Lost in Space Page #5

PENNY (OVER)

This whole mission sucks!

INT.-ROBINSON HOME HALLWAY-SUNSET

PENNY ROBINSON (14) furious, turns, looks downstairs at Maureen.

PENNY:

I Don't want to stay home for dinner.

I want to see my friends for the last

time.

She takes a beat, blinking away the tears. Lifts her wrist and turns on

a video camera watch. She begins down the hall.

VIDEO-POV. Penny's face in the monitor screen.

PENNY:

... On the eve before she is torn from

her friends, kidnapped, hurled into

deep space against her will, what

thoughts fill the mind of the young

Space Captive....

INT.-WILL'S ROOM-SUNSET

Penny enters a strewn, boy' a world. Will is trying to select items to

place in a single packing canister marked: PERSONAL CARGO.

WILL:

Will there be boys on Alpha Centuri?

What will I wear?

PENNY:

When we wake up in ten years the video

journals of Penny Robinson, Space

Captive, will be devoured by millions.

I will be world famous. You on the

other hand, will have been totally

forgotten.

Penny shows the camera her arm, covered by strings of ribbons.

PENNY:

The Space Captive has decided to wear

ribbons of support for fellow

sufferers as she is dragged into deep

space, green for the ecological

issues, white for human rights

WILL:

You'd probably gag if I described the

secondary infections loss of

circulation can cause.

Penny seems about to speak, instead just smiles, goes to his bed and

pulls off the sheets, begins knotting them together.

WILL:

What are you grinning at?

PENNY:

I just found an upside to this

mission. The thought of jettisoning

your body into deep space.

Penny knots the sheets into a rope, ties it to the bed-post. Will lifts

several palm-sized gold-plated stars. Each reads: 1st prize.

WILL:

Dad says Don't bring them. Like

anything I do matters to him.

PENNY:

He never showed, huh?

WILL:

Maybe if I had actually broken the

time barrier he would have paid

attention.

PENNY:

Don't let him get to you, kiddo. He

just gets busy with work is all.

Penny tosses the rope out the window, prepares to climb.

WILL:

So, that's a no to family dinner?

PENNY:

Let's see, do I spend my last night on

Earth watching Mom and Dad pretend not

to be fighting again or get in ten

years of making-out at the mall ...

you do the math.

WILL:

Mom's gonna go thermal.

PENNY:

What's she gonna do. Ground me?

CHAPTER 4:
Major West

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INT.-SPACE COMMAND-CORRIDOR

John and the General walk the metal passageway.

JOHN:

We're lucky they didn't press on

Daniels, condition.

GENERAL:

I figured a chance to look at the ship

would keep the dogs at bay.

JOHN:

Ben, I'm worried about jamming in a

replacement pilot at the last second.

My family' a on this mission. I need

someone who's more than just spit and

polish.

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