ULTRASEVEN X REIMAGINED
EPISODE 8
BLOOD MESSAGE
Shots of a town at night during a thunderstorm. Drones float about, showing on their monitors news reports about a serial killer who attacks during rain or storms. The newscaster advises people to stay indoors whenever possible or be in groups during storms. As the newscaster speaks flashes of "STAY AT HOME OR BE IN A GROUP DURING. RAIN OR THUNDERSTORMS" appear on the screens. Suddenly we hear a shout in the distance.
A young man is running for his life from someone. He screams in terror. He runs into an underground parking lot. Suddenly something grabs him and throws him against a support beam. He shouts in pain from the impact and collapses to the ground. As he tries to get up he shouts at his attacker, "What the hell are you?! WHAT ARE Y--"
his throat is cut by some unseen weapon, and blood splatters against the beam. We seen what appears to be a tall woman with long black hair standing over him, wearing a long bright red trenchcoat. The woman leans over and puts a finger into the pool of blood on the ground, swirling her finger around. She then goes to the beam and starts to write something.
A few minutes later. The woman walks away, and we see that on the beam, written in the man's blood, are the words "NO MAN".
The next afternoon K's car, being driven by S, pulls up to another safehouse. She and Elea get out and look in the back at Jin and K, both asleep. K is leaned against his door. S smirks and walks to the passenger side where K is. She looks at Elea and puts her finger to her lips. Elea stifles a giggle as S carefully grabs the door handle and jerks it open. K shouts as he falls to the ground. Elea gasps, not expecting S to have done what she did. Jin jerks awake, and asks whats happening. S is laughing at K, who is NOT happy. He gets up and tells S that she can really be an ass.
S stares at him, turning red. K says that he has tried and tried to be cool with her, and he knows that he has laid it on thick with pursuing her and is sorry about that, but she doesn't have to act like such an ass. He throws his arms up and says he finally gets it, she doesn't like him. Ok. He's sorry he bothered her. He grabs his bag from the back of the car and storms into the safehouse. Jin gets out, and asks what the hell that was about. Elea looks at S, who looks uncharacteristically ashamed.
A short time later, after the gang have settled in, S calls them together. K avoids S, who clearly still feels bad. S tells them that DEUS has been asked to investigate the local serial killer dubbed by the media "The Red Coat Killer". She plays a recording of a news broadcast that goes over the detailss: five murders so far, only attacks during rain or thunderstorms, and someone wearing a bright red coat near all the murder scenes.
Their orders are to assist in the search for the killer. Elea tells them that she won't be able to help this time, as the reason they stopped at Kamaishi is that she needs to meet with a former DEUS data analyst who has information she needs for the meeting. She will go alone. Both Jin and K object, but she is adamant that she go alone to attract as little attention as possible.
Jin offers to go with her but Elea refuses. Jin tells her to at least regularly make contact and to keep her armband's tracer active. Elea agrees to that. She prepares to leave. Jin walks over to her and tells her to be careful. They have a moment, and she says she will. K offers his car but Elea wants to take a cab to keep under the radar. She says she will be back by morning and leaves.
S says that she is to go to the police station to find out if there is any connection between the victims. Jin says ok, and picks up on S's look at him that she wants to talk to K, so Jin excuses himself and goes to his room. S tries to apologize to K but he says that they have work to do and starts researching the killer on his laptop. S stoically nods and leaves.
