Alien: Resurrection Page #15

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The access paths are just a bit wider than the jeep itself, plants

rising tall all around them.

Ripley concentrates on driving.

The pass through as section of wheat , then of corn. As they come to

another section,

The crew's expressions change to one of pleased disbelief.

You gotta be f***ing me. St Just! Is this real?

ST JUST:

So this is what heaven looks like.

We see they have driven into a healthy section of CANNABIS plants

growing ten feet high.

The car screeches to a halt. Ripley's at a crossroads of sorts.

RIPLEY:

Which way?

HILLARD (looking at the plants)

I always wondered where the military got its funding...

An alien SHOOTS out of the brush and lands on Hillard everyone SCREAMS

-- Ripley SLAMS her foot on the pedal

The jeep PEELS OUT, as more emerge from the brush.

HILLARD:

Get it off MeeeaaaaAAGGHRE!!!!

It bores into her head before St Just can blow it away. It's head

exploding in fragments of bone and sizzling blood as it falls away from

the jeep, Hillard's body still clutched in arms.

Another leaps out at them, but the jeep is going a good clip and it

misses.

The crew peppering it with bullets.

They look,about them, guns ready.

ANGLE:
IN THE BRUSH

Something runs parallel to them in the plants.

ANGLE:
ABOVE

Two more run on top of the grow-lamps, pacing them as well.

One DROPS DOWN -- Ripley SWERVES out of the way, driving in the plants.

They are varied, exotic -- and there are aliens behind half of them.

The crew BLASTS away all around them Ripley drives a drunkard's path

through the brush, avoiding trees that dot the scape.

An alien DROPS onto the hood, another grabs the side -- Vries takes out

the first, blowing it off, but the second grabs Johner, he goes flying

over the side,.dropping his gun.

St Just is too preoccupied with his own problems on the othe to see

that Johner is being

dragged, the alien still clutching onto him.

Shots bang out, ripping into the alien, which lets go. Johner looks up

to see Purvis holding Johner's gun.

Johner drags himself back on.

One jumps down onto St Just, tears a good chunk out of his midsection

before he dusts it.

Another alien jumps on the hood just as the jeep SAILS over first ledge

of the terraced slope, comes-down hard enough knock it off, SAILS over

the next -- the crew can barely hang on as the jeep crashes down slope

after slope.

Ripley swerves back onto the road, the jeep sliding over onto the steps

beside it, rocking violently as they shoot down the remainder of slope,

the aliens close on their heels.

Still blasting away at the beasts, the crew is able to put little

distance between them as they come to the end of the garden. Here it

divides into three sections, all open halls with access for the jeep.

RIPLEY:

Which way?

DISTEPRMO (looking over)

Left! Left!

She swerves left, the jeep-bouncing into the hall

INT. HALL CONTINUOUS

Where windows running along either side look out onto black space.

Ripley drives as far as she can, till a staircase -- going -- fills her

vision, too steep

for the jeep. She SLAMS on brakes. the jeep spinning out and coming to

a halt.

The crew piles out, Di Stephano grabbing Vriess. At the other end of

the hall, the aliens

can be seen approaching.

The crew BLASTS at them, the aliens, blood splattering the narrow hall.

ANGLE:
THE BLOOD

Eating into the walls. the floor.

CALL/Ship

Warning. potential hullbreach. Clear sector.

DISTEPHANO (indicating the steps)

Down here!

They start down -- all but St Just. He gets out of the jeep with

difficulty.

Looks down at his wound.

Johner looks around to see him still standing atop the steps

JOHNER:

St Just! Come on, man.

St Just looks down at the wound. Back at Johner. He walks calmly away,

towards the aliens.

CALL:

St Just!

ST JUST:

You go.

He looks at the appraching aliens.

ST JUST:

I'm bored.

CALL\SHIP

Warning. Evacuate sector.

A moment, then the crew takes off.

St Just takes a handful of pills, pops them into his mouth. Only the

slightest grin suffuses his face ,as he waits for the aliens.

They close on him, and he raises his guns.

CALL\SHIP

warning...

CUT TO:

INT HALL NEARBY - CONTINUOUS

The crew runs full out.

DISTEPHANO:

We have to get out of the sector!

RIPLEY:

Where!

DISTEPHANO:

There!

He points at a door that's down two flights and across the hall.

CUT TO:
INT. HALL CONTINUOUS

The aliens close, and St Just FIRES, blasting away with bot guns.

Aliens writhe on the

floor before him, still they cover the bodies of their brothers, still

he fires,

Call\ship monotones of warning in sharp contrast to the chaos

-- St Just fires until both guns are empty. In one smooth motion he

drops them both

and jerks his wrists and TWO-MORE disposable guns fly into his palms

and he blasts away

ANGLE:
THE BLOOD

Eating through the hull.

ANGLE:
THE CREW

desperately racing for the door.

ANGLE:
ST JUST

Firing with quiet glee.

ANGLE:
THE CREW

The first of them are through the door.

ANGLE:
St JUST

The aliens are getting closer, but still he mows them down Both his

guns click, spent.

ST JUST:

Damn.

CALL\SHIP

Warning --

and BOOM!!!!, the hall BURSTS OPEN, everything explodes into space, the

wind rushes out as

BOOM!!!, the whole garden sector rips open, sucked out, as

ANGLE:
RIPLEY

is the last to get out, but the pressure change SUCKS HER she flies

backwards, the section door coming down just in time as she SLAMS into

it, the door closing fully as she falls, lack of pressure sucks at the

door itself, it creaks and be inward slightly, but it holds.

The others have exited into the next hall. They've been tossed about,

but not as badly.

Call stops, runs back to Ripley, helps her up. Ripley is dazed; the

door hit the back of her head solidly.

CALL:

Can you walk? RIPLEY

I think I...

CALL:

I'm not f***ing carrying you

Ripley doesn't even hear her; something else drowns Call out. Ripley

puts her hands over her ears.

RIPLEY:

Mistake ... mistake...

CALL:

Ripley.

RIPLEY:

I can hear them, in the hive... it's close...We're on the hive.

CALL:

Jesus. Come on.

RIPLEY:

I can hear them... the queen...

CALL:

What... ?

RIPLEY:

She's in pain.

They CRASH UP through the floor panels, six of them, surrounding the

two women.

Call can barely spin before Ripley GRABS her and HURLS her fifteen feet

down the corridor, out of harm's way.

The aliens close on Ripley. She struggles but she's still weak. One

slams her onto the ground call recovers, looks back at Ripley

As the aliens drag her unconscious body back down under the floor.

CALL:

RIPLEY!

CUT TO:
INT. AIR VENT - CONINUOUS

Dark, cramped, and already covered with a hardening layer of resin.

Skittering, insectile motion at one end heralds the aliens, as two of

them crawl rapidly along. The third craw upside down, the

semiconscious Ripley draped over its chest If she were awake, and

out.vf her mind, she could be kissin the beast.

Her eyes flutter open, but she is obviously still groggy.

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