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GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

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6.<br />

Jerome is transported - plotting a path through the heavens.<br />

As his fingers fly across the keys he does not once take his<br />

eyes from the screen.<br />

His is one of hundreds of ergonomically designed work<br />

stations, arranged in ever-widening circles in a huge,<br />

circular, well-appointed if antiseptic room. Each curved<br />

desk contains a computer terminal consisting of a keyboard<br />

and a slim, transparent screen behind which is seated a<br />

PROGRAMMER, designing software for the aerospace agency. At<br />

the center of the room is a donut-shaped command console,<br />

chairs facing outwards, from which operations are monitored.<br />

Floor to ceiling smoked-glass curved walls offer the only<br />

concession to nature - a tinted view of a man-made,<br />

meticulously landscaped garden.<br />

Jerome tears himself away from his screen and picks up a<br />

discreet mini-vac. He vacuums between the keys of his<br />

keyboard. DIRECTOR JOSEF, 50's, a shorter, official-looking<br />

man approaches. His assistant IRENE stands at his shoulder.<br />

DIRECTOR JOSEF<br />

You keep your work station so<br />

clean, Jerome. JEROME --Next to<br />

Godliness, isn't that what they<br />

say?<br />

<strong>The</strong> Director smiles at the notion and places a computer disc<br />

on Jerome's desk.<br />

DIRECTOR JOSEF<br />

I reviewed your flight plan. Not<br />

one error in a hundred thousand<br />

keystrokes. Phenomenal.<br />

(placing a hand on<br />

Jerome's shoulder)<br />

It's right that someone like you<br />

is taking us to the Belt.<br />

(glancing to<br />

notification on<br />

Jerome's screen)<br />

You have a substance test.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Director briskly departs, Irene in tow. At a near<strong>by</strong> work<br />

station, a painfully thin programmer, NAPOLEON, perks up at<br />

the mention of the test.<br />

Jerome merely shrugs and pretends to reach down and scratch<br />

his ankle. However he surreptitiously produced one of<br />

Eugene's transparent specimen bags from his sock.

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