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EXT. GRACE’S APARTMENT – DAY
Grace is walking up the exterior stairs to her apartment door when a man in a dark hoodie and face covering like from the alley appears out of nowhere and lunges at her. With a quick move she sends him tumbling down but there several more are coming towards her by clinging to the walls like geckos.
Grace magic-jumps to the next roof. Sweet roof-top chase scene, think Fast Five or Quantum of Solace. During the process Grace smashes through the skylight of a heavy manufacturing plant and takes a bad spull. The goons magically float down after her and they engage a running battle through the dangerous and claustrophobic factory. Think Taken mixed with early Jackie Chan. Grace makes use of the environment and improvised weapons along with brutal vital strikes to take down her foes.
Magical flourishes – Grace climbs up a wall by stabbing her glowing fingers into it like climbing claws, one of the attackers leaps up at her and she drives her two fingers up through his chin and throws him like a bowling ball. Grace blinds a group of attackers with a flash of light and then knocks them off a high piece of machinery with a mighty gust of wind. Grace “catches” a magic blast of energy from one of her attackers and turns it into a massive super-jump into a double kick to the chest – super slow mo style.
Min-boss fight – Think Khabib Nurmagomedov or some other hot MMA star. Grace is headed for the exit when one last goon appears before her. He rips off his mask and hoodie, dude is scary looking. They’re both too exhausted to work any more magic, this is pure fisticuffs. Think John Wick vs Ms. Perkins in John Wick or Donnie Yen vs Collin Chou in Flash Point.
Grace is victorious and stumbles out of the loud oppressive factory.
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EXT. CAMPING SITE – DAY
Grace is sitting semi-nude on a picnic table healing herself with flashes of soft white life. Her bruises and nicks and cuts slowly disappear. It’s obviously an effort and she’s sweating buckets of bullets. Once she’s done with that she slips into the water, cursing at how cold it is, and immerses herself quickly, springing up and flinging her hair back. She holds her arms out with hands outstretched and chants softly.
We see a magical red mark flare into life on her chest, then fly off and dissipate. And oily greyish light plays over her body for a moment. She trudges back out of the water and starts to dry off with some spare clothes.
AMAZING GRACE
(getting dressed)
Try tracking me now you fuckers.
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EXT. SEVENSWORTH’S MANSION – DAY
Sprawling rich person mansion in the sprawling hills. Grace is approaching the complex through a wooded area adjacent to the compound finishing off a beer (product placement). She’s not sneaking, just walking normally, almost casually.
As she nears the fence – WARNING ELECTRIC – she considers tossing the bottle away but then thinks better of littering and tucks it in her pocket.
Grace rolls her shoulders and her neck for a moment and then takes a deep breath, reaching up and starting to rise into the air like she’s pulling herself up an invisible ladder with her hands and arms only. With a wave of her hand a camera on top of the fence shorts out and she swings her legs over and into the complex like a gymnast, stumbling and not quick sticking the landing.
As she approaches the complex Grace defeats additional security measures. Two guard dogs come charging at her but she kneels down, slaps her hands on the ground and suddenly they both appear outside the fence whining and confused. A drone flies overhead but with a gesture it malfunctions as well. She bypasses two guards by pulling an Obi-Wan from A New Hope “what was that?” maneuver.
Grace comes to a smaller building apart from the main building and slips in through an open window. The building is a shrine to the dark arts. Each wall covered with is arcane symbols and paintings like old Biblical manuscripts about the tortures of hell – people being devoured whole by weird beasts and demons in sadistic ways. Central on all these walls are depictions of great demons or dragons or other mythological creatures with the face of Sevensworth himself – think Mads Mikkelsen or Eddie Redmayne.
Towards the front of this temple is a dark magic alter upon which a terrified woman in a sheer white dress, bound and gagged, struggles weakly. At the same time Grace notices the sacrificial victim, a door opens and ELOISE MUNSON/LUST in cumbersome red and purple dark magic regalia comes out of a bathroom wiping her hands with a towel. Think Aubrey Plaza or Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
LUST
(tossing the towel behind her)
Are you the exterminator?
AMAZING GRACE
Yes.
LUST
Where’s all your gear?
AMAZING GRACE
We’re an all-natural outfit, environmentally friendly, I find the vermin and just crush them by hand. No chemicals.
LUST
You could make some good side money on Onlyfans with that. Since you have violated the Sanctum of Lust you must however die.
AMAZING GRACE
Lust? I thought you were doing a four horsmen thing, not a seven deadly sins deal. Shouldn’t you be Famine or Death?
LUST
We’re based on the Tarot actually.
AMAZING GRACE
(eyes widen)
Holy shit! Doesn’t that mean there’s like 80 of you?!
LUST
Just the major arcana cards, and we’re still trying to fill some spots. There’s a hiring shortage right now you know.
AMAZING GRACE
(thinking)
How many is that? I never paid much attention to tarot cards. Embarrassing for a magician I know. Your step-mother sent me here you get you. She’s very worried about you. Although I have to admit that you’re looking great. You look 20 years younger than the pictures she showed me.
LUST
(runs hand over cheek)
The blood of the innocent does some amazing things. It’s better than botox.
AMAZING GRACE
Getting right down to it huh? On a scale of one to five what’s your level of interest in giving up your wicked new lifestyle and coming with me back to your stepmothers house? Also, telling me what your boss mentor lover AC is up to would be great. The full flip, like when James Bond fucks a lady and then she’s totally on his side because of his magic cock.
LUST
(dreamily)
He’s a great man.
AMAZING GRACE
Uh, James Bond or your Aleister Crowley loving master?
LUST
He is a prophet. The world is sick but he’s going to heal it with our help.
AMAZING GRACE
Let me guess this world healing technique involves a bunch of people dying in horrible agony?
LUST
(smiles)
Sacrifices must be made.
Grace starts to move towards and Lust responds by aggressively licks her palm, chants some Latin and then holds her hands out like she’s pushing over a soda machine.
AMAZING GRACE
(looking down at herself)
Was something supposed to happen?
Lust tries to make a run for it but is hampered by her robes and Grace catches her easily and knocks her out by smashing her brutally with the bottle from her pocket. Grace pulls a jeweled knife out of a sheath on the front of Lust ornate garb and uses it to cut the woman on the alter free. The woman has been drugged but Grace grips her by the waist and purges the drugs from her system with a crackling of canary yellow magic light.
VICTIM
(terrified)
What’s going on?
AMAZING GRACE
(taking out her phone)
I just saved your life. Venmo me whatever you think your life is worth later. For now you better get out of here. Head down the hill and I’ll have an Uber pick you up. Might take a while for them to get out here so hide in some bushes or something.
VICTIM
No, no you shouldn’t use Uber they treat their workers terribly, you should call Lyft.
AMAZING GRACE
(quizzically)
I thought Lyft was the one were all the drivers were rapists.
VICTIM
Can you get a TaskRabbit to pick me up?
AMAZING GRACE
I am a TaskRabbit.
(points to Lust)
Help me find something to bind her with, you’re going have to take her with you and keep her under wraps until I can get back in touch with you.
VICTIM
(aghast)
I don’t want to do that, she was going to kill me!
AMAZING GRACE
Yeah, but she feels really bad about it, she told me so just before.
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EXT. SEVENSWORTH’S MANION – DAY
As Grace is walking by the pool towards the main building yet another masked/hoodie minion tackles her into the water. More mystic assassins are splashing into the pool and they try to down her by pure weight of numbers. Think the scene in Unbreakable where Bruce Willis’s character almost dies.
Grace manages to survive by flash-boiling the water into steam and horrifically burning her attackers. She slowly and painfully crawls out from under the pile of terribly burned men. Their flesh sticks to her like jelly as she hauls herself out of the pool and lies panting on the lawn for a moment. The toll of casting so many spells is starting to take its effect on her.
She hauls herself up and soldiers on.
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INT. SEVENSWORTH’S MANION – DAY
After passing through a kitchen and a hallway Grace is in a planning room where the evil plot is charted out like on a storyboard for a movie – they’ve planted 4 bombs across the city and they needed the computer system with the magic booster in the occult shop to be able to detonate them remotely with a spell and harvest the soul-energy.
AMAZING GRACE
(to herself)
I knew it was going to be a fucking bomb. It’s always a bomb. Fuckers.
She examines a progress chart reads –
Universe – Complete
Priestess – Complete
Lust – In progress
Tower – Complete
Magus – In Progress
While Grace is looking over the other documents strewn about she’s is shot in the back by a small caliber pistol. She turns and sees the lead sexy female goon with a gun in her hand. Grace tries to fight her way out of the room but more sexy lady goons in sexy outfits come in and between that and her injury and her exhaustion she’s overwhelmed by them and dragged away.
