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Unpublished Script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 23 & 24
(Art by J. G. Jones)
Page 23

Panel 1 2/9 page

Soldiers filling their helmets with water at the kitchen sink.

Panel 2 1/9 page

Same angle as panel 2, page 22, but pull further out. We can see the soldiers throwing the water from their helmets at the fire.

Panel 3 1/3 page

Tableau shot. Flames are out, but smoke is everywhere. Filz is down on the floor, very wounded. Bodies laying around him, other soldiers standing and trying to get up off the floor. Soldiers coughing, near the couch. The commander, wearing a military-style beret, is striding into the room. A soldier is reporting to the commander. Medics are kneeling by Filz' body.

Soldier: She's dead, sir. No sign of the baby.

Commander: What about Fitzgerald?

Medic: Alive...but just barely.

Panel 4 1/6 page

Close up of commander.

Commander: You keep him alive, medic, we're going to want to talk to him later. Get him in the chopper.

Panel 5 1/6 page

More medics and commander around her slightly charred body.

Commander: Let's get her on ice, soldier -- fast!

Medic: We've got a refrigerated truck on the way, sir.

Page 24

Panel 1 vertical 1/3 (spans tiers 1 and 2)

Pull back to outside the house shot. See the refrigerated truck coming up the driveway. Fitz' body being lifted in a basket into a helicopter. A lot of soldiers on litters, wounds being attended to. Chaos around the house. Smoke still rising from the house, but thin and wispy (the helicopters would disperse it).

Panel 2 horizontal 1/9 page

Pull way back to include a hill in the foreground. We can see a road in front of us, coming over the hill, and Duke's white car on it, heading towards us. In the background we can see the helicopters, smoke coming from the house.

Panel 3 horizontal 1/9 page

Shoot from behind Duke, looking in his rear view mirror. In the mirror, we can see the smoke and helicopters.

Duke: Damn, Fitz.

Panel 4 horizontal 1/9 page

Shoot from past the baby, in the front seat, shooting up at Duke.

Duke: I think it might just be you and me now, kid.

Panel 5 2/9 page

Medium shot, straight on the front of a substantially different house than we've seen before. Show enough of it so that this is clear, slightly more posh, with a porch. There is a baby wrapped in a blanket in front of the door on the porch.

Caption: September 20,1972

7:30 AM.

Panel 6 1/9 page

Cropped medium shot. A man has opened the inside door and is looking down in the direction of the baby.

Boyd: Ho-o-lee -- !


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