What is it baby?
ELIZABETH
Will I ever meet god?
FATHER
One day you will Elizabeth, one day you will.
The FATHER walks out of the room. ELIZABETH crawls over to the window and outside she can see the main door of the house open and her father stepping outside where four uniformed armed men wait. One of the men’s distant voices can be heard.
MAN
Mr Shaw you are under arrest for the suspected bombing of the Weyland corporation Earth HQ.
Two of the four armed men grab Mr Shaw and drag him away ELIZABETH rushes past the woman and out of the room.
WOMAN
Elizabeth wait!
EXT. FARM. DAY
ELIZABETH runs out of the house and into the sun baked farmland. Crop fields surround the farm house.
Not far from the house is a large 800 foot futuristic robotic crop duster drives through the crops with it’s tank like tires. The sky looks polluted.
(See Scott’s sketches for more details)
SHAW is being led by the four men to a vehicle which reads ‘Weyland Police Force. Building safer communities’
The woman runs out of the house and grabs ELIZABETH and holds her back.
ELIZABETH
Daddy please don’t go. Please. Please daddy! Don’t go!
INT. CRYOGENIC ROOM.
We are looking down on SHAW whom is still asleep. She is lying inside a capsule which is bright Yellow from the capsules lights. She is naked and her facial expression is pleading, frowned and tense.
A hand reaches down and shrugs her.
SHAW awakes, startled and begins shaking and looking around in confusion. DAVID looks at her with his bright yellow goggles as if he is curiously studying her emotions.
DAVID
Miss Shaw?
SHAW
Where am I?
DAVID
On board the Prometheus. My name is David, I’m the ships Science officer
DAVID looks at the monitor next to her capsule which shows a full body scan of SHAW and then DAVID leaves the sweaty gasping and shocked SHAW and walks over to a control manual in the centre of the room. He types in a series of commands and within seconds thirteen other cryogenic capsules open and the room is quickly illuminated yellow.
There is now a series of moans, groans and shocked whimpering that comes from the opened capsules.
In a series of CUT SHOTS we see the naked bodies and weary faces of each of the startled men and women inside the capsules. However one of the crew members: MEREDITH VICKERS is the only one of them not frowning. She stares at the ceiling in a sinister INCIDEOUS silence. We then CUT TO DARKNESS
PROMETHEUS TITLE CREDITS
INT. SICKBAY CORRIDOR
Eight men stand in a line in the corridor; each of them talking to each other about regular everyday things. Along the left side of the corridor are windows looking into the sickbay where MUDOW and SHAW are sitting opposite each other. The only people not PRESENT are DAVID and VICKERS.
INT. SICKBAY
SHAW is sitting at the edge of the examination table as MUDOW examines her.
MUDOW
First time?
SHAW nods her head. She is pale and sick looking.
MUDOW
Well for the next several hours you’ll be feeling a constant sense of hunger, dehydration, weakness in your joints and limbs and a mind grain worse than the biggest hangover you’ll ever encounter. Well good news. You’re blood has reprocessed and replaced all of the chilled feline solution in your body. Oh and I’m Imora Mudow By the way. I’m the ships medical officer. We left Earth in such a hurry I didn’t get to know anyone
SHAW
Elizabeth Shaw.
MUDOW
So what brought you on this little adventure?
SHAW
I’m an Archaeologist along with Holloway outside. We were digging up ruins on a site in Tibet when Weyland asked us to examine ruins on some lifeless planet they found. It was all rushed.
MUDOW