Leviathan Page #23

Beck checks his make-shift flamethrower.

BECK:

We don't have much choice...

without air, the internal

pressure will fall and--

JONES:

Crunch...Implosion.

Willie watches them a moment then picks up one of the mining

tools, the laser-drill, she powers-it up to check it. Her

action stops both men and she catches their looks.

WILLIE:

You don't think I'm sitting

in here, do you?

INT. CORRIDOR "A" - SAME

Carefully the three move into the Lower Ring Corridor. As

they move we suddenly hear a new sound, DEEP, LIKE DISTANT

THUNDER. The sides of the shack tremble slightly.

WILLIE:

(low)

The shack...

JONES:

She's wondering what's

happening. We're losing

air faster than I thought.

BECK:

(to Jones)

Which way?

Jones moves to the lead and turns down Corridor "A."

INT. CORRIDOR "A"

The SOUND of the power-wrench removing the bolts from the

flooring. The cover is removed and Beck and Jones peer down

into the darkness. Willie stands guard with the flame-

thrower.

ON JONES He peers into the darkness below. He wasn't a big

fan of the bilge even before the Creature, now he's scared

shitless.

BECK:

I'll go first.

Before Jones can protest Beck drops the ladder and climbs

down into the dark bilge. Jones waits till he's at the

bottom, then starts down behind him. Willie looks back.

WILLIE:

Don't spend all day down

there.

JONES:

Don't f***in' worry, I

ain't.

BILGE:

From somewhere in the darkness we hear the HISSING SOUND OF

ESCAPING OXYGEN and the FAMILIAR RATTLE OF THE AIR SYSTEM.

As soon as Jones reaches the bottom rung Beck shines a light

into the eerie underground area.

Pipes run overhead and on the walls. A broken electrical

conduit sparks over their heads. The floor is ankle deep in

greasy water. They start toward the noise.

ON WILLIE:

Her back is to the solid wall(outside wall). Her eyes move

from one end of the corridor to the other, not lingering

long enough to distract her. Sweat runs down her face and

we hear another tremor in the Shack.

WILLIE:

(to herself,

calming herself)

Okay, Williams...let's hear a

tune.

(beat, quietly

at first)

"Off we go...into the wild

blue yonder..."

ANOTHER RUMBLE FROM THE SHACK causes her to pause. She

catches her breath and starts again.

WILLIE(cont'd)

"...flying high into the sky..."

She suddenly looks into the Main machine area (behind the

wire mesh of the other wall). Was it something moving?

BILGE:

ON BECK He moves around a corner we recognize from before

with Jones' and Cobb's repair. Beck floods the area with

light and the break in the line is visible. The pipe has

been torn from the wall, it is totally unreparable. What's

worse, electrical wires hang down, showering sparks into the

water.

JONES:

Jesus Christ...

BECK:

Can you fix it?

JONES:

No way...

BECK:

Think! Can we stop it?!

Block it up?! Shut down

the line somewhere?! Think!

JONES:

I am thinking, man! You

think I want to die! I am

thinking! I--

Suddenly his eyes widen. Beck sees this and turns. In his

light WE SEE THE GLINT OF LONG TEETH AND THE HUGE BLACK

FRAME OF THE COBB/DOC CREATURE! It's leech-like appendage

whipping in front of it like an excited cat's tail. Before

it can strike, Jones pushes Beck out of the way and fires a

blast of flame from his flamethrower. The CREATURE SCREAMS

and disappears.

As Beck falls his light lands in the bilge water and goes

out sending the bilge into greater darkness.

JONES:

I hit it. But I can't see

it! Can you see it?!

BECK:

(standing)

No.

Jones looks back at the ruptured pipe and suddenly has a

thought.

JONES:

The Swamp. There's an over-

ride switch in the Swamp.

They start for the ladder when WWWWHHHHHHHHIP! out of the

darkness the appendage wraps like a bullwhip around Jones'

arm. The deadly proboscis, which stabbed Cobb, is poised

like a dagger about to be plunged into the black man's

thigh.

JONES:

(screams)

Ahhh!

Instinctively Beck whips out the mining saw and severs the

tentacle. The unseen Creature's SCREAM echoes through the

Bilge. Beck grabs Jones by the arm and pulls him toward the

ladder.

BECK:

Hurry...Get out!

Quickly they slosh toward the ladder and hole in the floor

fifteen feet away, moving closer...ten...eight....then

suddenly ANOTHER APPENDAGE thrusts between the rungs of the

ladder at them. Beck ducks and leaps to the side. He is

less than six feet from the Creature. In the dim light WE

SEE it wickedly bare its teeth.

Beck's eyes go to the walls from one side to the other and

spot the exposed power cable. The Creature steps forward

directly under the hole in the floor. It is about to lunge

when a voice from above distracts it.

WILLIE'S VOICE(O.C.)

Hey, you?

The Creature looks up and sees:

ON WILLIE STANDING OVER THE OPENING, HER FLAMETHROWER

POINTED STRAIGHT DOWN. SHE FIRES, SENDING A SEARING BLUE

FLAME INTO THE BILGE.

BECK watches the flame roar down on the monster and it gives

him the moment of distraction he needs. He leaps out of the

bilge water and onto a pipe on the wall then rips the broken

power cable from the wall.

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