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| The Pilot Transcribed by invisible_mom |
Kevin puts the gland in Darien�s head. Camera shot of Darien�s face. The face in the shot changes, Darien�s eyes suddenly open, the camera pulls back to reveal he is in a bed in a recovery room. Darien looks around, confused. He gets out of bed and walks over to a large mirror on one wall. Darien Voice-over: �Time flies when you�re having fun, or in a coma. I�d been unconscious for nearly 3 weeks.� (Darien feels the back of his head while looking in the mirror, trying to see what he is feeling.) �Just enough time for every muscle in my body to go on strike. But even though it was nice to be up and around, there are some days when you just shouldn�t get out of bed.� (Darien hears a sound and turns around. The floor is lined with little glass cages full of spiders. The doors open and they crawl out. Pounding music starts. Darien is barefoot. As they start crawling towards him, he panics, runs to the door, pounds on it when it won�t open, and screams for Kevin.) Darien Voice-over: �My brother knew about me and spiders, he knew how I�d react.� (Keeps screaming for Kevin) �But only he knew what was coming next.� (You can hear a heartbeat in the background. Quicksilver starts covering Darien�s hand. He stares at it, then starts saying, �My God, oh my God�, then runs to the mirror, sees himself totally disappear as the quicksilver covers his clothes, then he yells again.) (Next scene: Kevin is trying to explain to Darien what they are doing.) Kevin: �We fit this rat�s brain with a gland like the one we put into yours. Now watch.� (Kevin motions for Arnaud to go ahead. Arnaud yells something loudly in French to the rat. The rat starts to release quicksilver over it�s body. It is in a glass cage) Kevin: �Fear gets his adrenaline going just like the spiders did to you. That jumpstarts the gland which then secretes the synthetic hormone I call quicksilver.� (During this speech, Darien is sitting in a chair, holding a coffee mug, with a dumbfounded expression on his face.) Kevin: �The quicksilver solidifies and seals over the skin like Saran Wrap. You with me big guy?� Darien: (still in shock parrots Kevin): �Saran Wrap.� Kevin: �Now think, the only reason we can see an object is because light reflects off it. You see me but not the wall behind me because the light hits my body first, and then bounces back to your eyes. Now watch, watch what happens when an object is covered in quicksilver.� (Kevin points to the rat which is slowly disappearing.) �Quicksilver doesn�t reflect light, it bends it.� (Darien walks over to the rat�s cage to get a better look) Kevin: �The rat�s invisible not because we see through him, but because we see around him.� (Kevin looks at Arnaud and says �OK�. Arnaud says something soothing to the rat in French. The rat calms down and reappears. Darien has a shocked look on his face as the rat reappears.) Kevin: �When Henri calms, the quicksilver dissolves and the subject is visible again.� (Kevin laughs) �This making sense yet?� Darien (with a look of disbelief on his face says): �You put a gland in my brain?� Arnaud: �Well Monsieur Fawkes�� (Darien turns in anger and grabs Arnaud by his tie) Darien: I got plenty of glands, butthead. I don�t need anymore, especially ones that squirt this quickie thing.� Arnaud: �Quicksilver.� Darien (shouting): �Whatever.� Darien (quieter, turning to Kevin): �You take it out of my head right now.� Kevin: �OK, we will. We have a few weeks of tests�� Darien: �No, no, Kevin, I don�t want tests. I want it out now.� (Kevin motions for Arnaud to leave the room. He goes.) Kevin: �Alright, don�t look at me like that!� Darien: Oh yeah, how am I supposed to look at you Kevin? Oh man, for crying out loud, you could have told me what was going on.� Kevin: �If I had, would you have volunteered?� Darien (yells loudly): HELL NO!!! Kevin: �Then how else was I supposed to get you out of jail?� Darien: �The old fashioned way, guns and explosives. Like Nicky the Alto�s brother.� Kevin: �I�m not Nick the Alto�s brother, I�m yours.� Darien: �Then I guess you should have stayed out of it huh? God, I do not need this Kevin!� Kevin: �What do you need Darien? Your, your street pals, your bookie? You�d rather go back to the pen?� Darien: �Hey, the pen I understand, you know, not this.� Kevin: �This is a chance to turn your life around, to do some good for a change.� Darien: �What the hell are you talking about?� Kevin: �Read the papers Darien. We have terrorists planting pipe bombs in nurseries. Russian Mafia just sold nukes to Iraq. How long before one of these bastards gets hold of a missile key?� (Darien picks up the Sports page and starts reading while Kevin is talking) Kevin: �Who we gonna turn to then?� (Kevin snatches the paper out of Darien�s hands.) �We need a solution. Imagine a corps of federal agents, each with a quicksilver gland. They could knock out these threats before they become lethal. Don�t you see, if we could perfect this, we could save thousands, maybe millions of lives!� Darien: Yeah, you know, they said that about a little appliance called the A bomb.� Kevin: �Oh it is hardly the same.� (Darien jumps up in exasperation) Darien: �Will you star 69 reality man! God! OK, Kev, like hypothetically, OK, what happens when say, I don�t know, Saddam Hussein gets his own little gland?� Kevin: �Let him try. The designs are only on the base computer and up here.� (Points to his head) �A criminal can�t get near �em.� Darien: �Kevin! Hello!� (Points to his head) Kevin (exasperated): �It is only for a couple of weeks. We test it, I take it out, you�re free.� Darien: �And I�m telling you, get someone else.� Kevin: �I don�t trust it with anyone else.� (Darien gets the �Aw Crap� look.) Kevin: �This is my baby Darien, it is everything I�ve worked for. You want it out, I�ll take it out. But if you help me, I know we can make it perfect.� Darien: �Kev, maybe it could be perfect, I can�t. I mean, you don�t know what I could do with this.� Kevin: �I�m willing to risk it. Are you?� (Scene changes to an old time movie with a huge black spider terrorizing an old town. Kevin talks into a tape recorder.) Kevin: �Fear was first used to induce gland secretions. Subject, however, does not seem to be responding to the usual stimuli. Suggest a new methodology.� (Kevin walks away while Darien eats popcorn and watches the movie.) (Kevin opens a book called Biofeedback and You. Darien is lying on an inclined bed, shirtless, hooked up to some electrodes.) Kevin: �Picture yourself lying on the beach. The topless Roman slave girls have just left, and who should walk out of the surf but�� Darien: �Mira Sorvino. Hey wait, wait, wait. How�s she dressed?� Kevin: �Like the Little Mermaid.� (Darien quicksilvers and the camera pans back to the bed. You can see the imprint of his body but he is invisible.) Kevin voice-over: �Because quicksilver doesn�t absorb light, we found the subject�s surface area drops below freezing, with consequent cooling effects on nearby objects. Call me crazy, but I think this might have some practical applications.� (Scene of beer mugs being frozen, then the team partying having cold beer.) (Next scene, in the lab, Darien and Kevin are talking at the same time.) Darien: �Here we go, just check it out, shhh, just check it out.� Kevin: �It�s a physical impossibility. You don�t think I understand how� It can�t be done.� (Darien puts his hand over a pair of folded glasses on a counter. You see quicksilver cover them. They disappear.) Darien (excited): Bam! (starts shadow boxing Kevin) Boom, boom, boom. Who da man? Who da man? Who da man? That�s right baby. Here we go! (Darien dances around the room, shadow boxing, all excited) Kevin: �Despite previous tests, subject exhibits ability to quicksilver outside objects for prolonged periods of time. OK, we get it. Can you bring them back now?� (Next scene � nighttime at the compound. A nurse and a soldier are laughing and flirting quietly. Darien walks around a pillar and sees them. He gets a devilish look on his face.) Nurse (laughing): �Yeah, I swear.� Soldier: �Where�s your boyfriend now?� Nurse: �Not here. He�s far away.� (Next scene � The nurse and soldier go to her room. they are kissing as they open the door. She pushes him down on the bed, then slowly starts to take off her uniform as she sways to a song on the radio. Suddenly she gasps and pulls up her dress. The camera shows the soldier on the bed and Darien leaning against the footboard. Darien looks down at his hand and sees he is visible. The soldier stands up and faces Darien. Darien says, �Aw Crap.�) (Next scene � Kevin is holding an ice bag over Darien�s left eye) Kevin: �You have to think about premature visibility.� Darien: �Premature visibility?� Kevin: �It can happen if you get distracted.� Darien: �Well then, we need to get some uglier nurses.� Kevin: �No, we need to teach you some control.� (Next scene � Kevin and Darien are outside, practicing yoga moves) Kevin: �Now a yogi can control his blood flow with just the power of his mind. You can do the same with invisibility. Picture your heartbeat. Speed it up. Direct the quicksilver flow.� (Darien does some swaying moves with his arms) �Focus and focus.� (Right arm disappears, then the left, then all of him) �Excellent!� (Kevin laughs and high fives an invisible Darien) �Good job, Darien.� (Next scene � nighttime � scenes around the complex with mood music that lets you know something bad is about to happen.) (Scene of Darien asleep in bed) Darien voice-over: �You know they say good things come to those who wait.� (Darien wakes up and grabs the back of his head) �The bad things are always impatient. When I felt it the first time, I didn�t know what to think. I mean, it wasn�t a headache exactly.� (Darien gets out of bed and walks over to a sink.) �It was as if something was knocking at the back door of my brain. Something that wanted in real bad.� (Darien splashes water on his face. He sees his eyes are bloodshot, and he rubs his face.) �Staring into that mirror, I had the sudden horrible feeling that another person was looking back. A stranger who had stolen my face. What the hell was happening?� (Darien splashes more water on his face and rubs it again. His eyes are back to normal again.) (Next scene � daytime � the lab � Kevin and Arnaud standing � Darien sitting on the floor, arms extended.) Kevin: �Alright, try the left.� (Darien quicksilvers the right arm, not all the way) Darien: �Crap!� (shakes off the quicksilver) �I don�t get this. I thought I had this down.� (Jumps up and walks around) Kevin: �Ok, OK, relax. We�ve probably been working you too hard.� (Kevin puts his hand on Darien�s shoulder. Darien abruptly slaps it away.) Kevin: �What?� Darien: �Nothing, it just, you know, I�m getting a little sick of you touching me.� (Darien grabs the side of his neck and bends over in pain.) Kevin: �Darien, what is it?� Darien: �I don�t know, I just got � (Darien yells in pain, clutching his head. He knocks over a table of medical supplies. Kevin rushes over to him.) Kevin: �Darien, Darien, hey, hey, Darien, Darien, you alright?� Darien: �Hold on, hold on, I think I have a handle on this.� Kevin: �You sure?� (Darien stands up, turn bloodshot eyes on Kevin, and in a quiet voice says, �Oh yeah.�) (Kevin�s eyes grow round with shock as he sees Darien�s eyes.) Kevin: �Oh my God, let�s get him to the infirmary.� (Darien grabs Kevin by his lapels.) Darien: �You know what? I�ve been pricked, I�ve been poked, and I�ve been prodded long enough. Now it�s your turn.� (Arnaud tries to separate them unsuccessfully. Darien throws them both off and runs through the lab doors. turning invisible as he goes. Kevin and Arnaud run after him. He knocks down several people in the hall, who don�t see him. Arnaud stops to help while Kevin keeps going.) (Next scene � Darien�s point of view in quicksilver vision as he runs through the complex. He finds the Women�s Shower Room. He goes in. Heavy breathing. He starts to become visible as the steam freezes on his body) Darien: �Hey baby, how about giving me a little sugar?� (A nurse is showering. She turns, sees Darien�s frozen outline, starts screaming and backs away. Kevin walks in.) Kevin: �Darien, it�s OK. Take it easy.� (Darien desilvers as the nurse continues to cry out and back away. Kevin pulls a syringe out of his pocket. He flicks off the needle cover. Darien attacks Kevin, knocks him down, gets on top of him, slams down Kevin�s wrist, forcing him to drop the syringe. Darien picks it up. Kevin holds Darien�s wrist to keep Darien from plunging the needle into Kevin. After a moment, Darien plunges the needle into his own arm and depresses the plunger. Darien passes out.) |