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An ALARM SOUNDS.

Barnes looks up...

THE WARNING BOARD lights up.

BARNES:

Fire in Communications Room!

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

FIRE ROARS out from the walls...

INT. CORRIDOR

CLOSE ON FIRE EXTINGUISHER CASE - Beth whips it open, grabs it.

ON NORMAN - picking up Ted, lugging him awkwardly over his shoulder.

ON BARNES - running down the corridor towards them.

BANG! Barnes falls to the floor, taken away by the water.

CUT TO:

ANOTHER CASE ON THE WALL - whips open -- Beth grabs GAS MASKS. She

hears...

BARNES (O.S.)

Help!

She looks DOWN THE CORRIDOR at...

BARNES - on the floor, flailing in the water, SCREAMING, as his legs

are caught in a CRACK in the wall. Desperate...

BARNES:

Beth! Help, I can't -- !

ON BETH - staring at him. Just watching him. Not moving.

BARNES:

Beth!

BARNES - his body falling through the crack, his HEAD BANGS into the

wall, stuck in the crack, water choking him...

BARNES:

Be--

...trying to SCREAM, his NECK RIPPING, SNAPS, and his body vanishes

into the ocean.

ON BETH - cold, turns away.

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

FIRE blasts out from the wall...

BETH and NORMAN (still with Ted) wearing GAS MASKS, RUSH into the

room...

BETH:

Stay low!

Beth sprays WHITE FOAM on the fierce FLAMES, licking up the side

padding, smoke boils to the cieling.

BANG! The room is rocked.

NORMAN:

It won't stop.

Norman falls to the floor, losing Ted.

TED - SLIDES away and UNDER the computer CONSOLE.

BANG! The computer CONSOLE breaks -- COMPUTERS, MONITORS, fall,

CRUSHING on Ted's legs. He SCREAMS out in agony.

NORMAN scrambles towards him through the smoke when...

THE CONSOLE catches fire, erupts in flame. Ted underneath it.

BETH - her extinguisher out of foam.

NORMAN - runs to a wall, finds an EXTINGUISHER CASING, it's been bent,

can't get it open.

TED - reaches out in desperation as his LEGS catch fire.

TED:

Norman!

NORMAN - BASHES the casing in with his shoulder, grabs the

extinguisher, turns...

TED - his entire body on fire.

BANG! Norman falls, dropping the extinguisher -- it rolls across the

floor. He reaches out -- can't get it.

CLOSE ON TED - his face burning...

TED:

Norman! Nor--

BANG! The lights go out.

DARKNESS:

NORMAN - watches in horror as he watches TED, lit in flame, burning to

death.

NORMAN - reaches for the wall for balance, grabs METAL, and he's

ELECTRICUTED. Falls backward, head first, and EVERYTHING GOES...

BLACK:

A long beat.

NAVY SEAMAN (O.S.)

Dr. Johnson? Dr. Johnson?

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

WE FOCUS in on Norman, as he awakens. NAVY SEAMAN, 40s, African-

American, standing above him.

NAVY SEAMAN:

Norman Johnson.

NORMAN:

Does this mean what I think it

means?

NAVY SEAMAN:

It's over, sir, The storm has

cleared.

NORMAN:

The ships?

NAVY SEAMAN (O.S.)

They're topside. We're ready to take

you home, sir.

The Navy Seaman helps Norman to his feet. Norman is smiling, it's

over.

INT. HALLWAY

Norman and the Navy Seaman walk down the hall.

NORMAN:

How are the others?

NAVY SEAMAN:

The others, sir?

NORMAN:

Beth and Harry?

NAVY SEAMAN:

They're in the sub, sir. Waiting.

Norman sighs, smiling. The relief, the jubilation.

NORMAN:

That whole time -- I couldn't stop

thinking of what Harry was saying

earlier...

NAVY SEAMAN:

What was that, sir?

NORMAN:

About the time paradox.

(the Seaman nodding)

How we were all going to die --

that there was no way we would make

it out of here alive --

As Norman looks up, the Navy Seaman, still walking and nodding, begins

to slowly DISAPPEAR. Disintigrating. VANISHING before his eyes.

Norman stops, looks around him. He's gone.

INT. VIDEO FEED ROOM

Norman watches on a monitor -- the VIDEO of him walking down the hall,

the Navy Seaman walking next to him.

NORMAN (O.S.)

...how we were all going to die --

that there was no way we would make

it out of here alive --

ON THE MONITOR - the Seaman disappers.

Norman stops tape. Looks over at the MONITOR showing the SPHERE. It is

closed.

THE SCREEN goes BLACK. Flashes up: "Hello Norman"

NORMAN:

Jerry?

"Yes Norman"

NORMAN:

Jerry, did you create that man?

"The entity Navy Seaman was a Manifestation. Did you have a Happy

talk?"

NORMAN:

Jerry, are you manifesting what's

destroying our habitat?

"Did you have a Happy talk?"

NORMAN:

Jerry, answer me.

"No."

NORMAN:

Jerry?

A beat.

"Stop calling me Jerry"

The MONITOR shuts off.

Norman looks over at ANOTHER MONITOR labled "AIRLOCK FEED".

ON THE SCREEN - Beth is putting on her jumpsuit.

INT. AIRLOCK

REFLECTED IN THE POOL OF WATER - WE SEE Beth, slipping on her boots.

NORMAN (O.S.)

Where are you going in such a hurry?

BETH:

I have to reset the sub.

Norman stands in the doorway...

NORMAN:

Forget the sub.

BETH:

Don't bother me, Norman.

NORMAN:

It's not worth the risk.

BETH:

It's also our only way out of here!

It holds three people. And there's

only three of us left now.

NORMAN:

You, me and Harry?

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