Hollow Man Page #2

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CLOSE ON:
MATT as he shuts off the spinning cyclotron. As

it s spinning slows to a halt, he pops the top and

reaches in, removing...

A GLOWING VIAL OF ORANGE LIQUID.

Sebastian peers at the vial.

SEBASTIAN:

Who da Man? You da Man.

MATT:

As we pull out we see we are.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

Almost feels like a dungeon. Think high-tech

Frankenstein. Walls lined with video displays, technical

readouts, bizarre medical equipment.

On a table in the middle of the room, a sheet drapes over

a humanoid form, strapped down at it s invisible limbs.

The straps move slightly... ghostly. Wires lead from the

body to lots of machinery.

MATT:

Protocol is hot.

SEBASTIAN:

Vitals?

Sarah, checks over the various readouts ... heartbeat,

blood pressure, the rest.

SARAH:

Normal.

CARTER ABBEY, the late thirties lab assistant, wheels in

a cart of equipment. Linda taken a seat by the table and

pushes aside the sheet.

BOOMING VOICE:

THIS IS GOD. YOU ARE DISTURBING THE

NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS AND WILL BE

SEVERELY PUNISHED FOR ALL ETERNITY.

GOD HAS SPOKEN.

SEBASTIAN:

How many times do I have to tell you,

Frank you aren t God.

(beat)

I am.

FRANK (LOUDSPEAKER)

Sorry, Boss. Forgot.

Sebastian glance up at a glass booth overlooking the

Laboratory floor. TWO PEOPLE in the booth.

SEBASTIAN:

You guys ready to roll?

INT. OBSERVATION BOOTH

FRANK CHASE, early thirties, and tech expert JANICE

WALTON, early twenties, man a small booth above the lab.

They re dressed more like band roadies than scientists.

The room is crammed with electronic and recording

equipment. A handful of monitors display different images

of the lab. Thermal and regular video. Another screen

monitors vital signs.

FRANK:

We are live and in color. On your

mark.

Frank and Janice looks down on their colleagues.

Sebastian nods their way.

SEBASTIAN:

Okay. Roll em.

JANICE:

Okay. We are rolling record on videos

one through twelve.

Frank hits a series of buttons and speaks into a

microphone. Recording.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

Frank s voice echoes through the chamber.

FRANK (V.O.)

Subject Isabelle Two. Currently in

phase shift... one hundred twenty six

days, eighteen hours.

LINDA:

Testing De-Phase protocol. Injecting

serial protein Caine One Two Five.

Linda removes a glowing vial of orange liquid from a

centrifuge nearby.

MATT:

Maybe if you stopped naming them after

yourself, you d have better luck.

SEBASTIAN:

Why thank you, Dr. Kensington, for

that keen scientific observation. I ll

be sure to include it in my memoirs.

MATT:

A whole mention? And I thought I was

just gonna be a footnote.

Matt unwraps a hypodermic needle and jabs the needle into

the vial, drawing up the colored liquid.

INT. OBSERVATION BOOTH

MATT:

Okay.

Frank and Janice monitor Isabelle s vitals.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

Tension in the air.

SEBASTIAN:

(to Linda)

Ready.

She wraps a bungee cord around nothing and pulls it

tight. She then takes some dye and sprays it. A surface

appears, floating beneath the restraints. It sheens in

the light as Linda searches for a vein. She slaps the

surface several times. A small bulge appears, like a

vein.

LINDA:

Propped.

MATT:

Let s make some history.

Matt lowers the hypo to the vein. But Sebastian takes the

hypo from Matt s hand.

SEBASTIAN:

Nice try, Sparky.

Matt relinquishes the needle.

LINDA:

Come on, Isabelle. You can do this.

Sebastian lowers the hypo. The skin bonds and gives. The

needle remains in sight after it slips through the

visible surface. Matt presses down on the hypo plunger,

releasing a dye into his bloodstream. The gold liquid

twists into a long snaking tube up and down the limb.

It s the shape of a vein. The liquid begins to react.

Small flashes of light blip up and down the strand of

color. Ba-bump.. ba-bump... the heartbeat starts to speed

up.

SARAH:

Elevated heartbeat.

INT. OBSERVATION BOOTH

Janice analyzes the screens.

JANICE:

We re still in the green.

FRANK:

Confirmed. Vitals still in the normal

range.

INT. LABORATORY

The glowing liquid turns from gold to red as the complex

webbing of a bloodstream appears.

MATT:

It s reacting.

Spreading out from the bloodstream, soon becomes

visible.. the shadow of a skeletal system.

SEBASTIAN:

Do you see this?

LINDA:

It s working. It s actually working.

Matt pulls the sheet back. Muscles are beginning to

appear. And eyeballs. Frightened eyeballs.

SARAH:

Heart rate s up. She s scared.

Sarah soothes her.

SARAH (cont d)

It's okay, baby. It's okay.

SEBASTIAN:

Subject began manifesting almost

Immediately. Protocol is reacting

quickly.

Isabelle starts to struggle against her restraints. She

begins to howl.

LINDA:

Subject may be in pain or extreme

discomfort.

SARAH:

Goddamnit. Blood pressure elevating.

Brain activity going through the roof.

The brain appears, seemingly growing from the inside out.

The shape of a large half-formed monkey grows from the

inside out. A SKULL APPEARS howling in pain, in horror.

SARAH (cont d)

We ve got a problem.

SEBASTIAN:

What? What problem!

Sarah checks her monitors.

SARAH:

It s her heart. We can see the heart

beating in the ape s

FRANK (V.0.)

I got an erratic heart beat.

SARAH:

She s going into cardiac arrest.

LINDA:

Got the crash cart.

Carter charges the crash cart and rolls it in.

SARAH:

We re losing her.

Her machine flatlines.

SEBASTIAN:

No! It s got to work.

The body is only half there. It looks as if its caught in

decomposition. Linda rubs the cardiac paddles together.

LINDA:

Clear!

Linda slams the paddles on the monkey s chest. The jolt

of electricity makes the monkey visible again for a brief

moment. Then the skin and flesh fade away again.

SARAH:

We ve got something!

The heartbeat starts up again. The body continues its

march toward,visibility.

SARAH (cont d)

Still. erratic.

LINDA:

Come on Isabelle. Come on. You can do

it. You can f***ing do it.

Everybody s pulling for her.

SARAH:

Come on, monkey.

MATT:

Do it. Do it. Come on.

Muscles spread like a rash on bone as the monkey twists

and turns, frightened. Then skin. The monkey howls. Skin

forms over the muscles reappearing like it was being

painted on before our eyes.

SARAH:

Stabilizing.

The entire form glows, then blinks, then glows again, as

if it was discharging some stored energy.

FRANK (V.0.)

Brain activity returning to normal.

The monkey grunts and groans. Blinks its eyes. Linda

hovers over it stroking its fur.

LINDA:

Welcome back, Isabelle.

Sebastian puts his hand on Linda s shoulder... a move

that does not go unnoticed by Matt. We did it.

SEBASTIAN:

(beat)

How is she?

SARAH:

(surprised)

I think she s gonna be okay

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