Men in Black Page #35

EXT. NEWSSTAND - DAY

CLOSE ON various tabloid headlines as a hand flicks through

them. Here's one:

METS' CENTERFIELDER SAYS:

"UFO MADE ME MISS HOME RUN BALL!"

And here's another one:

DETROIT HAS CAR THAT DEFIES GRAVITY!

Secret Tests in N.Y.'S Tunnel

And a third:

MAN AWAKENS FROM 30-YEAR COMA

Returns to Girl He Left Behind

A large photograph shows a smiling KAY, arm-in-arm with

ELIZABETH RESTON, his long-lost fiancee, in her back yard in

Tempe, Arizona.

She holds a large bouquet of flowers, the same kind he brought

but never gave her thirty years ago.

JAY, who's reading the paper, smiles.

AT THE CURB, Jay hurries back to the LTD with the newspapers.

ELLE, (formerly Laurel), is waiting, leaning against the

hood. Tailored black suit. Black shoes. Short-cropped hair.

The look never looked better.

ELLE:

Zed called. The High Consulate of

Regent-9 emissary wants floor seats

to the Knicks -- Bulls game.

JAY:

I'll talk to Dennis Rodman, it's his

damn planet.

ELLE:

Let's roll.

Both car doors SLAM, Jay drops it in gear, and the LTD BLASTS

away from the curb.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY BLOCK - DAY

The LTD is just one of many cars in a jam-packed Manhattan

city block.

FROM UP IN THE CLOUDS

Manhattan itself is just part of a much larger urban and

suburban sprawl.

FROM THE STRATOSPHERE

The east coast of the United States is just part of a much

larger land mass.

FROM THE EOSPHERE

North America is just a small portion of the planet Earth.

FROM SPACE:

Earth is just a tiny ball in our solar system.

FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE MILKY WAY

Our solar system is just a few blips of light in a vast star

field.

FROM OUTSIDE OUR GALAXY

The Milky Way is just a creamy spiral amid innumerable other

creamy spirals.

FROM THE OUTER REACHES OF THE UNIVERSE

There seems to be an edge to what we see, a curved border

that seems to close in on things around the perimeters, until

everything that exists seems to be contained in one tiny

ball --

-- which is actually a marble resting on a strange-looking

patch of red dirt.

An ALIEN HAND reaches down and flicks the marble, sending it

skittering and bouncing across the dirt, where it CLICKS

into a dozen other big blue balls just like it.

FADE OUT.

THE END:

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