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The module speeds through space to the accompaniment of steady electronic pulsings.

34INT. MODULE

Lights flash on the complex instrument panel. A computer memory bank repeats recorded data while machines registers other space functions on graphs. The BABY is completely wired and fitted with instruments and tubes for his survival in space. The computer spews forth information.

COMPUTER:

(JOR-EL'S VOICE)

Early concepts of matter appear

in ancient Creek philosophy. In

the fifth century Demoocritus

defined a small unit as an atom,

then thought to be indivisible...

35EXT. SPACE - CLOSE ON MODULE

The module voyages through space. A giant asteroid lost in the void, soars toward it at tremendous speed. The module and the asteroid nearly collide. The module sways on, away into the void.

36 INT. MODULE

The control panels continue to flash. The BABY has grown. The survival tubes, instruments and belts have adapted to his increase in size as the years have passed.

COMPUTER:

(JOR-EL'S voice)

Index 19, Sonnet 101: "0

truant muse, what shall be thy

amends for thy neglect of truth

in beauty dy'd? ...

37 EXT. SPACE - CLOSE ON MODULE

Traveling through space: A tiny yellow dot becomes larger as the module enters our Universe. The yellow dot grows rapidly into a flaming yellow sun.

38INT. MODULE

The control panel lights flash rapidly. An electronic bleep quickens its squeal. The BABY has grown older.

COMPUTER:

(JOR-EL'S voice)

...which Einstein called his Theory

of Relativity, mistakenly held to be

correct until the year ...

39 EXT. MODULE - EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE - DAY

The module enters the earth's atmosphere. We SEE the familiar astronaut's POV of the revolving earth, growing larger and larger until we can make out the recognizable shapes of land masses on oceans. As the module gets closer, it seems as if it will surely land in the middle of the Soviet Union. But as the Earth continues to revolve, the rocket heads for the dead centre of the United States.

NOTE:
As the module speeds down through the atmosphere, the resistance gradually transforms its shape into a jewel-like geode form, burnished hot by the pressure.

40EXT. KANSAS WHEAT FIELD - DAY

Miles and miles of golden wheat wave under a cloudless sky. CAMERA PANS: A dilapidated farm pick-up truck comes chugging down a long flat dirt road.

41INT. PICK-UP TRUCK - DAY

Two PEOPLE are seated in the truck cab, dressed in their shiny, patched "Sunday best" clothes. The MAN is in his 50"s, the WOMAN in her 40'5. "Private" people who mind their business, Christian folk whose morals are as basic as the soil they till: JONATHAN AND MARTHA KENT. Suddenly an ominous black shadow quickly crosses the road. Simultaneously: a loud whooshing sound (the space module coming to Earth). JONATHAN is startled, darts a momentary look ,in the direction of the noise .

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