Hollow Man Page #16

CARTER:

He couldn't.

MATT:

Sebastian! We're here to help.

Sebastian.

No response. They both don their visors and move forward

slightly. Carter holds up his hand.

CARTER:

There. Behind those pipes. He's not

moving.

Carter points. Matt checks his thermal. A red heat

signature clings to the wall.

CARTER (cont'd)

Doctor Caine?

(beat)

Can you hear me?

No response.

MATT:

(into walkie)

We see him. But he's not responding.

The heat signature doesn't move.

Matt looks through his visor and holds the tranquilizer

gun at the ready. He looks for a clear shot. The heat

signature huddles behind pipes.

MATT:

C'mon... C'mon...

The two slowly move closer. Matt finally has a clear

shot. He signals Carter. Carter levels his pistol too.

CARTER:

Covered.

Matt fires the dart at the heat signature. It bounces off

the wall ... Nothing there.

MATT:

What the...

He crosses to the heat signature.

MATT (cont'd)

Just a vent. Just a goddamn vent

LINDA (V.0.)

He was there.

MATT:

Looks like... looks like we're pumping

out heat...

Suddenly behind him... CARTER JERKS THREE FEET in the

air, kicking wildly. SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR BY HIS NECK. He

gasps for air.

LINDA (V.0.)

I got movement again! He's right on

top of you!

MATT:

No f***ing sh*t!

Matt opens fire with the tranquilize, shooting at the

ceiling until he spends his dart rounds.

MATT (cont'd)

Sebastian? Goddamnit! Let him go.

CARTER:

(choking)

H...Help... MMmmphg

Carter suffocates. He passes out. With a sudden crack,

he's thrown against the side wall. A large cut opens up

across his head and his body goes limp.

MATT:

(into walkie)

Where is he? Where the f*** is he?!?

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY

Linda huddles over the display.

LINDA:

Right on top of you.

INT. CORRIDOR - DAY

Matt scrambles away. Running. Pipes burst and swing down

from the ceiling. Steam billows forth. Something moves

through the cloud of steam.

Around the corner, Matt shoves more darts into his

tranquilizer.

LINDA (V.0.)

What's going on? Are you okay?

MATT:

Carter's down. Hurt bad. Bleeding from

a head wound.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Linda watches the screen. Two blips, one traveling

quickly.

LINDA:

Matt, he's coming toward you.

INT. CORRIDOR - DAY

Matt takes a few steps back.

MATT:

Sh*t.

LINDA:

Got outta there.

Matt breaks into a run.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM

Linda watches one dot chasing the other, down several

corridors.

LINDA:

He's close!

INT. TUNNEL

Matt running, checking over his shoulder. Sounds of

footsteps behind him, but up ahead the heavy metal blast

doors begin to close.

MATT:

Goddamnit. The doors are closing. He's

shutting me in.

Matt rushes the doors as they slide shut. He doesn't make

it in time. The doors close with a resounding clang. Matt

turns and pulls on his thermals.

MATT (cont'd)

Where is he?

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Linda huddled over the screen. Tense.

LINDA:

He's coming right at you!

Then checks the Thermal goggles. Several heat signature

dot the tunnel.

MATT:

Where?

LINDA:

Twenty, maybe thirty feet.

MATT:

Goddamnit, I got thermals all over the

place. Eight, maybe ten of them. Must

be ghosts.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Linda gets a sense of forboding. She looks around the

room. Sees a heating vent in the corner.

Beat.

She grabs the walkie.

LINDA:

Those signatures ... they're coming

from the heating vents.

Through the goggles, Matt sees the tunnel turning red.

MATT:

I'm starting to lose resolution on my

thermals.

LINDA:

Get out of there!

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM

FRANK:

If the room temperature is the same as

his body temperature, thermal

visors'll be no good.

Linda grabs a Tranq gun and heads for the door.

LINDA:

I'm going!

FRANK:

Linda...it's not safe.

LINDA:

That's why I'm going.

(to Frank and Sarah)

Corridor eight is clear. Get Carter to

the lab. We'll meet you there.

FRANK:

But...

LINDA:

Do it.

INT. CORRIDOR

Matt turns to face the corridor. It's turning red. Matt

sees some movement in the thermal cloud. Opens fire. But

the thermal signature disappears into the heat. Matt

can't distinguish anything through his goggles anymore.

He pulls them off and holds him gun in front of him

sweeping the hallway.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Marco...Polo... Marco... Polo...

His voice keeps shifting. Matt fires.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE (cont'd)

Not even close.

Matt sweeps his front leg back and forth, like a blind

man using a cane. But his foot isn't hitting anything. He

sees a FIRE EXTINGUISHER mounted on the wall. He rushes

it, turns it on the hallway and sprays. And SOMETHING

LUNGES through the foam. GRABS HIM, sending him tumbling

down the tunnel. Matt is thrown against the wall. Blood

coming from his brow. He scrambles away, spraying more

foam. Sees a shape in the mist, raises his pistol and

FIRES. The shape leaps away. The DART FLIES. Doesn't hit.

Matt scrambles back into a corner. His pistol is empty.

SEBASTIAN:

So... just out of curiosity, how long

has my best friend been f***ing my ex-

girlfriend.

MATT:

Sebastian. Get a hold of yourself. You

aren't thinking rationally.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

She's a pretty sweet f***, isn't she?

MATT:

Calm down, Sebastian... we can talk

this through. It's not too late.

The Shape parts the low hanging mist, the fine powder

swirling in clouds behind it. Coming toward him.

MATT (CONT'D)

C'mon Sebastian. Don't do this. I'm

your friend.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

I'm sorry, but I just feel that our

friendship is holding me back. I'm

sure you understand.

THE DOOR OPENS. Linda reaches through, grabs Matt. She

pulls him to his feet and through the door.

INT. TUNNEL

Frank and Sarah, holding their Tranq pistols, fly down

the corridor.

SARAH:

This way.

They shear off the main corridor into the side corridor.

Carter lies crumpled up ahead. Sarah slides to his side.

Carter's head rests in a pool of blood. She checks his

pulse while Frank takes a protective position.

SARAH (cont'd)

Pulse is weak. Breathing... shallow.

FRANK:

He'll be okay.

SARAH:

It's pretty severe. We have to get him

to the lab.

FRANK:

He's got to be okay.

Frank stands frozen.

SARAH:

For godsakes, help me.

Frank snaps to. Grabs an arm. The pair hoist Carter up

and carry him down the hallway.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM

Linda pulls a handle and doors slide shut behind them.

MATT:

He was going to kill me.

Linda pulls him close.

LINDA:

I know. He's gone.

MATT:

We've got to got out of here.

Linda checks the screen -- see Sarah, Frank and Carter

headed toward the Laboratory.

MATT (cont'd)

Where is he? Goddamnit, where is he?

Isolated in the Hallway of Habitats is a single blip.

LINDA:

Habitats.

MATT:

Oh god. That's right between us and

the lab.

INT. LABORATORY

Frank and Sarah lift Carter onto a medical table.

SARAH:

His pulse is faint.

Sarah grabs a sheet from the counter top. Folds it and

presses it against the head wound.

SARAH (cont'd)

He's lost a lot of blood. Here. Hold

this.

She guides Frank's hands to the wound.

SARAH (cont'd)

Keep applying pressure.

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