Star Trek: The Fifth Element/Transcripts



OPENING CREDITS

Egypt, 1914

(A boy riding on a camel. The boys cheer.)

Boy 1: Come, come!

Boy 2: Please! Please!

(The boy sees Professor and Billy looking at the writings on the wall.)

Boy 3: Aziz. Aziz.

Professor: Aziz, light!

(Aziz wakes up)

Billy: Aziz, light. (he marks at the "Aziz, light!" list.)

Professor: Good. We start again. "When the three planets are in eclipse, the black hole, like a door, is open. Evil comes... spreading terror and chaos." See the snake, Billy? The Ultimate Evil. Make sure you get the snake.

Billy: Yes, I've got your snakes. (draws a picture of a snake) I got all the snakes. So when is this snake act supposed to occur?

Professor: Well, if this is the five... and this is the one... (mumbles) Every 5000 years.

Billy: So I've got some time, then.

(Priest arrives.)

Priest: You bring them water. Good boy. I will take it to them. Go with God. Be safe from evil.

Professor: You see here these different peoples, or symbols of people... gathering together the four elements of life: water, fire, earth, air... around a fifth one. A Fifth Element.

Priest: Forgive me, lord. They already know too much.

(The Priest opens the water skin and begins to pour a vial of powder into the skin.)

Billy: Father.

Professor: Yes, how are you today?

Priest: Very well. You have some glasses?

Professor: Of course. Father, I'm so glad to see you. It's the most extraordinary thing. I mean, look. It's the greatest find in history.

Priest: Yes. You must be parched. (Priest pours water on a cup.)

Professor: Oh, yes, yes. I'm sorry. I mean, it's like a battle plan. Here, the good. Here, the evil. And here, a weapon against evil. I'm going to be famous.

Priest: Then... Then let us toast to your fame.

Professor: To fame. salud.. (The Professor raises the cup to drink, and then...) You can't drink a toast with water. (he tosses away his water.) Billy, in my sack, the grappa.

Billy: Yes. (Billy is looking for the grappa in the Professor's bag.)

Professor: This I don't understand. But this... this could be something... prehistoric. Maybe? I don't know. But wait. Here. Here.

Boy 1: Look, look.

(The alien spaceship arrives.)

Priest: They're here.

Professor: This man... this perfect being. I know this is the key. I know it. This Divine Light they talk about. What is Divine Light? Aziz, light! (The room is flooded with light all of the sudden.) Much better. Thank you, Aziz.

(The hatch opens.)

Priest: My lord.

(The aliens known as Mondoshawans enter.)

Professor: Father, this is the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen. Don't you think...? (sees the Mondoshawan) Are you German? (The Mondoshawan nods no)

Priest: Lord, I know he was about to discover everything. But there is no worry. I was there in time.

Mondoshawan Commander: Priest, you and those before you... have served us well. But war is coming. Stones not safe on Earth anymore.

(The Mondoshawan Commander comes to the wall. He pulls out a special key of his finger. The walls were the doors open.)

Professor: This... is really amazing.

(One of the MONDOSHAWANS waves his hand, puts the professor to sleep. The Mondoshawans head for the new corridor. There is the chamber the Elemental Stones and the Fifth Element rest.)

Priest: The Fifth Element.

Mondoshawan Commander: Take the stones.

(The Mondoshawans gather the stones and put them in the case. Billy pulls out a gun and sees the Mondoshawans carrying the Fifth Element to their ship.)

Priest: My lord... if you take the weapon, we will be defenseless when the evil returns.

Mondoshawan Commander: In 300 years, when evil returns... so shall we.

(Billy runs to the sleepy professor.)

Billy: Oh, professor. Professor. (The Mondoshawan Commander notices Billy.) Don't move! I... I have a gun!

Priest: Billy. Please, understand. They're our friends.

Billy: Ff lends? Father, they've killed the professor. They're monsters.

Priest: I'll explain everything. Billy...

Billy: You're with them?

Priest: Billy, look at me. I am your friend.

Billy: No, Father.

Priest: Billy, look at me! Please, put the gun down.

Billy: No. (Trips on a bag.)

Priest: Billy, no!

(Billy accidentally fires at the Mondoshawan Commander. The wall begins to close.)

Priest: Hurry! The wall is closing!

Mondoshawan Commander: Here is your mission now: Pass your knowledge to the next priest as it was passed on to you.

Priest: I will do as you command, but please, hurry, you still have time.

Mondoshawan Commander: Time not important. Only life important.

(The Mondoshawan Commander reaches his hand with a key. The wall closes, crushing his arm as the Priest hangs his head. The huge ship's main hatch closes.)

Priest: I will fulfill my mission! You can count on me! I will pass the knowledge until your return!

(The ship lifts off and speeds away.)

300 YEARS LATER

IN THE 23RD CENTURY...

Second Officer's log, stardate 8130.3. Starship Enterprise is under command of Captain Spock while Captain Kirk is promoted to Admiral.

[Enterprise-A holodeck, ancient temple]

Mera: See that symbol, Captain Spock?

Spock: A planetary alignment.

Mera: Admiral Kirk. "When the three planets are in eclipse, the black hole, like a door, is open. Evil comes... spreading terror and chaos."

Kirk: What evil, Mera?

Mera: This is no ordinary evil. The Ultimate Evil. More powerful than V'Ger.

COMM VOICE: Bridge to holodeck. Captain Spock. You've been requested on the bridge, sir.

[Enterprise-A bridge]

SULU: Admiral on the bridge.

Uhura: Captain Spock, we've arrived at the coordinates you calculated.

Chekov: Two planets are in their alignments. One is undergo. Four minutes, thirty seconds.

Mera: I believe it's time.

Sulu: Admiral, the Federated Warship had entered the sector.

[Federated Warship]

Crewman 1: Deploy intership stabilizer.

Crewman 2: Power capacitors: check.

General Staedert: Anything yet?

First Officer: No, sir.

General Staedert: Not even a temperature?

First Officer: The analyzers have jammed. One shows a million degrees, the others minus 5000.

General Staedert: Let's see it.

[Enterprise-A bridge]

Uhura: General Staedert, this is the Starship Enterprise. You know you came to this place.

Chekov: One minute.

Mera: The planet is taking shape.

Spock: Evil's coming, Admiral.

[Federated Warship]

Crewman 3: It's taking shape.

(In the middle of the shadows, a door to the nightmare has just opened. Evil is back. A 	round, moving mass, continually changing color.)

[Enterprise-A bridge]

Sulu: My ...God.

Kirk: The Great Evil!

[Federated Warship]

General Staedert: Send out a probe.

[New York City Headquarters]

Man: Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the Federated Territories.

President's Aide: On air with General Staedert in 30 seconds.

(Father Vito Cornelius appears)

David: Oh, I saved this seat for you, Father.

[Federated Warship]

First Officer: President on the line.

General Staedert: We're in position, Mr. President.

[New York City Headquarters]

President Lindberg: I have to address the Supreme Council. Just the facts, general.

[Federated Warship]

General Staedert: No results from the chemical and molecular analysis yet. All the calibers are overshot. We're initiating thermonucleatic imaging.

[New York City Headquarters]

President Lindberg: So, what you're saying is, you don't know what this is.

[Federated Warship]

General Staedert: Not yet. All we know is it just keeps getting bigger.

[New York City Headquarters]

President Lindberg: Recommendation?

[Federated Warship]

General Staedert: My philosophy is shoot first and ask questions later. I don't like uninvited guests.

[New York City Headquarters]

President Lindberg: All right, then, Staedert...

Cornelius: Mr. President?

President: Yes'?

Man: Priest Vito Cornelius... expert of astrophenomenon.

Cornelius: I have a different theory to offer you, sir.

President: You have 20 seconds.

Cornelius: Imagine for a moment that this... thing is not anything that can be identified... because it prefers not to be. Wherever there is life, it brings death... because it is evil. Absolute evil.

President: One more reason to shoot first.

Cornelius: Evil begets evil, Mr. President. Shooting will only make it stronger.