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INT. CARNUBIUM MINE -- DAY
A pick axe SLAMS into solid rock, breaking off a chunk.
The prisoner lowers his axe and wipes sweat from his brow.
Muscled arms, a trim body, alien face partially covered by
the nose piece from a rebreather tank. MERRITT is a hip
alien with a sarcastic wit and a kick back attitude, sentenced
to 25 years for hijacking cargo ships.
A GUARD nudges Merritt with a rifle, prompting him to work.
MERRITT
Hey! Cant you see Im trying to sleep?
Merritt hefts the axe ad gets back to work.
THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF PRISONERS working the mine:
Aliens like Merritt.
Humans like PRATT, a burned out three time looser with a
weight lifters body.
But more than half the prisoners are chrome fingernailed
Androids, sentenced for killing humans on Earth. None of
the Androids wear re-breathers... they dont need them.
RALPH 124C41 is the leader of the Android gang. A HUGE mean
looking droid with metal fingernails and grey eyes, guilty
of brutally murdering more than fifty humans. He slams his
axe into the rock... Imagining its the Wardens head.
Working beside Ralph 124C41 are his two henchmen: SMITH EE17,
a wiry Android with slicked back hair, aluminum teeth, and
pincher claw hands.
And COBLENTZ HL2000, whose body is criss-crossed with baseball-
like seams where hes been sewn together after knife fights.
Coblentz HL2000 breaks through a wall, exposing a vein of
glimmering Carnubium.
COBLENTZ
The fucking motherlode. Vein of
Carnubium!
Merritt wrinkles his nose under the rebreather.
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(CONTINUED)
2.
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MERRITT
Shit, Coblentz, what you found is a
damned Deros Cave. If you werent a
fucking Android you could smell em.
Lets get out of here before were
lunch.
SUDDENLY, a slimy DEROS worm breaks through the opening in
front of Coblentz and EATS the PRISONER next to him.
The other PRISONERS yell and scramble out of the mine.
One of the GUARDS fires his rifle, forcing the Deros back.
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EXT. MOUTH OF THE CAVE -- DAY
The PRISONERS sit along the side of the mountain, taking a
break. Merritt looks up when NOWLAN nudges him with his rifle.
NOWLAN
Warden wants to see you.
MERRITT
Must be my lucky day.
JACK NOWLAN is head guard of the prison mining colony. Tough
but good natured, hes Esau to Merritts James Dean-like
Jacob, here on the twin sunned planet Isaac.
Nowlan clips magnetic leg shackles onto Merritt, then nods
for his assistant AL BESTER to take over.
Bester is a farm boy prison guard. Not only second in
command, but Nowlans best friend. He wears a cowboy hat,
has a small town attitude. Bester gestures for Merritt to
get to his feet.
Nowlan prods Ralph 124C41 with the rifle, and the Android
grabs the barrel. Nowlan pulls the gun back, then JAMBS it
into Ralphs gut.
NOWLAN
Warden wants to see you.
RALPH
Screw you, screw.
NOWLAN
Ive got the gun: Screw YOU. Now, you
going to cooperate, or am I going to
have to shoot you again?
Ralph snarls and Nowlan clips on the magnetic shackles.
(CONTINUED)
3.
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Nowlan prods Ralph to his feet, escorts the prisoners away.
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EXT. PRISON BUILDING - ESTABLISHING -- DAY
The Prison Building scorches under Isaacs twin suns.
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INT. GERNSBECKS OFFICE -- DAY
Nowlan and Bester prod the two prisoners into chairs across
from Warden Gernsbeck.
In his tailored suit and gold Rolex, VERNON GERNSBECK is the
type of slimy, bigoted, corrupt warden they make prison movies
about. Trophies and political photos adorn the office,
obscuring the UN flag in the corner.
On his desk, near his polished brass name plate, is a photo
of his pretty twenty year old daughter, GARBY.
GERNSBECK
(sarcastic)
My two favorite prisoners. Merritt.
Ralph 124C41.
MERRITT
What do you want, Verne? Im a busy
man.
GERNSBECK
Nowlan. Bester. Better stick around.
Nowlan and Bester nod, and keep their guns ready.
Gernsbeck lifts two manila folders, giving a false smile.
GERNSBECK
Ive been looking over your files,
gentlemen. Interesting reading.
(to Merritt)
Mr. Merritt. Twenty five years hard
labor for the armed hijack of twelve
cargo shuttles...
MERRITT
Fourteen. There was two they couldnt
prove.
GERNSBECK
You seem to have trouble obeying the
rules around here.
(MORE)
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(CONTINUED)
4.
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GERNSBECK (CONTD)
Youve been disciplined by electroshock
forty three times.
(beat)
I have disciplined you more than thirty
times myself...
MERRITT
(sotto)
Sadistic fucker.
GERNSBECK
What was that?
Merritt just smiles.
Gernsbeck pulls the other folder and looks up at Ralph 124C41.
GERNSBECK
Ralph 124C41. Life without parole for
murdering fifty seven people on Earth.
It says here you were reprogrammed
twice, but kept on killing.
RALPH
Humans are scrap.
GERNSBECK
If it were my decision, I would have
you disassembled and melted down,
sold as slag.
MERRITT
Ralph the toaster.
Gernsbeck looks from Ralph to Merritt.
GERNSBECK
As you know, your labor has been leased
by Manrocci Industries to mine the
Carnubium deposits here on the planet
Isaac. Now that the Carnubium has
been depleted, this prison colony
will be closed down.
(beat)
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