we to/ai/as-3ii3 on 1. Woe 1205 Thewd. I wa da a Dear Barry, Nhat foiiewseis) algeneead eeedecirs Juclode neta, Or ioaes legt out all shadings and nuances and jokes (etc) for the sake of laying cut @ bare-bones plot. ener! jo Yo ney tex A routine INS border search leads to AN ALIEN loaving tho te, Pranets ali hewitt sgy is thet "me's scared) t's netaste.) Be, here any more.” Only these mysterious and wizened MEN IN Di fy SUITS (One-- an older one -- is injured) seem to be able to deal with this alien. And-these Men-seem-worried-by what the alien—is-worried-about:.. WHY? What's going on? // ER ALIEN arrives in a farm way up in upstate New York. © (eegaaceey oe felts, weveauge tho ain of tamer (dear) id occupies it with some devious purgose. The femer’a wife /leuns out into the night.) The alien drinks sugar water. ey ; A CONFIDENT YOUNG COP in New York city follows a petty wf Wy/usate | Geiminal' into central park and thon-~ to the mocking Larzes |e i eg cree gee cachet Peer ey ye Strange with this young perpetrator: before the cops shoot/ ‘2 the perp dead, The Young Cop (Cowan) sees talons reach out pf ™ its fingers and then recede. In the distance, Cowan thinks| > he sees the face of someone he recognizes... but the persay yy of Le aaah eecccgemreny nacre ee aaa’ park ae arly morning. The cops think Cowan is crazy. Only a DEP! ’ MEDICAL EXAMINER believes him. She tells him if he wants to talk, she’s always at 4 star coffee shop on Columbus on Friday nights. But her memory is erased by one of the MEN IN DARK SUITS... who seems to have inordinate interest in what this young cop witnesseg. The man who was killed was, indeed, an alien. He was ES*U00 cen trom tho Galaxy 111-beta,” Bad not blasted him, they could’ve figured Cowan fights off neuralysation by ng to help-- then offering information. He dgniged hanging around after the shooting. Cowan has bought fifteen minutes. Theyees 10/31/95-3:13 pH vo 2. RupAri csou gin albad section az tong Caren eae tee Sibegy ger Uskied tne Gounrae (aeue) ‘secoguives i atede immediately back-peddies- {> cocky. When Jesbs sess Kay, not only doos he yack peadlg, he actually tarts to RUN. to Goals utter shock Gay ons to blow voobs’ head off, nies (na (Sora ixwes lice tar aedfeste ieedie casi see emcee Get ge pat ce yanks “ance Ws joa ties weet dees Gssassine?” Jeeba swears he was following the guy cause he —~ ), robbed his store, All he knows about the Betas is good news: ) 4 word on the street is the Betas and the Arquillians are Hoses making up after their long foud. 7 = [2 démer. Suddenly Zed calls. “Come back immediately -- and 5 2 don’t zap the Kid.” Cowan goos, with ay tor > 2 stare : Tose deal wp Ben hymn, Siymot Ste aeStUl Soo> A SMALL, LOW-RENT little office, designedfrea 1964, in a very bad part of town. Cowan sits ina little ante-room. He is eager to know who this man is, and what he does. The Man in the Dark suit is very quiet, giving away very little. Another, older man (Zed) comes out, and gravely leads Kay into a back room. Bae q1020 Cond Hp adam py Zed speaks to Kay in private, in back: Dee is dying. Kay is “> devastated. And Zed says that it’s time for now blood. Kay 9A, doesn’t want to deal with it right now. aed says they have to, theve’s a lot of activity and it’s Just them. Zen thinks 400 the kid is’ a good place to start. He’s quick, he’s got oe instincts, hell, he outran a Beta assassin. If Kay doesn’t 22> want to, Zed will. Kay doesn’t want to. |S0 Zed does He goes back to the ante-room and, against Kay’s wishes, ~~“ n5. offers Cowan a choice. tn or out. Either way, it’s irreversible. Cowan takes “in.” Zed leads Cowan through the HQ’s: the control room, the equipment locker. Shows him the holograph of the universe. Sees the alien staffers (444-Eyes, 7 Sphoros, Upside Down Guy and Dave). We learn that there’s an actual real spaceship a the World’s Fair Site in Flushing Meadows. Kay, meanwhile, is mourning Dee. He absent-mindedly flips through a tracker and spots a woman he once knew... Cowan seos this. Zed pulls him away. - stop at a shooting gallery. t for the wrong reasons, urements. Zed goes n from public e€ morning. Andwn o oe HS ow Goths 4 a: er i Ww we 7 y ye J iG : a WAY UP IN THE NIGHT SKY... a large ship docks with Earth in the far, far distance. We see aliens disembark. ‘they hold a their ship parked, they take off toward earth. om«Y very futuristic map, and a AAA map of Manhattan. Leavin, ed ap In the MiB office, the Mon track the arrival of the ship on the hologram. There’s no threat-- in fact, this stuff is very outino. as long as they park far enough away that the Clowns at SETI don’t pick it up. what else? The worning’s Enguirer arrives. “An alien took my husband’s body.” THIS ) is important. They hit the rond. a Cowan gives Kay grief about the boxy LTD. Then someone passes going 300. They pull over REDGICK, who is leaving as his wife is giving birth. Why is he leaying? He doesn’t y/ want to be on any planet where there aré bugs). car per fy: . Upstate, an Orkin Man is killed-- and “Edgar” places his small space craft in the back of the Orkin Man's truck. He starts driving (poorly). at the farmhouse, Kay inspects the landing and realizes that Redgick was right: we've got bugs. Edgar arciyos in Manhattan (in the Orkin van), where he is immediately pulled over for making a right turn on a red light. He finds this absurd. @he-cop finds himsglf hung on a flagpole 35 stories off the-ground.— — poley The Beta Delegation hails a cab in Manhattan (getting ripped off by the driver). they, enter ceshp’s._ Tp+atirS2. In a jewelry store, an older man (MR GENTLE) brushes aside « cat to look at the clock. He is about to pack something very important into a case when he sees the worst thing he could jugye imagine: the Orkin Van pulling up in front of his pe A The Men in Black go to a SHOESHINE stand and speak to the PUG about the Arquillian/Beta peace accord: why would a bug that the entire bug civilization has “from the wars between the Bcbiefiinterest in the13 om A wee y The Men in Biakk arriyé at the murder sigit to find that the body's been shikped,éff and the-dying last words (which he whisipered to\yCop) were “{@'s on-Ofion’s belto” It's assumed that thoMglaxy the two galaxies have been fighting Over is off opScike's Belt. 7 Edgar, tossing the last jewel out of his bag-- and not happy (cleary he didn’t get what he wanted)-- arrives at 53rd and the Pier to find that his ship has been totally stripped. Furious, he wreaks havoc, then steals a post card set which shows something of interest to him. Then he asks someone there “where do you put your dead bodies?” ; Gone Re Aquillient 4 hekar got Vow Funowt uate Code otra raud frre a P [04 ome At thé morgue, ® thofough ‘examination of the body shows thay. ¢ Mr. Gentle (who was, of course, the Arquillian Emissary) eS ae seems to have been killed by « Beta assassin. But the Men in “27? Black know that the only Beta assabain was killed the day Puff before in the park, They realize that-the Arquillian was killed in a way to make it seem “ike he was killed by the 7a, 4u Betas. The bug, they are realizing, is really on top of Yuh The things (except, as we cut away to find out, getting around in Lou Manhattan). ‘They neuralyse Laurel again. And leave. Jay ay 1 really thinks she’s cool. He thinks they could've boon AQ friends. Kay just shakes his head-- the last thing you want, on this job are attachments. So. wht dee The mrar a ious? iscary Way out in space, the Beta ship's gun comes out and it transforms into a really nasty-looking warship. And-inside the ship,the Betas are picking-up-a Yeading on their scope: Way-across the galaxy. quillian chip ig-erriving. as Far Soe At MiB headquarters, fed Jeafens that aliens are leaving the planet left and right. rt clearly has something to do with the mounting tension between the two warring ships whch are parked on both sides of earth. The ships threaten each other. The Botas give the Arquillians 30 minutes to deliver the galaxy, Or they commence firing. The Arquillians threaten to fire back. darth is in the middle. Ws no eee ee -realize that / of the Beta eS fy A Bech truth: okay, in the sin) wasn’t running ause he was e to the Bug when n the cops shot/The Men rush out: whe: 20/21/98-3029 Fx The Men in Black don’t understand why the Betas or Arguillians don’tjust go out to Orion’s belt and get the galaxy-- maybe it’s cause how would they find a marble-sized - ay galaxy out on Orion’s belt? But everyone seems to be acting{( like the galaxy is here. Then they figure it out: The galaxy ig here. Orion is the cat. The galaxy is on the cat.@ > Ke) Which means it’s at the morgue. Lt Edgar arrives at the morgue and kills the attendant. (There is a Mets game on in the background. ) Me wid rary Taw. foun the countdown between the two opposing galaxies escalates. Guns are cocked. Neither will relent. The last alien ship departs from Ellis Island-- like the helicopter at the fall of Saigon. It takes off into the night with Dave and 444-Eyes and Redgick and the Pug and everyone we recognize. The message is clear: Earth is no longer a safe haven. The Men arrive at the morgue to find it strewn apart. They search-- find Laurel in a box, alive. They hear a MEW. The cat’s still here. Suddenly Edgar springs out. Grabs the cat. Grabs the galaxy. Grabs Laurel. Grabs—the_keys to the END. And bolts. a ee Cre Outside, he forces Laurel into the ois trp and makes Laurel drive for him. Where? Edgar shows her the post card set. Take me here. — — will he go? There are no ships 7) left. They see the TV which is still on by the dead morgue attendant... and they notice something on the Mets game: th only space ships left are theirs-- at Flushing Meadows. The Men in Black grab a police car... Kay doesn’t understand how the cops can go so slowly. Edgar forces Laurel to drive faster and faster. Laurel tries to tell him that cars only go so fast. Edgar won't hear it. Laurel shifts | a. se, the car goes yet still not satisfied. that (earlior) am sev6. on Cart Lar ig mraniee Lauretis ee arrives at Flushing Meadows in moments. impressed-with the-car. Edgar brutally tosses her =. aside. Makes his way-toward the stacked ships. é mR, The Men in Black ‘lushing Meadows, ve Bu te chide, Edgar mounts the first of the two ships. ee THE ARHADAS com down » = ae 1 ssionately roofing for, something. a EE She td Sin i MpRa La. gcemnee: Ag? The Men finally arrive at the World’s Fair site. greets them w: The fight ensues at the World’s Fair site. Edgar eats the Men's weapons. Edgar is now full-blown bug size. The Armadas fire. Missiles are headed across the galaxy-- with Earth right in the middle, Jay and Kay realize they have one last-ditch effort at tricking the bug. They get the bug to eat Kay. Then Kay blasts him from inside. The bug’s head splats on a windshield. The Men in Black win. The missiles stop just above a bunch of clueless yuppies eating outside on the uppor west-side (and just outside a Chinese rice field). They recede, back to their ships. And Kay asks Jay to neuralyse him. Which he does. Kay goes back to Elizabeth Ann Reston, Jay and Laurel are the new Men in Black.