Splice
Okay, okay, I can see him.
- That's it. Here he comes.
- Careful.
All right. I got him. I got him.
- Sensors.
- Ahem.
- Vitals?
- Stable.
- Clamp.
- Scissors.
Scissors.
Severing umbilical.
Umbilical cut. Okay, clear.
Wait. Dropping fast. BP's dropping fast.
Respirations are slow,
shallow, and irregular.
- O2 sat's down 82 percent.
- BP 80 over 30. He's in V-tach!
- Get the paddles.
- May I have some Dopamine?
Dopamine.
- I've got the paddles.
- Okay. Everybody clear.
All clear.
Clear!
Heart rate's stable.
Easy. Easy.
Okay, we're good.
No physical discrepancies.
He's perfect.
He's just perfect.
I like Melvin.
He's much more of a Melvin.
Somehow Ginger and Melvin
doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Okay, then, Fred it is.
All right.
Come on, little fella. Ahem.
Look at that.
He's so cute.
All set?
Let's do it.
All right.
- Okay.
- We're good.
Nice.
Ginger, meet Fred. Fred, meet Ginger.
- What are they doing?
- Imprinting.
See?
Love at first sight.
I wish you would fill me in.
I like to think we're a team.
I like to think I'm a sounding board.
- You're much more than that, Barlow.
- It's just another dog-and-pony show.
- We could splice a dog and pony.
- They can take the meeting for us.
Maybe I can help you with your publicity.
"If God didn't want us to explore
his domain, why'd he give us the map?"
Bumper-sticker wisdom.
I get it, and I am totally with you guys
on every level.
But Joan Charot can make or break
our project without even blinking.
We should all be nervous, as in
survival-instinct nervous, so come on...
...who's heads up?
I don't want to spoil the surprise.
Come on.
- You love surprises.
- No, surprises make me nauseous.
Over the course of the last
three years, our lab has combined...
...the DNA from a variety of species
to create a completely new life form.
And, as you know,
Ginger has exceeded all expectations...
...in her ability to produce
medicinal proteins for livestock.
What you don't know is that,
since the birth of Fred...
...we have an upgraded
splicing technique...
...which can be applied to the most
sophisticated of organisms, namely...
...human beings.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on. Let's not get
too far ahead of ourselves.
By incorporating human DNA
into the hybrid template...
...we can begin to address any number
of genetically-influenced diseases.
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes,
even some forms of cancer.
Well...
I can't tell you how, um, excited we are.
with the progress you've made...
...which is why we are so anxious
to move on to phase two.
- Phase two?
- The product stage.
We need to isolate the gene in Ginger
and Fred that produces your magic protein.
We are shutting down
the splicing facilities...
...retooling your labs
for intensive chemical analysis.
Shutting down?
I don't understand.
Uh, we're handing you
the medical breakthrough of the century.
We could begin...
Elsa! We all know that can't happen
right now.
completely out of control.
I mean, regulators and politicians,
they'd tear us to pieces.
Please.
If we don't use human DNA now,
someone else will.
Look, we'd love to go there.
Shoot for incredible medical breakthroughs,
of course we would.
You put a viable livestock product
on the shelves...
...then we will talk about a 20-year plan
to save the world.
Right now, we need to start phase two...
...and you are the only ones who can do it.
We could quit. Go to Hamilton-Splinter.
Newstead owns our patents.
We'd lose everything.
Well? What?
I'm not spending the next five years digging
through pig sh*t for enteric proteins.
Me neither.
What's the profile?
Jane Doe.
Anonymous female donor.
Clean medical and heredity. The usual.
A dime a dozen.
One in a million.
- It's not working.
- What enzyme are you using?
It's not the cleavage.
They're digesting fine.
So?
The human Alu sequences
don't wanna bond with foreigners.
So what? We'll use a ligase other than T4.
We'll make them.
Oh, we'll just make them.
Yeah, we will. You know why?
Because Wired doesn't interview losers.
Sometimes I forget those
basic scientific principles.
This retarded, fascist,
ber music is the f***ing problem.
Got us thinking in circles.
You're right.
We have been dancing to the wrong beat.
Try this.
M3.
It's not working.
- Wait a second. It's happening.
- Why now?
I don't know, but they're on fire.
- We got the right temperature. The enzyme...
- They're changing partners.
- Everyone dances with everyone.
- You are Bob f***ing Fosse.
All right.
Biotechnology's most startling
breakthrough in decades...
...on ice.
Well, at least we know
we can do it, right?
Elsa.
Elsa, come on. What are you doing?
Elsa.
I'm too tired for this, Elsa.
Come on. I don't have the energy
to play with you right now. Elsa?
I'm not playing around with you.
Come on. Hey!
- What, did you recode the locks?
- I recoded the locks.
Come on. Open the door.
Elsa. Seriously.
You see, this is what's known
in couples therapy as emotional hijacking.
Elsa?
Come on, this is illegal. We're gonna
go to jail for this. Open the door.
Human cloning is illegal.
This won't be human, not entirely.
What? What are you doing?
Relax. We won't take it to term.
We need to know if we can
generate a sustainable embryo.
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Splice" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 Apr. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/splice_18680>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In