*Note: I know I originally wrote the "rules" scene with the famous Dharke explaining them, but since it applies more to Sparky's lovely story 'Things We've Learned from Scary Movies,' I changed it to her. Dharke, I noticed you haven't reviewed it yet. You should. Heheh. Aren't I pushy? Remind you of someone?
And thanks Kylah for reviewing! I know we didn't buy the marshmallow spread at Wal Mart (but we didn't buy it at Giant Tiger, we bought it at Loebs!) But all that was important was that we shared it! And got chocolate sauce on ourselves. But what the fuck is with matlock? I mean I know who he is, but why Matlock? Oh, you mean Maaaaaatlooooock!
This ch. also includes a subtle hint for Lindsay to give me back my Lillix CD.
PART 4
INT. CLEAR'S HOUSE - DEN - NIGHT
Clear, Rachel, Kylah, Jackie, and Bree sit around the TV boredly. Tina ENTERS with several DVD cases in her hands.
TINA: We've got five choices: Idle Hands, Varsity Blues, American Pie, Disturbing Behavior, and Candyman.
KYLAH: Candy! Candy!
CLEAR: Varsity Blues. That whipped-cream scene kinda turns me on.
Rachel SHUDDERS.
JACKIE: I always found that albino guy in Disturbing Behavior kinda hot.
They look at her with cocked eyebrows. Hehe. Cocked.
BREE: I say American Pie. Chris Klein, man!
RACHEL: Oh, yeah, you little dyke, and you get to see Shannon Elizabeth's tits.
Suddenly, Alex BURSTS IN. He looks stressed with that mouth-hanging-two-inches-open look of his.
ALEX: Clear! What would you say if I were to tell you that Ms. Lewton is next?
CLEAR: I would say 'come again?' and then I would laugh because I said 'cum.'
ALEX: Ms. Lewton's next.
CLEAR: Come again? (beat) Meheheheheheh.
Alex pulls out a piece of paper.
ALEX: Look at this!
CLEAR(reads from list): Two zuccinis, boneless chicken breasts, one large pack of Playtex tampons...
ALEX(Snatches the list back): Woops, that's my grocery list. (pulls out new paper) It's the path of the explosion. Look at the order. First Tod - He had his bathroom hideously redecorated.
Rachel giggles nervously.
ALEX: Then Terry - she was hit by a bus! Then Kylah, she was almost crushed by a piano. Next is Ms. Lewton!
CLEAR: But do we really care?
ALEX: Yes! My regular Saturday night ritual consists of me feeling myself with her yearbook picture. My favourite English teacher is going to meet her bloody end!
CLEAR: You're being rediculous. The plane crash and the bus, and the piano thing, they were all just horrible accidents! Nothing bad like that happens in Mount Aberham!
Around the corner, a few official-looking young men in gas masks walk around the corner.
MAN 1: Hey, Clear. Just doin' the manditory weekly Anthrax inspection.
CLEAR: Hey, Dennis. Get yourself a beer while you're at it.
ALEX: I know Mount Aberham is a safe place...
(meanwhile, in the bg, which is set to grab attention, a killer in a 'Scream' mask comes and grabs the gas mask guy. He stabs him a few times but no one notices.)
ALEX: But I'm not talking about a serial killer here.
(The 'killer' then slits the second guy's throat.)
ALEX: This is an unstopable force. This is death itself. And he doesn't fuck around.
(The 'killer' takes the beer, drinks it, and drags the bodies away.)
ALEX: At least come see Terry's body with me. It's super freaky!
TINA: Can I come?
ALEX: No.
CUT TO: INT. MORGUE - NIGHT
Terry's corpse lies on the table. The lumps under the sheet indicat that she's pretty damn mangled, but her face looks relatively fine. However we can only see from a distance.
Alex and Clear enter.
ALEX: That's her.
CLEAR: But why did they make her up like Michael Jackson?
FOCUS on Terry's face, which we can now fully see. She is wearing a lot of stage makeup and is missing her nose.
BOING! Terry's head BOUNCES off the table and back down. Alex and Clear jump. BLUDWORTH enters from that cave-like corridore.
BLUDWORTH: You'll wake the dead.
ALEX: Get the fuck out of here, old man. I was about to score.
CLEAR: Oh, you were not. Uh, why did her head do that? Was it a cadaveric spasm?
Bludworth leans his ear into the room.
BLUDWORTH: Someone's under that sheet!
He SWEEPS the sheet off, reveal Tod, horny, desperate, thankfully clothed lying on top of Terry's body.
BLUDWORTH: Out.
TOD: Oh, c'mon! I was almost there!
ALEX: Leave.
Tod exits.
BLUDWORTH: I suppose I've been brought in to be the 'old man at the edge of the forrest' type character. Give you advice. Make you go crazy.
ALEX: Actually I just came here because this is the closest I've ever gotten to Terry Chaney without her macing me.
BLUDWORTH: Oh... well then, let's get stoned!
CUT TO: INT. MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
Ms. Lewton sits on the couch binging on Ben and Jerry's. A friend comes around the couch from the back, also carrying a bowl.
MS LEWTON: Thanks. I really could use this. (She eats a spoonefull) I've been living in fear of Alex Browning for nearly two months now. The kid is like a walking urban legend.
FRIEND: Yeah, you know, I heard a great urban legend a few days ago.
Ms. Lewton GROANS and we can tell she is not the believer type. Oh well. The unbeleivers always die horrible horrible deaths.
FRIEND: It's about this video tape with all these scary nightmarish images, and after you watch it, you get this phone call, and it says 'You will die in seven days.' Then seven days later to the minute, you die.
Ms. Lewton's eyes WIDEN. She doesn't like the sound of that.
FRIEND: What?
MS LEWTON: I watched that last week.
FRIEND: No way. You're just fucking with me.
MS LEWTON: No, seriously. I was in the mountains fucking with Glen and we found this video... and we watched it together and got the phone call.
FRIEND: Oh, my god! When was this?
MS LESTON: ...............seven days ago.
FRIEND: Yeah right.
CUT BACK TO MORGUE
Alex smokes a joint. His eyes glaze over. Clear pours alcohol down a bong and Bludworth guzzles it.
BLUDWOTH: Yeaaaaaaaahhhh!
ALEX: This is good shit!
CUT BACK TO MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE
Ms. Lewton pours her tea. The mug cracks and tea begins gushing out unrealistically like a waterfall. She doesn't notice and putters around her hallway.
CUT BACK TO MORGUE
Clear and Bludworth dance suggestively to 'Lets Get It On.' Alex drunkily/stondily twirls Terry's hair.
BACK TO MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE
Ms. Lewton sips from her mug. She hears an odd humming noice. She turns around to her kitchen where there are puddles of water on the floor. She inches toward the open area and sees the tv screen, which is doing the fuzzy thing.
She suddenly turns around, and opens her mouth as if to SCREAM, but the screen goes an eery glowing white and we are back at
THE MORGUE
The three stoners lie on the floor recovering. Clear holds spoons under her eyes.
Agent Schreck and Weine suddenly COME THROUGH THE DOORS, making a loud banging sound. They wheel in a guerny with a bodybag.
SCHRECK: Mr. Bludworth--oh, Bill! What are you doing on the floor?
BLUDWORTH(Stands up): You're always trying to control me! You don't give a shit about what I want! I hate you! I wish you were dead!
He turns and runs like a crying teenager out of the room.
ALEX: What the hell is in the bodybag?
WIENE: In here?(He slowly unzips it)It's a CLOWN!!!
He pulls the corpse up to reveal a dead clown.
WEINE: And no wonder he died, his lunchs were filled with(He rips open his stomach)CANDY!
He showers the teenagers in candies.
WEINE: Heheheh. That always gets the kids. Hey, Schreck, bring in the real body.
He tosses the clown aside. He makes way as the second guerny slides in, the corpse covered by a sheet. He slowly peels back the sheet to reveal...
MS. LEWTON, a pale grey colour, all the fat drained from her skin, her hair blackened and mostly fallen out, her mouth on the side of her face in a screaming expression.
WEINE: Another 'The Ring' style death. Eh, for fun, put it under suicide.
Schreck checks something off on his notes. Cut back to
THE AGENTS' POV - CLEAR stands alone... Alex is nowhere to be found.
CUT TO: EXT. MOUNT ABERHAM HIGH - COURTYARD
Clear and the authors stand around waiting. Billy rides his bike into the scene.
BILLY: How do you like that? I rode all the way here without Carter attempting to run me over!
Suddenly Carter's car comes RACING into the scene, and nearly runs Billy down.
BILLY: Carter, you dick!
Carter makes his fashionable entrance.
CLEAR: Now we just have to wait for Tod.
CUT TO: UNKNOWN POV - SKY - Tod comes fluttering down towards the ground with a parachute. He lands softly.
TOD: Don't ask questions, you won't get answers anyway.
Everyone looks puzzled.
RACHEL: Uh... okay.
CARTER: Why the fuck are we here?
CLEAR: We need to find Alex. And I need to put your lives in danger as well.
CARTER: Why do we have to find that asswipe?
CLEAR: Because he knows which one of us is next!
BREE,RACHEL,JACKIE,and TINA(Kylah has only seen FD2): WE DO TOO!
CLEAR: But Alex has more of that autistic child charm.
RACHEL: Clear, I would like to take this opportunity to slit your throat with a broken Lillix CD, but a, Bree lent her Lillix CD to Lindsay, and b, I think we need to take charge of something here.
TOD: You mean the fact that accidents are happening everywhere?
TINA: They're not accidents. They're sent by death.
JACKIE: It's more than that. We are in a late-nineties-horror/supernatural-genre situation. There are certain rules we have to follow.
RAHCLE: Oh, great, here we go!
'La Grange' by ZZTop starts to play very softly in the background.
JACKIE: Number one, only believe the visionary five seconds before you die. Number two, you must own a fancy cell phone and wear kahkis. Number three, if you do not own a fancy cell phone or wear kahkis, you are poor.
Billy looks at his baggy jean shorts and his hideous sweater and groans.
JACKIE: Number four, the annoying skinny guy must always exhaggerate the first death.
TOD: OH MY GOD! BILLY LEWIS' MOTHER KILLED GEORGE!!
The music is getting progressively louder.
JACKIE: Number five, beautiful people are rediculously unintelligent. Number six, The Hot Jock gets over the death of his girlfriend amazingly fast.
CUT TO: RACHEL'S POV-CARTER is being cuddled by two hookers.
CARTER: Got that right!
TINA: Pay attention, Carter!
JACKIE: Number seven, if you are potrayed by a lesser known actor or actress, you're a shoe in for a good ol' axe in the head.
Tina points a sign at Billy that says 'Dead Man.' She suddenly gets an 'I remember' look on her face and points a second sign under her first - 'And he dies again in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!'
JACKIE: Number eight, the movie is not funny unless you bring in a minority character or drug content.
CLEAR: But we didn't.
JACKIE: Thank you, Captain Obvious. Rachel and Tina are from Europe! They've got crazy accents for comic relief. Number nine, there will always be a grossly rushed sex scene with the male and female leads who just met days ago. Fortunately, this one will be cut.
BILLY: You mean Alex has to have sex with ol' Beaver Teeth? Ewww!
JACKIE: Number ten, all supporting characters must be stale, shallow, and most importantly, repetetive.
CARTER: I control when I die!
BILLY: Carter, you dick!
TOD: I'm never gonna get laid.
JACKIE: And finally, number 101, exhaggerate everything to make yourself appear more intelligent.
CARTER: Damn straight, I do it all the time!
The music stops.
BREE: Aww, man, I was just getting into it!
RACHEL: We've got to do something. No one ever got around by sitting on their behinds!
BREE: I've got an idea! Let's all go find Alex and walk through the dark scary woods!
TINA: No way! Not in these heels!
RACHEL: I'll drive!
EVERYONE: Fuck no!
CARTER: I'm not letting you all in my car! Unless you guys want to have to sit on each other! And I'll have to wrap the seats in bubble paper 'cause I don't want you markin' up the appoulstry.
JACKIE: Oh boy! Bubble paper!
BREE: Can I sit on Billy's lap?
Billy is incredibly freaked out.
CARTER: Uh... sure.
CUT TO: INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT
Carter is driving. Clear rides shotgun. Rachel, Billy, and Tod ride in the back seat with Tina, Jackie, and Bree are squashed in awkwardly.
JACKIE: Shouldn't we let Kylah out of the trunk?
They hear a thump in the back.
RACHEL: Listen to her in there. She's having the time of her life.
KYLAH: (o.s.) Oxegyn running out...
And thanks Kylah for reviewing! I know we didn't buy the marshmallow spread at Wal Mart (but we didn't buy it at Giant Tiger, we bought it at Loebs!) But all that was important was that we shared it! And got chocolate sauce on ourselves. But what the fuck is with matlock? I mean I know who he is, but why Matlock? Oh, you mean Maaaaaatlooooock!
This ch. also includes a subtle hint for Lindsay to give me back my Lillix CD.
PART 4
INT. CLEAR'S HOUSE - DEN - NIGHT
Clear, Rachel, Kylah, Jackie, and Bree sit around the TV boredly. Tina ENTERS with several DVD cases in her hands.
TINA: We've got five choices: Idle Hands, Varsity Blues, American Pie, Disturbing Behavior, and Candyman.
KYLAH: Candy! Candy!
CLEAR: Varsity Blues. That whipped-cream scene kinda turns me on.
Rachel SHUDDERS.
JACKIE: I always found that albino guy in Disturbing Behavior kinda hot.
They look at her with cocked eyebrows. Hehe. Cocked.
BREE: I say American Pie. Chris Klein, man!
RACHEL: Oh, yeah, you little dyke, and you get to see Shannon Elizabeth's tits.
Suddenly, Alex BURSTS IN. He looks stressed with that mouth-hanging-two-inches-open look of his.
ALEX: Clear! What would you say if I were to tell you that Ms. Lewton is next?
CLEAR: I would say 'come again?' and then I would laugh because I said 'cum.'
ALEX: Ms. Lewton's next.
CLEAR: Come again? (beat) Meheheheheheh.
Alex pulls out a piece of paper.
ALEX: Look at this!
CLEAR(reads from list): Two zuccinis, boneless chicken breasts, one large pack of Playtex tampons...
ALEX(Snatches the list back): Woops, that's my grocery list. (pulls out new paper) It's the path of the explosion. Look at the order. First Tod - He had his bathroom hideously redecorated.
Rachel giggles nervously.
ALEX: Then Terry - she was hit by a bus! Then Kylah, she was almost crushed by a piano. Next is Ms. Lewton!
CLEAR: But do we really care?
ALEX: Yes! My regular Saturday night ritual consists of me feeling myself with her yearbook picture. My favourite English teacher is going to meet her bloody end!
CLEAR: You're being rediculous. The plane crash and the bus, and the piano thing, they were all just horrible accidents! Nothing bad like that happens in Mount Aberham!
Around the corner, a few official-looking young men in gas masks walk around the corner.
MAN 1: Hey, Clear. Just doin' the manditory weekly Anthrax inspection.
CLEAR: Hey, Dennis. Get yourself a beer while you're at it.
ALEX: I know Mount Aberham is a safe place...
(meanwhile, in the bg, which is set to grab attention, a killer in a 'Scream' mask comes and grabs the gas mask guy. He stabs him a few times but no one notices.)
ALEX: But I'm not talking about a serial killer here.
(The 'killer' then slits the second guy's throat.)
ALEX: This is an unstopable force. This is death itself. And he doesn't fuck around.
(The 'killer' takes the beer, drinks it, and drags the bodies away.)
ALEX: At least come see Terry's body with me. It's super freaky!
TINA: Can I come?
ALEX: No.
CUT TO: INT. MORGUE - NIGHT
Terry's corpse lies on the table. The lumps under the sheet indicat that she's pretty damn mangled, but her face looks relatively fine. However we can only see from a distance.
Alex and Clear enter.
ALEX: That's her.
CLEAR: But why did they make her up like Michael Jackson?
FOCUS on Terry's face, which we can now fully see. She is wearing a lot of stage makeup and is missing her nose.
BOING! Terry's head BOUNCES off the table and back down. Alex and Clear jump. BLUDWORTH enters from that cave-like corridore.
BLUDWORTH: You'll wake the dead.
ALEX: Get the fuck out of here, old man. I was about to score.
CLEAR: Oh, you were not. Uh, why did her head do that? Was it a cadaveric spasm?
Bludworth leans his ear into the room.
BLUDWORTH: Someone's under that sheet!
He SWEEPS the sheet off, reveal Tod, horny, desperate, thankfully clothed lying on top of Terry's body.
BLUDWORTH: Out.
TOD: Oh, c'mon! I was almost there!
ALEX: Leave.
Tod exits.
BLUDWORTH: I suppose I've been brought in to be the 'old man at the edge of the forrest' type character. Give you advice. Make you go crazy.
ALEX: Actually I just came here because this is the closest I've ever gotten to Terry Chaney without her macing me.
BLUDWORTH: Oh... well then, let's get stoned!
CUT TO: INT. MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
Ms. Lewton sits on the couch binging on Ben and Jerry's. A friend comes around the couch from the back, also carrying a bowl.
MS LEWTON: Thanks. I really could use this. (She eats a spoonefull) I've been living in fear of Alex Browning for nearly two months now. The kid is like a walking urban legend.
FRIEND: Yeah, you know, I heard a great urban legend a few days ago.
Ms. Lewton GROANS and we can tell she is not the believer type. Oh well. The unbeleivers always die horrible horrible deaths.
FRIEND: It's about this video tape with all these scary nightmarish images, and after you watch it, you get this phone call, and it says 'You will die in seven days.' Then seven days later to the minute, you die.
Ms. Lewton's eyes WIDEN. She doesn't like the sound of that.
FRIEND: What?
MS LEWTON: I watched that last week.
FRIEND: No way. You're just fucking with me.
MS LEWTON: No, seriously. I was in the mountains fucking with Glen and we found this video... and we watched it together and got the phone call.
FRIEND: Oh, my god! When was this?
MS LESTON: ...............seven days ago.
FRIEND: Yeah right.
CUT BACK TO MORGUE
Alex smokes a joint. His eyes glaze over. Clear pours alcohol down a bong and Bludworth guzzles it.
BLUDWOTH: Yeaaaaaaaahhhh!
ALEX: This is good shit!
CUT BACK TO MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE
Ms. Lewton pours her tea. The mug cracks and tea begins gushing out unrealistically like a waterfall. She doesn't notice and putters around her hallway.
CUT BACK TO MORGUE
Clear and Bludworth dance suggestively to 'Lets Get It On.' Alex drunkily/stondily twirls Terry's hair.
BACK TO MS. LEWTON'S HOUSE
Ms. Lewton sips from her mug. She hears an odd humming noice. She turns around to her kitchen where there are puddles of water on the floor. She inches toward the open area and sees the tv screen, which is doing the fuzzy thing.
She suddenly turns around, and opens her mouth as if to SCREAM, but the screen goes an eery glowing white and we are back at
THE MORGUE
The three stoners lie on the floor recovering. Clear holds spoons under her eyes.
Agent Schreck and Weine suddenly COME THROUGH THE DOORS, making a loud banging sound. They wheel in a guerny with a bodybag.
SCHRECK: Mr. Bludworth--oh, Bill! What are you doing on the floor?
BLUDWORTH(Stands up): You're always trying to control me! You don't give a shit about what I want! I hate you! I wish you were dead!
He turns and runs like a crying teenager out of the room.
ALEX: What the hell is in the bodybag?
WIENE: In here?(He slowly unzips it)It's a CLOWN!!!
He pulls the corpse up to reveal a dead clown.
WEINE: And no wonder he died, his lunchs were filled with(He rips open his stomach)CANDY!
He showers the teenagers in candies.
WEINE: Heheheh. That always gets the kids. Hey, Schreck, bring in the real body.
He tosses the clown aside. He makes way as the second guerny slides in, the corpse covered by a sheet. He slowly peels back the sheet to reveal...
MS. LEWTON, a pale grey colour, all the fat drained from her skin, her hair blackened and mostly fallen out, her mouth on the side of her face in a screaming expression.
WEINE: Another 'The Ring' style death. Eh, for fun, put it under suicide.
Schreck checks something off on his notes. Cut back to
THE AGENTS' POV - CLEAR stands alone... Alex is nowhere to be found.
CUT TO: EXT. MOUNT ABERHAM HIGH - COURTYARD
Clear and the authors stand around waiting. Billy rides his bike into the scene.
BILLY: How do you like that? I rode all the way here without Carter attempting to run me over!
Suddenly Carter's car comes RACING into the scene, and nearly runs Billy down.
BILLY: Carter, you dick!
Carter makes his fashionable entrance.
CLEAR: Now we just have to wait for Tod.
CUT TO: UNKNOWN POV - SKY - Tod comes fluttering down towards the ground with a parachute. He lands softly.
TOD: Don't ask questions, you won't get answers anyway.
Everyone looks puzzled.
RACHEL: Uh... okay.
CARTER: Why the fuck are we here?
CLEAR: We need to find Alex. And I need to put your lives in danger as well.
CARTER: Why do we have to find that asswipe?
CLEAR: Because he knows which one of us is next!
BREE,RACHEL,JACKIE,and TINA(Kylah has only seen FD2): WE DO TOO!
CLEAR: But Alex has more of that autistic child charm.
RACHEL: Clear, I would like to take this opportunity to slit your throat with a broken Lillix CD, but a, Bree lent her Lillix CD to Lindsay, and b, I think we need to take charge of something here.
TOD: You mean the fact that accidents are happening everywhere?
TINA: They're not accidents. They're sent by death.
JACKIE: It's more than that. We are in a late-nineties-horror/supernatural-genre situation. There are certain rules we have to follow.
RAHCLE: Oh, great, here we go!
'La Grange' by ZZTop starts to play very softly in the background.
JACKIE: Number one, only believe the visionary five seconds before you die. Number two, you must own a fancy cell phone and wear kahkis. Number three, if you do not own a fancy cell phone or wear kahkis, you are poor.
Billy looks at his baggy jean shorts and his hideous sweater and groans.
JACKIE: Number four, the annoying skinny guy must always exhaggerate the first death.
TOD: OH MY GOD! BILLY LEWIS' MOTHER KILLED GEORGE!!
The music is getting progressively louder.
JACKIE: Number five, beautiful people are rediculously unintelligent. Number six, The Hot Jock gets over the death of his girlfriend amazingly fast.
CUT TO: RACHEL'S POV-CARTER is being cuddled by two hookers.
CARTER: Got that right!
TINA: Pay attention, Carter!
JACKIE: Number seven, if you are potrayed by a lesser known actor or actress, you're a shoe in for a good ol' axe in the head.
Tina points a sign at Billy that says 'Dead Man.' She suddenly gets an 'I remember' look on her face and points a second sign under her first - 'And he dies again in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!'
JACKIE: Number eight, the movie is not funny unless you bring in a minority character or drug content.
CLEAR: But we didn't.
JACKIE: Thank you, Captain Obvious. Rachel and Tina are from Europe! They've got crazy accents for comic relief. Number nine, there will always be a grossly rushed sex scene with the male and female leads who just met days ago. Fortunately, this one will be cut.
BILLY: You mean Alex has to have sex with ol' Beaver Teeth? Ewww!
JACKIE: Number ten, all supporting characters must be stale, shallow, and most importantly, repetetive.
CARTER: I control when I die!
BILLY: Carter, you dick!
TOD: I'm never gonna get laid.
JACKIE: And finally, number 101, exhaggerate everything to make yourself appear more intelligent.
CARTER: Damn straight, I do it all the time!
The music stops.
BREE: Aww, man, I was just getting into it!
RACHEL: We've got to do something. No one ever got around by sitting on their behinds!
BREE: I've got an idea! Let's all go find Alex and walk through the dark scary woods!
TINA: No way! Not in these heels!
RACHEL: I'll drive!
EVERYONE: Fuck no!
CARTER: I'm not letting you all in my car! Unless you guys want to have to sit on each other! And I'll have to wrap the seats in bubble paper 'cause I don't want you markin' up the appoulstry.
JACKIE: Oh boy! Bubble paper!
BREE: Can I sit on Billy's lap?
Billy is incredibly freaked out.
CARTER: Uh... sure.
CUT TO: INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT
Carter is driving. Clear rides shotgun. Rachel, Billy, and Tod ride in the back seat with Tina, Jackie, and Bree are squashed in awkwardly.
JACKIE: Shouldn't we let Kylah out of the trunk?
They hear a thump in the back.
RACHEL: Listen to her in there. She's having the time of her life.
KYLAH: (o.s.) Oxegyn running out...