The Rock Page #3

INT. F.B.I. CHEMICAL WEAPONS - LABORATORY - DAY

A medium-sized laboratory, where 5 F.B.I. TECHNICIANS are bent over tables=

of beakers, test-tubes, Bunsen burners, etc. The room and equipment are=

old and used; could be 1976 rather than 1996.

Along one side of the lab is a plexi-glass wall.

Inside the plexi-glass is an airlocked GAS CHAMBER.

F.B.I chemists LONNER and LING motion to Goodspeed.

DR. LONNER

C'mere, Billy.

(points inside gas

chamber)

A dog at J.F.K. got a whiff of something postmarked to a Bosnian refugee=

camp. Could be detergent, could be seran gas.

INSIDE THE GAS CHAMBER - is a LARGE WOODEN CRATE next to a

TABLE OF POISON DETECTION INSTRUMENTS.

ISHERWOOD:

Bosnian refugee camp? I don't get it.

GOODSPEED:

Half a million Serbians reside in the U.S., Marvin. Serbians don't like=

Bosnians. Read a newspaper. It's good for you. Hold out your=

hand.

Isherwood does so. It's shaky.

ISHERWOOD:

I'm okay. Really. Let's do it-

Hold on Goodspeed's uncertain look, and CUT TO:

INT. GAS C ER - DAY - MINUTES LATER

The door HISSES open. Goodspeed and Isherwood, in

vulcanized rubber suits and visored helmets, enter. They go

to the INSTRUMENT TABLE before the crate.

A GLASS VESSEL with tiny air holes (like a salt shaker)

descends from the ceiling. Inside are COCKROACHES. .

GOODSPEED:

Coal miners use canaries, we use those.

Sorry guys.

DR. LING

(into mike)

We have airlock, Bill. Proceed.

GOODSPEED , (into helmet mike)

July 1, 0.900 hours, agent william Goodspeed and agent/trainee Marvin=

Isherwood. Initiating exam of a wooden crate. Suspicion of seran gas=

device inside.

Goodspeed grabs a pry-bar from the instrument table-and slowly pries open=

the cratels wooden lid. He motions to Isherwood. Together they gingerly=

lift the lid.

INSIDE THE CRATE - it's filled with "UNICEF" type stuff.

Goodspeed lifts out a HOT-PLATE. Isherwood lifts out an EGG

BEATER. Gocidspeed runs a POISON SENSOR past each.

GOODSPEED:

Appears to be kitchen items, cleaning agents, and...

(lifts out a sweatshirt)

... old clothes.

ISHERWOOD:

This is thrilling

Isherwood lifts out a DOLL. Goodspeed's POISON SENSORIS

NEEDLE goes crazy... !

GOODSPEED:

Careful, coddamn it Marvin!

The doll's eyes open. Its mouth blast a PINKISH SPRAY,

hitting Goodspeed's forearm and Isherwood's palm.

OUTSIDE THE GAS CHAMBER - DR. LING stabs a button marked

"exhaust" and another marked "emergency."

A KLAXON sounds. F.B.I. TECHNICIANS race for the exit.

IN THE GAS C~ER - The pinkish gas hovers in the air.

CEILING EXHAUST FANS begin to suck it up.

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