THE SOURCE

BY SCOTT KRAFT

ROXTON: This is not from a horse.

VERONICA: It’s a ceremonial cup made from a human skull. They use it to drink the blood of their enemies.

ROXTON: I’d hate to see what they use for brandy snifters.

CHALLENGER: What do you want?

HORSEMAN: Give us the witch.

ROXTON: Friend of yours?

MARGUERITE: That’s not funny!

CHALLENGER: Oh, you know, sometimes I think it might be nice to be back in civilised society where dying of boredom is the most constant danger.

CHALLENGER: If you’re asking my advice, I’d say what do you really want? I have seen the way Anna looks at you.

MALONE: Aw, she’s just grateful.

CHALLENGER: (laughs) Oh, how youth is wasted on the young. If I was your age on the adventure of a lifetime with a beautiful woman like that looking at me, I know what I’d be doing.

ANNA: Friends, I am afraid I have been less that truthful.

VERONICA: That’s the first honest thing she’s said so far.

ROXTON: So, tell me Marguerite; eternal youth, won’t it get boring?

MARGUERITE: (laughs) A question only a man could ask.

ROXTON: And why is that?

MARGUERITE: Because men get more valuable with age.

ROXTON: Huh…and women?

MARGUERITE: And women, for every year, every wrinkle drops your stock a little lower.

ROXTON: Imagine millions of cranky old people running around trying to make up for lost time.

MARGUERITE: Imagine never growing old at all.

ROXTON: I get tired just thinking about it.

ANNA: Where is he going?

ROXTON: Now he’s got the gift of eternal youth, he’s off to get himself killed.

MALONE: So it was better when you were younger?

CHALLENGER: Better? It’s hard to say. Older sure hurts more. 

SEASON TWO

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