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ACT THREE
SAM pours himself a glass of whiskey.
== ACT THREE ==
''EXT. – STREET OUTSIDE JAPANESE RESTAURANT – NIGHT''
A JAPANESE MAN in a restaurant uniform is reading the Japanese writing on the saki box. SAM and DEAN are holding coffees.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Anata ga marou mono... Wa anata ka ra mo morau. It says, "what you took will be taken from you." Like, eye for an eye. You with me?
SAM nods.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Kono bin niwa syoujou zuke no sake ga hu-in sarete iru. Where'd you guys get this anyway?
SAM<br />
Why? Is – is there, uh, something the matter?
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Well, you're not superstitious, are you? [He gives the box to SAM.]
DEAN<br />
Not at all.
SAM<br />
No, no.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Because...this says the bottle inside contains a Shojo.
DEAN<br />
What's a... Shojo?
JAPANESE MAN<br />
An alcohol spirit. Look, it's just an old myth. I wouldn't worry about it. But they are not known for being friendly.
Someone inside the restaurant shouts in Japanese and the JAPANESE MAN shouts in return.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
I got to go.
DEAN<br />
Oh. Uh, hey, uh... There you go. [He hands the JAPANESE MAN some money.] Thank you.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Thank you.
DEAN<br />
Yeah.
JAPANESE MAN<br />
Take care.
''INT. – MOTEL – NIGHT''
DEAN and SAM enter. GARTH is performing some sort of martial art exercises in the courtyard to the rear of the room.
SAM<br />
Garth. Where's Baxter?
GARTH comes into the room and points.
GARTH<br />
Dude's a lot heavier than he looks, FYI.
RANDY BAXTER is in the hot tub with a pillowcase over his head.
GARTH<br />
But here. [Indicates DEAN’s EMF reader] Thought you might want this back.
DEAN<br />
You have the CEO of the douchiest microbrew in the US gagged in your hot tub? You really think that's gonna end well?
GARTH<br />
I'm not feeling the love.
SAM<br />
All right. Shojo. Uh, let's see what we can see. [He sits down at the table to use the laptop.]
GARTH<br />
What's Shojo?
DEAN<br />
Japanese booze monster.
GARTH<br />
I guess that would explain why you got to be drunk to see it. Very poetic.
SAM does a search for “Shojo” and clicks on the first link, which is to the page “Open Minds to Deeper Knowledge.” The text is in Japanese and there is a black-and-white drawing. GARTH looks over SAM’s shoulder.
GARTH<br />
Ooh. Creepy.
A message box that says “Translating Japanese text to English” pops up on screen and then the page appears in English. It reads:
A Shojo (Heavy drinker or Orangutan) is a kind of Japanese sea spirit with a red face and hair and a fondness for alcohol. Legend has it, that workers at the breweries in Japan have seen a Shojo lurking about after indulging in their products. With the right Spell Box you can harness a Shojo to your will. The legend is the subject of a Noh play of the same name. There is a Noh mask for this character, as well as a type of Kabuki stage makeup, that bares [sic] the name. The Chinese and Japanese characters for Orangutan…
SAM<br />
Okay. So, a Shojo is said to roam where there's lots of alcohol. There's lore saying that, back in the old day, if you were plastered enough, you could see one skulking around the breweries in Japan.
DEAN is refilling his flask with whiskey.
DEAN<br />
Yeah, but why is this one shredding brewers' kids?
SAM<br />
Apparently, you can harness the will of a Shojo with the right spell box. Then you basically have an attack dog that you can sic on whatever sort of personal revenge mission you want.
DEAN<br />
So Dale nabs one to punish his pals.
SAM<br />
Send the bottle, sooner or later it's popped open. Then you have a Shojo that will do whatever Dale compelled it to do right here on the box.
GARTH<br />
Wait. Except it's not killing the people that screwed him over.
SAM<br />
Well, Dale's widow said the company was his baby. So, if he really wanted his friends to feel what he felt...
DEAN<br />
He would take theirs. Well, their kids. Jim's, anyways.
SAM<br />
And Baxter was the godfather.
DEAN<br />
All right, skip to how do we gank it.
SAM<br />
Good news. It <i>is</i> killable.
DEAN<br />
But...
SAM<br />
But only with a samurai sword consecrated with a shinto blessing.
DEAN<br />
Well... that's not a silver lining. All right, the Shojo already cleaned house, right? I mean, Marie's the last target standing, so... I'll hit the pawn shops and, uh, look for the sword, and you babysit Marie.
GARTH drops and catches an EMF reader, which starts to make noise.
GARTH<br />
Yikes. Sorry.
DEAN grabs the EMF reader from GARTH.
DEAN<br />
Don't worry about it.
DEAN turns the EMF reader off.
GARTH<br />
Unless I've got nothing to be sorry <i>for.</i>
DEAN<br />
Garth.
SAM<br />
What's he talking about?
GARTH<br />
I'm concerned that Bobby might be haunting you. I-I brought it up to Dean, and he shot me down.
DEAN<br />
Garth! Leave it alone.
SAM<br />It's okay.
DEAN<br />
No, it's far from okay.
SAM<br />
I've already tried contacting Bobby. [DEAN looks surprised.] When that beer disappeared, I pulled out a talking board.
DEAN<br />
Without me?
SAM<br />
You know, I figured, why drag you in... when it's something I could just put to bed myself.
DEAN<br />
And?
SAM<br />
And if he was there, I'd have told you.
RANDY BAXTER groans.
DEAN<br />
Talk about this later. You follow Marie. Let me borrow your keys.
CUT TO: GARTH removes the pillowcase from RANDY BAXTER’s head.
GARTH<br />
I'm trying to help you, Mr. Baxter.
RANDY BAXTER<br />
And who the hell are you?
GARTH<br />
Now, I'm confused. Dale goes to get you all where it hurts – the kids. Only, you don't have any kids.
RANDY BAXTER<br />
It still affects me. Believe me.
GARTH<br />
Nah. You want to tell me what you're hiding?
RANDY BAXTER<br />
Hiding? I –
GARTH<br />
Tell me this. When was the last time you gave an employee three chances?
RANDY BAXTER<br />
Probably never.
GARTH<br />
Exactly. You're the axman, right? Tough job, but, hey, somebody's got to. So, how come you cut that slacker janitor so many breaks?
RANDY BAXTER<br />
I-I-I-I don’t know.
GARTH<br />
Yeah. Well, I googled. Come to find his mother... was your secretary way back in the day. Of course, you were married to Mrs. B., so, uh... No way there's anything naughty there, right? What do you need to get? It don't matter what Dale knows about you, 'cause that thing out there killing the kids – <i>it</i> knows!
RANDY BAXTER<br />
It didn't end well with his mom. She made me swear never to tell him.
GARTH<br />
Oh. So much for that. Where is he?
RANDY BAXTER<br />
He's, uh – he's at the brewery.
GARTH takes a bunch of miniature bottles of alcohol from under the counter.
RANDY BAXTER<br />
Working the graveyard shift.
GARTH<br />
Here. [Tosses RANDY BAXTER the keys to the handcuffs chaining him to the hot tub rail] If you care about that kid at all, don't call the cops on me just yet.
''INT. – BREWERY – NIGHT''
RANDY BAXTER’S SON sprays window cleaner all over the inside of the glass door. When he wipes it off, we see that the Shojo is standing on the other side of the door, but it appears that he can’t see her.
== ACT FOUR ==
