Jade stops in her mental tracks as she sees...
ECU—THE DRAGON SKULL SYMBOL on the cover of the ARCHIVE.
JADE—grins a sly grin as she starts scheming.
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JADE (CONT)
My tattoo doesn’t have to be REAL... it just has to be GNARLY!
CLOSE—Jade pulls a piece of NOTEBOOK PAPER from her BACKPACK, flat-
tens it over the ARCHIVES, and quickly TRACES the pattern with a
MARKER.
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JADE
A little ink...
Finished, she holds up the paper to look at it. The EERIE SYMBOL
fills the frame and we...
MATCH DISSOLVE TO:
INT. JADE’S SCHOOL—HALLWAY—MORNING
THE SYMBOL—gets drenched with WATER as...
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JADE (OS)
... a little water...
REVEAL—... Jade runs the paper under the WATER FOUNTAIN, looks
around to make sure no one’s watching, and then PRESSES the paper to
her ANKLE.
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JADE (CONT)
... a little squeeze AND...
CLOSE—Jade pulls the paper away, revealing the GNARLY SYMBOL embla-
zoned on her ankle.
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JADE (CONT, OS)
I’m bad to the bone.
WIDE—As Jade tosses the paper in the wastebasket and picks up her back-
pack...
ECU—... WE SEE the INK in her tattoo MAGICALLY “ETCH” into her skin!
INT. FISH CANNERY (DARK HAND LAIR)—DAY—LATER
CLOSE—VALMONT looks in a MIRROR, unhappily. SHENDU’s SPIRIT face
is superimposed over his.
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VALMONT
I will put up with a lot, Shendu...
PULL BACK TO REVEAL—Valmont wears an ostentatious CHINESE CEREMO-
NIAL ROBE.
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VALMONT (CONT)
... but I DRAW THE LINE at wearing a
DRESS!
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