Leviathan Page #24

BECK:

Jones! Get your feet out

of the water!

Jones jumps up and grabs a pipe running overhead as Beck

thrusts the sparking cable into the water at the Creature's

feet.

IN A BLINDING FLASH OF ELECTRICITY

The current surges through the Cobb/Doc Creature sending it

instantly rigid. A second later it crashes forward into the

water.

Moving hand over hand toward the ladder Jones quickly climbs

out, followed by Beck.

THE SHACK CONTINUES TO SHAKE, EACH JOLT STRONGER THAN THE

LAST. As they emerge Willie helps them.

BECK:

C'mon, the Swamp!

They start for the Swamp down Corridor "A" when an enormous

shudder goes through the Shack, causing the lights to blink

and the floor to open beneath Beck. The jolt knocks him

back into the bilge. Only grabbing onto the pipes just

above the water stops him from falling back in.

JONES stops and looks back over the missing grating.

JONES:

Beck!

Jones moves instinctively back for him, but another jolt

only widens the gap. Beck yells to be heard over the din of

the collapsing Shack.

BECK:

Go on!

JONES:

No!

BECK:

That's an order!

JONES:

F*** your orders!

He leaps across the gap onto a remaining grating and thrusts

his hand down into the darkness. Beck lets go of one hand,

then the other, to grab Jones' extended arm. In one

Herculean effort Jones pulls him out of the bilge. Together

they leap across the chasm as the Desalinization Conduit

collapses over their heads and water floods into Corridor "A"

behind them. They have to go around the other way!

AS THEY RUN:

KLAXON HORNS SOUND and a RECORDED FEMALE VOICE warns: "Five

minutes until implosion..."

FLASH CUTS OF:

THE LIGHTS FLICKER AND FAIL, CAUSING THE EMERGENCY LIGHTING

TO GO ON, AND CASTING AN EERIE STROBE EFFECT ON THE ESCAPING

THREE CREW MEMBERS

FALLING CEILING BEAMS CRASH DOWN IN FRONT AND BEHIND...

SEAMS BEND UNDER THE STRAIN, RIVETS POP...

STRAINING MACHINES SEND SCALDING GEYSERS OF STEAM INTO THE

CORRIDORS...AND SUDDENLY THE FLOOR GIVES WAY BENEATH WILLIE!

She leaps up and grabs an overhanging pipe and swings to the

firm ground.

JONES LEADS THE WAY TOWARD THE SWAMP, WITH WILLIE BEHIND

HIM, AND BECK COVERING THE REAR.

THEY reach the end of the corridor and Willie and Jones turn

into the Swamp Annex. Willie hits the door opener. RRRRRR

IT DOESN'T BUDGE. The pressure has bent the door frame.

BECK ARRIVES:

WILLIE:

It's jammed!

Immediately Beck backtracks to the corridor and pulls a hand

held spreader--like a "Jaws of Life"--from the wall. He

turns back to the Swamp when a BLACK SCALY ARM SUDDENLY

BURSTS THROUGH THE WIRE MESH OF THE MACHINE FLOOR AND PULLS

BECK AGAINST THE WIRE! IT IS THE DEJESUS CREATURE.

His head held in place by the powerful arm, Beck looks

almost directly into the dark eyes of the Creature. Its

gill-like slits flare. Its mouth opens and we see a flash

of its razor sharp teeth.

Before Beck can move the leech-like appendage ruptures the

steel mesh and its razor-sharp proboscis plunges like a

knife for Beck's face. At the last instant Beck move his

head and the proboscis slams into the steel mesh. The mesh

loosens the creature's grip and Beck manages to reach a

mining drill from the tools on the wall. As the appendage

starts to strike again Beck buries the whining tool into the

Creature's tentacle and breaks free.

Scooping up the spreader Beck rushes to the Swamp door where

Jones and Willie are trying vainly to hand crank the door

open.

JONES:

Where the hell've you been?

BECK:

I got hung up! Try this!

Willie stands back and Beck thrusts the Spreader into the

tiny crack in the door the hand crank had made. With Jones'

help the two men force open the door and all three rush

inside the SWAMP. Beck closes the door behind them.

THE RECORDED FEMALE VOICE INTONES: "Five minutes to

implosion." And we feel it happening:

THE BILGE WATER ON THE FLOOR OF THE SWAMP RIPPLES WITH THE

VIBRATIONS:

THE WALLS SHAKE:

THE HUGE METAL SUITS ROCK LIKE CLOTHES ON A CLOTHES LINE.

ONE FALLS AND CRASHES INTO THE WATER

JONES throws open the control panel and grabs the red

handled emergency air switch, but he can only move it half

way! It is jammed by the pressure.

JONES:

It won't go!

Willie grabs it with him, but even together it is not

enough. THE HANDLE BREAKS OFF IN THEIR HANDS!

STEAM JETS WHIP DOWN ON THEM FROM ABOVE!

THE WATER AT THEIR FEET NOW BOILS FROM VIBRATION!

THE FEMALE VOICE INTONES: "Four minutes..."

BECK TURNS AND SEES THE SUITS IN THE LOCK

He grabs Willie and pushes her toward the Lock where her

suit hangs.

BECK:

The suits! Get in them!

Willie moves quickly but Jones doesn't.

JONES:

The suits! Are you crazy!

How're we going to get to

the surface?

Beck yanks open the equipment locker revealing TANKS OF

COMPRESSED AIR AND DEFLATED CONTAINER TRANSPORTERS.

BECK:

Like this.

He looks up at Jones who grins with renewed hope and they

begin pulling the equipment out.

BECK(cont'd)

Get them in the Lock!

Jones and Beck drag the tanks and the parachute-like

Container transporters to the lock.

ON WILLIE She climbs into her suit and activates her

generator. Instantly her Vital Signs spring to life around

the perimeter of her helmet.

THE FEMALE VOICE TREMBLES FROM THE VIBRATIONS..."Three

minutes...to...implosion..."

Beck and Jones throw the last of the supplies onto the

elevator and Beck holds out the SEISMIC TOOL Jones tried to

arm himself with earlier. He takes the tool from Beck and

sticks it in the vest of his wet suit.

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