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By
Marco Kappert
4/11/07Registered with the
Writer’s guild of America
Marco Kappert Ó
April 11, 2007
The arts institute Bournemouth
Flat 4, 570 Wimbourne rd
BH9-2ER
[email protected]
MONTAGE OF PAINTINGS:
- Outside a new mine a man in a business suit shakes the hands of one of the main miners.
- The miners break though a laree of rock revealing a massive cavity so big that the miner’s light doesn’t reach the other bottom.
- The cavity is lit up by electric lights emanating from an underground city.
- A rocket ship shoots out of a lake and heads for the stars.
- In space astronauts fit together massive sections of a space station.
- The space station grows to become a massive spinning top.
- A rocket is lunched from the space station towards the moon.
Not soon after we first left for the moon the surface dwellers found themselves in the middle of a in a time of mass killing and suffering. This was their first world war.
(SHOT HAS BEEN CUT)
INT, CLASS ROOM:
Ms. Mugwbe stands in font of fourth grade history class
MIS. MUGWBE
So you see class the surface
dwellers are dangerous because
to this day they still continue
to make weapons in stead of developing
ways to improve their life.
Like we do.
BOBBY PENDENT
Why can’t we just give them what
We have? Then they’ll be like us.
MS. MUGWBE
That’s a very good question Bobby.
Out side the classroom window the loonier city continues with their every day life.
MS. MUGWBE
But you see they mite get angry that we’ve kept it
From them… And try to hurt
Us, they might even use
what we’ve made, agents us.
For war…
(END)
EXT SPACE, 20 YEARS LATER, MODERN DAY:
Space dark and desolate, suddenly a ship speeds past as it spirals though space.
INT QUICKSILVERS BRIDGE (SHIP BRIDGE):
Captain PENDENT stares at a picture of him as a child and his father standing in-fount of a mountain range some where on the planets surface. Out the ships window the planet earth creep’s into view.
MS. AFIFFI
Is that one of ours?
PENDENT
I don’t think so, it's to small.
But cloak the ship I’m
Taking us in closer.
MS. AFIFFI
What about the mission?
PENDENT
We can be late, it’s not
like the ors going to go bad.
Besides I want a closer look.
Pendent moves the ship closer to get a better look. All of a sudden the craft looses control and veers into deep space.
MS. AFIFFI
Ayah
We should help them.
Suddenly the view screen flicks on revealing the COUNSELS AID.
AID
Captain Pendent this is the counsels
Aid do not, I repeat ne pomogaite the surface
Dwellers ship.
PENDENT
But they could be in trouble!
AID
I repeat make no contact.
The captain turns off the viewer.
PENDENT
Well that solves that, change cores.
Head for the landing coordinates.
MS. AFIFFI
Are you sure sir, you said yourself
they could be in trouble.
PENDENT
Listen we’ve got our orders! What
do you want me to do?
MS.AFIFFI
Help them!
If you don’t they’ll die!
PENDENT
Their surface dweller’s, why do you care
Besides its not like we could bring them home.
Anyway they’re dangerous
MS.AFIFFI
How do you know they’re dangerous?
Have you ever met one?
Pendent looks over at his second in command, as she gives him a glairing look.
PENDENT
Fine but I’m not letting
Them out of the loading bay.
INT LOADING BAY:
Pendent walks into the loading bay with Ms. Afiffi and a security escorts. They walk over to the small emergency pod in the middle of the room. It opens revealing a tall dark haired man lying there un-conchs.
PENDENT
Get him out of there and tie him up.
Oh yah and get rid of that pod its
cluttering up my loading bay.
INT LOADING BAY:
In the middle of the room RICHARD sits tied up and still unconscious. Pendent and Ms. Afiffi stand in front of him, suddenly Pendent whispers something into Ms. Afiffi’s ear. She then walk over to Richard and injects him with a drug that immediately wakes him up.
PENDENT
Who are you?
RICHERD
Where am I?
PENDENT
Answer the question!
RICHARD
I’m Richard Young.
Pendent just shrugs his shoulders.
RICHARD
The famous billionaire?
PENDENT
Why were you trying to break orbit?
RICHARD
I was trying to be the first man to accomplish
A space flight privately.
Why, who are you?
PENDENT
My name is pendent.
And this is my ship.
RICHARD
Am I a prisoner?
PENDENT
Well that depends, are you violent?
RICHARD
What? No.
Anyway what happened to my ship?
PENDENT
Sorry, we had to destroy it to be
sure we weren’t followed.
RICHARD
What!
How could you that orbit or cost me millions!
In a rage Richard try’s to break free, prompting Pendent to point his gun at Richard
PENDENT
Surface dweller.
Richard looks up as pendent points the gun at his face.
RICHARD
WOW WOW!
There’s no need for that!
PENDENT
You’re afraid of this?
RICHARD
Yah!
PENDENT
But you’re a surface dweller
Guns are everywhere on the surface.
You should be used to them.
RICHARD
Ok? I don’t know where you’re from
Or who you really are but if I’m not arrested,
Can I go home now?
PENDENT
I’m afraid that’s not possible, we’re currently
in transit to the lunar colony.
The counsel will have to decide what to do with you.
RICHARD
Yah right we’re going to the moon
wont that be fun.
Captain Pendent places a small handheld screen on Richards lap, revealing planet Earth getting smaller with every second.
PENDENT
Now that I’ve got your attention
Maybe you’ll listen.
200 years ago our four fathers decided that the
world was to aggressive and that
something needed to change. So they
moved under ground and dedicated there time to
a truly peaceful and scientific society.
By the early 1900’s we had the technical know
How to launch a rocket into space. This signalled a
New start to our civilization that would inevitably
End us up on the moon…
EXT LUNIR ORBIT:
The quicksilver slows down as it enters into a high lunar orbit.
INT BRIDGE:
The Captain sits in his seat staring at Richard though the view screen as he thinks about his first encounter with the surface dweller sat in his loading bay. Ms. Afiffi starts to preparer the ship to land when suddenly the monitor changes channels revealing the counsels aid.
AID
Captain Pendent the counsel
orders you to holed position until
further notes.
PENDENT
What? Why?
The transmission ends.
PENDENT
What wrong now?
Suddenly the transmission flicks back on.
AID
Captain Pendent after some discussion the
Counsel have un fortnightly decided that
The surface dweller is to be locked
up until further notes
PENDENT
Listen I’ve spoken to him and he
Doesn’t seem to be as aggressive as we
First thought.
The Aid turns his head puts a finger to his upper cheek then turns back.
AID
The counsel has decided.
You have Access to landing bay 10.
You will then bring the surface
dweller strait to the counsel.
PENDENT
Bo merci...
All of a sudden the screen flicks back to Richard sat in the loading bay. Pendent then dose his final checks and starts the decent to the lunar airlocks.
INT LOADING BAY:
Pendent walks over to Richard and unties him.
PENDENT
We’ve landed, Get up.
RICHARD
What’s going to happen to me?
I mean if you’re right, they’re all afraid I’m
Going to kill some one.
PENDENT
You will be fine just don’t play into their hands.
EXT LANGING BAY:
As the Captain and Richard walk out of the ship a small arsenal of security and the Counsels Aid stand nervously awaiting them. As soon as Richard steps off the ship the security team grabs him and takes him away.
RICHARD
Wait what the hell are you
Doing?
Captain pendent try’s to stop them but the counsels aid steps in front of him obscuring his way.
PENDENT
What’s the meaning of this?
AID
The counsel has decided that he is too dangerous
And must be locked up till they can
Agree what to do with him. You will also be locked up
as a punishment for making contact. Guards grab him.
GUARD
Sorry sir.
The group is then led off by the aid towards the holding cells. Leaving Pendent’s crew standing helpless by their ship.
INT HOLDING CELLS:
The two men sit on opposite side of a small holding cell. Richard still tied up looks out a small window and marvels at the site of the lunar colony.
RICHARD
You people have truly built an amazing
metropolis down here.
PENDENT
Yah well thanks to you
I’ll never be able to enjoy it again
RICHARD
Look a know it doesn’t mean anything to
You now but thanks for saving my life.
PENDENT
Don’t worry about it.
Pendent reaches into his pockets and pulls out the picture of him and his father on some snowy mountains and just stares at it.
RICHARD
What’s that there?
PENDENT
My father ones took me down to the
Alps, he used to say that no man made air would ever compare to fresh alpine air
RICHARD
He was right you know,
I love the smell of sea air in the
morning.
PENDENT
That was the last time I saw
the sun in your blue sky.
RICHARD
What? Why
PENDENT
We’re only allowed to land on the surface
At night,
RICHARD
Where’s your father now?
PENDENT
He’s retired, he spends his
time sailing around space.
I some times join him.
RICHARD
That’s nice, I never knew
My father.
INT QUICKSILVER BRIDGE:
Ms. Afiffi sits in her chair as she contemplates what to do now her captain has been locked up. Just then her screen flickers on, it’s the counsels aid.
AID
Ms. Afiffi are you there?
MS AFIFFI
Yes sir, I’m here
AID
The counsel is very sorry
About taking away your captain.
They are adamant that your crew continues
your work. This is why you have been
Appointed a new captain.
MS. AFIFFI
What?!
AID
He will be coming onboard
In the next hour.
MS. AFIFFI
I’m sorry sir but I think I speak for the hole
Crew when I say, we rather not have a new captain.
AID
The counsel has decided.
All of a sudden the screen flicks off leaving an angry Ms. Afiffi to contemplate what to do next.
INT HOLDING SELL:
The two men sit across from each other discussing child hood memories.
RICHARD
Yah I remember when I was about 16 we
used to go out to this beach by
where I was living and have these crazy
drunken parties, we would get totally smashed and
and end up pass out on the beach
only to woken up by people walking their dogs.
The two men laugh, suddenly a loud rumbling overpowers their laughter. Pendent sits up in an alert state as he recognizes the sound.
PENDENT
I know that sound!
That’s my ship!
Just then a grappling hook shoots in through the bars and grasps hold of the wall.
RICHARD
What the hell’s that.
PENDENT
Stand back!
With out warning the grappler rips a large hole in the wall. In front of them seamlessly hovering in mid air Ms. Afiffi stands inside one of the Quicksilver’s airlock hatches. Pendent turns to Richard and unties his bound hand then jumps onto his ship, as soon as both men jump in, the hatch closes then cloaks and the rumbling sound fades out as the ship moves of.
EXT SPACE:
As the Quicksilver leaves loonier orbit it de-cloaks and races towards earth
INT BRIDGE:
Pendent concentrates at the helm as he pushes his ship to its limits. Suddenly out of nowhere another ship cuts them off as it enters there flight path. At the same time his monitor flicks on.
THIRST
Captain Pendent this is Captain Thirst of the
guard ship Nitrous. We have orders to stop you
if you resist you will be disabled.
PENDENT
Sorry Nitrous but I cant let you do that.
Pendent then flicks off the screen and turns to the others.
PENDENT
Hole on to some thing!
He then flips the ship up and over the Nitrous till the two ships fly nose to nose, he then firer a single shot.
EXT SPACE:
The bullet screams through space towards the Nitrous but then suddenly spins off into space.
INT BRIDGE:
PENDENT
Putain
MS. AFIFFI
They got shields!
Pendent flips the ship back towards earth.
PENDENT
Going for full thrust.
Lets see if follow us with dust in
their face!
EXT SPACE:
The thrust engine fires spitting out a large cloud of dust blinding the Nitrous for enough time for the Quicksilver to speed off towards earth as it cloaks
INT BRIDGE:
Richard turns to Pendent.
RICHARD
What are you going to do now?
I don’t think they’re going to
Welcome you back any time soon.
PENDENT
The only thing that’s left to
Do.
As the ship grows closer to earth Captain Pendent slows the ship down
PENDENT
I believe its high time all the
Surface dwellers found out what you have...
RICHARD
How are you going to do that?
Pendent just points out the window at international space station, Richard starts to giggle like at child playing a practical joke on some one.
INT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION:
Astronaut Gibbs looks out the window marvelling at the shear proportions of space, when the quicksilver de-cloaks rite in his view.
INT QUICKSILVER BRIDGE:
As Mr. Gribbs struggles with his sanity Captain Pendent stares back into the tiny porthole watching more and more figures congregate to get a look. Richard in hysterics can only smiles and wave.
PENDENT
All we can do now is wait
And see what they do.
INT SPACE STATION:
One at a time the crew of the station takes a look, then one astronaut picks up the radio.
ASTRONAUT 1
I don’t know how to explain it sir,
It just appeared out of nowhere!
ASTRONAUT 2
Move out of the way let
Me take a picture.
As the flash goes of it reflects off the glass and fills the room.
FADE TO BLACK: