(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
I hope it’s worth all the money the company invested on this mission.
SHAW
So do you work for Weyland?
MUDOW
That’s right, eleven years.
SHAW
It’s a nice ship, looks fancy
MUDOW
It should be. It’s the first ever ship to have been fitted with FTI speed technology.
SHAW
Seems like an expensive ship
MUDOW
You kidding me? Weyland spent most of it’s budget and profits on those Master-class star freighters. There’s trillions to be made on collecting Millions of tons of ore
INT. MESS HALL
DAVID sits quietly in a quiet trance at the table but looks up as VICKERS enters dressed in a white robe.
On the wall behind DAVID is a large poster which shows the ship PROMETHEUS and the sentence “Weyland launches the FTI fitted Prometheus star ship on it’s 50th anniversary” written on it.
She sits at the table and places a cigarette packer and lighter on the table. She takes out and lights a cigarette and leans back as she relaxes. A small tube descends from the ceiling and absorbs the smoke from the cigarette. She looks over at an emotionless DAVID.
VICKERS
You don’t talk much do you?
DAVID
I talk when I’m asked a question Miss Vickers
VICKERS
So you’re the ships Science officer huh?
DAVID
That’s right
DAVID stares at the palm of his hand which has been cut. White fluid drips from the wound.
VICKERS
Does it hurt?
DAVID
I don’t feel pain
VICKERS
I’ve always wondered what goes on inside the head of a synthetic
DAVID
I too have wondered what it would be like to see what’s inside the head of a human. But I think even that would frighten a synthetic
INT. CONTROL ROOM
Both CHANCE and RAVEL; both dressed in white robes sit by their control seats. The door opens and JANEK walks in. Both CHANCE and RAVEL stand up and salute.
JANEK
This ain’t the military guys. What’s our status?
CHANCE
Everything’s operational. No problems at all. Oxygen’s at 100 per cent and we’re right on course
JANEK
Good. Before we do anything else let’s go grab something to eat. I don’t know about you lot but I’m starving
