alternatives on offer.
JENNA: We're not there yet.

Aaka holds up a small card of pills.
Suicide pills.

AAKA: We're not. Huh.
JENNA: I think we should blow up the ship.
AAKA: I'll stick with chemicals if you don't mind.
JENNA: We leave in the shuttle and then blow up the ship.

INT. AIR LOCK - NARCISSUS
Jenna, Aaka and Much loading oxygen tanks onto the Narcissus.

JENNA: That's all the oxygen.
MUCH: That's it.
JENNA: Now. Let's get the food, shut off the engines and get out...Jones. Where's Jones.
MUCH: Who knows.
AAKA: Last I saw him was in the mess.
JENNA: Go look. We don't want to leave him.
AAKA: I don't want to go by myself.
MUCH: Always hated that damn cat.
JENNA: I'll go. You load up the food.

They move out.

INT. BRIDGE
Jones lying on Autumn' console.
Jenna comes in.
Smiles.

JENNA: Jones. You're in luck.

As she reaches for him, Jones jumps off the console.
Moves away.

JENNA: Come on, Jones.

She moves after the cat.
We hear Much and Aaka over the communicator from the coolant locker.

AAKA: (voice over) How much do you think we'll need.

Jenna still in pursuit of the cat.

 

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INT. FOOD LOCKER NUMBER 6 - "B" LEVEL
Much and Aaka loading food.

MUCH: All you can carry.

Jenna's voice over communicator from bridge.

JENNA: (voice over) God damn it, Jones. Come here.

INT. BRIDGE
Jenna furious but still speaking gently.

JENNA: Here kitty...come here kitty...

Jones moves away.

INT. FOOD LOCKER NUMBER 6 - "B" DECK
Arms full, Much moves out of the locker.
Aaka is still making her selection.
A faint light on the tracker.
Unnoticed.

INT. BRIDGE
Jenna finally corners Jones.
Finds his box.
Tries to put him in it.
Jones resists.
Ultimately futile.

INT. FOOD LOCKER CORRIDOR - OUTSIDE
Much attempts to pick up the flamethrower.
Can't manage it and the food.
Drops some of the packages.

MUCH: Goddamn.

In the locker Aaka gathers food.

AAKA: What's the matter.
MUCH: Nothing. just hurry up.

The tracker flAmaroqes faster.
Now it's noticed.
Much picks up the flamethrower.

MUCH: Let's get out of here.
AAKA: Right now.

The Alien appears out of the air shaft ventilator.
Aaka turns.
Screams.
Unfolding, the Alien grabs for her.

INT. BRIDGE
Jenna freezes as she hears Aaka's screams.

INT. CORRIDOR - OUTSIDE
Much looks back into the locker.
Unable to use the flamethrower without hitting Aaka.
He hesitates for a moment, then strides into the locker.
Wielding the flamethrower like a club.

MUCH: Goddamn you.

INT. FOOR LOCKER NUMBER 6
The Alien drops Aaka.
Much lands a blow with the flamethrower.
No effect.
The Alien strikes him once.
Killing him instantly.
He now moves to Aaka.

INT. BRIDGE
Jenna listening on the communicator.
Aaka's dying shrieks.
Then the voice-amp goes dead.
Silence.

JENNA: Much. Aaka.

She waits for a response.
But her _expression shows that she expects none.
A long moment.
Expectation fulfilled.
Nightmare without end.

INT. "B" LEVEL - COMPANIONWAY
Jenna descends, cautiously, holding flamethrower.
Jones left above, squalling.

INT. CORRIDOR - "B" DECK
Jenna moving warily, carrying flamethrower.
Nears entrance to food locker, looks in.
Sees carnage.

INT. OILY CORRIDOR - "C" DECK
Jenna running toward engine room.
Out of breath.
Exhausted she stops, gulps for air.
Suddenly, ahead of her, the sound of human weeping.
She moves quietly ahead until the source of the sound is directly under her feet.
She is standing on a round metal plate.
Jenna starts to remove the disc.

INT. UNDERCARRIAGE MAINTENANCE ROOM NUMBER 4
The round opening illuminates a dark ladder way.
Still carrying flamethrower, Jenna starts downwards.
Pitch black.
Jenna arrives at deck level.
Shines her light.
Its arc reveals the Alien's layer.
Bones, shreds of flesh.
Pieces of clothing, shoes.
Bizarre extrusions on the wall.
Something moves in the darkness.
Jenna spins, turns her light toward the movement.
Hanging from the ceiling is a huge cocoon.
Woven from fine, white, silk-like material.
Flamethrower ready, Jenna approaches.
Sees that the cocoon is semi-transparent.
The body of Autumn inside.
Unexpectedly, his eyes open.
FOCUS ON Jenna.
His voice is a whisper.

AUTUMN: Kill me.
JENNA: What did it do.

Autumn moves his head slightly.
Jenna turns her light.
Another cocoon dangles from the ceiling.
But of a different texture.
Smaller and darker, with a harder shell.
Almost exactly like the ovoids in the derelict ship.

AUTUMN: That was Ebony...
JENNA: I'll get you out of there...We'll get up the autodoc.

A long moment.
It's hopeless.

JENNA: What can I do.
AUTUMN: Kill me.

Jenna stares at him.
Raises the flamethrower.
Sprays a molten blast.
Another blast.
The entire compartment bursts into flames.
Jenna turns and scrambles back up the ladder way.

INT. OILY CORRIDOR - "C" LEVEL
Jenna emerges from below.
Gasps for breath.
Regains control of herself.

EXT. OUTER SPACE
At light speed.
The Nostromo and refinery appear to hang motionless.
Star clusters rolling past in the infinite distance.

INT. ENGINE ROOM - CUBICLE
Jenna enters the power center.
Stares at the massive light-plus engines.
Approaches the main control board.
Begins closing the switches, one by one.
A long moment.
Sirens begin to honk.
Mother speaks.

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. The cooling units for the light-plus engines are not functioning. Engines will over-load in four minutes, fifty seconds...

INT. OILY CORRIDOR - "C" LEVEL
Jenna running toward the "B" deck companionway.

INT. "B" LEVEL - CORRIDOR
Jenna starts toward Narcissus.
Remembers Jones.

INT. "A" TO "B" LEVELS - COMPANIONWAY
Jones howling.
In his box.
Jenna reaches up and grabs him.

INT. "B" LEVEL - CORRIDOR LEADING TO AIR LOCK
Jenna carrying Jones, holding flamethrower.
Jones hisses.
Fur rises.
Jenna stops, and stares down corridor toward Narcissus.
The Alien can be heard running about the shuttle craft.
Jenna turns and bolts toward the engine room, leaving
Jones on "B" level companionway.

INT. COMPANIONWAY TO OILY CORRIDOR - "E" LEVEL
Jenna bounds down the companionway.
Her footsteps clanging metallically throughout the ship.
A final sprint towards the engine room.

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. Engines will overload in three minutes, twenty seconds.

INT. ENGINE ROOM - CUBICLE
The door opens, Jenna comes pounding in.
The chamber filled with smoke.
Engines whining dangerously.
Jenna breaks out in perspiration from the intense heat.
She runs to the controls.
Begins throwing the cooling unit switches back into place.
The sirens continue sounding.

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. Engines will overload in three minutes.

Jenna pushes a button and speaks into it.

JENNA: Mother, I've turned all the cooling units back on.
MOTHER'S VOICEL (v.s.) Too late for remedial action. The core has begun to melt.  Engines will overload in two minutes, thirty-five seconds.

A moment.
The Jenna turns and runs from the engine room.

INT. OILY CORRIDOR - COMPANIONWAY
Jenna runs back down the corridor.
Up the companionway, exhausted, stumbling...

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. Engines will overload in two minutes.

INT. "B" LEVEL - COMPANIONWAY
She reaches companionway.
Picks up Jones.

INT. "B" LEVEL - CORRIDOR LEADING TO NARCISSUS
Jenna staggers towards the air lock.
The Narcissus berthed beyond.
She drags Jones and raises the flamethrower.
Turns to see if the Creature is behind her.
Then advances down the passageway.
Goaded on by the computer.

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. Engines will explode in ninety seconds.

She makes it to the vestibule.
Looks into the shuttle.

INT. NARCISSUS
Jenna scans the narrow deck...empty.

INT. VESTIBULE
She turns and ran back.
Grabs the cat box.
Runs back toward the shuttle.

MOTHER'S VOICE: (v.s.) Attention. The engines will explode in sixty seconds.

INT. NARCISSUS
Jenna enters on the run.
Hurls the cat box toward the front.
She dives into the control chair.
Hits the "launch" button.

EXT. NOSTROMO - OUTER SPACE
The retainer clips drop away.
A blast of ram jets.
The shuttle is launched from the mother ship.

INT. NARCISSUS
Jenna frantically straps herself in.
G-forces from the shuttles acceleration pulling against her.

EXT. SPACE
The Narcissus continues to power away from the mother ship.
The larger bulk of the Nostromo quietly receding.
All is strangely serene.

INT. NARCISSUS
Jenna finishes strapping herself in.
Reaches and grabs the cat box.
The cat yowling within.
Jenna hugs the box to her chest.
Hunches her head down over the container.

EXT. SPACE
The Nostromo drifts farther away from the shuttle-craft.
Finally becomes a small point of light.
Then it blows up.
Transforms into expanding orange fireball.
Pieces of metal flying in all directions.
And then the refinery explodes.
200,000,000 tons of fuel blasting silently into the cosmos.

INT. NARCISSUS
The shockwave hits the shuttle craft.
Jolting and rattling everything within.
Then all is quiet.
Jenna unhooks herself from her straps.
Rises, and goes to the back of the escape craft.
Stares out through the porthole.
Face bathed in orange light.

EXT. SPACE
Piece of debris float past.
The boiling fireball fades into nothingness.
The Nostromo has ceased to exist.

INT. NARCISSUS
Jenna watching the final destiny of her ship and crew mates.
A very long moment.
Then, behind her, the lethal hand emerges from deep shadow.
The Alien has been in the shuttle-craft all along.
The cat yowls.
Jenna whirls.
Finding herself facing the Creature.
Jenna's first thought is for the flamethrower.
It lies on the deck next to the Alien.
Next she glances around for a place to hide.
Her eye falls on a small

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