Lost in Space Page #19

EXT:
-PLANET'S SURFACE-EVENING-FUTURE

Don and the Robot, Will riding his back, navigate the terrain alongside

the ravaged hull of the Jupiter Two.

WILL:

Look.

On the ground, crumpled in a heap, is Smith. Don checks his pulse.

WEST:

(disappointed)

Damn. He's still breathing.

(OVER) the rushing WIND. RUMBLING. A portal opens before them to a far

younger world. Then another portal, to a world far older. A third

portal RIPS across the sky overhead.

WILL:

The time machine must be near full

power. The portals are collapsing.

WEST:

Which one leads us home?

More portals are opening around them, others winking shut.

WILL:

There.

Through a new rip in time, the intact Jupiter Two can be seen in relief

of the battered future craft. The ground beneath their feet is

beginning to give way.

WILL:

We can't just leave him here.

WEST:

Sure we can.

(off WILL's stare)

Damn it.

(slapping the Doctor)

Smith. Wake up. Smith.

SMITH:

(coming to)

Oh, the pain, the pain.

ROBOT:

Danger. Will Robinson. Danger.

The PORTAL is beginning to shimmer. The ground starts to fall away.

WEST:

Jump!

Don hurls Smith through, Will, the Robot and West darting across the

threshold just as the portal winks closed.

EXT. -FOREST- PRESENT

The trees are bursting into flames an Will, Don, the Robot and Smith

emerge from the woods. Race forwards towards...

PULL BACK TO REVEAL

INT.-JUPITER TWO-BRIDGE-PRESENT

The women are powering up the ship. The men are visible through the

windscreen. Outside, the ground in beginning to crumble.

PENNY:

Mom, the forest.

Penny opens the air lock. Maureen holds close her son. Steps back.

MAUREEN:

Where's John?

WEST:

The portal closed behind us. It was

his only way back.

MEE GROUND-CLOSE. A geyser of fire BLOWS into the air.

WEST:

We've got to try and lift off.

MAUREEN:

We've already begun the pre-flight

countdown. You have the Com.

(off Don's expression)

I'm going to save as many lives as I

can, Major. Now strap in.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM CONTROL PLATFoRm-FUTURE

(OVER) TREMORS. More lava is rushing up towards the mercury, the walls

themselves beginning to crack.

SMITH opens a gate at the end of the crow's-nest and a gang plank

unfolds above the doorway in time.

JOHN (OVER)

Not so fast.

WIDER:

John stands on the platform behind Smith, fighting star in hand,

slashes for his face. Smith moves fast, knocking the star to the gantry

bridge with his arm. John leaps on Smith, using his fists.

JOHN:

You sabotaged our mission.

(hook)

You killed my family

(jab)

You stole my son. It's payback time.

Smith's head moves from each impact, but the punches have no effect. It

smiles. Grabs John and hurls him across the platform.

SPIDER SMITH:

Spare me the fury of the righteous.

The monster leans down over John. Opens its jaw.

SPIDER SMITH:

I think there's time for a snack

before my trip.

John's hand is reaching towards the fallen fighting star. At the last

moment John grabs the metal weapon from the catwalk, slashes Smith

across the face, silver-red blood pouring down his cheek.

SPIDER SMITH:

(sarcastic)

Oh, the pain. The pain.

JOHN:

You ain't seen nothing yet.

John feints towards Smith's head and then slashes low, cutting the

viscous membrane of the monster's egg pouch.

SPIDER SMITH-CLOSE. Surprised.

JOHN:

Remember the probe ship? These

monsters eat their wounded.

SMITH'S EGG SACK-CLOSE. Scores of the tiny spiders are pouring out of

the sack, rushing up towards Smith's face, tiny jaws chomping.

SPIDER SMITH:

No. Stop. No!

Spider Smith tumbles backwards, falling against the rail on the side of

the platform. John rises and rushes him, SHOULDER-SLAMMING him, sending

Smith hurling over towards the bubble below.

Spider Smith hits the bubble, missing the doorway formed by the red

laser and is swept up by the tides of time.

JOHN:

Take all the time you want to die.

Spider Smith SCREAMS as he disappears and reappears in the various

half-formed images within the bubble before vanishing altogether.

John turns. The core cylinder has descended almost entirely into the

main console. only seconds before it's too late to retrieve it.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO-DAY-PRESENT

The landscape is a sudden inferno.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-PRESENT

Don is at the Com. Maureen strapped into the co-pilot's chair.

MAUREEN:

I kept hoping somehow he'd appear.

Maureen stares a beat out the window.

MAUREEN:

Let's go, Major.

Don hits the engine switch. The.mighty generators WHINE into life.

MAUREEN:

(quiet)

Goodbye, my love.

CHAPTER 23:
Escape Velocity

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The ship rocks as land masses on all sides begin to give way.

WEST:

Engaging primary thrusters. Now!

EXT. -JUPITER TWO-DAY-PRESENT

The power drive begins to glow, diodes spinning. The landing struts

retract. The Jupiter Two begins to rise.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM-INSERTION ARM-FUTURE

CONTROL CONSOLE-CLOSE. The core material in sinking fast. John moves

towards it when something on the gantry catches his eye.

GANTRY-CLOSE. Wedged into the grill work is a shiny scrap of metal

reflecting the setting sunlight. John's father's dog tags.

John rushes to the rail. There, still unconscious and hanging by the

dog-tag chain is Older Will.

CHAIN-CLOSE. The metal links are pulling apart. Will is seconds away

from falling into the pool.

JOHN-POV. The cylinder has completely sunken into the machine. It's

Will or the core material. No time for both.

John stands a beat, immobile. Then he drops to his knees, reaching down

as the chain breaks, grabbing Will's wrist at the last second.

The dog tags tumble into the pool below as John hoists Older Will up

onto the safety of the gangplank.

JOHN:

Come on, son. Wake up.

Will is still. Then, finally, his eyes open.

OLDER WILL:

Dad?

JOHN:

I thought I lost you.

OLDER WILL:

The core.

Will turns in time to see the core cylinder sink into the control

panel, the laser exploding in intensity below them as it drains the

cylinder's radioactive power. The world begins to EXPLODE.

OLDER WILL:

You could have taken the core and

left before it was too late. You

saved me instead.

John stares at him.

JOHN:

There wasn't any choice. I couldn't

let you fall.You're my boy.

THE LASER-CLOSE. Reaches full power. The image in the time pool

stabilizes, becoming clear.

TIME POOL-CLOSE. Mission Control the day before the launch.

Father and Son stare into the past, eyes filled with wonder.

OLDER WILL:

Look. They made it.

PAN UP. Through a torn hole in the hull and a glowing rip in space, the

Jupiter Two is rising into the flame ravaged sky.

INT.JUPITER TWO-PRESENT

The ship is shaking madly.

WEST:

We're not getting any altitude.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO-DAY-PRESENT

The fire GEYSERS are legion, giant chunks of the planet's surface now

falling away beneath them. A huge spew of flame rages from the fire-

pocked surface, hitting the bull of the tiny craft.

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