Alien: Resurrection

ANGLE: UNDERWATER

Ripley pulls the face hugger with all her might – it comes off, its fingers singeing the sides of her face, leaving marks like warpaint. Worse, its probing fleshy member pulls last of her throat, thrashing horribly.

In utmost disgust, Ripley PULLS it APART and the three aliens are COMING RIGHT AT HER.

ABOVE – THE SURFACE

Most of the crew has gotten up out of the water. Christie holding a facehugger inches from his face, others screaming, taking a bead on it.

CHRISTIE

Get it! Kill it!

CALL

The blood'll burn you! Throw it!

He does, and Johner nails it in midflight.

Hillard and Johner pull DiStephano out of the water, but he is not breathing.

ANGLE: UNDER THE SURFACE

Ripley is grabbed by an alien – and St Just comes up behind her and shoots it.

They swim up and away from the spreading, lethal bloodpool.

ANGLE: ABOVE THE SURFACE

They come up out of the water, and an alien rises right behind them. Everyone who can, shoots it. It falls back into the water.

CHRISTIE

A trap! They set a goddamn ambush!

JOHNER

Give me that!

He pulls the burner off DiStephano's body,  even as Call is giving him mouth to mouth.

Johner flips the gun open and FIRES at the water, the whole thing SMOKING and sizzling with the electrical charge. We hear an alien wail bubble from below the surface.

JOHNER

(grinning feverishly)

Okay! Everybody out of the pool!

VRIESS

Let's get the fuck!

DiStephano sputters back to life. Ripley picks him up with one hand,

HILLARD

(to Wren)

Which way?

WREN

Up here.

He takes off, the others following.

WREN

Up through the lift shaft!

He stops at a pair of sliding doors, starts working the panel. Ripley come up to the doors and pulls them apart with a grunt.

ST JUST

Company!

He's referring to the noise and shadow of approaching aliens.

She herds them into the shaft.

CUT TO:

INT. LIFTSHAFT – CONTINUOUS

It goes down about four stories, and up seemingly forever. Enough room for or three elevators, one of which is two stories below.

WREN

UP!

He starts climbing. It's not that hard – there are ladders in each shaft section.

Call comes up behind him. Ripley and others pair off on other ladders.

They climb fast, they're three stories up before the aliens begin POUNDING on the metal door, it buckles under their might.

JOHNER

Move!

WREN

Not far!

Still POUNDING – one alien gets its head in, looks up, hisses, pulls it out.

ANGLE: LIFT

Wren comes to a cralwspace ledge. He climbs on. Set back a few feet from the shaft is a small maintenance access door, works the keypad beside it as Call climbs up behind him.

The aliens SMASH through the door, one of them SAILING across the shaft to grab a pipe on the other side. Instantly four of them are swarming up the walls, moving much faster on pipes and ridges than the humans on ladders.

On one of the aliens a facehugger crawls, constantly moving about on the adult alien's head like a frightened spider.

CALL

Hurry!

WREN

It's jammed! Shit! Gun!

She hands him her gun and without hesitation he SHOOTS HER THROUGH THE CHEST.

She flies back and DOWN THE SHAFT, lands HARD on an elevator six stories below.

Eyes wide and empty.

VRIESS

NOO!

He fires up at Wren, but Wren has punched in the code and slipped through the opening door...

Ripley LEAPS through the air and grabs the ledge, hauling herself up just in time to see the door shut. The lock lights turn red.

She SLAMS against the door, but to no avail.

The aliens are getting closer. St Just, the closest to the bottom, suddenly lets go of the ladder. His knees hooked over a rung, he drops, hangs up side down, his guns filling his hands.

He blows several holes in the nearest alien.

Ripley is furious, maybe surprised just how so. Suddenly an alien RISES OVER THE LEDGE, it's not three feet away from her and she SCREAMS, HURLS herself at it and they both go FLYING OFF into space, they hit the wall on the other side, they fall.

RIPLEY GRABS a pole, it practically tears her arm out of her socket but she holds on, the alien isn't so lucky, it plummets unable to find puchase.

We see it fall past the unmoving body of Call.

ANGLE: CALLS FACE

As the facehugger CLAMPS onto it. Pauses. Pushes off a bit, two digits probing Call's nostrils. Sensing no breath, the thing scurries away to find a better host.

Another alien is fast approching Christie and Vriess. Vriess frantically tries to reload.

VRIESS

It's on us!

Christie turns, aims – Vriess grabs the ladder as Christie FIRES, but the alien is too close, it grabs Christie, spurting blood all over him. He SCREAMS, lets go of the ladder Vriess takes the weight of both as Christie fires again, the alien flying off and down the shaft.

HILLARD

We gotta go!

The last alien suddenly starts scurrying back down after his brothers.

RIPLEY

We're locked in.

JOHNER

Fuck!

PURVIS

How far to the next door?

DISTEPHANO

All the way.

RIPLEY

Then we climb.

They start, moving as fast as they can.

VRIESSS

(to Christie)

You just hang on, man. I'll get us there.

He starts climbing up, impressively fast considering the burden hanging from his back.

JOHNER

(to Ripley)

Are they going for reinforcements?

RIPLEY

Fucked if I know.

They climb.

And climb, the minutes stretching out, still no door. Ripley easily ahead of the rest.

Finally:

RIPLEY

I think I see the door.

PURVIS

(exhausted)

Great.

Vriess is having increasing trouble. Hillard notices him lagging behind, and why.

HILLARD

Vriess! Jesus!

Vriess is moving very quickly, considering. But the effort is becoming too much.

VRIESS

We're coming...

Johner scrambles down next to Vriess.

He checks the pulse in Christie's neck.

Vriess, man... he's dead.

Refusing to hear it, Vriess struggles to climb further.

VRIESS

We'll get him to medlab... just a little while...

Johner looks over at Hillard. Without saying a word, she pull out a good sized hunting knife, flicks it open.

She slices through the cord holding them together, and Christie's body falls free.

Vriess shuts his eyes, feeling it.

ANGLE: DOWN THE SHAFT

There is silence as Christie's body drops down the black abyss

Until, from up the shaft next to where he fell, we see two ALIENS COMING UP.

PURVIS

Fuck! Company!

Hillard looks up the shaft.

HILLARD

How much further?

JOHNER

Too fucking far. Let's GO!

They start to climb, but the aliens are making much better time.

A loud CLACKING sounds from the bottom of the shaft. A few of them look down.

ANGLE: DOWN THE SHAFT

The aliens are still coming, but suddenly the lift passes them heading up at high speed.

JOHNER

They can work the elevators? Is there anything fucking else we should know about them?!

He's addressing this at Ripley, but she's as puzzled as the rest of them.

The lift comes up to them, stops suddenly as emergency brake is flipped.

They wait, guns ready. Out of the hatch pops Call, not especially dead.

CALL

Get on!

A moment of stunned silence, then they all jump on top of the lift.

Call drops back down inside.

An alien comes up level with the lift, prepares to jump. St Just shoots the shit out of it.

HILLARD

Where are the others?

CUT TO:

INT. LIFT – CONTINUOUS

Call flips the brake off, and the lift shoots up. She is holding her jacket closed around her chest wound, but it doesn't seem to bother her particularly much.

ANGLE: ON TOP

Everybody holds on as the lift flies up the shaft.

ANGLE: INSIDE

Call waits for the signal to stop and an alien PUNCHES THROUGH the bottom of the lift.

Call yells as it gets its head and an arm through, clawing for her.

ANGLE: ON THE BOTTOM

We see the other half of the alien clinging to the lift.

ANGLE: ON TOP

Ripley sees the door approaching

RIPLEY

Stop!

ANGLE: INSIDE

Call hits the emergency button and the lift stops halfway in front of the door – giving both Ripley and Call access. But the alien is still grabbing for her –

Ripley pries open the doors again, the crew pouring out into the hall. Ripley follows, jumps down and opens the lift doors.

The alien hisses at Ripley as she pulls Call out – the alien grabs Call's ankle, but Ripley wrenches her free.

They roll out but the alien is still fighting, pulling itself inside the lift.

Ripley grabs Hillard's shotgun. Levels it at the cables holding the lift. FIRES.

The lift PLUMMIETS, the alien still halfway in.