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EXT. HOUSING TRACT - NIGHT

The police car is parked in the middle of the dirt road.

Benny and the officers are intent on a light that reaches

them only in strobes as it moves through the houses in the

direction of the fire on the hill. The police searchlight

swings onto the house.

OFFICER:

(over outside speakers)

This is the police. Identify

yourselves.

It is deathly silent.

Carrying a shotgun the officer motions Benny and Mike to fan

out on either side of him and, guns drawn, they cut across

the tract to where they last saw the bobbing light.

The fog quickly isolates them, heightening their fear. Each

man becomes acutely aware of the loudness of his breathing

and the crunch of his footsteps on the ground. They drift in

and out of visual contact with each other.

Benny freezes as he hears a burst of the high pitched whistle

sweep by on his left. He turns slowly to see, through the

ribs of an unfinished house, a shaft of the white light

pointing at a cement mixer.

BENNY:

(to the officers, his

voice cracking)

There's one over here...

The brilliant light swings toward him. Benny, his hands

trembling, raises the gun.

BENNY:

Stop!! Police!!

The light fixes on Benny and terrified he shakes off a couple

shots. The light goes out immediately.

MIKE:

(in Benny's direction)

What happened?

BENNY:

I think I shot one.

MIKE:

Jesus, Benny. What are you doing?

INT. FINISHED HOUSE (BEDROOM) - NIGHT

We are looking at the back of the humanoid figure. It crosses

to a high window and looks out. The reddish tinge of the fog

outlines him.

EXT. HOUSING TRACT - NIGHT

The men strain to see something through the silent fog.

OFFICER:

You see anything, Mike?

Before Mike can answer, a strange percussive clicking sound

is heard. He pumps a shell in the chamber of his shotgun and

swallowing his fear moves toward the voices. They stop.

OFFICER:

This is the police. Identify

yourselves.

Benny, his flashlight throwing a feeble beam in front of

him, inches around the house looking for what he shot at. He

gets to where it should be but it's not there. His light

searches the area. There is nothing but a stack of lumber.

Shaking visibly he shuffles to it and peers around its corner.

Nothing. Benny relaxes and allows himself to breathe again.

BENNY:

(shouts to the officers)

You wanna give me some help over

here.

MIKE:

Okay...

Benny continues around the house. He flashes his light into

a doorway. There is nothing but framing. When he moves on, a

figure steps out of the darkness to fill the space, then

raises its arms. With a sharp snap cylindrical devices swing

off its wrist into its hands.

At the corner of the house Benny hears the snap and stops.

The high pitched whistle starts behind him. He stumbles around

to face a brilliant white light flying directly at him. Benny

screams in terror and fires at it. The light swerves and a

laser streak from one of the hand rockets sears Benny's chest

and knocks him to the ground in pain. Holding his shoulder

he watches the light rise and fall erratically between the

houses.

The officers watch in awe as the beam wobbles through the

air, then crashes to the earth.

OFFICER:

Mike, call for back-up.

(shouting)

Benny, you all right?

BENNY:

I don't think so...

(clutching his shoulder)

OFFICER:

(waving the beam of

his flashlight, shouts)

Benny, this is me. I'm going to take

a look.

Benny's beam flashes back.

BENNY:

Don't leave me. I'm coming.

The two men begin to trot toward the light. It swings wildly

around and, accompanied by the high-pitched whistle, starts

to stagger back up the hill. Benny and the officer break

into a run. They are on their way up the hill when the light

in front of them crashes to the earth. It rolls over and

lays still, the beam shooting straight up into the air. Benny

and the officer slow their pursuit, terrified of what they

might find. Suddenly a high-pitched whistle is bearing down

on them from behind. Before they can turn a light rockets

over their heads. With a rumble the hill begins to vibrate.

As they follow its flight, they see lights beginning to ripple

to life across the skin of a saucer-shaped spacecraft resting

at the edge of the forest on top of the hill. With a rumble

the hill begins to vibrate. Frightened, the officers stop.

INT. FINISHED HOUSE - NIGHT

The humanoid figure walks rapidly down the hall into the

kitchen. An indistinct image plays on the inside of its

faceplate and we hear the faint sounds of a percussive

language. Through the window over the sink we can see the

lights of the spaceship.

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