Hollow Man Page #8

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

You okay?

SARAH:

Yeah. Why?

SEBASTIAN:

You just seem a little nervous.

SARAH:

No. I...I'm fine. Hold still. This

might hurt a bit.

The surface of his skin sheens in the light as Linda

searches for a vein. She slaps his arm several times,

then plunges a hypodermic needle into his skin. His skin

bends and gives. The needle remains in sight after it

slips through the visible surface. Sarah presses down on

the hypo plunger, releasing a dye into his bloodstream.

SARAH (cont'd)

Dr. Caine... this might sounds stupid,

but are you... are you looking at me.

The red dye twists into a long snaking red tube up and

down his arm. His vein.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

No. I was looking at the clock. Why?

Sarah draws the plunger back, sucking Sebastian's blood

into the hypodermic and then yanks the needle out.

SARAH:

Just felt like someone was staring at

me.

Sarah pulls the vial off the needle and labels it with a

grease pencil. After a few beats the red dye in

Sebastian's blood stream dissolves and disappears, as

does the liquid in the vial.

TESTING MONTAGE:

INT. MRI ROOM

MATT slides Sebastian's sheet covered frame into an MRI.

Even though his head is not visible, it shown up on the

MRI scanner.

INT. MAIN LABORATORY

CARTER and SARAH lower a harness into a water tank.

SEBASTIAN'S BODY displaces the water, revealing an empty

body shaped cavity in the water.

INT. OBSERVATION ROOM

CARTER sips a BIG GULP and stares at a monitor which

shows two eat signatures in the Recovery Chamber, huddled

over a chess game.

INT. RECOVER CHAMBER

on a chessboard... A BLACK KNIGHT takes WHITE BISHOP,

seemingly all by itself.

Across the table, Matt leans back and topples his WHITE

KING acknowledging defeat.

INT. SPECTRAL LAB

Dim lights. Janice and Frank both don eye guards. Frank

switches on a low intensity laser on and it's beam shoots

across the room. The beam distorts slightly in the center

of the room. As Frank widens the spectral pattern,

suddenly the beam splits into a million different

spectral rainbows, momentary illuminating Sebastian's

entire frame in a glowing tingle of light.

INT. MAIN LABORATORY

LINDA pulls vials from the cyclotrons and props blood

sample slides. She slips them under the microscope. She

takes a sip of her Diet Coke and puts it on the table.

She pears into the microscope and analyses the blood

sample, squeezing more stain onto it. She looks up to

make notations, but when she reaches for her Diet Coke IT

ISN'T THERE. She looks around. It's on the other side of

her microscope. She shrugs it off, she takes a sip and

sets it down where it was before. She peers into the

microscope again and when she looks up... the Diet Coke

is gone. She looks around the room and sees it on another

table completely.

LINDA:

Sebastian? Goddamnit.

We hear Sebastian's laughter echo in the room.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

You've no idea how much fun I've had.

I'm going to hate going back.

LINDA:

That's what worries me.?

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

How so?

LINDA:

What happens when we turn the project

over to the Army. Ever wonder how much

fun they're gonna have?

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Maybe we won't give it to them. His

voice comes from behind her now.

We see indentations on her shoulders where his fingers

press down.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE (cont'd)

I was thinking... tonight's my last

night. Ever fantasize about making

love to an invisible man?

Linda pulls away from him.

LINDA:

Stop it, Sebastian. It's not funny.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Well, don't do it for me. Do it for

science.

Linda walks away. Sebastian laughs.

LINDA:

Grow up.

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Oh well. Missed your big chance.

LINDA:

Got some sleep. Big day tomorrow.

INT. LABORATORY - DAY

A bevy of activity below us as the scientists prepare.

Matt slides the antigen cocktail into the centrifuge and

starts it spinning.

A sheet drapes over a Sebastian's frame, straps across

his limbs. He is fully wired.

Linda looks up to the observation booth.

LINDA:

Recording?

Frank peers down at her from the booth, his voice echoing

through the chamber.

FRANK:

Recording. Subject Doctor Sebastian

Caine. Currently in phase shift...

Three days, seven hours.

LINDA:

De-Phase protocol. Injecting Serial

Protein Caine One Two Seven.

Matt removes the glowing vial of orange liquid from a

centrifuge nearby. Carter hands Matt a hypo. Matt jabs it

into the vial, drawing up the colored liquid. Linda

sprays Sebastian's arm with dye.

LINDA (cont'd)

Ready?

SEBASTIAN:

Not really. I was just starting to

enjoy myself.

LINDA:

Tough.

MATT:

Okay, man. Here we go.

Matt inserts the hypo into the vein and presses down on

the plunger. The liquid begins to react. Small flashes of

light blip up and down the strand of color outlining the

vein.

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

SEBASTIAN'S VOICE

Wait... something... something doesn't

feel right.

SARAH:

Heartbeat elevated.

INT. OBSERVATION BOOTH

Janice and Frank look over the equipment.

FRANK:

Vitals still nominal..

INT. LABORATORY

The glowing liquid turns from gold to red as the complex

webbing of a bloodstream appears.

Spreading out from the bloodstream, soon becomes visible

... the shadow of a skeletal system.

SEBASTIAN:

I can't br... br...

Sebastian begins wheezing.

LINDA:

What's wrong?

SARAH:

He's not breathing.

Muscles are beginning to appear. And eyeballs. Frightened

eyeballs.

MATT:

Subject manifesting.

SARAH:

Pulse erratic.

Sebastian pulls against his bonds. One set tears off.

LINDA:

Carter!

Carter grabs onto the mass of flesh and muscle, trying to

hold it back. But the restraints snap. The half-visible

man is screaming. He grabs Carter and throws him across

the room.

LINDA (cont'd)

Sebastian! Sebastian!

And just for a second, Sebastian is fully visible. And

free. He looks around like a scared animal and rips off

all the wiring.

LINDA (cont'd)

Sebastian!

MATT:

Get a tranq. Stat.

Sarah preps a tranquilizer. Sebastian locks eyes with

Linda. He's lost, he doesn't know where he is. And

suddenly, he crumbles to the ground. Linda rushes over to

him and puts bar hand on his shoulder. Light bleeds from

his skin and his skin begins to dissolve from sight.

LINDA:

He's reverting. Got him on the table.

Matt, Linda and Sarah pull the shifting body up and onto

an operating table. Carter pulls himself up and heads

back to the group.

LINDA (cont'd)

Get me a I.V. of A.G. seven.

SARAH:

I got no pulse. No pulse.

MATT:

Start CPR.

Carter locates Sebastian's heart, not a difficult thing

because we can actually see it. Carter's hand pushes down

in the air inches above the heart. We see the heart being

pushed and squeezed. Sarah slaps an air bag on Sebastian

and starts pumping air into his lungs. Sebastian's heart

begins to beat again, beat on its own.

CARTER:

Getting a pulse.

MATT:

Holy sh*t. What happened?

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