The Omega Man Page #2

CLOSE SHOT - RADIO

It is a small transistor on a counter in a filling station. As CAMERA PULLS OUT showing station deserted, cars stopped here and there, a man and woman dead in a convertible at the gas pumps.

ANNOUNCER:

... CONELRAD channel. This is a class one emergency. All civilian traffic is barred from streets and highways. Stay in your homes...

CLOSE SHOT - RADIO IN POLICE CAR

We SEE the receiver, HEAR the emergency message as CAMERA PULLS BACK revealing a policeman lying, eyes open, across the steering wheel of the car.

ANNOUNCER:

Those found without specific military orders are subject to summary execution ... Repeat This is a...

LONG SHOT - DOWN A H0SPITAL CORRIDOR

As the CAMERA PANS HALLS, WARDS, ETC., there are, here and there, a few bodies in the hallways, the beds are full.

MED. CLOSE SHOT - IN THE CLEAR - NEVILLE IN LABORATORY

Neville sits at his desk in white lab coat, sign on desk says COLONEL ROBERT NEVILLE. He is watching a small TV on his desk.

MATTHIAS:

so now the question is survival. Is this the end of technological man? Is this the conclusion of all our yesterdays, the boasts of science, the superhuman conquests of space and time... the age of the wheel?

Neville grimaces, shakes his head. At the end of next speech PHONE RINGS.

MATTHIAS:

We were warned of judgment. Well, It's come now. This is the Judgment, the weeping and gnashing of teeth... Oh, God, where will it end...?

CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE ON PHONE

nodding, face set.

NEVILLE:

Yes. So it's airborne bacteria. Let's try-vaccine 93-b-71. How the hell do I know? I don't... It might. I’ll be there in an hour.

NEVILLE RUNNING DOWN CORRIDORS

with small satchel.

NEVILLE ON AIRSTRIP running toward waiting helicopter. He wears fatigue coveralls.

NEVILLE IN AIRBORNE HELICOPTER with satchel of vaccine in lap. PILOT next to-him.

ZOOM SHOT - TO PILOT

grabbing eyes, falling forward onto controls.

HELICOPTER GOING DOWN

Neville showing signs of illness too.

HELICOPTER CRASHED

Neville drags himself from wreck. Only one bottle of vaccine is unbroken. He injects himself, passes out.

LAST TITLE:

FADE OUT.

FADE IN:

MED. LONG SHOT - INT. DARK TRAVEL AGENCY

from rear of office. There are posters on the walls: "See Mexico." "Visit London," "TWA to Hong Kong," etc. Dust is over everything, the floors are filthy and-, littered with paper. CAMERA points out OPEN DOOR to street. Suddenly we SEE Neville FLASH by in his car.

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LONG BOOM SHOT - DOWN ANGLE ON EMPTY STREET

from roof of building. In left F.G. WE SEE clothesline. Clothes hanging on it are bleached. have begun to fall apart. We HEAR in DISTANCE ' high-pitched ROAR of Neville's ENGINE. Then he races by in street below.

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MED. SHOT - DESERTED SCHOOL ROOM

CAMERA points out OPEN WINDOWI- with a broken blind hanging alongside. In left frame, next window has Easter bunnies, eggs, etc. made by children. In right side of frame, teacher's desk with small flag, rotten apple. Again, SOUND of CAR, Neville passes outside.

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MED. SHOT - NEVILLE IN CAR

As he rounds corner, he sees things lying scattered in the street ahead. He tries to stop, but runs over them.

CLOSE SHOT - TIRE GOING FLAT

MED. SHOT - NEVILLE GETTING OUT OF CAR

He is irritated, looks around as if seeking a filling station attendant in order to get tire fixed. Glances down. He has run over a broken steel box, with US Mint markings. Its torn hinges have shredded the tire, and the gold ingots it contained are scattered under the wheels. He glances across street. A Brink's truck sits crashed into a fire hydrant, its rear doors open, swinging useless in breeze. Mint boxes and gold bullion lying unguarded.

MED. CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE

His expression is one of total disgust. He speaks sardonically.

NEVILLE:

Why don't they keep the goddamn street clean.

MED. SHOT - NEVILLE

He unloads car, hangs gun over his back, puts a few grenades in his belt, lifts gas can. As he walks away from car, he muses.

NEVILLE:

There was a Mercedes agency on Sunset. Or was it Wilshire?

MED. LONG SHOT - NEVILLE WALKING

Ahead is the agency. Windows are broken. A 230SL convertible sits in the showroom. Neville walks through the broken window, walks around car.

NEVILLE:

The color's not right, but ... how long did you say it takes to get a new one from Germany...?

He walks to another car.

NEVILLE:

How about this one? One careful Pasadena driver in tennis shoes? What's her phone number?

MED. SHOT - NEVILLE SERVICING CAR

He has put in battery, gas, etc. He closes hood, gets in.

Glances at watch.

NEVILLE:

My God, is it that late?

He guns the motor and drives out through the broken window.

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WIDE ANGLE LONG SHOT - NEVILLE IN CAR

We see Neville speeding down an empty main thoroughfare, the car accelerating faster and faster. He makes an impossible turn, the car bottoming, righting itself, fishtailing, straightening out and zooming on.

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WIDE ANGLE SHOT - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

A long DOWN SHOT, which shows the car reaching speeds of over a hundred miles an hour.

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VERY CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE IN CAR

This is HEAD ON. Neville’s concentration, his tension must show. He looks like a master-driver in the ultimate test of his career. Meanwhile, it is getting darker, closer to night.

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WIDE ANGLE LONG SHOT - NEVILLE IN CAR

CAMERA RUSHES IN as SHOT OPENS, to MED. SHOT of the car careening down a deserted street in absolute recklessness. As Neville nears the end of the street, he slightly sideswipes a car parked out from the curb.

VERY CLOSE SHOT - TIRES AND LOWER SECTION OF CAR

Tires squeal as Neville turns corner. CAMERA MOVES OUT TO MEDIUM SHOT as car rights itself and shoots away.

MED. SHOT - NEVILLE IN CAR

The car lights are on now, and as Neville slows down, it is deep twilight. He turns into drive in front of a tall apartment building. CAMERA MOVES IN TO MED. CLOSE SHOT of Neville in car. He presses remote-control button and WE SEE garage door open ahead of him. CAMERA SWIEEPS to Neville's face. He shows relief, as if he has made, It through a very tough race indeed.

MED. SHOT - DOWN ANGLE FROM BEHIND CAR

As Neville guns motor and starts into garage, a figure detaches itself from growing darkness and leaps onto him. The figure seems simply to materialize) and it leaps high, landing almost in the car. Neville tries to fight back as the car drifts down the drive into garage.

MED. SHOT - INT. GARAGE

from within the garage. WE SEE the car drifting down the ramp into garage, Neville and the black-clad figure wrestle as the car, at low speed, crashes into a pillar or another car. Neville pushes the black figure away, hits him, hits him again, jumps from the car with his stun gun and fires a burst into the black figure. CAMERA RUSHES IN FOR CLOSE SHOT OF NEVILLE as he turns from the fallen figure. He looks outward at the still-open garage door, his face reflecting fear, horror.

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