Event Horizon Page #13

Justin looks at her with dead eyes. He reaches out to gently

touch the glass between them.

JUSTIN:

If you could see the things I've

seen, you wouldn't try to stop me.

You'd come with me.

Justin's hand moves to the OUTER AIRLOCK DOOR control.

Hesitates... then floats to the OUTER AIRLOCK control. Hits

it.

PETERS:

(muffled)

NOOO!

A yellow warning light flashes. A warning klaxon WHOOPS,

deafening.

Justin jerks his hands to his ears, closes his eyes...

COMPUTER:

Stand-by for decompression. Thirty

seconds...

Justin opens his eyes as if waking from a dream...

JUSTIN:

Hey, Mama-Bear... what are doing...?

And then he realizes where he is...and what is about to

happen.

JUSTIN:

Oh my god OH MY GOD...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK BAY NO. 3

PETERS:

Starck!

STARCK:

I can't! The inner door can't open

once the outer door has been

triggered, it would decompress the

entire ship!

JUSTIN:

(muffled)

You gotta open, you gotta stop it,

please...

PETERS:

We have to do something, oh God...

STARCK:

(into radio)

Skipper, Justin just activated the

door. It's on a thirty second delay...

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - (MILLER'S CROSSING)

Miller moves through the Event Horizon superstructure,

recklessly leaping from one beam to another, trying to build

up speed.

MILLER:

Patch me through to him.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

Justin.

JUSTIN:

Skipper, you gotta help me...

COMPUTER:

Twenty seconds.

JUSTIN:

...tell them to open the door...

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

They can't do that Justin, now listen

carefully...

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

Miller moves faster and faster, his BREATH echoing in his

helmet. He can see the exterior airlock just beyond a deep

chasm in the ship's superstructure. If he misses this jump,

Justin will not be the only man to die today.

He doesn't hesitate but leaps, soaring across the chasm

towards the airlock.

JUSTIN:

(radio)

...I don't want to die...!

MILLER:

You're not going to die! Not today!

I want you to do exactly as I say

and I'm gonna get you out of there,

alright?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

JUSTIN:

But I can't... I gotta get out of

here... Skipper, please...

MILLER:

(radio)

Justin. I won't let you die.

Miller's words give Justin hope. He regains some control.

JUSTIN:

Okay... okay...

Justin breathes hard and follows Miller's hurried

instructions:

MILLER:

(radio)

Tuck yourself into a crouched

position, shut your eyes as tight as

you can!

STARCK:

Five seconds.

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - AIRLOCK NO. 3

Miller lands on the superstructure opposite the exterior

airlock.

MILLER:

(radio)

Exhale everything you got, Baby Bear,

we can't have any air in those lungs,

blow it all out...

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- AIRLOCK NO. 3

Justin goes into a fetal crouch and covers his eyes.

JUSTIN:

Oh god --

He wheezes out all his air...

EXT. EVENT HORIZON -- AIRLOCK NO. 3

Miller squats on the girder, ready to push off. He focuses

on the 5 meters of space between him and the airlock...

The outer doors OPEN...

The rush of escaping atmosphere carries Justin's body out...

Miller pushes off... catches Justin's body... sending them

both back towards the open Airlock...

Ice forms on Justin's body. His veins bulge. Blood fountains

from his noise and mouth, forming a red icicle over his face.

Miller pulls him into the Airlock. Five seconds have passed

since the airlock door opened.

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- AIRLOCK NO. 3

Miller closes the Airlock behind them. Air HISSES into the

chamber. Justin's body hits the deck as "normal" gravity

exerts itself.

Miller opens the Inner Door. Peters and DJ rush in.

PETERS:

Oh God... Justin...

DJ puts a tube in the Justin's mouth immediately, feeding

him oxygen.

PETERS:

I've got a pulse, he's alive...

DJ:

Pressure?

PETERS:

90 over 50 and falling... .

DJ:

He's crashing...

Blood bubbles from Justin's mouth and eyes. He GASPS, then

SCREAMS, spraying blood from his mouth.

DJ:

He can breathe. That's good. Let's

get him to Medical, go, go!

Starck helps DJ and Peters carry Justin from the Airlock.

Miller sits there, exhausted. Reaches up and pulls his helmet

off.

CUT TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- BRIDGE

Weir listens to

DJ (O.S.)

(intercom)

Intubate, pure oxygen feed, get the

nitrogen out of his blood...

PETERS (O.S.)

(intercom)

His peritoneum has ruptured...

DJ (O.S.)

(intercom)

One thing at a time, let's keep him

breathing. Start the drip, 15cc's

fibrinogen, Christ, he's bleeding

out...

CUT TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- GRAVITY COUCH BAY

One of the tanks has been activated. Swaddled in bandages,

Justin floats within, suspended in green gel. The others --

DJ, Starck, Peters, Miller, Weir -- look exhausted.

DJ:

He'll live... if we ever make it

back.

MILLER:

We'll make it.

STARCK:

CO2 levels will reach toxic levels

in four hours.

Peters stands, looking at Justin's ravaged form floating in

the tank.

MILLER:

(gently)

Peters. We need to know what happened

to the crew. Before it happens to

us.

PETERS:

(weakly)

I'll get back to the log. But on the

bridge, I won't go back, back in

there...

MILLER:

Thanks.

Peters exits.

STARCK:

Justin said something about, "The

dark inside me..." What did he mean?

WEIR:

It means nothing.

MILLER:

Is that your "expert opinion?" The

only answer we've had out of you is

"I don't know."

WEIR:

Justin just tried to kill himself.

The man is clearly insane.

DJ:

How would you explain your own

behavior?

WEIR:

What?

STARCK:

On the bridge. You said "it" wanted

you.

Weir glances at Justin...

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- GRAVITY COUCH BAY -- POV OF CLAIRE

But it's not Justin in the tank. It's his wife CLAIRE, naked,

wet, dead. Weir stares at her.

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- GRAVITY COUCH BAY

WEIR:

I said that?

DJ:

Yes. You did.

Weir blinks. Justin floats in the grav couch. Weir turns

back to the others.

WEIR:

I don't remember saying that.

(covers with a joke)

Maybe I'm insane, too.

Weir exits.

INT. EVENT HORIZON -- GENERIC CORRIDOR

Miller follows Weir out of the Gravity Couch Bay.

MILLER:

I want to know what caused that noise.

I want to know why one of my crew

tried to throw himself out of the

airlock.

WEIR:

Thermal changes in the hull could

have caused the metal to expand and

contract very suddenly, causing

reverberations --

MILLER:

(exploding)

That's bullshit and you know it! You

built this f***ing ship and all I've

heard from you is bullshit!

WEIR:

What do you want me to say?

MILLER:

You said this ship creates a

gateway...

WEIR:

Yes...

MILLER:

To what? Where did this ship go?

Where did you send it?

WEIR:

I don't know...

MILLER:

Where has it been for the past seven

years?

WEIR:

I don't know...

MILLER:

The "Other Place," what is that...?

WEIR:

I DON'T KNOW!

(beat, calm again)

I don't know. There's a lot of things

going on here that I don't understand.

Truth takes time.

MILLER:

That's exactly what we don't have,

Doctor.

CUT TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON - GENERIC CORRIDOR

Miller moves through the maze of the ship, heading for the

Bridge.

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