FADE IN:
INT. LIANDRA - MEDBAY
Dulann is sitting upright on the biobed, his legs are hung over the side. Firell is standing, tapping at a comp panel, she looks serious and concerned.
DULANN Have I not passed?
FIRELL You have.
DULANN Then why the expression?
FIRELL You may be fit for LIGHT duty, but your mind has had a violent stream of -
Dulann suddenly has a spazum. He holds his hand to his head as he lays back onto the biobed. Firell comes rushing over.
FIRELL (CONT'D)
Dulann? Are you Alright?
As Firell says "Are you Alright?" we FADE TO,
The CAMERA moves to represent Dulann's eye sight. Everything has a slightly purple tint, to indicate that he is having somesort of vision. He is looking past Firell and out towards the Entrance where a human, wearing Ranger uniform, is stood. Half of his body is slightly hidden behind the entrance and he is stood looking directly at Dulann without saying a word.
The CAMERA changes away from being Dulann's eyes, though everything remains purple, Dulann sits up and rises from the biobed. Firell's figure fades away and the sound changes to a more muffled tone. Dulann's feet slowly lower to the foot and land with an echoed and muffled thud. He stands fully up just as the Ranger figure moves off and disappears around the entrance corner.
DULANN Wait...
Dulann walks slowly, hand outstretched towards where the figure had been stood. He reaches the entrance corner and turns to where the figure disappeared. The corridor outside is dark, poorly lite, and the Ranger figure is now at the end of the corridor his back turned to Dulann.
INT. LIANDRA - MEDBAY CORRIDOR
Dulann stumbles down the corridor towards the opposite facing Ranger figure. As Dulann draws closer he outstretches a hand.
DULANN Wha...
The figure turns. The CAMERA cuts inbetween the figure facing either way, so as if the figure turned instantly. The figure has wounds across his face, large cuts that are pouring red blood on his cheeks and a piece of metal is pretruded through his shoulder.
RANGER GHOST You are the seer.
DULANN I am the what...
RANGER GHOST The seer. You have the gift. That allows you to see into what is here, what was here and what will be here. You have seen us before.
DULANN Yes... you warned me about Minister Kafta...
RANGER GHOST You are the seer. You have been touched by the corruptors. The ones who breed darknesses amongst others. The ones banished from your realm.
DULANN I have seen through the eyes of the relic.
RANGER GHOST The relics are the key. We, the forgotten, the lost, found one.
DULANN You found a relic...
RANGER GHOST It doomed us.
We FADE TO BLACK and we HEAR,
FIRELL Dulann? DULANN?!
We FADE BACK TO,
INT. LIANDRA - MEDBAY
Dulann is laid out on the biobed. Firell is holding Dulann in her arms...
DULANN Firell?
Firell is startled when Dulann awakes and drops him back down to lay on the biobed.
FIRELL You are alive!
DULANN You sound suprised.
FIRELL (Sounding as if she's holding back a tear)
All your lifesigns... they disappeared. I thought...
DULANN Firell.
FIRELL Dulann?
DULANN What is the reason for such an emotional response from you?
FIRELL I...
DULANN It was a response of a loved one...
FIRELL Dulann. I know we -
DULANN (Interupting) - Don't Firell. Our history... we promised not to bring this up when we were posted together.
FIRELL I know we did but -
Dulann swings his legs around and steps up from the biobed and heads to the door without looking back or saying a word.
DULANN (Turning back)
Please Firell. We must keep our proffesionalism.
FIRELL I know Dulann. I know.
Dulann turns away again and heads out of the Medbay. After that we cut to,
INT. IPX DIG SITE 1 - TUNNEL A1
Martel, Malcolm and Na'Feel are making their way down the corridor brandishing their weapons. They pass the "Tunnel A1" sign hanging from the ceiling in silence. The CAMERA follows them, onlooking from the side. All is quiet apart from the crunching of the Ranger's boots. Suddenly there is a clang, metal banging against metal.
The three tense up suddenly. Na'Feel swings around to look down the path they had just walked down.
MARTEL And that was...?
NA'FEEL (Turns back around)
Came from that direction.
Na'Feel points down the way they had been walking.
MALCOLM Narns have better hearing than Humans?
NA'FEEL No. But as we just came from that way and we saw nothing logic dictates that whatever made that noise is in this direction.
MARTEL Fair enough. Come on let's move on.
INT. IPX DIG SITE 1 - TUNNEL A8
The tunnel is totally dark apart from a small flashlight that is being held by Sarah. Sarah and Clarkson are working their way down the corridor.
CLARKSON We any idea where we're going?
SARAH None I'm afraid. Knew we should've gone the other way.
CLARKSON Then why didn't -
SARAH (interupting) - Don't start Clarkson. Not the -
Suddenly there is a metal-on-metal clang. Sarah and Clarkson are immediately on edge.
SARAH What the hell was that.
Clarkson moves forward ahead of Sarah and stands directly in the light of her touch and tries to stare veinly into the dark.
CLARKSON Suppose we keep moving?
SARAH Correct.
INT. IPX DIG SITE 1 - TUNNEL A4
This tunnel is well lite. Na'Feel, Malcolm and Martel are running down the corridor.
MARTEL Sarah!
We FADE TO,
Sarah and Clarkson are running from the opposite direction.
SARAH David. We're over here!
INT. IPX DIG SITE 1 - TUNNEL A4
Martel, Malcolm and Na'Feel meet with Sarah and Clarkson at the bottom of a T-Junction. Sarah at the last moment stops running. Martel does likewise. The two just prevent themselves from flinging themselves into each other's arms.
MALCOLM Are you alright?
Martel looks away, feeling a little awkward. Sarah does the same, but pays attention to Malcolm.
SARAH We are. Thankfully...
NA'FEEL What happened. Those machines took you and...
SARAH I don't really recall. I remember being grabbed by the machines... and being flown high above the jungle. Then the next thing I remember is waking up here in these tunnels.
CLARKSON My memory is exactly the same.
MARTEL What I wanna know is -
SARAH - Where those machines have gone?
There is another metal clang. This one is the louder than the one before.
MARTEL You had to ask didn't you Sarah?
SARAH You were going to ask the same thing.
MARTEL (Turning down the tunnel off the T-Junction neither had arrived on and drawing his weapon)
And if I had you would have said the same thing to me.
SARAH (Mirroring David' movements)
Very true David.
The CAMERA switches to sit behind the Rangers and looks in the direction they are. The Tunnel leads to darkness... where the metal clanging came from. Another metal clang sounds again, then another and then another. Then they become constant.
Suddenly a robot comes flying out of the darkness. This is the first time we SEE a close-up of the robots. Think of a "Cylon" from the original Battlestar Galactica series. Make it a less shiny chrome, giving it a look that it has been down here in the dirt for quite some time and replace the hands on it's arms with weapons. Take away the legs and give it small anti-grav boosters attached to it's back and rear and a more convincing laser eye piece and you have one of these robots. This particular robot has a golden head, but generally the others do not.
The robot comes quickly forward, all of the Range raise their weapons but hold their fire. The robot comes to a halt a far distance away from the Rangers and remains motionless for a BEAT. After a few more BEATS it is joined by six more robots, three on each of it's sides.
SARAH Why are they just sitting there?
MARTEL I wouldn't exactly call it sitting, but why they're doing it is beyond me.
The golden robot suddenly begins edging slowly forward. It then blurts out something that resembles modem noise, only much faster and sounding more structured. It's volume is very loud and the Rangers clutch their eyes. After a few BEATS of the noise it ceases,
MARTEL Urgh... what the hell was that.. somekind of language?
MALCOLM I'm not sure. But it was too loud for me!
MARTEL Plus the translators can't decode it. It's probably to complex for it.
The robot then blurts out the exact same sound as before, obviously repeating what he'd just said. Again the Rangers cannot respond. The robot pulls back into formation and makes a different noise, this one quieter to the other robots.
Suddenly the formation of seven robots begin to move forward.
SARAH Err... can I suggest running?
MARTEL (Beginning to turn but without taking his eyes off the robots)
Good idea.
NA'FEEL Can anyone remember which way is the exit it?
MALCOLM Nope. But let's run anyway!
The Rangers take off down the corridor where Clarkson and Sarah had come from. As they begin to run the CAMERA cuts to infront of them and keeps PANNING backwards to keep up with their running. Behind them we can SEE the robots fly around the corner and set in pursuit.
Martel taps his comlink, whilst still running.
MARTEL Martel to Hadann.
Martel waits a moment for a response, not is received.
MARTEL (CONT'D)
Martel to Hadann. Hadann do you read me?
Again there is no response.
MARTEL (CONT'D)(Turning to Sarah)
Looks like we're too far underground to get a message out.
SARAH Guess we're gonna have to get ourselves out of this mess.
We cut to,
INT. IPX DIG SITE -TUNNEL A9
The CAMERA begins on the blank wall with the sign displayed. After a few BEATS the Rangers come running past, following shortly by the robots. When the robots go past the CAMERA PANS left to follow and then MOVES forward to sit directly behind the Rangers as they continue to run.
SARAH We've gone the wrong way.
MARTEL Yeah, I guessed.
NA'FEEL We should have reached the exit about ten minutes ago.
MALCOLM Well we can't exactly turn around with those things behind us.
CLARKSON Do we even know where this tunnel leads?
MARTEL If neither of you two do I certainly don't.
INT. IPX DIG SITE - MAIN CAVE
The main cave is a large cut out room. The ceiling is high... and instead of being rock is metal.
The CAMERA is facing the entrance to the main cave as the Rangers ente
PART UNFINISHED
FADE OUT:
END OF ACT FOUR
