THE ALPHA CENTAURI PROJECT SCRIPT by Marco Santini Read Free Book Online

surrounded by railings, turn into
the first side path and drive along up to the back.
    They park behind a mulberry-tree and launch a drone:
an azure disk as large as a doughnut, with three tiny rotors at its
center.
    Eve activates the virtual reconnaissance. The immense
mass of information processed by the on board computer is
transmitted to her visual field.
    She finds herself in the digital reconstruction of
the house.
    She runs through the rooms, and moves instantaneously
from a place to the other. No one!
    EVE
    We must find out where they went. Follow me!
    With a jump, they get over the fence and plunge onto
a lawn.
    EVE
    addressing eight raiders
    You, inspect the park.
    INT. EARTH NIHIL'S VILLA -- MOMENTS LATER
    Eve with the others break into the buiding with
leveled guns. Eve directs five androids to the second floor.
    Three others walk down to the basement, the rest of
the RAIDERS remains with her on the first floor.
    DINING ROOM
    Deserted. Tables decorated with flowers and elegant
tablecloths.
    In the air, the pungent smell of rotten food.
    raider
    The dinner was prepared a few days ago.
    ANOTHER raider
    What a strange scent...
    They pass next to a stately branched candlestick.
    EVE
    Incense. They held a ceremony.
    BEDROOMS
    They reach a corridor. Small clean rooms are along
both sides. Beds prepared carefully.
    Narcissus in ceramic pots in a row on the shelves.
Not a speck of dust.
    The linen arranged precisely in the drawers; nothing
out of place.
    They stop in front of rucksacks and suitcases, at the
foot of the beds.
    raiders
    They didn't take anything away.
    But they left a few days ago...
    They are coming back!
    EVE
    I know what's happened.
    In Eve's visual field appears a message: RUN DOWN TO
THE BASEMENT, QUICK!
    BASEMENT
    She dashes down the stairs, flings open the steel
door of the basement and jumps over the last steps.
    Now she is in a white room. A few electronic
instruments are lined up against a wall. It's cold.
    VICTORIA
    from the adjoining room
    I am here...
    Eve reaches her. The girl is standing in a corner,
with a pale face, pointing at a case with a trembling arm.
    Coagulated blood on the edge. Inside, in a dark red
pool, three heads, the tops of the skulls missing.
    raider
    examining the equipment
    That's a scanner for the brain digitization, and
those look like furnaces.
    He touches lightly one of them.
    RAIDER
    Still warm.
    VICTORIA
    They were cremated!
    Eve returns to the first room. She bends over a
machine and sets it running. The screen fills with data.
    EVE
    A short while ago, this tank contained about a
hundred souls. But now it is empty.
    VICTORIA
    Another mass suicide...
    EVE
    We entrusted Nihil with finding a system to embark us
on the Caravels, but he disappeared. He wants to replace us!
    beat
    They are calling me. I must go.
    SECOND FLOOR
    Eve strides upstairs, up to the second floor. She
enters a corridor covered with fitted carpet.
    At the end, towers an imposing wood door.
    The meeting room. An octagonal table at the center.
Yellow chairs with comfortable arms like the petals of a daisy.
    Adam and three other raiders are standing still in
front of the life-size hologram of a dark android standing out from
his followers who are along a wall.
    In a corner, is a server. Eve exchanges a few words
with her companions, then bends over and starts it.
    After a few minutes, she succeeds in logging in and
begins inspecting the files.
    EVE
    I found his diary!
    The others stop rummaging in the cabinets and turn in
unison.
    The text shines above the table. A few lines are
highlighted in yellow: THE COUNCIL IS SPYING ME. I PUNISHED THE
NOVICE AND WING, BUT NOW ALL OF THEM MUST DIE.
    EVE
    He will avenge himself with a latest generation
virus, I am afraid. Impossible to neutralize it.
    Eve transmits a message to her companions in Net,
appearing in her visual field: DANGER OF LIFE - ABANDON OUR
HIDEOUT, IMMEDIATELY!
    She skims the text. New lines appear: YESTERDAY I
TESTED THE FOLLOWERS'