Event Horizon Page #6

MILLER:

(calming her down)

Easy, Peters, we're okay, we're okay.

Let's finish the sweep.

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

Captain Miller, the foredecks are

just ahead.

PETERS:

I can see the hatch.

MILLER:

Starck, you still showing those

readings?

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

That's an affirmative.

MILLER:

(to Peters)

Keep your eyes open.

She nods as he reaches for the hatch...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - GRAVITY COUCH BAY

The hatch opens, allowing Peters and Miller entrance into

the forward decks. These areas were intended for human

habitation, and seem similar in design to the Lewis and Clark,

only larger.

Gravity couches line both walls, eighteen in all. Empty.

PETERS:

We found the gravity couches.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Weir peers eagerly at the monitors.

WEIR:

Any survivors?

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

Negative.

Hope drains from Weir's face.

WEIR:

No one?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - GRAVITY COUCH BAY

MILLER:

They're empty, Dr. Weir. Moving

forward.

Miller and Peters split up, each taking a separate exit from

the chamber.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Weir looks at Justin's POV screen: a grainy image of the

First Containment Seal.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR (BY FIRST SEAL)

Justin stands before a thick pressure door. Justin checks

the door with his thumper, his boots are now on.

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

You've reached the First Containment

Seal. The engineering decks are on

the other side.

JUSTIN:

We still have pressure. The radiation

count's steady at 7 millirads an

hour.

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

Background radiation. Perfectly safe.

Justin touches a panel beside the door. It opens. He enters...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - FIRST CONTAINMENT

...a long corridor shaped like a tube. It rotates like a

turbine, causing vertigo. Justin's BREATH echoes in his helmet

as he moves forward...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Cooper stares at Justin's safety line in the airlock.

THE SAFETY LINE:

counts off silently, passing 150 meters...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - CORRIDOR TO BRIDGE

The corridor ends at a pressure door.

PETERS:

Dr. Weir, what's this the door to?

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

You're at the Bridge, Ms. Peters.

You still haven't seen any crew?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Miller, moving through a deserted lab. Empty operating tables.

Stainless steel surgical instruments float in zero-G. A glove

floats up behind him, brushes his shoulder. He wheels... the

glove is empty. It spins away.

MILLER:

If we saw any crew, Doctor, you'd

know about it.

(looking around)

I'm in Medical. No casualties, it

looks like this place has never been

used.

He finds a computer console.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - CORRIDOR TO BRIDGE

Peters opens the door.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE ANTECHAMBER

Peters enters. Looks around: a small antechamber for crew

briefings, with chairs and a display table. Red crystals

float in a crimson mist around her.

PETERS:

I found something.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Weir peers at the monitors, trying to make out the red haze.

WEIR:

Yes, we can see some kind of mist.

What is that?

PETERS (O.S.)

(radio)

Blood. Looks like arterial spray.

WEIR:

(nervous)

Can you see a body?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE ANTECHAMBER

PETERS:

(confused)

There's no one here.

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

The blood came from somewhere,

Peters...

PETERS:

There's no one here, Skipper.

Peters takes a sample container from her belt. Carefully

tries to capture a suspended crystal...

PETERS:

Come on...

CLOSE UP OF THE BLOOD CRYSTAL

and the Container; Peters' brow furrowed with concentration.

WIDER AS A FLASH OF BLUE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATES THE ROOM,

REVEALING...

...THE WALL BEHIND PETERS, CASED IN A FROZEN EXPLOSION OF

BLOOD AND TISSUE. Someone died here in a violent and terrible

way.

Peters starts to look up but the flash dies away. She never

saw the horror behind her.

Peters turns her attention back to her tiny crystal. She

traps the it, returns the container to her belt.

She moves from the antechamber into...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Her helmet lights sweep the room. Every surface a control

panel.

PETERS:

Okay. I'm on the bridge.

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

What you got, Peters?

Peters examines the other consoles -- most are dark but for

a few dim lights.

PETERS:

Everything's been shut down.

Conserving power, I guess. Green

light on the hull, it's intact.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

MILLER:

The science workstation has power,

I'll see if I can find the crew from

here.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Weir stares at Peters' monitor.

WEIR:

Ms. Peters, turn back and to your

left, please.

On her monitor, Peters' POV shifts as she complies.

STARCK:

What is it?

WEIR:

Ship's log.

PETERS (O.S.)

(radio)

I see it.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Peters reaches towards a small video deck. Touches the eject

button. Nothing happens.

PETERS:

It's stuck.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - FIRST CONTAINMENT

Justin's light bounces off an even larger pressure door,

built like a bank vault. The Second Seal.

JUSTIN:

I've reached another containment

door. This thing's huge...

WEIR (O.S.)

(radio)

That's the Second Containment Seal.

Beyond that, engineering.

JUSTIN:

I'm going in.

Justin opens the seal. It releases SLOWLY, inching open.

Justin squeezes through.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Peters takes a small probe from her belt, inserts it into

the video deck.

A small laser disc emerges partway from the deck. Peters

pulls on it. It doesn't move.

PETERS:

It's really jammed in there.

A shadow crosses the window behind her. Someone -- something --

is in there with her...

Peters pulls harder. Nothing. Another effort. The disc pulls

free. Peters spins in the zero-gravity, spinning into...

...A BODY floating at the helm, the face illuminated by

Peters' helmet lights. His swollen tongue clogs his gaping,

screaming mouth. His cracked and crystallized skin is crossed

by a network of bloated veins. He has no eyes. Just like

Weir's dream.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Peters' monitor shows the CORPSE'S face, its mouth open in

mute agony. Weir GASPS.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Peters pushes free of the body.

PETERS:

(professional)

I found one.

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

Alive?

PETERS:

Frozen.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

The dead man's face leers from Peters' monitor.

STARCK:

What happened to his eyes?

SMITH:

Explosive decompression.

STARCK:

Decompression wouldn't do that.

Weir just stares at the ruined face, rapt. Starck notices.

STARCK:

You okay?

Weir nods, not taking his eyes from the screen.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Cooper, on station. He keys his radio.

COOPER:

Hey, Baby Bear, Mama Bear got a

corpsicle for ya...

No reply.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Miller looks up from the workstation, concerned.

COOPER (O.S.)

(radio)

Baby Bear, you copy?

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Cooper stares out at Justin's safety line slowly counting

off past 175 meters.

COOPER:

Justin, do you copy?

INT. EVENT HORIZON - FIRST CONTAINMENT

The Second Seal is open. Justin's safety line snakes into

darkness.

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