Event Horizon Page #12

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Peters has fallen asleep in her chair.

On the threshold of hearing, a distant POUNDING. Not a

heartbeat. Metal on metal. Something trying to get out.

Something trying to get in.

Peters wakes with a start.

PETERS:

Justin...?

She turns. Justin lies on the floor in a heap, completely

covered by his sheet. She crosses to him. Pulls back the

sheet...

Revealing empty nitrogen tanks.

PETERS:

Justin!

She looks up, eyes widening, as...

The IV bottles fill with blood. Blood fills the X-ray

lightboxes, it surges up from gutters in the floor...

And the pounding grows louder... LOUDER... almost to

Medical...

The spell breaks and she RUNS...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - GENERIC CORRIDOR

Peters sprints, the SOUND BOOMING after her, almost on her

heels...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE ANTECHAMBER

Peters darts into the Bridge Antechamber. She SLAMS the

pressure door shut behind her, CUTTING OFF the sound.

She turns. Weir, DJ, Starck look up from their work, staring

at her.

DJ:

What's wrong?

PETERS:

You didn't hear it? You must have

heard it!

STARCK:

Heard what?

Beat. Peters starts to LAUGH, part hysteria, part relief.

PETERS:

Oh... nothing...

DJ crosses to Peters, concerned.

DJ:

Sit down...

As he reaches out to touch her...

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. POUNDING ON THE DOOR ITSELF

Peters SCREAMS. DJ clutches her to him, backs away from the

door.

The POUNDING grows louder. LOUDER. The door vibrates with

each blow Starck puts her hands over her ears. Peters SCREAMS

at the door.

PETERS:

Stop it! Stop it!

But the POUNDING intensifies, metal GROANING under incredible

pressure.

DJ:

(shouting to be heard)

What is it?

Weir slowly walks to the door.

STARCK:

What are you doing?

WEIR:

It wants me. I have to go.

He reaches for the door.

STARCK:

No...!

Starck grabs him. He tries to shake her off, but she traps

his arm in a wrist-lock. He turns on her, his face furious...

...and the POUNDING stops. They remain frozen for a moment.

Afraid to breathe.

Weir shakes the trance.

STARCK:

In our current environment, Dr. Weir,

self-control is an asset.

WEIR:

I'm alright. Please.

In the distance, the POUNDING begins again. Moving away from

them.

The ship systems station BEEPS. A warning light flashes on

the console.

STARCK:

What is it?

WEIR:

The forward airlock.

STARCK:

(into radio)

Miller, Smith, Cooper, any of you in

the airlock?

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

That's a negative, Starck.

PETERS:

(realization)

Justin.

Peters, Starck and DJ rush from the Bridge, leaving Weir

behind.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR NO. 2 - WITH

AIRLOCKS:

Peters leads Starck and DJ down the corridor towards the

Forward Airlock bay. They round a corner in time to see a

figure moving in the Airlock.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

They race into the bay even as Justin steps into the Airlock.

He is naked.

PETERS:

Justin, no!

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

Justin turns and stares through them with cold eyes. He

reaches out to the airlock control.

The pressure door shuts with a HISS.

CUT TO:

EXT. LEWIS AND CLARK - HULL SECTION

Miller, Smith and Cooper cling to the Lewis and Clark's hull.

They carefully remove an access panel, revealing scorched

wiring.

COOPER:

We'll have to re-route through the

port conduit to the APU.

SMITH:

What about the accumulator...?

Starck's VOICE breaks in:

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

Miller, come in...

MILLER:

What's going on in there, Starck?

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

Justin's in the airlock.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

Starck at the intercom. The others huddle by the door.

MILLER (O.S.)

(intercom)

What?

STARCK:

He's awake, he's in the airlock,

he's not wearing a suit.

EXT. LEWIS AND CLARK - HULL SECTION

MILLER:

(to Cooper)

Stay here! Don't stop working!

COOPER:

But Justin...

MILLER:

I'll get him.

Miller swings his body around, heads across the umbilicus to

the Event Horizon. He moves in great leaps, using the magnetic

plates in his gloves and boots to keep from drifting off

into Neptune's thin atmosphere.

CUT TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

Starck works the airlock control panel without success.

STARCK:

He's engaged the override.

PETERS:

Can you shut it down?

She opens the Airlock access panel.

STARCK:

I'll try. DJ, you better get your

bag of tricks.

DJ nods, runs off. Peters bangs on the Airlock door.

PETERS:

Justin! Open the door!

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

Peters' voice barely penetrates the pressure door:

PETERS:

(muffled)

Open the door!

Justin turns off the artificial gravity. He begins to float

gently.

CUT TO:

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - (MILLER'S CROSSING)

Miller moves like a frantic spider across the surface of the

Event Horizon.

MILLER:

I'm on my way, Starck.

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

You better hurry. He's engaged the

override, we can't open the inner

door.

Miller curses under his breath, moves even faster...

BACK TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

Peters, against the window:

PETERS:

(muffled)

The door, Justin! Open the door!

He fixes his gaze upon the outer airlock door. And beyond

it, space. He speaks in a flat monotone:

JUSTIN:

Did you hear it?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

They are stunned to hear his voice. Peters answers:

PETERS:

Yes. Yes, Justin, we heard it.

STARCK:

Keep him talking.

PETERS:

Do you know what it was?

JUSTIN:

(muffled)

It gets inside you. It shows you

things... horrible things...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

JUSTIN:

...can't describe it... there are no

words...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Weir sits alone, listening to the VOICES on the intercom.

PETERS (O.S.)

(intercom)

What, Justin, what shows you?

JUSTIN (O.S.)

(intercom)

It won't stop, it goes on and on and

on...

PETERS (O.S.)

(intercom)

What does?

JUSTIN (O.S.)

(intercom)

The dark inside me.

A LOW MOAN escapes Weir's lips. He cradles his head in his

hands.

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - (MILLER'S CROSSING)

Miller races across the surface of the Event Horizon, the

only sounds, his LABOURED BREATHING, and Justin's tortured

VOICE, patched through on his radio:

JUSTIN (O.S.)

(radio)

...It's inside and it eats and eats

until there's nothing left.

PETERS (O.S.)

(radio)

"The dark inside..."? I don't

understand.

JUSTIN (O.S.)

(radio)

From the Other Place...

BACK TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

JUSTIN:

The other crew, they're there, they're

waiting for me. They're waiting for

you. I won't go back there... I

won't...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

Peters presses her face against the Airlock window, trying

to calm him:

PETERS:

Justin, look at me. Look at me. Open

this door.

DJ runs up with his medkit.

STARCK:

I don't think she can talk him down.

We need a sedative.

DJ:

If he opens the outer door he'll

turn inside-out.

Starck's hands fly as she re-wires the circuits. Sweat beads

her face.

STARCK:

Almost got it.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

PETERS (O.S.)

(muffled)

Come on, Baby-bear, open this door...

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