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Halloween: The Series 1X07
By aragorn_8
Halloween: The Series
Episode Seven: The Seed of Evil
We open with a shot of a large stretch of snow covered wasteland. A caption appears reading “Antarctic, 1987”. We pan around to see a small camp set up near large icy mountains. We pan in closer to the largest building.
We cut to inside where we see two men entering through a doorway wearing large parkas; outside the wind is blowing loudly. They carry a large case between them, which they set down on a table before closing the door. The first man pulls his hood back. He’s dark haired and unshaven; he looks very much like a rent-a-thug and his name is WINSTON. The other person does the same to reveal a shorter, fair haired man; this is TOBY. Toby is looking very worried.
TOBY: Do you think it followed us?
WINSTON: Relax Toby. Everything’s all right now. We’ve got the Pod and our helicopter will be arriving soon.
TOBY: But it could still be out there.
WINSTON: Just stop worrying so much you spineless bastard, nothing is going to go wrong. The boss has everything planned out.
Suddenly we hear a loud thump on the outside wall of the building. This is quickly followed by a high pitched, inhuman roar. Terror quickly spreads over Toby’s face as the banging continues.
TOBY: Oh my god! I told you it wasn’t dead, I told you it was going to get us!
WINSTON: Shut it! I’ve had enough of your squealing, any more and I’ll throw you outside with that thing! It can’t get in; this base is sealed up tight and when the chopper gets here they’ll blow that thing away.
Winston’s assurances don’t appear to calm Toby as the wind mixes with the howls of whatever is outside the building. After a few moments another sound enters the fray, that of helicopter rotor blades.
TOBY: The helicopter! It’s here!
The noise gets louder and the banging on the building stops. We here the creature roaring followed by the sound of gunfire. All noises except that of the wind stop. Winston goes over to the door and, lifting his hood up, opens it slightly to see out. He turns back to Toby.
WINSTON: They’ve driven it off. Let’s go.
TOBY: Wh… What about the bodies?
The camera pans around to show that four people dressed as scientists are lying dead on the floor, bullet wounds are seen. We turn back to Winston who is holding a gun! The Halloween Theme begins to play.
WINSTON: We leave them. The explosion will destroy all the evidence that we were ever here.
With that he turns and walks out into the snow. Toby looks saddened before picking up the case and following him. The screen goes blank and the theme continues to play as the camera rises up over Haddonfield. A Jack-o-Lantern appears, an evil grin on it, and the titles come up:
HALLOWEEN: The Series.
The music becomes a very rock and roll like version of the music and various images from the series fly up. The cast characters are named as Tommy Doyle, Debra Loomis and Lonnie Elamb.
We open with a shot of a job centre in Haddonfield. We cut to inside where Tommy is sitting down and talking to a women across the desk.
WOMEN: So, Mr Doyle, what prior job experience have you had?
TOMMY: Well, I actually only really had part time jobs whilst at school. This is really the first time I’ve looked into some kind of employment.
WOMEN: I see. Well, what kind of work are you after?
TOMMY: Not to long hours, basically something to keep a bit of money coming in.
WOMEN: Well, we have your details. I’ll let you know as soon as anything comes up.
TOMMY: Thanks for your time.
He gets up and shakes her hand before turning and leaving the building. He heads down the street passing a bus stop. We cut away from him and pan in close to see a young, frightened looking, man getting off. He looks about down the street both ways before crossing over the road quickly and rushing off into the crowds. We pan away before fading to black.
We open with Lonnie lying out in his front garden looking up at the sun. Considering its early January the weather is extremely good and Lonnie is making the most of it. As he lies there we see two kids, about 17, walking past. They see Lonnie and call over to him; the kids are GREG and ADAM.
GREG: Hey Lonnie!
Lonnie sits up and opens his eyes.
LONNIE: Oh, it’s you two. What do you want?
ADAM: We just want to talk to you a moment.
Lonnie seems to consider and then gets up and goes over to them.
LONNIE: Well?
ADAM: Word on the street is that you’re no longer dealing. What’s up with you man, we all looked up to ya.
LONNIE: You know I haven’t been into that for ages. What’s the real reason you want to talk to me; you better not lie because you just disturbed me from a very sexy dream and that kind of makes me cranky.
GREG: Alright. Chappell got busted the other night and we was like our main supply. We were wondering if you could help us.
LONNIE: Joseph always was an ass. Look kiddies, I can’t help you.
ADAM: Watch who your calling a kid!
Lonnie looks down at him menacingly.
LONNIE: I can call you, or anyone else, whatever the hell I like. You understand that? Kid.
ADAM: Whatever.
He backs down and he and Greg turn and head off. He shakes his head as he watches them go.
LONNIE: Kids think they are so damn tough.
He turns and heads back to where he was lying. As he does we see the man who got off the bus earlier heading down the street. He sees Lonnie and stumbles over and calls out to him.
MAN: Excuse me!
Lonnie rolls his eyes as he turns to face the man.
LONNIE: What now?
MAN: Sorry to bother you but I was wondering, do you know where I could find a Doctor Loomis? Doctor Sam Loomis.
LONNIE: Who wants to know?
MAN: This may sound odd but I’d rather not say.
LONNIE: Then I’d rather not help.
The man seems to consider this for a while.
MAN: My names Arnold. I really can’t tell you much more than that but please, trust me, it is very important that I get in contact with Doctor Loomis. If you know where I can find him please tell me, I have a little money.
LONNIE: Hey, calm down. If it is that important I’m sure we can come to some sort of arrangement. Say, you give me 100 dollars and I take you to someone who knows the Doc.
ARNOLD: Done.
He reaches into his wallet and hands the cash over to Lonnie. Lonnie excepts it with a wry smile.
LONNIE: You have been. Nah, come on, this way.
He heads off with Arnold in tow.
We cut to an aerial view of a vast, green house like, complex. We cut to inside to show a vast gallery of hundreds of different species of plants. As we pan in closer we see a figure standing on a platform over looking the vast array of vegetation. The figure turns and we see he is a well dressed man in his forties, his hair neatly combed back and his hands covered by black gloves. This is HARRISON KIELA, manager of the Illinois Institute of Plant Research. We see a figure approaching him from behind, it is Winston!
WINSTON: Mister Kiela.
KIELA: Yes, what is it Winston?
He speaks with a strong British accent yet his voice is rather smooth.
WINSTON: It’s about Arnold Remington.
KIELA: Aha yes, dear Arnold. It was very sloppy of you to leave any survivors at the Antarctic. He could have caused a lot of trouble.
WINSTON: No one believe his stories. I mean, monsters? Everyone put it down to shell shock; he isn’t any trouble to us.
KIELA: In that case Winston why have you come to me mentioning his name? Obviously something has caught your attention and I would like to know exactly what that is.
WINSTON: Well, he’s gone to Haddonfield; apparently he’s looking for a Doctor Loomis. From what I hear this old quack just might take him seriously.
Kiela suddenly looks angry.
KIELA: Really? In that case why is he even still alive? Winston, the Pod is reaching its point of germination. What you see before you is the greatest collection of plants in the world; this new species will be the crowning glory and nobody shall be aloud to take it from me.
WINSTON: So, you want me to get Arnold taken care of?
KIELA: At once Winston.
Winston nods and exits. Kiela turns to look out across the sea of green.
KIELA: My green friends. You will soon be joined by a new fellow of your kingdom.
We cut back to Haddonfield. Debra is packing up various articles of clothing when there’s a knock at the door. She goes over and opens it to reveal Lonnie.
DEBRA: Lonnie.
LONNIE: Hiya Debbie. Got someone here who wants to speak to you.
He walks in and past Debra and Arnold steps into the doorway.
ARNOLD: Debra!
DEBRA: Arnold!
The both looked surprised and then Debra gestures for Arnold to come in; she closes the door behind him.
LONNIE: Huh, you two know each other?
DEBRA: Know each other? Lonnie, this is Arnold Remington, my cousin.
LONNIE: Your cousin?
ARNOLD: So what’s going on here? It’s nice to see you and all Debra but this guy said he could take me to Uncle Sam.
Debra glares at Lonnie.
DEBRA: Did he?
LONNIE: That isn’t exactly what I…
DEBRA: Shut it Lonnie. Arnold, I got some bad news about Uncle Sam.
ARNOLD: Oh god, he isn’t..?
DEBRA: No. He’s in a coma, he was attacked by Michael Myers on Halloween. We don’t know when he’ll wake up. I’m sorry.
ARNOLD: I can’t believe this.
He sits down on Debra’s bed and puts his head in his hands.
DEBRA: Why did you need to get in touch with him anyway? Perhaps we can help with whatever it is?
ARNOLD: Thanks but I think that perhaps Sam was the only one who could of understood.
DEBRA: Try me. Trust me, I’ve probably seen a lot more than even Uncle Sam imagined existed.
He looks up at her and seems to debate with himself before deciding what to do. He looks at Lonnie then back at her.
ARNOLD: Can he be trusted?
LONNIE: Sometimes.
DEBRA: He’s alright, he won’t say anything out of place. So, what was it you have to say?
ARNOLD: This may sound all a bit fantastic but it’s all true, you must trust me on that. About two years ago I was part of an expedition to the Antarctic, our goal was too dig through about twenty lairs of ice in search of any sort of fossil remains. It was a very low cost operation but was the chance of a life time for me to finally get some proper field work in archaeology done.
DEBRA: So, did you find anything?
ARNOLD: We found something alright. Though only a few days later I wished that we had not…
The screen melts away and we are looking down at the Camp from the start. This is obviously a flash back and we pan into a cabin to reveal three men; Arnold, Toby and LUKE. They are gathered around a table but we cannot see what they are looking at.
TOBY: How many lairs deep was it?
ARNOLD: At least 20,000 years.
LUKE: But that’s impossible. These things look tropical to me yet it’s been millions of years since Antarctica’s climate was in that state. Its an excepted scientific theory.
ARNOLD: Well, discoveries like that have destroyed excepted theories before. We could be looking at a missing piece of the puzzle.
TOBY: So, what do you want to do with them now then?
LUKE: I say we place one in cold storage whilst examining the second. This could be the discovery of a life time; we could all be famous by the end of the year.
We cut back to Arnold speaking to Lonnie and Debra.
ARNOLD: Luke was always going on about fame. He wanted it so much but it wasn’t to be.
LONNIE: Alright but what was it you discovered already?
ARNOLD: Pods.
DEBRA: Pods? As in a plant pod?
ARNOLD: Exactly. But they weren’t any ordinary plants as we were to discover…
We melt back into the flashback where we see a large, organic globe, shaded reds, browns and greens. This is the Pod. It is sitting on a work bench, two scientists are busy in the background whilst Luke and Toby are looking over it.
LUKE: It responded!
TOBY: Pardon?
LUKE: Didn’t you see? It responded to the light sensor; this pod, it’s still alive! They may both me still alive! The ice must have kept them frozen for thousands of years in a kind of suspension.
TOBY: This is amazing.
Toby gets up and turns to leave.
LUKE: Where are you going?
TOBY: To get a recorder, I want this on tape.
As he heads down a few corridors we hear the voice over of Arnold.
ARNOLD (V/O): We thought it would be safe. But somehow others found at about the Pods; they came for them. Of course by then it was too late, one had already germinated.
We see Toby sitting down by a communicator he turns it on and speaks into it.
TOBY: Get me Harrison Kiela, we’ve discovered something he might be interested in.
We cut back to the lab where Luke is seen nodding off next to the plant. A light shines down brightly on it. The scientists work away and don’t notice that the Pod is slowly beginning to break open! A long shoot slides out like a snake and wraps itself up Luke’s arm. His eyes snap open, he cries out and collapses to the floor unconscious. Arnold rushes in.
ARNOLD: Luke! Oh god… the pod!
Toby rushes in a few moments later.
TOBY: What happened?
ARNOLD: The pod! Its germinated and somehow infected Luke!
TOBY: What?
He bends down and roles Luke over onto his front. His arm is entirely green and the vine has wrapped itself up around it. What’s more, it seems to be slowly spreading! They look on in horror.
ARNOLD: We have to get him to the medical wing.
As he and two scientists begin to lift Luke up we fade back to Debra, Lonnie and Arnold.
LONNIE: Your telling me he turned into a cabbage?
ARNOLD: Cabbages don’t kill. What he became was a twisted abomination; part man and part plant. The pod continues to mutate him and no treatment we administered had any effect on stopping, or even slowing, the infection.
DEBRA: So Luke was infected… But what happened to the other pod? And the creature he became?
ARNOLD: That’s where it gets worse. A few hours later we received a may day; a private jet had apparently crashed not far from the area with only one survivor. Toby went out to help the survivor…
We cut back to the main entrance of the base like we saw at the start. The door opens and two men enter. Arnold is waiting for them, his face grim. The two men look up; the man Toby went to rescue is none other than Winston.
TOBY: What is it?
ARNOLD: It’s Luke. He killed Harris and then fled the base.
TOBY: What? How could this happen? Where is he now?
ARNOLD: I don’t know; we have a team out searching for him right now. But we have to be careful, he’s dangerous. I’ve got to go see to the others, Toby make our guest welcome.
Arnold heads into another room. Toby checks everything is clear and then turns to Winston.
TOBY: What are you doing here?
WINSTON: The boss sent me. Said you’d found some kind of plant.
TOBY: What about it?
WINSTON: He asked me to come and fetch it for part of his collection. So where are you keeping it?
TOBY: You can’t just come in and take it! I knew Mr Kiela would want to know about it but this is theft! What are you planning?
WINSTON: Look, you take me to the pod. That’s all you have to worry about. The rest is my concern. Also, what’s this about a murder?
TOBY: The first pod infected one of the party, turned him into some kind of monster! We have to get out this place now!
WINSTON: Monster huh? I’ve think the colds made your head go numb Toby, my friend. Doesn’t matter they’ll all be dead soon anyway.
TOBY: Dead? You don’t mean..
WINSTON: Mr Kiela wants no witnesses, no evidence. Just another lost expedition to add to the list.
TOBY: No! You can’t!
WINSTON: I can Toby. And you’re going to as your told unless you want to join your colleagues.
Toby looks extremely worried before resigning with a nod. Winston smile at him before drawing a gun and walking into the next room.
We cut back to Debra’s room.
DEBRA: Did they get the pod? What happened to Luke and the others?
ARNOLD: Luke continued to change, to change and grow. He killed several member of our team before we managed to trap him outside; we thought that would be the end of it, that we could just wait till help arrived.
DEBRA: So what happened?
ARNOLD: I over heard Winston and Toby talking. They were planning on stealing the pod; before I had a chance to warn the other survivors Winston killed them. I knew I couldn’t let them get the pod so I placed it in a storage container and fled out into the snow.
As Arnold speaks we see visual images of what he’s saying over laid upon him, Debra and Lonnie.
DEBRA: With Luke still out there?
ARNOLD: With the thing Luke had become. But they came after me, shot me in the shoulder and left me for dead. I was later found by a rescue team; the whole camp had been destroyed including Luke. I told them what happened but wasn’t believed, they said I was suffering mental shock. But it happened, I tried to track down Winston and Toby using whatever resources I could. I am sure that pod is somewhere in this state and it is extremely dangerous.
DEBRA: Well…
ARNOLD: It’s all true.
LONNIE: Sounds like you’ve been watching Day of the Triffids to much.
DEBRA: Lonnie, shut it. This may sound fantastic and even though I’ve seen a lot I still find it hard to swallow. But I trust Arnold and so I believe every word he says. We have to help him.
ARNOLD: Thank you. I’ll leave you the address of where I’m staying and you can contact me at this number.
He scribbles down on a piece of paper. Lonnie still looks at him, sceptical.
DEBRA: Is there anything you want us to do?
ARNOLD: I have a feeling I know where the pod is being kept. But I’m waiting for a message from an old friend, he should be able to let me know if my ideas are correct. If they are, I’ll call you and we can pay a visit.
We cut to outside. A car is parked not far from where they are talking and we see Winston sitting in it listening to the conversation on some kind of device. He picks up a phone and dials it. After a few moments he speaks.
WINSTON: I think we have a few more problems to deal with. Send Ford, we’re going to have to remove them.
He hangs up and looks out across the street where Arnold is seen leaving the building. Winston cocks a gun and drives off. Fade to black.
We are back at the Institute. We see Kiela sitting amongst a vast number of plants as Toby approaches him.
TOBY: Sir..
KIELA: Amazing aren’t they. I could sit all day with my plants, just absorbing the natural radiance they give off. We are killing this planet, Toby, and yet we have no right to it. The plants are our life and yet we are nothing to them.
TOBY: Sir, I have news about the pod.
Kiela appears suddenly interested.
KIELA: Well, my dear Toby, what is happening with my wonderful plant?
TOBY: It’s beginning to react to the new formula of fertiliser you produced. I think it’s getting ready to germinate.
KIELA: Really? This is good news. This is very good news.
TOBY: But sir, it’s dangerous. Shouldn’t we lower the amount we are injecting into it. After what happened at the Antarctic…
KIELA: No Toby. We will continue. Thank you for the news.
Kiela turns his attention back to his plants. Toby stands watching him a few moments before leaving the room, a look of worry spreading across his face.
It’s now dark and a clock shows the time to be around eleven. We see Debra and Lonnie walking along the streets.
LONNIE: He’s probably just sleeping, I know I should be.
DEBRA: I know but I worry. I tried phoning Tommy twice without an answer, after all that happened recently I feel scared for him.
LONNIE: Oh brother…
A long black limousine pulls up on the road by them. A CHAUFFEUR, a man in his forties, gets out and approaches them.
CHAUF: Excuse me, would you be Ms Loomis and Mr Elamb?
LONNIE: Who wants to know?
CHAUF: A friend, Mr Remington, sent me to pick you up. He said to tell you he has news about the pod.
Debra looks and Lonnie who shrugs.
DEBRA: Alright then, where is he meeting us?
CHAUF: I am to take you to his hotel, he gave me the address.
Debra climbs in followed by Lonnie and the Chauffeur gets in and starts the engine. We see the car pull away, as it does we pan around the streets to see Tommy walking along looking very tired.
TOMMY: Better get home, had enough job searching for one day.
As he walks along we pan up to the moon.
We pan back down to show we are now watching the limousine driving out of Haddonfield. In the car we see Debra sat down and Lonnie staring out the window.
DEBRA: How far is it?
CHAUF: Not far.
DEBRA: Did Arnold say anything to you about what he discovered?
CHAUF: No.
Lonnie looks away from the window.
LONNIE: What was the address again?
CHAUF: Pardon?
LONNIE: The address. Where we’re going.
CHAUF: Don’t worry… Don’t worry I have the address. I know my way around these parts so we won’t get lost.
LONNIE: Look you idiot, I want to know the address.
DEBRA: Lonnie!
LONNIE: Because it ain’t the one we have. In fact, we seem to be heading out into the middle of no where.
The vehicle suddenly screeches to a halt. The Chauffeur reaches down and lifts up a gun. Before he can point it Lonnie hits him hard before pushing the door open and pulling Debra out.
DEBRA: Oh god…
The Chauffeur jumps out and immediately starts shooting. Lonnie and Debra sprint into the dark. As they run they realises they are in some sort of abandoned quarry, a large metal structure sits at the centre surrounded by broken rock and old machinery.
DEBRA: Where’s your guns?
LONNIE: I never brought them with me, there back at my place! Damn it! If we’re careful we should be able to take out this bastard, he’s hardly trained stuff.
Debra and Lonnie run over a sandbank and dive behind it just as the Chauffeur appears. He looks around and advances forward as he cocks his gun. We see Lonnie crawling away from Debra after whispering something. As the Chauffeur gets closer Debra leans up.
DEBRA: Hey! Leave us alone!
He turns to her and fires but she manages to duck down in time. She then darts over near the metal structure and hides behind a piece of machinery. The Chauffeur approaches cautiously.
DEBRA: You come near me and you’ll regret it!
The Chauffeur smirks and approaches her hiding place. Suddenly Lonnie drops down from the scaffolding above and lands on the Chauffeur. He collapses to the ground and Lonnie knocks him out with a swift punch to the jaw. Debra jumps up and runs over to him.
LONNIE: He’ll sleep for a while.
DEBRA: Who do you think he is?
LONNIE: A chauffeur?
DEBRA: You know what I mean. Why did he try and kill us and how did he know that we knew about the pod?
LONNIE: How the hell I meant to know? Let’s search the car and see if we can find anything. At the very least there might be some cash.
We see Debra role her eyes as he heads back to the car. We cut to them there and Lonnie is seen forcing the boot open. He looks in at the clutter of junk.
DEBRA: You shouldn’t have done that.
LONNIE: Why not? The guy just tried to kill us, I don’t have a problem braking into his car.
DEBRA: Yeah but he left the keys here.
LONNIE: Oh…
Debra starts searching throughout the boot, underneath a canvas she finds a large picture of several plants arrange din a bouquet. At the bottom it is signed “Miss Eldicht”.
We cut to Tommy’s room where he is getting into bed. Suddenly his phone rings. He picks it up and we cut to Debra holding a car phone. The picture continues to switch depending on who is talking.
DEBRA: Tommy?
TOMMY: Debra. It’s late.
DEBRA: I’ve been trying to call you all day, where have you been?
TOMMY: Job hunting. What’s this about?
DEBRA: Me and Lonnie are at the old quarry just outside Haddonfield.
TOMMY: What are you doing there?
DEBRA: Look , it’s a long story. Someone just tried to kill us and we need you to look up a lead. Can you trust me on this one?
TOMMY: Sure, what do you need?
DEBRA: You know a local artist named Eldicht?
TOMMY: I’ve heard of her. She’s the one who attacked you?
DEBRA: No Tommy, we weren’t threatened by a sixty year old. But one of her paintings was in the boot of this car. It’s named “Symphony of Plants”. Can you try and find out who bought the painting?
TOMMY: I guess. But what are you doing?
DEBRA: We’re going to check on someone. I’ll explain everything when we get back. Thanks Tommy.
TOMMY: Good luck.
The line goes dead. Tommy gets up and grabs a phone directory. He flicks through and finds the address for Eldicht.
We cut to Lonnie and Debra driving along a main road, they are now entering the outskirts of a town. Debra holds a map and is giving instructions to Lonnie.
DEBRA: Alright, take a left here. His place should be at the end of the road.
LONNIE: I hope you got your directions right Debbie, this things damn awkward to steer properly.
DEBRA: I’m sure it is.
They pull over and Debra jumps out and goes over to the entrance. Various buzzers are there for each room and Debra presses “12A”. It buzzes but there’s no reply.
LONNIE: How sure?
DEBRA: This is definitely the right place. He said he was staying in room 12A.
VOICE (V/O): Not any more.
They turn to see an old lady in her seventies sitting in a wheel chair. She moves past them and into the entrance.
DEBRA: What do you mean?
LADY: Earlier today, there was an accident. The guy was hurt badly and took into hospital. I’m told he’ll live but probably won’t speak again.
Debra and Lonnie exchange glances as the old lady goes off. Debra leans against the car, obviously starting to get emotional.
DEBRA: Why is everyone in my family ends up hurt? Maybe that Sheriff of yours was right and we do bring death to Haddonfield.
LONNIE: Debra, it ain’t your fault and you know it. We both know someone had it in for him and I think we should find out who it was. Tomorrow. For now lets head back home and see if Tommy has found out anything useful for a change. And then tomorrow we’ll kick there arses.
Debra smiles and nods as they both climb into the car and head off.
We open with a shot of a very well decorated lounge. Tommy walks in and sits down followed by Miss Eldicht. She sits down opposite him.
TOMMY: Are you sure this isn’t too late?
ELDICHT: Too early actually, it’s 2o’clock in the morning now. And know I don’t mind, as I said I’m waiting for my Black Dawn to bloom and, as you can probably guess from the name, that will be happening in a few hours.
TOMMY: I see. Well, I’m glad I was able to see you so soon. Do you remember painting a picture that you called “Symphony of Plants”?
ELDICHT: Oh yes I remember, that was one of my favourites. I took a lot of time over that one. I also like his one.
She points to a large half-finished painting of several blooming flowers.
ELDICHT: I’ve spent a lot of time trying to catch the plants at exactly the right moment.
TOMMY: Miss Eldicht, can you remember who you sold the painting too?
ELDICHT: But I haven’t finished it yet!
TOMMY: No, not that one. The Symphony of Plants.
ELDICHT: Oh I see dear. Well, let me think…. Began with a K…
TOMMY: Kevin?
ELDICHT: No that wasn’t it…
TOMMY: Was it Karl?
ELDICHT: No, it wasn’t that…. Kiela! That was it! Harrison Kiela, the manager of The Illinois Institute of Plant Research. He has practically every known plant in existence in that place.
TOMMY: Every plant…
ELDICHT: Oh yes, he does have a fine collection. He once said to me he wouldn’t rest until he had every plant in the world.
TOMMY: Thank you very much Miss Eldicht, you’ve been most helpful.
ELDICHT: I’m glad of the company young man. Good morning.
TOMMY: Pardon? Oh, I see. Good morning to you too.
He leaves the room and Miss Eldicht turns back to her paintings smiling.
We see the sunrise up quickly over Haddonfield. Tommy is seen getting up out of bed and yawning loudly, obviously tired. He slips on some clothes and opens his door to find Lonnie standing there. Dressed in a suit.
TOMMY: Ok, I’m still dreaming.
LONNIE: You often dream about me coming around, you poof?
TOMMY: More like a nightmare. What are you doing here and why are you wearing that?
LONNIE: Me and Debbie got your message so we thought why not pay a visit it the Institute?
TOMMY: But why are you wearing that?
LONNIE: We’re thinking of taking the back way in. We still got the Limo so I get to play chauffeur and hopefully we can brag our way in.
TOMMY: You can’t be serious?
LONNIE: Don’t look at me, it was Debra’s idea. So, you coming?
TOMMY: I guess. But you better explain this all to me on the way.
LONNIE: Sure, let’s get going.
We cut to an aerial view of the Institute. We cut to a large laboratory inside where several white coated scientists go about there work busily. As we pan around we see Kiela approaching Toby. Surrounded by Ultraviolet lights and sitting in a small pool of chemicals is the pod! Green ‘veins’ are pulsating across its surface.
KIELA: Wonderful… It’s so beautiful, is it not Toby?
TOBY: Mr Kiela, I really do think this pod could be very dangerous.
KIELA: Oh nonsense Toby! I don’t want to hear anymore about it, this plant is unique and we must let it realise its full potential.
Kiela leans close to the plant, his face filled with wonder, awe and almost love.
KIELA: This pod will do me proud.
We cut to the main entrance to the Institute. The Limousine, with Lonnie driving, is seen going past. It turns down a side alley and heads towards a back way in. Lonnie pulls over to a gate as a guard approaches them.
GUARD: Yes?
LONNIE: Yeah, I’m like delivering this painting to Mr Kiela. I’m his personal chauffeur.
GUARD: You’re not the usual guy.
LONNIE: No, he’s sick. Flu going around, you know. But, as you can see, this is Mr Kiela’s car and uniform. Plus, you know what he’s like when things are late…
GURAD: Alright, you made your point. Go on.
The guard goes over to his booth and flicks a switch which starts the gates opening. As they swing apart Lonnie drives through and the Guard closes the gates again behind him.
Debra leans forward from the back seat, keeping low.
DEBRA: I can’t believe that actually worked.
LONNIE: Good to know you had so much faith in your own idea. Do you think Tommy is getting his part done?
DEBRA: I’m sure he’ll be fine.
We cut to the front entrance where we see Tommy entering. He wanders over to the Gift shop where various plants and gardening supplies are on sale. He begins to wander about, browsing the aisles.
We cut back to Lonnie and Debra who have parked the limousine. They are seen climbing out and heading over towards an entrance marked “No Unauthorised Access”. Debra looks about nervously as Lonnie tries the handle, it is locked.
LONNIE: Locked.
DEBRA: What are we going to do? If we get caught we’re going to have a lot of explaining to do.
LONNIE: Have you got a credit card?
DEBRA: Why..? Lonnie, your not going to break in…
LONNIE: Why not, we’re already in a lot of trouble as it is. Just give me the damn card and we’ll be in within moments.
Debra reluctantly gives Lonnie her card. As he said, in moments the door swings open and they creep in. They find themselves in a large room where a massive piece of machinery sits at one end. Great steel teeth are crushing down on various bits of waste material which move into them on a conveyor belt.
LONNIE: What is that thing?
DEBRA: It’s creating compost out of the waste. I suppose it saves them money and is more environmentally friendly. Come on, let’s go.
We cut to a large room containing young plants. Winston is seen walking through with a security guard when suddenly another runs up to him.
GUARD2: Sir, there’s a disturbance out front.
WINSTON: Now of all times. Come on them.
They run along. We cut to see them heading into the Gift Shop where Tommy is battling a fire that is burning at the plants!.
WINSTON: Mr Kiela is going to be pissed.
They run over to Tommy and help put the fire out.
GUARD2: It’s dying down sir.
WINSTON: Good. Now, what the hell happened here?
TOMMY: I’m not sure. I was just trying to light this cigarette when suddenly.. whoosh! Strangest thing I ever saw!
Tommy is obviously making this up as he goes and Winston doesn’t seem to be buying it.
WINSTON: Really? Well I think you should come with me and have a look at the security tapes. They’ll show us exactly what happened.
They lead Tommy off.
We cut back to Lonnie and Debra who are creeping towards the Research area.
LONNIE: Looks like there isn’t much security about, Tommy must have pulled off his distraction.
DEBRA: Just hope he didn’t get in any trouble.
They come to a large double door, looking through the glass they see the pod sitting on the side!
DEBRA: The pod. I’m sure that must be it! So, it was these people who took it.
LONNIE: What do you want to do now? If we go to the authorities Kiela will have time to hide it away. I say we go grab it now.
DEBRA: But it could be dangerous.
LONNIE: I think it’s probably even more dangerous where it is at the moment. At least we’re not going to make a monster or whatever.
Lonnie slowly opens the door and creeps into the room. It seems empty, he signals for Debra to wait outside.
Winston and Guard2 are seen heading back down a corridor when Kiela spots them.
KIELA: What are you doing here?
WINSTON: We had some trouble out front. The guy behind it is locked up at the moment.
KIELA: I don’t care about that! The pod was not to be left unguarded! Get back there at once!
WINSTON: At once Mr Kiela.
He and the guard run quickly towards the laboratory. Kiela watches them a few moments before following slowly behind.
Back in the laboratory we see Lonnie looking over the pod. He reaches out to it and the pod starts to throb more, as he pulls his hand away the throbbing lessens.
LONNIE: I’m not touching that thing.
He looks around and sees a blanket on the side some feet away. As he goes over to it we suddenly hear raised voices outside. He turns and looks to see Winston holding a gun to Debra. Before he is spotted he dashes out a back way from the room; seconds later Debra is shoved in followed by Winston and Guard2.
DEBRA: Get the hell off me!
GUARD2: Shut your mouth!
WINSTON: I know you, you’re one of those people Arnold went to see. Thought you could steal Mr Kiela’s pod did you?
DEBRA: What, like you did? Murdering bastards.
WINSTON: Watch your mouth, we wouldn’t want to damage that lovely face of yours.
Kiela and Toby enter the room behind them; we see Lonnie watching from the other doorway.
KIELA: What is going on here? Who is this?
WINSTON: A friend of Arnold’s. Here for your pod.
KIELA: Is she indeed? What’s your name?
DEBRA: Debra. That pod is dangerous and if you know what’s good for you you’ll hand it over.
TOBY: The pod isn’t dangerous as long as we look after it properly.
DEBRA: Who asked you? Is this pod really worth killing over and the risk you put yourselves in?
KIELA: It is actually. The studies we have conducted show that this pod could not have existed in the Antarctic at any point. Combined with further testing Toby here has deduced that it must have arrived on this planet from space.
DEBRA: Space…
KIELA: This pod is an alien organism and is unique to this world. And it is mine, no one shall we aloud to take it from me.
WINSTON: What do you want me to do with her Mr Kiela?
KIELA: She’s going to help us with an experiment.
Kiela grabs Debra’s hand and lies it across the table by the pod which starts to throb. He gets Guard2 to hold her still.
DEBRA: What are you doing?
TOBY: Mr Kiela, you can’t do this!
KIELA: Silence Toby! The pod is ready to germinate and I for one am interested in the results. You, my dear Debra, are going to be the host to this worlds newest plant life.
We close up on the fear in Debra’s eyes as the pod begins to burst open. We fade to black and “To be Continued...” appears across the screen.
Roll End Credits over Halloween Tune
Watch out next week for Halloween: The Series Episode 8: The Seed of Evil Part 2!
5/4/2002 12:08:41 PM
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