Independence Day Page #14

EXT. HIGHWAY - CITY LIMITS - SAME

With the massive devastation in the b.g., Jasmine drives the

maintenance truck down the highway. In the back, the few

survivors she's found.

In the back, four INJURED PASSENGERS lay across the flatbed as

a thin, older man, TEDDY tends to them.

INT. MAINTENANCE TRUCK - SAME

Jasmine spots a TALL MAN, his closes in tatters RUNNING down

the highway, his arms in the air.

TALL MAN:

The end has come! He speaketh

his word and the end hast come!

Jasmine pulls up along side him.

JASMINE:

Hop on. We're heading out to El

Toro.

TALL MAN:

You cannot defy what has come, it

is the end!

The tall man moves off, screaming to the heavens. As Jasmine

watches him drift away she SEES...

OVERTURNED MILITARY HELICOPTER

Still smoldering from the crash. A woman can be seen inside,

still alive. Jasmine jumps out.

JASMINE:

Give me a hand.

Teddy joins Jasmine as they pry open the door. Inside, the

pilots have been killed, but Mrs. Whitmore, THE FIRST LADY,

lays there in great pain, blood across her blouse.

JASMINE:

Let's get her out of here.

They erase her from the wreckage, laying her on the

ground. Dylan comes over, standing next to his mother.

TEDDY:

She's bleeding pretty bad.

Suddenly we HEAR the CLICKING of a rifle COCKING.

MALE VOICE (O.S.)

Who's got the key?

Jasmine turns and see a REDNECK leveling his rifle at her.

Behind him a small damaged sports car pulls up, packed to the

gills with stolen, looted appliances.

REDNECK:

(yelling to pals)

Looks like I've solved our

transportation problem.

JASMINE:

Hey, you're welcome to come with

us. We're leaving here anyway...

REDNECK:

We're not. Give me the key.

(yelling back)

Get 'em off.

Two GUYS rush from their vehicle over to the maintenance

truck, pulling the injured off the tailback.

TALL MAN (O.S.)

Repent! Sinners! Repent! The

end hast come!

Running up from behind, the Tall Man comes over screaming.

The Redneck turns his gun on him.

REDNECK:

Back off. This ain't your

business.

As the Redneck is distracted, Jasmine spots the bag of

fireworks protruding out of Dylan's back pocket.

TALL MAN:

You cannot go against the word,

brother.

REDNECK:

Sure I can.

The Redneck SHOOTS the Tall Man. His buddies laugh.

REDNECK (cont'd)

Now give me that key, b*tch.

As he turns back to Jasmine, Boomer starts BARKING wildly.

Just as he turns to shoot the dog, Jasmine lights a key ROCKET

from the fireworks bag. The rocket BLASTS into the Redneck,

his shirt IGNITING ON FIRE.

The Redneck drops the rifle, attempting to put out the flames,

his cronies rush to his aid. Jasmine picks up the gun, moves

in on them.

JASMINE:

This "b*tch" was born in Alabama

with a Daddy who loved to hunt.

(cocking the weapon)

So don't think for one second that

I don't know how to use this.

She FIRES the rifle. Quickly the rednecks scamper away.

CUT TO:

EXT. DRY LAKE - DESERT - LATER

Dragging a heavy bundle wrapped in his parachute, Steve

marches across the desert floor. The alien ARM/TENTACLE

dangles out of the parachute.

Exhausted, Steve stops to wipe his brow. He hears something,

turns around.

STEVE'S POV - THE TRAILER ARMADA

Several hundred of the trailers from the refugee camp are

headed en mass towards him. Smiling, Steve signals them.

The trailers pull up on either side, surrounding him. Miguel

leans out of his trailer.

MIGUEL:

(sarcastic)

Need a lift?

STEVE:

When I flew overhead, I saw some

kind of base, not far.

Confused, Miguel checks his map.

MIGUEL:

It's not on the map.

STEVE:

Trust me, it's there.

EXT. AIR FORCE ONE - LATER

Flying over the desert, Air Force One sails over an immense

valley, Area 51 below - hangars, a few buildings, a small air

strip, not much.

Super:
N.I.A. Base - "Area 51", Nevada

EXT. RUNWAY - LATER

Air Force One lands. Wheels touch down, skid.

INT. HANGAR - LATER

The large hangar doors open and Air Force One is rolled

inside. The President and his entourage are met by a

contingent of base personnel led by field operative, LT.

MITCHELL. He escorts them to a side hallway.

INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Lt. Mitchell walks over to an odd wall switch as the President

and his entourage wait in the center of the hall. With a loud

hydraulic HUM, the entire hallway begins to SINK DOWN, an

enormous ELEVATOR.

PRESIDENT:

Why the hell wasn't I told about

this place?

NIMZIKI:

Two words, Mr. President.

Plausible deniability.

General Grey shoots Nimziki a pissed off look. When the

elevator stops, a door SLIDES open.

INT. RESEARCH FACILITIES - CONTINUOUS

Stepping out of the elevator, they walk into a large state of

the art, sterile clean research facility. It is amazingly

well staffed and organized.

PRESIDENT:

I don't understand. Where did all

this come from? How did this get

funded?

MOISHE:

You didn't think they actually

spent ten thousand dollars for a

hammer and thirty thousand for a

toilet seat, did you?

The President shoots him a look. They are greeted by a group

of SCIENTISTS in whit coats led by, DR. OKUN.

MITCHELL:

Mr. President, I'd like to

introduce you to Dr. Okun. He's

been heading up our research here

for the last fifteen years.

Dr. Okun is an odd, hyper-energetic man who's spent too much

time in isolation.

OKUN:

Mr. President, a real pleasure.

They don't let us out much, you

you.

PRESIDENT:

(uncomfortable)

Yes.

OKUN:

Well, I guess you'd like to see

the big tamale? Follow me.

They walk up a ramp at the end of the room. Large heavily

enforced doors SLIDE open.

INT. STORAGE LAB - CONTINUOUS

The group steps inside and nearly gasps at...

THE ALIEN ATTACKER

Just like the one that chased Steve. The entourage stares in

horror and wonder. We can SEE the patch-work repairs they've

made on the ship over the years.

OKUN:

She's a beaut, ain't she?

Moishe leans close to David and Constance.

MOISHE:

(smug)

Never any space ships recovered by

the government, huh?

PRESIDENT:

We've had this for forty years and

you don't know anything about

them?

OKUN:

Hell no, we know tons about them.

The nearest stuff has only

happened in the last few days.

The President slowly walks around the ship as Okun talks.

David, mouth agape, just stares at it.

OKUN (cont'd)

See, we can't duplicate their type

of power so we've never been able

to experiment. But since these

guys started showing up, all the

gizmos inside turned on. The last

twenty four hours have been really

exciting!

PRESIDENT:

(exploding)

People are dying out there. I

don't think "exciting" is the word

I'd choose to describe it!

The room goes silent, letting the President blow off steam.

PRESIDENT:

(calming)

What can you tell us about the

enemy we're facing?

OKUN:

Not all too dissimilar to us.

Breathes oxygen, comparable

tolerances to heat,

cold...probably why they're

interested in our planet.

(suddenly excited)

Hey, you wanna see them?

INT. MEDICAL RESEARCH VAULT - MOMENTS LATER

The lights slowly TURN ON, illuminated the vault. Okun leads

the group to a sealed partition.

OKUN:

This is vault, or as some of us

have come to call it, the "freak

show."

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