess.

I wasn't expecting company.

This is really nice of you.

[MICK SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

That's Spanish, by the way.

For "Keep her out of my stuff."

Do you think she'd be
okay with police protection?

I wouldn't be okay. Shepherd's a
vampire, he knows what he's doing.

Finding the DA's dead
body at the morgue...

has made Carl convinced that
Shepherd's family's on the rampage.

- Good, let him think that.
- Why?

As long as the cops are
going after family members...

I can hunt Shepherd in peace.

In peace? Yeah.

[SIGHS]

I have to go, but I'll be back.

Beth is gonna
stay here with you.

- Now, if you guys get hungry...
- We'll order in.

- I'd recommend not going into the office.
- Okay.

Okay.

Or upstairs. Or
through the gray door.

Wow, this all sounds
so Alice in Wonderland.

Beware the bottles that
say, "Drink me," okay?

[PRISON DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

MICK: His last couple days...

Shepherd was on display
like a lion at the zoo.

MAN 1: He's been
moved to second tier.

MICK: It's not the easiest
place to turn a guy into a vamp.

Had to be someone
hiding in plain sight.

MAN 2: I gotta take
care of the transfer.

- Officer, Mick St. John.
- A PI?

Yeah, the L.A.P.D.'s stretched
pretty thin at the moment.

Bringing in independents
to help with the work.

We already have guys
looking at the crowd footage.

I'm supposed to watch
Shepherd's surveillance.

Look for any unusual activities.

It's probably gonna take a couple
of hours, so if you could, uh...

Thank you very much.

MICK: Vampire visual
comprehension is off the charts...

so it won't exactly take hours.

[CLICKING]

The priest converted
him all right.

Drained him in confession.

And turned him at final prayers.

So the priest turned him.

All those hours spent praying
were prepping him for vamp life.

Explaining the blood lust, how
to get through the execution...

escape the morgue.

Explains why he
didn't eat his last meal.

Yeah, well, it wasn't
what he was hungry for.

MAN [ON TV]: Murder
of Deputy DA George...

WOMAN [ON TV]: Body
was found under mysterious...

BETH: Anything good on?

Every news channel's
got Mr. Quinlan's murder.

I'm sorry. I know you
guys were friends.

We weren't friends exactly.

He was just kind to me after
Shepherd killed my parents.

You were so brave to testify.

Yeah, I testified.

It still didn't get Shepherd
out of my head, even now.

It's like...

It's like I have some
horrible connection with him.

You need to break that
tie, or he'll never go away.

Is that what you did...

when you said you learned how
to block out what happened to you?

Sort of.

But I've...

I also had something
to grab onto.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

BETH: Someone.

The man who rescued me.

He was fearless.

It was terrifying.

But as long as I was in
his arms, I knew I was safe.

Who was it?

Well, when I was little, I would
call him my guardian angel.

When I was a teenager...

I used to picture
whoever I had a crush on.

I don't know, Johnny
Depp, Robert Downey Jr.

And all I got was a 60-year-old
balding therapist named Bob.

[BOTH GIGGLE]

Doesn't quite seem fair.

Well, now you have
Mick on your side.

I feel safe with him.

MICK: Given the complex
history of religion and vampires...

a church is not where you'd
expect a vamp to find sanctuary.

GARZA: Bless you, my child.

MICK: Forgive me,
Father, for I have sinned.

It's been about 36 years
since my last confession.

GARZA: Well, I'm glad you
understand it's never too late.

MICK: Let's hope not.

MICK: Well, let's see.

I cursed and lied to
somebody I care about.

I'm pretty sure I broke
a guy's forearm too.

The radius, the ulna,
one of those two.

Physical violence
is a sin to be wary of.

It's a dangerous stepping
stone to darker deeds.

And in the past week, I drank
about 6 pints of human blood.

Who are you?

MICK: I'm the one
who wants a confession.

If this is about Donovan Shepherd, I
didn't know what he was going to do.

MICK: When you turn a serial
killer, it's not too hard to guess.

Where is he now?
Where is he now?

I can make you talk.

I'll answer your
questions if you let me go.

MICK: Why did you do it?

Money.

For all their faults,
humans got one thing right.

MICK: The $800,000
Drake paid for the memoirs.

So the survivors' fund is actually a
Swiss bank account in your name.

GARZA: Cayman Islands, but yes.

MICK: So Shepherd
and Drake are still friends.

Actually, Shepherd hates Drake.

Really hates him.

He was always complaining how
Drake abused their relationship.

Screwed him over in the press.

Oh, Jerry, was that for me?

How...? How are you here?

You wrote a check and here I am.

Look, Donny, I...

Isn't that what you do?

Write checks and
make people jump?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

This time, your money
brought back the dead.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

You look good.

Hmm. It's been 14 years.

Not like you visited or called.

No. Wait, you did call.

As soon as you wanted something.

My life story.

I thought I'd come in
person, give you a visual aid.

[SNARLS]

What are you?

Don't be so naive.

You make horror movies.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Oh, your movie's gonna rock.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

[BLOOD GURGLING]

[INHALES]

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

MICK: To humans, blood just
smells coppery, like a jar of pennies.

But to a vamp,
it's full of smells.

[GRUNTS]

The fear felt when it was shed.

And the joy of the
one who shed it.

[PHONE RINGING]

- Hi.
- Beth, what's wrong?

Nothing.

MICK [ON PHONE]:
Is Audrey all right?

Yeah, she's sleeping.
Where are you?

Jerry Drake's house. He's dead.

I think Shepherd's
coming after Audrey.

- Do we need to leave?
- No, it's safer there.

I'll be back in 10 minutes.

MICK: Unfortunately, all
that fresh blood in the air...

sometimes makes it hard
to distinguish who's still here.

[GRUNTING]

[DOGS BARKING]

SHEPHERD: Hello, sweetheart.

I see you.

[KNOCKS]

Sorry. What are you doing?

Oh, uh, nothing. I was just,
uh, looking for something.

So you and Mick...

I know you say you've only
known him a few months...

but it seems like you've
known each other forever.

Why do you say that?

I don't know, the
way he looks at you.

Can't explain it.

- Someone needs to.
- Hmm?

Nothing.

Where is he? Have
you talked to him?

MICK: Oh, man.

[SIGHS]

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

Beth.

[PHONE DIALING]

I'm trying him again.

[MICK'S CELL PHONE RINGING]

Sounds like he's back.

[MICK'S CELL PHONE RINGING]

[PHONE BEEPS]

AUDREY: Is it him?
- Stay there.

Audrey, sweethea...

[BANGING ON DOOR]

Come on.

It's him, isn't it?

Just hide.

[BANGING ON DOOR]

[AUDREY SCREAMS]

Audrey!

Audrey!

- Did he go up or down?
- I don't know.

WOMAN [ON PHONE]:
Emergency Services.

There's someone
trying to break into my...

Go.

[SNARLS]

Where's Audrey?

[GRUNTING]

Mm, blood.

You don't seem
surprised to see me alive.

I know what you are.

[GRUNTING]

If you know what I am...

why are you fighting when
you should be begging?

[SHEPHERD HISSES]

Where is she?

Get out.

I thought you were dead.

Looks like neither
one of us is dying easy.

Come on, two vampires
and two lovely ladies.

In my day, we
called that a party.

Yeah? Well, I
outgrew that phase.

Come on.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

Close.

[WHIMPERING]

SHEPHERD: Hello, sweetheart.

I see you.

AUDREY: No. MICK: Hey.

MICK: How is she?

BETH: Sleeping.

MICK: What did you tell her?

As long as Shepherd's gone for
good, she doesn't need an explanation.

But I do.

I know who saved me
when I was a little girl.

MICK: I think you've
known for a while.

Maybe I have.

What else do you know?

That he had to kill a
woman he cared about.

Maybe he would've
done that anyway.

Maybe.

But that night, he
did it to save me.

How was I supposed to tell you?

Why did you hide it?

BETH: Made me think
it was my imagination?

You have every
right to be angry.

BETH: I'm not angry.

I found my guardian angel.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

[SIGHS]

I just wished...

I just wish he'd talk to me.

First I murder my wife,
and then I stalk you.

- It just gets better and better, huh?
- No.

I could have lived
my life in fear.

But somehow, I always felt safe.

And now I know why.

Now you know why
it can never work.

All I know is, ever
since I met you...

I've stopped using
the word "never."

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