Screenplay

INT. CONTROL ROOM - DAY

DR. JANE RYDER is standing in her lab coat transfixed on a

video screen of JACK HUNTER’S cell. In front of her, DR.

ALICE CROSWELL sits, also in a lab coat, busily typing away

at her computer. Croswell turns her head to see Ryder in

this state.

CROSWELL

What are you looking at? We have a

lot of work to do, so we cant waste

time staring at some security

camera footage.

RYDER

Oh, sorry, I was just distracted.

CROSWELL

By what?

(looks up at screen)

By a test subject siting on his

cot? Whats so interesting about

that?

RYDER

Well it’s not really what he’s

doing, its more I am wondering

whats going through his head right

now.

CROSWELL

I still don’t see how this is

interesting.

RYDER

Well I mean he cant possibly know

whats going on right now, so he

must be freaked out of his mind

about whats going to happen to him.

So what I am wondering if its

better this way knowing nothing or

for him to know what we plan to do

to him.

CROSWELL

Don’t waste your time thinking

about that Ryder. He is a drifter,

nobody but you cares what he is

thinking or how he feels. What we

should be worried about is what his

physical capabilities are and other

things that could effect the

experiment. Plus, he should be

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(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 2.

CROSWELL (cont’d)happy, he is doing something

productive for society, probably

for the first time in his life too.

So what if he might die, or have

horrible mutations. It gets us data

and helps us learn more.

RYDER

I understand, just I wish you would

think about it differently.

CROSWELL

Like what exactly?

RYDER

Um... I don’t know, something

positive, like that once we perfect

a super human, we can change our

world for the betterment of all of

us, so we need to do this awful

stuff just for alittle bit to get

there.

CROSWELL

My view is positive. As I said,

this man is going to be productive,

he is going to either become or

super being or show us what not to

do.

RYDER

Ugh, I hate having to put up with

your damn disease all the time. For

me, can you just stop talking about

them like test rats?

CROSWELL

Fine, though I really cant see much

of a difference, we are mammals

after all, just like rats.

RYDER

That’s not what- you know what,

never mind, its like talking to a

brick wall about this type of stuff

with you. At least you are using

your lack of feelings to do

something good, that everyone else

has to much sympathy to do.

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CONTINUED: 3.

CROSWELL

Yes, sympathy is always the

downfall of so many people, I don’t

know why the scientific community

did not see that, they had no right

to ban me.

RYDER

Well you are doing serious

mutations on drifters, I mean even

for a good cause its still

extremely iffy morally speaking.

Hell, now that I am thinking about

it, I am amazed I even agreed to

this. If not for the final verdict,

I would be reporting you to the

higher authorities right now.

CROSWELL

Yes, the final verdict, the super

being. As soon as we get a living

super being, society will welcome

me back with open arms. That’s why

we need to work as fast as possible

to get this done.

RYDER

That’s one thing I actually

completely agree with you on, since

the faster we get this done the

faster we get to stop ruining

peoples lives.

CROSWELL

Well if you think that, maybe you

should get back to doing your job

instead of talking to me about such

trivial things and wondering what

random test subjects are thinking.

RYDER

Oh right, I’ll get right on that.

She heads out of the room.