The Fifth Element Page #2

11INT. ROOM 2 TEMPLE - DAY

The Kommander steps into a vast room. The ceiling is very high, pyramid-

shaped. In each corner of the room, four vessels contain four

rectangular twelve-inch stones-, the four elements. In the middle, an

opaque sarcophagus rests on an altar. The Kommander stops and

contemplates it a moment.

PRIEST:

(to himself)

The Fifth Element...

KOMMANDER:

Take them and put them in a safe place.

His men carry out his order.

12INT. ROOM 1 TEMPLE - DAY

Billy staggers across the floor, struggling to stay awake.

13INT. ROOM 2 TEMPLE - DAY

The Kommander opens a case. His men come and put the four, precious

stones in it, one by one.

PRIEST:

(moved)

Will the elements be gone now forever

from this place?

KOMMANDER:

When mankind comes to its senses.

We will return.

PRIEST:

Knowing mankind as I do, that could take

centuries!

KOMMANDER:

Time is of no importance, only life

is important.

The Priest nods and lowers his eyes.

Angle on:
Billy staggering forward, raising his pistol, blinking his

eyes to focus..

A MONDOSHAWAN puts the fourth element in the case The Kommander shuts the

case and looks at the Priest.

KOMMANDER:

When EVIL returns so shall we.

PRIEST:

(head lowered)

We will be ready, Lord.

Billy suddenly staggers into the room, brandishing his gun.

BILLY:

Stop.

Billy trips, the gun goes off. He empties the clip. The Mondoshawan

carrying the case crumples to the ground. The wall immediately begins to

close. Billy fires wildly, unable to control the powerful kicking gun.

PRIEST:

No!!! Don't!!!

The Priest rushes Billy. The weapon has such a kick to it that Billy

starts shooting into the air, backs up, then stumbles and knocks himself

out. The Priest is on the ground, seriously wounded. So is the Kommander.

The WARRIORS are in a panic.

CLERK:

Hurry, Kommander! The wall's closing!!!

The wall continues to close. Sand pours in from everywhere. The vast

room fills up like an hourglass.

KOMMANDER:

A mission is a mission, Savoia.

You'll learn that.

The Kommander picks up the case and reaches the wall but can't get

through it. His

armor is too bulky, the opening too small. He manages to get his arm and

the case through.

KOMMANDER:

My apologies to General Kroi -- and my wife..

The wall closes, crushing his arm. The CLERK scoops up the case and runs

through the huge piles of sand.

14EXT. COLONNADE - DAY

The CLERK boards the ship carrying the case. Omar hides in a corner,

frightened to death, hugging Billy's bag of drawings.

15INT. TEMPLE ROOM - DAY

The room fills with sand. The Priest's body is soon buried.

16EXT. DESERT - DAY

The huge ship's main hatch closes.

17EXT. TEMPLE - DAY

The ship lifts off and speeds away. Omar emerges from the temple gaping

at the ship as it vanishes in the sky.

18EXT. PYRAMIDS

A gigantic shooting star flashes above the pyramids.

19EXT. EARTH ORBIT

The ship passes in front of us and heads for the stars disappearing at

unbelievable speed. The background is a star-spattered cosmos.

WRITTEN:
500 YEARS LATER

Another, more modern, spaceship, fills the screen. A warship belonging

to the Federal Army.

20INT. SPACESHIP CONTROL ROOM

CU of a digital control screen. Three planets projecting three straight

lines that crisscross at one point. Identical to the one observed by the

professor on the temple wall. GENERAL STAEDERT looks out through the

ship's window at one of the three huge planets in eclipse.

STAEDERT:

Don't you have anything? Not even

a temperature?

CAPTAIN:

The thermo-analyzers have jammed.

One of them reads over a million degrees,

the other's at minus 5000...

Never seen anything like it.

TECHNICIAN:

It's taking shape.

21EXT. SPACE

In the middle of the shadows, a door to the nightmare has just opened.

Evil is back. A round, moving mass, continually changing color.

CAPTAIN:

(in awe)

What the hell can it be?

TECHNICIAN:

Hook-up with the president in one

minute, General.

General Staedert remains calm.

STAEDERT:

...Send out a probe.

22INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE MANHATTAN

LINDBERG, 50, the president of the United Federations, his features lined

and worn by various delegations, mainly military, enters his office.

There's a crisis in the air. The President's AIDE leans down to his ear.

AIDE:

On air in 30 seconds.

In the middle of the group is a Priest whose appearance reminds us of

Egypt. A younger man DAVID, 18, shy, a priest-in-training attends the old

man.

23INT. CONTROL ROOM / PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

CAPTAIN:

President on line sir..

General Staedert leans over his screen and seems surprised to see the

room but not the president.

PRESIDENT (O.S.)

Staedert, do you read me?

STAEDERT:

I can hear you, Mr. President, but I

can't see you .

The President grabs the mini-camera on his desk and yanks it around to

face him.

His face fills the screen.

PRESIDENT:

(exasperated)

Is that better?

STAEDERT:

Perfect, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT:

I have to address the Supreme Council

in 10 minutes.

Just the facts, General.

STAEDERT:

There are no results from the chemical

and molecular analysis as of yet, all the

calibers are overshot..we're hoping a

thermo nucleatic imaging..

PRESIDENT:

(exasperated)

What you are saying is you don't know

what this..thing..is.

Consternation reigns in the President's office.

STAEDERT:

Not yet Sir..The only thing we know is

it just keeps getting bigger!

PRESIDENT:

Options.

STAEDERT:

Wait or act.

PRESIDENT:

Recommendations.

STAEDERT:

My philosophy Mr. President is shoot first

ask questions later.

I don't like uninvited guests.

PRESIDENT:

Gentlemen?

HEAD CHEMISTS:

I think it would be foolish to shoot at an

organism that seems alive, without first

taking the time to study it more!

Besides, it has shown no signs of hostility.

PRESIDENT:

(worried)

No... it's just getting bigger.

HEAD CHEMISTS:

So do people, but that's no reason to shoot

them.

PRESIDENT:

(exasperated)

The security of the Federated Territories is

and remains number one priority.

(to the military)

I suppose General Staedert's "philosophy" is

acceptable to you?

All the Generals nod "yes"

PRESIDENT:

All right, then! Staedert?

PRIEST (O.S.)

Mr. President?

The President scans the room. Staedert remote controls the camera toward

the room.

PRESIDENT:

...Yes?

The camera moves up the Priest and we finally discover his face. He is

in his sixties, a shrewd look in his eyes.

Around his neck hangs the Kommander's finger, the key to the temple.

PRIEST:

Cornelius, Vito Cornelius. 50th level parish.

I have a different theory to offer you,

Mr. President.

PRESIDENT:

I'm listening.

CORNELIUS:

Imagine for a moment that this. thing is not

anything that can be identified because it prefers

not to be, because it is the antithesis of all we are.

Because it is evil.. TOTAL EVIL.

PRESIDENT:

(a little sarcastically)

One more reason to shoot first eh?

All the Generals nod in agreement.

CORNELIUS:

Evil begets evil, Mr. President.

Shooting would only make it stronger.

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