Space Warp

Screenplay	Charles Woodgrove (Fred Freiberger)
Director	Peter Medak

Final shooting script 13th July 1976 Double Up Helena script Amendments 27th July 1976

Cast:

Titles

Martin Landau	John Koenig
Barbara Bain	Helena Russell
Catherine Schell	Maya

In Show Credits

featuring	Tony Anholt	Tony Verdeschi
	Nick Tate	Alan Carter
	Zienia Merton	Sandra Benes

End Credits

Jeffery Kissoon	dr ben vincent
Peter Porteous	petrov
Tony Osoba	1st security guard
John Judd	2nd security guard
Trevor Thomas	refuel eagle pilot
Andrew Lodge	grasshopper

Uncredited

Robert Reeves	Command Center Operative (Peter Reeves)
Quentin Pierre	Security Guard (Pierce Quinton)
Jack Klaff	Guard
Joe Dunne	Security guard At Elevator
Nick Hobbs	Guard (Medical)

Int. Command Centre
Int. Medical Centre
Int. Launch Area
Int. Control Room
Int. Corridor/Airlock 7
Int. Moonbuggy Airlock
Int. Alpha Corridor
Int. Corridor/ Elevator
Int. Travel Tube
Int. Eagle Pilot Section
Int. Eagle Passenger Section

Ext. Moon Surface
Int. Derelict

Hook

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Eagle rises from base. Close on base.
HELENA (VO): "Moonbase Alpha Status Report. Eighteen hundred and seven days after leaving Earth orbit. Doctor Helena Russell recording. A derelict spaceship "

1.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

The derelict.
HELENA (VO): " has appeared in our third quadrant. Commander John Koenig and Security Officer Tony Verdeschi "
Eagle (sc 2)
HELENA (VO): " are en route to investigate."

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

HELENA (VO): "The question is, could it's sudden appearance be connected with the fact that our science officer, Maya, "

4.INT. MEDICAL

Maya writhes feverishly in her sleep.
HELENA (VO): " has developed a high fever of unknown origin which has so far resisted all medication."
(("Cosmic Princess" begins; Helena goes to Maya to scan her))
MAYA: "Mentor...don't do it, Mentor...you must leave Psychon...don't do it, Mentor...we have to..leave the planet.."
HELENA: "Take it easy, Maya."
MAYA: "Mentor..! Mentor..!"
HELENA (firmly): "Maya." ((Maya subsides)) "Maya." ((Maya recovers))
MAYA: "Oh. I've been having terrible visions. Flames all around me...volcanoes erupting."
HELENA: "You have a very high fever; as soon as we can bring it down you'll be alright. Is there anything you want?"
MAYA: "I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Helena. * Where's Tony? I want Tony." ((* not in "Cosmic Princess"))
HELENA: "He'll be here soon. Okay?" ((she goes to comms post: "Cosmic Princess" resumes)) "Alan. Contact Eagle One."

5.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

HELENA (on screen): "Ask them to return as soon as possible. I'm worried about Maya."
ALAN: "Will do." ((cuts link)) "Sahn. Will you get Eagle One up on the Big Screen and open up a channel."
SANDRA: "Moonbase Alpha calling Commander Koenig."
-Big Screen (SFX): (sc 6) Eagle to derelict.
SANDRA (VO): "This is Moonbase Alpha calling Commander Koenig."

8.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

SANDRA (on screen): "Come in please. Commander Koenig, come in please."
KOENIG: "Go ahead, Alpha."
ALAN (VO): "John. We'd like an E T A on your return."

9.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

ALAN: "Helena's worried." ((-not in "Cosmic Princess"))
KOENIG (VO): "We'll return after we board the derelict ship-"
Suddenly tremendous shaking and centre spins upside down.

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.
ALAN: "All personnel assume emergency positions. All personnel assume emergency "

10.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

ALAN (VO): " positions."
TONY: "What the hell's going on?"

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

12.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

KOENIG: "Alan. Come in, Alan."

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon is elongated in warp effect.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

KOENIG: "Give me a shot of Alpha on the Big Screen."
Eagle screen: (SFX) Moon enters space warp. (sc 13)
They watch.
Eagle screen: (SFX) Moon enters warp and disappears.
They are shocked. (sc 14)
TONY: "What happened to Alpha?"
KOENIG: "It's disappeared."

FADE OUT

ACT ONE

SPACE WARP

featuring Tony Anholt
Nick Tate
Zienia Merton
production executive Reg Hill
associate producer F. Sherwin Green
technical director David Lane
lighting cameraman Frank Watts BSC
production designer Keith Wilson
special effects designed and directed by Brian Johnson
writer Charles Woodgrove
director Peter Medak

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon is elongated in warp effect.

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

15.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

16.INT. MEDICAL

Medical spins as Helena holds down Maya.
MAYA: "Mentor! It's happening again!"
HELENA: "We're not on Psychon, Maya."

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon is elongated in warp effect.

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

INT. MEDICAL

HELENA: "Hold on, Maya."

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon in space warp.

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)

Waves cross the base.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon small in warp.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon is elongated in warp effect.

INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Spins 360o.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Moon is elongated in warp effect.
Then Moon straightens, and spacewarp effect around dies.

19.INT. CORRIDOR

Straightens.

18.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Straightens.

20.INT. MEDICAL

Straightens.
BEN: "What hit us?"
HELENA (feels Maya's face): "We'll find out. As soon as we have time."

21.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

ALAN (returning to desk): "Alright, everybody. Back to your stations."
VOICE OVER: "Maintenance."
ALAN: "How long before you can restore full power?"
VOICE OVER: "I'll give you a time as soon as we locate the source of the trouble, Mister Carter."
ALAN (to Sandra): "Can you get Eagle One on the Big Screen?"
-Big Screen (SFX): nebula, then another. (sc 22)
-Sandra watches.
-Big Screen (SFX): nebula.
-Sandra watches.
-Big Screen (SFX): nebula.
-Alan goes to Sandra (sc 23)
SANDRA: "Alan, I cannot locate them. What did this to us?"
ALAN: "I'm not sure yet. Keep trying."
-Big Screen (SFX): 2 nebulas (sc 24)
SANDRA (VO): "Nothing."
-They watch (sc 28)
ALAN: "What's our position?"
SANDRA: "That was our position."
-Big Screen (SFX): (sc 31) nebula, with a green dot flashing (& bleeping)
SANDRA (VO): "This is our position now." ((second dot)) "We have moved five light years in a matter of minutes."
ALAN (VO): "We've gone through a space warp."
-Command Centre (sc 32):
ALAN: "There's no chance of the Commander ever making it back to Alpha."
SANDRA: "Unless he can find a window in the space warp."
ALAN: "The chances of that are pretty remote. What's our present velocity?"
SANDRA (after checks): "Back to normal."
ALAN (to black astronaut on screen): "Get ready to launch a refuelling Eagle."
PILOT (on screen): "Yes sir." ((screen blanks))
ALAN: "Yeah. I know it's a long shot. But if they can find that space warp, then they're gonna need refuelling to get back to Alpha."
-Big Screen (SFX): the 2 dots blinking and bleeping.

26.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle leaves derelict.
TONY (VO): "Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha. Come in, Alpha."

27.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

TONY: "Ah, it's no good, John. I just can't get a fix on them."
KOENIG: "There's only one answer, Tony. They must have gone through a space warp."
TONY: "They could be billions of miles away. We have fuel for less than a million."
KOENIG: "It might not make any difference even if we had all the fuel we needed."
TONY: "Yeah. We wouldn't even know which direction to go in."

33.INT. MEDICAL

MAYA (delirious): "I'll help you...I'll help you...ahhh!!" ((sits up))
Close on eyes: animal 1 briefly appears.
Helena helps Maya lie back.
HELENA: "Maya. Maya, come on. Come on, just lie back. Come on, here we go, here we go, easy." ((Maya cries)) "Alright now. Alright, just take it easy. You've been delirious, Maya."
MAYA: "Yes, I know, the nightmares, they're getting worse, they're taking over."
HELENA: "Ben, prepare a sedative."
MAYA: "No... That won't do it. Helena, I'm beginning to lose molecular control. I don't know what will happen. You've got to put me in restraints."
HELENA: "Maya, I can't do that."
MAYA: "You've got to! I can be dangerous! Put me in restraints!"
HELENA: "Ben. Prepare a sedative. Okay, put her in restraints, then." ((goes to post and activates it))
ALAN (on post screen): "Command Centre."
HELENA: "Alan. I must speak to Eagle One."

34.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

SANDRA: "You have to tell her, Alan."
HELENA (on screen): "Tell me what?"
ALAN: "That shaking. We went through a space warp. Eagle One is on the other side of it. We are five light years from our last position."

35.INT. MEDICAL

Helena is stunned. She cuts the comms post link.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Whip pan through space.
Eagle flies past nebula (sc 36)

37.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

KOENIG: "Okay. This is just about where Alpha disappeared." ((checks console)) "We've matched Alpha's velocity. And now all we have to do is find that hole in space."

38.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle flies under long stream nebula.

39.INT. COMMAND CENTRE ((not in "Cosmic Princess"))

Helena enters.
-Big Screen (SFX): space diagram and two blinking dots. (sc 40)
Sandra looks with concern at her (sc 41)
SANDRA: "You're the doctor, Helena, so forgive me for prescribing, but...you need some rest." ((gives her a cup of coffee))
ALAN: "If there are any developments, Helena..."
HELENA: "What are his chances?"
ALAN: "Well, you know John. He won't give up."
HELENA: "What are the chances of his finding that same door in space?"
ALAN: "It depends."
HELENA: "On what?"
ALAN: "On luck."
HELENA: "Luck? In space? I guess his chances are a billion to one."
SANDRA: "Helena, if I can.."
Helena leaves, putting cup on command desk.

42.INT. MEDICAL (("Cosmic Princess" resumes))

Dark. Close on sleeping Maya. Suddenly her eyes open wide.
Close on eyes as animal 1 appears.

43.INT. CORRIDOR

Helena pauses, supporting herself against the wall before continuing.

44.INT. MEDICAL

Animal 1 lifts up its arms, snapping the restraints.

INT. CORRIDOR

Helena turns into the corridor to Medical.

44.INT. MEDICAL

Animal 1 stands and looks round. Helena enters.
HELENA: "Maya." ((it approaches)) "Maya." ((approaches)) "Maya, please, revert!" ((Animal catches and shakes her)) "No! Ah! Maya! Please!"
Helena is thrown over operating table. Animal pushes open door, creating sparks.

45.INT. CORRIDOR

A red jacketed man and a service man walk out of the Travel Tube and into the main corridor.
RED ALPHAN: "I've got a rest period now, do you want a coffee? Hey!"
They see the animal. Red runs up but is swept out of the way by an arm. The service man is tossed over. The animal goes on. The service man rises and goes to the comms post.

46.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

PILOT (on screens under Big Screen): "Emergency in corridor level A. Emergency in corridor level A."
PETROV (appearing on Sandra's monitor): "There's some sort of monster loose on Alpha. We've just been attacked."
SANDRA: "Emergency in Weapons Section."
ALAN: "I heard." ((hits button)) "All Security Personnel. There's a dangerous creature loose on Alpha."

47.INT. MEDICAL

Close on Helena. Pull back to include Alan on comms post screen.
ALAN (VO): "Take no chances. Put your laser guns on kill. Take no chances. Kill on sight."

INT. CORRIDOR ((not in "Cosmic Princess"))

Animal 1 pauses by a post flashing 'Red Alert'.

FADE OUT

ACT TWO

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX) ((not in "Cosmic Princess"))

Foreground is Eagle on pad; middle distance a Daria dome and building; background Alpha.

48.INT. CORRIDOR

Two guards advance, at each door positioning at either side before cautiously opening it.
ALAN (VO): "All nonessential personnel to remain in their quarters. This creature is dangerous. I repeat, this creature is dangerous. Security. Kill on sight."
Guards open Weapons Section door.

Another corridor as Animal advances, comms post foreground. (sc 49)

Guards leave Weapons Section door (sc 48)

49.INT. CORRIDOR/ ELEVATOR

The animal reaches Elevator 7, level A. It backs to the door and its hand hits the control panel. It continues backing into the elevator, then operates the panel inside to close the door.

50.INT. ELEVATOR

The animal is disturbed as the lights in panels either side rise.

51.INT. CORRIDOR/ ELEVATOR

The two guards reach the level A door.
GUARD 1: "Occupant of elevator "

52.INT. ELEVATOR

GUARD (VO): "Please identify yourself. Occupant of elevator "

54.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Alan and Sandra listen.
GUARD (VO): "Please identify."
Alan switches on the monitor: it shows the animal. He changes the picture to a third guard.
GUARD 3: "Security."
ALAN: "Elevator seven. Levels C and D."
GUARD 3: "Yes sir."

55.INT. MEDICAL

BEN (finding Helena): "Helena. What happened? You alright?"
HELENA (as gets to knees): "Maya. Maya turned into some kind of space creature. Look, I'm alright but there's no telling what she might do."
BEN: "She's already doing it. Alan's orders are..to kill on sight."
HELENA (going to post): "Alan. You're got to cancel that kill order."

56.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

ALAN: "Hey, now wait a minute. That creature is -"
HELENA (on screen): "That creature is Maya. She can't control what she's doing."

57.INT. CORRIDOR/ ELEVATOR

Level D as 3 guards wait.
ALAN (VO): "Top priority. All personnel. Don't shoot to kill. Change to stun."
Inset: close up of laser as changed to stun.
The animal bursts out and is shot. It then runs out, grabs 2 guards so it can lift itself into a kick at the guard inbetween. It then throws the 2 guards it holds into either side of the elevator door and leaves.

58.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle flies over camera.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

They look out.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

POV of space, stars passing.

59.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

TONY: "Shall we try number eleven?"
KOENIG: "No, let's try to raise Alpha on the screen." ((operate console))
-Eagle viewscreen (SFX): three shots of space (sc 60)
-KOENIG: "I guess there are going to be no miracles today. How about that derelict?" (sc 61)
-Eagle viewscreen (SFX): derelict (sc 62)
KOENIG (VO): "It's power pods could be the same as ours and we might be able to use it's fuel store "
-They look (sc 63)
KOENIG (cont): " if it's got any left."
TONY: "Yeah. You never know, we could get lucky."
KOENIG: "What have we got to lose?"

64.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle turns.

65.INT. MEDICAL

GUARD 1 (on post screen): "It's making it's way back towards the upper levels. But we're staying clear, as you ordered."
ALAN: "Hey, don't lose contact. But stay out of reach, huh? Tranquilliser darts are almost ready." ((cuts link))
Alan goes to Helena and Ben, preparing drugs.
BEN: "Okay. But how much do we use? Too little, no effect. Too much, death."
HELENA: "Let's hope this is the correct dosage."
ALAN: "Well, the stun guns have had little effect, Helena."
HELENA: "This has more of a kick."
GUARD 1 (on post): "Mister Carter. It seems to be making it's way towards the Travel Tube."
ALAN: "Mm."
HELENA: "The Travel Tube. When Maya was delirious she was hallucinating about Psychon, that her father was still alive and that she had to save him."
ALAN: "Well, you think it's making for the Eagles?"
HELENA: "Yeh, and if she gets into one, starts off, she'll be making a one way trip to a planet that's no longer there."
They leave.

66.INT. CORRIDOR

Animal turns the corner into Reception and walks to the tube. 3 guards appear behind, then Helena and Alan. Helena stops Alan moving to fire.
HELENA: "No. Maya. Please. Listen to me!" ((it pauses)) "Maya. Listen. Please, let us try to help you."
It turns back to the Tube door. Alan fires. It enters the Tube.

INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)

Tube speeds off.

66.INT. CORRIDOR

ALAN: "She's making for launch pad four. Come on." ((they leave))

67.INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)

Travel tube speeds on.

INT. TRAVEL UNIT

Animal looking round.

68.EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)

Pan along tube past moonbase buildings.

INT. TRAVEL UNIT

Animal.

67.INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)

Travel tube speeds on.

69.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Alan and Helena enter.
-Big Screen (SFX): Animal in Travel Unit (sc 70)
-They watch (sc 71)
ALAN: "Cut off the power to the main Travel Tube."

INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)

Unit stops.

72.INT. TRAVEL UNIT

Animal stumbles with abrupt halt.

73.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

ALAN: "Alright, Helena. We've got it trapped underground. We've hit it with stun guns, tranquilliser darts..and she's still on her feet."
-Big Screen (SFX): Animal. (sc 74)
ALAN (VO): "Oh, boy, what do we do now?"
-Command Centre (sc 75)
HELENA: "We go in after it."
SANDRA: "Alan."
-Big Screen (SFX): Animal rips open Unit door. (sc 76)
-Command Centre (sc 79)
HELENA: "If she makes it to an Eagle, takes off, there's no way we can help her."
ALAN: "Come on. We'll try the alternate travel tube."
-Big Screen (SFX): animal leaves out door (sc 79)
-Sandra stands.

81.INT. TRAVEL UNIT

Helena and Alan enter. Alan activates the screen.
GUARD 3 (on screen): "Launching area."
ALAN: "This is top priority alert. Block Travel Tube tunnel one. Permit -"

84.INT. LAUNCH AREA

A guard and 2 pilots watch Alan on comms post screen. The Travel tube door beyond is burst open by animal.

INT. TRAVEL UNIT

Screen changes to test card.
ALAN: "Launch area."

84.INT. LAUNCH AREA

Guard runs up, but is pushed back into pilot 1. Pilot 2 runs up and is flipped over into the coffee machine. The animal kicks pilot 1 away and pulls up the guard, throwing him into a corner. Pilot 2 runs up again and is flipped over the animal's shoulder into the travel tube door. The guard and pilot 1 grab the animal's arms, but are span round, taken by the shoulders and ran into either side of the boarding tube door. The animal then opens the door.
ALAN (VO above action): "Launch Area, what's going on in there. Launch Area personnel, will you get on the comms post and give me a report. Launch Area personnel, can you hear me? Will you get on the comms post and give me a report. Launching area? Launch Area, what is going on in there?"

85.INT. TRAVEL UNIT

ALAN: "Launching Area?"

86.INT. LAUNCH AREA

ALAN (VO): "What's happening?"
GUARD (rises and goes to post): "Mister Carter."

INT. TRAVEL UNIT

GUARD (on screen): "We've been attacked by-"
ALAN: "Okay, I figured that. Where's it gone now?"
GUARD: "In Eagle Four."

87.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Animal enters and sits with a slump. It lifts it's arm to a switch.

88.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)

Tube retracts from Eagle.

89.INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)

Unit stops.

90.INT. LAUNCH AREA

Helena and Alan enter from Travel tube 2.
GUARD: "It's too late. The boarding tube's already retracting."
HELENA: "We can't let her lift off." ((they run to Control Room))
ALAN: "I'll bring her down."

EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)

Eagle.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Animal is sleepy.

91.INT. CONTROL ROOM

Alan sits at a desk.

92.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)

Pad starts to lower, taking Eagle down.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Animal reacts to motion.

EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)

Pad sinks below surface.

94.INT. EAGLE SHAFT (SFX)

Eagle reaches bottom of shaft.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Animal lurches forward as motion stops.

93.INT. CONTROL ROOM

HELENA: "Alright. Let's see what's going on inside." ((monitor shows animal)) "The anaesthetic is beginning to have effect."
ALAN: "I'll bring it in."
HELENA: "Right."

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Door opens to Eagle bays.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Alan operates.

INT. EAGLE SHAFT (SFX)

Eagle waits at the bottom of the shaft as a girder moves over it.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

The animal hears a heavy metallic clunk.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

POV shot moving between rows of Eagles.
Eagle moves through hangar under door.

95.INT. CONTROL ROOM

Alan and Helena go to the window to look out.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle carried between 2 other Eagles.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Alan and Helena watch.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Continuation of previous as Eagle moves between 2 others.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Sleepy animal.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

POV between 2 other Eagles.
Continuation of previous as Eagle lowered between 2 others. (sc 96)

99.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

The animal looks at its hands, then at the joysticks.

100.INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle fires engines and rises.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Animal leans to side as door closes.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Front of Eagle rears up between the 2 others.

101.INT. CONTROL ROOM

HELENA: "Can't we stop it?"
ALAN: "No, no, we've no control over it now."

102.INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle rises; explosion over command module.

103.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Upside down; smoke, explosions.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle swings backwards from explosions.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

ALAN: "Get the rescue unit on the double."

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Violently rolling.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle rolls onto its side and back.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Rolls upright.

INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle rolls on its back, with explosions.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

Alan and Helena look out.

105.INT. HANGAR (SFX)

Eagle slides on its side through canisters: large explosion.
Eagle slides on, in explosion.
Eagle slews on in fiery flame, passing the engines of another Eagle.

104.INT. CONTROL ROOM

Firemen rush up to the door.
HELENA: "Get her out of there!"
ALAN: "Move it! Go!"
Alan and Helena go to the Launch Area door and wait with the guard, a nurse and an orderly. The firemen bring in the animal and lay it on a stretcher.

111.INT. LAUNCH AREA

The wheel the animal across the Launch Area to the travel tube door.
HELENA: "She's dying."
ALAN: "Well, can't you save her?"
HELENA: "I've never seen this species before, its anatomy and vital functions are unknown to me."
ALAN: "Well, you've got to do something."

FADE OUT

ACT THREE

112.INT. MEDICAL

The light focuses on the animal on the operating table. Alan, Helena and Ben are in surgical gowns and masks.
HELENA: "Maya. Change back, please, change back."
BEN: "That anaesthetic dart really worked. It's metabolism can't cope with it." ((shows Alan diagrams)) "The pressure's in here, somewhere. We've nothing to compare. We've never seen anything like this before. We've insufficient knowledge of this species to know what that's all about. We can't treat it's injuries."
ALAN (bitter): "Just stand here and let Maya die?"
BEN (of test tube): "Look. The creature's blood. If we treat it, it could upset the corpuscle balance. We don't know what the hell we're dealing with." ((following not in "Cosmic Princess"))
ALAN: "Helena. How long ago did Maya transform into this?"
HELENA: "About forty five minutes ago."
ALAN: "Okay, now, you're afraid to operate because you're unfamiliar with its anatomy, right? Well, Maya can't hold this form for longer than one hour. We've only got to wait another fifteen minutes."
HELENA: "She doesn't have fifteen minutes. * Ben, will you assist me, please?" ((* "Cosmic Princess" resumes))
BEN: "If you operate, you could kill her."
HELENA: "At least she'll have a chance." ((they mask up and move a spotlight on the animal's stomach)) "We'll make our incision right here. If we can stop that blockage-"
BEN: "What if it's not a blockage? What if it's natural tissues performing a natural function?"
HELENA: "Let's find out." ((Ben sprays area)) "All right. Here we go."
CU of brain-respiration panel bleeping.
NURSE: "Doctor Russell. Heart fibrillating. Pulse erratic."
BEN: "You can't operate. She won't make it."
Helena pushes the surgery light back and unmasks.
HELENA: "Maya. You've got to change now. You've got to change right now." ((animal stirs)) "Alan. I think she hears me."
Merge transformation into Mentor. Mentor opens his eyes and his arm snaps out to knock Alan away. He sits up and throws Ben over him. Alan runs up to grab him, but falls back. Ben runs up and is thrown back. Alan returns to strike Mentor, then runs to the alarm button and hits it. Mentor advances to Helena. Alan runs up into a snap punch at his face, then a punch from Mentor.
HELENA: "Maya, no! No! Maya, no!"
Alan misses Mentor's punch and returns a half hearted kick and two weak punches, both blocked. Mentor grabs Alan and throws him over the surgical bed to land in the corner of the room behind a bed. Mentor advances on Helena.
HELENA: "Stop it!"
She throws the surgery spotlight at Mentor, but it is tossed away. A guard enters as Mentor faces Alan and Helena.
HELENA: "Don't kill him!"
ALAN: "Make sure your gun's set on stun."
The guard fires a yellow beam. Mentor falls and has an epileptic fit on the floor. Merge transformation into animal 3. Alan and Helena are pushed back, then Ben, and the guard is pushed out the door. Animal 3 leaves out the door, passing the guard on the floor.

113.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle flies to the side of the derelict.

114.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

KOENIG: "That looks like a docking port."
TONY: "See. We are getting lucky."

115.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle lowers to the side of the derelict.
CU derelict and Eagle as dock.
KOENIG (VO): "Cut power."
TONY (VO): "Power cut. Okay, we're locked on."
Both ships docked.
KOENIG (VO): "Right. Let's take a look."

116.INT. DERELICT

Koenig and Tony enter.
KOENIG: "Tony. Check the power room. See if the fuel supply is adaptable to our Eagles."
TONY: "Yeah, okay."
Tony walks past camera; track Koenig along other end and a screen. Koenig takes a capsule and pushes on in a slot. The screen shows Maya's equation from "A B Chrysalis". Tony returns.
KOENIG: "Obviously a data bank."
TONY: "John, that power room is amazingly sophisticated. It's way beyond our capabilities."
KOENIG: "Maybe the answer lies here." ((picks up cartridge)) "Look at that one. It's a different colour."
TONY: "Yeah."
GRASSHOPPER (on screen): "This is Captain Duro, Commander of the Betanon Scout Cruiser Menon. We were twelve parsecs distant from the mothership Admenon when it disappeared into a space warp. That happened star time twelve. It is now star time thirty two. And through all that long period I and my crew have been desperately trying to find that same entry into the space warp. We thought that we had pin pointed the exact location of entry of the Mothership into the space warp. It was after a number of unsuccessful attempts to enter the space warp that we realised our coordinates were wrong. There was a fault on our space warp locator. Our ship suffered much damage. I set my engineers to work. We were very close to attaining the correct coordinates when there was a malfunction in a power pod which caused an explosion, killing all my crew. I myself suffered a fatal wound. In the last moments of my life I am making this record so that if any other intelligent life arrives in this area, they will have an explanation of these tragic events. The data relating to the space warp locator is recorded on cartridge twenty six. In the burial tradition of my species, I have ejected my crew members out into space and at the conclusion of this report I will join them." ((New dialogue in "Cosmic Princess"))
TONY: "Well. If it's any consolation to him, we know how he felt."
KOENIG: "We owe him. We owe him for pointing the way. Twenty six?" ((puts it in))
GRASSHOPPER (VO): "This stage of the operation is critical. The data shown must be fed into our on board computer and linked to yours. The correct coordinates will be obtained by connecting the space warp locator to your computer's navigational programmer and the Menon's computer activated. The rest of the procedure is relatively simple." ((screen shows equation, then locator, then equation)) ((New dialogue in "Cosmic Princess"))
TONY (of equation): "Wish we had Maya here." ((Not in "Cosmic Princess"))
KOENIG: "Well, we don't."
TONY: "John, it's a hell of a long shot." (("Cosmic Princess" resumes))
KOENIG: "Yeah. But it's a shot. Let's find that locator."

125.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Alan is at the command desk, and 2 guards on the monitor.
GUARD 3 (on screen): "Travel Tube clear."
ALAN: "Check." ((cuts link))
VOICE OVER: "Life Support."
ALAN: "Anything?"
VOICE OVER: "It's not in this area, Mister Carter."
ALAN: "Check." ((cuts link)) "Attention all Security personnel. All the corridors are clear, the travel tubes are clear, the life support area is clear, levels C and D are clear. Now check levels A and B." ((cuts link)) "It's gotta be somewhere on this base."
HELENA: "If Maya's still in control, if her brain is still feverish, she'll be trying to get to Psychon."
SANDRA: "The launch pads are sealed off, she cannot get to an Eagle."
ALAN: "Well, it might take a little time, but we'll find her."
Beat.
HELENA: "John?"

128.INT. DERELICT

Koenig searches through junk on the floor and finds the locator.
KOENIG: "Tony. I've found it. Yeah, this is it. Let's transfer it to Eagle One, and see if it works."
TONY: "John, even if we do break through that space warp and come out on the other side, we're never going to catch up with Alpha. We don't have enough fuel."
KOENIG: "Tony, it's my hunch that everyone on Alpha is working on that contingency. Now come on."
Koenig slaps him on the shoulder, smiling.

129.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

-Big Screen (SFX): the 2 distant dots.
ALAN (VO): "Sahn, "
-Command Centre (sc 130)
ALAN: "Will you patch me into the refuelling Eagle."
SANDRA: "Moonbase Alpha to Eagle Three. Moonbase Alpha to Eagle Three."
PILOT (on screen under Big Screen): "Eagle Three to Moonbase Alpha. Go ahead."
ALAN: "Gary, what's your E T A?"
PILOT: "E T A to rendezvous point seven minutes, twelve seconds."
HELENA: "Rendezvous point, we hope."
-Big Screen (SFX): diagram (sc 131)
ALAN (VO): "When you reach the rendezvous point "
-Command Centre (sc 132)
ALAN (cont): " I want you to cruise the area."
PILOT: "For how long?"
ALAN: "Well, until I give you further notice."
GUARD 1 (appears on monitor): "Mister Carter. We've cornered the animal at airlock seven. It seems hell bent on getting out of Alpha."
ALAN: "Right, we're on our way." ((Alan and Helena leave))

133.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

Animal 3 hits airlock door. Guards come round bend of corridor near it and back up to another corner where Alan and Helena run up.
ALAN: "It's still trying to get to Psychon."
HELENA: "If she smashes that airlock.."
ALAN: "Uh huh, explosive decompression will wipe out everybody in this section on Alpha. You guys set on stun?" ((they walk out)) "Fire."
The guards fire. The animal pauses, then continues battering the door.
HELENA (Using comlock): "Computer. Open the inner door to airlock seven."
The door opens and the animal enters.
ALAN: "What are you doing? If that breaks through the outer airlock door onto the surface, she'll die instantly."
HELENA: "Computer. Close the inner door to airlock seven." ((advances to door)) "Ben, I need an anaesthetic gas cylinder at airlock seven immediately."
BEN (VO): "Right, I'm on my way."

134.INT. AIRLOCK

Animal hits outer door.

135.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

HELENA: "In that confined space the anaesthetic should have an immediate effect."
ALAN: "It'd better."

136.INT. CORRIDOR

Ben walks carrying cylinder.

137.INT. AIRLOCK

Animal battering.

138.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

Ben arrives. Alan screws the cylinder into the emergency air supply.

139.INT. AIRLOCK

Animal throws boxes at door.

146.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

They watch a screen as mist fills.
ALAN: "There's nothing. No effect at all. Maya!"

148.EXT. MOON SURFACE

Door bursts open and animal thrown out.

149.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

They watch, shocked.

150.EXT. MOON SURFACE

On ground by the base of a gravity tower, the animal stirs.

INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK 7

They watch.
Screen: animal rising.
They watch (sc 151)
BEN: "It must have an air store like a camel stores water."
ALAN: "Yeah."
Screen. Animal starts off.
ALAN (VO): "How long will it last though?"
They watch. ((Not in "Cosmic Princess"))
HELENA: "What matters is that Maya can only hold that form - for an hour."

152.EXT. MOON SURFACE ((not in "Cosmic Princess"))

Animal starts to run off.

FADE OUT

ACT FOUR

EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX) ((not in "Cosmic Princess"))

Close on base.

154.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK (("Cosmic Princess" resumes))

Alan and Helena are suited, with guards.
GUARD 1: "You want us to follow you, sir?"
ALAN: "No, not just yet. Get yourselves suited up and wait for a command round in airlock C."
GUARD 1: "Yes sir."
SANDRA (VO): "Command Centre?"
HELENA: "Have you got visual?"

155.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Sandra looks.
-Big Screen (SFX): animal 3 on surface (sc 156)
SANDRA (VO): "It's approaching area Copernicus "
-Sandra (sc 157)
SANDRA (cont): "of the Copernicus depression. It's pace has slowed."

158.INT. CORRIDOR/ AIRLOCK

HELENA: "Right."
ALAN: "Slowed, huh? It must be running out of air."
They take their helmets and enter the airlock.

159.INT. AIRLOCK

They sit in the buggy.
HELENA: "Depressurise."
A button is pressed on the moonbuggy dash board. The door opens and they drive out.

160.EXT. MOON SURFACE

Buggy drives out over door fragments at the base of a gravity tower.

Animal 3 runs (sc 161)

Moonbuggy accelerates on.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Whip pan through space.
Close on Eagle/ derelict (sc 162)

163.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Tony adjusts locator.
TONY: "Okay, John. I should now be hooked up to your onboard computer."

166.INT. DERELICT

KOENIG: "We have link up. I'm going to activate."

166A.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Tony looks in the locator's eyepiece.
TONY: "Okay. I've got all the coordinates. Now all we have to do is understand them."

INT. DERELICT

KOENIG: "Alright. I'm coming onboard."

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Tony looks in locator.

167.EXT. MOON SURFACE

Animal bounces along.

Buggy.
SANDRA (VO): "Creature is now on a bearing of two six seven zero and still slowing."
ALAN: "Roger, Alpha."

Animal runs on.

Buggy.
HELENA: "There she is."
ALAN: "Moonbuggy to Alpha. We have visual."
They drive after the animal round a central rock.
HELENA: "Alan, look out!"
They drive the animal over.

168.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Sandra and others stand.
-Big Screen (SFX): Animal rises (sc 169)
-They watch.

170.EXT. MOON SURFACE

They drive round the rock and the animal. It lifts a boulder and throws it at them; it bounces out of the back of the buggy. They drive into rocks around the area.
ALAN: "Helena, hang on. Get out of the way."
They leave the buggy. Alan jumps on the animal: he is lifted up and dumped on the central rock ((his visor bounces open)). The animal lifts up a rock and throws it at Helena.
HELENA: "No, Maya, no!"

171.INT. COMMAND CENTRE

Watching.
-Big Screen (SFX): Helena by buggy (sc 172)
Watching.

173.EXT. MOON SURFACE

Alan sees the animal going to Helena. He runs up onto the central rock and jumps off it for a flying kick into the animal's back. It falls and rolls over. Alan is back on the central rock, gasping for air. Inset: air tank and meter, hissing air.
ALAN: "Helena! I'm losing oxygen."
Helena goes to the buggy and opens a 'Emergency Equipment' pack. She takes from it a repair pack and an emergency oxygen tube. She goes to Alan and seals his tank with a plaster. She screws in the air cylinder. Alan breathes in.
HELENA: "Command Centre. I need an emergency Eagle immediately."
ALAN: "Air. Beautiful."
HELENA: "You'll be alright, Alan. The creature's running out of air. If it transforms into Maya, she'll die instantly."

179.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle and derelict.

180.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

TONY (reading from checklist): "One. Two. Five. Six. Seven. Four. One down to blue." ((suppresses yawn))
KOENIG (at each pressing switches): "One down to blue."
TONY: "Yeah."
KOENIG: "Compensation factor?"
TONY: "Ah..port thruster, twenty two point two second burn. Inertia factor green plus two."
KOENIG (pressing buttons): "Green plus two."
TONY: "That's it." ((console bleeps and Koenig takes readout card))
KOENIG: "Well, here are the coordinates. Let's hope they're the right ones."
TONY: "Well, if Alpha can do it, so can we."
Koenig crosses his fingers, pointing forward.

180.EXT. SPACE (SFX)

CU Eagle engines fire.
Eagle and derelict move off.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

They pilot.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Eagle and derelict move on.
Eagle and derelict fly to orange globe.

181.INT. MEDICAL

Animal 3 brought in on stretcher.
BEN: "At least she's still breathing."
HELENA: "Barely. Maya. Can you hear me? Change now, Maya?"
BEN: "You're not making contact."
HELENA: "She's been this form for nearly an hour. She can't hold it for much longer."
BEN: "She hasn't come back as Maya the last couple of times - what happens if she transforms into something even worse?"

EXT. SPACE (SFX)

Warp (split screen) and ships in multiple images.

INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION

Warp effect over.

EXT. SPACE (SFX)