ROBY
Maybe it's time we took a look at Dell's
datastick.
Roby loads Broussard's datastick into one of the command consoles
Pushing buttons, Roby brings up the HOLOGRAPHS taken automatically by
Broussard's stick as he probed the tomb. They appear on screens around
the bridge
The first datastick image revcals a dusty stone floor. Roby clicks
ahead , reveals stone walls carved with
STRANGE HIEROGLYPHICS.
ROBY (CONT'D)
(startled)
Hieroglyphics ...?
Primitive, religious pictures. Line after line, floor to ceiling.
In the center of the chamber - the plinth
HUNTER
It's a tomb...!
The data-pictures arrive at the "urns"
This sequence of stills reaches its climax when the parasite leaps out
toward the lends - Standard, Hunter and Roby mutter sharply at the
sight, after which the datastick drops to a useless angel and starts
showing a series of blurs.
CLICKETYCLICKETYCLICK - Roby runs back through the slides in a blur,
stopping on a strip of hieroglyphs.
ROBY
Look
(points)
Those are symbolized aliens ... very
stylized ... but if you look closely, you
can see the creature we're dealing with
They lean forward in their seats
HUNTER
That star shapes thing. The parasite on
Dell's face.
ROBY
And see right below it? The oval design
with the markings? It's a dead ringer for
the spore casings
STANDARD
Eggs ....
ROBY
Eggs.
Broussard's datasticks moves along the pictures on the wall. The star
shapes are shown in conjugation with other forms ... attaching
themselves to freakish HYBRIDS. Gargoyles
HUNTER
Now that looks like the one that came
out of Dell
Worm-like things - like the one that hatched from Broussard - are
emerging from the hybrids
HUNTER (CONT'D)
What, are those things?
A pause
HUNTER (CONT'D)
Females?
STANDARD
Hosts?
ROBY
Living bottles
Roby changes slides
ROBY (CONT'D)
And .... that's the big one
The one that got Melkonis
STANDARD
So then ... the "tomb" ... must have been
some sort of ... egg storage place ...
fertility temple.
HUNTER
What comes after the big one?
Roby searches through the paintings and carvings. Click. Click
ROBY
Nothing. It repeats
After the big one: more spore casings
(Source: Online version of the early Alien script by Dan O'Bannon)
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