Ares Page #5

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FLUORESCENT COOLANT out. It’s half-obscured by vegetation, but

glows faintly in the dusk. Perhaps visible to the chopper.

EVAN:

F***. F*** f*** f***.

The helicopter swoops lower. Beams a giant SPOTLIGHT down.

Evan holds his breath. An eternity.

Finally the chopper moves on. Combs the hillside. Disappears.

Evan -- a long, deep breath.

He scans the sky. His voice is now just a dry rasp:

EVAN:

No stars to the south yet. Sky mustbe brighter that way...

(grasping for hope)

Somewhere -- that way -- is a city.

He gazes at the now-buried capsule. Eyes filling with guilt.

12.

EVAN:

I’ll come back. And the whole f***ing

world is coming with me.

An oath.

He picks up the coolant and treks into the desert. Every stepa struggle. The HYENA, sitting on the rocks, watches him go.

EXT. DAWN IN THE DESERT

Evan's LIPS and TONGUE GLOW in the dark from the dibutylphthalate in the coolant.

His eyes are horrifically dilated. He mutters to himself. Asif trying to prove he’s alive.

EVAN:

A day has 24 hours and 39 minutes. Ayear... has twenty-four months. 687days.... Today is 547 Mina, year 32.

His breathing becomes so labored he can’t speak.

INTERCUT:
Evan having sex with Chloe. 15 years earlier. Theirlabored breathing mixing with

His gasps for air as he stumbles in the desert.

Near death. A distant look in his eye.

The distant look in Chloe's eye before orgasm -

Evan passes out. Collapsing onto the sand. AND SUDDENLY -

He’s in his bed in Houston. Chloe’s on top of him. She slips afinger in his open mouth. She keeps pulling it out just beforehe can bite down on it. That’s the game. Both are giggling.

CHLOE:

What’d I tell you? I’m fast, huh?

Here. Try me.

She opens her mouth. He sticks a finger in it. An intense lookbetween them -- each trying to read the other’s speed -- then-

She snaps down on his finger before he can fully pull it out.

CHLOE:

(laughing)

I thought astronauts had greatreflexes.

13.

He grins. Pulls her closer.

EVAN:

Do it again but harder.

BACK TO EVAN -- PASSED OUT IN THE DESERT

His eyes are open but frozen in place. He becomes part of thegreat stillness of the desert.

FLASH TO:
DUSK. The HYENA eating Evan’s body. Crunching and

chewing and tearing flesh from bone.

CUT TO:

THE FACE OF A DEAD ANTELOPE. A fly walks across the surface ofits eye.

REVEAL:
We’re seeing the world through Evan’s POV. His

bloodshot eyes are swollen to mere slits. Lips cracking.

Evan realizes he’s TIED UP. Lashed to TWO ANTELOPE CORPSES.

All bound back-to-back. A MASSIVE COW is dragging them acrossthe desert, guided by -

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