FADE IN:

EXT. WOODED AREA - NIGHT

Two FIGURES are running through the woods.  It's a chase.
Neither figure can be seen clearly.

DIRK STRANGER is doing the chasing and he doesn't seem to be
catching up with the figure being chased.  Stranger is carrying
a gun.

The figure being chased breaks through the trees as he gets to
the top of a hill.  The moon is big and full.  He stops and
looks up as if mesmerized.

Stranger sees him silhouetted against the moon.  The outline
looks like a wild-haired madman.

Stranger uses the opportunity to take a shot.

BANG!

The shot connects.

Stranger advances on the downed figure to make sure it was a
good hit.  He moves into the light of the moon.

Stranger is tall and clean-shaven, but the most obvious features
are sunglasses and a full-length leather duster.

He catches up to his prey and looks down.

A WEREWOLF is writhing on the ground clutching a leg wound.

                        STRANGER
          Werewolf?  More like weredog.

The werewolf snarls at Stranger.

Stranger puts the werewolf out of its misery with a single shot
from his short-barreled revolver.

                        STRANGER
          Silver bullets may be expensive, but they're
          worth their weight in gold.

Stranger tucks his gun away.  He pulls out a business card and
flips it down on the dead werewolf before he turns away and
walks off into the woods.

INSERT - THE BUSINESS CARD, which reads:

                          "Dirk Stranger
                  Unusual Investigations, Ltd."


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


EXT. WOODED AREA - DAY

Stranger is sleeping on the ground.  He's wrapped up in an old
army blanket.  His late-model Harley-Davidson is beside him.
His duster is draped over the bike.

He wakes, then he sits up and looks around, admiring the
beautiful surroundings.  He peels off his blanket and tucks it
into one of the bike's saddlebags.  His gun is attached to the
back of his belt.

He puts on his duster then pulls his sunglasses out of one of
the pockets and puts them on.  He climbs on the bike, fires it
up, and rides off.


EXT. HIGHWAY - DAY

Stranger is cruising down the road.


LATER

It's getting dark.  Stranger is still riding, still wearing his
sunglasses.


EXT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

JANA KRANE peeks around the corner and sees that there isn't
anyone on the street.  She's wearing dirty coveralls.  She looks
like she's been having a rough day.

She goes to the warehouse door and finds it locked.  The wood is
old though, so she is able to open the door with a solid push
with her shoulder.  She enters the warehouse.


INT. WAREHOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Krane closes the door behind her.  The only lighting is
moonlight and streetlights coming through the dirty windows and
the cracks in the wood.  There are some old empty crates in the
warehouse and some scattered trash.

She finds a fairly clean crate in the back and climbs in and
goes to sleep.


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


INT. UNUSUAL INVESTIGATIONS, RECEPTION - DAY

The reception room is a small, unremarkable room with an
entrance and two doors leading to two offices.

SHIRLEY STONE, the receptionist, is sitting at her desk.  She is
reminiscent of a 1940's hard-boiled detective's secretary.

JOHN THOMAS, Stranger's partner, is sitting on the edge of
Stone's desk.  He is a nerdy kind of guy who is absolutely
smitten with Stone.  He is trying to talk Stone into going out
with him.

                        THOMAS
          It's perfect weather for a nice walk in the
          park.  In fact...

Stranger comes in the entrance.  Thomas stops talking.  He and
Stone look at Stranger

                        STRANGER
          Morning guys.

                        STONE
                 (simultaneous)
          Morning Dirk.

                        THOMAS
                 (simultaneous)
          Morning Dirk.

                        STRANGER
          John, I finished up that werewolf case, but
          I haven't gotten anywhere on tracking down
          where those zombies are coming from.  Do you
          have time to take that one?

                        THOMAS
          Sure.  I got some new ideas on that one already.

                        STRANGER
          Let me know if you need some help.
                 (to Stone)
          You get him yet?

                        STONE
          Yeah, he's in your office.

                        STRANGER
          Thanks.

Stranger and Thomas head for their respective offices.  Stranger
opens his door and goes in.


IN STRANGER'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

There is a desk, a few chairs, a file cabinet, and a shelf full
of odds and ends from various cases.  The odds and ends are
essentially trophies.  There is a partially filled bottle of
vodka on the desk.  

There is an ALIEN sitting in a chair in front of the desk.  It's
a big-head, large-dark-eyes version of an alien.  Stranger
enters and closes the door.  He sits behind his desk.  The alien
just watches as Stranger comes in and sits.

Stranger picks a file off of his desk and looks at it.

                        STRANGER
          Okay...

He reads some more.

                        STRANGER
          Darth Vader?

He looks at the alien with disbelief.

                        STRANGER
          Can't you pick a more original name than
          that?

The alien just looks back at him.  Stranger puts the file down
and leans across his desk.

                        STRANGER
          Look, if you guys want to keep coming to
          Earth, you're going to have to do a better
          job of concealing yourselves.

Stranger removes his glasses and rubs his eyes

                        STRANGER
          I know what I'm talking about.

Stranger looks hard at the alien.

                        STRANGER
          I'm not from around here, myself.

Stranger's eyes are completely black...even the scleras.  He
returns his glasses to his face.

                        STRANGER
          If we can catch you, it's only a matter of
          time before someone else can.
                 (beat)
          And they might not be as friendly as we are
          here.

The alien stares silently at him for a moment.

                        STRANGER
          I know, but if someone from the government
          catches you, they're gonna chop you up into
          little bits to see what makes you tick.

The alien again stares silently at him for a moment.

                        STRANGER
          Okay, okay, don't get so excited.  Just be
          more careful next time.  Now get out of
          here.  Telepathy gives me a headache.

The alien stands and walks to the door.

Stranger is looking through some papers on his desk.  He doesn't
look up.

                        STRANGER
          Say hi to Mrs. Vader for me.

The alien looks at him for a few seconds.  He still hasn't
looked up.  The alien flips him off then leaves the room.


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

A car is slowly cruising along the street.  It is being driven
by ERIC who is looking for some companionship this evening.  The
car pulls to the curb next to a HOOKER.  The hooker's name is
VICKI.  Eric rolls down the window.

                        ERIC
          Hi, there.

                        VICKI
          Hi, yourself.

                        ERIC
          I could use some company tonight.

Vicki walks over to the car and leans down on the window sill.
She is dressed relatively nicely for a hooker.  The way she is
leaning on the car, he gets a good cleavage shot.

                        VICKI
          You do look kind of lonely.

                        ERIC
          Come on in.  I'll tell you all about it.

                        VICKI
          You're not a cop, are you?

                        ERIC
          Just a guy.  You?

                        VICKI
          Just a girl.

                        ERIC
          Get in.

                        VICKY
          Okay.

She gets into the car.  The car drives off.


EXT. PARK - NIGHT

It is a pleasant evening outside.  Krane is crouching on a tree
branch almost like a gargoyle.  One of the park trails passes
under the branch.  Eric and Vicki are walking down the trail,
looking for a private place.

When they pass under the tree, Krane drops on them.  She hits
Vicki, knocking her to the ground, and she grabs Eric by the
throat and rips it open.  He falls to the ground, trying in vain
to hold his throat together.

Krane follows to drink his blood.  In his struggles, he hooks
Krane's bracelet and it flies off of her wrist without her
realizing it.  She drinks enough to keep her going.  As Eric is
dying, she goes to Vicki and drags her into the bushes.

Krane comes back for Eric, who is now dead, and drags him into
the bushes next to Vicki.  She starts to remove Vicki's clothes,
and Vicki stirs a little.  Krane quickly twists Vicki's head to
break her neck.

Krane soon escapes into the night wearing Vicki's clothes.


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


INT. RESTAURANT - DAY

Stranger is eating breakfast and reading a newspaper.

The headline reads "PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN MISSING."

Stranger pulls out a cell phone and dials a number.


EXT.  PARK - DAY

Stranger pulls up and parks his bike.  There are a couple of
OFFICERS discussing something.  Stranger walks over to where all
of the activity is taking place.  The officers look up as he
approaches.

Officer 1 greets Stranger.

                        OFFICER 1
          Hey, Dirk.  How's it going?

                        STRANGER
          Not bad.  You guys?

                        OFFICER 2
          See for yourself.

Officer 2 points to the bodies of Eric and Vicki.  Stranger goes
to the bodies, which have been covered.

He looks under Vicki's cover first, noticing the angle of the
head and the bruising on her neck.  He lifts the cover to take a
brief look at her body.  He turns to the officers and points to
the bruise on Vicki's neck.

                        STRANGER
          Any other marks?

                        OFFICER 1
          No.  Just the broken neck as far as we can
          tell.

Stranger puts the cover back in place and moves to lift the
cover off of Eric.

He investigates Eric's throat with a clinical detachment.  He
looks closely at the wound to try to determine the cause.  He
stands to move to the other side of Eric to continue his
examination.

He finally stands up after replacing the cover and walks to the
officers.

                        STRANGER
          Anything else?

                        OFFICER 2
          Not that we've been able to find.

                        STRANGER
          Mind if I look around?

                        OFFICER 2
          Help yourself.

Stranger wanders around the crime scene.  He notices a small
reflection in the grass a little way away from the bodies.  He
walks over to investigate.  Krane's bracelet is sitting in the
grass.

He looks around to see if he is being watched.  He can see no
one watching so he pulls a bandana from his pocket, grabs the
bracelet, and stashes it.


INT. UNUSUAL INVESTIGATIONS, STRANGER'S OFFICE - DAY

Stranger is sitting at his desk.  He is finished talking on the
phone.

                        STRANGER
          Don't worry.  I'll call you later.

He hangs up the phone and goes back to his paperwork.  Stone
knocks on the open door and enters.

                        STONE
          Here's a copy of the police report and the
          coroner's preliminary findings.

She hands a folder to him.

                        STRANGER
          Thanks.

He takes the folder, opens it, and starts reading.  She leaves
the room.

A moment later, Thomas knocks and enters the room.

                        THOMAS
          Hey, Dirk.  Shirley said she gave you some
          stuff on that dead couple.

He sits.

                        STRANGER
          Yeah.  Listen to this...

He excerpts from the reports.

                        STRANGER
          It looks as if the guy was attacked by a
          wild animal, but there is only one wound.
          No other marks on his body.

He flips up a page.

                        STRANGER
          The woman was a hooker.  Her neck was broken
          and she had a concussion.  All of her
          clothes are missing.

He looks up at Thomas.

                        STRANGER
          They still haven't located her clothes.

He goes back to the reports.

                        STRANGER
          It also says here that she was not sexually
          assaulted.

Thomas chuckles.

                        THOMAS
          How could they tell?  She was a hooker.

                        STRANGER
          Apparently, this was her first trick of the
          night.

Thomas thinks about it for a second.  He speaks almost to
himself.

                        THOMAS
          And her last.

Stranger looks back up.

                        STRANGER
          They don't have a clue.

                        THOMAS
          How about you?  Any ideas?

                        STRANGER
          Not really.  Not yet.

A beat.

                        STRANGER
          It wasn't robbery because the guy's wallet
          was still in his pocket.

A beat.

                        STRANGER
          Well, I guess you could call it a robbery
          since the woman's clothes were stolen.
          Although I can't imagine someone getting
          killed for their clothes.

                        THOMAS
          Did she have a purse?

                        STRANGER
          It was in the guy's car.  This is all just
          too odd to be something normal.

Thomas stands.

                        THOMAS
          Wow, good luck.  It sounds like you got a
          tough one here.

                        STRANGER
          Yeah.  All I have is a description of the
          woman's missing clothes.

                        THOMAS
          Good luck.

                        STRANGER
          Thanks.  I'll catch you later.

                        THOMAS
          Later.

He leaves the room.

Stranger picks up the bracelet that is sitting on his desk.  He
studies it briefly before returning to the reports.


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

Krane is walking down the street, wearing the clothes that she
stole from Vicki.

A car pulls over and BOB lowers the window.  He leans over
toward Krane.  He is assuming that she is a hooker.

Why not?  She's certainly dressed like one.

Stranger rides around the corner.  He sees Krane speaking with
Bob and recognizes the clothes from the description he was
given.  He parks his bike so he can talk to Krane.

He walks toward her.

                        STRANGER
          Excuse me, miss?

Krane looks up at Stranger.  She doesn't know who he is but she
suddenly breaks into a run.

                        STRANGER
          Wait!  I just want to talk to you!

She keeps running.  Bob drives away.  He's had enough.  Stranger
grudgingly chases after Krane who just turned a corner.


EXT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

Stranger turns the corner.  He doesn't see anything, but he
hears the warehouse door squeak a little bit.

He cautiously pushes the door open and enters the warehouse.

As soon as he gets inside the door, Krane whacks him in the head
with a baseball bat.


                                                    CUT TO BLACK.


FADE IN:


INT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

Stranger is sitting up with his head down.  He slowly rubs his
head where the bat hit him.  He eventually feels well enough to
stand carefully, steadying himself before searching the
warehouse.

He finds the coveralls.  A patch on the outfit says "Eastside
Cemetery."


EXT. EASTSIDE CEMETERY - DAY

Stranger rides in and parks.  He gets off the bike and takes a
look around.  This is one old cemetery.  He's not sure where to
start.  His eyes fall on Mount Eastside a couple of miles away.
He grabs his binoculars from a saddlebag.

He checks out the mount using the binoculars.  He sees nothing
unusual until he gets to the top.  There is a giant white cross
on the peak of the mount, and Krane is scrambling over a rock
next to the cross.

He gets on his bike to make his way to the mount.


EXT. MOUNT EASTSIDE, BASE - DAY

By the time he gets there and checks out the mount with his
binoculars, he sees no sign of Krane.  He secures his bike and
starts up the mount the check things out up close.


EXT. MOUNT EASTSIDE, PEAK - DAY

Stranger makes his way to the cross on the peak.  He finds a
cluster of rocks under which is a relatively secluded space.  He
climbs between the rocks into the space to find some blankets
and clothes.

He has found Krane's lair.  He quickly searches for weapons or
anything else useful, but there isn't anything.  He climbs back
out and plans his strategy.  He locates a good place to hide and
await Krane's return.  He settles in and waits.


LATER

It's now night and Stranger is still waiting.  It's getting cold
so he wraps his coat more tightly around himself.

He hears a noise above him so he goes for his gun.  He realizes
he has no good access to his gun so he unwraps the coat long
enough to pull his gun out of its holster.

He looks around for what caused the noise but finds nothing.  He
settles back, sets the gun on the rock next to him, and makes
himself comfortable.


LATER

It's morning now.  Krane returns to find Stranger sleeping.  She
sneaks closer until she is right above him.

                        KRANE
          HEY!

He is startled awake.  He turns to look above and she kicks him
in the face.  He is thrown over the edge of the rock where he
was sitting.  He manages to catch the edge before going down.

He desperately tries to reach his gun, but she jumps down onto
the ledge where he was sitting, and she stomps on his hand.  He
lets out a yell of pain.

                        KRANE
          You're making this way too easy.

She kicks him in the face again.  He looses his grip on the
edge.  His yell on the way down is more of frustration than
anything else.  The yell stops.  She looks over the edge and
sees him sprawled out at the base of the rock 40 feet below.

She climbs back up and around to get to his landing point.  It
takes her a few minutes to get there.  By the time she does, he
is not there.  She looks up the rock and he is about halfway up.

                        KRANE
          NO!

He continues climbing even though he is in pain.  She starts
climbing after him.  Bloodied and bruised, he gets a hand over
the top to pull himself up.  She has almost reached him.  He
gets into a seated position at the top of the rock.

She is confident enough in her victory that she decides to tease
him.

                        KRANE
          I can't wait to find out what your blood
          tastes like.

She grabs one of his legs at the same time that he grabs his gun
that was sitting on the top of the rock.

She pulls herself up on his leg and he points his gun right at
her face as she looks up, her fangs at full extension in
anticipation.

She looks at the gun and realizes she has lost.  She opens her
mouth wide, fully exposing her fangs, and lets out a yell.  He
hesitates a few seconds then puts a bullet through her forehead.

Her grip on his leg relaxes, but her other hand is still jammed
in the crack she was using to climb the rock.  She hangs, dead,
on the face of the rock.

Her blood runs down her back from the hole in the back of her
head.

Stranger sits back, exhausted.


                                                        FADE OUT.


FADE IN:


INT. UNUSUAL INVESTIGATIONS, STRANGER'S OFFICE - DAY

Stranger is sitting at his desk, looking through some papers.
One of his hands is bandaged and there are some healing injuries
on his face.  His door is open.

He hears the outer office door open and close.  He hears Stone
talking to someone, but he's not paying enough attention to make
out any of the words.  He then hears the door open and close
again.

Stone appears in his doorway holding a box.

                        STONE
          This was just delivered.

She brings it in and hands it to him.

                        STRANGER
          Thanks.

She leaves the room.

He opens the box.  He digs into the packing material and pulls a
skull out of the box.  It has fangs and a ragged bullet hole in
the forehead.

He sets the skull on his trophy shelf then steps back to admire
it.  He looks at it a moment before turning and opening one of
his desk drawers.

He pulls out Krane's bracelet and places it on the shelf next to
the skull.


ZOOM IN:

The skull and the bracelet on the shelf.


                                                   FADE TO BLACK.


                             The End