Event Horizon Page #7

FOLLOW the safety line into the dark...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

An alcove, opening into a vast chamber. Once pristine, all

the surfaces have been coated in a dark gray slick. Globules

of fluid hang motionless, sticking to Justin's suit, leeching

away his light and swallowing him in darkness.

COOPER (O.S.)

(radio)

...do you copy?

JUSTIN:

(quiet)

Uh, yeah Coop, I'm still here.

COOPER (O.S.)

(radio)

Sh*t! Do not do that! Where the f***

are you?

JUSTIN:

I'm in the Second Containment area.

It's pitch black in here. There must

have been a coolant leak. Man, this

sh*t is everywhere. I can't see a

damn thing.

A lighted console blocks Justin's view of the chamber beyond.

He drifts over to it, wipes the console clear of coolant,

revealing dim lights: the station has power.

JUSTIN:

The reactor's still hot. Coolant

level is on reserve, but still in

the green.

TIGHT ON JUSTIN'S FACE AS THE LIGHTS COME ON

JUSTIN:

(triumph)

I got it...

His expressions changes as he looks past the console and

sees... something.

JUSTIN:

(trailing off in awe)

Holy sh*t...

COOPER:

Justin?

JUSTIN:

I think I found something...

JUSTIN'S POV - THE CORE

A massive sphere, 10 meters in diameter, dominates the center

of the second containment. Intricate machinery surrounds the

sphere but the globe itself is featureless, smooth; a

enigmatic monolith. Black ice encrusts it, giving it the

seeming of a living thing.

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

They stare at Justin's monitor.

SMITH:

What the hell is that?

WEIR:

That's the Core:
the gravity drive.

The heart of the ship.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

Justin, check the containment for

radiation leaks. Peters...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

...how's the client?

PETERS:

Crystallized.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

Justin examines the outer wall of the Core, looking for any

cracks or ruptured seams.

MILLER (O.S.)

(radio)

Justin, finish your sweep.

JUSTIN:

Almost done, I just gotta check one

thing...

Justin turns to the Core...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

Justin's monitor fills with static.

STARCK:

Justin, hold on a sec, you're breaking

up...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

STARCK (O.S.)

(radio)

Justin...?

(static obscure her

voice)

Justin reaches towards the Core with his pressure sensor.

His helmet light flickers. He hesitates...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Miller's helmet light flickers...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Peter's helmet light winks out...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE

STARCK:

Justin, come in...

Suddenly, the bio-scan lights up, from green to red as signals

race across the display.

WEIR:

What is it?

STARCK:

I don't know. The life readings just

went off the scale.

SMITH:

Something's wrong...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

Justin places the pressure sensor against the Core. Touching

it.

The Core turns deepest black. A darkness that light cannot

penetrate. For a second, Justin's white suit is captured

against the hungry void...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT (TANK)

THEN THE VOID SUCKS HIM IN AND JUSTIN IS GONE...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Cooper stares in shock as Justin's safety line as it reels

out at an incredible rate -- 250 meters, 300 meters...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT A WAVE

surges out of the Core, bending light like a ripple on a

pond, pushing coolant and debris before it...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MAIN ACCESS CORRIDOR - NO AIRLOCKS

The gravity wave surges forward, blowing out emergency lights

as it comes, flotsam and jetsam swirling in its wake...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Data floods Miller's workstation, flashing across the screen

too fast for comprehension...

INT. BLACKNESS OF CORE

FOLLOWED BY A FACE -- JUSTIN...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

MILLER:

What the hell...

A DEEP ROAR fills the ship. Miller rises to investigate...

The door BLOWS APART as THE WAVE HITS, ripples through the

Medical Bay towards Miller...

MILLER:

Oh sh*t...!

Debris swirls around him... the wave sweeps him up... SLAMS

him into a bulkhead...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - BRIDGE JUSTIN'S POV SCREEN

the briefest suggestion of a SCREAMING FACE, obscured by

STATIC and ROLL before the screen CUTS to static entirely.

The rest of the crew's POV screens go dead as...

...the wave hits them, threatening to tear the Lewis and

Clark apart. The ship shudders violently. Consoles EXPLODE

with sparks. Weir and the others hold on for dear life.

STARCK:

Miller, do you read me, Peters --

SMITH:

Get them back --

STARCK:

I'm trying, goddammit --

An equipment rack IGNITES. Smith grabs an extinguisher, fights

the blaze...

INT. LEWIS AND CLARK - AIRLOCK BAY

Cooper and DJ, bracing against the bulkhead. Cooper hits the

intercom.

COOPER:

What's happening?

STARCK (O.S.)

(intercom)

I don't know, the screens are dead...!

Cooper peers out the airlock window.

JUSTIN'S SAFETY LINE

passes 350 meters and accelerating...

COOPER:

350 meters... 400 meters...

DJ:

He's in trouble. Go!

COOPER:

I'm gone!

Cooper grabs his helmet. DJ helps him lock the helmet into

place with a HISS.

The inner airlock door opens. As Cooper enters the airlock,

Justin's safety reel stops, the line jerking taut at 500

meters.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Miller tries to get his bearings in the dark.

MILLER:

Boarding party, sound off... Peters,

do you read me... . Peters...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - BRIDGE

Peters' light, too, remains dark, but Neptune's blue light

fills the Bridge. The frozen corpse floats before her. No

longer a man.

A young boy, maybe five years old. His legs are withered,

useless things. The skin remains a crystallized surface, but

the eyes look straight at her, alive.

PETERS:

Denny...

Peters reaches out to touch the body. It falls away from

her. No longer her son, but the body of the astronaut. It

hits the door and shatters.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

MILLER:

(growing desperation)

...Peters, do you read me...

A MAN'S VOICE, in agony, CRACKLES over Miller's radio:

VOICE:

(radio)

Don't leave me...

MILLER:

Justin? Justin, sound off...

Justin...!

Miller trails off as RED LIGHT flickers across his visor. He

turns...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE (BURNING MAN) POV

MILLER:

A BURNING MAN stands in Medical/Science, a human body wreathed

in flame. The eyes are like sunspots. As the Burning Man

moves, bones and black flesh poke through the fire. He raises

one hand to point at Miller in accusation...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - MEDICAL/SCIENCE

Miller's BREATH stops in his throat. His mouth works but

nothing comes out. He BLINKS...

...and the VISION is gone. Miller is alone, BREATHING hard.

INT. EVENT HORIZON - FIRST CONTAINMENT

Cooper enters at full speed, shooting through in a controlled

fall...

COOPER:

Hold on, Baby Bear...

INT. EVENT HORIZON - SECOND CONTAINMENT

...into the Second Containment. He catches himself at the

console. Cooper sees Justin's safety line, cut off abruptly

by the darkness of the Core.

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