Jason X Page #13

RIZZO:

What's this?

DELONGPRE:

It's the engine, reactors, audiometers,

it's the stuff that makes the ship go zoom.

Rizzo points at the thin walk-ways connecting the two hulls.

RIZZO:

Can we get through these?

THORGAN:

Sure but what good will that do?

BOEMAN:

When the left hull goes, so will the

right.

RIZZO:

What if we blow the walkways first?

Leave Jason over here to go up with

the ship?

They stare at her.

JANESSA:

You know, Yllo seemed to think we could

catch this guy alive, well, he'd be worth

millions.

The others stare at her as if she were crazy.

RIZZO:

Any connection between your reality and mine

is purely coincidental.

JANESSA:

I'm just saying.

RIZZO:

(to others)

Come on. You got all these gadgets and sh*t.

Why can't we get inside the right hull, seal up

the doors and blow the walkways?

DELONGPRE:

We'd need charges.

BOEMAN:

We could convert fission transistors.

THORGAN:

We're not supposed to do that.

BOEMAN:

What are you gonna do, tell me?

DELONGPRE:

The engine room will have molecular welders.

We could seal up the hull.

A moment of consideration. Could this actually work?

JANESSA:

YeaH, GREAT IDEA! And I'll keep the big

guy distracted with a blow job.

THORGAN:

Would you?

KAY-EM 14

Now this is getting exciting.

DELONGPRE:

Remember to roll his balls around a bit.

RIZZO:

You got a better plan?

Obviously they don't. They got to work. Boeman grabs a number of devices

from under

a cabinet.

BOEMAN:

I'll need system four converters.

THORGAN:

They're back here.

DELONGPRE:

How many?

BOEMAN:

Bring 'em all. Let's move!

Thorgan's still hooked up to the Nano-Tech machine.

THORGAN:

Hey! I'm not ready.

BOEMAN:

Then you better hurry. I'll blow alley

one, Delongpre, you and Rizzo take there.

Janessa you ready two and we'll meet up there.

JANESSA:

You're so bossy.

THORGAN:

You're leaving me here alone?

Delongpre tosses the chaingun next to him.

DELONGPRE:

Don't blow your foot off.

They climb through the hole in the corridor and disappear.

KAY-EM 14

It's just you and me, then.

THORGAN:

Come here, might as well fix that arm.

INT. CARGO BAY

Boeman, Janessa, Delongpre, and Rizzo slowly move through the piles of

debris.

Still burning cargo creates a ghastly image of flickering shadows.

DELONGPRE:

See anything?

They move toward the rubble that had buried Jason before.

CLOSE on the rubble.

There is an obvious hole dug out from the middle.

DELONGPRE:

I think I speak on behalf of the group

when I say this is bad news.

BOEMAN:

(into headset)

Thorgan? You coming?!

INT. LAB ONE

Thorgan is fooling around in the back of Kay-Em 14's head. The nano-tech

maching is

doing a full diagnostics.

THORGAN:

(into headset)

Almost done.

KAY-EM 14

Ow!

THORGAN:

Oh, hush. I disengaged your pain programming.

KAY-EM 14

Sometimes I just wish I had a kitten.

INT. WALKWAY ONE

Boeman enters, throws his pack to the ground and goes to work ttaching a

device to

the wall of the huge glass connector.

INT. WALKWAY TWO

Janessa enters and goes through the same motions.

INT. WALKWAY THREE

Delongpre and Rizzo attach a device to the wall.

DELONGPRE:

Put your finger here.

SHe does so. Delongpre connects several wires. Rizzo looks nervous.

Delongpre notices.

DELONGPRE:

My father wanted me to be a businessman.

Silence.

DELONGPRE:

That's why I'm here.

RIZZO:

So, you thought you'd be cool. Go against

your father's wishes? Yeah, that's grown up.

Delongpre looks at her like she's crazy.

DELONGPRE:

My father's company imports and exports. Archaeology

is part of the business. We happen to get along just

fine,

smartass. Look, why don't you bust somebody else's

balls

for a change.

RIZZO:

I thought you meant...

DELONGPRE:

You thought I meant...too tough to apologize, huh?

You must have been a very lonely girl.

Silence. Neither speaks.

INT. LAB ONE

Thorgan rips a metallic sink from the wall. It CRASHES to the floor.

THORGAN:

Sorry, sorry.

KAY-EM 14(O.S.)

Who are you apologizing to?

THORGAN:

Good point.

INT. WALKWAY ONE

Boeman attaches another charge. He's sweating. Nervous. Keeps looking

over his shoulder. Standing alone on this long walkway is a creepy

sight.

INT. WALKWAY TWO

Janessa stops working, listens.

KA-THUMP -- There's anoise in the Cargo Bay.

She covers the mike on her headset and calls out.

JANESSA:

Thorgan, you little sh*t, is that you?

No answer. She quickly turns to her pack and pulls out the bottle of

tranquillizer

and a monster syring.e She fills this rhino syringe with a massive

dosage. Enough to

bring down a Rhino...or Jason maybe?

She starts moving down the walkway toward the Cargo Bay.

Surely she's not that stupid.

INT. WALKWAY THREE

Rizzo is staring at Delongpre as he works on another device.

Then --

RIZZO:

When I was four, the ocean quit producing

life. Too many pollutants. Nuclear testing,

the occasional terrorist bombing...the

atmosphere was sh*t by the time I was eight.

We moved underground when I was twelve.

Delongpre stares at her. He doesn't want to speak and screw up this

rare moment of sharing.

INT. CARGO BAY

Janessa enters. Looks around.

The cargo bay is dark and looming. Lights flicker. Emergency lights

strobe. It's hard to make anything out.

We hear Rizzo speaking Off Screen.

RIZZO(O.S.)

My father was an army Scientist.

Genetics. The army thought they could

develop humans able to survive the Earth

we had created

Janessa moves through the debris.

ANOTHER POV:

We see Janessa come into view.

RIZZO(O.S.)

Jason seemed to have the right stuff.

Physically, anyway. Radiation, cell

damage, didn't matter. He just kept

going.

INT. WALKWAY THREE

DELONGPRE:

Were you close to your father?

Thorgan interrupts over the headset.

THORGAN(V.O.)

Delongpre? What did you do with the

chain gun?

Delongpre frowns.

DELONGPRE:

(into mike)

It's on the table where I left it!

What the hell are you doing?!

Hurry up!

THORGAN(V.O.)

I'm on my way.

BOEMAN(V.O.)

Thorgan, quit screwing around and

come on!

THORGAN(V.O.)

I'm coming, I'm coming.

DELONGPRE:

Sorry, you were saying?

INT. CARGO BAY

WATCHER'S POV

JANESSA approaches the pile of debris where Jason was buried.

RIZZO(O.S.)

I got along great with my father,

my mother too. Dad and the others thought

they could learn a great deal from this

thing the army had been keeping on ice for

over a hundred years.

Janessa moves the debris around with her foot.

RIZZO(O.S.)

They were all wrong. They couldn't control

him.

INT. WALKWAY THREE

DELONGPRE:

And what happend to ...?

Rizzo begins to tear up.

RIZZO:

I couldn't save them.

DELONGPRE:

Well, we'd be dead without you.

You know that, don't you?

She stares at him.

DELONGPRE:

It's true.

(chuckles)

You caused enough stink that we

were at least a little cautious.

Of course this is the first field

trip I went on that had a body count.

She gives him a half smile.

DELONGPRE:

I'm not much, but I promise, I won't

let this guy get you.

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