ACT FOUR

FADE IN:

RAKELLA PRIME – EA BASE

Galen has Nava over his shoulder, hobbling out of the base. There is a loud alarm siren buzzing.

GALEN

It is a good thing, even with all the technology of the Shadows at their disposal the humans trusted their guards to carry keycards that would open your restraints.

NAVA

My release tripped an alarm system.

GALEN

I can deal with a few hired goons.

NAVA

You don't understand. I heard their Commander talking… a Colonel Lee I believe his name was. I heard him mention that if their base was discovered his people would immediate evacuate and the base be self destructed.

GALEN

That alarm precedes a detonation?

(beat)

They would destroy all they've built? All they hoped to learn from whatever Shadow remnant they have here.

NAVA

They have more bases than this Galen. They are willing to sacrifice much in the name of secrecy.

GALEN

You seem to know an awful lot about this Nava.

NAVA

Have you never wondered why I'm considered such a powerful technomage? It is more than just my mastery of the incantations. More than just the perfect 99.8 fusion of my body with the technology. It is that I am telepathic. I am the only telepath, a breed created by the Vorlons to be successfully merged with technomage technology.

GALEN

That is how you spoke to me in the corridor.

NAVA

Yes. I think you are finally coming to understand.

They finally reach the hole in the wall Galen left during his entry.

NAVA (CONT'D)

I do not want to leave without me ship! I will have no chance of recovering my full powers.

GALEN

You and I will not have lives if we remain here! We must flea this place at once!

Galen and Nava struggled to outside of the base, and take one look back. Use a good CGI shot of the entire base.

Then we CUT to,

CGI of Galen's ship gangplank retracting and his ship taking off post-haste.

RAKELLA PRIME – ORBIT

CGI Galen's ship enters orbit, the CAMERA pans as his ship comes further out. But keeping the planet in CAMERA shot. The EA base can be seen exploding from orbit, just before the planet moves out of CAMERA shot.

WE SEE in the background behind Galen's ship a vessel. A Shadow-Hybrid like the one we SAW destroy the Cerberus disappearing into hyperspace.

WE CUT on this,

DU'MARTI HOMEWORLD – HOSPITAL

Chambers, Hemming and Dureena are all unmasked now.

HA'MOK

Hahahaha! Soon the virus will be running through your veins. You will be returned to your people to spread the disease. To wipe out all those who are unpure of faith!

HEMMING

We aren't even of your kind! We know nothing about your religion or your war!

HA'MOK

Ignorance is no excuse for impurity!

ORBIT OF DU'MARTI WORLD

A hyperspace point opens and the Excalibur exits. We BEAT for a establisher as it comes to a halt.

INT. EXCALIBUR – BRIDGE

Gideon has taken the Captain's chair. Ivanova and the Du'Curta Captain are stood either side of him.

GIDEON

Hail that warlord Ha'Mok!

ALIEN CAPTAIN

I doubt it will do any good Captain, he has probably already had your people infected. The Du'Marti are ruthless.

GIDEON

Get him out of here! I'm sick of the Du'Curta, Du'Marti, Du'whatever the hell they call themselves! I want him off my bridge!

A tech leads the Alien Captain from the bridge.

MATHESON

Communications established. Patching it through.

Ha'mok's face appears on the monitor.

HA'MOK

Are Captain! Are you here to negotiate your people's release? You'll find them quite – WELL.

GIDEON

Ha'Mok. Your people have listening posts in orbit of you world right? Well maybe their scanners can tell you the capability of my ship's main gun.

(beat)

The same main gun that's targeted directly at your capital.

HA'MOK

You'd kill your own people!

GIDEON

Well. As I'm sure you've already decided we're unpure! Crazy even. We'd do almost anything.

HA'MOK

You may be in-league with the unpure savage hordes of the Du'Curta, but your aren't stupid Captain. Ivanova told us at length of your people's emphasis on saving lives, especially those of your own people. She spoke of your ship's grand crusade to find a cure to save billions of lives.

(beat)

You aren't going to sacrifice your own people.

Gideon does a cut-throat motion to Matheson. The lieutenant obliges and cuts the channel.

GIDEON

Damnit. He's called my bluff. I never loose a bluff.

IVANOVA

Must be loosing your touch. May I suggest a course of action?

GIDEON

By all means.

IVANOVA
I might have been a diplomat at one point. But for the last five years or so I've been the Commanding Officer of a warship, and it teaches you certain things. Like, when it's time to launch your starfuries and go in guns blazing.

WE are treated to a TNT-desired fighter battle. The thunderbolts scramble and head towards the planet. Flying low over the alien city headed for where Chambers, Dureena and Hemming are being held.

Anti-Air batteries fire green plasma toward our Earth fighters, battles and shooting ensues.

Eventually we SEE a thunderbolt landing next to the Excalibur's shuttle that carried the team down.

INT. DU'MARTI HOSPITAL

Several Earth Force pilots rush in with PPGs, quickly dispersing the Du'Marti guards, grabbing the Doctor and co. and heading back to the shuttle.

INT. SHUTTLE

Hemming pilots, and Chambers runs a scanner over Dureena.

DUREENA

Am I infected?

CHAMBERS

No… neither is Hemming.

(beat)(scans herself)

And neither am I! I suppose this engineered virus of theirs isn't so contagious afterall.

FADE OUT:

END OF ACT FOUR