THX 1138 Page #8

LUH:

I don't want to lose you.

BLACK:

18. CATHEDRAL

A yellow eight burns through the blackness. A low voice

is heard performing a ritual.

VOICE:

....and it all happened so slowly

that most men failed to realize

that anything had happened at all.

The interior of a cathedral is slowly revealed. Many people

are kneeling before the eight, and a monk in white robes

is performing a rite.

VOICE:

They had never known what all know

within, that to know is not to

know, not to know is to be known.

To change is to circle without end.

THX and LUH are kneeling, solemnly involved in the service.

VOICE:

To remain still is to flow with

the will of OMM. The breath of

OMM is infinitely slow, yet he

breathes.

Avail thyselves! OMM moves! OMM flows!....Let us pray.

CLOSE ANGLE:

The voice recites a chant, and the congregation repeats

it.

THX watches LUH as she repeats the chant. He is moved.

VOICE/CONGREGATION

Before OMM was OMM, after OMM will

be OMM, within OMM is OMM, without

OMM is OMM. OMM is one. We are

one, Mass is one, All are one....

THX leans over and whispers in LUH'S ear.

THX:

I don't want to lose you.

LUH turns and smiles, taking his hand. There are tears in

her eyes. He smiles back, and she cannot stifle a rather

loud giggle. They are both embarrassed.

FULL ANGLE:

No one in the cathedral seems to notice.

VOICE:

Unity of minds, unity of thought,

unity of occupations, unity of OMM

A man. Blessings of the state.

Blessings of the masses, Thou art

subjects of the divine.

When the ceremony is over, THX goes over to a chair in the

corner and flips a switch on it's arm. The cathedral,

monks, and congregation all fade away, leaving LUH kneeling

in the empty HOLOGRAM ROOM.

THX:

What are you doing?

LUH:

I don't know.

She rises, walks over and sits in the second hologram chair.

They are both strangely contemplative, and sit quietly in

the darkened room for a long while.

THX:

What am I going to do?

There is a long pause.

LUH:

(quietly)

If you....if you go back on

sedation, you won't feel the same

way about me. You'll report me

for drug evasion.

THX:

I've got a slip movement to install

on my next shift. I'll never make

it the way I am now.

There have been three explosions already this....

His argument is more to himself then to LUH. He looks to

LUH, who is on the verge of tears. He realizes his logic

is of no help, and he goes over to her.

THX:

I couldn't turn you in, not now.

I....I know I wouldn't!

LUH:

You don't know. You don't....

THX:

If I take something, you suffer.

If I don't, I stuff....

LUH:

(with growing

excitement)

I know you can do it without

sedation, You can, I know you can.

THX:

Then what? It can't go on forever.

You know it can't.

LUH:

We could leave, and live in the

superstructure....

There is a pause as THX ponders this.

LUH:

....My series is over, you only

have one shift left, don't you?

We could be gone before our next

series started.

THX is sitting on the floor, holding his head in his hands.

LUH goes over to him, and begins to caress his neck. She

is crying.

THX:

It's all right now, shhhh it's all

right.

LUH:

Don't let them separate us.

Their love-play slowly becomes more and more passionate.

They are awkward and unsure as they begin to disrobe one

another.

LUH is embarrassed, and she begins to giggle, then laugh

uncontrollably.

CLOSE ANGLE:

They are like children experimenting for the first

time..There is something lyrical and new as they make love.

There is a moment of fear for THX as LUH achieves orgasm;

something neither has experienced with another person

before.

THX:

Are you all right?

LUH:

AH UGH.

She smiles at him and they embrace, and rest. THX is asleep

when LUH wakes him with a start.

LUH:

They know. They've been watching

us. I can feel it.

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