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53.A clean page opens on the slate. The title in the corner: “MyVoyage.” As Aurora speaks, the page fills with words.AURORA (CONT’D)I boarded the Excelsior onassignment. Maybe the most ambitiouswriting assignment ever given. Butthings have taken an unexpected turn.I’m not writing for The New Yorkeranymore. I’m writing for me.ELITE DECK - CORRIDOR - DAYAurora jogs in sneakers and sweats. Cabin doors flash past.AURORA (V.O.)I’ve been awake on this ship forseven days, awake far too soon...Dead end. She’s reached the aft end of the ship. She crossesa lobby and runs back the other way.AURORA (V.O.) (CONT’D)...and I might spend the rest of mylife here...Running along a promenade, Aurora reaches the forward end ofthe ship. Dead end again.AURORA (V.O.) (CONT’D)...in a little steel world fivehundred meters long.GRAND CONCOURSEJim sits at a table, a technical manual open in front of him.He looks up. Watches Aurora jog around the atrium and vanish.AURORA (V.O.)I’m not alone. Another <strong>passengers</strong>hares my fate. A mechanic named JimPreston.SWIMMING POOL - DAYThe swimming pool is a marvel: one entire wall is a windowextending from the ceiling to the bottom of the pool.Aurora enters in her HomeStead Company bathrobe. Drops therobe to reveal a bathing suit.
54.AURORA (V.O.)The other <strong>passengers</strong> will sleep foranother ninety years.She dives into the pool.EXT. STARSHIP EXCELSIOR - SWIMMING POOL WINDOWAurora swims, a slender shape moving on the water’s surface.We pull out, the ship dwindling, the blue window receding.AURORA (V.O.)By the time they wake, Jim and I willhave lived, grown old and died.INT. FORWARD OBSERVATION DECKBack on Aurora in her armchair, writing.AURORAVanished, like a dream, in the blinkof an eye.She falters, frightened by her own words.CAFETERIA - DAYJim sits eating and tinkering with a small robot. The tableis strewn with dishes and tools.Aurora sits down across from him.AURORAWhy did you do it?Jim is thunderstruck. The game is up. He swallows hard.Do what?JIMAURORAEmigrate. Leave Earth. I’minterviewing you.JIMYou’re what?AURORAInterviewing you. You’re the firstvictim of hibernation failure in thehistory of space travel. That makesyou news.
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PASSENGERSbyJon Spaihts2601 2 N D S
Page 3 and 4: 2.Age: 38Blood type: A+Passenger cl
Page 5 and 6: 4.Jim steps out of his pod into the
Page 7 and 8: 6.ANNOUNCERYour group’s orientati
Page 9 and 10: 8.GRAND CONCOURSEJim finds an INFOM
Page 11 and 12: 10.JIM(an echoing shout)Hello!A SOU
Page 13 and 14: 12.JIMHow do I make a phone call?IN
Page 15 and 16: 14.COMMUNICATIONS BOOTHThat will be
Page 17 and 18: 16.ARTHURSorry, Jim. My specialty i
Page 19 and 20: 18.THE CARGO CONTAINEROpens to reve
Page 21 and 22: 20.JIMI’m your only customer, but
Page 23 and 24: 22.DECK TWO - GYMNASIUM - BASKETBAL
Page 25 and 26: 24.He launches a full-court shot, b
Page 27 and 28: 26.AT THE Z-FACTOR MACHINEJim sits
Page 29 and 30: 28.ROBOTICS CENTERA mechanical hive
Page 31 and 32: 30.CAFETERIAJim pours milk over a b
Page 33 and 34: 32.JIMI’d be stranding her on thi
Page 35 and 36: 34.JIM (CONT’D)Don’t even think
Page 37 and 38: 36.AURORA’S CABINPosher than Jim
Page 39 and 40: 38.Just you?Just us.AURORAJIMAURORA
Page 41 and 42: 40.AURORA(dreading the answer)How l
Page 43 and 44: 42.AURORAJim, you’ve had more tha
Page 45 and 46: 44.JIMWhiskey. Rocks.ARTHURSure thi
Page 47 and 48: 46.AURORACould we wake them up if w
Page 49 and 50: 48.She opens a steel vault. A deep
Page 51 and 52: 50.JIMArthur, this is Aurora. Auror
Page 53: 52.AURORAIt’s our only chance of
Page 57 and 58: 56.JIM (CONT’D)And there’s room
Page 59 and 60: 58.AURORAI’d almost say sixteen..
Page 61 and 62: 60.GYMNASIUM - BASKETBALL COURT - D
Page 63 and 64: 62.AURORA (CONT’D)(to the robot)I
Page 65 and 66: AURORA (CONT'D)I found a drug that
Page 67 and 68: 66.AURORA’S CABINThey stagger acr
Page 69 and 70: 68.FORWARD OBSERVATION DECK - DAYAu
Page 71 and 72: 70.Hi.AURORAJim takes that in.JIMHi
Page 73 and 74: 72.She throws her arms around him.V
Page 75 and 76: 74.AURORAJim woke me up.ARTHUROh, y
Page 77 and 78: 76.Jim stares at her, unbelieving.
Page 79 and 80: 78.COMMAND DECK - COMMUNICATIONS CE
Page 81 and 82: 80.Half-finished dishes in bed with
Page 83 and 84: 82.AURORAWhat are you doing here?JI
Page 85 and 86: 84.DECK FOUR - SERVICE CORRIDORJim
Page 87 and 88: 86.GRAND CONCOURSE - CONCOURSE BAR
Page 89 and 90: 88.She sits immobile, frosty. After
Page 91 and 92: 90.GUSI always get a hibernation ha
Page 93 and 94: 92.GUSNo, if everything was okay we
Page 95 and 96: 94.GUSYou don’t fix it, you repla
Page 97 and 98: 96.GUS’S CABINA homey space, fill
Page 99 and 100: 98.No.JIMGus sits down heavily, loo
Page 101 and 102: 100.GUS (CONT’D)Here you go. This
Page 103 and 104: 102.MEDICAL SCANNER (CONT’D)Six h
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104.He takes a photograph from a dr
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106.GUSGot no choice about going. B
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108.AURORAThere’s trouble everywh
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110.JIMGravity. The gravity plant g
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112.The wind tears him from his han
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114.JIMYeah. The breakdown accelera
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116.BERLIN SUITE (ZERO GRAVITY)Soun
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118.DECK FIVE - CORRIDOR (ZERO GRAV
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120.CORE COMPUTER ROOMJim and Auror
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122.BOOM-CHAK! A crewman’s pod va
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124.She climbs into his lap, and th
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