SILVER SURFER EPISODE #1875-07

"ANTIBODY" (SECOND DRAFT)

                           TEASER

FADE IN:

EXT. THE SUBSTANCE OF INFINITY

It appears as the fabric of space, filled with quasars and
nebulae and swirling galaxies, but tactile somehow.  Alive.

                     INFINITY (O.S.)
          Look how puny he is against the
          fantastic tapestry of our being, no
          more able to shape his fate than you
          or I.

The SILVER SURFER soars across our plane and recedes to
become a minor player as we PULL BACK TO REVEAL:

INFINITY AND ETERNITY

The gigantic incarnates read as translucent iumpressions in
constant motion.  ETERNITY, the masculine, playfully
intermingles with his smitten sister, INFINITY.  It's 
almost lascivious, but she's got no time for it.

                     ETERNITY
          But he is noble, dear sister, and kind
          of heart, as once were you destined.

                     INFINITY
          The providence of cowards is destiny!
          Embraced by those burdened by the past,
          thus powerless to mend the future.


                     ETERNITY
          And what spark have you to command the
          inevitable, hmm?

ANOTHER ANGLE

The Surfer SEEN soaring along a COSMIC WAVE, disappears
briefly when he passes behind the incarnates, emerges
again, unaware of their watchful presence.  Under:

                     INFINITY
          Don't think given the means to undo
          this deviation that I would not.  I
          just can't fathom that we will perish!

                     ETERNITY
          So it will come to pass that we rest
          our faith on such meager shoulders.

                     INFINITY
               (spitefully)
          See how fragile is this vessel in which
          you place your faith, brother!

Infinity sweeps grandly from her brother's touch to expose
a terrible gash in space.

CLOSER ON THE GASH - A GRAVITY WELL

It is a violent, open wound in which we SEE interstellar
artifacts, comets, asteroids, even whole planets,
effortlessly consumed and crushed.  Suddenly --

INCLUDE THE SILVER SURFER

His startled face flashes across the screen and he's pulled
away from us, grappling for escape from the inexerable draw
of the gravity well.

                     SILVER SURFER
          What is this--a gravity well where one
          did not exist before!

ANOTHER ANGLE

All around a DEAFENING TORRENT of debris is sucked in and
destroyed.  Over:

                     SILVER SURFER
          I should easily be able to break free
          of its pull, but I can not seem to...

A HUGE ASTEROID

shudders and cracks and IMPLODES into oblivion!

BACK TO SCENE

The Surfer scrabbles desperately to break free.  He yells:

                     SILVER SURFER (CONT'D)
          Board, give me strength!  Help me!

But he and his board are drawn inside!  Suddenly --

WIDE ON GRAVITY WELL

A RED-HOT STREAK BLAZES into the well to intercept the
Surfer at the last possible instant, pulling him safely to:

EXT. SAFE SPACE - SILVER SURFER AND NOVA

The Surfer shakes off his malaise as the flaming firefox,
NOVA, regards him, incredulous:

                     NOVA
          What're you, new?  That thing almost
          made a new place setting out of you!

                     SILVER SURFER
          I-I could not break free...

                     NOVA
          Duh--your sunblock's about a factor
          fourteen billion short today, okay?  So
          is mine!  That's why I need you to help
          save us.

                     SILVER SURFER
          Save us from who?

                     NOVA
          Not who.  From what  C'mon...

Nova goes to take the lead, but the Surfer halts her:

                     SILVER SURFER
          Wait!  Who are you?

NEW ANGLE

Nova slips back to knuckle him on the head:

                     NOVA
          Hel-lo, Earth to Silver Surfer!  You
          saved my life once?  Course, like I
          really had one just worrying about
          which shopping mall to go to every
          day as Frankie Ray.

She turns away and FORESHORTENS INTO WARP as recognition
floods the Surfer's face.

                     SILVER SURFER
          I remember, the girl on the beach!

He WARPS after her, directly through the scintillating
substance of Eternity.

                                                    WIPE TO:

EXT. BLACK PLANET SOLAR SYSTEM

Flip-side of Eternity and Infinity seen in their entirety
from which two tiny STREAKS OF WARP SPEED emerge.

                     ETERNITY
          About the feebleness of mere mortals,
          you were saying, dear sister?

Under which Nova, the lead streak, stops abruptly.

NOVA AND SILVER SURFER

The Surfer stops right behind her--Nova in his face, with:

                     NOVA
          First off, I'm not just some beach
          bimbo, alright?  I found you cuz I went
          looking, let's get that straight.  I
          find lotsa things...

She indicates --

EXT. THE BLACK PLANET

A cracked, dead world beneath the glow of a healthy sun.

                     NOVA (O.S.)
               (continuing)
          Like your ex-employer's last supper,
          just maybe for instance.  Look
          familiar?

Nova and the Surfer MOVE INTO FRAME toward it.

                     SILVER SURFER
          I have already seen enough worlds
          destroyed to last a thousand lifetimes.

EXT. SPACE ABOVE BLACK PLANET - NOVA AND SILVER SURFER

Skimming high above it, the Surfer patently disgusted.

                     NOVA
          Way I heard it, you helped destroy
          enough lives to outlast a thousand
          worlds!

As we PULL BACK TO REVEAL:

NEW ANGLE - GALACTUS' SHIP

The Surfer stops cold at the sight of it.

                     SILVER SURFER
          Galactus!

Galactus' vessel looms over them, its giant feeding cables
plugged into the core of the Black Planet.  They hang
strangely inert like a thicket of dead spider legs.

                     SILVER SURFER (CONT'D)
          Why have you brought me here?  I demand
          to know, who are you?

                     NOVA
          I'm Nova now, Galactus' new herald.
          And unlike you, Mr. Serial-World-
          Killer, I use my powers to find only
          uninhabited planets for him to eat!
          Which is more than you ever did!

Before the Surfer can reply --

ON NOVA

She spins around suddenly, raises her fists toward the
Surfer and blasts two FIREBALLS!

THE SILVER SURFER

It's too late to defend himself as the FIREBALLS find their
target -- not the Surfer, but --

NEW ANGLE - A HARPEY RASP

A pterodactyle-like creature that swoops in to attack him
from behind.  The FIREBALLS incinerate the rasp in a puff
of awful SCREECHING.  The Surfer is clearly shocked, with:

                     SILVER SURFER
          Harpey Rasps here?  But they feed only
          on the raw energy of dying power.

                     NOVA
          Ironic, huh?  The diner who became the
          dinner.

                     SILVER SURFER
          I don't understand... What do they
          want?  Nova, why did you deceive me?

                     NOVA
          Cuz Galactus is dying, alright?  And if
          he goes, we go?  Finito!  Just when I
          really started to live...
               (a beat; softer)
          I didn't think you'd come any other
          way.

                     SILVER SURFER
          So certain are you of my feelings
          toward Galactus?

                     NOVA
          Given the choice, would you volunteer
          to save the Devourer of Worlds?

This hangs unanswered in the icy vacuum between them.  The
Surfer throws a look at the lumbering vessel as --

INCLUDE A HARPEY RASP

It SQUAWKS, a strip of dead energy hanging from its beak.

                                                   FADE OUT.

                           END OF TEASER