Guards explode like a pack of howling hyenas. The Scientists glance over at them with a look that seems to say, "How is it possible for us to be sharing the same planet?"
GUARD #2
Did you just cut a big one or is Suzie back in town?
Guard #3, the biggest Neanderthal of the bunch, stops laughing long enough to contribute a rude, tounge-flapping raspberry, during the course of which...
vehicle WIPES FRAMErevealing --
JAKE SULLYa scarred and scruffy combat vetsitting in a
beat up carbon-fiber wheelchair. At 22his eyes are
hardened by the wisdom and wariness of one who has endured
pain beyond his years.
Jake stares upward at the levels of the city. MAGLEV TRAINS
WHOOSH overhead on elevated tracksagainst a sky of garish
advertizing.
JAKE (V.O.)
They can fix a spinalif you몶ve got
AERIAL - DAY
The car threads its way through the Washington traffic, past
the big administrative buildings, down tree-lined avenues,
takes a turn into a gate. As the car stops at the gate, the
CAMERA flies past, revealing its the gate to the WHITE
HOUSE.
SMASH CUT TO:
INT. NPIC - DAY
CLOSE ON the five-thousand rolls of film spewing through
processing equipment, its streaking passage leading us
st
ARCTIC BLUE
by Ross LaManna
FADE IN:
1 EXT. BOREAL FOREST - ALASKA - (AERIAL SHOT) - DAY
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Flying. Not at the intangible height of a jet, but at
spitting distance from the treetops. Were in central
Alaska, the Big Lonely, just north of the Arctic Circle.
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A thick forest follows the contours of mountain foothills
like a deep-pile carpet. Up at treeline the forest thins to
tundra, a grassy