Shadow Zone: The Undead Express (1996 TV Movie)

Ron Silver: Valentine

Quotes 

• Zach : [Scene changes to Zach walk the street and walks down stairs and slide down the binders and puts a quarter in the slot and runs down moving stairs. A subway exit. Zach walks onto the platform and stops to look at the clock... which is going wild. See clock go wild]  Cool.

  [Looks into tunnel] 

  Valentine : [Enters then shows the clock going wild then Valentine holding a rat before eats it's head off then throws it at Zach then smiles and walks away] 

  [Zach leans more and gets pull out of the way on the on coming subway by a guy] 

  Zach : See that?

  [Points to the dead rat at his feet] 

  Man in Subway : It's a rat, kid.

  Man in Subway : Welcome to the big city.

  [Zach gets on the subway and the scene shows the end of the subway running making it look like it is going backward away from Valentine and the scene changes to the building Zach is staying at and stops onto the top floor of the build and shows his mother making something in the kitchen] 

• Zach : [after going into the subway station and looks at the map, Zach passes the clock that is going wild and see the number six and goes left when a work guy come and pull the number six to swing it back into a number nine] 

  [Sees Dwayne] 

  Zach : Hey.

  Zach : [Dwayne looks up]  I didn't mean to scare you.

  Zach : I'm sorry.

  Zach : Umm.

  Zach : Do you know where the number six line is?

  Zach : Stop down this way?

  Dwayne : Number six?

  Dwayne : Oh!

  Dwayne : The number six!

  Dwayne : Yeah!

  Dwayne : Yeah!

  Dwayne : I could show you.

  Dwayne : I'll be happy to.

  Dwayne : My pleasure.

  Dwayne : It's... this way.

  [Points with thumb over shoulder behind him. Zach backs away slowly] 

  Dwayne : Come with me.

  Zach : You don't have to show me.

  [Frowns] 

  Zach : [Dwayne in turns light and skin falls off to reveals bones and skull and Valentine pulls him out of it] 

  [Valentine Enters with no smile then smiles small] 

  Zach : W - What-w-w-who...

  Valentine : Valentine Cutter at your services, Zach. /or/ Sir

  Zach : [sighs]  W-what happen?

  Valentine : What?

  Zach : W-w-what was he doing?

  Valentine : What do you think he was doing?

  Zach : His face was it a skull.

  Zach : [pauses]  I know you.

• Zach : You through that rat at me.

  Valentine : Sure it was a rat?

  Zach : It was a rat.

  Valentine : You looked at it carefully?

  Zach : Well-no.

  Valentine : Well, it must be something else.

  Zach : It looked like a rat.

  Valentine : Perhaps it was an illusion.

  Valentine : Things are not what they always seem, young man.

  Zach : I get it.

  Zach : You're doing a movie aren't you.

  Zach : Is it a Riftmaker?

  Zach : Great make up and effects.

  Dwayne : No!

  Dwayne : Don't let him go!

  Zach : I won't tell.

  Zach : C'mon.

  Zach : Rottmaker isn't it?

  Zach : Or Is it Clide Parker?

  Valentine : Dwayne wants to apologies for scaring you.

  Valentine : Don't you Dwayne?

  Dwayne : I'm sorry.

  Zach : No.

  Zach : That's okay.

  Zach : And I was just looking for number six line.

• Valentine : I suggest you follow me.

  [Zach follows him] 

  Zach : Gabe and J.T will never believe this.

  Valentine : That's your train I believe.

  Zach : Are you catching this one?

  Valentine : No.

  Valentine : My - uh - My friend and I will wait.

  Zach : Ah.

  Valentine : Bon voyage.

  Zach : Well, thanks anyway - Well.

  [Stares at them till they disappear. Dwayne waves creepily] 

• Zach : [Goes to find a seat and sits on it and sees Valentine]  H-How did you...

  Zach : I saw you back there the platform when...

  Zach : It was ya stud is that it?

  Zach : Is this train heading down town?

  Valentine : I believe so.

  Zach : Does it stop at Canal street?

  Valentine : Not anymore.

  Sims : What did he say?

  Valentine : He asked if this stop at Canal Street?

  [Everybody laughs except Zach and Valentine, who only smiles a little] 

  Zach : What?

  Zach : It goes to Brooklyn?

  [Same results] 

  Zach : What's going on here?

  Zach : Th-is is a movie shoot right?

  Zach : And you got to wear costumes and stuff na...

  Zach : Or you can pick a door...

  Zach : TV show right?

  Valentine : TV show?

  Ronnie : I told you man.

  Ronnie : It's like all junk, ya know.

  Ronnie : Except Gilligands Island.

  Ronnie : That's a trip.

  Valentine : Yes.

  Valentine : It's the little box with pictures.

  Zach : Very funny.

  Zach : This sounds weird but this kinda looks a ghost train with ghost.

  [Sims laughs] 

• Valentine : That's very close.

  Valentine : But not quiet right.

  Valentine : Not dead people.

  Valentine : Not dead at all.

  Zach : Oh good.

  Zach : Glad to hear it.

  Valentine : Undead.

  Zach : What?

  Valentine : Zachary, have you never heard of Nosferatu?

  Zach : Yeah.

  Zach : Yeah.

  Zach : He's in that movie.

  Zach : Black and white.

  Zach : 1920s.

  Zach : [pause]  How'd you know my name?

  Valentine : You'd be amazed at what I know.

  Valentine : And Nosferatu isn't a 'he'.

  Valentine : It's a 'them'.

  Valentine : Vampires.

  Valentine : We are vampires.

  Valentine : Welcome aboard the Undead Express.

  [Everybody laughs except Valentine and Zach] 

  Valentine : [Zach gets up and cuts his hand and every vampire gets up except Valentine] 

  Valentine : [Walks past the group toward Zach while creepy music like dun dun dun dun] 

  [Stamps his steb and fangs out with yellow eyes and hisses at the place] 

  Valentine : He's mine!

  Valentine : [Turns to Zach with normal face]  You need not worry, my friend.

  Valentine : [Hands a handkerchief]  You're under my protection.

  Zach : Why should they listen to you?

• Valentine : Because I am the first.

  Valentine : Without me, they will not know the pleasures of our world.

  Valentine : How'd you get here?

  Valentine : Heh.

  Valentine : How did I get down here?

  Valentine : I was rich.

  Valentine : Once.

  Valentine : These tunnels, this - uh car - I owned it all.

  Zach : The subway?

  Zach : Get out of here.

  Valentine : Get out of where?

  Valentine : Oh that - yes.

  Valentine : I - err...

  Valentine : [Smiles then stops]  No.

  Valentine : I - err - built all this.

  Valentine : Was 1905.

  Valentine : I lived on fifth avenue.

  Valentine : In a lough town house.

• Valentine : [Shows wine being poured into wine glasses staked on top of each other and a cello being played as the quartet is playing and shows Valentine and his family, outside his new subway he build]  I've built railroads all over the world.

  Valentine : So when they proposed an underground railway, here in New York, I was one of the first to support it.

  Valentine : Greatest money.

  Valentine : Invested.

  Valentine : And I became far wealthier than I have ever imagined I would be.

  Valentine : I could provide my wife and my son.

  Valentine : My son, John.

  Valentine : I was the proudest man in New York, Zachary.

  Valentine : And there were many proud men here.

  Valentine : That's the greatest night of my life.

  Valentine : We were going to the opera.

  Valentine : But the Shadow Zone bekened.

  Valentine : His name is Barnabus.

  Valentine : He was more than a thousand years old.

  Valentine : And had walked the world for fifty generations.

  Valentine : Seen so much.

  Valentine : Known so many great bonds.

  Valentine : That evening... that evening was the last time I saw my son.

  Zach : Well, so which one is Barnabus?

  Valentine : He's no more.

  Valentine : He wasn't tent of life you're under the streets.

  Valentine : He saw an escape.

  Valentine : Into the light of day.

  Valentine : I wasn't quick enough to save him and...

  [sigh] 

  Valentine : well... you saw what happened to Dwayne.

  Zach : Yeah... Unfortunately.

• Valentine : Well, you see, Dwayne isn't like long enough for things to be permanent, but there are others that weren't so lucky.

  Zach : You mean, what happened to Dwayne happened to them?

  Valentine : Yep.

  Valentine : Help ease the over crowding.

  Zach : That's one way to put it.

  Valentine : Zachary, they were fools.

  Valentine : Why risk loosing the power in this street?

  Valentine : Tonight?

  Valentine : Blood.

  Valentine : Blood is our food.

  Valentine : Our drink.

  Valentine : And immortality is our prize.

  Valentine : It's a wonderful life.

  Zach : [Looks down to see a rat]  A rat!

  Zach : There's a rat!

  [Valentine's stud cuts him off as the vampires eats it] 

  Pearl : Ladies first!

  Sims : Give me him I'll pay ya twice for two offers.

  Valentine : You need not worry my friend.

  Valentine : I told you, I'll be protecting you.

  Zach : Thanks.

  Zach : Can I... where can I get off at?

  Valentine : This car runs on very old tracks.

  Valentine : No one even remembers it's here.

  Zach : So how do you get fresh in...

  Valentine : Well, people get lost.

• Valentine : That corridor where you met Dwayne.

  Valentine : It's brought to be very fruitful.

  Zach : So they get lost and you...

  Valentine : Me?

  Valentine : No.

  Valentine : No.

  Valentine : I -uh- must prefer rats.

  Valentine : People too er rich.

  Valentine : I'm sort of vampire vegetarian.

  Zach : But uh...

  Valentine : Oh.

  Valentine : Them?

  Valentine : Are they...

  Valentine : They much prefer human blood.

  Zach : Why are you...

  Zach : Why are you...

  Zach : I mean protecting me from them?

  Valentine : I want to get out of here.

  Valentine : They have to know rather it's day and night.

  Valentine : And I can't go unless an innocent leads me out.

  Valentine : And you my friend, going to be that person.

  [STARES and Zach looks at the stud and sees a snake instead then looks up and shakes off] 

  Zach : No.

  Zach : No.

  [Runs off and stops at the end of the car] 

  Sims : Can dame by its own mouth!

  Zach : [Pulls the emergency cord and jumps off the subway train and rolling down then gets up and runs out onto the tracks up the steps to the station then through another room and stops to look at his had when the scene changes to show him down like someone is watching him in the rafters and sees him run out of the room then stop looks both was before going up the steps then brushes off the dust on the wall to reveal TO BEERWALKER STREET and runs out of there]