Apparently
they strayed off course.
(pause)
Were certain theyve been
captured by the guerrillas.
Schaefer looks up, puffing lightly on the cigar.
SCHAEFER
(quietly)
What have you got in mind,
General.
(CONTINUED)
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3 CONTINUED: (2) 3
PHILIPS
We figure weve got less than
twenty-four hours to catch
up with them. After that,
th
Apparently
they strayed off course.
(pause)
Were certain theyve been
captured by the guerrillas.
Schaefer looks up, puffing lightly on the cigar.
SCHAEFER
(quietly)
What have you got in mind,
General.
(CONTINUED)
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4
3 CONTINUED: (2) 3
PHILIPS
We figure weve got less than
twenty-four hours to catch
up with them. After that,
th
shaped like a block of ice, falls out and hits the floor.
The block SHATTERS into ice cubes. Roger looks around,
dazed.
BABY HERMAN
has taken this opportunity to crawl out the window. Roger
races to the window. His eyes pop out of his head at what he
sees.
ROGERS POV
Baby Herman is crawling along the sidewalk under the shadow
of a safe being hoisted into a second floor window by the
Acme Safe Mov
shaped house.
The house has a flat, tile roof and an unusual, wooden rain
gutter, with windows outlined in black and a prayer flag in
the courtyard. A spotted dog is in front of the house,
barking, though we cannot hear him. The vision becomes
completely clear, for an instant - clear enough to see the
face of a young boy at the window.
CLOSE on Reting Rinpoche. Looking. Searching.
Cut to: a portr
shape of an arm. We see
the same happen to other parts of his "body" -- hands, legs,
facial features.
EXT. SPACE
The craft the Skull Ship holds then goes dark, the energy being
sucked from it having run dry.
INT. SKULL SHIP - OPERATING THEATRE
The "patient" stops convulsing, as the cable attached to its head
ceases to glow.
BRAINIAC
That was all the energy the craft
yielded?
L-RON
The craft was a