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Fry: " Easy for you to say, Mr. Twister. Wait….something about a model…"

Fry runs to the orrery room and spins the globes so the year-clock runs backwards. 22…18…15…The suns stay in the sky.

Riddick (watching): "You're not afraid of the light, are you?'

Fry (almost in a whisper): "Sun burn."

Riddick, Fry, Shazza and Johns convene in the coring room, looking down the long drilling hole.

Fry: "Twenty-two years ago this month."

Johns: "Look, whatever the f**k those things were, they seem to stick to darkness, so if we have twenty-two years of daylight coming we should be all right, okay?"

Riddick: "Other buildings weren't secure, so they ran outta here - heaviest doors. Thought they'd be safe outside, in the dusk. But they forgot to open the cellar, let the creatures back into the ground. So the creatures ate them."

Suddenly, they hear Imam calling out.

Fry: "Imam?"

Imam opens a pair of steel doors and out pops…Ali!

Ali: "Hey all…I'm just ANOTHER Islamic boy appearing from out of nowhere!"

Imam welcomes the boy with open arms and drops to his knees in thanksgiving.

Imam: "THREE now…thank you Allah...one more and my basketball team, the Hajjtrotters, will be complete!"

They all head inside for a drink of water..all except Ali, who likes to wander around.

Jack: "F**kin right." The boy looks around sheepishly. "Oh…don't mind me...I just like saying that."

Riddick: "I'm just saying you don't leave your emergency ship un-prepped unless there's NO f**kin emergency."

Shazza: "Maybe they had no weight limits. They probably had a big drop ship take them off planet."

Fry: "Nice of them too leave so much stuff here, then."

Shazza (making a winding motion beside her head with her first finger): "They were geologists, remember."

Jack: "She's f**kin right!"

Paris: "Watch your mouth. Who are you, anyway, the winner of the look-alike contest?"

Jack feels hurt and heads outside towards the coring room. He hides under a tarp, hoping none of the grown-ups will ever find her…err…him. Riddick has followed silently (followed by an equally silent Johns), and he pulls away the tarp.

Riddick: "Missing the party. Come on back."

Johns: "You're missing the party. Come on, boy."

Outside, Imam and his boys are crowded around the water condenser tasting drops of miraculous water and praising Allah. The water condenser suddenly stops working.

Zeke: "Ever wonder why I'm an athiest?"

Imam: "Hey! You're not in the movie yet!"

Zeke shrugs and disappears.

Fry: "Okay, leave everything except the one power cell and let's head back."

Shazza: "Shouldn't we take the sandcat? Save some time?"

Fry: "Nah…a strenuous hike will do us all some good."

The group of nine departsfor the crash site. Riddick and Paris find themselves alone at the front of the pack, and the con decides to formally introduce himself. He sticks out his hand.

Riddick: "Richard B Riddick, escaped convict, murderer."

Paris: "Paris P Ogilvie, antiquities dealer, entrepreneur. I appreciate a man who understands the social graces, Mr. Riddick."

Further back, Jack is chatting with Johns and Shazza.

Jack: "So can I stop talking to him now?"

Shazza and Johns: "Yes!"

Johns: "When we get back it'll be time for me to let Riddick escape again."

Shazza: "So you'll click your fingers and he won't be one of us anymore?"

Johns: "I need to convince him he's not gonna be frozen or I'll have to worry about you all falling asleep and not waking up."

They arrive at the crashed ship in short order. Riddick and Johns move inside the wreck.

Johns: "It's time, Riddick. I'll have to chain you now if you don't somehow overpower me and make your escape."

Johns turns his back on the con and folds him arms.

Johns: "One Mississippi, two Mississippi…"

Riddick: "Forget it, blue-eyed devil. I'm not going. You'll just have to freeze me. I want you to remember this moment."

Johns: "I'll swear to freeze you next time if you'll just run away this time. Do we have a deal?"

Riddick: "F**k you!"

Resigned, Johns attaches the chains to Riddick and seats the convict down.

Johns: "I could easily push you out the hatch and shoot you now for trying to escape. I want you to remember this moment, and the way it could have gone but didn't."

Riddick: "Popsicle me, motherf**ker. You don't want me dead and you know it. Cube me, that's what I would do to you."

Johns: "No."

Riddick: "My recommendation, rime me. Don't take the chance I'll get shiv-happy on your wannabe ass."

Johns: "I'm thinking you could die in the upcoming takeoff, but the truth is I'll have to return to my job as fry-boy at McDonalds if I don't have you to chase."

Riddick: "Finally found something worse than me, huh?"

Cut to Fry outside one of the earthen mounds. Imam and Johns have her tied to a rope.

Fry: "Okay, just lower me into the mound and I'll look around and come back out that hole down in that ditch over there."

Jack: "I hear you Fry, I hear you. Find out what's down there."

They smash a hole in the side of the mound and Fry climbs down the inner wall. She searches around and finds a foot in a boot….and sees some slimy alien creatures stirring on the walls. Just to be safe she backs her way out through the small hole at the base of the ditch.

Fry: "Just a foot in there…and some of those dark-loving aliens. Am I that f**king stupid to go down into a dark hole having seen what those creatures can do already? I'd better go talk to Riddick."

Fry and Riddick stand face to face, though the convict is chained.

Fry: "He's not in the hole…I looked."

Riddick: "Who's not?"

Fry: "Don't try to confuse me. SOMEONE'S not."

Jack descends a ladder nearby, drawing their attention.

Fry: "Leave! Leave.."

Jack: "But I just got here! I just wanna ask him how I can see who's sneakin up on me in the dark."

Riddick: "You gotta get send to a slam where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. The you gotta dig up a doctor and pay him twenty menthol kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyes."

Jack: "Okay..I can do it!"

Riddick: "But first you gotta kill a few people."

Fry shudders and steps backwards. Jack disappears into the shadows.

Riddick: "Oh, don't be like that….come closer…"

Fry moves further away.

Riddick: "You'd have to be a LOT further to be safe. You people are so scared of me. I take that as a compliment; especially seeing as, since the sun's up, it's ME you gotta worry about now."

Fry (scoffing): "You want to shock me with the truth now?"

Riddick: "The whispers tell me to go for the sweet spot, just to the left of the spine. Fourth lumbar down."

Fry: "That's fine; you can babble about whispers. But just so you know, there's a debate right now about whether we should just leave you here to die. So tell me…where's the body?"

Riddick: "Whose body?'

Shazza comes in and kicks Riddick…hard.

"What did you do to Zeke? What did you do to him?"

Fry restrains Shazza and they leave… Somehow Riddick gets loose… again… he tussles with Johns and leaves the merc lying by the side of the road. Johns is ecstatic! Riddick then sprints to the burial ditch near the crashed ship.

Shazza looks up and sees Riddick, but her horror is interrupted by the appearance of…Zeke!…backing out of the tunnel in the earth.

Shazza: "Zeke!"

Zeke: "What's up, m'love? Crikey, it's dark in that hole."

Zeke and Shazza have a tearful reunion, allowing Riddick to fade into the desert. Shazza retuens to the crashed ship and Zeke follows, dragging a draped body. Once there, he spots a Total Stranger at the entrance to the ship and shoots the poor guy.

Zeke: "Crikey. I thought it was him...I thought it was Riddick!"

Riddick, meanwhile, is sitting in Paris' chair, enjoying some booze and working on his tan.

Jack: "It was just somebody else. It was just somebody else from the crash!"

Suddenly, Total Stranger comes alive again! Not wanting to be shot over and over, he runs off quickly while the others lament his death. Meanwhile, Fry, Johns, Imam and his three boys have returned to the mining settlement. Fry takes a last look at the skiff, knowing she'll be able to get them all off planet only on the crashed ship.

Fry: "Goodbye, Mecca!"

The group gathers and heads back to the crash for the final time. The boys take turns playing with a Robby The Robot toy they found in the settlement.

Imam: "We must stop for a short ceremony, captain. This robot represents all the people of this world who depended on their technology, when only Allah could have saved them. So we must bury their insolence right here."

Ali kneels down and digs a small hole. Placing the robot within, he covers it carefully with sand.

Part way back they stop to rest in the shade of a giant beast's skeleton. Fry and Johns pause to chat as she hands the merc back his baseball cap.

Johns: "I guess I'm a little more glad to be here than I thought, you being a pilot and all. We'd never make it off this rock in that wreck without you."

Riddick is in the inside of the beast, and we see him take a lock of cut hair and pat it in place on the head of Fry.

Fry: "I suspect my navigator, Owens, will show up some time soon, so we have to watch out. When things are at their best, Owens is at his worst. He's always trying to prevent me from picking up cargo. But don't tell anyone I said so."

Johns: "This is between you and me, Carolyn. I've never seen a captain so eager to get back to her ship."

Fry: "I'm not your captain. And I probably shouldn't drink any more of this, dehydrates you even more."

Fry hands a bottle of booze to Johns.

Johns: "Drink? I thought this was the kerosene for keeping the aliens away in the dark."

Fry spits out her last mouthful, and they resume their trek back to the crash.

Meanwhile, back at the ship…

Paris: " Tell me something. Did you run away from your parents or did they run away from you?"

Jack holds his boomerang to the neck of Paris.

Jack: "He'd probably get you right here, right under the jaw, and you'd never even hear him comin, cause that's how good Riddick is."

Paris: "Christ! You need some better role models, boy. You ought to tag along with Johns, respect decency."

Zeke yells from below.

Zeke: "Just keep your bloody eyes open cause I don't want that dog sneakin up on my bloody ass."

Back at the other group, Johns surveys the horizon from a high vantagepoint.

Johns: "No Riddick, just those trees that aren't trees and don't mean water."

Fry: "So you don't see anything?"

Johns: "Sorry."

Johns whips around and trains his gun on Fry.

Johns: "Now stop asking so many dumb questions."

Fry retreats down the side of the canyon, dodging the rocks being thrown by Imam's boys.

Imam: "Seven stones to keep the devil at bay."

Zeke: "Ever wonder why I'm an atheist?"

Fry: "You're not in THIS scene either, Zeke!"

Zeke shrugs.

The group meanders their way back under a blue sun. As they approach the wreck, Johns calls out.

John: "There'll be no shots!"

Paris (waving his hands wildly): "I know, I know! What is, 'What will happen if Riddick spots us first', Alex?"

Johns: "That's it! Five hundred dollars for you, Paris, and you get to choose the next category."

Zeke hands his gun to Johns. Johns checks the weapon.

Johns: "Fully loaded clip, minus two shells. Safety's off. Did you spot Riddick?"

Zeke: "Nah…some other guy. Came from over there."

Zeke points towards sunset, towards the yellow sun.

Johns: "That's a bit of a bad sign. That's Riddick's direction. Maybe it WAS Riddick."

Zeke: "Ever wonder why I'm an atheist?"

The others applaud as Zeke FINALLY places his signature line in the proper scene.

Imam: "We take this as a good sign…blue sun, blue water. It's means we will soon be swimming in the pool at the New Mecca Hilton."

Zeke: "Ever wonder why I'm an atheist?"

Shazza (hitting Zeke): "Bloody hell! Enough!!"

Fry: "El Imam, if we're gonna go looking for that water in the pool, we should leave here soon."

Jack: "Yeah. Before Riddick returns and skull-f**ks us as we sleep."

Shazza: "Sounds like a charmer."

Johns: "Maybe he'll come back to take what you got...maybe to work your nerves…or maybe he'll just come back and skull-f**k you in your sleep."

Paris: "The boy already more than aptly described that process, Mr. Johns. But if the man's gone, he's gone. I still don't know why he should bother us."

Zeke: "Cause all he's got is a shiv, and he can't hunt sh*t with that'd be my guess."

While they are talking, Riddick sneaks back into the wreckage, ties a horse-bit in his mouth and clamps on a pair of handcuffs, then rotates his arms backwards over his head to bind himself to a post.

Riddick: "Ain't no way they're gonna shoot me or leave me behind. I need to get back to my comfy cell at Slam."

Johns and Fry walk in and find the escaped con all nicely trussed up.

Johns: "We'll I'll be damned. There really WILL be no shots."

Fry: "Is he really that dangerous that we won't fly with him loose?"

Johns: "Well that'd be my choice."

Fry: "So do we just keep him locked up forever?"

Johns: "He just escaped from a maximum prison. This ain't no Chippendales dancer, sister."

Fry returns outside. As all the others convene on top of the ship for a farewell party she busies herself making repairs. Imam gestures behind the ship.

Imam: "Allah be blessed for providing such a straight runway for our takeoff!"

Zeke is about to say something when Shazza shushes him. Fry walks by with nails clenched between her teeth and carrying an armload of 2 x 4s.

Paris: "THAT'LL teach me to fly coach."

The sound of hammering ensues, followed by that of a circular saw, a blowtorch, more hammering…interrupted by a stream of expletives.

Jack: "Am I the only one who's getting nervous about this plan?"

Shazza: "Bloody tell me."

Finally, the racket abates and Fry joins them atop the ship

Fry: "We're ready to go…Riddick is secured again, so it's back to the shipping lanes past that rogue comet you can see up there."

Shazza: "Really? Well done. I for one am thoroughly grateful. This beast wasn't meant to take off like this - backwards. The only reason we'll be alive is because of you."

Shazza points out over the wreckage trail.

Shazza: "There was talk of a scouting party looking for other people before we departed but then we saw that."

Fry descends back into the ship to prepare for takeoff…and runs into Owens.

Fry: "Owens! I knew you'd show up before we left, I just knew it!"

Owens: "I had a bit of a sharp pain near my heart, but it must have been angina as I'm fine now. AND DON'T YOU TOUCH THAT HANDLE, FRY!"

Fry: "I'm sorry. I never meant to play a slot machine you had just been using…but you can't still be mad at me for winning that jackpot!! I thought you were over that!"

Below, Johns frees Riddick. The merc tries to instigate a fight, so Riddick can flee, but the con goes docilely.

Johns: "Nobody's gonna get hurt one of these days, and that's gonna mean the end of my job."

Johns brings Riddick to the passenger cabin and secures the con in his cryo-tube. Before he can get back into his own, the ship begins moving…backwards. Fry sits in the captains chair, throttling the ship into full reverse despite the commotion from the back as the ship rams into the debris and terrain behind it.

Owens: "What the f**k is happening up there?"

Computer voice: "Secure lower airbrakes now…"

Fry: "t**S..t**S..t**S!!" (Ed note: She does have a foul mouth, even in reverse!)

The ship lifts clear of the planet. Fry tries to secure the passenger cabin to the main body but Owens has jammed the door open.

Owens: "Seventy seconds, Fry. You still have seventy seconds to jettison those extra cabins."

Fry: "Owens! If need be, we'll die for them!"

Owens: "Don't you touch that handle, Fry!"

Fry: "Would you just forget about that jackpot for one second! If need be, we'll both die out of sheer f**kin nobility!"

Owens: "Listen. Company says 'every man for himself'…we're not responsible for any of them."

Fry: "Look, I've tried everything else. I have to secure the passenger cabin."

Fry looks overhead to the flashing 'Secure all?' sign. "I gotta attach more load."

Owens: "Fry, what the hell are you doing?'

Fry pulls the lever.

Owens: "What the fudge?…Was that a 'Secure', Fry?"

Computer voice: "Center of gravity too far forward…recommend adding ballast. Close airbrakes now."

Fry pulls another lever and secures another section of the ship.

Owens: "Hey, they trained you for this, right, Fry? For a reverse liftoff?"

Fry: "What?"

Suddenly, the ship clears the atmosphere and the ride smoothes out considerably.

Owens: "Come on..come on…let's get back into that shipping lane."

Fry: "Fifteen-fifty millibars. We're going up twenty MB per minute. We're sealed again! Woohoo!"

She moves down to the cryo area and glances at the captain's tube.

Fry: "The captain's sleeping soundly."

Owens trips over a banana peel left over from the farewell party and falls on Fry.

Owens: "Gravity was supposed to kick out...why did I fall at all?"

Fry: "We're still in the planet's gravity field, Mr. Science. How did you get to be a navigator, anyway?"

Owens: "Don't you touch that handle, Fry!"

Fry graces Owens with her sourest look and gets back into her cryo tube for a long nap. The ship has safely returned to the shipping lanes, thanks to the brave Fry.

The only passenger still awake is Riddick…

Riddick: "Well, she did it. We're back into the lane, but far from home. A long time between stops. Long time for something to go wrong…again. They say I'm all brawn and no brains…hah! The primitive side of my brain is wide awake. The animal side. Most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep, they say……zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"


The beginning…

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