Ex Machina Page #3

CALEB shouts over the engine noise.

CALEB:

You're leaving me here?

7.

JAY:

This is as close as I'm allowed to

the building.

CALEB:

... What building?

The pilot gestures vaguely towards the white water.

JAY:

Follow the river.

JAY hands CALEB his bag.

JAY (CONT'D)

Please get a safe distance from the

blades.

The pilot gets back inside the helicopter, and closes the

door.

CALEB hurriedly retreats with his bag.

Moments later, in a roar of wind and noise, the helicopter is

lifting off.

Equally suddenly, the noise is fading, and the helicopter is

soaring upwards, and banking back towards the glacier.

Then it is gone. Bird song and wind rush replace engine

noise.

CALEB suddenly looks very isolated.

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EXT. RIVER - DAY

CALEB walks along the banks of the fast-flowing river,

awkwardly bumping his wheeled suitcase over the ground.

The banks of the river start to climb, to an intimidating

drop.

It feels that this can't be the right way.

CALEB reaches into his pocket and pulls out his mobile phone.

No signal at all.

He puts his phone back in his pocket.

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EXT. RIVER/HOUSE VIEW - DAY

CALEB rounds a bend in the river.

Ahead, almost hidden in trees, there is a steel and glass

structure.

8.

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EXT. CLEARING - DAY

CALEB walks towards the house through the trees.

In the ground, in a grassy clearing, he finds a circular

window, reflecting the sky.

He walks up to the window, and looks inside.

It reveals what is effectively a glass-covered well - about

four metres deep, with smooth concrete sides.

At the bottom of the well is a brightly-lit room, which

appears to be an office of some sort. There is a desk, with

monitors, and a chair.

But apparently no one inside.

Beyond the clearing, in the tree-line, CALEB sees - almost

camouflaged by forest - the dark shapes and straight lines of

a low, one storey building complex.

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EXT. HOUSE - DAY

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