ARE WE ALONE? by Bruce Durbin Read Free Book Online

bury their gods. I
think there’s a pattern of aliens
visiting and then people dying.
Besides, who keeps track of
visiting aliens?
It’s not like aliens are checked by
Immigration on their way in and...
    ANTHONY
(evil smile)
Something to think about, while
we’re waiting out here, in the
middle of nowhere, for the
miraculous appearance of aliens.
Anthony struggles and then takes out a cell phone, holding it
up and moving it around.
ANTHONY (CONT’D)
With no cell service...
Yasmine and Christina suddenly remember their cell phones and
they also pull them out, looking at the screens.
YASMINE
No service.
    CHRISTINA
No service. Brian was suppose to
call me tonight and...
GINA
No service either.
    ANTHONY
Think about this. You know what
our Government has done with alien
EMISSARIES?
    GINA
Here we go, the alien conspiracy
theory.
    ANTHONY
They've killed them, dissected
them, cut them up into little
pieces, just to find out what makes
them tick.
Anthony tosses the remains of his hotdog into the fire, with
the hotdog starting to SIZZLE.
    ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Sometimes, the aliens were still
alive, when they were dissected.
    Everyone looks at the SIZZLING HOTDOG.
ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Now, if that Emissary was your
brother, father, uncle, or
whatever, do you think you'd be
coming to Earth, in peace?
    (pause)
Now, maybe you can explain one or
two incidents away, as maybe
Earthlings are a bit jumpy about
visitors from other solar systems,
but what if every single time an
alien comes to Earth, he ends up on
a stainless steel bed, cut up into
pieces...
Anthony looks at the still SIZZLING HOTDOG, which has now
turned BLACK.
ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Like pieces of a hotdog.
Christina looks down at her hotdog, then tosses it into the
fire. Yasmine does the same thing.
    ANTHONY (CONT’D)
No, there's no disagreeing that OUR
space brothers are more
intellectually advanced than us,
but how long do you think they're
gonna tolerate our less then
hospitable treatment?
    CHAZ
My uncle worked oil rigs in the
Amazon and he said dealing with the
natives, who were just a couple of
hundred years behind us, was almost
impossible.
Chaz looks up into the sky.
    CHAZ (CONT’D)
Think about what it's like for
these space travelers, who are
millions of years ahead of us, to
deal with us.
The others also look up into the sky, as POV switches to
behind them, watching their silhouettes.
    YASMINE
Okay, now I'm scared.
Me too. Maybe, we should leave. I
think we have enough for the
project. Besides, it’s just a
class, it’s not like it’s...
    GINA
Well, in the research that I
conducted, I don’t recall a single
reported incident where an alien
was hostile and...
    CHAZ
Oh, yeah, let me replay our
interview of that old man. Getting
beamed up into a spaceship, being
prodded and poked, who knows where,
and then dropped back down to
Earth, like some laboratory rat,
with a tracker in your finger.
Yeah, that's not very hostile.
CHRISTINA
Yeah, and what about those goats?
YASMINE
That was coyotes.
SFX: COYOTE HOWL.
They all start to nervously look around.
    CHAZ
I go back to my original statement
about Independence Day. Everyone
believed that they were coming to
Earth in peace, but...
    (looking up into the sky)
Think about it. You've spent
millions of years trying to get
Earthlings to wake up, quit being
animals, where violence is more
accepted, than the use of one's
intellect.
    (pause)
Maybe they've lost their patience,
dealing with a planet that won't
learn.
(pause)
    Maybe this time...
(pause)
They're coming to destroy us and
begin a new world.
Yes, well, hey Anthony, you’re the
researcher, what do you say?
Anthony looks up at the sky, then slowly to each of the
students, finally looking at Gina.
    ANTHONY
Most people agree that the Human
Race throughout the universe was
appointed by God as caretakers of
planets. I guess we can get an
insight into the motives of aliens,
by examining how well we’ve taken