Painkiller Jane

My name is Jane Vasco

I could use you on my team

I work for a secret government agency that hunts neuros.

People who can do dangerous things with their minds.

On my first assignment...

Something a little weird happened,

Okay, something really weird.

Until I get some answers I'm getting on with my life,

doing my job

Stocking up on aspirin

because let me tell ya

pain's a bitch!

Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

You try beating that, my jolly green friend.

How do you keep doing that?

You win.

Drinks on me.

Don't feel bad.

You giving me a better fight than I've had in a long time.

Thank you.

Cheers.

Blood in your eye.

...Thanks, I think.

Is there a storm coming I didn't hear about?

No storm.

Why are they locking the place down?

The beast of bolnar walks

from the eighth hour past noon to the ninth.

And pity anything which crosses its path.

Animal or man.

My goat was first, four years ago.

No one believed me, they laughed at me.

They're not laughing, now.

Dogs, horses, men.

Sliced to ribbons and ripped in half by the beast.

You're kidding, right?

Anybody tried hunting it down?

Them that tried all died.

Best to stay inside when it is the time of the beast.

Come on, another game. double or nothing.

You bet.

Just a second.

Connor.

Yeah, be there in half an hour.

Sorry, my friend.

Have to give you a rain check.

Rain check?

I have to leave.

You can't go.

It's the eighth hour.

Right.

Connor, the beast kill you.

I'll be okay.

Ahhhh!

Ahhh!

Ahhh!

Ahhh!

No!

No!

Connor?

What happened?!

Ah!

Connor!

What happened!

Ahh!

It almost got me!

I don't know, something. maybe it was the beast.

What beast? What beast?

The beast of bolnar.

- It's okay! - I got to go!

It's okay! You'll be okay!

Couldn't find much on "the beast of bolnar. "

a few references to a town legend.

Similar to bigfoot or the loch ness monster.

Animal mutilation, killings.

No proof.

Hey, last night I was given the mother of all tetanus shots.

That's proof enough for me.

I'm not saying I don't believe you.

As many horror movies as I've seen...

You've gotta consider all possibilities.

Including a neuro on the loose.

We have any reports of neuro activity outside north america?

I knew you were gonna ask that. No

The only known neuros this side of the water are housed in this facility.

It's mcbride.

Get in here, thank you.

I'll keep checking but the local databases are pretty pathetic.

You want facts, talk to people.

The guys in that bar knew plenty.

- Agent mcbride. - Captain

One of my team was attacked last night, in town.

It has the earmarks of neuro activity.

If it happened in town, it wasn't a neuro.

Not one of ours, anyway.

- All the inmates are accounted for? - Yes, sir

Head counts are done on the hour since the administrative change.

That will be all, thank you.

Alright, connor, put some clothes on,

I want you to show me where this happened.

It's mine.

I don't know if I hit it, didn't take it down.

Connor,

try to find me a blood trail.

Right.

Ever see him like that?

Not even close.

What is that?

Looks like the claw mark of some animal.

Yeah, king kong's bigger brother.

What the hell could do that?

Mark of the beast it is.

Beware the eighth hour past noon.

Have you ever seen this beast?

No one who sees the beast lives to tell of it.

Where does it come from?

Have you no eyes, woman?

The beast comes right out of hell.

But there has got to be something...

Connor?

Find that blood trail?

Only my own.

Welcome to bolnar.

New people in town tend to create a stir.

I'm constable farkas.

Andre mcbride.

We're u. S. Federal agents.

Really? That's a first.

What brings u. S. Federal agents all the way to our little town?

One of our colleagues was attacked last night.

- Between eight and nine? - Yeah

The beast of bolnar.

Trust me I know how it sounds.

You have to understand.

Two different worlds.

- Each has their own rules... - What're you saying?

You don't believe in this beast or not.

I'm saying that there are things here that can't be explained away with...

"Rational explanations?"

and the beast of bolnar is one of those things?

You already know the answer to that, don't you?

I know something attacked me last night. Who or what, I don't know.

There could be rational explanations that you are unaware of.

Then I'd be more than happy to hear them.

Four years ago, the people in this town elected me,

believing that I could help protect them.

I haven't been able to do that.

If there's a chance that we could help each other

to meet that end,

I'd like to participate

You know the town, you know the people.

We can use all the help we can get.

That's the last one.

The square's been sealed off.

The streets have been cleared.

Except us.

If even a cockroach crosses my sensor perimeter,

we'll know about it

You're all keyed into infra red in case we need a heat signature.

Lovely. you're a bloody genius.

Five minutes to 8:00. Places

- I got the north end. - I've got the south.

Farkas, here.

West end.

We're about to discover

whether or not science can triumph over mythology.

Alright,

riley, what do you got? Not a peep.

Wish it would come out and get it over with.

Maybe it's not coming out tonight.

The beast comes every night.

- It's almost 8:30 and I've got nothing. - Keep going til 9:00

If he knows we're out here...

With all this brilliant science...

We're not talking about a he. We're talking about an it.

Still nothing.

Looks like a wash.

Farkas?

Ahhh!

What's going on?

Farkas, I'm on my way.

There's nothing on my screen!

I see something's got him.

what? I can't see it.

Jane, be careful.

Hold your positions, we're on our way.

Check vasco.

She's alright.

Good.

He's not.

No prints, no fibers.

Good thing we stayed up all night.

À good man's dead and all we've got is a lot of nothing.

I've checked my sensor array and transmitters over and over.

Everything's working perfectly.

Except it didn't work.

How was the perimeter compromised?

I can't explain it.

Farkas tried to tell us that this is an it and not a him.

Even if this is some kind of beast,