Lost in Space Page #20

INT.-JUPITER TWO-PRESENT

Judy is at navigation, frantically enhance the stabilizers.

JUDY:

I'm reading a power build up.

Markers in the red-

Suddenly the panel EXPLODES, sending Judy flying across the bridge.

Penny races to her sister. Kneels. Judy's eyes are wide, still.

PENNY:

She's dead.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-PRESENT

The ground is breaking, falling into an endless fiery abyss below.

WEST:

Not enough power to make orbit.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO-DAY-PRES ENT

Another firestorm. A flame geyser hits the ship. Then another.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-PRESENT

Control panels all around the ship begin to SLOW. The main screen is

hit by a flying chunk of rock. The giant glass begins to crack.

WEST:

(to Maureen)

I'm sorry.

The windshield EXPLODES, sucking them both out into space.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO-DAY-PRESENT

The ship is hit by another fire geyser. The Jupiter Two EXPLODES.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL

INT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM-FUTURE

John and Will kneel on the crow's nest as the Jupiter Two dodges the

fire geysers in the sky through the torn hull. The ship is struck once,

again, finally EXPLODING in a ROARING ball of fire.

JOHN-CLOSE. A man who has lost everything he ever loved.

JOHN:

I couldn't save them.

Will stares at his father and beyond him. There, in the time doorway, a

young Will walks towards the entrance to Mission Control in the morning

sun, innocent with no knowledge of the future.

OLDER WILL (OVER)

So many years ago and I can still

feel it. Our sun. Our Earth. It's

all I've thought about. Going home.

Will reaches forward and touches the control console. The images in the

laser generated doorway begin to change.

OLDER WILL:

A long time ago, you told a small

boy that one day he'd understand how

precious he was, how much his father

loved him. Today is that day.

TIME BUBBLE-CLOSE. Instead of Earth we now see this planet's surface,

the Jupiter Two rising as it did just moments ago.

OLDER WILL:

All I could see was your need to go

forward at any cost. What you never

showed me was your love. I lost

that. Robbed by time. I could never

see how much you cared. Until now.

TIME BUBBLE-CLOSE. The Jupiter Two tries in vain to dodge the fire

geysers, then EXPLODING all over again. Will enters some commands.

TIME BUBBLE-CLOSE. The image in the portal begins to run backwards, the

Jupiter Two reconstituting from a ball of flame, receding past

diminishing flame geysers, beginning to land again.

OLDER WILL:

Father, take my hand.

INT.-CUPITER TWO

We are back in the ship just before take off. DON mans the Cam. Maureen

straps herself 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.

PENNY:

Look.

The roof of the hull is beginning to swirl, becoming translucent, like

water. There, standing above them, John and Older WILL.

2NT.-JUPITER TWO-ENGINE ROOM-CROW'S NEST-FUTURE

The bridge of the Jupiter Two is visible in the laser generated

doorway. Older WILL looks to his father.

OLDER WILL:

DON'T make me wait another lifetime

to know how you feel.

And with that he pushes John over the edge, the Professor falling down

through space and into the bubble and the doorway below.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

The ceiling becomes water an John drops into the ship. Maureen cradles

her husband. Then she looks up. Will is still visible through the

watery hull.

JOHN:

Come with us.

But the passage through time and space is already breaking up as the

world of the engine room EXPLODES in the b.g.

OLDER WILL:

I can't. There was only enough power

for one person, one trip, remember?

MAUREEN:

Will?

OLDER WILL:

It's good to see you again, Mom.

It's good to see you alive.

(fading)

Sorry about all the monkey business.

Maureen reaches up towards her son, reaching down, the two hands almost

touching before Will is gone, the portal closed forever.

JOHN:

He sacrificed everything for his

family.

MAUREEN:

(fighting tears)

He had a good example.

Maureen holds him close. A small figure walks up beside them. Will.

WILL:

Dad?

A beat, then Will reaches up, hands him his dog tags.

WILL:

I'm glad you came back.

JOHN:

I just want you to know I love you

son. I love you very much.

John takes the boy in his arms, father and son finally holding close.

(OVER) more RUMBLING as the ground continues to give way.

WEST (OVER)

The planet is breaking up around us.

John moves fast to the Com.

WEST:

Nice of you to drop in.

John smiles a beat, then he's all business.

JOHN:

Status?

(OVER) A tremendous CRASH.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The land masses are falling away beneath them, plummeting into

giant caverns of fire.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

SMITH:

We're doomed. We're doomed.

West turns, hauls off and PUNCHES Smith, knocking him out cold.

WEST:

Boy, that felt good.

JOHN:

Get us airborne.

Don throws the power switches to full.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The landing struts retract. The power drive begins to spin. The Jupiter

Two rises above the ground just as the firmament collapses upon itself.

Fire geysers ERUPT. History in about to repeat itself.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

WEST:

I'm going to try to reach escape

velocity. Maybe we can break the

gravitational pull.

JOHN:

No. We don't have the core material.

The gravity wells will drag us down.

WEST:

We might-

JOHN:

We won't make it. Trust me. I know.

We've got to go down.

WEST:

What?

JOHN:

Through the planet as she breaks up.

WEST:

That's insane.

JOHN:

I don't have time to argue. I'm

giving you a direct order, Major.

Don and John stare at each other a beat. Then Don smiles.

WEST:

Yes Sir.

VIEWSCREEN- CLOSE. The world is breaking up beneath them, revealing a

fiery maw. DON GUNS the engines, heading straight for the chasm.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The tiny ship flies into the giant expanding crevice.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

DON is flying into the shattering center of the planet. Masses of

continents, some bearing forests, others oceans, all soar past.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The tiny ship flies deeper toward the molten center of the planet.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

JOHN:

There.

A window out the windscreen a portion of the planet has torn away

revealing the black of space and the starfield beyond.

WEST:

I see it.

Don banks the ship toward the opening, flying past exploding fragments

of this shattering world.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The ship clears the planet as the world EXPLODES in the b.g.

CHAPTER 24:
Alpha Prime

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INT.-JUPITER TWO

DON guides the ship out into space. Judy comes up behind him.

JUDY:

Nice work, flyboy.

WEST:

So, I earn that kiss yet?

JUDY:

(a peck on the cheek)

You earned that.

DON shrugs, begins to turn away. Judy grabs him.

JUDY:

This one is on credit.

She gives him a long, passionate kiss. She lets him go, stunned.

JUDY:

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