SILVER SURFER EPISODE #1875-07

"ANTIBODY" (FINAL DRAFT)

                           TEASER

FADE IN:

EXT. PLANET OF ZENN-LA - DAY

PANNING ACROSS its peaceful countryside, where predator and
prey roam side by side through the green fields.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          Zenn-La!  I can see it now.  The most
          wondrous planet in the universe...

THE ACADEMY

Where beings of all kinds have gathered to study.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          Center of peace and spirituality for a
          myriad of civilizations...

We TIGHTEN ON two of the more human-like beings: NORRIN
RADD and SHALLA BAL.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          Where I lived and learned -- and loved --

Norrin Radd and Shalla Bal lean forward to steal a kiss.
But before their faces can touch everything around them
EXPLODES INTO:

EXT. DEEP SPACE - MATCHING SHOT - THE SILVER SURFER

WARPING IN on his board, against the star-studded velvet of
space.  He wobbles unsteadily on his board.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          As the reality is gone, so too is the
          vision, like a fever dream!
               (wobbling unsteadily)
          Yet how can I have a fever, when
          Galactus' power cosmic has removed from
          me the travails of common mortality...?

The Surfer dips into the pipeline of a COSMIC WAVE and
soars into an asteroid field, slaloming through the jagged
rocks.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          Just as he has doomed me to an endless
          search for my home --

CLOSER ON THE SILVER SURFER

He misses a move -- and smashes his shoulder against a
small asteroid!  The Surfer reels backward, as:

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          What is happening?  I have soared
          through far more treacherous courses
          and never missed a twist or turn --

He hits another asteroid and GRUNTS from the impact.  His
body starts to shake as though from the cold.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          No!  I -- felt -- that!
               (realizing)
          Just as I feel the icy vacuum of space
          seize my bones!

THE SILVER SURFER'S POV - SPACE AROUND HIM

As he looks around  Everything blurs, clears, then blurs
again.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          My head throbs...can scarcely see -- I
          must away!

BACK TO THE SILVER SURFER

As he tries to sweep out of the path of the rest of the
asteroids.  But he can't pull it off, and another one hits
him, then another, another.  The surfer falls to one knee,
hands reaching out to hang onto the board.  Completely out
of control, he caroms from asteroid to asteroid like a
maddened billiard ball, and with each collision his speed
increases, so that he's going faster and faster, heading
toward:

A GRAVITY WELL

Black and pulsating, it's a huge, violent gash in the very
fabric fo space, into which cosmic debris is being
inexorably pulled, all of it EXPLODING upon reaching its
core.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          A gravity well...!

ANOTHER ANGLE

The asteroids alter their course, streaming toward the
gravity well -- and carrying the helpless Silver Surfer
with them!

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)

          Nature's most destructive force,
          capable of sucking even the most
          powerful of celestial bodies into its
          maw...

Frantically, he tries to scramble away, like a surfer on Earth
paddling from a shark!  Still, he and the board are sucked
back toward the gravity well.

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          And I have only a fraction of my
          accustomed strength --

With every ounce of resolve he possesses, the Surfer forces
himself to his feet  He angles the board at a 90-degree
angle to the gravity well and tries to fly away, only to
look up and see --

THE SILVER SURFER'S POV - AN APPROACHING ASTEROID

As big as a small planet.  It's coming directly AT CAMERA
at breakneck speed!

                     SILVER SURFER (V.O.)
          NOOOO!!!

BACK TO THE SILVER SURFER

As he and the huge asteroid collide!  The asteroid SHATTERS
into powdery fragments, both the fragments and the now
unconscious Surfer shooting back, back -- into the 
overpowering blackness of the gravity well!

                                                   FADE OUT.

                           END OF TEASER