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INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Beth, Ted, and Barnes watch...

ON A MONITOR - Fletcher outside, with the jellyfish.

BARNES:

(into the mic)

Fletcher? What are you doing out

there?

FLETCHER (O.S.)

They're like pink snow, sir. Sticky.

TED:

She says jellyfish are a delicacy.

You know, I never knew that.

BARNES:

Get out of there. I don't want anyone

going anywhere outside, understood?

FLETCHER (O.S.)

They're warm. I can feel the heat on

my legs.

BARNES:

Fletcher, I want you back here.

CUT TO:

BACK IN - LIVING QUARTERS

Norman sitting on the table...

NORMAN:

What happened to you inside that

sphere, Harry?

A long beat. Harry becomes concerned...

HARRY:

Why? Does someone else want to go

inside?

CUT TO:

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

ON THE MONITOR - Fletcher, the jellyfish clinging to her facemask, her

suit...

FLETCHER (O.S.)

I can't see, they're smearing the

faceplate. My arms...the fabric...

Fletcher's suit tears...

BARNES:

Fletcher, get away from there...

FLETCHER (O.S.)

It's burning...

BARNES:

Get out of there!

FLETCHER (O.S.)

I can't see...

BARNES:

Fletcher! Now!

FLETCHER (O.S.)

I can't...

ON BETH - bolting out of the room. Barnes turning to her...

BARNES:

Nobody move.

BETH:

But she's --

BARNES:

Nobody move!

FLETCHER (O.S.)

They're eating through...

Somebody --

CUT TO:

ON FLETCHER - UNDERWATER -- jellyfish eating into her plastic

faceplate...she's COUGHING, GASPING.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

They watch...

ON THE MONITOR - Her body twisting, contorting. Her suit, ripping

apart. SCREAMING. She convulses. Her body falling.

HER HORRIFYING SCREAM FADING INTO...

INT. DECONTAMINATION LAB

CLOSE ON - Fletcher's face. Cold, dead. Eyes open. Jellyfish rooted in

her skin.

CUT TO:

INT. LABRATORY

CLOSE ON A MICROSCOPIC IMAGE of a jellyfish.

ON NORMAN - in the corner of the lab, inspecting a MEDICAL KIT.

NORMAN:

What is this, Beth? You taking

valium?

Beth, looking into the microscope.

BETH:

Sedatives. Whatever my mood calls

for.

Norman picks up a book, next to the kit: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

NORMAN:

Where'd this come from?

BETH:

The library.

NORMAN:

We have a library?

BETH:

A bad one. It was the only book in

there. Norman, come here, look at

this.

NORMAN:

No, thank you. I hate jellyfish.

Walking toward her...

NORMAN:

...when I was six, my younger

brother and I -- we went swimming in

the Pacific. At my mother's beach

house. We both felt stinging, and

when we came out of the water, he

was wearing jellyfish head to toe.

Killed him.

BETH:

My gosh, Norman.

NORMAN:

Yeah, it was awful.

BETH:

What about you? What happened to

you?

NORMAN:

Me? Well, I was wrapped in seaweed.

It itched for a while, but I

survived.

(beat)

Beth, do you find it...curious that

we're seeing all this life down

here. Nothing, and then these

enormous flocks of squid. Then

jellyfish?

BETH:

Normally, I'd say no. Everything's

quiet now -- no ships, no divers, no

electricity. Makes sense. But what's

curious is -- these aren't normal

jellyfish.

NORMAN:

What do you mean -- not normal?

BETH:

They have six tentacles. A new

species. And the squid too. They had

no stomach.

NORMAN:

Wait a minute.

BETH:

What?

NORMAN:

You knew about the squid not being

normal. Before Fletcher went out

there?

BETH:

Yeah, why?

NORMAN:

And you didn't tell anyone?

Beth, nervous...

BETH:

What? Why...

NORMAN:

Beth --

BETH:

I mean, I'm not...I wasn't

absolutely sure if...they --

NORMAN:

They are or they aren't. Which is

it?

BETH:

What?... Wait. Don't...why are

you --

NORMAN:

Beth.

BETH:

Nobody said...Norman... What? Why

are you looking at me like that?

NORMAN:

Beth --

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