Mimic Page #21

MANNY:

Oh, how you gonna get there, Leonard?

Hop?

PETER:

(To Leonard)

Just talk me through it. I can go with

Manny.

LEONARD:

It would take a minute or so.

(beat)

You won't last that long out there.

SUSAN:

Peter, you couldn't even fix our TV!

Tense silence. He points at the glands on the floor.

PETER:

We'll cover ourselves with this. They

can mimic us- we Goddam mimic them!

SUSAN:

Peter-

PETER:

It worked before...

SUSAN:

(an edge in her voice)

The scent won't last...

PETER:

That's why we should do it now.

Susan knows they have no other choice.

LATER:

Susan is stuffing Leonard's old bloody bandages into the

thorax of the dead Mimic. She ties a flare to its center.

LEONARD:

It's just a regular old pump switch,

okay? Right by the track signal

board.

Manny is spreading the mucus-like liquid of the gland-sac on

himself and Peter as Leonard instructs them-

LEONARD:

The lights come up, you pull the

switch.

MANNY:

I pull.

LEONARD:

You don't do that, we're on the wrong

track.

(turns to Peter)

You...

The two men look into each other's eyes.

LEONARD:

You gonna finally get to f*** around

with the wires. Think you can

handle it?

PETER:

Depends. You got a memo?

Leonard's hard feelings give way to an almost

imperceptible smile.

Using a ballpoint pen, he draws a schematic on the back

of Peter's hand.

LEONARD:

All right then. You gonna find two

wires. One's green. The other's

blue...

SUSAN:

approaches Manny, who looks distractedly out the window.

MANNY:

He's out there. I heard him. How can

he be? This things...

SUSAN:

Manny...

MANNY:

I didn't protect him, lady. He

trusted me. And I didn't protect

him... His father...I lost his father

to the streets and now, Chuy...

SUSAN:

We'll find him. We'll be back and

find him.

Manny doesn't respond.

READY TO GO:

Susan dabs at Peter's face with the last touches of the

scent gland substance. She doesn't meet his eyes as she

speaks.

SUSAN:

You're going to have to keep it

really slow. Their eyes react to

sudden movements.

Peter barely nods, his nerves clearly on edge. He

instinctively goes to wipe his forehead. Susan stops

him.

SUSAN:

Don't touch it. And for Godsakes,

try not to sweat. They can sense

chemical changes...

PETER:

Try not to sweat?

Leonard turns to Susan and Peter.

LEONARD:

Okay, people...

Leonard's voice comes through like a clarion.

LEONARD (OS)

...are we ready for this?

Susan has her hand on Peter's chest; Peter is taking deep

breaths, trying to cool down his body to prevent sweat. It's

an odd parody of Lamaze exercise.

LEONARD:

Whatever you do, don't step on the

third rail coming back. Six hundred

volts'll blow your leg right off.

A final breath. He's about as calm as he's going to get.

He looks at Susan a long moment. He takes her hand.

PETER:

I was just thinking how I could use a

pair of pliers... and I remembered where

they are...

SUSAN:

(overlapping)

That's it. That's it. Breathe easy.

A sad, nervous smile appears on Peter's face.

PETER:

In the tool box under the kitchen

counter...

Susan kisses him softly on the lips.

Manny approaches. Show time.

Susan steps away from Peter. She looks toward the control

booth.

SUSAN:

Open it.

LEONARD:

begins turning the lever crank slowly.

SUBWAY DOORS:

gradually begin to open, and stop half way.

The darkness outside is alive with CLICKING.

PETER AND MANNY:

slowly move between the opening of the door and make their

way to

INT. PLATFORM

They step onto the dusty concrete. Come to a stop.

SUSAN:

watches nervously for the reaction of the Mimics

OUTSIDE:

LARGE SHADOWS pass far and near of Peter and Manny; but none

of the Mimics seem to care about them one way or the other.

Peter and Manny exchange looks: a moment of relief. It's

working.

Peter slowly moves right along the track to the nearby POWER

BOX.

Manny goes left, starts to make a longer journey across the

platform to the SWITCH ROOM.

SUBWAY CAR:

Susan moves away from the door, goes over the Mimic carcass,

filled with the bloody bandages.

PLATFORM - BY THE TRACKS

Peter makes his way to the edge of the platform, whispering

to himself.

He lowers himself slowly to the track.

PLATFORM - NEAR THE SWITCHROOM

Manny moves toward the door. A large WINDOW OF DUSTY GLASS

reflects his image...and the distant ones of the Mimics.

BY THE TRACKS:

Peter gets to the track. He turns

And is met FACE TO FACE WITH A MIMIC!

Its antennae move toward his head, curious.

Its human-mask face plate clicks apart and together.

Peter remains stock still. He starts breathing deeply...

SUBWAY CAR:

Leonard has now fully opened the doors.

SUSAN:

pulls the tipcase of the FLARE tied to the dead Mimic's

midsection. FSST! The flare SPARKS alive.

The sudden light draws the attention of several Mimics

outside.

Susan pushes the carcass toward an open door at the front of

the car...

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