12 Monkeys Page #2

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Below, on the street, COLE trudges along, passing deserted

buildings, windows broken, rusted signs dangling.

INT. DEPARTMENT STORE - NIGHT (FIRST LIGHT)

COLE'S light reveals a spider web just inside the store. A large

SPIDER tries to hide from the light.

COLE reaches carefully into the web and plucks the spider and

puts it into one of his specimen tubes.

Then, he shines his light all around the once elegant store. There's

nothing but aisle after aisle of moldering consumer goods.

EXT. DEPARTMENT STORE - DAWN

As COLE comes out of the store, the first rays of the sun hit the

building. COLE stops, squints into the light through his visor.

COLE'S POV:
spray-painted on the wall a long time ago is a stenciled

logo of twelve monkeys holding hands in a circle. Over it is

written, "WE DID IT!"

COLE looks up.

COLE'S POV:
high up on a building across the street, a LION

patrols a ledge, pauses, looks out majestically over his world.

TTTLES END:

INT. FIRST UNDERGROUND DECONTAMINATION CHAMBER - ETERNAL NIGHT

ROARING WATER, powerful torrents gushing from nozzles in the

wall, pummel the still-suited COLE.

INT. SECOND UNDERGROUND DECONTAMINATION CHAMBER - ETERNAL NIGHT

Stark naked and shivering, COLE is being scrubbed with brushes on

long poles (like the ones used to wash cars) wielded by two HULKING

FIGURES in bulky decontamination suits, their personas lost in their

windowed masks. It's a grim scene in a grim cement room with damp,

dripping walls. From an unseen source comes an AMPLIFIED VOICE,

AMPLIFIED VOICE (o.s.)

Raise your arms above your head.

COLE lifts his arms and the FIGURES start scrubbing his armpits.

INT. TINY CHAMBER - SHORTLY (ETERNAL NIGHT)

Still naked, COLE is seated on a stool while a MASKED TECHNICIAN

in a less elaborate, less bulky decontamination outfit draws

blood from COLE'S arm with an old-fashioned hypodermic needle.

COLE glances toward a single, nearly opaque "window" of thick

plastic in the rusty iron wall. VAGUE FIGURES seem to lurk

behind the translucent aperture, studying him.

The TECHNICIAN slips the blood sample through a slot in the wall.

INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE/FUTURE WORLD - ETERNAL NIGHT

Ushered in by two guards, TINY and SCARFACE, COLE looks around.

COLE'S POV:
wails hidden by old headlines, articles, maps, charts...

a blackboard covered with elaborate, sophisticated formulae...surfaces

heaped with cracked monitors, gerry-rigged computers held together with

string, lasers lost in tangles of cable, ancient tube amplifiers, a

dilapidated cardboard reconstruction of a city, stacks of moldering

books and tattered computer printouts...and, seated at a long conference

table, staring at COLE, six SCIENTISTS: an ASTROPHYSICIST, ENGINEER,

BOTANIST, MICROBIOLOGIST, ZOOLOGIST, and a GEOLOGIST. They represent

a "modern" science where brilliant new ideas interface with crude,

outdated, patched-together technologies.

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