Alien Resurrection Script

126 Pages·2010·5.48 MB·English

alien

resurrection

Joss Whedon
EXT. DERE SPACE

blask. We swesp slox"y across an endless capestry of
Finally she cones into view: the U.d.8. AURIGA, a
nassive vesearch vessel thar site majesticaliy just beyond
Pluto's orbic

Ye TEACK ALONG the side of the ship, and
THT, AURIGA
along the silent, empty corridors, coming at last to a doorway

weth two guards standing xigid in'front of it, Fall amour,
powerlui shockrifles, expressions enpty and cola

INT, MSDLAB

aiong a row of screens, where we see che Cizst signs of life --
readouts, 2ights, data -- all shifting and collating on the
blinking’ screens. As we TRACK ALONG them, a figure in a
iebooat passes through the freme, then another, leading vs
aiang the lab to settle on what locks tike 2 cryogenic tube,
aoe Big enough far a human.

TRACKING around it, we glimpse inside some vague, Zetel
Tags scased ina clear, aspicciike gel. Tubes and cables ere
the Mass, Tumning out of the machine, As #e still
is to be more cohezen, tiil wa can see

even be s face, Eyes, shut tight, slaeping

A Birds eyes view of a Cield, the sof= gclden waves Zilling the
vorcen. “Sharp coacrask 2p what we have seen betor=
There is a woman wanderzng chrough the field. Beside her a

girl, Seven or sigul,
tousied hai.

p dinghy suagress. Bath aave Diack.

thus vorce
My momy always sase there were no
im no rea: snes -- put there

The gizl stops, looks around her. The whest comes all the way
up ta her chest. and nothing else is visinle as far as she can

She loves pack at the. wonan but the woman is already more than
Fiity yards away, ‘3 expression becomes perplexed.
She siaps @ bug on ths hack of her neck. puile it off and it
is HUGE, wsiggiing fieanily in her hand. Her expression
becomes even tore distraught, but she canngt muster farch &
shout,

‘The sound of insects fi:
anorher, She looks dow

1s the air. Another bug lands on ber,
in crewing norro= and sees:

Blood. At her fect, rising, filling the field, rising abave
che wheat, a sea of blood.ndw, dark, thick

The gizi tries again zo scream, raises her arms. She is
comietely covered in inseccs, a skittering black shroud of
them, and when she finally dogs aCREAM they 2 ood ‘into her

cur ro.
INT. LAE

Inetranents how a + sate, bloo4 pressure
Seiencists nore it ook aver az the thing in aspic. We
fen tell that time has passed because it ix mucn bigger, nearly
the size of a an, and ina new case

Tae camers moves in on the cardiograph, then moves dow
chow another one
case. Smalier

BALLWAY

dark, ond we are moving chrousn a: at impossible speed,
to anuther without slow=ng, yp inte an ar vere
waving, waving, until we reush’a chamber, some place
wsere all we can see is a mess of eark, moviag, inhumaa flesh -
at welzomes us in, ervelaps is

ANGLE

maybe the dare chamber -- in the dream it
ang.” She opers her eyes, but tney are dark,

She reaches for ner chest and begins sczacching it
Mara. Tearing at zt, as blood welle wp, spilling over her

cor ro.

INT, GPERATIN

CE AnaER

of chis

Ang che caus

am heesmes apparent
ANGLE: RIPLEY'S CHEsT

being cut open with a lasersew, We see her body stil has 2
layer of she aspic-eiame clinging to it, And her skin is

unmaturaily blue, pur as we PAN from her cheet Eo Her face.
nez identity ie unmistakan:

Around. her are several men in operating maske. Curting her is
SEDINAN, a young and enthusiastic scientist. One man,
seemingly in charge, stands 2 bit off, watching. Taiz, by the
tag on his coat, is°DR RREN.

WREN
Garefel... -eady with the amio..,

Bis voice is soft, comforting, like the face that watches
thoughtfully from’ behind thick glasses.

Gediman finishes cutting. Ansther man steps in with a clamp,
Sets iz. - PLIIS apart tae chaet

seorme
There she is

Ne say it like he's cound a lost kitte. He zeaches in azd
pulls out a sleeping, fetal Sut neaziy =seady to burse ALTEN
Dthers work at severing umbilical thrsade that tie it to
Rinley’s chest.

SEDINAK
Here we go.

Se holds iz up aad others step in wis!
incubator filled with anmiotie fluid

the amic, @ scrt of

2 slien SCREWS, irs tiny mouth £41, with teeth, and wriggles
of his grasp

REN

Watch ic

-ybody panics the thiag san get completely
away” from hin, 8 gyabs it and sticks it in the amnio.
Someone shuce the top rapidly. &

moment

emma

REN
The hose?

A surgaos lesks at Ripley's ruadings
SURGEON
Doing tine,

Gediman looks at Wren, hopefudly. W:

WREN
Sew her back up

Sed:man and the surgeon get ta work, as the others carefully
remove the alien,

GuDEMaN
Well, that went as well ae could be
expected--

“5 hand LASHE2 OUT, GRARS the surgeon's forearm. Ke
n pain ag her fingers dig into iim -~

Ripley's eyes pop open: wide, unseeing, consciousness
flcodins in behind them -- her whole body so rigid iz shakes ~~

=- The surgeon SCRERMS, trying to pry hi
serambling, knocking sAangs aver
SBACKING

hand off, she others
and We HEAR HTS HONE

SMASH CUT TO:

‘sast she’s not so blue aa

ay light on her comes from directiy above, frem a thick
pane of glass in the canter of the

CELL

stands on the floor above, looking inte the cel?
she square of glass in che floor, directly above

[We ces other parse of glass Mining the floor,
ng more celis below.)

Thea ehe Lifts her hands
shia.

Looks
forearr. Tattooad near the exeok of har

she icoks up, ner ¢ace unreadable.
cur to:
INT. LAB

3Spley is sitting on @ table as Gedinan dvave blood from her.
He Geposics ic in a test beaker, studies her eyes,

Wren enters, “ooking at a chart.

WRER
You's ur number Eight today?

GEDIAN

Appears to be in good health.

REN,
: tzacieing his tone!
Bow goad?

i EDTA
Extraordinary. As in, completely off

: oar projected charts
(shows aim soma phosos!
Look at the scar tissue, Sea the

This is trom

SEDIMAN

very good.
: SERIMAN

ptrenges
We're nat ycoking

Approved

men eae up to R

ley. studies bor face with satisfaczion

REN
, Well, it looks iike you're goang to make
us all very prov
she gzabs his throat with dazz]ing speed, spelying deadly
as she brings his ‘ace to ners.’ Her eyes are burning,

RIPLEY
Why?

GEDIMAN
oh ay god

Me is as wide eyed as aren, ‘ana he isn’t having his windpips
crushed. After a moment the shock wears off and he alae his
hand into the alarm. Klaxons, red light fire up

A guard rushes in, levels his weapon at
staring him dowr, she opens her hand.
gasping.

The guard FIRES his rifte at her -- a powerful electrical
bharge lashes out sné sends he= flying back into the corner,

WREN,
Nc! No! I'm all right!

‘the weapeas -- ‘burners’, these shockrifies
are called -- leveled at Ripley. she has ecovered From the
Shock quickly, sits crumpled in the coraer, looking at not!
in pareicular

RIPLEY
fugarily}
way. 2

cor To.

DESERVATION ROOM

a end Ge: through a one way mirror as a seientist
s Ripley. With them is Genera: PEREZ, the nan iu charge of
thas boat. |Ramrod straight and about as Gruff ae you would
expect, he stares at Ripley suspiciously

a LEY

snonor her te
He watches as the scientist holds up cacde with pictures on
then: asuse, dog, beat, Ripley gives anawers we can’t Near
through che’glass, looking pisead off and boced.

REN
ct’s unprecedented

‘SEDIMAN
Totally! she's operacing at a.
comgletely adult capacity

EEREZ
And hex meneries?

‘aREN
‘Tuere ave gaps. And thera‘s some degree .

Of cognitive dissonance

GED ZHAN
She's tresked.

dren shoots Gediman 2 ati mtitic parlance.

ive difficulties.
A kind cf low leve! emotional autism,
Certain reactions.

Perez looks at Ripley zhrough'the glass, chen
hata

cur to:

BALL - CONT=MUOUS

mtists fo-lox, pas: as he strides down toward 2

phservation coon,

Groman
Bt the thing is. we can‘ terminate

PEREZ
You bsven't 201d me what you think nas
caused this. Cloned genes don’t contain
memory cells, not even when they‘ re
brought co adul: cern. “I'm =ight?

GEDINAN
jere’s been cases --

PERRY,
Not Vike this
Geli, we don't have nearly enough
Gsta‘.. but ia some cases there is a
va memory passed down
genezetioual-y. at < genetic level
Bike dnstinet, only more complex

structurally

PEREZ

some cases. You're talking ahout she
alien.

aren
ves

PEREZ
You promised me there wasn't going to be
any crossing

REN
Here nok Like

sther ones.

Fere2 punches cede, puts his hand on the scanner aid che second
observarion room door opens. He steps in, the other
behind him.

cur 19

SRVATION ROS THO

than che first one, Quieter. Perez taras to the

PEREZ
But there is sone cenetic mix
REN
: ves
PEREZ

Will there be furcher mutation?

HAN
Muration isn't exactty... T don't

PEREZ
All right. You can keap vue
Secure, under obso, and for God’s sake
keup it away from here, “1 don't wast,
} ary more SUZprises
And as he speaks the AL{EN RISES RIGHT BEEIND
the ridges on its head indicating a yourg cueen
and LUNGHS at the back af his Acad

At’s bia,
~ ir Hisees

the reinforced plastic window between then, which we coulan’t
see, stops it. Ag it nite, a thin laser grid buzzes to life,
sparss crackling oa the alien’s face, Ite site trails darkly
nr tae glass as it hacky aff

Perez turns. to ieok ae it with the others

PEREZ
The dacabase indicates that Ripley was
resporsible for exterminating every
specinen in the known universe, 1
wouldn't like to see her picking ap her
ld hobbies.

ween
I den’t chink you have ta worry on that
csprran
igrianiay

couse down toa fight, t'm not sure
whose 5142 she'é be on

PEREZ
and I’m suppose to cake comfort in
thac?

Sedcmar sauce up

PEI

\iadicating the queen!
Hox soon hefore this one’s ovulacing?

oR:

ho way of knowing for sure, but I’é say
it’s accelerares
|Atter a moment}

Ke’ze gaang @ supplies

‘they're coming. Soon.