EXT. SCHOOL PLAYGROUND – DAY

A handful of students dropped off at school a little early by their parents play on the swings and jungle gym before the morning bell. ERIC, a chunky bully, bulldozes through a line of girls waiting to use the slide. He stands at the top and laughs at them, blocking their way.

The girls scream and cry and Eric assumes it is because he's won. He doesn't notice the dragon until it's too late.

He turns around and screams just as the dragon swoops down and gobbles him up.

EXT. ENTRANCE – CALVARY CHURCH

Pastor Camp stands by the door, waving people inside.

PASTOR CAMP
Come on! Hurry! Inside the church!

A crowd of three who had been waiting by the bus stop makes a run for Pastor Camp. The dragon soars overhead and prepares to swoop down. Just before his massive jaws clamp down around them, they sneak inside and Pastor Camp shuts the door. The dragon veers away before crashing.

INT. SANCTUARY – CALVARY CHURCH

Jackie and a crowd of people run to one of the larger windows. They see the massive dragon terrorizing the neighborhood outside.

JACKIE
Why won't it leave? What's it want?

GERALD, a tabloid reporter with a camera, pushes Jackie aside to take the dragon's picture.

GERALD
Did anyone see where it came from?

He snaps some pictures as Pastor Camp runs by.

INT. PASTOR'S OFFICE – CALVARY CHURCH

Pastor Camp and a few stragglers run into his office. He picks up the phone. There's no dial tone.

PASTOR CAMP
Hello? Hello?!

He tries dialing, but it doesn't work.

PASTOR CAMP
Check the phones in the other offices.

They run off.

INT. SANCTUARY – CALVARY CHURCH

Rose is seen sitting in a pew towards the middle of the sanctuary. Across the aisle, she sees Ethan, sitting in another pew with baby Rose in the infant carrier next to him. He rocks the carrier gently.

All of a sudden, the Doctor sits up next to Rose. He grabs the back of the pew in front of them to steady himself.

DOCTOR
Whoa.

ROSE
Doctor, are you all right?

His eyes cross. He shakes his head and looks at her.

THE DOCTOR'S POV – We see two of Rose and also of everything else. The room spins. Sounds are somewhat muffled, like listening through a bedsheet.

ROSE
Doctor? Doctor, can you hear me?

DOCTOR
There are two of you. Why are there two of you? Uhh, I'm going to be sick.

Rose panics and looks around. She sees a stack of collection plates in the pew behind them and grabs the one on top. She hands it to the Doctor just in time to catch his purple vomit.

Several people turn at the sound of the Doctor throwing up. Rose tosses them a non-chalant wave.

The Doctor wipes some purple from his chin and hides the collection plate on the ground.

DOCTOR
Oooooooh, that's gonna be more than ten percent.

ROSE
Ugh, that smell. And why is it purple?

DOCTOR
I'm sorry, princess. I didn't realize you vomit unicorn-scented rainbows.

ROSE
What's wrong with you?

DOCTOR
Jury's out on that one, but I'm seeing and hearing double. The world's spinning faster than usual. Where are we?

ROSE
We're inside the church. When the dragon attacked, we all ran in here for cover. The Pastor and my... I mean, Ethan, helped me carry you inside.

DOCTOR
Right, and is your Dad dead yet?

ROSE
No. And you don't have to say it like that.

The Doctor tries to stand.

DOCTOR
All right, then, help me to the window. I need to- whuh-uh oh.

He falls over and lands in between the pews. Rose cringes.

DOCTOR (O.S.)
Had to land on the collection plate.

Pastor Camp walks over carrying some matzo crackers and a Bible under his arm. He and Rose help up the Doctor, carefully avoiding the purple stains on his clothes.

PASTOR CAMP
Here, try some of these. It always helps settle my stomach when I'm a bit off.

Pastor Camp hands the Doctor some matzo cracker pieces. The Doctor eats a bite.

DOCTOR
Thank you.

PASTOR CAMP
Sorry, it's all we had in the kitchen. We use them for communion.

ROSE
Should he really be eating them, then?

PASTOR CAMP
Don't worry. The Catholics believe it's really the body of Christ. We just believe you can get them at the Grand Union for a dollar eighty-nine with a coupon.

ROSE
Oh.

Pastor Camp looks around to see if anyone's watching. He leans in close and lowers his voice so no one nosy can overhear him.

PASTOR CAMP
(to the Doctor)
Are you an angel?

ROSE
Ha!

DOCTOR
Been called many things, my good man, but never that.

PASTOR CAMP
But, you knew about the dragon. You knew it was coming.

The Doctor holds up one of the crackers.

DOCTOR
Hey, these are pretty good when you're eatin' them just to have.

Pastor Camp thumbs through to a bookmarked page in his Bible.

PASTOR CAMP
(reading aloud)
Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

He stops reading.

DOCTOR
Deep stuff, right there.

PASTOR CAMP
Revelation, Chapter 12, verses seven through nine. Is it the end of the world?

DOCTOR
You humans. You're fascinated by 'the end'. Obsessed, really. You drive yourself mad thinking about it. You're born into the world completely oblivious to everything, and when you've finally grown up a bit to the point where you can use your brain to do some good, all you want to know is what happens when you die.

PASTOR CAMP
What's heaven like?

DOCTOR
Crowded, I'd imagine. Now, leave me alone. Tend to your flock, good shepherd. Rose, I need to get to a window.

Rose helps the Doctor to his feet as Pastor Camp wanders off. She carries the Doctor to the nearest window and he leans against the sill. He blinks his eyes several times while trying to look outside.

DOCTOR
Where is it? Where's the car?

PASTOR CAMP
What car?

DOCTOR
It's dreadful. I can see two of everything, but not one of the one thing we need.

ROSE
You're white as a sheet.

DOCTOR
Rose, something's gone terribly wrong, and I think it might, possibly, be somewhere in the general realm of, kind of, totally my fault, a little.

ROSE
No, you warned me about the danger. If I hadn't been so selfish. I begged to come here. If I hadn't wanted so badly to see my Dad, we'd never-

DOCTOR
No, you don't understand, and that's fine. I don't need you to. You remember the car the drunk driver was driving? It's not out there.

ROSE
Of course it isn't. He's got to be long gone by now.

DOCTOR
No, you're not thinking fourth and fifth dimensionally.

He stumbles over from the window and into the closest pew.

ROSE
Here, lay down.

She sits and helps him down, supporting his head with her lap. He's broken out into a cold sweat and she wipes his forehead dry.

ROSE
You're soaked, you poor thing.

DOCTOR
I'm gonna re-shape your brain a little, now. I need you to bend with the crazy and just let it absorb, you follow?

ROSE
No, but that's not unusual.

DOCTOR
Right, okay, so, time is a line and a paradox is what happens when someone changes something that can't be changed without creating a break in that line. So, you go back to save your father, but once you save him, you've got no reason to go back in the future. It's a break. It doesn't work. The way time compensates is by creating an infinite loop at the point of the break, allowing for infinite opportunities to complete the next step and correct the tear, thereby restoring the course of the line. In this case, the break happened when the car missed your Dad.

ROSE
So, the car should be out there.

DOCTOR
Exactly, following your Dad around like he's dragging an anchor. The way he saved everyone the first time was by voluntarily throwing himself in front of the car to seal the rift in spacetime. Everything went back to normal. All the dead came back. No one even knew anything had happened.

ROSE
So, without the car...

DOCTOR
...we can't seal the rift and those people are really dead.

Rose looks across at her father, who continues to rock baby Rose.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET CORNER – DAY

The dragon SKREEs overhead, circling above the church like a vulture. We see Ethan's Tempo, parked across the street. Far in the distance, we also see the car belonging to the drunk driver. It has been pulled over by a police van.

INT. TREVOR'S CAR - DAY

The drunk, TREVOR (26), combs his hair back in his rear view mirror. He sprays several squirts of binaca in his mouth, then hides the spray and comb in the glove box as a male POLICE OFFICER approaches the window. We don't see the officer's face. Both men are apparently completely oblivious to the easily visible dragon in the distance.

TREVOR
(slurring)
Hello, Officer. Is there-is there anything I can help you with?

POLICE OFFICER
Definitely.

The officer takes a billy club from around his belt and uses it to smash Trevor across the face. Trevor slumps over the steering wheel, unconscious.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET – DAY

The police officer drags Trevor's unconscious body out of the car and over to a patch of grass near the sidewalk. We still don't see his face as the officer turns around and pulls out a Turoksa Annihilator (alien gun) and aims it at the car.

A concentrated beam of energy explodes from the weapon and consumes Trevor's car. Every molecule of the car disintegrates, leaving nothing but a few flecks of ash that disperse in the wind.

The officer walks back towards the police van. He passes by the driver's seat door and walks around to the very back. He opens the back doors and climbs in.

INT. SANCTUARY – CALVARY CHURCH

At the front of the church, a group of people that includes Jackie have taken to praying with Pastor Camp.

PASTOR CAMP
Father in Heaven, we, your humble servants, pray to you to deliver us from the evil one. We pray for your peace, the kind only you can provide, during these dark times. And, though we are scared, we are your committed followers and children. We love you, Father. We pray for your forgiveness for our sins. We pray for our friends and loved ones. May this judgment pass over us and find us worthy.

In the infant carrier, next to Ethan, baby Rose makes a fuss. When Jackie hears the baby cry, Jackie gets up and walks over, a stern expression on her face. She picks up the baby and coddles her while berating Ethan.

JACKIE
Can't you even look after her? She doesn't want to be rocked. She wants to be held. She wants a father.

ETHAN
I'm here, I'm talking to her. I'm watching over her. What do you want from me?

Across the aisle, Rose watches as they continue to argue.

ROSE
It's not how I pictured them together.

The Doctor sits up from Rose's lap to have a look. Rose grabs his arm so he doesn't topple right over the other side.

DOCTOR
Him looking like a deer caught in the headlights. Her, the headlights. That's about what I expected.

ROSE
Let's not talk about my mom's headlights.

DOCTOR
I'm just saying...

ROSE
Well, don't. Don't just say. My mother's a tough cookie, I know that. I've lived with her my whole life, and it wasn't easy. I lived ten minutes from St. Joseph's, but I dormed there my senior year to get away from her. I mean, not to get away. I love my mother, but, just to get some space. It's just, she always used to say how she had to get tough when he died, because she didn't have anyone looking out for her. He was the tough one when he was alive, but nice, to her. He took all her problems on his shoulders and made them seem like nothing, because the only thing important to him was her. Is that what that looks like to you?

The Doctor watches Jackie storm away from Ethan with the baby in her arms.

DOCTOR
This is just one moment, and thanks to that nut farmer Pastor, they think it's the end of the bloody world. People always go bonkers at the end. You can't judge him, and their entire relationship, by the end. Go over there. Talk to him.

ROSE
He's still drunk.

DOCTOR
You came here to get to know your father and all you've managed is to judge him. Go on. I need time to figure out our next move, anyway. Go meet your Dad.

The Doctor offers her a reassuring smile. When that doesn't work, he pushes her.

DOCTOR
I'll throw up on you. I'll do it.

ROSE
All right, all right, I'm going.

Before walking over, she looks around. She sees some of the matzo crackers Pastor Camp previously offered to the Doctor. She grabs them and walks them over. She offers Ethan one as an icebreaker.

ROSE
Cracker?

ETHAN
What? Oh, um, sure. Why not?

He takes a cracker. She sits down next to him.

ETHAN
Your boyfriend over there looks pretty sick. Got a bit of the flu?

Rose looks over her shoulder just as the Doctor dry heaves over a second collection plate.

ROSE
He's a bit dizzy, that's all. He hit his head on your car. He'll be fine.

ETHAN
Ah, that's good.

ROSE
My name's Rose... mary. Rosemary.

ETHAN
That's like my daughter's name. I'm Ethan, Ethan Taylor. Hers is just Rose, though. Like the flower, not the herb, or the Clooney.

He laughs.

ROSE
You know George Clooney?

ETHAN
Who's George Clooney?

ROSE
Nevermind.

Awkward silence.

ETHAN
I'm not a cheat.

ROSE
What?

ETHAN
Before, in the street, you accused me of being a cheat. I may be a drunk, but I'm not a cheat.

ROSE
So, where were you last night?

ETHAN
You really want to know?

ROSE
Yeah, I really do.

ETHAN
I was home.

ROSE
But Jackie said...

ETHAN
Across the street. In my car. I got home around ten and just parked there. I had some Jack on me. I just... couldn't go inside, ya know?

ROSE
No, I don't know. Explain it to me.

ETHAN
I didn't want her to see me like that. That's why I tried to skip out, before. When I overheard Pastor Camp tell you he'd called Jackie, I... I can't believe I'm telling you this. I don't even know you. You just seem kind of...

He examines her face.

ETHAN
Do I know you from somewhere?

She shakes her head no.

ETHAN
Oh. Well, anyway, I'm not a cheat. I wanted you to know that the man whose life you saved isn't a cheat.

ROSE
Okay. You're not a cheat. So, what kind of man are you? What kind of man gets drunk and sleeps in his car rather than going inside and taking care of his family?

ETHAN
The dead kind.

ROSE
What?

ETHAN
I'm dying, Rosemary. I have liver cancer.

A woman screams. Rose and Ethan look up.

The Doctor looks skyward.

DOCTOR
Well, that's not good.

The church ceiling is peeled back like a layer of onion. Debris crashes down, smashing several of the pews and the cross hanging above the altar. The dragon sticks its head inside the hole its just ripped open and SKREEs!

-To be Continued...-