SKI POLES. Bond
slaps on the skis, and takes off, through the snow.
EXT. SNOW-COVERED FOREST - BOND SKIS THROUGH THE PINES -
EXT. MOUNTAIN CLIFF -
Bond hurtles over the side, going airborne, landing 100 feet below,
amidst boulders. In perfect Olympic form, he skis out, and down.
EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE -
Bond slaloms down, in and out of trees, to avoid detection. At the
bottom, where the snow thins, he
open
sewer tunnel pipe.
5 INT. THE SEWER--NIGHT 5
The carriage innocently slides through the murky waters
of the awesomely cavernous and creepy sewer, softly
surfing its sides.
6 INT. A DARK LAIR--NIGHT 6
The resilient carriage spews from a gaping pipe into a
moat of water that surrounds a vast patch of snow and
ice that is the centerpiece of a dark and mysterious
lair.
The carriage rides a gentl
OPENING TO A CORRIDOR LEADING BACK TO
DRESSING ROOMS AND A LADIES ROOM...
CUT TO:
INT. LADIES ROOM - DAY
THE COP, clearly embarrassed, pokes his head in and looks
around. Under one stall he sees a womans HIGH HEELS. He
hastily ducks back into HALL and signals an okay to Helen.
Before the door behind her closes, we see the COP prepare to
stand guard outside. HELEN walks past the stall with the
hig
open trade
routes...
Brainiac turns away, disinterested. Then, the "friendly" greeting
onscreen turns darker.
LEX (V.O.)
... and discuss any information you might
have regarding a visitor to this planet
of Kryptonian descent.
Brainiac snaps to attention, shocked recognition crossing his
face.
BRAINIAC
My days of scavenging are over, L-Ron.
Lock onto this transmission and follow it
to this Earth h
opening, to a kind of waterway
or canal, which connects to the private docks inside the
grounds. There is a steel grating across the opening. The
bars disappear down into the thin ice of early winter.
With the house visible BG, we CRANE DOWN below the parapet wall
along which a guard is a white exposure-suit is walking... down
along the dark wall to the grating... TILTING DOWN to see a
glow pulsi
There is no vegetation whatever, just sand and odd-shaped rock formations. The air is filled with red dust, which alternately obscures and then reveals the image.
CAMERA MOVES FORWARD optically - enlarging the film grain in the process.
SLOW DISSOLVE
OPENING CREDITS BEGIN
ANOTHER SHOT
Of a barren landscape, once more with bizarre rocks. Dust. Sound of wind.
CAMERA MOVES FORWARD again.
DISSOLVE
opening up in time lapse photography.
FRACTALS...
is what theyre called. The visual manifestation of geometric formulas.
The Mandelbrot Set. The Julia Set. Each mathematic form made up of
progressively smaller forms and on into infinity.
Glorious and beautiful. Forms folding in upon themselves and
regenerating.
This is creation were witnessing.
This is life in the making.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. COUNSE
of you to come. Wont you join us?
Tell us the subject of your dissertation, please?
Tyranny, sir. The use of tyranny in American political life.
Such as?
Maybe...Coolidge breaking up the Boston police strike,
Roosevelt putting Japanese- Americans into concentration camps.
You might consider the McCarthy business. Hmm?
- Sir? - McCarthy.
Senator from Wisconsin? Ran a series of purges in the s?
OPENING OUT INTO LOBBY. EARLY EVENING.
Fran, Ripley, Mr and Mrs Greenleaf and others emerge from an
elevator. Emily talks to Fran, Herbert to Ripley.
EMILY GREENLEAF
(to Fran)
I hope youll come and see us...
FRAN
Thats very kind.
EMILY GREENLEAF
Both of you...
HERBERT GREENLEAF
Of course, Dickies idea of music is
Jazz. He has a saxophone. To my ear Jazz
is just noise, just an insolent noise.
EXT.
police,
using taxpayers dollars to continue
his felony drug habit, was the link
which allowed police to raid a
private farm. A working farm. A
farm where honest Americans make
their living.
One particular justice, ROBERT WAKEFIELD, younger than the
others, is clearly bemused by this performance.
MR. RODMAN (CONTD)
The government, in its haste, has
employed an army of criminals whose
allegiance to