INT. LABORATORY
Sebastian screams in dire pain. He struggles against his
restraints as his skin liquefies into a muscular mass.
It’s like something’s eating away at him. Gruesome. The
yells become louder and more painful to hear.
SEBASTIAN
No. Oh god! NO! STOP IT! STOP IT!
The muscular system begins to dissolve, leaving a
struggling skeleton wrapped with tentacular blood vessels
and stuffed with the major organs. The beating heart, the
heaving lungs.
SARAH
Pulse is 180 .... holding stable.
Screaming.... Then the organs go. Then the blood vessels.
Leaving only a skeleton howling in pain. The jawbones
spread wide ... Screaming... screaming...
CARTER
Holy shit.
Then as if someone had poured acid all over the bones,
the skeleton evaporates into nothingness.
SARAH
Pulse is dropping. 170..
150 .... 160..
There is NOTHING left of Sebastian Caine.
LINDA
Bio-quantum phase shift occurred at
18:26.
The screaming continues and the restraints continue to
twist and turn. Suddenly the restraints go limp.
MATT
Is he dead?
Linda checks the readouts.
LINDA
No. He passed out from the trauma.
SARAH
Vitals returning to normal. Pulse 110
... dropping. Blood pressure 130 over
75.
A long beat as everybody’s eyes stare at the instruments.
FRANK (V.O.)
Electrical activity is stabilizing.
SARAH
Pulse steady at 70.
A long beat.
MATT
Un-fucking-believable.
A reverent pause as Linda runs her fingers over what
would be his skin. Small electrical charge dance around
her fingertips. She gasps.
LINDA
(whispers in his ear)
You did it, Sebastian. You’re the
first.
CARTER
Let’s get him into recovery.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER
The chamber is half constructed out of Plexiglas at the
end of the Hallway of Habitats.
On the recovery bed, a sheet drapes over Sebastian’s
invisible body. The gentle bleatings of medical machinery
pound out a dulling rhythm.
Linda sleeps in a corner chair as Matt slips into the
room. He checks the readouts on Sebastian then takes a
seat by Linda. She wakes with a start.
MATT
S’okay. You nodded off.
LINDA
His breathing’s hypnotic. How long’s
it been?
MATT
Seventeen hours.
LINDA
Where are the others?
MATT
In the lab crunching numbers. We’ve
got enough data there for two
lifetimes of research.
Linda rubs her temples and gestures to the bed.
LINDA
I keep looking at that hole, wondering
if he’s really there.
She notices something out of the corner of his eye. The
sheet twitches.
LINDA (cont’d)
Did you see...
The sheet twitches again.
MATT
He may be coming out of it.
Linda and Matt watch intently. Then suddenly... the
sheets thrash violently. A yell of pain.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
The lights! Turn off the goddamn
lights! Ah Christ!
Linda jumps up and crosses to Sebastian. Matt rushes to
the wall and turns off the lights. Darkness. The room is
lit by the glow of machinery.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
I can’t... I can’t close my eyes. I
can’t close my eyes.
LINDA
Your eyelids are transparent.
The sheets slowly stop thrashing.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
So I ... I’m...
LINDA
Yes.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
My arms. I can.. where? ... I can feel
them...
LINDA
Your arms ... your whole body... It
worked, Sebastian. It worked.
The sheet rises and slips away. The wires, seemingly
connected to thin air, spread out like a spider’s web and
then fall away one-by-one. The monitors all go dead.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Mirror. I ... I want to see.
MATT
Over here in the corner.
Matt motions to a dark corner of the room, toward a
mirror and sink. We push in on the mirror. No reflection.
Suddenly it fogs up ... Sebastian’s breath. A finger
tracing appears in the fog ... but of course we see no
finger. The sink faucet twists on and water runs. It cups
into the shape of hands and lifts into the air, splashing
against the surface of Sebastian’s face. Beads of water
cling to his f ace, outlining it I shape f or a moment
before dripping away.
MATT (cont’d)
What was it like?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
I ... It’s hard to think.
Sebastian’s voice is now behind him. Matt turns around.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
The transformation... I remember every
molecule in my body shattering.
MATT
It was painful?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
At first... but then everything went
black. I couldn’t see or hear or feel
anything. It was all just black...
like I wasn’t connected.
LINDA
Your system received quite a shock.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
At least my senses are starting to
return... You’re wearing your
Shalimar, aren’t you?
Linda realizes that he’s standing very close by. Her hair
lifts slightly and Sebastian inhales. Chills go down her
spine.
LINDA
Sebastian.
Linda’s hair drops back to her shoulders.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
This is weird. I’m looking through
myself at the floor. I’m looking right
through myself. I can’t tell ...
He bumps into a chair.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
... where my body is.
A moment of silence.
LINDA
Sebastian?
No answer. Linda and Matt look at each other, slightly
alarmed.
MATT
Sebastian?
An indentation forms on the bed a moment later.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
You really can’t see me. Can you?
LINDA
Gimme symptoms. Dizziness, nausea,
headache, body-ache, disorientation.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
No, just tired.
(beat)
It’s funny. I can see everything...
more than before... but I can’t see
myself.
INT. LABORATORY - DAY
Carter, Frank, Janice and Sarah work at various research
stations. The door opens and Linda and Matt enter.
CARTER
Hey. How’s he doing?
LINDA
Why don’t you ask him?
Linda motions to the gap between her and Matt. The four
of them stare at the nothing.
SARAH
Sebastian, how do you feel.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Not to bad, considering.
They turn round. The voice is coming from behind them.
The group rises from their various workstations and turn
toward where the voice came from.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
Odd, isn’t it?
A rheostat switch on the wall turns and the lights dim.
Though it’s a simple act, it feels somewhat ominous.
LINDA
He can’t close his eyes so they’re
sensitive to light.
Linda’s explanation puts everyone at ease.
JANICE
So, what was it like?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Over here.
Sebastian has moved. As everyone turns toward him again,
he can’t stifle a slight giggle.
LINDA
C’mon Sebastian. Knock it off.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
His voice again come s from somewhere else in the room.
FRANK
I feel like we’re playing Marco Polo.
MATT
Well, I see the procedure hasn’t
changed your personality.
Frank pulls on a pair of THERMAL GOGGLES.
FRANK
No worries. I’m on it.
THERMAL POV - Every body in the laboratory shows up as a
heat signature, including Sebastian. Frank points.
FRANK (cont’d)
Gotcha, big man.
THERMAL POV - The HEAT SIGNATURE reaches for a chair.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Boy, you people have no sense of
humor.
A chair slides back from a desk and bends under
Sebastian’s weight.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
Show me. So ...
CUT TO:
INT. LABORATORY - NIGHT
Frank and Janice shuttle the playback controls as a VIDEO
MONITOR re-plays various angles of Sebastian’s phase
shift.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Stop there.
Frank halts the tape.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont'd)
Index that. That was when it started
burn. Epidermal reaction.
JANICE
Index Mark. 112125.
Janice scribble the numbers in her notebook. Linda
crosses, nursing a cup of coffee.
LINDA
It’s late. Time you got some rest.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Just a little longer.
LINDA
Hate to pull rank, but you’re my
patient now and you need rest. We’ve
got a busy day tomorrow.
Heavy sigh.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Fine.
INT. THE RECOVERY ROOM - NIGHT
As Linda enters she points to a small camera in the upper
corner of the room.
LINDA
We’ve set up a thermal camera for
observation and I’ve arranged one of
us to be here 24/7 in case you need
anything. The team’s gonna be on alpha-
call alert for the duration. If
anything goes wrong, we can all be
here within...
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Thirty minutes. Yes,,_I know. I wrote
the procedure.
LINDA
I was trying to be reassuring.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
You like this don’t you?
LINDA
What’s that?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Being in charge.
It’s clear she does. But she’s certainly not going to
admit it.
LINDA
Please. I’m just doing my job.
CUT TO:
CLOSE ON: A video screen. A thermal lump lays stretched
out on the bed.
Pull back to reveal SARAH staring at the screen. We are.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT
A bank of monitors display the various angles of the Hall
of Habitats, the laboratory and, of course, Sebastian in
the recovery room.
Linda hands Sarah a cup of coffee.
LINDA
You gonna be okay?
SARAH
Fine. It’s not like I have anything
else going on in my sad pathetic life.
LINDA
Carter’ll be in at six to spell you
and I’ll be in by nine. Call me if
anything happens, okay?
Through the glass wall, Linda sees Matt knocking and
waving her out.
SARAH
I’m fine. Go on ahead.
INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT
The rest of the team straggles into the elevator.
Yawning. Exhausted from the day.
CARTER
Man, I’m tired. That was a long day.
LINDA
Days only get longer from here.
Linda catches Matt’s eye. Gives him a look. “You coming
over?” Matt nods, “yes”, imperceptible to everyone but
Linda. She smiles.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. LABORATORY - NIGHT
Deserted and dark.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT
Late. Sarah rubs her temples. Her eyelids are heavy.
She’s having real trouble staying awake. The buzzing
fluorescent light isn’t helping either.
INT. RECOVERY ROOM - NIGHT
The sheets ruffle and the indentation disappears from the
bed. We can hear breathing and soft sound of bare feet
shuffling against linoleum.
CAMERA SLOWLY PANS toward the door, as if we, are
following someone walking.
The door handle turns and the door pushes open.
INT. HALLWAY OF HABITATS - NIGHT
WE SLOWLY TRACK DOWN the Hallway of the Habitats. We hear
the sounds of sleeping creatures. A couple of them growl
at something unseen. The growling follows the invisible
something as it passes by.
INT. LABORATORY - NIGHT
The laboratory door opens and shuts again. Ghostly. We
see papers shuffling at one of the work stations. A glass
moves slightly.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT
Sarah reclines in her chair. Fast asleep, Behind her is
the glass wall, revealing the empty hallway behind it.
But a small portion of the glass fogs, as if someone had
just breathed on it. As the fogged part quickly clears,
we see the door to the observation room quietly open.
ON SARAH, still sleeping. We hear a whisper.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
(whispering)
Sarah. Are you awake?
Her heavy breathing mixes with Sebastian’s.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
(barely audible)
Hmm.
Sarah’s hair moves slightly, as if a hand were running
through it. And then we see her shirt move, like fingers
were tracing over it. Down from the shoulder to her
breast. Around her nipple. Sarah moans slightly, as if
she were dreaming, but she doesn’t stir. And then her
breasts cup slightly, as if they were being touched...
softly... gently. Her breathing becomes harder, more
labored, erotic... and then she... BOLTS AWAKE. Bar eyes
wide with fear. She jumps and cups her own breasts and
looks around the room. It’s empty, of course. She jumps
over to the monitor and checks on Sebastian’s room. The
heat signature isn’t there.
SARAH
Dr. Caine! Goddamnit, Dr. Caine! Are
you in here?
She listens. It’s silent. She tries holding her breath,
listening for his breathing. But there’s nothing.
Sarah reaches over to a microphone. Hits a few switches.
SARAH (cont’d)
Dr. Caine?
VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE COMPOUND
- LABORATORY
SARAH (V.0.,LOUDSPEAKER)
Dr. Caine, please report in.
- HALLWAY OF HABITATS
SARAH (V.0.,LOUDSPEAKER)
Dr. Caine, report in please!
INT. OBSERVATION BOOTH - CONTINUOUS
Sarah waits. No response.
SARAH
Shit.
She looks around the room. He must be in here.
SARAH (cont’d)
Dr. Caine? Sebastian? Come on, this
isn’t funny. I know you’re in here.
Nothing. No response. Sarah waves her hand around,
reaching out, trying to find him. After a few beats she
stops and rubs her head.
SARAH (cont’d)
I must be going crazy.
Suddenly, Sarah gets an idea. She quickly exits the
observation room.
EXT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT
At a wall storage box, she removes a pair of Thermal
Goggles and slips them on.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT
Sarah enters wearing the thermals. She scans the room.
THERMAL POV - The room is empty.
She pulls the goggles off in frustration, and when she
glances over at the video screen, she sees Sebastian’s
thermal image lying on the bed in the recovery room.
Sarah sinks into her chair, a tad disconcerted.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - MORNING
Linda and Matt finish listening to Sarah’s story.
SARAH
I found him later in the lab, running
samples.
LINDA
Why didn’t you call me?
SARAH
Because I wasn’t sure. I’m still not.
I mean, I could’ve easily been
dreaming.
MATT
It doesn’t sound like something
Sebastian would do.
SARAH
God, I feel so stupid.
LINDA
I can talk to him.
SARAH
No. I mean...
(she torn, unsure of herself)
It was probably nothing. I
shouldn’t’ve mentioned it.
MATT
You sure?
SARAH
Yeah, I’m sure. I mean, y’know, why
would he do that, right? Just, this
place at night can be kinda creepy,
y’know.
INT. RESEARCH LAB - DAY
Sebastian, wearing surgical scrubs sits in an examination
chair. Wire leads sprout from the electrodes covering his
head and arms. The electrodes seem to outline his body.
MATT
So, how was your first night?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Restless. Hard to sleep when you can’t
close your eyes.
As Sebastian talks, we can see the electrodes around his
jaw pump up and down.
MATT
Yeah? What’d you do?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Got up a couple of times. Knocked
about.
MATT
Yeah, Sarah mentioned you weren’t in
your cubicle. She said she called you
over the intercom and you didn’t
respond.
SEBASTIAN
I guess I didn’t hear. I had the radio
on.
MATT
It’d be helpful to us if you’d tell
whoever’s on duty where you’re going
to. I mean, if something were to
happen, we’d want to know where to
find you.
SEBASTIAN
I didn’t think it was a problem.
MATT
It isn’t. I just don’t want it to
become one.
Machines pump out EEG, EKG readouts. Matt studies them.
MATT (cont’d)
Readings are normal.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Next I want to run a VV and UVF
analysis of the platelets.
MATT
We’ll have to draw some more blood.
CUT TO:
Sarah rolls up Sebastian’s sleeve, revealing empty air.
She wraps a bungee cord around the nothing, pulls it
tight and sprays the inside of his elbow with dye. She
acts very self conscious.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
You okay?
SARAH
Yeah. Why?
SEBASTIAN
You just seem a little nervous.
SARAH
No. I...I’m fine. Hold still. This
might hurt a bit.
The surface of his skin sheens in the light as Linda
searches for a vein. She slaps his arm several times,
then plunges a hypodermic needle into his skin. His skin
bends and gives. The needle remains in sight after it
slips through the visible surface. Sarah presses down on
the hypo plunger, releasing a dye into his bloodstream.
SARAH (cont’d)
Dr. Caine... this might sounds stupid,
but are you... are you looking at me.
The red dye twists into a long snaking red tube up and
down his arm. His vein.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
No. I was looking at the clock. Why?
Sarah draws the plunger back, sucking Sebastian’s blood
into the hypodermic and then yanks the needle out.
SARAH
Just felt like someone was staring at
me.
Sarah pulls the vial off the needle and labels it with a
grease pencil. After a few beats the red dye in
Sebastian’s blood stream dissolves and disappears, as
does the liquid in the vial.
TESTING MONTAGE
INT. MRI ROOM
MATT slides Sebastian’s sheet covered frame into an MRI.
Even though his head is not visible, it shown up on the
MRI scanner.
INT. MAIN LABORATORY
CARTER and SARAH lower a harness into a water tank.
SEBASTIAN’S BODY displaces the water, revealing an empty
body shaped cavity in the water.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
CARTER sips a BIG GULP and stares at a monitor which
shows two eat signatures in the Recovery Chamber, huddled
over a chess game.
INT. RECOVER CHAMBER
on a chessboard... A BLACK KNIGHT takes WHITE BISHOP,
seemingly all by itself.
Across the table, Matt leans back and topples his WHITE
KING acknowledging defeat.
INT. SPECTRAL LAB
Dim lights. Janice and Frank both don eye guards. Frank
switches on a low intensity laser on and it’s beam shoots
across the room. The beam distorts slightly in the center
of the room. As Frank widens the spectral pattern,
suddenly the beam splits into a million different
spectral rainbows, momentary illuminating Sebastian’s
entire frame in a glowing tingle of light.
INT. MAIN LABORATORY
LINDA pulls vials from the cyclotrons and props blood
sample slides. She slips them under the microscope. She
takes a sip of her Diet Coke and puts it on the table.
She pears into the microscope and analyses the blood
sample, squeezing more stain onto it. She looks up to
make notations, but when she reaches for her Diet Coke IT
ISN’T THERE. She looks around. It’s on the other side of
her microscope. She shrugs it off, she takes a sip and
sets it down where it was before. She peers into the
microscope again and when she looks up... the Diet Coke
is gone. She looks around the room and sees it on another
table completely.
LINDA
Sebastian? Goddamnit.
We hear Sebastian’s laughter echo in the room.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
You’ve no idea how much fun I’ve had.
I’m going to hate going back.
LINDA
That’s what worries me.?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
How so?
LINDA
What happens when we turn the project
over to the Army. Ever wonder how much
fun they’re gonna have?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Maybe we won’t give it to them. His
voice comes from behind her now.
We see indentations on her shoulders where his fingers
press down.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (cont’d)
I was thinking... tonight’s my last
night. Ever fantasize about making
love to an invisible man?
Linda pulls away from him.
LINDA
Stop it, Sebastian. It’s not funny.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Well, don’t do it for me. Do it for
science.
Linda walks away. Sebastian laughs.
LINDA
Grow up.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Oh well. Missed your big chance.
LINDA
Got some sleep. Big day tomorrow.
INT. LABORATORY - DAY
A bevy of activity below us as the scientists prepare.
Matt slides the antigen cocktail into the centrifuge and
starts it spinning.
A sheet drapes over a Sebastian’s frame, straps across
his limbs. He is fully wired.
Linda looks up to the observation booth.
LINDA
Recording?
Frank peers down at her from the booth, his voice echoing
through the chamber.
FRANK
Recording. Subject Doctor Sebastian
Caine. Currently in phase shift...
Three days, seven hours.
LINDA
De-Phase protocol. Injecting Serial
Protein Caine One Two Seven.
Matt removes the glowing vial of orange liquid from a
centrifuge nearby. Carter hands Matt a hypo. Matt jabs it
into the vial, drawing up the colored liquid. Linda
sprays Sebastian’s arm with dye.
LINDA (cont’d)
Ready?
SEBASTIAN
Not really. I was just starting to
enjoy myself.
LINDA
Tough.
MATT
Okay, man. Here we go.
Matt inserts the hypo into the vein and presses down on
the plunger. The liquid begins to react. Small flashes of
light blip up and down the strand of color outlining the
vein.
Ba-bump.. ba-bump... the heartbeat starts to speed up.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
Wait... something... something doesn’t
feel right.
SARAH
Heartbeat elevated.
