INT. BATHROOM - DAY
Sebastian, dressed in street clothes, stands before the
mirror applying make-up to his latex mask.
INT. STORAGE FREEZER
Linda finishes stripping the insulation off the electric
cord.
She grabs a hypodermic needle package, and her cold
fingers fumbles with the package as she tries to pull out
the plastic tube.
She finally gets it out and she starts wrapping the
stripped electric wire around the tube in a tight coil.
INT. BATHROOM - DAY
Sebastian slides on a wig and checks his appearance in
the mirror. Pretty smooth. Even from relatively close up,
he could pass as normal.
INT. STORAGE FREEZER
Linda furiously winds wire into a coil.
INT. CORRIDOR
Sebastian heads down the corridor. Lingering steam twists
in and around the hallway, long wispy tendrils. Sebastian
pauses for a moment, hearing A GROWL. Suddenly the
hallway seems a lot scarier. From beneath his scrubs he
pulls his own tranq gun. He listens ... hearing scraping
and footsteps. Watching the water on the floor twitch.
With machine like precision, he turns and fires. The
tranq dart halts in mid-air and some invisible thing
tumbles over.
Sebastian continues down the hallway.
INT. STORAGE FREEZER
Linda holds the plug end of the extension cord. The other
end is wrapped into a tight long coil. Linda looks for an
outlet, but can’t find one. She looks at the overhead
lights.
A moment later she’s climbing up the shelving. She wrap*
a piece of fabric around her hand, and with a sharp punch
she smashes one of the overhead light bulbs.
INT. LABORATORY
Sebastian enters, fully dressed. At a distance it’d be
hard to tell his secret. He pulls several chemicals off
the shelves. Then he pulls a tray of test tubes over and
begins mixing.
INT. STORAGE FREEZER
Linda works on jerry rigging the two ends of the wire to
the lightbulb, socket.
Suddenly the coiled wire springs to life and flies
against the nearest metal surface. She’s made an
electromagnet.
INT. LABORATORY
Sebastian loads the filled test tubes into the
centrifuge. Dozens of other vials are already slotted. He
takes one of the left over vials, considers it a moment
and then flings it over to the other side of the lab. The
vial shatters and...
EXPLODES.
A powerful explosion that rocks the room.
INT. STORAGE FREEZER
Linda feels the rumbling as she places the coil up
against the door. The magnet attaches itself. Linda
shakes the coil, trying to get the doorlock to move.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR -
We see the lock twitching. Shaking...
INSIDE THE DOOR -
Linda shivers as she plays with the coil. Her eyes glaze
and she stumbles backward. Her surgical scrubs, once
soaked with sweat, are now frozen stiff. She composes
herself and pushes back toward the door. Her heavy breath
hangs as a low cloud of Mist.
INT. LABORATORY - DAY
Sebastian looks over the dozens of other test tubes,
calculating their combined power in his mind. Then he
closes the top of the centrifuge. He taps a few commands
into its timer.
INT. SUPPLY ROOM
The door lock twitches again and twists back. The door
swings opens and Linda stumbles out, mashing into a
supply shelf of oxygen canisters. The canisters tumble
every which way as Linda tumbles to the ground.
She scrambles to her feet and goes in after Matt, pulling
his cold body out of the storage locker.
She pulls stacks of paper down from, the shelves into a
trashcan, grabs an industrial lighter and ignites the
paper. She pushes Matt close to the small bonfire. As she
does, the oxygen tanks catch her eye.
INT. CORRIDOR
Sebastian exits the lab, locking the door behind him. He
heads down the darkened tunnel. Something scampers in
front of him. Small, not visible. Sebastian sends it
reeling with a swift violent kick.
INT. CORRIDOR, BY THE ELEVATOR - DAY
Sebastian, dressed and in full latex, comes striding up
the tunnel. He taps a code into the elevator vault doors.
The vault doors open revealing the elevator.
The doors slide open and Sebastian steps inside.
ELEVATOR
Authorization please?
SEBASTIAN
Caine. One One One One One.
ELEVATOR
Authorization valid. Thank you.
LINDA
Sebastian!
And there’s Linda. Slicked with dirt and blood. She holds
a oxygen container with a cut line.
LINDA (cont’d)
I can’t let you leave. Come on out and
I’ll give you one last chance.
SEBASTIAN
You said it yourself, Lin. I shouldn’t
hold on to the past.
The door starts to shut.
LINDA
Aaaaaaahhhh!
She hits the top of a LIGHTER duct-taped to the hose. A
line of PRESSURIZED FIRE BLOWS into the elevator.
WWHHHOOOOSSHHHH! Sebastian goes up in flame. Linda runs
toward the elevator. Just as the door’s about to close,
she slides. Her foot jamming into it.
She lets loose with the flame again. Sebastian, backed
into the corner, has no where to go. He’s yelling in
pain. His latex FACE BUBBLES and burns. The surgical
scrubs SINGE BLACK. With no other escape route, he dives
toward the door. Linda looks up to see his flaming body
fly over her, back into the corridor. Linda kills the
tank as Sebastian continues to burn. The elevator lights
flickers and the security panel goes up in a shower of
sparks. The elevator dies. Linda pulls herself to her
feet and turns to see...
Half of Sebastian’s head MELTED AWAY, his latex facade a
gruesome smoke-damaged mass. His clothes are half burned
revealing large blistering bubbly welts underneath, like
deformed blackened bubble wrap.
Sebastian crawls to his feet, but Linda hits him with
another shot of flame.
Sebastian pulls at his clothes as he crawls around the
corner.
SEBASTIAN
Oh God!
Linda stalks toward him.
LINDA
You wanna see God? I’ll show you God.
Linda turns the corner to see a heap of smoldering latex
and clothing strewn about the corridor floor. Sebastian,
looking like some ugly creature, pushes down the
corridor. He throbs with his blackened skin blistering
and cracking up and down his body. Linda lets loose
another jet of flame. It’s smaller than the first and
doesn’t quite hit Sebastian. Linda checks the tanks
pressure gauge. It slowly drops. Linda follows the
blackened horror into the maze of tunnels. But as he
pushes along the corridor, his burns slowly re- absorb
themselves. Sebastian is no longer visible. A quiet
moment in the hallway as Linda realizes how vulnerable
she is. She looks around for him desperately. Nothing.
But something on the ceiling catches her attention. She
blasts it with the last jet of her dying torch. THE
SPRINKLER SYSTEM, hit by fire, comes to life. Water
sprays down on the tunnel. Sebastian is caught in the
downpour, his invisible frame outlined by water. It comes
toward her, the hot skin steaming in the water. He grabs
Linda and slams her against the wall. His watery hand
smashes her across her face. Linda reels. On the floor,
she looks to see Sebastian stalking toward her. She
crawls away, but he grabs her by her hair, pulls her to
her feet and slams her against the wall.
SEBASTIAN
I’m gonna find everyone in your family
and kill them-. Your sister... she
never liked me. I think I’ll go after
her and her little boy first.
Sebastian smashes her head against a metal post. Her head
cuts open, blood dripping down.
SEBASTIAN (cont’d)
I just wanted you to know that before
you die.
Linda collapses to the floor. Sebastian’s foot presses
against her neck, squeezing it. Linda gags for breath.
But through the shoot of water that is Sebastian, we see
something also... a watery smudge.
BAM!
MATT - smashes Sebastian with the metal bar. Sebastian
slams against the corridor wall and sinks down.
Matt staggers. It’s taken all his strength to got there.
He drops the crowbar and seeks the wall for support, he
sinks to his knees by Linda.
MATT
Thought I’d... thought I’d save you
for a change.
He gives her his hand and pulls her up into his arms.
MATT (cont’d)
Let’s got out of here.
Just as the two turn, Sebastian rises with the crowbar.
He swings it with a yell. Matt pushes Linda out of the
way, his arm glancing the blow into a conduit. The
conduit splits open and severs ELECTRICAL wiring. The
VOLTAGE shoots up the crowbar and into Sebastian. As the
current pulses through his body, Sebastian vibrates. His
blood vessels yank back to visibility, followed by his
skeletal structure and major organs. Sebastian is slowly
electrified. Smoke pours off him and he becomes more and
more visible. Finally he collapses. His body throbbing in
and out of visibility. Matt and Linda stumble away.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Just outside the lab... Linda tries to pry open the
sealed doors with the crowbar. But she can’t.
Through the doors porthole she sees a collection of
chemicals and the fire raging from the earlier explosion.
LINDA
Nitro...
Matt peaks inside.
MATT
He said it himself... All they’ll find
is a pile of charred corpses.
She sees the centrifuge... The timed counter on its face
counts down from a minute. Fifty nine. Fifty eight. Fifty
seven...
LINDA
He’s rigged the centrifuge.
MATT
In an enclosed space, he’ll wipe out
the whole lab.
INT. TUNNEL
Linda and Matt move as fast as they can. They reach the
burned out elevator. What the hell are they gonna do? We
know the damn thing doesn’t work. She swings her crowbar
at the ceiling. The maintenance hatch comes down.
LINDA
Grab on.
Linda hooks the crowbar onto the hatch lip and pulls
herself up. She reaches back down for Matt.
MATT
Forget about me. You go.
LINDA
Fuck you. Give me your hands.
Linda grabs Matt’s hands and pulls for all she’s worth.
She struggles, but they both manage to got him through
the hatch.
INT. LABORATORY - DAY
Three... two... one. The centrifuge springs to life.
The centrifuge spins the two dozen vials slowly at first.
INT. VENT
Linda and Matt are on top of the elevator.
Linda’s hands search the wall. Bar fingers run across the
smooth metal surface.
From the little light below she can see a maintenance
ladder that spans the entire height of the vertical tube.
They look up and see it disappear into the darkness.
LINDA
Climb!
MATT
But...
LINDA
Climb!
Matt starts up, rung after rung. Linda climbs right
behind him.
INT. LABORATORY
The centrifuge spins faster and faster. The vials are
starting to rattle.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT
Linda and Matt pull themselves up the ladder as quick as
they can.
MATT
I can’t. I’m going to pass out.
LINDA
Keep moving.
He does, through sheer force of will. Blood from his
wound drips down on Linda’s face. No telling how much
further they have to go in this darkness. Light leaks in
from the maintenance hatch below.
INT. LABORATORY
The centrifuge’s whine has reached a fevered pitch. The
vials shake violently.
Then... one of the vials shatters.
A FLASH OF LIGHT. A HUGE EXPLOSION rips through the
laboratory.
INT. TUNNEL
The EXPLOSION rips through the lab doors. A MASSIVE
FIREBALL rolls down the tunnel swallowing everything in
its path.
One of the phase shifted animals gets caught in the
flames. We see its shape briefly before it disappears In
a wall of fire.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT
The ladder begins to shake. The entire shaft begins to
rumble. Linda pushes Matt up as they scramble toward
safety.
INT. EXHAUST VENT
The FIREBALL blows into the vent. Starts rolling down it
also.
INT. TUNNELS
More explosions.
CHAIN REACTIONS. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
THE EXPLOSIONS rolls toward the OPEN ELEVATOR. Slamming
into it... The elevator flies upward.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT
The rumbling worsens. The two desperately cling to the
ladder. They looks down to see...
The elevator...
SURROUNDED BY FLAMES flying up toward them, lifted by the
explosion’s SHOCK WAVES.
LINDA
Oh God!
MATT
Don’t look.
The carriage accelerates toward them, faster and faster.
Its loose cables whip around the shaft, slapping the
walls around the pair. Its gonna hit them! Linda pulls
herself close to the ladder and closes her eyes. She’s
pressed against Matt. The elevator... 50 feet... 40 ...
30 ... W0000000SH! It flames RIGHT BY THEM.
When Linda opens her eyes, the elevator is HUNDREDS OF
FEET ABOVE THEM and a wall of fire is below them, closing
in.
LINDA
Move!
Panicked, Linda pushes Matt up the ladder as she stares
down at the rising fire wall. But the fire dissipates
before it hits them, though a stray tongue of flames
reaches up to lick the soles of her feet.
They hear a terrifying moan and looks up to see the
elevator peaking far above her. It slows to a stop and
BEGINS TO FALL.
MATT
It’s coming down!
FASTER AND FASTER. Coming back toward them in complete
free- fall. It’s emergency brakes clamp down, slowing it.
Metal against metal. Sparks flying. One of the brakes
shears. Then another. The elevator unseats from it’s
tracks, SLAMMING against the walls as it TUMBLES. Linda
sees that the elevator is out of control, and watches as
it ping-pongs toward them... smashing into the access
ladder, smashing into the wall. The elevator slows, but
continues slamming side-to-side. Linda cringes as the
elevator crashes into the wall above them. But it jams
there, stopping. They pull their heads away from wall and
look up. The elevator just hangs there, suspended.
There’s a small crawlspace between the elevator and the
ladder.
LINDA
C’mon. Before it slips.
They begins to climb up again. Matt shimmies through the
tight hollow, and squeezes out the other side, followed
by Linda. She breathes a sigh of relief and just hangs
there a moment when ... Ah! Something grabs her. A singed
throbbing hand emerges from the darkness, gripping at her
leg.
LINDA (cont’d)
It’s him.
She kicks at it and sees a dark dirty face - a swirl of
dirt, grime and smoke with hollow eyes - rise up the
ladder.
MATT
Sebastian, you fuck.
LINDA
Get off me.
Sebastian pulls himself up Linda’s body. Translucent
dirty hands paving at the fabric of her clothes. Linda
tries to climb with this thing on her. But Sebastian
grabs her around the neck. She begins choking for breath.
Linda fights to keep her grip on the ladder... She looks
down at the ten foot drop to the elevator and then... She
lets go!
MATT
No!
She and Sebastian plummet through the smoky haze and slam
against the top of the elevator. Linda seems to hover a
few above the elevator, Sebastian’s shadowy outline below
her. Matt painfully lowers himself down the ladder. But
metal groans and the elevator drops another five feet.
Linda struggles to her feet. Sebastian rises. A menacing
dark figure stalking toward her. Linda pushes back from
him. Sebastian grabs her by the hair and pulls bar over
to the ladder. The elevator strains and groans.
LINDA
Let go of me.
Sebastian presses her up against the ladder. Presses into
her from behind. He has her trapped. His dirty hand
reaches out and strokes her hair.
SEBASTIAN
Remember the day we met? You were
wearing a red dress and you were so
pretty. Now... Now look at you.
MATT
Get off of her!
Sebastian pulls her hair back and kisses her neck with
his filthy, dirt-smeared mouth and half-burned away face.
MATT (cont’d)
Sebastian, stop it.
Linda and Sebastian struggle. Matt reaches down to try
and grab her, help her.
SEBASTIAN
You fucked it all up.
Linda looks at her feet. The last elevator emergency
brake grips its cable. She grits her tooth and grabs hold
of the ladder.
LINDA
Go to hell.
Linda stamps on the brake release. The ELEVATOR TUMBLES
... along with Sebastian. It slams into the fiery abyss a
hundred yards below. Linda hangs, one hand holding onto
the ladder, the other holding onto Matt. Matt pulls her
back onto the ladder, using all his remaining strength.
EXT. WAREHOUSE - DAY
Linda and Matt stumble out into the blazing sunshine.
Emergency crews close from all directions, sirens
roaring. A trail of smoke drifts higher and higher into
the sky.
An ambulance pulls up next to them and the paramedics hop
out, immediately putting a blanket around her and
treating Matt’s wounds.
MARINE GUARD
What happened?
LINDA
We lived.
Linda looks over her shoulder at the traces of the ruin
and she sees a shimmer of heat rising from the ground...
almost as if something was there.
FADE OUT:
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