Detritus; Into the Mystery.
INT. HUMMER (moving) HOLTON ME – DAY
John and Morgan sit side-by-side in the backseat, they both appear fearfully concerned. They look ahead at a snow covered highway, a dense snow covered forest on both sides of the road. LEE, Asian lady, twenties, spiked hair, drives, leans forward, both hands tensely grip the wheel. Speedometer reads, 50 mph. She focuses on the snow covered highway, wipers flap.
Lebron sits in the front-passenger seat to her right. He counts on his fingers, looks up.
LEBRON
“Speed of light divided by sound equals, now?”
He tips his head back towards Morgan in the backseat.
LEBRON
“Warm yet, Morgan?”
Morgan looks at Lebron in the rear-view mirror, she appears angry.
MORGAN
“Lebron!” What the hell is going on!?”
She looks over at, Lee who drives, both hands on the wheel, focused on the snow covered highway, she turns to John who looks at the side of Lebron’s face.
JOHN
“And who’s your friend over here!?”
Lee perks up, cranes her head towards John, turns back, looks ahead. Snow falls, wipers flap, a snow covered highway.
John turns to Morgan, appears frustrated. He looks to the front, the back of Lee’s head, turns to, Lebron in the passenger front seat.
JOHN
“I don’t know if we should feel rescued, or captured?”
Lebron, turns around to John in the backseat. He glances over at Morgan with an expressionless look, turns back to John, smirks.
LEBRON
“I have a question for you, Professor.”
John stares at Lebron, appears inpatient.
LEBRON
“You believe in aliens now?”
He smiles broadly, laughs., turns back around, looks over at, Lee. She turns to Lebron. Her left eyeball is solid black, green code scrolls on it. She blinks. Her left eyeball is brown/normal, matches her right eye. She turns to the snow covered highway in front of her, both hands grip the wheel.
John looks ahead, snow falls on the snow covered highway, wipers-flap. He looks to his left. They drive along side massive snow banks in front of a snow-covered-ditch, expansive snow-fields, a lake with mountains in the background.
Lee drives, appears focused. The speedometer reads, 50 mph. Her right foot crushes the accelerator.
O.S. (off screen) Sound of accelerating engine.
Speedometer reads 80 mph.
John and Morgan look at each other.
MORGAN
“I’ve always loved you.”
John studies Morgan. Her face reveals a warm glow, she smiles humbly.
JUST THEN
Lee turns hard left directly into the massive snowbanks walls.
O.S. (off screen) Sound of crashing into frozen snowbank, chunks of frozen snow pelting off the windshield and body of the Hummer.
An explosive wall of powdery snow blinds the view. Large blocks snow-clumps explode off the windshield. Lee holds to the steering-wheel tight, She tosses left to right, drives down into the snow covered ditch, snow fly’s wildly in all directions.
John holds Morgan against his chest with one hand, holds the grab-bar to his left with the other. Morgan embraces him tightly.
EXT. SNOW-FIELD HOLTON ME. DAY
The Hummer races through the deep snow-field trailed by a cloud of snow. It speeds directly towards the lake.
INT. HUMMER (moving) .DAY
Lee drives, both hands on the wheel, she looks over at a panel on the center-dashboard, red, yellow & blue buttons side-by-side. She turns to Lebron. He gives her a questioning look. Lee looks at the panel with red, yellow & blue buttons. She points to the yellow button.
Lebron presses the yellow button.
Lee drives, both hands on the wheel, she turns towards John and Morgan in the backseat. She looks ahead at the lakes shoreline. Her right foot crushes the accelerator.
O.S. (off screen) Sound of racing engine.
Lee drives fast, crashes through the deep snow, clouds of snow explode in front of the Hummer.
She drives into the lake. Water explodes, pounds the entire vehicle.
EXT. LAKE – HOLTON MAINE – DAY
O.S. (off screen) sound of air compressor.
Hummer floats on top of a partially inflated yellow-raft, unfolds, fills out tight.
O.S. (Off screen) Sound of jet-engine that starts.
Airplane wings emerge from the Hummers roof-line. The Hummers rear door rolls up into its roof-line. A jet-engine mounted in the cargo-area shoots massive yellow and blue flames.
O.S (off screen) Jet-engine accelerating.
The raft and Hummer nose up in the air out of the water, they slingshot out into open lake waters.
The Hummer and raft lift off the lake waters, now airborne, fly over snow-capped mountains at jet-speeds.
NOTE, to be continued. What is this all about? We shall we see?
- Set up, set up, reveal.