Event Horizon Page #5

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

The crew stares at the ship rushing past the viewport. A

huge spherical structure looms eerily ahead.

WEIR:

That's the engineering containment.

And there's the main airlock. We can

dock there.

MILLER:

Smith, use the arm and lock us onto

that antennae cluster.

WEIR:

Be careful. It's not a load bearing

structure...

EXT. EVENT HORIZON - LEWIS AND CLARK - MODEL

The Lewis and Clark carefully maneuvers in close to the Event

Horizon's airlock.

A mechanical boom-arm extends from the smaller ship to latch

onto the Event Horizon. Its clawed hand grabs the antennae

cluster. The cluster buckles under the stress.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

SMITH:

(to Weir)

It is now.

(to Miller)

We're locked in.

MILLER:

Starck, give me a read.

A scan of the Event Horizon appears across Starck's screen.

STARCK:

The reactor's still hot. We've got

several small radiation sources,

leaks probably. Nothing serious.

WEIR:

Do they have pressure?

STARCK:

Affirmative. The hull's intact...

but there's no gravity and the thermal

units are off line. I'm showing deep

cold. The crew couldn't survive unless

they were in stasis.

MILLER:

Find 'em, Starck.

Starck frowns at her display.

STARCK:

Something's wrong with the bio-scan.

MILLER:

Radiation interference?

STARCK:

There's not enough radiation to throw

off the scan. I'm picking up trace

life forms, but I can't get a lock

on the location.

WEIR:

Could it be the crew? If they were

in suspended animation, wouldn't

that effect the scan?

STARCK:

If they were in stasis, I'd get a

location, but these readings, they're

all over the ship. It doesn't make

any sense.

MILLER:

Okay. We do it the hard way. Deck by

deck, room by room. Starck, deploy

the umbilicus. I believe you're up

for a walk, Mr. Justin. Go get your

bonnet on.

JUSTIN:

Yes, sir!

Weir starts to follow Justin from the bridge.

MILLER:

Dr. Weir, I need you on the bridge.

WEIR:

Captain, I didn't come out here to

sit on your bridge, I need to be on

that ship...

MILLER:

Once the ship is secured, we'll bring

you on board --

WEIR:

(interrupting)

That is not acceptable --

MILLER:

(overlapping)

-- once we've secured the ship, that's

the way it is!

(beat)

I need you to guide us from the comm

station. This is where I need you.

Help us to do our job.

Weir exhales.

WEIR:

Very well.

CUT TO:

EXT. LEWIS AND CLARK - EVENT HORIZON - MODEL

The docking collar umbilicus extends to the Event Horizon's

airlock.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Miller, Peters, Justin and Cooper in EVA; Cooper and Justin,

without headgear.

COOPER:

...come on, Skipper, I already put

my shoes on...

MILLER:

(muffled)

You've had plenty EVA, Coop, it's

Justin's turn. Stay on station. If

anything happens...

COOPER:

I'll be all over it.

Miller nods to Peters.

PETERS:

(muffled)

Opening inner airlock door.

The inner airlock door opens: CH-THUNK. Miller, Peters and

Justin enter the airlock. Justin attaches his safety line.

Miller and Peters do not.

COOPER:

You still need the rope? I thought

you were one a those spacemen with

ice in ya veins.

JUSTIN:

I'd rather be on the rope and not

need it than need it and not have

it. Now step aside, old man.

Cooper puts Justin's helmet on. It seals tight.

COOPER:

(serious now)

You just keep your nose clean, Baby

Bear. Clear the door.

Cooper backs out, allowing the inner airlock door to shut,

ECHOING through the ship.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - UMBILICUS

Miller, Peters and Justin float down the brightly lit

umbilicus into the Event Horizon, all in EVA suits. Justin's

safety line trails out behind him.

The OUTER AIRLOCK DOOR of the Event Horizon waits for them.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Weir has taken over Justin's station. He watches the POV

monitors like a kid watching Christmas. Smith and Starck

keep tabs over his shoulder.

WEIR:

You've reached the outer airlock

door.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - UMBILICUS

Peters attaches a thumper -- a device using sound waves to

measure pressure -- to the inner airlock door.

PETERS:

We've got pressure.

MILLER:

Clear and open on my mark. Three...

two... one... mark.

Peters inserts a zero-G drill into the panel beside the door.

The door slowly opens...

CUT TO:

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - WITH AIRLOCKS

The immense corridor stretches away into darkness in both

directions. Distantly spaced windows manifest as remote pools

of blue light amidst endless black, adding to the vast sense

of scale.

The light from their dual spotlights on the team's helmets

reflects off tiny ice crystals of frozen atmosphere. They

are ants in a tomb built for giants.

PETERS:

Jesus its huge.

MILLER:

Ice crystals everywhere. This place

is a deep freeze.

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

You're in the central corridor. It

connects the personnel areas to

Engineering.

MILLER:

Peters and I will search the forward

decks. Justin, take Engineering. No

hot-dogging, not on this one, alright?

JUSTIN:

Not a chance, sir.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - NO AIRLOCKS

The group separates. Justin kicks off from the wall, shoots

down the corridor at immense speed.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - WITH AIRLOCKS

Miller and Peters move in the opposite direction. They use

magnetic plates on their boots and gloves to cling to the

walls as they slowly make their way down the dark shaft.

Their journey seems endless. The darkness almost seems a

living thing as it surrounds them.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - NO AIRLOCKS

Miller spots something at a coupling, where two sections of

the corridor join...

MILLER:

Dr. Weir, what's this?

Miller indicates a box nestled against the coupling. The

universal symbol for explosives is on the cover.

PETERS:

(ahead at the next

coupling)

Here's another one. They're all over

the place.

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

They're explosive charges.

MILLER:

I can see that, what're they for?

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

WEIR:

In an emergency, the charges detonate

in series, destroying the central

section and separating the personnel

areas from the rest of the ship.

That way, if the gravity drive

malfunctions, the crew could use the

foredecks as a lifeboat.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - NO AIRLOCKS

Peters and Miller keep moving.

PETERS:

That means they didn't abandon ship.

MILLER:

So where are they? Starck, any luck

with the bio-scan?

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

STARCK:

I'm running diagnostics now,

Skipper... Nothing's wrong with the

sensor pack, I'm still getting trace

life readings, all over the ship.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - NO AIRLOCKS

Miller and Peters unconsciously look around. Sweat beads

their faces.

PETERS:

There's no one in the corridor but

us.

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

Not according to the computer.

MILLER:

Peters is right, no one's here.

PETERS:

I don't know, this place is really

dark, I can't see a thing...

She starts to wave her searchlight around wildly.

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