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Jett paces the altar area while carrying her large cross. We hear movement from the hall. Jett slowly approaches the back door. She holds the cross close in front of her. Collin suddenly collides with her. Both fall to the church floor. Collin slowly picks himself up then helps the dazed Jett.
COLLIN
Are you okay? Am I ever glad to see you.
JETT
What happened?
COLLIN
He got through the second door. I wasn't about to wait for the third.
JETT
What about the others? Rob? Have you seen Max?
COLLIN
Max was with you.
JETT
(softly)
The creature stabbed him in the shoulder. I don't know how badly he was hurt.
I want to find him--
COLLIN
You can't go out there. It's gotten stronger. Are we safe here?
JETT
It wouldn't come inside the room. I think it's not allowed.
(pause)
What about the others?
COLLIN
Rob and Shelly were behind me, then they vanished. I don't think they liked my
chapel idea. Davis and Rita wanted to stay. God only knows what became of them.
(picks up the cross)
That's one big cross to bare.
JETT
(takes the cross from him)
It makes me feel safe.
Collin looks past her then runs to the front of the church. He opens a wooden ???? And exposes the holy water. He looks at her as she approaches.
COLLIN
We can use this. All we need is a container.
Collin walks around the church in search of a container. Collin disappears into a back room. He returns with a bottle of wine. He empties the wine into a large, gold goblet on the altar and approaches the baptismal and fills the bottle with the holy water. Morning. Light shines in through the stained glass window. Jett slowly wakes where she lie on the wooden church pew. She looks around. Collin lie beneath the altar, clinging to the three foot, gold cross. Jett sits up.
JETT
Collin--it's morning.
Collin jerks awake with a soft gasp. He looks around and sits up as well. Jett runs toward the door. Collin runs after her and stops her.
COLLIN
Whoa, whoa--where are you going?
JETT
I have to find Max.
COLLIN
We only assume he can't stand sunlight. What if the myth is wrong?
Jett looks around. We see a staff by the altar with a cross on top of it.
JETT
I'll take that, just in case.
COLLIN
I don't think you should leave.
(pause)
Though I'm dying for something to eat. It's been twenty-four hours since I've eaten.
We should check on the others. Davis and Rita.
Jet nods. She runs to the altar and removes the large staff. Collin stops her. He takes the staff, prompts it over the pew, and steps on it. The stick snaps. The staff is now only three feet with the cross and a jagged, wooden edge.
COLLIN
You daze him with the cross--
(thrusts in the air)
And get him through the heart with the wooden end.
He hands Jett the staff and collects his bottle of holy water.
COLLIN
Let's go.
They cautiously leave the church.
