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The massive energy columns throb with white light. The BABY has been fastened in a module, wrapped in his blankets. LARA reluctantly steps back as JOR-EL places the last crystals inside, including a green one, secures and seals all openings. The BABY vanishes from sight. The module automatically slides into a larger spacecraft and is sealed in.

23EXT. CITY

The military aura speeds along as giant crystal formations suddenly begin to erupt, bend and crack.

24 INT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY

A glass wall facing the capsule slides open. The launcher is raised. The ceiling above retracts, exposing the glow of Krypton night.

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25INT. MILITARY AURA

Seen from within: the aura races through a glass tunnel.

26INT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY

The room shakes in a violent tremor as JOR-EL tries to get the engines fired. The energy columns glare at fever pitch.

26AEXT. KRYPTON

The proximity of Kryptonian sun has bathed the planet in a reddish glow. NOTE: All Scenes on Krypton both interior and exterior will from now on reflect this color.

27EXT. KRYPTON

The military aura nears JOR-EL' S house. Suddenly a huge tremor dislodges a mass of crystal which crashes down, obliterating the aura.

28 INT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY

The tremor continues in the lab. Tons of crystal crash down into the room as JOR-EL frantically tries to fire the rocket. With a last desperate effort he lunges forward throws the tumbling debris and hits the control which ignites it. With

a deafening roar, the rocket starts to glide off into the night as the house begins to collapse, the energy columns shattering under the strain.

29 EXT. SP ACE - CLOSE ON MODULE

The module races away from the disintegrating planet below toward the Phantom Zone.

30INT. COUNCIL OF ELDERS

The Council room is destroyed co1lapsing on some of the ELDERS.

30AINT/EXT KRYPTON

Various scenes of destruction, to include exterior shots and the trial chamber.

30BINT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY

JOR-EL and LARA are buried beneath a cascading shower of debris, clinging together desperately in the moment of their death.

30CEXT. JOR-EL'S HOUSE

The House collapses in ruins.

31EXT. PHANTOM ZONE

The THREE VILLANS, pressed against the linear Phantom Zone, watch the module hurtle past.

31CONTINUED

VILLANS:

(muffled echoes)

Take us with you ...

The capsule heads out into the intergalactic void as the VILLANS turn their attention to the planet Krypton, now in total eruption.

32ANGLE ON KRYPTON - VILLANS POV

The red sun eats its way into the core or the planet Krypton which suddenly explodes and implodes - leaving a vast black void.

33 EXT. SPACE - CLOSE ON MODULE

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