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17.CARAStephen. Look at me.Stephen meets her gaze. She speaks to him calmly. Her eyeswarm, friendly. Soothing. Somehow he trusts her.CARA (CONT’D)I know exactly what it’s been like.How alone you’ve felt. How scared.It feels like you’re turning into adifferent person, like your mindisn’t your own...(off Stephen)I don’t just sense your voice, it’syour moods, emotions, fears. Whenwe’re connected, I feel what it’slike to be you.STEPHENThat sounds... Awful.Cara smiles. The ice has been broken.CARACompared to what I went through inhigh school? Think you feel like afreak? You’re not... You’re adynamo, a force of nature, Stephen,you’re on the precipice of turninginto someone truly extraordinary.He gives her a sheepish look, afraid of what’s inside hishead, of what she’s seen. John clocks their chemistry. Ispretty sure he doesn’t like it. He shifts, all business...JOHNLet’s give him the tour.INT. SUBWAY STATION - NIGHTCara and John lead Stephen through the abandoned station.STEPHENHow many of you are there?CARAHere with us? You’re numbereleven. Out there? We don’t know.Could be hundreds... Thousands.JOHNIt’s a genetic mutation that liesdormant through adolescence.(MORE)