Free THE ALPHA CENTAURI PROJECT SCRIPT by Marco Santini Page B

it
vanishes, Nihil has disappeared.
    EVE
    turning to the commander
    I must go.
    She rushes towards the aircraft. But halfway to it,
she shivers, her sight grows dim, she staggers.
    Just before falling to the ground, she recovers her
strength.
    Still dazed, the woman reaches the aircraft.
    INT. ALPHACITY ovoid -- CONTINUOUS
    Eve collapses into her seat.
    EVE
    To the headquarters!
    During take-off, she contacts C573Y.
    EVE
    I got rid of him.
    C573Y
    Congratulations!
    EVE
    He carried out his revenge.
    C573Y
    How can you be so sure?
    EVE
    He never limited himself to threats.
    C573Y
    Our search programs have not pointed out any
anomaly.
    EVE
    It's a brand new virus! Move the population out to
another server.
    C573Y
    after a few seconds
    An unknown program makes the transfer impossible.
    EVE
    We are trapped.
    The ovoid begins the descent towards the Security
Headquarters.
    EXT. ALPHACITY security headquarters terrace --
MOMENTS LATER
    On the roof, a small crowd is waiting for her, ready
for the celebrations.
    Among them, are Victoria waving her arm and Adam. Eve
gets in touch.
    INTERCUT BETWEEN OVOID AND HEADQUARTERS TERRACE
    EVE
    You all, shelter in the bunker!
    VICTORIA
    What's happening?
    EVE
    No time. Carry out the order!
    The group sways, then dashes towards the entrance.
Eve follows them, clenching her teeth.
    Beads of sweat are dripping from her forehead. When
she wipes them away, her fingers get covered with a sticky
substance.
    Her features are melting!
    A series of convulsions, attacks so intense and
prolonged that her muscles get torn and her organs reduced to a
bleeding pulp.
    Bent in an unnatural position, Eve feels her life
slipping away.
    When the ovoid lands on the terrace, the woman's body
is unrecognizable.
    Scattered around, the remains of her companions are
slowly dissolving.
    EXT. ALPHACITY -- LATER
    Shots of the town. WING BEATS. A finch flies from a
garden, whirls around an obelisk and alights on a roof. The air
fills with birdsong.
    Although it is a sunny day, the town remains
desert.
    A gust of chilly wind strips a cloud of dry leaves
from a row of plane trees and makes them whirl around.
    INT. flagship BRIDGE -- CONTINUOUS
    The bridge is IN DEEP SILENCE. A few androids are
staring at the screens, concentrated on the images of the town.
    Their strained faces make them look one hundred years
older.
    C573Y moves away from the group. His RHYTHMIC STEPS
break THE SILENCE.
    He stops in front the panoramic window where he
remains motionless gazing at the most sparkling star, Alpha
Centauri.
    Apparently the android is absorbed in thought;
broken-hearted.
    EXT. alpha centauri planet -- EVENING
    voice (O.S.)
    To the lake!
    The ovoid descends into the multitude of vehicles
crowding the aerial freeways in the evening hours.
    It passes between two rows of skyscrapers dotted with
lights, flies over the outskirts and skims over the treetops of a
luminescent wood.
    Half an hour later it lands on a rock towering in the
middle of a plain.
    The two robots get out the cockpit and walk for a
hundred meters through a meadow and up to the brink of a precipice.
They sit down on a boulder.
    Victoria bends forward and pulls up a blue blade of
grass as smooth as silk. She fiddles with it nervously.
    In spite of the night hour, it is not dark. The big
star on the horizon tinges the plain with orange and lights the
rippling surface of the lake with golden reflections.
    Adam points to the sparkling dot of an ovoid
appearing in the distance.
    ADAM
    She has arrived!
    The vehicle lands by the first one. A dark figure
gets out, looks around, then gives a wave and approaches with long
strides.
    EVE
    Sorry I am late. The Admiral called me. He told such
an incredible story! When Nihil realized his defeat was
unavoidable, he avenged himself by spreading deadly viruses. All
the population died.
    VICTORIA
    Are you joking?
    ADAM
    Why are we alive?
    EVE
    We are all copies.
    ADAM
    But they were erased just after departure...
    EVE
    A Defense program