Alien Nation Page #2

Synopsis: A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine but are victims of a new type of discrimination. When the first Newcomer police officer, Sam Francisco is assigned his new partner, he is given Matthew Sykes , a mildly racist veteran, the animosity between them soon gives way to respect as they investigate the Newcomer underworld, and especially Newcomer leader William Harcourt.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Graham Baker
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
R
Year:
1988
91 min
530 Views


-- A Newcomer lowrider pulls up beside the slug-mobile.

-- An alien couple exit a theater playing "Terminator

III".

-- An alien wig shop.

ANGLE:

TITLES END, and we start to PULL BACK into the slug-mobile

and HEAR:

TUGGLE (O.S.)

So you gonna go, or you not gonna

go?

INT. SLUG-MOBILE - NIGHT

The dashboard is littered with fast-food detritus and two

coffees in styrofoam cups making fog circles on the

windshield. A hand picks up one of the coffees and we

FOLLOW IT to a face, a forty-year-old cop face that's seen

some wear and tear -- behind the wheel is MATT SYKES.

Beside him is his partner of nine years, BILL TUGGLE.

Tuggle expertly munches on a slice of pizza as he talks.

SYKES:

How can I go?

TUGGLE:

Put on your wash-and-wear suit and

your clip-on tie, have your landlady

tie your shoes for you, and show up

at the church. Simple.

(beat)

Me and Carol are going.

SYKES:

What?

TUGGLE:

Hey, look -- we've known Kristin

since... since she was conceived in

that cabin up in Big Bear.

Remember? You and Edie banged the

wall so hard, me and Carol were

picking plaster out of our hair for

a week...

SYKES:

Goddammit, Tug -- I want to see

Kristin get married, okay? But--

TUGGLE:

But you're bummed because your ex

and her new husband are paying for

the whole thing.

SYKES:

Sh*t, if Kristin had to get married

where I could afford it, we'd be

holding the reception at Buddy's

Burgers.

Sykes stares out the window, wallowing in his pissed-off

mood. Then he spots something that twinges his street-cop

radar.

SYKES:

Uh-oh... Check it out.

THROUGH THE WINDOW Tuggle sees what Sykes sees: two ALIENS

in long coats moving down the sidewalk, entering a mom-

and-pop mini-mart on the corner. One of them wears dark

glasses and a red bandana (KIPLING): the other has on a

black vinyl raincoat.

SYKES:

Does that look at all suspicious to

you?

TUGGLE:

Whatever gave you that idea?

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

Sykes continues up a quarter of a block, pulls to the curb

among other parked cars.

INT. SEDAN - NIGHT

Sykes is already pulling his gun. Tuggle quickly reaches

for the radio in the glovebox.

TUGGLE:

This is one-Henry-seven, we've got a

possible two-eleven in progress at

Porter's Mini-Mart, corner of Court

and Alvarado. Requesting backup.

Impulsive Sykes is already opening his door and climbing

out.

SYKES:

Let's do it, partner.

Tuggle drops the radio mike and follows Sykes as the Radio

Dispatcher confirms the call.

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

The two cops, guns in hand, move along the row of parked

cars across the street from the mini-mart. Through the

store window they see the old alien PROPRIETOR behind the

counter. His eyes go wide as Kipling whips back his coat

and yanks out a short combat pump-shotgun and aims it

right at him. The Raincoat alien pulls an identical gun

and covers the door.

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Rockne S. O'Bannon

Rockne S. O'Bannon was born on January 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Defiance (2013), Farscape (1999) and Cult (2013). more…

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