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The Merging
An ancient alien device is brought on board an earth space ship and goes on a killing spree. When it lands on earth, all life is dinner.
Because of that, he takes in their orphan daughter Dee Dee and vows to take care of her. Years later, DEE DEE, 18, works on a penal planet with A J and his former crew.
A hybrid of insect rodent called spider-rats, trap them in a cavern.
A J find a secret door and make his way inside. There they find alien tech.
A J, dying from a disease, plans to escape and go back to earth to spend his remaining days.
They steal a ship and stowaway the alien tech, thinking of selling it on the black market.
They escape the planet but Dee Dee gets infected by one of the devices.
It merges with her body and uses her to continue its mission with is to learn about the enemy and then destroy them.
It attempts to systematically kill off the crew and restarts the war between Veyor, the alien race that defeated earth.
A J has to stop the alien plan but to do so, he has to kill Dee Dee which he doesn't want to do. Even though she almost kills most of the team, he still won't kill her.
He finds a way to break the merging but the device will kill her and go after its next host to continue its mission.
Dee Dee sacrifices herself by shooting herself out the airlock.
Earth is saved but A J pays a price for losing her. He ends up in a psych ward, strapped to a gurney.
Predators
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Competition Highlights:
The Tattoo, one page comedy (Top Twenty Finals in WildSound Competition 2009) Mom's New Toy; comedy short (First place in WildSound Competition 2008; Second Place Gimme Credit Super Short Category of Cycle V 2007)
The Merging; sci-fi (Quarterfinalist Scriptapalooza competition 2006) Pinewood; horror thriller (Round Two Slamdance 2007) Smallville: To Eternity And Back; television (Quarterfinalist Scriptapalooza TV competition 2007) Vacation Burnout; comedy (Quarterfinalist Bluecat Competition 2007) Smallville: Fractured Wings; television (Top Ten Finalist Scriptapalooza TV competition 2007)
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!e-DEAD
After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her rich, white parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
