Independence Day Page #5

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EXT. SPACE - THE ORBIT - SAME

Rolling over us, the immense under-belly of this enormous

craft obliterates our view. A loud SCREECH. Suddenly the

bottom begins to SEGMENT.

Dozens of large sections begins to DISENGAGE, extracting

themselves, twisting away from the larger bilge.

The separated SEGMENTS themselves are enormous. Slowly they

twist downwards on a collision course to the blue planet

below... Earth.

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INT. WHITE HOUSE - BASEMENT CORRIDORS - DAY

Under a barrage of questions from her own staff, Constance

hurries down the corridor.

AIDE #1

CNN is running a story that we're

covering up some kind of nuclear

testing experiments...

CONSTANCE:

Tell them to run with it if they

want to embarrass themselves.

AIDE #2

NASA has been up my butt all

morning. They want to know our

position.

CONSTANCE:

Our official position is we don't

have an official position.

AIDE #3

Connie, what the hell is going on?

Constance escapes into the elevator, turns around.

CONSTANCE:

(smiles confidently)

Come on, people. Would I keep you

guys out of the loop?

AIDE #1

In a second!

AIDE #2

Absolutely.

Before she can retort, the elevator doors close.

INT. OVAL OFFICE - WIDE SHOT - SAME

The President, General Grey, the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE and

White House Chief of Staff ALBERT NIMZIKI are gathered around

the couch.

SEC. OF DEFENSE

At the moment, our satellites are

somewhat unreliable. Isn't it

possible that thing may just pass

us by?

NIMZIKI:

What if it doesn't "pass us by?"

Let's retarget some ICBMs to blow

it out of the sky...

GENERAL GREY:

Forgive me, but with the little

information we do have, the only

thing that would accomplish is

turn one dangerous falling object

into many.

Just then the door opens and Constance enters.

PRESIDENT WHITMORE

What's the damage?

CONSTANCE:

The press is making up their own

stories at this point.

NIMZIKI:

(to General Grey)

Get on the horn with Atlantic

Command. Let's upgrade the

situation to DEFCON 3.

GENERAL GREY:

That's not your call to make, Mr.

Nimziki.

CONSTANCE:

Isn't that a little premature?

NIMZIKI:

I don't think so.

SEC OF DEFENSE:

We're two days away from the fourth

of July. We have over fifty percent

of our armed forces on weekend leave,

not to mention the troops and

commanders wehave in town for the

Fourth of Julyparade. We call them

back now, we're sending up a major red

flag.

They go quiet as Commanding Officer from Space Command dashes

into the room.

COMMANDING OFFICER

Our intelligence tells us the

object has settled into a

stationary orbit.

NIMZIKI:

Well that's good news.

COMMANDING OFFICER

Not really.

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