INT CERN TUNNEL DAYElevator doors open in a subterranean tunnel and Vittoria steps
out. A long tube, about four feet across, runs off into the
distance, and as Vittoria heads off in the other direction, we see
that the tunnel, and its cylinder, go on forever that way too.
TWO MORE TECHNICIANS hurry down the tunnel and jump into the
elevator she just vacated.
Vittoria steps up to a security panel and places her chin in a
cup. A vertical laser sweeps across her eyeball and we --
CUT TO:
INT ST. PETER'S BASILICA DAY
--- an ancient carved incense holder that swings back and forth at
the end of a chain, swung by a PRIEST in St. Peter's Basilica. A
THOUSAND FAITHFUL are gathered for ---
REPORTER
--- the Pope's elegy Mass, led by
Cardinal Saverio Mortati, Dean of the
College of Cardinals ---
At the front, CARDINAL MORTATI stands behind a massive altar, arms
outstretched, praying in Latin for the assembled luminaries.
As he performs the service, intoning in a dead language --
INT ANTIMATTER LAB DAY
--- Vittoria steps through an airlock and emerges in a gleaming
white underground lab. Everything, everywhere, is white.
5.
There are a dozen columns of polished steel about three feet tall,
each of which supports a transparent canister the size of a tennis
ball can. They appear empty.
LEONARDO BENTIVOGLIO, sixtyish, black pants and a short-sleeve
black shirt, is at work at a command console in the center of the
room. (They speak to each other in Italian, subtitled.)
VITTORIA
Power should be back five by five.
LEONARDO
It is, extraction's already started.
He turns around, and we thought his black pants and shirt looked
familiar -- now we see his Roman collar and realize this physicist
is also a priest.
LEONARDO (cont'd)
We're in God's hands now.
While Leonardo and Vittoria work at the console, we move slowly
across the room toward those strange vertical pillars.
INT ST. PETER'S BASILICA DAY
In St. Peter's, we're in a complimentary move, down the aisle past
the College of Cardinals, one hundred sixty-five aging men in
brilliant red robes, seated near the altar.
REPORTER (O.S.)
The College of Cardinals will lock
itself in the Sistine Chapel for
Conclave literally, the word means
"with key" -- the process by which
the Church chooses a new leader for
the world's one billion Catholics.
We move onto the altar, close enough to Mortati to get a good look
at him. He's in his late seventies, grave, eyes closed in
religious fervor as he consecrates the communion host.
INT ANTIMATTER LAB DAY
In the lab, we're still moving, close to one of the pillars and to
the transparent tube on top of it. The tube isn't empty, as we
first thought, there's something suspended in the middle of it, a
drop, round and white, floating in mid-air.
INT ST. PETER'S BASILICA DAY
Mortati reaches the religious climax of the ceremony and holds
aloft the round white communion host.
6.
A THOUSAND VOICES begin singing in St. Peter's, we go in close on
the host and dissolve to ---
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