Cube Page #6

QUENTIN:

But it is pointless!

WORTH:

Quentin... That's my point.

HOLLOWAY:

What have we come to? It's so much worse than I thought.

WORTH:

Not really, just more pathetic.

QUENTIN:

You make me sick, Worth!

WORTH:

I make me sick too. We´re both part of the system. I drew a box - you walk a beat. It's like you said Quentin is: Keep your head down, keep it simple, just look at what's in fron of you! I mean nobody wants to see the big picture. Life's too complicated. I mean, let's face it. The reason we're here is it's out of control.

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Quentin turns around.

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HOLLOWAY:

Is that how we're ruining the world?

LEAVEN:

Daah! Have you been on glue all of your life. I felt guilty for ruining the world since I was like... seven. God! If you need someone to blame, throw a rock.

WORTH:

Now I feel better.

HOLLOWAY:

That's why you stayed with us. To confess.

WORTH:

Still looking for someone to bust, Quentin?

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Quentin turns around again and begins to beat Worth.

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HOLLOWAY:

Quentin, Quentin, STOP IT!

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Leaven grabs Quentin's arm.

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LEAVEN:

We need him.

QUENTIN:

What for?

HOLLOWAY:

Have you gone absolutely mad? He's the only one who knows nything about the place.

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Worth falls to the ground. Quentin walks away.

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LEAVEN:

Worth...

WORTH:

Hi...

LEAVEN:

So there's this outer shell.

WORTH:

Yeah.

LEAVEN:

And it's a cube, like this?

WORTH:

I assume so.

LEAVEN:

Are there any doors?

WORTH:

There's one door.

LEAVEN:

Where?

WORTH:

Wherever the doorguy put it. Six guesses and it's sealed from the outside.

LEAVEN:

What are the dimensions of the outer shell?

WORTH:

434 feetsquare.

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Leaven starts to take steps inside the room until she gets to Kazan.

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LEAVEN:

May I?

HOLLOWAY:

Come on. Side over.

LEAVEN:

14 by 14 by 14.

WORTH:

The inner cube cannot be flushed by the shell. There is a space.

LEAVEN:

One cube?

WORTH:

I don't know. It makes sense.

LEAVEN:

Well, the biggest the cube then can be is... 26 rooms heigh, 26 rooms across, so... 17.576 rooms.

HOLLOWAY:

17.576 rooms? Oh, God that makes me queasy.

LEAVEN:

Descartes...

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Leaven opens a new door and puts on her glasses.

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LEAVEN:

Leaven, you are a genius!

QUENTIN:

What?

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We see three numbers: 517 478 565

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LEAVEN:

Cartesian co-ordinates, of course, coded Cartesian co-ordinates. They are uses in geometry to plot points on a three-dimensional graph.

QUENTIN:

In English. Slower.

LEAVEN:

Bonjour, these numbers are markers, a grid-referance, like altitude and longitude on a map. The numbers tell us where we are inside the cube.

QUENTIN:

Then where are we?

LEAVEN:

It works! Ok, all I have to do now is add the numbers together. The X co-ordinate is 19, Y is 26 rooms. So that places us... seven rooms from the edge.

QUENTIN:

Alright, let's go.

WORTH:

Just out of curuiosity. I mean don't hit me again or anything. But what are you gonna do when you get there?

QUENTIN:

Maybe we can get the door open.

WORTH:

Wrong.

HOLLOWAY:

What we need to do is figure out how we get around the traps.

QUENTIN:

I'm dealing with that Holloway. I'm looking for practical solutions here.

HOLLOWAY:

Well, you haven't found any yet!

QUENTIN:

We cut the risk with the numbers and the boot. Worth will go in first.

HOLLOWAY:

No he won't Quentin, we take turns!

QUENTIN:

Relax.

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The camera fades. The first we see is someone nervous playing with his/hers button.

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QUENTIN:

Is there room for two in there?

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Quentin crawls in to Leaven.

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QIENTIN:

What's the matter?

LEAVEN:

These co-ordinates: 14, 27, 14.

QUENTIN:

What about them?

LEAVEN:

Well, they don't make sense. Assuming the cube is 26 rooms across, there can't be a co-ordinate larger than 26. If that was right, then we would be outside the cube.

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Leaven looks up, and looks around.

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LEAVEN:

No, not outside the cube.

QUENTIN:

I guess that means we're not having dinner.

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The camera fades. First we see the group opening the door in the floor.

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KAZAN:

Trap, trap, trap. TRAP!

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We see a blue room. Just after Kazan says trap the last time. A lot of spears come out from the walls until the room is filled with spears. In the end the spears go back again.

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KAZAN:

TRAP!

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The spears come again, and goes away in the end.

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QUENTIN:

(Whispers) It's soundactivated. BOOOH!

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The spears come, and goes away. They close the door.

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QUENTIN:

Lovely.

LEAVEN:

How come the sound of the door-opening didn't set it off?

QUENTIN:

Must be reat to ignore it.

HOLLOWAY:

So that's it. The edge is surrounded by traps.

LEAVEN:

Well, I guess we have to backtrack and try somewhere else.

QUENTIN:

Who knows how many detours we'll have to take. I say we cross the b*tch.

HOLLOWAY:

Right.

QUENTIN:

How many boots do we have left Holloway?

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They look at Kazan's feet. Just one boot left.

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QUENTIN:

Get it off him. We know how it works, we just have to be quiet.

WORTH:

Pretty f***ing quiet.

QUENTIN:

I'm glad you're on sight Worth, because you're up.

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Kazan makes a sound.

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