Port
clearance to cliff wall, one hundred fifty feet.
FRANK
(simultaneously)
Still diving, depth nine hundred feet. Port
clearance to cliff wall, one hundred fifty feet.
Tension builds in the attack room as the Montana surges to intercept the
intruder. The exec tensely watches the vector-graphic readout for the side-
scan sonar array. The sub is running uncomfortably close to the cliff walls.
EXE
ports, roads, bridges, dams.
Theres just
no sign of civilization.
Sir, were being radar-scanned.
- Can you zero on it?
- No, sir.
It seems to emanate from
an area of about miles square.
Twenty miles square?
Bosun, pass the alert.
Combat stations. Blaster men,
activate your scopes.
Radio contact, sir.
Theres a voice.
- Human?
- It sounds like it.
Boost it.
Spaceship, identify yourself.
Youre being
manager.
The boys say you dont keep
your word any too good.
You keep your end of the bargain,
Ill keep mine.
Well, OK.
It a deal, tomorrow morning.
Ill sing you a song.
I went to Sarah Lawrence College,
I majored in music.
I learned that real American
music comes from the bottom up.
When Gershwin played at the New York
it was black tie music...
but the real beginning of it
was in folks that never
Port
No, thats left
Right, right, right
And thats starboard
I know what you mean
Maybe we should stick to lefts and rights
That way
That I understand
Im impressed, Danny
You know a lot about boats, man
You know, my Dad and I,
we spend a lot of time out here
I can see why, Its beautiful
Thanks for including me today, Im having fun
No problem
There are so many beautiful places in the world
How did
port side.
DISSOLVE TO:
7 EXT. MINDINAO DEEP - NIGHT
A desolate, barren, spooky place. Nothing breathes. Nothing lives. Or
so it would appear. The creepy, foreboding MUSICAL SCORE tells us
otherwise. The Shinkai ENTERS a huge ROCK FISSURE.
CUT TO:
8 INT. SHINKAI 9000 - NIGHT
The Captain and the Science Officers stare through the plexi-dome and
out into the freezing, cobalt blue of the PALAWAN TRO
Henry V Script
Oh, for a muse of fire...
that would ascend the
brightest heaven of invention.
A kingdom for a stage,
princes to act...
and monarchs to behold
the swelling scene.
Then should the warlike harry,
like himself,
assume the port of Mars...
and at his heels,
leashed in like hounds,
should famine, sword and fire
crouch for employment.
But pardon, gentles all,
the flat, unraised spirits...
Port as citywide preparations
are made for the Chancellors arrival...
Spence, its on!
Music off.
Water off.
...last weeks brutal Centauri attack
on the Tolstoy Colony
of Asteroid X- .
Whatd I miss?
Alighting from a recent briefing
with high-ranking officials at Sector Eight
the Chancellor visits our region for a secret meeting
with government scientists.
Some secret.
Tolstoy colony was a bastion
ports and piers and roads.
And every object that might make me fear
misfortune to my ventures
out of doubt would make me sad.
My wind, cooling my broth,
would blow me to a fever if I thought what
harm a wind too great might do at sea.
Believe me, no.
- Why, then youre in love.
- (Laughs)
Fie, fie, fie!
Not in love either?
Then let us say you are sad
because you are not merry.
Here comes my lord B
MANAGER hands a clipboard to one of
the big Marine Guards who in turn hands him a set of keys.
The Manager unlocks the film cases. PHOTO INTERPRETERS swoop
in, whisk away the contents: SPOOLS OF FILM.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. ODONNELL RESIDENCE - DAY
A black Lincoln pulls away from the modest white house on a
tidy Washington D.C. residential street.
EXT. WASHINGTON D.C., AERIAL - DAY
The car threads i