SOLARIS Page #13

KELVIN:

Breathes a sigh of relief at being home. Everything seems

slowed down, somehow.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I though I was home.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

On the Prometheus. Kelvin is in bed, feverish.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I thought it was over.

He sees Rheya, in the hallway again, talking to someone we

can't see.

KELVIN:

Wakes up again. Rheya is asleep beside him.

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INT. TRAIN

Rheya, the first day she and Kelvin saw each other.

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EXT. STREET CORNER - DAY

Ten years ago. Kelvin and Rheya standing on a street corner.

They seem to be pausing in the midst of a very serious

conversation. It is raining.

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

Kelvin in bed, on the Prometheus. Still feverish.

Rheya is mopping his brow.

INT. KELVIN'S CABIN (EARTH)

Kelvin in bed, feverish.

Rheya is there, wiping his forehead.

INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

On the Prometheus. Kelvin looks over to Rheya.

KELVIN:

Where did you go before?

RHEYA:

When?

KELVIN:

Last night. You were talking to

someone in the corridor.

RHEYA:

You must have been dreaming.

She begins to cry.

KELVIN:

What's the matter?

She just shakes her head.

KELVIN:

Rheya?

From Kelvin's point of view: Rheya, in the chair, crying.

Then he looks right to see: Rheya, in the doorway, talking to

someone we cannot see.

Then he looks further to the right, and there she is again,

staring at him from the bathroom doorway. She moves to the

edge of the bed in order to be near.

KELVIN:

Sweating. Struggling. Beyond fear.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I'm losing my mind.

(beat)

I'm breaking apart.

INT. CABIN - DAY

Kelvin sits in his chair, as he did at the beginning, with

the three officials from DBA behind him.

Only now the three officials are Snow, Sartorius, and

Gibarian.

INT. KELVIN'S ROOM (PROMETHEUS)

Kelvin, transfixed.

KELVIN (V.O.)

Is this what it means to die?

(beat)

Am I in the moment of my own death?

(beat)

Is this the last thought I will

ever have?

This idea forces him to rise, and he does, slowly.

INT. CORRIDOR

Behind Kelvin as he somehow keeps moving.

We hold a long time, and then:

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BLACK.

Count to ten. Then:

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EXT. STREET

Kelvin moving down a crowded sidewalk, in slow motion.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I am home now.

(beat)

I try to find the rhythm of the

world where I used to live... but I

feel completely and continually out

of-sync. I am separate. Why did I

return to Earth and lie about what

happened? Lie about having contact

with something like Solaris? I

knew something else was out there,

and didn't tell a soul. I left

them in the dark. We all did.

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INT. TRAIN - DAY

Kelvin, traveling home from the city.

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EXT. KELVIN'S CABIN - DAY

Kelvin returns. He stops and looks around before entering

his front door.

KELVIN (V.O.)

So why come back at all? To see if

she comes here?

KEVIN'S POV

Of the woods.

But there are strange incongruities in the image -- pieces of

the Prometheus breaking through; for instance, a few of the

AUTOMATED TASKMASTERS are crawling along the ground.

KELVIN:

Looking from the doorway, notes this. He doesn't seem

surprised, though.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I don't believe it will happen.

INT. KELVIN'S CABIN - NIGHT

Kelvin, in his bed, awake.

KELVIN (V.O.)

But I will wait, anyway.

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BLACK.

Count to five. Then:

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INT. KELVIN'S ROOM (PROMETHEUS)

Kelvin is in his bed, still feverish.

KELVIN (V.O.)

I thought it was over.

He looks around the room. He is alone.

A flashing light on his computer demands attention.

ON THE COMPUTER:

A video message from Rheya.

RHEYA:

Don't blame them. I begged them to

do it. It's better this way.

(beat)

I'm sorry.

(beat)

I'm sorry I tried to make you think

I was human.

(beat)

I read my own suicide note. I

found it in your things. I

realized I was not her.

She looks away.

RHEYA:

I know that you loved me, Chris. I

know that.

(beat)

I love you.

Kelvin breaks down.

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INT. APARTMENT - DAY

Kelvin, with the dead Rheya in his arms, crying. Beyond him

is the rain-streaked window. On the floor, by her hand, is

the note. On it is scrawled the end of a Dylan Thomas poem,

the one Kelvin quoted to her the first time they spoke.

INT. PARTY - NIGHT

The first night. Again, Kelvin leans into Rheya's ear and

whispers. This time we hear what he says:

KELVIN:

"Though they go mad they shall be

sane. Though they sink through the

sea they shall rise again."

INT. APARTMENT - DAY

Kevin holding Rheya.

The note on the floor.

The rain-streaked window.

RHEYA (V.O.)

"Though lovers be lost love shall

not. And death shall have no

dominion."

Kelvin wipes the hair from her face.

KELVIN (V.O.)

You killed her!

SARTORIUS (V.O.)

Not her. It.

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INT. PROMETHEUS

Kelvin, furious, is talking through a slit in Sartorius'

door.

KELVIN:

You murdered her!

SARTORIUS:

Kelvin, she begged me. I had a

short-range version of the

destabilizer prototype, a miniature

with a range of a few meters. She

walked into it and disappeared.

She was gone.

Kelvin looks around.

KELVIN:

She'll come back.

SARTORIUS:

No, she won't.

KELVIN:

Why would you let her to do that?

SARTORIUS:

It's not human, Kelvin. Whatever

it is, it's not human, and I am

threatened by that. Evolution-of-

the-species-at-stake threatened.

And I want to win. I want humans

to win. So I am killing it before

it kills me.

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