SOLARIS Page #6

KELVIN:

All right?

She nods and Kelvin exits, locking the door behind him.

We sit with her for a moment as she tries to remain calm.

IN THE CORRIDOR:

Kelvin listens. A long time.

Satisfied, he begins to walk away but is stopped by the

sounding of a CRASHING GLASS from within. He hears footsteps

approach the door, and then a fierce POUNDING.

He takes a step back. An INHUMAN AMOUNT OF NOISE begins

emanating from the other side of the door, which is now

threatening to break apart. It sounds like a plane is

crashing in Kelvin's room -- no human could create this kind

of cacophony.

Finally, he steps forward and presses the button to open the

door.

RHEYA:

Is revealed, covered in blood. She has completely torn the

inside of the cabin door apart and has badly injured herself

in the process.

KELVIN:

Rheya...

Confused, she looks up at him as he takes her in his arms and

carries her to the bed.

RHEYA:

What happened?

KELVIN:

You were trying to break down the

door. Do you know why?

RHEYA:

When I saw you were gone I got

scared.

He puts her down on the bed and runs to the bathroom, where

he gathers all the first aid materials he can find.

Returning, he blanches.

Rheya's wounds have HEALED; in fact, they are HEALING in

front of us.

She looks up at him and doesn't like the look on his face.

RHEYA:

Chris, what's wrong with me?

CUT TO:

INT. LAB

Kelvin runs Rheya through a battery of tests and studies the

results.

RHEYA:

Am I all right?

A beat.

KELVIN:

Yes.

CUT TO:

INT. B DECK CONFERENCE ROOM

Snow and Sartorius wait for Kelvin.

SNOW:

He won't do it.

SARTORIUS:

Why do you say that?

SNOW:

He won't.

Kelvin enters, with Rheya. Snow and Sartorius exchange

glances.

KELVIN:

This is my wife, Rheya.

She looks at Snow and nods. Sartorius she hates instantly,

and the feeling seems to be mutual.

SARTORIUS:

We thought you'd be alone. We want

to talk about...

SNOW:

We want to talk freely.

KELVIN:

Go ahead.

Sartorius begins.

SARTORIUS:

I suggest we pool our knowledge

regarding the... visitors. We can

express whatever questions or

conclusions we might have... share

information about our various...

experiments. Agreed?

Kelvin and Snow nod.

SARTORIUS:

I would like to start with

motivation. Why are they here?

Sartorius looks at Rheya. She looks away.

SARTORIUS:

They are not autonomous individuals

and they're not actual persons.

They are projections materializing

from our minds, based on a given

individual.

SNOW:

It's an experiment.

KELVIN:

No. There's no behavior

modification.

SARTORIUS:

She reappeared exactly as she had

before?

Kelvin looks at Rheya and nods. She is struck by the word

"before".

SNOW:

The same vulnerabilities?

He nods again.

SARTORIUS:

A recoil, with no compensating

mechanism.

SNOW:

And when a given situation no

longer corresponds to the normal

faculties of the... original, the

visitor suffers some sort of

disconnected consciousness.

SARTORIUS:

Followed by non-human

manifestations.

SNOW:

Are the actions of Solaris

premeditated?

KELVIN:

Is it being deliberately cruel, you

mean? I don't think so.

SNOW:

I'm just trying to find an

explanation for the continual

reappearances.

KELVIN:

(to Rheya)

When you cut yourself pounding the

door, did it hurt?

RHEYA:

Yes.

(looks around)

Of course.

SARTORIUS:

If they're not learning anything

and they're not modifying their

behavior, why do they come back?

SNOW:

It's like they're plugged into a

game, which goes around and around,

endlessly repeating itself.

CUT TO:

INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT

This is ten years ago. Rheya enters, alone.

She crosses to the kitchen and makes a drink. Almost

immediately, the labrador puppy enters from the bedroom and

stands beside her, tail wagging. She ignores it and

continues mixing her drink.

Halfway through this activity, the bedroom light comes on. A

moment later, Kelvin is in the doorway. Eventually, but not

angrily, because he's still not really awake:

KELVIN:

Where've you been?

RHEYA:

I been thinking about how much I

hate you.

She finishes making her drink, drinks it, and walks out the

door.

Kelvin stands in the doorway for a beat, then pivots and

returns to bed. The light goes out.

RHEYA (V.O.)

Yes, I remember that. I went back

to Lois' house and spent the night.

Those were dark days.

CUT TO:

INT. PARTY - NIGHT

Kelvin and Rheya, later in the evening when they spoke for

the first time. They are absolutely infatuated with each

other; they know something is happening between them, will

happen between them.

RHEYA:

I would have these -- I don't know

how to describe them -- visions,

when I was younger. Maybe not

visions, but like these waking

dream states. Time would just

collapse, I would be inside time.

I would stare at a second hand on a

clock until it stopped. Freaky

stuff.

KELVIN:

How old were you?

RHEYA:

Seven, eight. So one day my mother

catches me sort of staring off into

space, and she asks me what I'm

doing, and I start trying to

explain to her, about this state

that I can put myself in, and this

look comes over her face.

KELVIN:

What kind of look?

INT. KELVIN'S ROOM

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