The Fifth Element

INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

SCIENTIST

Two more minutes.

The President shuts his eyes. His lids move in prayer.

INT. CHAPEL

Korben helps Leeloo onto her feet where the four beams and four colors crisscross.

KORBEN

It's up to you now, Angel!

LEELOO

I'm so tired...

KORBEN

You can sleep tomorrow... come on...

LEELOO

I want to sleep... forever...

KORBEN

Leeloo! Listen to me! I'll take you on a vacation afterwards! A real vacation, this time, for as long as you want. Come on! You can do it!

Korben slowly releases Leeloo and steps back from the altar. Leeloo can barely stand in the center of the four beams. An indistinct white beam begins to form around her, starts to rise.

CORNELIUS

Come on Leeloo! Come on!

The beam loses its intensity. Leeloo crumples to the floor.

EXT. SPACE

The Dark Planet hurtles toward Earth. A hundred miles before impact. The African continent is visible. No doubt about it:The fireball is heading right for Egypt.

INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

Seconds tick away relentlessly on the scientist's stopwatch.

SCIENTIST

It'll be entering the atmosphere in one minute.

INT. CHAPEL

The heat in the temple is unbearable. All the walls start to ooze the same horrible black slimy liquid seen at Zorg's. A drop of liquid falls to the temple floor and begins to smoke, eating away at it like acid. Loc Rhod has to dodge another drop of the stuff. Korben quickly straightens Leeloo up and puts her back in the center of the beams.

KORBEN

Leeloo! If you don't get on with the program we're all gonna die! And that's not on my agenda for today.

Leeloo wraps her arms around Korben's neck.

LEELOO

(weak)

What's the use of saving lives... when you see what you do with them!

KORBEN

You're right but there are lots of good things... beautiful things...

LEELOO

... Like love...

KORBEN

Exactly.

LEELOO

But I don't know love... I'm like a machine programmed to save other people's lives but never to have one of my own.

INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

The Scientist's stopwatch goes from 30 to 29 seconds.

INT. CHAPEL

LEELOO

I have thousands of memories but none of them are mine... There is no need for me other than this. I'm immortal but I have no life.

KORBEN

Yes, you do! I need you. More than you can imagine! Stand up straight!

LEELOO

Why?... Why would you need me?

KORBEN

Because...

CORNELIUS

(to himself)

Tell her, for God's sake!

A bit of the black acid falls on Loc Rhod's shirt setting it on fire. He rips if off.

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INT. CHAPEL

KORBEN

Because...

Leeloo has tears in her eyes. The heat is overpowering. Black acid is everywhere.

LEELOO

Tell me...

KORBEN

I love you...

Despite her fatigue, Leeloo smiles broadly.

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INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

The stopwatch goes from 3 to 2.

INT. CHAPEL

LEELOO

Now you're allowed to kiss me.

Korben wraps his arms around her and kisses her like he's never kissed anybody before. – The white beam, the Divine Light, immediately forms around Leeloo and Korben. – The stopwatch hits zero. – The Absolute Beam explodes from the top of the pyramid and heads straight into the sky zapping the fireball smack in the middle, slowing it down. – Korben and Leeloo kiss like there was no tomorrow.

The beam hardens and slowly solidifies the Evil Planet. Inaudible screeches escape from the dying planet. Screeches of terrifying pain as if a million souls were dying.

 Streams of black acid spurt from the pyramid and solidify like brilliant stalactites.

EXT. SPACE

The pure beam, the Light of Life, has finished its work. The Dark Planet nothing more than a dead planet. Strangely enough, it looks like the moon. Everything is calm around it.

INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

President Lindberg opens his eyes and realizes he's not dead-

SCIENTIST

The planet seems to have stopped at... 62 miles from impact.

INT. CHAPEL

In the temple, the beam loses its intensity. But Leeloo and Korben remain stuck together, lost in their kiss. Cornelius has dropped to his knees, clutching his hands.