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should spend the night
here.
Everyone stops what they’re doing and looks at Gina.
    GINA (CONT’D)
Look, we came all this way to do a
documentary that would blow
Professor Simmons’ mind.
    CHAZ
We have a couple of hours of
interviews with REAL people,
eyewitnesses to several U-F-O
encounters...
    ANTHONY
An interview with the author of an
U-F-O book...
    CHRISTINA
Possible evidence of mutation by
visiting aliens. We won’t know,
until...
YASMINE
(whining)
What more is there left to do?
GINA
(smiling)
Catch a U-F-O on film.
The others aren’t convinced.
YASMINE
Yeah, right...
    (looking at Chaz)
Let nerd boy create a U-F-O and
edit it into our film.
CHAZ
I resent being labelled as...
ANTHONY
You don’t even believe in U-F-O’s.
    GINA
(ignoring Anthony)
Come on, it’ll be fun. We have the
camping equipment, we can stop by
the store and pick up some food. A
little cookout, then watch the U-FO’s light up the night sky.
They still aren’t convinced.
    GINA (CONT’D)
Okay, we catch a U-F-O on film, we
could make some money.
CHAZ
Count me in.
CHRISTINA
Me too.
YASMINE
Money?
They all smile.
SCENE CUTS TO
BLACK:
    FADE IN:
EXT. FIELD - DUSK
    Chaz is filming the other students (excluding Christina), as
they get out of the car, which has parked in a small camping
area. Chaz has setup the cameras to cover the campsite and
the surrounding hills. Anthony looks around, then shines a
flashlight on the pamphlet, being held by Gina.
GINA
Is this the spot?
    ANTHONY
Yeah, according to the sign guy’s
map.
    They look around at the destitute area, not seeing any other
campers. Yasmine holds her camera. Yasmine and Chaz begin
to PAN around the area, with the POV switching from one to
the other, focusing on the area, as well as their faces.
YASMINE
Kinda scary.
    CHAZ
Yeah, like a scene out of some
horror movie.
    YASMINE
Like I suggested, I say Chaz shoots
some video, then he can edit it,
adding some spaceship lights and
then...
    GINA
This is a documentary, not a
fictional film. There will be no
editing and no creation of
spaceships.
(pause - looking at
everyone)
Understand?
    CHAZ
Wow, I can totally see you as a C-EO, doing a hostile takeover.
    GINA
(softening)
We’re already here. It’s Wednesday
night, which everyone we’ve talked
to, says is the night when most of
the U-F-O sightings occur.
ANTHONY
    Gina is right. Besides, if we
actually get footage of a U-F-O,
it’ll guarantee us an A on the
project. I’m in.
GINA
Great. Chaz?
CHAZ
Yeah, okay.
GINA
Yasmine?
YASMINE
Sure, why not.
GINA
Christina?
No response.
    GINA (CONT’D)
The last interview? We didn’t
leave her, did we?
They look around.
CHAZ
Come on, let’s check.
    Gina, holding the keys to the car, starts to open the door,
when she comes face-to-face with Christina. They both
SCREAM, with Gina dropping back to the ground and dropping
the car keys.
PAUSE.
    Christina opens the door, as Gina starts to get up from the
ground, with Chaz having moved up to her. Chaz looks down at
the car keys and picks them up, putting them in a pocket.
CHRISTINA
You scarred the shit out of me.
GINA
Me? I scarred the shit out of you?
Christina looks around.
CHRISTINA
Is this the place?
GINA
Didn’t you hear us?
    CHRISTINA
Looks like the kinda place you’d
see U-F-O’s.
    GINA
What were you doing in the car?
Why didn’t you...
    Gina moves closer, as the interior LIGHT from the CAR
slightly illuminates Christina. Gina sees that Christina has
earphones in her ears.
    CHRISTINA
Yeah, well, I think I’ll sleep in
the car...Wake me if you see any UF-O’s. If they want a specimen, I
suggest they take you. That will
ensure that they won’t come back.
Christina starts to turn back to the car, as Gina pulls out
one of the earphones, with MUSIC blaring.
    GINA
(with authority)
We’re all sleeping out. No one is
sleeping in the car. And...
    (pulling out the other
earphone)
This is serious. Everyone needs to
be alert.
(looking at