ARE WE ALONE? (2 page)

CHRISTINA
Let's see, he has be attuned to the
world. Open minded, smart, but not
just book smart, he has to have
common sense. He needs to care
about the world, have a genuine
concern about people...

CHAZ
A dork. You're describing a dork
as your perfect man?

YASMINE
So? Maybe, you do stand a chance.

CHRISTINA
(slight smile)
No, you can put all of that into
the tight package of someone
like...Professor Simmons.

YASMINE
Ditto.
GINA
I'll take two, please.

CHRISTINA
Your turn. What do you want in a
woman?

YASMINE
A heartbeat. That's all he wants.

GINA
Really? I heard that Chaz didn't
care whether they were alive or
dead. Breanna also mentioned
something about...RUBBER.

They LAUGH.

CHAZ
At least, when they're dead, they
don't talk so much.

CHRISTINA
Anthony? What about you?

ANTHONY
I'm with you. I want someone with
an open mind. Someone who isn't
afraid to go beyond the realm of
the physical senses, someone who
thinks outside of what is logical,
someone who...

CHAZ
Is out of this world.

ANTHONY
Think about it? Beings from
another world. A world billions
years older than Earth. Think
about what they've learned, what
they've seen, what they know, what
they could teach us...

CHAZ
It's either top or bottom.
I mean, it all comes down to
whether the chick is on top or on
bottom. That's what's called
universal knowledge. Gina? Top or
bottom?

ANTHONY
Actually, we can’t comprehend the
universal knowledge.

(MORE)

ANTHONY (CONT'D)
The problem is that us humans
believe that aliens from another
planet will be little green men,
grossly deformed...

Anthony points towards the BOBBLE HEAD, then flicks it,
causing the head to bobble.

ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Uniquely identifiable being from
some other planet, when, in
reality...

Anthony turns, looking at Yasmine, Christina, and then Chaz.

ANTHONY (CONT’D)
Aliens could look just like us.
They could be the clerk at the taco
joint. They could be a professor.
They could be some old crazy guy
walking the streets.

(looking at Yasmine)
You could be one.

YASMINE
(weak smile)
I'm not an alien. I was born in
Pasadena and...

ANTHONY
Which is exactly what an alien
would say.

YASMINE
Are you sure your major isn't
Abnormal Psychology, because...

CHAZ
Anthony might have a point. Can
you prove that you're not an alien?

YASMINE
(becoming somewhat
flustered)
My parents, they're human and...

ANTHONY
Yes, using human logic, you call
them Dad and Mom, but how do you
know? How do you know they're
human? I mean, do you remember
being born?

YASMINE
No, of course not, who can
remember...

CHAZ
(enjoying the moment)
Go on, prove that you're not an
alien.

YASMINE
I, I, there's no way to prove...
CHAZ
Yes, there is a way.
Everyone looks at Chaz, who is very serious.

CHAZ (CONT’D)
Realizing that our LEAD RESEARCHER
is a mental case, I did some
research on my own.

Everyone looks at Chaz for the answer.
PAUSE.
CHAZ (CONT’D)
(to Yasmine)
Show me your boobs?
YASMINE
Excuse me?

CHAZ
Research studies have concluded
that aliens have three breasts.
Show me your boobs and if you only
have two, then, well, I guess
you're human. If you have three...

Through the camera, Yasmine gives Chaz a stern look, which
slowly dissolves into a slight smile. She reaches down and
starts to pull up her top, with Chaz starting to smile. Just
as the bottom of her bra becomes visible, she stops.

YASMINE
Of course...
(moving the top a little
higher)
If I'm not human...

(moving the top a little
higher)
Will you still love me?
Still...want me?
CHAZ

Hell yeah.
Yasmine starts to pull her top a little higher.

GINA
I think you guys need to conserve
the batteries or we won’t be able
to film the interviews.

CHAZ
Gina, Miss Executive Producer,
you’re like way too serious and
mature to be a student. Are you
like an undercover professor or
something?

Gina raises her right hand, then slowly folds down her
fingers, giving Chaz the “bird”, as she also turns around,
looking at Chaz.

GINA
Read between the lines.
YASMINE
(SCREAMING)
Look out.

Gina sees Yasmine pointing out the front window, as terror
streaks across Chaz and Christina’s faces. Gina starts to
turn back towards the front windshield. Christina SCREAMS,
as she slams her eyes shut. As Gina turns around, she starts
to SCREAM.

SCENE CUTS TO
BLACK:
Everyone SCREAMS, then an eerie silence.

YASMINE (V.O.) (CONT’D)
A tree is a tree no matter where
you find it. Yet trees vary in
their form manifestation, differing
in their size, height, and shape.
These variations made us classify
them under different names. Still
the form is a tree whether you find
it at one end of the world or at
another, and no matter under what
climatic conditions, for the
pattern is universal.

YASMINE (V.O.) (CONT’D)
A tree in one part of the world may
be quite coarse and in another part
of the world quite delicate, but
still it is a tree.

FADE IN:
EXT. ROAD - DAY

A TREE comes into view, as the camera slowly moves around it.
As the camera moves around, the CAR and the students come
into view, as Chaz and Anthony.

YASMINE
With humans the mentality of the
being is a governing factor as to
whether their form will be coarse
or fine, in the same way as the
climatic conditions or atmospheric
pressure govern the form of a tree.

As the camera completes a circle around the tree, showing the
remote/desolate area, Yasmine comes into view, as she reads
the book, sitting on the ground.

YASMINE (CONT’D)
One may readily see how it is
possible for a fine quality of
human life to be on other planets
beyond ours.

Yasmine closes the book and looks towards the CAR, as Anthony
moves to the front, raises the hood, and then leans inside
the engine compartment.

YASMINE (CONT’D)
Men. They're so egoistical that
they believe they can fix anything.

CHRISTINA
Yeah, but they sure have cute
butts.

Christina comes into view, as she holds the camera. They
both lightly LAUGH, as POV switches to behind the girls, with
the movement being UP-AND-DOWN and moving from SIDE-To-SIDE.
BRIEF FOCUS ON GLOVED HAND CARRYING A ROCK.

CHRISTINA (CONT’D)
Gina’s taking a long time. Maybe,
she got lost.

YASMINE
She probably found some local
inhabitants and has pressed them
into service.

Christina looks at Yasmine, with a questioning look.
CHRISTINA
Huh?

YASMINE
Gina’s not happy, unless she’s in
charge...on top.

CHRISTINA
On top? On top of what?
Yasmine starts to shake her head, “NO.”
YASMINE
Sometimes, I wonder about...
Christina starts to smile.
CHRISTINA
I’m not as stupid, as I...

BRIEF FOCUS ON THE GLOVED HAND, RAISING THE ROCK AND MOVING
TOWARDS YASMINE’S HEAD. Christina looks up and almost
SCREAMS, as she quickly backs up, stumbles, and falls.
Yasmine turns and then sees Gina, wearing gloves, and
carrying the rock.

GINA
I think it's a moon rock.

YASMINE
Uh, Gina, dear, how would a moon
rock get here?

GINA
(slight smile)
I didn't mean a rock from the moon,
I meant a rock, which...

Gina shows the rock to Yasmine, as Christina gets up from the
ground and moves closer, also taking a look at the rock. POV
jumps to a great distance behind them, watching them.

OLD MAN (V.O.)
Our present understanding of the
universe is very limited.

OLD MAN (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The human body is so adaptable that
we can endure and live even under
the most trying of conditions. When
Aldridge and Armstrong first landed
on the Moon, they were welcomed by
people from Venus who were walking
around the surface of the Moon
without spacesuits.

By the CAR, Anthony and Chaz look at the engine.

ANTHONY
When Gina swerved and hit that
rock, she must have jarred the
battery wire loose, which caused us
to lose power.

CHAZ
Or, maybe, we entered an
electromagnetic force field,
causing us to lose power.

Anthony looks up at Chaz.

ANTHONY
Wow, I bet the girls are impressed,
when you start spouting off all
your knowledge. Is there anything
that you don’t know?

CHAZ
It’s a nervous condition. When I’m
nervous, I can’t stop talking
and...spouting off my vast amount
of knowledge.

Anthony and Chaz look at each other, then lightly smile, as
Anthony works on the car.
ANTHONY
Do you believe in aliens?
CHAZ
Seriously? Yes, but...
Chaz leans back and looks at the front windshield, where he
sees the GREEN ALIEN BOBBLE-HEAD.

CHAZ (CONT’D)
Not, the kind that we’ve been
brainwashed into believing in.

Chaz looks up into the sky, slightly shielding his face from
the glare of the sun, with a hand.

CHAZ (CONT’D)
I believe they're out there.
Watching us...

Behind the CAR, the POV moves from side-to-side, moving
closer to the students.
By the CAR.
ANTHONY
Watching us? Why?
Chaz bends back down, looking into the engine compartment, as
Anthony works.

CHAZ
The same reasons Anthropologists
look at varying types of cultures
and the same reasons Sociologists
look at the dynamics that shape
society. What causes one man to
become a king and another man to
become a slave.

Anthony looks up at Chaz, with raises eyebrows.

CHAZ (CONT’D)
Us humans, we’re just a lab
experiment, something for aliens to
study.

Behind the CAR, the POV moves from side-to-side, moving
closer to the teenagers.

ANTHONY
Humans are like monkeys in a zoo?
We’re here just for the
entertainment of the aliens?

CHAZ
Yeah, something like that.
Anthony turns back to working on the engine.

ANTHONY
Well, answer the ten million dollar
question. Are they here to help
or...

By the girls.

CHRISTINA
I thought guys were good at fixing
cars?

YASMINE
They just like to think they're
good with their hands.

The girls lightly LAUGH.

CHRISTINA
Yeah, some are really good with
their hands.

GINA
Retain that link to primitive man.
Me man, you wo...

SFX: NOISE BEHIND GIRLS.
Gina starts to turn around, as an object (SHOVEL) swings down
at her. The girls SCREAM.
SCENE CUTS TO
BLACK:

YASMINE (V.O.)
If anyone had taken a movie from
their television sets of the first
Moon landing they would have a
bonanza of irrefutable space life
evidence and also evidence of how
our governments suppress the truth.
If you were to run that film
forward slowly, picture by picture.
You can see a space ship that is
used by the Venusians for space
travel sitting on the surface of
the Moon.

OLD MAN (V.O.)
Is she gonna be okay?
FADE IN:
EXT. ROAD - DAY

OLD MAN (70), dressed in ragged clothing, stands above Gina,
who blinks her eyes, then starts to SCREAM. Behind Old Man
is an old beat up wheel barrel, filled with some rocks.

OLD MAN
Ain't she never seen a spider
before?

Gina looks to the others, then back at OLD MAN, who slightly
raises the shovel, revealing a gooey mess.

OLD MAN (CONT’D)
Missy, I saved you. If'n this had
got'n in your
panties...well...shoot, no tellin'
what might'n have happened.

Gina looks at the gooey mess with disgust, as she struggles
to get up, brushing off her clothes. Old Man lustfully looks
at all of the girls, who put forced smiles on their faces,
being disgusted by the Old Man, but also cautious. The Old
Man then looks at Gina, pointing a crooked finger at her
crotch area.

OLD MAN (CONT’D)
I could look?

(slight nod at Gina’s
crotch)
Up there. See whether you got
bit...or not.

GINA
Uh, no thanks. I'm fine.
Perfectly fine.

OLD MAN
If’n you been bit, that there
poison will have to be sucked out.

Behind the Old Man, Christina makes like she’s gagging, as
Yasmine grabs her arm.

GINA
Uh, thanks, I’ll have it checked
out by a doctor.

OLD MAN
City doctors don’t know squat about
things...

Old Man sweeps the area with the head of the shovel, then
moves the shovel in front of Gina, at waist level.
OLD MAN (CONT’D)
Out here.
Old Man gives Gina a mean stare.

OLD MAN (CONT’D)
Whatcha all doing up here? Gonna
smoke some dope and fuck?

Gina looks down at the head of the shovel and then up into
the face of Old Man. They stare at each other and then Old
Man slowly lowers the shovel.
GINA

We're college students. We’re
doing a documentary on...
OLD MAN
Documentary?
(looking at the raised
hood of the car)

On people who get stranded?
(looking at the students)
End up getting killed?
(looking at Yasmine)
Eaten?
(looking at Gina)
Fucked?
(looking at Christina)
Or maybe worse?

GINA
No, it's a documentary on U-F-O
sightings.

OLD MAN
(slight smile)

U-F-O's? Aliens?
(hard look)
Missy, you don’t know what you got
your self’n into...You’re gonna...

ANTHONY (O.S.)
That's what I keep telling her.
Old Man spins around, seeing that Anthony and Chaz have moved
up to them. Old Man looks both Anthony and Chaz up and down.

CHAZ
Believing in U-F-O’s is
just...plain crazy.

Old Man looks hard at Chaz and reads the front of the Tshirt.
OLD MAN
(softly)
Take me to your leader?
Old Man slightly LAUGHS.

OLD MAN (CONT’D)
(softly)
Moron. They find you, you don’t
find ‘em. What you don’t know,
what you can’t remember...bet your
ass happened on another planet.
Old Man then slowly starts to smile.