Men in Black Page #31

EXT. MIB LTD - TRAVELING - NIGHT

From outside the car, we watch it rocket along on the roof

of the tunnel.

We can hear KAY'S VOICE as he goes on. And on.

KAY:

Yeah, it's harder and harder to smoke

anywhere these days. Hell, I suppose

I should quit. I've tried. Never

took, though. I'm beginning to think

I lack self-control.

And they disappear out the other end of the tunnel --

INT. MIB LTD - TRAVELING - NIGHT

-- and flip over, BANGING back down onto the road on the

other side. Jay falls off the ceiling and SLAMS into his

seat.

KAY:

Well, back to work.

He flips his cigarette out the window and cranks the wheel

to the left.

EXT. MIDTOWN TUNNEL - TOLL BOOTH - NIGHT

Approaching a toll booth, the LTD shoots across nine lanes

of traffic and through the only open booth, SHATTERING the

gate. Traveling at about two hundred miles an hour, Kay

nonchalantly flips a token out the window --

-- and it CHINKS in the basket as their taillights disappear.

CUT TO:

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - LANDING TOWER - NIGHT

EDGAR climbs the outside of the landing tower of one of the

space ships, pushing LAUREL up ahead of him, headed for the

saucer at the top.

LAUREL:

Come on, let me go, you don't want

to eat me. I'm a very important person

on my planet. Like a queen. A goddess,

even. There are those who worship

me, yes. I'm not trying to impress

you with this, I'm just letting you

know. It could start a war.

EDGAR:

Good. War means food for my family,

all seventy-eight million of them.

That's a lot of mouths to feed, your

highness.

LAUREL:

You're a wonderful dad.

And with that she KICKS him squarely in the face. He reels,

momentarily losing his grip on her. She takes advantage of

the moment and FLINGS HERSELF out, into the air.

Edgar flails, but she is beyond his reach. She falls, tumbling

through the air --

-- and lands in the branches of a tree. She hits hard, the

branches rattling, and reaches out and hangs on for dear

life, high above the ground.

Above, Edgar just keeps climbing.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - NIGHT

Over at the fence, the LTD comes to a looooong, skidding

stop at the fairgrounds.

AT THE TRUNK, JAY and KAY flip open the trunk and scarf up

whatever weapons look most dangerous. Kay grabs a black box,

UNSNAPS a row of latches, and opens it, revealing --

-- the most wicked-looking shotgun on the planet.

Three feet long, triple-barreled, over and under and under,

plus a pump action reloader on top of a storage clip for a

dozen more shells. The shells themselves are solid, glistening

like polished steel. Kay loads up the clip.

JAY:

You know how to work that?

Kay pumps it once, with extreme confidence.

KAY:

No idea whatsoever.

He SLAMS the trunk, revealing the flying saucers sitting

atop their columns in the distance.

KAY:

Let's bag us some bug.

As if on cue, one of the saucers begins to HUM. Then it starts

to spin, faster and faster. The ship begins to rise.

JAY:

Oh, sh*t.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - TREE - NIGHT

Laurel sits in her tree, watching with amazement.

EXT. SHEA STADIUM - NIGHT

At Shea Stadium, a Mets game is in progress. Behind the home

plate side, the flying saucer silently rises up in the night

sky, plainly visible.

But at that very moment, the batter CRACKS into a fastball,

hard. The crowd rises to its feet, SHOUTING, staring out at

center field, where the ball is headed.

All eyes in the house are on the Mets' CENTER FIELDER, except

for his eyes, which are on the flying saucer behind home

plate. His eyes widen, his jaw drops --

-- and the catchable ball sails over his head, THUDDING into

the wall behind him. The crowd BOOS viciously.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - NIGHT

Kay raises the weapon he took from the trunk; looks over at

Jay.

KAY:

Set it to pulsar level five, sub-

sonic implosion factor --

JAY:

What?

KAY:

Press the little green button, on

three.

Jay raises his weapon; they press their green buttons.

KAY:

One... two...

They pull their triggers.

For a moment, nothing happens, as if it were a misfire. But

then, there is a VACUUM WHUMP, like all the air in the

immediate area being sucked into a space the size of a dime,

and a tremendous shock wave rolls out from the barrel of the

guns.

Jay and Kay are sucked to the ground by the bizarre force,

THUDDING to their stomachs like magnets to a refrigerator.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - NIGHT

The shock waves wrinkle across the open space between them

and the ship, then it HITS the ship --

-- and it too is sucked back down. Hurtling back toward them.

EXT. LAUREL'S TREE - NIGHT

She flinches as the flying saucer shoots overhead.

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