GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
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.