Leviathan Page #17

Beck turns and looks at his savaged crew. Willie, Jones,

DeJesus, Doc look like wet-suited butchers. Splattered in

blood, numbed by the experience, they are brought together

by having simply survived. Jones holds up Willie. DeJesus

leans against the bulkhead. In the far corner Cobb sobs

quietly.

SHOWERS - LATER

Clouds of steam. Vaguely seen through the steam, Willie is

scrubbing herself almost desperately, as though the

spattered blood of the creature had penetrated into her

skin. Finally she gives up almost in tears and rests her

head against the wall of the shower stall.

DORMITORY - SAME

Beck and Jones open the privacy door to Sixpack's bunk.

After some digging which produces five month's supply of

pornography, the empty flask clatters to the floor. Beck

picks it up.

BECK:

I think we just found our

problem.

MESS - LATER

Cobb pours himself a cup of coffee with a shaky hand. Jones,

and DeJesus sit at a table and Willie laces up her shoes for

a run. There is a feeling of anger among them.

DEJESUS:

Serves his ass right to get

it. Motherf***er brings that

sh*t onboard. I hope his

f***ing ass rots in the sea and

is sh*t upon by the fish.

JONES:

'F***er could have gotten us

all killed.

COBB:

He knew better than that.

Willie finishes tying up her shoes and looks at them all

coldly.

WILLIE:

You guys sure weren't so holy

when you were shooting that

vodka...It could have been you.

She gets up and walks out into the Ring corridor.

THE RUSSIAN SHIP

WE ARE MOVING along the ship's corridor that Willie walked

looking for Sixpack.

WE PULL BACK TO REVEAL WE ARE WATCHING A VIDEO SCREEN IN THE

CONTROL ROOM:

Doc and Beck replay the tape of Willie's search for Sixpack

on the Russian ship. On the monitor screen we see Willie's

POV of the infirmary. The light dances off the broken glass

as she turns, then the flash of white we saw before as the

light moves out into the corridor.

DOC:

Hold it! Rewind it.

Beck rewinds it.

ON SCREEN we see the scene again. Light dancing off the

cabinets. As the light starts to turn--

DOC:

Stop it.

Beck pauses the tape. We see nothing. Doc is confused.

DOC:

Back it up slowly.

Beck does and we watch Doc's face as he stares intently at

the screen. Suddenly he sees it.

DOC:

There.

ON SCREEN We see it. Caught in the turn of the camera, now

frozen on the screen is the clear gleaming skeletal remains

of a man. Only it is clear that this is no ordinary man.

Fingers and appendages are lengthened and broader than

normal. But it is the large head and long sharp teeth that

especially catches our attention.

MESS - SAME

ON A BEAUTIFUL BAVARIAN SETTING

as a hand suddenly moves into frame and we see the scene is

actually one of DeJesus' jigsaw puzzles. He takes a piece

of blue sky from the hundreds of pieces on the table and

places it perfectly into position on the puzzle. Jones

watches him amazed.

DEJESUS:

You know that Innsbruck

has 64 square miles of ski

slopes, man? Think about that.

Sixty-four square miles.

He picks up another piece of blue sky and effortlessly fits

it into place as Jones watches. It's blowing Jones' mind.

JONES:

How'd you do that?

DEJESUS:

What? That?...I've done this

one before. You hungry? I'm

hungry.

He gets up to go into the mess and Jones looks at him in

amazement.

JONES:

Hungry? After what we just

went through I may never

eat again.

ON WILLIE:

She jogs down the corridors toward the Swamp. The Shack

CREAKS and Willie looks down through the grating passing

below her feet. It is dark down there. Her feet pound off

the metal grating.

LOW ANGLE We watch Willie from below as she jogs past. THEN

WE TILT DOWN to the dark, still water of the bilge. Suddenly

something stirs in the water--a ripple like a trout in a

stream.

CONTROL ROOM - SAME

Using a computer plotting program to measure the dimensions

of the skull on the videotape, Doc enters these measurements

as they are read off to him by Beck. As each of the

measurements go into the computer an image of a skull begins

to appear on the computer screen, followed by a name:

DANAKIL MAN.

BECK:

They found this?

DOC:

No. I think they isolated

him in genetic engineering.

Homo aquaticus...

BECK:

Was there such a thing?

DOC:

Danakil man?...one of our

ancestors. Named for the

Danakil Alps in Ethiopia.

BECK:

Not exactly a big ocean

country.

DOC:

It was when it counted a couple

of million years ago when the

seas came in and drove us into

the water. Most homo sapiens

didn't make it...Danakil man...

adapted.

ON WILLIE:

running. She jogs past the machine room. Looking in, the

machines seem alive, pulsing, the beating heart of the

Shack. There is something else though. We feel something

in there watching her.

CONTROL ROOM:

On Doc.

DOC:

Some say that's why we're

basically hairless, for less

water resistance, faster swimming

speeds...

BECK:

But what about those scales...

or that leech-like thing that

bit Cobb?

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