"THE FIFTH ELEMENT" (1997)

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

by

Luc Besson

FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

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FADE IN:

Somewhere in the Nile at the edge of the desert.

CREDITS ROLL

WRITTEN: EGYPT 1913

OMAR and his mule zigzag along the bottom of sun scorched dunes.

The mule and the boy finally reach a camp. A few tents dwarfed by a huge temple door jutting out of the sand. The camp is deserted except for some kids by the temple entrance holding large mirrors, reflecting light into the temple.

Omar leaves his mule in the shade, seizes two goatskins and slips inside the temple.

Omar makes his way uneasily down a pillared corridor that opens into a vast room where an old scientist stands on a small wooden ladder in front of the wall across the room. PROFESSOR MASSIMO PACOLI. A young man is beside him, BILLY MASTERSON, age 25, an American student. He has a large sketchpad in his hands.

Behind them AZIZ, age 10, whose job is to hold the last mirror which shines light into the expansive room.

His fingers trace across the wall which is covered with symbols and strange hieroglyphs as he deciphers.

The Professor points emphatically to the snake, the symbol of Evil, coming through the door between the three planets in eclipse. C.U. Billy's hand sketches the snake quickly.

He is a natural artist.

The Professor's fingers touch the signs.

He calculates.

He reaches for the pad.

ANGLE ON: Omar. Standing at the entrance to the chamber with the water bag, entranced by the sight. A skeletal hand falls on his shoulder. Omar turns to an ancient PRIEST in a rough milled black cannock.

Startled but obedient, Omar gives the water bag to the Priest.

The Priest makes the sign of the Cross on the boy's forehead, dismissing him.

As soon as he is gone, the Priest turns a worried eye to the Professor.

ANGLE ON: The Professor is back to translating, Billy to sketching.

His fingers run on.

His fingers fall on the one element that has a human shape, surrounded by all the others.

The Priest opens the water skin and begins to pour a vial of powder into the skin.

ANGLE ON: Aziz falling asleep. The mirror falls, the light fails.

The boy struggles to stay awake. The mirror comes up.

The Professor turns to the Priest who is pouring water into a tin cup from the skin.

He hands the cup to the Professor. The Professor takes it, has it almost to his lips when..

In his excitement he does not drink, much to the Priest's chagrin.

As the Priest looks up, Aziz the mirror boy, tips his mouth under the water skin, drinking the leakage.

He points to the Five Elements.

The Priest hands Billy a cup.

The Professor raises the cup to drink, and then...

The Priest watches, disconsolate, as the Professor tosses away his water. Billy finishes his cup before running off into the tunnel.

A muffled SOUND grows steadily louder. Outside, a monstrous linear shadow disturbs the kid's game and gradually darkens the temple entrance.

Billy is looking for the grappa in the Professor's bag. He comes upon a machine pistol.

When the muffled SOUND suddenly grabs his attention. He leans toward the corridor and sees part of a spaceship appear. Billy is paralyzed.

The Professor keeps reading over the inscription.

Billy presses himself against the wall, in the shadows, terrified, but sketching away like mad, as large shadowed figures lumber past him. He begins to blink, feeling the effects of the Priest's potion..

The Professor reads the wall.

At that moment, the reflection from Aziz's mirror drops again. The light fails.

The room is flooded with light all of the sudden.

The Professor turns around, and is stunned speechless to find himself face to face with two MONDOSHAWANS. A dozen others fill the hall manning the source of the light, large luminous globes. Aziz is fast asleep.

The Professor is lifted up and carried off to the side by the aliens. The KOMMANDER stops in front of the Priest who is still on his knees, face to the ground.

The two MONDOSHAWAN GUARDS hold the professor three feet off the ground.

Billy staggers forward, a machine pistol in his hand.

The KOMMANDER holds out his hand to the Priest.

The Priest jumps to his feet excitedly.

The Kommander goes over to the wall and seems to be looking for a lock. He finds it and slides in his metallic finger which is more intricate than a key to a safe. He turns his hand, activating a mechanism that opens the wall.

The Kommander turns around and crooks a finger. One of the MONDOSHAWANS waves his hand, puts the professor to sleep and heads down the hallway revealed by the opening. He is followed by his men. The Priest slips in behind them.

The Kommander steps into a vast room. The ceiling is very high, pyramid-shaped. In each corner of the room, four vessels contain four rectangular twelve-inch stones-, the four elements. In the middle, an opaque sarcophagus rests on an altar. The Kommander stops and contemplates it a moment.

His men carry out his order.

Billy staggers across the floor, struggling to stay awake.

The Kommander opens a case. His men come and put the four, precious stones in it, one by one.

The Priest nods and lowers his eyes.

Angle on: Billy staggering forward, raising his pistol, blinking his eyes to focus..

A MONDOSHAWAN puts the fourth element in the case The Kommander shuts the case and looks at the Priest.

Billy suddenly staggers into the room, brandishing his gun.

Billy trips, the gun goes off. He empties the clip. The Mondoshawan carrying the case crumples to the ground. The wall immediately begins to close. Billy fires wildly, unable to control the powerful kicking gun.

The Priest rushes Billy. The weapon has such a kick to it that Billy starts shooting into the air, backs up, then stumbles and knocks himself out. The Priest is on the ground, seriously wounded. So is the Kommander. The WARRIORS are in a panic.

The wall continues to close. Sand pours in from everywhere. The vast room fills up like an hourglass.

The Kommander picks up the case and reaches the wall but can't get through it. His armor is too bulky, the opening too small. He manages to get his arm and the case through.

The wall closes, crushing his arm. The CLERK scoops up the case and runs through the huge piles of sand.

The CLERK boards the ship carrying the case. Omar hides in a corner, frightened to death, hugging Billy's bag of drawings.

The room fills with sand. The Priest's body is soon buried.

The huge ship's main hatch closes.

The ship lifts off and speeds away. Omar emerges from the temple gaping at the ship as it vanishes in the sky.

A gigantic shooting star flashes above the pyramids.

The ship passes in front of us and heads for the stars disappearing at unbelievable speed. The background is a star-spattered cosmos.

WRITTEN: 500 YEARS LATER

Another, more modern, spaceship, fills the screen. A warship belonging to the Federal Army.

CU of a digital control screen. Three planets projecting three straight lines that crisscross at one point. Identical to the one observed by the professor on the temple wall. GENERAL STAEDERT looks out through the ship's window at one of the three huge planets in eclipse.

In the middle of the shadows, a door to the nightmare has just opened. Evil is back. A round, moving mass, continually changing color.

General Staedert remains calm.

LINDBERG, 50, the president of the United Federations, his features lined and worn by various delegations, mainly military, enters his office. There's a crisis in the air. The President's AIDE leans down to his ear.

In the middle of the group is a Priest whose appearance reminds us of Egypt. A younger man DAVID, 18, shy, a priest- in-training attends the old man.

General Staedert leans over his screen and seems surprised to see the room but not the president.

The President grabs the mini-camera on his desk and yanks it around to face him.

His face fills the screen.

Consternation reigns in the President's office.

All the Generals nod "yes"

The President scans the room. Staedert remote controls the camera toward the room.

The camera moves up the Priest and we finally discover his face. He is in his sixties, a shrewd look in his eyes.

Around his neck hangs the Kommander's finger, the key to the temple.

All the Generals nod in agreement.

Staedert moves closer to the ship's window.

Evil swallows the probe and immediately bubbles over with activity like a furious volcano.

The President looks puzzled.

Marker lights on the objective.

All of a sudden, outside the ship, the strange planet's activity ceases. A black crust immediately covers it.

The President hesitates.

The missile explodes from the ship and penetrates its target. The explosion is swallowed like a fizzy pill in a small glass of water. Nothing happens. And then the mass grows larger.

Staedert looks worried.

The President is growing ever more worried.

A series of three missiles heads for the planet, which absorbs them all. And literally doubles in size.

A bead of sweat pearls Staedert's forehead. He is about to give an order when a gigantic flame emerges from the planet and literally swallows Staedert's spaceship.

The flame fills the screen with a horrendous NOISE that....

... wakes up a man trying to escape from a nightmare. KORBEN DALLAS rubs his head. Thirty five years old, short hair, powerfully built, unquestionable charm, good looking in spite of the scars here and there. The alarm clock is still ringing, it shows the date as March 18, 2359. It in two in the morning. Ha grabs a cigarette, and stops to look for a light. He shuts oft the alarm. He hears a cat mewing in the hall. But it still rings. Korben takes a moment and then realizes it in the phone that is ringing.

He grabs the phone and crosses his tiny apartment (27 feet long by 6 feet wide) heading for the door, patting himself for a light. Behind him, the bed makes itself automatically.

He opens the door for the cat and starts to rummage through a drawer for a match. Out come a handful of war decorations, a hero's collection.

...A Medal of Honor Certificate to Major Dallas

...A picture of Korben and his ex-wife on their wedding day.

...A picture of Korben and Finger in uniform next to a space fighter.

Korben finds a box of matches with three matches. He strikes one. It does not light. Korben opens the fridge, bare, except for an empty can of GEMINI croquettes.

On the packet is an ad: WIN A DREAM TRIP FOR 2 TO FHLOSTON PARADISE.

Korben heats up some brackish water.

Finger has hang up. Korben sighs and does the same. He gets the heated brackish water and sits down. The cat pounces on the table and meows for its food. Korben pours half the coffee in the cat's cup.

The cat meows. Korben taps his cup to the cat's saucer.

The office is emptied, only a few army officers remain. An ancient manuscript, Billy's drawings, sits in front of the President. Cornelius turns page after page, illustrating his point.

The President appears upset himself by this image.

The Mondoshawan spaceship bursts through a star cluster and fills the screen.

The manuscript is open on the President's desk..

CLOSE ON: Billy's rendering of the Mondoshawan.

The SUPREME BEING is standing, as if frozen in armor. All we see is the bottom half of his body. Big metallic gloves hold the case engraved with the emblem of the three suns containing the four Sacred Stones.

The President points to the spot occupied by the 5th element.

The President's nerves quiver.

The MONDOSHAWAN spaceship zips across the Federated Galaxy.

But it is not alone: Two black warships seem to be dogging it.

The MONDOSHAWANS have spotted the spacecraft chasing them.

A MANGALORE sits at the controls of the warship. His terrifying features tell us what sort of welcome they can expect. The pilot fires without warning.

The huge ship is badly hit and immediately swerves oft course.

Panic aboard the MONDOSHAWAN ship.

Blast after blast hits the defenseless ship.

The huge ship veers oft course and heads for a small red planet, taking hit after hit.

The huge ship approaches the planet at blinding speed.

The red planet looms ever closer.

The ship crashes in a gigantic explosion.

A thermo nuclear explosion fills a T.V. screen..Which Korben's cat watches with interest.

Korben is about to exit the apartment.

In response, the cat meows. Korben opens the door to..A huge gun, brandished by a nervous MUGGER, pointing right in his face.

Unperterbed, Korben looks at the mugger's fearsome weapon.

The mugger is lost. He looks at his weapon.

Korben points to the button on the side of the gun. The mugger takes his advice.

And with lightning speed, Korben blasts the mugger with a straight right hand, sending him down for the count. Korben retrieves the gun.

As the mugger clears his head, Korben opens a drawer next to him which is full of similar guns! The mugger's eyes pop out of his head. He scampers to his feet and runs off.

Korben shrugs, exits his apartment, and closes the door. The cat watches a nuclear holocaust on T.V., uninterrupted.

Korben enters his taxi. A robotic voice greets him.

VOICE Please enter your license..

Korben complies, and starts to push a series of buttons on the dash.

VOICE Welcome on board Mr. Dallas..

Korben hits a button. The garage door starts to open.

VOICE Fuel level 6.03..Propulsion 2x4...

VOICE You have nine points left on your license..

As the garage door lifts, the Megalopolis that is New York City in the 23rd century comes into view. Startling in it's height, and breath.

VOICE Have a nice day..

Korben lets the propulsion build.

He lets the gear slip. The taxi rockets off into the City.

Cornelius collapses in a chair.

The President motions to his guards to come and get Cornelius.

A weary Cornelius leaves the room with David's help.

An arm, on a surgical cart, moves down the hall of the Nucleological Center, the most sterile of environments.

PROFESSOR MACTILBURGH, age 60, hurries alongside GENERAL MUNRO.

They pass into the lab.

The two enter a cylindrical laboratory. There is a huge glass turbine in the middle with the metal glove inside. A DNA chain scrolls on the computer screen.

Munro hesitates a moment. Then he sighs and uses his personal key to open the self-destruct box.

Mactilburgh starts the operation rolling as Munro puts his hand on the sell-destruct button, ready to use it. Thousands of cells form in the heart of the generator, an assemblage of DNA elements. Then the cells move down a tube, like a fluid, and gather in an imprint of a HUMAN body. Step by step bones are reconstructed, then the nervous and muscular systems. Whole veins wrap around the muscles. An entire body is reconstructing before our very eyes.

A shield comes over the reconstructing body and makes it invisible.

The meter slows, drops to zero.

A whoosh of air in the glass chamber. Captain Munro has his hand on the self-destruct button, ready to destroy the being that has barely been reborn.

An electrical discharge fills the glass chamber causing the body inside to jerk.

After a few moments of silence, the SOUND of a heartbeat fills the room over the loudspeaker.

The Supreme Being is alive once again.

The ASSISTANT automatically removes the ultra-violet shield which slowly reveals... a woman... nude... young... and very beautiful. Munro stands there gaping. Not quite his vision of the Supreme Being. Mactilburgh glances at Munro and gently pushes his hand away from the self-destruct button.

Munro is hypnotized by the GIRL's beauty.

Mactilburgh looks at him with a grin. A remote-control camera approaches the girl's face, a flash goes off. Blinded by the flash, the girl jumps and screams. She cowers in a corner, shaking from the cold, darting eyes everywhere looking for the case she was holding.

The girl kicks the window repeatedly.

The ASSISTANT hits a button. A pile of clothes drops out of a trapdoor in the ceiling. She snatches up the clothes angrily and dresses quickly. Munro draws closer to the glass window. He watches her dress with undisguised pleasure.

The Girl finishes dressing.

Munro smiles safely behind his plate glass window.

Munro dangles the key on a chain that will let her out. The girl rams her fist right through the window. She grabs the key and yanks it. The chain snaps tight and Munro slams into the window knocking himself out. The girl puts her hand through the window again, unlocks the chamber and steps out. She is still bit wobbly on her legs. Two GUARDS try to grab her. She sends them flying across the room. Mactilburgh is most impressed. He sets off a general alarm.

The girl runs through a maze of corridors looking for a way out. A squad of SECURITY GUARDS appear in front of her and open fire without warning. The girl takes a leap, grabs an air vent, kicks it out and dives into the air shaft. The COPS try and jump up to the vent, but none can reach it.

The girl moves along unable to see what's ahead of her. She comes to a dead-end, a grill that leads outside. She pushes it out and exits onto the ledge.

She has exited to a ledge on the 450th floor of a building, right in the middle of Manhattan, which we discover for the first time. The city has become monstrous.

Buildings rise 600 stories. Cars fly. Subways run vertically...The girl edges along the narrow ledge, unfazed by the height. The CHIEF leans out the vent, looking out into the void.

The COPS stare into the gaping void.

The CHIEF angrily pulls out his gun and shoots at the girl who ducks around the corner of the building. Unfortunately the other side in full of cops as well. A flying police car zooms up in front of her, sirens blaring.

VOICE (O.S.) This in the police. Your status is illegal. Please put up your hands and follow our instructions!

The girl feels trapped. She looks down into the endless 450 below and all the cars flying underneath her. Then she raises her arms... and dives off.

In a panic, the COP makes a wrong turn. The girl falls for several seconds.

She lands on the roof of a flying cab.

Korben tries to control his car, reeling from the impact.

VOICE (O.S.) You have just had an accident. Seven points have been temporarily removed...

Korben manages to stop his cab, pulls over to the side.

VOICE / KORBEN You have one point left on your license. Have a good day.

Korben sighs and looks in the back seat to see what the damages are. The girl, a bit dazed (who wouldn't be), emerges from the debris and sits up. There's some blood on her face. Korben is stunned. The girl's still alive and... so beautiful. His heart heads for a meltdown.

A police car with wailing sirens halts in front of Korben.

The police car presses up against the cab. Doors slide open. Huge guns point at her.

Korben feels lousy. The girl's helpless, there are tears in her eyes, she looks exhausted.

Korben glances at her in the rear view mirror. She's looking all around to find something to help her communicate with him.

HER POV: AN AD ON THE BACK OF THE SEAT. AN 800 NUMBER TO HELP AN ORPHANAGE. A TEARY

photo of a kid over the words Please Help. She shoots to Korben a look of pure distress.

Korben can't resist her plea.

But he cannot say no to her eyes.

Korben shuts oft the meter and floors it, sideswiping the police car as he roars away.

VOICE (O.S.) Your license has been revoked. Would you please....

Korben whips out a gun and shatters the loudspeaker.

The police car takes out after him, sirens screeching. An insane chase ensues.

Korben and his flying taxi are absolute masters of the air. The cops have trouble following him but then another cop car comes to join in the fun. Korben drives like a man possessed, nothing can stop him. Except the dead-end he's just come up against.

Korben turns his cab sideways and scrapes through a narrow passageway, ripping his taxi light from the roof. The police car smashes into the wall. The other one brakes just in time.

The car makes a U-turn, looking for a wider passageway.

The police car roars up, sirens screaming then slows down and checks out a dead-end flanked by a large vertical neon billboard. The dead-end is empty . Korben's cab is hidden vertically behind the billboard. Seeing nothing, the police drive away.

The girl grabs his shirt collar and pulls him close, whispers in his ear.

The girl hands him the handle of the case, struck with the three Egyptian suns.

The girl nods, then faints. Korben is somewhat lost faced with so much mystery.

The door opens. Korben is there with the unconscious girl in his arms.

Cornelius closes the door. The doorbell RINGS again.

Korben hands him the metal handle with the three Egyptian suns, stamped on it.

He faints dead away. Korben, with the girl still in his arms looks around helpless.

In his armchair, Cornelius gets woken by a slap in the face.

Cornalius gets up. He looks at the handle.

And then it dawns on Cornelius who the girl is.

Cornelius runs into the next room. Korben looks at the girl, goes to slap her, then changes his mind.

Her beauty troubles him. He hesitates, then, gently caresses her cheek. Her skin seems so soft, so fragile.

David, is mending a cassock when Cornelius bursts into the room out of breath.

He opens a closet filled with identical robes and plunges in, disappearing as David looks on, uncomprehending.

Korben gently kisses the girl's cheeks, but she doesn't respond. He looks around then kisses her on the lips. The girl's eyes snap open. When Korben straightens up he discovers his own gun jammed under his chin.

The girl pauses a moment. She stares at him, looks puzzled.

The girl hesitates, then snatches the card like a wild animal.

Cornelius is lost in the closet.

Korben is falling in love.

Cornelius bursts into the room. She turns the gun on him.

He bows before her.

LEELOO lowers her guard starts to laugh. An irresistible childish laugh.

Korben smiles.

David bows low, but his eyes glance up at Leeloo. Cornelius begins to lead Korben toward the door, hustling him out.

Cornelius takes his arm. Leeloo stops laughing when she sees Korben leaving.

Cornelius is about to close the door. Korben's hand blocks it.

Cornelius slams the door in his face.

Korben beads down the hallway. He passes his NEIGHBOR.

Korben enters his-apartment.

The door slides back and the cat comes rubbing up against him, tail in the air.

The cat meows, appeased, just an the phone rings.

Korben takes out a cigarette.

Leeloo has a towel wrapped around her, it looks like she just took a shower. She sits in front of a computer wolfing down some chicken. Data scrolls by on the screen. David watches from the corner, in awe.

Leeloo breaks into her childish laughter.

She laughs again and tosses some capsules into the microwave.

Leeloo takes her plate out of the microwave. A steaming plate heaped with chicken and exotic vegetables.

She sits back down in front of the screen and chomps away heavily on her second chicken. Cornelius sits opposite her. and holds up the case handle.

Leeloo nods her head, quite unperturbed and continues to devour the food in front of her.

CLOSE ON: A pair of feet limping heavily. A MAN comes alongside them.

They reach a door at the end of the corridor. Zorg enters a code.

ZORG turns slowly. A small scar across run across his face, his eye stutters.

This is not a man to cross, or contradict.

The door opens...

... and David enters carrying a bundle of clothes.

Leeloo is happy. She pulls off the towel and stands there nude. Cornelius and David turn away.

Leeloo finishes dressing. She is delighted.

David smiles, dumb with admiration. Cornelius comes over.

We must get them back.

Leeloo settles down, sits at the computer and turns it on.

A group of handsome WARRIORS approaches. AKNOT, their leader has the sacred case in his hands. The metal handle is missing but the second metal glove is still grasping the case.

The LEADER nods. A disgusted look stamps Zorg's features.

AKNOT's face burns away revealing the head of a monstrous MANGALORE.

AKNOT says nothing, but if his eyes could talk!

He takes out a weapon from one a crate and goes into a sales pitch.

Meanwhile, two MEN set up a mannequin rigged with various defense mechanisms at the far end of the warehouse.

With the replay button, another Zorg innovation, it's even easier... one shot.

He fires at the mannequin.

Zorg spins around, the rounds all hit the mannequin.

He fires off each item he names.

The mannequin has been blasted into a pile of ashes covered by a net, stuck with arrows, the whole mess frozen solid. He tosses the weapon into AKNOT's hands.

AKNOT sets the case on a crate. Zorg gloats while stroking the case.

Zorg smiles, takes a deep breath, opens the case. It's empty

Leeloo breaks into her childish laughter once again.

AKNOT looks into the case. Things grow tense.

Leeloo explains what happened in her language.

A map of the stars flashes onto the screen, Leeloo points.

The little group comes over to look.

Zorg calmly closes the case and gives Aknot a blood-chilling stare.

AKNOT's men grow edgy.

He holds up four fingers.

AKNOT's warriors turn their weapons on Zorg.

Zorg's men leave a crate and exit with the other three.

Zorg walks along the street to his limo. RIGHT ARM carries the empty case.

The warriors have all taken a weapon. One of them inspects his ZF1. He turns it over and notices the little red button. He presses it.

Behind Zorg, an ear-shattering explosion levels the warehouse.

Korben is finishing a Thai meal, cooked by a Thai on his mini restaurant anchored at the window. The cat eats next to Korben, contented.

The cat meows just as a red light blinks, announcing the arrival of a message in a glass tube. Korben ignores it.

Korben hesitates, then gives the envelope to the Thai, who opens it with a big smile that fades as reads the contents aloud.

Korben smiles at him.

The cat meows.

Leeloo is polishing of' an immense pile of dessert as David bangs away at the computer.

The doorbell rings.

Cornelius opens to Right Arm with armed escort.

Zorg turns to Cornelius.

Zorg leads Cornelius into his inner office.

Zorg pushes the glass with his finger.

Zorg pushes the glass off the table. It shatters on the floor.

Small individual robots, both free-wheeling and integrated, come zipping out to clean up the mess.

A SERVANT comes in pours water in another glass. Zorg tosses a cherry into it.

Cornelius sits in silence.

Zorg smiles, holds up the glass and takes a drink.

Unfortunately, he chokes on the cherry. Unable to breathe, Zorg starts to panic.

Zorg falls, writhing, on his desk, inadvertently hitting buttons which trigger a slew of little mechanisms. They pop out all over the desk. True chaos reigns. Even a cage appears, holding a Souliman Aktapan, a fat multicolored beastie, PICASSO, who seems surprised to be out in daylight. He licks his half-dead master in thanks. Cornelius gets up and walks around the desk. Zorg motions for help.

Cornelius whacks him on the back. The cherry comes flying out. Zorg regains control of himself. GUARDS come running in.

The GUARDS throw Cornelius out.

The GUARDS drag Cornelius out of the office.

Right Arm salutes and hurries out of the office.

...The dark planet. Three warships are positioned in front of it.

Communication satellites arrive from all over the place, drawn to it like a magnet.

President Lindberg appears even more crushed by recent events.

MUNRO enters the office just as a cockroach crawls onto the desk. There's a small antenna on its back.

Zorg's Right Arm wears earphones, monitoring the President's conversation with the cockroach-spy.

The President is all ears.

So is Zorg's Right Arm.

The President breathes easier.

Zorg's Right Arm is delighted.

The President crushes the cockroach with his shoe.

Right Arm's earphones fly off his head. Good-bye eardrums.

C.U. The most disgusting dessert ever made. Korben looks at it shimmying on a plate as the Thai serves it to him proudly.

Korben forces a weak, polite smile as the Thai looks on expectantly. The phone rings.

Korben rises to get his cigarettes, and answer the phone.

Korben goes to light his cigarette. There are only two matches left in the match box.

Korben strikes one and it fizzles.

The Thai starts to clean up. Just as Korben goes to strike the second match..

Korben sighs and puts the match back in the box.

Korben enters his code on the keypad the Thai is holding.

The Thai casts oft. Korben closes the window.

The Thai flies off. In the hall, the cat meows-for more food.

A message drops in his tube. The red light goes on.

He eyeballs the message still in the tube. The doorbell rings.

Korben hangs up before his mother can say anything and heads for the door. Before he gets there it opens, General Munro enters followed by a Captain and a Major.

MAJOR ICEBORG is a woman. All she needs to become a man is a mustache.

Munro opens a file.

Munro pulls out a long list of documents.

Munro removes the message Korben hasn't bothered to look at.

He hands Korben the tickets. Korben gets it.

Munro nods.

The idea of taking a trip with Iceborg makes him sick.

Leeloo and Cornelius search for Korben's apartment. Leeloo carries the card Korben gave her. Cornelius finds the apartment, and yanks the. number off the door. He waves Leeloo over as his hand goes to the bell.

The doorbell rings.

Korben goes to the door and looks out the peephole: the beautiful Leeloo.

Korben panics, overcome with happiness.

Korben has two seconds to make up something to get rid of Munro.

He puts them in the fridge, shoving the jellyfish cake in Iceborg's hands.

Korben slams the fridge door. The doorbell RINGS again.

He whips through his place in ten seconds, gathers up things laying about, shuts drawers, rolls up his laundry in the folding bed. He brushes his hair back and opens the door with a big smile only to discover a gun stuck between his eyes held by Cornelius.

Cornelius is disappointed. Leeloo looks crestfallen.

VOICE This is a police control action...

Everyone freezes as the whole building resounds with the electronic voice.

A group of POLICEMEN bursts into the hallway. One of the cops enters a code on the police wall box. A device descends from the ceiling, a flashing light-siren, a VOICE fills the air.

VOICE This is not an exercise. This is a police control.

Cornelius starts to panic. Korben takes charge.

Korben pushes a button sending the fridge to the next floor. A shower takes its place.

Leeloo hops in. Korben tosses Cornelius on the bed.

...and hits a button on the wall. The bed disappears into the wall.

Korben grabs his tickets and slides them in his belt.

Meanwhile, the automatic police voice continues.

VOICE ...Spread your legs and place your hands in the yellow circles, please.

A COP slaps a viewer device on Korben's door which makes part of it transparent.

Korben takes his time hiding his face. The Cop looks at his sheet. He's looking for a... KORBEN DALLAS. He has his picture, but it is Korben with long hair and beard.

C.U. Korben's calling card is clumsily stuck to the door of the neighbor's apartment.

COP 3 slaps the viewer on the nasty neighbor's door. The neighbor is at his sink shaving instead of against the wall, COP 1 arrives with Korben's picture.

The neighbor steps right up to the viewer, shaving cream on his face. He could pass for Korben.

Korben still has his hands to the wall.

SHOT O.S. EXPLOSION. Scuffle.

The riot police hustle down the hall dragging the neighbor behind them in a canvas bag.

A cop is on the wall phone.

Right Arm is on the phone, facing Zorg.

He hangs up.

He shows him a plane ticket, and a passport with his picture and Korben's name.

Zorg sits there quietly for a moment.

Korben opens the shower door. Leeloo is soaking wet, her teeth chattering from the cold.

His eyes fall on an old blanket.

Korben wraps her in an blanket and vigoroualy rubs her back. Leeloo warms gradually and snuggles closer to that warm comfortable shoulder. Korben's rubbing slows, looking more like caresses.

Leeloo suddenly realizes that she has maybe gone a bit too far.

She recovers, looking embarrassed too.

The intimacy makes him nervous. He looks for a diversion.

He pushes a button on the coffee machine.

Korben rummages through the drawer. Leeloo, innocent, doesn't seem to quite understand everything that is going on.

He rummages through the cupboard, exceedingly nervous. Leeloo smiles and begins to look around. She opens a drawer and comes upon...

...pictures of Major Korben Dallas War Hero.

She looks back to the man fumbling for honey.

And she smiles.

Korben holds up the jar of honey.

Leeloo innocently sticks his finger in the jar then puts it in her mouth.

She savors the honey, slowly; sensually. Her lips shine with honey. Her eyes narrow with pleasure. Korben is hypnotized by her lips, like a moth attracted to a flame. He begins to lose control, which makes him nervous.

An indistinct sound comes from the wall. But Korben is so entranced with the sight of Leeloo licking her honied fingers, he doesn't hear it until it becomes quite a racket.

Korben pushes the button on the wall. The bed pops out, fully made, with Cornelius tucked in it, struggling to get out.

Korben begins to pull at the covers when...

Korben turns..

He turns to Leeloo struggling out of her wet clothes. His breath is taken away by the sight of her perfect body.

Cornelius whacks him heavily on the head with a lamp. Korben drops to the floor.

The POLICE exit the elevator and head for the front door. A cop suddenly takes a hit from a silencer, then a second. Others are bashed on the head by MANGALORE warriors. One of them picks up the prisoner bag, takes it into a small shed.

Aknot, the Mangalore leader, is seriously wounded and can't walk.

Korben gets unsteadily to his feet, some blood drips down his face. He daubs at it.

The phone rings, he manages to answer.

He hangs up.

Korben opens the fridge door. The three officers are frozen solid. Korben grabs some ice, presses it to his forehead.

He closes the door.

Cornelius and Leeloo (still damp) arrive at the Manhattan Intergalactic Airport.

A huge hall three quarters filled with trash piled up to the ceiling.

There are groups of extra-terrestrials on strike standing in trash holding picket signs. A SECURITY GUARD picks up a phone off the wall.

A hand taps Leeloo from behind. She whips around catching David in the face.

He turns to David who in holding his bloody nose.

David hands Cornelius two passports.

He hands it to her. The name makes her smile.

She frowns.

She looks at David holding his bloody nose.

ANGLE ON: Korben comes rushing into the airport. Walking quickly, he scopes the hall looking for Leeloo. A POLICE PATROL bearing down on the STRIKERS jostles him. The cops open fire. The strikers dive into the garbage and disappear.

David nervously puts tickets and IDs on the check-in counter.

Leeloo tosses her suitcase on the conveyor belt.

David gives her a bleak smile. Leeloo rolls her eyes.

Back a ways, Korben has spotted Leeloo and... David. He heads right for them.

Leeloo's seen him. She is both delighted and panicked. David's seen nothing. Korben presses one of his fingers like a gun to David's back.

Paralyzed, David leaves. Korben turns to the attendant.

He looks at David's fake ID.

Leeloo is unable to hold back a smile.

Korben grabs the ID and reads it.

Leeloo rips her boarding card out of the attendant's hand.

He winks at the stewardess.

ANGLE ON:

The neighbor and a tawdry young girl cross the airport. The couple in almost knocked over by a police patrol holding a 500 pound PIG on a stainless steel leash. The couple panics a moment, the realize the patrol isn't for them. The pig heads for the pile where the strikers disappeared.

The pig piles into the garbage. The Cop cuts it some slack.

Cornelius sits at a bar.

The bartender, a robot, nods his head as he pours Cornelius a drink.

ANGLE ON:

The nasty neighbor and his wife hand their tickets to the check-in attendant.

The check-in attendant triggers a transparent blue light that shines on their faces, revealing two other faces:

Mangalores.

She hits a silent alarm, but the Mangalores feel something is wrong.

They spin around and hurry away.

ANGLE ON:

Cornelius at the bar, half in the bag.

Cornelius turns to David.

He hands David the Temple Key from around his neck.

Cornelius tosses David's drink into his own, downs it all in one shot, and takes off, passing the Mangalore couple headed for the exit. They are very nervous.

A police patrol is coming. This time, it seems to be for them.

The tawdry girl nods and peels off. The neighbor takes out a gun and blasts away at the cops. The cops fire back. A firefight rages in the hall. The tawdry girl dives into a pile of garbage and disappears.

ANGLE ON:

On one side of the hall, a trap door opens. Three pigs come running out, grabbed by their police handler.

Cornelius waits until everyone has left, gets down on all fours and crawls through the trapdoor reserved for the pigs.

Leeloo stands at the buffet in the first class lounge eating everything in sight.

Korben is led down the hall by a STEWARDESS.

The stewardess stops in the corridor.

The stewardess smiles and shakes her head. The door next to him suddenly swings open and smashes him in the face.

In walks LOC RHOD amidst a tornado of music and security guards. He is young, good-looking, eccentric, charming as an elf or sly as a fox. A bundle of energy. He is the 24th century's most popular DJ.

An ASSISTANT hands a totally lost Korben a mike.

Loc Rhod grabs Korben's arm and leads him down the hallway, as fast as the music.

Loc Rhod lets go of Korben's arm and grabs the Stewardess.

Loc Rhod rubs up against the stewardess.

They come to an intersection. The airline company has prepared drinks for them. Loc Rhod pushes on, grabs a glass of champagne, scribbles his autograph.

He tosses away his champagne glass.

Howling, Loc Rhod grabs another stewardess by the arm.

The stewardess shivers. A BEEP is heard.

The MUSIC suddenly stops. Several assistants come and compliment Loc Rhod who sighs, lights up a cigarette, and drops his pretense.

That does it. Korben grabs him by the collar and drags him into a corner.

Loc Rhod's feet don't touch the ground.

The Check-in attendant has two more tickets in her hand.

Zorg's Right Arm gives her a big smile.

The attendant scans the ID with a yellow beam, it checks out, and the blue light reveals no other face but his.

Right Arm's smile shatters.

A shrill BELL rings out.

The attendant hits a button. A thick window slowly slides up between them.

Right Arm totally loses it.

He pounds on the counter with both fists. A steel curtain comes down. Red sighting beams target spots on his body, ten gun barrels protrude from the wall, all aimed at him.

VOICE (O.S.) This is not an exercise. This is a police control.

Put your hands in the nearest yellow circles...

Korben makes his way in the plane looking for his seat. No more seats in modern planes, just individual travel boxes lined up like microwaves. He passes STEWARD holding his bloodied nose. He has found what he is looking for. He enters to.... Leeloo quietly stretched out in front of a computer screen. Korben slips in beside her. Leeloo in concentrating on the words that scroll rapidly past her on the screen. He doesn't understand what she is doing.

Leeloo smiles, as if complimented.

Leeloo types in "LOVE" on the keyboard.

Leeloo types in this new word.

She brings up a picture of a 60's style Hippie flashing a peace sign. Korben sighs and switches off the screen.

Korben just stares at her for a few minutes.

He turns the computer back on.

ANGLE ON:

A STEWARDESS walks up the aisle of the shuttle pushing the red buttons on top of each individual box.

VOICE (O.S.) ...to make your flight as short and agreeable as possible, our flight attendants are switching on the timing sleeper which will regulate your sleep during the trip...

ANGLE ON:

Korben doesn't know if he should laugh or not.

Korben literally melts.

Luckily, a stewardess smiles at him through the box window.

The stewardess sets the timing sleeper. Korben and Leeloo immediately fall asleep.

A STEWARDESS at the other end of the shuttle has a problem.

Three CREW MEMBERS prepare for liftoff.

Stewardess 1 enters the cockpit.

The Stewardess leaves with a smile. A red light flashes on the vast control panel.

A GROUND CREW MEMBER goes over to the truck parked under one of the plane's wings and bangs on the side of it with a shout.

Two DISINFECTORS in hermetically sealed suits exit the truck. They go over to the front landing gear and send up a whooshing beam. The flame burns everything it touches. A pack of repugnant creatures falls squealing from the landing gear. A small trapdoor is opened under the shuttle and a huge slightly phosphorescent tube falls out.

Zorg's Right Arm is in a phone booth in the middle of the hall.

He is already sweating.

Loc Rhod is wrapped around a stewardess like a snake.

TWO GROUND CREW MEMBERS stick an enormous, highly phosphorescant tube into the opening.

Have a nice flight.

Right Arm reads off the phone number.

The runway is now empty. A man slips out of the shadows. It's Cornelius. He scurries over to the front landing gear.

He pauses for an instant, the climbs up the wheel well and disappears inside the shuttle.

The pilots are going through the pre-flight check list.

The mechanic presses a series of buttons.

Loc Rhod undoes a series of buttons on the stewardess' blouse, behind a curtain. He whispers a poem. Impossible to resist him. Outside the curtain the stewardess' legs rise slowly.

On the ground, protective fire curtains rise slowly to contain the engine exhaust on liftoff.

A keyboard slowly appears in front of Zorg.

SERIES OF QUICK CUTS:

The pilot gradually turns the engines up.

- The stewardess undergoes a power surge from Loc Rhod that's about to lift her of.

- Zorg finishes gleefully typing in the number.

- The engines at full blast.

- The stewardess in close to screaming.

- The copilot pushes a button.

- So does Zorg.

- The engines release their full power.

- The stewardess screams in ecstasy.

- In the hall, Right Arm literally explodes along with the phone and everything else within 60 feet.

The stewardess' legs slowly descend and disappear behind the curtain.

In the cockpit, the atmosphere loosens up.

Korben and Leeloo sleep soundly in their box. Leeloo has a smile on her face and her hand in Korben's.

The spaceship rockets past us, then suddenly vanishes with amazing speed. Space is now empty and calm. Billions of stars glow in perfect silence.

The nefarious planet in still there, immobile, even larger now, writhing like a serpent.

Then, suddenly, for no apparent reason, all activity stops and it becomes gray and cold.

In the Admiral's starship, scientists watch the measuring device. One of the devices suddenly starts working.

The Head Scientist stands facing the President, who is looking more tired than ever.

The President and his Generals look at him in astonishment.

Picasso purrs contentedly on Zorg's lap. The phone rings.

Zorg shoots to his feet. Picasso tumbles to the floor. Zorg picks up the phone, both excited and uneasy. He stands there, almost coming to attention.

The voice is feeble. It comes from the far reaches of time, from the bowels of the universe.

SHADOW'S breathing is awesome.

Zorg brings up a huge screen and pushes a few buttons.

In the middle of an electronic snowstorm, a blackish, vaguely human, quiverinq form appears. Two eyes, like lava, give an idea where the head is. Zorg feels sick.

Shadow pauses an instant. A black slimy liquid starts to ooze from the top of the screen. Zorg is feeling worse all the time.

The black liquid oozes all over the screen which starts to melt. Zorg sweats profusely, his legs tremble.

Zorg sighs and sits down totally freaked.

The space shuttle fills the screen. It banks left and begins its descent toward Fhloston, the turquoise planet. Crystal blue water, perfect white sand beaches. A true paradise.

The stewardess picks up a microphone to make an announcement.

Stewardesses walk down the aisles waking the passengers one by one. They press a button on the door of each box.

In the corner, Loc Rhod and the stewardess awake with a start and straighten their clothes quickly. The stewardess is embarrassed.

Loc Rhod puts on his sunglasses and presses a finger to her lips. He disappears behind the curtain leaving the sighing stewardess on her own.

The spaceship descends through some clouds and glides over a vast turquoise sea.

Fhloston Paradise looms into view. An enormous oceanliner floating a dozen yards above the water. On closer inspection it is more modern than a traditional oceanliner.

The shuttle draws near, looking ridiculously small next to the monster. Like a sardine next to a whale.

A blinking light goes on.

The 1st Mate heads off.

A stewardess opens Korben's box door. He is still heavy with sleep. He looks over at Leeloo. She's not there.

The tiny space shuttle clings to the huge oceanliner.

The Pilot maneuvers the ship into it's docking area.

The 1st mate pries open the door to an overhead panel. Cornelius falls out, hanging in a jumble of wires.

The enormous door opens and the passengers exit. Leeloo is among them. She appears quite impressed by the beauty and luxury of the 19th century decoration.

Korben attempts to make his way up the shuttle's aisle.

A dozen policemen wait patiently at the end of the hall. Leeloo stops and presses against the wall. She spots Korben leaving the shuttle. A gorgeous HOSTESS comes up to him, drapes a lei around his neck and plants a kiss on his lips in welcome.

Korben's face is covered in lipstick. Leeloo sees he did nothing to stop the girl and she doesn't like it.

A HEFTY MAN wearing a sarong drapes some flowers around her neck. Then, obviously relishing it, he leans down to kiss her. Leeloo bashes him on the forehead. The hefty man straightens up. He's still smiling, but his nose is bleeding. He falls slowly to the floor.

Korben pushes forward trying to spot Leeloo. He also tries to wipe the lipstick off.

Leeloo tries to escape through a door marked PERSONNEL ONLY, but it's locked. A HOST looks at her with a grin.

Leeloo smiles and punches in an old code and twists the doorknob. The door opens with the sound of a braking lock. Leeloo smiles sweetly and enters as if nothing were amiss.

A shriek of joy fills the room. Korben turns around. The HOSTESSES cluster around Loc Rhod as he comes out of the plane. Loc Rhod spots Korben and latches onto his arm. It's not going to be easy to remain discrete.

Leeloo is in a small room, ear at the door, listening. Everything seems normal. She turns and discovers the room for what it is: a rest room for... three cops who look up from their books and stare blankly at her. Leeloo doesn't know what to do. So she smiles.

The door opens. The HOSTESS turns on the light and enters. Korben follows her, gaping at all the luxury.

The BAGGAGE BOY enters bringing Leeloo's two suitcases.

Korben grabs the notice announcing Diva Plavalaguna's concert at 5:30 in that evening.

Dress: Formal attire.

The hostess pulls back the closet door. Twenty tuxedos in a row.

She gives him a blinding smile and closes the door.

Korben pushes a button. The curtains open to reveal a most spectacular view of the turquoise planet. Stars shoot out into infinity. Breathtaking. Korben stands gaping.

The phone rings, snapping him out of his reverie.

Korben drops into an armchair and sighs. His eyes go to the ceiling.

The Chief of Police has Cornelius in front of him, handcuffed.

FOG opens the door. Two COPS come hobbling in all bloody and bandaged. They hold up a THIRD COP.

Cornelius perks up.

They all turn to look at him.

Leeloo watches the Diva's arrival. A door opens and two POLICEMAN clear the way for DIVA PLAVALAGUNA, her MANAGER, her BODYGUARDS and a gaggle of PORTERS carrying trunks.

Not wanting to draw attention to herself, Leeloo feigns interest in a painting that is obviously upside down. A white chiffon veil covers the face of the Diva, she stops in front of Leeloo. The Diva reaches out and strokes Leeloo's face, without touching her.

The Diva removes her hand making a sound of crackling electricity, then passes on.

Leeloo is groggy. The Diva's ASSISTANT comes up to her.

The Diva's assistant turns the painting right side up.

Leeloo looks at the painting, seems to understand it better.

Policemen stand at attention in front of the Diva's suite.

The Diva enters her suite without letting him finish.

A door opens near the police officer's main entrance. Cornelius looks both ways. Then crosses the hall, dragging the Chief of Police by the feet.

Korben finishes putting on his tux, still on the phone.

The door RINGS.

Korben opens the door. It's not the champagne. Even better. It's Leeloo.

Leeloo heads right for her suitcase and starts to undress. Korben has to turn away once more.

Korben turns around. Leeloo has put on a very simple dress which is sexy to the max. He is smitten. So much so that Leeloo wonders if something isn't quite right.

Leeloo smiles at him, his compliment pleases her. She turns, revealing her unzippered back. Korben cannot help but stare at her bare flesh. Her perfect bottom.

Korben's blood boils. She wriggles, pressing her hands together close to the zipper.

But instead of pulling on the zipper he slips a bracelet on her wrist. A flourescent beam bursts out of the bracelet and forms a vertical bar going from the floor to the ceiling.

Stunned, Leeloo is held captive.

She tries to breakout.

Leeloo tries desperately to get out of the handcuffs. Impossible.

Korben sets the radio down in front of her and turns it on.

Leeloo looks like she'd like to break his head.

The door flies open. Loc Rhod barges in.

Then he sees the scene, Leeloo cuffed, in a low cut dress. His mind goes to the obvious.

Korben grabs him by the collar..

And yanks Loc Rhod out of the room. Leaving Leeloo looking extremely unhappy.

Loc Rhod and Korben enter what turns out to be a replica of the Garnier Opera in Paris. A hostess escorts them to their seats.

ANGLE ON:

Baby Ray bending his ear to a girl asking for an autograph.

A waiter gives them two glasses of champagne. Track with the WAITER an he leaves the hall with his empty tray. He enters a small room reserved for staff.

The waiter joins some other WAITERS. They are well armed. He opens a cupboard and pulls out a humongous weapon. Suddenly their faces burn off revealing AKANIT, the young leader of the Mangalores, and his troops.

The lights dim slowly in the concert hall.

President Lindbergh and his staff, including Munro, sit at the desk. Speakers appear.

Leeloo, still a prisoner, listens to the concert.

Korben is tense. The curtain rises. The Diva, in a stunning gown, stands in the center of the stage, head bowed. Behind her, a star filled window. The MUSIC begins. The Diva looks up, a rare beauty, but an alien. And then she begins to sing. Her voice is divine, unmatched. Korben is swept up in the TEARS.

Leeloo has tears in her eyes

The manager couldn't care less about the concert. His main problem is the bottle of scotch he can't seem to open. The doorbell RINGS.

VOICE (O.S.) Flowers for the Diva.

VOICE (O.S.) There's champagne as well...

The manager takes one look at the stubborn bottle and opens the door. And finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun. A dozen Mangalores rush in. One of them, with a human face, closes the door and waits out in the hall.

ANGLE ON:

Cornelius watching from around the corner.

Zorg sits at the controls.

The ZFX approaches Fhloston.

The ship comes close enough for Leeloo to see it out the window.

FLASHBACK:

The same ships with Mangalores at the controls attack the Mondoshawans at the beginning of our story.

Leeloo is alarmed. She has to act. She seizes the flourescent bar beam with great effort and rams it into the ceiling, marking a hole large enough for her to escape.

Cornelius bursts into the closet he left the Chief of Police tied and gagged in. He quickly unties him.

The Chief of Police nods his agreement.

The Mangalores have trashed the suite. One of the Mangalores finally finds a case engraved with the four elements.

The Mangalore is about to open the case when... Leeloo descends quietly and gracefully from the ceiling. Time stands still.

The Diva switches from classical music to funk, picking up the tempo.

INTERCUT:

A WARRIOR whips out the biggest knife ever made and rushes Leeloo. She disarms him gracefully. A violent fight breaks out. The Diva sings and Leeloo dances. The Mangalores pay a heavy price for the show.

Hearing noise from inside the suite, the Mangalore by the door gets nervous. He runs for reinforcements.

Cornelius enters the police station wearing handcuffs. The Chief of Police is behind him holding a gun.

Leeloo knocks out the last Mangalore just as the Diva finishes her song to a burst of applause. The Diva takes a bow. So does Leeloo.

Akanit and his men listen to the concert. The Mangalore guard runs in.

All the Mangalores cock their weapons.

Leeloo is about to open the case when the door EXPLODES. Zorg is there holding a ZF1.

Leeloo smiles and hands him the case. Zorg arms the ZF1 and gets ready to kill her.

Leeloo catches on quickly. She kicks the scotch bottle on the floor into the gun which throws Zorg's shot off. She jumps to the ceiling and disappears in an air vent. Furious, Zorg fires at the ceiling.

Leeloo dodges the bullets as best as she can.

Zorg fires his 3000 round clip. The ceiling looks like a piece of swiss cheese. Zorg sticks a small cylinder in the wall and flicks it on. The numbers flashing by tell us it's a bomb. The timer reads: 19 minutes and 59 seconds.

Cornelius is seated opposite the Chief of Police. A MEDIC is bandaging the chief's head. The door explodes. The cop outside in riddled with bullets. A dozen Mangalores attack the police office. Akanit is at their head. The policemen are caught unaware.

The Chief of Police is goggle-eyed. Cornelius leans toward him.

Zorg has the case and exits the suite just as the general alarm goes off.

He sighs in exasperation.

Three Mangalores suddenly rush into the opera hall shooting.

There is panic all around.

President Lindberg and his generals look very worried.

Some security guards open fire one of the Mangalores is hit. The others turn their guns on the cops. People scream, diving for cover. Korben bides his time.

More Mangalores rush in from all around shooting. Two cops are killed.

The Diva... takes a bullet.

She falls from the stage into Korben's arms. He lowers her to the floor. Korben ignores the panic all around and wraps her in his dinner jacket, trying to stop the blue blood spurting from her wounds.

Zorg's ZFX200 speeds away from the boat. Zorg is at the controls, a devilish smile on his lips.

Fighting rages all around in the concert hall, but Korben is oblivious to it. He sets the Diva's head delicately on the floor. Loc Rhod is hidden nearby, still on the air.

Korben is a little surprised, but... the Diva is an artist.

A Mangalore jumps on them from the stage. Korben makes short work of him and grabs his gun.

Korben is floored.

The Mangalores tie up Cornelius and the Chief of Police together.

Korben wastes two more Mangalores.

Korben looks around, ready for another attack.

The Diva takes his hand.

The Diva's eyes close.

The timer on Zorg's bomb clicks over to "15 minutes".

He shakes her, gently slapping her cheeks.

Zorg sets the Sacred Case on a table in the cockpit. He opens it with a complacent smile:

It's empty!

He cannot believe his eyes. He goes berserk, destroying everything in sight.

Korben slaps the Diva soundly. She comes around somewhat.

The Diva dies. Blue blood streams from her mouth. Korben frisks the Diva but doesn't find anything. The shooting slowly stops in the theatre. The Mangalores are now in total control.

The guests comply.

And then it occurs to him.

He touches the Diva's stomach and senses something hard. Girding himself, he sticks his hand in the wound and pulls out a Sacred Stone. Then another. And another.

Korben pulls out all four Stones, covered in blue blood. Everyone has left the theater.

The Mangalores check the aisles one by one.

Loc Rhod peeks out from under a seat.

A Mangalore spots Korben kneeling alongside the Diva. He grabs Korben by the shoulder and pokes him with his gun.

Korben spins and, in one swift motion, breaks his arm. Just for starters. Another WARRIOR rushes over. Korben punches him into oblivion and snatches the gun.

Korben wraps up the four Stones in his shirt.

Korben gives him the package and grabs his mike.

President Lindberg dabs his sweaty face with a towel.

Akanit is still in the police station facing control screens. He barks into a walkie-talkie.

Hostages are being gathered in the middle of the hall. They are surrounded by Mangalores who guard them.

Three Mangalores are suddenly blasted through the glass door leading to the theater. Korben bursts into the hall, two huge guns in his hands.

Korben takes out two more WARRIORS coming towards him, rolls behind a column.

Laser bullets stinging all around his head.

ANGLE ON:

Roy von Bacon, the laserball player, rises from the floor behind a Mangalore, grabs him and smashes his head into a column, seizing the gun.

ANGLE ON:

Two Mangalores firing a huge machine gun at the column Korben is using for cover.

He dives for cover behind the bar.

ANGLE ON:

Two Mangalores watch awestruck. Roy whistles behind them. The two Mangalores turn around. Roy bonks their heads together.

Someone taps Loc Rhod on the shoulder. He jumps with fright.

Loc Rhod covers his mike.

A Mangalore shoots in their direction. Loc Rhod flattens himself on the floor. A vase falls on the Princess knocking her out. A Mangalore loads some missiles in his gun and destroys the bar piece by piece forcing Korben to move forward. Korben motions to Baby Ray hiding under the pool table.

Another piece of the bar explodes.

Korben apes playing pool, but Baby Ray really is stone-deaf.

The EMPEROR rolls the balls over to Korben. The Mangalore loads more missiles and shatters another part of the bar. Korben hides behind the last bit left.

The EMPEROR glances at the Mangalore, who in reloading.

Korben hefts the ball, jumps up and hurls it with blinding speed. The Mangalore catches it right in the head. He drops, firing in the air. The missile strikes the ceiling which collapses on him. The emperor gives Korben a thumb's up.

The COPS on the floor rise, scoop up weapons from dead Mangalores and lay down a line of fire at the last of the fleeing rebels . Roy whirls his arm in victory.

Korben grabs Loc Rhod and takes him with him.

Korben bursts into the room. He stares at the luminous bar still struck to the ground and sees the hole Leeloo escaped through.

Leeloo in bleeding all over. She can barely move.

The ZFX 200 speeds back toward Fhloston Paradise.

The bomb timer now reads 10 minutes.

The last of the Mangalores have barricaded themselves in the back of the station and shoot at anything that tries to enter. Korben joins the policemen already there.

Korben goes to the door and peeks around the corner. Loc Rhod arrives.

Korben leans around the corner and fires rapidly.

Akanit gets up, grabs Cornelius by the throat and put a gun to his head.

Korben gets ready.

Korben walks quickly into the room, heads straight for Akanit, raises his gun and puts a bullet through his head.

The President gives Munro a hard look.

The police round up the remaining Mangalores. Korben is at the control center screens trying to find Leeloo. Cornelius comes over to him, embarrassed.

Korben realizes that Cornelius in probably right.

The ZFX200 settles in the landing dock garage. SECURITY POLICE approach the ship just as Zorg in getting out holding the ZF1.

He brings up the ZF1 and wipes out the garage.

Korben enters the Diva's suite which is in shambles. He looks everywhere, but finds nothing.

Leeloo lies in a pool of blood. She hears something below her.

Exhausted, Loc Rhod wipes his forehead and finds himself face to face with the bomb stuck on the wall.

Korben in busy looking for Leeloo.

Up in the airshaft, Leeloo has heard him.

Her voice is too weak, Korben can't hear her.

Korben gives the bomb a prefunctory glance.

Cornelius smiles and continues his search.

A general alarm goes off. Loc Rhod is crushed.

The lights flicker.

VOICE (O.S.) This is a Type A alert. For security reasons the hotel must be evacuated. Please proceed calmly to the lifeboats located in the main hallways.

A wave of panic engulfs the hall. The cops are unable to hold back the crowd as it stampedes to the exits.

Zorg marches down the corridor shooting everyone in his path.

Loc Rhod stands paralyzed in front of the flashing timer. Less than two minutes left.

Loc Rhod cannot take his eyes off the bomb.

Korben breathes out, bothered. He turns his attention to the bomb.

Leeloo sticks her fingers out one of the bullet holes and lets some of her blood drip down.

The blood splats on Korben's hand. He snaps his head up and knows immediately who is up there. He forgets about the bomb.

Korben drags the desk over, jumps on it and pokes his head in the torn up airshaft He spots Leeloo who gives him a weak smile.

He pulls her toward him, helps her out of the shaft and stretches her out on the desk.

30 seconds left on the timer.

Korben dashes over to the bomb. He is stopped by the barrel of the ZF1. Zorg, in person, holding a magnetic card.

Zorg slips a small magnetic card in the bomb, it starts to count down from 5 minutes.

Loc Rhod faints.

Korben doesn't reply.

Zorg fires at Korben who figures he is dead. Nothing. Zorg tries again. Nada. The clip is empty. Zorg starts to panic.

Korben punches him square in the face, shows him his index.

Second Punch.

Korben pummels him mercilessly.

President Lindberg prefers closing his eyes. Munro's shoulders move as if he were beating on Zorg.

Zorg falls to the floor, beaten to a pulp. The timer clicks over to 3 minutes.

He picks Leeloo up in his arms.

Cornelius grabs Loc Rhod and gives him a resounding slap.

The lifeboats launch from the hotel and fly out into space.

Korben, carrying Leeloo, Cornelius and Loc Rhod are in the garage.

VOICE (O.S.) Two minutes to complete evacuation...

Korben bursts the lock on the first ship he finds and enters followed by Cornelius and Loc Rhod. The ZFX200.

Zorg starts to come around.

Korben sets Leeloo down.

Zorg picks up his ZF1, unaware of the bomb and the countdown.

VOICE (O.S.) One minute to total evacuation...

VOICE 30 seconds...

Zorg is busy with the ZF1 when the bomb starts to BEEP signaling the last ten seconds.

Zorg is terror stricken. He pushes a button and holds the ZF1 over his head.

A mauve-colored magnetic shield closes around Zorg like an indestructible sarcophagus.

Cornelius and Loc Rhod are bent over the buttons looking for a way to release the lines.

VOICE (O.S.) 6... 5...

Loc Rhod searches frantically.

Korben slams the throttle into full forward. The ship roars away ripping the lines to shreds.

Loc Rhod is thrown to the rear of the ship.

The counter goes 1... 0

- The suite disintegrates - The corridor is consumed.

- The main hall is no more.

The ZFX200 jets away as the enormous oceanliner explodes behind it.

The ship stops shaking. That was a close one. Everyone's relieved.

Loc Rhod lets out a huge sigh.

A magnetic sarcophagus crosses the Fhloston sky and crashes into a glacier.

Zorg appears in the middle of the ice. He takes a portable phone out of the ZF1.

Zorg is all alone, lost, in the middle of the glacier.

General Munro enters the office with a smile.

President Lindberg closes his eyes in relief.

A SCIENTIST rushes in.

A ball of fire, all-powerful Evil, speeds across the screen with three Federal Army warships following along behind it as best they can.

The scientist is hard to put to answer, he shakes his head.

Korben gently wipes Leeloo's forehead with a cloth. She opens her eyes a little.

Leeloo smiles, weakly, feverish.

Her eyes close and she falls back asleep. Korben is worried. She seems so depressed.

Cornelius enters.

The President clears his throat and takes the phone.

The President drops into his armchair and sighs.

Korben thinks fast. The Priest is with him. The Five Elements are on board.

The President queries the scientist with a nod of the head.

Korben hangs up. The President looks stunned.

The ZFX200 shifts to the speed of light and vanishes in the star-studded cosmos.

David is asleep. He is woken by the sound of...

The ZFX200 is parked in the middle of the desert.

Korben walks ahead carrying Leeloo. Cornelius has the four Stones with him.

Barely awake, Loc Rhod stumbles along. David appears at the door of the chapel.

The small group enters the chapel.

Cornelius pushes the group onto the altar which is surrounded by a wooden barrier.

Cornelius stands in front of the cross.

Cornelius bends the cross and pushes it down. A mechanism is set off lowering the altar like a service elevator.

The altar descends amid rocky walls.

Earth is in view. The Dark Planet fills the screen and heads for the blue planet.

President Lindberg has trouble breathing.

Lit by torches, Korben sets Leeloo delicately on the altar in the exact center of the four elements. Cornelius looks over the four Stones every which way.

It's obvious he doesn't know where to put it.

Korben can't believe his ears. He tears the Stone out of Cornelius' hand and studies the inscriptions. He goes over to one of the four bases the stones rest on and tries to figure it out. The symbol of air is on the Stone, the same as on the base.

Korben places the first Stone and picks up another one. Cornelius has found the symbol for water. Loc Rhod sits down. He is very tired.

Korben pulls him to his feet and sticks a Stone in his hands.

Loc Rhod's got it and runs over to put in his Stone. The four Stones are all in place but nothing happens.

The Dark Planet closes in on Earth rapidly.

Korben leans over Leeloo.

Korben is desperate. Leeloo's too weak, he won't get anything more out of her.

He darts over to a Stone and turns it over and over.

Loc Rhod stands in front of his Stone looking at Korben.

Loc Rhod starts feeling the Stone all around.

The tension is palpable in the President's office.

Korben and Cornelius turn the Stones every which way. All to no avai1. Loc Rhod is discouraged.

He sighs. Three hooks pop off the Stone. Loc Rhod can't believe his eyes.

Korben rushes over, looks at the Stone. Hooks are undone.

Loc Rhod tries to duplicate the same movement.

Nothing happens.

Loc Rhod sighs, really depressed this time. The Stone opens even more.

Korben's got it.

Korben blows on the Stone which immediately opens revealing a patch of blue sky with some miniature clouds floating around inside. A yellow beam pops up like a ray of sunlight, like Korben's smile.

The two men move fast. Korben on the 4th Stone: Earth. He grabs a fistful of earth and throws it on the Stone. A miniature patch of green appears and immediately forms a green beam. Cornelius wipes his forehead with a scarf and wrings it out over the Stone. It opens revealing a patch of miniature raging sea. A blue beam appears.

Loc Rhod has a problem.

Korben pats his pockets, he comes up with a box of matches. There's only one left.

Loc Rhod and Cornelius hold their breath. Korben strikes the match. A small flame appears on the tip. A breeze goes through the room. Korben feels like he's got TNT in his hands. He approaches the flame to the Stone. The flame twists, dims, flickers ...but holds on. The Stone opens. A patch of miniature fire appears. Korben sighs, snuffs out the match. The fourth beam, a red one, immediately forms.

A mass of fire fills the screen. The Earth is only a thousand miles away.

The President shuts his eyes. His lids move in prayer.

Korben helps Leeloo onto her feet where the four beams and four colors crisscross.

Korben slowly releases Leeloo and steps back from the altar.

Leeloo can barely stand in the center of the four beams.

An indistinct white beam begins to form around her, starts to rise.

The beam loses its intensity. Leeloo crumples to the floor.

The Dark Planet hurtles toward Earth. A hundred miles before impact. The African continent is visible. No doubt about it:

The fireball is heading right for Egypt.

Seconds tick away relentlessly on the scientist's stopwatch.

The heat in the temple is unbearable. All the walls start to ooze the same horrible black slimy liquid seen at Zorg's. A drop of liquid falls to the temple floor and begins to smoke, eating away at it like acid. Loc Rhod has to dodge another drop of the stuff.

Korben quickly straightens Leeloo up and puts her back in the center of the beams.

Leeloo wraps her arms around Korben's neck.

The Scientist's stopwatch goes from 30 to 29 seconds.

A bit of the black acid falls on Loc Rhod's shirt setting it on fire. He rips if off.

Leeloo has tears in her eyes. The heat is overpowering. Black acid is everywhere.

Despite her fatigue, Leeloo smiles broadly.

The stopwatch goes from 3 to 2.

- Korben wraps his arms around her and kisses her like he's never kissed anybody before. - The white beam, the Divine Light, immediately forms around Leeloo and Korben. - The stopwatch hits zero. - The Absolute Beam explodes from the top of the pyramid and heads straight into the sky zapping the fireball smack in the middle, slowing it down. Korben and Leeloo kiss like there was no tomorrow.

- The beam hardens and slowly solidifies the Evil Planet. Inaudible screeches escape from the dying planet. Screeches of terrifying pain as if a million souls were dying.

- Streams of black acid spurt from the pyramid and solidify like brilliant stalactites.

The pure beam, the Light of Life, has finished its work. The Dark Planet nothing more than a dead planet.

Strangely enough, it looks like the moon. Everything is calm around it.

President Lindberg opens his eyes and realizes he's not dead-

In the temple, the beam loses its intensity. But Leeloo and Korben remain stuck together, lost in their kiss.

Cornelius has dropped to his knees, clutching his hands.

Loc Rhod slips along the wall with a sigh. He gives Cornelius a knowing smile.

Cornelius and Loc Rhod burst out laughing. Korben and Leeloo keep on kissing.

We are in the Nucleological Laboratory that gave birth to Leeloo in the beginning of our story. The President enters the lab followed by a group of officials in ceremonial dress.

Mactilburgh goes to the reactor and opens a small slot which allows him to see what is going on under the blue shield.

Leeloo and Korben are naked, arms wrapped around each other, kissing and probably engaged in hoppi hoppa.

Mactilburgh looks troubled.

The President, pressed for time, looks over to his aide who is struggling with a phone call.

The President takes the phone and goes to the window.

Outside the lab we see the President through the window, holding the phone away from his ear.

PAN slowly across Manhattan.

Credits Roll as TWO full rising silver moons ascend in the dark blue sky.