1.)

(Jack's shirt open, revealing bare skin beneath. Minchin's gloved hands now have small pink claws ripping through the tips.)

MINCHIN: Fellas aren't my thing, but skin is skin.

2.)

(In the unnatural darkness, Minchin has Jack in his grip. He rips some flesh off of Jack's upper chest.)

3.)

(Close-up of the wound, with many ribs now exposed. Minchin's claws are bloody.)

4.)

(Minchin's clawed hand holds Jack's face.)

5.)

(Jack has one eye barely open as Minchin begins to pierce his cheek.)

MINCHIN: It all tears so easily.

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(Jack is feeling death impend and Minchin is giving him a ghoulish speech.)

6.)

(Minchin's smiling face and gorey hands are all that is visible, menacing.)

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"Try it, Jack. Do you see the darkness? At least it won't hurt anymore..."

7.)

(Jack is slumped against something, his face very bloody, Minchin's claws hesitant over him.)

8.)

(Minchin has dropped Jack in a snowy alley, and as the blackness dissipates, he seems to be noticing someone approach.)

9.)

(Minchin flies away in a curl of blackness.)

10.)

(Incoherent, small sounds escape from Jack.)

11.)

(A bird approaches as Jack slides to the ground.)

12.)

(Someone stands over Jack, who has left blood streaks on the wall behind him.)

13.)

(The new arrival lifts Jacks face.)

14.)

(Continuation of 13.)

15.)

(The rescuer's tears fall on Jack's bloody face amid snowflakes.)

16.)

(It's Theodore, crying over Jack.)

17.)

(He lifts Jack to his feet.)

18.)

(He walks him out of the alley.)

19.)

(Snow falls around the moon.)

TITLE: END CHAPTER 8