- EXT. GARDEN BASE, NORTH RUN - WARM EVENING (NO MOON)
- [IVO is nebulous contra-phase "stereo-inside"]
- All is calm; TfNi is occupied
- (00:00 wind, wave - Pax Deorum/Enya - IVO)
- She pauses
listening
- (00:08 +string builds an exordium)
- Looks away
- The GROUND SLIGHTLY SWAYS ONE WAY,-- AND BACK,--
- Wood-knocker WIND CHIMES TINKLE politely on vine-strings
- (00:14 +throb build)
- TfNi, alert to the chimes,- looks about
- GROUND SWAYS more intently thrice: TREES SWAY, TfNi braces, watching LONG-POLES TOPPLE, pottery falls, SMASH, CLATTER
- TfNi removes, searching the horizon
- (00:30 voice)
- The GROUND HEAVES SLIGHT-SLOW;--
TFNI
- (calls)
- Adam! Eve!
- (listens)
- Eve: Where are you?!
- (00:41 dark string)
- EXT. FAR ALONG NORTH RUN
- Adam, Eve, in fishskin cloths, meandering, noticing about
- The GROUND moderately HEAVES-SWAYS, TREES and all
- TfNi (OS) calls in the distance--
TFNI (OS:SOUTH)
- Adam! Eve! Answer me!
EVE
- (calls back puzzled)
- Mommy!?
- EXT. PART WAY NORTH RUN
- TfNi turning about, hears behind her, distant:--
EVE (OS:NORTH)
- (calls worried)
- Mommy
!?
- (00:52 voice)
TFNI
- (hurries towards them)
- Eve!-- Where are you?!
- (01:04 dark string)
EVE (OS:NORTH)
- (again)
- Mommy!
- (01:25 voice)
- THE GROUND SLOW-HEAVES;- TfNi steers against the sway
- (01:36 second voice)
- THE GROUND SLOW-HEAVES BACK
ROCKS, ROLLS
- PRECEDING: TfNi, half-sprinting, half steering
- SMALL GROUND-VENTS SPURT GASES AND DUST:
- (01:58 crash clash)
- SHORT RIFTS OPEN
GROUND SOFTENS,-- TREES TILT
- (02:10 crash)
- RIFTS MULTIPLY
OIL POOLS, GROUND LIQUIFIES, TREES FALL
- (02:12 voice)
- OIL SPURTS
SOME GAS VENTS FLAME-UP
- (02:24 crash, big clash)
- A SINUOUS ROARING GAP OUTRUNS TfNi, with
- A RIPPING SHEET OF FLAMES
- Heaving Ground finally tosses TfNi stumbling shy of--
- (02:37 chime, voice, lull)
- Adam, Eve, stumbling-about to hands and knees amid the collapsing garden, as TfNi slides to--
- A BROAD GAP BETWEEN.
TFNI
- (breathing refrain)
- Eve! Adam! Are you all right?!
EVE
- (crying on all four)
- Mommy!
- The ground calmer, Adam stands; TfNi to one knee.--
TFNI
- Adam! Take Eve! Leave the garden! Run to the north!- Stay back from the river tonight!
- (points north forward)
- Adam grips Eve's shoulder.
EVE
- (wailing)
- Mom-my!!
TFNI
- Eve! Stay with Adam!- Go now!
ADAM
- Mother: We can't leave you alone.
TFNI
- Adam! Take care of Eve! She'll be your mother now. Go!- Run! Now!
- Adam considers Eve quizzically.
- (03:26 strum, rebuilds)
- THE GROUND SWAYS;-- TfNi braces.
- (03:31 voices)
- Adam grips Eve's arm, hand, pulling-up, taking steps away
- CHASING: Both stumbly running onward: [northward]
- (03:53 choruses)
- GROUND HEAVES-THROWS Adam, Eve, about to hands and knees
- (04:-- clash)
- GROUND RIPS; TREES FALL; GAS VENTS, FLAMES; Adam, Eve, dodge about,- resume stumbly running, avoiding;
- (04:20 high voice)
- GROUND SHAKES, QUIVERS, ROARING VIBRATIONS increasing
- (04:-- big clash)
- A GIANT ERUPTING GAS-VENT BLASTS;-- they briefly wary of it
IT TORCHES, GLEAMING
towering above the trees
- (04:33 dark voice)
- GROUND TILTS as, Adam, Eve, run on beyond the giant torch
- (04:37 fade)
- (04:52 -out-)
- FADE TO RED
- CUT IN:
- EXT. TOPPLED GARDEN, SOUTH WAY TO RIVER - SUNSET (NO MOON)
- NB. EARTHER VOICES MAN-NORMAL.
- TfNi walks through the toppled garden broken grounds
- (00:00 strings - The Memory of Trees/Enya)
- Many trees are fallen; Broken irrigation water flows-about.
- (00:10 down stir)
- The compost-pile is spilled.
- (00:23 pluck up-well)
- Goat, still tied, is crushed under its fallen palm tree.
- (00:39 piano, "mmm")
- Other pets are gone; Drying crockery is smashed on the ground; She approaches the fruit hut now spilt open
- (00:54 over)
- Tables are tossed, teepee-cooler toppled, stores broken and scattered about.
- (00:59 +ahh)
- She picks-up Eve's doll, and ponders her childhood
- (01:09 boom forte, chorus)
- Breaks to full cry
and leaves the grove
- Up the slope
into the sunset
to the river's edge
- (01:24 aah, harpsichord)
- The boat-raft is impaled on rocks.
- She picks up pieces of Adam's broken clay toy-spaceship
- (01:38 boom forte, chorus)
- Breaks again to cry, staring across into reflected sunset
- (01:54 grind -fade-)
- Noisy MERCHANTMEN approach along the shore, intoxicated, angrily jabbering arguing their losses, courtlike as JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, DEFENDANT wearing shell necklaces of several strands, carrying a jug, and CODEFENDANT TURNED-WITNESS
articulate, consonantal, rapid, slurred, emphatic, abutted:
- (01:56 -stop grind-)
PROSECUTOR
- Y' lft th rp un-td.
DEFENDANT
- (points Turned-Witness)
- H', drpd th oar.
JUDGE
- (hand on his shoulder)
- Y' tpd th bt ovr.
DEFENDANT
- (exasperated)
- I ws hldng th ls bxs
- (holds-up jug)
- I svd th brly-brw
- (flashes a brave grin)
TURNED-WITNESS
- (cockily)
- I ws hldng th dnky;-- W'd stl hv, th dnky: if th rp ws td.
PROSECUTOR
- (cockily)
- Th dnky wld hv drwnd whn th bt snk: if th rp ws td.
JUDGE
- Th bt wld hv fltd n th bxs: if th rp ws td.
- They notice TfNi watching them from a clearing near the water's edge, And approach her:
PROSECUTOR
- Wh is ths wmn?
JUDGE
- Prtty ct wnch.
DEFENDANT
- (serious)
- Th mn rn wy.
PROSECUTOR
- (more serious)
- Th mn cldn't kp hr.
TURNED-WITNESS
- (most serious)
- Th rp ws un-td.
- They guffaw and bust a coarse-laugh
PROSECUTOR
- (to TfNi)
- Wr is yr hsbnd?
TFNI
- (fully voiced match)
- Hello, gentlemen.
DEFENDANT
- (aside)
- Ls wmn:-- nt gd.
TURNED-WITNESS
- (shirks blame)
- Hw dd y' gt hr?
TFNI
- I live here, This is my home, thank you.
JUDGE
- No bdy lvs in ths plce.
PROSECUTOR
- Wht is ths ncklce,- Ths is nt a wmns ncklce?
TFNI
- It is my necklace;- I have worn it many years.
DEFENDANT
- Tis wrth hlf a bx of swt spce.
TURNED-WITNESS
- (snide)
- Unls sh wrs, the spce, dncng fr us!
- (laughs rudely)
TFNI
- (rebukes)
- It's broken: It doesn't do anything for you: It's not worth your spice.
JUDGE
- (argues)
- I cn b th jdg of tht:-- Sh m' yr ncklce.
- (grabs, examines watcher)
DEFENDANT
- (fingers cheap necklace)
- Th wrth is one strng of shl ncklce.
TFNI
- (strives for harmony)
- My necklace is not for bargain, thank you,
- (emphasis)
- Gentlemen.
TURNED-WITNESS
- Mn dnt brgn wth ls wmn:-- Lt us brgn wth yr hsbnd.
TFNI
- (reemphasizes)
- Thank you, again, Gentlemen:
- (backs away to taut)
- The necklace is not your bargain.
JUDGE
- (ires red to her face)
- W' thnk w' cn brgn fr a ncklce:-- Gt yr hsbnd, wmn!
- (free hand pushes her)
- But her necklace holds taut;
- Surprised at its strength, He shoves her backward with both hands while gripping the watcher tight;--
- She stumbles back, down,-- her necklace pulling him atop
.
JUDGE
- (vis-a-vis fiercely)
- I wl gv y' wht a wmn dsrvs.
- (glares-grins)
- He squirms on TfNi,-- She struggles
- Fingernail-scrapes his cheeks bloody,- but he ignores the abuse,- checking her arms
- She top-head bashes his nose;--
- He withdraws uncertainly, begrudgingly loosing the watcher,
- Hand-and-knees back, face and nose oozing blood, free hand nursing his nose
- She stands
He crouches, backing away stooped toward the others, wiping his cheeks, nursing his nose
TFNI
- (exasperated)
- Stupid mankind, doesn't know which side of a woman they're on:-- How will they ever know which side of the planet-Earth, they're on?!
- Except wounded Judge, They grin and guffaw mutually,--
TURNED-WITNESS
- Tp-sd, I hp;-- Nd lvng it.
- All slightly laugh.
- They back away
and at a distance, saunter-on, following the stream, Judge tending his wounded face
- TfNi waits 'til they are gone
- And resorts to the water's edge
- EXT. RIVER BANK - EDDY POOL - SUNSET (CONTINUOUS; NO MOON)
- Self-inspects blood on hands, face, fur clothes
- Tries to rinse-wash
- Pauses
Breaks to tears, and
- Cries, staring across the waters into the sunset,--
TFNI
- (implores to next music)
- Why?
!
- (grimaces
cries)
- She remains at the waters' edge, crying tears to the sunset as though the sun blocks her progress
- She removes and tosses her furs into the shallows.
- Examines and throws the watcher into the shallows.
- Begins to wash herself again
- (00:00 - To Go Beyond#2/Enya)
- She cries,
- Face-up, tears welling
- Calms
- Weeps into hands
- Calms
- (00:06 voice dahdah)
- Stoops,-
- Scoops water to face,-
- Washes down
- Stands
- Breaks to wail.
- (00:39 +oompah)
- Tries again:
- Stoops,--
- Scoops water to face,-
- Erotic wipes down chest
- Breaks to empty wail
- (01:18 strain)
- Slowly sinks-stoops
to sit curled before the sunset, face down on knees, sobbing
- (01:21 -stop before violin-)
- TIME LAPSES - SUNDOWN PASTEL HUES, MOONRISE (CONTINUING)
- TfNi is still sitting huddled the same.
- (00:00 aah - I Want Tomorrow/Enya)
- (00:12 voice, cello)
- PULL-OUT slowly up-bank
- Between CROWDING CURTAINS of Officer-dressed legs
- (00:42 ahh -stretch-)
- HOLD; Officer NARRATOR (OS-IVO) reviews TfNi's credentials:
NARRATOR (OS-IVO)
- (vital statistics)
- Lieutenant Commander Ra-Tefnuit:-- InterSpace Forces: starcruiser detail: planet surface, Earth
Commendations: Twelve-Pleiads star-cluster diadem, Royal purple-and-gold sunburst epaulette
Recognitions: Rogue Moon Dawn Rendezvous knee-patch, highest class-honors
widowed on active duty.
- (00:48 voice, strum -resume-)
- RISE still on TfNi, slowly up legs
DROPPING-CROPPING CURTAINS of dressed elbows, up shoulders
- (01:18 clang -stretch-)
- HOLD; Officer reviews TfNi's depiction:--
NARRATOR (OS-IVO)
- Height: 5-9; Erect form; Complete outline; Mass: 160; Normal build. Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown
- Mike's COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-IN (OS): [COMM] (OS) reports--
[COMM] (OS)
- Sir: We have one of the watchers; Another is three miles northward, leaving four miles per hour; Third is telemetry-non-respondent.
- TfNi rousing
- COMMUNICATOR (OS) TWINKLES-OUT,--
- She shrieks, leaps-turns-backs-away half into the water, hands on shore-mud, cowering crouched, glaring back
- Then, hesitantly, recognizes--
TFNI
- (puzzles-exasperates)
- Mr. Michael
?!
- RISE, CLEARING shoulders to between heads:
- CMDR Michael standing also nearby-right, watches her
- (01:23 voice -resume-)
- FORWARD, CLEARING heads as TfNi runs up
- But halts just before his visage, bleary-eyed
- HER MUDDY FINGER, touches the reality of his chest,--
- And she lunge-embraces him,-- hugging, sobbing
- (01:41 clang)
- Hanging on him, mouthing almost words
- (02:06 shift)
- ZOOM-IN: Their faces (MCU)
- (02:09 twang -stop-)
TFNI
- (teared articulate)
- I'm sorry
Mr. Michael
I understand, now.
MIKE
- TfNi: Dear one: It's alright: We've been watching for an opportunity
TFNI
- (surprised lean back)
- How long, have you been watching?!
MIKE
- (leans back too)
- A few years, while we parametrized the planet surface.
TFNI
- (checking her beliefs)
- Years!?- And you didn't
Where did you go?!
MIKE
- We regrouped and rebuilt at Venus, next planet sunward, in the clouds on its sunny side, beyond easy view from this planet
. The cruiser was damaged after separation from the space-city-freight-ship.
TFNI
- That's what I felt
Oh, I'm sorry. Did Mr. Gabriel get back all right?
MIKE
- (shakes No a beat)
- We haven't seen him;- We thought he might be staying with you and Adam.
TFNI
- (shakes No)
- He didn't
He didn't return
- (winces worried)
- Where could he have gone? We loaded the Shuttle with enough Zirc-96 for ten launches and decades of flying: more than a kilogram
just in case
But, Didn't he radio you?!
MIKE
- (shakes No)
- No
No distress-beacon, no crash-beacon.
We've waited and monitored every frequency around the Earth
daily
for years
But we couldn't detect him
which is one reason we stayed-off.
TFNI
- (hesistant)
- But he could have returned to help us:-- We haven't had trouble here with the native inhabitants;-- and no run-ins with spacer-types.
MIKE
- He was bent on finding a beach. And we, were being extremely, cautious, TfNi,- to avoid any possibility.
TFNI
- But do you suppose
Could they have
Was he captured?
MIKE
- No indication, TfNi: We had our own troubles with them,- but we found them highly fragmentatious and in need of cohesive leadership.
TFNI
- You've met them
?!
MIKE
- Yes, and joined communities in this solar system out beyond the Pluton watering-hole: They are compliant with reason, to the extent of their trust in their better sciences.
TFNI
- Why did they hit us when we came? Were they at war?
MIKE
- Not really.
They suffer a general autism: a fast-planetary mind-set
much as Adam did
We learned that, gradually:- he wasn't suited for spacer-living: Earth is really the best choice for
him
.
- (pauses)
TFNI
- Eve, is adaptable to any mental regime.
I do wish we had more interbreeding for them, but they'll survive: They're children: This planet is their home and school.
MIKE
- You can visit them anytime you wish.
TFNI
- (eyes sparkle)
- I shall.
And we will scour, the wilderness, for Mr. Gabriel.
MIKE
-
Speaking as much,-- We recovered Tefen
. He's well, a bit neutral, dry-air-headed, calm-eye-centered, quieter, these days
We nicknamed him, Shiuwe
He's taken the land of the abyss between here and Ptah and Ra's river out-west: They're all busy gold-digging these days.
TFNI
- (kisses his cheek)
- Thank you: I'm glad he's alive.
- (reflects)
- Shiuwe
Shiova
Sounds good
Gold?
MIKE
- Yeah, Gold, --more than silver:-- They've got plans for building a great civilization of mankind.
- (brightens)
- Would you like to resume your duty, presently?- Lieutenant Commander.
TFNI
- (nods, stands back erect)
- Yes, Sir!
- She eyes down his shirt-front
and grimaces:--
- He self-inspects the mud-smear,-- and flicks it
TFNI
- Oh,-- Mister Michael!- You've never seen dirt
!
- (takes his hand, gleeful)
- Come! I'll show you how we clean in water, on a habitable planet.
- She pulls-leads him down to the waters' edge
- And releasing his hand, runs-dives-in and under.
- She comes back up clean, hair swept-back
- And wades to the water's edge
- Scoops a double-handful of water
- And he washes his shirt mud-smear: both giggling happy
TFNI
- Did you see the supernova in the north six years ago?
MIKE
- It's 3 light-years away:- Blueshift says a thousand years till its dust wave arrives and seeds global rains and mutation-plagues
. Adam's sons should be alright till then:- Local species have survived these
- (confides, draws on sky)
- Should be dramatic when it arrives: Dawn a horizon across the night sky and change the solar photospectrum; raise several feet of moisture from the oceans and deluge for a month
!
- (a brave smile; resumes)
- We've parametrized ten nearby dwarf stars for novae over six millennia: Closest is a cloaked-dwarf that'll blowout last: We might leave before its nasty radio-nickel'ide arrives.
- Mike's COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-IN:--
[COMM]
- (advisory)
- Sir, We're finishing loading.
And, Sir: This region is still unstable: Leisure-time has been canceled:- Geosciences-scan estimates local subground activity within the hour.
MIKE
- (into voice-link)
- We're coming:
- (looks to TfNi's eyes)
- Presently.
TFNI
- (nods Yes)
- Directly.
[COMM]
- Yes, Sir: Very well; End-out.
- COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-OUT.
- TO LARGE GROVE, CLEARING - SUNDOWN DARKER SKY (CONTINUOUS)
- (00:00 ehh, chimes - The Celts/Enya)
- Mike, TfNi, stroll up from the waters' edge, arm around her shoulders, free hand gesturing Shuttle-flight operations:
- (00:07 clang, strum)
MIKE
- The Shuttle control-surfaces,
- (hand wing-dome-wing)
- are much the same as we had before
- (checks, points ahead)
- (00:11 twang)
- They pause to ponder "a shiny-dark-teardrop-on-a-pedestal",
- And resume strolling in, toward THE NEW SHUTTLE
MIKE
- (resumes)
- We rebuilt and reprogrammed their stabilization routines
- (palm flat down)
- for improved compensation and freer handling: Less function, More flow:
- (winds hand)
- You'll have no trouble operating:- It can fly itself out of a tumble,
- (wobbles hand)
- --if you let-go the finger-reins,
- (wiggles fingers)
- or palm-saddle.
- (lifts heel, checks)
- (00:22 twang)
- The Officer Crew, FIVE, are gathering, loading equipments.
MIKE
- (resumes)
- It'll cargo twice what we're loading,
- (two fingers up)
- Or fly in half an atmosphere,
- (same two fingers down)
- For ten thousand hours--
- (open hand up)
- Before the Zirc-96 fission-fuel needs be super-reprocessed,
- (snap fingers)
- And the mechanicals inspected and overhauled;
- (thumb-finger'o's)
- We've been flying this one
- (flat palm down-away)
- Here for the last three years:
- (three fingers)
- It's one of the newest of seven
- (thumb, two fingers)
- The Venus-cloud fleet
- (finger+fist to sky)
- Harbors a dozen more, And has logged a million hours.
- (hand sweeps circles)
- (00:29 voice+doo)
- Concluded, They proceed silently
- (00:39 +doo enhancement)
- INSPECTOR with log-puter, near the Shuttle, and extra package under arm, notices them and comes
- (00:50 twang emphasis)
- And meeting them,-- they stop:
INSPECTOR
- (hands log-puter to Mike)
- Sir.
MIKE
- Thank you.
- (reviews it)
INSPECTOR
- (offers package to TfNi)
- Lieutenant Commander.
TFNI
- Thank you.
- (peeks-inspects)
- (01:07 twang off, strum-lull, lightens)
- Mike returns log-puter; looks to TfNi as Inspector leaves--
INSPECTOR
- Thank you.
- (01:12 voice)
- She slips-on the inner-oxy-pressure-suit, torso-wide neck
- And they fit the arm and thigh collars
- She stretches variously, and they recheck, till fit right
- (01:42 clang)
- They look for mutual readiness,
- (01:46 twang)
- And stroll to the Shuttle
- (02:04 voice+doo, resume enhancement)
- IN THE NATURAL CLEARING AROUND IT:
- Mike approaches and helps load, while TfNi surveys about
- (02:24 clang)
- Inspector speaks into his communicator:--
- (02:28 clang)
- Crew quickens, concluding loading
- (02:33 clang)
- And file into the Shuttle
- (02:37 clang)
- Mike escorts TfNi in
and enters himself;
- (02:41 clang+boo)
- Inspector enters last.
- (02:45 clang+refresh)
- Shuttle door closes
and seals.
- (02:49 clang+fade, pause)
- Its "teardrop" sits wholly incongruent among trees: a last moment of Earthly ponderance under dimming late evening
- (02:52 end -out-)
- EXT. BACK FROM SHUTTLE, AND LIFTOFF - (MOMENTARILY)
- TfNi, Mike, inside its dark view shine, prepare to launch
- (00:00 organ, builds - On My Way Home/Enya)
- Teardrop-mid-neck turbine collar extends up
blowing air downward, which aerodynamically sucks about the sides
- A STRONG DOWNDRAFT FOGGING below the wide girth and out
- (00:06 +chimes)
- Increasing to DOWN-BLAST, FOG dissipating instantly away
- (00:10 pluck-roll -stretch-)
- Shuttle elevates
to the tree tops
- And glides northward
- SHUTTLE - CROSSING THE GARDEN FLAMES
- Approaching two figures running below
- EXT. GARDEN, NORTH RUN - CLEARING - SCATTERED FIRES
- Shuttle descends clearing
behind Adam, Eve, running
- And gliding-out low, darkly quietly chases them
- Its down-draft fog blowing them;-- Eve looks back and--
- Grabs Adam's arm, pulling him aside
Both stop
.
- The Shuttle hovers at a few paces, breezily chilling them
EVE
- (pulls-holds, shivering)
- It's cold
!
ADAM
- (stays; smiles confident)
- It's a space-shuttle
!
- Eve considers what it might be
then surprised at inside--
EVE
- (recognizes in window)
- Mommy
?!
ADAM
- (looks about, at Eve)
-
Where?
EVE
- Mommy!- There!
- (points into Shuttle)
- Where your reflection looks-back!- That's Mommy!
And
- (hesitates, cognizes)
- A man
?!
- (a beat, calls)
- Mommy!
- Adam pulls into the blasting fog, Eve shivering in tow
- Reaching a hand-- to touch the front at its widest girth
- But then, feeling his early-childhood memories intense,--
- He abruptly two-handed HEAVES its girth up-and-back--
- INT. SHUTTLE, SHOVED FRONT-UP-AND-BACK - (CONTINUOUS)
- TfNi recovers the tilt-backing and jostle
- And looks again at them amid the flaming toppled garden
TFNI
- (resolves)
- Earthers
.
EVE
- (looking in, calls)
- Mommy!
- (00:15 voice, resumes soothing)
- TfNi controls:--
- DOWN-BLAST INCREASES, FOG blowing them stiffly
- Shuttle ascends; Eve crying after--
EVE (TILL FAR OS)
- Mommy!
Mommy!
Mommy!
- Above the trees and flames
- Above the fiery glowing expanse
- Into the smoky hazy late evening sky
- (00:24 +word)
- The pre-eclipse moon rises E horizon amid hazy stars
- (00:36 chorus)
- EXT. HIGH ALTITUDE - SHUTTLE RISING FAST - BLUE-BLACK SKY
- EPAULE: Tilting gradually to 60 deg; exhaust trailing
- Fog quits: GIRTH GLOWS RED
ORANGE
as
- Turbine collar returns to flush
- (00:52 clang, exalt, exhilarates)
- Shuttle gaining, passes upward ahead
- GIRTH GLOWS
YELLOW
WHITE
BLUISH
and
- EXHAUST TRAIL ITSELF GLOWS transparent below the girth
- (01:23 lull)
- Preceding
till tracking scopelike far beyond
- (01:26 voice)
- EXT. SHUTTLE - ORBIT - EAST SUN, WEST MOON (HOUR LATER)
- AFORE: Its horizontal trail blooms wispy sheer-robe-like
- (01:52 "far in the distance")
- BEACONS FLASH on the horizon directly behind,-- of the
- CARRIER SHIP approaching the Shuttle, slowing relatively
- (02:04 clang, exalt exhilarates)
- AHEAD STANDING-OFF: Carrier Ship: Shuttle recedes to the huge flat-black dust-pavis-shielded former Rebel ship with its axial halves fore and aft slowly contra-rolling
- (02:33 fade)
- EXT. SHUTTLE - PASSING CARRIER SIDE, FOR REAR
- (02:35 lull)
- Shuttle exhaust off,- its girth cools to red, to black
- Glides, passing back along
to the Carrier rear
- (02:38 +flute, easy-lightens, free-easy)
- And passing behind
VERNIER BRAKES
and
- Crosses to its rear-center
and waits
- (02:53 un-fade)
- CARRIER REAR - SELF-FLOOD-LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- Shuttle synchronizes with its axial rotation
- (02:57 pick-up, resumes exhilarating)
- Its guide-and-flood-lighted rear CENTER GATE OPENS
- Shuttle VERNIERS FORWARD
- (03:00 chorus, guitar)
- And just enters over mid Pacific Ocean
- (03:11)
- INT. CARRIER WELL (VERTICAL) - DIM LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- Shuttle ascends the central bore, passing window views of personnel, head-tops, Some looking up-out to watch
- (03:31)
- INT. SHUTTLE - DISPLAYS LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- TfNi, helmetted, elated to be home, controls readily
- Yaws Shuttle 360 deg. while Mike checks docking-readouts
.
- (03:51)
- Sync'ed to dock, she stops the Shuttle rise
and awaits
- DOCK BRIDGING EXTENDS from a wall-well Portal.
- (04:02 dum+oompah)
- DOCK ATTACHES,- and draws the Shuttle to the Portal
- (04:12 -melt before confident voice-)
- CUT TO:
- EXT. ELEVATOR - OPENS - GLASS WALL ON BRIGHT HANGING GARDEN
- Mike, TfNi, Officer Crew enter, and--
- INT. ELEVATOR, DESCENDS - (CONTINUOUS)
- They admire the altitude-like view
- DISSOLVE TO:
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