SOLARIS Page #12

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin is asleep. Rheya is next to him.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin is on the videophone to Snow.

KELVIN:

She knows everything. She knows

who she is.

SNOW:

She knows everything? Does she

know she came once before and you

put her in --

KELVIN:

No.

A beat.

SNOW:

What do you want?

KELVIN:

I want you to get Sartorius to

abandon his plan.

SNOW:

(feigning innocence)

What plan?

KELVIN:

Just get him to stop.

SNOW:

What do you want to do, leave the

station with her?

KELVIN:

Yes.

SNOW:

Kelvin, she'll disintegrate. You

don't believe me? Let's radio that

shuttle pod you launched -- better

yet, let's go get it. I've charted

it's trajectory, only take a few

hours...

KELVIN:

Her oxygen would have run out.

SNOW:

Maybe she doesn't need any. Should

we check?

Kelvin just stares at him.

SNOW:

Who are you trying to please?

Yourself? Her? Which her, this

one or that one. Can you face

both? We are in a situation that

is beyond morality. So: Leave with

her. You'll see the

transformation.

KELVIN:

Into what?

SNOW:

You'll see her die, that's all.

They're mortal, despite what she

told you. She will die. Then what

will you do?

KELVIN:

I love her.

SNOW:

You do, you don't. She's willing

to give her life, you're willing to

give yours, it's touching and

magnificent, anything you want but

-- this isn't the place for it.

Don't you see? No, you don't.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

He is playing back a message sent by Sartorius.

SARTORIUS:

I'm sending you a message because I

feel sorry for you. I really do,

Kelvin.

(beat)

It is a mistake to become

emotionally engaged with one of

them. You are being manipulated.

You are going around in circles to

satisfy the curiosity of a power we

don't understand and can't control,

and she is the living proof that

power exists. If she were ugly,

you wouldn't want her around;

that's why she's not ugly. She is

a mirror that reflects part of your

mind. You provide the formula.

You can only finish where you

started, remember that.

(beat)

They sold us out to the highest

bidder. They had no right to do

that. We should have been

consulted. We're not f***ing

hardware.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin wakes up. Rheya is beside him. He rises and heads

for the bathroom.

He swallows two pills and a small cup of water.

When he returns to the bed, Rheya is looking at him.

RHEYA:

What are you taking?

KELVIN:

A sleeping pill. Do you want

yours?

INT. APARTMENT - DAY

Rheya, on the kitchen floor. The bottle of sleeping pills

just beyond her hand.

BACK ON THE PROMETHEUS

Kelvin looks at Rheya. She shakes her head; she doesn't want

the pills. Kelvin comes and sits beside her.

KELVIN:

What does it want?

RHEYA:

I don't know. Something.

Anything.

She goes to a portal and stares out at Solaris.

RHEYA:

It created me and yet I can't

communicate with it. It must hear

me, though. It must know what's

happening to me. Don't you think?

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Snow on the videophone to Kelvin. Rheya is asleep in the

background.

SNOW:

I don't think it dislikes us. I

think it just noticed us. It

lives, thinks, and acts. We are

dealing with a living creature

here, no question. And it's done

something we've never been able to

do:
create a perfect human body.

Perfect except for the subatomic

alterations, but...

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GIBARIAN:

On his suicide tape:

GIBARIAN:

If Solaris is inside our brain, and

it knows everything, and we're only

consciously aware of what 2% of our

brain is up to at any given moment,

it knows us better than we know

ourselves. It's not even close.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Rheya and Kelvin.

RHEYA:

I've decided that if it is God,

it's a sick God. Its ambitions

exceed its powers, but it doesn't

realize it.

(beat)

It's created a situation without a

goal, and I hate that. A God whose

passion is not a redemption, who

saves nothing, fulfills no purpose.

(beat)

And us? We would have to have "an

arrangement". An unspoken

understanding that I am not human.

How can I not hate something that

does that?

KELVIN:

Please. Don't.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin is asleep. Rheya is crying beside him.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin asleep, alone. Rheya is in the corridor, talking to

someone.

KELVIN:

wakes up. Rheya is beside him, asleep.

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EXT. SOLARIS

Turning, slowly.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin, in a fever, eyes open but glazed.

Rheya is putting a compress on his forehead.

KELVIN'S POV

Of the room.

His LABRADOR FROM THE OPENING SEQUENCE is sitting by the

chair.

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INT. KELVIN'S CABIN (EARTH)

Kelvin sits in a chair, looking at:

THE LABRADOR:

Sitting in the same position as it was on the Prometheus.

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