69. Super Virus-Eric

• FADE IN


• INT. LAB-NIGHT


• Professor Cain leans on his knees over a computer, taking apart the CPU tower. A dark headpiece with protruding wires is connected to the back of the CPU.


• PROFESSOR KIM enters, carrying another dark headpiece.


• PROFESSOR KIM
• I think this one's ready.


• professor Kim hands Professor Cain the device. Professor cain stands up, eyeing the headpiece. He smiles.


• CAIN
• Lets try it.


• KIM
• Sure.


• Professor Cain disconnects the old headpiece and replaces it with the new one. He puts the CPU back together quickly and turns the computer on. He looks at Kim, who then nods and carries the old headpiece to another computer.


• INT. LIVING ROOM-NIGHT


• A family chews popcorn, mezmerized by a movie on the television. ALEX sits on the computer, surfing the web. He is wearing a dark headpiece that connects to the back of his computer through wires.

The family laughs at a comical scene. Alex begins coughing. His head rolls back and he has a seizure.

• Alex's family flips on the lights and rushes to his side; he flops over on the ground, convulsing.


• MOTHER
• Call 9-1-1!


• INT. LAB-NIGHT


• Professor Kim and cain sit at desks connected to the computers. Professor Kim has a seizure; Cain quicjkly removes the headpiece. Kim is out of it, but alive. Professor Cain smiles.
  
• CAIN
• We did it, we did it!


• KIM
• How many people did we just hit.


• Cain laughs.


• CAIN
• Probably a quarter million!


• Kim looks frightened.


• CAIN
• What did you think I was going to do with it?


• INT. HOSPITAL CONFERENCE ROOM-NIGHT


• AGENT JAN, a man in his 40's, dressed in a suit sits at a conference table surrounded by nurses in scrubs and doctors. There are other executives dressed in crisp business suits. A dark headpiece sits in the center of the table.


• AGENT JAN
• We're as confused as you are.


• The doctors and nurses mumble to themselves and give each other worried looks, some put their heads down or shake them. Through a window several paramedics run several people through on gurnies. The patients shake and scream.


• AGENT JAN
• Our agency has never seen anything like this. It's a computer virus, and once it makes contact to human skin, it some how mutates into a human virus.


• DOCTOR
• What can we do to stop it?!


• They mumble to each other, louder now.


• AGENT JAN
• We're not sure. This virus wipes the mind clean, just like a compuer virus wiping out the hard drive of a computer.


• DOCTOR
• This is insane.


• The doctors and nurses look more worried now; one nurse cries. The nurse next to her hands her a tissue.


• Agent Jan looks around the room. he clears his throat.


• AGENT JAN
• The good news is we can trace the virus. But we're going to need some funding.


• DOCTOR
• You mean you don't know who is responsibile!


• The doctor stands up and paces the room.


• EXECUTIVE
How much do you need?

• DOCTOR
• We can discuss this later.


• Agent Jan stands up and pushes his chair in. He walks to the executive and hands her a card. He leaves.


• INT. HOTEL ROOM-MORNING


• Agent Jan sits on his bed, talking on his cell.


• AGENT JAN
• Yeah, of course they bought it.


• Professor Cain's voice can be heard on the other line.


• CAIN
• So no reports of people waking out of the coma early?


• AGENT JAN
• Nope, by the time they wake up and find out it's harmless we'll be laying beside a pool with a Gin and tonic.


• CAIN
• That's what I like hearing. Well, work them for every dime you can get.


• They hang up. A few minutes later Agent Jan pulls a device from his pocket and presses a button.


• INT. LAB-MORNING


• Professor Cain and Kim roll on the floor into seizures.


• FADE TO BLACK