Lost in Space Page #2

INT.-WEST'S CRAFT

The rescue craft are speeding toward Jeb's fighter below.

WEST:

Grissom, this is Eagle One. Those Pugs

Will never reach him in time.

BASE (ON RADIO)

Eagle one clear this frequency and

return to base.

DON takes a beat. Then he spins his chair towards Mars, begins working

the controls.

WEST:

This is Eagle One. I'm going after

him.

BASE (OVER)

Negative Eagle one, your craft is not

equipped

West hits his thrusters.

EXT.-SPACE

West's craft dives toward Jeb's ship and Mars below.

INT.-JEB'S FIGHTER

Mars is coming up fast.

COMPUTER:

Impact in 30 seconds.

WEST (OVER)

Jeb, do you have navigational

thrusters?

JEB:

Don?

WEST (OVER)

It's a yes or no question.

Mars fills the windscreen. Jeb checks his status display.

JEB:

Marginal. But in the green.

COMPUTER:

Impact in 15 seconds.

WEST (OVER)

Head towards the canals.

JEB:

What are you doing?

WEST (OVER)

Saving your ass. Read towards the

canals. Now!

The canal streaked face of the Mars is all Jeb can see. He grabs his

throttle, engages his navigational thrusters and pulls.

EXT.-JEB'S SHIP

A tiny directional thruster FIRES, angling Jeb's craft so that it

scrapes the surface of Mars and dives into a giant canal, rocky walls

rushing up fast.

INT.-WEST'S SHIP

West is accelerating toward Jeb.

BASE (OVER)

Major West, your ship is not equipped

for rescue. You are not authorized to

jeopardize this asset. That is

a direct order. Acknowledge!

West slams a switch, deactivating his radio.

WEST:

Never liked that station, anyway.

He BLASTS into the canal, walls rushing up on either side of him.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

Jeb's tiny craft is plunging toward the rocky crater floor below.

Overhead West's fighter appears, under full thrusters, roaring towards

the crater floor faster and at a sharper angle.

INT.-3EB'S FIGHTER

The canal floor is rushing up fast.

COMPUTER:

Impact in five seconds.

INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

Don is blasting toward the canal floor, almost as if trying to beat

Jeb's ship to a fiery impact below.

COMPUTER:

Warning. Proximity alert.

WEST:

Jeb, I'm going to give you a little

kiss. Don't take it the wrong way.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

West angles his ship directly under Jeb.

INT.-JEB'S FIGHTER

The expanding surface of Mars, visible beneath his feet, is suddenly

obscured by Don's fighter, swooping under his ship.

JEB:

Don, abort. Abort.

INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

Jeb's fighter is visible overhead.

West going up. Don angles the throttle.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

Don's ship, sandwiched between the surface of Mars and Jeb's fighter,

angles up and, like a cue ball hitting it's target, Knocks Jeb's ship

spinning toward the safety of space beyond. West's ship actually

scrapes the surface of the planet, sending up a plume of Martian dust.

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