[苍蝇] The Fly (1986)

INT. THE BARTOK PARTY- NIGHT



We open on a large white, pristine hall filled with people.

We close in on two such people, SETH BRUNDLE and VERONICA

QUAIFE. They are mid-conversation:



BRUNDLE

What am I working on? Uh... I'm working on something that'll

change the world and human life as we know it.



VERONICA

Change it a lot or just a bit? You'll have to be more

specific.



BRUNDLE

What, you want me to be specific here, in this room, with,

uh... half the scientific community of North America

eavesdropping?



VERONICA

Is there another way?



BRUNDLE

You could come back to my lab. Listen, I'll make you

cappuccino. I have a Faema of my very own. You know what

that is? It's not the Dilettante's plastic kitchen model.

It's one of those, uh... uh., uh, real restaurant espresso

machines with a-an eagle on top and...



VERONICA

Somehow I get the feeling you don't get out much.



BRUNDLE

You can tell that?



VERONCA

Yeah.



BRUNDLE

I think you're making a mistake. I think you really want to

talk to me.



VERONICA

Sorry, I have three other interviews to do before this

party's over.



BRUNDLE

Yeah, but they're not working on something that'll change

the world as we know it.



VERONICA

They say they are.



BRUNDLE

Yeah, but they're lying I'm not.



INT. VERONICA'S CAR- NIGHT



We close in on Veronica's car as it speeds down the street.

It appears that Brundle is ill.



VERONICA

Are you sick?



BRUNDLE

No. Sure.



VERONICA

You're not a very accomplished drunk.



BRUNDLE

No, no, I'm always like this. It's, uh... motion sickness.

When I was a kid, I, uh... puked on my tricycle. I hate

vehicles.



VERONICA

Should I drive more slowly?



BRUNDLE

No, no, no. Just turn left. We're almost there.



VERONICA

This is it?



BRUNDLE

It's cleaner on the inside.



INT. WAREHOUSE STAIRWAY-NIGHT



Veronica and Brundle climb the warped wooden stairs to the

fourth floor. Brundle is breathing hard, very out of shape.

He uses the ornate railing to haul himself from step to

step.



VERONICA

Nice railings.



BRUNDLE (BREATHING HARD)

Yeah. They're original.



VERONICA

You doing marine experiments?



BRUNDLE

No, why?



VERONICA

That fishy smell.



BRUNDLE:

Oh, that. Used to be a packing house for fish. It's deserted

right now except for me. I've got the whole fourth floor.

The top floor.



VERONICA

Want me to carry you?



BRUNDLE

Maybe next time.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT



Brundle and Veronica enter BRUNDLES LAB. It seems very tidy

and organised as well as being extremely Spacious.

	Brundle sits down and begins playing on his Piano.





VERONICA

Listen, uh... maybe this is a bad idea.



BRUNDLE

No, it's too late. You've already see them. Can't let you

leave here alive.



VERONICA

I haven't seen anything.



BRUNDLE

Those.



Brundle motions towards two gray pods either side of the

room.



VERONICA

Designer phone booths. Very cute. Hey, I bet you have a

really neat jukebox in here, too, someplace, huh? Over there

maybe?



Veronica points toward a third object, covered in tarpaulin.

Brundle reveals it as a third pod.



BRUNDLE

No. This is the prototype of... those. The first one I had

made. It, uh... it works, but it's clunky. I call them

telepods. They're controlled by this.



VERONICA

Thank God for that. So, uh, what do they do, the phone

booths?



BRUNDLE

Telepods. Uh... okay. I need an object. Um... say, do you

have something, uh, on you that's... uh, personal... that I

could use? Something uniquely you? Uh... an item of clothing

or jewelry?



VERONICA

What, are you kidding?



BRUNDLE

No, I'm serious.



VERONICA

Okay. Here goes.



Veronica removes her stocking and hands it to Brundle.



BRUNDLE

 I don't wear jewelry.



BRUNDLE

It's nice.



Brundle places the stocking into a pod and closes the door.

He then goes back to the computer and speaks into the

microphone.



BRUNDLE

Uh... Brundle, Seth.



COMPUTER (Relaying and testing Brundle's voice pattern)

Uh, Brundle, Seth. Uh, Brundle, Seth. Uh, Brundle, Seth.



BRUNDLE

Begin teleportation sequence.



The computer goes through it's teleportation protocol and

the pod containing the stocking flashes, this flash is

repeated by the second pod on the opposite side of the room.



BRUNDLE

Well?



VERONICA

Great. The world's largest microwave oven. I-I'm glade I

didn't give you my Rolex. If I had Rolex.



BRUNDLE

No, you're missing the point. Look.



Veronica glaces at the Computer, which reads "Teleportation

successful."



VERONICA

Teleportation?



Brundle leads Ronnie to the Second Pod where she discovers

the Stocking.



VERONICA

Oh... wait a minute. Is that a hologram? Where's my

stocking?



BRUNDLE

That's it. The real one. Go ahead, pick it up.



Veronica reaches in and retrieves the stocking.



VERONICA

I don't think I get it. What happened?



BRUNDLE

You get it, all right. You just can't handle it. Um... your

stocking has just been teleported... from one pod... to

another. Uh, disintegrated... there and re-integrated there.

Mmm, sort of. It'll change the world as we know it,

right?



As she speaks, Veronica pulls a dictaphone from her pocket

and begins recording the conversation.



VERONICA

Oh, no! This is, uh... This is incredible! I mean, it's not

possible, is it? How have you managed to keep this quiet?



BRUNDLE

Please sit down.



The enter the kitchen area and Veronica sits down at the

table. Brundle begins working with his cappuchino machine.



VERONICA

How could you do this alone?



BRUNDLE

Well, I don't work alone. There's a lot of stuff in there I

don't even understand. I'm really,uh... a systems management

man. I farm... bits and pieces, uh, out to guys who are much

more brilliant than I am. I say... "Build me a laser this,

design me a molecular analyzer that," and they do, and I

just stick'em together. But, uh, none of them knows what the

project really is. So...



Brundle shows off the eagle from his Cappuchino machine.



VERONICA

Wow! And, uh,the money? Bartok Science Industries financed

this?



BRUNDLE

Mm-hmm. But th-they leave me alone 'cause I'm not expensive.

And, uh, they know they'll end up owning it all, whatever it

is. So...



VERONICA

You haven't told them?



BRUNDLE

When I'm ready.



VERONICA

Oh... wait a second.



The tape on Veronica's dictaphone has run out, so she begins

to change sides.



BRUNDLE

What's that? What are you doing?



VERONICA

Well... you want me to get the quotes right, don't you?



BRUNDLE

Quotes? No, no. I thought this was personal. You can't write

about this.



VERONICA

What are you talking about? I'm a journalist.



BRUNDLE

Oh, no, no, no,..!



VERONICA

You knew that.



BRUNDLE

Uh... I'm sorry. I apologize. I made a mistake. I shouldn't

have shown you this. I'm very, very... sorry.



VERONICA

Listen... Particle magazine sent me to that party to get a

story. And this is the most exciting thing... I've ever

seen.



BRUNDLE

No, no! Absolutely not. In fact, I'm gonna have to ask you

for that... tape, please.



VERONICA

Hey, you can't do that!



BRUNDLE

Don't you dare write a story! I'd never have told and of

this stuff to a journalist.



VERONICA

But you did tell this stuff to a journalist.



Veronica begins to exit the lab.



BRUNDLE

Well, yeah, in a way I suppose i did, but that...



VERONICA

You sure did.



BRUNDLE

Now wait a minute, wait a minute! Wait! Come here! What

about your... stocking!



VERONICA

Keep it for good luck.



Veronica leaves Seth standing alone in his lab.



INT. STATHIS'S OFFICE

Veronica is sat with STATHIS BORANS, her Editor. They listen

to the tape.



VERONICA

Well... that's it. What do you think?



STATHIS

It's a joke.



VERONICA

What?



STATHIS

He's conning you. Oh, it's an old nightclub routine. The two

cabinets. And you fell for it.



VERONICA

Wait a minute. That was no nightclub.



Stathis's phone rings.



STATHIS

Are we having lunch?



VERONICA

Listen, that was no nightclub routine! I was there! I saw

it!



Stathis talks to his assistant over the phone.



STATHIS

Yeah? Sure... send him in.

You must have made an impression.



VERONICA

What do you mean?



STATHIS

Your magician has followed you here.



STATHIS'S ASSISTANT shows Seth in.



STATHIS

I'm Stathis Borans. I'm the editor of Particle magazine.



BRUNDLE

Uh, Seth Brundle. Uh...



STATHIS

Oh, I know who you are... Uh, listen, uh... why don't you

two use my office? I've gotta run. If you plan to make

anything disappear, please... let me know. I've got an

assistant editor who's outlived his usefulness.



Stathis leaves.



BRUNDLE

You didn't waste any time.



VERONICA

I'm not getting any younger.



BRUNDLE

He didn't seem, he wasn't impressed by your tape?



VERONICA

He thinks you're a con man.



BRUNDLE

Excellent!



VERONICA

Yeah? Well let's see what the people at Omni think about it.



BRUNDLE

No, no! Uh, listen, Veronica... I've come here to say one

magic word to you.



VERONICA

Yeah?



BRUNDLE

Cheeseburger.



INT. A FAST FOOD RESTURANT- DAY



In a busy fast food resturant, we close in on Brundle and

Veronica, who are sat eating and conversing.



BRUNDLE

I've been working alone too long. I have a strong urge, uh,

to talk about what I'm doing. But, um, if this gets out

now... Veronica, it'll kill me. The Bartok people'll kill

me... my colleagues'll kill me. It's not ready yet.



VERONICA

It seems to work okay.



BRUNDLE

No, something important's missing.



BERONICA

Yeah?



BRUNDLE

Yeah.



VERONICA

Which is?



BRUNDLE

I can only teleport inanimate objects.



VERONICA

Well, what happens when you try to teleport living things?



BRUNDLE

Not while we're eating.



VERONICA

Can't be worse than this. Listen, you're not doing a very

good job of convincing me. I think the world should know

about it now  and I think I should be the one to tell it.



BRUNDLE

You should tell it, but, uh... not yet. Look, what do you

got so far?



VERONICA

Enough to make you nervous.



BRUNDLE

Why not get more? let me become your major project. I'm

talking about a book. Not a magazine article. Follow me and

my work day by day in as much detail as you can stand. I

don't have a life, so there's nothing for you to...

interfere with. Research the background. Cover the process.

The complete record of the most... earth-shattering

invention ever. The one that ended all concepts of

transport, of borders and frontiers, of time and space. And

the book'll end... with me... transporting myself fifteen

feet through space from one telepod to another. That's

what's really missing... Wait for me that long.



INT. VERONICA'S APARTMENT



Veronica enters her apartment and hears the distant sound of

a shower from her bathroom. She enters the rooom to discover

Stathis taking a shower.



VERONICA

What are you doing in my apartment?



STATHIS

I just happened to be in the neighbourhood. Felt a bit

scummy. Rough day.



As Veronica leaves she flushes the toilet and Stathis

screams.



CUT TO: Stathis and Veronica in Veronica's living room.

Stathis is drying his hair while sat down.



VERONICA

How did you get in?



STATHIS

I have a key, remember? You gave it to me.



VERONICA

I knew I should have changed the lock.



STATHIS

I knew you wouldn't.



VERONICA

Yeah?



STATHIS

Yeah. That's because... unconsciously... you still want me

to come back, move in again.



VERONICA

No. That's because, very consciously, I'm lazy and

disorganized.



STATHIS

Your new playmate's an interesting guy.



VERONICA

What playmate?



STATHIS

The nightclub act. Brundle.



VERONICA

Yeah?



STATHIS

Yeah. Yeah, I was wrong. He's really... quite brilliant. He

was the leader

of the F-three-two team. Remember that? An inch away from

the Nobel Prize for

physics. He was only twenty at the time.



VERONICA

Um... I don't even think I'm gonna do Brundle. I'm still

considering the Psychology Today gig.



STATHIS

That's not like you.



VERONICA

Are you getting out or am I?



STATHIS

I'll go. I have to put this issue to bed. You want me to

come back later and tuck you... in?



VERONICA

No. Key.



STATHIS

I'll keep it... for old time's sake.



VERONICA

You're a petty schmuck!



INT. BRUNDLES LAB



Brundle is sat typing at his Computer as Veronica films him

. We see a baboon sat in Telepod 1. Brundle finishes typing.



BRUNDLE

Initiate in five seconds.



After 5 seconds, The baboon teleports into Pod 2. Veronica

is still filming as Brundle trys to peer through the smoke

into the recieving pod. Suddenly a blood soaked paw smashes

against the window. Seth reluctantly opens the pod to

discover the mangled, spasming remains of the dying baboon.



CUT TO:

Seth stands behind Pod 2 as Veronica focuses the Camera on

him.



VERONICA

We've got to do this Seth. Talk to the tape, get in the

habit. the world will want to know what you're thinking.



BRUNDLE

Fuck is what I'm thinking!



VERONICA

Good. The World will want to know that. What else? Why

didn't it work?



BRUNDLE

I think it turned the baboon inside out.



VERONICA

Why?



BRUNDLE

It can't deal with he flesh. It only seems to work with

inanimate objects, nothing that's living. It must be my

fault.



VERONICA

Why?



BRUNDLE

Computers are dumb, they only know what you tell them. I

must not know enough about the flesh myself, I'm going to

have to learn. I don't want to talk anymore.



Seth turns and walks away.



INT. BRUNDLES BEDROOM- NIGHT



Brundle is laid out on his bed and Veronica is sat gently

swaying on a rocking chair in the corner of the room.



VERONICA

Do you ever change your clothes?



BRUNDLE

What?



VERONICA

Your clothes, you're always wearing the same clothes.



BRUNDLE

No, these are clean. I change my clothes every day.



VERONICA

Five sets of exactly the same clothes?



BRUNDLE

Ordered from Einstein. This ways I don't have to spend any

thought on what I'm going to wear, I just grab the next set

on the rack.



VERONICA

I bought some steaks. Can I make you one?



BRUNDLE

We could go out?



VERONICA

"Cheeseburger"?



BRUNDLE

No. We don't have to go there.



VERONICA

You're very cute, you know that?



BRUNDLE

Am I?



Veronica and Brundle begin to Kiss.



INT. BRUNDLES BEDROOM- NIGHT



We pan in on Brundle and Veronica making love on Brundle's

bed. Brundle lays back on the bed and jumps up in pain

suddenly.



BRUNDLE

Ohh Ahh, My back.



Veronica examines Seth's back to discover a small Computer

chip stuck to it.



VERONICA

Oh god, Something's stuck to your back.



BRUNDLE

Well pull it off.



Veronica slowly pulls out the chip and Shows it to Brundle.



VERONICA

Sorry.



BRUNDLE

I wondered what happened to that!



VERONICA

Do you have any disinfectant?



BRUNDLE

No, it's okay.



VERONICA

I'm going to kiss it for you!



Veronica kisses Brundle's back and playfully bites his arm.



VERONICA

I'm sorry. I just want to eat you up. You know, that's why

old ladies pinch babies cheeks. It's the flesh. it just

makes you crazy.



BRUNDLE

Ronnie, Ronnie. You want to try an experiment?



VERONICA

Sure.



INT. BRUNDLES KITCHEN- NIGHT



BRUNDLE

Eat this. I need an objective opinion. Yes?



VERONICA

Well, it could use some Finesse, but it tastes like a steak.



BRUNDLE

Okay, Now try this, teleported half.



VERONICA

Are you serious? A monkey just came apart in there!



BRUNDLE

Baboon. Eat.



VERONICA

Ohh, it tastes funny.



BRUNDLE

Funny how?



VERONICA

It tastes, synthetic. So what have we proved?



BRUNDLE

The computer is giving us it's interpretation of a steak.

It's translating it for us, it's re-thinking it rather than

reproducing it, and something's getting lost in the

translation.



VERONICA

Me. I'm lost.



BRUNDLE

The flesh. It should make the computer crazy, like those old

ladies pinching babies. But it doesn't, not yet. I haven't

tought it to be made crazy by the flesh, the poultry, the

steak. So I'm going to start teaching it now!



INT. A CLOTHES SHOP- DAY



Veronica picks put a leather Jacket. when she walks over to

the counter, she spots Stathis spying on her.



VERONICA

What are you doing here?



STATHIS

I followed you. "Psychology Today" My ass. You stayed with

brundle all night. Why didn't I believe you? I wonder.



Stathis takes the jacket.



STATHIS

Oh yeah. I think he'd look great in this, Don't you? I mean,

for your "Time Magazine" cover, you've got to look good

right?



VERONICA

Don't you get it? I am finally onto something that's big.

Huge.



STATHIS

Oh yeah? What? His Cock?



VERONICA

Crude Stathis. Very crude.



STATHIS

Too perfect to believe! You're a goddess! Thank you for

making my most paranoid fantasies come true!



VERONICA

I don't have to report to you, you creep!



STATHIS

Ronnie! You've got to talk to me!



VERONICA

I don't have to do anything! We're finished, remember? I'll

spend the night anywhere I damn well please.



Veronica walks away and pays for the jacket.



VERONICA

Sorry. I'll take this too.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT



Brundle is mid way through teleporting another baboon.

Veronica films as the baboon bounces out of Pod 2, and into

Brundle's arms



BRUNDLE

I think it's time for champagne.



CUT TO:

Brundle and Veronica are sat near the piano drinking and

celebrating.



VERONICA

Oh god Seth. It's really happened. You did it. You'll never

have to get car sick again!



BRUNDLE

Or air sick, or sea sick.



VERONICA

I know, I know. Or Tricycle sick! What's next?



BRUNDLE

We'll send the baboon out for tests, see if he's really

okay.



VERONICA

How long will that take?



BRUNDLE

Could be weeks.



VERONICA

Really?



BRUNDLE

Yeah. Why?



VERONICA

Well I was thinking, that we could take a Holiday.



BRUNDLE

We could?



VERONICA

Yeah. Like an old married couple. Old man's got a couple of

weeks off so they go to Florida. Someplace warm. Just the

two of us?



BRUNDLE

Just you and me?



VERONICA

Yeah, why? Is there someone else you were thinking of

Bringing along?



BRUNDLE

No, No. Is this a romance we're having, is that what it is?



VERONICA

Yeah, Could be a romance.



BRUNDLE

Oh I have a great idea, Do you like Chinese food?



Brundle walks over to his desk and picks up the phone.



VERONICA

Yes.



BRUNDLE

We're going to have a very romantic dinner right here.



VERONICA

Hey what's this?



Veronica picks up a folder with the words "From the desk of

Stathis Borans" on it.



BRUNDLE

Oh yeah, from your Editor. I'm sorry, someone slipped it

under the door. Hello Victor, yeah it's Seth Brundle. Oh

yeah, I'll wait.



Veronica opens the folder to discover a mock "Particle

Magazine" cover, with a picture of Brundle, two telepods and

the words "Teleportation: A reality?" and "Seth Brundle,

youthful father of a new age.".



VERONICA

Oh no.



BRUNDLE

What?



VERONICA

Oh nothing, it's just personal bullshit.



BRUNDLE

I thought old married couples shared all their personal

bullshit, that's how they stayed old and married.



VERONICA

Listen Seth, Don't rush it.



BRUNDLE

What are you talking about "Rush it"?



VERONICA

Look, I have to go out for a few hours.



BRUNDLE

Now? No, Ronnie! Spicy Egg plant, the champagne!



VERONICA

Just for a few hours. I still have the residue of another

life, you know, I have to scrape it off my shoe and get rid

of it once and for all.



Veronica leaves and someone answers the phone to Seth.



BRUNDLE

Hi.



INT. STATHIS'S OFFICE- NIGHT



Veronica enters Stathis's office, and throws the folder onto

his desk.



VERONICA

What's this supposed to mean?



STATHIS

It means that I'm your editor and I'm shaping your material

into a story.



VERONICA

You're the one who told me there was no story. You said

Brundle was a Con man.



STATHIS

I've decided to trust your Journalistic instincts.



VERONICA

Thanks very much. But this is not your story. It's mine.



STATHIS

Says who? I sent you to the Bartok party to see what you

could find. Your discovery is my discovery. I have a LOT of

background on Brundle. He's been working on this thing for 6

years. There's material out there if you dig deep. I dug.



VERONICA

Stathis. Everything that has to do with transportation will

become obsolete. And I am right there in the middle of it.

The only recorder of the event from the inside-out.



STATHIS

Okay. Okay. Look, keep me informed? As a friend? As a

professional confidant?



VERONICA

That's all?



STATHIS

I don't want you to disappear from my life.



VERONICA

Okay.



STATHIS

What about Sex? I'm not saying love, or affection. Just

stress relieving Sex. You and me.



VERONICA

You're disgusting. As always.



STATHIS

Wouldn't want to disappoint you.



INT. BRUNDLE'S LAB- NIGHT



Brundle is stood drinking and talking to the baboon, who is

sat in the chair.



BRUNDLE

Residue means her old Boyfriend. Stathis Borans is her old

boyfriend. "from the desk of Stathis Borans". How about

"Under the desk of Stathis Borans."? She's working for her

old boyfriend. Now she runs out late to see him. What is

this, "The Ronnie Game"? I'm catching on, I'm catching on. I

didn't mean to kill your brother. But he didn't die in vain,

if that's of any comfort. And as the general said; "There's

nothing I'd ask you to that I wouldn't do myself boys." Hey

you're alright. Looking at you I can tell you're okay. What

are we waiting for? Let's do it.



Brundle slams down his glass and heads for the computer.



CUT TO:

The timer begins to countdown as Brundle enters the telepod.

He sits facing the door and fails to notice a small house

fly enter the pod with him. The door shoots and locks.

	The baboon jumps up and over to the Pod, it peers through

at Brundle, who smiles and reaches out. The fly, meanwhile

rests in the viewing port, safe out of reach.

	The telepod boots up and Brundle prepares himself.

Suddenly, The Fly moves out of the port and into the pod.

Brundle is teleported.



The baboon shifts it's gaze o Pod 2, from where Brundle

emerges.

Into Brundle's arms jumps the baboon.



BRUNDLE

How're you doing? Now you tell me. Am I different somehow?

Is it live or is it memorex? It's too bad Ronnie missed it.



INT. BRUNDLES BEDROOM- NIGHT



Veronica enters the Bedroom and sits next to Brundle, who

wakes.



BRUNDLE

I missed you last night.



VERONICA

It's still night. I came back. You had to celebrate without

me. I'm sorry.



BRUNDLE

I went through last night.



VERONICA

You went through? Without testing the baboon?



BRUNDLE

I-I-I was... drunk. I was a bit upset.



VERONICA

You could have killed yourself!



BRUNDLE

Are you sleeping with Stathis Borans?



Brundle wraps the sheet around himself and stands up.



VERONICA

What are you talking about?



BRUNDLE

I-I-I don't know. I-I just, um, get that feeling.



VERONICA

That's why you were upset?



BRUNDLE

I got jealous.



Brundle takes a seat in the kitchen and Veronica sits on his

lap.



VERONICA

Oh, God. Seth... you don't have to be jealous. He's an old

boy... friend. He was teaching at college. I was a science

major. He got me started in journalism.



BRUNDLE

Is he still in love with you?



VERONICA

How could he not be? Hey... wh-what about our deal? You went

through

and I wasn't there.



BRUNDLE

Don't worry. I taped it for you.



VERONICA

You did?



BRUNDLE

Yeah.



They begin kissing and Veronica slides her hand down his

back, she doesn't notice the small hairs that are beginning

to protude from the cut in his back.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- DAY



Brundle and Veronica are laid next to each other in Bed.

They Both appear to be asleep. Suddenly Brundles hand

reaches out and grabs the air. Brundle opens his eyes and

his fist to see that he caught a house fly. He looks around,

then gets out of bed.



CUT TO:

Time passes and Veronica wakes up. She slips on a shirt and

goes into the lab. She sits down and watches as Brundle

excersises on a chait. He uses his hands on the arms to lift

himself up and down. He then goes over to a steel bar which

stretches across part of the lab and swings back and forth

on it. He appears to be very energetic and experienced at

what he is doing. He lifts himself up, and then swings back

down onto the floor. He turns around to See Veronica, who

stand up and rests her hand on Brundle's chest.



CUT TO:

T.V. IMAGES From time to time we cut to the live (film)

version of these same images. When we are live, we also see

reactions from Veronica. Brundle is being interviewed in

CLOSE-UP; VERONICA SPEAKS OFF-CAMERA.



VERONICA (OC:

We've just seen the first teleportation of a human being.

Dr. Seth Brundle, how did it feel going through? What did it

feel like?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE:

It feels like a stutter.



VERONICA:

A what?



BRUNDLE:

A stutter. A hiccup. A slight dislocation of my physical

life. Not unpleasant. Just a little interuption of rhythym.

For a second I thought it didn't work. I thought I was in

the same telepod I started out in.



VERONICA (OC):

 And did you feel at all different?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE):

 A little...unbalanced. That's all.



VERONICA (OC):

 And now?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE)

 I should feel exactly the same as before, but I don't. I'm

not complaining. I feel very co-ordinated. And very

energized. I feel as though I work better, physically.

Everthing seems to just - work together better than it ever

did before.



VERONICA (OC):

Why should that be?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE):

It's possible that the teleporter has somehow...improved me.



VERONICA (OC):

But that's fantastic! How is it possible?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE):

 In reassembling me it might have - this is just a guess -

but it might have just - seen where things could be improved

- theoretically, and it did it. I told it to be creative,

and I guess it has been.



VERONICA (OC):

Could this ever be dangerous?



BRUNDLE:

Well, it's certainly unexpected. The monkeys haven't shown

any change from their norm. We'll see when they come back

from testing.



VERONICA:

 You still haven't answered me. Could this ever be

dangerous?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE):

 It feels too perfect to be dangerous.



VERONICA:

You like the way it feels?



BRUNDLE (ON TAPE):

 Yes, I do. (BIG SMILE) Want to try it?



CUT TO:

CU VERONICA live. She shakes her head "No".



EXT. THE STREETS- DAY



Brundle and Veronica walk down the busy street. They stop at

a small jewellers in a market and Brundle picks out a

neckelace for Veronica.



INT. COFFEE SHOP- DAY



Veronica and Brundle are sat opposite each other in a small

coffee shop.



BRUNDLE

So, I asked the computer if it improved me and it said it

didn't know what I was talking about. And that's made me

think very carefully about what I've been feeling, and why.

And I'm beginning to think that the sheer process of being

taken apart atom by atom and put back together again, why

it's like coffee being put through a filter. It's somehow a

purifying process. It's purified me, it's cleansed me. And I

tell you, I think it's going to allow me to realise the

personal potential, I've been neglecting all these years.

That I've been obsessively pursuing goal after goal.



Veronica notices that Brundle has filled his cup almost to

the top with sugar.



VERONICA

Do you normally take coffee with your sugar?



BRUNDLE

What? Heh. You know I just don't think I've ever given me, a

chance to be me. But, of course Interestingly, and the exact

same moment that I achieved what will probably prove to be

my life's work, that's the moment when I started being the

real me finally. Listen, not to wax messianic. It may be

true that the synchronicity of those two events might blur

the resultant individual effect of either individual. But it

is nevertheless it is also certainly true, I will say now

however subjectively; that Human teleportation, molecular

decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherently purging.

It makes a man a King. From the moment I walked out of the

pod I felt like a million bucks. You know , I think I am

gonna have a cemoli after all. Waiter! I mean, What an

accomplishment.

But, what have I really done? All I've done is say to the

world, "Lets go, Move. Catch me if you can". Waiter. Jesus

Christ!





INT. BRUNDLES LAB- DAY



We pan through Brundle's lab to discover Brundle and

Veronica making love on the couch. Veronica is half wearing

a dressing gown.



VERONICA

How? How can you keep going? You can't have... have any

fluid left in your body. We've been doing this for hours.



BRUNDLE

Uhhhh, I'm not ready to quit yet. Hey, come on.



VERONICA]

No.



BRUNDLE

Come on.



Veronica moves her hand down Brundle's back and finds think

hairs protruding from the cuts in his back, left by the

computer chip.



VERONICA

What's this?



BRUNDLE

It's an attempt to distract me, that's what it is.



VERONICA

No, really, what is it? It's like, hairs or something.



BRUNDLE

I don't know. It's... It happens when you get older. Weird

hair configurations. I don't know.



VERONICA

They are really coarse.



BRUNCLE

Well, I've never really been hairy enough. You know what I

mean? Always too... boyish. I'm looking forward to a hairy

body.



VERONICA

No, I...



BRUNDLE

It's one of the compensations of old age. Come here. Where

are you going?



VERONICA

No, let me go.



Veronica stands up and Wraps the dressing gown around her.

She stands up and goes into the kitchen. Brundle puts

underwear on and gets some ice cream from the freezer. He

sits down and begins eating. Veronica, using a pair of

scissors, tried to cut the hairs from his back.



BRUNDLE

Okay. Hey, hey, hey! Not my new hairs. What are you doing?



VERONICA

Relax, Brundle. I don't really think you want a body covered

with these. God! They're... really tough.



Suddenly, Brundle drops the spoon and stands up. As he talks

he walks with Ronnie towards the telepods.



BRUNDLE

Listen... I want you to go through. I want to teleport you

as soon as possible. Right now! You'll feel incredible.

Ronnie... I hardly need to sleep anymore and I feel

wonderful. It's like a drug, but a perfectly pure and benign

drug. The power I feel surging inside me! And I won't be

able to wear you out. We'll be the perfect couple. The

dynamic duo! Come on, right now!



VERONICA

No! Hey, wait! Don't give me that born-again teleportation

rap. I-I told you I'm scared to do it! What more do I have

to say? I'm... not gonna do it!!!



Veronica pulls herself away.



BRUNDLE

You're a fucking drag, you know that?



VERONICA

Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something

went wrong.



BRUNDLE

No? Not you? If you're too chickenshit to be a member of the

dynamic duo club, okay then, great. I'll find somebody else.

Somebody who can keep up with me.



VERONICA

Seth, you have to listen to me.



Brundle gets dressed and heads for the door.



BRUNDLE

You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you?

You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you?

I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh,

don't you? But you only know society's straight line about

the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick gray

fear of the flesh! Drink deep or taste not the plasma

spring! You see what I'm saying? I'm not just talking about

sex and penetration, I'm talking about penetration beyond

the veil of the flesh! A deep, penetrating dive into the

plasma pool!



Brundle leaves Veronica standing shocked in the lab. As he

walks down the corridor he jumps up and hits a light shade.



EXT. THE STREETS- NIGHT



Brundle walks down the street,  from his pocket he pulls a

chocolate bar which he begins to eat.



INT. A BAR- NIGHT



Brundle enters the Bar. Sitting at the Bar itself is TAWNY,

meanwhile MARKY and MAN IN BAR are armwrestling.



BRUNDLE

I'll have a scotch.

Who's winning?



TAWNY

I don't know. I hope it's Marky.



BRUNDLE

How come?



TAWNY

Because; I like Marky tonight.



BRUNDLE

Well, I like you tonight. Maybe I should get involved in

this too.



MARKY

Hey pal. You're disturbing us.



BRUNDLE

I got a hundred bucks says I can beat either one of you.



MARKY

Take a hike, asshole!



BRUNDLE

Here. Here's my hundred. And, I get to take the lady home

for the night if I win.



TAWNY

Says Who? do I look like a hooker to you?



MARKY

Hey Tawny, it's an easy hundred. Come on pal, let's get it

over with.



MAN IN BAR

You better watch out. He eats chocolate bars.



MARKY

Yeah, So I noticed.



Brundle and Marky start the armwrestle. Marky begins to look

worried and a white pus seems to be coming from Brundle's

hand. With a flip of his hand, Brundle snaps the bone in

Marky's wrist. Brundle stands up, grabs Tawny, and leaves.



EXT. THE STREETS- NIGHT



Brundle and Tawny walk down the street chatting.



TAWNY

Are you a body builder or something?



BRUNDLE

Yeah I build bodies. I take them apart and then I put them

back together again.



TAWNY

Why, you certainly took Marky apart.



BRUNDLE

Let's go back to my place.



TAWNY

Your place? Yeah Well, I live with my Mother anyway. But can

we maybe go to a few more bars first? It's a little too

early to quit.



BRUNDLE

Sure a few more bars.



EXT. BRUNDLES LAB- EARLY MORNING



A taxi pulls up outside Brundle's lab. From it emerge

Brundle and Tawny.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- EARLY MORNING



Brundle and Tawny are walking up the stairs to Brundle's

apartment. Tawny sits on the steps.



TAWNY

Great place. There's no elevator. I can't make it.



BRUNDLE

Oh there's an elevator.



Brundle picks Tawny up.

BRUNDLE

There. Don't you feel elevated?



Brundle runs at a fast, continuous pace up the stairs with

Tawny in his arms.



TAWNY

Woah!





INT. BRUNDLES LAB- EARLY MORNING

While Tawny Watches, Brundle teleports himself. He emerges

naked and stands before Tawny.



TAWNY

Wow. Are you some sort of a magician?



BRUNDLE

Yes.



Brundle lays on Tawny and begins to kiss her.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- DAY

Tawny and Seth are Sat on Seth's bed. Tawny appears to be

rather laid back, but Brundle is the opposite; he is hunched

over and has a tight look on hid face.



TAWNY

So, are we going to breakfast or not?



BRUNDLE

It's your turn.



TAWNY

To do what?



BRUNDLE

I want you to go through.



TAWNY

No. I don't want to try that.



BRUNDLE

Why not? It'll make you feel sexy!



TAWNY

I already feel sexy. How about... A nice alcohol rub?



Tawny Pours some alchohol onto her hand but Brundle knocks

the bottle onto the floor.



BRUNDLE

Don't do that, it hurts!



BRUNDLE

Sorry Hon'. I didn't know you had the skin of a Princess.

You're real sensitive huh?



Tawny tries to massage Brundle's back, but he pulls her away

and tries to drag her into the lab area. He doesn't realise

that Veronica has entered the lab.



BRUNDLE

Okay, okay! Now you're going to like it!



TAWNY

I don't want to! I'm afraid!



BRUNDLE

Don't be afraid!



VERONICA

No. Be afraid. Be very afraid.



TAWNY

Who's this?



BRUNDLE

Oh, I forgot to tell you, I live with my mother, too. Mum,

meet Tawny.



TAWNY

I gotta go. Thanks for a wonderful time.



Tawny picks up her clothes and leaves.



BRUNDLE

Why'd you scare her off? Jealous?



VERONICA

You're changing. Seth. Everything about you is changing. You

look bad. You smell bad.



BRUNDLE

I've never been much of a bather.



VERONICA

Those... weird hairs that were growing out of your back, I

took them to a lab. I had them analyzed.



BRUNDLE

The hairs? Oh... yeah, that's a strange thing to do.



VERONICA

Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had

trouble identifying them. He finally came to the

conclusion... that they were definitely not human.



BRUNDLE

Oh! Very good.



VERONICA

Not human... Seth. In fact... very likely insect hairs.



BRUNDLE

That's silly. That's ridiculous.



VERONICA

Look. Now there's more. Uh, look at your face! Something

happened when you went through, Seth. You've got to get some

help. I think you must be sick.



BRUNDLE

You're jealous!!! I've become free, I've been released, and

you can't stand it! You'll so anything to bring me down.

Look at me. Does this look sick? Does this look like a sick

man to you?



Brundle starts punching a support beam attatched to the

corner of the wall. As he punches it parts of it exlode out,

and buckle.



VERONICA

No! Stop it!



BRUNDLE

Do you know any sick men who can do that? Come here!



Brundle pulls Veronica and throws her out of the door.



VERONICA

No... Seth!



BRUNDLE

The deal is off! I don't need you anymore.



VERONICA

No, wait! Seth, please, wait! Seth!



Brundle pulls the door shut and locks it.

BRUNDLE

Don't come back!



VERONICA

Oh, God! Oh, my God.



We stay with Veronica as she slowly walks down the corridor.



CUT TO:

Brundle enters his Bathroom and seems worried when he

examines himself in the mirror. He tries to shave with an

electric razor, which hurts so Brundle throws it into the

bath and destroys it.

	He then looks back in the mirror and bites his nail,

which comes off in his teeth, He squeezes the end which

projects a white liquid onto the mirror. He then pulls

another nail off before sitting on the rim of his bath tub.



BRUNDLE

Am I dying? Is this how it starts, am I dying?



CUT TO:

Brundle is sat at his computer with a pair of gloves on.



BRUNDLE

Give me a disc. I need the first teleportation: S. Brundle



The computers shows the log of Seth's first teleportation,

which also shows a second object in the telepod. When

Brundle asks what the secondary object is, the computers

replies "Secondary element is.....Not-Brundle".



BRUNDLE

Run Sequence.



The computer runs through several scans of the "Secondary

element", and it becomes clear that it is a fly. Brundle

asks the computer, through typing, what happened to the fly.

The Computer soon responds with, "Fusion". Brundle finally

asks if he absorbed and assimilated the fly. The Computer

tells him; "Negative, Fusion of Brundle and Fly at molecular

Genetic level."



INT. RONNIES APARTMENT- NIGHT



VERONICA

Hello?



BRUNDLE

(Mumbles)



VERONICA

Seth! Seth, I've been trying to reach you. Where are you?



BRUNDLE

For the last four weeks I've been afraid to see you. Now,

I'm afraid not to.



VERONICA

Where are you? Are you at home?



BRUNDLE

Veronica. You don't know how right you were. I've gotten,

much much worse. Please come see me. Please come now.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT

Veronica enters the Lab, which appears to be empty.



VERONICA

Seth? I'm here.



Suddenly Brundle jumps out from behind the prototype

telepod, which is now exposed.



BRUNDLE

Stop!



VERONICA

Seth!



Seth Brundle, now walking on Canes, shows himself after a

month of self induced insolation. He is much worse than when

we last met him and alot of his hair has fallen out. His

skin has a gray colour to it and is covered in small lumps

and spots. He wears gloves.



BRUNDLE

You were right. I'm diseased and, uh... it might be

contagious somehow. I wouldn't want to infect you. And it's

been accelerating. It's unrelenting. Every time I look in

the mirror, there's someone different, someone hideous,

repulsive.



VERONICA

What happened?



BRUNDLE

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly perhaps she'll die.



VERONICA

Seth... please.



BRUNDLE

I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner purity. I

was not pure.



VERONICA

I don't know what you mean.



BRUNDLE

A fly got into the transmitter pod with me that first time

when i was alone. Uh, the computer got confused; there

weren't supposed to be two separate genetic patterns and it

decided to splice us together. It mated us, me and the fly.

We hadn't even been properly introduced. My teleporter

turned her into a gene splicer. And a very good one. Now I'm

not Seth Brundle anymore. I'm the offspring of, um, Brundle

and housefly.



VERONICA

Oh, God!



Veronica moves closer to Brundle, who jumps up from his

seat.



BRUNDLE

No.



VERONICA

Oh, God!



BRUNDLE

Please.



VERONICA

Seth!



BRUNDLE

You look so pretty.



VERONICA

What will happen?



Brundle sits back down in another chair.



BRUNDLE

Oh, I think it's showing itself as a bizarre form of cancer.



VERONICA

What?



BRUNDLE

And general cellular chaos and revolution. I'm, just gonna

have to disintegrate. In a novel way, no doubt. And then

I'll die. And then it will be all over.



VERONICA

No, no, no. I don't accept that. There must be something we

can do, you know, somebody we can go to, tests that can be

done.



BRUNDLE

No! Um, I won't be just another tumorous bore talking

endlessly about his hair falling out and his lost lymph

nodes.



VERONICA

Well, then what do you want me to do? Why did you call me?



Brundle picks up a donut and vomits a white liquid over it.

Veronica utters a small scream and puts her hand over her

mouth.



BRUNDLE

Oh, that's disgusting.



He puts the donut down and touches his ear, which falls onto

the floor.



BRUNDLE

My ear, No! I'm scared.



Seth and Veronics hug.

BRUNDLE

 Help me. Please, please help me.



INT. STATHIS'S OFFICE- DAY

Stathis and Veronica are sat in Stathis;s office talking.

Veronica seems very tired and worn out.



STATHIS

Don't go back to him.



VERONICA

That's it? that's your advice?



STATHIS

He's right, don't you see. It could be contagious. It could

turn into an epidemic.



VERONICA

I have to go back to him.



STATHIS

I don't believe this.



VERONICA

If you could see how scared, and angry and desperate he

is...



STATHIS

I'm sure typhoid Mary was a very nice person too, when you

saw her socially. Listen, I do not want...



VERONICA

I don't care what you want!



STATHIS

Alright! Fine! Do I have permission to clean your body when

this is all over?



VERONICA

Oh god...



STATHIS

Look, how about this - You say "If only I saw him". Show me.

Tape him, show me. Let me think about it. I'll come up with

something.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- DAY

We see from the roof as Veronica enters the Lab.



VERONICA

Seth? Seth?



BRUNDLE

No, no. Up here.



Veronics is shocked to look up and see Brundle walking on

all fours on the ceiling. He moves very well and seems quite

used to it.



BRUNDLE

I've gotten pretty good at it haven't I? You know it's

almost second nature. Stopped biting my nails. Oh look at

this, what's this? I don't know. I seem to be stricken by a

disease with a purpose wouldn't you say? Maybe not such a

bad purpose after all.





VERONICA

I can't stay.



Brundle is now horizontal and stuck to the door. He jumps

down and walks close to Veronica.

BRUNDLE

Why not? Why can't you?



VERONICA

I can't take it. It's too much.



BRUNDLE

What's there to take? The disease has just revealed it's

purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore, I

know what the disease wants.



VERONICA

What does the disease want?



BRUNDLE

It wants to turn me into something else. That's not too

terrible is it? Most people would give anything to be turned

into something else.



VERONICA

Turned into what?



BRUNDLE

What do you think a fly? Am I becoming a hundred and eighty

five pound fly? No, I'm becoming something that's never

existed before. I'm becoming "Brundlefly", don't you think

that's worth a Nobel prize or two? Here.



Brundle brings the camera near to the table in front of

Veronica.



BRUNDLE

I'm going to give a demonstration that I think you'll want

to record for prosperity.



Brundle throws alot of the Rubbish off of the table and sits

in front of the Camera.



BRUNDLE

 I think we must chronicle the life and times of Brundlefly,

don't you? At the very least it should make a fabulous,

Children's book. You seem tired. You got me there? How does

Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out the very hard and painful

way that he eats very much the same way a fly eats. His

teeth are now useless because although he can chew up solid

food, he can't digest it, solid food hurts. So like a fly,

Brundlefly breaks down the solid with a corrosive enzyme,

pleasurably called "Vomit drop". He regurgitates on his

food, it liquifies, and then he sucks it back up. You ready

for a demonstration kids? Here goes...



INT. VERONICAS APARTMENT- NIGHT

We see Brundle on the screen in Veronica's apartment as

Stathis watches it.



STATHIS

My God. My God.



Suddenly Veronica enters and goes straight down the corridor

in tears.



STATHIS

Hey, Ronnie. Ronnie?



Stathis follows and Discovers her sat down crying. He kneels

down next to her.



STATHIS

What is it?



VERONICA

I'm pregnant.



STATHIS

No!? Oh no...



VERONICA

I'm pregnant with Seth's baby.



STATHIS

What do you want to do?



VERONICA

I don't know. I just, I don't know...



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT



We are close on Brundle's fingers as they dance over the

keys of the computer keyboard. Brundle has cut the fingers

off a pair of yellow rubber kitchen gloves and jammed them

down over his fingertips, so that his fingers won't stick to

the keyboard.



CU MONITOR which reads:

GENE-SPLICING PROGRAM NOW IN PLACE

TELEPOD 1: TRANSMITTER POD SUBJECT A

TELEPOD 2: TRANSMITTER POD SUBJECT B

TELEPOD 3: RECEIVER POD FOR GENETICALLY FUSED A-B

COMBINATION SUBJECT



We pull back to see that in front of Brundle and his

keyboard stand not two, but THREE telepods, the third one of

a somewhat older and more handbuilt vintage than the other

two- the original PROTOTYPE TELEPOD which has been sitting

in a corner of the lab under a tarpaulin and was noticed by

Veronica on her first visit to the lab. In TELEPOD A sits a

monkey, in TELEPOD B an alley cat. TELEPOD C, the old

prototype receiver, is empty. Brundle operates the machine.

The monitor says, READY FOR FUSION Brundle presses the

ACCEPT button. The telepods go through their normal

disintegration routine as the animals' outlines appear on

the monitor in split screen fashion. But now, as the

reintegration process begins, a stream of data concerning

this new experiment, the fusion of monkey and cat, floods

the screen. The basic message that gets across to us through

all the hi-tech compu-talk is: PERCENTAGE OF MONKEY-63

PERCENTAGE OF CAT-37

	 These numbers fluctuate as the machine tries to strike a

molecular balance between the two creatures. Finally, an

outline of the fused creature begind to form on the screen.

brundle looks up to see the actual creature forming, and it

is indeed grotesque: two heads- one monkey, one cat- at odd

angles to each other, six legs which are not quite

symmetrically placed on the monkey torso, cat tail. As the

creature solidifies and the light goes off, it sits there in

the telepod for a moment, half-reclining as though crippled.

Brundle gets up, goes to the third telepod, and with great

apprehension, opens the door. The thing just sits there,

slumped for a beat, then SUDDENLY LEAPS UP AT HIM, its two

heads SHREIKING! It jumps on his arm, clinging, snarling,

then drops to the floor. The two heads begin to bite each

other, blood begins to flow- the thing now running around in

mad floppy circles, smearing blood everywhere. Brundle is

horrified. 	He grabs a metal rod leaning in a corner and

begins to smash at the deformed thing. He keeps smashing at

it until it stops its hideous screeching and lies dead,

mangled on the floor. Brundle wraps it up in a towel and

throws it into the refrigerator. He draws the old torn sheet

over the third telepod so he doesn't have to look at it

again. Back at the monitor, the screen is flashing the

words: FUSION SUCCESSFUL RECEIVER TELEPOD 3

Brundle puts his face in his hands for a few moments, then

pulls himself together. He pulls the rubber fingertips off

his fingers and throws them to the ground. Brundle has now

developed some insect-like tics and mannerisms, his head

twitching with nervous little jerks and his long fingers in

constant motion. We see clearly now that all of Brundle's

fly characteristics have been accentuated even further. The

metallic-green hair which completely covers his face is much

thicker than before, and the hernia-like bulge in his side

is more protuberant now, stretched to the bursting point and

obviously causing Brundle some pain. Brundle looks at the

skylight. The sky is clear, the moon is a scimitar. On an

impulse, he jumps up on the wall, sticking there for a beat.

Then, with incredible agility, he ascends the wall, crosses

the celing toward the skylight. ON THE CEILING Brundle

glides on all fours, upside down, towards the skylight. Once

there, he crawls into it and opens it up.



EXT. LAB ROOFTOP-NIGHT



Brundle clambers out of the skylight onto the roof. The

night is gorgeous, clean and bright, the sky packed with

stars. Brundle breathes deeply. He is still alive, isn't he?

He can still respond to the beauty of the night, can't he?



EXT. MONTAGE- BRUNDLE'S TRAVELS- NIGHT



We follow Brundle on his solitary sojourn in a MONTAGE

SEQUENCE. He climbs walls with amazing ability, leaps from

rooftop to rooftop, hangs upside down from ledges and

lampposts, eavesdropping on the city life around and below

him, the inhabitants unaware of the unusual and shadowy

observer in their midst. He scurries along the girder of a

bridge, gazing down on the traffic and the river below him.

These moments should be poetic, even beautiful, joyous. The

moon is luminous, the dark night exquisite. Resigned to his

fate and momentarily forgetful of his future, Brundle seems

to be reveling in his unique powers. A brief euphoric fling.



DISSOLVE TO:

Brundle leaps across a narrow alleyway to the wall of the

building opposite him. He smiles with smug satisfaction at

his feat, then suddenly winces, grabbing his side with one

of his hands. WE HEAR A CRACKING, SPLITTING SOUND. Brundle

muffles a startled cry, and losing his balance, slides

several feet down the wall before regaining hold. He looks

down at the huge bulge in his side and sees that it is

starting to split open!

Brundle is horrified and in pain. He starts to quickly move

down the side of the building but the pain impedes his

progress. He manages to get down at least another floor

before he's hit with another sharp pain. He doubles up and

his tenuous grip on the wall causes him to slide another

several feet downward before he regains his grip. The side

is gaping wide now and SOMETHING is starting to protrude.

Brundle is in shock. another ripple of pain causes him to

release his grasp entirely and he falls to the ground in a

dirty narrow alley, where he writhes in pain, as a STRANGE,

HAIRY STICKLIKE APPENDAGE--ACTUALLY THE BEGINNINGS OF A

FLYLIKE LEG-- begins to unfold awkwardly out of his

side.Despite his excrutiating pain, Brundle watches with

fixated, wide-eyed terror at his latest transformation! The

insect leg now begins to probe around, function like a real

leg, almost with a mind of its own. Grotesque as Brundle has

become, he can't accept the next step towards real

insectness which this new leg represents. He screams at the

leg.



BRUNDLE (SCREAMING AT THE LEG)

No! No, I won't! I won't, I won't, I won't..!



Brundle grabs at the leg, holds it, subdues it and then

begins to gnaw at it with his teeth at its base, twisting

himself into an agonized ball in order to do it. The leg

begins to lever at his back, small hooklike protrusions all

along its underside catching in the flesh of Brundle's back,

tearing it in protest against Brundle's attempt at

amputation. Finally, Brundle has severed the leg with his

teeth. The leg drops off leaving a strand or two of stringy

gristle hanging from the knobby stump in Brundle's side. The

leg twitches on the ground, tries to extend itself. Brundle

looks at the leg in shock, his eyes crazed, like an animal

who has been caught in a leg-trap and has had to gnaw off

the leg to be free. Brundle tries to steady himself, then

staggers away down the alley. As he goes, he wipes the

insect blood from his lips with his two forearms In exactly

the same way that flies clean their faces.



EXT. THE HOSPITAL- DAY



Veronica is wheeled into a Hospital with Stathis by her side



INT. THE HOSPITAL- DAY



Veronica, with Stathis still by her side, is wheeled down a

corridor by an orderly.



VERONICA

Stathis, I'm scared.



STATHIS

It's going to be all right Ronnie. It's going to be fine.



VERONICA

I don't think I want to loose it. Is there something wrong

with me? Why am I loosing it?



STATHIS

It's better this way Ronnie, you'll see. It's the best thing

that could happen.



INT. OPERATING ROOM- DAY



Veronica is laid on the table surrounded by Nurses, as well

as Stathis and the GYNACOLOGIST.



GYNACOLOGIST

Okay, She's expelling it. Yeah it's coming out. I don't even

think we're going to have to go in.



NURSE

It's going to be easy. Don't worry, Honey.



VERONICA

No. Please, no.



GYNACOLOGIST

It'll be over soon. Here we go. Just need suction here, a

little suction. Suction. Hold it. Hold on a minute. There's

more in here.



VERONICA

There's more?



GYNACOLOGIST

Yeah. I mean a lot more. Okay. You're going to have to help

us. Come on, you can push. You can push it out!



GYNACOLOGIST

You can push it out. You can push it out. Give us a push.



The Gynacologist hold up a disgusting maggot-like creature

that Veronica has given birth to.



VERONICA

No! No! Ah! No! Noooo!



CUT TO:

Veronica wakjs up in bed Screaming; it was a dream. She

pulls the covers over herself.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT



Brundle is stood at his computer typing. After reading the

displayed text regarding a cure by gene-Splicing Brundle

asks for information:





BRUNDLE

I want a disk. Give me preliminary integration.



The computers scrolls "Voice Not recognised down the side of

the screen" Brundle stops it and bites on his pencil, which

causes his front teeth to fall out onto the keyboard. He

counts his teeth with his tounge and sighs.



CUT TO:

Brundle stumbles into the Bathroom and opens his medicine

cabinet, which is full of body parts which have fallen off.

Brundle talks to his teeth before confinding them to the

cabinet.



BRUNDLE

You're relics. Yes you are. Vestigial, archeological,

redundant. Artifacts of a bygone era. Of historical interest

only.



As Brundle closes the cabinet, he catches sight of Veronica,

who has entered the Lab and is standing opposite Brundle,

with Brundle's bedroom in between them.



BRUNDLE

You've missed some good moments. Is that why you're here? To

catch up?



VERONICA

I wanted...



BRUNDLE

My teeth have begun to fall out. The... medicine cabinet's

now the Brundle Museum of Natural History. Do you want to

see what else is in it?



VERONICA

No.



BRUNDLE

Then... what do you want?



VERONICA

I came to tell you... uh... I, uh, I just... I wanted to see

you... before...



BRUNDLE

You have to leave now... and never come back here. Have you

ever heard of... insect politics? Neither have I. Insects...

don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no

compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become...

the first insect politician. You see, I'd like to, um...

but,... I'm afraid of...



VERONICA

I don't know what you're trying to say.



Brundle Steps forward, Veronica takes a step back and

Brundle gazes up through the skylight.



BRUNDLE

I'm saying... I'm saying I-I'm an insect... who dreamt he

was a man... and loved it. But now the dream is over... and

the insect is awake.



VERONICA

No... no, Seth...



BRUNDLE

I'm saying... I'll hurt you if you stay.



Veronica leaves and Brundle begins to cry.



EXT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT

Veronica runs crying out of the lab. She is met by Stathis,

who stands by the car.



VERONICA

Let's go! Let's do it now!



STATHIS

Now? Wait, what did he say?



VERONICA

I couldn't tell him! Let's go, damn it!



STATHIS

No! I think we should wait a few days, i don't think you're

in the right frame of mind.



VERONICA

No! I want it out of my body now! you should have seen him,

there could be anything in here! In me! In my body!



STATHIS

I don't know if I can arrange it now, right now, tonight.

Why do we have to run around in the dark like a couple of...



VERONICA

Because I don't want it in my body! Do you understand me? I

don't want it in my body!



As Veronica and Stathis drive off, we cut up to See Brundle

watching from the rooftop. He moves away into the shadows.



INT. DR. CHEEVERS OFFICE- NIGHT

DR CHEEVERS is sat at his Desk, while Veronica stares out of

the Window. Stathis stands behind her.



CHEEVERS

Well, okay, what's the story?



STATHIS

She's pregnant and she wants to have an abortion.



CHEEVERS

In the middle of the night?



STATHIS

We have good reason to believe that this child will be

deformed.



CHEEVERS

Yes, but in the middle of the night?



STATHIS

Look Brent, Please.



CHEEVERS

Is it your child?



STATHIS

No, it's the... it's the child of a man who is deformed.



CHEEVERS

Listen, I don't mean to interfere, but I detect a certain...

uncertainty here. You know there are tests we can do that

determine whether or not...



VERONICA

I don't want tests done. Tests can't guarantee anything. The

baby could start off normal then become... I want an

abortion, I'll do it myself if I have to.



CUT TO: THE OPERATING ROOM

CHEEVERS

Okay if you can just slip into that, we'll be on our way in

no time.



Stathis and Cheevers go into the other room, leaving

Veronica alone.

Suddenly Brundle jumps through the window and walks towards

Veronica.



VERONICA

Wait, Seth. No!



Brundle picks up Veronica and runs back out. Stathis runs

into the room just in time to glimple Brundle escape with

Veronica.



EXT. A ROOFTOP- NIGHT

Brundle slowly puts Veronica down, and the talk.



BRUNDLE

Why did you want to kill Brundle? The baby might be all

that's left of the real me. Please don't kill me.



VERONICA

I can't have it. I'm afraid.



BRUNDLE

Please, have the baby.



VERONICA

I can't! I can't!



BRUNDLE

Too bad. Too bad.



INT. BRUNDLES LAB- NIGHT

The door of Brundles lab slides open and Stathis Borans

enters. He slides the door shut behind him and we pan around

to discover the lab is empty.

	Stathis slowly walks, disgusted by his surroundings and

the horrific stench of the Lab.



CUT TO:

Stathis opens his case and reveals a shotgun, which he loads

and arms himself with. He slowly walks over to Brundle's

computer and presses a button which brings down the fusion

program:



Telepod 1:	Transmitter of Subject A

Telepod 2:	Transmitter of Subject B

Telepod 3:	Recieve of genetically fused A-B combination

Subject.



Stathis stares at the pods and behind him we glimpse the

shadow of Brundlefly on the roof above him. Brundle drops

from the roof screaming and knocks Stathis to the ground.

Stathis looks up and is horrified by Brundle's appearance.

He tries to shoot, but Brundle overpowers him and pulls him

to his feet by clenching his wrist.

	Brundle then proceeds to vomit onto Stathis's hand, which

melts away as Stathis screams. Brundle drops Stathis to the

ground and then repeats the process on Stathis's ankle, to

which he then pulls away the foot.

	Brundle stands up and raises his head above Stathis's He

opens his mouth and prepares to Vomit on Stathis's face.



VERONICA

No! Don't! Don't please! Please...



Brundle stops and sees Veronica screaming from the skylight

above him. He moves quickly across the kitchen and slides up

the wall and across the ceiling on all fours until he is

facing Veronica.



BRUNDLE

Help me. Help me be human.



VERONICA

How?



CUT TO:

Brundle, holding onto Veronica, jumps down into the lab. He

puts her down onto her feet and, holding her hand, explains

the plan.



BRUNDLE

Well. I go there .and, uh you. go there. We come apart, then

and then we .come together there. You me and the baby;

together!



Brundle starts the countdown for the fusion program.



VERONICA

No!



BRUNDLE

We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three joined

together in one body.

More human than I am alone.



As Veronica tries to Pull away from Brundle, she rips his

jaw off and flings it to the floor, screaming. This starts

of a chain reaction as Brundle dead outer layer of Skin

falls away to reveal the inner result of this mutation.

Brundle throws Veronica into Pod  1 and begins to climb into

Pod 2.



	Meanwhile, as the computer counts down,  Stathis manages

to prop himself up a support beam.

	When Brundle is locked inside the pod, Stathis shoots the

cable connecting Veronica's Pod to the computer, eliminating

her from the fusion program.

Stathis falls to the floor and crawls across to Veronica.

	Brundle, meanwhile tries to escape from his pod by

punching the glass away. He succeeds, but as he opens the

door and steps out, the computer teleports him along with

part of the door frame and telepod.

	Veronica is freed from the pod and she helps Stathis sit

up against Pod 2. She picks up the shotgun as Brundle

arrives in Pod 3. The door opens, and out falls the helpless

Brundle, physically fused with part of the door. He slowsly

crawls across to Veronica, who is in tears. He slowly places

the barrel of the shitgun to his forehead, indicating what

he wants Veronica to do.



VERONICA

No, I can't.



Brundle voices a slow, painful moan.



VERONICA

No, I can't. No... No, God!



Veronica pulls the trigger, killing Seth. She falls to the

floor and begins to sob.



FADE OUT