INT CERN TUNNEL DAY

Elevator 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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