Men in Black Page #20

LAUREL:

I'd say so -- triple homicide.

She gets up and goes to the Arquillian's body, which is still

out on a table under the lights.

LAUREL:

The first corpse was perfectly normal,

except that he was broken in half,

but when I opened up the other two --

well, look.

She throws back a sheet, revealing (to them only, not us)

the fully dissected Arquillian. Kay raises an eyebrow; Jay

nearly retches.

LAUREL:

There's a skeletal structure at work

here unlike anything I've ever seen.

Kay steps past her, going straight to the body. He begins to

examine it.

KAY:

I'll have a look at this one. Dr.

White, why don't you and Dr. Weaver

check out the other body?

LAUREL:

This way, Doctor.

Jay and Laurel cross the room, to where ROSENBERG's corpse

lies out on another gurney.

LAUREL:

This one's even stranger. I did a

full laparotomy. I started with the

lesser curvature of the stomach --

though, if you want, we could begin

at the gastro-esophageal junction.

JAY:

I think, uh, we should start at the

same place you did.

LAUREL:

All right.

Jay hears a MEOW and looks down. Rosenberg's cat is rubbing

up against his leg.

JAY:

Your cat?

LAUREL:

Guess it is now. Came in with the

bodies.

She SNAPS one of her rubber gloves and reaches down (out of

frame), sinking her hands into the body as she moves things

aside. Just by the look on Jay's face, one can imagine how

disgusting it is.

Laurel digs in, up to her elbows. Jay winces. She pulls one

bloody glove out, to wipe a strand of hair out of her face.

He looks at her --

-- and she winks at him. He's surprised. She laughs.

LAUREL:

Okay. Dive right in. God knows he

won't mind.

Jay is reluctant, so she rolls her eyes and helps him, taking

him by the hand and guiding him into the thick of the corpse.

LAUREL:

You have very pretty eyes.

JAY:

Thank-you, but is this really the

time to uh -- you know, come on to

me?

LAUREL:

Hey, just walking the dog.

(continuing)

Feel that? Where the piloric junction

would be?

JAY:

Oh, yes. Exactly.

LAUREL:

Now push that aside. Notice anything

strange? Stomach? Liver? Lungs?

JAY:

Nope. All fine.

LAUREL:

Doctor, they're all missing.

JAY:

(quickly)

Well, of course they are. What I'm

pointing out is that there are no

pieces of them left. So they're

intact, wherever they are. That we

can be sure of.

LAUREL:

Have we met before? I have the

strangest feeling of deja vu.

JAY:

You know, I was just going to ask

you the same thing.

Laurel looks at him sideways, skeptical, but also intrigued.

She whispers to him. Confiding in him.

LAUREL:

Okay. You wanna know what I really

think?

(re:
Kay)

But don't tell that guy. He looks

like he's already under enough stress.

(then)

This body is not really a body, but

it's actually some sort of transport

unit for something else altogether.

The question is:
what?

Jay just looks at her intrigued.

LAUREL:

By the way, stop me if I'm freaking

you out.

JAY:

No, no... not at all.

After a particularly gross GUSHY sound, he looks away, toward

her. She's staring at him.

Laurel leans over and lowers her voice, just for him.

LAUREL:

You know what I like to do sometimes?

When it's really late?

JAY:

(freaked out)

No...

From the other side of the room, Kay CLEARS HIS THROAT.

JAY:

Excuse me.

He walks across the morgue to Kay, who is still examining

the Arquillian.

But Jay never takes his eyes off Laurel.

KAY:

What do you think?

JAY:

(of Laurel)

Very interesting. Got a real Queen

of the Undead thing goin' on.

KAY:

Of the body.

JAY:

Great body.

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