Men in Black Page #22

KAY:

Never hurt her before.

JAY:

"Never hurt her before"?! How many

times have you done the flashy thing

to this poor woman?!

KAY:

(evasive)

Couple.

JAY:

Aren't you worried about, you know,

long term damage?

KAY:

(more evasive)

Little bit.

JAY:

What the hell happened to make you

such a callous son of a b*tch?

KAY:

I took this job.

He heads out. Jay follows.

JAY:

Hey, you never flashed me with that

thing, did you?

KAY:

Nah.

EXT. MORGUE - NIGHT

Jay and Kay exit the morgue and walk towards their car.

JAY:

Hey, Kay, I really think I should be

in charge of the flashy memory thing

department.

KAY:

Not while I'm around, Slim.

JAY:

Yeah, well you're a menace with that

thing...

An MIB containment vehicle pulls up, and four men dressed in

black suits get out.

KAY:

(to an MIB Agent)

We've got two dead aliens in there,

and a deputy medical coroner in need

of a new memory.

CUT TO:

EXT. NEW YORK ALLEY - NIGHT

The Orkin van is parked in an alleyway somewhere downtown.

From inside, throaty WAILS of frustration can be heard. Two

PASSERSBY hear the racket and hesitate, wondering if they

should get involved.

But an inhuman GROWL rattles the whole van and they wise up,

hurrying on their way.

INT. ORKIN VAN - NEW YORK ALLEY - NIGHT

Inside the van, the ornate rosewood box is now battered and

scarred, its various locks holding tight against EDGAR's

repeated attempts to claw his way into it. Crammed into the

back of the van along with his spaceship, Edgar wedges a

screwdriver into the thin opening between the top and the

rest of the box and SMACKS it with his right fist. Nothing

doing.

He BELLOWS in rage and hurls the box against the side of the

van, where it finally CRACKS a hinge. Edgar snaps it up,

pries the rest of the hinge off with the screwdriver, and

wrenches the top off the box.

Inside, there are dozens of precious, glittering diamonds,

which he promptly tosses aside as worthless. But the rest of

the box is empty.

EDGAR:

No. No, NO, NO, NOOOO!

He rips the box apart with his bare hands. There's nothing

else there.

CUT TO:

EXT. MIB BUILDING - MAGIC HOUR

As lower Manhattan is waking up, Jay and Kay enter the

building.

INT. MIB BUILDING - HEADQUARTERS - EARLY MORNING

Despite the early hour, the headquarters is going full-blast.

The large screen displays the familiar grouping of stars

that is the CONSTELLATION ORION.

Jay and Kay hurry in -- Kay peels off to one of the monitors;

Jay heads for Zed.

JAY:

Doesn't anybody believe in sleep

around here?

ZED:

The twins keep us on Alpha Centaurian

time -- a 37-hour day. Give it a few

months -- you'll get used to it. Or

you'll have a psychotic episode.

He points up at the screen with a laser pencil.

ZED:

Here's Orion; the brightest grouping

of stars in the northern sky...

(pointing)

and here's Orion's belt --

He indicates the three stars that make up the belt.

JAY:

That's what the little guy was talking

about, "To prevent war, the galaxy's

on Orion's belt..."

ZED:

There are no galaxies on Orion's

belt. The belt is just these three

stars; galaxies are huge, made up of

billions of stars.

(switches off the

laser pointer)

You heard wrong.

JAY:

You're attracted to me, aren't you?

Jay starts to cross over to ANOTHER MONITOR, where Kay is

sitting alone, tie loosened, slightly disheveled. On the

screen, the word "SEARCHING" blinks, encouraging patience.

The image changes to a satellite view of North America, which

quickly zooms in on the Southwest.

On screen, the satellite view zooms down to Arizona, then a

city, then a neighborhood, then a block, then a back yard.

The printout changes to

"SUBJECT ACQUIRED."

The image comes into sharp focus on one back yard in

particular, where we get a good look at a MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN.

SUBJECT:
ELIZABETH ANN RESTON

PRESENT LOCATION: RESIDENCE

553 FAIRFIELD AVE./TEMPE/AZ

Whoever Elizabeth Ann Reston is, she's lovely. She's setting

a picnic table in her back yard at the moment, unaware that

she's being watched by an eye in the sky -- just as Kay is

unaware that Jay is standing behind him.

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