Lost in Space Page #17

WILL:

But Dad's in there.

SMITH:

Will, listen to me. I have crossed

this world with you, found your

father as promised. But I can't let

you go in there unarmed.

WILL:

But I've got a gun.

SMITH:

If we go forward, the barer of that

weapon must be ready to kill. Murder

is a skill, one which I have

developed and, luckily dear boy, you

have not. Look inside your heart,

Will. Are you truly capable of

taking a life? If not, then I ask

you now, put your faith in me. Give

me your trust. Give me that gun.

Will stares him. Pulls free the pistol. Thumbs the lock pad.

WILL:

Enable gun for all users.

GUN:

Voiceprint confirmed.

Will hands Smith the gun.

SMITH:

Finally.

Smith grabs Will by the neck, pressing the barrel to his temple.

SMITH:

A brief lesson in survival on this

world or any other. Never trust

anyone. Remember it into your old

age, should you have one.

(shoving him forward)

Now move!

INT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM-FUTURE

John stands facing older Will. Don is in the b.g., edging towards the

control panel and the descending core material.

JOHN:

We can go back across the portals to

the past, to the functioning Jupiter

Two, where your mother and sisters

are still alive. We can use this

core material to escape together.

OLDER WILL:

And then what? All of us lost in

space. Don't you see? I can do what

you never could. I can save us all.

Don has edged his way to the descending core material.

SMITH (OVER)

I'm afraid not.

Through the doorway comes young

Will, Smith walking behind him, hand

on his shoulder, gun to his head.

SMITH:

Never fear. Smith is here.

JOHN:

Will, I. . .

SMITH:

Don't move, Professor Robinson or

this rather peculiar family reunion

will be tragically brief.

(off Don)

I'll ask you to step away from that

console, Major.

Don stares at him a beat. Then obliges, walking over to join John.

Smith approaches the Robot.

SMITH:

Well, well, some of us just don't

know when to stay dead.

Smith goes into his tunic and removes his modified control bolt.

SMITH:

I borrowed this from the probe ship

in hopes of taking over the helm

once we were in flight. But I seem

to have found a better use instead.

Smith slaps the bolt on the Robot's CPU. The automaton's arms go up,

then fall limp. Docile.

SMITH:

Let's try this dance again. You are

the puppet. I am the puppeteer. Do

get it right this time.

Smith activates the bolt. The Robot powers up once again.

SMITH:

Robot, enable electric disrupters.

The Robot's claws begin to glow with electricity. Smith smiles.

SMITH:

Now that's a good gargantuan.

Smith walks to Older Will, puts the gun to his head.

SMITH:

Say goodbye to your past. You're

future lies with me. I'm going home

in your place.

Smith starts to pull Older Will away when Will comes forward, staring

at the time machine, eyes wide with awe.

WILL:

You did it. Just like I imagined.

Re-routed the hypercore. But the

natural power source, the delivery

system. I never thought of those.

Older Will's smile is bittersweet as he places his hand on his younger

self. Touches his hair.

OLDER WILL:

You will. The future is never what

it looks like when you're ten.

SMITH:

Heartwarming. Nauseatingly

sentimental but heartwarming.

Smith shoves the boy back to his father, turns to Older Will.

SMITH:

We certainly could have aged better,

I must say Now, show me how your

little time machine works.

But Will just smiles.

SMITH:

An odd moment for mirth, don't you

think? What are you grinning at?

OLDER WILL:

Look around you, Doctor. At this

hostile world. Do you really think a

boy could have survived all alone?

SMITH-CLOSE. Puzzled. Unseen, the boulder behind him seems to be

moving, shifting. A VOICE comes, alien, yet terrifyingly familiar.

VOICE (OVER)

Never fear, Smith is here.

The shape behind him unfolds, coming up now, long spindled arms and

legs, ten feet tall, a hybrid monster, half spider, half Smith.

SPIDER SMITH:

Hello, Doctor, how nice to see me

again after all these years.

Smith stands petrified as the creature approaches him on spindled legs,

goes down on its second knee joints, coming eye to eye.

SPIDER SMITH:

The spider's sting had some

unexpected side effects.

Spider Smith flexes his three jointed arm.

SPIDER SMITH:

But my unique gifts gave me an

advantage in this quarrelsome world.

Spider Smith reaches out and caresses Will's cheek. Turns to John.

SPIDER SMITH:

After the women were savaged, I

became the father Will never had.

He grabs Smith's arms and begins to move him about like a marionette,

engaging in a bizarre dance with himself.

SPIDER SMITH:

(bending him)

But you, Doctor. Your crude ambition

fills me with self-loathing.

(twisting him)

You see I have looked within me and

what I see is you.

With that Spider Smith lifts Smith over his head and hurls him like

torpedo through a torn hole in the hull, towards the rocks beyond.

SPIDER SMITH:

I never liked me, anyway.

Spider Smith turns to face the Robot.

SPIDER SMITH:

Kill them all.

OLDER WILL:

No.

SPIDER SMITH:

But my dear boy, once the doorway in

time stabilizes, this planet is

going to come apart at the seams.

Smith throws the back of one hand over his forehead in a parody of a

twenties starlet.

SPIDER SMITH:

I am willing to perish here on this

world for the sake of your most

noble mission. But your selfish

father will only try to stop you.

His head comes forward, neck elongating so he faces WILL.

SPIDER SMITH:

Once your mission is complete, none

of this will have happened anyway.

So why not just dispose of them?

But Will's gaze is impassive. Spider Smith actually SIGHS.

SPIDER SMITH:

Very well. Robot, take them inside

the ship and keep them there. If

they move, then kill them.

ECT.-CRATER CAVES-FUTURE

Maureen and Judy are examining the heiroglyph stone. The ground shakes.

Birds SCREAM. (OVER) RUMBLING.

MAUREEN:

We've got to get to the ship. Penny?

She turns. The clearing is empty. No Blips. No Penny. Blip runs cut

before them, grabs Maureen's hand, trying to pull her forward.

MAUREEN:

Where is she, girl?

In Blip's hand, a mass of colored ribbons from Penny's wrists. Blip

waves them in the air, then races off. A beat. The women follow.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM-FUTURE

The pulse laser is increasing its intensity, the corridor of images in

the bubble stabilizing. The TREMORS are increasing in frequency.

PAN DOWN:

Spider Smith stands with Will, watching as the Robot shepherds the crew

towards the body of the ship.

SPIDER SMITH:

Well, it would seem the time is upon

us. Off we go, William.

Spider Smith starts climbing the gantry, truly like a spider, up

towards the bridge and crows nest hanging over the bubble.

Will walks to the control console platform, the platform now beginning

to rise on the gantry, towards the bridge above.

JOHN-POV. Something hangs from below the climbing Spider Smith's back.

It's an egg pouch of the kind they saw on the probe ship log.

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