ARE WE ALONE? by Bruce Durbin Read Free Book Online Page A

care of Earth.
CHAZ
Shit, we’re all dead.
    YASMINE
Come on, we’re going green,
recycling...
CHRISTINA
Uh, oil spills...
YASMINE
Socialized healthcare...
    CHAZ
Which will never happen. Take
money away from the rich? Yeah,
sure...
YASMINE
Helping third world countries...
    CHRISTINA
Oh, yeah, by starting wars and then
selling them guns.
    CHAZ
And, legs, artificial ones, to
replace the ones torn off by
landmines.
    YASMINE
Medical advances to improve
lives...
    CHAZ
Through cloning...
No cure for cancer...We can’t even
stop the violence on the Mexican
border, how can we expect to
stop...
ANTHONY
What if...
Anthony looks up into sky, with everyone else also looking up
into the sky.
    POV switches and circles around the students, then switches
to an AERIAL VIEW, looking down at their faces, which are
lighted by the flames of the campfire.
    ANTHONY (CONT’D)
They’ve lost their patience and see
that we're heading down a road,
which will not only lead to our own
destruction, but...
(pause)
Possibly other planets?
GINA
Okay, okay...
ANTHONY
What if Chaz is right...
GINA
Like that would ever happ...
    ANTHONY
This time, they’re coming to
annihilate us? Eliminate the
threat.
    YASMINE
When we do explorations on other
planets, the first thing we do is
slam a flag into the ground,
proclaiming it as our own.
    CHRISTINA
We drill holes into these planets,
without knowing what we're doing,
like we own the whole universe.
    Gina gets up and looks at the other students.
Okay, okay...this is getting way
too deep for a school project, why
don't we...
    YASMINE
IT IS a school project. School is
suppose to encourage us to think,
to explore other possibilities, to
think outside the box...challenge
the status quo.
    (looking at Gina)
Not to just spit back what our
teachers tell us.
    (looking up into the sky)
What if, they’ve said, "We'll give
them one more generation to prove
that they're part of the human
race."
    (pause - looking at the
others)
What if, what if we're that
generation? What if it's up to us
to show them that we're worth
saving?
    CHAZ
(softly)
Yeah, or maybe, it was our parents’
generation and that was the last
chance.
Chaz drops his head.
CHAZ (CONT’D)
In which case, we’re fucked.
Anthony looks up into the sky.
ANTHONY
Are we worth saving?
SCENE DISSOLVES
TO BLACK:
    ANTHONY (V.O.) (CONT’D)
Gina? Gina? Come on, we have to
go.
FADE IN:
    DREAM: BEGINS
EXT. CAMP - NIGHT
Gina BLINKS her eyes, seeing the pale face of Anthony,
standing above her. Anthony looks to the side.
ANTHONY
No, it can’t be happening.
GINA
(coming awake)
What? What’s happening.
    Suddenly, Gina is covered in a BLINDING WHITE LIGHT. Anthony
jerks Gina up and starts to run, practically dragging Gina
behind him. Anthony stumbles and they both fall.
    Gina rolls slightly to the side and comes face-to-face with
Chaz’, whose eyes are wide open, but dead. Gina looks
slightly down and sees that it’s just Chaz’ head; his head
has been cleanly removed from his body (NO BLOOD - SURGICAL
PRECISION).
Gina SCREAMS, as Anthony grabs at her, trying to get her up
off the ground.
ANTHONY
Come on.
Anthony manages to get Gina up and they start to run.
GINA
What? What...
    Gina chances a look back, seeing the BLINDING WHITE LIGHT
hovering over the campsite. Gina starts to look up, but
Anthony tugs at her, forcing her to turn back around, and
run.
    They run a short distance, with Anthony pulling Gina down to
the ground, behind a slight hill. Their faces are both
drenched in sweat.
    ANTHONY
(whispering)
That fuckin’ old man. The rocks,
the rocks brought them right to the
campfire. Chaz, he, they took him,
then, then...
FLASH IMAGE: CHAZ’ SEVERED HEAD.
ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Spit him back...like the goats.
Yasmine? Christina?
    ANTHONY
They have Yasmine. Christina...I
don’t know.
    GINA
This, this can’t be happening.
Aliens, aliens don’t exist.
They...
    Gina chances a look over the hill, seeing an approaching