The Fifth Element Page #3

A MONDOSHAWAN puts the fourth element in the case The Kommander shuts the

case and looks at the Priest.

KOMMANDER:

When EVIL returns so shall we.

PRIEST:

(head lowered)

We will be ready, Lord.

Billy suddenly staggers into the room, brandishing his gun.

BILLY:

Stop.

Billy trips, the gun goes off. He empties the clip. The Mondoshawan

carrying the case crumples to the ground. The wall immediately begins to

close. Billy fires wildly, unable to control the powerful kicking gun.

PRIEST:

No!!! Don't!!!

The Priest rushes Billy. The weapon has such a kick to it that Billy

starts shooting into the air, backs up, then stumbles and knocks himself

out. The Priest is on the ground, seriously wounded. So is the Kommander.

The WARRIORS are in a panic.

CLERK:

Hurry, Kommander! The wall's closing!!!

The wall continues to close. Sand pours in from everywhere. The vast

room fills up like an hourglass.

KOMMANDER:

A mission is a mission, Savoia.

You'll learn that.

The Kommander picks up the case and reaches the wall but can't get

through it. His

armor is too bulky, the opening too small. He manages to get his arm and

the case through.

KOMMANDER:

My apologies to General Kroi -- and my wife..

The wall closes, crushing his arm. The CLERK scoops up the case and runs

through the huge piles of sand.

14EXT. COLONNADE - DAY

The CLERK boards the ship carrying the case. Omar hides in a corner,

frightened to death, hugging Billy's bag of drawings.

15INT. TEMPLE ROOM - DAY

The room fills with sand. The Priest's body is soon buried.

16EXT. DESERT - DAY

The huge ship's main hatch closes.

17EXT. TEMPLE - DAY

The ship lifts off and speeds away. Omar emerges from the temple gaping

at the ship as it vanishes in the sky.

18EXT. PYRAMIDS

A gigantic shooting star flashes above the pyramids.

19EXT. EARTH ORBIT

The ship passes in front of us and heads for the stars disappearing at

unbelievable speed. The background is a star-spattered cosmos.

WRITTEN:
500 YEARS LATER

Another, more modern, spaceship, fills the screen. A warship belonging

to the Federal Army.

20INT. SPACESHIP CONTROL ROOM

CU of a digital control screen. Three planets projecting three straight

lines that crisscross at one point. Identical to the one observed by the

professor on the temple wall. GENERAL STAEDERT looks out through the

ship's window at one of the three huge planets in eclipse.

STAEDERT:

Don't you have anything? Not even

a temperature?

CAPTAIN:

The thermo-analyzers have jammed.

One of them reads over a million degrees,

the other's at minus 5000...

Never seen anything like it.

TECHNICIAN:

It's taking shape.

21EXT. SPACE

In the middle of the shadows, a door to the nightmare has just opened.

Evil is back. A round, moving mass, continually changing color.

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