"EVENT HORIZON" (1997)

12/11/96 BlueRevisions "Shooting Script"

INTERPLANETARY SPACE *

A vast field of stars. The gas giant Neptune slowly spins into view. Brilliant andblue and cold against the void.

A BLACK SILHOUETTE *

stands out against theplanet, tiny against Neptune's scale.

DRIFT CLOSER

to discern the hard anglesof a man-made craft. A ship. No longer dwarfed by theplanet, the scale of the vessel emerges: a vast labyrinthof steel.

Its shadow swallows allin darkness.

Shafts of Neptune's bluelight enter through windows, illuminate debris suspendedin the zero-gravity environment: shards ofmetal and glass.

MOVE from the Corridor into:

A cockpit for three. Neptune's blue light fills the chamber, reflects off immobileparticles in the air. Thick quartz windows look downat Neptune. The cockpit lights are dark but for oneblinking red light.

An emergency beacon.Under-floor lights go on. *

The strobe of the red lightreveals a man floating at the helm, slowly spinning. He is dead, perfectly preserved in the cold vacuum of space. His eyes are empty black pits and his mouth hangs openin a scream: DR. WILLIAM WEIR.

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Weir opens his eyes,waking from dream. Sweat beads his ascetic, etched face. Many years a scientist.

He turns on the bedside lamp,revealing a couple's apartment. Decoratedby a woman, but Weir is alone, unless you count photographs. His nightstand looks like a shrine to a beautiful woman.

Weir reaches to the stand. Picks up...

A RECENT, UNFRAMED PHOTO

The woman appears thin andhaggard and wears a small brave smile.

Weir lies back on thebed. Looks at the photo. Presses it to his forehead and closeshis eyes. [Tryingto be with her, just one more time.

Weir stands in front ofthe bathroom mirror, shaving with a straight-razor. Themirror reveals the bathtub just behind him. DRIP, DRIP, DRIP...

Weir turns to stare atthe bathtub. Water wells up at the mouth of the tub's faucet,grows impossibly large, falls... DRIP.

Weir turns back to his shaving.

Weir stands in the kitchenette,staring at the microwave as it cooks his breakfast.

Weir stands before hiswindow, chewing his oatmeal mechanically, forcing himselfto swallow. He reaches out to open the blinds...

REVERSE ANGLE

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as the blinds pull aside,revealing Weir, upside-down.

ROTATE AND PULL BACK ...

TO REVEAL "DAYLIGHT" STATION

Weir's window is justone of many in a space station, a delicate combination ofcylindrical habitats and solar panels. The structurehangs above the Earth in low orbit.

TITLE CARD: DAYLIGHT SPACESTATION 08.23.2046

A videophone RINGS OS...

WEIR (VO)

This is Weir.

Dr. Weir, Admiral Holliswould like to

see you as soon as possible.

A military office, UnitedStates Aerospace Command seal blazoned on the door.Views of the Earth. Admiral HOLLIS Sits behind his desk, agruff career officer and a good man.

Weir enters, escortedby Hollis’ adjutant, LYLE.

WEIR

You wanted to see me,Admiral?

but we've had somethingcome up that requires your immediateattention. Lyle?

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Lyle activates a holographicdisplay of the solar system. A box magnifies the eighthplanet, Neptune, revealing a flashing red dot in itsorbit.

LYLE

At oh-three-hundred thismorning, TDRSS picked up an automatednavigation beacon broadcasting at twominute intervals in Neptune orbit.

Lyle hands Weir a stackof hardcopy data. Weir reads the data with growing excitement.

coordinates before the ship disappeared... this, thishappened? This isn't some kind of hoax?

Houston confirms thetelemetry and I.D. codes.

Hollis answers drily.

HOLLIS

That ship was lost indeep space, seven years ago. If the Titanicsailed into New York harbor, I'd findit more plausible.

(beat)

Houston wants Aerospaceto send out a

search and rescue team,investigate the source of the transmission. If it really

is the Event Horizon,they'll attempt a

salvage. (beat)

We need you to preparea detailed briefing on the ship's systemsfor the

salvage crew...

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WEIR

A written briefing can'tpossibly anticipate the variableson a mission

like this. I have to gowith them.

Lyle looks at Weir, stunnedby the request.

LYLE

Dr. Weir, you have noexperience with

salvage procedures.

evaluating the performanceof the gravity drive. You can't senda Search and Rescue team out there aloneand expect them to succeed. Thatwould be like...

like sending an auto-mechanicto work on

the shuttle.

your reputation, Dr.Weir, but it doesn't

factor into this.

WEIR

This is not about my reputation! This is not about me at all!

(beat, passionate)

The Event Horizon wascreated for one reason: to go faster thanlight. Imagine mankind exploring new solarsystems, colonizing new worlds. Seven years ago, we didn't just lose the shipand the crew. We lost the dream.

(beat, quiet and relentless) I have to go.

Lyle, play the recordingfor Dr. Weir.

LYLE

Navigation Control triedto hail the vessel. This was theonly response.

Lyle presses a buttonon Hollis' desk. An unholy GARBLE rips from office speakers:STATIC and NOISE and INHUMAN

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VOICES. Alone, each soundwould raise the hair on your neck. Together, theyare unbearable.

The sound mercifully cutsoff to STATIC. Lyle stops the tape.

Weir sits there, stunned.

LYLE (cont'd)

Since the initial transmission,there's been no further contact. Just the beacon, every two minutes.

WEIR

The crew? Could they stillbe alive?

LYLE

The ship had life supportsystems for eighteen months. They'rebeen gone seven years.

WEIR

Someone sent that message. Admiral, you have to put me on thatship.

Hollis stares at Weir, judgingthe man with his eyes.

You'll know my decisionby the end of the day.

WEIR

Thank you.

HOLLIS

Don't thank me, Bill. I'mnot doing you any favors.

Weir leaves. The doorcloses behind him.

LYLE

You're not seriously consideringsending him?

HOLLIS

You don't just dismissBill Weir. The man held Oppenheimer'schair at Princeton. If the EventHorizon had worked, he would have gonedown in

(MORE)

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HOLLIS (cont'd)

history as the greatestmind in physics

Since Einstein.

LYLE

The official inquiryblamed Weir's design

for the ship's loss.

HOLLIS

That doesn't mean a damnthing. They were looking for a scapegoatand Weir fit the bill. But he's notresponsible for what happened to the ship.

LYLE

Does he know that?

HOLLIS

What's on your mind?

LYLE

He doesn't belong onthis mission. Responsible or not, heblames himself. He's too close to it.

(beat)

And then there's hiswife.

over it.

LYLE

Some things you don't getover.

Beat.

Miller?

LYLE

The Lewis and Clark justreturned from patrol in the asteroidbelt, she's docked in bay four.

The Lewis and Clark pullsaway from Daylight station, turns towards the depths of space. It is a tough-looking spacecraft, all engine.

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MOVE IN on thick quartzwindows near the ship's nose: the bridge ...

Split level. Above: avionics,navigation, flight control. STARCK (female, Navigator,sharp mind, sharp tongue) checks the navigation data onher screen as SMITH (male, Pilot, wrapped too tight) punchesin the course.

more than my hand in sixweeks and now this shit. Why notMars, Cap, Mars has WOMEN.««

STARCK

Smith's right. Neptune? There's nothing out there. If somethinghappens, we'll be on our own.

The captain's chair dropsfrom above, swivels to reveal MILLER (male, Captain,intense).

rules: we get the call,we go. Is the course locked in?

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SMITH

Locked and cocked.

STARCK

We're past the outermarker, we can engage the ion drivewhenever you're ready.

MILLER

Justin?

Below: the bridge's "war-room"-- ship's systems and mission stations. JUSTIN (male,Engineer, young hot-shot).

JUSTIN

Everything green onmy boards, Skipper.

MILLER

Start the countdown.

minutes.

MILLER

Let's go.

Miller slides down a ladderinto the war-room. The others follow into...

Bulky EVA (extra-vehicularactivity) suits line the walls. MUSIC blares from a JAMBOX,built into a storage locker.

An Emergency Tech stows safetylines: COOPER -- male, the resident pain-in-the-ass. He SINGS along with the music.

Kill it.

Cooper reaches up, turnsoff the box.

COOPER

Time to play Spam inthe can.

MILLER

Don't start with me,Cooper.

Cooper falls in as thecrew continues into...

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Evidence of long termhabitation. Personalized lockers. Fold-down bunks, chairs,tables; currently stowed for docking. A modular galley.

Weir stands to the side likea fifth wheel.

WEIR

Captain Miller, I justwant to Say...

MILLER

The clock is running,Dr. Weir. If you'll follow the restof the crew, they'1l show you to thegravity tanks.

Weir hesitates, then followsthe crew into Medical. Miller hangs back.

MILLER (cont'd)

What's the hold up?

PETERS

Just loading the lastof the CO2

scrubbers. (to Miller, accusatory)

Good for four months.

one..nd

PETERS

No, no, its alright. Italked to my ex, he'll keep Denny overChristmas and I'll get him this summer.

(beat)

Goddam it, Skipper... Ihaven't seen him in two months.

work.

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A high tech operating room. Modular equipment. Vertical tanks line the walls, eachlarge enough to hold a human being: gravity couches.

The crew stands beforethe gravity couches, almost nude, no room for modesty.

Starck catches Cooper lookingat her ass as she strips to her undergarments. Coopergrins. She flips him off, not bothering to turn around.

Miller disrobes. Two servicetags hang around his neck. He does not remove them. Weir approaches him.

WEIR

Captain Miller, I appreciatethis opportunity...

MILLER

Doctor Weir, my crew isnot going on your mission because we wantto. We were pulled off a well deservedleave, to be

sent out to the middleof nowhere, and no

one's even told us why.

crew once we reach Neptunespace.

MILLER

Until then, do what you'retold and stay out of my way.

Weir nods, moves to anempty couch bearing his name, written on a piece oftape. Peters watches him.

PETERS

First time in a grav couch?

WEIR

Yes.

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She checks Weir's couch,helps him climb in. Weir keeps one eye on Miller.

Don't worry about it. He's hard, but he's fair. You're luckyto be shipping out with him. He's oneof the few Captains in the servicewith experience in the Outer Reach.

WEIR

He's been past Mars?

PETERS

He served on the Goliath.

WEIR

Wasn't that ship destroyed?

They attempted to rescuea supply shuttle bound for Titan. The shuttle'soh-two tanks ruptured duringthe rescue, flooded both ships with pure oxygen. There was a

spark and both shipswere incinerated.

The Skipper and threeothers just made it to a lifeboat. CaptainMiller was able...

He doesn't like to talkabout it.

DJ swathes one of Weir'sarms with alcohol.

DJ (cont'd)

You didn't eat anythingin the past twelve hours?

Weir shakes his head.

DJ (cont'd)

When the Ion drive fires,we'll be taking about 30 gees. Withouta tank, the force would liquefy your skeleton.

DJ injects Weir. The scientistwinces.

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The overhead lights changeto red.

MILLER

Five minutes.

DJ hands him the breathingmask.

DJ

Put this on.

Weir does. DJ checksthe fit.

PETERS

You'll be fine. You'llwake up and we'll be there. Watch your fingers.

DJ closes the tank. Itbegins to fill with green gel. Weir's eyes grow largewith fear and then the anaesthesia hits. His eyes close. His body draws into a fetal position.

DJ % (checking the monitor) %

Heart-rate decreasing...body temp * dropping to 80... 70... 60...50... 40 + degrees Fahrenheit. He's in stasis. +

THE ION ENGINE at the aftof the ship begins to glow a deep red.

The crew hang inert inthe gravity couches.

SILENCE. The engine flareswhite hot. The Lewis and Clark lances forward.

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The Lewis and Clark racesSILENTLY past. The engine at its aft holds a sustained fusionreaction like the sun.

GRAPHIC: U.S.S. Lewis andClark. 56 days out.

CLOSE ON WEIR

immobile in the grav tank. He might be sleeping. He might be dead. A distant SOUNDechoes though the ship, the unholy garble of human andinhuman voices -- it is the Event Horizon, calling tohim -- the sound refines into a WOMAN'S VOICE, no morethan a WHISPER:

VOICE

Billy...

Weir opens his eyes.

VOICE (cont'd) I'm so cold...

Weir's grav tank opens.

WIDER TO REVEAL

the seven bodies of thecrew, suspended inert in the gel.

A sound: DRIP... DRIP...DRIP...

Weir slowly walks to theBridge.

VOICE (cont'd) I'm so cold...

A naked WOMAN sits atthe helm, her back to us. Completely still. Her skin is verypale. Water pools around her chair. Weir stands behindher.

Claire?

She does not answer. Shedoes not move. Weir reaches out to touch her shoulder,then pulls his hand back, afraid.

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WEIR (cont'd)

Claire? I'm sorry. Claire?

He reaches out again. He touches her hair. She doesn't move. Weir catches herreflection in the computer monitors. Something wrongwith her face... He starts to spin her around.

Weir awakes with a jolt,in his grav couch. His mask has slipped. His tank has filledwith blood. He is drowning.

Reality. Weir's eyesopen. He presses against the glass of the tank, trying to forceit open, panicked. The others are already stepping fromopen tanks.

Weir's tank opens with aHISS. He tumbles to the floor, gasping, fluid streamingfrom his mouth.

Peters rushes to him.

Claire...

PETERS

DJ!

(to Weir) It's okay. You're okay.Just breathe.

Weir catches his breath. He looks up. The crew surrounds him, concerned.

DJ helps him to his feet.

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DJ

Move slowly. You'vebeen in stasis for

fifty-six days. You'regoing to

experience a little disorientation.

Weir nods.

COOPER

Damn, Dr. Weir, don't scareus like that. Coffee?

WEIR

What?

COOPER

Coffee.

WEIR

No, thank you.

Cooper, still butt-nakedand proud of it, grabs a metal cylinder from the wall andpours a mug for himself.

COOPER

Hey, Starck. You wannadry my back?

Starck gives him a coolonce over.

STARCK

Maybe when you finishpuberty.

Miller zips up.

MILLER

Starck, why aren't youon the bridge?

MILLER

Then what are you doinghere? Come on, people, let's go!

(to Cooper)

And Cooper... Put somepants on.

SILENCE. The Lewis andClark drifts towards Neptune.

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The crew has secured thequarters from flight status. Bunks have been foldeddown, each alcove personalized with photographs and pin-ups.

DJ moves around the cabin,checking the crew's radiation badges.

Cooper and Justin siton their bunks, tossing a handball across the cabin.

Peters holds a "Watchman"video unit, watching a "video letter" ...

...from DENNY, her four-year-oldson, a paraplegic, grinning widely in hisnew wheelchair:

Play horsey, Mommy,play horsey...

IN THE VIDEO, Peters entersshot, scoops her child from the chair.

Want to play horsey, doyou... (etc.)

Weir sits huddled ina blanket. Miller takes a seat next to him.

Starck and Smith enter. Starck sits next to Miller.

STARCK

All boards are green,everything's five by five.

MILLER

That's good to know. Justin,you wanna

stow that?

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Justin catches the ball,holds onto it.

MILLER (cont'd)

Okay, listen up. Asyou all know by now, we have an addition toour crew. Dr. Weir, this is: Starck,navigation; Smith, pilot, Justin, ship'sengineer--

COOPER

You can call him Baby-bear,he loves that...

MILLER (CONT'D)

This is Cooper, what thehell do you do on this ship, anyway?

JUSTIN

Ballast.

and a heartbreaker...

MILLER

He's a rescue technician. Peters, medical technician. Dud...

DJ

Trauma.

MILLER

And this is mission specialistDr. William Weir. We allknow where we're going. Dr. Weir is goingto tell us why.

Miller and the crew lookat Weir, waiting. Weir clears his throat.

WEIR

What I am about to tellyou is considered code-black by the NSA.

The crew look at eachother: they haven't heard that ina mission briefing before.

JUSTIN

That means top-secret,Cooper.

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WEIR

The USAC intercepted aradio transmission

from a decaying orbit aroundNeptune.

The source has been identifiedas the Event Horizon.

STUNNED SILENCE. Theneveryone talks at once:

STARCK

That's impossible! Shewas lost with all hands, what, seven...

JUSTIN

Seven years ago, the reactorblew...

PETERS

How can we salvage...?

SMITH

Let the dead rest,man...

MILLER

EVERYBODY SHUT UP! Letthe man speak.

In the quiet that follows:

WEIR

What was made public aboutthe Event Horizon, that she was adeep space research vessel, that itsreactor went critical, that the shipblew up... None of that is true.

(beat)

The Event Horizon wasthe culmination of a secret governmentproject to create a

spacecraft capable of faster-than-light flight.

The crew stares at Weir:he has just dropped another bomb on them.

SMITH

You can't do that.

STARCK

The law of relativityprohibits faster- than-light travel...

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WEIR

Relativity, yes. We can'tbreak the law of relativity, butwe can go around it. The ship doesn't reallymove faster than the speed of light; itcreates a dimensional gateway thatallows the ship to instantaneously "jump"from one point in the universe to another,light years away.

STARCK

How?

WEIR

Well, in layman's terms,you use a rotating magnetic fieldto focus a narrow beam of gravitons; thesein turn fold

space-time consistentwith Weyl tensor

dynamics until the space-timecurvature becomes infinitely largeand you have a

Singularity...

COOPER

Laymen's terms.

Weir thinks of anotherway to explain it. He rips a pin-up from Smith's locker.

SMITH

Hey...

WEIR

Say this paper representsspace-time, and you want to get from "pointA" here...

(marks it on the photowith a pen) -..to "point B," here. (marks point B)

Now: what's the shortestdistance between two points?

The crew stares at him. Starck decides to play.

STARCK

A straight line.

WEIR

Wrong. The shortest distancebetween two points...

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Weir folds the paper, liningup point A over point B... then THRUSTING his penthrough both, skewering the pin-up.

does: it folds space, sothat point A and point B coexist in the samespace and time. After the shippasses through this gateway, Space returnsto normal.

(hands the ruined pin-upback to Smith) It's called a gravitydrive.

JUSTIN

How do you know all this?

Even Cooper is impressed.

JUSTIN

So if the ship didn'tblow up, what happened?

the drive. The EventHorizon moved to

safe distance using ionthrusters. They

received the go-aheadto activate the gravity drive.

(beat)

And the ship vanished fromall our

scopes. No radar contact,no enhanced

optical, no radio contactof any kind. They disappeared withouta trace.

(beat)

Until now.

MILLER

Where has it been forthe last seven years?

WEIR

That's what we're hereto find out.

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The Lewis and Clark flashessilently past, heading deeper and deeper into space.

The crew assembled.

WEIR

We haven't been ableto confirm any live contact, but TDRSS didreceive a single transmission from theEvent Horizon.

Weir punches a buttonon a console. The transmission BLARES from the bridge'sspeakers, STATIC and NOISE and, underneath all, INHUMANVOICES.

The crew listen, look atone another. The recording ends abruptly.

SMITH

What the hell is that?

WEIR

Houston has passed therecording through

several filters and isolatedwhat appears

to be a human voice.

He activates a differentfile. The resulting WAIL is more human but no less terrifying,a cry of despair. The last message from a drowningman...

SMITH

MILLER

What is that?

COOPER

Latin? Who the fuck speaksLatin?

STARCK

No one. It's a dead language.

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DJ

Mostly dead.

MILLER

What does it say?

WEIR

NSA encryption specialistshave deciphered some of themessage...

Weir plays the HELLISH INCANTATIONfor a third time.

WEIR (cont'd)

There: "...liberatisme... They haven't been able to translatethe rest, it's too distorted.

COOPER

From what?

You're convinced thecrew could still be alive? After sevenyears?

WEIR

The Event Horizon onlyhad life support

for eighteen months. Itseems

impossible, but in lightof the transmission... I haveto think that

someone has managed toendure until now.

COOPER

Skipper, do we get hazardpay for this?

MILLER

You heard the tape, Smith. We're looking

for survivors.

The Lewis and Clark closesin on the blue planet.

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The flight crew assembled. Data flashes across the main monitors on the bridge.

STARCK

Crossing the horizon. Optimum approach angle is fourteen degrees.

MILLER

Come around to three-three-four...

Heading three-three-four...

SMITH

One-four degrees...

RCS thrusters pivot andfire as the ship enters Neptune orbit, dropping lower andlower into the dense blue clouds...

The ship begins to rockas it encounters atmosphere, a growing vibration.

GRAPHICS flash acrossthe main window's HUD. Neptune's dark shadow fills the screen.

SMITH

We have a lock on theEvent Horizon's navigation beacon. It'sin the upper ionosphere, we're in forsome chop.

MILLER

Bring us in tight. Starck,get on the horn, see if anyone's listening...

This is U.S. AerospaceCommand vessel Lewis and Clark, hailingEvent Horizon,

(MORE)

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STARCK (cont'd)

Event Horizon, do you read...? This is the Lewis and Clark, hailing...(etc.)

(she continues B.G.)

Matching speed... now. Range to target ten thousand meters andclosing... Skipper, I got a bad feelingabout this...

MILLER

We're all on edge, Smith. We're a long way out...

SMITH

That's not it. That shipwas built to go

faster than light... That's just wrong,

it goes against everythingwe know...

MILLER

What are you trying to say? "IfGod had intended Man to fly, hewould have given us wings?"

SMITH

Something like that,yeah.

Miller grins grimly.

SMITH

Yes, sir.

MILLER

Dr. Weir...!

Weir sticks his head intothe bridge.

Weir climbs up the ladderto the flight deck.

WEIR

Where is she?

SMITH

Dead ahead, 5000 meters.

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Suddenly, the ship SHUDDERSVIOLENTLY.

Weir braces himself inthe doorway, staring out the forward window into the roilingazure clouds.

Smith grimaces, his knuckleswhite at the controls.

SMITH (cont'd) *

We've got some weather.

calls.

SMITH

Range 3000 meters andclosing.

Only turbid clouds ofmethane ice whirl past the Lewis and Clark's windows.

MILLER

Where is it?

The scope is lit, it'sright in front of us...

A red warning light beginsto flash in time with a shrill BEEP.

SMITH (cont'd) %

Proximity warning! 900,800 meters, %

700... we're right ontop of it, we're +

gonna hit! +

MILLER

Starck...

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She looks up, trailsoff...

STARCK (cont'd)

My God.

STARCK'S POV

...the clouds break, revealing...

THE EVENT HORIZON, rightin front of them. A black labyrinthine blasphemy againstNeptune's arctic blue. Cloud banks encircle theship as if it were the eye of a hurricane.

MILLER

Reverse thrusters full!

The Event Horizon loomsenormous as the Lewis and Clark hangs off the port stern,dwarfed by the giant ship.

The turbulence subsides. The bridge crew stares at the massive craft. The onlysound, the PROXIMITY WARNING. Finally:

SMITH

Jesus, that is one bigugly fat fucker...

WEIR

She's not ugly.

Miller reaches over Smith'sshoulder, turns off the proximity warning. Smithsnaps back to business.

SMITH

Range 500 meters and holding. Turbulence is dropping off...

STARCK

Picking up magnetic interference.

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MILLER

Put it through TACS. Smith,you up for a

flyby?

Love to.

The Lewis and Clarkmaneuvers in close to the Event Horizon, dwarfed by thedark ship.

Smith keeps a tight handon the controls. The crew stare out the viewport at theabandoned craft.

STARCK

Look at the size of thatthing.

Weir explains the viewout the cockpit window.

WEIR

Foredecks. Crew quarters,bridge, medical and science labs,hydroponics, what have you. That centralsection connects the forward decksto the Engineering containmentarea. Can we move in closer?

SMITH

Shit, Doc, any closer andwe're gonna need a rubber...

MILLER

Do it.

Smith grimaces. His handsmove carefully over the controls.

The Lewis and Clarkmoves even closer. Vanishing into the shadow of the Event Horizon.

The crew stares at the shiprushing past the viewport. A huge spherical structurelooms eerily ahead.

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WEIR

That's the engineeringcontainment. And there's the main airlock. We can dock there.

MILLER

Smith, use the arm and lockus onto that antennae cluster.

WEIR

Be careful. It's not a loadbearing

structure...

The Lewis and Clark carefullymaneuvers in close to the Event Horizon's airlock.

A mechanical boom-arm extendsfrom the smaller ship to latch onto the Event Horizon. Its clawed hand grabs the antennae cluster. Thecluster buckles under the stress.

We're locked in.

MILLER

Starck, give me a read.

A scan of the Event Horizonappears across Starck's screen.

STARCK

The reactor's still hot. We've got

several small radiation sources,leaks

probably. Nothing serious.

WEIR

Do they have pressure?

STARCK

Affirmative. The hull'sintact... but there's no gravity andthe thermal units are off line. I'm showingdeep cold. The crew couldn't surviveunless they were in stasis.

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MILLER

Find ‘em, Starck.

Starck frowns at her display.

STARCK

Something's wrong withthe bio-scan.

MILLER

Radiation interference?

STARCK

There's not enough radiationto throw off the scan. I'm pickingup trace life

forms, but I can't geta lock on the location.

WEIR

Could it be the crew? Ifthey were in

suspended animation,wouldn't that effect

the scan?

over the ship. It doesn'tmake any

sense.

MILLER

Okay. We do it the hardway. Deck by deck, room by room. Starck,deploy the umbilicus. I believeyou're up for a walk, Mr. Justin. Go getyour bonnet on.

JUSTIN

Yes, sir!

Weir starts to followJustin from the bridge.

MILLER

Dr. Weir, I need youon the bridge.

WEIR

Captain, I didn't comeout here to sit on your bridge, I need tobe on that ship...

MILLER

Once the ship is secured,we'll bring you on board--

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That is not acceptable--

--once we've secured theship, that's the way it is!

(beat) I need you to guide us fromthe comm station. This is where Ineed you. Help

us to do our job.

Weir exhales.

WEIR

Very well.

The docking collar umbilicusextends to the Event Horizon's airlock.

Miller, Peters, Justin andCooper in EVA; Cooper and Justin, without headgear.

You've had plenty EVA,Coop, it's Justin's turn. Stay on station. If anything happens...

Miller nods to Peters.

Opening inner airlockdoor.

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The inner airlock dooropens: CH-THUNK. Miller, Peters and Justin enter the airlock. Justin attaches his safety line. Miller and Peters do not.

COOPER

You still need the rope? I thought you were one a those spacemenwith ice in ya veins.

than need it and nothave it. Now step aside, old man.

Cooper puts Justin's helmeton. It seals tight.

You just keep your noseclean, Baby Bear. Clear the door.

Cooper backs out, allowingthe inner airlock door to shut, ECHOING through the ship.

Miller, Peters and Justinfloat down the brightly lit umbilicus into the EventHorizon, all in EVA suits. Justin's safety line trailsout behind him.

The OUTER AIRLOCK DOORof the Event Horizon waits for them.

Weir has taken over Justin'sstation. He watches the POV monitors like a kidwatching Christmas. Smith and Starck keep tabs over his shoulder.

WEIR

You've reached the outerairlock door.

Peters attaches a thumper-- a device using sound waves to measure pressure -- tothe inner airlock door.

PETERS

We've got pressure.

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MILLER

Clear and open on mymark. Three... two... one... mark.

Peters inserts a zero-Gdrill into the panel beside the door. The door slowlyopens...

The immense corridor stretchesaway into darkness in both directions. Distantly spacedwindows manifest as remote pools of blue light amidstendless black, adding to the vast sense of scale.

The light from their dualspotlights on the team's helmets reflects off tiny icecrystals of frozen atmosphere. They are ants in a tomb builtfor giants.

PETERS

Jesus its huge.

deep freeze.

You're in the centralcorridor. It connects the personnelareas to Engineering.

MILLER

Peters and I will searchthe forward decks. Justin, takeEngineering. No hot- dogging, not on this one,alright?

JUSTIN

Not a chance, sir.

The group separates. Justinkicks off from the wall, shoots down the corridorat immense speed.

Miller and Peters move inthe opposite direction. They use magnetic plates ontheir boots and gloves to cling to the walls as they slowlymake their way down the dark

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shaft. Their journey seemsendless. The darkness almost seems a living thing asit surrounds them.

Miller spots something ata coupling, where two sections of the corridor join...

MILLER

Dr. Weir, what's this?

Miller indicates a boxnestled against the coupling. The universal symbol for explosivesis on the cover.

Here's another one. They're all over the place.

They're explosive charges.

and separating the personnelareas from the rest of the ship. That way, if the gravity drive malfunctions,the crew could use the foredecksas a lifeboat.

Peters and Miller keepmoving.

PETERS

That means they didn'tabandon ship.

MILLER

So where are they? Starck,any luck with the bio-scan?

Nothing's wrong with thesensor pack, I'm

(MORE)

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over the ship.

Miller and Peters unconsciouslylook around. Sweat beads their faces.

PETERS

There's no one in thecorridor but us.

Not according to the computer.

MILLER

Peters is right, no one'shere.

She starts to wave her searchlightaround wildly.

Easy, Peters, we're okay,we're okay. Let's finish the sweep.

Captain Miller, the foredecksare just ahead.

MILLER

Starck, you still showingthose readings?

That's an affirmative.

Keep your eyes open.

She nods as he reaches forthe hatch...

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The hatch opens, allowingPeters and Miller entrance into the forward decks. Theseareas were intended for human habitation, and seem similarin design to the Lewis and Clark, only larger.

Gravity couches lineboth walls, eighteen in all. Empty.

PETERS

We found the gravitycouches.

Weir peers eagerly atthe monitors.

WEIR

Any survivors?

Negative.

Hope drains from Weir's face.

WEIR

No one?

MILLER

They're empty, Dr.Weir. Moving forward.

Miller and Peters splitup, each taking a separate exit from the chamber.

Weir looks at Justin'sPOV screen: a grainy image of the First Containment Seal.

Justin stands before athick pressure door. Justin checks the door with his thumper,his boots are now on.

You've reached the FirstContainment Seal. The engineeringdecks are on the other side.

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JUSTIN

We still have pressure. The radiation count's steady at 7millirads an hour.

Background radiation. Perfectly safe.

Justin touches a panelbeside the door. It opens. He enters...

...a long corridor shapedlike a tube. It rotates like a turbine, cauSing vertigo. Justin's BREATH echoes in his helmet as he moves forward...

Cooper stares at Justin'ssafety line in the airlock.

THE SAFETY LINE

counts off silently,passing 150 meters...

The corridor ends at apressure door.

PETERS

Dr. Weir, what's thisthe door to?

You're at the Bridge,Ms. Peters. You

still haven't seen anycrew?

Miller, moving through adeserted lab. Empty operating tables. Stainless steelsurgical instruments float in zero- G. A glove floats upbehind him, brushes his shoulder. He wheels... the glove isempty. It spins away.

about it.

(looking around) I'm in Medical. No casualties,it looks like this place has neverbeen used.

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He finds a computer console.

Peters opens the door.

Peters enters. Looks around:a small antechamber for crew briefings, with chairs anda display table. Red crystals float in a crimsonmist around her.

Weir peers at the monitors,trying to make out the red haze.

WEIR

Yes, we can see some kindof mist. What is that?

Blood. Looks like arterialspray.

Can you see a body?

There's no one here.

The blood came from somewhere,Peters...

PETERS

There's no one here, Skipper.

Peters takes a samplecontainer from her belt. Carefully tries to capture a suspendedcrystal...

PETERS (cont'd)

Come on...

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CLOSE UP OF THE BLOODCRYSTAL

and the Container; Peters'brow furrowed with concentration.

WIDER AS A FLASH OF BLUELIGHTNING ILLUMINATES THE ROOM, REVEALING...

-..-THEWALL BEHIND PETERS,CASED IN A FROZEN EXPLOSION OF BLOOD AND TISSUE. Someonedied here in a violent and terrible way.

Peters starts to lookup but the flash dies away. She never saw the horrorbehind her.

Peters turns her attentionback to her tiny crystal. She traps the it, returnsthe container to her belt.

She moves from the antechamberinto...

Her helmet lights sweepthe room. Every surface a control panel.

PETERS

Okay. I'm on the bridge.

What you got, Peters?

Peters examines the otherconsoles -- most are dark but for a few dim lights.

PETERS

Everything's been shutdown. Conserving power, I guess. Green lighton the hull, it's intact.

MILLER

The science workstationhas power, I'11

see if I can find thecrew from here.

Weir stares at Peters'monitor.

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WEIR

Ms. Peters, turn backand to your left, please.

On her monitor, Peters'POV shifts as she complies.

STARCK

What is it?

WEIR

Ship's log.

Peters reaches towards asmall video deck. Touches the eject button. Nothinghappens.

Justin's light bouncesoff an even larger pressure door, built like a bank vault. The Second Seal.

This thing's huge...

That's the Second ContainmentSeal. Beyond that, engineering.

Justin opens the seal. Itreleases SLOWLY, inching open. Justin squeezes through.

Peters takes a small probefrom her belt, inserts it into the video deck.

A small laser disc emergespartway from the deck. Peters pulls on it. It doesn'tmove.

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A shadow crosses thewindow behind her. Someone -- something -- is in therewith her...

Peters pulls harder. Nothing. Another effort. The disc pulls free. Peters spinsin the zero-gravity, spinning into...

..-A BODY floating atthe helm, the face illuminated by Peters' helmet lights. His swollen tongue clogs his gaping, screaming mouth. His cracked and crystallized skin is crossed by a networkof bloated veins. He has no eyes. Just like Weir's dream.

Peters’ monitor showsthe CORPSE'S face, its mouth open in mute agony. Weir GASPS.

Peters pushes free ofthe body.

Alive?

PETERS

Frozen.

The dead man's face leersfrom Peters' monitor.

STARCK

What happened to hiseyes?

SMITH

Explosive decompression.

STARCK

Decompression wouldn'tdo that.

Weir just stares at theruined face, rapt. Starck notices.

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STARCK (cont'd)

You okay?

Weir nods, not takinghis eyes from the screen.

Cooper, on station. He keys his radio.

COOPER

Hey, Baby Bear, MamaBear got a corpsicle

for ya...

No reply.

Miller looks up from theworkstation, concerned.

Baby Bear, you copy?

Cooper stares out at Justin'ssafety line slowly counting off past 175 meters.

COOPER

Justin, do you copy?

The Second Seal is open. Justin's safety line snakes into darkness.

FOLLOW the safety line intothe dark...

An alcove, opening intoa vast chamber. Once pristine, all the surfaces have beencoated in a dark gray slick. Globules of fluid hangmotionless, sticking to Justin's suit, leeching away his lightand swallowing him in darkness.

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Uh, yeah Coop, I'm stillhere.

Shit! Do not do that! Where the fuck are you?

pitch black in here. There must have been a coolant leak. Man, this shit is everywhere. I can't seea damn thing.

A lighted console blocksJustin's view of the chamber beyond. He drifts overto it, wipes the console clear of coolant, revealing dim lights:the station has power.

JUSTIN (cont'd)

The reactor's still hot. Coolant level is on reserve, but stillin the green.

TIGHT ON JUSTIN'S FACEAS THE LIGHTS COME ON

His expressions changesas he looks past the console and sees... something.

Holy shit...

COOPER

Justin?

JUSTIN'S POV - THE CORE

A massive sphere, 10meters in diameter, dominates the center of the second containment. Intricate machinery surrounds the sphere butthe globe itself is featureless, smooth; a enigmaticmonolith. Black ice encrusts it, giving it the seemingof a living thing.

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They stare at Justin'smonitor.

SMITH

What the hell is that?

WEIR

That's the Core: the gravitydrive. The heart of the ship.

Justin, check the containmentfor radiation leaks. Peters...

PETERS

Crystallized.

Justin examines the outerwall of the Core, looking for any cracks or ruptured seams.

Justin, finish your sweep.

JUSTIN

Almost done, I just gottacheck one thing...

Justin turns to the Core...

Justin's monitor fillswith static.

STARCK

Justin, hold on a sec,you're breaking up...

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Justin...?

(static obscure her voice)

Justin reaches towardsthe Core with his pressure sensor.

His helmet light flickers. He hesitates...

Miller's helmet light flickers...

Peter's helmet lightwinks out...

STARCK

Justin, come in...

Suddenly, the bio-scan lightsup, from green to red as Signals race across thedisplay.

WEIR

What is it?

went off the scale.

SMITH

Something's wrong...

Justin places the pressuresensor against the Core. Touching it.

The Core turns deepestblack. A darkness that light cannot penetrate. For a second,Justin's white suit is captured against the hungryvoid...

102 DELETE SCENE 102 102

THEN THE VOID SUCKS HIM INAND JUSTIN IS GONE...

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Cooper stares in shock asJustin's safety line as it reels out at an incredible rate-- 250 meters, 300 meters...

A WAVE

surges out of the Core,bending light like a ripple ona pond, pushing coolantand debris before it...

The gravity wave surges forward,blowing out emergency lights as it comes, flotsamand jetsam swirling in its wake...

Data floods Miller'sworkstation, flashing across the screen too fast for comprehension...

FOLLOWED BY A FACE -- JUSTIN...

MILLER

What the hell...

A DEEP ROAR fills the ship. Miller rises to investigate...

The door BLOWS APART asTHE WAVE HITS, ripples through the Medical Bay towardsMiller...

MILLER (cont'd)

Oh shit...!

Debris swirls around him...the wave sweeps him up... SLAMS him into a bulkhead...

JUSTIN'S POV SCREEN

the briefest suggestionof a SCREAMING FACE, obscured by STATIC and ROLL beforethe screen CUTS to static entirely.

The rest of the crew'sPOV screens go dead as...

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...the wave hits them,threatening to tear the Lewis and Clark apart. The ship shuddersviolently. Consoles EXPLODE with sparks. Weir and the others hold on for dear life.

STARCK

Miller, do you readme, Peters --

SMITH

Get them back --

An equipment rack IGNITES. Smith grabs an extinguisher, fights the blaze...

lil INT. LEWIS AND CLARK -AIRLOCK BAY 111

Cooper and DJ, bracing againstthe bulkhead. Cooper hits the intercom.

COOPER

What's happening?

Cooper peers out the airlockwindow.

JUSTIN'S SAFETY LINE

passes 350 meters andaccelerating...

DJ

He's in trouble. Go!

Cooper grabs his helmet. DJ helps him lock the helmet into place with a HISS.

The inner airlock dooropens. As Cooper enters the airlock, Justin's safetyreel stops, the line jerking taut at 500 meters.

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112 DELETE SCENE 112 112

Miller tries to get hisbearings in the dark.

MILLER

Boarding party, soundoff... Peters, do you read me.... Peters...

Peters' light, too, remainsdark, but Neptune's blue light fills the Bridge. The frozencorpse floats before her. No longer a man.

A young boy, maybe fiveyears old. His legs are withered, useless things. The skinremains a crystallized surface, but the eyes look straightat her, alive.

PETERS

Denny...

Peters reaches out totouch the body. It falls away from her. No longer her son,but the body of the astronaut. It hits the door and shatters.

A MAN'S VOICE, in agony,CRACKLES over Miller's radio:

VOICE (radio)

Don't leave me...

MILLER

Justin? Justin, soundoff... Justin...!

Miller trails off asRED LIGHT flickers across his visor. He turns...

POV MILLER

A BURNING MAN stands inMedical/Science, a human body wreathed in flame. Theeyes are like sunspots. As the

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Burning Man moves, bonesand black flesh poke through the fire. He raises one handto point at Miller in accusation...

Miller's BREATH stops inhis throat. His mouth works but nothing comes out. HeBLINKS...

...and the VISION is gone. Miller is alone, BREATHING hard.

Cooper enters at full speed,shooting through ina controlled fall...

COOPER

Hold on, Baby Bear...

..-.-intotheSecond Containment. He catches himself at the console. Cooper sees Justin'ssafety line, cut off abruptly by the darknessof the Core.

COOPER

Oh my God...

The darkness of the Coreripples...

Justin suddenly emerges fromthe darkness, a white figure riding a wave of impenetrableblackness.

Cooper catches him, holdshim tight as the wave carries them towards the wall. Cooper sees a control rod -- a long metal spike -- comingat them. He twists his body so that they miss -- barely --before slamming into the wall.

COOPER

Justin, do you readme? Justin....

Cooper pulls Justin close. Justin's head lolls to one Side. Unconscious.

COOPER

Baby Bear, don't do this. Don't do this. os @

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Weir, Starck and Smithcontinue to hold on tightly as the vibration builds... andbuilds...

STARCK

Here comes another one! Hold on!

The second wave hits. Sparksfly as consoles EXPLODE. Deep in the ship metal SCREAMS,followed by the SHRIEK of escaping atmosphere. An emergency klaxon RINGS out: PRESSURE WARNING.

Starck checks Justin's station:

STARCK

We lost the starboardbaffle! The hull's been breached!

The Bridge pressure doorbegins to close...and then stop.

SMITH

The safety circuit's failed!

WEIR

We're losing atmosphere...

STARCK

There are pressure suitsin the Airlock. Go!

Starck pushes Weir aheadof her, Smith follows hard as they run the length of the shipfor the airlock bay.

The vibration subsides.

MILLER

Can anybody hear me...

Skipper...

MILLER

Peters...

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PETERS

Yeah. I'm -- I'm okay.

Her voice cracks as she saysit. She looks anything but.

The reports come, oneon the other...

We have a man down...

MILLER

Coop, where are you...

The containment, SecondContainment...

MILLER

Hold on, Coop...

Captain Miller...

MILLER

Smith, where the hellhave you been?!

SMITH

We have a situation here...

Starck and Smith alreadyin suits. DJ assists Weir. Smith has already locked hishelmet into place.

We lost the starboardbaffle and the hull cracked. Our safetyseals didn't close, the circuit's fried--

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Miller moves down thecentral corridor towards his wounded ship.

MILLER

Do we have enough time fora weld?

We don't have time to fart.

SMITH

We're losing pressure at280 liters a

second and our oxygentanks are cracked. In three minutes, our atmospherewill be

gone.

SMITH

We are fucking dead.

MILLER

No one's dying on mywatch, Smith! What about the reserve tanks?

They're gone.

Beat. Miller closes hiseyes, desperately trying to think of a solution.

PAN across the faces ofthe astronauts. No hope. Except for Weir:

The others turn to stareat Weir.

SMITH

What?

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can activate gravity andlife support.

STARCK

What if the air has gonebad? We can't wear these suits forever.

don't even know whathappened on that

ship...

MILLER

Dr. Weir's right. Geton board the Event Horizon. I'll meetyou at the airlock.

But...

MILLER

You heard me, Smith. Peters, are you with me?

Peters at the life supportconsole.

units on line...

Peters flips a seriesof circuit-breakers. Reaches for the final switch.

PETERS

Hold tight and prep forgees.

Everything floating inthe bridge CRASHES to the floor.

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Justin and Cooper collapseto the deck, coolant splashing down all around them...

Miller meets the crew asthey evacuate the Lewis and Clark. Weir leads the way, eager;Smith hangs back.

MILLER

Everybody okay?

STARCK

We're all here.

MILLER

Okay. Let's find outhow much time we

just bought.

Miller reaches for thecatch on his own helmet.

DJ

We haven't tested theair yet. It could be contaminated...

MILLER

No time. We need whatever'sleft in our

Suits to repair the Clark. Like it or

not, this is the onlyoxygen for three billion kilometers.

Miller pulls his helmetoff with a HISS. He breathes deep. Starck does the same,coughs.

MILLER

But you can breathe it.

The Lewis and Clark andthe Event Horizon, locked together in Neptune orbit. Lightsshine from the Horizon as power is restored. No longercloaked in darkness, it is revealed in all its hideous glory,a nightmare etched in steel.

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Weir moves from stationto station, restoring power to each.

Starck sits at the communicationsworkstation. Miller watches over her shoulder.

STARCK

The antennae array'scompletely fried, we've got no radio, no laser,no high- gain... No one's goingto be coming to help us.

MILLER

How much oh-two dowe have?

STARCK

Oxygen is not the problem.

MILLER

Carbon dioxide?

take. And the CO2 filterson the Event Horizon are shot.

MILLER

We can take the filters fromthe Clark...

the Clark, we've got enoughbreathable air for twenty hours. After that, we'd better be on our way home.

MILLER

What about the life readingsyou picked up?

STARCK

The Event Horizon sensorsshow the same thing: "Bio-readings ofindeterminate origin." Right beforethat wave hit the Clark, there was some kindof surge, right off the scale,but now it's back to its previous levels.

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MILLER

What's causing the readings?

not the crew.

MILLER

So where is the rest ofthe crew? We've been over every inch ofthis ship and all we've found is blood. Dr. Weir? Any

suggestions?

Weir just stares at thebloodstained wall.

MILLER

What happened here?

Miller follows Weir's gazeto the wall: a Rorschach test in blood...

PULL BACK from the bridgewindows TO REVEAL...

...the Event Horizon inall its horrific glory, hanging skew in the center ofthe hurricane like a mote in God's eye.

The Lewis and Clark clingsto the giant craft, as insignificant as a tick. An even smaller figure clings to the hull of the Lewis andClark...

It's Smith, EVA in fullprotective gear. His magnetic boots hold him to theLewis and Clark's hull. He kneels over a hole in the hull,where the metal has buckled and torn. Vapor still leaksfrom the hole into space.

SMITH

Captain Miller, you copy?

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outer hull. We shouldbe able to repair it and re-pressurize, it'sgonna take

some time.

We don't have time, Smith. In twenty hours we run out of air.

SMITH

Understood.

Smith uses a foam applicatorto fill the hole. The gel freezes in place. Smithreaches to his belt, pulls out a ZERO-G NAILGUN. Pressesit to the patch and begins to rivet it into place.

Justin lies unmoving ona table. His eyes are open, staring at a smear ofblood on the ceiling.

A needle slides into the skinbelow his eye. He doesn't respond.

DJ removes the needle. Itglistens with blood. He looks up at Miller and Peters.

MILLER

How is he?

DJ

His vitals are stable,but he's unresponsive to stimuli. He might wake up in fifteen minutes. He might not wake up at all.

PETERS

What happened to him?

DJ shakes his head. Miller eyes the bloodstain above them.

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MILLER

DJ, take samples fromthese stains, compare them to medicalrecords, I want to know whose blood thisis.

Gravity has scattereddebris and freeze-dried blood about the room. The crew (Justinand Smith excepted) tries to relax on the chairs ofdead men. Their faces are wan and haggard.

Weir relaxes at the table. Unlike the others, he seems almost at ease. DJ remainsforever stoic; Starck, animated and nervous. Cooper bouncesthe handball on the floor, a reflex action.

Miller stares at a videomonitor, watching Smith repair the Lewis and Clark. He turnsfrom the window.

MILLER

Okay, people, there'sbeen a change in the mission. In lessthan eighteen hours, we will run outof breathable air. Our primary objective isnow survival. That means we focus onrepairing the Lewis and Clark and salvagingwhatever will buy us more time.

(pause)

Our secondary objectiveis finding out what happened to this shipand its crew. Two months from now, I fullyintend to be

standing in front of thegood Admiral

giving my report, and I'dlike to have more than my dick inmy hands.

Grim smiles all around.

MILLER

Peters, I want you to gothrough the

ship's log, see ifwe can't find some

answers.

eye on Justin...

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MILLER

Fine. Starck, I wantyou to repeat the bio-scan...

STARCK

What's the point? I'll justget the same thing...

MILLER

Not acceptable. Iwant to know what's causing those readings. If the crew is dead, I want the bodies,I want the crew

found.

amylase proteins.

MILLER

Do it. Dr. Weir...

WEIR

Yes.

MILLER

One of my men is down. Iwant to know what happened to him..

Weir starts shaking hishead.

then Justin appeared andthe Core... became metal...

No, he didn't.

COOPER

You weren't there. I sawit.

WEIR

Saw what, Mr. Cooper? What did you really see, becausewhat you're describing is not physicallypossible...

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Cooper throws the ball athim, hard. Weir ducks. It bounces wildly aroundthe room. Miller catches it.

MILLER

Cooper! Enough!

Cooper sits down.

Dr. Weir, Justin maydie. Whatever happened to him couldhappen to all of us.

Beat.

WEIR

What you saw could havebeen an optical effect caused by gravitational distortion.

MILLER

Hold on, what's this "gravitational distortion?"

waves escaped from theCore, distorting

Space-time. They couldbe what hit the

Lewis and Clark.

MILLER

What could cause them?

(Weir doesn't answer)

What's in the Core?

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MILLER

How much time do you need? We have

seventeen hours and forty-twominutes.

Now: what is in theCore?

Beat. Here comes anotherbomb...

WEIR

A black hole.

The crew stares at him,stunned.

Miller, Starck andWeir standbefore the Core. Dark ominous structures loomaround them, glistening with coolant. The PULSE ofthe ship is loud here, a deep THRUM that steals their breath. Weir's voice is a reverent WHISPER:

WEIR

That's how the gravitydrive works, you

see: it focuses the blackhole's immense

gravitational power tocreate the gateway. That's howthe Event Horizon travels faster than light.

to be posted to this ship. It would take the Lewis and Clark athousand years to reach our closest star. The Event Horizon could be there ina day...

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They stare at the Core,the surrounding machinery moving in a slow giant's dance. A trickof the eye, or does the Core stare back at them?

Containment is off limits.

WEIR

There's no danger. Theblack hole is contained behind threemagnetic fields, it's under control.

MILLER

Your black hole damn nearripped my ship apart. It may have killedone of my men.

(beat)

No one goes near thatthing.

MOVE IN ON THE CORE

until its darkness fillsthe screen...

Peters sits before thecomputer workstation, running the ship's log, forwardingthrough hours of boring footage. Rubs her eyes.

The lights flicker.

Peters hears somethingRUSTLING behind her. She turns...

PETERS

Justin...?

Justin lies unmoving onthe nearest examination table. Comatose. Peters reachesout and picks up a scalpel.

Peters hears the sound again,FINGERNAILS ON PLASTIC. She moves past Justin...

-.-past several emptytables, covered with clear plastic...

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...to the last table. Shestares in shock.

THERE'S SOMETHING UNDERNEATHTHE PLASTIC COVER.

She slowly reaches out. Lifts the cover.

Her son DENNY looks ather and GIGGLES. She GASPS. The scalpel drops to the floorat her feet.

Denny reaches up to her,to be picked up...

DENNY

Mommy...

..-.-buttheplastic that stillcovers his withered legs squirms like a bag full ofsnakes...

Peters drops the plasticand backs away.

DJ (OS)

Peters?

She turns. DJ stands inthe doorway, holding blood samples.

Peters turns back, buther son is gone.

DJ reads her expression.

DJ

What's wrong?

PETERS

Nothing. It's nothing.

The Airlock light turnsred -- a warning. The Inner Airlock door control flashes: "LOCKED." The Outer Airlock door opens.

Smith enters. He closesthe Outer Airlock door. Atmosphere HISSES intothe chamber. The Inner Airlock door flashes: "PRESSURIZED."

Cooper in EVA, gettingready to go outside. The Inner Airlock door opens. Smithenters. Takes off his helmet.

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COOPER

You been out there a longtime. Trying to break my record?

Outside than another fiveminutes in this can. This ship is bad. It watches you.

COOPER

What?

SMITH

You heard me. This ship,it's crazy: trying to go faster'n light,that's like the Tower of Babel.

COOPER

Shit, Smith, you're goingBiblical on me.

SMITH

You know what happenedto the Tower of Babel, don't you? It felldown.

COOPER

You're sucking toomuch nitrogen in your mix.

Starck programs the sensorworkstation. She glances over at Weir: sitting at acomputer terminal, his face rapt as data flashes by. His lipsmove, muttering to himself.

STARCK

Why Dr. Weir, I thinkyou're in love.

WEIR

Hmmm. Claire used totell me I loved the Event Horizon more than Iloved her. I told her that wasn'ttrue, I just knew the Event Horizon better,that's all.

STARCK

Claire is your wife?

WEIR

Yes.

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her.

WEIR

Yes. I miss her. Shedied. Two years now.

Weir keeps his attentionfocused on the screen.

WEIR

These things happen.

(reacting to somethingon the screen)

Wait a minute, that'snot right...

He fingers fly acrossthe keyboard, double-checking the data.

Miller leans over Weir'sshoulder.

MILLER

You have something, Dr.Weir?

WEIR

The date.

MILLER

What about it?

WEIR

The Event Horizon's computerthink's it's 2034.

WEIR

Exactly. The ship's internalclock is off by seven years.

STARCK

Maybe a power interruptioncrashed the

system...

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WEIR

No, there's no evidenceof a surge or

spike of any kind. It'sas if time just... stopped for sevenyears.

MILLER

Explanation?

passage of time, it'spossible...

(beat)

Black holes make senseon paper, it's all math, you see, but asto what really happened...

(he shakes his head)

The Event Horizon haspassed beyond our plane of reality, and likeLazarus, returned from the dead.

The INTERCOM interruptsthem:

Captain Miller, Dr.Weir? I found the

final log entry.

Peters sits at theworkstation. Miller, DJ and Weir stand behind her, watching.

A VIDEO SCREEN

A jumpy, handheld cameraview of:

Gravity couch bay. Two crewmen checking electronics modules. The ship iswell-lit, clean, no sign of debris. The narrator's voice isexcited and nervous.

KILPACK (OS)

We have reached safedistance and are preparing to engage thegravity drive and open the gateway...

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PETERS

The speaker is themission commander...

John Kilpack.

Second Containment. A loneengineer finishes his check of the Core. He turns tothe camera and gives a self- conscious "thumbs-up."

KILPACK (OS)

When you get this message,God willing, we will reach the solar systemof Proxima Centauri...

Corridor. The entire originalcrew assembled, playing catch with the stuffed dog

crew. I'd like to namemy station heads Chris Chambers, JaniceRubin, Dick Smith, Tom Fender and StacieCollins. And to Bill Weir and allthe scientists that got us here.

Bridge. KILPACK addressesthe camera. His face is flushed with excitement.

and I wrote it down but I...I can't find it. Ave, atque, vale. Hail and

farewell.

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A BURST of static...

..-.-followedbyan inhumanHOWL of FEEDBACK, like screaming hyaenas, almost alive. Through the swirl of static, the suggestion of movement.

Miller freezes the frame. He squints at the screen...

POV MILLER

Obscured by static, the imageis blurred beyond comprehension.

MILLER

What the hell is that? Dr. Weir?

MILLER

Do it.

Suddenly, the lights fadeout. Dim emergency lighting snaps on...

PETERS

What's happening...?

DJ

A power drain--

MILLER

We barely have enoughpower for life

Support as it is, ifwe can't stop the

drain, we're not gonnamake it.

WEIR

The Core...!

Weir heads for the door.

MILLER

Wait!

But Weir has vanished intothe corridor.

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MILLER

The rest of you, stayhere, I don't want anyone else going nearthat thing.

Miller follows afterWeir.

The Second Containment Sealopens. Weir is about to enter when Miller stops him. He checks a Geiger counter. It is Silent.

MILLER

No radiation. What'scausing the drain?

Weir crosses to a console. Frowns.

The magnetic fields areholding. Maybe a

short in the fail-safecircuit. I'll

check it out.

Miller assists Weir inremoving bolts from an access panel. The panel falls away,revealing a cramped duct leading into the ship's circuitry.

Weir climbs into the duct. Miller hands him a flashlight and a toolkit.

MILLER

We don't get the powerback, our air's gonna go bad.

WEIR

Check the Core for radiation. Carbon dioxide may be the leastof our worries.

Weir begins to crawl intothe depths of the ship.

Weir's breath ECHOES inthe cramped shaft. He counts off circuit panels as he goes:

WEIR

E-three... E-five...E-seven... where are you.oe.|6©°

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Miller slogs through thecoolant to the Core. Stares at it. It remains metallic,mundane.

He pulls out a Geigercounter and crosses to the reactor shell. Examines a gleamingweld. The Geiger counter CLICKS Slowly: no leak.

A yellow light starts flashingon the engineering board. Starck's eyes widen: theengineering sections flash yellow...and green...

STARCK

What the hell...

STARCK'S POV

as the bio-scan goeswild.

Skipper, the bio-scan justwent off the

scale...

Justin shakes on the bedin an epileptic fit. DJ rushes to him.

DJ

Justin! Can you hearme? Justin!

Justin's eyes remain unfocused,unseeing as he tries to speak.

DJ leans in close, tryingto hear him speak...

Justin arches in agony andthe words come in a strangled, tortured voice:

Weir stops before moduleE-12. Hears a faint HISSING and POPPING.

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WEIR

There you are.

He uses a screwdriverto open up the module. Reveals a series of circuit boards. One SPARKS. Weir plucks the damaged chips and startsrunning a by-pass.

His flashlight flickers. He bangs it against the duct wall. It grows dimmer. Goes out.

WEIR

Um. Captain Miller? I,uh, I seem to have a problem withmy light.

A single DRIP of water inthe darkness...

Captain Miller?

Another DRIP, then awoman's VOICE like a distant echo:

VOICE

Billy.

Weir starts at the sound. He recognizes the voice.

She speaks again, no longerfar away, but a close WHISPER in his ear:

Billy. Help me. I'm socold.

Weir's eyes open wide inhope and fear.

Even the emergency lightsgo out. Total darkness.

MILLER

We just lost all power inhere. Dr. Weir...?

Miller's voice trailsoff as he looks towards the Core. A red glow reflects acrosshiseyes. He takes a few steps away from the reactor. He stares...

...at the BURNING MAN, standingbefore the Core. The deep ROAR of its conflagrationfills the containment.

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It slowly turns and raisesits arm and points at Miller in accusation.

BURNING MAN

Don't leave me...

Miller stares as the BurningMan turns and vanishes into a bulkhead, leaving thewall blackened and burned with his passing.

Total darkness. Weir'sbreath ECHOES in the cramped metal space.

Claire...?

Weir bangs his flashlight. Again. Again...

Help me. I'm so cold.

The flashlight flickers...

Claire's face is inches fromWeir's.

CLAIRE

So cold.

His flashlight flickersagain, snaps on...

She is gone. Weir letshis head fall to the floor of the deck, breathing in raggedSOBS.

The crew, except for Cooper. DJ whets a scalpel against the leg of his jumpsuit,an unconscious gesture. FLICK. FLICK. FLICK.

DJ

Carbon dioxide poisoningproduces hallucinations, impairedjudgement...

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MILLER

Goddammit, DJ, it wasnot a hallucination! I saw aman, he was on

fire. And then he disappeared.

STARCK

Maybe one of the originalcrew?

MILLER

No. It was someone else.

STARCK

Who?

Dr. Weir, you were rightthere, you must have heard something, seensomething...

WEIR

No. I saw nothing.

All heads turn to her.

PETERS

About an hour ago. Inmedical. I saw my

son. He was lying onone of the

examination tables andhis legs were...

(she trails off)

traumatized by findingthe body on the bridge?

different.

She falls Silent, unwillingto say more.

MILLER

Peters is right. Its likesomething reaching into yourmind. Seeing your thoughts and making themreal. Smith, did you or Cooper experienceanything unusual?

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Smith, leaning againstthe doorway:

WEIR

Thank you for that scientificanalysis, Mister Smith.

Hey! You don't need tobe a scientist

figure it out...

MILLER

Smith...

Weir's face is stone.

think there won't be aprice? You already killed the firstcrew...

MILLER

That's enough!

DJ lays one hand on Smith'sshoulder to calm him...

Smith reacts violently,turning on DJ, shoving him back. DJ uses Smith's momentumto spin the pilot into the wall. He presses his scalpel justbelow Smith's ear...

MILLER

DJ!!

DJ freezes. The scalpelfalls from his hands. He releases Smith.

that.

Carbon dioxide.

Smith goes for Weir.

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SMITH

He's fucking lying,you know

something...!

Miller heads him off, grabshim.

MILLER

That's it, that's enoughfor one day, Smith! I need you backon the Clark, I need you calm, I needyou using your head, you make a mistakeout there, none of are getting home,you understand?

Smith calms.

SMITH

Sir.

MILLER

Get outside, go back towork. T'll join you shortly.

Smith leaves.

MILLER

We're a long way fromhome and we're ina bad place. Let's notmake it worse. If anyone has any constructivesuggestions, now is the time.

the singularity, that shouldprevent another power drain.

MILLER

Do it.

DJ

To conserve our oxygen,we should

severely restrict our activity. Anyone

who can should get somesleep.

Miller exits. Starck follows.

Starck trails Miller:

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STARCK

Miller...

What is it, Starck?

indeterminate origin...

origin," don't you haveanything useful to tell me?

Miller stops.

MILLER

Go ahead.

STARCK

There was a another surgein the bio- readings right beforeyou... you saw what you saw. We picked upa similar readings right before the Clarkewas damaged. What if there were a connectionbetween the two? The gravitywaves, the hallucination, all partof an defensive reaction, like an immunesystem...

Miller starts walkingagain.

She rushes to follow.

Miller and Starck enterthe Airlock Bay:

STARCK

You've got to listen...

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MILLER

To what? What are you saying? This ship is alive?

readings correspond towhat happened to you, the ship is reactingto us...

MILLER

We're hanging on by our fingernailsand you're giving me bullshitstories...

She grabs him by the arm.

conclusion the data supports...

MILLER

Starck, do you know howcrazy that

sounds? It's impossible.

Beat. Miller allows himselfto relax.

you waste my time?

that's the only one Ihave.

Miller pulls an EVA suitfrom the wall, starts putting it on.

MILLER

What I want is to survivethe next ten hours.

Nine hours and twenty-twominutes.

And Starck... don't tellanyone what you

(MORE)

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about.

She nods. He locks hishelmet into place.

Establish.

The ship seems to breathe. The lights flicker...

ANOTHER ANGLE. The shipseems to breathe. The lights flicker...

ANOTHER ANGLE. The shipseems to breathe. The lights flicker...

Peters has fallen asleepin her chair.

On the threshold of hearing,a distant POUNDING. Not a heartbeat. Metal onmetal. Something trying to get out. Something trying to get in.

Peters wakes with a start.

PETERS

Justin...?

She turns. Justin lieson the floor in a heap, completely covered by his sheet. Shecrosses to him. Pulls back the Sheet...

Revealing empty nitrogentanks.

PETERS

Justin!

She looks up, eyeswidening, as...

The IV bottles fillwith blood. Blood fills the X-ray lightboxes, it surgesup from gutters in the floor...

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And the pounding grows louder...LOUDER... almost to Medical...

The spell breaks and sheRUNS...

Peters sprints, the SOUNDBOOMING after her, almost on her heels...

Peters darts into theBridge Antechamber. She SLAMS the pressure door shut behindher, CUTTING OFF the sound.

She turns. Weir, DJ, Starcklook up from their work, staring at her.

DJ

What's wrong?

PETERS

You didn't hear it? You must have heard it!

STARCK

Heard what?

Beat. Peters starts toLAUGH, part hysteria, part relief.

PETERS

Oh... nothing...

DJ crosses to Peters,concerned.

DJ

Sit down...

As he reaches out to touchher...

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. POUNDINGON THE DOOR ITSELF.

Peters SCREAMS. DJ clutchesher to him, backs away from the door.

The POUNDING grows louder. LOUDER. The door vibrates with each blow

Starck puts her handsover her ears. Peters SCREAMS at the door.

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PETERS

Stop it! Stop it!

But the POUNDING intensifies,metal GROANING under incredible pressure.

What is it?

Weir slowly walks to thedoor.

STARCK

What are you doing?

He reaches for the door.

STARCK

No...!

Starck grabs him. Hetries to shake her off, but she traps his arm in a wrist-lock.He turns on her, his face furious...

...and the POUNDING stops. They remain frozen for a moment. Afraid to breathe.

Weir shakes the trance.

In the distance, the POUNDINGbegins again. Moving away from them.

The ship systems stationBEEPS. A warning light flashes on the console.

STARCK

What is it?

WEIR

The forward airlock.

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Miller, Smith, Cooper,any of you in the airlock?

That's a negative, Starck.

Justin.

Peters, Starck and DJ rushfrom the Bridge, leaving Weir behind.

AIRLOCKS

Peters leads Starck andDJ down the corridor towards the Forward Airlock bay. They round a corner in time to see a figure moving in theAirlock.

They race into the bayeven as Justin steps into the Airlock. He is naked.

PETERS

Justin, no!

Justin turns and staresthrough them with cold eyes. He reaches out to the airlockcontrol.

The pressure door shutswith a HISS.

Miller, Smith and Coopercling to the Lewis and Clark's hull. They carefully removean access panel, revealing scorched wiring.

COOPER

We'll have to re-routethrough the port conduit to the APU.

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SMITH

What about the accumulator...?

Starck's VOICE breaks in:

Miller, come in...

MILLER

What's going on in there,Starck?

Justin's in the airlock.

Starck at the intercom. The others huddle by the door.

What?

STARCK

He's awake, he's in theairlock, he's not wearing a suit.

Stay here! Don't stopworking!

COOPER

But Justin...

Miller swings his body around,heads across the umbilicus to the Event Horizon. He moves in great leaps, using the magnetic plates in hisgloves and boots to keep from drifting off into Neptune'sthin atmosphere.

Starck works the airlockcontrol panel without success.

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STARCK

He's engaged the override.

PETERS

Can you shut it down?

She opens the Airlock accesspanel.

tricks.

DJ nods, runs off. Petersbangs on the Airlock door.

PETERS

Justin! Open the door!

Peters' voice barely penetratesthe pressure door:

Open the door!

Justin turns off the artificialgravity. He begins to float gently.

Miller moves like a franticspider across the surface of the Event Horizon.

You better hurry. He'sengaged the override, we can't openthe inner door.

Miller curses under hisbreath, moves even faster...

Peters, against thewindow:

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The door, Justin! Openthe door!

He fixes his gaze uponthe outer airlock door. And beyond it, space. He speaks ina flat monotone:

JUSTIN

Did you hear it?

They are stunned to hearhis voice. Peters answers:

PETERS

Yes. Yes, Justin,we heard it.

STARCK

Keep him talking.

PETERS

Do you know what itwas?

things... horrible things...

words...

Weir sits alone, listeningto the VOICES on the intercom.

What does?

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A LOW MOAN escapes Weir'slips. He cradles his head in his hands.

Miller races across the surfaceof the Event Horizon, the only sounds, his LABOUREDBREATHING, and Justin's tortured VOICE, patched throughon his radio:

there's nothing left.

From the Other Place...

JUSTIN (CONT'D)

The other crew, they'rethere, they're waiting for me. They'rewaiting for you.

I won't go back there...I won't...

Peters presses her faceagainst the Airlock window, trying to calm him:

PETERS

Justin, look at me. Look at me. Open this door.

DJ runs up with hismedkit.

need a sedative.

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inside-out.

Starck's hands fly as shere-wires the circuits. Sweat beads her face.

STARCK

Almost got it.

Come on, Baby-bear, openthis door...

Justin looks at herwith dead eyes. He reaches out to gently touch the glassbetween them.

you wouldn't try to stopme. You'd come with me.

Justin's hand moves tothe OUTER AIRLOCK DOOR control. Hesitates..-.-thenfloatsto the OUTER AIRLOCK control. Hits it.

NOOO!

A yellow warning light flashes. A warning klaxon WHOOPS, deafening.

Justin jerks his handsto his ears, closes his eyes...

COMPUTER

Stand-by for decompression.Thirty

seconds...

Justin opens his eyes asif waking from a dream...

JUSTIN

Hey, Mama-Bear... whatare doing...?

And then he realizeswhere he is...and what is about to happen.

JUSTIN

Oh my god OH MY GOD...

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PETERS

Starck!

the outer door has beentriggered, it would decompress theentire ship!

You gotta open, you gottastop it, please...

PETERS

We have to do something,oh God...

Skipper, Justin just activatedthe door.

It's on a thirty seconddelay...

Miller moves through theEvent Horizon superstructure, recklessly leaping fromone beam to another, trying to build up speed.

MILLER

Patch me through to him.

Justin.

JUSTIN

Skipper, you gotta helpme...

COMPUTER

Twenty seconds.

They can't do that Justin,now listen carefully...

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Miller moves faster and faster,his BREATH echoing in his helmet. He can see theexterior airlock just beyond a deep chasm in the ship's superstructure.If he misses this jump, Justin will not be the onlyman to die today.

He doesn't hesitate but leaps,soaring across the chasm towards the airlock.

MILLER

You're not going to die! Not today! I want you to do exactlyas I say and I'm gonna get you out ofthere, alright?

JUSTIN

But I can't... I gottaget out of here... Skipper, please...

Justin. I won't letyou die.

Miller's words give Justinhope. He regains some control.

JUSTIN

Okay... okay...

Justin breathes hard andfollows Miller's hurried instructions:

Tuck yourself into a crouchedposition,

shut your eyes as tightas you can!

STARCK

Five seconds.

Miller lands on the superstructureopposite the exterior airlock.

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Exhale everything you got,Baby Bear, we can't have any air inthose lungs, blow it all out...

Justin goes into a fetalcrouch and covers his eyes.

JUSTIN

Oh god --

He wheezes out all hisair...

Miller squats on the girder,ready to push off. He focuses on the 5 meters of spacebetween him and the airlock...

The outer doors OPEN...

The rush of escaping atmospherecarries Justin's body out. .nd

Miller pushes off... catchesJustin's body... sending them both back towards theopen Airlock...

Ice forms on Justin'sbody. His veins bulge. Blood fountains from his noiseand mouth, forming a red icicle over his face.

Miller pulls him intothe Airlock. Five seconds have passed since the airlockdoor opened.

Miller closes the Airlockbehind them. Air HISSES into the chamber. Justin's bodyhits the deck as "normal" gravity exerts itself.

Miller opens the InnerDoor. Peters and DJ rush in.

PETERS

Oh God... Justin...

DJ puts a tube in the Justin'smouth immediately, feeding him oxygen.

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DJ

Pressure?

DJ

He's crashing...

Blood bubbles from Justin'smouth and eyes. He GASPS, then SCREAMS, spraying blood fromhis mouth.

DJ

He can breathe. That'sgood. Let's get him to Medical, go, go!

Starck helps DJ and Peterscarry Justin from the Airlock. Miller sits there, exhausted. Reaches up and pulls his helmet off.

Weir listens to

nitrogen out of hisblood...

His peritoneum has ruptured...

One thing at a time, let'skeep him breathing. Start thedrip, 15cc's

fibrinogen, Christ, he'sbleeding out...

One of the tanks has beenactivated. Swaddled in bandages, Justin floats within, suspendedin green gel. The others -- DJ, Starck, Peters,Miller, Weir -- look exhausted.

DJ

He'll live... if we evermake it back.

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MILLER

We'll make it.

STARCK

CO2 levels will reachtoxic levels in

four hours.

Peters stands, looking atJustin's ravaged form floating in the tank.

Peters. We need to knowwhat happened to the crew. Before it happensto us.

bridge, I won't go back,back in there... *

MILLER

Thanks. *

Peters exits.

STARCK

Justin said somethingabout, "The dark inside me..." What didhe mean?

answer we've had outof you is "I don't know."

WEIR

Justin just tried to killhimself. The * man is clearly insane. *

DJ

How would you explainyour own behavior? *

WEIR

What?

STARCK

On the bridge. You said "it"wanted you. *

Weir glances at Justin...

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But it's not Justin inthe tank. It's his wife CLAIRE, naked, wet, dead. Weir staresat her.

DJ

Yes. You did.

Weir blinks. Justin floatsin the grav couch. Weir turns back to the others.

Maybe I'm insane, too.

Weir exits.

Miller follows Weir outof the Gravity Couch Bay.

want to know why oneof my crew tried to throw himself out ofthe airlock.

WEIR

Thermal changes in thehull could have caused the metal to expandand contract very suddenly, causingreverberations --

That's bullshit and youknow it! You built this fucking shipand all I've heard from you is bullshit!

WEIR

What do you want me to say?

MILLER

You said this ship createsa gateway...

WEIR

Yes...

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MILLER

To what? Where did thisship go? Where did you send it?

MILLER

Where has it been forthe past seven years?

MILLER

The "Other Place,"what is that...?

going on here that Idon't understand. Truth takes time.

MILLER

That's exactly whatwe don't have, Doctor.

Miller moves through themaze of the ship, heading for the Bridge.

As he reaches a junction,he hears...

--e-ADISTANT CRY...

VOICE (OS)

Don't leave me...!

Miller wheels like a cat,staring wildly down the branching corridors.

Nothing. He is alone. Miller leans against the wall, sinks to the floor, restshis head in his hands.

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The grotesque ship continuesit's orbit as the moon Triton eclipses the sun. Darknessswallows all.

DJ enters, checks Justin'sdisplay.

MILLER (OS)

Any change?

DJ turns, surprised. Miller sits, barely visible in the dark.

DJ

No. No change.

(beat) I've analyzed Justin'sblood samples.

There's no evidence ofexcessive levels of carbon dioxide. Or anythingelse out of ordinary.

A grim LAUGH from Miller.

MILLER

Of course not. Justin justclimbed into the airlock because he feltlike it. Just one of those things.

(beat) I swore I'd never loseanother man. I

came close today. Realclose.

Miller nods, pulls his servicemedal from beneath his jumpsuit.

bosun, Corrick, a youngguy, a lot like Justin. Edmund Corrick,from Decatur, Georgia. He got caughtwhen the pressure doors sealed, one closedon his arm. Severed it at the wrist. The pain of that must have been...He passed out and...

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Miller trails off. DJwaits patiently. Finally:

him, but I couldn't getto him in time. The fire... Have youever seen fire in

zero-gravity? It's likea liquid, it slides over everything. It was like a

wave breaking over him,a wave of fire. And then he was gone.

(beat) I never told anyone untilnow. But this ship knew, DJ. It knowsabout the

Goliath, it knows aboutCorrick. It knows our secrets. Itknows what we're afraid of.

(beat, wan smile)

And now you're going totell me it's carbon dioxide.

DJ

No.

Miller sees something inDJ's expression.

MILLER

What is it?

And I think Houstonmade a mistake in the translation.

MILLER

Go on.

DJ plays the recording again. Stops it abruptly.

DJ

They thought it said, "Liberatisme,"

"Save me," but it's not "me." It's “tutemet:" "Save yourself."

warning.

Miller stares at him.

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this final part.

He plays the recordingagain.

DJ

Do you hear it? Rightthere.

MILLER

Hear what?

What are you saying, areyou saying that this ship is possessed?

DJ

No. I don't believe inthat sort of thing.

(beat)

But if Dr. Weir is right,this ship has passed beyond the boundariesof our universe, of reality. Who knows where this ship has been... What it's seen...

(beat)

And what it's broughtback with it.

DJ looks at Miller. Hedoes not have an answer. The intercom CRACKLES:

Captain Miller, we're readyto re- pressurize the Clark.

On my way.

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Miller stands in his EVAsuit in the darkened bridge. He twists a manual valve.

MILLER

Alright, Cooper.

Cooper looks at Smith.

COOPER

Cross your fingers.

A moment later, mist flowsfrom the vents into the bridge, filling it with atmosphere. Miller watches the pressure rise on his suit gauge.

We're still venting tracegasses, gimme twenty minutes to plugthe hole.

MILLER

You got it, Coop.

Miller removes his helmet. Breathes deep.

MILLER

Back in business.

Peters sits in front ofthe screen. The log is still distorted.

Frustrated, she types ina series of instructions. Get to her feet.

PETERS

You got any coffee?

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Behind Peters, the processrefines, accelerates... pieces coming together like a jigsaw...

Peters turns around. Seesthe screen. The coffee slips from her hand to the floor.

Starck...

Starck turns, sees the screen.

PETERS

Sweet Jesus. Miller...MILLER!

Miller, Starck, DJwatch the video. Peters turns away, miserable. Unable towatch...

THE VIDEO SCREEN

still distorted by staticand roll, but finally lucid: FOUR ORIGINAL CREW of the EventHorizon. On the Bridge.

ONE MAN dislocates his shoulderwith a WET POPPING sound as he shoves his arm downhis own throat. Blood bubbles from his nose. With a SHUCKINGsound, he pulls his stomach out his mouth...

Behind him, a MAN andWOMAN fuck, covered with blood. She bites through his neck. His head lolls to the other side. She buries her face in thetorn flesh as he thrusts into her again and again...

Presiding over them, KILPACK. His eyes are bloody holes. His hands reach out inoffering. In the palms of his hands, his eyes.

Kilpack opens his mouthand speaks with an INHUMAN VOICE.

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KILPACK

Liberatis tutemet ex infera...

Miller switches off thevideo. No one says anything.

MILLER

We're leaving.

WEIR

You can't, your ordersare specific...

us.

WEIR

You're insane. You've lostyour mind.

MILLER

Maybe you're right. Butit's still my command, and I have leewayto abort when

I feel there is an unacceptablethreat to

my crew. And I thinkthere is.

(beat) %

Starck, download all thefiles from the % Event Horizon's computers. Coop, Smith, *

finish moving the CO2 scrubbersback onto +

the Clark. +

WEIR % (stammering) +

Don't... don't do this...

Peters enters, carryingheavy CO2 scrubbers. Smith stops her.

SMITH

What's going on, sweethearts?

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PETERS

CO2 scrubbers for theClark. Miller pulled the plug on themission.

Smith smiles.

SMITH

About goddam time.

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Weir follows Miller downthe Corridor.

WEIR %

What about my ship? +

MILLER %

We will take the Lewisand Clark to a

safe distance and then launchtac +

missiles at the EventHorizon until I am +

Satisfied that she hasbeen destroyed. (beat) +

Fuck this ship. +

WEIR +

You... You can't do that!

MILLER

Watch me.

Miller turns to walk away.Weir grabs Miller, wheeling him around, almost frenzied.

WEIR

You can't kill her, Iwon't let you! I

lost her once, I willnot lose her

again...!

Miller shoves Weir back intothe wall. The two stare at each other. Adversaries...

The lights cut to emergencylighting.

Miller, come in...

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Miller finds the intercom:

MILLER

Starck, what the hell isgoing on?

Starck peers at theEngineering board:

We just lost main poweragain.

Miller and Weir are barelyvisible in the darkness.

MILLER

Goddammit! Starck, getthose files and vacate. I want off thisship.

He releases the intercom.

Weir's voice is a WHISPERas he backs into the shadows.

WEIR

You can't leave. Shewon't let you.

MILLER

Just get your gear backonto the Lewis and Clark, doctor, oryou'll find yourself looking for aride home.

Weir is swallowed by thedarkness.

REGULAR LIGHTING snapson...

Miller looks around. Dr. Weir has vanished.

MILLER

Weir? WEIR!

He slams the intercom:

MILLER

All hands. Dr. Weir ismissing. I want him found and restrained.

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Starck gathers all the filesand disks. Shuts down the consoles, one by one.

Smith and Peters finishremoving CO2 scrubbers from panels in the walls.

SMITH

Let's go, let's go, thisplace freaks me out...

PETERS

Last one.

Peters follows Smith downthe First Containment towards the Main Access Corridor,carrying the last case of scrubbers. She begins to lag behind.

A GIGGLE echoes down theFirst Containment.

Denny?

She turns back to the SecondContainment...

POV PETERS

A SMALL FIGURE dashesthrough the darkness in the Second Containment. Denny...?

PETERS

Smith.

Peters turns, but Smith isalready out of sight. She hesitates. Moves backtowards Second Containment.

Again, Peters hears theGIGGLE of a child. The SCRAPE of metal on metal. She slowlymoves forward...

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-.-e-intothedarkness ofthe Second Containment. Peters sees an open accesspanel. She looks inside.

PETERS' POV - ACCESS DUCT

A narrow tube, vanishinginto darkness. A YOUNG CHILD'S VOICE echoes from faraway:

DENNY (OS)

Mommy...

PETERS

ducks her head and entersthe access duct.

PETERS

Denny...?

Miller sits at Justin'sengineering position. Flips a series of switches...

Cooper works on the patchas the ship's running lights come on in sequence...

The bridge lights flicker,illuminate...

Thank you.

Captain, we got a problem.

MILLER

Now what?

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Smith and Miller

SMITH

She was right behindme, I turn around,

she's gone. She couldbe anywhere.

MILLER

Alright. Prep the Clarkfor launch.

T'll find her.

Peters moves through theduct. Reaches a junction. Anything could be withher, there in the dark.

A child's WHISPER, too faintfor words. Peters turns...

Behind her, FOREGROUND,a YOUNG CHILD dashes across the corridor.

Peters turns back. Too lateto see. Again, the child's WHISPER draws her onward.

PETERS

Denny? Denny, come toMommy...

FAINT LAUGHTER is heronly answer. She follows the sound, now climbing into a verticalshaft that takes her higher and higher...

PETERS

Hold on, Denny, Mommy'scoming...

Peters pulls herself up fromthe vertical shaft onto a catwalk that snakes betweenhuge oily machinery, just in time to see...

A SMALL CHILD running,disappearing into the gloom ahead.

PETERS

Denny?

She runs forward into a junction. The lights flicker red.

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PETERS

Denny...?

DENNY

Mommy eo8@

Her son can barely be seenin the flickering darkness ahead.

PETERS

You can walk... Denny,you can walk... oh, my baby...

DENNY

Wanna show you, Mommy,wanna show you

something...

He reaches his arms outto her...

Peters steps forward, reachingfor her son...

...falling into an open accesshatch, hidden in the dark...

-.-.atwenty meter drop...

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Peters hits hard, liesbefore the Core, an offering of flesh and blood. Her legstwist beneath her, shattered; blood pools around herhead. Her chest heaves: still alive.

Denny...

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Denny peers down fromthe top of the shaft and GIGGLES. CLAPS his hands in childlikeglee.

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Weir wanders into FirstContainment, brooding.

Weir enters the SecondContainment. Freezes as he sees...

Peters body lying twistedand broken before the Core.

WEIR

Oh no. Peters...?

He rushes to Peters. Reaches out to touch her but pulls his hand back. Her eyesare black, eight-ball hemorrhage darkening the irises. She is dead.

WEIR

Why did you do that? You didn't have to do that...

CLAIRE (OS)

Billy.

Weir looks up from Peters'corpse.

CLAIRE stands beforethe Core. She is naked. Her skin is pale and beautiful andcold and wet. Her hair hangs in her face, covering hermilk-white eyes...

Claire stands naked beforethe bathroom mirror. Behind her, the tub steams...

INTERCUT)

Weir stares at Claire inshock. She walks to him. Slowly.

She stops in front of him. Her arms hang at her sides. He must reach for her.

He does, putting his handson her hips. He slides from his chair to the floor to hisknees. He presses his face to her pale belly and cries. SOBS wrack his body...

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-..-andin the bathroom, sheclutches Weir's straight- razor...

She reaches down. Slowly,her arms cradle his head. She Slides down on him. Straddleshim.

...-Claireslips into thesteaming water...

He raises his head to herbreasts. His eyes, closed. She remains unnaturally still,only her hips rocking back and forth.

Weir's mouth opens, GASPSas he enters her...

--eand the razor bitesher skin...

She caresses his face. Lifts his face to hers. Her mouth is slack. Her hair hangsin front of her eyes.

..--Clairefloats dead inthe red water, eyes open, hair billowing around her headlike a halo...

Weir gazes up at her, transfixed. He takes her hand and raises it to his face. She caresses his cheek. And reaches for his eyes...

A MUFFLED SCREAM ripsthrough the Second Containment Seal. It begins as a human soundand ends as something else, an alien CRY of rage.

The CRY echoes down theMain Corridor.

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DJ packs up blood samples. He raises his head at the sound of the CRY.

Starck GASPS as the CRYresounds through the bridge.

Miller turns in the directionof the CRY. He begins to move down the Corridor,towards the source.

Cooper examines theweld on the baffle plate. It's solid.

COOPER

Solid as a rock.

(into his radio)

Hey, Smith...

Smith, clear that airlock,man, I'm coming in.

SMITH

Roger that.

Smith carries another loadof supplies. Movement out of the corner of his eye...

He turns in time to seeWeir disappear around a corner inside the Event Horizon.

SMITH

Dr. Weir! Hey, get yourass back on board! Dr. Weir!

No response.

Smith keys the radio.

SMITH

Skipper, come in...

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Miller jogs down theMain Corridor. An INTERCOM gets his attention:

Skipper...

What is it, Smith?

around on the Clark.

Something SPARKS and SIZZLESin the dim light, catching Miller's eye. He looksup...

One of the EXPLOSIVE CHARGEShas been removed from the its mounting in the Corridor.

MILLER

Smith, get out of there...

Come again, Skipper?

MILLER

One of the explosives ismissing from the corridor. I thinkWeir may have put it on the Clark.

Smith's eyes openwide.

Get off the Clark nowand wait for me at the airlock.

SMITH

No, no, we just got herback together...

Get out of there now!

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But Smith has already leftthe airlock...

...entering the Quarters,tearing through storage lockers.

SMITH

Where is it, where is it...

MILLER

Smith? Smith! Fuck!

Miller races down thecorridor towards the airlock, towards his ship...

A BEEPING sound catchesSmith's attention. He follows the sound to a storage compartment. Rifles through it.

The BEEPS are coming closerand closer together.

Smith grabs a duffel.

Opens it. He sees theEXPLOSIVE CHARGE from the Event Horizon even as the BEEPSbecome a steady TONE. He closes his eyes and SIGHS...

WHITE LIGHT. A MASSIVEEXPLOSION...

Miller enters the dockingbay even as a HUGE BLAST knocks him back.

MILLER

NOOO!

Safety doors close, sealingoff the airlock and preventing loss of pressure.

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The SILENT EXPLOSION tearsthe Lewis and Clark into two pieces, spiralling away fromeach other and from the Event Horizon. Metal shards, likeconfetti, fill the space between them.

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Cooper clings to the forwardsection, watching the Event Horizon recede as hetumbles into space. His FRENZIED BREATHING is the only sound.

Miller gets to his feet. Stares out the window upon the wreckage of his ship, spirallingaway. He hits the intercom with his forearm.

MILLER

DJ. The Clark's gone. Smith and Cooper are dead.

DJ

What happened?

Weir. He used one ofthe explosives from the Corridor.

The door opens behindDJ. The lights go out. DJ turns...

Face to face with Weir...

Blood crusts Weir's cheekbones,his mouth. He has no eyes. Only clotted, empty sockets.

DJ opens his mouth to SCREAM. Weir grabs DJ by the throat, cutting him off.

UMBILICUS)

MILLER

DJ, you read me?

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DJ does not answer. The CRASH of glass and steel resonates over the intercom.

Too dark to see... glimpsesof violent motion in the stainless steel cabinets...the sounds of STRUGGLE continue...

...then something WET...and the struggle stops.

DJ? DJ, come in...

Finally, Weir emerges fromthe gloom. He searches among the surgical instrumentsuntil his blood caked hands find a needle... and thread...

Miller, at the intercom. He tries another channel.

MILLER

Peters...

Peters body lies beforethe Core. The intercom CRACKLES.

Peters, are you there?

Starck, do you readme? Starck...?

But it is Weir who answers. His voice sounds thick, choked with dirt.

MILLER

Son of a bitch!

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Miller yanks open a storagelocker full of zero-G tool. Lifts a nailgun. Chambersa round.

264/6EXT. LEWIS AND CLARK -EXPLODED HULL SECTION 264/6

Cooper watches the EventHorizon fall farther and farther away.

He checks his oxygen gauge. One tank full, one tank at half.

Cooper twists his backpackaround, giving him access to the oxygen tanks. He sealsoff his primary hose and disconnects the full tank. His gauge immediately goes to "Yellow - Reserve."

Cooper points the fulltank away from the Event Horizon and

The blast of pressurizedair pushes him towards the ship, leaving the wreckage ofthe Lewis and Clark behind.

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Miller races through thecorridors to Medical...

...and finds DJ, suspendedabove the table, neatly dissected. His organshave been laid out carefully before him on the steel table.

MILLER

Oh my God.

DJ raises his head.

Please...

MILLER

Oh, God, DJ, what do I...how do I...

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DJ

Please... kill....

MILLER

Oh God...

Miller raises the nailgunwith trembling hands. FIRES.

Miller approaches thedoor to the Bridge. It is open...

Miller stands in the doorway. A figure sits at the helm. Miller aims the nailgun.

MILLER

Weir.

The figure doesn'tmove. Miller slowly circles around the helm...

It's Starck. Boundwith wire in a sadomasochistic pose, unconscious.

MILLER

Hold on... Get you outtathese...

Miller kneels in frontof her, puts down the nailgun, loosens the cords. SheBREATHES in ragged gasps, opens his eyes...

Then stops. She staresover Miller's shoulder like a deer caught in the headlights.

Miller looks behind him...

WEIR STANDS THERE, STARINGWITH EYES SEWN SHUT.

Miller reaches for thegun...

Weir hits him, sendingMiller across the bridge into a bulkhead. Weir picksup the nailgun, examines it.

Miller slowly gets tohis feet.

MILLER

Your eyes...

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going, we won't need eyesto see.

MILLER

What are you talking about?

WEIR

Do you know what a singularityis, Miller? Does yourmind truly fathom what a black hole is?

(beat) It is NOTHING. Absoluteand eternal

NOTHING. And if God isEverything, then

I have seen the Devil. (a dead man's grin) It's a liberating experience.

With his free hand,Weir reaches for the navigation console. Flips a seriesof switches with gore caked fingers.

The display lights up.

COMPUTER

Gravity drive primed. Do you wish to engage?

MILLER

What are you doing?

Weir grins as he flipsthe final switch.

COMPUTER

Gravity drive engaged. Activation in T- minus ten minutes.

Miller lunges for the nailgun. Weir raises the nailgun to point at Miller's face. Miller slowly backs away.

You'll die too.

WEIR

What makes you think I'llmiss?

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Miller sees somethingout of the corner of his eye...

Cooper. Outside, bracedin the viewport bracket.

Weir spins and FIRES atCooper. The nail lodges in the thick quartz glass. A web of cracks spreads out from the bullet, the glass SHRIEKINGunder the pressure.

Weir takes a step towardsthe window, raises the gun to fire again.

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Miller dives for the door.Before Weir can fire,

the window EXPLODES outward.

The ship HOWLS as air rushesout, ripping Weir off his feet. Weir catches himselfin the broken window, trying to pull himself back in...

A monitor tears free, SMASHESinto him. HE IS SUCKED OUT.

Miller pulls himself throughthe door as it begins to shut. He is safe...

STARCK (OS)

Don't leave me!

Miller turns. Starckclings to a console, barely able to resist the winds thattry to suck her into the void.

Please... help, helpme...

Miller hesitates, lookingfrom Starck back into the safety of the ship. The doorcontinues to shut. In seconds, he will be safe. And shewill be dead.

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Miller YELLS and rips acompressor from its mount, wedges it in the door to keep itopen. He keeps one hand on the door, reaches the otherhand to Starck.

MILLER

Give me your hand! Yourhand!

She does. Frost formson their bodies as the air cools. Their veins begin to bulge,blood pulses from their noses. He YELLS with exertion...

...-dragsher to the door...through the door...

...as the compressor tearsfree, sucked into space...

...and the door SNAPS shut,missing them by a fraction.

Starck and Miller collapseagainst the door. A moment passes between them. Justhappy to be breathing...

-..and then the AIRLOCKKLAXON goes off.

MILLER

The forward airlock.

Starck and Miller racetowards the Forward Airlock Bay.

They enter, see a humanoidshape moving in the strobing light of the airlock.

STARCK

Weir can't be alive.

MILLER

Whatever was on thatbridge wasn't Weir.

Miller looks around fora weapon. Pulls a zero-G bolt cutter from the wall. Wields it like a bat.

MILLER

Stay behind me.

The inner airlock doorreleases with a HISS. Swings open.os@

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Cooper tumbles through,clawing at his helmet.

STARCK

Cooper!

Starck rushes to him,takes his helmet off.

He SUCKS air in, COUGHSit out.

COOPER

Let me breathe, letme breathe...

STARCK

You're okay now, it'sover...

Starck follows Miller'sgaze to a workstations's flashing display: GRAVITY DRIVEENGAGED. ACTIVATION 00:06:43:01...

MILLER *

Weir activated the drive. He's sending * us to the Other Place. *

STARCK

We've got to shut itdown, we've got to...

COOPER

How? The Bridge is gone.

STARCK

There must be a way! What about * Engineering?

COOPER

Can you shut it down?

the expert...

COOPER * I don't want to gowhere the last crew *

went. I'd rather be dead. *

MILLER

BLOW THE FUCKER UP.

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STARCK

Blow it up?

MILLER

We blow the Corridor. Use the foredecks as a lifeboat, separateit from the rest of the ship. We stayput...

man has gone before.

MILLER

You prep the gravitycouches. I'm going to manually arm thoseexplosives.

COOPER

Will it work?

Cooper nods, heads forthe gravity couch bay. Starck follows Miller to the steelpressure door.

MILLER

No. I'll be right back.

Miller opens the door.

MILLER

Close it behind me. Justin case.

Beat. Starck stares atMiller as if memorizing his face.

STARCK

Don't be long.

Miller smiles wanly. The door slides shut with a dull THUNK.

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Miller runs down the corridor. Stops at a bulkhead coupling. Kneels downto remove the cover from an explosive charge, switchit to MANUAL detonation.

Miller runs to the nextcoupling. Repeats the process...

Starck and Cooper checkthe gravity couches. One by one, they slide open...

STARCK

Hurry.

Cooper exits down a ladder. Starck turns to the console, activates three gravitycouches. Behind her, two begin to fill with blue gel...

..-.-andonebegins to fillwith blood... the hint of dark shapes moving within...

Starck doesn't see it,concentrates on the console.

THUMP. THUMP. Starckturns. Sees the bloody tank. Sees something moving insideit.

She slowly crosses tothe tank. Peers at it...

THUMP. A FACE PRESSESAGAINST THE GLASS, STARING BACK AT HER. WEIR. Bone andmuscle are exposed where the skin hasn't finished forming.

Starck SCREAMS and backsaway.

STARCK

Cooper...!

The glass BURSTS in anEXPLOSION OF BLOOD...

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A corridor beneath theGravity Couch Bay. Cooper searches through circuit panelsuntil he finds the EMERGENCY BEACON breaker. He runs a by-pass,activating it manually. The lights begins to STROBE...

DRIP. DRIP. A bloodstainspreads over his shoulder. He follows the drip to theceiling...

COOPER

Starck?

No response. He slowlymoves to peer up the ladder...

-.-.asSStarckCRASHES down,bloody but alive.

COOPER

STARCK

Run!

She shoves him away...

Weir appears at the topof the ladder, crawling down headfirst like a spider...

Starck gets to her feet,staggers away...

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CONTAINTMENT

Miller kneels, removingthe cover from the last explosive. Flips a switch.

A small cover pops open. Miller reaches in, removes a RADIO DETONATOR.

He arms the explosives. Watches the red lights on the explosives wink on inthe darkness.

He reaches for an intercom.

MILLER

We're armed. This fucker'sready to blow...

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STARCK

Miller, he's back, hewas in the tank...

CONTAINMENT

MILLER

Slow down, Starck, Ican't understand you, who was in the tank?

A figure seems to coalescefrom the shadows behind Miller.

You have to get back herenow, he's out there now, if he findsyou... t+

The figure moves forwardinto the light... Arcane runes etch Weir's face; his eyes,now restored, blaze with unholy zeal. +

CONTAINMENT

MILLER

Who? Who?

Weir.

MILLER

He's dead...

Miller glances over his shoulder. His jaw drops in Surprise as he sees...

Weir grinning at him...thenSMASHES the intercom with his fist, cutting off Starck'sVOICE.

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CONTAINMENT

Miller backs away.

Weir stands betweenMiller and safety.

CONTAINMENT

MILLER

You're dead, I saw youdie.

WEIR

Weir is dead.

MILLER

Then who the fuck areyou?

Miller?

FLAMES SPREAD OVER WEIR'SBODY, TRANSFORMING HIM INTO THE BURNING MAN.

BURNING MAN (CONT'D)

Do you remember me?

MILLER

Corrick...

BURNING MAN

You left me behind.

MILLER

That's not true...

and you did nothing. You stood there and watched me burn...

MILLER

SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

The Burning Man YELLS andraises his arm in accusation...

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..-.and FIRE RACES OUTFROM BEHIND HIM, flowing over the walls, the ceiling, the floor,racing for Miller like a rising tide...

CONTAINMENT

Miller runs. Dead ahead,the First Containment...

Miller runs fast. The fireis faster, flooding in behind him.

Miller dashes for the SecondSeal as IT BEGINS TO CLOSE. The fire gains on him, surroundinghim.

Miller dives through theSecond Seal...

...-barelymakes it...

..-SLAMS into the engineeringconsole. Miller looks back at the Second Seal. It'sstill open by a fraction when the fire hits it...

...-SENDINGA LANCE OFFLAME stabbing out towards Miller. He rolls aside as the firehits the console. The console EXPLODES.

The Second Seal shutstight, cutting the fire off. The paint on the Second Sealbegins to bubble and scorch... and then cools as the fire subsides.

Miller gets to his feet. Almost allows himself to relax. Then he sees his shadowbefore him, dancing in the growing red light. He turns...

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The Second Containment isa holocaust. Fire swarms over the walls. Burning jellydrips from Control Spikes. The Core itself is a blazingorb; the gyroscope that holds it glows red-hot.

Miller stares at theblazing Core.

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BURNING MAN (OS)

Don't leave me!

Miller turns. The BurningMan stands RIGHT BESIDE HIM.

He SMASHES Miller with abackhand that ignites Miller's clothes and sends him flying. The detonator falls from Miller's grasp, lost beneathtwo feet of coolant. Miller comes up CHOKING and SPLUTTERING.

The Burning Man stalkstowards Miller. The coolant STEAMS and SIZZLES at his feet.

Miller stares at the BurningMan as he approaches. Slowly rises to his feet.

MILLER

You're not Edmund Corrick.

The Burning Man's flameswane, revealing Weir's misshapen form.

Miller throws a wickedright. Weir catches Miller's fist. SQUEEZES until bloodwells up between his fingers. Then Slings Miller against acooling tank with BONE CRACKING force. Miller collapsesinto the slime, barely able to raise his head to breathe.

Weir slowly approaches.

MILLER

What are you?

WEIR

You know.

MILLER

You want me to believeyou're the Devil, well, I don't, that'sbullshit!

MILLER

Then what, what are you? Tell me...

WEIR

Better if I just showyou.

Weir's hands reach downand he grabs Miller by the skull. Miller GASPS as he sees...

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A SERIES OF SHOTS

Faster than the eye can see. More than mind can accept...

The ORIGINAL CREW writhenaked and bloody in carnivorous frenzy...

Peters' bloody grinningchild, devouring his mother...

MILLER writhes in Weir'sgrip. His hands flail out to the Sides. One hand brushesa long steel cannister sunk in the muck. A CO2 scrubber...

THE VISIONS CONTINUE:

DJ's dissected body, exceptthat here, DJ looks up, and smiles..

AN ALIEN SUN, red andbloated and dying.

AN ALIEN TERRAIN; a sluggish,oily, black sea. A hand reaches from the oil...

CLAIRE floating dead ina bathtub filled with the thick black fluid...

Justin, Starck and Cooper,crucified upside-down upon the Third Seal...

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MILLER

NO!

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His hand closes on the scrubberand he swings it across Weir's head. Weir reelsback, stunned.

Miller gets to his feet.

MILLER

You can't have them!

He hits Weir again. HARD. Blood gushes from Weir's skull, filling the runes onhis face.

Weir staggers. Miller attacks. Again and again and again...

This time Weir is ready. He catches the scrubber and tears it from Miller's grasp. SMASHES Miller to the floor with a Single blow. MillerGROANS.

the End. I am the darkbehind the stars.

I am the dark insideyou all.

Miller gets to all fours,trying to get up.

Weir kicks Miller savagely. Miller slides through the coolant, comes to restbeneath a walkway. He attempts to rise, collapses back intothe sludge.

Weir slowly stalks towardshim.

MILLER

You're lying...!

crew. You're all comingwith me.

MILLER

Starck... Cooper...

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Weir's grotesque face isinches from his. He reaches down and pulls Miller fromthe dripping ooze...

fist.

Miller stares dead-on intoWeir's hellish face...

...and raises his righthand. HE'S HOLDING THE DETONATOR.

You can't have them. Go to hell.

WEIR

NOOO!

MILLER DEPRESSES THE DETONATOR.

A small, silent EXPLOSIONblossoms in the aft section of the ship...

...-followedframes laterby a sequence of DETONATIONS that rip the Main Access Corridorapart and propel the foredecks away from the containmentsection.

The EXPLOSION knocks Starckand Cooper down. They hold on tightly as...

Waves of distortion rippleover the Event Horizon's containment section...

A dark sphere of energy spreadsout from the containment as the gateway opens...A BLACK HOLE...

The black hole beginsto shrink, imploding. As it collapses, it sucks Neptune'sblue clouds with it, creating a TITANIC WHIRLPOOLwith the black hole at its center...

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The SHRIEKING winds carrythe foredecks back towards the whirlpool, towards theblack hole...

Cooper and Starck slideacross the floor as the deck tips at a terrific angle...

The foredecks teeter onthe edge of oblivion...

The black hole collapsesutterly, vanishing to a point. An enormous SHOCKWAVE ripsout from the point of implosion.

The foredecks ride thewave away from the implosion and out of Neptune's atmosphereto safety...

The VIBRATIONS subside. Cooper and Starck stagger to their feet. Look out thewindow...

COOPER/STARCK POV

Neptune recedes, the uglyhole of the implosion already being erased by Neptune'sviolent winds...

Starck's voice is tiny.

STARCK

Miller...

Black planets silhouettedby a dying red giant. The Engineering Containmentof the Event Horizon drifts in the eddies of gas that swirland spiral into the bloated star.

MOVE towards the shipuntil its shadow consumes all...

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Starck awakens but the SCREAMScontinue as the Event Horizon calls out to her...she SCREAMS ... hands on her body... the CRIES stop...

Starck looks around uncomprehendingat the faces around her.

IT'S A RESCUE TEAM.

Cooper pushes them aside. She clings to him, CRYING...

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