Liz Sherman’s Appearances in the Hellboy Script - Scene One

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Liz Sherman’s Appearances in the Hellboy Script.
First Scene

(Here is the first in a series of cuts from the Hellboy script. These are to serve as a reference for me and for anyone interested in how Del Toro originally wrote Liz. Again, Movie!Liz and Comic!Liz very greatly, so I used personal digression to make up her unique character traits.)

INT. BELLAMIE MENTAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT
DOCTOR MARSH, a female psychiatrist, moves down a line patients, distributing pills. Behind her, a lithe young woman in a patient's gown carries the medicine tray. This is LIZ SHERMAN, age 26, her pale skin contrasting with her raven-black hair and piercing dark eyes. A scar mars her forehead. Three thick rubber bands circle her wrist. Near a window, a Down's Syndrome PATIENT senses something.

DOWN'S PATIENT: (pointing) There's a big red guy down there!
DOCTOR MARSH: (readying more pills) That's fine, darling, Santa's not there for another month.
DOWN'S PATIENT: Not Santa. Big and red. With gold eyes. And he has beer!

Hearing this, Liz stops. She closes her eyes, tugs at one of the rubber bands on her wrist and lets it snap against her skin. She winces and peers out the window. The garden below seems empty.

EXT. BELLAMIE MENTAL HOSPITAL - GARDEN AREA - NIGHT

Liz steps out a side door into the hospital garden. Hanging from her neck: an old POLAROID CAMERA. She follows a trail of blood to a large, thorny bush. As she circles it...

LIZ: Back so soon?

Visible in the branches, a leg and part of Hellboy's overcoat. His tail emerges, dangling the six-pack.

HELLBOY: Uh, I brought beer.

Liz shoots a Polaroid.

LIZ: To wash down my lithium pills? (beat) I may get a few perks, H.B. But I'm still a patient.

Shyly, he climbs out from the bush. She sees the bloody arm.

LIZ: You better have that looked at.
HELLBOY: Just a scratch. (shrug) I wanted to see you.

Liz sighs.
EXT. BELLAMIE MENTAL HOSPITAL - GARDEN AREA- NIGHT
Hellboy's sitting on a bench, next to Liz.

HELLBOY: We miss you at the Bureau. Abe's crazier every day. And Father's still mad at me --(Liz smiles) Come back, Liz. Come back. I --
LIZ: No. Not this time, H.B. It's been months since I've had an episode. And you know what? I'm learning to control it.

Around her right hand a faint BLUE AURA of fire blooms, crawling over her fingers like a velvet haze. She stares at the pale flame.

LIZ: I'm learning where it comes from. (beat) And for once in my life I'm not afraid.

She clenches her fist and puts the flame out.

LIZ: Looks like your ride is here.

The garbage truck and the two black sedan cars have pulled into the hospital grounds. A dozen agents climb out of the vehicles.

HELLBOY: The Nanny Squad.

ANGLE - THE CARS - CONTINUOUS

Clay starts towards Hellboy, but Myers stops him and turns to Broom

MYERS: Sir, may I go first??
CLAY:(to Broom) Not so fast. He barely knows him --
BROOM: (cuts him off) Then he should make it his business to change that.

ANGLE - THE BENCH - CONTINUOUS

Liz stands up, puts her hand on his shoulder.

LIZ: Listen, H.B. I've got a chance out here. If you truly care about me, don't come back anymore.

Hellboy smiles sadly. She walks away.

HELLBOY: Goodnight, then.
LIZ: Goodnight.

She doesn't turn back.

HELLBOY: Yeah, I gotta go, too. Lots to do –

Feeling light-headed, he stands up. On the bench and at his feet, a pool of his own blood. He sees Myers tentatively approaching.

HELLBOY: What took you so long?
MYERS: C'mon, time to go home. Tape you up.
HELLBOY: What are you, a Boy Scout?
MYERS: No. I never was.
HELLBOY: (weak) Could've fooled me. Go away.

Hellboy drops to his knees. Clay, Quarry and Moss reach him. Help him up.

CLAY: C'mon, champ. You look a little woozy there.
HELLBOY: This -- ? This is nothing. You know what'll kill me? (points at the doorway) Her.

Liz stands at the hospital door and sees Hellboy keel over. A few of the agents help him to the vehicles. Myers looks back at Liz. They hold each other’s gaze, their unfamiliar faces filled with curiosity. Eventually, she goes inside.