Moon Chronicles S1E2 Facedown

An Animated Series
Written By
Trevor Cummings

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(951) 538-3372

Draft 1

PREVIOUSLY ON MOON CHRONICLES:

NARRATOR
Previously on Moon Chronicles
SEQUENCE OF SHOTS:
- Harry runs to the rocket.
- Harry enters the rocket "Ok go quick before something else
goes wrong."
- Drew looks to the empty co-pilot seat "What happened to
the others?"
- Harry takes his seat "Gone, like we should be."
- Drew slams on the launch button.
- The Rocket blasts slowly off.
INT. ROCKET COCKPIT - MOON AFTERNOON
Shua, 28 Canadian botanist, moves into the co-pilot's seat.
SHUA
Don't worry I've got co-pilot.
Drew, 30 American pilot, rolls his eyes. He taps the console
a few times.
DREW
We're a little heavy, we need to
drop something. Shua how much do
you weigh.
Shua looks back unaware of Drew's disdain for him.
SHUA
About 175.
Drew rolls down the passenger side window, as if it was the
car from Vacation.
SHUA
Why?
Drew feigns surprise.
DREW
(Deadpan)
Wow, that is exactly how much we
need to loose.

Drew pushes, Shua out the window.

A collective gasp erupts from the astronauts behind him.
Drew looks back and shrugs.
DREW
Sorry I couldn't deal with him for
another day, and we've got another
150 before we get back to Earth.
The other occupants shrug and agree.
DREW
Plus he killed my pet pig.
EXT. MOON "ATMOSPHERE" - MOMENTS LATER
Shua is falling towards the surface looking up at the rocket
as it rockets into space towards the pale blue dot. He flips
around to see how close he is to the
EXT. MOON SURFACE - CONTINUOUS
Shua lands face first, remarkably without cracking his
helmet.
INT. MOON BASE CONTROL CENTRE - MOMENTS EARLIER
Travis is etching out the "re" in "centre". Out of the
air-lock window, we can see Shua falling semi slowly to the
surface. He lands with a silent thud.
Travis looks out the window and knocks on it.
EXT. MOON SURFACE - SAME
Shua gets up and dusts himself off. Travis is in the
background slamming on the air-lock to no avail.
INT. MOON BASE CONTROL CENTRE - CONTINUOUS
Travis leans his head against the door.
TRAVIS
Oh, wait.
Travis presses the power button for his in-helmet radio.
TRAVIS
Shua do you read?
EXT. MOON SURFACE - CONTINUOUS
Shua is strolling along, almost frolicking around the base.

TRAVIS (O.S.)
Shua do you read?
Shua looks around for the source of the voice.
SHUA
God?
INT. MOON BASE CONTROL CENTRE - SAME
Travis sighs and shakes his head.
TRAVIS
No Shua it's Travis, remember we
were on this mission together?
SHUA
Right... I knew that. You're one of
the guys that died.
Travis opens his mouth to say something, but takes a brief
moment of thought. He opens his mouth to speak again.
TRAVIS
What are you doing here?
SHUA
Oh, I accidentally fell out of the
window.
TRAVIS
(to himself)
Why did we even install rolling
windows onto a space craft.
(to Shua)
Ok, well I haven't heard from Dale
in a while. I want you to go check
the comms center, to see if he
hasn't gone and killed himself.
That wouldn't end well for me.
INT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE - EARLIER
Dale stands on the inside of an open air-lock, Travis and
Harry stand outside of it.
DALE
Fine. But if I get stuck in here
and I die, my ghost is going to
float back to earth and haunt the
shit out of you two.
TEXT: 5 MINUTES LATER

The air-lock is closed and dale is standing inside looking

out at Travis and Harry.
DALE
You two are so getting haunted.
INT. MOON BASE CONTROL CENTRE - MOON AFTERNOON
Travis shakes the flashback out of his head.
EXT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE - MOMENTS LATER
Shua bounces his way to the shut air-lock. He looks inside
and finds Dale sitting wallowing in his loneliness.
SHUA
Dale?
DALE
God?
SHUA
(to himself)
So it wasn't just me...
(to Dale)
I don't know he must be around, but
this is Shua.
DALE
Thank god, you've got to get me out
of here!
SHUA
Alright give me a minute.
EXT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE, REAR - MOMENTS LATER
Shua is staring at the cables coming out of the base. He
yanks on a cluster of them. One cable pops out.
All the lights on the base go out. Shua looks around. He
plugs it back in.
All the lights turn back on and Shua walks back towards
Dale.
INT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE - MOMENTS LATER
Shua walks through the outer air-lock door and stops for a
moment. He turns back round and closes the outer air-lock
DALE
What are you doing you idiot?

The air-lock pressurizes and the inner air-lock door opens.

Dale takes a step out, his mouth hanging open in his helmet.
DALE
How... But, this was.
SHUA
Well you can't open the inner
air-lock to a depressurized space,
that would ruin everything in the
centre.
DALE
So you mean all I was doing by
locking myself in was
repressurizing the building?
SHUA
I don't know what you mean.
DALE
I didn't have to be left up here!?
(to himself)
Oh, those guys are get even more
haunted than before.
SHUA
Well we should probably get Travis
out then.
DALE
He's locked up here too? Well I
guess I can kill him in person.
EXT. MOON BASE CONTROL CENTRE - LATER
Shua is in the air-lock pressurizing it. Travis takes a step
out and hugs Shua.
INT. MOON BASE REC ROOM - LATER
Travis, Dale and Shua are standing around a ping-pong table.
They have the top halfs of their space suits off.
Shua is trying to bounce a ping pong ball, but is having
trouble even though the lower gravity should be working to
his advantage.
DALE
So, tell me why I shouldn't kill
you right now.

TRAVIS
We're in the same situation man,
there's no reason to feel singled
out.
DALE
You were poised to let me be the
only one left up here for who knows
how long. Christ, if Captain Canada
hadn't shown up I would have died
locked in that damn centre.
Shua's paddle misses the ping pong ball and he hits himself
in the face with it knocking him over.
TRAVIS
I would have too! You're not unique
in that you almost died and were
saved by luck. Look at literally
anyone who is still alive right
now.
DALE
Fuck it, lets at least figure out a
plan to survive up here till we can
fix the communications array and
call for help.
Shua pops up from the ground.
SHUA
Oh, surviving is gonna be easy.
INT. MOON BASE GREEN HOUSE
Shua leads Travis and Dale through the rows and rows of
fresh fruits and vegetables.
SHUA
Theoretically we can stay up here
perpetually.
Travis picks a grape from a vine and squishes it.
DALE
Why haven't we been eating this
stuff while we've been up here.
SHUA
We have, for almost every meal.
Could you tell it was food and not
powder?

DALE
Well it's not my fault you grow
food that tastes exactly like the
freeze-dried shit.
SHUA
And you haven't noticed this
building before? I mean it's
completely green.
EXT. MOON BASE GREEN HOUSE
The building is green with giant, living vines squirming all
around it.
INT. MOON BASE GREEN HOUSE
Travis raises his hand.
TRAVIS
To be fair, I am color blind.
INT. MOON BASE REC ROOM
Travis is playing video games and Dale is doing Sudoku. Shua
is drawing something elaborate. They are in their flight
suits.
SHUA
(Not looking away from
his drawing)
So... What do we do now?
Dale looks up from his number puzzle.
DALE
Well, we should probably take a
look at that communications array,
but I'd say we earned a little R&R.
They both go back to what they were doing.
SHUA
Anyone want to play a board game?
He gets no response from either man. Shua goes back to his
drawing.
Shua lifts his head up.
SHUA
Want to break out the karaoke
machine?

DALE
No.
TRAVIS
(Simultaneously)
Yes. I mean, no...
Both Travis and Shua look disappointed.
Shua opens his mouth to speak.
DALE
Don't
Dale eyes Shua. Shua closes his mouth, and Dale turns back
to his Sudoku.
SHUA
Want to play hide and seek around
the base?
DALE
What are we twelve-I mean yes
that's a great Idea. I'll be it
first you guys go hide.
Shua gets up to go hide. Travis puts his hand on Shua's
shoulder.
TRAVIS
No, no, no, no, no. We're not doing
that. But we'll get out of your
hair. Shua, let's go se what we can
do about the comms array.
INT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE
Travis is kicking back listening to music, Shua brought his
drawing with him. They have their space suit bottoms on.
TRAVIS
See? Now this is much better, no
more negative Nancy.
SHUA
So do you want to play a board
game?
TRAVIS
Not particularly.
The music turns off and an alarm starts to blare. The giant
screens on the wall blink red.

ALARM SYSTEM
Intruder alert! Unauthorized
vehicle incoming.
Shua and Travis jump up, Travis looks alarmed, Shua looks
excited.
SHUA
UFO!!! We're gonna meet aliens!
TRAVIS
I don't think that's what's going
on.
Travis stares at the control panel.
TRAVIS
Shit, how do we pull up a radar or
something?
Travis starts hitting buttons randomly. As he does random
things start to happen in the base. The screen changes hue a
few times. The language on the screens change along with the
audio system.
ALARM SYSTEM
Alerte intrus ! Non autorise du vhicule entrant .
ALARM SYSTEM
Intruder Alert ! Nicht autorisierte Fahrzeug
eingehenden .
ALARM SYSTEM
Alerta Intruso ! Entrada de vehculos no
autorizados.
ALARM SYSTEM
Indringer alarm ! Ongemagtigde voertuig
inkomende.
ALARM SYSTEM
Intruder Alert ! Neoprvnn pchoz vozidla
ALARM SYSTEM
Entrudulo atentigo ! Nerajtigita veturilo alvenanta .

All the while: A rotating heart shape bed and a fully

stocked bar pops out from the wall then retracts into it
just as quickly. A disco ball drops down and a laser light
show starts.

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The inner air-lock door opens and Dale rushes in. Travis
stops hitting buttons and looks back at Dale.
TRAVIS
Ok you can't blame me for this. Why
wouldn't you label the control
panel?
INT. MOON BASE COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE - MINUTES LATER
Dale sits at the control panel. The room is mostly back to
normal but the english alarm is still sounding but much
quieter, and the disco ball and the lights that shine on it
seem to be too stubborn to return to it's compartment. Shua
is on a ladder taping paper over the lights.
The screen now shows a radar, with a blip moving towards the
base.
DALE
Yes, yes! This could be our ticket
out of here.
TRAVIS
Or our ticket to an early grave. We
don't know who it is.
SHUA
Aliens.
TRAVIS & DALE
It's not aliens.
TRAVIS
But considering how many enemies we
have, it's a good chance they won't
be friendly.
DALE
Enemies you have, you're the only
American here. People love Canada,
and no one hates England.
INT. ROCKET SHIP
The crew of the initial mission to the moon are all sleeping
in bunks. Harry, wakes up from under his Scottish flag
blanket. No one else has flags as their blanket.
HARRY
(In an extra strong
Scottish accent.)
I feel a disturbance in the force.

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TRAVIS
I guess that's true but, I'm a
people person. I make friends real
easily. You? Well, you're kind of a
dick.
CUT TO BLACK
NEXT TIME ON MOON CHRONICLES:
NARATOR
Next time on Moon Chronicles.
SEQUENCE OF SHOTS:
- An alien space craft hovers over the base.
- Shua plays the song from "Close Encounters Of The Third
Kind" on a children's toy glockenspiel.
- The aliens, which look like the aliens from Kerbal Space
Program, lower into the base. Travis goes to greet them.
- The aliens shoot Travis, Dale laughs, then gets shot.
- The aliens kindly greet Shua.
- Travis is laying on the ground writhing in pain. "See?
Great with people."
END

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Also Include Contaneese, Russian and Arabic.

Trevor Cummings Dec 13, 2015 12:46 PM