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(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

(CHATTERING)

(GRUNTING)

-What just happened?

-I don't know,

Whatever it was,

it was intense,

Yeah, intense is a good word,

Illogical is another,

Where'd everybody go?

I don't understand,

Where did everybody go?

-It doesn't make any sense,

-What was with that light?

Maybe this is somebody's

idea of a joke,

If this is a joke,

I fail to see the humor,

Okay, maybe we're all having

a mass-hallucination,

CODY: What do you mean?

That we're stoned?

-You don't have to take

drugs to hallucinate,

-It helps,

We're walking down the hall

and then there was this flash,

And everything froze, it was

like time just stood still,

-Yeah, well why didn't

we freeze?

-I don't know!

Like I said,

this is not logical,

This isn't happening,

This can't be happening,

-Maybe it's a dream,

-Yeah, it could be a dream,

Yeah, okay, One of us

is dreaming and the rest of us

are all part of the dream,

Now, the question is,

how do we determine

which one of us is, ,,

Let me slap you

and see if you wake up,

-That's okay,

-No, we can't be

the only ones left,

There has to be

someone else here,

Where is everybody?

Oh, no!

JASON: Hello?

RAY: Hello! Somebody help!

RAY: That's it,

I'm out of here,

That's physically impossible,

No, don't!

Okay, this is really starting

to freak me out,

We're all freaked out,

The only question is,

what do we do?

Okay, we need to stick

together until we can figure

out what's going on here,

What if we can't

figure it out? What if reality

just stopped making sense?

-Like that,

-No!

There has to be another

way out of here,

There's nothing out there!

Where did everything go?

CONTROL VOICE:

There is nothing wrong

with your television,

Do not attempt

to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling

the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you

with a thousand channels

or expand one single image

to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination

can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control

all that you see and hear,

You are about to experience

the awe and mystery

which reaches from

the deepest inner mind

to

The Outer Limits,

CONTROL VOICE:

When a heart

has been turned cold by

anger and grief,

can patterns of destructive

behavior be averted?

Or are they predestined?

-We're screwed,

-What did you say?

Let's face it,

we're stuck here,

Yeah, but, where's here?

Looks like school to me,

Yeah, looks like school,

but is it?

We're not stuck here,

There has to be a way out,

(GRUNTING)

-Keep trying! If we can get

into the next hallway, ,,

-It's easier said than done,

What, are you guys just

gonna stand here?

I was letting you

be the hero dude,

Get out of here, okay?

The dang door's

not gonna open,

-They have to open!

-What, you wanna try?

-Does that mean we're

stuck here?

-(SIGHS)

I should be nodding off

in Mercer's class

right about now,

I was on my way to

a physics lab,

I had an experiment

I thought up in

the middle of the night, ,,

Why don't you think

about getting us

out of here, Einstein?

If we can figure out how we

got here in the first place,

then we can figure out

how to escape,

Well, I think the light had

something to do with

bringing us here,

Is that the best thing

you can come up with?

He is right about one thing,

We have to stick together,

What makes you think

we have a choice?

We've tried all the doors

we have access to,

So, structurally,

another option might be

the ventilation system,

The air vents!

-Here, I'll give you a leg up,

you can crawl,

-Yeah, very funny!

-At least he's trying to find

a way out of here,

-I know a way out of here,

-How?

-Close our eyes,

click our heels together

and say, "There's no

place like home,"

-You're just trying

to piss me off, man,

-Guys!

-You're gonna slap me around?

(ARGUING)

Guys, wait! Wait!

Maybe it's a test,

What kind of test?

Of our faith,

Oh, don't tell me I'm stuck

here with a Bible thumper,

Are you gonna start quoting

scripture, now?

No, because the last thing

I want to hear right now

is how this is so much like

Jonah being swallowed up

by a stupid whale,

I'm surprised you know the

story of Jonah and the Whale,

Oh, you can rest assured

I'm not a Jesus freak,

Neither am I,

Bet you're a virgin though,

aren't you?

That's none of your business,

Score one for the home team!

Will you just focus on what

the hell's going on here?

I've been known to read

a little science fiction

from time to time,

No, you're kidding?

And there are several

possibilities concerning

our situation,

We could have accidentally

slipped into

a parallel universe,

or maybe we've become, ,,

-Guys,

-CODY: Why didn't

I think of that?

Guys!

Who or what is that?

Guys, this way,

RAY: Hurry here! Come on!

Shut the door!

-CODY: Shut the door!

-DANIELLE: Oh my God,

what is that?

-RAY: This is too weird,

-DANIELLE: I wanna go home,

oh, my God!

(ALL SCREAMING)

ALIEN: There's no escape,

Sit down,

(YELLING) Sit down!

-Who are you?

-You have questions,

But now, you will listen,

We have been studying

human beings for

hundreds of generations,

We are usually discrete

in our observations,

but there are times when

we choose to conduct what

you would call, experiments,

We've been abducted,

We're on some kind

of alien spaceship,

You will not speak!

You are a slowly

maturing race,

mired in repetitive

patterns of behavior,

How you learn so little

in the face of so much

accumulated evidence,

stimulates our interest,

They're gonna

experiment on us, I know it,

And still, you do not listen,

You are feeling

an example of fear,

disrupting the ability

to concentrate and focus,

A prevailing human trait,

Each of you has been

chosen to participate

in the experiment we

are about to conduct,

Why are we so lucky?

The experiment

is quite simple,

As you can see by the clock

on the walls, it is 10:00,

At 3:00,

one of you must die,

Now you may speak,

What do you mean,

one of us must die?

What is unclear?

You're gonna kill one of us,

I will be performing

the execution, yes,

What right do you

have to do this?

I choose to do it, that's

all the authority I need,

Why us?

You were all chosen,

And we don't have anything

to say about it?

This is so unfair,

Now, how are you

going to decide

which one of us is,

you know,

I will not be the one

to decide, you will decide,

At 3:00, you will vote

on which of your fellow humans

is to be put to death,

After the execution,

the four students left

will return unharmed

to live out their

normal lives,

What if we refuse to vote?

Then all of you will die,

You have five hours

to come to a decision,

-He can't do this,

-Obviously he can,

This is not happening,

I don't care what

anybody says,

-This is not happening,

-I've got news for you,

this is happening,

-Why is he doing this?

-He doesn't need a reason,

My guess is we were

chosen at random,

-Well, you think he's just

gonna pop one of us?

-It's a distinct possibility,

I can't take this,

What are we gonna do?

We don't have a choice,

When 3:00 rolls around,

we're gonna vote,

-Don't say that,

-Yeah, like we're gonna vote

for one of us to die,

No, can we please concentrate

on a way to get out of here?

Weren't you listening?

There is no escape?

Just because he said that,

doesn't mean it's true,

Okay? We haven't explored

every possible option,

All right, let's explore

every possible option,

No! No!

-It didn't break!

-JASON: How could

it not break?

Well, obviously the window's

not made of glass,

You're not gonna

be able to get out

through the windows,

There has to be something

we can do,

There has to be, Why else

would he give us five hours

to think about the vote?

They wanna see what we'll do,

see if we can escape,

-Who's they?

-Don't you remember

that remark he made,

about fear is something,

our ability to focus

and concentrate,

Who do you think he

was talking to, huh?

They are watching us,

They're watching us?

We're lab rats, remember?

No, you know what?

I'm not gonna play this game,

I'm not gonna give him

the satisfaction,

I thought you asked

a good question,

-Yeah? What was that?

-Why are we so lucky?

What if there's a reason

it's the five of us,

and not five other students?

Well, what could it be?

It's not like we're

best friends or anything,

Let's face it, I don't hang

out with any of you guys,

Do you hang out together?

Yeah, we all

hang out together,

All we do is talk about you,

-DANIELLE: Don't you take

anything seriously?

-No, he doesn't,

-How would you know?

-I know,

What? You and your disciple

friends, you talk about me?

My friends and I are

not disciples,

And didn't you know?

Everybody talks

about everybody,

-What are you saying

when you talk about me?

-Don't tell me you care,

-No really, I wanna know,

-Too bad, 'cause

I'm not gonna tell you,

-Tell me!

-No!

-Quit it! Both of you,

-Uh oh, look out!

Hero dude just got off

his horse, he's gonna

whoop some ass,

What's up with this

"hero dude" stuff?

You're the football hero,

The star running back,

At least, you were until

you hurt that knee of yours,

Rumor has it, you hurt it

pretty good,

I guess all those college

scholarships pretty

much dried up,

-What's with you, anyway? Huh?

-He's got a lot

of pain inside,

-Spare me the psychobabble,

-But what he

doesn't realize,

is that we all have a lot

of pain inside,

Oh great, next thing you know

we're gonna be holding hands

and singing

Kumbaya

,

-Amen!

-I'm out of here,

DANIELLE: Me too,

You don't have faith

in anything, do you?

I have faith in science,

Meaning you worship

at a computer

rather than an altar,

Well, you have to have

faith in something,

You know what I have faith in?

I have faith in me,

I know who I am,

I know what I'm doing and

I know what I'm capable of,

Can you say the same thing

about you?

I didn't think so,

None of the windows in

that room will open either,

It's like somebody

glued them all shut,

-How can this be happening?

-Stop asking me

these questions,

I don't know, All right?

That thing can't force

us to vote, can it?

-Everything's in my locker,

-What are we going to do, Ray?

I don't have any great ideas,

do you?

You know, I'll let you in

on a little secret,

People don't usually come

to me for great ideas,

and guys rarely come up to me

because they're

interested in my mind,

(SCOFFS) Well can you

blame them? Look at you,

You know,

you and I are kind of alike,

No, we're not,

Substitute your athletic

abilities for my looks

and what do you get?

My football career is over,

You still have your looks,

-Lucky me,

-Yeah, lucky you,

You know, what are we

talking about?

-You know, we might die?

-I don't even want

to think about that,

If you were to vote,

who would you vote for?

I told you, I don't even

want to think about it,

The toilets don't flush,

In case you're interested,

Hey, where is everybody?

Oh, okay, there you are,

Okay, Brianna

and I were talking, ,,

-That can't lead

to anything good,

-Give him a chance,

Okay, we were talking

about the exit doors,

He went out one end

and he came in the other end,

So what about them?

Well, what's interesting about

the phenomenon

is it's not like

you're stepping

through a mirror,

It actually took you

a second to reappear,

Big deal, we still ended up

right back here,

But it is a big deal,

Well, it could be a big deal,

Look, I can show you better

than tell you, Come here,

Open those doors down there,

All right!

One-one thousand,

Two-one thousand,

See?

(SARCASTICALLY) Wow,

Bravo,

Bravo,

Will there be two shows

nightly?

You're not showing us anything

we don't already know,

Okay, watch,

I'll stick my arm in,

You see my arm sticking out

the other end?

No, I don't see it,

Okay, well, however this

maze works,

there's obviously a space

between this set of doors

and that set of doors,

If someone were to walk at it

at an angle,

instead of straight ahead

like Ray and I did, ,,

We might be able to find

a way out of here,

(INAUDIBLE)

Where are you going now?

JASON: I need a rope,

-RAY: What are you doing?

-JASON: This'll do it,

Okay, who wants to go?

Whose idea was it?

Right, uh, I should go,

Okay, Umm,

Okay, I'll just slip around

the corner here

and stay pressed up against

the side of the building,

Okay,

If I should yell,

or something,

just pull me back in,

Only, if you can't hear me

for some reason,

I'll give two quick tugs

and that means pull me back,

All right?

-Here, take it off, I'll go,

-Okay,

Way to go, hero dude,

All right,

I'll just slip around

the corner here, stay pressed

up against the building,

If I have any problems,

I'm gonna yell, you should

pull me back, okay?

Or give two quick tugs,

Yeah, if you can't hear me,

I'll just give two quick tugs,

-I hope this works,

-Save your breath, he's

not going anywhere,

Ray, are you all right?

RAY: (FAINTLY) Yeah,

I'm staying up

against the building,

I can't see anything,

but so far so good,

Be careful!

Ray?

Ray, what are you doing?

Why isn't he answering?

Uh, Ray?

Ray, the extension cord's

running out!

Ray, come back!

-CODY: Ray, what are

you doing? Talk to us!

-DANIELLE: Ray, stop!

JASON: Ray? Where are you?

I guess I was wrong,

-Ray!

-Where did he go?

-I don't know,

-He's gone,

-We don't know that,

-Well he's not here, is he?

Maybe now we don't

have to vote,

Are you really that big of

a jerk?

I was just saying what

everyone else was thinking,

I wasn't thinking that,

The thought never occurred, ,,

Is that Ray?

Ray?

Is that you?

Maybe that's not Ray,

(GRUNTS)

-ALL: Ray!

-DANIELLE: Are you okay?

JASON: Ray, what happened?

-(GASPING) Something's

out there,

-What do you mean?

I was stepping away

from the building,

-Something grabbed my cord,

-What?

I don't know, I don't know,

I didn't see anything,

I started running, I just took

off running, I untied the

cord, I ran into these doors

and something,

I think something just blew

me through them,

Well that's it then,

There's no way out,

(CLOCK TICKING )

Look at this, it's like

a morgue in here

and no one's even died yet,

-Don't tell me

you've all given up,

-Nobody's given up, Phillips,

Then what are

we gonna do, Ray?

Tell me, because I'd

really like to know,

Okay, maybe, uh,

maybe one of us

could volunteer,

Sacrifice him or herself

so the rest of us can live,

Maybe you should

volunteer, retard,

Brianna could always

do the honors,

Are you suggesting

I sacrifice myself?

It'd be the religious

thing to do,

Nobody's gonna volunteer

to do anything,

Ray's right, guys, If we all

just stick together, ,,

No,

Look at you guys,

All your athletic ability,

all your good looks

and rich friends,

all your brain power,

all your faith,

What good are they now?

What good were they

even before this happened?

You all thought

you were so cool,

so special,

better than everybody else,

but now you know,

there's no point to it,

'cause the truth is, any of us

can die at any moment,

Death gives life meaning,

Does it?

Does the fact that one of us

is gonna die here today have

a lot of meaning to you?

You don't know

one of us is gonna die,

One of us is gonna die

and the rest of us

are gonna live,

and we get to choose

who gets sacrificed,

Damn it, Cody, Just shut up,

-Hey, I didn't make the rules,

-You're making things worse,

How could I make things worse

than they already are?

Look, I think we should

refuse to vote,

Oh yeah, that'd be

a great idea,

Didn't you hear what

that thing said?

If we don't all vote,

we're all gonna die,

Then we'll all die,

My life is just getting

started, I don't wanna die,

Me either,

Do you think I wanna die?

I don't,

But I'm not gonna vote

for somebody else

to save my own skin,

Not even you,

There's, uh,

no smoking in the hall,

That's a joke,

Could I try one of those?

Huh, I always thought

smoking was ridiculous,

but this isn't so bad,

You're supposed to inhale,

Ah, Yeah, right,

Nope, nope, I was right,

-Smoking is ridiculous,

-Do you want something?

Uh,

I was just thinking about

what you said back there,

(CLEARS THROAT)

Uh, about life being absurd,

Is that what I said?

Yeah, you know, about

everyone thinking they're

better than everyone else,

What's the point?

I think about what

the point of everything is,

too sometimes,

A lot, actually,

-I thought you had

faith in science,

-Oh, I do,

I mean, science is great,

Without math and science,

I don't know where I'd be,

It really bothers me

when I can't make logic

out of something,

Man, you must really

be going insane, then,

It's funny, 'cause you don't

look like you're going insane,

I'm not,

I mean, I'm worried,

of course,

like everyone else,

What if this vote

takes place?

You know? What if I'm

the one who everyone

decides is expendable,

Why would they vote for you

when they have me?

Well,

that's what I was kind of

wondering about,

-You don't seem to want to

try to be nice,

-Be nice?

So they won't vote for me?

-Something like that,

-Maybe they will vote for me,

but I'm ready,

See that's the secret, Jason,

I'm ready,

Now, leave me alone,

It's time for you to

cast your votes,

What if we refuse?

(CHOKING)

(ALL GASPING)

Your deaths will

not be pleasant,

Why are you doing this?

I owe you no explanation,

You will now vote

for who will die,

or all of you will die,

Brianna,

No, I won't do this,

None of us should do this,

Brianna votes that

all of you should die,

Jason?

-Jason,

-(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Jason,

I can't do this,

Jason votes for

all of you to die,

Ray,

I could vote for somebody,

But I won't,

Ray votes for

all of you to die,

ALIEN: Danielle,

Danielle, we have

to stick together,

-It's our only chance,

-You're not gonna

really kill us, are you?

I assure you, I will,

-BRIANNA: Danielle,

-What?

No,

You refuse to vote,

I can't,

Danielle votes for

all of you to die,

Cody,

I don't believe you guys,

CODY: What are you doing?

We're doing what we think

is right,

For you maybe,

Cody, if you have

ever felt anything for

anyone besides yourself, ,,

Just, shut up!

Why don't all of you

just shut up!

The rest of us

didn't say anything,

You must vote,

Four of you can live

while one dies,

or all of you can die,

It's up to you,

(DANIELLE CRYING)

Cody,

What if this is some

kind of test?

What if it isn't?

RAY: Cody, don't do it,

JASON: Cody, don't do it!

-Don't do it, man!

-Cody, don't!

Brianna,

-I vote for Brianna!

-ALL: No!

-What are you doing?

-Take that back!

No, it's only one vote,

Don't you need at least three?

A majority?

-DANIELLE: Please!

-No!

DANIELLE: No!

-DANIELLE: Brianna!

-JASON: Oh my God!

What did you do?

(ALL SCREAMING)

ALL: Brianna!

You've made your decision,

Now you must live with it,

You son of a bitch!

You son of a bitch!

You killed her!

What are you thinking?

-Ah!-Get up!

(GRUNTING)

No!

(STRUGGLING)

Ray!

Ray! This fell out

of his hand,

A gun?

What's he doing with a gun?

-He had it in his waistband,

-(YELLING) You had a gun

this whole time?

-Yeah, so what?

-So what other surprises

do you have?

-Go get his backpack,

-No,

RAY: I can't believe you had

a gun this whole time,

(CRASHING)

Here, just go through it,

see what else he has in there,

(STRUGGLING)

-What's this?

-That's my stuff!

What are those?

RAY: Our yearbook pictures?

RAY: What's this?

Why are our pictures circled?

And a gun, he had a gun!

What were you

planning on doing?

-Were you gonna shoot us?

-I wasn't gonna shoot anybody,

The gun was for self-defense,

Look, I was gonna use

the gun on the alien,

No, no, You had this gun

before any of this happened,

Don't you get it?

He would have killed us,

If I didn't vote for Brianna,

you and you and you

would be dead right now,

You hate me now,

but someday you'll thank me,

You made a list!

-That was a joke, a game,

-A game?

Look, I circled your pictures

in the yearbook because

I resented you guys,

You all walk around school

thinking you're so damn cool,

You think that

I think I'm cool?

You think you're smarter than

everyone else, that's a way of

thinking you're cool, right?

And you,

I asked you out once,

Do you remember what you did?

You laughed in my face,

Do you remember that?

And you and your football

buddies pick me on me

every chance you get,

No, no, It's because

you don't know how

to keep your mouth shut,

Every day, some jerk of a jock

thinks it's really cool

to impress some other

jerk of a jock by making

me feel like nothing,

Every day I go to school,

my life feels more and more

like a living hell,

A couple of weeks ago,

I was having a really bad day,

I got pissed off,

So, I circled your pictures

in the yearbook

and I tore the pages out,

So, then you brought a gun

to school and just waited

for just the right time?

No!

No! I never would have

done anything,

Look, I haven't done anything!

You haven't done anything?

-What about Brianna?

-I don't know!

What did she ever do to you?

CODY: Nothing,

She didn't do anything,

We went out once,

It was a disaster,

I didn't realize how spiritual

she was, I made fun of her,

But she didn't get angry,

she didn't fight back,

As the night wore on,

I couldn't stand her,

I couldn't understand

how anyone could

look at this world

and see anything good in it,

We should have voted for you,

-Do you really hate us all

that much?

-No, I don't hate you!

Yes, you do!

You don't get it!

-You're the reason we're here!

-No, no, Don't try

and blame this on me,

That thing knew that you

had our pictures circled

on those pages,

-No, this is not my fault,

-Brianna's not your fault?

Us being stuck here

is not your fault?

Look, he said the rest of us

would be let go,

return to our normal lives!

Do you see him letting us go?

We made our decision

and now we're gonna

have to live with it,

Look, everyone acts in their

own self-interest,

-That's the way

this world works,

-Not here, Cody,

Here you had a chance

to rise above all that,

and you failed,

All right, so, I failed,

So, I screwed up,

This is me, Cody Phillips,

The jerk, the a-hole,

the guy who always screws up,

Remember?

For as long as I can remember,

everyone's always tried to

blame everything on me,

Even when I hadn't

done anything,

Mom, Dad, my teachers,

my so-called friends,

If something was missing, or

broken, or hadn't been done,

it must be Cody's fault,

I mean, when did

everybody get together

and put me on trial

and decide that I was guilty?

I tried to talk to a couple

people about it,

and you know what?

Nobody cared,

I was already branded,

Everybody wanted me to keep

being the a-hole so they could

keep picking on me,

Why is that?

Why do people need to feel

superior to other people?

I don't know and I've never

been able to figure it out,

So, I decided, if everyone

was gonna keep picking on me,

I might as well give them

a reason to pick on me,

Nobody cares, trust me,

Nobody in this world

gives a damn,

So why should I?

That's when I started to run

my mouth, and you know what?

I'm not gonna stop,

I can't stop, 'cause you guys

won't let me stop,

So why don't you use that gun?

Put me out of my misery,

Go ahead, pull the trigger,

You can do it,

I'm so tired of being me,

anyways,

I don't wanna kill you, Cody,

I don't wanna kill anyone,

JASON: You know,

people pick on me too,

but this?

And you know,

if I did laugh in your face,

the one time you asked me out,

you need to forgive me,

I'm trapped in a role,

just like you are,

but I'm not gonna go get a gun

and start shooting people,

There has to be a better way,

Wait a minute,

This wasn't the deal,

You said the four of us

who were left would be

returned to our normal lives!

Danielle! Ray! Jason!

Damn you, you lied to me,

Do you hear me?

You lied to me!

Where are you?

Answer me!

Open these doors!

I'm not afraid of you!

Huh? Huh!

Let me out here!

Let me out!

What, are you gonna

leave me here? Huh?

That's what you're gonna do?

You're gonna leave me

here to rot?

What do you want from me, huh?

What is it anybody

wanted from me?

Nobody, nobody wants anything,

Nobody, nobody wants me,

Nobody wants me,

Nobody, nobody,

(CRYING)

Nobody wants me!

Nobody wants me,

Nobody wants me!

Nobody wants me,

Nobody wants me!

(SNIFFLING)

(WHISPERING) Brianna,

I'm so sorry,

I didn't know what

I was doing,

That's no excuse, I know,

If I could do something,

anything to bring you back,

I would,

Perhaps it's not too late,

Danielle was right,

You were the reason

this experiment was conducted,

Why?

Because the day was coming

when you would have pointed

that gun at your

fellow students,

I don't believe that, no,

In a fit of rage, a human

is capable of anything,

Fortunately, not all the

patterns of behavior you

fall into are permanent,

You have shown here,

that you are still

capable of change,

I don't understand,

I think you do,

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

(CHATTERING)

Cody, is there something

I can do for you?

CONTROL VOICE:

In an ever more complex

and dangerous world,

vigilance and guidance is

needed for those most

vulnerable to its cruelties,