Men in Black Page #32

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - NIGHT

The saucer CRASHES through the Unisphere, an enormous steel

globe, and THUDS to the earth, CRASHING through brush, dirt

and rock...

Jay and Kay come to their feet...

In front of them, the dust clears... Trees uprooted, stones

and dirt thrown everywhere... a dumpster has been cast to

their left...

And the saucer is there, embedded in the earth, tipped off-

kilter in a mound of debris...

A hatch comes up... revealing Edgar, walking slowly toward

them, with contained fury.

EDGAR:

You don't get it. I've won. It's

over.

KAY:

You are under arrest for violating

number 4-1-53 of the Tycho accord.

Please hand over any galaxy you might

be carrying.

EDGAR:

You milk-suckers! You don't matter!

In a few seconds you won't even be

matter!

KAY:

Move away from the vehicle and put

your hands on your head.

He pumps the gun for emphasis.

EDGAR:

Put my hands on my head?

Edgar stares at him. Then flexes his arms, still encased in

flesh. His giant pincers RIP free of the rotting skin.

He extends both pincers to the sides, and, my God, his reach

must be twelve feet across.

Now the skin and clothes on Edgar's legs begins to CRACK and

SHRED. They BURST APART, revealing two hideous, doubled-over

insect legs. The bug raises himself aloft on his legs.

He sucks in a deep breath of air, and now the rest of the

Edgar suit goes the way of the arms and legs. The torso

EXPLODES in great rendering of cloth and skin, and finally

Edgar's head simply BURSTS apart, SPATTERING against the

walls. Edgar now reveals himself as he really is: a hairy,

bug-like exoskeleton, a scaly tail with a long stinger, a

head like a cobra with elliptical eyes and a small nose, and

two horse-like feet with three toes each.

He raises his pincers in the air, resting them on his head.

The GALAXY hangs on a chain around his neck.

BUG:

Like this?

Kay and Jay pump their guns and aim at the Bug.

Suddenly the Bug SPITS. And a HUGE, SLIMY WAD OF GOO shoots

from him and engulfs both shotguns. The Bug snorts it back,

tearing them from Jay and Kay's grasp, then swallowing them.

Jay and Kay have only a second to react before --

The Bug SWIPES at them with the back of his clawed hand,

like someone brushing aside a gnat -- and SENDS THEM FLYING

FIFTEEN FEET IN THE AIR.

EXT. LAUREL'S TREE - NIGHT

She flinches as she sees them hit the ground. She starts to

climb the tree.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - NIGHT

Jay and Kay hit the ground with loud grunts.

JAY:

That did not go at all like I had

planned.

They look up to see the Bug moving for the second tower --

and the second flying saucer. Kay gets to his feet.

KAY:

This guy's really starting to bug

me.

Kay starts walking after the Bug.

KAY:

Whatever happens, Jay, don't let him

get on that ship.

JAY:

Where are you going?

KAY:

Getting my gun back.

JAY:

What!?

Kay steps forward and yells at the departing Bug.

KAY:

Hey, Bug!

The Bug just keeps moving toward the ladder.

KAY:

I'm talking to you, Bug! You know

how many of your kind I've swatted

with a newspaper?

The Bug turns toward Kay. Kay steps up to him, the small

human facing off against the giant alien hug.

EXT. LAUREL'S TREE - NIGHT

She quietly makes it to the ground -- hurries off to the

darkness of the woods.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - ON KAY AND THE BUG - NIGHT

Kay has himself in the Bug's face, its dripping fangs inches

from Kay's face.

KAY:

You're just a smear on the sports

page to me, you slimy, gut-sucking,

intestinal parasite! Eat me!

The Bug reacts -- cranks open its massive jaws with a

deafening HISS, lunges forward, and sucks Kay into his mouth.

The Bug straightens up to its full height and throws his

head back. Kay slides down the Bug's throat, bending it

sideways as he kicks and SCREAMS his way down into its

abdomen.

JAY looks on, in stunned horror...

AS THE BUG TURNS TO JAY AND STRETCHES TO ITS FULL HEIGHT and

lets loose a HIDEOUS SCREAMING HOWL OF TRIUMPH.

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT

Laurel is still watching.

EXT. WORLD'S FAIR - ON JAY AND THE BUG - NIGHT

Jay watches as the Bug continues its HOWL OF TRIUMPH... He

feels totally defeated. But...

He can hardly believe his eyes as he looks down at the Bug's

stomach...

CLOSE ON BUG'S STOMACH. Through the leathery pouch of the

Bug's stomach, we can just make out the distended outline of

the two atomizers... and just a few inches from it, a HUMAN

HAND is reaching toward the gun... KAY!

INT. BUG - NIGHT

Kay, swimming in the Bug's intestinal fluid, tries to make

his way to the gun, Holding his breath. Eyes stinging.

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