MEDICAL TEAMS. Anything Cardenas feels about the
gruesome sight before him is hidden behind a mask of
indifference.
Standing by the bed is ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROGER
TROXELL, a short, baby-faced man. Cardenas looks down at the
body, then over at the MEDICAL EXAMINER, DR. HENRY McCURDY, a
portly man with windblown cheeks and bloodshot eyes.
CARDENAS
How long?
??
3
MCCURDY
About three hours
futility for control, everyone shouting and terrified.
EXEC
Main forward tanks ruptured!
HELMSMAN
Passing thirteen hundred feet...
EXEC
Too deep to pump auxiliaries!
CAPTAIN
All back full! All back full!
HELMSMAN
Answering all back full. Passing thirteen hundred
fifty feet... fourteen hundred... fourteen
fifty...
The Captain locks eyes with the Exec amid the din...
CAPTAIN
Were losing her. Launch
House on Haunted Hill
By
Dick Beebe
Story by
Dick Beebe & William Malone
Adapted from the screenplay by
Robb White
Blue Revisions: 13 Jan 1999
Production Draft: 2 December 1998
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPTS CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS.
THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY.
FADE IN:
BLACK SCREEN
And in the darkness, a TICKING sound is heard. Soft and
steady -- soothing -- and then a BANG!
S
The X-Files "Fight The Future"
??
(The classic fanfare from Alfred Newman plays as the 20th CENTURY FOX
logo is shown all over the the big screen. Fade to black - Silence.
(DW NOTE: Enough time to Take your greatest fear and multiply it by X:)
NOW, Mark Snows thrilling new movie-version of The X-Files theme song
begins to play. Seas of blackoil fill the screen then text in white letters runs in.
As the C-130 coasts to a stop, the hatch rotating down on a hot, dusty lifeless airstrip somewhere in Vietnam. Nothing seems to live or move in the midday sun.
TITLES RUN
A DOZEN NEW RECRUITS step off the plane, unloading their duffel bags, looking around like only the new can look around, their hair regulation-clipped, crisp, new green fatigues fitting them like cardboard.
CHRIS TAYLOR is just a