Scene 1 · Band Van Interior CabTwo days out of Louisiana. The van is quiet. Everyone is still processing the Devil incident. Chuck drives. The gas light has been on for forty miles. Nobody wants to be the first…Scene 2Shadow sits alone in the cargo hold surrounded by his bags. He's cleaning a blade with a rag. He speaks to no one in particular. First time we see him process something internally.…Scene 3 · AMpm Gas Station ForecourtChuck pulls into a beat-up AMpm station on a two-lane highway. Late afternoon sun. One other car at the pump — empty, engine off, driver's door hanging open. No driver. The fluores…Scene 4 · AMpm Convenience Store InteriorRick and Gary enter the store. Everything looks almost normal — except wrong. The hot dog rollers are spinning backward. A slurpee machine is cycling through colors that don't exis…Scene 5 · AMpm Gas Station ForecourtRick and Gary come out fast. Jukes is already crouched by the canopy pillar with her hand on the concrete, reading the vibrations. She's pale. Shadow has picked the lock on the sid…Scene 6 · AM/PM Convenience Store Back LotShadow has found the stockroom entrance around back. The door is bolted from the outside with three deadbolts. Salt packed into the door frame. Somebody tried to seal something in.…Scene 7 · AMpm Gas Station ForecourtJezz returns from across the street where she wandered off to chat with a local sitting on a bench outside a laundromat. She has intel. Three missing persons in two weeks. All nigh…Scene 8 · band_motelroom_parkinglotDusk. The band pulls into a motel a mile down the road. The parking lot is mostly empty. One flickering lamp. The Sinking Coffin energy all over again. They unload fast and quiet.Scene 9 · band_motelroom_interior_windowThe motel room becomes a war room. Jukes draws sigils on the floor with chalk. Shadow lays out pre-show doses on the nightstand in precise rows. Chuck tunes two guitars — one stand…Scene 10 · band_motelroom_interior_windowThe planning winds down. Everyone settles into their corners. Jukes finishes the last sigil. Shadow counts doses one final time. Chuck sits on the edge of the bed staring at nothin…
