Galaxy Quest Page #15

FRED:

You worked with Hopkins? I worship Hopkins.

Fred draws confidence from these words. The Monster is upon

Jason... It raises its fist...

JASON:

Digitize me, Fred.

A moment of concentration - as everybody holds their breath - and

then Fred works the controls. Jason is STILL THERE and..

89 THE MONSTER SMASHES DOWN HIS FIST RIGHT DOWN ONTO JASON....

at the very moment he digitizes. The fist goes right through the

scattering blocks. Everybody on ship holds their breath and

watches the..

90DIGITIZING PLATFORM 90

Jason's body Instantly DUCKS and CONTORTS to avoid the ROCK FIST

that moments ago descended uoon him. Everyone runs up to him as

he regains his composure, celebrating, hugging him and patting

him on the back. Even Alexander looks relieved, but won't admit

it.

ALEXANDER:

I see you managed to get your shirt off.

Jason looks over and sees Fred still at the controls, drenched.

He moves to him and shakes his trembling hand.

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FRED:

As good as Hopkins?

JASON:

Hopkins can't drink your bathwater Fred.

Fred wells with pride. Jason turns to the others.

JASON:

All right folks, let's get the hell out of here...

JASON:

Mathesar, we're back up and on our way to the command deck.

Mathesar? Come in Mathesar? Teb? Quellek? What's going on? Where

is everybody?

Gwen pushes a button on the monitors to see... SARRIS'S SHIP

OUTSIDE. Gwen punches another button and video panels light up

showing... SARRIS' MEN ALL OVER THE SHIP. IN THE GENERATOR ROOM,

THE HALLWAYS, THE COMAAND DECK... An INFESTATION.

TOMMY:

NO NO NO.

JASON:

We've got to get out of here. C'mon, hurry

But as they head toward the door, it OPENS, revealing SARRIS AND

A DOZEN OF HIS MEN, guns drawn. The actors. back away, except

for Jason who stands his ground as Sarris approaches.

JASON:

Listen Sarris, just hold on, just-

But Sarris BACKHANDS him brutally. Jason crashes to the floor.

Jason starts to stand, wiping blood from his mouth, but with a

nod from Sarris, six of his men surround Jason and begin to kick

and beat him on the ground brutally...

91-92OMIT

93INT. BARRACKS/PRISON93

The row of barracks down the long hallway have been converted to

prison cells. From inside these the hundreds of captured ALIENS

watch in despair as JASON, BLOODY AND BEATEN, is led down the

corridor. Sarris, his guards and the other crewmembers follow

behind. Weak and semi-conscious from the beating, Jason stumbles

and falls. Sarris produces a device and applies it to Jason's

neck. Jason cries out, his entire

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body convulses. The aliens push against the cell doors come to

his aid, but the guards beat them back mercilessly.

SARRIS:

If you cannot walk, Commander, then I suggest you crawl.

Jason hesitates. Sarris SHOCKS him again. Jason finally rises and

slowly begins to CRAWL forward. Everyone is silent. Numb.

94INT. MEDICAL DECK94

The area has been converted to an interrogation chamber. Jason is

led in with the others. Sarris' men interrogate a man strapped

to a table. They move aside to reveal Mathesar, barely alive.

But as he sees Jason, a ray of hope lights up behind his eyes. He

smiles.

MATHESAR:

Commander. Thank God you're alive... Now you will face justice,

Sarris.

SARRIS:

(laughs)

At every turn you demonstrate the necessity for your

extermination. The qualities of your species... Ridiculous

optimism, like little children. Building, always building. But

what you spend years to create, I take from you in days.

(to Jason)

Do you wish to save this man's life, Commander? And the life of

your crew?

JASON:

Yes.

SARRIS:

Then tell me one thing... What does it do, the device? The Omega

13.

JASON:

I don't know.

Sarris twists a dial. Mathesar writhes in pain on the table.

SARRIS:

Is it a bomb? A booby trap? Tell me!

JASON:

Stop, please! I don't know!

SARRIS:

Prepare a tear harness for the female...

JASON:

No! I swear I don't know! Please!

SARRIS:

Do you think I'm a fool? That the Commander does not know every

bolt, every weld of his ship?

Gwen fights the guards valiantly as they drag her to a table.

JASON:

But I'm not! I... I'm not the Commander!

Sarris turns, Interested. He motions his guards to halt.

SARRIS:

Wait. What did you say?

JASON:

Please, don't hurt them, it's not their fault. I'm not the

Commander, I don't know anything.

Mathesar looks at him, bewildered. Sarris looks Intrigued.

SARRIS:

Explain -

JASON:

Gwen. The show. There's no choice. Do it.

GWEN:

Computer, play the historical records of the GALAXY QUEST

missions.

A screen lights up with the opening of the first GALAXY QUEST

episode. We see the various actors in their roles, freeze framed

in action poses, intercut with the ship speeding through space.

Sarris watches, captivated. Realization dawns on his face. He

begins to laugh. Sarris turns to Mathesar, beaten and bloody,

but hope lightening in his eyes as he watches the show. That

tickles Sarris even more, he ROARS with laughter.

SARRIS:

Oh, this is wonderful. Wonderful. I treated you as a foe, but

no... You have done greater damage to these poor fools than I

ever could have. Bravo!... Bravo!

He puts his arm around Jason and leads him to face Mathesar.

SARRIS:

Tell him. This is a moment I will treasure. Explain who you

really are.

Jason looks up at Mathesar. A long pause.

JASON:

My name is Jason Nesmith. I'm an actor. We're all actors.

SARRIS:

Our dimwitted friends don't understand the concept of acting.

They have no theater, no imagination these scientists.

JASON:

We pretend...

SARRIS:

Simpler.

JASON:

We.. We lie.

SARRIS:

Yes... You understand THAT, don't you, Mathesar?...

Mathesar looks up at Jason, bewildered.

JASON:

I'm not a Commander, there is no National Space Exploration

Administration. There is no snip.

MATHESAR:

(perplexed, points to TV) But there it is!...

JASON:

A model, only as big as this.

MATHESAR:

But... Inside, I have seen-

JASON:

Sections of rooms made of plywood. Our Beryllium Sphere was

painted wire and plaster. The digital conveyor was Christmas

lights... Decorations. It's all a fake. I'm not him...

(looks at Gwen)

I'm a nothing. A nobody.

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MATHESAR:

But...Why?

JASON:

It's difficult to... On our planet we pretend in order to...

entertain.

Mathesar just stares. Sarris watches, eyes twinkling.

JASON:

That's how I make my living. Pretending to be somebody else.

Pretending to be Commander Peter Quincy Taggart... I'm... I'm so

sorry Mathesar...

Mathesar looks away, his eyes hollow, all hope gone.

SARRIS:

Now you know. This entire world you've concocted. All based on

nothing. Your beliefs... your hopes... All a dream. A wisp of

smoke. Now there is only pain.

Sarris moves to his Lieutenant, RAK LATHE.

SARRIS:

Lieutenant Lathe, I confess I am beginning to feel a bit foolish

myself. Chasing across the universe to obtain what is, I am now

certain, a bauble of fiction. Tell me how best to obliterate this

vessel? I would like nothing to remain.

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