Sphere Page #11

ON NORMAN - staring at the monitor of the sphere, idle.

BARNES (O.S.)

Any sign of Harry?

EDMUNDS:

Nothing, sir.

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

BARNES:

F*** him.

(into phone)

What? Hello?

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

ON MONITOR - labeled "SUB DESCENT"...

EDMUNDS:

Sir, I am still getting absolutely

no reading on sub movement...

CUT TO:

PRINTER, TYPING:
"...ETD - 00:11 min"

CUT TO:

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

BARNES:

(into phone)

Yes, a report... Hello?

Beth, inside now...

BETH:

I am not leaving without him. Do you

hear me? We come down as a team, we

leave as a team.

BARNES:

What are you -- his mother? Get

Norman, I want everyone ready to go.

(into mic)

Edmunds, the subs?

EDMUNDS (O.S.)

Nothing, sir.

BARNES:

What the hell is going on here?

INT. CORRIDOR

Beth rushes by Ted, carrying bags to the door...

BETH:

Norman? Where's Norman?

TED:

By the bunks.

INT. LIVING QUARTERS

Beth running in...

BETH:

Norman?...Norman?

Can't see him anywhere.

INTO THE BATHROOMS

BETH:

Norman!

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

BARNES:

Edmunds, do you have a 20 on Norman?

EDMUNDS (O.S.)

Yes, sir.

BARNES:

Well, where the f*** is he?

EDMUNDS (O.S.)

In the ship, sir.

Barnes spins to see the monitor...

BARNES:

What?

ON MONITOR - Norman, in jumpsuit and helmet, running through the ship.

Barnes slipping on headset mic...

BARNES:

Norman? Norman!

INT. SPACECRAFT

Norman running across a catwalk...

BARNES (O.S.)

You get your ass back here. You have

no authority whatsoever to be in

there. You hear me?... Norman? Don't

go hero on me now.

CUT TO:

PRINTER, TYPING:
"...ETD - 00:05 min EVACUATION IMMINENT"

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

EDMUNDS:

Sir, if the subs haven't left by

now...

BARNES (O.S.)

They've left, keep watching!

EDMUNDS:

Sir! Sir, the door -- it's opening.

ON THE MONITOR - the sphere door, slowly opening. Revealing:

BLACKNESS.

BARNES (O.S.)

Where is he? Damn it! Can you see

him?

A still moment and then Harry tumbles out the sphere, and falls to the

ground.

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

Barnes, squinting at Harry on his monitor.

BARNES (O.S.)

How does he look? Can you tell?

Harry lies motionless.

EDMUNDS (O.S.)

He looks...dead, sir.

ON BETH - in the hall, hearing that.

INT. SPACECRAFT

Norman, running, blindly, through a hall, around corners...

BARNES (O.S.)

Norman, get out of there now!

Norman?

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

EDMUNDS:

If the subs aren't here yet, sir --

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

Barnes, into his headset.

BARNES:

They'll be here. Norman -- can you

hear me?...

INT. SPACECRAFT

ON NORMAN - running...

BARNES (O.S.)

You don't have time! Get the hell

out of --

Barnes' voice goes static, and cuts out.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

ON THE MONITOR - flickering, losing power...

EDMUNDS:

Sir, we're losing it.

ON THE MONITOR - flickering, fading, and all the lights and monitors

SHUT DOWN.

INT. SPACECRAFT

ON HARRY - lying still, face down under the sphere. Goes to him.

Checks Harry's LIFE SUPPORT BADGE. Still blinking -- he's still alive.

Norman, pauses, looks up, staring at...

THE SPHERE:

Mesmerizing. He can see himself, reflected in the swirling mass,

staring back at himself. The door begins to open, closes. Begins to

open.

INT. CORRIDOR

Dark. Ted, Beth, and Barnes wander throughout.

TED:

What the hell happened?

The lights flicker back on.

BARNES:

They switched us over.

TED:

To what?

BARNES:

Internal power.

BETH:

What for?

CUT TO:

THE OCEAN FLOOR - a cable falling from the surface, coiling around and

around.

CUT TO:

ANGLE ON their dufflebags piled in the corner by the door. They've

been left behind.

INT. HABITAT HALLWAY - LATER

LOOKING DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR - it's quiet. WE PEEK inside the

cafeteria...

BARNES (O.S.)

The surface ships will be back.

After the storm clears.

BETH (O.S.)

How long will that be?

INT. CAFETERIA

Barnes speaks to the team (minus Harry and Norman)...

BARNES:

They told me about sixty hours.

BETH:

Two and a half days?

TED:

How long can we last down here?

EDMUNDS:

Comfortably? Seventy-two hours.

BETH:

Comfortably -- what's that mean --

with oxygen?

CUT TO:

INT. LIVING QUARTERS

CLOSE ON HARRY'S FACE

Harry lies on his bunk. He begins to slowly awake.

WE BEGIN TO HEAR A SCRATCHING NOISE, like nails on a chalkboard. It

gets LOUDER as Harry comes to. He puts his fingers to his temples.

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