Interstellar Page #20

The crew move into the tight, claustrophobic outer layer of

the ship. They will have very little room as the ship passes

through the wormhole.

Tars detaches his legs in order to take up less space during

transit. Then he tethers himself to the hull wall.

Case is the last to join them. He detaches a small control

module from the console, then pulls himself into the outer

hull and seals the passageway.

Case presses a button on the control module. With a GROAN,

the hull walls of the ship begin to BEND.

EXT. ENDURANCE, SPACE

The ship's hull begins to CRACK open, revealing the inner

chamber.

60.

INT. OUTER HULL, ENDURANCE

The SHUDDERING continues. The crew watch nervously as the

control chamber below them suddenly opens itself to the cold

blackness of space.

EXT. ENDURANCE, SPACE

The ship silently rolls itself into position, pointing the

opening in its hull toward the wormhole mouth.

Slowly, the Endurance pushes itself forward, closer and closer

to the crystal-like mouth. Finally, it envelops the mouth,

bringing it into the open chamber.

INT. OUTER HULL, ENDURANCE

As the crew watch, the wormhole mouth is positioned in the

center of the inner compartment.

Case presses a sequence key on the control panel and the

ship's hull closes again, trapping the wormhole inside it.

With a GRUMBLE, the ship begins contracting, squeezing itself

down around the wormhole mouth.

Cooper takes a deep breath as the center of the ship begins

gently lowering itself into the wormhole mouth, feeding itself

into the wormhole from the inside out. Cooper watches as

Doyle is swallowed into the compressing ship with a GRUNT.

TARS:

Would you like me to make a joke?

COOPER:

(FIRM)

No.

Cooper's turn:
he is fed into the hole, legs first, then

waist, torso, and, finally, his head.

EXT. SPACE

The Endurance shrinks as it sinks from the inside out into

the wormhole.

After a moment, it's gone. The only thing left behind is

the comms relay, drifting in space, waiting for a signal.

INT. OUTER HULL, ENDURANCE

The ship continues to slide through the wormhole. Through

the outer hull they see images of themselves repeating -- a

trick of the narrow collar of space they are sinking through.

Cooper smiles at himself. The experience is unnerving.

61.

COOPER:

Where are we?

ROTH:

(SMILING)

Nowhere. Nowhere at all.

Nowhere is still pretty damn claustrophobic.

CASE:

The hull is intact. Thirty more

seconds transit.

For a moment, the ship slides gently, silently, through the

wormhole. The quiet is eery.

Suddenly, a point of distortion appears in the hull next to

Cooper. It looks like someone is pushing against the hull

of the ship with a giant finger.

COOPER:

Something's happening to the hull

over here.

CASE:

Hull integrity is fine.

The distortion moves along the hull, growing in diameter.

COOPER:

Well, I don't know what your display

is telling you but something is

happening over here.

Suddenly, along the hull, Doyle speaks up, panicked.

DOYLE:

I've got a problem over here, too.

Doyle is watching a separate distortion move across the inner

wall of the ship. This one seems to be TWISTING the material

of the hull.

Suddenly, the point in front of Cooper detaches itself from

the outer wall and moves through the space in front of him,

bending the empty space itself, distorting the ship behind

it like a sphere-shaped magnifying glass.

DOYLE (CONT'D)

It's not the hull... it's inside the

ship... it's...

ROTH:

(SMILES)

It's beautiful.

62.

Roth watches as the distortions move through the ship. His

curiosity doesn't make anyone else feel any better.

DOYLE:

What the hell are they, Case?

CASE:

I don't know. It could be

gravitational turbulence.

The twisting sphere in front of Doyle begins to grow.

DOYLE:

It's getting bigger.

Doyle puts up his hand to defend himself. The sphere absorbs

it, twisting Doyle's hand. Doyle CRIES OUT.

His hand is twisted completely around, impossibly mangled.

But Doyle, hyperventilating, isn't in any pain.

ROTH:

It's not bending your hand. It's

bending the space around your hand.

The sphere begins to pass through Doyle's body. Doyle is

freaking out.

The sphere in front of Cooper makes contact with him, also.

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