Alien: Resurrection

INT. ALIEN OBSERVATION LAB - CONTINUOUS

Alarms, flashing red lights. Gediman looking in a video monitor.

GEDIMAN

What the fuck... You three! Go! Sector two.

All but one of the guards rush out to investigate. Gediman works the surveilliance screen, trying to see what's happening

CUT TO:

INT. MESS HALL – CONTINUOUS

When the smoke clears, There are two guards still standing. They point their weapons ineffectually. St Just has a gun to Wren's head and a gun on the guards, who are also covered by Johner.

ELGYN

Nice and easy, boys...

Call starts to take off.

CALL

I'm gonna finish this.

Elgyn grabs her by the hair, roughly pulls her back.

ELGYN

You're going nowhere, Annalee.

CUT TO:

INT. OBSERVATION LAB – CONTINUOUS

ANGLE: IN THE PEN

The three aliens have picked up the energy, are stalking back and forth like tigers in the dim light of their pen.

ANGLE: THEIR POV

We see Gediman and the guard, their backs to us. The aliens stop pacing. One of them, to the right, looks at the one on the left. Something passes between them. They look back at the humans. At each other.

They SET ON the middle alien, TEARING IT APART. It lets out piercing, insectile SHRIEKS as they tear it limb from limb.

Gediman spins in terror, the guard bringing up his weapon .Gediman hits the lights inside the pen and as they blink to shocking brightness we see:

The remains of the third alien on the ground as a giant pool its blood EATS A HOLE IN THE FLOOR.

GEDIMAN

Oh, God.

He bolts for the failsafe but it's too late as the blood eats all the way through – the two aliens DIVE through the hole. Just as Gediman hits the button – freezing gas fills the chamber but there's nothing to freeze.

GEDIMAN

No no no!

He hits another sequence and the door slides open. He rushes in, kneels by the hole and looks down.

ANGLE: HIS POV

Ther blood has already eaten through two levels.

GEDIMAN

Christ. They could be anywhere.

He looks up at the guard – and an alien FLIES UP at him through the hole.

It was hanging on the ceiling below and it pulls him through before he can breathe a decent scream.

The guard just stares, shaking.

CUT TO:

INT. MESS HALL

The mexican standoff is getting even more heated.

CHRISTIE

Who gives a shit! We have to get out of here.

ELGYN

If Call's got something going here I want to know what it is!

WREN

You brought her here.

Two more guards rush in. Johner shoves' his gun in Wren's mouth.

JOHNER

Drop them! I'm not fucking with you!

CHRISTIE

(indicating the dead soldiers)

Boss, we got bodies here. It doesn't matter what Call's up to, we're all fucked now.

CALL

I have to stop him. If I don't we'll all die.

WREN

(pulls his mouth away)

Elgyn, tell me what you know. If she's alone in this...

HILLARD

In what?

Johner puts his gun to Call's temple now.

JOHNER

Does anyone want me to make this simple?

Far away, a SCREAM. Everyone stops. Wren turns slowly in the direction it came from.

WREN

No...

CUT TO:

INT. HALLWAY BY LABS

A technican RUNS screaming just as an alien LEAPS on him from behind. The CAMERA RUSHES AWAY, frenzied as the scene, to pick up a guard in the next hall firing wildly at the ceiling as an alien dissappears up an airvent. There are three bodies lying dead before us.

ANGLE: IN THE PENS

We see that the aliens have been freed. Smoke, dead bodies, the plexiglass partition to one 1 cage is cracked and open.

CUT TO:

INT. RIPLEY'S CELL – CONTINUOUS

Ripley sits in the dark, the noise of Chaos just beginning filter in. And she just can't help herself.

She is LAUGHING.

CUT TO:

INT. PEREZ'S QUARTERS CONTINUOUS

He is mostly dressed, still shaking off sleep. He stands at the command console, bringing up visual. Everything on the screens is smoke and noise.

PEREZ

Ensign! Damage Report! Ensign!

Nothing. On one of the screens, an alien is briefly visible. Perez stiffens at the sight of it.

He punches up a different sector. The labs, and here is a badly wounded lieutenant.

PEREZ

Status!

LIEUTENANT

Containment is impossible, sir... I think they swept the barracks.

PEREZ

(to himself)

A military strike... Christ Jesus...

After a beat, he starts punching in the emergency override codes.

CUT TO:

INT. BARRACKS - CONTINUOUS

It's worst here – the aliens have taken out a dozen men in their sleep, and everyone awake is screaming. One soldier runs for the weapons cabinet – an alien hits him from behind and SMASHES him into it, falling in a tumble of guns.

Over the chaos, the emergency lighting comes on, floor light like an airplane's indicating the nearest exit. Father's voice is excruciatingly calm:

FATHER

Emergency. Initiate evacuation procedures immediately. All hands. This is not a drill.

One soldier gets a bead on an alien with his burner – fries it along with two of his friends.

They're out of commission, but the alien is hurt only momentarily. It bounds forward, takes out his face.

FATHER

Emergency. Initiate evacuation procedures...

CUT TO:

INT. HALLWAY BY ENGINE ROOM – CONTINUOUS

The noise is too far above to be heard down here, but Fathers droning voice and the emergency lighting are on.

Vriess wheels slowly into the hall, concerned. He spins slowly, checking out his surroundings.

ANGLE: DOWN THE HALL

There is nothing... Just the floor lights pulsing in succession towards the exit.

Vriess follows their lead, wheeling out.

CUT TO:

INT. NEXT HALL – CONTINUOUS

Nothing here either. But Vriess's fur is up – he moves slowly, carefully.

And was that a noise? He looks around, up at the ceiling. A drop of alien blood is eating through right above him. It drips down – and he rolls out of the way just in time, back up as the blood plops to the floor, eating casually through.

CUT TO:

INT. LIFEBOAT BAY ONE – CONTINUOUS

Men are rushing into one of the lifeboats. They sit facing each other in the tiny vessel and strap themselves in. Pere is here, hurrying the soldiers in, pushing back the few who try to crowd in after.

PEREZ

Bay three! Go!

The late soldiers make for the next boat as Perez seals the hatch. He hits the eject button and steps back.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE AURIGA – CONTINUOUS

As the lifeboat FIRES out of the side of the giant craft.

CUT TO:

INT. BAY THREE – CONTINUOUS

Men crowd into this one too – it's nearly full and an alien suddenly LEAPS into it... starts feeding on the men strapped down – they are screaming.

Perez runs in as a soldier outside the lifeboat fires his burner, hitting the alien, the men, the controls – a shower of sparks as the alien turns, about to spring on the soldier as he rolls in a grenade. The doors shut and a soldier hits the eject button.

CUT TO:

EXT. AURIGA – CONTINUOUS

The second lifeboat comes shooting out and moments later EXPLODES.

CUT TO:

INT. MESS HALL – CONTINUOUS

The noise of the explosion – and of a few inside as well – is all around the group.

Father's voice still urges evacuation.

WREN

NO!

(to Call)

What have you done?

CALL

Nothing. Not a goddanm thing. You thought you could control it.

ELGYN

All right. We make for the Betty. Can he walk?

He is pointing at Rane, who nods, standing.

HILLARD

Betty's all the way across the ship! Who knows what's in between?

CALL

(indicating Wren)

He does.

One of the soldiers steps forward. DiStephano.

DISTEPHANO

(to Wren)

Sir, we have to go.

(to Elgyn)

Let him go. No quarrel.

ELGYN

You can have him when we're off . Not before.

They start out, dragging Wren along. Guns still on Call and the soldiers.

ELGYN

What about Vriess?

JOHNER

Fuck Vriess!

CUT TO:

INT. FALL – CONTINUOUS

Vries enters, looking around. He is getting seriously wigged.

The lights on the floor still pulse, urging him forward. He obeys.

Something stirs in the rafters. Coiled about the pipes.

Vriess stops, still a good thirty feet from the beast. Strains to see.

It starts MOVING, climbing at him upside down on the pipes. FAST.

Vriess starts wheeling himself back away but SLOWLY, agonizingly slowly compared to the beast.

He turns the corner, spins around.

The hall is fifty feet long. At the far end a few soldiers running through.

SERGEANT

Seal off that sector!

A soldier runs to obey, working the door controls.

VRIESS

No!

The soldier sees him, but the fear on the boy's face telegraphs his decision.

Vriess starts pumping toward the door. He's strong, picking up speed, but the alien rounds the corner and bolts after him.

Vriess can't even look back as the thing gains on him. The door begins to come down, the soldier finishing the sequence and running off.

Vriess rolls, face set – the alien a few feet behind, reaching for him.

An EXPLOSION far away ROCKS THE SHIP – the hall tilted momentarily, Vriess gets a boost as he rockets downhill, the beast still on him, the door closing, too low for him to clear. He gets there and SLAMS a lever, his chair FLATTENS out to a dolly position, his head just CLEARS the closing door as the alien SLAMS into it, Vriess spinning out and flying off the chair it tilts, landing in a heap next to him.

Lying still on the ground, He listens as the beast slams against the door a few more times, then fades off.

VRIESS

Fuck everything...

He reaches up for the chair and from the back of it he pulls out a shotgun.

CUT TO:

INT. LIFEBOAT BAY 5 – CONTINUOUS

Perez is trying to maintain order. He is failing. Grabs a corporal.

PEPEZ

Muster a squad to search for survivors!

CORPORAL

Fuck no! Fuck no! Fuck you!

Perez slams him to the ground with his fist.

An ALIEN LEAPS OUT at him from the ceiling. The soldiers scatter, Perez just leaping out of the way –

PEREZ

Shoot it! Fry it!

A couple of men fire their burners, to little effect.

One soldier runs up to the action. His head is bloodied, his expression vengefully grim.

The soldier whips out a pistol, private issue, he takes a bead on the thing –

PEREZ

NO!

And the soldier FIRES – pumps three bullets into the beast sends it flying back toward the window.

Perez is riveted by the sight of:

ANGLE: DROPS OF BLOOD

Big ones, hitting the window. Everything seems to move slowly now - the alien, struggling as the soldier pumps two more bullets into it, the other soldiers, Perez – the monster falls and the BLOOD EATS THROUGH THE WINDOW...

PEREZ

Get out! Everyone! Now!

Soldiers are beginning to get it. The window CRACKS, begins to SHAKE as the blood is almost through it.

Even the soldier who shot the alien has stopped, his face frozen in horror at what he's about to accomplish.

Perez shoves him, herds the rest out, looking back –

PEREZ

Clear the sector!

At the window, the blood is almost through – men are pouring out of the hall – some move down a side hall and SLAM the door shut behind them, but most are making for the main exit anyway.

FATHER

Warning. Potential hullbreach. Clear sector.

The blood eats a hole in the window – the nearest soldier is sucked back against the window – he SCREAMS as he is sucked through a hole no bigger than his fist.

Still men are falling over each other, Perez herding them out.

A huge CRACKING sound, and Perez shuts his eyes.

The window explodes outward, the air blowing everything int space. Debris, vehicles, men, all tangled and dead as they blown out into the black.

ANGLE: THE SECTOR DOORS

SLAM shut instantly one cutting right through a soldier halfway out.

ANGLE: AIR VENTS

Gates slam down here as well.

ANGLE: ELECTRICAL DUCTS

Foam SHOOTS into them, hardening instantly, sealing the breached sector.

FATHER

Breach contained. Sector five nonfunctional.

CUT TO:

INT. HALL – CONTINUOUS

As the crew moves quickly through. They come to a shut door, red lights along it indicating it's locked.

ELGYN

(to DiStephano)

Open it.

DISTEPHMO

I can't.

Johner puts his gun to the soldier's head.

WREN

He can't! The sector's closed. The hull's been breached!

ELGYN

Okay, which way?

WREN

We'll have to go through the holding cells. Here.