INT. KRAMER’S HOUSE - NIGHT
Kramer heads back into the living room. His wife appears
a the upstairs railing.
MRS. KRAMER
What was that about?
KRAMER
Just a little trouble at work.
MRS. KRAMER
You coming up?
KRAMER
In a minute. I have to make a few
calls.
Mrs. Kramer retreats back to her bedroom as Dr. Kramer
crosses over to the telephone. He picks up the receiver
and starts dialing. In the middle of dialing, the phone
goes dead. He clicks the hookswitch up and down trying to
get a dial tone. Nothing. He checks the connections on
the phone and then follows the wiring to the wall. The
line’s plugged in. Weird. He hears a door creak open in
the kitchen.
KRAMER (cont’d)
Hello? Hello?
Kramer crosses to the darkened kitchen. The kitchen door
leading to the backyard is open. Puzzled, he crosses to
it. A wind stirs across the pool and backyard, swirling
dead leaves in small twists of wind. The windchime rings
lightly. Kramer steps out.
EXT. POOL/PATIO, BACKYARD - NIGHT
In the dim spillover light from house, Kramer crosses to
the telephone- box against the back of the house. It Is
open and several of the wires have been pulled. He looks
around, spooked and puffs out a cloud of smoke from his
pipe. For the briefest of instants, Sebastian’s face is
visible in the smoke. Kramer jumps back in surprise and
the pipe drops from his mouth. He gives a small sharp
cry, but deep indentations appear across his mouth and
his cries are stifled. In the darkness, we can make out
his form writhing as if possessed. The struggle continues
a beat until Kramer manages to break free.
KRAMER
Help! HELP! MARTHA! HELP!
As Kramer runs, he looks behind him. But no one’s there.
WHAM! Something slams into Kramer and he tumbles, rolling
into the pool. But as he hits water there’s not just one
splash, but TWO. In the water next to him is human shaped
AIR-POCKET. It’s Sebastian displacing the water. And
because of the water displacement, we can clearly see two
arms pushing Kramer beneath the water’s surface.
MARTHA KRAMER opens the bedroom window and looks down at
the pool. All she can see is her husband drowning... his
flailing limbs kicking up a massive air bubble around
him. She races from the window. Kramer kicks and flails
for a few moments and then his limbs stop moving. A
moment later he floats to surface, face down. The AIR
POCKET bobs over to the pool ladder, and rising from the
pool, we see Sebastian’s body outlined in sheets of
water. The shape melts away in a cascading waterfall
until all we can see of Sebastian are the hundreds of
tiny droplets still clinging to his body, caught in the
light like twinkling bulbs on a Christmas tree. The shape
disappears into the darkness. A moment later Martha
emerges from the house and sees her husband floating face
down in the pool. She screams.
INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER - DAY
Linda passes by Sebastian’s chamber.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
What? No good morning for me? Don’t
you like me anymore?
LINDA
Oh, sorry. I...I’m in a hurry.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
That’s okay. It’s going to be busy
day.
INT. LINDA’S OFFICE - DAY
Matt sits across from her, twirling a pen in his hand.
They both stare at the phone.
LINDA
When did he say held call?
MATT
He’s probably meeting with the
committee trying to figure out what to
do.
LINDA
I’m gonna call him.
Linda picks up the phone and dials.
LINDA (cont’d)
Yes, Dr. Kramer please. Excuse me?
(inhales sharply - surprised)
When? I’m so sorry.
Linda blanches as she hangs up the phone.
MATT
What?
LINDA
He’s dead. Drowned in his pool last
night.
Linda picks up the phone again and dials.
LINDA (cont’d)
Yes, General Thompson please. Thank
you.
As she waits the phone line clicks dead.
LINDA (cont’d)
Hello? Hello?
She clicks on the hookswitch.
MATT
Let me see that.
He tries it too. Same result.
MATT (cont’d)
Intercom’s working, but there doesn’t
seem to be an outside line.
INT. CORRIDOR/ELEVATOR
They waste no time getting to the elevator. Linda and
Matt step in.
LINDA
I’ll be right back with help.
Linda taps in his floor code.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization please.
LINDA
Foster One Delta Eight Three Five.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization invalid. Request denied.
LINDA
That’s a first.
Linda taps the keypad again.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization please.
LINDA
Foster One Delta Eight Three Five.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization invalid. Request denied.
MATT
Let me try mine.
Matt hits buttons on the keypad.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization please.
MATT
Kensington Two Romeo One Five Nine.
ELEVATOR (V.0.)
Authorization invalid. Request denied.
LINDA
Tell me this isn’t happening.
INT. LABORATORY - DAY
Frank, Sarah, Carter and Janice man various work stations
in the lab. Linda and Matt enter.
LINDA
We’ve got a problem.
INT. COMPUTER ROOM - NIGHT
Frank’s fingers fly over the keyboard.
MATT
How long before anybody starts looking
for us?
LINDA
There’s no set check in procedure. It
could be weeks.
A graphic of the elevator system pops up on the screen.
Frank highlights the security terminal. Frank hits a few
more keys. The screen reduces to a series of numbers.
LINDA (cont’d)
You think you can got in?
Frank rewrites a few of the numbers.
FRANK
Already in. It was only a second level
encryption.
The Security System specifications pops up.
JANICE
Some security system.
FRANK
Oh the system is fine. It’s just I’m
just extraordinary.
Frank types a few more keys, and his eyes widen.
FRANK (cont’d)
But apparently someone is more
extraordinary than me.
MATT
What is it?
FRANK
There’s nothing wrong with the system.
Our codes have been removed.
MATT
Removed? By who?
FRANK
Here’s a clue. Only one code remains.
LINDA
Whose?
FRANK
Dr. Sebastian Caine.
INT. RECOVERY CHAMBER
The team approaches Sebastian’s chamber. Carter pulls on
the pair of thermal goggles dangling from his neck up.
THERMAL POV - The chamber is empty.
CARTER
He’s not in there.
Linda enters the chamber. She notes that Sebastian’s face
and makeup are on the sink vanity. Linda crosses to the
phone and hits the “PAGE BUTTON”
LINDA
Okay, Sebastian. Fun’s over. Tell us
where you are.
She waits. Then...
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
I’m sorry. But I can’t lot you turn me
in.
LINDA
Sebastian... where are you?
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (INTERCOM)
You have no idea what it’s like. The
power of it. The freedom. I can’t let
that go.
LINDA
C’mon Sebastian. You’re scaring me.
Tell me where you are and we can talk
about it.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE (INTERCOM)
There’s nothing to talk about. See ...
I’ve done things that can’t be undone.
A long beep as the intercom clicks off.
LINDA
Sebastian! Sebastian!
(beat)
I want search parties. Thermal goggles
and tranquilizers.
INT. CORRIDOR
Linda and Matt, wearing thermal goggles and clutching
tranquilizer pistols, walk down the hallway, scanning
back and forth.
INT. SEBASTIAN’S OFFICE
Janice enters the office.
JANICE
Dr. Caine? Are you in here? Dr. Caine?
Suddenly, Janice jerks back.
SEBASTIAN’S VOICE
I’m here.
INT. HABITAT’S CORRIDOR
Sarah scans all the habitats with a thermal scanner.
Listening intently.
INT. SEBASTIAN’S OFFICE
Janice struggles with her unseen assailant, slamming into
walls and knocking into filing cabinets.
INT. LABORATORY
Frank and Carter search the lab with their thermal
scopes.
FRANK
Doctor Caine?
INT. SEBASTIAN’S OFFICE
Linda and Matt knock.
LINDA
Sebastian?
No response. They push through the door. The room seems
deserted. Signs of a struggle. File cabinets opened,
drawers tossed.
MATT
This is bad.
THERMAL POV - Linda surveys the room, spotting a slight
heat signature peeking from the corner.
LINDA
There’s something over there.
Linda moves toward it. Whatever it is its hidden from
Matt’s POV by the supply cabinet. As Linda gets close she
pulls of f her thermal goggles to see...
JANICE -
Her face blue, eyes bulging. An I.V. cord wrapped around
his neck. Linda jumps back.
LINDA (cont'd)
Jesus. Oh my god.
Matt rushes over. Sees the lifeless corpse.
MATT
What happened?
Linda lowers the body to the floor.
LINDA
She was strangled. Multiple blows to
her head.
Linda begins a medical check of the rest of the body.
Matt stoops down and examines Janice’s face.
LINDA (cont’d)
We got a big problem here.
A lamp tumbles from the desk and smashes to the floor.
Both Linda and Matt jump. Linda frantically dons the
thermal visor and scopes the room again. Nothing. Matt
notices the lamp cord beneath Linda’s leg. Points it out
to her. She sighs with relief... she pulled the lamp off
the table.
LINDA (cont’d)
Get everybody to the conference room.
Now!
Matt picks up the phone. Clicks the hookswitch. Clicks
the hookswitch again.
MATT
Intercom... the phone lines. They’re
dead.
LINDA
Gimme that.
She checks the phone, punches some numbers. Nothing.
LINDA (cont’d)
It was just working.
MATT
What the fuck is going on here?
INT. CORRIDOR
Matt and Linda head toward the lab.
Linda suddenly stops.
MATT
What?
LINDA
Shhh.
Linda takes a few cautious steps. Senses something.
LINDA (cont’d)
Give me the visor.
Matt, suddenly concerned, hands her the visor.
THERMAL POV - Linda checks out the corridor. Empty. Linda
takes Matt’s hand.
LINDA (cont’d)
C’mon.
They move quickly up the corridor. See Frank, Sarah and
Carter.
FRANK
Did you find him?
LINDA
Janice is dead.
INT. CONFERENCE ROOM
Linda scans the room with her thermal scope.
LINDA
It’s clear.
Matt, Frank, Janice and Sarah step in, locking the door
behind them.
SARAH
The man has checked out of reality.
FRANK
What happened? I don’t understand.
CARTER
Isn’t it obvious? Right now, we’re the
only ones who knows he exists. If he
gets rid of us, no one knows and he
becomes the most powerful man on
earth.
FRANK
But he’s not a killer.
They all look at Linda.
LINDA
He wasn’t. He is now.
MATT
Can you fix the elevator? Restore our
codes?
FRANK
It’d take hours to crack the
encryptions.
MATT
Right now that sounds like good news.
CARTER
So what do we do until then. Sit
around waiting for him to kill us off?
Everyone looks around for some leadership. Finally.
LINDA
No. We find him, before he finds us.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
The group moves quickly, passing under an air vent. As
they round the corner the vent slowly swings down and an
air disturbance drops to the ground.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
As they enter...
CARTER
You sure this’ll work.
Linda sits down at a computer terminal, activates it.
LINDA
We designed it to help find the rats
we kept dropping in year one. They
were too small for thermal scans.
A map of the compound appears on the screen.
MATT
Systems hot. Activating motion
detectors.
Matt toggles a switch. Linda stares at a map of the
compound. Blips appear on the display... in the
observation room... in the Habitat Area and in one of the
corridors.
LINDA
I’ve got movement in Corridor Six.
MATT
That’s him.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
A shadow edges down the tunnel. It settles for a moment,
disappearing completely, then is back on the move. At the
tunnel’s edges, motion detectors light up as the thing
passes by.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
Carter checks his Tranq pistol & Matt rummages through a
locker.
MATT
Got ‘em.
Matt pulls out a pair of walkie-talkies. He tosses one to
Linda.
LINDA
(into walkie)
Check. Check.
Her voice echoes from the other unit.
LINDA (cont’d)
Be careful.
MATT
Just watch our backs. Hey Carter,
ready?
CARTER
Let’s do it.
Matt and Carter exit. Linda locks the door behind them.
INT. TUNNEL
Matt and Carter trot toward corridor six.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY
Linda huddles over the display, tracking the two.
LINDA
(into Walkie)
Take a right at the next accessway.
He’s working his way back to the
offices.
We see Matt and Carter on one of the working video
screens as they push down the tunnel.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Matt and Carter move cautiously, listening for any sound.
MATT
(Walkie - sotto)
If we split up, can we trap him on
corridor eight?
LINDA (V.0.)
If he keeps heading in that direction.
Matt nods to Carter. The pair splits, heading down
separate accessways.
MATT
Going Thermal.
Matt pulls the visor down over his eyes.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY
Linda watches the two separate and come around Sebastian
in a pincer move.
Suddenly, the blip that was Sebastian disappears. Linda
grabs the walkie.
LINDA
I lost him. Matt, I lost him.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Matt makes his way forward.
MATT
He probably just stopped moving.
But Matt becomes more cautious with his footsteps. Slowly
... approaching a corner...
He rounds the corner and sees a heat signature at the far
end of the corridor. He levels his pistol, ready to fire.
CARTER
It’s me.
Matt pulls off his goggles.
MATT
Do you have anything?
CARTER
Nothing.
MATT
How did he get by us?
CARTER
He couldn’t.
MATT
Sebastian! We’re here to help.
Sebastian.
No response. They both don their visors and move forward
slightly. Carter holds up his hand.
CARTER
There. Behind those pipes. He’s not
moving.
Carter points. Matt checks his thermal. A red heat
signature clings to the wall.
CARTER (cont’d)
Doctor Caine?
(beat)
Can you hear me?
No response.
MATT
(into walkie)
We see him. But he’s not responding.
The heat signature doesn’t move.
Matt looks through his visor and holds the tranquilizer
gun at the ready. He looks for a clear shot. The heat
signature huddles behind pipes.
MATT
C’mon... C’mon...
The two slowly move closer. Matt finally has a clear
shot. He signals Carter. Carter levels his pistol too.
CARTER
Covered.
Matt fires the dart at the heat signature. It bounces off
the wall ... Nothing there.
MATT
What the...
He crosses to the heat signature.
MATT (cont’d)
Just a vent. Just a goddamn vent
LINDA (V.0.)
He was there.
MATT
Looks like... looks like we’re pumping
out heat...
Suddenly behind him... CARTER JERKS THREE FEET in the
air, kicking wildly. SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR BY HIS NECK. He
gasps for air.
LINDA (V.0.)
I got movement again! He’s right on
top of you!
MATT
No fucking shit!
Matt opens fire with the tranquilize, shooting at the
ceiling until he spends his dart rounds.
MATT (cont’d)
Sebastian? Goddamnit! Let him go.
CARTER
(choking)
H...Help... MMmmphg
Carter suffocates. He passes out. With a sudden crack,
he’s thrown against the side wall. A large cut opens up
across his head and his body goes limp.
MATT
(into walkie)
Where is he? Where the fuck is he?!?
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY
Linda huddles over the display.
LINDA
Right on top of you.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Matt scrambles away. Running. Pipes burst and swing down
from the ceiling. Steam billows forth. Something moves
through the cloud of steam.
Around the corner, Matt shoves more darts into his
tranquilizer.
LINDA (V.0.)
What’s going on? Are you okay?
MATT
Carter’s down. Hurt bad. Bleeding from
a head wound.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Linda watches the screen. Two blips, one traveling
quickly.
LINDA
Matt, he’s coming toward you.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Matt takes a few steps back.
MATT
Shit.
LINDA
Got outta there.
Matt breaks into a run.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
Linda watches one dot chasing the other, down several
corridors.
LINDA
He’s close!
INT. TUNNEL
Matt running, checking over his shoulder. Sounds of
footsteps behind him, but up ahead the heavy metal blast
doors begin to close.
MATT
Goddamnit. The doors are closing. He’s
shutting me in.
Matt rushes the doors as they slide shut. He doesn’t make
it in time. The doors close with a resounding clang. Matt
turns and pulls on his thermals.
MATT (cont’d)
Where is he?
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Linda huddled over the screen. Tense.
LINDA
He’s coming right at you!
Then checks the Thermal goggles. Several heat signature
dot the tunnel.
MATT
Where?
LINDA
Twenty, maybe thirty feet.
MATT
Goddamnit, I got thermals all over the
place. Eight, maybe ten of them. Must
be ghosts.
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Linda gets a sense of forboding. She looks around the
room. Sees a heating vent in the corner.
Beat.
She grabs the walkie.
LINDA
Those signatures ... they’re coming
from the heating vents.
Through the goggles, Matt sees the tunnel turning red.
MATT
I’m starting to lose resolution on my
thermals.
LINDA
Get out of there!
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
FRANK
If the room temperature is the same as
his body temperature, thermal
visors’ll be no good.
Linda grabs a Tranq gun and heads for the door.
LINDA
I’m going!
FRANK
Linda...it’s not safe.
LINDA
That’s why I’m going.
(to Frank and Sarah)
Corridor eight is clear. Get Carter to
the lab. We’ll meet you there.
FRANK
But...
LINDA
Do it.
