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INT.BATHROOM- MORNING
Brigitte is removing all of her clothing. Underneath, she is wearing a bloody pair of bra and panties. She looks in the mirror at all of the blood, caked against her face and torso. Depressing music begins to play as she carelessly scratches the dried blood off and it falls to the floor in hunks. The water is running in the bath.
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INT.BATHROOM- MORNING
Brigitte is sitting in the tub, but we can't see anything. She is sitting in a fetal position while washing the blood from her face and hair.
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INT.LIVING ROOM- MORNING
She walks in wrapped in a towel. Gabi has finished fixing half of the hole on the wall. He turns around and glances at Brigitte, smiling.
BRIGITTE
Um, can I borrow a temporary pair of clothes?
GABI
Opo (yes). Sa ang drawer ko na sila (they're in my drawer).
BRIGITTE
Salamat po (thank you).
She bows and turns around through the hallway. Gabi continues to work.
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INT.STORE- MORNING
Brigitte and Gabi are walking through the clothes store, Brigitte dressed in a black shirt and black jeans, all of which are FAR too big for her.
GABI
What will we do after this?
BRIGITTE
I gotta go look for a job. I need a church job.
GABI
Haha. How will you contact the military to get the money for college?
BRIGITTE
I need to send an email to them. They'll then wire the money to me, and I'll be good to go.
GABI
So how long will it take to get out of college?
BRIGITTE
Um... probably about four years.
GABI
Wow. You mean that you need four years for this?
BRIGITTE
Yeah. I seriously hope Ginger hasn't already started the process.
Ginger walks up behind her and grabs the cart from her.
GINGER
Ginger here.
BRIGITTE
Ghost found me.
GINGER
She what?
BRIGITTE
I had to kill her. She's dead, and buried in the back.
GINGER
Nice.
BRIGITTE
Ginger!
GINGER
What? It's not my fault that you've succumbed to the will of the beast.
BRIGITTE
Shut up. Now, onto the biggest matter at hand-
GINGER
-my host?
BRIGITTE
Yeah.
GINGER
Well, I found a homeless girl named ShayShay. She is about twelve years old. Extremely unhappy. Malnourished, beaten, and everything.
BRIGITTE
Well, it should take about four years. How do you think we solve this?
GINGER
Well, since I picked a homeless person, there won't even be an exorcism. But I believe that we would want one, and, well- you know what I mean.
BRIGITTE
What?
GINGER
Come on, haven't you seen The Exorcist? She was a freak!
GABI
What's The Exorcist?
BRIGITTE
Here in the Philippines, there's a movie like it- Sanib.
GABI
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
BRIGITTE
Yeah.
GINGER
So... you have to find someone to do the exorcism on her, but make sure to minimize it as much as you can. You can't let them finish it. Okay?
BRIGITTE
Okay.
GINGER
No, I'm serious. If they exorcise me, I'll be straight to Hell and my spirit won't even be able to visit you anymore.
BRIGITTE
All right. How do we get the little girl?
GINGER
I'll show you to her.
BRIGITTE
Okay. Let me get my clothes first, get dressed, let Gabi finish the house.
GINGER
House?
BRIGITTE
I totally demolished the living room fighting Ghost.
GINGER
Who's my sister?
BRIGITTE
It's not funny. I killed her.
GINGER
That little bitch deserved it!
BRIGITTE
Shut up!
GINGER (sigh)
Whatever.
She walks away, but then pokes her head back into the frame.
GINGER
But you better call back on me when you're ready.
BRIGITTE
Okay!
Ginger scowls and walks back out of frame.
BRIGITTE (to Gabi)
She can be so annoying sometimes.
GABI
I can tell.
BRIGITTE
But one thing is seriously troubling me.
GABI
Ano ba yan (what's that)?
BRIGITTE
I don't think I can bring myself to violate this little girl and have her possessed. It just doesn't seem right.
GABI
Well, vengeful spirits come back as aswang. Or at least, some old women think so.
BRIGITTE
Old women?
GABI
The elders.
BRIGITTE
Oh.
She laughs.
GABI
So superstitious!
BRIGITTE
Sounds like it. But wait- I thought you said that possessed women sound like aswang.
GABI
No, you said that. I just said they are kind of similar. Manananggal/ aswang is a dead spirit that comes back as a ghoul. You better hope that ShayShay doesn't decide to come back!
BRIGITTE
I thought the elders were the ones superstitious!
GABI
You can never be too careful.
Brigitte laughs, but Gabi has a stubbornly dead-serious expression on his face.
BRIGITTE
Haha, sorry about that.
GABI
It's alright. If that girl is taken over, I'm serious- hope she doesn't want her body back, or she can probably possess the body just as well as Ginger can.
BRIGITTE
Don't worry about it, I promise. Makanig sa'akin (listen to me).
She kisses him on the cheek and they walk up to the check-up counter.
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INT.LIVING ROOM- MORNING
Gabi sits on the couch, waiting. Brigitte walks in with another slender, black dress, this one backless and strapless. He smiles.
GABI
Maligayang ka ba (you're beautiful)!
BRIGITTE
Salamat po (thank you). Have you taken your dosage of monkshood today?
GABI
Oops.
He holds out his hand. Brigitte pulls another tiny needle out of her skull necklace and throws it towards him, hitting directly into his vein. He winces, then pulls it out after five seconds.
BRIGITTE
Mabuti yun (that's good).
She walks up to him and takes the needle out of his hand, then throws it in the garbage. She looks outside and smiles.
GABI
What?
BRIGITTE
You and me are related now. You need your very own necklace.
She runs up to the open window and leaps out, landing on a tree limb.
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EXT.TREE LIMB- MORNING
Brigitte grabs a bird nearby and shoves it into her mouth.
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INT.LIVING ROOM- MORNING
Brigitte crawls through and onto the sofa next to Gabi. She spits out a bird skeleton. Gabi laughs.
BRIGITTE
Now, we'll clean it off, put a hole through it, load it with monkshood pins, string it, separate it from the torso... and you'll be good to go.
GABI
Masarap (sounds good).
They kiss again, but before they get very far, Brigitte pulls away.
BRIGITTE
We better finish this living room.
GABI
O-cge.
They stand up and walk over to the hammers, nails, and boards.
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EXT.SIDEWALK- NIGHT
Brigitte and Gabi are walking along the sidewalk, eating ice cream.
BRIGITTE
So, have you grown a tail yet?
GABI
Nope. I have a stub, though. Is that what that is?
BRIGITTE
Yep. I've got one.
GABI
Haha. Should I cut it off?
BRIGITTE
Ginger tried that on-
GINGER (O.S.)
Damn, it's late!
Brigitte rolls her eyes and turns around. Ginger is standing with her hands on her hips.
GINGER
You've been ignoring me lately, how come you didn't call me a few hours ago like I told you to?
BRIGITTE
Sorry. What with the cleaning, fixing, making out, I just haven't had the time the past day or so.
GINGER
Very funny.
BRIGITTE
So, you got the girl?
GINGER
Nope.
BRIGITTE
By the way...
GINGER
Don't whimp out now!
BRIGITTE
What?
GINGER
You don't want that little girl to be possessed, do you? To give up her soul for us?
BRIGITTE
Well...
GINGER
Listen to me. That little girl is not happy. In fact, we'll be doing her a favor.
BRIGITTE
It still just doesn't sound like the right thing to do.
GABI
I agree.
GINGER
Shut up.
BRIGITTE
You shut up!
GINGER
No, you shut the hell up!
They start screaming and pointing at each other.
GABI
Please, please, stop!
They silence and look at him.
GABI
Why don't you just stay the way you are? You've appeared so often that-
GINGER
Oh my God, this is soooooo stupid, with all the rifts in this plan. First I'm supposed to possess Ghost. She "dies". Then she comes back alive, and gets killed. Then I can't have the exorcism, so I've gotta get Bea here to do it herself or find someone who will. Am I some kind of fucking wind-up doll? No! What the hell do you think this is, a game!
GABI
Uh.. well...
GINGER
Well, I'm sick of stupid games. After all that I've been through, I'm not gonna stop at being some gas that takes a form and wanders around when my name is called, I don't do that shit. I was innocent when I was bitten, now the whole world owes me. No more joking around, here! I'm getting into this body, nobody is stopping me, I'm gonna give you the address, and you're gonna go there in two weeks so you can stop the demonization. Understand?
She hands a card to Brigitte, snaps her fingers, and vanishes into black smoke. Brigitte looks at the card.
BRIGITTE
Pangpahalan Drive, right alley.
GABI
Wow, that's not very far from the house!
BRIGITTE
I can't believe this. With all of my bad fucking luck, I wouldn't doubt it if an aswang came to kill us all.
GABI
Don't think that way. That's very silly, and if you think you have bad luck, you have it!
BRIGITTE
I know, but I just can't help thinking that God doesn't want me to be happy. Maybe there is no God. I just don't know, but I know that I want to get this ending soon, and I mean soon!
GABI
It's okay. Once Ginger is here, you will have a full circle.
BRIGITTE
But I feel that something else will go wrong. Something else! A few days ago, things were going so great. Smooth as heck. Until Ghost showed up. And now I'm back in Hell, and the bad luck will, most likely, keep on coming...
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INT.LIVING ROOM- NIGHT
