Lost in Space Page #5

JOHN:

(entering his tube)

Major, she's all yours.

WEST:

I'll try to give you a smooth ride.

Judy walks the row, checking their bio-monitors. Enters her tube.

JUDY:

Mission control this is Dr. Robinson.

We are in the green.

MISSION CONTROL (OVER)

Roger, Doctor, you are go to initiate

cryostasis.

Don walks to Judy's tube.

WEST:

One question, Doctor. in there room

in these tubes for two?

JUDY:

Barely enough for you and your ego,

Major. Drive carefully.

(touches her com-link)

initializing cryostasis tubes.

The tubes rotate closed around the Robinsons. Suddenly each crew member

is surrounded by a shimmering blue glow, brightening like a star and

then subsiding. All stand fixed in suspended animation.

Don stares at the family a beat. He goes to the main console. Straps

himself in.

WEST:

Mission Control, this is Jupiter One.

The Robinsons are asleep. We are

ready to fly.

INT.-SPACE COMMAND-MISSION CONTROL

Welcome to the future. Banks of monitors manned by gum-chewing, pink

haired technicians. A giant monitor shows the Jupiter on the launch

pad. The CONTROLLER (NOAH FREEMAN) pulls in to his console.

NOAH:

Jupiter Two this is Mission Control.

You are at T-minus two minutes and

counting. We're opening the dome.

MONITOR-CLOSE. The dome begins to part.

EXT.-JUPITER ONE

Giant gantries retract. Fueling lines disengage.

INT.-JUPITER ONE

WEST:

External fuel pressure to zero.

Powering main drive systems.

EXT.-JUPITER ONE

The nuclear drive at the base of the saucer EXPLODES, the giant craft

TREMBLING, straining towards the sky.

INT.-MiSSION CONTROL

NOAH:

Jupiter One you are at ninety five

percent.

INT.-JUPITER ONE

WEST:

Houston, main drive systems to on

line status. It's showtime.

EXT.-JUPITER ONE

Nuclear ENGINES ROAR. The ship begins to rise in a bolus of flame.

INT.- MISSION CONTROL

NOAH:

We have lift off.

INT.-JUPITER ONE

WEST:

Requesting escape trajectory.

INT.-MISSION CONTROL

NOAH:

Major, your escape vector in clear of

all military and commercial traffic.

Op in go on your command.

INT.-JUPITER ONE

WEST:

Roger, Houston.

West reaches for a glowing panel.

WEST:

We're outta here.

EXT. JUPITER ONE

The atomic power source fires a focused BLAST, shooting the Jupiter

through cloud and sky towards the black edge of space.

INT:
-MISSION CONTROL

The main screen shows a graphic of the Jupiter's trajectory as the ship

arcs toward the outer edge of the atmosphere.

NOAH:

Jupiter One, you are clear Earth's

atmosphere.

A CHEER goes up in the control room.

EXT.-JUPITER ONE

The giant saucer shell EXPLODES, revealing the inner ship, the

glittering high tech shape of the JUPITER TWO.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

Don watches as the Earth recedes into a blue marble, flickering orbital

billboards growing distant. Smiles at the familiar sight.

WEST:

Jupiter One booster disengaged.

Proceeding towards Mercury.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

Nuclear diodes at the ship's base spin into life, glowing with atomic

fire, the ship now heading towards Mercury and beyond.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-LOWER DECKS

The Robot stands dormant in his service bay. HOLD on the closed service

drawer in the b.g. PUSH IN.

INT.-SERVICE DRAWER

Smith lies still, unconscious in the dark compartment.

INT-JUPITER TWO BRIDGE

Mercury hangs like a red moon in the front viewscreen.

WIDER:

Don presses a button and two giant blast shields close over the Jupiter

Two's main viewscreen.

WEST:

Houston, diverting all spacecraft

controls to the main computer.

(off mic)

Eight years of flight training.

He walks to the center of the bridge and activates the navigational

holograph, images forming in mid-air over the pedestal.

HOLOGRAPH- CLOSE. The Jupiter Two is visible, backed by the planets of

our solar system.

WEST:

Navigational holographics on line.

(off mic)

Fifty combat missions.

Don touches buttons and a highlight indicates the ship's trajectory

past mercury, around the Sun in a slingshot and into space beyond.

WEST:

Course confirmed for slingshot exit

of the solar system.

(off mic)

Just so I can take the family camper

on an interstellar picnic.

Don walks to the freezing tubes. He zips up his silver flight suit.

WEST:

Ten world series. My, nephews' high

school and college graduations. A

decade's worth of Sports Illustrated

swimsuit editions.

(a beat)

Noah, ten years in a lifetime.

West climbs into his tube.

INT.-MISSION CONTROL

NOAH:

Sleep well, old friend.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

Don hits a switch and his tube closes. A beat then he is engulfed by

the blue

glow, frozen in space. The tubes rise into the craft.

EXT.-JUPITER TWO

The ship flies on into the endless night.

DISSOLVE TO:

CHAPTER 9:
Destroy!

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INT.-JUPITER TWO-WASTE DISPOSAL CHUTE-LATER

Smith lies still. He starts from a nightmare into...-a nightmare

INT.-JUPITER TWO-LOWER DECKS

Smith scrambles out of the chute, stares at his hand, the impression of

the overloaded communicator seared into his palm.

He spins around disoriented. Stumbles to a closed view screen and hits

a stud. The blast shield opens. Space.

SMITH-CLOSE. Shock. No words.

THE ROBOT-CLOSE. In his docking bay. Suddenly the automaton powers up,

lights activating as his CPU comes on line.

SMITH:

No.

Smith turns, slaps the burned out programming module on the Robot.

SMITH:

Disable program.

No response. The Robot continues to power up.

Smith engage interface. Initiate system shut-down.

ROBOT:

Robot is on line. Implementing prime

command directives.

The Robot disengages from the service bay, begins rolling forward.

ROBOT:

Robinson family, destroy.

SMITH:

No. Cease. Desist.

The Robot rolls towards the bridge.

ROBOT:

All operating Systems, destroy.

Smith grabs a wrench from a tool bracket, leaps for the Robot. The

Robot swings once, sending Smith flying into a flaring console.

ROBOT:

Jupiter Two, destroy.

INT.-MISSION CONTROL-NIGHT

Dark. A single Techie (ANNIE) mans the watch, playing holo-games with a

stylus over her desk. SCREENS flicker into life.

ANNIE:

What the-?

(into a mic)

Somebody wake up the chief.

INT.-JUPITER TWO-BRIDGE

Still. The bridge doors open and the ambient lights come on.

The Robot rolls onto the bridge, faces the cryosleep array. He extends

his arms, an electrical charge arcing between his claws.

ROBOT:

Robinson Family, destroy.

He fires, a blast of electricity hitting the cryosleep controls. (OVER)

ALARMS sound as the tubes begin to descend, electricity sparking across

the sleeping Robinsons.

SMITH (OVER)

Mechanical moron. You'll kill us all.

Smith, wrench in hand, rushes the Robot, is again hurled across the

room. The Robot turns towards the navigational computer.

INT.-MISSION CONTROL

Fully lit. All the monitors are manned by sleepy Techies. Noah ENTERS,

taking a coffee from Annie without breaking stride. , ALARMS flash

everywhere.

NOAH:

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