Hollow Man Page #12

The video image of the Recovery Chamber flickers

slightly, before returning to normal.

INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER - NIGHT

Sebastian rises and begins to peel off his latex.

INT. HALLWAY OF HABITATS - NIGHT

Sebastian's POV - Various animals stir restlessly. A DOG,

visible, leaps against the Plexiglas, barking wildly. We

push further down the corridor.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT

Again, Sebastian's POV as he pushes through the open door

of the observation room. We see Frank sorting through

various computer readouts, highlighting certain coding

sequences.

We push in until we are looking over Frank's shoulder at

the video monitor. According to the video, Sebastian is

sleeping soundly in his room.

INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER - NIGHT

The rewired security camera stares down at the empty bed.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT

Frank glances over at the video monitor. He can see

Sebastian's heat signature lying in the bed.

Frank feels something on his neck. He flicks whatever it

is away with his hand and goes back to work.

INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

The elevator door opens. The Guard turns around. The

elevator is empty.

INT. METRO STATION, WASHINGTON D.C. - NIGHT

A Metro Subway train draws to a halt. With a cautionary

"BING BONG" its doors slide open. A handful of people

exit and enter. One man bumps shoulders. He turns round

to apologize, but there's no one there. The doors close

and the train pulls out of the station.

EXT. DOWNTOWN D.C. - NIGHT

A couple of pretty girls exit a bar and stumble to their

apartments.

INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT

One of the girls enters her apartment. The door half

closes behind her and then reopens and closes again.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - MORNING

Frank's reading a book when Linda and Matt enter.

MATT:

How'd it go?

FRANK:

Quiet. He worked in the lab till about

10:
30 and then went to sleep.

INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER - DAY

Close on the security camera. The wires have been removed

and the access panel replaced.

Sebastian whistles a cheerful tune as he finishes

applying his makeup. The door opens and Linda and Matt

enter.

SEBASTIAN:

Ah, my two favorite people. Good

morning.

LINDA:

Good morning.

MATT:

Why so cheery this morning?

SEBASTIAN:

You know some days you just wake up

feeling the world is full of

potential. Like your eyes have been

opened.

MATT:

I'm happy if I make it to my coffee

machine.

Linda hands Sebastian a disk.

LINDA:

I restructured the third genome on

your radiated protein strand. Thought

you might want to take look.

SEBASTIAN:

Cook up a batch and let's see where we

go.

LINDA:

I thought you'd want to take a look at

it.

SEBASTIAN:

I trust you. Now if you'll excuse me,

I need to have my head examined.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER - DAY

Linda pulls bags of frozen plasma from the shelves in the

walk-in storage freezer.

LINDA:

I'm telling you, I know him.

Something's going on.

MATT:

Think he knows about us.

LINDA:

If he knew about us, he'd be angry and

that wasn't angry.

INT. CORRIDOR - DAY

Janice heads up one of the corridors when something on

the floor catches her eye. She bends down and takes a

look at it. Barely visible on the floor is a fragment of

a BAREFOOT FOOTPRINT.

She runs her finger along the dried mud. It turns to

dust.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

Sebastian holds his latex head on his lap, while EEG

leads hang suspended in mid-air, outlining his real head.

Carter analyzes the results.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

When you were a kid, you ever dream

about being invisible?

CARTER:

Sure... all the time.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

What did you imagine you'd do?

CARTER:

The usual.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

What's the usual?

CARTER:

Hanging out in the girl's locker room.

Kicking Jimmy Margiani's ass.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Jimmy Margiani?

CARTER:

School a**hole. Drove a red Trans Am.

Back then, I was the size of a small

planet and made a rather large target.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Ever think up anything along the grand

scale?

CARTER:

Sure. World domination. Manipulating

stock markets, consolidating a

political power base. But those are

more recent fantasies.

Carter pulls off the electrodes and Sebastian slides on

his latex facemask.

SEBASTIAN:

And what if it weren't fantasy? What

if you were out there in the world and

could do whatever you wanted with no

consequences whatsoever. How far would

go? I mean... if it were real?

CARTER:

I don't know, man. Out in the real

world... I mean, there's a

responsibility...

SEBASTIAN:

Let's say you saw a woman with amazing

tits. Would you brush against them?

CARTER:

Hell, I try and do that now.

SEBASTIAN:

Human nature. So if you could get away

with more, would you do more?

CARTER:

I read that in a survey at a major

university they asked college students

"Would you steal if you were

guaranteed to get away with it?" 82%

said yes.

SEBASTIAN:

Eighty two percent? Makes you wonder

if the world's ready for what we're

doing.

CARTER:

So, Doc what did you do?

SEBASTIAN:

What do you mean?

CARTER:

When you were out.

SEBASTIAN:

I just walked around. Y'know.

CARTER:

Aw, you just walked around? Come on.

There's more, right?

SEBASTIAN:

Like what?

CARTER:

Man, I'd be walking up to people

saying sh*t like "This is God, go,get

a haircut." Or hanging out in the

changing room at Victoria's Secret.

SEBASTIAN:

Kind of sophomoric, don't you think.

Besides, it was late and I wasn't out

that long.

CARTER:

Well, did you see anybody?

SEBASTIAN:

There was this one girl.

CARTER:

Yeah? And did you mess with her?

SEBASTIAN:

Naw...

Sebastian gives Carter a sly grin.

SEBASTIAN (cont'd)

Well maybe a little.

(beat)

I tell you though, a man could get

used to it.

INT. LABORATORY - NIGHT

Alone, Linda packs up her stuff for the evening.

Slowly we push in on her and hear quiet breathing. We

realize we are in...

SEBASTIAN'S POV

Then ...

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Goodnight.

Linda-jumps.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE (cont'd)

Sorry, didn't mean to frighten you.

LINDA:

It's fine. I just didn't know you were

there. Goodnight.

As she leaves the Lab, he follows her down the hallway.

EXT. LINDA'S APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Linda passes through the revolving doors of her apartment

building. A few beats later, as if caught by a gust of

wind, the revolving door slowly turns on its own.

INT. APARTMENT'S HALLWAY - NIGHT

Linda slips into her apartment and the door closes behind

her. A moment later we see the doorknob turn back and

forth. It's locked.

EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT

On a fire escape, we see the ladder shake and descend to

the ground. The metal rattles back and forth as if

something were climbing it.

We slowly crane up the fire escape and hold on a window.

Through the wispy curtains and dirty glass we can see

Linda enter the room. The panel of glass fogs from

Sebastian's breath. The fog wipes away, seemingly by

itself.

But then through the window we see Matt walk into the

living room and put his arms around Linda's waist. We

hear a shocked intake of air.

He kisses her neck and then slowly unzips her dress. Her

dress falls to the floor. Matt takes off his sport coat

and drapes it over a chair, while Linda unfastens the

buttons of his shirt. They're laughing now, exchanging

kisses.

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