image on screen abruptly
SMASHES TO:
INT. CEREBRAL HYGIENE ROOM - CONTINUED - GRAINY BLACK & WHITE
-- and dead silence -- and we find ourselves watching old
soundless 16mm footage of what happened next: a blur of
scalpels and saws as the Patients viciously vivisect
Vannacutt and Nurse, whove been crammed together on that
same gurney. The B&W CAMERA PUSHES IN TIGHT on Vannacutts
screaming maw -- a
homicide
in your neighborhood on the th.
Thatd be Saturday the th,
last Saturday...
...between and a.m.
Her body, or part of her body,
to be exact...
...was found in the garden
outside your window.
Thats why I wanted to talk to you,
in case you saw or heard anything.
No. No, nothing unusual.
Frannie, its John Graham.
Are you by yourself?
I dont think youre there
by yourself.
Why did you lie to me
image as the logo is revealed to be a hanging center-
piece in the display window of a store that sells Batman *
sleds, lunch boxes, T-shirts, and ticking-to-twenty-
before-Seven clocks.
8 EXT. GOTHAM PLAZA--EARLY EVENING 8
Bathed in pristine snow and packed with ELATED SHOPPERS,
POINSETTIA GRASPING LOVERS, BLESSED CAROLERS, and an
overwhelming array of Christmas decoration, the intimate
Plaza ce
ALIEN NATION
??
Original Screenplay by Rockne S. OBannon
Rewrite by James Cameron
??
October 1987
FADE IN:
EXT. MOJAVE DESERT - DAY (TELEVISION IMAGE)
A LONG LENS SHOT of a far distant metallic object hovering
just above the ground -- maybe two or three miles away.
The heat waves and the light refraction off the desert-
scape make the object undulate rhythmically, keeping its
true shape and appea
images -- of gasping, tough sex.
BLACK -- MORE TITLES -- then
ON A GLEAMING POOL DECK of black-and-white tile -- two women in
soaked, clinging clothes -- fight -- hands squeeze a throat.
BLACK -- MORE TITLES -- then
A SCREAM -- a sickening hollow THWACK -- an arc of blood, two
teeth fall on dark stone.
BLACK -- MORE TITLES -- then
GUNSHOTS -- Blood sprays across the glass of a picture frame --
ob