MARTYRS script - Save the Cat beat sheet analysis

Young Lucie’s frantic flight sets the film’s tone of terror and trauma.

Detective warns Anna that “monsters” are still out there, stating the story’s central theme about unseen horrors.

She talks about monsters a lot. She says they’re still out there.

Anna and orphaned Lucie bond at the orphanage, introducing their characters and history.

Anna first encounters the adult Lucie on campus, reigniting past trauma and kicking off the main story.

Anna arrives at the slaughtered farmhouse and hesitates over what to believe and do next.

I didn’t have a choice. What I had to. I told you it was them.

Anna commits to stay with Lucie by the ominous hole, venturing into the story’s darker second act.

Do you think it will let me rest? Just for a little while?

The university lecture introduces Anna’s scientific worldview and her emotional distance.

Lucie mercilessly murders the farmhouse family, showcasing the film’s brutal ‘fun and games.’

Anna explores the sterile basement and discovers a tortured woman, upping the stakes.

Eleanor Shaw’s interrogation intensifies the threat as Anna’s situation grows desperate.

Anna is buried alive with Emily’s corpse, a moment of seeming final defeat.

Escaping through the drainage pipe, Anna faces her lowest point before finding resolve.

Anna’s killing of the farmhouse guards marks her decision to fight back.

Anna storms the basement, confronts Eleanor, and rescues Lucie in a climactic rescue.

In the chapel, Lucie’s vision and Eleanor’s suicide reflect the film’s full-circle horror.