INNERSPACE

MORNING - The cell door slams open. Guards enter.

JOE

Don't worry.

RENE

Why not, what are you

going to do?

JOE

Escape.

As they drag him out, he seems to Rene, strangely confident.

RENE

Just like that?

JOE

I'll come back for you.

RENE

Aren't you a little optimistic?

EXT. COURTYARD

Joe is led through an exercise yard. He is joyed at the sight of

a fifteen foot wall.

JOE (whispers)

Look at that wall! When I

say "Now", give me some

adrenaline. Give me

everything I've got. ....NOW!

He breaks from his guards, dashes across the yard and leaps.

SMASH...He hits the wall hard...four feet below the top. Slides

to the bottom, lies in a crumpled heap, stunned.

JOE

What happened?..must have slipped...

Joe falls back, they chase him around...He is startled by the

fact that he's starting to get winded.

JOE (Annoyed)

Al, come on...

They corner him...He turns and takes a Kung Fu stance. They stop

apprehensively, then come on. He takes an awkward swing and they

beat the crap out of him. He looks up, dazed and bleeding.

JOE

What happened?..Al, what the

hell are you doing?

FROM INSIDE - Al'S POV

He focuses the Monitors, sees a Room, but another room. People.

Dieter and the others...they are congratulating each other. His

P.O.V.is that of a willing participant. Dieter turns to (him).

DIETER

What do you think, Rene?

The girl, RENE. Al's now in her.

RENE (hesitant)

There's...something about him.

DIETER

What?

COURTYARD - JOE

struggling with the guards.

JOE

Come on, Al! Quit fooling around

I know you're in there...

I haven't so much as spit...

The look on his face! He just thought of something else.

JOE

You son of a bitch! You conned me!

OFFICE - RENE

RENE

You're gonna laugh.

DIETER

Yes?

RENE

He's not an ordinary man.

DIETER

Enough ROmance.

RENE

He's...more. Somehow, enhanced...

He's...zxflbbgt!

She blinks. That didn't make any sense.

DIETER

He's what?

She smiles, embarrassed, tries again.

RENE

He's...sigmmoflbbbwwggpp....

Embarrassed, confused, she sighs...

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al is hitting all triggers; sending all kinds of currents

through her brain, releasing chemicals that confuse her... to

keep her from talking.

OUTSIDE

One more time...she tries to continue.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al lets off a charge in her brain that disrupts her motor

reflexes.

OUTSIDE

She drops like a rag-doll, passes out.

DIETER

He must have drugged her.

INT. LAB - LATER - DIETER AND BURR

Rene sleeps on a gurney nearby. Joe is strapped to an Operating

table. Techs prep him for an experiment. Tech1 runs a CAT scan

on Joe.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al listens as they speak over her.

BURR (Indicates Joe)

You knew about him. You used him.

OUTSIDE -

DIETER

I knew he was following us.

He diverted attention,

exposed Ryuji's trap..

BURR

Rene?

DIETER

She found out what she could

...and delivered him here.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD - AL listens.

They replace the circuit board, insert the chip, and power up.

TECH 1

Tests are negative.

DIETER

He still has the POD.

BURR

Impossible.

DIETER

I'll prove it. We'll repeat their

procedures...put a man in our POD,

bring it down, and then...inject him.

They look over at JOE. He knows they're talking about him.

INT. LAB - LATER

Their POD is heavily armed.

DIETER

If there is a POD inside him, We'll

find it, and bring it out for study.

BURR

Who's our little man?

DIETER

Me.

BURR

No. If anything happened, you'd

be stuck in there like he was.

DIETER

I take the last chip in with me.

I use it, to control re-enlargement,

from inside.

OPERATING TABLE - LATER

JOE is given the intravenous shot.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD - DIETER

makes directly for the brain.

LAB - HOURS LATER

JOE on the Gurney. The techs are picking something up on the

cranial monitors. Joe's leg twitches. then his body leaps into

spasm. The techs are alerted...A few rush out of the control room

into the lab. They lean over the unconscious form, restraints and

syringes at the ready.

Suddenly his eyes snap open. His head turns, he fixes them with

a riveting stare. They are taken aback. When it finally comes,

his voice is amazingly calm, authoritarian, familiar.

JOE

Well, don't just stand around,

let me up.

It's Joe's face, but it's Dieter speaking. BURR is amazed.

BURR

Dieter?

JOE/DIETER

Who do you think? Now let me up,

and I'll show you what this

thing can do.

The techs are perplexed. They look to BURR for instructions.

Amazed and exultant, BURR presses his face against the glass.

DIETER/JOE raises his thumb and shakes it at him in a victory

sign. Quickly, they turn and releases the restraints on DIETER/

JOE. He gets up.

BURR

Go ahead. What can it do?

Joe hesitates only a moment. Then his face lights up. He says

one word:

JOE

Escape!

WHAM WHAM WHAM. Karate blows...The tech's lie on the floor.

Joe's out the door.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD - DIETER

still in the artery. Get's tumbled by the sudden activity.

DIETER

Hey, what's going on? Answer

me...Rupert.

OUTSIDE

Joe goes berserk, smashes computers and makes an escape. He has

been faking it.

INSIDE JOE

Dieter is trapped in a runaway subject - Joe. Dieter tries to

hamper him...slow his breathing, put him to sleep etc. Joe fights

him.

BACK IN THE LAB

ALL is confusion around the sleeping RENE.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al is trapped as long as RENE is unconscious. He stimulates her.

OUTSIDE

She wakes, groggy.

RENE

What happened?

BURR

Joe's escaped. Dieter's in him.

RENE

In him?

BURR

It's a long story.

RENE

ya hyutn slulptsa?

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al has hit the wrong nerve bundle. He cuts power.

OUTSIDE -

BURR

What?

Shakes her head to clear it.

RENE

I said...He'll head for the border.

EXT. WOODS

Rene and the others pursue Joe.

INSIDE - INT. THE POD

Al sows confusion. He stimulates parts of her brain.

OUTSIDE

She starts to act psychotic, sees everything upside down, right

to left...She speaks in Navaho. Then she runs into the bush. They

crash into the bush after her. She pulls out in front of the

other pursuers. Soon she is alone. Far ahead, she glimpses Joe

pulling away.

RENE

I know you're in there.

I'll make you a deal.