[Movie Script]Blade

                                BLADE

                                -----


by



                            David S. Goyer
Darkness, BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMS. Presentation credits roll as we

	FADE UP ON:



	INT. HOSPITAL, INNER-CITY TRAUMA WARD - NIGHT



It's 1967, the Summer of Love and --
BOOM! Entry doors swing open as PARAMEDICS wheel in a FEMALE BLEEDER,

VANESSA (20s, black, nine months pregnant). She's deathly pale,

spewing founts of blood from a savagely slashed throat --
A SHOCK-TRAUMA TEAM swarms over her, inserting a vacutainer into an

artery to draw blood, wrapping a blood pressure cuff around her

arm --
				NURSE #1

			(with stethoscope)

She's not breathing!
				SENIOR RESIDENT

		Intubate her!
The RESPIRATORY THERAPIST feeds an endotracheal tube down the woman's

ruined throat, attaches that to an Amblu bag --
				RESIDENT


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