Hollow Man Page #19

OUTSIDE THE FREEZER

CLOSE ON THE REGULATOR as the dial turns from forty-five

degrees, down to negative twenty.

INSIDE THE FREEZER

Through the porthole, Linda sees the bloody footprints

heading toward the door. She removes the metal bar and

pushes on the door. It won't move.

LINDA:

Goddamnit.

Linda looks around the storage room. She grabs a roll of

duct tape and pulls off a length.

MATT:

What're you doing?

LINDA:

This is temporary.

She takes paper towel and cleans off Matt's wound. She

tapes it, using duct tape.

LINDA (cont'd)

You still with me?

MATT:

Barely.

A beat later, the compressor begins pumping Arctic air

into the freezer.

LINDA:

Just keeps getting worse.

Linda returns to the door. Shakes it.

INT. CHAMBER - DAY

We hear WHISTLING as we see a sheet of flesh fill out

into a head as Sebastian slides on his latex head piece.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda continues shaking the door. The lock holds. A tear

rolls down Linda's cheek, but a strange thing happens.

The tear drops freeze. Linda shivers as she pulls the icy

tears from her face.

LINDA:

Oh sh*t.

The inside thermometer has dropped to five degrees.

Linda grabs the metal bar and starts smashing it against

the porthole. The metal bar just bounces off the glass.

INT. SEBASTIAN'S OFFICE

A drawer opens, revealing a set of clothing neatly

folded. Shirt, pants, shoes. They begin to move.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda drops the metal bar and slides down the wall,

defeated.

MATT:

There's no way out.

LINDA:

There's got to be.

MATT:

They say freezing to death isn't so

bad. You just kinda pass out.

Matt's head rolls back.

LINDA:

Matt! MATT!

She checks his pulse. Thank god he still has one, but

he's not gonna last long. They're both already starting

to turn a little blue. Linda stares desperately up at the

shelves, trying to find some sort of advantage. Then she

sees something. She looks back at the door lock and then

she rises ... and grabs AN EXTENSION CORD coiled on the

shelf.

LINDA (cont'd)

We're not dying in here.

INT. BATHROOM - DAY

Sebastian, dressed in street clothes, stands before the

mirror applying make-up to his latex mask.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda finishes stripping the insulation off the electric

cord.

She grabs a hypodermic needle package, and her cold

fingers fumbles with the package as she tries to pull out

the plastic tube.

She finally gets it out and she starts wrapping the

stripped electric wire around the tube in a tight coil.

INT. BATHROOM - DAY

Sebastian slides on a wig and checks his appearance in

the mirror. Pretty smooth. Even from relatively close up,

he could pass as normal.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda furiously winds wire into a coil.

INT. CORRIDOR

Sebastian heads down the corridor. Lingering steam twists

in and around the hallway, long wispy tendrils. Sebastian

pauses for a moment, hearing A GROWL. Suddenly the

hallway seems a lot scarier. From beneath his scrubs he

pulls his own tranq gun. He listens ... hearing scraping

and footsteps. Watching the water on the floor twitch.

With machine like precision, he turns and fires. The

tranq dart halts in mid-air and some invisible thing

tumbles over.

Sebastian continues down the hallway.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda holds the plug end of the extension cord. The other

end is wrapped into a tight long coil. Linda looks for an

outlet, but can't find one. She looks at the overhead

lights.

A moment later she's climbing up the shelving. She wrap*

a piece of fabric around her hand, and with a sharp punch

she smashes one of the overhead light bulbs.

INT. LABORATORY

Sebastian enters, fully dressed. At a distance it'd be

hard to tell his secret. He pulls several chemicals off

the shelves. Then he pulls a tray of test tubes over and

begins mixing.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda works on jerry rigging the two ends of the wire to

the lightbulb, socket.

Suddenly the coiled wire springs to life and flies

against the nearest metal surface. She's made an

electromagnet.

INT. LABORATORY

Sebastian loads the filled test tubes into the

centrifuge. Dozens of other vials are already slotted. He

takes one of the left over vials, considers it a moment

and then flings it over to the other side of the lab. The

vial shatters and...

EXPLODES.

A powerful explosion that rocks the room.

INT. STORAGE FREEZER

Linda feels the rumbling as she places the coil up

against the door. The magnet attaches itself. Linda

shakes the coil, trying to get the doorlock to move.

OUTSIDE THE DOOR -

We see the lock twitching. Shaking...

INSIDE THE DOOR -

Linda shivers as she plays with the coil. Her eyes glaze

and she stumbles backward. Her surgical scrubs, once

soaked with sweat, are now frozen stiff. She composes

herself and pushes back toward the door. Her heavy breath

hangs as a low cloud of Mist.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

Sebastian looks over the dozens of other test tubes,

calculating their combined power in his mind. Then he

closes the top of the centrifuge. He taps a few commands

into its timer.

INT. SUPPLY ROOM

The door lock twitches again and twists back. The door

swings opens and Linda stumbles out, mashing into a

supply shelf of oxygen canisters. The canisters tumble

every which way as Linda tumbles to the ground.

She scrambles to her feet and goes in after Matt, pulling

his cold body out of the storage locker.

She pulls stacks of paper down from, the shelves into a

trashcan, grabs an industrial lighter and ignites the

paper. She pushes Matt close to the small bonfire. As she

does, the oxygen tanks catch her eye.

INT. CORRIDOR

Sebastian exits the lab, locking the door behind him. He

heads down the darkened tunnel. Something scampers in

front of him. Small, not visible. Sebastian sends it

reeling with a swift violent kick.

INT. CORRIDOR, BY THE ELEVATOR - DAY

Sebastian, dressed and in full latex, comes striding up

the tunnel. He taps a code into the elevator vault doors.

The vault doors open revealing the elevator.

The doors slide open and Sebastian steps inside.

ELEVATOR:

Authorization please?

SEBASTIAN:

Caine. One One One One One.

ELEVATOR:

Authorization valid. Thank you.

LINDA:

Sebastian!

And there's Linda. Slicked with dirt and blood. She holds

a oxygen container with a cut line.

LINDA (cont'd)

I can't let you leave. Come on out and

I'll give you one last chance.

SEBASTIAN:

You said it yourself, Lin. I shouldn't

hold on to the past.

The door starts to shut.

LINDA:

Aaaaaaahhhh!

She hits the top of a LIGHTER duct-taped to the hose. A

line of PRESSURIZED FIRE BLOWS into the elevator.

WWHHHOOOOSSHHHH! Sebastian goes up in flame. Linda runs

toward the elevator. Just as the door's about to close,

she slides. Her foot jamming into it.

She lets loose with the flame again. Sebastian, backed

into the corner, has no where to go. He's yelling in

pain. His latex FACE BUBBLES and burns. The surgical

scrubs SINGE BLACK. With no other escape route, he dives

toward the door. Linda looks up to see his flaming body

fly over her, back into the corridor. Linda kills the

tank as Sebastian continues to burn. The elevator lights

flickers and the security panel goes up in a shower of

sparks. The elevator dies. Linda pulls herself to her

feet and turns to see...

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