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A RISING, CONSTANT RUMBLE...

FADE IN:

We PAN across a WALL OF GLASS COFFINS filled with a GREENLIQUID -- a protective developing fluid for the HUMAN BEINGS

suspended inside of them.

NARRATORWhat are the roots that clutch,what branches grow...Out of thisstony rubbish?

SWOORRRSH! The green liquid is flushed.

Limp limbs SQUEAK against the glass as they collapse with thegravity.

NARRATOR (CONTD)

You cannot say, or guess...

Flesh and bone shudder against the sudden impact.

Wet hair sticks against the glass.

Silhouetted amidst a CHEMICAL MIST, shadowy forms hover abovethe OPENING GLASS DOME of one the coffins.

NARRATOR (CONTD)...for you know only a heap ofbroken images...

A HAND is clamped down with a CHROME CUFF -- clenches into afist.

NARRATOR (CONTD)...where the sun beats...

A NUDE MAN suspended between the cuffs of a machine is raisederect, chemical mist hissing all around him.

NARRATOR (CONTD)...and the dead tree gives noshelter, the cricket no relief,

And the dry stone no sound ofwater.

POP IN - close enough to kiss. His eyes open. An unnaturallyshimmering LAPIS LAZULI BLUE.

PRESENTING

A SCIENTIST regards a row of GLASS TUBING.

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EACH TUBE is filled with a different COLORED LIQUID.

NARRSATOROnly there is shadow under thisred rock.

The SCIENTIST removes one of them, examining it.

A SYRINGE injects black liquid into the throbbing vein of awomans FOREARM.

A STORY ABOUT HEROES

SHWOOOM! A HAND clenches open as a SCORCHING BALL OFELECTRICITY arcs from it.

NARRATORCome in under the shadow of thisred rock...

The naked man again, this time clothed. He looks like a friedbattery. He is in a white room whose walls are dotted withBURN HOLES and CRATERS. He is levitating a few inches abovethe ground.

NARRATOR (CONTD)And I will show you somethingdifferent...from eitherYour shadow at morning stridingbehind you...

He presses his hands together, creating a WHITE BALL OF

ENERGY between them. He regards this...awed.

AND THOSE WHO CREATE THEM

BLACK.

NARRATOR (CONTD)Or your shadow at evening risingto meet you. I will show you fearin a handful of dust.

The first chimes and lyrics of 1940 - AmpLive Remix begin

as we

CUT TO

The BLACKNESS becomes a star speckled night sky. But one ofthe starts darts, unnaturally. And disappears.

PULL BACK

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A LITTLE GIRL sitting in a tire swing in her backyard, holdsher Raggedy Anne doll close, as she stares up at the nightsky.

DR. GREENE (O.S.)People need heroes to look up to.

The little girl blinks as a SHADOW crosses her face. A GLOVEDARM, at a great height from the little girl, moves into theframe.

DR. GREENE (O.S.) (CONTD)They need to know someones lookingout for them.

CUT TO

From the same tilted angle, another great height. The NewYork City skyline.

CUT TO

Two MEN in an office building, taking in the view overlookingNew York city.

A CAPED WONDER zooms past, and easily slows in mid-air,stopping to regarding the two men with obsidian eyes beforeturning and shooting away.

KLAUS (O.S.)Why cant they believe Godslooking out for them?

CUT TO

Midnight. A WOMAN, clad in leather and steel, levitates tothe ground before a frightened PEDESTRIAN. Her eyes glowbriefly, and then, she extends her hand towards the jogger --gripping her in a powerful telekinetic chokehold.

DR. GREENE (O.S.)You cant see God.

CUT TO

A naked man stands in the middle of a cornfield, a blue mistradiating from his body. As he walks, the corn dies, creatinga bare path.

CUT TO

A TEENAGER in his room, body hunched and shuddering, mid abody contorting METAMORPHOSIS into some kind of fanged,winged BEAST.

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CUT TO

ORDERLIES in neon blue biohazard suits race a surgical gurneydown a CHROME HALL.

CUT TO

DR. GREENE -- mid thirties, female, brilliant geneticist --sits before her massive 20th floor window, staring at the NewYork horizon, lit flickering red and blue around a distantHUMAN FIGURE, levitating in the sky.

BERNARD EKSTROMMAs men and women of science, it isour duty to explore the nature ofour world and indeed, our very ownnature as human beings.

CUT TO

Doctors Greene and another scientist meander into anenclosure overlooking a massive recreation area inside theHobbes Psychological Carecenter.

In the center of the floor, a MAN sits crosslegged, rocking,staring up at the scientists safe within their observatory.

CUT TO

Dr. Ekstromm, on a television, making a speech from a pulpit.Fear in his eyes. A LEGION of SHADOWY FIGURES behind him.

EKSTROMMThere is an instance when we mustdraw an educated line in the sand.We are men, not Gods. Toartificially transcend ourselves assuch would be, as we have seen inrecent days...to hasten our owndestruction.

A SCORCHING FEEDBACK SLAMS, and --

SCREEN GLITCHES TO WHITE

EKSTROMM (CONTD)(glitchy -- distorted,like a ruined recording)

-- We are men, not Gods --

A sound of RUMBLING. A FLASH of COBALT BLUE EYES.

BLACK.

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