The X-Files Page #19

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CUT TO:

INT. WHITE DOME TENT - NIGHT

Mulder pulls open the steel door leading in. It opens

with a SUCKING SOUND which suggests the interior is

pressurized. And as he and Scully step in -- they both

JUMP when LARGE FANS just overhead hit them both with

hard blasts of air.

Stepping quickly out of the downward blasting air, into

the still silence of the space beyond.

SCULLY:

Cool in here. Temperature's being

regulated.

MULDER:

For the purpose of what?

HIGH OVERHEAD ANGLE

Our view is down through the crosswires and cables that

create the tension support. The effect is a combination

of simplicity and perfect function. Stark and high tech.

The flooring is gray and flat, featureless. But we don't

yet see from this angle exactly what the white domed

tent houses.

Though the air is still and there is no movement of any

kind, there is a sound that permeates the interior. A

STEADY HUM. Almost electrical hum, but different.

Mulder and Scully move together toward the middle of the

space.

WIDE ON TENT - MULDER AND SCULLY'S POV

Laid out in a grid, low to the ground, are what look

like BOXES. Fixed in place like roof vents, except these

are on the floor, no more than three feet tall, and

about the same measure square.

NEW ANGLE - TRACKING WITH MULDER AND SCULLY

As they continue to move cautiously, walking out into

the grid of box-shaped objects. Coming to the center of

the capacious, arena-sized space. Standing over one of

the mysterious boxes, which we now see have LOUVERED

TOPS. The louvers, however, are shut so that whatever is

inside the boxes cannot be seen.

SCULLY:

I think we're on top of something. I

think these are some kind of venting.

Mulder lays his head and ear to the top of the box.

MULDER:

You hear that?

SCULLY:

I hear the humming. Like electricity.

High voltage maybe.

MULDER:

Maybe. Maybe not.

Scully looks skyward.

SCULLY:

What do you think those are for?

Mulder takes his ear off the box, looking up now, too.

THEIR POV:

At the top of the dome are two LARGE corresponding

LOUVER VENTS.

RESUME MULDER AND SCULLY

Looking up at these vents.

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INT. WHITE DOME TENT - NIGHT

HIGH WIDE ANGLE OVER MULDER AND SCULLY, staring up JUST

PAST CAMERA at the louvered vents at top center of the

tent. When A LOUD METALLIC NOISE makes them jump.

AGENTS POV THE LOUVERED VENTS ABOVE THEM

One of the vents is opening automatically, its large

metal louvers straining from their flat closed position

into an up-and-down open position. When this is

complete, the SECOND LOUVER does the same.

The straining sound of galvanized metal-on-metal.

LOW ANGLE ON MULDER AND SCULLY

As Mulder turns his look from the ceiling back down to

the mysterious box they're standing next to. Something

occurs to him. Something frightening.

MULDER:

Scully....?

SCULLY:

Yeah...?

MULDER:

Run.

Mulder grabs her hand, pulling her along. Though she

doesn't know why. Or what's about to happen. TRACKING

FAST WITH THEM as Mulder leads her back toward the door

they entered, which is a good hundred yards away.

SCULLY:

(yelling, on the run)

What are you doing?

MULDER:

(yelling back)

Come on!

When the LOUVERED VENTS on all the low grid-arranged

boxes OPEN IN DOMINO-LIKE SUCCESSION -- out of them

pouring THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF BEES, rapidly filling

the atmosphere of the domed space.

As if the insects are being shot out of non-stop

cannons.

HIGH ANGLE:

THICK STREAMS of bees head RIGHT AT CAMERA, flying for

the open louvers at the top of the dome. As Mulder and

Scully run for it down below.

TRACKING WITH MULDER AND SCULLY

Scully's hand slipping from Mulder's as she pulls her

jacket up over her head. Mulder doing the same now,

ducking his head inside his own jacket. The Agents are

slowed by the bees but still make their zigzag way

toward the door -- bees clinging to their clothes. But

motion seems to be the key.

As Mulder RUNS TOWARD CAMERA -- where the downward blast

of air knocks all the bees off him. In the b.g., we see

that Scully has fallen behind. Still running, but losing

her way in the process, losing her bearings as the

thickening swarm of bees descends.

CLOSE ON SCULLY:

When Mulder enters frame, jacket pulled over his head

again. Taking Scully by the back of her coat and

swinging her toward the direction of the door.

Whipsnapping her the rest of the distance to the

doorfans. Following right behind her as the fans

BLASTING them and the Agents continue right out the

doors. To:

EXT. WHITE DOMED TENT - NIGHT

Scully and Mulder comes blasting out themselves now, but

they haven't even had time to catch their breaths when

they react to MOVEMENT. Something coming at them in the

night.

THEIR POV'S - STRAIGHT DOWN THE ROWS OF DOMED TENTS

Where BRIGHT BEAMS BLAST ON, moving fast toward them.

The RUSHING WHIR of the turbine engines of the unmarked

choppers. The bright beams skimming across the ground

toward Mulder and Scully, traveling right along the

edges of ends of the white domed tents. Threatening to

spot the Agents, unless they -- RUN.

And they do -- bolting just as the beams and the

helicopters blast over the spot they held just moments

before. Running to:

EXT. ACRES OF CORN - NIGHT - MULDER AND SCULLY - VARIOUS

HANDHELD:

Running flat out now, knocking away the stalks and

leaves that block their way.

Following and leading shots.

POVs and Tracking shots.

And chasing angles, as the Agents run through the only

cover they've got. As:

ANGLE JUST OVER THE TOP OF CROPS

The unmarked helicopters swoop right overhead, their

BRIGHT SPOTLIGHTS searching and cutting through the

cornrows. As the Agents zig and zag just out of the

discovering beams. As the choppers zoom right over their

heads.

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