"ANDROID ARMY"
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INT. CARNUBIUM MINE -- DAY
A pick axe SLAMS into solid rock, breaking off a chunk.
The prisoner lowers his axe and wipes sweat from his brow.
Muscled arms, a trim body, alien face partially covered by
the nose piece from a rebreather tank. MERRITT is a hip
alien with a sarcastic wit and a kick back attitude, sentenced
to 25 years for hijacking cargo ships.
A GUARD nudges Merritt
sentence spanning more than a page. He received a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and won a National Book Award (posthumously) for his Collected Stories.
Faulkner was also an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, Knights Gambit, that featured Gavin Stevens (who also appeared in Light in August, Go Down, Moses, The Town, Intruder in the Dust, and the short story Hog
partially covered in snow himself.
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ERIC
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His face is a death mask: eyes half-open and dull, lips a
purplish blue, bloodless skin crystallizing as it ices over.
The wind HOWLS around him. The snow sticks to his eyelashes
and hair without melting.
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END DREAM
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2 INT. DARK BEDROOM - NIGHT
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Eric bolts up in bed. Next to him, ANNE MARIE GAUVIN sits
up and hugs him. All that can b
partially obscured by a truck,) plus FLATBEDS carrying
HELICOPTERS and SCUD MISSILES.
Near a QUONSET HUT, a TRUCK-MOUNTED RADAR DISH scans the area, with
INFRARED GATLING GUNS mounted on either side.
BOND - AT THE ROCK OUTCROPPING -
Props his rife on the boulder, and peers through the GUN SIGHT.
THROUGH THE TELESCOPIC SIGHT -
He sees a closer (but still wide) telescopic view of men bargaining
ove
sentencing.
No.
Im sorry?
Im not interested.
Bear in mind, Mr. Tellis,
if I may be so bold,
that career opportunities
in law enforcement...
What a fucking waste of time
that was.
Tellis!
Captain Mitchell Cheevers.
- Thanks for coming down, man.
- Oh, sure.
Come on, listen, I want
to apologize for in there, okay?
They get paid to put people
on the spot.
They made their money today.
All right, come