"ALIEN ROMULUS" (2024)

1 OUTER SPACE. 1

A few light years past the outer rim. There's no colorful nebulas in sight, or enigmatic constellations --- Just a dark, freezing, lifeless VOID.

A small spaceship flies by. The ECHO PROBE: Oval-shaped, no larger than a medium sized truck.

- Unmanned and piloted by an ONBOARD COMPUTER. The chair-less cockpit looks quiet, dormant. Until -- a series of BLEEPS and TICKS. Several small RED/GREEN BULBS illuminate the inside, and a green-chromatic screen flickers to life.

It's booting up. An 8-bit animated LOGO reads:MU/TH/UR 9001, waking up... DATE: February 9, 2142. LOCATION: ZETA2 RETICULI SYSTEM. DESTINATION REACHED.- TARGETED OBJECT: IN RANGE.

A live map zeroes in on a MOVING OBJECT that's approaching the probe. - Intercepting in T-Minus 60 seconds.

Tiny particles of debris begin to collide against the Probe's hull while THRUSTERS emit a series of short bursts, slightly adjusting its course and speed.

POV CARGO BAY CCTV: what looks like aSMALL, IRREGULAR ASTEROID, approaches the opened cargo bay ---- The Asteroid, slowly enters the probe.

Once fully inside, the airlock finally shuts.

The mysterious asteroid floats peacefully in the cargo bay. Suddenly -- a blast of liquid erupts from a series of NOZZLES as we CUT TO:

LOUD and INTERMITTENT KLAXON SOUNDS. The ASTEROID has been lowered by powerful chains into aLASER CUTTING CHAMBER.A group of SCIENTISTS in whiter HAZMAT SUITS observe it.. On their backs, a company LOGO:WEYLAND-YUTANI.

A NAME TAG reads: Science Officer ROOK.

BRIGHT SPARKS from the asteroid as a LASER cuts through it. We see sparks reflected in the suit's mask... as they wait, expectantly.

One LARGE HALF of the ASTEROID is pulled up, and removed as a LID. The group lays their eyes on what's inside the rock, on the bottom half.

JUMP TO: The group vacates the docking bay, pushing a trolley holding their precious FIND... We stay in the empty room as the camera slowly tilts up... to THE HANGING HALF OF THE ASTEROID.

In it's inner face, we discern theNEGATIVE IMPRINT of what it's been carrying inside:A skeletal humanoid shape with an elongated cylindrical head, curled in a fetal position, wrapped in its bony TAIL: THE XENOMORPH creature.

FADE TO TITLE:

A L I E N

6 FADE IN: 6

A TEENAGE GIRL sits on the greenest HILL you've ever seen, contemplating a magnificent SUNSET. We approach her from behind, slowly revealing a breathtaking LANDSCAPE of mountains and lakes ahead. Her eyes closed, she enjoys the sun on her face, and the warm breeze.

Then -- A PHONE RINGS.

The girl opens her eyes, waking from a dream. This isRAIN CARRADINE (19). She sits on the side of her bed and takes a deep breath.

The tiny LIVING QUARTERS has a bunk-bed, a kitchen and a bathroom, in just a few square feet. Behind her we notice a poster with a similar LANDSCAPE from the one in her dream.

Her WATCH keeps ringing. Screen reads: INCOMING CALL. She ignores it, but it weighs on her...

8 MOMENTS LATER: Rain has breakfast. There's TWO EMPTY CHAIRS8 at both ends of a small table.

Rain speaks with a mild American-Southern accent. She's soft spoken and polite. She sits across a YOUNG MAN with a big smile. This is Andy(Mid 20's) he has a mild stutter, some sort of speech impediment.

Her WATCH rings again. Andy and Rain share a look. She rejects the call, a bit embarrassed.

She gives him a complicit wink.

CLOSE ON: A POSTERshowing a colony buzzing with human life, and hope. A bright sun bathes the scene. The poster reads: WELCOME TO JACKSON'S STAR.And along the bottom, it reads: WEYLAND-YUTANI: BUILDING BETTER WORLDS.

RAIN'S FOOT STOMPS ON IT and keeps walking. The camera tilts up, revealing a far grimmer reality: hopeless PEOPLE dressed in dirty FARMING CLOTHES move down an INDUSTRIAL area.

SUPER: JACKSON'S STAR: Population 1500 colonists.

Rain holds Andy by the hand, walking fast. He has a hard time keeping up with her. She throws a look at the towering ATMOSPHERE GENERATOR, smoking nearby.

RAIN/ANDY "That's a funny way to start a conversation..."

Rain makes eye-contact with a group of GIRLS HER AGE, that are standing under a RED LIGHT. Another teenage KID sleeps on the floor, next to them. Rain sighs.

MOMENTS LATER: Rain stands at a small window, in front of a WY OFFICER wearing a white shirt and a tie, as miserable as everyone else. There's a long cue behind her.

ON ANDY sitting on a bench like an obedient child... He eyeballs TWO TEN YEAR OLD KIDS pointing at him... he knows they're trouble. Then, we areBACK ON RAIN:

ON Andy as the two TEN YEAR OLD boys stand right in front of him, and they seem to be studying Andy's face. They HOLD METAL RODS.

Beat -- Rain is devastated. But tries to keep a good attitude.

WY OFFICER ANDY (O.S.)

System doesn’t provide that STOP IT PLEASE... ST-T-OP... information... But we Why--- P-pleas d-don’t... definitely encourage you to apply again the next cycle.

Rain turns around to see a couple of ten year old PUNKS beating the hell out of ANDY with a METAL ROD. Andy just takes it, covering his face with his forearms.

She runs towards Andy just as the two Punks run off --

The kids run off.

Andy is tense, curled up in a fetal position. Every muscle in his body looks stiff and atrophied. There’s a cut on his CHEEK, and he is bleeding a milky WHITE LIQUID.

Rain quickly pulls silver NECKLACE from under her shirt, containing a tiny but distinct, SPECIAL KEY.

Rain OPENS A LID under Andy’s right ear. On the back of the LID, we can read: N-D-225 and the Wayland-Yutani LOGO.

Rain inserts the KEY into a TINY SLOT, then TURNS IT several times. As she does, Andy’s speech starts to return.

Her watch starts to ring again... She rejects the call.

She keeps working the KEY into the back of Andy’s head, as the control over his own body returns.

Rain stops. Holds back tears. They both sit on the bench for a moment. Then--

Her WATCH beeps twice. CLOSE ON SCREEN: 1 NEW MESSAGE.... Rain frowns, presses a button on her watch.

But rain is clearly happy to see his face.

Tyler flashes a smile, hangs up.

Rain and Andy ride on a practically empty BUS. Outside, Rain has her gaze lost on a long desolate ROAD surrounded by massive CANYONS, created from MINING.

A few LARGE MINING HAUL SHIPS hover above piles of WHITE SAND. One of them OPENS LARGE PAYLOAD DOORS and releases TONS of WHITE SAND onto a massive PILE.

In the distance we can see the PLANET’s RINGS setting on the horizon, like a massive white rainbow.

Near the terraform tower we find a TRAILER PARK for the families working the mines. Old MINING EQUIPMENT is strewn around.

BJØRN (19) sits atop mining equipment, playingBUG HUNT,a hand-held GAME & WATCHgaming device. NAVARRO (19) sits next to him.

She sports a killer mullet and dirty MINING OVERALLS that match BjØrn’s. They both sit on the fender of--

THE CORBELAN IV....a sixty foot long, by thirty foot tall MINING HAULER ship. It’s all brute force, with no grace. We barely discern the WY logo, under the heavy coat of caked white coal dust along the side of the ship.

BJØRN NAVARRO (CONT'D)

Oh fuck my ass! Ok my turn.

A “defeat” sound plays on the device. Its screen reads:GAME OVER MAN.

TYLER comes out of a trailer, he's even more handsome in person.

Andy smiles, happy to see him. Rain and Tyler lock eyes. It's clear there's a lot of history between these two...

Suddenly, a GIRL runs out of the trailer. This is KAY: radiant but with innocent eyes, younger than the rest of them.

She gives Rain a tight hug.

Bjørn heads inside.

BJØRN Yeah, yeah, everybody is dying. Come on, show her.

Off Rain's intrigue, we cut to:

A large trailer, that's been converted into a live/work space. A few posters of MILITARY personnel and equipment. A wide WINDOW looks out into THE MINING FIELDS. Everybody settles in, Tyler boots up his COMPUTER while Bjørn lights up a big JOINT. Andy starts to play a CONSOLE GAME.

Bjørn passes the joint to Tyler, who hits it.

Navarro offers the joint to Rain. She shakes her head no.

Navarro, gives him a disapproving look. Bjorn shrugs:what?

BJØRN (to Tyler) Come oooon, tell her what we need. She's gonna say no, anyway.

Tyler points at the schematics of an Emergency Escape Vehicle on his screen:

Rain thinks for a bit... She gets it.

Rain shakes her head... Won't allow herself to get excited about the plan...

TYLER BJORN

We're not. (excited)

Of course we are.

Andy looks up. Stops playing with the console.

NAVARRO TYLER

Impossible to get in What do you think? otherwise.

BJØRN Come on! Wake the fuck up Rain.

Beat. Rain darkens.

BJØRN (chuckles) Hey! HE'S not your brother. It is just Wey-Yu damaged goods your dad used to own. That's all he fucking is.

Off Rain's anger, we cut to:

Rain storms out of the Trailer with Andy in tow.

Tyler chases her. She stops and faces him.

Rain stops, arms crossed, defensive.

Rain looks at Andy, who's staring at her... Biting on his lip. Looks like he agrees with Tyler. Rain sighs... looks to the TRAILER, where the rest of the group stands, hoping she'll change her mind.

Tyler sighs, shakes his head... Doesn't want to lie to her.

Rain thinks for a moment. Then looks back at Tyler. A smirk forms on her face. Followed by a tiny nod. We SMASH CUT TO:

Bright headlights on the Corbelan light up as its loud engines roar to life.

Navarro expertly presses buttons, flips switches.

BJØRN/KAY ANDY

WOW! Yeah! Wohoooo! (awkward)

Y-yeah!

Tyler helps his sister Kay, to put on her seatbelt.

Navarro sits in the PILOT SEAT in front of an instrument panel. Looking a bit nervous. Bjørn notices.

Bjørn kisses her on the mouth.

Bjørn laughs. She slaps his ass. Rain reacts.

NAVARRO BJØRN

Half-sister. Allegedly.

Bjørn and Navarro perform a secret-sibling handshake, then Bjørn hits Tyler in the back of his head, playfully.

Engines RUMBLE.

NAVARRO pulls the THROTTLE, and the Corbelan starts off.

From outside the trailer we see -- the Corbelan rising VERTICALLY, like an elevator to space.

As the G-FORCE crushes them, Bjørn UNBUCKLES his SEAT-BELT. Navarro smiles, she knows what's coming.

With extreme effort Bjørn manages to STAND, He places a JOINT in his mouth, holds a LIGHTER below his waist, and LIGHTS it.

The immense G-force makes the FLAME extend LONG, reaching the joint...He holds his head down, and the JOINT ignites from tip to filter in a second, due to the G-force.

Bjørn burns his mouth, spits the filter out, and collapses back into his seat. Then takes a seated BOW for his audience. The group hollers with laughter, except for Andy, who just seems confused by the whole thing.

The Corbelan slows to a FULL STOP, as it floats above the planet.

Tyler and Navarro pull levers, making the ship stop.

We see their planet, the ALFEIOS SYSTEM, nestled inside magnificent asteroid RINGS. Tyler stands and heads for the back of the cockpit.

Suddenly, THE RED SUNLIGHT illuminates their faces. Rain reacts and covers her face, startled by the strong light. She squints at the warm sunshine. She approaches the window. Presses her hand against the glass and closes her eyes.

CUT TO: a brief FLASHBACK of her DREAM. Seated atop a green hill, ALONE, overlooking the sunset in Yvága..... BACK TO:

He's not. Still --

BJØRN --Of heavy drinking.

They all stay there a moment, mesmerized at the red sun shining in the distance. Suddenly - it gets dark.

BJØRN There she is.

A MASSIVE SPACE SHIP covers the sun: this is the RENAISSANCE STATION.

The station hovers near an ASTEROID BELT. It's a LARGE space station with TWO massive MODULES, connected to each other by hallways. Not a single light is on. Just a big mass of dead metal, peacefully drifting.

BJØRN (to Tyler) Better tell her.

Tyler starts moving around the cockpit, pressing buttons, playing it down.

He points to the massive ASTEROID BELT spinning nearby.

Rain pulls Andy to a side.

OFF Rain's concern, we CUT TO:

The Corbelan Hauler approaches the side of the massive and dark station. The hauler comes to a stop, then presses its airlock against A SECTION of the ship.

A MAGNETIC SYSTEM seals the Corbelan's AIRLOCK to the hull of the STATION.

(Tyler and Bjorn wear heavy clothes and hoodies, plus an oxygen mask.) BJORN manually rotates a RED WHEEL that RAISES the EXTERNAL AIRLOCK door. TYLER fires up a TEMPERATURE SCANNER. He waves it around, changing the read on its DISPLAY.

They stand in front of a three-foot wide CIRCULAR DOOR. Tyler opens it by pulling from a simple mechanical system.

FROM THE COCKPIT Rain, Kay and Navarro watch them live through a camera feed on Tyler's BODY CAM. They see the trio entering the first door. They float into:

Next to the second door, a sign reads: MAINTENANCE ENTRANCE: SYNTHETICS ONLY. Tyler points to a PALM-SCANNER. Andy presses his hand against it: a LIGHT turns GREEN.

He throws Andy a proud look. Andy smiles. Tyler presses a few buttons.

The large circular door starts to open like a camera SHUTTER. The air inside the airlock is sucked out of the room in an instant.

From deep inside the TUNNEL, we see the three men floating towards us. Tyler and Bjørn lead, Andy follows. Only the helmet's FLASHLIGHTS illuminate the otherwise dark tunnel.

A smile forms on Andy, this is something he's never experienced before and is having the time of his life.

The tunnel WIDENS. LARGE amounts of frosted DEAD VEGETATION clings to the tunnel's walls. On the wall we read: OXYGEN CHAMBER DELTA.

CLOSE ON The Temp-Scanner BUZZES. Tyler lifts his FIST, signaling them to stop.

He OPENS HIS PALM to signal it's a few yards forward.

BJØRN (ON COM) (snorts) Da'fuck. What's with the military signage cuz?

BJØRN You look like a dickwad.

Suddenly - A LOW PITCHED SOUND builds. Like aRATATATATATAT.

BJØRN (CONT’D) What's that?

Suddenly: BANG, GRAVITY seems to KICK IN, and the three kids are slammed against the floor of the tunnel.

BJØRN (laughing) Man that hurt.

And just like that, gravity's gone again...and they float up.

BJØRN (CONT’D) Da 'hell?

Andy accidentally bumps Bjørn.

BJØRN -- get the fuck off me.

BJØRN Stay the fuck away from me...

26 IN THE COCKPIT 26

Navarro stands, press buttons, turns off a few systems down.

Rain notices Kay looking unusually sweaty, and paler.

Rain frowns... she doesn't look fine.

CLOSE ON the other side of a new SHUTTER DOOR. It circles open and the guys float through.REMUS DOCKING BAY can be read on the walls. A series of OBSERVATION windows looks onto their home PLANET.

Tyler swings the SCANNER around. IT BUZZS loudly. On the WALL we read: EMERGENCY ESCAPE VEHICLE B7. (EEV)

OUT THE WINDOW: The powerful ASTEROID BELT flows nearby like a river, at a threatening speed, but still quite far from them.

BJØRN Wow.... That shit-hole actually looks... nice, from up here.

Tyler hits A LARGE RED BUTTON next to the EEV, but nothing happens.

Next to the EEV, Andy laces his hand on another scanner. A computer TERMINAL comes to life. ON SCREEN:MU/TH/UR 9000 booting up.

Tyler presses a FEW COLORED buttons tagged: RESTART. All under the MENU: STATION'S PRIME SYSTEMS-- A loud RUMBLE.

28 ON SCREEN: REBOOTING LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS / PRESSURIZING 28 STATION / REESTABLISHING CO2 LEVELS. / RESTARTING GRAVITY GENERATOR. The AIR VENTS slowly come to life, as they start pumping OXYGEN into the entire station.

29 ON SCREEN: Gravity generator ONLINE. 29

GRAVITY seems to hit as a WAVE. They duck for cover as CRATES and TOOLS hit the floor violently around them.

BJØRN Wow.

BY ANDY, as he moves by a FAMILIAR piece of machinery: The LASER CUTTER CHAMBER from the opening scene.

30 ON SCREEN: OXYGEN LEVELS 100% / Bjorn removes his mask, Tyler30 does the same, approaches the EEV. Tyler presses the LARGE RED BUTTON again and from the floor emerges one of the CRYO- PODS. Tyler gets some readings from the pod.

BJØRN ...What?

31 ON SCREEN: CRYO-FUEL load range:THREE YEARS. Tyler heads 31 back to the terminal. He scrubs through data.

Tyler waves the scanner around for a moment. The scanner hits a STRONG READING.

BJØRN What's the military signal for "let's get fucking moving"!

Tyler presses a button inside the POD and it drops back into the EEV on the floor. A blast door closes.

The Emergency Escape Vehicle detaches from the station's MAIN HAUL. The EEV looks like FIVE COFFINS connected by a HEAT resistant HULL.

Navarro pilots and pushes the throttle.

The Corbelan flies past the OBSERVATION window.

The trio disappears down the hall. We stop at a sign that reads: TO REMUS RESEARCH LAB.

The hauler's REAR PAYLOAD DOORS slowly open, exposing the interior of the CARGO BAY.

CLOSE ON the throttle. Navarro reverses it.

The hauler ship very carefully reverses toward the floating EEV, and the escape pod goes inside the cargo area. They hear a big hit, in the back of the truck.

ON VIDEO FEED: The EEV floats inside the cargo bay. Navarro hits another button, CLOSING the cargo DOORS. ON RAIN a smile forms. She exchanges a look of hope with Kay.

Navarro, Rain and Kay descend into the Rear cargo bay. Navarro PULLS the EMERGENCY lever from one of the pods, The pod pops out. The interior looks quite cozy, under soft-blue lighting.

Kay frowns. Navarro nods...

She knows it's the right decision but it still weighs heavily on her. Suddenly -- Kay grabs her stomach.

Without further warning Kay hurries off.

Rain enters the small bathroom to find Kay vomiting in the toilet... She helps Kay by holding her hair back. Then flushes it. Navarro is by the door.

But she lunges forward and vomits again. Rain frowns.

A TINY room with a bunk bed and a coffee table. Kay rests in bed, while Rain covers her with a blanket. Kay looks at her with thankful eyes.

Rain places her hand on her forehead, then on Kay's...

Kay brings her hand over her belly...

Kay flashes a weak smile.

The three guys travel through a long OFFLINE ESCALATOR. The place feels like an abandoned hospital: aged, white, plastic and sterile.

BJØRN Fuck, you know them all, do you?

The trio emerges into a LONG HALLWAY. Tyler keeps his scanner pointed down the hallway.

BJØRN Dude, shut the fuck up.

BJØRN Jesus christ! Can't wait to get in that pod and never seen you again.

BJØRN (chuckles) You're not going to Yvága.

Tyler puts his hand on Andy's shoulder, considering his feelings.

Andy thinks, then nods.

42 INTERCUT Rain is back on the cockpit, and she's been 42 listening to the conversation.... She presses her lips together. Emotion moves in here eyes, as she goes to sit in a corner.

We STAY ON Andys smile a moment. If synthetics could feel heartbreak, this is what it looks like.

The Corbelan approaches one of the station's AIRLOCKS. From here, we can see the geography of the entire station better. TWO massive MODULES tower over the station.ROMULUS andREMUS stenciled on each of them.

The Corbelan makes contact with the station's HULL, both vessels CONNECT to each other through the AIRLOCK.

Navarro presses the intercom button.

SCANNER READS: 280ft.

The trio enters a massive LOBBY. Andy shines his flashlight across an elaborate mural that reads "Weyland-Yutani Scientific Research Station: RENAISSANCE".

The mural features a SCULPTED SHE-WOLF nursing two young twins ROMULUS and REMUS, who are painted on opposite sides of the lobby.

He focuses on the image of a child breast-feeding from a WOLF.

Tyler points his flashlight and locates an important looking DOOR. It reads: GENETIC RESEARCH LAB:Remus.

The guys enter a HIGH-TECH LAB. The place has a church-like quality to it, with high ceilings and long desks in a concentric ring layout.

A few of the COMPUTER TERMINALS still have their screens on. We see multiple renders of complex DNA chains, rotating.

The lab is a total MESS. As if a large explosion detonated the center of the room.

BJØRN Hey Andy check this bad boy out.

From the WALL, Bjørn picks up what looks like aLARGE TASER GUN.

BJØRN A Wey-Yu TASER, heard it can fry a Synthetic if you up the juice. I'll keep it in case you get any funny ideas.

He points the taser at Andy, playfully.

Suddenly. ANDY lunges at BJØRN and grabs him by the arm.

Tyler tilts his flashlight down, revealing:A BIG HOLE below BJØRN'S feet --

-- They peer down into the opening. Looks like something ate through several floors below them. The edges of the hole look MELTED.

Flashlights land on a mangled FEMALE SYNTHETIC covered in WHITE BLOOD.

Navarro and Rain turn back to the screen. See the dead body.

The synth is a Red-head, mid-40s with motherly features. Her lower body melted off by the same thing that ate through the floor. A patch on her chest reads: "ROOK" (The scientist from the opening scene.)

Bjorn suddenly starts to laugh.

BJØRN (chuckles) Jesus... For a second there I thought it was an actual... (looks at Andy) You know… A real person.

The three guys enter a short HALL with several other adjacent rooms and walkways. A WINDOW looks into the CRYO-CHAMBER.

Tyler, Andy and Bjørn carefully enter what looks like another LAB built inside a COLD CHAMBER... Large sections of FROST cover the wall and ceiling.

BJØRN Fuck, it's freezing in here.

The TEMP-SCANNER BUZZES like crazy. Tyler turns it off.

Tyler shines his light onto a large metal tank along the wall that reads: DANGER: CRYO-FUEL.

51 IN THE COCKPIT Rain and Navarro are glued to the screen via51 the live-feed, following Tyler's every move.

52 BACK IN THE CRYO CHAMBERTyler points to the center of a 52 large freezer CONDENSER, to a REPLACEABLE TANK. The cryo- fuel. He presses a TEST button. EIGHT BARS light up on the tank, out of TEN. Next to it: 45k.

A smaller sign next to the tank reads:DO NOT REMOVE without system authorisation. But they don't notice it.

BJØRN Get it out.

Tyler pulls a LEVER that reads EJECT. But the tank is stuck by some FROST.

Andy presses his bare hands against the tank, and pulls from it, until-- The TANK pops out. But when it disengages a SHORT BURST of CRYO-FUEL, in gas form, sprays Bjørn's hand.

BJØRN FUCK.

Two of Bjørn's FINGERS have FROZEN instantaneously.

BJØRN (CONT’D) -- the fuck?! Shit this hurts!

Suddenly -- an ALARM sounds. --- RED and YELLOW sirens light up the room. Before they can react THE ONLY DOOR drops down, and shuts them IN.

Tyler stands behind Bjørn, pulls two straps from the cryo- tank and makes Bjørn wear it like a PACKPACK.

Bjørn holds his frozen fingers up.

Andy presses his hand against the palm-scanner but this time the light turns RED. Tyler checks the reader. Text reads: CONTACT SCIENCE OFFICER.

BJØRN He can reboot the entire ship but can't open a door to a random room? Fuck, my fingers hurt.

Bjørn looks down. ICE MELTS by his feet as the room's temperature rises and the air normalizes.

He presses a button on his WATCH.

A small chunk of ICE detaches from the wall and slides down... as the place starts to slowly melt we SMASH CUT TO:

Navarro zips up a LEATHER JACKET, ready to head out. She looks at Rain. Who's looking nervous and breathing heavily.

Then Rain stands, terrified. She closes her eyes and controls her breathing... taking long exhales.

The AIRLOCK opens revealing: Navarro and Rain entering the Renaissance. Navarro's watch beeps.

Rain and Navarro enter the LAB. They approach the mangled remains of the FEMALE SYNTHETIC.

Navarro nods, impressed. Rain kneels next to the female android, and proceeds to open a LID in the skin behind its ear. But it's covered with dried WHITE BLOOD.

She starts scraping the caked white blood with her nails.

Navarro's POV: She sees, resting on a stand: A TORCH labeled: X-RAY TORCH. Navarro frowns.

She grabs it, tries to turn it on. An ERROR RED LIGHT blinks. She reads a label on the side: PRESS AGAINST BODY. She frowns. Navarro presses the X-RAY TORCH against her forearm, pushes the ON button again. This time the Torch lights up, exposing her FOREARM BONES through the strong backlight.

Navarro presses the x-Ray-torch under her jaw, revealing her SKULL.

Navarro laughs.

SUDDENLY the Synthetic opens its EYES and GRABS Rain wrist. The red-haired Synth Woman TORSO, SCREAMS IN HORROR.

She clamps Rain's arm tight, hurting her... glaring into her eyes, looking terrified and spitting WHITE BLOOD.

Navarro snaps out of it, and lunges to the Synth. She PULLS the SMALL CARD out from inside its head, and the Synthetic deactivates almost IMMEDIATELY.

Navarro tosses the Synth's MODULE to RAIN, who catches it mid air. She sticks the small x-ray torch in her back pocket.

Andy's fixated on the melting ice, and fascinated by what could be buried inside.

The room is slowly FLOODING, with water reaching Andy's ankles now.

Then like a melting iceberg, a large CHUNK of ICE collapses behind Andy, revealing a strange and sophisticated MACHINE.

BJØRN Wow.

They're looking at an ORGANIC TISSUE PRINTER. It's attached to a conveyor belt that disappears into the frozen ICE.

Per its screen, the printer's last job stopped at 55%.... What's inside of the machine looks like a fleshy organic blob of SKIN and MUSCLE, the size of a baseball glove.

57 ON SCREEN: PrintingMANUMALA NOXHYDRIA. 57

Another LARGE CHUNK of ice collapses... revealing several CRYO-FRAMES. (A square-shaped device, with SOMETHING vaccum- sealed between plastic, inside it)

A RED-NUMBER on the side of the Frames, display a TEMPERATURE, quickly DROPPING.

BJØRN Shit.

Thats when they notice SOMETHING MOVING INSIDE one of the Cryo-Frames...

They all turn to see Rain standing on the other side of the door. She looks at them through a small window.

BJØRN Get us out of here.

Rain sticks her hand through a gap between the door and the floor, created by the frost. She offers Tyler the MODULE.

Their hands touch, and they lock eyes for a second there... Rain smiles. Tyler returns, then stands up and opens the lid behind Andy's ear.

CLOSE ON: the new card module is inserted in an empty slot behind Andy's ear.... his eyes suddenly go WIDE. Then his head drops, and he stands still.

WHITE SMOKE starts to come out from a few of the CRYO- FRAMES.... Something is melting the plastic from the inside...

Then... an organic looking MASS falls out of the FRAME.... and disappears under the FOOT of WATER. Then another...

Suddenly, WE SEE: Something moving fast underwater towards an oblivious BJORN.

The WAKE intensifies as a BONY TAIL emerges like a periscope. Tyler finally notices.

Bjorn turns around, just when--

SOMETHING leaps from under the water towards Bjorn's face.

But he deflects it with his arms, falling on his back and the CREATURE disappears under the water again...

BJØRN Da fuck was that?!

Before he can react, a SECOND creature BLINDSIDES him, and JUMPS ON the SIDE of his FACE.

That's when we get a glimpse of the FACEHUGGER. A SPIDER-LIKE creature with bony-fingers and human-looking flesh.

BJØRN (CONT’D) Get it off me!

The Facehugger sticks its TUBULAR TONGUE OUT, trying to stick it in Bjorn's mouth.

That's when THREE more of those things fall from the Cryo- frames, and into the water.

From behind Tyler, a new CREATURE jumps! But Tyler dodges it. He finally reaches Bjorn, and helps him get rid of the clinging Facehugger.

From a DESK, A stealthy FACEHUGGER heading straight at him.... The FACEHUGGER leaps at Tyler. But Andy CATCHES it by the tail and throws it violently against the wall.

BJØRN -- open the fucking door!

Andy turns and rushes toward the computer terminal.There's something strange about the way he moves...he's faster, and his posture is more upright.

Andy presses his hand against the scanner. This time it turns GREEN. He hits a flashing button and the door slides open.

ON NAVARRO as she realizes they're now also exposed to these creatures.

Tyler, Bjørn scramble out, Andy in tow as they leave the cryo- chamber. Andy hits a flashing button and that SHUTS the door.

Rain embraces her brother. Andy nods, and looks back at her with a bizarre grin, as if he hasn't seen her in a long time.

BJØRN Guys?!

On Bjørn as he realizes: the small gap in the door that allowed them to pass the module through, is still open.

DOZENS of BONY fingers STICK out from under the door.

The group runs, heading in the direction of the LAB. Andy quickly sprints ahead of everyone and reaches it.

Andy reaches the LAB and presses his hand on the palm reader, it flashes GREEN.

Navarro trips over a DEAD BODY and falls. Bjørn notices.

BJØRN Anna?!

He runs back to help Navarro to her feet, then they keep running. One by one they reach the LAB, Bjørn and Navarro are the last ones to reach --

After they burst through --

BJØRN Shut it!

He does. The metal DOOR starts to lower like a curtain. Navarro heaves air, catching her breath --

But just before it closes a FACEHUGGER rushes under the door and leaps onto Navarro and it GRABS HER FACE.

BJØRN NO!!

Everyone is in total shock. Rain covers her mouth in horror.

Bjørn tries to pull the terrifying creature off Navarro's face, while his sister rolls on the floor, twisting and struggling to get the thing off.

Suddenly Navarro's body goes stiff and she passes out. Bjørn drops next to her, grips the Facehugger with both hands, desperate.

BJØRN (CONT’D) Help me!!

Tyler snaps out of it, and joins Bjørn's efforts... CLOSE ON Rain, as she notices something -- the Facehugger has wrapped its tail around Navarro's neck,and it's squeezing.

BJØRN NO!

The more Bjørn tries to remove it, the tighter it squeezes.

Bjørn finally gives up. And the creature eases the pressure off Navarro's neck, for now.

BJØRN What-- what is - what the fuck's it doing to her!? Is it killing her?!

The group turns to Andy surprised by his sudden, impeccable speech and near perfect articulation.

BJØRN Who the fuck are you?

Rain grabs Andy by the face, in a motherly way.

Andy thinks, feels the back of his head...

BJØRN Who gives a shit!...

Tyler and Andy drop ROOK'S TORSO onto a table.

Andy tethers a data cable from an open slot in Rook's head, to one of MU/TH/UR's terminals. He presses a button. Rook wakes with a jolt.

Rook looks around, then down to her own mangled body, and realizes what's happening. Then she sees Navarro laying on the floor. Rook's eyes widen.

Rook eyeballs everybody, thinks about her answer. Then -

BJØRN We're not leaving her...

BJØRN -- the fuck is she saying?

Andy is paying particular attention to what Rook has to say.

Rook pauses, probably realizing Andy is also a Synth.

Rook reaches for a set of SWITCHES next to the exam table. And she flips one. A POWERFUL CEILING LIGHT flickers to life right above the hole Bjorn almost fell into... To reveal--

61 THE XENOMORPH. 61

Suspended high in the air, hanging from wires, ten feet above them....DEAD. Only parts of its torso, head and legs remain.

There's something nearly holy about the sight. The xeno looks like Christ crucified.

Andy walks towards it, absolutely mesmerized by the dead creature. (We notice the TIP of Ripley's HARPOON still impaled in the xeno's chest.)

Andy studies the remains of the creature, its feet, its tail.

Andy sees the hole in the ground, below the corpse.

BJØRN (interrupts) - can you please shut up?! We don't care about you or your ship!

Tyler notices Bjørn's frozen fingers. Wheels spin as he considers.

He takes the cryo-tank from Bjørn's back, then kneels next to Navarro.

Tyler aims the nozzle from the cryo-fuel tank toward the base of the Facehugger's TAIL.

BJØRN (interrupts) - just do it.

Tyler nods, activates the cryo-tank nozzle. A SHORT BURST of cryo-fuel bursts out, and hits the creature's tail. Tyler closes the nozzle, then backs away.

The Facehugger just squeezes her neck HARDER. Then after a moment the tail turns a pale color, and suddenly goes LIMP.

Bjørn lunges for the creature, and starts to PULL IT.

As it separates from Navarro, the creature SCRATCHES the side's of Navarro's face, while a LONG TUBULAR TONGUE slowly slides up out of her throat.

Bjørn finally succeeds, and throws the creature at Tyler's feet. He steps on its bony fingers, breaking them -- ACID bursts out of the creature, and begins the melt the floor.

Quickly Tyler opens the nozzle again AND SPRAYS the creature and the ACID with the fuel, FREEZING it.

They all stay quiet, staring at the now frozen Facehugger.... Tyler keeps the nozzle pointed at it, waiting, then --

-- Navarro comes to and screams!

Navarro claws at her face, then realizes the creature is now dead on the floor. She turns to Bjørn, who helps her to her feet, and embraces her.

BJØRN You're ok... you're ok...

Beat.

ON BJØRN shaking his head no... triggered by these Synthetics doing math with his sister's fate.

Rook grabs Andy's hand in a tender, motherly way.

Andy nods. -- Bjorn places the CRYO-TANK on his back again.

BJØRN Ok, enough. Let's bail.

But Andy steps in his way, blocking his exit. Rain stands behind Andy, confused.

BJØRN (CONT’D) Get out of my way.

Andy looks to the xeno -- Then to Navarro -- Then to Bjørn.

Navarro is suddenly growing terrified of Andy. Then Bjørn unholsters THE TASER he picked up earlier, and points it at Andy.

BJØRN (CONT’D) You see. THIS is what I meant by a funny idea.

Bjørn has his finger on the trigger. We hear the TASER load power... Andy reacts to the sound and takes two quick threatening steps toward BJØRN. Then --

ZAP!! Bjørn PRESSES the TASER against ANDY's chest, SHOCKING HIM, and sending him flying over a desk.

BJØRN (To Navarro) Let's go.

Bjørn and Navarro storm out.

ON TYLER conflicted about following his friends, or staying with Rain.

Rain reaches Andy on the floor, he's still shaking from the massive electrical shock. She grabs his head.

She turns to Tyler, surprised he stayed.

Finally Andy opens his eyes.

Andy is lost in Rain's motherly gaze.

ANDY quickly pushes himself up, and SPRINTS from the room.

Andy bursts out of the lab, running at high-speed.

Andy runs down the hallway and eyeballs a sign on the wall that reads: AIRLOCK FIVE-B. He makes a sharp turn down a new hallway.

Rook is by herself now. She turns to one of the computer terminals within reach and types an ACCESS CODE: 3959X.91

The computer makes a few BEEPS and TICKS.... A report scrolls up on-screen. Then, a CYLINDRICAL TUBE rotates on-screen. And zooms in to: TEN SMALL high-tech SYRINGES.

CLOSE ON: Integrity of COMPOUND Z-0-1 Storage...... 100%.

Rook looks extremely relieved, like a mother finding out her child is all right.

The AIRLOCK to the cargo area opens. Bjørn and Navarro rush in. He heads to the panel, ready to close the door.

He stops.

Bjørn stops, thinks. He doesn't disagree. Then he looks out the airlock to see - Andy running towards them with cold determination in his eyes...

BJØRN (realizing) He's coming to kill you.Get inside!

Bjørn shoves his sister inside, and grabs the RED WHEEL and begins turning it. The DOOR begins to CLOSE.

BJØRN (CONT’D) Go.

He starts rotating the red wheel as fast as he can. The EXTERNAL DOOR keeps dropping.

Navarro sprints down the hallway towards the Cockpit.

JUST OUTSIDE - Andy sees the door CLOSING. Just before it can completely shut, he sticks his forearm into the closing GAP.

BJØRN No!

Bjørn can't turn the wheel any further. But he holds it in place with all of his might.

Bjørn does all he can, but Andy is far stronger and he's able to force the door open.

Rain and Tyler sprint down the hallway. They hear the engines rumble, from a distance.

Rain gives him a worried look... Then starts to run faster.

The Corbelan's engines roar to life. A sweaty Navarro is in her pilot seat, working the instrument panel.

Kay emerges from the living quarters, looking sleepy.

The external door has raised enough, for Andy to stick his head IN, blocking it from closing with his palm and elbow.

Bjørn kicks Andy in the face, then runs inside the Corbelan.

Bjørn quickly PULLS A LEVER, closing the INTERIOR DOOR before Andy can reach it. He presses an INTERCOM button on the WALL:

BJØRN (ON COM) Start the engines!! Undock! Undock!!

Navarro presses a button that reads: UNDOCK.

A deafening ALARM alerts of the imminent AIRLOCK disconnection. Andy has no choice but to retreat back into the ship, when the STATION's AIRLOCK door starts to SHUT itself.

Then... Navarro feels a SPASM on her CHEST.... Her eyes widen...

ANOTHER SPASM…. Navarro turns around, press her hand against her chest... Shakes her head NO.

ANDY turns to a SCREEN on the TERMINAL, that shows THE CORBELAN detaching from the STATION.... Rain and Tyler approach.

Tyler puts his HEADSET on...

Rain stares at her brother Andy. Wondering what his intentions were, but won't dare ask. Tyler looks through a porthole, and sees The Corbelan slowly moving away from the space station.

Bjørn stands by the now closed airlock. He's conflicted about what he's just done. He speaks through the INTERCOM on the wall.

BJØRN (ON COM) He was gonna kill Anna, I know it.

From her backpocket, NAVARRO pulls the X-RAY torch.... She brings it behind her back, and turns it on.... To see:

SOMETHING MOVING inside her RIBCAGE.... And SLAMMING against her CHEST. Kay covers her mouth in horror.

Suddenly. A SPOT of BLOOD appears on her chest.

Tyler talks into the COM.

Andy stares back at her... for a beat too long.

SUDDENLY: The ship SHAKES. Bjørn turns to the cockpit, it's a good hundred feet away from where he stands.

Kay stumbles against the side of the cockpit. She looks up to see -- Navarro convulsing. Her body is hovering over the instrument panel, and she struggles to keep a grip on the ship's YOKE.

She hugs her, trying to help. But Navarro limply falls back onto the ship's controls, making it ACCELERATE AND TURN.

DOWNSTAIRS Bjørn loses his balance and hits his head against some CRATES. Then hits the floor.

82 IN THE COCKPIT Kay desperately tries to help Navarro. 82

In shocking pain, Navarro desperately rips off her shirt, when-- THE SOUND OF RIBS BREAK --- A SPLATTER of BLOOD on Kay's face. And finally -

- NAVARRO's chest explodesmaking her body twist again, and heavily pushing the ship's YOKE on the instrument panel.

The ship ACCELERATES.

Tyler, Rain and Andy observe as the Corbelan makes a sharp U- TURN, and heads back towards the far(ROMULUS) module of the Renaissance...

From the floor of the cockpit, Kay watches in horror, as --A LARGE LARVA-LIKE CREATURE emerges from Navarro's chest.THE CHESTBURSTER SHRIEKS--

NAVARROS's POV. As she sees how the creature GROWS TWO ARMS in front of her eyes, and it's growing in size while starting to shed its skin, mutating into a darker skin tone.

Through the port hole, Tyler and Rain observe powerless, as the CORBELAN heads straight towards an OPEN DOCKING BAY on the ROMULUS side.

The Corbelan crashes and slides deep into the Docking PLATFORM, triggering a series of explosions. Finally impacting against the back wall, destroying it.

The Corbelan crashes through a HIGH WINDOW sticking its BOW and AIRLOCK through the WALL. It creates a violent decompression.

The entire ship seems to slightly veer off course....

The entire space station SHAKES, Rain and the others lose their balance.

YELLOW and RED SIRENS buzz as LARGE EMERGENCY BLAST DOORS start lowering themselves to secure the docking platform.

Rook reacts to the AFTERSHOCK of the crash.... She knows what it probably means.

Finally, everything goes quiet as Rain, Tyler and Andy are left to witness the aftermath of the explosion.

Tyler reaches for his HEADSET.

Nothing but radio silence. Rain covers her mouth in horror.

A loud KLAXON interrupts. A computer terminal's screen FLASHES RED. Text scrolls quickly. Tyler approaches it:

ON SCREEN: WARNING: T-MINUS 47 minutes to COLLISION.

Andy looks at the screen. MUTES the alarm.

Suddenly, Tyler's radio crackles to life. At first it's just loud static... then:

BJØRN (ON COM) (groggy) Tyl-------d-e----v-a-----Are----R- you-there?-----Ty----help---Fuck---- ---Ty-?

Nothing but static.

Rain nods, scared but determined.

The trio steps through the big LOBBY. Rain and Tyler lead, while Andy follows.

Suddenly Andy lifts his chin. Like he's reacting to a call we can't hear. He looks in the direction of the LAB they escaped from earlier.

The three reach a LARGE, DOUBLE DOOR. A green light flashing next to it.

Tyler leans against the door, about to open it, when -- A FACEHUGGER slams against the other side of the door, in a small window.

The hallway on the other side is crawling with FACEHUGGERS.

Tyler steps to an EMERGENCY EVACUATION BLUEPRINT on the stairwell entrance on the wall...he studies it a moment.

Tyler flips out and punches the blueprint, angry. We've never seen him lose his cool before...he kicks the door repeatedly.

Tyler holds back tears. Tries to keep it together. Rain gives him a tight hug.

She embraces him. We stay on her opened eyes.

But Andy is not there. Gone. Off her confusion, we CUT TO:

Andy steps in front of Rook, who looks like she had been waiting for him.

Andy touches the back of his head. Realizing.

Andy stops, frowns. Cock his head... as if he's suddenly realizing something. He slowly looks back to Rook.

Andy seems conflicted, but he knows he has no choice.

Rook types on the keyboard next to her. Then at the center of the room:

A LOW-TECH holographic-machine lights up. Thousands of small wires are tethered from a table to the ceiling.

TINY BEADS move up and down these wires, creating different SHAPES and IMAGES. Just by changing its color and position.

Here, a 3-D RENDER of the XENOMORPH appears.

The hologram zooms to the FOOT of the FOUR LARGE TUBES coming out of it's back. The Hologram morphs to a render of the FACEHUGGER.

The HOLOGRAM, displaying a THICK BLACK GOO.

ON ANDY transfixed by the hologram, that's now displaying the DNA chain of the Black Goo.

On Andy watching as the hologram shifts the black fluid into a CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER.

A text appears on top of the container:COMPOUND Z01.

ON SCREEN: T-MINUS 35 minutes to collision.

Andy emerges from the lab just in time to find Rain and Tyler walking his way.

Andy keeps walking, towards the closed DOUBLE DOORS in HALLWAY II. He walks right past Rain and Tyler.

CLOSE ON: FACEHUGGERS as they roam the hallways. We look at them through a small window.

The trio is on the other side of DOUBLE DOORS, looking in.

ON TERMINAL SCREEN: A ROOM TEMP GAUGE is adjusted by Andy, setting it to 98.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Tyler nods... slowly getting it.

He can't.

Rain frowns at Andy's newfound attitude... He turns to the terminal.

CLOSE ON: The temperature on screen, currently at 48 degrees... but slowly rising.

The massive station, slowly heading towards the asteroid ring, that's spinning at a vertiginous speed.

CLOSE ON The terminal screen. The ROOM temperature RISES. At 80 degrees now. Eighteen point two degrees, to go.

Rain and Tyler sit on the floor. She notices he's lost in thought, deeply worried...

She grabs his hand.

A sad smile on his face. He'll take it.

It wasn't.

The CRASHED Corbelan is in the corner of the large, open docking bay. A few sparks burst from its hull. The SPRINKLER system RAINS onto the entire space, still fighting to control a few FIRES burning around the room.

Kay opens her eyes... there's blood on her forehead, and her left arm hurts like hell... she looks around terrified.

She sees Navarro's body in a corner. With a MASSIVE HOLE in her chest.

Kay scans the room, searching for the creature. After a moment she spots: Navarro's wireless HEADSET not too far from her. She crawls to it, and quietly reaches it.

Then she realizes the COM MODULE is damaged from the crash.

She turns her attention to the back of the Cockpit.... She needs to get out of here.

CLOSE ON: A FACEHUGGER crawls over a DEAD BODY.

The CAMERA moves past it to find a ROOM THERMOMETER reading: 98.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR:

The HALLWAY DOOR RISES. Rain and Tyler come through. Andy is right behind them. ON RAIN as she nervously scans the room, observing multiple Facehuggers, who stand idle in the middle of the room.

Tyler makes a complicated hand-gesture. A Marine sign for: move ahead, slowly.

The trio moves slowly down the hall, trying to be as quiet as possible. They move JUST PAST an idle Facehugger... it has no reaction to their presence. So far so good.

Suddenly, Rain notices one of the creatures standing on a crate, right by her face. She gasps... The creature feels her presence, moves toward her slowly... Rain, trying to keep her cool, backs away from the moving fingers....

The body of a Scientist, hanging from wires.... HIS MOUTH slowly opens... Is he alive? No... Two facehugger's FINGERS poke out of its mouth.... The body slowly turns, revealing it's missing the back part of its skull, and the Facehugger is standing on its neck.

Rain feels her heart-rate rising when-Tyler gives her a tight HUG. He presses his cheek against hers... Signals her to breathe in and out slowly... She clings to him now. Feeling comforted, her breathing starts to cool down...

She puts her arms around his back, and she stays there... Probably a bit longer than necessary. She's calm now. Let's go. They look down the hallway, still a long way ahead of them.

Kay descends into the CARGO AREA...Flashing EMERGENCY LIGHTS makes the dark place, terrifying. A maze of clutter and old mining equipment. The EEV rests on the floor, in good shape.

She starts to walk toward the AIRLOCK, it's a hundred feet ahead of her.

Midway through the long hallway that connects the back of the ship to the Airlock, Kay steps on: What used to be THE CHESTBURSTER's old shedded SKIN... lying on the floor. She reacts in disgust. She keeps walking, until--

A drop of liquid falls on her face. She touches it, it feels like a THICK SALIVA. Kay slowly looks up to see -

-- A TRANSLUCENT COCOON nested in a dark corner of the HALLWAY above her head. SOMETHING moves inside it. A DARK BROWN TAIL twirls in the PLACENTA.

Kay stays, paralyzed by fear when suddenly -- A HAND COVERS HER MOUTH, and drags her back.

BJØRN Shhhhhhhh......

REVEAL Bjørn covered in bruises and blood, he hides behind LARGE CRATES and he's in a great deal of pain. His jaw seems broken, and he has trouble speaking.

BJØRN (CONT’D) -- it's ch-changing, growing fast.

They press their backs against crates for a moment, sitting on the floor. Bjørn's left arm looks broken. He clutches it.

BJØRN (CONT’D) -- grab that.

He points to the TASER lying next to Kay. She hesitates for a moment, then takes it and passes it to Bjørn.

BJØRN (CONT’D) (hateful) I'm gonna fry it......

Suddenly. The COCOON begins to slowly OPEN UP... getting ready to GIVE BIRTH to the creature inside.

Kay looks up at the cocoon, then at Bjørn and shakes her head no, she's terrified by the idea.

Bjørn struggles to adjust the taser and charges the weapon to full power. Keeping his eyes on the COCOON. A HIGH-PITCHED SOUND indicates the TASER is charging up. A SHORT BEEP tells us it's ready to go.

With great effort, Bjørn gets to his feet and slowly approaches the COCOON. Kay is terrified...

BJØRN (CONT’D) Here comes the pain.

He presses the TASER against the COCOON's OPENED CREVICE and pulls the trigger.WZZZZZAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR! 10,00 volts shock the cocoon. INSIDEthe creature lets out a bloody-cold SHRIEK as it TWISTS and TURNS in pain. A grin forms on Bjørn's face.

BJØRN (CONT’D) You like that bitch?!!

The TASER suddenly malfunctions... Bjørn steps back, and realizes the TIP of the TASER has MELTED....

The EGG drips a long string of GREEN ACID. That falls on the floor and quickly eats through the GRID.

Bjørn brings his attention back at the COCOON... The creature inside lies still, only fumes rise from the fried cocoon.

They leave quietly. Moving just past the lifeless COCOON....

Then--

Bjørn drops the TASER. Kay turns to Bjørn, who stares back at her with lifeless eyes…

Although standing up, Bjørn's body looks and feels limp... His eyes widen.... Kay reacts in horror when-

Bjørn turns his head around, as we discover: The SHARP TIP of a LONG TAIL, is STUCK in the back of Bjørn's NECK.The SPEAR shared tip has severed Bjørn's SPINE, making it impossible for him to move.

Kay stands there in total shock trying really hard not to scream, as BJØRN is dragged back, and layed down onto the floor, right below the COCOON....

ON BJØRN's face: as he sees a new string of ACID, slowly coming out of the COCOON...and dripping right on his chest above his heart.

Bjørn has to watch, powerless, how the acid slowly eats through his clothes, skin, and eventually reaching his heart. Killing him.

A shocked Kay slowly backs up against the closed AIRLOCK. She reaches for the INTERCOM on the wall.

Rain, Andy and Tyler walk into a heavily damaged, VIP LOUNGE BAR. ON TYLER as his HEADSET crackles to life. He stops walking.

Tyler notices a FACEHUGGER reacting to his voice. He has to stay quiet.

ON ANDY as he eyes a few FACEHUGGERS lift their fingers towards Tyler...

Kay hears A LOUD CRACKING SOUND coming from the COCOON... As THE HEAD of the XENOMORPH, starts to slowly come out.

With it, it pours a heavy stream of ACID that falls right on BJØRN's JAW... quickly MELTING HIS FACE.

Kay reacts in shock, as--

An ADULT XENOMORPHstealthily comes down to the floor. Seven feet tall, LEAN, with skin as dark as the night. It's drenched in gooey liquid. We only get short glimpses of it, through the FLASHING EMERGENCY LIGHTS.

Half of its LARGE HEAD looks SCORCHED and BLISTERED, and still SMOKES from Bjørn's taser attack. It hasn't seen Kay yet.

Kay stands against the door in shock. She reaches for the door handle, gives it a final twist -- A LOUD BUZZER sounds, announcing the EXTERIOR Airlock DOOR is open.

The Xenomorph REACTS, turning its long head to Kay.

The creature CHARGES towards her.

She quickly scrambles through the door, and into --

Blinded by panic, Kay falls out of the AIRLOCK, suspended twenty feet above the room's floor.

She grabs onto a railing for a second. But quickly looses her grip, and falls out of frame....

-- the emergency SPRINKLER SYSTEM rains onto the DOCKING BAY.

BACK ON TYLER

Rain sees it now... The hair on the back of Tyler's head... rising...

One-by-one all the FACEHUGGERS in the area, start to lift their bony fingers, turning in Tyler's direction. Andy assesses the situation. Shakes his head no.

The trio makes a run for the exit doors.

Dozens of FACEHUGGERS chase after them! Andy sprints ahead, faster than anybody. A Facehugger LEAPS at RAIN'S face. She dodges it, but it SLICES her CHEEK as it flies past her. And Rain keeps going.

Another one jumps at Tyler's face, but he brings his forearm up and blocks it. But the weight of the parasitoid sends Tyler thrown back against the wall. He struggles. His forearm prevents the penetration of THE FEEDING TUBE from entering his throat.

CLOSE ON: Tyler's face. With his free hands, Tyler grabs two of the bony fingers and SNAPS THEM breaking them! ACID spurts from the wound.

Acid droplets splashes Tyler's forearm - but the bulk of it spills onto a HEAVY-DUTY METAL CRATE. The acid quickly melts through the crate and stops before it eats the floor. That's when ---

RAIN RIPS THE FACEHUGGER from Tyler's face and tosses it against another incoming FACEHUGGER. It was jumping at her face! And both Facehuggers clash mid-air.

They race toward the exit, where Andy activates the palm- reader. Andy steps through the door first. Tyler and Rain sprint towards him, in a panic.ON RAIN as she sees Andy CLOSING the door from the other side!

But her and Tyler RUN through just in the nick of time.

Rain and Tyler slip through the door a moment before it shuts. The closing door nearly crushes Tyler's hand.

Andy keeps moving forward, he's a man-on-a-mission.

Tyler and Rain walk behind Andy, they exchange a WTF look.

Kay opens her eyes... She rests on top of a set of CRATES, twenty feet below the OPENED AIRLOCK.

Kay incorporates herself, and sneaks under a STAIRWELL... water from the sprinkler system drips onto her face from the catwalk above. She backs against the wall, and hides. Tears fall from her eyes as she touches the BUMP on her belly. This is the first time we really notice her pregnancy. Then -

-- HEAVY STEPS on the CATWALK just above her head. She covers her mouth, terrified. Suddenly, BJØRN and NAVARRO'S dead bodies HIT The railing next to her. Stopping a few feet in front of her face! She tries hard not to scream...

The XENOMORPH's tail drags the bodies up, and moves down the CATWALK above her head.

She turns over her shoulder, and realizes the Xeno will soon reach the end of the CATWALK it's on, and will have to drop down the main floor, where there's no chance she won't be seen.

She needs to make a move, now. She scans the large docking bay looking for an exit... She sees- A LARGE ELEVATOR DOOR.... Shakes her head no. Not a good option. Then---

A SMALL EXIT Door, some thirty yards away. Yes, that's her target... She slowly starts to move in the direction of the door, as stealthily as possible...

She keeps herself low, as she takes cover from one spot to another. Heavy STEAM covers the large room, product of the SPRINKLERS and the FIRE. She uses it to her advantage, moving through it.

A HEAVY THUD nearby... She stops, holds her breath, looks over her shoulder. She gets a short glimpse of the XENOMORPH's tail, as it disappears inside a VENTILATION DUCT.

This is her chance.... Kay makes a run for the small door...She finally reaches the DOOR and looks through the small window to the other side, to see --

A small DISTRIBUTION LOBBY, safe and clear. She looks for a switch to open the door, but only finds another PALM READER... She presses her hand on it.

BZZZZZZZRRRR! Light turns RED.ACCESS DENIED. She quickly turns back to the room.... Was that buzzer TOO LOUD??.... She scans the room, shaking, terrified, completely exposed. But luckily, no sign of the xenomorph. Then--

SLAM! A HAND hits the SMALL WINDOW right behind her head. She turns to see - TYLER with his hand against the window.

Tyler presses the palm reader, but the light is red and it won’t open. He turns to Andy, behind him.

Andy sees the terror in Kay’s face. Still, Andy heads for the palm reader. Then -- A MASSIVE THUD is heard. Andy stops his hand. That’s when they all see it, on the other side of the window -

- THE XENOMORPH, crouched on top of a few CRATES, inside a cloud of STEAM. Just twenty feet behind Kay....it lets out a threatening SNARL.

(Although mostly BACKLIT this is the first time we lay eyes on the full shape and size of the Xenomorph.)

Kay doesn’t even need to turn around to know it’s there. Her eyes are locked onto Tyler,begging him. Rain is shocked by Andy’s lack of action.

But Andy moves his hand away from the palm reader, then takes a step back. Rain can’t believe it.

But Andy drops his head, somehow burdened by his inaction.

Tyler tries to force Andy’s hand, but it won’t move an inch.

Tyler turns to Kay, whose crying face is pressed against the glass.

Andy shakes his head no. We can see he’s burdened by this choice. Tyler realizes Andy isn’t going to open it and leans against the door, panicking.

Then he locks eyes with Kay, for the last time --

But Kay’s too scared. She looks over her shoulder to see -- the Xenomorph, slowly moving in... Rain covers her mouth in shock. Tyler is in tears.

The Xenomorph charges Kay.

It all happens so fast. The Xenomorph’s CLAW swipes Kay in her side -- BLOOD SPLASHES the window. Kay jolts and we catch a glimpse of Kay’s LEGS rise up toward the ceiling. She’s being dragged UP. Tyler presses his cheek against the window, trying to see her, but he can’t.

The SOUND of heavy footsteps of the creature suddenly stop. Followed by a deep silence.

Tyler screams and LUNGES at Andy, who falls backwards. Tyler PUNCHES Andy in the face violently and repeatedly. Tyler’s fists start to bleed, while his efforts inflict very little damage on Andy. Who sits there and just takes it.

Tyler is finally done, depleted of energy, and begins to cry. He grabs his bleeding fists. White milk BLOOD drips from one of Andy’s nostrils. He stands up.

Rain knows now something’s not right with Andy. She looks almost too afraid to ask --

Andy looks at Rain, almost ashamed. Not enjoying any of this.

Tyler looks up, shocked. Rain quickly crosses over to him, with determination. She reaches for the back of Andy’s head, for the UPGRADE MODULE.

But ANDY GRIPS HER WRIST.

Rain throws Tyler a look.... Andy let’s go of her hand.

And with that, Andy walks off. But we stay on Rain. She can’t help but feel Andy was talking about Yvága.

Andy approaches a SERVICE ELEVATOR, presses his hand on the palm-reader next to it. The light turns green and we can hear the elevator moving to meet them.

Suddenly, the Xeno’s heavy STOMP is heard echoing through the AIR DUCT SHAFTS. They look at the vent in the ceiling.

The elevator arrives and Andy boards it.

OFF Tyler’s furious, but powerless look we CUT TO:

The small elevator travels down an angled elevator shaft.

The inside of the elevator looks like a small SUBWAY car. Rain and Tyler stand across from Andy. Tyler has his face between his hands...

ON RAIN as emotion wells in her eyes, she once dreamed about this plan, yes -- but now it’s all fucked.

The Station is getting closer to the asteroid belt.

CLOSE ON A TERMINAL SCREEN: It reads--T-MINUS twenty-nine minutes to COLLISION.

The trio reaches a ROUND SILVER DOOR, branded with the picture of the TWINS breastfeeding from the SHEWOLF. Over it we read: ROMULUS LAB.

Andy opens the door---

The trio enters the room.

The LABORATORY is oval-shaped. There’s a table at the center with sophisticated chemistry equipment and computer screens.

On the LEFT SIDE is a long and narrow WATER TANK. Rain discovers DOZENS of FACEHUGGERS resting inside the water tank. Translucent tubes come from each of the creatures, and travel back into the lab where the BLACK GOO is being harvested.

Andy approaches a small CYLINDRICAL FRIDGE in the center of the room. He activates a series of buttons and the fridge door opens. He removes --

-- a small STEEL CYLINDER, the same container Rook showed him earlier on her computer.

Rook’s mangled torso on the table, she speaks to Andy. A 3-D image of the steel cylinder rotates on a projected hologram.

BACK ON RAIN as she steps to the computer terminal monitors. Each playing THREE VIDEOS that run on a loop.

ON SCREEN rats in various laboratory scenarios.

ON SCREEN 1: a rat is suddenly crushed by a heavy PRESS, then lays on the cage floor dying, twitching.

ON SCREEN 2: the agonizing rat is administered a subcutaneous INJECTION of a compound marked Z-01.

Andy opens the steel CYLINDER revealing FIVE DOSES of the same COMPOUND Z01. He holds one dose in his hand.

The Xenomorph is back on the hologram projector.

PUSH-IN: the image of Remus and Romulus breastfeeding, from a she-wolf.

BACK TO THE PRESENT

ON SCREEN 3: a TIMELAPSEof the agonizing RAT, slowly regenerating...

On SCREEN 3, The RAT is back on its feet again, active and fully healed.

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ROOK (CONT’D)

a much needed, and well overdue upgrade for humanity... We simply can’t wait for evolution anymore.

Andy looks at the syringe in his hand. Then puts it back into the steel cylinder and secures it.

ON RAIN not loving this plan at all. Andy steps to the door.

She points to a surveillance feed.

ON SCREEN: The XENOMORPH is stealthily nested in a corner of the ceiling. Waiting for them to open the door.

Andy approaches a SECURITY BOOTH by the entrance.

Andy presses a button on the panel lifting a small door revealing: A RACK WITH MULTIPLE WEAPONS. Tyler is in awe.

He grabs a - M41A PULSE RIFLEresting at the top of the RACK. He also takes a few MAGAZINES of ammo.

He grabs TWO parts of a SMALL RIFLE labeled: F44AA. He wraps a HARNESS around Rain's shoulder, with a ONE INCH arm sticking out. He HOOKS the rifle to the short arm.

He stands behind her, and helps her lift the gun. A very intimate moment. She feels his body against her...

She aims in his general direction, while Andy works at a terminal. Tyler presses a GREEN BUTTON next to the SCOPE.

ON THE SCOPE, the back of Andy's head gets highlighted.

She does. Andy moves to a smaller terminal, one foot away. Instantly, the GUN follows ANDY's HEAD on its own, moved by the tracking mechanism attached to Rain's shoulder.

Rain nods. She turns and looks at him. Their faces only one inch apart...

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He throws Rain a look... was that a hint of a Dad joke? Tyler puts the weapon's safety on, frustrated.

Andy leads them inside the CONVEYOR BELT on the wall.

The LARGE SPACE STATION is on a collision course with the fast moving ASTEROID BELT.... A couple of tiny, rogue asteroids hit the front section of the station.... We're getting dangerously close.

Rain, Andy and Tyler emerge from under the rubber curtain and the trio slowly follows the path of the CONVEYOR BELT into a darkened area.

The entire hallway is triangular, shaped like an inverted letter V. It's narrow with a thirty-foot high apex.

Tyler turns the light on then stops talking.

Under the torch's HIGH BEAM: we see a damaged CRYO-FRAME, like the ones that contained the Facehuggers in the freezers. Rain LIGHTS her torch too, illuminating: a dozen more of these devices... ALL EMPTY

-- Andy trails off as he fixates on something ahead, in the dark. Tense, Rain and Tyler aim their torches down the black corridor. They stare silently at something we don't see.

Andy presses a button on the wall, to turn on THE HALLWAY LIGHTS. One-by-one, soft TOP lights start to blink ON, illuminating the long corridor ahead of them.

A strange encrusted substance covers all of the walls. It looks like a MASSIVE WEB of bio-mechanical LATTICE.

122 THIS IS THE ALIEN'S HIVE 122

Andy walks to a DEAD FACEHUGGER on the floor. Leans next to it for a closer examination... it looks rotten.

He STANDS up, to see--

-- the TWISTED FACES of DEAD SCIENTISTS, trapped inside DARK RESIN. Each with a big gaping hole in their CHESTS.

Tyler nods... Andy thinks. The torches illuminate many more dead FACEHUGGERS covering the floor ahead.

They all did... a faint voice echoes through the corridors.

Tyler throws Rain a quick look of concern then steps into the heart of the HIVE. Rain and Andy follow.

As they get deeper into the HIVE, they see MULTIPLE dead bodies with their CHESTS opened like flowers.

WITHIN the horrific web of organic matter, is a body, suspended, writhing. Tyler moves closer --

CLOSE ON Kay's face as it's suddenly ILLUMINATED by Tyler's torch. She's groggy, but still very much alive.

Tyler runs and quickly reaches her. He touches her face. She smiles as tears fall down her cheek. Tyler RIPS the webbing around her, bringing her down to the floor.

Tyler grips Kay in his arms. Rain leans next to them, holding Kay's head.

Rain looks to Andy.

Andy looks down...

Tyler notices his hand, covered in Kay's blood. She has a BAD WOUND on the side of her NECK.

Tyler's scared. Kay stares back at him with begging eyes.

But suddenly he realizes something and lights up.

Tyler turns to Andy. Stares. Andy knows what he means.

Andy considers, then opens the CYLINDER. Kay eyeballs the syringe filled with black liquid that Andy passes to Tyler.

Tyler is about to INJECT HER--

She looks at him, shakes her head no... Don't do it. He hesitates...

Tyler looks at the syringe one last time.... Then makes a decision -- he returns the syringe back to Andy.

Kay gives him a faint nod.

Tyler helps her to her feet placing her arm around his shoulder. They rise, just in time to see --

THE XENOMORPH standing twenty feet behind them (It's scorched head lets us know this is still Navarro's xenomorph)

The creature lets out a MENACING SNARL... and takes HEAVY FOOTSTEPS towards them, just as -

TYLER shoots at the WALL. Destroying a section of the HIVE.

RAIN raises her GUN too -- the creature immediately stops, sensing the danger.

She's terrified, but does a great job at hiding it.

With a trembling finger, Rain presses the GREEN BUTTON on her gun. ON THE SCOPE we read: TARGET ACQUIRED, as a large graphical square zooms towards the shape of the Xenomorph.

Rain presses the trigger half way, and the GUN automatically micro-adjusts, keeping the barrel aimed at the Xeno's head.

The xenomorph seems to back off into the darkness... feeling threatened by Rain's gun.

The group struggles to carry a weakened Kay as they reach a CROSSROAD. From over his shoulder, Tyler can finally see the FREIGHT ELEVATOR at the end of the corridor... Just when--

A LONG ALIEN TAIL swings right above RAIN....

FROM ABOVE a second XENOMORPH emerges from a deep dark AIR DUCT in the ceiling. The creature uses its TAIL to STAB at RAIN!

We hear the sound of the sharp tail cutting through flesh.... Then -- We reveal that TYLER has stepped in the way of the TAIL.

ANDY, sending him flying into an ADJACENT CORRIDOR.

CLOSE ON the steel cylinder, it drops next to Kay.

Rain looks over her shoulder to see --Tyler RISING UP to the ceiling, dragged upward violently by the ambushing xenomorph. His PULSE RIFLE accidently FIRES, the bullets hit and ricochet against the walls.

Rain lunges toward him and tries to grab his leg but she's a hair late, managing to graze his foot.

ON TYLER as he is getting pulled up into the SHAFT.

Tyler aims his PULSE RIFLE against the XENOMORPH's CHEST... His finger on the trigger. He wants to shoot so badly. But twenty feet below him are Rain and Kay...

ON RAIN as she helps a shocked Kay back to her feet.

Rain lifts Kay and looks at Andy, who lays on his side in an adjacent corridor....

The violent FALL has triggered ANDY's glitch again, making his body contract into the fetal position, and losing complete control of his muscles. Andy convulses, drooling WHITE blood. He can't stand up on his own. He looks at RAIN, helpless...

ON TYLER face-to-face with the Xenomorph, nearly wedged up in the shaft. The Xeno slowly opens its JAWS, revealing a second set of smaller JAWS inside its mouth.

Tyler puts the safety on.

ON RAIN and Kay down the hall as they hear Tyler's blood- curdling SCREAMS echo through the dark corridors.

The freight elevator: A BIG BOX with NO SIDE WALLS. Rain gently lays Kay and the steel cylinder on the floor. She reaches for the UP button, then sees --

-- video feeds from FOUR SMALL CCTV cameras: On one of them: Andy lays on his side... convulsing.

CLOSE ON Rain's hand as it hovers over the UP button. She hesitates...presses her lips together. Can she leave him?

Then -- She shakes her head no... And PRESSES THE STOP button. The elevator comes to a full stop. She turns to Kay.

ON A SCREEN: T-Minus 14 minutes to collision...

Kay is scared shitless, but nods yes. Rain grabs onto the EMERGENCY LADDER, on the side of the ELEVATOR SHAFT.

Kay presses the UP button, and the ELEVATOR RISES, leaving Rain behind. Who stares at perhaps her only chance of surviving, going up into the dark shaft.

Rain slams the FREIGHT ELEVATOR doors closed. She raises her GUN, searching. She starts to walk down the corridor. Her finger trembles on the trigger.

She finally makes it to the T-JUNCTION, then looks to the right to see -- Andy lying on the floor. As convulsions still afflict his body. His eyes are closed.

Rain rushes to him, leans down, moving quickly, lifts the lid behind his ear... and reaches for the UPGRADE module when -- ANDY GRABS her WRIST. Stopping her. He looks at her, surprised and confused.

She pulls her necklace out, and holds the SMALL KEY... she shows it to ANDY.

Andy keeps a tight hold on her wrist.

Andy thinks...it takes him a great effort to speak.

Andy moves Rain's hand away from his body. She shakes her head no, while he drops her hands and instead, uses his own to reach to the back of his head --

- and he grabs the UPGRADE MODULE. Andy's head shakes, as he struggles with the module...while staring straight at Rain.

The module finally comes out... and ANDY FREEZES.

Rain takes the module from his hand and throws it away in disgust. She takes the KEY from her necklace, and inserts it inside Andy's head. Then turns the key quickly as she has done before...but Andy remains completely still.

She tries again. Nothing happens.

She looks down the corridor... no Xenomorph is following her. Least not yet. Then --

Rain looks down to see Andy looking back at her with his familiar droopy eyes, and smile.

She gives him a tight hug. Then--

A THREATENING SNARL.... they both look back to see-

Several ALIEN shadows descending from the HIVE, a few feet down the hallway, blocking their way to the ELEVATOR.

They move down the corridor, until-- They reach A CLOSED METAL door. A DEAD END. Andy tries to open the door. But the palm reader says ACCESS DENIED.

Andy looks at the door. There's an F02 stenciled on it.

ON SCREEN: flashes ACCESS DENIED again. Rain looks to Andy, shakes her head 'no'. This is it. There's no way out.

A weak Kay EMERGES from the freight elevator and she painfully limps towards the Corbelan.

The ASTEROID FIELD is now closer than ever... and SMALL DEBRIS is already hitting the station.

CLOSE ON A RED FLASHING COUNTDOWN:

She looks back to the elevator. Fearing the worst, she continues stumbling toward the hauler ship.

Kay finally reaches the cockpit but she's not looking too good. A YELLOW button blinks next to a SMALL screen over the instrument panel. She presses it.

ON SCREEN: Rook appears, and slightly grins when she notices Kay is holding the COMPOUND Z01 in her hands.

Kay sees a FLASHING GREEN BUTTON next to a SCREEN: MU/TH/UR REQUESTING REMOTE TAKE OVER

Kay's hand hovers over the button. Rook sees her hesitation.

OFF Kay's dilemma, we CUT TO:

TIGHT ON Rain holding Andy's hand, clinging to one another. They are seated on the floor with their backs to the closed door. A wave of Xenomorphsare moving closer, and closer.

Andy considers --

Rain grins, presses on Andy's hand. Xeno's moving closer - RAIN puts the GUN UP... Ready to OPEN FIRE, but sealing her fate.

Rain stops. Realizes something. Puts the gun down.

Andy turns to the terminal next to him:

Rain connects her F44AA Rifle to her shoulder harness.

A LOW PITCHED RUMBLE. Then boooooooommmmmmmm!

ON SCREEN: GRAVITY GENERATOR, DEACTIVATED.

Rain's HAIR starts to float UPWARDS, suddenly weightless. Andy holds on to the conveyor belt with one hand, and keeps Rain down with the other.

The Xenomorphs are fast approaching, CLAWS clinging to the walls, almost on top of her now.

Rain takes the safety off her GUN...

She OPENS FIRE.

HALF the HEAD of one of the Xenomorphs EXPLODES when impacted by the powerful strafe of BULLETS. A BURST OF ACID SPURTS OUT, but travels upwards.

ON RAIN as the AIMING ASSISTANT does multiple fast adjustments as it pans and tilts her gun, automatically. She KEEPS FIRING with a rage in her eyes we've never seen before.

A XENOMORPH tries to flank her from the ceiling.

Rain does, and shoots the fucker down, obliterating it. She looks back to the front to see -- A few of the Xenos RETREATING into the air duct shaft in ceiling.

MULTIPLE GREEN CLOUDS of ACID hover around the dead bodies... but the acid is not touching or damaging the floor.

One of the walls takes a bit of damage as some acid burns through it, but it's at a slow pace.

Rain stops firing and catches her breath. Then checks the gun.... 433 ROUNDS LEFT.

Rain locates a purple button marked: START CONVEYOR BELT.

She presses the button with the barrel of her gun. The belt starts up and starts moving them forward --

-- Rain stays low, trying to avoid the GREEN CLOUDS of acid blood. She can see the conveyor belt turn left at the cross road... if she stays put, it will take them straight to the FREIGHT ELEVATOR, their exit.

They reach the CROSSROAD, and the BELT turns LEFT, heading for the ELEVATOR.

Suddenly, a Xenomorph emerges from a cloud of acid as it clings to the conveyor belt. She lifts the gun and OBLITERATES the creature. But the victory is short lived... the Xeno she just shot left a residual HEAVY ACID CLOUD that Rain is heading straight toward!

Rain has no choice but to jump over it! She hits the wall violently, and quickly drifts out of control... Heading straight towards a large ACID CLOUD.... But on zero G, there's nothing she can do to stop her movement....

Then-- Andy grabs her by the ankle, and brings her back down to the conveyor belt...

Rain nods, grateful but in shock as they finally reach the freight elevator. She turns to the elevator, and presses the call button. CLOOMMmmmm... Then nothing. She tries again. The same short and clunky sounds.

In the long elevator shaft we spot the mechanism that operates the FREIGHT ELEVATOR. It's a wheel attached to a MOTOR, connected to IRON CABLING. With no gravity, the MASSIVELY LONG wire floats loose above the motorized wheel.

Rain proceeds to UNLOCK the GATE to the elevator shaft.

She pulls the GATE OPEN, and then she enters --

Rain and Andy float at the bottom of the elevator shaft... She looks up.... It's a long way to go.

Andy jumps in first and floats away, fast. Rain is about to follow when-- The terrifying SHRIEKS of the remaining XENOMORPHS stop her.

She thinks fast, and SMASHES a BUTTON, closing the GATE behind her. Rain jumps in to follow him when THE BURNT-HEAD XENOMORPH grabs her by the ANKLE, through the GATE, stopping her from moving!

WHILE RISING UP Andy turns around in a panic. Too far away from the walls and with nothing to grab on to, he simply has no way to stop his weightless ascent.

Rain turns her body around and FIRES HER GUN, severing the Xeno's forearm. The GUN KICKBACKcreates PROPULSION that sends her flying upwards and away from the creature, at a fast speed.

Unfortunately, the acid from the wound begins to melt a hole on the GATE....

Rain hits the wall, and loses the GUN! She can hear the Xenomorph shriek in pain as she gets a good distance from it...

The GUN keeps floating up... Rain chasing right behind.... She reaches for it, she almost has it... But the gun gets stuck on the wall. Rain floats by it, and keeps ascending.

ON ANDY Who finally manages to reach the Shaft's wall, only a few feet away from the bottom of the ELEVATOR.

He looks down, looking for Rain, but she's too far below him, and it's too dark in here to see her...

He notices the Elevator is UNHINGED and freely sliding down the railing, very slowly.

She reaches a wall and grabs hold between two beams... She looks up, and can finally see the ELEVATOR a few yards above her. Looks down... No sign of the Xeno.

ON ANDY who sees RAIN floating towards him... she's almost there...

And that's when they hear it.... A familiar LOW PITCHED RUMBLE.... Building up...ARATATATATATAT.

CLOSE ON Rain's face, realizing what's about to happen.

CLOSE ON A SMALL TERMINAL SCREEN: GRAVITY PURGE IN... 5... 4... 3...

ON ANDY, looking up at the elevator right above his head...

Rain desperately tries to reach for her brother's open HAND. Almost there....

THEN BOOOMM... the gravity generator PURGE HITS, and the gravity RETURNS.

As the WAVE of GRAVITY advances: One by one, THE CLOUDS of ACID start to drop to the floor,and quickly eats through it!

The gravity wave travels towards the ELEVATOR SHAFT...

ON RAIN, as the gravity catches up with her, and she begins to FREE FALL.

ON ANDY as he instinctively STOPS THE ELEVATOR from falling. Grabbing it with his HAND. But its TOO MUCH weight even for his synthetic arm.

ON RAIN free falling to her death, when-- SOMETHING stops her falling... A groggy Rain realizes... THE XENOMORPH tail has been wrapped under her armpits... She looks up to see -- THE XENO, slowly bringing her up towards him... This will be his kill, not gravity's.

BACK ON ANDY as ANOTHER familiar sound, announces that GRAVITY IS GONE AGAIN. He lets the ELEVATOR go... But it doesn't get to pickup momentum, slides down a few feet, then comes to a stop.

ON RAIN, As the xenomorph presses her against the wall... Drooling with anticipation for the kill... RAIN is terrified... That's when --

A SECTION of the FLOOR thats been CORRODED by the multiple POOLS of ACID finally collapses, and it's sucked out by the DECOMPRESSION. Other sections quickly follow.

Acid pours out into outer space.

The DECOMPRESSION creates a powerful vortex of suction in the shaft. The xeno's inner jaw springs out, but he misses, only scarring Rain's left temple.

The XENO is yanked down a few feet! As RAIN manages to grab on to the SHAFT'S LADDER.ON ANDY as he reaches the top of the elevator shaft, next to the GATE that leads to the ROMULUS docking bay. He clings to the ladder with his one good arm, resisting the suction.

ON RAIN As she LOOKS UP TO SEE... THE ELEVATOR, SUCKED by the DECOMPRESSION traveling towards them at HIGH SPEED! Rain looks back at the Xenomorph, who opens its jaws and SHRIEKS, ready to LAUNCH its inner jaws at her face-

The falling ELEVATOR zooms by RAIN at full speed...

The elevator crashes against THE BOTTOM of the SHAFT.

BY BLOCKING the GATE to the decompressing CONVEYOR BELT'S CORRIDORS, THE ELEVATOR manages to reduce the depressurization force drastically.

ON RAIN looking UP the SHAFT... The XENO is GONE. She looks down the shaft now... Catching her breath...

She resumes her climbing, relieved that its over. When--

From between the shaft's PIPES, THE HAND of the XENO emerges!

Rain loses her grip, and falls down, hitting the top of the Elevator, next to-- her PULSE RIFLE. The xeno starts to climb down in her direction... She goes for the GUN, but it's STUCK between the elevator and the wall...

The xeno is almost on top of her... RAIN has an idea: SHE FIRES the GUN, getting it unstuck, and falls backwards. Right when the XENO lands in front of her.

But she has the higher ground now. With the gun aiming at the creature.... SHE OPENS FIRE.

The xeno keeps moving towards her, as the bullets rain on him.... Until it collapses at RAIN's FEET....

DEAD.

Rain takes a moment to catch her breath. She did it... She looks up...

Andy helps Rain out of the SHAFT. They turn to see- The CORBELAN, still waiting.

OUT THE WINDOWS: The ASTEROID FIELD getting extremely close.

Rain stumbles into the Hauler's cockpit to find --

- KAY, sitting on the floor, her back against the Pilot's chair, and still holding to the COMPOUND Z01.

Rain leans next to her.

ANDY sees the FLASHING screen: "MU/TH/UR Requesting REMOTE TAKE OVER" Andy quickly hits the GREEN button. SCREEN changes to: "ACCESS GRANTED. MU/TH/UR taking over"

A few LIGHTS blink to life on the ship's control PANEL...

ON SCREEN we read: "AUTOPILOT DESTINATION:JACKSON'S STAR COLONY/ALFEIOS SYSTEM," as the controls, like the YOKE and the thrusters, start moving on their own.

The LARGE BLASTING doors begin to RISE....as the CORBELAN's engines ROAR to life.

ALL THE OXYGEN gets sucked out into space and EVERYTHING GOES SILENT...only the LOW END RUMBLE of the destruction can be heard. The CORBELAN motors push forward, exiting the docking bay.

Rain smashes a BUTTON on the side of the EVV, and one of the CRYO-BEDS pops out. She helps Kay into her tube.

They both look to the front, realizing the Hauler is successfully leaving the station behind...

Kay nods and smiles. She's actually looking better than before...

Rain presses a button and the POD retracts into the EEV.

We watch the HAULER gain distance from the DOOMED STATION.

Rain enters the cockpit to find Andy and Rook communicating via a live feed. LOUD KLAXONS are heard behind ROOK.

ON SCREEN: The signal is messy, and breaks up constantly.

Rain exchanges a look with Andy... she reaches for the control panel and HITS s RED BUTTON that reads: OVERRIDE...

ON SCREEN: "MU/TH/UR disconnected" The instrument panel normalizes, the YOKE and THRUSTERS drop to a neutral position.

While on autopilot, Rain changes course to: YVAGA SYSTEM. Andy throws Rain a look.

She nods.

Andy slowly shakes his head no... Rook realizes Andy is not working for her anymore.

Rain presses the inter-talk one last time.

Rain hangs up on her.

A shocked ROOK, turns to a terminal screen next to her.

The STATION starts to veer off and slow down, as it gets deeper into the destructive RING.

VIOLENT DEPRESSURIZATION hits the room. Rook observes as BARRAGE of large asteroids enter the ROOM, obliterating it.

The Corbelan gets away from the doomed space station.

Rain plugs Andy to a POWER support system through the plug behind his ear.

Andy smiles, nods...

Andy stares blankly for a moment. Then smiles.

Rain smiles, reassured. She presses a button behind his ear, and Andy shuts down.

CLOSE ON: The CRYO-TANK as it's plugged into the CRYO-POD.

Rain, barefoot and wearing only SHORTS and a TANK TOP, loads up the EEV with the STOLEN cryo-fuel.. She's ready to get inside it WHEN SHE NOTICES:A RED LIGHT flashing on KAY's POD.

She looks closer. Reads from the screen:

She presses on Kay's POD to eject it... As it comes sliding out like a drawer, she sees: KAY shaking in her pod. Puzzled, Rain opens the glass, but doesn't know what to do. She touches Kay's forehead. She's so HOT Rain takes her hand off immediately.

Rain gently moves Kay's hair to check on her NECK WOUND, only: The WOUND is gone. There's just a pale SCAR NOW.

Kay opens her eyes, and looks at Rain with guilty eyes... Rain backs away, confused. She STEPS ON SOMETHING...

ON THE FLOOR RESTS: ONE OF THE COMPOUND Z01 syringes: EMPTY.

Suddenly, A CONTRACTION hits Kay, hard.

That's when she sees it.... Rain pulls from the POD a bit more... revealing: Kay's BELLY has grown BIG. Nine months pregnant BIG. Kay slowly sits up... she turns to Rain, shaking...

Rain snaps out of it, and rushes in to help her... She holds Kay's hand. Kay squeezes tight.

Then she sees a pool of BLACK BLOOD between Kay's legs.

Rain eyes go WIDE, when she realizes Kay's in labor and A HEAD emerges from between Kay's LEGS -- sticking out from under Kay's long shirt, it looks DARK with GREEN and BLUE shades. Kay's body SPRINGS BACKWARDS. Rain jumps back, tripping and falling.

Kay's body tenses up, as she lets out a final loud SCREAM while PUSHING. Rain gets back on her feet, as Kay suddenly passes out from the pain.

Rain looks into the pod to see... lying between Kay's legs is a narrow, long leathery EGG.Its shape not too dissimilar to the Xenomorph's HEAD.

Rain thinks fast, and tries not to panic. She looks at the AIRLOCK, then back at the EGG... She swipes Tyler's jacket up that was laying on a crate, and covers the EGG with it. She lifts the heavy EGG, then quickly heads for the AIRLOCK.

Kay struggles to climb out of the blood-soaked cryo-bed, sobbing in despair. She falls to the floor.

ON RAIN as she approaches the AIRLOCK... But before she reaches it, white SMOKE starts to come out from under the JACKET. She hears the sound of ACID burning through the jacket and quickly drops the EGG on the floor. The spilling acid begins to eat through the floor --

Rain runs to the CRYO-PODS, and grabs the CRYO-TANK resting against them. She moves back to the EGG, hoping to FREEZE it and stop the ACID. She reaches the egg but stops, shocked by what she sees -

Inside the OPENED EGG sleeps A NEWBORN baby, still in the fetal position, curled up inside the EGG. Kay's child...

THE spilling ACID finally BURNS through the FLOOR, and the EGG sinks to the lower level: The Corbelan's CARGO BEG. Rain looks through the HOLE, and sees, a few feet below -- The EGG resting on the Corbelan's WHITE SAND cargo.

A LARGE HATCH opens on the CEILING, revealing --

-- RAIN, as she climbs down a ladder into the Hauler's CARGO BED. The room contains TONS of a WHITE SAND that's in PILES like small sand DUNES.

The entire ROOM's FLOOR is made of TWO MASSIVE PAYLOAD DOORS, secured shut and locked by a LARGE BOLT at its center.

As Rain steps deeper into the room, her feet sink deeper into the SAND, that turns BLACK as she steps on it. At the end of a large PILE, Rain spots THE EGG. But it's EMPTY.

There's a section of ACID that smokes at the bottom of the shell. Rain quickly bends down and levels the egg so no ACID will spill out onto the metal floor.

Rain sees, next to the empty shell -- FOOTPRINTS that lead away from the EGG. Rain straps the TANK to her back, and puts the long NOZZLE UP... as she begins to track the footprints.

Rain realizes the footprints are getting LARGER AND LARGER with every YARD away from the egg. -- they change size from small baby feet, to practically ADULT ones.

She gets around the pile of sand, but realizes the footprints stop at the WALL... This thing must have climbed it...

Kay sits with her back against the wall, terrified, when a STRANGE SENSATION takes over. She reaches under her shirt, and feels for what seems to be the source of her pain... HER BREASTS. She removes her hand, and realizes it's covered in BLACK GOO... And before she can freak out, SHE SEES IT...

Slowly stepping into the light on ALL FOURS: HER OFFSPRING.

At a first glance it looks like a PALE, MUSCULAR but EXTREMELY LEAN: androgynous TEENAGER... But as it comes into the light, we realize this could be the CROSSBREED between KAY and one of THE ENGINEERS (from Prometheus). A BETTER HUMAN... A DEMIGOD.

The creature stares at its mother with BLACK eyes, peaking through its LONG DARK HAIR... it SNIFFS, attracted to her smell. Kay is too scared to scream...

The HUNGRY offspring slowly approaches her, head down, almost in a non-threatening way.NOW JUST A COUPLE OF FEET AWAYthe creature opens it mouth, revealing a SECOND, SMALLER but toothless HUMAN MOUTH inside it.

The creature brings it's head toward KAY's BREASTS, who pushes it away in horror and disgust. But the offspring insists... now cornered against the wall. Kay pushes her child again and again, until-- She INFURIATES IT!

The OFFSPRING grabs Kay's head and starts to SMASH IT AGAINST THE WALL relentlessly. SCREAMING at her with a HIGH PITCHED, blood-frenzied FEMALE HUMAN SCREAM.

Rain, still searching the SAND filled room, reacts to the SCREAM coming from upstairs. FUCK.

Rain emerges from the LADDER, and races back towards the cryo- pod area.

Rain enters but stops in her tracks. Although we don't really see it, we know what's happening... The Offspring Creature feeds from its DEAD MOTHER's BREASTS... Kay's child, has its back to Rain as it feeds. Rain slowly lifts the cryo-tank NOZZLE and AIMS it at the creature.

THE CREATURE TURNS AROUND! DROOLING BLACK GOO. It lets its mother's body fall to the floor, like an empty sack.

Rain's eyes widen in horror. She SQUEEZES the nozzle's TRIGGER, releasing a BURST of CRYO-FUEL. Provoked, The OFFSPRING sprints towards HER!

The creature SCREAMS in pain as the freezing AGENT HITS IT, but the offspring keeps charging! It SLASHES at RAIN with its overgrown NAILS, CHOPPING HALF of Rain's LEFT HAND OFF, RIPPING the NOZZLE off the TANK, and sending Rain flying against the wall.

The cryo-tank FALLS at the Offspring's feet, and starts to SPIN, out of control, RELEASING CRYO-FUEL in every direction.

The OFFSPRING SCREAMS while getting ENGULFED in the GAS. Rain recovers, and backs off from the FREEZING GAS as quick as she can, until she hits a set of CRATES.

The GAS bursting from the spinning CRYO-TANK hits the creature's FOOT, STICKING IT to the floor. It falls forward and tries to catch itself, but now its RIGHT-HAND gets stuck on the floor as well.

Rain looks at her half-hand: The wound cauterizes fast, due to the freezing cold. A layer of FROST begins to cover the ENTIRE CARGO BAY.

Rain COUGHS, and CHOKES as the freezing AIR enters her LUNGS. It's almost as cold as SPACE in here. She'll go into shock if she doesn't do something, fast. Desperate, Rain looks around and sees...

A SPACE SUIT, hanging inside the CABINET. She needs to get to it, or she'll die.

Rain's skin has lost nearly all of its color as she stumbles towards the SPACE SUIT cabinet. We can hear her heartbeat slowing down, to a critical point.

With her last remaining strength, Rain BEGINS to get inside the SPACE SUIT... She closes the HELMET, oxygen finally starts to flow in. She slowly begins to catch her breath and her body temperature, as color returns to her face.

Right when the Offspring BREAKS its own FROZEN WRIST AND ACID BURSTS from the WOUND.

Rain sees the creature coming. She hits a BUTTON on the CONSOLE, and SET of DOORS open on the floor. She lets herself fall INTO--

Rain falls through the open HATCH, lands on top of one of the SAND piles, and slides to its bottom... She falls right next to: THE LARGE METAL BOLT, that keeps the MASSIVE PAYLOAD doors CLOSED and LOCKED.

With her eyes, Rain follows a THICK cable running all the way from the BOLT, to -- A LARGE LEVER in the back of the ROOM, labeled: PAYLOAD DOORS, MANUAL RELEASE.

Rain looks up, she can hear the Offspring moving upstairs.

As fast as the suit will let her, she stumbles towards the LARGE LEVER....

But when she's about to reach it -- THE OFFSPRING drops from the ceiling, blocking Rain's path to the LEVER.

It's Severed limbs, have already started to GROW back. Rain STOPS, BACKS AWAY... The Offspring approaches her.

Rain notices THE HALF EGG, still filled with the ACID. She frowns... This is it. SHE KICKS the EGG SHELL, SPILLING the ACID content all over the floor, and onto the METAL BOLT --

-- She keeps backing up... As the Offspring moves towards her, getting closer and closer. Showing OFF its INNER JAW... ready for the kill.

CLOSE ON: The ACID, quickly eating through the METAL BOLT.

The Offspring finally LUNGES at RAIN, just as THE TWO METAL DOORS that make up the entire FLOOR of the CARGO BED, STARTS TO OPEN!

The decompression SUCKS ALL OF THE WHITE STAND OUT, hitting the Offspring like a DESERT STORM, pushing it outside.

Rain desperately climbs UP the lowering door...

A RED LIGHT starts to BLINK on the Corbelan's CONTROLS. WE PUSH ON ANDY... still idling asleep in his corner, as a LOUD KLAXON SOUND blasts throughout the COCKPIT.

Rain holds on to the end of the opened PAYLOAD door, The violent suction pulling her down. Rain brings her good hand to her WAIST, reaching for -- THE Space Suit's BODY WINCH.

The door below her, reaches a forty-five degree angle, right when the Offspring grabs RAIN's ANKLE, dragging her DOWN with IT into space!

But at the last possible second, RAIN managers to HOOK the BODY WINCH to a METAL LOOP on the MELTED BOLT...

A magnificent CLOUD OF WHITE SAND, floats just below the OPENED PAYLOAD DOORS of the ship. Without OXYGEN... everything goes quiet... Rain only hears the low end of noise of what comes into contact with her body.

THE OFFSPRING floats AWAY into space, propelled by the initial suction of the decompressed ship. Its SCREAMS would be nightmare inducing, if we could only hear them...

RAIN... hangs onto the END of the fully unwound, Space Suit's BODY WINCH... just ten feet away from the ship.

ON RAIN INSIDE THE CLOUD OF SAND, catching her breath, taking a last look at the Offspring, drifting away into space.

CLOSE ON: the remaining ACID from the BOLT spills onto the wire Rain is using.

Rain slowly begins to pull herself up, yanking the wire, to float herself back to the ship when THE WIRE SNAPS.

Rain desperately flaps toward the ship, trying propel herself... She's about to reach the bottom of the LADDER, hanging from the CARGO BAY...

But the SAND floating around her SLOWS her down... and she stops a few FEET SHY of the LADDER. Rain feels herself sinking away from her ONLY chance at catching the ship....

With wide eyes, she observes how the ladder, and the ship, slowly move away from her reach... it's so close, yet so far...then from the cloud of SAND, a HAND EMERGES, grabbing RAIN's.

Rain sees ANDY, hanging from the Ladder, smiling at her peacefully.

Rain nods at him... smiles and closes her eyes.

From the distance, we see how Rain is pulled up and back into the Corbelan. The ship slowly drifts away, as we--

CUT TO BLACK.

We slowly fly over a majestic GREEN VALLEY...

To find --

-- A LARGE MUD TRENCH in the ground, that leads to --

THE CORBELAN, partially SUNK in the grass, but still in good shape.... we continue to fly over the ship, slowing down to finally see -- a few yards from the wreckage --

-- RAIN seated a top of the greenest hill you'll ever see, contemplating a SUNRISE... But it looks even better than her dream, cause she's not alone --

Her brother, ANDY, sits next to her.