Sphere Page #19

PONG. PONG. PONG.

BETH:

What if it attacks?

BARNES:

Fifty yards and closing.

BETH:

What do we use for defense?

BARNES:

We're a habitat. Not a castle. The

only defense we have is High

Voltage.

BETH:

High Voltage?

BARNES:

It sends 200 volts throughout the

cylinder surface. But we've never

used it underwater before.

PONG. PONG. PONG.

BARNES:

Forty yards.

BETH:

But you've tested it?

BARNES:

Sure. Each time it started fires

inside the habitat.

PONG. PONG. PONG.

BARNES:

Thirty yards.

BETH:

What are you saying -- we can't stop

what's out there?

THE MONITORS blink: "I AM COMING". The monitor blinks to BLANK.

BARNES:

What the hell?

(bangs on the monitors)

It shut us down.

NORMAN:

Jerry? Please. Stop this.

BARNES:

Ted, go into the control room.

Listen for my instructions.

Ted goes out the door.

ALL THE MONITORS - blank.

BETH:

Where is it?

BARNES:

Why can't I -- ? What the hell is

going on here?

They HEAR a metallic CLANKING.

BETH:

What was that?

BARNES:

He's right beneath us.

THE MONITORS blink: "I AM HERE".

CUT TO:

INT. LABRATORY

Harry looking at the FETUS on the table. It suddenly SLIDES down the

table.

The room is rocked.

ON SHELVES - Jars, petry dishes, test tubes SLIDE off shattering to

the floor.

INT. CORRIDOR

BANG!

TED is thrown ruthlessly against the wall. His HEAD striking metal,

splitting open his forehead.

THE WALLS - CRACKING and GROANING.

WATER breaks through a crack, spreading out onto the floor.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Barnes...

BARNES:

Ted? Ted?

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Ted, stumbles, reaches for the headset...

TED:

Sir, we're leaking!

Blood dripping from his forehead.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

BARNES:

Increase positive pressure!

BETH:

That's our reserve air.

BARNES:

It's either that or we grow gills.

BANG! They grip onto the console...

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Ted, drousy, BLOOD gushing from his head, keeping balance, searches

for the PRESSURE GAGE.

BARNES (O.S.)

Ted? Ted, are you with me?

Finds the GAGE. Turns it.

TED:

Increasing positive pressure.

EXT. HABITAT - UNDERWATER

AIR BUBBLES burst out of the walls.

INT. CORRIDOR

ON THE FLOOR - the WATER scurrying back through the leaks in the wall.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Barnes, watching the monitors.

BARNES:

That's enough Ted.

(beat)

Shut it off!

INT. CONTROL RROM

THE PRESSURE GAGE - the needle RISING...

ON THE HEADSET - in the air, dangling from it's cord.

BARNES (O.S.)

Ted? Ted!

ON TED - passed out on the floor. Blood covering his face.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Beth and Norman BOLT out the door

INTO THE HALLWAY

Running. BANG! They're thrown against the wall.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

THE PRESSURE GAUGE - rising, higher, higher.

INT. CORRIDOR

THUMP! Norman and Beth, losing their balance, stumbling to their

feet, running...

ON TED - SLIDING out of the Control Room, down the corridor, taken by

the water.

Beth grabs him, as Norman stumbles

INTO THE CONTROL ROOM

finds the PRESSURE GAGE, shuts it off.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

BANG! Barnes grips his headset as he's thrown to the floor.

BARNES:

Norman! Norman can you hear me?

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Norman grabs the headset, slips it on...

NORMAN:

Yes, sir. I'm here.

BARNES (O.S.)

You see the lever on the green box?

Upper right hand corner?

Norman sees it, reads it:

NORMAN:

High Voltage Defense System.

ON BETH - in the hall, tending to Ted, looks up at Norman.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

BARNES:

You see the lever next to it?

INT. CONTROL ROOM/CORRIDOR

Beth yelling...

BETH:

Don't do it, Norman!

BARNES (O.S.)

Do you see it?

ON NORMAN - turning from Beth, to the lever.

NORMAN:

I see it.

BARNES (O.S.)

Pull it.

BETH:

Don't pull it, Norman. It'll start a

fire we can't stop. Norman?

BARNES (O.S.)

Do it, Norman, it's the only choice

we have. This thing is gonna crush

us.

BETH:

Norman, don't do it!

BANG! The WALLS CREAKING and SCREECHING.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Barnes on the floor, a MONITOR crashes alongside him, SPITTING SPARKS,

flashing:
"I WILL KILL YOU"

BARNES:

Do it now!

INT. CONTROL ROOM/CORRIDOR

Norman, sweating...

BETH:

Don't do it!

BARNES:

Now!

BANG! CREAKING, GROANING of metal.

BETH:

Norman, please! Don't!

BANG!

BARNES (O.S.)

Pull it, damn it!

ON NORMAN - puts his hand on the lever.

BETH:

Norman!

He PULLS the lever.

INT. HABITAT

DOWN THE CORRIDORS - a loud HUM from the generators. The lights

DIMMING.

BANG! WE HEAR what seems to be a SQUEAL, as the metal RENDS and

CREAKS.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

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