Special thanks to Michael Sacal a.k.a Man of the Atom (MOTA) for transcribing this! Thanks to OCR software!
Special Thanks to R. Burgoyne for scans of the art!
Unpublished Script
FATALE #0
"Who is Like Unto the Beast"
Pages 18 ,19, & 20
Page 18

Panel 1 1/9 page

Shot includes door and couch. She's not moving at all, though someone's pounding on the door.

SFX: Blam blam blam

Panel 2 1/9 page

Booted foot kicks in door. From same angle, closer on door.

Panel 3 1/9 page

Shoot from the ground up towards Fitz, who has stepped into the door, angled to include her bloody limp hand, dangling off the couch, i.e. close up hand foreground and Fitz medium shot. Include the diary, foreground.

Fitz: Donna!

Panel 4 2/9 page

Medium shot. Fitz kneeling beside her. Closed diary/thick spiral notebook, with loose papers tucked into it, and pen should be on the floor underneath the hand. The diary cover has "My Diary" and "Donna" in girlish script (or balloony lettering)

Fitz: Donna! Donna! Oh, my God!

Donna [small]: Mister Fitzgerald?

Panel 5 1/9 page

Two shot (see layout).

Fitz: I got here as soon as I could -

Donna [small]: ...won't stop bleeding…

Panel 6 1/9 page

Donna is trying to look at Fitz, trying to smile a little.

Fitz: Gotta get you to a doctor -- I know one I can trust, but it's far...

Donna [small]: 'S a girl! Isn't she beautiful? Her name is Desiree.

Panel 7 1/9 page

Donna is looking at the baby.

Donna: Take care of my baby.

Panel29* 1/9 page

Close on Donna as her head slumps back.



Page 19

Panel 1 2/9 page

Overhead shot, she's lying in blood as Fitz holds her, his head buried in her shoulder, Diary on the floor.

Panel 2 1/9 page

Fitz has gotten up and is holding the baby, he is looking down and sees the diary.

Panel 3 1/9 page

Match his entry shot. Hand visible, but no diary. Fitz walking out the door with the baby (and diary).

Panel 4 2/9 page

Long medium shot of house and environs. Fitz is 15-20 yards from house, but heading into the woods, uphill. He's looking up, as if trying to spot helicopters.

Panel 5 1/6 page

Medium shot. Shoot from behind Fitz, coming down through woods. In the near distance we see a nondescript car, with Fitz' driver, Duke, standing outside, smoking a cigarette, noticing Fitz' arrival. He's thirty-ish, big, strong, muscular, former Green Beret. The road is a gravel road.

Panel 6 1/6 page

Close medium shot. Fitz' is handing the diary and the baby over to the driver. Duke is looking holding the baby as if it's an alien thing.

Fitz: Change of plans, Duke.

Duke: Where's the girl, chief?


Page 20

Panel 1 1/9 page

Close up of Fitz's face, looking down slightly, dreadfully sorrowful.

Fitz: Dead.

Panel 2 1/9 page

Fitz looks up at Duke, all business now.

Fitz: Take care of the baby. Get out of here now.

Duke: Hey, where you going?

Panel 3 1/9 page

Fitz looks grim. Duke looks concerned for him.

Fitz: Back to burn the body.

Duke: I'll come with you!

Panel 4 1/6 page

Fitz has turned and started to walk away. Focus on Duke, who doesn't look happy about being left alone with the kid.

Fitz: No! Get the baby out of here! I'll see you at the Missouri safe house!

Panel 5 1/6 page

Fitz heads back into the woods.

Panel 6 2/9 page

Larger sized shot. Foreground, Fitz at the gas stove with a rolled up magazine, lighting it. In the background, we can see the couch with Donna's body on it, with a lot of magazines ripped up and fanned open around the couch.

Panel 7 1/9 page

Bust shot of him, holding the torch, cocking up his head, hearing approaching helicopters.

SFX: whupwhupwhupwhupwhupwhup


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*Likely typo from the original Broadway Comics Web site.