Imposter
Stay With Me
As the Concealed Figure writhes in pain...
Seungri catches his breath, attempts to stand, only... his body buckles under the pain.
He throws a look to the Figure, then crawls over to the tool bench. He pulls himself up using the bench for support.
He haphazardly feels for a weapon... any weapon.
He grabs a hammer, turns and...
The Figure grabs Seungri’s wrist, then head-butts Seungri between the eyes. He falls to the floor. Out cold.
The Concealed Figure holds his injured eye with one hand, grabs the sickle/axe with the other.
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Chaerin reaches the iron door, but stops. Looks back into the darkness.
“Seungri?” No response. “Seungri!?”
Still no answer. Then... Chaerin spots the light switch, flips it... the lights snap on!
Suddenly, the Concealed Figure appears out of the darkness!
Chaerin SCREAMS!
The Concealed Figure lunges for her, but misses. She runs through the door, into the Chapel.
Chaerin rushes into the room, but trips on something.
When she gets up, the first thing she sees... the fetus jars!
She coughs violently, almost pukes. She stumbles, hurries up the trap door steps...
A moment later...
The Concealed Figure pops through the iron door. For the first time she see the Concealed Figure wholly figure.
Half his body scarred, burned. He stands well over six feet tall, muscles rippling everywhere. A frightful sight.
He peers up the trap door steps, pursues Chaerin...
Chaerin bursts through the front door, running for the woods.
The Concealed Figure exits the cabin, spots her. Runs after her.
Chaerin runs as fast as she can. Breaking branches in her way, leaping rocks. Anything to get away from...
The Concealed Figure follows. This is his terrain, turf. He moves quickly and efficiently through the brush.
Chaerin looks back, and as she does... trips over some tree roots. She fall face first into a giant puddle.
She pushes herself out of the puddle. She’s soaked, but doesn’t stop.
She resumes running.
The Concealed Figure... closing the gap.
Chaerin, confused, scared and lost, looks around wildly. Has no idea where she’s going.
Then suddenly she hears something. She looks down a slight hill...
CHAERIN’S POV - A RANGER TRUCK drives along a gravel road.
Thank you God...“HELP!” Screaming at the top of her lungs.
Chaerin darts down the hill, and falls right onto the truck.
The Ranger slams on the brakes, inches from running over her. She slams her arms down on the hood.
The Ranger, startled beyond belief, looks out at Chaerin. He gets out of the car, goes to her. She hugs the Ranger tightly, starts crying.
He looks at her... the blood, cuts, etc.
“What happened to you?”
“You have to help me. I was kidnapped. My boyfriend came... And this man’s chasing me. He’s chasing me right now.” Chaerin said out of breath.
“Calm down. I can’t make heads or tails of what you’re saying.”
“He’s coming. He’s right behind me.”
The Ranger looks up into the woods from where Chaerin came, but...all’s peaceful at the moment.
“Look, miss, there’s no one there.”
“Oh my God, Seungri.”
The Ranger consoles Chaerin.
The Concealed Figure steps in. Sickle/Axe in hand. He starts toward The Ranger and Chaerin.
“It’s going to be fine, Miss. I promise you. Everything’s going to be fine.”
Chaerin pries her face from the Ranger’s chest.
CHAERIN’s POV – The Concealed Figure is five feet behind The Ranger and closing. She screams. The Ranger holds onto her.
Off her look, The Ranger turns... The Concealed Figure and the Ranger STAND FACE TO FACE. The moment’s frozen. For too long.
Something’s not right.
“What’s going on? How the heck did she escape?”
Chaerin looks at the Ranger, in shock. The Concealed Figure lowers his head, ashamed.
“Want something done, gotta do it yourself.”
The Ranger removes a black, wooden club from his belt... Chaerin turns, about to run, when... the Ranger cracks her across the back of the head with the club.
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