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4th BLUE REVISIONS 03-26-10 41.

TOWNIE (CONT'D)

Huh.

45 EXT./INT. SMITH MOTORS - LAB - MORNING 45

The distant mountains glint snow in the early morning light.

Selvig appears with a cup of coffee and surveys the vast

desert. He turns back into the lab and sees Jane, busy at

her workstation, soldering a piece of equipment.

A printer churns out blown-up screen-cap PHOTOS of the

Bifrost footage. Darcy hangs them on the wall.

Selvig surveys the scene, watches how Jane works, impressed.

He notices a monitor which displays a complex program

entitled "J. FOSTER ALGORITHM ANALYSIS". He looks proud.

The three of them have been up all night, fueled by caffeine

and excitement.

JANE:

Darcy, when you're done, take the

soil samples to Professor Meyers in

geology. Remind him, he owes me.

SELVIG:

We might want to perform a spectral

analysis.

JANE:

"We?"

SELVIG:

I flew all the way out here --

might as well make myself useful.

This is the offer Jane's been waiting for. She gets up,

inserts the piece of equipment she's been working on into a

rack-mounted server.

JANE:

You know what would be really

useful? Do you still have that

friend at LIGO?

SELVIG:

She was more than a friend.

JANE:

Could you call in a favor?

SELVIG:

You don't think this was just a

magnetic storm?

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JANE:

If I'm right, their observatory

must have picked up gravitational

waves during last night's event.

SELVIG:

Meaning?

Jane heads over to a computer monitor. Selvig follows.

JANE:

Meaning these anomalies might

signify something bigger.

SELVIG:

How "big" are we talking about?

Jane indicates the footage on the monitor. As the last of

the Bifrost cloud disappears into the night sky, there

appears to be a blister in space, bulging out in convex and

covered with stars.

JANE:

I think the lensing around the

edges is characteristic of an

Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

DARCY:

A what?

SELVIG:

I thought you were a science major.

DARCY:

Political Science.

Selvig shoots Jane a confused look. Jane shrugs.

JANE:

She was the only applicant.

SELVIG:

(TO DARCY)

An Einstein-Rosen Bridge -- a

"theoretical" connection between

two different points of space-time.

Darcy stares blankly.

JANE:

(TO DARCY)

A wormhole.

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Selvig looks skeptical. Jane prints out a frame-grab off the

monitor.

JANE (CONT'D)

Erik, look...

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Jane indicates the print-out showing the constellations seen

through the "bubble" in the clouds.

JANE (CONT'D)

What do you see here?

SELVIG:

Stars.

JANE:

Yes. But not our stars.

She spreads out a STAR CHART, barely able to contain her

excitement.

JANE (CONT'D)

This is the star alignment for our

quadrant, this time of year. So

unless Ursa Minor decided to take

the day off... those are someone

else's constellations.

Selvig's intrigued, in spite of himself.

Darcy pulls another frame-grab of the Bifrost footage from

the printer and hangs it on the wall, when something in the

image catches her eye.

DARCY:

Hey, check it out.

Jane and Selvig examine the photo, amazed.

SELVIG:

Is that...?

JANE:

I think I left something at the

hospital.

As Jane walks away, we REVEAL the photo. Inside the Bifrost

funnel cloud is a FIGURE -- the vague, but unmistakable shape

of a MAN.

45A EXT. ODIN'S CHAMBERS - DAY 45A

At the top of the palace, we see a small FIGURE on the

balcony. As we move closer, we see it is a burdened Odin,

looking out over Asgard.

46 INT. ODIN'S CHAMBERS - DAY 46

Frigga enters to find Odin standing lost in thought.

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FRIGGA:

How could you have done this?

ODIN:

Do you understand what he set in

motion? He's taken us to the brink

of war!

FRIGGA:

But banishment? You would lose him

forever? He's your son!

ODIN:

What would you have done?

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FRIGGA:

I would not have exiled him to a

world of mortals, stripped of his

powers, to suffer alone. I would

not have had the heart for such

cruelty!

ODIN:

That is why I'm King.

(THEN)

I, too, grieve the loss of our son.

But there are some things that even

I cannot undo.

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