Surging forward:
MACLEOD
cuts off the Mans head. A shimmering energy surges between
the corpse and MacLeod. MacLeod starts to glow. The garage
is crackling. Windshields EXPLODE. SIRENS closer.
VOICE O.S.
Over here -- !
Samurai sword in hand, MacLeod sprints off, swallowed by the
dark. People SHOUT.
CUT TO:
MACLEOD
racing through the garage. Behind him, a woman screams.
Desperate, he hides his wea
kids?
Is it EboIa?
No. I dont even think its a virus.
-What, then?
-I dont know.
Are you okay?
Yeah, Im just tired.
Let me know if you hear anything, okay?
Sure.
-Where did your computer go?
-Broke.
I sent it in for repair.
-PIaying on the Internet too much?
-Yeah.
Well, Im gonna go finish my report.
Hot!
Cause of death appears to be a stroke
brought on by a surge of adrenaIine.
No signs of vio
surging into the screen.
"THE THING"
A thundering...
FADE TO:
A BLIND AND FERAL WHITENESS
... Glacial desert... gusts of snow... superimpose:
ANTARCTICA 1982 WINTER
A SOUND
Loud and strident. A helicopter streaks across frame. It
travels precariously close to the ground; its chassis
battered and swayed by the wind.
INT. COPTER
Red dials beam on the faces of two men. One carries a
rifle and search
PEARL HARBOR
by
Randall Wallace
EARLY DRAFT
Out of BLACK we hear the sound of an airplane roaring by.
EXT. POV OF AN AIRPLANE
Flying over American heartland. We see the earth through the
pilots perspective as sky and ground swap positions, the
plane swooping down and storming over the ground.
THE PLANE
is a biplane, racing over a field lush with young plants. It
releases a trail of crop spray, an
NOTE: Aerial dialogue in caps is UHF radio; plane to plane, plane to carrier. Aerial dialogue in small case is ICS; an inter-cockpit system; a live mike, heard by pilot and RIO only.
EXT. NIGHT
THE PACIFIC IS ANYTHING BUT WINDS HOWL. Rain drives horizontal. The sea surges up, nearly to the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The carrier plunges, driving its bow into a wall of gre