You'll have plenty of people to manage
the details. In the meantime, I'll get
you up to speed.
The Corporal enters.
CORPORAL
Mr. Strickland, your presence is
requested at Sparta Memorial Hospital.
There's a helicopter waiting to take you
there.
ALEC
Haven't you guys already run every
possible test on me?
CORPORAL
I wouldn't know, sir. I was told that it
was a matter of life and death and time
is of the essence. Mr. Ash has been
cleared to accompany you. Please,
gentlemen, follow me.
INT. INTENSIVE CARE UNIT - SPARTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - DAY
Alec and Jeremy are directed to a bed obscured by a curtain.
A DOCTOR approaches.
DOCTOR
We did all we could.
He looks at Alec with sympathy. Then pulls the curtain.
DOCTOR (CONT’D)
I'm sorry.
Kristin occupies the bed. She is as young as the day Alec left. She lies there catatonic. Her flesh is severely damaged.
ALEC
Kristin? Is it really you?
She is completely unresponsive.
Alec looks up at the doctor.
ALEC (CONT’D)
How is this possible? What's wrong with
her?
DOCTOR
She was frozen. One of the local cryo
labs brought her in this morning.
Apparently, they were instructed to
revive her once you'd been located.
ALEC
Why does her skin look like that?
DOCTOR
Cryogenics was a pretty crude science in
the early twenty first century. We did
everything we could to minimize the
damage. I'm afraid she doesn't have much
time.
Alec embraces her.
ALEC
Tell me that you remember me, baby.
Her arms begin to twitter. They wobble upward until her hands are pressed against Alec's back.
He pulls his head away from the nape of her neck. Looks into her eyes.
Her pupils dart around before coming to rest on his face.
Her lips finally open with an accompanying deep breath.
KRISTIN
(barely audible)
Alec?
Her eyes flutter. She wheezes and jerks violently. Within moments she is dead.
Alec begins sobbing.
EXT. MICROCORE MAIN TARMAC - DAY
The tarmac is buzzing with activity.
Numerous TRANSATMOSPHERIC SHUTTLES are receiving passengers and cargo.
Jeremy is holding a travel bag.
Alec is beside him.
JEREMY
Microcore is yours now. Take good care of
her. The world is depending on you to
take out those ships should they prove to
