Gattaca Page #3

The whir of the car's electric powered engine belies its

conventional appearance.

EXT. GATTACA AEROSPACE CORPORATION. DAY.

JEROME's car exits a highway and turns up the sweeping road

leading to the parking lot of "GATTACA AEROSPACE CORPORATION".

A sleek, modern, low-rise industrial compound boasting perfectly

manicured landscaped gardens.

INT. GATTACA AEROSPACE CORPORATION. DAY.

JEROME strides purposefully up to the entranceway with hundreds

of other GATTACA EMPLOYEES. He carries himself with a certain

arrogance, a cool detachment. All employees wear similarly

unconventionally-cut suits, short coiffed hair and robust tans.

The Gattaca employees are a seemingly equal split of men and

women and a diverse range of ethnicities.

They filter through a row of channels supervised by SECURITY

GUARDS. Each channel contains a computerized security device,

featuring a slim groove in which the employee places a finger

under the watchful eye of a Security Guard.

Jerome gives a polite nod to a Guard as he places his index

finger in the groove. His fingertip is jabbed with the

finest of needles and a minute blood sample taken.

The blood specimen confirms Jerome's identity - an ID photograph

appearing on a computer screen.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jerome spies a young woman

entering through the adjacent channel. She is also sneaking a

glance in his direction - IRENE. Catching each other looking,

they both quickly avert their eyes.

As Jerome enters the computer facility of Gattaca Aerospace

Corporation he furtively glances at the pin-prick puncture in

his fingertip sachet.

SOMEWHERE IN DEEP SPACE.

A GATTACA spacecraft skirts an asteroid. Taking advantage of

the rock's gravitational pull, the craft slingshots deeper into

the black void. Then abruptly the craft and the asteroid freeze

in mid-space, suddenly reverse direction and proceed forward

again - the spacecraft taking a slightly adjusted course.

We pull back to reveal that the journey is merely a highly

realistic graphic representation on a GATTACA computer screen

operated by JEROME.

Appearing simultaneously alongside the computer animation is a

seemingly never-ending column of computer instructions for this

celestial navigation - the incomprehensible language of the

computer programmer.

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