Leviathan Page #15

WASHROOM - SAME

Willie enters the room with several sinks and a couple of

toilet stalls. She approaches one of the sinks and pulls a

toothbrush from the pocket of her robe.

WILLIE:

Bo? Doc says you're next.

Just then she hears a retching sound from one of the stalls.

WILLIE(cont'd)

Bo?...You okay?

INFIRMARY - SAME

Willie and Jones help Bowman into the Infirmary. She is

weak from nausea. They help her onto the examination table

and look around for Doc. Jones sees a light on in the Sick

Room.

SICK ROOK - SAME

Sixpack's body lies under a sheet in the Sick room. The

door opens and Jones looks in, sees Sixpack but in the dim

light, doesn't realize the sheet covering him, covers the

body totally. Jones smiles.

JONES:

(whispers)

Hey, Sixpack...Hey, my man...

How you feeling?

There is no answer and Jones slowly approaches the body.

JONES:

Hey, man, we made quota to-

day. No thanks to you, you

dog, but we made it...Beck

helped us...We just dropped

Bowman off. I hope what you've

got ain't catching...

He is almost to the table and reaches out to touch Sixpack

when suddenly the body stirs. Sixpack's foot moves slightly

under the sheet as if shifting in his sleep. Jones stops.

JONES(cont'd)

Oh, man, sorry...you go back

to sleep.

INFIRMARY - SAME

Jones returns to the examination room. Bowman is now

undressed and under the blankets on the examination table.

WILLIE:

Who were you talking to?

JONES:

Sixpack...

WILLIE:

How is he?

JONES:

Sleeping. No sign of Doc,

though. I'll check the

control room. You look

in the shower room...

They leave Bowman GROANING on the examination table and head

back to the main corridor. As they leave WE HOLD ON the

door to the sick room behind Bowman.

Bowman writhes on the examination table in pain. Carefully

she climbs off the table and goes behind a partition to

throw up.

CLOSE ON BOWMAN:

At the sink in the infirmary. She rinses her face in the

sink and pulls back her hair, suddenly she stops and brings

her hands in front of her face.

INSERT HER HANDS. Huge clumps of hair have come out in her

hands. And then she sees her hands themselves. Scaly.

BOWMAN:

Oh, God...what's going on?

She turns and looks at the light on in the Sick Room. Slowly

she goes to the door and enters.

SICK ROOM:

Bowman approaches the body of Sixpack.

BOWMAN:

(panicked)

Sixpack...what's going on?

No answer. She pulls back the sheet and gasps.

CONTROL ROOM - SAME

ON BECK AND DOC.

DOC:

(panicky)

You have to call them back.

Explain that this is an emergency.

Jones enters.

JONES:

Excuse me, sir...Bowman's

sick. She's downstairs in

the infirmary.

DOC:

(concerned)

The infirmary?...

JONES:

Yes sir, ain't that where we

usually go when we're sick?

DOC:

We're simply concerned about

her...proximity to...

BECK:

(to Jones)

Sixpack's dead.

Jones looks from one officer to the other then grins.

JONES:

Bullshit...I was just talking

to him. I saw him move.

BECK:

What?...

LOWER RING CORRIDOR - SAME

Beck hits the floor off the ladder and rushes to the

Infirmary with Jones. He opens the door and freezes.

WHAT HE SEES:
The examination table where Jones left her is

empty. The room deserted.

JONES:

(pointing to

examination table)

I left her here.

DOC comes up behind them, then turns. He hears to a HISSING

SOUND down the ring corridor. He turns from the others and

moves slowly toward the noise.

SHOWER ROOM:

Doc enters the shower room, full of steam and the SOUND OF

WATER.

DOC:

Bowman?

There is no answer and he moves toward the shower.

DOC:

Bowman. It's Doc. I'm here

to help you.

The water continues to run. No answer. Carefully, Doc

opens the shower door.

WHAT HE SEES:
Bowman. Dead. Her wrists have been cut and

blood swirls down the drain.

Doc sadly squats down beside her. The death effects him

greatly. He feels helpless, then suddenly his eyes widen

and he carefully reaches out and takes Bowman's limp arm,

turning it supine. There, running the length of the arm, WE

SEE the black scales.

INFIRMARY:

Jones and Beck lay Bowman's body carefully onto the

examination table in the infirmary. Through the Sick Room

door we see the sheet shrouded body of Sixpack. Doc covers

Bowman with a sheet as

WE CUT TO:

THE MESS - LATER

The remaining crew, Doc, and Beck assembled in the Mess.

Doc sits quietly, almost in a daze.

BECK:

I can't tell you much about

it, except that none of you

show any symptoms.

DEJESUS:

And it killed Bo?

BECK:

No...she killed herself.

ON WILLIE the news hits her hard.

JONES:

We're getting out of here just

in time.

BECK:

There's now a problem with the

weather for pickup. There's a

typhoon in our sector...

...We're going to be delayed

twelve hours...

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