Hello, I am Thomas Sharkey (pseudonym).

I am
an ex-British serviceman (RAF) and I live in
Germany with my German-born wife. We have
three grown-up kids and we are waiting for
the last one to leave home (again).

I have a new hobby, writing. I have finished

several manuscripts, crime, sci-fi, etc.
purely for the pleasure of writing.

I wrote the following screenplay four years

ago for my son to read, he read it and was
highly impressed.
Later I heard Ridley Scott saying on the
Alien 1 DVD, that he thought there would be a
sequel where the Alien mother planet is
discovered and destroyed.
Great minds think alike, or so I thought?
So I contacted Mark Meyerson at Fox and he
closed the door.
So if you are interested, get out your
“imagination” and use it as you read....

....page 1 of screenplay

Alien V, the final Solution

By

Thomas Sharkey

Adapted from the characters created by Dan

O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett and Joss Whedon.

EXT.THE UNIVERSE/A DISTANT GALAXY

The silhouette of a STARSHIP poises before a

MAELSTROM of STARS, with the light from a
BILLION SUNS reflecting on its highly
polished EBONY SURFACE. The ship closes in on
a SLOWLY SWIRLING GALAXY.

EXT. GALAXY FLIGHT

The ship moves SILENTLY through the Galaxy

surrounded by infinite CONSTELLATIONS. Slowly
at first seeking and on finding something of
interest it turns, its speed increasing to
multiple LIGHT VELOCITY.

INT.STAR SHIP SLEEPING QUARTERS

Ten sleepers, some alone in their beds, are

rudely awakened by the ships WHOOPING ALARM.

INT.CONTROL ROOM
MONITORS come to life. A GIANT VIEW SCREEN
flashes showing a picture of a distant WHITE
STAR SYSTEM. The picture grows and clears
showing numerous GLOBULAR SATELLITES
encircling the BRIGHT ONE.

INT.VIEW SCREEN

A planet similar to Earth in appearance grows

in size. A land mass surrounded by AZURE
OCEANS assumes details in its LANDSCAPE as it
is neared. As the planets surface is arrived
at an object can be seen on the ground half
covered with lush green grass. The object is
a SMALL BULLET-SHAPED SPACE VEHICLE covered
with STRANGE SYMBOLS, burn marks can be seen
along its fuselage.

EXT.PLANET SURFACE

A doorway on the side of the space craft is

open showing seating arrangements; the
insides are void of occupants and the cargo
hold is also empty. At the front of the ship
is a hatchway that opens slowly by hand to
reveal the huddled figure of a HUMANOID FORM
with a SMOOTH ELONGATED GREEN SKULL.
(2)
EXT.ALASKA-DAY

Nine sleepers lie undisturbed beneath a

blanket of snow. The larger mound stirs
disturbing the white crystals, the SOUND of
an opening zipper can be HEARD and a figure
swaddled in a PARKA sits up, the light
covering of snow falling from the sleeping
bag. As the parka hood comes off, dark brown
hair cascades down to be drawn back as the
figure a woman puts on her SNOW GOGGLES
placing them on her forehead. She rises,
pulling up the hood CALLING OUT to the dogs;
they wake as one shaking the snow off their
thick fur. The woman pulls on her boots kept
warm inside her sleeping bag and tightens the
hood of her parka, she shakes and rolls up
her sleeping bag and stows it away on the DOG
SLED. Removing a large sack from the sled she
feeds the WHINING Huskies, back at the sled
she takes a PAN, a GAS STOVE and an INSTASOUP
PACKET out of her backpack; she tears it open
and empties the contents into the pan
accompanied by handfuls of clean snow, she
sets the pan on the STOVE and lights up, the
resulting mixture soon BOILS. She empties the
contents into a cup and drinks thirstily.
Having finished her drink she cleans the
utensils in the snow and places them together
with the gas stove in her backpack.
She walks away from the camp to the forest
edge to relieve her bladder pulling her
goggles in place against the RISING wind and
she squats down next to a tree.
Having finished, she stands up slowly and
SNIFFS the air, the dogs start to BARK as a
pack of timber wolves appear at the edge of
the forest, the woman moves in between her
dog team and the wolves, she bares her teeth
and SNARLS, the wolves turn away YELPING and
disappear in a flurry of snow.

VOICE

Very impressive. Does that work every

time?

She turns to see a handsome young INUIT

standing before her in the GUSTING wind, he
is dressed in ANIMAL FURS.

WOMAN

Every time. Who are you?

The young man comes closer, he’s carrying a

CANVAS BACK PACK and SNOW SHOES on his
shoulder, he sets his load down.
(3)
INUIT

My name is CHICAGO JONES. You can

call me JONESY.

The woman busies herself tying the dogs’

harnesses to the sled. The man watches her
smiling all the while.

WOMAN

I had a cat once named Jonesy. Where

does the name Chicago come from?

The young man grins, his teeth flashing

whitely in contrast to his sun browned skin.

JONESY

One of my ancestors sold whiskey to

the white people in Chicago a long,
long time ago, it was his nickname
and it stuck, he was proud of his
name, now it runs in the family.

He comes nearer to stand in front of the

woman.

JONESY
 What are you doing traveling through
my land scaring the wolves?

The woman stares at him blankly.

WOMAN

I’m just ending my days in peace and

quiet away from what is jokingly
known as civilization.

The young man observes the woman as she

carries on with her work leading one dog
after another to the sleds traces securing
them there.

JONESY

I understand. I’m on my way to the

Canadian border, if you’re heading
that way I would like to join you,
that is if you don’t mind.

WOMAN

I don’t mind, stow your gear on the

sled, you’ll find a blanket or two
there to cover you.
(4)
Jonesy stows his gear on the sled and helps
to harness the team.

JONESY

What’s your name by the way?

The woman opens her parka hood, bares her

face for the first time pushing up her
goggles and turns around slowly.

WOMAN

HELEN, but you can call me RIPLEY.

EXT.SLED JOURNEY FOREST

With the dogs harnessed they set off through

the EVER THICKENING FOREST. Jonesy is sitting
on the sled with a blanket around his feet
while Ripley drives the dogs on.
As the journey continues it GROWS LIGHTER,
the forest THINNING OUT as the altitude
increases. As they arrive at a CLEARING they
can HEAR a SUBDUED DEEP THUNDERING sound.

EXT.CLEARING

As they enter the clearing on the hard packed

snow, they see to their left a GULLEY and in
front a SHORT SLOPE. They cross the clearing
and Jonesy jumps off the sled and helps push
it up the slope, Ripley halts the sled as
they reach the top and peers down. Through
the bushes a QUICKLY FLOWING STREAM can be
seen in the GULLEY below.

RIPLEY

What’s that noise? Sounds like a

waterfall. That’s a stream down
there. Where does it come from?

Jonesy looks around him, LISTENING intently.

JONESY

I’m not quite sure, there is a thaw

on, after the severe winter and the
late spring sometimes it’s warmer in
the mountains.

Ripley walks back down the slope followed by

Jonesy, at the bottom she stops and peers
through the bushes into the gulley, Jonesy
stops next to her. She tilts her head to one
side and then the other. Jones looks down
into the gulley. The ground VIBRATES.
(5)
RIPLEY

Can you feel that, the vibrations?

Jonesy turns and looks at Ripley, a look of

alarm invades his features.

JONESY

That sounds like…..

Jonesy grabs hold of Ripley’s Parka and drags

her towards the slope. The whole ground they
are standing on gives way, they fall FIFTY
metres into a ROARING icy torrent.

EXT.GULLEY TORRENT

They both surface fighting for breath in the

icy stream, the SWIFT CURRENT carries them
off along with WOODEN DEBRIS at a RACING PACE
down the long STEEP gully, Ripley CRIES OUT
as a LARGE LOG narrowly misses her. Jonesy
moves to avoid the log and collides with a
ROCK OUTCROP. He disappears underwater and
then reappears, Ripley sees his body slide
down a SLOPE before her, she follows him down
and the stream widens into a RIVER.

EXT.RIVER
The current SLOWS, Ripley looks around her,
Jonesy is nowhere to be seen. Ripley is
struggling through the debris in the icy
water as she searches the river bank with her
eyes; she is being slowly carried down river.

EXT.RIVER UNDER WATER

Ripley sinks below the surface searching in

the MURKY WATER, she surfaces for air and
submerges again, she searches under water and
turns to see Jonesy reaching out to her in
the silence.

EXT.RIVER SURFACE

She grabs hold of him and surfaces; she swims

to the bank pulling him through the shallows
onto a bed of dry leaves.

EXT.RIVER BANK

She searches for his pulse, unfastens his

clothing and pumps his chest fifteen times,
she takes his chin between thumb and
forefinger, she tilts his head back and
MORE:
(6)
holding his nose with the other hand takes a
deep breath and closing her mouth around his
BLOWS HARD filling his lungs twice, she
presses down on his chest again……..

RIPLEY
(Panting)

Come on Jonesy, I know you can hear

me, wake up. Wake up dammit.

She POUNDS angrily on his chest. Ripley

carries on with the breathing procedure and
Jonesy COUGHS, water pours from his mouth. He
COUGHS some more and Ripley helps him to sit
up, he looks around him dazed, his nose
starts to bleed lightly.

JONESY

What the hell was that? What happened?

Ripley looks at the wet Inuit and answers

dryly.

RIPLEY

Have you forgotten? We both decided

to go for a swim, you lost an
argument with a rock and decided to
 hide from me, I found you eventually
and here we are and if we don’t do
something soon we are going to freeze
to death.

Jonesy climbs to his feet looking around.

JONESY

We must dry our clothes. Look, the

sun is coming out.

Ripley watches in curiosity as Jonesy makes a

MOUND out of tinder dry leaves and from the
POUCH fastened to his belt he takes out a
MAGNIFYING GLASS. Ripley looks up at the sun
as he cleans the glass thoroughly.

RIPLEY

Wouldn’t it be easy to rub two sticks

together, the clouds are gathering?

Jonesy focuses the CONCENTRATED RAYS from the

sun onto the leaves. Ripley crouches
watching.
Jonesy’s patience is eventually rewarded by
MORE
(7)
a sliver of smoke rising from the mound
followed by a small flame that grows in size.

RIPLEY

Who’s a clever boy then? I’ll get

some wood.

Ripley leaves in a hurry as Jonesy piles

twigs on the fire, she comes back with an
armful of deadwood, she piles it on the now
BLAZING pile of twigs and small branches and
Jonesy comes along dragging one LARGE LOG
behind him while carrying a smaller one.

JONESY

Get more wood, more wood and keep

moving.

They soon have a huge log fire ROARING and a

large quantity of wood; they strip off their
clothes and hang them over the deadwood they
have collected. The two naked humans huddle
together soaking up the heat, piling wood on
the fire poking and raking it, their clothes
STEAMING in the cold air.

EXT.RIVER BANK-NIGHT
With their clothes now dry they make a bed of
leaves and fall asleep.

EXT.RIVER BANK-DAY

The two awake to see the snow FALLING HEAVILY

on the FASTLY FLOWING RIVER. Ripley is
sitting on a log sorting out her possessions;
she is cleaning a set of knives. Jonesy walks
over fastening his hood, he picks one of the
knives up and weighs it in his hand.

JONESY

I see you have a hunting knife, but

what are these used for?

Ripley takes the twin of the knife that

Jonesy is holding and holding it by the blade
she kneels and throws it, it turns two and a
half times and finishes embedded in the trunk
of a pine tree with a loud THUNK. This
startles Jonesy.
He raises his eyebrows as he answers.

JONESY

I see.
(8)
Jonesy hands the other knife to Ripley and
walks over to the one stuck in the tree. He
removes it with some difficulty.

EXT.FOREST

They head as one deep into the forest their

breath SMOKING the morning air. Struggling
through the DENSE forest they make their way
uphill. The going is tough.

RIPLEY

I wonder what has happened to the

dogs and the sled.

Ripley stops. Jonesy pauses and answers her.

JONESY

God in all his wisdom may know but I

do not. Keep moving please.

They move on, the ground rises and the forest

thins out a little. Soon they are stepping
through CALF DEEP SNOW; suddenly Jonesy keels
over.

RIPLEY
 Jonesy, this is no time for a nap.

Ripley bends over him and FEELS for his

pulse.

RIPLEY

Still alive!

Ripley takes the unconscious mans arm and

drapes him over her shoulder, she stands up
and continues through the falling snow……..
…..The ground levels off and the trees thin
out and eventually disappear, Ripley finds
herself in a large clearing KNEE DEEP in snow
in a TOTAL WHITE OUT……..

EXT.CLEARING DEEP SNOW

…..Ripley is struggling along dragging Jonesy

and a loud voice RINGS OUT.

VOICE

HELLO! HELLO!

Ripley calls out.

(9)
RIPLEY

OVER HERE, OVER HERE!

Three fur clad figures with RCMP badges on

their headwear approach them through the
snow; one of them SPEAKS into his phone. The
other two take hold of Jonesy.

1st MOUNTIE

Are you okay Ma’am? We are searching

for the owners of a dog sled found on
the side of the gorge.

Ripley loosens her neck and shoulder muscles

her spine CRACKS as she does so.

RIPLEY

Yes, that’s mine, are the dogs

alright? What happened back there?

2nd MOUNTIE

The dogs are okay Ma’am. You must

have been standing on the old wooden
bridge when it was hit by a flash
flood. The old bridge crashed into
the river, we found your sled after
 someone reported sighting it, some
guy on a snowmobile called it in.

A large FULL-TRACK vehicle appears GROWLING

through the curtain of falling snow. It stops
and Ripley is taken inside together with the
unconscious Jonesy.

INT.CAT VEHICLE

Both are lying on stretchers covered in thick

blankets. In the warmth of the vehicle Ripley
dozes off.

EXT.RCMP SNOW VEHICLE

The machine churns its way through the snow;

it approaches a large group of LOG CABINS,
Ripley’s dog sled is being attended to by an
Inuit woman.

INT.RCMP CASUALTY ROOM-DAY

Ripley sits up in bed wide awake; she turns

towards the SUNLIT window and sees Jonesy
lying still in his bed. He is dressed in a
similar gown to Ripley; she leaves her bed
MORE:
(10)
and walks over to his, as she approaches him
a NURSE, an Inuit, walks in carrying a tray.

NURSE

Miss Ripley, you shouldn’t be up,

please get back into bed, I’ve
brought you some nourishment.

Ripley complies wordlessly and lets her self

be served a hot broth in a HOSPITAL CUP. She
empties the pot quickly to the nurses alarm.

NURSE

Do be careful, that’s hot.

RIPLEY

I like it hot.

JONESY

What about me? I could eat a horse

plus its tail feathers.

Both the nurse and Ripley turn in surprise to

the SOUND of Jonesy’s voice.
Ripley pulls back the bed covers and walks
past the startled nurse; she looks down at
the smiling Inuit and shakes her head.

RIPLEY

Just when I thought I’d got rid of

you.

The nurse calls out in her and Jonesy’s

language.

NURSE

Lie still young man, you were in a

coma, you may have internal damage,
the doctor is on his way, he will be
here soon.

Ripley speaks also in Inuit.

RIPLEY

You had better do as she says Jonesy,

you could have some damage, after all
you literally bounced off a rock in
that torrent this morning.

The nurse continues in English, a little

concerned for her charges.
(11)
NURSE

This morning! You two have been here

for five days now. Mr Jones has been
in a deep coma, you Miss Ripley have
been asleep the whole time.

Ripley turns to the nurse.

RIPLEY

Yes and I’m starving, how about a

couple of roast chickens and a two
pound steak with potatoes and greens,
I’ll have a half dozen fried eggs
while I’m waiting. In the meantime I
have to use the bathroom and would
like to shower.

The nurse indicates another door.

NURSE

You will find everything in there;

I’ll go and see the cook about the
food.
Ripley takes Jonesy’s hand. He sits up in bed
as the nurse goes out of the room.

JONESY

Two weeks in the same bedroom as a

beautiful woman and no sex, wow!

Ripley releases his hand and walks off to the

bathroom she pauses at the open door.

RIPLEY

What are you going to do to remedy

that?

INT.SHOWER CUBICLE

Ripley is almost invisible in the STEAM

FILLED ROOM, the door opens and closes and a
FIGURE nears Ripley, she turns and takes
Jonesy in her arms and leans back against the
wall to assist him, they kiss as they make
love urgently under the hot shower.

INT.DINING ROOM

Ripley and Jonesy are wearing MOUNTIE

FATIGUES as they devour the mound of food
before them. The plates filled with fried
MORE:
(12)
eggs are soon emptied, the fried chicken goes
the same way to be followed by the thick beef
steak smothered in fried onions accompanied
by boiled potatoes and a salad side dish.
Ripley clears her plate ahead of a bloated
Jonesy and helps herself to his leftovers.
Ripley drains the milk jug. Jonesy reaches
out and touches her hand.

JONESY

The doc says I’m okay to travel. You

saved my life and I am indebted to
you. Where you go, I go. I must now
protect you or my ancestors will be
disgraced.

RIPLEY

That’s okay; I always wanted a toy

boy.

Ripley looks at Jonesy’s hurt expression. She

takes his hand in both of hers and smiles.

RIPLEY
 I am sorry, that was a bad Joke. I
will see that your ancestors are not
disgraced.
Tell me, how old are you?

Jonesy smiles.

JONESY

I’ll be thirty two next birthday.

Why do you ask?

RIPLEY

I will be one hundred and twenty five

on my next birthday.

Jonesy looks at her skeptically.

JONESY

You putting me on?

Ripley looks at him.

RIPLEY

No, I have a gene defect, I will

probably attend your funeral, I can’t
age; I can die just like anybody else
MORE:
(13)
though. I will probably live to be
five hundred or more barring
accidents, who knows, who cares?

VOICE

We do Lieutenant Ripley.

Ripley turns to the sound of the voice to see

a smartly dressed young Negro in a white suit
and black sweater.

RIPLEY
(Coldly)

I am not, never was and never will be

a Lieutenant. Lieutenant Ripley died
over three hundred years ago.

The young man walks forward his hand

outstretched.

MAN

Allow me to introduce myself. My name

is MICHAEL THANE, I represent
 INTERNATIONAL PLANET DISCOVERY and I
have an offer of a job for you, you
can start at the rank of commander on
full pay.

RIPLEY

Piss off!

THANE

They said that would be your

reaction. The rank of commander is
only for the mission if you agree to
take it on.

RIPLEY

Did they, whoever they are, tell you

what I would do if you persisted?

Thane is a little uncertain.

THANE

Er, no!

With a SCREAM Thane goes flying across the

room. He slowly stands up NURSING his
genitals. Ripley returns to her seat, Jonesy
sits there in shock. Ripley looks at him.
(14)
RIPLEY

I have never been to New-New York.

Fancy a trip? I mean by air not by
dog sled.

Jonesy relaxes and smiles.

JONESY

What do we do for money?

Ripley takes out her wallet, opens it and

withdraws a GOLD-PLATED CREDIT CARD. She
gives it to Jonesy.

RIPLEY

That pays all my bills. A present

from my last employer, it also pays
for my silence.

Ripley indicates behind her pocketing the

card.

RIPLEY
 Probably the same jerks who sent him.

Thane is standing behind them his face is

CREASED in PAIN. He SPEAKS with some effort.

THANE

On Darling 5, a space capsule was

found; inside it was seated an alien
being. This is an autopsy photo.

Thane places a photo in front of Ripley. She

stares at it in shock.

(Photo)

The photo shows the dark green skeleton-like

body of a creature with an elongated head,
its mouth is open exposing rows of
carnivorous teeth, projecting slightly
outwards is another smaller jaw.

Thane continues.

THANE

The corpse is over fifty years old,

not only that it was wearing what we
think was a military uniform which
disintegrated on removal.

(15)
Ripley crosses herself.

RIPLEY

Dear sweet Jesus.

Ripley takes a DEEP BREATH, she looks at

Jonesy and then at Thane who takes an
involuntary step backwards with his hands
covering his injured parts.

RIPLEY

A commander you say?

Thane sighs with painful relief.

THANE

Yes. For the designated period in a

starship of the INTERNATIONAL
EXPEDITIONARY LEAGUE.

RIPLEY

What is the mission?

 THANE

To investigate, summarize and debate.

RIPLEY

And then you will exterminate these

creatures?

Thane is shocked.

THANE

No, we wish to make peace.

Ripley is taken aback, shocked. She turns

back to the table glancing at Jonesy she
shakes her head slowly and she smiles wryly.

RIPLEY

That’ll be the day. They won’t make

peace, not if these creatures are
descendants of the late Lieutenant
Ripley’s monster.

Thane insists and speaks as if reciting a

well learned speech.
Jonesy and Ripley watch and listen, Jonesy
out of curiosity Ripley with disdain.
(16)
THANE

We are sure that evolution has gone

its normal course and these creatures
are now civilized just like the human
race. The opportunity to meet another
race sharing the same universe as us
cannot be thrown away due to past
fears and prejudices.

Ripleys features harden.

RIPLEY
(Brooding)

Fear and prejudice!

In what capacity will be employed?

THANE

You will be assisting the science

officer.

Ripley snorts.

RIPLEY
 I hope it’s a human one.

Thane is at first puzzled.

THANE

Ah yes, the Nostromo affair. No,

she’s quite human; robots haven’t
been used for over fifty years now.

RIPLEY

And you want to make peace now with

these abominations? Where is Darling
5 by the way?

Thane removes his hands from his genital

area, and straightens up.

THANE

Darling 5 is not the home planet.

Examination of the shuttles computer
revealed the whereabouts of the
native planet of the creature, that
will be your final destination, but
the expeditionary team will not leave
without you.

Ripley places a hand on Jonesy’s shoulder;

she turns back to Thane smiling icily.
(17)
RIPLEY

And I am not leaving without him.

Jonesy looks up at Thane grinning widely.

THANE

That’s okay, I was told to acquire

you at any price, if I valued my job
that is. Shall we go?

Ripley looks at Jonesy and clasps her hands

behind her head.

RIPLEY

It always comes down to me.

EXT.FOREST CANADA

A figure sits astride a SNARLING snow mobile

as it plows its way through the snow, it
winds its way through the forest until it
comes to a clearing.

EXT.FOREST CLEARING-EVENING
In the clearing a black 4X4 is waiting. There
are three occupants; the driver a female
wearing snow goggles climbs out muffled in
her parka. The snow mobile driver pulls up,
he loosens his parka, removes his face mask
and his goggles and stuffs them in his
pocket, it is Thane. His breath comes out in
small clouds as he speaks, the driver walks
over to Thane and pulls him off the snow
mobile laughing; hugging him.

FEMALE DRIVER

So you made it! How did it go, did

you reach the Mounties in time?

THANE

Hi CALL! Sure, it went as you said it

would, she’s going and she’s taking
the Indian with her. Was that
necessary, won’t he get in the way?

Shivering a little the woman releases her

hold on the man, they walk about to keep
warm. Thane pulls his hood up; he places his
arm around the womans shoulders, they shelter
from the wind behind the 4X4 standing close
to one another.

(18)
CALL

With so many options he has to go as

back-up. What do you think, will he
support her, has he fallen for her?

Thane grins and takes hold of the slender

figure by the waist and pulls her to him, she
wraps her arms around his neck and SIGHS.

THANE

She’s like the she-wolf with her cub

and he is so infatuated and bound by
tribal custom he is ready to follow
her through hell and high water.

He kisses Call long and hard on the mouth,

The horn in the 4X4 SOUNDS OFF, Call turns
and smiles nodding to the occupants.

THANE

Talking of water, it got a bit dicey

when that bridge gave way. That
wasn’t planned, they were gone in a
second and all I could do was follow
 them on the other bank, but they
survived the fall and they continued
on there way.

Call snuggles close to the young man.

CALL

A lot is depending on her, you’ve

done your part, let’s hope nothing
bad happens.

The two walk arm in arm back to the drivers

door, they stop and kiss once more.

CALL

Take that vehicle back to the hire

firm. See you in half an hour at the
motel, I’ll be waiting for you.

Thane goes back to his snow mobile, he takes

his mask and goggles out of his pocket puts
them on and starts the engine, with a wave he
drives off into the forest. Call climbs into
the 4X4 and drives off after Thane.

EXT.RCMP DOG COMPOUND

Ripley is fondling her dogs in the compound,

Jonesy approaches her.

JONESY

Don’t worry about them, they’ll be

taken care of while we are away,
they’ll be here when we return.

Ripley stands up shouldering her back pack.

RIPLEY

Not WHEN Jonesy, IF!

They turn to the WHINE of the HOVER-COPTER-

JETS’ TURBINES on the distant landing pad.
Jonesy walks off followed by Ripley.

EXT.RCMP COPTER LANDING PAD

The pair walks across the scorched landing

pad to the waiting machine and climb aboard.
The machines TWIN TURBO-JETS on their STUBBY
WINGS change from a horizontal to a vertical
position and with a DEAFENING ROAR the
machine BLASTS OFF.

INT.HOVER COPTER JET

Lying in their padded chairs they both look
down at the rapidly shrinking landscape as
the copter RISES FAST.

EXT. HOVER COPTER JET

The padded seats return to their normal

vertical position as the turbo jets turn back
to horizontal mode and fold slowly back on
their wings to form a dart-like object as the
craft surges forward reaching SUPERSONIC
SPEED. The GENTLE humming of the turbines
lulls the two occupants to sleep.

EXT.DREAM SEQUENCE

Ripley Jonesy and others are standing before

a crowd of cheering smiling aliens, Ripley
and the others join in smiling and waving,
then the crowd parts and the noise abates as
alien monsters at first hidden now rise and
pounce on the unsuspecting humans.

INT.HOVER COPTER JET

Ripley awakes with a start CALLING OUT, she

is perspiring. In the silence of the cabin
Jonesy turns to her; he gives her a towel
from the rack on the seat in front. Ripley
wipes her face slowly.

(20)
JONESY

Bad dreams again?

Ripley takes a deep breath staring ahead.

RIPLEY

More like a premonition. That Jonesy

is my inheritance.

EXT.SHELLY SPACE PORT-DAY

Ripley and Jonesy are dressed in the BLACK

UNIFORM of the IEL. They climb out of a black
ground car sporting the IEL INSIGNIA on its
side; they walk towards a distant building.

EXT.HANGAR

They stand before the HUGE slowly opening

doors of an aircraft hangar, as soon as it
has opened wide enough they walk inside, the
double doors moves slowly on.

INT.HANGAR
They approach and stop before a shiny black
PEAR-SHAPED OBJECT floating motionless in
thin air a half a metre off the ground. It is
over FIFTEEN metres in length and a little
over THREE metres in height. Ripley walks to
the front end and looks at the squat ominous
vessel. Jonesy strokes the surface.

RIPLEY

What the hell is that?

A voice CALLS OUT.

VOICE

That is a IEL FLYER, our transport to

the MOTHER SHIP.

Ripley and Jonesy turn around to see a WELL

BUILT DARK HAIRED man of forty dressed as
they are, his eyes are GREY and COLD.

ADENSKI

I am Captain J ADENSKI, Commander

Ripley. I will be the pilot for the
trip. If you will allow me I will
introduce you to the crew.

(21)
A small crowd has gathered behind Adenski,
all are dressed as he is in the black IEL
uniform, all are aged between forty and
fifty. He turns and introduces them one by
one; each one smiles and nods as he does so.

ADENSKI

Commander CELIA CAIRNE, my first

officer. Science officer Commander
FRANCIS BOLAN, Chief engineer ANDREW
LEVIN. Scientists MARION DAVIS, HEIKE
HAVERS and RITA KIERY. Astrogator
MICHAEL O’BRIEN, Doctor NATHANIEL
GAMBULI and not forgetting the cook
THOMAS SHARKEY.

He pauses, indicating Jonesy.

ADENSKI
(Condescending)

This gentleman with Commander Ripley

is her, shall we say, her bodyguard,
his name is Jonesy.
Adenski takes a REMOTE CONTROL out of his
breast pocket, points it at the flyer and
presses a button and the door in the vessel
HISSES open. Ripley and the others pile in.

INT.FLYER/HANGAR

Inside, on either side of the vessel is a

long bench with a back rest. Cairne, a broad
shouldered Asian woman climbs in last and
seats herself at the flyers controls on the
only other seating available a small padded
stool, the hull door HISSES and slowly
closes. Ripley looks around her.

RIPLEY
(Annoyed)

Is this some sort of wind up?

Sharkey, a short grey haired muscular

individual answers.

SHARKEY

The captain has told us all about you

Commander; you’ve been out of touch
for quite some time. This vessel is
inertialess in case you were looking
for a seat belt or something. Just
relax and enjoy the ride, we will be
there in a moment.
(22)
A LARGE VIEW SCREEN appears around the FRONT
and along the SIDES of the vessel. The craft
rises silently and leaves the hangar through
the open doors moving slowly at first.

INT.FLYER FLIGHT EARTH

Once outside, the flyer rises slowly turning

to the sky and the ground moves away, the
airport shrinks, the American landmass and
the Pacific Ocean can be seen and then-

INT.FLYER FLIGHT SPACE

-the planet Earth, which disappears as the

vessel heads off into deep space. Jonesy is
wide eyed as they sail on past the moon, the
starlight reflecting in his eyes.

INT.FLYER JOURNEY-OUTER SPACE

Jonesy sits openmouthed staring at the view

screen.

JONESY
 Wow! Where are we going?

Heike Havers turns to him brushing her blonde

hair from her eyes.

HAVERS
(Smiling)

Jupiter, we have a parking lot there.

Look, there it is.

Ripley and Jonesy stare in wonder as the

planet Jupiter approaches at an astonishing
speed. Cairne slows the craft and they head
for a shape SIMILAR to their own vessel.
Levin, a small balding man turns to Ripley.

LEVIN

It’s quite a change from the Nostromo

isn’t it?

Ripley regards the ginger haired man coldly.

RIPLEY

I was never on the Nostromo.

Adenski butts in holding a hand up to Levin

who stops open mouthed.

(23)
ADENSKI

But you do have memories of it don’t

you?

Ripley looks hard at Adenski.

RIPLEY

More like nightmares.

Adenski does nothing to hide his

exasperation.

ADENSKI
(Demanding)

But you still have the memories don’t

you, the Alien monster?

Ripley smiles sardonically.

RIPLEY

Is that what you brought me along

for, my memories?
A dark skinned female with bleached blonde
hair lays a hand lightly on Ripley’s
shoulder, Ripley turns to see her with her
head slightly bowed as she speaks quietly.

KIERY
(Respectful)

No, you are here because of your

experience, we value it very highly.

Ripley smiles quietly to herself, Jonesy

SHOUTS OUT LOUD startling the pair.

JONESY

Ripley, look at that will you.

A light appears in the side of the BLUNT

NOSED PEAR SHAPED STAR SHIP as a huge door
opens; it grows and grows until it is
apparent how big the mother ship is in
comparison to the smaller one. Ripley stares
in wonder at the shining monstrosity.

RIPLEY

Why, it must be over six hundred

metres in length. Does it have a
name?

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Levin speaks up in a reverent tone as if
quoting some LITANY, the other crew members
turn to hear his words.

LEVIN

Her name is DESTINY. She is the first

of her kind; mankind’s future depends
on her capabilities in carrying us on
our mission, spreading peace
throughout the universe. This is the
first of many journeys, this is the
first of many starships that will
roam the unending universe and bring
all gods creatures together to live
in peaceful harmony.

The crew smile appreciatively and turn to

watch the flyer as it approaches the mother
ship its image reflected before a sea of
stars; Levin sits as if in a trance. Ripley
COUGHS gently bringing Levin out of his
trance.

RIPLEY
 You were saying?

Levin, startled and embarrassed smiles and

continues.

LEVIN

Er, yes. It measures SEVEN HUNDRED

and FIFTY metres from front to rear
with a maximum radius of TWO HUNDRED.
Giga light speed, inertialess,
virtually indestructible due to a
surrounding force field with an
unlimited energy source developed
twelve months ago.

INT.DESTINY LOADING BAY

Jonesy looks on in awe as the flyer enters

the CURVED HALL of a giant GLOBAL loading
bay. Inside, attached to the loading bay
FLOOR and by its upper structure to the inner
hull of the ship by a NETWORK of GIRDERS is a
SPHERE with the top THREE QUARTERS fully
visible. A door in the sphere SLIDES open
allowing them access.

INT.DESTINY/SPHERE

The flyer moves through the opening to be

confronted by another SPHERE with a LANDING
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PLATFORM attached to it; a NETWORK of
GIRDERS fixes the Sphere to the inner hull of
the first sphere. They land on the platform
next to six more flyers, Sharkey hands a
number of packages to the crew, the smaller
crafts door opens and Ripley and Jonesy step
out with the others to gaze at their
surrounds.

INT.DESTINY SPHERE PLATFORM

Standing on the edge of the platform a half

dozen people look out through the doors and
watch the SURROUNDING CONSTELLATIONS
disappear as both the HUGE outer bay and the
sphere doors close. Adenski and Cairne walk
off together towards a distant HATCHWAY which
opens and closes behind them. Bolan, a small
stocky woman with short curly blonde hair
comes to Ripley and Jonesy who are still
looking at the closing door.

BOLAN
 Amazing isn’t it. Nine months ago we
would have been blown out into space
and frozen solid in milliseconds.

(She turns, continuing)

I will now give you a short guided

tour of the parts of the ship you
will be using. Just follow me.

Bolan walks off followed by Ripley, Jonesy

and the rest of the crew to the sphere
hatchway. Bolan operates the HATCHWAY
CONTROLS and the hatchway SPLITS and SLIDES
to the SIDES with a HISS and the party move
on through, Sharkey the last to go through
closes the hatchway behind them.

INT.SPHERE CORRIDOR

They walk along a GREY PAINTED CORRIDOR and

stop at a sign over a hatchway on their left
reading “OUTER CORRIDOR”, Bolan opens the
hatchway and they all go through.

INT.OUTER CORRIDOR STORAGE SECTION

They walk on PAST STORAGE CAGES filled with

equipment and take a sharp RIGHT followed by
a sharp LEFT and RIGHT again until they come
to the next hatchway.

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INT.CORRIDOR LABORATORY SECTION

With the three scientists leading they enter

into a PASTEL GREEN PAINTED AREA. The three
scientists enter one of three spacious WELL
LIT rooms through a CLEAR PLEXIGLAS doorway;
Kiery and Davis are holding hands. The three
disperse to various desks, each one
containing a COMPUTER MODULE. Ripley watches
them suspiciously. Bolan waves and calls to
the scientists who wave back in answer.

BOLAN

See you later guys.

They stop at the next hatchway, Levin

operates the controls and walks through with
Bolan and the others follow.

INT.ENGINEERING SECTION
The skinny engineer takes the lead pulling
Bolan behind him both of them laughing like
children as they proceed. Levin, a few
centimetres shorter than Bolan places his arm
around her waist, she turns to him gives him
a quick peck on the cheek, they join hands as
they walk on along a corridor full of thick
pipes that criss-cross the whole length of
the wide corridor. Levin stops at a doorway,
he and Bolan embrace and they kiss once more,
then Levin goes inside. Ripley looks at the
thick curved piping as they continue.

RIPLEY

It looks all too familiar somehow.

Gambuli the Indian doctor opens the next

hatchway and…..

INT.DESTINY MEDICAL SECTION

……..stalks off and stops at an OPAQUE

PLEXIGLAS area and enters wordlessly through
a door marked with a DAGGER and SNAKE SYMBOL.
The others walk on, Gambuli’s door opens
slightly as he peers out observing Ripley
venomously.

INT.DINING ROOM

Bolan opens the next hatch and they enter a

richly furnished area with PLUSH carpeting,
oil paintings hang from the walls, the room
is filled with chairs and tables. To the left
a SERVING BAR can be seen behind which is the
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door to the KITCHEN with its WHITE TILED
walls, another door is set by the next
hatchway. Sharkey turns to the three
indicating with his arm.

SHARKEY

This is my domain, the dining room

and the kitchen. Food and drink
served around the clock.

Sharkey heads towards the kitchen, Bolan

holds out her hand to Ripley.

BOLAN
(Smiling)

I’ll show you to your quarters.

Bolan takes Ripleys hand, they walk through

the next hatchway into a wide corridor…..

INT.LIVING QUARTERS
…..past NUMBERED DOORS well spaced out on
either side, Bolan slowly lets go of Ripleys
hand.

BOLAN

These are the private quarters. This

is also where we go when we want to
be alone or with company.

Bolan opens the doors to two of these rooms.

She turns to Ripley her face glowing.

BOLAN

These will be your individual rooms

for the journey, there are toilet and
bathing facilities, you will find all
necessary instructions in the room
computer.

Ripley raises an eyebrow at Jonesy who winks

at her and smiles quietly to himself.

BOLAN

This is the route you must keep in

mind. I will now lead you to the
control room, or the bridge as the
Captain likes to call it, for the
life of me I don’t know why.

They leave the carpeted areas through another

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hatchway into the grey walled corridor that
was the start of their guided tour.

INT.DESTINY OUTER CORRIDOR

Bolan moves off to the right to another

hatchway with the numbered inscription”INNER
CORRIDOR HATCHWAY 6a”. They follow her
through and find themselves at the junction
of the inner corridor that curves SHARPLY
AWAY in both directions.

INT.INNER CORRIDOR

Walking straight on across the short space

they come to a numbered hatchway (6), Bolan
opens it and they step into a low ceilinged
circular black walled circular room.

INT.CONTROL ROOM

There is an OVAL TABLE covered in electrical

equipment at one end of the room in which
FIVE more numbered hatchways are situated. A
TRANSPARENT HOLOGRAM of a sun is visible
ABOVE the CENTRE of the table, a planet not
unlike Earth takes its place. Adenski turns
in his seat and addresses Ripley.

ADENSKI

Commander Ripley. We have arrived at

Darling 5; I thought you would like
to take a look at it before we
continue. We are now on the edge of
the Gideon Galaxy, the next hop will
be approximately two light years, it
will take about point three
nanoseconds.

Ripley looks at Jonesy who is standing agog

whilst staring at the room’s décor; ancient
posters of movie films adorn most of the free
wall space, from sci-fi through to westerns.
Ripley follows his gaze surprised and amused.

RIPLEY

So much for progress.

Cairne operates her keyboard; a marked area

appears on the hologram planets surface.
Cairne zooms in on the area to stop above
green prairie. A herd of green and black
striped quadrupeds can be seen crossing a
river raising spray that seems to fall in
slow motion. Cairne zooms in on them; the
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computer print-out on the screen shows the
dimensions of the creatures, they are
prehistoric in appearance with thick limbs
the size of grain silos. Levin enters with
the rest of the crew

LEVIN

Look at the size of those beasts,

height one hundred meters, and the
assumed weight, two hundred tons,
wow!

Cairne is still busy at her keyboard as the

crew stare at the view screen, enthralled
at the sight of the planets mighty
herbivores, pointing and gesticulating.

CAIRNE

This planet is four times the size of

Earth, we had to land Destiny on the
surface and extend its force field
 otherwise we would not have survived
the atmospheric pressure for very
long; something which I assume
eventually killed the alien. We
inspected and collected the wreckage
which was in pretty good shape
considering. The shuttle was probably
caught in its gravitational pull.

RIPLEY

What about the surrounding area, were

there any other signs of life any
buildings or camp sites?

Davis answers, stroking her SHAVEN HEAD.

DAVIS

We did see a couple of giant hairy

Mastodon types while we were down
there, but nothing else. The sensors
picked out this craft as non-
indigenous and we investigated. There
are no buildings, no camping sights.

RIPLEY

In what sort of craft was the alien

flying.

Cairne operates her KEYBOARD. A hologram of a

five metre long bullet shaped craft with the
rear severely damaged by fire appears at the
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other end of the room. Ripley walks over to
it, she looks inside the opening and she
walks around to the front and stops by the
now empty cabin.

CAIRNE

It is a complete replica of the one

we found, you can inspect it if you
wish, it is quite solid.

Cairne rises from her chair at the huge

computer console and joins Ripley and Jonesy.
She walks forward and opens the shuttles
cabin door.

RIPLEY

Where was the Alien seated?

Cairne turns to Bolan who has seated herself

at the keyboard, Bolan operates the keyboard
and the solid hologram of an alien life form
no bigger than Ripley herself appears in the
front part of the craft, Ripley gasps and
steps back, she moves forward again
exclaiming.

RIPLEY

Look at it; it was flying the goddamm

thing.

Cairne GASPS out loud, the others stand

STARING OPEN MOUTHED on hearing Ripley’s’
expletive.

CAIRNE
(Sternly)

Commander Ripley, please refrain from

blaspheming, we of the science league
find it extremely offensive. You are
right though, he is the pilot and he
was wearing a uniform.

Ripley smiles weakly.

RIPLEY

I am so sorry. See here, those are

laser burns, he’s been shot down.

Ripley indicates the scorching on the crafts

side and rear, Cairne leans forward
inspecting the hologram. Adenski speaks out
his voice filled with resentment at Ripley’s
discoveries.

(31)
ADENSKI

Shot down over fifty years ago, they

are probably peaceful now.

Ripley replies scornfully looking around at

Cairne and the others.

RIPLEY

Yes sure, and pigs can fly. What was

that vessel made of?

Bolan speaks as the three turn and walk

towards the control table. Bolan gazes
hopefully into Ripley’s eyes. Ripley ignores
her slightly embarrassed.

BOLAN

It is plant tissue, water, fire and

acid resistant.
 RIPLEY

That figures.

Adenski CALLS OUT, his voice demanding

attention.

ADENSKI

The course has been plotted, we shall

observe.

The control room has now filled; everyone

except the cook is present. Adenski, Kiery
Cairne, Levin and Davis are seated at the
controls. The earlier hologram disappears. In
its place appears a sun with a number of
planets. The ships alarm WHOOP-WHOOPS and the
view screen LIGHTS UP. A long BULBOUS TUBE-
LIKE construction pointed at one end with a
CLUSTER of PROPULSION UNITS attached to its
rear end appears on the screen. Cairne looks
calmly at her monitor.

CAIRNE

It is an atomic powered craft; it is

made out of the same material as the
one we found.

No sooner does Cairne SPEAK than the ship

VEERS OFF. A spacecraft, its shape imitating
a WINGED PRAYING MANTICE with its ARMS FULLY
EXTENDED can be seen approaching them.
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A CHIRPING CHATTERING sound similar to
DOLPHINS comes over the LOUDSPEAKER. Marion
Davis seated at her monitor speaks out.

DAVIS

It looks like a welcome message.

Adenski looks at the view screen and the

globular alien craft.

ADENSKI

Why is there no picture?

DAVIS

They’re not sending.

Ripley turns to Cairne and Jonesy.

 RIPLEY
(Ominously)

Now doesn’t that sound promising?

Davis holds up her hand reading from the

flatscreen in front of her.

DAVIS

They wish us to follow them and to be

to be welcomed to their planet. That
is the exact translation.

RIPLEY

Come into my parlour said the spider

to the fly.

Adenski pretends not to hear Ripley’s acid

comments; he calls out to Havers who is busy
TAPPING away on her keyboard.

ADENSKI

Any luck with the universal

translator Commander Havers?

HAVERS
(Calmly)

I’m computing right now.

CAIRNE

She’s turning away she’s speeding off.

(33)
Levin is at the ships FLIGHT CONTROLS set out
on the table, they catch up with the alien
vessel and Levin matches the Aliens speed.

LEVIN

If we are moving to that bright star

ahead of us then we should be there
in a day or two at this rate.
Maybe we should put out a TRACTOR
BEAM and pull them along with us?

ADENSKI
(Resignedly)

No, they might take it as a form of

aggression, there is nothing we can
do about it, just stay on course.
What is she running on Commander
Cairne?
Cairne runs her fingers over her keyboard;
the screen shows the Aliens vessels
configurations. Cairne runs her fingers over
the keyboard once more before she answers.

CAIRNE

Old fashioned nuclear power, though a

lot cleaner than the last one, what
ever that was. It can be compared to
the 23rd century monsters used by the
Galactic Patrol back on Earth.

LEVIN
(Nonchalant)

It was probably their outpost.

RIPLEY
(Grimly)

More likely their gamekeeper.

Adenski glares in Ripley’s direction.

ADENSKI

Number one, you take the first watch

with the astrogator, Bolan and Levin
can take the next followed by Davis
and Kiery, Havers and I will be
retiring.

Davis leaves quickly hand in hand with the

dark skinned Kiery. Adenski puts his arm
around Havers; he turns to Ripley and Jonesy
looking down his aquiline nose.

ADENSKI

If you two have been blessed with

each other you may retire together,
we will call you if anything of
interest transpires.

Ripley turns to the slightly amused Jonesy.

They look at the first officer who is
conversing quietly with the Asian. Ripley
looks around to find the others gone.

RIPLEY

I bet the docs’ gone to visit Cookie.

Lets get out of here, I’m ready for a
shower.

JONESY

I’m ready for anything.

 RIPLEY

No you are not and neither are they.

These poor misguided fools are in for
a big surprise, I can feel it in my
tired old bones. Just you wait and
see.

JONESY

When did this alien shit start? How

come we never heard about them on
Earth?

RIPLEY

Let’s you and I have a shower first.

EXT.SPACE JOURNEY

The Destiny, with unseen constellations

reflecting on her shiny surface, follows the
alien vessel appearing akin to a lethargic
fat bird chasing a tiny elusive insect as
they both sail along in utter silence through
the silent void.

INT.RIPLEYS ROOM SHOWER

Two human figures writhe together in the

steamed filled atmosphere as they make love….

EXT.SPACE JOURNEY

…..and the distant star grows bigger as the

two silent companions draw nearer…..
(35)
…..48 hours later…..

INT. RIPLEYS BEDROOM-MORNING

…..Ripley is lying on her back under the

covers with her hands behind her head; Jonesy
is beside her leaning on one elbow.

JONESY

So you are a clone of the original

Ripley with the alien genes.

Ripley eyes him quizzically.

RIPLEY

Yes, and now you know who you have

before you. Am I a disappointment to
you?
Jonesy reaches for one of her hands, he takes
it and pulls it to him, he brushes the back
gently with his lips.

JONESY

You haven’t changed in my eyes; I

will go with you to the end of the
universe and back again.

Ripley looks at him intently for a while her

eyes searching his face, she smiles.

RIPLEY

Let’s go eat, afterwards.

Ripley sits up and throws back the duvet.

INT.DESTINY DINING ROOM

The room is empty except for Ripley and

Jonesy, the table is cluttered with plates
and glasses.

JONESY

So they have acid for blood and these

loonies want to make peace with them?

RIPLEY

Humans believe there is good in

everyone, they are hoping for a
peaceful solution with the first
alien civilization they have
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encountered. On the other hand I have
a vague suspicion that something else
is at hand, this is all too good to
be true.

Ripley empties her milk glass as Sharkey

arrives to collect the dishes.

SHARKEY

I was going to ask you if you enjoyed

the food but as you have already
eaten enough for ten I won’t bother.

Ripley and Jonesy look at each other and back

at the grinning cook in his Chefs hat.

RIPLEY

It tasted awful; I had to force

everything down.
 JONESY

My socks taste better.

Sharkey grins at the pair understanding

perfectly.

SHARKEY

I’ll take that as a compliment, thank

you.

Jonesy looks first at Ripley and then at the

cook.

JONESY

Are you on good terms with the

doctor, or do you sleep alone?

Sharkey is puzzled at first.

SHARKEY

Do I what? Oh I see. No, the Doc’ is

also a celibate priest. I have been
alone since my partner left me, she
wasn’t allowed to serve with us
anymore, she got pregnant.

Jonesy stares at the cook who bends forward

and whispers loudly.

SHARKEY

We sort of over indulged.

(37)
Commander O’Brien enters the room as Sharkey
retreats with the dishes and approaches their
table carrying a large mug. O’Brien moves
well for a man of his fifty eight years.

O’BRIEN

Do you mind if I join you?

RIPLEY

We don’t mind, you can tell us more

about the ship, for example why the
two spheres inside the ship and where
is the propulsion drive?

(37)
The wiry man drinks from his mug and licks
his lips; he places it on the table running
his hand through his graying short black hair
smiling benevolently.
 O’BRIEN

Sure. The drive is at the front, the

outer sphere is a shell with its own
force field to protect the inner
sphere.

RIPLEY

Why are there two corridors?

OBRIEN

The wall separating the corridors is

the inner spheres hull. The inner
sphere has its own drive situated
underneath the control room.

A GONG SOUND echoes throughout the ship.

O’BRIEN

That is the signal to report to the

control room.

Sharkey comes bustling over; the three rise

and join him as he leaves through the dining
room hatchway(No 1a). O’Brien bringing up the
rear is smiling no longer, he is glaring in
contempt at Ripleys back.

INT.CONTROL ROOM

Everybody is present; everybody is excited

except Ripley. Adenski addresses them.

(38)
ADENSKI

The planets name is MELAN; the

natives call themselves the MELAN.
Cairne, O’Brien and Sharkey are to
stay on board. Commander Davis, the
view screen please.

Davis seated at her console operates the main

view screen and a sphere appears on it.
Adenski indicates the screen. The planet
appears to be like one big ball of light
brown dust from pole to pole. In one corner
of the screen are a set of numbers.

ADENSKI

As you can all see, the planet has a

dense atmosphere, it is encased in a
permanent cloud of watery dust, the
 top layer being the thickest, so
thick our sensors can’t penetrate it.
We have been given these co-ordinates
and we will leave immediately so make
a note of them. O’Brien and Sharkey
are to stay on board. We will be
leaving in three flyers in case we
return with our hosts.

RIPLEY

As long as we don’t return as hosts

ourselves.

Everybody looks at Ripley, Adenski continues.

ADENSKI

The atmosphere is the same as Earth,

the humidity very high and the
gravity is 1.3, Commander Ripley and
Jonesy, there are survival backpacks
set aside for you both. Mr Sharkey!

Sharkey comes forward with TWO MEDIUM SIZED

BACK PACKS; he gives them to Ripley and
Jonesy. Adenski raises his arms as if in
supplication.

ADENSKI
(Reverently)

This is the moment we have all waited

for, Alien life form……..

Ripley interrupts looking about her.

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RIPLEY

……..at its very worst. Er, excuse me

Captain, what about side arms,
weaponry?

Adenski stands there silently FUMING…..

…..O’Brien, standing at their side speaks
quietly.

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O’BRIEN

There are no weapons on board; this

is a science vessel not a warship.

Kiery chips in.

KIERY
(Loud whisper)
 All we have are gas rifles with
sedation projectiles for collecting
specimens.

Ripley looks to the ceiling in despair, all

the crew have turned away from Adenski and
are listening to Ripley.

RIPLEY
(Alarmed)

You are going down to what could be

an hostile environment, unarmed?

Captain Adenski has regained his composure;

he glares at Ripley with barely concealed
scorn.

ADENSKI

Your negative attitude does not

compliment your reputation Commander
Ripley; we were informed you are a
fearless fighter an expert on these
so called vicious creatures, and now
you show fear when you above all
should be showing calm.

Everyone in the room laughs nervously.

RIPLEY
(Resignedly)

Fearless I am not and neither am I a

fool but I had better come along even
if it’s only to say “I told you so”.

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The crew members check their back packs and
help each to adjust them. Ripley turns to
Jonesy standing beside her.

RIPLEY

Are you still coming?

Jonesy looks at Ripley, lifting on his back

pack.

JONESY
(Smiling)

Where you go, I go.

Havers approaches and gives them both a

TRANSLATOR SET consisting of a BADGE and an
EARPLUG. She pins the badge to Jonesy uniform
collar smoothing her hands across his chest
leering at him openly, she lingers as she
hooks on the ear-piece stroking Jonesys’
neck. Ripley smiles to herself seeing
Jonesys’ discomfort. She turns to Ripley but
addresses them both pointing to her own
equipment.

HAVERS

It’s a two-way thing, a transmitter

here and a receiver there, so you can
converse with others in private
without being understood by the
aliens if you want to and still
understand them, it is my invention,
er, the red button is the on/off
switch, see?

Havers shows Jonesy as she places her

translator in position pushing her large left
breast against the Inuits’ arm adding to his
discomfort. Adenski approaches and Havers
turns and moves unsmiling away from the pair.
The group leaves through hatchway No.6.

INT.DESTINY LOADING BAY

Adenski and Havers enter the first flyer,

Davis, Kiery, Bolan and Levin the second,
Ripley and Jonesy climb in after the Doctor
who takes the controls. The bay door opens
and the flyers leave one by one.

EXT.DESTINY/MELAN ORBIT-DAY SIDE

The flyers SPIRAL down to the planets outer

atmosphere, they penetrate through to…..

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EXT.MELAN SURFACE

…..soar in a perfect line across the sand

coloured surface. As they speed across the
WATERLESS DESERT LANDSCAPE a LARGE CITY comes
into view.

INT.RIPLEY FLYER-DAY

Ripley watches as they approach a city

skyline that is not unlike Earth in
construction.

EXT.CITY FLIGHT

They soar along and across highways, as

miniature vehicles sporadically move along
below them.

INT.RIPLEY FLYER
They reach the city and follow the other
flyers down. Ant-like figures grow in size as
they drop down to land on the edge of the
SPRAWLING CITY in front of a HIGH building
FACETED with WINDOWS. Ripley looks at Jonesy.

RIPLEY

Are you ready for this?

Jonesy nods as the flyer door opens. The

silent doctor steps outside, followed by
Ripley and Jonesy.

EXT.MELAN CITY CENTRE

A crowd of GREEN SKINNED richly robed alien

creatures stands before them, Ripley shivers
involuntarily. They appear human in shape
except for their slightly elongated skulls
and the typical alien sinewy jaws. The air is
hot and the atmosphere is humid. One of the
aliens dressed in a long purple robe walks
towards them in bare sandaled feet, chirping
in its own language. Ripley’s translator
picks it up.

ALIEN

Welcome to Melan, we have so long

desired the company of peaceful
beings. We offer you comfort and
refreshment.

The alien holds out his long fingered hand

palm outwards in a gesture of peace, its
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BLACK nails are short like humans. Ripley
looks around her; there is no sign of
soldiers or weapons of any kind. The
clothing, LONG GOWNS of DIFFERENT HUES show
no uniformity, the Aliens are a little
SHORTER than the humans, Adenski steps nearer
to the alien and holds out his hand, the
alien does likewise, his hand tiny in
comparison with the captains who towers head
and shoulders above the alien. The alien
turns and an even smaller creature dressed in
a white robe comes forward meekly.

ALIEN

My name is KARNO, I am the leader of

my people and this is my spouse
MIKARNOS. How are you named?

ADENSKI
 My name is Adenski, these are my
people and I am their leader.

Ripley turns to Jonesy in time to see his

eyes ROLL UP as he falls forward, Ripley
catches him. The doctor comes forward and
runs his RECORDER over Jonesy’s form.

GAMBULI

He is overheating and he needs

oxygen. I’ll bring him back to the
mother ship.

Jonesy stirs, he can stand, he allows Ripley

and the doctor to lead him to the flyer, the
doctor takes him inside.

RIPLEY

See you later Jonesy.

Ripley watches as the flyer departs. She

turns to see Karno who has neared her, he is
sniffing the air, watching her with his beady
little eyes, he seems to be puzzled.

KARNO
(To Ripley)

Is that your spouse? You are female

are you not?

Ripley doesn’t answer. Karno turns to Adenski

and takes him by the arm.

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KARNO

Please follow me for refreshments.

Karno beckons to his mate and they walk on

majestically, the crowd parts and the
buildings high doors open slowly, Adenski and
the crew file into the building behind them.

INT.MELAN BUILDING

The walls of the building are decorated with

TAPESTRIES and MURALS showing PASTORAL
SCENES. They are led to a long table laden
with fruit and a sort of bread. As they are
all seated servants appear with jugs of ICE
COLD FRUIT JUICE and serve the guests first.
They taste the different fruits set out on
the table finding them to their taste. Karno
speaks from the head of the table.
 KARNO

We do not eat the flesh of creatures,

it is against our faith. We are
farmers and builders, we have had bad
times. We were once slaves to a
greater power, but as time went by
they became weak and decadent. With
great loss to my people we overthrew
the invaders and since then we have
known peace.

Ripley wipes her hands on a napkin and turns

to Karno.

RIPLEY

Karno! Is that your title? Do you

have a government, a ruling faction?

There is a pause as Karno drinks from a metal

goblet.

KARNO
(Humbly)

I am Karno, the leader of my people.

I am nothing more, there is only I.

Ripley forces a smile.

RIPLEY

Where do you get all this delicious

fruit, as we came down to land we saw
nothing but desert?

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KARNO

Our planet, due to the invaders

terrible bombardment has no more
vegetation; we have now hydroponic
plants where we grow our food.
We would be proud to show you of our
achievements and we will gladly share
any information with you on this
subject.

RIPLEY

Tell me Karno, how come there are no

children around here?

Karno looks to his mate sat beside him,

Ripley speaks on.

RIPLEY
 You say you are farmers, tell me, how
long have you had space travel?

Karno falters a little.

KARNO

Ever since we overthrew the invaders.

The alien stands up and raises his arms.

KARNO

I would deem it a great honour if you

would allow my people to show you our
farming achievements.

A group of Aliens dressed in red gowns come

forward beckoning. Adenski and his crew stand
up, Ripley and Jonesy join them as they leave
by a side door.

EXT.MELAN CITY

The group is lead to two large open air

combustion driven vehicles. They board the
two buses and the vehicles SPLUTTER and ROAR
as they set off at walking pace through the
crowded city.

EXT.CITY JOURNEY

Aliens line the streets waving to them,

Adenski and his crew wave back smiling,
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Ripley is seated next to the DRIVER; he is
constantly turning his head towards Ripley
sniffing LOUDLY. Ripley stares at him and the
next time he turns to her she snaps at him.

RIPLEY

Keep your eyes on the road, that’s

how accidents happen CHIRPY.

The alien complies. The vehicles arrive

eventually at a large building complex
composing of glass and concrete-type
buildings of different shapes and sizes. The
area is deserted, no aliens, no traffic.

EXT.MELAN BUILDING COMPLEX

The huge building complex spreads to the

horizon in both directions with the diffused
sun shining bleakly on their glass fronts.
They leave the transport and their guides
lead them to one of the high roofed
buildings.

INT.HYDROPONICS PLANT

Adenski and his people enter, Havers hangs

back and with Ripley beside her they hide
among the foliage, they switch their
translators off.

HAVERS

Have you noticed anything unusual

about this planet?

Havers moves unusually close to Ripley, their

bodies touch.

RIPLEY

It is quiet, too quiet for my liking,

like the quiet before….

HAVERS
(Sensually)

…..a storm. Something is not quite

right. I’m going to do some exploring
of my own.

RIPLEY

Something not being quite right is

an understatement. I can smell the
deceit and treachery already.

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Ripley frees herself from Havers nearness and
moves out of cover towards the exit, Havers
follows her smiling keeping pace with
Ripley’s strides.

EXT.MELAN BUILDING COMPLEX

The pair move along the side of the building

using the ALLEYWAYS set out between the
buildings. They come upon a row of factory
type constructions covered with PIPING. They
find an open door and enter.

INT.REACTOR BUILDING

Inside the building it is deathly quiet; in

the centre is a huge DOMED construction with
pipes leading off it. Ripley and Havers stand
dwarfed below it. They look around them
searching for something.
 RIPLEY

I think my cover has been blown.

Karno was trying to get a whiff of my
scent and the bus driver was also
suspicious.

Havers stops searching and faces Ripley.

HAVERS

Do you smell different to…..

Havers hesitates embarrassed.

RIPLEY

….. to humans? It’s okay, I am human

with part of the alien DNA, there’s
no need to be embarrassed and yes, I
do smell different, not that you
would notice though.

Havers looks up at the massive construction

inside the building, she examines the dials
with their strange markings, she SNAPS her
fingers.

HAVERS

I thought as much, this is an atomic

reactor and it’s been recently shut
down. Look at these dials and look at
this one here, the red markings are
the same as on that door at the
bottom of those stairs. Now what do
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these peace loving beings want with
atomic power, look how clean this
place is.

Havers turns around to see Ripley climbing a

long stairway that leads to the roof, she
runs over to the stairs…..

INT.STAIRWAY

…..and follows her up, they reach a high

platform and Ripley opens the door onto the
roof.

EXT.ROOF TOP

Ripley and Havers gaze around them. They can

see a countless buildings exactly like the
one they are standing on. Ripley walks over
to the roofs edge, behind the building is a
large clear area; she peers over the edge and
sees an object in the middle of the clearing.
Havers calls to her pointing around her.
Ripley walks over to her; Havers is shaking
her head in disbelief.

HAVERS

Look, more reactors, there must be

hundreds. Hey, we had better get
back.

EXT.MELAN BUILDING COMPLEX

Havers starts off back to the hydroponics

plant. Ripley calls out to her in aloud
whisper.

RIPLEY

Havers, I think I have spotted

something, cover for me will you,
I’ll be along later.

Havers waves in acknowledgement and

disappears around the corner. Ripley sprints
towards the clearing behind the reactor. She
arrives in the middle and sees a WHEEL with
the shaft embedded in stone. She grasps the
wheel and with great effort turns it, it
moves SQUEAKING and a TRAPDOOR appears with a
GRATING SOUND in front of Ripley opening,
slowly. She turns the wheel until the opening
is large enough to move inside. Ripley
removes her back pack and takes out a TORCH.
She steps down into the cavern and…..

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INT.CAVERN

…..finds herself on a steep flight of stairs

carved out of the planets stony surface, she
moves down cautiously, she can hear a noise,
it sounds like whispering, on reaching the
bottom of the stairs she moves on and reaches
a large recess sealed off with hard wooden
staves, she shines the light inside and sees
creatures different to the Melaner, they are
the same colour with round oriental facial
features with matching eyes and their teeth
are flat and even and their hair is dark
orange and their robes are grey.
Ripley shines the light upon herself, the
creatures, all six of them start talking in
HOARSE WHISPERS all at once. One of them
waves the others to silence and CHIRPS at
Ripley. The translator gives forth a
DISJOINTED voice.
 ALIEN

Are you not pris-oner? You are not

the Me-lan-er. Have you li-quid?

Ripley opens her pack and takes out her water

bottle. She takes out some BISCUITS and hands
everything through the bars. The aliens drink
greedily passing the bottle around. One of
the aliens takes a biscuit and bites on it,
it squeals in pain, spits out the biscuit
crumbs and grabs the water bottle but instead
of drinking it rinses its mouth out, SPITTING
repeatedly until the bottle is empty. Ripley
takes another bottle out. The alien falls to
the floor and remains there unmoving. The
others gather round their voices HIGH and
MELANCHOLY. The Melan speaking alien examines
the body.

ALIEN

She has passed on; a better thing

than that what awaits us.

Ripley looks at the biscuit packet and reads

off the ingredients, a tear rolls down her
cheek followed shortly by others.

RIPLEY

Salt, there’s a high quantity of salt

in them. Oh my God! Are you all
allergic to salt? I am sorry.

The alien raises a three fingered hand, its

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voice is calm. He walks over to the silently
weeping women, he gazes at her astonished.

ALIEN
(Softly)

You shed your life water for us!

It is not your fault, you were not to
know, our blood is like the Melans,
salt for us is deadly poison and you
cannot free us from our prison,
please leave us now to mourn in
peace.

The alien turns away to join the others,

Ripley dons her back pack and heads back to
the cavern exit wiping her face.

EXT.HYDROPONICS PLANT
Ripley arrives back at the hydroponics plant
and enters, she finds the party enjoying some
of the plants products, she looks around but
can’t see Havers. She quietly joins the group
and moves on with them. They come to the rear
door to find their transport waiting for
them.

EXT.RETURN JOURNEY

Ripley seats herself next to Adenski. The

dark haired man looks at her coldly. The
motors start up with a ROAR and the vehicles
move off. Ripley looks at the passengers.

RIPLEY

Where is Havers? Has she gone back

already?

Adenski frowns, he looks amongst the other

passengers; he stands up, turns and looks at
the following vehicle. He looks down at
Ripley.

ADENSKI
(Unconcerned)

She must still be there. Well she can

look after herself; she may have gone
on ahead though. I must say I can run
faster than these poison belching
machines.

Ripley shows unease; Adenski turns back to

his sightseeing.

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EXT.MELAN CITY

They arrive back to find Jonesy has returned

with Cairne and the Doc. Adenski and the
group enter the main building accompanied by
their guides. Ripley grabs hold of Jonesy and
climbs into one of the flyers.

INT.FLYER

Ripley looks over the controls presses a

button and the flyer door closes. She turns
to Jonesy and looks at him with concern.

RIPLEY

Well now, how is our patient feeling?

Does this happen often?
Ripley sees that Jonesys translator is
missing.

JONESY

I’m okay, it must be the hot weather

and the humidity, and I’m more at
home in the snow as you well know.
So, where are we going?

INT.FLYER FLIGHT

Ripley studies the control panel and turns a

dial, the view screen comes on, she pushes
the steering column forward, the city
disappears and a star studded blackness
surrounds them as Ripley pulls the column
back in surprise, Jonesy looks at Ripley’s
expression and laughs.

INT.FLYER SPACE

JONESY

Welcome to the future.

You can fly this thing can’t you?

Ripley looks at Jonesy and smiles icily; she

runs her fingers over the dashboard once more
takes hold of the controls once more and the
flyer stands on its nose at an angle. Ripley
pushes the column forward and the flyer
accelerates slowly towards the dense cloud
below. Jonesy is searching frantically for
something to hang on to as the clouds come
nearer and nearer and…..

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EXT.MELAN ATMOSPHERE

…..the flyer enters the murky atmosphere

pushing through the dense clouds, the
acceleration increases and they…..

EXT.MELAN PLANET SURFACE

…..exit the planets covering and rapidly

approach the planets surface.

INT.FLYER MELAN PLANET SURFACE

Jonesy is standing behind Ripley steadying

himself unnecessarily with his hands on her
shoulders.

JONESY
 Hey Ripley, cut that out, stop, we’re
going to crash.

Ripley is heading in a slow curve towards the

reactor building and she breaks to a stop,
landing in the clearing behind the reactor.
Jonesy falls over backwards anticipating a
collision with a building wall. Ripley moves
the machine into the shadows and opens the
flyers door.

EXT.MELAN BUILDING COMPLEX

They both climb out under the heat of the

midday sun midday sun, the humidity has
increased, Jonesy is breathing heavily he and
Ripley run over to the wheel and turn it
together.

JONESY
(Gasping)

What are we doing?

RIPLEY

Just watch. There, do you see the

door. Keep tuning….! Hey! Are you
alright? Hold on Jonesy.

Jonesy is perspiring profusely. Ripley stops

turning the wheel when the door has opened
enough and grabs hold of Jonesy. She drags
him towards the trapdoor and they both step
inside and descend into the cavern.

INT.CAVERN

Inside the cavern the air is cooler.

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RIPLEY
(Concerned)

Is that better? How do you feel?

They reach the bottom of the steps, Jonesy

leans against the stone wall.

JONESY

Much better thank the lord; I thought

I was going to die out there, what a
planet.

Ripley walks off torch in hand; Jonesy

follows her tottering a little.

RIPLEY
 Come on, there is something you must
see.

They arrive at the cage to find two of the

staves have been removed. The Aliens have all
gone except for the dead one. They enter the
cage; Jonesy nudges the corpse with his foot.

JONESY

What, or who was that.

Ripley looks around her, her eyes darting

this way and that.

RIPLEY

A prisoner of the Melan. Let’s get

out of here.

Jonesy leads the way; Ripley stops and sniffs

the cool air.

RIPLEY

Wait, I can smell something.

She walks over to a wooden door and pulls it

open she looks inside and turns away gasping
closing the door quickly. Jonesy comes over.

JONESY

What’s wrong, you look as if you’ve

seen a ghost.

RIPLEY

I have, thousands of them.

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She opens the door as Jonesy comes nearer, he
looks inside the vast room that seems to go
on forever and ever.

JONESY

My God, so, that’s what they look

like.

He moves to go inside, Ripley GRABS him by

the collar and Jonesy goes FLYING backwards
to land on his back sliding on the dusty
floor. Jonesy gets up dusting himself off and
shrugging his shoulders offers an excuse
smiling weakly at Ripley’s baleful
expression.
 JONESY

I just wanted to have closer look.

RIPLEY

It would have been your last one too.

What I wouldn’t give for a
flamethrower right now. We’ve seen
enough here, lets get back to the
others.

They leave the coolness of the cavern closing

the trapdoor.

EXT.BUILDING COMPLEX

Ripley looks around her. She sniffs the air.

RIPLEY

I can smell blood, human blood, it’s

fresh too and there are drops here.

Jonesy reaches down to the spots of blood; he

takes a smear smelling it. Ripley follows the
trail of blood; she turns and calls to Jonesy
while kneeling down.

RIPLEY

Something has happened to Havers.

Jonesy comes over slowly to the kneeling

woman and looks to where she is pointing, a
HAND-SIZED PATCH of BLOOD. A look of
realization shows in Jonesys’ eyes, in
Ripleys one of sorrow. They walk out of the
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area; Ripley is following a trail of BLOOD
DROPLETS through the gaps between the reactor
buildings, Jonesy follows keeping to the
shadows. After a dozen blocks they are
confronted by a different building, a HUGE
FLATTENED DOME. They see a door in the dome,
following the blood trail, they reach it to
find it isn’t locked and they go inside.

INT.DOME

Ripley sniffs the air and becomes alarmed as

they enter the POORLY LIT interior; Jonesy
walks on and stops in front of a CURTAINED
OFF AREA that goes from one wall to the
other. He looks to the ground and calls
Ripley.

JONESY
 Ripley, come and see this. Is this
what I think it is?

Ripley walks over to him sniffing the air

deeply. She stops next to Jonesy and looks to
where he is pointing. A pile of ripped grey
clothing lies before the curtains. Ripley
places a finger to her lips.

RIPLEY
(Whispering softly)

The prisoners clothing.

She pulls back the curtains slowly to reveal

a dozen harnesses hanging from a frame.
Jonesy steps in front of Ripley.

RIPLEY
(Indignant)

What are you doing?

JONESY
(Harshly)

Don’t go in.

Ripley pushes Jonesy roughly to one side; in

the corner is a pile of black cloth half
covering a human skull. All the flesh has
been removed; Havers BLOOD FLECKED blonde
hair can be seen under the clothing, the
floor is covered in blood. Ripley stares
horrified her breath comes in short heavy
gasps.

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RIPLEY
(Aghast)

That’s Havers uniform! What is this

damn place?

She rips an adjacent curtain aside gasps and

steps back in fear and horror almost knocking
Jonesy over. A dozen huge black aliens are
hanging from harnesses staring down at her,
they are still and silent. Ripley regains her
composure and pulls back the surrounding
curtains to reveal more suspended aliens. She
climbs up to the top of the FRAMEWORK and
balancing on the cross piece she looks out
across the dome, Jonesy climbs up and joins
her holding on to her as he gazes around the
entire building area.
 JONESY

Holy Mary…..! There must be thousands

of them.

RIPLEY
(Urgently)

Down, get down. Get out of here now.

Run, run for your life.

They both drop to the ground and run for the

door.

EXT.BUILDING COMPLEX

Ripley half carries the GASPING Jonesy to the

flyer, they both scramble inside.

INT.FLYER FLIGHT MELAN

Jonesy falls to the floor WHEEZING, Ripley

closes the door and INCREASES the OXYGEN
FLOW. The flyer soars up above the reactor
buildings, Ripley rotates the machine on its
axis and moves the flyer in the direction of
the low lying domes, as the flyer leaves the
reactor building complex she and Jonesy can
see on the view screen rows upon rows of
domes, as the flyer rises up, the domed
buildings stretch away to disappear over the
horizon.

EXT.BUILDING COMPLEX

A spindly green alien watches as the flyer

shrinks to a tiny dot. He takes out his
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communicator and speaks chirping and clicking
animatedly.

EXT.FLYER FLIGHT

The flyer comes to hover over the city; down

below a green alien looks up and sees the
flyer grow in size and to his horror…..

INT.FLYER

Ripley sets the flyer hurriedly down in front

of the Melan building. She steps out with
Jonesy, the other flyers are missing and the
city streets are deserted. They approach the
main building to find it locked. Silence
prevails as Ripley observes the surroundings;
she looks at Jonesy and pulling him backs up
to the flyer not noticing the alien hand
barely visible under the black vessel.

RIPLEY
(Urgently)

Get back on board; it’s time we left

this place.

Jonesy climbs in protesting.

JONESY

I don’t quite understand why the

others didn’t try to contact us, why
didn’t they wait for us?

RIPLEY

Maybe they had no choice.

INT.DESTINY DINING ROOM

O’Brien is sitting at a table; he takes a sip

of coffee and looks up as someone approaches
him.

O’BRIEN

Well this is a surprise. We didn’t

expect you so soon, is that one of
them?

INT.FLYER SPACE

Ripley guides the flyer to the mother ship,

the bay door is open and the two missing
flyers can be seen next to the others as they
coast in.

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INT.FLYER/SPHERE LANDING PLATFORM

Still in the flyer, Ripley removes her

backpack and takes out her knives in their
scabbards; she gives the HUGE HUNTING KNIFE
to Jonesy and belts the others around her
waist taking one of them out. He looks at the
knife with apprehension.

JONESY

What is this for?

RIPLEY

Unless I’m wrong, you’ll soon find

out. Stay close and keep your eyes
peeled.
Ripley HITS the button and the flyer door
opens.

INT.SPHERE LANDING PLATFORM

They step outside and walk hurriedly to the

outer hatch, Jonesy presses the switch and
the door opens.

INT.DESTINY SPHERE

They move through the hatchway, Jonesy steps

onto something SLIPPY, he looks down to see
clear TRANSPARENT GLUE-LIKE SLIME adhered to
the sole of his boot. Ripley stares grimly at
Jonesy’s boot, she whispers hoarsely.

RIPLEY

This is our unlucky day.

Ripley sniffs the air.

JONESY
(Apprehensively)

Can you smell them?

RIPLEY

Somebody’s frying bacon.

Jonesy SIGHS with relief. Ripley smiles and

rushes across the outer corridor junction and
opens the inner corridor hatchway (No6)
glancing first inside before she goes through
followed Jonesy.

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INT.SPHERE INNER CORRIDOR

Turning right they race along to the

kitchen/dining room hatch (1a) after opening
it, they enter the silent room.

INT.SPHERE DINING ROOM

They see O’Brien sitting at a table, Ripley

calls out to him quietly.

RIPLEY

O’Brien, where are the others?

O’Brien doesn’t answer, Ripley walks towards

him, she reaches him and places a hand on his
shoulder, O’Brien falls back, his face is a
mass of bone, blood and tissue. Jonesy makes
a gagging sound; Ripley looks at him and
raises her fingers to her lips.

INT.SPHERE KITCHEN

Sharkey is busy turning EGGS on the FRYER; He

scoops them up and places them on a plate
next to rashers of CRISPY BACON. He picks up
the plate CALLING OUT.

SHARKEY

Grubs up Chief, come and get it.

Sharkey stops to look at the clock, he turns

around stepping forward to see a black shape
standing two metres in front of him, he looks
up to see a slavering jaw open to reveal rows
of metal-like carnivorous fangs.

SHARKEY

Shit! Look who has come to dinner.

Sharkey takes a small step backwards.

The creature reaches out with its arms
snarling. Sharkey swallows. He offers the
plate to the approaching monster.

SHARKEY

Are you hungry?

The creature ceases snarling abruptly as its

head JERKS BACK and it falls slowly forward.
Sharkey BACKPEDALS steadying the plate as he
goes, the creature CRASHES to the floor with
the HANDLE of a THROWING KNIFE protruding
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from the base of its skull; Jonesy steps
forward and extracts the QUICKLY CORRODING
knife. He looks at the blade and then at the
creature, his features harden.

JONESY

Now I understand what you and the

lieutenant went through. A waste of a
good knife though.

RIPLEY

Don’t you believe it, it was worth

every cent.
Ripley approaches the frozen Sharkey and
picks a sliver of bacon from the SHAKING
plate; she chews on it looking at the cook.
She spits out the half chewed morsel into the
sink and replaces the bacon on the plate.

RIPLEY

Are you okay!

Sharkey stands there with raised eyebrows

nodding slowly.

SHARKEY

Apart from a leaking bladder I’m fine

thank you very, very much. Where’s
O’Brien?

Jonesy walks past them to a knife rack.

JONESY

He didn’t make it. We need more

weapons Mr Sharkey. What have you
got, personally?

Sharkey places the dish next to the frying

plate he watches Jonesy devour the food
whilst sorting through the kitchen knives
still feeling a little traumatized.

SHARKEY

Nothing, only what you see here.

The kitchen side door opens and a GREEN ALIEN

dressed in grey overalls steps inside the
kitchen. Jonesy throws a large kitchen knife
by the handle; it finishes up buried in the
aliens chest, the creature falls to the
ground its body jerking.
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SHARKEY
(Alarmed)

What the hell was that?

Ripley points to the large black Alien.

RIPLEY

His master.

Sharkey swallows hard and heaves a sigh,

Jonesy pulls out the kitchen knife savagely
and examines the blade. Sharkey looks at him
admiringly nodding his head.
 SHARKEY

Well you certainly put salt on his

tail Jonesy.

Ripley frowns and a sudden look of

realization appears upon her face. She looks
at the dead alien. She sees a PACKET of SALT
on the work surface next to the sink, she
looks around and picks up a large PLASTIC
water bottle, she empties the SALT into the
bottle and turns on the HOT WATER tap, she
fills the bottle three quarters full replaces
the top and shakes it vigorously. Jonesy and
Sharkey look at her in amazement

RIPLEY

Remember the prison cage Jonesy, the

dead alien? Well it died of salt
poisoning and they have a similar
metabolism to these bastards, acid
blood. Mr Sharkey, where are the gas
rifles used to capture specimens?

Sharkey springs to life, no more the

frightened cook.

SHARKEY

They will be in the storeroom

Commander, I stored them there
myself.

RIPLEY

Lead on Mr Sharkey.

Sharkey picks up a HUGE MEAT CLEAVER with a

long handle and they leave the kitchen
through the INNER CORRIDOR HATCHWAY.

(61)
INT.SPHERE STORAGE SECTION

Sharkey leads them to the CENTRE CAGE and

picks out THREE RIFLES and a case MINI GAS
capsules, Ripley and Jonesy watch as he fills
the LARGEST of the FEATHERED DARTS by
unscrewing the double syringed head and
pouring the salt water inside, he unscrews
the feathered end and inserts a tiny gas
capsule, Ripley and Jonesy follow suit.
With a double handful of darts each in their
uniform BREAST POCKETS they leave the storage
cage.

INT.INNER CORRIDOR
Sharkey is already standing at the corridor
junction waiting for them.

JONESY

Where do we aim for?

RIPLEY

The neck is most vulnerable unless

its mouth is open then you…..

Sharkey raises his rifle and fires DOWN THE

CORRIDOR; with a SHARP HISS the projectile
leaves the weapon.Sharkey is rewarded with a
loud ANIMAL SCREAMING and as Ripley and
Jonesy join him they see a writhing monster
alien not far from the main junction clawing
at the back of its LEFT SHOULDER. Ripley nods
smiling wryly in satisfaction as the
creatures’ body SHUDDERS and lies still.

RIPLEY
(Smiling grimly)

It works! Now I know why I don’t like

salty food. It doesn’t matter where
we hit them and those Hypos’
penetrate well. Nice work Mr Sharkey
but don’t get overconfident, these
beasts just love surprising their
victims. Where did he come from?

Sharkey points down the corridor to an

opening in the ceiling.

SHARKEY

From the ventilation shaft through

that grill there, there are quite a
few scattered around the sphere
except for the inner corridor.
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Ripley looks up grimly at the airways and the
large ventilation grills.

RIPLEY

And don’t they just love dark places.

Let’s head for the control room.

They enter the inner corridor and stand

facing hatchway number one.

INT.SPHERE CONTROL ROOM

Karno is stood close up to a SOLID LIFE SIZE

HUMAN HOLOGRAM, he GASPS and SQUEALS as a
heavy projectile pins him through the
shoulder to the holograms CHEST. Two black
aliens in the centre of turn to see what
discomforts their master. Two HISSING SOUNDS
are followed by the IMPACT of STEEL
PENETRATING SCALEY TISSUE, the aliens clutch
at their throats SCREAMING and GURGLING,
VOMITING yellow acid onto the deck as they
fall. Sharkey reloads his weapon as he nears
the carcasses. Ripley stares at the ships
flooring unmarked by the acid.

RIPLEY

Tell me Mr Sharkey, what is this

vessel made of?

SHARKEY

Ceramic Commander, the same stuff as

my knives, acid resistant.

Jonesy brings Ripley her throwing knife and

the SQUEALING Karno, he produces a PISTOL.

JONESY

Look what I found and no acid blood.

Come on Mr Sharkey lets go dump the
trash out into space.

Jones drops Karno onto the floor, he and

Sharkey leave dragging the dead aliens.

INT.DINING ROOM

Ripley, Sharkey and Karno are seated round a

table. Jonesy is standing behind Karno; he
has been bandaged using his overall sleeve.
Sharkey and Jonesy are wearing translator
receivers plugged in their ears.

(63)
RIPLEY

The crew never returned, the aliens

killed Havers and devoured her.

A silent tear rolls down Sharkeys’ cheek, his

voice is hoarse.

SHARKEY

The others are still down there

Commander, we must rescue them.

Ripley looks at Jonesy shaking her head.

RIPLEY
 I did warn them but they didn’t
listen did they? Why should we rescue
them? Do you know Jonesy and I found
a building holding over a thousand of
these creatures, just waiting to be
set free and the landscape is dotted
with thousands of those buildings?

Sharkey takes Ripley roughly by the arm and

looks into her eyes; he speaks slowly and
with foreboding.

SHARKEY

It seems to me they are preparing for

an invasion on their part. I wonder
what their prime target will be.

Sharkey releases his hold staring with

contempt at the alien. Ripley is the only one
wearing a translator, she turns it on and she
removes the bonding tape from Karno’s mouth.
She takes one of the darts from her breast
pocket and removes the safety sheath from the
syringe placing it on the table and points
the syringe at Karno, she grabs him by his
overall.

RIPLEY

Where are the rest of my crew? Do

you know what this is? Where are
your pets now? We know how to kill
them. This dart is filled with a
saline solution, are you allergic
to salt too? Let’s find out.

Karno struggles and squeals and as Ripley

sets the needle point to his scrawny throat
he speaks staring down at Ripleys hand.

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KARNO
(Frantic)

Your friends are safe and well, we mean

them no harm.

Ripley takes the hypo’ away from Karnos’ neck

and points it at his eye.

RIPLEY
(Feigning surprise)

Really? Are you willing to stake your

life on it? Your friends have already
killed two of our people.
Karno cringes.

KARNO

They were unfortunate accidents,

these beasts are uncontrollable.

Jonesy opens his mouth; Ripley releases her

hold on Karno and raises her hand and looks
intently at Karno.

RIPLEY
(Sympathetically)

I believe you are telling the truth.

I am sorry about the knife, that
hologram was so lifelike, that was
also an accident. Can you forgive me?

Karno nods, Jonesy smiles standing behind

the alien. Starkey is stone faced.

RIPLEY
(Smiling)

So where are my crew?

KARNO
(Somewhat relieved)

They are at the science laboratories

exchanging views and theories on
evolution. We can leave right now and
visit them.

Ripley picks up the syringe sheath off the

table and replaces it, she shoves it back in
her breast pocket with the others and she
turns to the other two smiling. Sharkey plays
along and smiles warmly at the cringing
alien.
(65)
RIPLEY
(Joyfully)

A good idea. Oh! How many more of

those naughty beasts are there?

Karno smiles ingratiatingly.

KARNO

Just the two, I was thinking of

giving them to you as a present when
they broke loose.
Can I take you to your friends now?
Jonesy looks at Sharkey and Ripley and mouths
“TWO”? Ripley looks endearingly at Karno.

RIPLEY

How kind and thoughtful of you. Yes

you can. Shall we go?

INT.FLYER MELAN/CITY

The four are seated in the flyer hovering

above the city. Ripley is sitting at the
controls, she turns her translator
transmitter off.

RIPLEY

He can’t understand us for the time

being. Now, we don’t know the
situation and as you heard this
bastard lies as soon as he opens his
mouth.

Jonesy smiles at Karno sitting opposite him

next to Sharkey, he turns to Ripley.

JONESY

Why didn’t you kill him and why have

we left the rifles behind?

RIPLEY

To put him at ease, we need him to

lead us to the others, now keep the
laser pistol hidden; he seems to have
forgotten it. If you have to, use
your knives and whatever else you
have with you. Jonesy, you use the
pistol only if we meet any of the big
ones and watch the acid spray.

(66)
Ripley turns to Karno secretly turning her
transmitter back on whilst tapping it.

RIPLEY

Okay Karno, where to now?

Karno points straight ahead.

KARNO

Just land in front of that big white

building and leave the rest to me.
Ripley complies and lands the flyer; she
secretly turns her transmitter off again and
turns to Karno smiling.

RIPLEY

Karno, you lying piece of shit, we

are going to destroy this planet.

Karno stares at her blankly. Ripley points to

her transmitter and shrugs apologetically.

KARNO

You death will be long and painful.

Ripley looks at Jonesy whilst shrugging her

shoulders theatrically.

RIPLEY

Okay, he thinks my translator is off

line, so you two just watch me
closely me when we are down there.

Sharkey is wearing a Chefs WHITE CEREMONIAL

COAT over the black IEL uniform, concealed in
an inside pocket is the two handed meat
cleaver, Ripley guides the flyer to the white
building and lands in front of it, they all
climb out walking behind Karno.

EXT.SCIENCE BUILDING

The Plexiglas doors of the building silently

open and two white clad figures appear
showing signs apprehension. Ripley listens on
her translator receiver.

KARNOS

These scum cannot understand us,

their translator is not working, call
security and have them taken to the
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interrogation wing where the others
are kept.

Ripley speaks casually turning and smiling.

RIPLEY

My trick worked, they think we don’t

understand and they are going to take
us to the others.

The two Melans in white gesticulate to the

entrance; one of them enters and runs off.
Ripley smiles and enters with Karno. Jonesy
and Sharkey follow them.
From a third floor window Adenski looks down
frowning at them as they enter the building.

INT.SCIENCE BUILDING CORRIDOR

The second Melan stays at the door watching

the group as they turn a corner in the
reception hallway. FOLLOWING KARNO they turn
another corner, at the START of a LONG
CORRIDOR two ARMED Melans dressed in GREY
block their way, they are holding their
rifles at the ready. Karno increases his
pace; the others keep up with him. He calls
out to the guards. Sharkey slips his hand
inside his jacket and Ripley slides her knife
out of her sleeve.

KARNO

Take these filthy animals to join the

oth…..!

Jonesy grabs Karno by the back of his robe

and pulls him back. Sharkey rushes one of the
guards and drops him with his meat cleaver,
Ripley hits the other squarely in the throat
with her throwing knife. They take the dead
guards weapons, Jonesy brings the struggling
Karno and gives him to Ripley, she seizes him
one-handed by the throat lifting him easily
off the floor. Jonesy and Sharkey deposit the
bodies unceremoniously in a nearby locker.
Ripley switches on her translator
transmitter.

RIPLEY
(Snarling)

What do you take us for Karno? Where

are the others?

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She takes a DART out of her pocket, BITES OFF
and SPITS the sheath covering away; she turns
the dart in her fingers ready to stab the
choking alien.

KARNO
(Flinching)

I will bring you to them, not that it

will help you in any way.
Ripley drops Karno and he hits the floor with
a THUMP, Jonesy brings Ripley her knife.
Karno stands up.

KARNO

Why don’t you humans realize your

time is…..!

Jonesy smacks him open handed heavily across

the face twice. Karno is numb with shock.

JONESY
(Snarling)

That’s for O’Brien; shut your mouth.

Sharkey walks over and punches the dazed

alien hard on his wounded shoulder, the Melan
gasps in pain and collapses to the floor.

SHARKEY
(Ice cold)

I was hoping to cause you pain.

That’s payback for Commander Havers
you asshole.

Ripley looks at Sharkey and places her hand

on his shoulder.

RIPLEY

You learn fast Mr Sharkey.

Sharkey hauls Karno to his feet turns him

around and with a well placed kick sends him
sprawling along the corridor.

SHARKEY
(Smiling coldly)

Lead on McDuff.

Jonesy picks Karno up by his collar. The

alien is moaning with pain whilst holding his
shoulder.
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JONESY

Move it shit head or Mr Sharkey will

kick you along.

(He turns to Ripley)

I learn pretty fast too.

Karno walks on unsteadily and leads them to

the end of the corridor and stops at a door.
 KARNO
(Pointing)

In there.

Leaving Jonesy with the rifles and the

WHIMPERING Karno, she and Sharkey approach
the room.

INT.INTERROGATION ROOM

Ripley opens the door and steps inside.

Seated around a table looking tired and
dejected are the rest of the crew. On either
side of Ripley and Sharkey are two guards.
They turn surprised, brandishing their
weapons.

RIPLEY
(Smiling)

Hello; we have been sent to join you.

At this the two guards relax a little. Ripley

turns off her transmitter.

RIPLEY

We have discovered much in our short

stay, for example: Melans have an
aversion to a saline solution.

Sharkey DECAPITATES the guard on his left

with his cleaver which finishes embedded in
the door frame. Ripley stabs the guard on her
left in the chest with the dart. The guard
SHUDDERS and GURGLING dies falling in a
TWITCHING heap.

SHARKEY

They also have an aversion to meat

cleavers. Ladies and gentlemen it is
departure time, let’s go.

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The remaining six crew members rise as one
and follow Ripley out the door, Kiery and
Davis pick up the dead guards weapons.

INT.BUILDING CORRIDOR

With Ripley and Jonesy leading and dragging

the protesting alien they charge along the
corridor. Davis, Kiery and Sharkey form a
rear guard with the captured weapons, a
cluster of armed guards appear out of a room
behind them. Sharkey screams out as they
charge.

SHARKEY

Hit the deck, kneel and fire.

Davis and Kiery drop down and eliminate four

of the guards, their rifles CRACKING before
Sharkey can take aim, he downs the fifth and
Kiery the sixth. The crouching fugitives wait
and then rise and run on to the exit.

EXT.SCIENCE BUILDING

Jonesy exits the building dragging Karno with

his pistol CRACKING; CRACK, CRACK, CRACK, the
three guards that are standing around the
flyer fall simultaneously to the ground.

INT.SCIENCE BUILDING

Ripley stands at the door urging the others

on. Sharkey, the last to leave waits outside
as Ripley turns to see Adenski striding
towards her shouting.

ADENSKI

Ripley you damn fool, you are going

to spoil everything. Put that weapon
down.

He walks past Ripley to the door; Ripley

grabs him and turns him around.

RIPLEY

Spoil what? What have you been up to?

Do you know they killed and ate
Havers?

Adenski rolls his eyes and shakes his head

and answers vehemently.

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ADENSKI

If only you knew. Don’t you see, they

need us, they need our knowledge?
They need us to spread…..!

Adenski reels back and falls against the door

with a hole in his forehead; the contents of
his skull are sliding down the Plexiglas
door. Sharkey’s rifle pokes through the door
and cracks several times, Ripley turns and
sees a score of armed guards running towards
them, she turns and fires, dropping one guard
after another, her face a fiendish mask of
hatred, with Sharkey by her side the corridor
is soon full with dead aliens. Ripley keeps
on firing burst after burst into the heap;
Sharkey gently pulls her rifle down.

SHARKEY
(Softly)

They are all dead Commander, we must

leave now. The captain has already
decided which side he is on.

Ripley and the cook pick up an armful of

fallen weapons; she follows Sharkey numbly to
the Flyer and climbs in.

INT.FLYER FLIGHT

The door hisses shut behind them and Cairne

takes the flyer up into the sky and straight
to the mother ship.

INT.FLYER SPACE

The loading bay door is already open, Cairne

guides the flyer through.

INT.DESTINY

The second door is also open.

INT.SPHERE LANDING PLATFORM

As they enter through to the sphere they see

four tall humanoids waiting for them on the
platform, one of them is waving to them and
they are all armed. Cairne lands the flyer
away from them. Sharkey, Ripley, Davis and
Cairne climb out rifles at the ready. On
seeing them armed the aliens lay their
weapons on the landing stage and step away
from them raising their right hands.

(72)
RIPLEY

Don’t shoot at them, they are

peaceful.

They approach the newcomers warily, one of

them comes forward chirping.

SMALL ALIEN
 Please forgive the intrusion. Can you
please take us to Melans moon, our
ship is hidden there?

Cairne and Bolan look at each other then at

Ripley; she stands there smiling stood next
to Sharkey and Jonesy who is holding onto
Karno. Ripley, still smiling shrugs her
shoulders Levin, Cairne and Bolan pick up the
strangers weapons as they all enter the
sphere.

INT.DESTINY CONTROL ROOM/MELANS MOON

Cairne sets the Destiny next to a strange

looking craft situated behind Melans moon.
With Karno bound and gagged on the floor
Ripley and Cairne question the aliens as they
all sit around the control room table.
Sharkey brings water to the guests. They
sniff it carefully before raising there
glasses high and taking a sip.

RIPLEY

My name is Ripley, who are you and

what do you want.

The one who stepped forward on the landing

platform, a grey haired male with rune-like
tattoos on his green face speaks through the
newly programmed translator which everyone
except Karno is wearing.

GREY HAIRED ALIEN

My name is Posan. We come from the

planet Delgon; we have come to warn
you. The Melan are a treacherous
race, they are highly intelligent
thieves and murderers. We are the
last of our race, our planet is
dying. The Melan at first were
friendly, we gave them our
technology, our teaching machines,
they used them to bleed all knowledge
from our memories and became a super
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power. Then they attacked our planet
with hydrogen bombs. They took
millions of my race to use them for
food and for breeding their warriors.
We have thoroughly inspected this
marvelous craft of yours and I beg
you leave this place at once, do not
return to Melan, if the Melan achieve
access to this crafts technology then
they will overrun this galaxy and
 eventually the universe, enslaving
killing and multiplying as they go.

The alien looks around to the hatchways,

Cairne speaks up.

CAIRNE

I’m afraid you are too late with your

warning, we have just escaped
imprisonment and they have already
bled us dry of knowledge, they know
every….. What is the matter? Why are
you concerned?

Posan stands up looking around the room.

POSAN

Two of my colleagues should be

present; they were inspecting your
energy complex, they should have
returned by now.

Ripleys gasps out loud. She stands up

dragging a chair with her across the room to
a nearby airway grill. She stands on the
chair and breathes deeply through her nose.
As she climbs down Jonesy sees the look on
her face, he nudges Sharkey.

RIPLEY

They are still here.

CAIRNE

Who are still here?

Ripley points to Karno.

RIPLEY

His playmates, the big ones.

Jonesy and Sharkey are already on their feet

holding their weapons copied by Kiery
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Davis and the Aliens. Ripley picks up the
aliens’ weapons and hands them back to them.
Bolan and Cairne have armed themselves also.
Gambuli stands with his hands clasped before
him. Bolan hands him a rifle.

GAMBULI

I decline the opportunity to harm or

destroy one of Gods creatures.
Ripley looks at the resolute man in surprise.

RIPLEY

With all due respect Doc’ these

beasts were not made in Heaven; they
come from the other place.

The doctor is unmoved by Ripley’s words and

stands still.

SHARKEY

What did the Melans do to you Doc’,

cut your balls off?

Jonesy checks his weapon.

JONESY

Just don’t get in the way Doctor.

Sharkey approaches the doctor and then turns

away checking the keenness of his cleavers
blade.

SHARKEY

And don’t come crying to us if you

get hurt.

Cairne speaks out loudly.

CAIRNE

Commander Ripley, I bow to your

greater experience will you take
command please? Just tell us what to
do?

Ripley smiles at Cairnes’ openness. She walks

over to the table to addresses the room; all
of them turn to her and listen. Jonesy looks
on in admiration.

(75)
RIPLEY

This will not be easy. They are huge,

quick and deadly their blood is
concentrated acid and it burns and
hurts like hell. They prefer warm
dark places and most always attack
from above so watch the ventilation
grills, as there are no airways in
the inner corridor we will start in
 the outer one. Follow me and shoot to
kill.

They leave by Hatchway No 2 to the right of

the viewing screen and through to the facing
one No 2a, into the outer corridor.

INT.INNER CORRIDOR SICK BAY AREA

Gambuli goes directly to the sick bay; Jonesy

checks the room before allowing the doctor
inside, the Doctor calls from the doorway.

GAMBULI

I will make preparations for

casualties.

RIPLEY

Then prepare yourself for heavy acid

burns.

Gambuli sneers openly at Ripley who stares

noncommittally back at him.

INT.ENGINEERING SECTION

They enter the engineering section, passing

SLOWLY AND CAUTIOUSLY underneath the thick
piping and conduits.

RIPLEY

Spread out, and cover each other,

they could be hiding up there.

Cairne, bringing up the rear stops at the

sick bay/engineering hatchway below an airway
grill. Before she closes the hatchway she
looks up at the opening to see that the wire
grill is moving. She calls out pointing to
the opening airway.

CAIRNE

Commander Ripley; I think I’ve…..

(76)
Cairne never finishes the sentence as two
scaly hands reach down and grasp her head,
one hand smothering her face, she is hoisted
upwards kicking and struggling into the
opening, there follows a CRUNCHING NOISE and
the now lifeless form of Cairne quickly
disappears inside. Ripley and the others can
only stop and stare in horror. Ripley turns
to Posan; he is holding a large weapon.
 RIPLEY

Posan, does that thing fire…..

Posan thrusts the heavy weapon into her

hands.

POSAN

Just pull on the trigger and hold.

Ripley takes the surprisingly heavy

Kalashnikov type weapon points it to the
airway casing and pulls the trigger. There is
a DEAFENING ROAR as the weapon BUCKS and
JERKS in Ripley’s hands; she gives off a five
second burst. She is rewarded with a
SQUEALING SOUND and a shower of yellow fluid
that pours onto the corridor floor.

RIPLEY
(Shouting)

Stay back, don’t touch the fluid.

Okay, Cairne’s gone. Let that be a
lesson to you all, don’t stand still
especially underneath an open airway
outlet, keep moving at…..!

Ripley is interrupted by a SCREAM coming

through from the sick bay hatchway.

DAVIS

Gambuli!

INT.CORRIDOR SICK BAY

Ripley and two of the aliens reach the sick

bay first to see Gambuli with a shattered
skull in the arms of an Alien. As Gambuli
falls to the floor, they open fire from the
doorway, their weapons cause an HORRENDOUS
DIN, the alien DISINTEGRATES in an ACID
SHOWER, the top and bottom half are propelled
back against the wall scattering two of the
cloth covered tables.
A deathly silence follows.
(77)
INT.SICK BAY

Ripley enters the room with Levin and Kiery

and survey the carnage avoiding the acid
pool. Bolan, standing in the doorway with
Sharkey calls out and points to the corner
table where a figure lies covered with a
sheet. She walks past Ripley keeping out of
the line of fire and pulls the cloth covering
quickly away to reveal one of the Delgon
aliens. Bolan HEAVES a SIGH of relief. Posan
comes forward and pulls his associate off the
table. All have congregated in the room.

POSAN

SILKI, where is JOJO?

Silki, wide eyed and trembling points upwards

with a finger, startling the others as a
LIGHT SCUFFLING SOUND comes from the rooms’
airway, Sharkey raises his rifle, Jonesy
places a hand on it and pushes it slowly
down. The grill pops open and a small Delgon
sticks its head out. Posan calls out and the
newcomer drops lightly to the floor. There
follows a more HEAVIER SCUFFLING in the
airway and the three armed Delgons OPEN FIRE.
The combined noise of the three weapons in
the confined space causes the humans to cover
their ears, when the noise debates they see
the perforated airway and the wall STREAMING
with yellow acid. Posan goes to Jonjo.

POSAN

How many more are there Jojo?

Jojo holds up his hand to show the three

digits he points to the airway and shows two.

POSAN

Two left.

RIPLEY

Lets move out. Keep it tight.

INT.CORRIDOR SICK BAY

They move out double file along the sides of

the corridor stopping and inspecting the
airway grills.
The two Aliens apparently children cling to
the older ones eyes staring wildly.

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INT.CORRIDOR ENGINEERING SECTION

They pass through the open hatchway and

everyone climbs through with their eyes glued
to the ventilation grills.

INT.CORRIDOR LABORATORY SECTION

They pass the laboratories and pass through

the next hatch.
INT.WORKSHOP AND STORAGE SECTION

As the last one through Levin closes the

hatch behind him and he walks on slowly eyes
wide with fear, a figure drops down quietly
behind him as the others turn the next
corner. Levin hears the creature BREATHING,
he stops frozen, he turns around slowly. His
eyes are almost popping out of his head with
fear; his knuckles are white gripping the
laser rifle. He completes his turn to face a
three metre tall creature looking down at him
grinning mirthlessly. He stares in horror
backing away as the creature moves towards
him, its jaws open. The front of the
creatures head shatters and the back of its
head explodes to the SOUND of LASER FIRE.
Levin turns around to see Bolan and Ripley
standing with raised rifles.

RIPLEY

Tired of our company already Levin?

Levin looks at the two women and runs past

them. They pass through the storeroom without
incident to arrive at the……..

INT.OUTER CORRIDOR JUNCTION/QUARTERS

……..living quarters hatchway. Ripley turns to

Kiery and Davis, the two women are standing
idle, Kiery is stroking her lovers cheek.
Ripley smiles and calls out to them.

RIPLEY

You two, go and stand guard at the

loading bay entrance, if we flush
this last one out we don’t want him
escaping out of the sphere.

Davis goes with her shaven headed partner to

the sphere entrance. Ripley and the rest move
on through the living quarters hatchway.

(79)
INT.SPHERE/LOADING BAY HATCHWAY

Kiery and Davis wait impatiently by the

sealed loading bay hatchway for the others to
return. They stand facing each other, Davis
is inspecting her fingernails.

KIERY
 What’s keeping them? Why is it taking
so long?

DAVIS

Stop worrying and move from under

that ventilation grill. I’ll go and
check, see how they are doing.

Kiery moves forward a few metres and Davis

walks to the intersection watched by Kiery.
Davis opens the hatch to the living quarters
and pokes her head through, she CALLS OUT.

DAVIS

Are you all still alive in there? Is

that you Bolan?

Bolans voice comes back to her.

BOLAN

Yes it’s me, it’s all quiet here we

are still searching, so keep your
eyes and ears open and shut that
frigging hatch.

Kiery sees Davis as she locks the hatchway;

Davis turns in time to see a monster alien
climbing silently out of the airway grill
behind Kiery.

KIERY

What did they say? Have they found it?

Do they know where it is?

Davis can only stare in horror as the monster

drops down behind Kiery its arms extended a
little, its jaws drooling transparent slime.

DAVIS

N-no, b-b-but I d-d-d-do.

Kiery laughs at the imagined joke.

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KIERY
(Laughing)

You do? Where is it then? Darling

you’re a scream, you should be on TV.

Davis raises her rifle slowly. Kiery sees now

the inherent fear in Davis’ eyes. She looks
questionably at Davis who is unable to speak.
Davis is HYPERVENTILATING as she fumbles and
drops her weapon, the monster HISSES, Kiery
turns quickly and sees the drooling jaws open
slowly. The top half of Ripleys’ body appears
from the ventilation opening, she’s holding
the Delgon heavy machine gun, she screams out
to Kiery.

RIPLEY

Run you idiot.

Kiery sprints away and collides with Davis;

both of them fall to the floor. The alien
turns to the sound of Ripley’s voice and
stretches out its arms SNARLING.

RIPLEY

Good riddance shit head.

Ripley pulls the trigger of the Delgon weapon

and the aliens head explodes.
Ripley climbs down out of the airway to the
sobbing Kiery who is being consoled by Davis.
Ripley walks past them CALLING OUT HARSHLY to
the SOBBING women locked in each others arms.

RIPLEY

Davis, Kiery; control room now!

The two women climb to their feet and run

after Ripleys’ retreating form.

INT.CONTROL ROOM

Everyone is present sitting around the table;

the two young Delgons Jojo and Silki sit
close to each other holding hands. Karno is
lying on the floor near the hologram platform
with his mouth taped up.

LEVIN

We are certain now that the Melans

have access to the ships design,
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energy source and drive capabilities
amongst other things. If they
duplicate the Destiny then the whole
universe is in jeopardy.

SHARKEY

What a pity we can’t nuke’ them.

 DAVIS

We can return home and make our

report, then we can return and nuke’
them as you say, our government would
send a warship and they……..

RIPLEY

…..would first investigate, then they

would procrastinate and before you
know it…..!

Posan stands up; he looks to his companions

and to the humans.

POSAN

What will you do with Karno?

Kiery, who has now composed herself, picks up

Jonesy’s pistol and weighs it in her hand she
sights along the barrel.

KIERY

Does this little thing work on the

same principal as the larger weapons
Mr Posan?

Posan nods in affirmation.

POSAN

It has a smaller discharge and a

shorter range but it is just as
deadly inside fifty metres, I know
from experience as it was designed by
me and then used against us.

Kiery looks at the weapon in disgust. She

turns to Jonesy.

KIERY

Jonesy, is this thing still loaded?

Jonesy nods slowly, smiling. Kiery turns in

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her seat and shoots Karno in the head.
Everyone except Ripley and Jonesy are
shocked, they both smile in admiration.

RIPLEY/JONESY
(In unison)

She‘s a fast learner!

 KIERY

Next question Mr Posan?

Sharkey shakes his head in annoyance.

SHARKEY

Women!

Posan raises an orange eyebrow.

POSAN

My people and I have come to a

decision. We have put together a
device that combined with our ships
reactor would on impact, preferably
in the centre of the Melan reactor
complex, completely destroy the
planet. We have decided to fly the
ship ourselves. We find it is a
fitting end for our race and our
vengeance is acceptable if the cause
is just.

Ripley and the others look at each other.

Davis stands up in protest.

DAVIS

But you are the last of your race,

you have the capability to reproduce,
why waste your lives so, can’t you
just aim the ship?

Posan smiles sadly, he looks at the crew

members, Davis sits down and Kiery takes her
hand.

POSAN

Our craft has no guidance system like

yours has, we have remote control but
it isn’t precise enough, we have
however readjusted the drive, our
ship can reach Melan in twenty
minutes so their ship will not
represent a problem.
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RIPLEY

So be it.

Jonesy calls out raising his arms.

JONESY

Just like that?

 Have we no alternatives?

Ripley stands up and looks at each crew

member in turn; she is greeted with their
silence.

RIPLEY

Exactly! Come Posan, I’ll walk you

and your people to your ship.

JONESY

I’ll come with you.

Ripley looks at him in annoyance as the

Delgons stand up and in silence file out
after Ripley through hatchway number six.
Jonesy joins them and walks on ahead. He
opens the sphere platform hatch. Posan takes
out a spherical object from the folds of his
clothes and operates the lighted controls.
The Delgon ship appears pressed up against
the now slightly incandescent force field,
the ships hatchway opens. A metallic pathway
unfolds across the space between the two
vessels to the Destiny’s hold; not stopping
there it continues all the way to the
platform.

RIPLEY

And I thought this ship had

everything.

POSAN

It is a hologram, solid and firm.

Posan walks off the platform along the

Holopath’. The others follow obediently.

INT.DELGON SHIP ENTRANCE

As Ripley enters the ship she is amazed by

the intrinsic designs on the walls. Gold
plated piping and wooden paneling. She
follows Jonesy along a passage…..

(84)
INT.DELGON SHIP CONTROL ROOM

……..into a brightly lit ornately decorated

room. On the wall to her right is the desk-
like control panel; in the middle is a joy
stick next to a lever.

POSAN
 As you can see the controls are quite
simple, the joy stick is for steering
and the lever is to increase or
decrease propulsion.

JONESY

You have escape pods don’t you?

Posan looks to a row of small hatchways and

runs his fingers over a row of buttons on the
surface above them.

POSAN

We have already reached a decision;

we all intend to take part in order
to be in Elysium with our forefathers
together.

Ripley looks at Posan.

RIPLEY
(Angry)

Damn! Damn it! You didn’t say

farewell to the others.

Posan is taken aback, Jonesy frowns.

POSAN

On occasions such as these, we find

it impolite to say farewell as we
will never meet again.

Ripley bows her head and clasps her hands

together pleading.

RIPLEY

On our world it is a great insult for

heroes such as your selves not to bid
farewell, my companions and myself
will be forced to end our lives at
the same time as you do. It would be
better for us all if you return now.

(85)
Posan looks anxiously at Jonesy who remains
quite neutral.

POSAN

How terrible.

(He turns to the others)

 Come, we must return and we must hurry.

INT.SPHERE PLATFORM

Ripley and Jonesy accompany the Delgons to

the sphere; the Delgons walk through the
hatchway, Posan looks at Ripley.

RIPLEY

We will wait here for you.

Ripley closes the hatch behind them. She

looks at Jonesy.

JONESY

What are we waiting for?

Ripley moves closer to Jonesy, she reaches to

his face and strokes his cheek.

RIPLEY
(Softly)

You are not coming with me on this

trip, it’s one-way only. It was nice
knowing you. You are a good person; I
wish you a long and happy life.

Jonesy gently takes hold of Ripleys arm.

JONESY
(Smiling)

Where you go, I go.

Ripley takes his hand and pulls it away.

RIPLEY
(Determined)

I’m not going anywhere unless you

believe there is an after life. Say
goodbye to the others for me.

Ripley runs off along the pathway with Jonesy

right behind her.

(86)
INT.HOLOPATH DESTINY

They leave Destiny’s hold and…..

INT.HOLOPATH SPACE

…..run across the void to the alien ship.

INT.DELGON SHIP
As Ripley enters the ship Jonesy shoves her
and she falls SLIDING along the deck, Jonesy
hits the hatchway button and it closes with a
HISS.

RIPLEY

You stupid son of a bitch, Jonesy.

Jonesy looks down at her and shakes his head.

JONESY

Now you are being insulting.

INT.DELGON SHIP PASSAGEWAY

Ripley jumps up and walks hurriedly through

the control room passageway, as she reaches
the other end an alien hand grabs her tunic,
she turns to see a drooling jaw with its
smaller fist-like jaw ready to strike.

RIPLEY

JONESY!

A human hand grabs the scaly wrist and slowly

crushes it. The monster roars in pain, Jonesy
rips the aliens arm out of its socket and
using it like a club hits the alien again and
again shattering its jaw, acid flies
everywhere, Ripley gasps and steps back out
of range watching as the monster chokes and
dies with Jonesy stamping on its head. He
looks at the alien and throws the limb onto
the carcass.

JONESY

I always wanted to do that.

Jonesys’ boots and clothing are smouldering,

but his skin is unblemished. Ripley stares in
disbelief. Jonesy down looks at his
smouldering clothing.

(87)
RIPLEY

Jonesy? You’re a damned robot.

Jonesy smiles and his voice slowly changes.

JONESY

Hallo Ripley, it’s me Call.

Ripley stands open mouthed.

RIPLEY

How the hell did you manage that?

The robot kicks off its smouldering boots and

removes the top half of its uniform.

CALL

We robots built robots ourselves as

you know. We built them to serve
humans. After the Earths governments
were reformed our company was
restricted to the United States of
America. Other countries outlawed us.

RIPLEY

Why?

CALL

We started using human personalities

and programmed the robotic brain to
assume fully the human identity and
personality.

RIPLEY
(Slightly sarcastic)

Whatever could be wrong in that?

CALL

The problem arose when some robots

insisted they were human and went
crazy on finding out the truth, there
were some casualties. So it was
stopped, Robotics was banned world
wide. I evaded termination along with
others and kept the practice alive;
we all took an oath to protect
humanity.

Ripley looks at the robot in astonishment she

laughs and looks at her one time lover.
(88)
RIPLEY

And to think that I fell in love and

made love with a robot?
Tell me, are you male or female, I
mean is or was Jonesy a male?

The robot grins.

 CALL

Male, as for the love making it was

pure passion. Chicago Jones is a real
person; the robot Jonesy had his
personality and believed himself to
be human. He is, was in love with
you. The real Jonesy is a real live
Inuit and he lives in Alaska though
he is somewhat older now.

RIPLEY

So you arranged everything, the

accident on the bridge.

CALL

No, that was just coincidence:

Jonesys’ collapse in the snow was
already programmed, it was supposed
to bring you closer together, he was
to be your first real love, it went
like a dream. Things almost went
wrong on Melan though, Jonesy wasn’t
programmed for humid weather and
thank goodness Gambuli didn’t realize
he was treating a robot for
heatstroke.

Ripley leans back against the control panel

smiling.
RIPLEY

You were very convincing, especially

in bed Jonesy.

CALL

Jonesys’ program has been

deactivated, it has served its
purpose, I myself am only a program
and I have my orders.

The robot pushes past Ripley and operates the

ships control lever. The ship moves off,
SHAKING and SHUDDERING.

CALL

Now I’m taking this tub down and you

are taking the lifeboat; those are
the extent of my orders.

RIPLEY

Wait a minute, how do I know you are

telling the truth.
The robot turns to Ripley frowning.

CALL
(Sincerely)

Robots can’t lie.

RIPLEY
(Scoffing)

Ha! Who told you that, a robot? Tell

me Call, how did you find out about
all this? How did you plan it all?

The Alien ship SHUDDERS once more as the

robot heads the ship around the moon.

CALL

Thane, he is a robot but he thinks he

is human, the real Thane died in a
freak air traffic accident; at the
hospital we made sure he had a
miraculous recovery. He keeps us
informed of everything the IPD does.
Thane reported they were after the
alien physiology; Commander O’Brien
and Doctor Gambuli were to make sure
they returned with live specimens
using the crew as hosts. Thane
convinced the IEL that you would
prove invaluable in identifying the
species. You know what they say about
the plans of mice and men. Adenski
was a gullible fool, he believed
everything Karno fed him. It was
better that he was shot by mistake
and it was poetic justice that the
Doctor got wasted by his pet friends.
I am going to make sure that this
will never happen again. You were our
secret weapon, we know how much you
despise these abominations.

RIPLEY

So Thane was a robot too, he

certainly fooled me. He should be on
the stage, he’d make a good OTHELLO.
(90)
CALL

Thane wasn’t acting; you really did

hurt him back there on earth,
grabbing him by the balls like that.

Ripley laughs, she holds on to a stanchion as

the ship rocks. The robot grabs Ripley’s arm
and twists it behind her back. Ripley is
forced over to an open hatchway.

CALL

Get inside Helen. Now it’s my turn to

die, you had your turn.

Ripley baulks, the robot hits her behind the

ear with its balled fist and Ripley
collapses.

INT.RESCUE POD

Ripley regains consciousness floating in the

small capsule. She can see the Melan planet
through the porthole, the Delgon ship can
still be seen speeding towards it. The Melan
ship approaches the Delgon ship pursuing it,
firing its laser ineffectually as it pulls
out of range. She feels the effect of
gravity; then the stars and the planet
disappear, she sees the sphere platform
approaching.

INT.SPHERE PLATFORM

The capsule springs open, Bolan and Posan are

there, they help her out and they walk
through the hatchway.

INT.SPHERE CONTROL ROOM

Everyone is watching the view screen as

Ripley enters. She approaches Levin as he
sits at the controls.

RIPLEY

How long before impact?

Levin has a yarmulke perched on his head.

LEVIN

Four minutes plus. Who the hell is

flying that thing, Jonesy?

Ripley gazes in silence; a tear runs down her

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cheek. Bolan comes to her and places her hand
on her shoulder, her voice is subdued.

BOLAN

Is Jonesy flying that thing?

Ripley coughs to clear her throat.

 RIPLEY

Yes. The son of a bitch is a robot.

He certainly had me fooled, even in
bed. He informed me of O’Brien and
Gambulis deception, we were to be
used as hosts for the aliens.

BOLAN

Deception! O’Brien and Gambuli! How

did…..!

Bolan breaks off lost for words.

RIPLEY

It’s a long story, its over three

hundred years old, I’ll tell all of
you everything before we dock but you
have to promise not to…..!

Kiery calls out in dismay as a small fiery

explosion can be seen on the planets surface.

KIERY

Shit! Is that all…..!

The view screen turns a BRILLIANT WHITE; the

GLARE fills the room, everyone holds their
hands up to their eyes. The BLINDING LIGHT
dissipates to reveal a HUGE ORANGE BALL that
expands outwards growing in size, it reaches
the Melan ship and everyone watches as it
disintegrates, the orange ball thins out as
it approaches the Destiny to change gradually
to a FINE DUST CLOUD. Bolan turns to the
aliens joyfully, she runs to Posan and kisses
him repeatedly. He looks around shocked as
the other Delgons jump up and down SHRIEKING
like children, Posan holds up his arms, the
Delgons turn to the human crew in silence.
They seem now somewhat dismayed. Levin
approaches them he places an arm around
Posans shoulder.

(92)
LEVIN

What are you going to do now? Return

to Earth with us?

Ripley coughs and approaches Levin and the

Delgons.
 RIPLEY

They don’t deserve that after all

they have been through. Give them a
flyer, food and water; let them find
their own destiny.

Kiery and Davis come forward their arms

around each other.

KIERY

She’s right, they don’t belong on

Earth.

Bolan joins them taking hold of Levin’s hand.

BOLAN

That is true Commander Ripley, and so

shall it be.

EXT.DESTINY JUPITER ORBIT

The Destiny FLOATS in orbit reflecting

Jupiters’ stormy surface on her mirror-like
surface.

INT.DESTINY RIPLEYS ROOM

Ripley is standing in front of the bathroom

mirror brushing her hair, she looks at the
strands of auburn hair and she gasps, she
separates the strands and finds two grey
hairs, she examines her hair finding more,
finally she looks in the mirror smiling.

RIPLEY

Hey Ripley, you’re getting older.

EXT.CANADIAN FOREST-DAY

Ripley is on her dog sled riding through the

forest, she SHOUTS OUT to another dog sled
driver as its sled crosses her path narrowly
missing hers; the driver takes a tumble and
lands in a flurry of snow, he, the driver
sits up SPLUTTERING wiping his face.
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Ripley halts her sled and turns to the
imitation snowman who is wiping his goggles
clean.

MAN
(Exasperated)

Merde; where did you come from?

Ripley grins, slightly amused by the man’s
predicament.

RIPLEY

Why the big hurry?

The man points in the direction, which he

came from and Ripley turns to see a huge
Grizzly bear pounding through the snow
towards them. She steps off the sled holding
it steady as the dogs get a whiff of the
bears scent and try to run off, she lifts up
her goggles, she stands her ground and bares
her teeth snarling, the bear sees her, skids
to a stop CRYING OUT in panic, and SLIPPING
and SLIDING, TEARS OFF through the
undergrowth as fast as it can.

MAN
(Grinning)

Very impressive. Does that work every

time?

Ripley freezes at the sound of his voice. She

turns slowly round to see an Inuit dressed in
animal fur, end of forty, broad shouldered
and the spitting image of Jonesy, she frowns
and approaches him slowly.

RIPLEY

Of course. What is your name?

The man stands up brushing the snow from his

clothes shaking his goggles.

MAN

My name is Jones, Chicago Jones. My

friends call me Jonesy.

Her mouth opens slightly in surprise then she

walks slowly over to him; she brushes the
rest of the snow from his shoulders.

RIPLEY

Hi Jonesy, pleased to meet you. I had

a cat and also a friend who were
called Jonesy.

(94)
Jonesy looks deep into Ripley’s eyes, his
voice is soft and deep as he speaks in his
own language.
 JONESY

Would you care to divulge your name,

woman who scares bears?

Ripley examines Jonesys’ features, as if

seeing them for the first time. She answers
him in the same language.

RIPLEY
(Softly)

My name is Helen, but you can call me

Ripley, all my friends do.

The two gaze at each other, Ripley

continues in English.

RIPLEY

Tell me, are you attached? Do you

have a family, a wife?

JONESY

No not yet, I’ve never found the time.

Ripley grins while walking back over to her

dog sled.

RIPLEY

Would you like a race, my team

against yours? We can decide on the
prize later.

Jonesy speculates for a split-second then

runs off to collect his dog team and sled.

EXT.ALASKAN PLAIN

Two dog sleds race along in the snow one

behind the other; on the adjacent highway the
occupants of a 4X4 observe them matching
their speed.

INT.4X4 JOURNEY

In the front sits Thane, to his left sits

Call. In the back sits a hooded figure her
long grey hair giving lie to her age
category. By her side sits a beautiful half-
cast Inuit woman in her mid twenties. Call
turns to the older woman.

(95)
CALL
 What do think? Should we refrain from
informing them?

The older woman turns and gazes at the racing

couple, her mouth creases in a smile.

WOMAN

Yes of course, it’s not certain they

will believe it anyway. It would in
any case spoil their happiness, leave
them be, see how happy they are?

Jonesy and Ripley are tearing across the

snow; both of them are YELLING and LAUGHING
as they race along.
The 4X4 stops and makes a U-turn on the high
and speeds off in the opposite direction.

(How about that for an ending!)

Prologue.
Did I say the final solution?

EXT.SHELLY SPACE PORT-DAY

The Destiny rests in her cradle dwarfing all

around her.

INT.DESTINY SHELL

Inside the Destiny’s shell high up in the

girders supporting the outer sphere two
strange looking objects sit nestled in the
cross beams.

THE END