Page 1
Panel 1
A monster head is plopped onto a counter.
X: “BOOM”
Panel 2
Zoom out to show Xochitl leaning on the monster head and Tammy showing her Hunter I.D. to a stoner looking guy.
T: “She’s very proud of this one”
J: “EF4, nice”
Panel 3
Flip to stoner looking guy, a little plaque reads “Jake”
J: “You want me to put it on the board?”
Panel 4
T: “No,”
X: “There’s a board?”
Panel 5
Jake rolls back on his chair and flips a blackboard around, revealing a scoreboard for a betting ring, there’s a big $500 circled on it.
J: “Still not joining the pool this month, Tammy?”
Page 2
Panel 1
X: “Uh, Yes”
T: “No”
Panel 2
A guy named Sue walks into frame
X: “Why” :(
T: “It’s a dumb game I don’t care about”
S: “Probably for the best”
Panel 3
T: “Thank you”
S: “It would just be unfair, the catch pool is for hunters who can keep up”
Panel 4
T: “And who the fuck are you”
Panel 5
He gives a very dramatic turn-around, and flashes his badge
S: “Blanchard, A-tier. And there’s really no shame, I’m sure you get by well enough, but competitive hunting is just a whole other thing”
Page 3
Panel 1
Not sure how to communicate this in the panel, but he goes to pat her back, but decides against it because she’s exuding violent energy.
S: “One day though”
Panel 2
Xochitl puts her hand on Tammy’s shoulder.
X: “She’s A-tier too, asshole!” >:(
T: “Where is he”
Panel 3
Tammy goes to the counter and leans in aggressively, Jake looks a little startled.
T: “On the board, Where is he?”
J: “Blanchard?”
Panel 4
J: “uh, 3rd, why?”
Panel 5
Tammy slams some money down on the counter
T: “Cause we’re getting at least second”
X: “Really?” :0
Page 4
Panel 1
Jake sits back and opens his book, which is like Ripleys believe it or not, or something like that.
J: “Well good luck doing that in three days”
Panel 2
Jake buries himself further into his book
T: “Oh, it won’t be a problem, Jacob. How’s the job board looking?”
J: “It’s all online, take a look for yourself”
Panel 3
We flip to behind Jake so we can see the inside of the book as a bag of weed is plopped in front of the pages.
Panel 4
Jake puts the book down and reaches into a drawer.
J: “Oh look, something just came in”
Panel 5
Tammy snatches it out of his hands and storms out of the room.
Page 5
Panel 1
Establishing shot of a diner.
X: “This is about to be the easiest job ever”
Panel 2
Cut to inside, Tammy is looking at the files for the job, While Xochitl gets ready to flick a piece of paper her way.
X: “I don’t even know how this thing qualifies as EF5”
T: “Maybe it’s a grower, not a shower”
Panel 3
Tammy shows her the paper, it has some reports and a photo.
X: “No seriously, look at this.”
Panel 4
Close up on the photo, it’s a grainy image of what looks like a large rat, it’s not a clear picture at all
X: “This thing can’t be more than 2 ft long, only 5 confirmed sightings, and 1 recorded kill”
Panel 5
T: “One too many”
X: “It was a sleeping baby”
Page 6
Panel 1
The waitress brings their plates.
X: “Thank you”
Panel 2
Tammy drizzles syrup over her waffles.
T: “What, would you rather it have killed 10 firemen?”
X: “Okay, dead babies are bad, but EF5?”
Panel 3
Tammy hunches over her waffles and prepares to eat.
X: “It’s an oversized rat, pest control could take this thing out, why is it in Jake’s desk?”
T: “Small job, big pay, I don’t see a problem”
Panel 4
Tammy lifts her mask slightly to begin shoveling food into her mouth.
X: “Yeah, I guess you’re right”
Panel 5
X: “Yeesh, won’t that get your mask sticky?”
T: “Wouldn’t you like to know”
Page 7
Panel 1
X: “Do you even take it off to go to sleep?”
T: “Take what off?”
Panel 2
Xochitl rolls her eyes, Tammy finishes and gets up.
T: “Good meal lets go”
Panel 3
X: “I’m not done!”
Panel 4
Tammy turns from halfway to the door.
T: “Well box it up, we’re on the clock here”
Panel 5
Xochitl rolls her eyes and gets up.
Page 8
Panel 1
We cut to a close up of a flip phone.
O: “Mhmm, yes, I’m picking them up now”
Panel 2
We cut to the back of the speaker’s head, they are in the backseat of a nice car, there’s a divider between him and the front seat.
O: “No, it hasn’t entered the public listings, I’ve made sure of it”
Panel 3
A close up of his watch, that has something important on it idk yet
O: “I assure you the situation is not as dire as it may seem, sir”
Panel 4
The driver taps on the glass
O: “Of course, I’m here now, I will update you soon”
Panel 5
The man steps out of the car and we see his face finally. He has an owl head, but human hands and shit. He’s dressed in a black suit.
O: “harumph”
Page 9
Panel 1
We cut to Jake lounging in his chair, doobie in hand, reading the ripley’s believe it or not book, the computer has minesweeper on it.
Panel 2
Zoom out to show that the Owl man has appeared behind him, hands behind his back. Jake almost jumps out of his seat.
O: “Staying busy I see”
Panel 3
Jake springs up and begins to clear his work space.
J: “Mr. Strigiformes, I didn’t know you were coming by”
Panel 4
Owl man looks around, unimpressed
O: “Clearly”
Panel 5
Jake hurriedly flips the chalkboard around. Owl man is in the foreground, inspecting a framed photo Jake keeps on his desk.
J: “I was just on my break, it’s about over now-”
O: “Relax, McKee, I’m not here to bust your balls”
Page 10
Panel 1
Owl man turns to face Jake.
O: “I just need those files I gave you”
J: “The EF5?”
Panel 2
O: “Yes”
J: “Someone took it, yesterday”
Panel 3
Owl man’s fist clenches tightly behind his back.
Panel 4
O: “Someone took it”
J: “Uh, yeah… Were they not supposed to?”
Panel 5
O: “I instructed you to keep it in the filing cabinet until further notice.”
J: “I thought you were looking for someone to take it, I-I figured an A-class could handle it”
Page 11
Panel 1
Owl man pinches the bridge of his nose
J: “Am I fired?”
Panel 2
O: “No, no of course not, everyone makes mistakes”
Panel 3
Owl man puts his hand on Jake's shoulder.
O: “Come with me, tell me about this A-class hunter”
Panel 4
Jake looks back at his desk.
J: “What if someone-”
O: “Don’t worry about it,”
Panel 5
We close up on the framed picture from earlier.
O: “We’ll get someone to cover for you…”
Page 12
Panel 1
Tammy’s sword crashes into a wall as a rat like thing leaps from the panel
T: “FUCK”
Panel 2
The rat like thing dodges all of Xochit’s shots while running in a zigzag
X: in Spanish “Little shit!”
Panel 3
Deep focus shot of the rat running down a hallway, dodging all of Xochitl’s bullets and another one of Tammy’s swings. In the background a mother holds her child
Panel 4
Tammy and Xochitl turn to the mother who is crying at the havoc, Tammy holds up her badge. Down the hallway the rat jumps out of a window.
M: “Our Apartment”
X: “Sorry” :(
T: “MoCCo is not liable for any collateral damage caused during the neutralization of a monster and or beast.”
Panel 5
Shot of Tammy jumping out of apartment window
Page 13
Panel 1
Puts hand in duffle bag and a mask begins to swirl around her arm
Panel 2
A brightly colored dog-like mask appears on her face as she runs down the apartment building. Dramatic angle with the rat in the foreground, Tammy in the background, both running vertically down the apartment building, Tammy holding her macuahuitl and duffel bag.
Panel 3
Xochitl runs out of the building’s front entrance as the rat lands and darts off beside her.
Panel 4
Xochitl takes aim
Panel 5
And then Tammy lands, cracking the sidewalk and speeding off, nearly knocking Xochitl over.
Page 14
Panel 1
A dramatic shot of the rat very narrowly being grabbed by Tammy who’s right on it’s ass.
Panel 2
A shot through the iron sight as Xochitl is trying to take aim but Tammy is in the way.
Panel 3
X: “Get out of the way!”
Panel 4
The rat runs into a storm drain
T: “Fuck”
Panel 5
She runs over to a manhole cover.
Page 15
Panel 1
She jumps and looks at Xochitl.
T: “Come on!”
X: “Ew, no”
Panel 2
T: “This whole thing was your idea!”
X: “Okay, first of all: No”
Panel 3
Tammy disappears down the hole.
X: “Second- Hey!”
Panel 4
X: “Tam, it’s gone! We’ll find it again”
T: “UGH!”
Panel 5
Tammy climbs back up and throws the dog mask on the ground.
T: “I can’t smell shit down there!”
X: “I can only smell shit down there”
Page 16
Panel 1
We cut to a front door.
*knock knock*
Panel 2
Man opens it, Tammy and Xochitl are standing there, Tammy is staring down at some device, and holding up a badge.
T: “Excuse me sir, have you seen anything strange or un-”
Skittering sound from the ceiling.
Panel 3
Xochitl begins firing wildly into the ceiling
T: “IT’S UP THERE”
Panel 4
A squirrel falls from the ceiling.
Panel 5
T: “You’re lucky we came by,”
X: “There’s a thousand squirrels for everyone you see”
Page 17
Panel 1
Tammy and Xochitl in the car, Tammy has her feet on the dash.
T: “You should see it’s eyes up close, it’s like it knows what it’s doing, it- it’s toying with us, it’s-”
Panel 2
T: “RIGHT THERE”
Panel 3
Xochitl leans out the window and begins firing at the rat as it runs along a bridge
Panel 4
Tammy and Xochitl are in a dingy and dark basement. Skittering comes from the right.
X: “I swear, it’s not even the biggest rat I’ve seen-”
Panel 5
Xochitl turns to light it up
T: “HOLD IT”
Page 18
Panel 1
We turn to see Tammy admiring a couch as the rat runs off
T: “You almost ruined this amazing couch”
X: “Oh my god, thank you for stopping me”
Panel 2
T: “What’s it doing down here,”
X: “Could you imagine if I accidentally shot that”
T: “We have to come back for this”
Panel 3
Tammy and Xochitl are waiting in a hallway
T: “Be ready”
Panel 4
Elevator dings
Panel 5
Xochitl lights up the elevator.
T: “NOW”
Panel 6
We see an elevator full of people, all with bullet holes in between the narrow gaps, they’re all shocked.
X: “Damn”
Page 19
Panel 1
Xochitl and Tammy are in an elevator, Xochitl is holding her gun over her shoulders like a bat.
X: “The Scotsman”
T: “Pass”
X: “Grim”
T: “Pass”
X: “Professor Membrane”
T: “Pass”
X: “Johnny Bravo”
T: “Pass”
X: “Professor Utonium”
T: “...”
Panel 2
A small panel showing the elevator ding and the door begin to open.
Panel 3
The door opens enough to reveal Mr. Strigiformes
T: “...Smash”
Panel 4
The door opens more and Tammy hits Xochitl really quickly as they both straighten up. When Strigiformes says their names the speech bubbles are placed above the respective owner of said name.
S: “ Ms. Muluc, Ms. Rojas, funny bumping into you two here.”
Panel 5
Strig gets in the elevator and stands between the two. They all look forward, don’t make eye contact.
T: “Uh… Same, sir”
Page 20
Panel 1
S: “I just finished visiting an old friend of mine. What brings you two here?”
T: “We’re on the job”
Panel 2
We switch to a low angle shot from the bottom corner of the elevator, Tammy is closest.
S: “Oh? Should I be worried?”
Panel 3
We switch to a side view, Tammy is still closest, Xochitl sticks her head out to look up at Strig and make herself visible in the panel.
T: “Not at all-”
X: “Well, it is EF5”
Panel 4
We switch to a low angle shot from in front, all three are visible.
S: “EF5? I didn’t hear the sirens go off.”
X: “Well, that’s what I was wondering about-”
Panel 5
S: “And as if I’m not mistaken, you two tend towards lower level targets”
T: “Well-”
Page 21
Panel 1
S: “Are you sure there hasn’t been some sort of mixup?”
T: “We’re sure, sir”
S: “I could assign some help if the job proves-”
Panel 2
T: “It won’t, sir”
Panel 3
Strigiformes raises an eyebrow at Tammy,
S: “Hm”
Panel 4
The elevator dings.
Panel 5
S: “This is me,”
Panel 6
Strigiformes steps out and looks at the two.
S: “Good chatting, I’ll be seeing you two…”
Page 22
Panel 1
The elevator door closes
Panel 2
Tammy and Xochitl relax.
X: “What the hell was that about?”
Panel 3
Outside the elevator Strig pulls back his sleeve and talks into his watch,
S: “It’s been planted”
Panel 4
We cut to a van where two agents are lounging in the front seat
S: *over coms* “I want this done discreetly and before tomorrow”
K: “You got it, boss”
Panel 5
The guy in the driver seat hits the guy in the passenger seat,
K: “Look alive, Mac”
Page 23
Panel 1
A close up shot of a tracking device in Tammy’s duffel bag, Xochitl’s car is out of focus in the background, some shuffling can be heard.
Panel 2
Tammy and Xochitl get back in the car. Tammy is messing with a police scanner.
T: “Help me connect this to your car, we can use it to listen for reports on a small rabid dog thing”
Panel 3
X: “Ugh, Tam, it’s like 8, I have class tomorrow, can we call it a day!”
T: “We almost had it last time, it’s gotta be tired out by now-”
Panel 4
Xochitl puts her hand on Tammy’s shoulder
X: “Tammy, pleeease”
Panel 5
Tammy’s ears get a little redder.
Panel 6
T: “Fine, yeah. I’m tired anyway”
Page 24
Panel 1
Establishing shot of a dormitory, it’s dark.
Panel 2
Tammy is walking down a hall while Xochitl is entering her dorm.
X: “Goodnight”
T: “Night”
Panel 3
Cut to a man waiting outside her window, the window is cracked open.
Com: “Status?”
M: “Looks like she’s winding down, I’ll wait for her roomate to get to sleep, shouldn’t be more than an hour — How are things on your end?”
Panel 4
Cut to a guy sitting on the roof of a dorm above Tammy’s window.
M: “She just got in, I’ll try to take her by surprise-”
Panel 5
He goes wide eyed and huggs the roof as Tammy opens her window and jumps onto the ledge.
Page 25
Panel 1
A shot with the guy in the foreground as he looks down at Tammy sliding down the gutter.
M: “Shit- Mines on the move”
Com: “How the fuck’d you manage that, Kovolski?”
Panel 2
K: “HoW tHe FuCK’d YoU MaNagE ThAT, Kovolski- Stfu”
Panel 3
Cut to Tammy walking on the street, holding up a weird looking device
T: “C’mooon”
Panel 4
She hits it a few times.
T: “Well that can’t be right”
Panel 5
She looks to the left and sees the rat
Page 26
Panel 1
Tammy whips out a silenced pistol
T: “FREEZE”
Panel 2
She unloads the clip
Panel 3
The rat is standing unharmed in the exact same place surrounded by bullet holes.
Panel 4
It runs off
Panel 5
Tammy puts the gun away and gives chase.
T: “Gotta tell Xochitl her guns busted”
Page 27
Panel 1
Kovolski stands from a ways off, out of breath.
K: “Shit, I did not eat for this kind of running. How are things on your end?”
Com: “Fine,”
Panel 2
We cut to the other guy, still outside the window.
M: “Just waiting for her roommate to get to sleep”
Panel 3
We cut back to Tammy chasing the rat
Panel 4
She reaches into her duffle bag and a mask begins to swirl around her arm.
Panel 5
A cat-like mask appears on her face and she gets faster.
Page 28
Panel 1
She bobs and weaves through alley trash,
Panel 2
Almost gets the rat as it scales a wall
Panel 3
Tammy scales that wall
Panel 4
Catches the rats tail just as it clears the ledge
Panel 5
Tammy climbs the rest of the way up.
T: “HA”
Page 29
Panel 1
The rat bites Tammy’s arm
T: “Nice try, rat”
Panel 2
Geoff: “Worth a shot”
T: “Dramatic Gasp”
Panel 3
T: “Egad, you can talk, well I surely can’t kill you now!”
Panel 4
Geoff gives a big smile
G: “Really?”
Panel 5
Tammy takes out an obsidian dagger.
T: “No”
Page 30
Panel 1
From over on another roof, Kovolsky observes the scene.
K: “Looks like she’s made contact, I might have to kill mine”
Com: “Isn’t that what we were supposed to do anyway?”
Panel 2
K: “What? No! We’re doing the memory wipe, Boss wants this clean!”
Com: “Right, right- Yeah I knew that”
Panel 3
We cut to the guy putting away the cardiac spray and getting out the Forget-Me spray.
M: “I was just testin’ ya”
Panel 4
Back to Kovolski
K: “Well anyways, don’t wait up on me, take care of yours and I’ll meet you back at the car”
M: “Copy”
Panel 5
We cut back to the guy, Xochitl’s roommate is still up.
M: “Just as soon as you hit the hay you insomniac freak”
Page 31
Panel 1
Tammy slams the rat down on a flat surface,
T: “Any last words, rat?”
Panel 2
G: “It’s Geoff, actually”
Panel 3
We cut to shot through a scope, Tammy raises the dagger”
Panel 4
And then she pops out of existence.
Panel 5
K: “Dammit”
Page 32
Just a whole page of Tammy and Geoff crashing through a bunch of panels containing different places.
Page 33
Panel 1
Tammy appears in a field of flowers, it stretches all around and into the sky, defying gravity like some interstellar type shit, there’s a singular wood shed. The sky has a membranous quality.
Panel 2
Geoff appears on top of Tammy, looking at her mask.
G: “That’s quite the facewear, innit?”
Panel 3
Tammy goes to grab Geoff, but it pops out of existence
Panel 4
Geoff appears a few feet away
G: “Bad idea, you’d never make it home without me”
Panel 5
Tammy trembles to her hands and knees.
T: “Shut up”
G: “Why is everyone trying to kill me?”
Page 34
Panel 1
T: “Cause you’re an insufferable, disgusting, monster…”
Panel 2
T: “Also, you ate a baby”
G: “Right,”
Panel 3
G: “My bad, really, but in my defense I really thought they were done with it. They just left it sitting in its crib for hours.”
Panel 4
Geoff puts a hand over its heart.
G: “If it means anything, I promise to never eat another human baby again”
T: “It doesn’t”
Panel 5
Geoff looks down and does the thing where it touches its index fingers together.
G: “I’m just a curious little girl, really” 🥺
Page 35
Panel 1
Tammy looks around
T: “Where the hell am I?”
Panel 2
A wide shot showing a lot of the membranous sky, some large shadowy thing is illuminated behind it.
G: “The edge of the universe”
Panel 3
G: “One of the first places I came to after I left earth the first time.”
Panel 4
G: “That was in 1945 I believe”
T: “I’m not trying to hear your life story”
G: “Well that’s tuff,”
Panel 5
T: “Ugh, I get it, you’re like a thousand year old alien, what do you want? A medal?”
G: “Well I’m much older than that, and I’m not an alien.”
Page 36
Panel 1
T: “Do you tell all the girls this?”
G: “I’m humanizing myself”
Panel 2
G: “I’ve observed killers tend to hesitate more when they can see themselves in their victim”
Panel 3
A long panel, Tammy and Geoff looking at each other from either end.
T: “Yeah?…”
Panel 4
A pause
Panel 5
Geoff pounces onto Tammy’s mask.
Page 37
Panel 1
Geoff squirms its way into an eyehole
T: “What they hell!?”
G: “Oh my”
Panel 2
Geoff pops out the other one
G: “That’s quite the face, I can see why you hide it!”
Panel 3
Tammy rips Geoff off of her face.
T: “How-”
G: “In case you haven’t gathered, I’m not your average mongoose.”
Panel 4
T: “What the hell is a mongoose- I mean”
Panel 5
T: “That doesn’t answer shit!”
G: “Maybe I’ll tell you someday, when you have less reason to wring my neck.”
Page 38
Panel 1
Tammy shakes the rat a bit.
Panel 2
Then she lets it go
T: “Fine”
Panel 3
The rat climbs up to Tammy’s head.
Panel 4
G: “Where would you like to be dropped off?”
T: “My dorm would be fine”
Panel 5
They pop out of existence
Page 39
Panel 1
They reappear in Tammy’s dorm, sunlight coming in the window.
Panel 2
Tammy falls to the floor.
G: “You’ve been gone for five hours”
Panel 3
Geoff jumps onto the window sill
G: “Until next time”
Panel 4
Geoff scurrys down the wall.
Panel 5
Scurrys across the grass.
Page 40
Panel 1
Is then caught in a weird cage,
K: “Gotcha ya little bastard”
Panel 2
Kovolski gets up and looks over to the bushes outside Xochitl’s window.
K: “Wake up Mac, we’re out of here”
Panel 3
Mac pops out of the bushes with a five-o-clock shadow.
M: “I wasn’t sleepin’! Oh, you got it”
Panel 4
Mac shuffles out of the bush
M: “I don’t gotta spray her?”
K: “Nah, we got the rat, that’s what matters”
Panel 5
We switch to a pov that shows Xochitl’s roommate is still awake, on her computer. Xochitl is doing her morning routine.
Page 41
Panel 1
Back in Tammy’s dorm, Tammy grabs a bottle and lays down on her couch.
Panel 2
There's a knock at the door.
Panel 3
Xochitl opens the door.
X: “My first class got canceled, so if we can wrap this up by-”
Panel 4
Tammy pulls a blanket over her.
T: “Ahh, I don’t care anymore, let someone else get it”
X: “But what about the job pool, and-”
Panel 5
T: “Blanchard? Have you seen what that guy’s wearing? He’s done enough to himself.