Any regrets accepting my offer to come along?
HOLLOWAY
How could I? It’s a chance of a life time. I always wanted to go into space ever since I was little.
INT. MESS HALL
Everyone apart from DAVID are all in the Mess Hall eating the weird jelly like substances and Corn bread. SHAW is sitting next to both MUDOW and HOLLOWAY. She notices Vickers; now wearing a suit is sitting in a corner away from the table.
SHAW
Who is she?
MUDOW
Meredith Vickers. She’s a company suit sent here to make sure all of our actions are in the Companies best interests. Janek might be in charge of the ship but Vickers can end all of our contracts just by blinking.
JANEK stands up and hits is spoon off his steel cup. Everyone stops chatting and looks up at him.
JANEK
Can I have everyone’s attention please. Captain speaking. Now this mission was kinda rushed so I didn’t get to know everyone too good so if you’ll indulge me I’ll try and break the Ice. Now we all know that on the year 2042 the Voyager 3 programme flew past this star system and on 2069 the images arrived at the Hubble 2 and those pictures were of a small planetoid named Zeus and The pictures showed what looked like the Nazca lines. It may be nothing but Weyland spent a large amount of money on this hunch so that’s why were all on this little trip. I’ll start with the crew. There’s me, Captain Janek and over here we have First officer Mudow, she’ll tend to any medical related problems and if any of you have problems wetting the bed at night.
There are laughs from the group.
JANEK
Our two lazy mechanics Ray and Joshua who I’m told are geniuses with a couple of wrenches and duck tape. Over here is my trusty pilot Ravel. He’s flown every kind of ship there is including an M-Class star freighter. And meet my young handsome Navigator Chance. He’s the best navigator there is but still has trouble finding the clitoris.
There are more laughs.
MUDOW
You can say that again
JANEK
Weyland has sent us the best of the best of Astrology and science, Dr Milburn and Dr Fifield. Archaeologists Miss Shaw and Mr Holloway. Science officer David whom I’m told is flawless and I truly hope that’s true. Then we have Miss Vickers. To explain her role here on this mission, let me explain. If we’re bankers then Miss Vickers would be the bank. So If we do uncover alien ruins then we my friends will make history. I’m going to recite a famous line from a famous man.
This is one small step for…
EVERYONE
Man and one giant leap for mankind
JANEK nods his head toward both CHANCE and RAVEL before walking toward the exit. CHANCE and RAVEL quickly follow him. All three are watched and scrutinised by VICKERS.
INT. CONTROL ROOM CORRIDOR.
JANEK leads both CHANCE and RAVEL through the very narrow and CLAUSTROPHOBIC white corridor.
JANEK stands at the door and presses his hand against the panel. The door which has WEYLAND written on it opens. All three men enter the control room.
INT. CONTROL ROOM.
The three men get in their regular positions. CHANCE is seated at the navigation system whilst RAVEL is seated at the pilot control system. JANEK is seated next to RAVEL and looks straight forward at a large blast shutter.
JANEK
Chance where are we from destination?
CHANCE
We’re definitely in the Zeta 2 Reticuli star system and we should be directly 200 miles from Zeus.
JANEK
Ravel open the shutters. I wanna see this Bastard
RAVEL
Sir the sun’s still in our direction
VICKERS stands at the doorway unknown to the three men. She then walks over and stands behind JANEK.
VICKERS
Are we near the planet yet?
JANEK jumps with a fright. He sighs and shakes his head.
JANEK
We’re close, real close
VICKERS
Open the shutters I wanna see it
JANEK
We Can’t right now
VICKERS
Why is that?