Alien: Resurrection Page #12

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She is almost to it when she is IN THE WEB.

A net of translucent alien goo, it is spread just six inche below the

surface.

Call struggles the goo sticking to her she's running out of air -- as

Wren and Christie enconter the same thing -- they all try to tear

through it, but they are getting weaker.

Ripley looks back as the last of the crew is passing her, aliens close

behind.

She looks up to see the situation ab and quickly makes for the surface

-- but an alien GRABS her foot, holding her down. Now SHE is running

out of air KICKS at it, it lets go.

The others are fighting, Call pops her stilletto and cuts through, but

it's tough, she still can't get her head up --

--Di Stephano, off to the side, is drowning. Takes in a huge mouthful

of water and begins thrashing.

Ripley swims past everyone and grabs the hole Call cut, pulls it apart

with a mighty heave, she glides up through --

CLOSE UP:
RIPLEY'S FACE

Just BREAKS the surface, she takes in a huge GASP of air, FACEHUGGER

CLAMPS DOWN ON HER.

Ripley goes back under, pulling at the thing as others break the

surface.

Wren comes up and a hugger LEAPS right at him ,but Call nails it in

four shots.

Christie and Vriess break surface and both begin FIRING, back to back,

in a circular sweep.

They decimate a number of eggs

ANGLE:
UNDERWATER

Ripley pulls the face hugger with all her might -- it comes off, its

fingers singeing the sides of her face, leaving marks like warpaint.

Worse, its probing fleshy member pulls last of her throat, thrashing

horribly.

In utmost disgust, Ripley PULLS it APART. and the three aliens are

COMING RIGHT AT HER.

ABOVE - THE SURFACE

Most of the crew has gotten up out of the water. Christie holding a

facehugger inches from his face, others screaming, taking a bead on it.

CHRISTIE:

Get it! Kill it!

CALL:

The blood'll burn you! Throw it!

He does, and Johner nails it in midflight.

Hillard and Johner pull Di Stephano out of the water, but he is not

breathing.

ANGLE:
UNDER THE SURFACE

Ripley is grabbed by an alien -- and St Just comes up behind her and

shoots it.

They swim up and away from the spreading, lethal bloodpool.

ANGLE:
ABOVE THE SURFACE

They come up out of the water, and an alien rises right behind them.

Everyone who can, shoots it. It falls back into the water.

CHRISTIE:

A trap! They set a goddamn ambush!

JOHNER:

Give me that!

He pulls the burner off Di Stephano's body, even as Call is giving him

mouth to mouth.

Johner flips the gun open and FIRES at the water, the whole thing

SMOKING and sizzling with the electrical charge. we hear an alien wail

bubble from below the surface.

JOHNER (grinning feverishly)

Okay! Everybody out of the pool!

VRIESS:

Let's get the f***!

Di Stephano sputters back to life. Ripley picks him up with one hand,

HILLARD (to Wren)

Which way?

WREN:

Up here.

He takes off, the others following.

WREN:

Up through the lift shaft!

He stops at a pair of sliding doors, starts working the panel. Ripley

come up to the doors and pulls them apart with a grunt.

ST JUST:

Company!

He's refering to the noise and shadow of approaching aliens.

She herds them into the shaft.

CUT TO:
INT. LIFTSHAFT - CONTINUOUS

It goes down about four stories, and up seemingly forever.. Enough room

for or three

elevators, one of which is two stories below.

WREN:

UP!

He starts climbing. It's not that hard -- there are ladders in each

shaft section.

Call comes up behind him. Ripley and others pair off on other ladders.

They climb fast, they're three stories up before the aliens begin

POUNDING on the metal door, it buckles under their might.

JOHNER:

Move!

WREN:

Not far!

Still POUNDING -- one alien gets its head in, looks up, hisses, pulls

it out.

ANGLE:
LIFT

Wren comes to a cralwspace ledge. He climbs on. Set back a few feet

from the shaft is a small maintenance access door. works the keypad

beside it as Call climbs up behind him.

The aliens SMASH through the door, one of them SAILING across the shaft

to grab a pipe on the other side. Instantly four of them are swarming

up the walls, moving much faster on pipes and ridges than the humans

on ladders.

On one of the aliens a facehugger crawls, constantly moving about on

the adult alien's head like a frightened spider.

CALL:

Hurry!

WREN:

It's jammed! Sh*t! Gun!

She hands him her gun and without hesitation he SHOOTS HER THROUGH THE

CHEST.

She flies back and DOWN THE SHAFT, lands HARD on an elevator six

stories below.

Eyes wide and empty.

VRIESS:

NOO!

He fires up at Wren, but Wren has punched in the code and slipped

through the opening door..

Ripley LEAPS through the air and grabs the ledge, hauling herself up

just in time to see the door shut. The lock lights turn red.

She SLAMS against the door, but to no avail.

The aliens are getting closer. St Just, the closest to the bottom,

suddenly lets go of the ladder. His knees hooked over a rung, he

drops, hangs up side down, his guns filling his hands.

He blows several holes in the nearest alien.

Ripley is furious, maybe surprised just how so. Suddenly an alien

RISES OVER THE LEDGE, it's not three feet away from her and she

SCREAMS, HURLS herself at it and they both go

FLYING OFF into-space, they hit the wall on the other side, they fall.

RIPLEY GRABS a pole, it practically tears her arm out of her socket but

she holds on, the alien isn't so lucky, it plummets unable to find

puchase. We see it fall past the unmoving body of Call.

ANGTE:
CALLS FACE

As the facehugger CLAMPS onto it. Pauses. Pushes off a bit, two digits

probing Call's nostrils. Sensing no breath, the thing scurries away to

find a better host.

Another alien is fast approching Christie and Vriess. Vriess

frantically tries to reload.

VRIESS:

It's on us!

Christie turns, aims -- Vriess grabs the ladder as Christie FIRES, but

the alien is too close, it grabs Christie, spurting blood all over him.

He SCREAMS, lets go of the ladder

Vriess takes the weight of both as Christie fires again, the alien

flying off and down the shaft.

HILLARD:

We gotta go!

The last alien suddenly starts scurrying back down after his brothers.

RIPLEY:

We're locked in.

JOHNER:

F***!

PURVIS:

How far to the next door?

DISTEPHANO:

All the way.

RIPLEY:

Then we climb.

They start, moving as fast as they can.

VRIESSS (to Christie)

You just hang on, man. I'll get us there.

He starts climbing up, impressively fast considering the burden hanging

from his back.

JOHNER (to Ripley)

Are they going for reinforcements?

RIPLEY:

F***ed if I know.

They climb.

And climb, the minutes stretching out, still no door. Ripley easily

ahead of the rest.

Finally:

RIPLEY:

I think I see the door.

PURVIS (exhausted)

Great.

Vriess is having increasing trouble. Hillard notices him lagging

behind, and why.

HILLARD:

Vriess! Jesus!

Vriess is moving very quickly, considering. But the effort is becoming

too much.

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