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Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 1. CENTURY CITY “Prlot” TEASER OVER BLACK We hear the HUM of a busy city, but not quite the kind of busy city we’'re used to. SUPER: “LOS ANGELES - 2053” With a WHOOSH and a VROOM we FADE IN on EXT. FUTURISTIC CITYSCAPE - DAY Gravity-defying 200-STORY SKYSCRAPERS with architectural cut- outs in their centers, MAGLEV TRAINS zipping between them on floating tracks, EXTERIOR ELEVATORS ¢limbing the sides of the towers, ARTIFICIAL SUNS illuminating the gloomy daylight, and, yes, FLYING CARS. MUSIC: A peppy pop tune called “Tomorrow More zipping, climbing, illuminating, flying and then AN EERIE-LOOKING SPACESHIP appears in the sky. It floats down and disgorges an army of ALIEN ROBOT MONSTERS. DARWIN (V.0.) That’s scary. AXEL (V.0.) - Actually, kind of stupid. The monsters FREEZE. The entire cityscape FREEZES. And we pull back to reveal we are INT. LAW FIRM - RECEPTION AREA - DAY The monster-invaded cityscape 1s a HOLOGRAM floating in the air around DARWIN McNEAL, a handsome, pleased-with-himself attorney in his 30s, and AXEL SISTO, a slender 7-year-old who has just hit the freeze button on the GAME PROJECTOR he's holding. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 2. CONTINUED We're on a high floor of a 59-year-old office building (built in 1994). Through a window behind Darwain and Axel we see THE ACTUAL LOS ANGELES OF 2053 is about as different from 2003 as 2003 was from 1953. The skyline mixes twentieth-century buildings with newer structures, some of them jarringly modern, others determinedly retro. Private automobile traffic on the streets is sparse, limited by severe controls; motorized scooters and streetcars and elevated trains (on non-floating tracks) are abundant. Flyang cars still exist only at Disneyland. IN THE RECEPTION AREA LEE MAY enters. She’s in her 20s, an associate in the firm of Constable, Crane, and Montero. She’s pretty, smart, athletic-- almost too good to be true, a condition she’s not particularly happy about. LEE MAY Darwin, have you read the file on this breach of contract? DARWIN I’'ll read it 1in the room. LEE MAY What if the client has a question? DARWIN You’ll answer it. LEE MAY (re: Axel) Who’s he? Before Darxwin can reply, TOM MONTERO enters. He's mid-40s, a former governor of California, and the firm’'s newest partner. He has a sublime aura of absolute self-assurance which is, oddly, not irritating. People like him. TOM Did the meeting start? DARWIN What meeting? Now Tom notices the frozen hologram. He turns toward Axel and holds out his hand. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 3. CONTINUED (2) TOM May I? Axel hands him the game controller. TOM (answering Darwin’s question) New client. Hannah told me to drop in.... Tom unfreezes the game. The alien robot monsters resume menacang the city. TOM ...Something with public policy implications. (to Axel) You open the gates on the reservoir, turn up the artificial suns... Tom hits buttons on the controller. In the hologram, the dry Los Angeles River starts to flow; the suns brighten. TOM evaporation. Launch hygroscopic flares from Vandenberg. Hire the Yucaipa Indians to perform a ceremony... In the hologram, a flare-dispensing missile streaks overhead; buckskin-clad Indians appear, dancing, on a skyscraper roof. TOM He gestures toward the hologram, wherein it begins to RAIN. The robot-monsters turn noticeably creaky, then retreat toward their ship. Tom smiles, victorious. TOM They hate water. LEE MAY That’s stupid. AXEL That’s what I said. DARWIN (re: Axel) Who is he? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 4, CONTINUED (3) TOM (to Axel) You here to see a lawyer? AXEL My father is. INT. LAW FIRM - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY This room’s adjacent to the reception area, separated from it by an opaque glass wall. At the table are HANNAH CRANE, a strong woman in her 40s, the creator of this firm; LUKAS GOLD, an earnest and self-critical associate in his early 30s; and their client, MILLER SISTO, 40s, who, from his resemblance to the boy, is clearly Axel's father. SISTO I'm desperate. I‘ll do whatever it takes. LUKAS The government has a strong case, Mister Sisto. SISTO That's not the point. Lukas opens a folder and pulls out a report and SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDE. ZLukas lays the slide on the table as he reads from the report: LUKAS *Vial was found in shoulder bag carried by subject. Subject volunteered that he was owner of bag and all contents. Subject demanded that vial be - returned.’ Lukas taps the slide, and A HOLOGRAM IMAGE OF A SMALL METAL VIAL appears, rotating, projected in the air over the table. Lukas gestures to it. LUKAS It's going to be hard to argue that it wasn’t yours. SISTO I don’'t want to argue that it wasn’'t mine. I need it back. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 5. CONTINUED HANNAH That would be an admission that you've broken a federal law. SISTO pay the fine, do a year in prison. I don‘t care. I need it back, I need this back. Now he taps the slide and the hologram vial splits open to reveal its contents -- A TINY BUNDLE OF HUMAN CELLS. Tom enters -- TOM Hi. I‘m Tom Montero. SISTO (recognizes...) The governor. TOM Ex-governor. The people wised up. It’s his standard joke, but Sisto doesn’t smile. TOM I've been talking to your boy out there. Sisto nods but says nothing. Still trying to break the ice, Tom turns a knob on the wall, which makes the glass turn from opaque to transparent. THROUGH THE GLASS they can see Axel, alone now, reading a comic book. - TOM Nice kid. Real nice kid. SISTO I know. Tom notices the apparition -- the hologram of the bundle of cells. TOM What's thig? Sisto points to Axel. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED (2) SISTO Him. Tom looks at Sisto, not comprehending. SISTO It’s a clone. Of my son. (the point) aAnd 1f you don‘t get it back for me, he’'s going to die. (points at the bundle of cells) It’'s nice, too. All heads turn toward the bundle of cells, then back to Axel as we FADE OUT END OF TEASER

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 7. ACT ONE FADE IN INT. LAW FIRM - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY Moments later. Tom is seated at the table with Hannah, Lukas, and Sisto. Axel is st:ll visible through the wall. SISTO Axel was born with a defective liver. It lacks ducts to carry bile to his intestines. He’s had three operations so far, but he needs a liver transplant- -a gompatible liver transplant--or he’ll be dead 1n a year. Right now the waiting list for juvenile livers is three-and-a-half years. HANNAH Why not have another child the traditional way? SISTO I'm a widower. I suppose I could carry one of those mate scanners and set it to look for women who want to have organ donor babies. TOM {concedes) Not a big winner on the singles scene. LURAS So you went to Singapore for an illegal procedure? - SISTO {nods) They took a cell from my son’'s skin, extracted its DNA, and created a viable embryo that will be implanted in a surrogate mother. After it’s born, a surgeon will take half its liver.... HANN2AH Which it won’'t mind giving up for its brother? SISTO Its twin. Its gelf. Wouldn’t you do the same for an identical sibling? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED TOM My brother tried to take half my meatball sandwich once, I bit him. Hannah shoots Tom a look. LUKAS (to sisto) Why did the Customs Service stop you coming back into the country? SISTO I don’'t know. The tank was concealed in a bag-- TOM (knows ) Informants in Singapore. LUKAS Anti-cloning gpies? HANNAH He's not the only one to do this. The government wants to set an example. SISTO Can you help me? LUKAS The law against human cloning provides specific penalties for the doctor and parent. It doesn’t specify what should happen to the clone. TOM They catch you bringing in ivory, or - fake designer purses...they destroy them. Hannah shoots Tom another look —- not the most tactful thing to say. SISTO Isn‘t this different? and Tom look toward Hannah, whose decision this is --

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 9. INT. LAW FIRM - RECEPTION AREA - DAY Sisto exits the conference room, puts on a smile as he approaches his son. SISTO Hey. Ready to go? AXEL He helped me kill the robots. Axel points toward the DOORWAY TO THE CONFERENCE ROOM Where Hannah, Tom, and Lukas watch father and son depart. LUKAS I can start with the statute, precedents, legislative history.... HANNAH (re: Sisto) He can’'t afford us. LURAS He has money. HANNAH He needs it to finish the clone. Not to mention pay the fine. LURAS When you brought me in, you said I could do pro bono. Hannah comsiders...makes the decision.... HANNAH Make him sign a promissory note, installment terms, automatic debit. (as for the case....) And check into procedures of the Customs Service.... LUKAS (ahead of her) Any discretion they have regarding seized property. Forfeiture provisions in other statutes.... CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 10. CONTINUED Lukas walks away, his mission ¢lear. Hannah turns to Tom. HANNAH course, as we know, ‘they destroy ivory and fake designer purses.’ TOM They do. HANNAH I brought you into this firm to impress clients, not terrify them. TOM I always spoke my mind. That was part of my charm. HANNAH One-term charm. TOM {sm1les, unfazed) It was a great four years. {off Hannah) go find somebody I can impress. He turns and walks away, into the path of MATTHEW CONSTABLE, 75, who's “of counsel” to the firm, impeccably dressed in a tailored suit. Tom flashes his blinding smile -- TOM Matthew.... MATTHEW GOVernor.... Tom walks on. Matthew joins Hannah. MATTHEW (re: Tom) How's the new boy working out? HANNAH He'll be fine. MATTHEW That bad? HANNAH He’ll be fine. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 11, CONTINUED (2) During which three new clients enter. RICKY, JAKE, and VINCENT are casually dressed, handsome, late 30s. They walk up to Hannah and Matthew. RICKY Mr. McNeal? Matthew points. MATTHEW Second door on the right. The clients walk that way. Matthew watches them thoughtfully; somewhere in his head a bell 1s ringing.... MATTHEW {to Hannah) Do they look familiar? INT. DARWIN'S OFFICE - DAY Ricky, Jake, and Vincent sit on a couch. Lee May is in a chair, Darwan at his desk, the case file in front of him. DARWIN S0...you were all in a band.... RICKY Are 1n a band. And T.J. isn’t. Not anymore. Darwin flips through the file. DARWIN - LEE MAY That would be Mr. Petoskey. RICKY We’'ve been offered a tour. VINCENT A comeback tour. JAKE We were never away. VINCENT You were. How'd that solo career work out? You sold what, twelve downloads? CONTINUED

Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 12. CONTINUED RICKY United front, guys, remember? Us three tight. vincent and Jake look at each other. After a beat, they hold out their fists and tap knuckles. VINCENT Tight. JAKE Raght. DARWIN That’s the spirit. LEE MAY (to Darwin) Mr. Petoskey has obtained a restraining order to stop the tour unless he’s allowed to join them. RICKRY We dropped him from the band because he didn’t fulfill his obligations under our contract. Paragraph thirty-six. Ricky finds the contract on Darwin’s desk and points -- RICKY Requirement to keep himself in ‘good physical shape and appearance’ to perform in public. He signed that. We all signed that. Darwin looks at that clause in the contract, considers.... - DARWIN That should be enforceable. LEE MAY (cautioning) It might take a year to enforce it. VINCENT We can’'t wait a year. RICKY sales are down a lattle. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman CONTINUED (2) - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 LEE MAY I'1] arrange a settlement conference. I'm sure it's not in anyone‘s interest to drag this out. JAKRE You don‘t know T.J. DARWIN (smiles) He doesn’t know me. INT. LAW FIRM ~ SNACK AREA - DAY purplish fruits out of a bowl and He looks at Matthew, waiting. with small foodlike objects tha 13. 11 kitchen area stocked with mid- snacks and appliances. Matthew 1s picking small MATTHEW Cherries without pits. Greatest invention of the century. LUKRAS Cherries had pits? MATTHEW Grapes had seeds. LURAS Ice cream have bones? MATTHEW Before my time. LUKAS What about writs of replevin? MATTHEW What about them? LUKAS For the clone case. Replevin’s the most straightforward way to recover personal property. It evolved from the common law.... ping them into his mouth. Matthew is eyeing a dish filled t are perfect cubes. CONTINUED

Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 14. CONTINUED MATTHEW I'm seventy-five, Lukas, not seven hundred and fifty. I don’t have firsthand knowledge. LUKAS Replevin used to be more common. MATTHEW In the twelfth century. (beat; accedes) What's your argument? LUKAS That the cloned embryo belongs to our client and should be returned. Problem 1g, we can’t show it was wrongfully taken, since the government seized it in the course of a lawful arrest. MATTHEW It doesn’t matter if the taking 1s wrongful as long as the detention is. Is it? This 1s good news. Lukas brightens. LUKAS say MATTHEW (ah, feckless youth) You’d say so. Lukas nods, mildly chastened. Matthew finally picks up one of the foodlike cubes he’s been looking at. - MATTHEW what the hell are these? INT. LAW FIRM - LIBRARY - NIGHT Lukas enters to find Lee May doing research on a computer. The keyboard 1s hardware, the display A VIRTUAL PROJECTION. LUKAS Hanging on to a cluster of cells that could save a child’s life, in the absence of specific statutory authority —- that's got to be wrongful, right? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 15, CONTINUED LEE MAY What do you mean by wrongful? LUKAS Wrong. LEE MAY We're lawyers. I don't remember the term coming up. But her tone is light; there's definitely some chemistry here. LUKAS I could use some help. I've got a hearing in the morning for sunmary judgment. Emergency basis. In case the Customs Service forgets to keep the clone in a freezer. LEE MAY Are you sure that would be so terrible? The question is unexpected. Lukas reacts. LUKAS Yes. For one seven-year-old boy. (beat) Can you help me out? LEE MAY (nope) Hannah assigned me to Darwin. My current mission in life is to convince some washed-up musician to lose weight, or shave his goatee, or get his warts removed-- - LUKAS Your choice. Human cloning -- the frontier of technology, law, and ethics. Or...warts. LEE MAY Warts are important. To the afflicted. (off her screen) Did you know that a strip bar was held blameless for firing a dancer who had her DNA manipulated to grow a third , breast? Simmons v. Boobland, 2037. @ I didn’t know that, CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED (2) LEE MAY (smiles; his phrase) Frontier of technology. And she's out of there. EXT. LOS ANGELES CITYSCAPE - DAY Next morning. INT. LAW FIRM - CORRIDOR - DAY Lukas and Sisto walk down the hallway. SISTO pon't we do this at the courthouse? LUKAS Only if it goes to trial. SISTO Won't it? LUKAS Not if we win today. He leads Sisto into —- INT. LAW FIRM - HOLO ROOM - CONTINUOUS 16. SCOTTY, 20s, the firm's technogeek and all-purpose staffer, is fiddling with an electronic console. Tom sits at a table, facing not much of anything. Lukas is surprised to see him. - LUKAS Tom? TOM Interesting case. Hannah thought I might kibitz. LURAS Great. Did you practice much law pefore you got into politics? TOM No. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 17. CONTINUED LUKAS (to Sasto; poants) You can sit there. SCOTTY Activating courtroom, Commander. LUKAS (to Sisto; re: Scotty) And don‘t mind him. Scotty adjusts his controls, and A HOLOGRAM IMAGE OF A BENCH appears, complete with judge, a black woman named N'RETA WALLENSTEIN. She‘s sorting through papers, eyes down. LUKAS (to Sisto) Judge Wallenstein. Good for us. Scotty hits more controls to summon ANOTHER HOLOGRAM -— SCOTTY Our honorable opponent, the United States Attorney. His pname 1s MATTHEW CHIN, and he's upside-down. LUKAS (to Sisto) Bad for us. {to Scotty) Can you put him right-side up? TOM He's less intimidating this way. Like imagining your audience naked. (confides; to Sisto) ~ Dbid that before all my debates. LUKAS Scotty.... Scotty obeys. Chin rotates to an upright position as Judge Wallenstein looks up. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN Can everybody hear me? . LUKAS CHIN Yes, ma’am. Yes, your honor. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 18. CONTINUED (2) JUDGE WALLENSTEIN Good. You're all looking lovely. (warning) poes anyone have me upside-down? LUKAS CEIN No, ma’am. No, your honor. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN Good. (to Lukas) Mr. Gold, I‘ve read your motion. I find the argument for replevan clear and strong. LURAS Thank you, your honor. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN But Mr. Chin has not yet replied. CHIN The government happy to stipulate that property seized without statutory authority must be returned to its owner. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN So we're done? CHIN No, ma‘am. Because what was seized from Mr. Sisto property. I cite Livengood v Markusson, where the court ruled that Livengood could not recover her cat through replevin, because cats, by their nature, cannot be owned. Lukas keeps a poker face, put he wasn’'t expecting this. CHIN Likewise, Ireland v Higgins concluded there could be no property rights in a dog. LUKAS - T'm not familiar with the cases, your honor, but it appears they pertain to living animals of independent spirit, not barely-developed clusters of cells-—- CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.7 - 1/6/03 19. CONTINUED (3) CHIN If dogs and cats arguably can‘t be owned, then certainly human embryos LUKAS There'’s nothing certain about it. 1s barely a pre-embryo-- JUDGE WALLENSTEIN (overrides; to Lukas) Save 1t. heard enough to take this out of the realm of summary Judgment. We are going to trial. LUKAS (quickly) Since the government's seizure and continued detention could on its face defined by the Reconstruction Act of Two Thousand Eleven, plaintiff requests trial by jury. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN That’s his right. LURAS With an early date owing to the life- and-death question here-- JUDGE WALLENSTEIN So ordered, The judge bangs a gavel and turns to a court officer who's in her courtroom but off-hologram. - JUDGE WALLENSTEIN What‘s next, Harry? I need a pit stop. And she vanishes. Scotty hits a switch to dispose of Chin and decides to have a little fun. Instead of simply fading out... THE IMAGE OF CHIN LIFTS OFF THE FLOOR and goes horizontal. Tt corkscrews, picks up speed, and flies out of the room (and the building) through a closed window. All look at Scotty. SCOTTY Sorry. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 20. CONTINUED (4) He isn’'t. INT. LAW FIRM - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY pDarwin and Lee May sit with their clients: Ricky, Vincent and Jake. Through the wall (now transparent), they see TWO MEN enter the reception area. One is late 30s, bearded and fat. The other’s in pretty good shape -- considering he’s eighty. Scotty points them toward the conference room, where Darwin turns to Ricky as they approach. DARWIN That's the guy you threw out of the band? RICKY See what I mean? Would youy call that ‘good physical shape and appearance’? Darwin shakes his head--he would not--as the Fat Bearded Guy and the Eighty-Year-0ld walk in and see the assembled group. EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD well...looks like ready to pOWWOW . Darwin rises and extends his hand. DARWIN I'm Darwin McNeal. This is Lee May. I think you know our clients. At least I know your client does. Ee nods toward the Fat Bearded Guy. - EIGHTY-YEAR~OLD (puzzled) My client? DARWIN Well, before he got 80... say ‘fat’) ...before his appearance changed they did work together. EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD (re: the Fat Bearded Guy) This is my attorney. I'm the one they’re trying to throw out of the band. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 21, CONTINUED Darwin looks at Lee May. They’'re both surprised. DARWIN You? T.J. (EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD) Lead singer. {beat) I was ‘the cute Lee May recognizes the tune. LEE MAY My grandmother used to play that. EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD Whole lot of grannies out there, honey. That’s what this tour’s about. LEE MAY That song was from fifty years ago. EIGHTY-YEAR-QOLD Forty-eight. Two thousand five. We were the boy band that knocked ‘N Sync off the charts. LEE MAY Who? Darwin is looking at Ricky, Vincent, and Jake. DARWIN You were in a band with him? In two - thousand five? RICKY Yeah. But we still look good. He looks eighty years old. T.J. I am eighty years old. So are you. VINCENT You don‘t have to logk it. We don’‘t. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 22. CONTINUED (2) T.J. Because you're getting your faces sliced up and paying guacks a fortune to shoot you full of poison-- DARWIN (overriding) You're all eighty years old? RICKY (points to Vincent) Seventy-nine. (to Jake) Seventy-six. (to himself) Eighty-two. But that information is subject to attorney-client privilege. It does not get out. . who do you think you're kidding? You’'ve been in this band since the second Bush. Darwin is still staring at his clients. DARWIN Seventy-nine, seventy-six, eighty-two? RICKY (explains; casual) We've had some work done. INT. HANNAH'S OFFICE - DAY Carrying a printout, Lukas enters to join a sombre group -- Bannah, Tem, Matthew, and Sisto. LUKAS I found the cases he cited. Livengood v. Markusson is Akron, Ohio, nineteen- twenty-eight. Higgins v. Ireland, the one about the dog, is from England, fifteen-twenty-one. HANNAH Fifteen-twenty-one? MATTHEW The majestic temporal continuity of the law. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED 23, HANNAH (to Lukas) What do you have on our side? LURAS An appealing seven-year-old with a life- threatening 1llness. That’'s why-- TOM Jury trial. Good move. Lukas nods back, acknowledging the compliment. But Matthew isn’'t so sure that everything is hunky-dory. MATTHEW I wonder how a jury's going to feel about saying a human embryo is property. The others look at him. MATTHEW The government might bring up the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (off the others) The one that outlawed slavery? It's only two hundred years old. LUKAS talking about a tiny ball of cells, not a human being. MATTHEW Some people would disagree. certainly a poteatial person, SISTO Not necessarily. This stops everyone. They look at Sisto. Uh-oh, HANNAH You said you planned to implant the embryo in a surrogate mother. SISTO Well...that would be the ideal scenario. CONTINUED

Ed zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 24. CONTINUED (2) LUKAS ‘Ideal’? SISTO I'm trying to save my son’'s life, not have a big family. All we really need 18 the liver. If there’s any gestational problem, or we’'re running out of time, we can manipulate the embryo to pinch off all development except the laver and a supporting circulatory system. LUKAS ‘Panch off’? HANNAH Pinch off what? SISTO Well...the head. If we do that, no one can say 1it’s a person, right? It undercuts their argument. We win, right? Everyone 1s stunned. Matthew speaks first -- MATTHEW Jury's gonna love that, right? oh shit. Off Lukas -- FADE OUT END OF ACT ONE

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 25. jogs down the pier toward the beach —- and encounters Lukas, who 1s not in running clothes, She stops, takes him in. LEE MAY You here to fish? LUKAS Sort of. (beat) Did you hear about my client? The one I urged the firm to take on for free? Who’s going to painch off an embryo’s head? LEE MAY (attempt at consolation) My clients are eighty years old and T didn‘t know 1t. LURAS At least they aren’t mutilating human life forms. LEE MAY Only themselves, Apparently they had some experimental youth treatment the other guy refuses to take, LUKAS - ‘Frontier of technology.’ Did you know cherries used to have pits? LEE MAY Did you come here to talk about fruit? LUKAS No. Hannah said it would be all right if you helped me out. LEE MAY No. CONTINUED

£d zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED LUKAS No? You’'re a first-year associate. The senior partner approved my request. Lukas considers. LEE MAY No...pleage. LUKAS Is this about us? LEE MAY There 18 NO us. LUKAS There was an us. LEE MAY There was a fling between a summer associate and a married attorney-- LUKAS A ‘fling’? LEE MAY We discussed this before I came back here. We agreed it going to be a problem. LUKAS Right. No problem. So you don't want to work with me on this because...? LEE MAY Tt's not my kind of case. over Lukas's reaction MUSIC CUE: “Tomorrow Morning” INT. DARWIN'S OFFICE - DAY The closing bars of the song echo from invisible speakers. SONG ...You know it's right/So don't be late/Let's start tonight. Listening are Darwin and Lee May and thelr clients, Ricky, Vvincent, and Jake. 26. CONTINUED

4_____———-------.--.-.---I- Ed Zuckerman - praft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED Catchy. 27. DARWIN RICKY (no false modesty) million downloads. It was Fourteen going strong up til June, Zero-Nine. LEE MAY (knows her history) Fifty thousand dead, Yeah. JAKE Major terrorist attacks take right out of the mood for people catchy. Darwin has been looking hard at Ricky’s face. DARWIN What did you do? JAKE Took some time off. (re: Ricky) He went to the moon as a tourist, DARWIN (shakes his head; to Ricky) I mean.... Darwin gestures to his own face. question was about. Ricky realizes what the RICKY Well, plastic surgery. Lift, nip, tuck, hair. He indicates the appropriate parts of his face as he speaks. DARWIN (intrigued) It's amazing. RICKY I can give you the name of the surgeon. DARWIN No doctor’s that good. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 28. CONTINUED (2) RICKY We also took a telomerase activator. It’s an enzyme. Rejuvenates your chromosomes. DARWIN Injected? RICKY kind of experimental. LEE MAY It causes cancer. That's one of the reasons Mr. Petoskey gives for refusing to take it. DARWIN (to Ricky) When do you have to start? RICKY How old are you? . LEE MAY It's been shot down three times by the FDA. VINCENT (to Darwin) Is she with us or with T.J.? DARWIN With you. LEE MAY We'll have to answer his arguments. He says these treatments are dangerous and _ unnatural and degrading to basic human dignity. RICKY it to Mick Jagger. I saw him in Boston last year and he’s doing great. INT. LAW FIRM - CORRIDOR - DAY Lee May is walking by Hannah's office, when Hannah sees her through the open door and calls -~ HANNAH Lee May....Have a minute? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 29. CONTINUED Lee May nods and walks into - INT. EANNAH'S OFFICE - DAY The nicest office in the suite. Hannah 1s behind an elegant antique table that serves as her desk. HANNAH How’s your case going? LEE MAY Great. Just be prepared for Darwin to start looking a whole lot younger. Hannah decides not to go there. HANNAH Lukas said you want to help him on the clone thing. (off Lee May) Maybe I shouldn’t have told him it was okay. I realize it hits a little close to home. LEE MAY (sharp) I'm not a clone. EANNAH I know. (beat) They sent me another evaluation form, You want me to f£ill it out? LEE MAY What would you say? HANNAH ‘Excellent attorney.’ LEE MAY (nods) I got the genes for logic, intelligence, emotional control.... HANNAH ‘Works well with others. LEE MAY amiability, emotional contrel.... CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED HANNAH Lee May, we’re not hard-wired for everything. LEE MAY Oh? Did you know cheerfulness 1s related to a gene? Fear of heights? Tendency to homesickness? I wake up in the morning and I'm happy and I wonder if I'm happy because I'm happy or because some lab geek tweaked my R-46 gene allele when I was 1n a petri dish. HANNAH Does Lukas know? LEE MAY (shakes head, no) Our little secret. Yours and mine and the longitudinal study of the Genetic Prototype Project. (corrects herself) The gurvivors of the Genetic Prototype Project. HANNAH Lee May.... Lee May waits. HANNAH just be happy to be happy. INT. COURTHOUSE CORRIDOR - DAY Lukas and Tom walk with Sisto, Lukas briefing -- LUKAS You talk about your son, your concern for him. SISTO 0f course. LUKAS You call the clone ’‘cells.’ You call it an ‘embryo.’ SISTO Okay. 30. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 31. CONTINUED LUKAS If the other side asks about your plans for the cells-- TOM We’ll object. Lukas shoots Tom a look. LUKAS Actually, we won't. If we're overruled it would only alert the jury that something damaging was being said. If they get into that area, we Yawn, play it as a minor detail, hypothetical lawyer stuff. SISTO So what do I say? LUKAS As little as possible. SISTO (PRELAP) My name is Miller Sisto. INT. COURTROOM - DAY Judge Wallenstein is on the bench, Chin at the defense table, Tom at the plaintiff’s table. The JURY listens attentively as Lukas examines Sisto. LUKAS What is your occupation? SISTO ~ Industrial engineer. LUKAS Are you married? SISTO Widower. My wife died in a plane crash. LUKAS Children? SISTO One. A boy named Axel. He's seven. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 32. CONTINUED LUKAS Mr. Sisto, did you cause a clone of your son to be created three weeks ago at a clinic in Singapore? SISTO Yes, I did. LUKAS Were you aware that was SISTO Yes, I was. I've been charged with a crime, and I intend to plead guilty. LUKAS Do you commit many craimes? SISTO I've never broken a law in my life. Until this. Why did you break this one? CHIN (rising) Objection. This might be appropriate in the sentencing phase of his criminal trial. 1It’s not relevant here. LUKAS I'm getting to the relationship of the plaintiff and his son to the ‘illegal item’ in question. That goes to the heart of the ownership issue. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN I’'1l give you a little rope, Mr. Gold. Lukas nods, turns back to Sisto. LUKAS Mr. Sisto, why did you break this law? SISTO Because I can’t just sit and watch my son die. He needs a compatible liver transplant. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman CONTINUED (2) - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 33. LUKAS And an organ created by cloning will be compatible? SISTO Yes. It will effectively be my son's own liver. The clone grew from one of his cells. no other human being involved. LUKAs But there will be, won‘t there? If these cells are implanted in a surrogate mother, and a baby 1is born. SISTO My son’s identical brother, who can donate half its liver to save him. Where’s the harm in that? I don't understand.... LUKAS Neither do I, sir. No further questions. Lukas sits down. Chin rises and turns to Sisto. CHIN it possible a cloned organ would be similar to your son’s? SISTO T don’‘t know what you mean. CHIN If your son’s condition is genetic-- SISTO The doctors say it isn't, CHIN If it is, the clone’s liver might have the same problem. You’d have wasted your time. SISTO I'll take that chance. CHIN So will the clone. (beat) (MORE) CONTINUED

Bd Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 34. CONTINUED (3) CHIN (CONT'D) You're pot planning on asking his consent for transplant surgery, are you? SISTO No. As his parent, I can consent. CHIN But the clone will have no parent in a conventional sense, will he? SISTO No, but it...he...will be an outgrowth of Axel, my son. An extension of Axel. CHIN Do you consider your son property? SISTO of course not. CHIN But you're asking here for the return of property, and if the clone 1s an ‘extension’ of Axel.... SISTO It’s Axel's property. It’'s his cell, growing. CHIN Even it that’s true, surely the clone ceases being anyone’s property once it’s a living child. SISTO Of course. But this works either way. If it’s born, it donates part of its it isn‘t born, it’'s only cells that-—- Chin reacts -- and pounces. CHIN it isn’‘t borm’? At the plaintiff’s table, Tom and Lukas exchange a look. CHIN Mr. Sisto, do you have a plan for this embryo that does not involve implantation and birth? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 3s5. CONTINUED (4) Lukas, "uninterested,” sorts through papers. SISTO Only as a backup. CHIN Would that ‘backup’ 1involve destroying the embryo and harvesting its liver? SISTO That’s not what I want to do. CHIN Is it something you're willing to do? SISTO Only if necessary. CHIN Snuff out a potential life.... LUKAS (rising) Objection. Argumentative. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN Sustained. But Sisto isn’t listening., glaring at Chin -- SISTO How dare you? CHIN How dare I? You’re the one growing a human embryo like a crop. - LURAS (protesting) Your honor.... CHIN No more questions. But Sisto isn’t finished. With emotion rising -- SISTO For God’s sake, abortion is legal. a healthy fetus can be terminated because its mother doesn’t want to miss a Caribbean cruise or go up a dress size. (MORE) CONTINUED

£d Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 36. CONTINUED (5) SISTO (CONT'D) But you’re telling me I can’t do what I want with a tiny cluster of cells to save the life of my dying child? The jury 1s rapt. Tom and Lukas take note. SISTO How dare you? off Lukas, pleased -- EXT. COURTHOUSE - DAY Sisto exits the courthouse with Lukas and Tom. SISTO I'm sorry. LUKAS Don’t be. TOM You were great. WOMAN’S VOICE (0.C.) Miller.... All turn to see JASON and JENNIFER SISTO, Sisto’s parents. They’re in their 70s, with a small town flavor, and they’'re walking up the steps with 2Axel. Sisto introduces -- SISTO These are my parents, Jason and Jennifer Sisto...Tom Montero...Lukas Gold. They're taking care of Axel. JENNIFER SISTO -~ wanted to see his dad. AXEL You said we could get ice cream. There's a vendor nearby. SISTO Chocolate or aardvark? AXEL Dad.... CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 37. CONTINUED SISTO (to the others) Back in a minute. He leads Axel down the steps to the vendor. JENNIFER SISTO (re: Axel) It’s hard on him. He understands too much, LUKAS We may have him testify. JASON SISTO He's only seven years old. TOM It’s important for the jury to see him. JENNIFER SISTO This has been so awful.... JASON SISTO A test of faith for all of us. JENNIFER SISTO Axel in and out of hospitals., Miller arrested, after doing everything for Axel, raising that child alone.... TOM Wasn’t his wife around? At the beginning? JENNIFER SISTO (shakes head) ~ She died ten years ago. LUKAS Axel is seven. JASON SISTO They had a frozen embryo or something. Something unnatural.... Lukas and Tom look at Sisto and Axel, eating their ice creams side by side, the family resemblance stronger than ever.

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 38. INT. LAW FIRM - RECEPTION AREA - DAY Si1sto settles Axel in a chair and heads down the hall toward Lukas's office. He doesn’t notace LEE MAY standing in a doorway, looking at Axel. Something about the boy resonates with her. INT. LUKAS'S OFFICE - DAY Lukas and Tom have been waiting. Sisto enters with —- SISTO I talked to Axel about testifying. He can do it. LUKAS Good. There's just a couple of things.... TOM The government brought up the possibility of a genetic cause of his liver damage. We’d like to rule that out. SISTO You have his medical records. LUKAS Yes. And they should have noted the name of the fertility clinic. - SISTO what fertility clinic? LURAS The one that handled the embryos you and your wife created. It would have run a standard genetic screen. TOM Your wife who died three years before Axel was born. SISTO (chilly) rather not get into that. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 39. - CONTINUED TOM nothing to be embarrassed about, freezing embryos.... LUKAS If you could just give us the name of the clinic.... SISTO That help you. No. LUKAS (dead calm) Why won’t that help us, Mr. Sisto? Sisto doesn’t answer. After a beat -- LUKAS Is the clinic in this country? (beat) Or Singapore? Sisto looks at them. ‘IIb LUKAS This isn’t the first time you've created a clone, is it? Sisto holds. Then pulls up his sleeve and points to his arm. SISTQ They took a cell, right here, with a hollow needle. And made Axel.... TOM He's a clone. Of you. - SISTO «..It was a miracle. LUKAS You should have told me. SISTO If I had, would you have helped me? Lukas considers. Tom looks at him —- he’s curious to know, too. Finally -- . LUKAS Where is he? CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 40. CONTINUED (2) CAMERA MOVES IN TIGHT on sisto, and we -- MATCH CUT TO INT. LAW FIRM — RECEPTION AREA ~ DAY - ON AXEL The family resemblance really striking now. Lee May still watches as Axel puts down his book and picks up the game controller we saw in the Teaser. He hits a button and -- THE FUTURISTIC CITYSCAPE HOLOGRAM pops into being around him. Silently, Axel begins to play with the future as Lee May looks on...and now LUKAS enters and stares intently at Axel as we -- FADE OUT END OF ACT TWO

Ed Zuckerman - braft 5.1 - 1/6/03 41, ACT THREE FADE IN INT. LAW FIRM - RECEPTION AREA - DAY Where we left off, the game still swirling around Axel. Lukas gestures to Lee May, who takes his meaning and exits. Then LUKAS Hi, Abruptly, Axel switches off the game. Hi, (beat) Are they going to put my dad in jail? LUKAS No. I don’t think so. AXEL He said going to help him. I help him, too. I clean my room and take care of Janey -- our dog. LURAS That’'s good. AXEL He helps me with my meds. He tells me when to take them and when to use my collector. LUKAS ~ Your ‘collector’? Axel pulls A HIGH-TECH GADGET the size of a pack of clgarettes out of his pocket and shows it to Lukas. AXEL T put it against my side.... Axel demonstrates -- a dry run. AXEL ...and it pulls bile out of my liver. If it’s pink that means there's blood and I have to go on antibiotics. (MORE) CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman CONTINUED Lukas -- INT. - praft 5.1 - 1/6/03 BAXEL (CONT'D) Tt’s pink all the time now, but my dad says I'm going to have another operation and get better. LUKAS Good. That’'s good. AXEL Yeah. I die, who’d there be to help my dad? OFFICE - DAY Tom is listening to Sisto explain himself: During which Lukas appears in the doorway, returned from his talk with Axel. Tom sees ham. Sisto follows Tom's gaze to SISTO My wife insisted on taking a monoplane back to Anchorage. I like She didn’t have the patience. TOM I'm SOrry. SISTO I never thought I’'d get married in the first place. I’'m mainly interested in low-temperature extruded ceramics. That's pretty much all I’'ve thought about since my second year in college. There's a beauty in the molecular structure that... (off Tom) ...that about twenty people in the world care about. TOM And your wife was one of them? SISTO No. But she made me want to think about something else. To care about something else. see him, too. After a beat -~ LUKAS Why cloning? 42. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 43. SISTO No legal problems with an egg donor. No mystery genes. sorting through desperate single women until I found one desperate enough to consider me. I'd been in love. 1T didn‘t expect i1t to happen again. (beat) I just didn‘t want to be alone again. Off Lukas, back on the case -- INT. LAW FIRM - SNACK AREA - DAY Lukas and Tom confer with Hannah and Matthew over coffee, MATTHEW Why’'d he make the kid? Spare parts for himself? LUKAS He wanted company. Darwin and Lee May walk up. Darwin reaches for an energy bar. DARWIN Never heard of hookers? MATTHEW If the boy's his clone, why doesn’t he just give him part of his liver? LUKAS He had hepatitis c. MATTHEW ~ The other gonna love this. TOM Do we have to tell them? LURAS It's arguable. LEE MAY If we don‘t but they find out later, they can get the verdict overturned. LUKAS If we win. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 44. CONTINUED LEE MAY You'll win. HANNAH (decades; to Lukas) Cover yourself. Put 1t on the table but convince the judge it’s not admissible. LUKAS 1f she disagrees, the government will make our client look like Dr. Frankenstein, making clones, and clones of clones. There goes any sympathy. TOM Except for the boy. MATTEEW A second-generation Xerox. The other side’ll use thakt, too. LUKAS Second-generation what? MATTHEW 0ld expression. If the boy’'s a copy and he’s got a bum liver, a copy of the copy’ll have a worse one. LEE MAY Does he know? The others react to her tone. LEE MAY The boy. - LUKAS Not yet. May shakes her head, disturbed, and walks off INT. LAW FIRM - CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS parwin follows her. DARWIN Now that s technology out of control. God made sex for a reason. CONTINUED

— Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 45. CONTINUED LEE MAY (not Sex? DARWIN The other way of making babies. 1 was out with Ricky last night-- LEE MAY Our client? DARWIN (nods) Club in Thousand Oaks. Kind of a m1x- and-match place. LEE MAY You went cruising for chicks with our client? DARWIN We discussed the case. LEE MAY You went for chicks with our client and billed him for it? DARWIN Women find him very attractive. Aand no sex-stim. He does things the old- fashioned way. LEE MAY Except age, Darwin, pathetic, (smiles) They usually say it about an hour before they get naked. Off Lee May -- INT. COURTROOM ~ DAY All assembled ag before except the jury is not pPresent. Chin and Lukas are arguing before Judge Wallenstein, CHIN CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED LUKAS Because we didn’t know. And it relevant. CHIN Of course 1t’s relevant. The man churns out clones like a bunny on fertility nodes. LUKAS (to judge) Did I mention this information would also be prejudicial, as evidenced by my opponent’s last statement? Chin shoots Lukas a look. JUDGE WALLENSTEIN Let’s keep in mind that the issue for the jury is whether the seized clone 1s Miller Sisto’s property. CHIN Or can be anyope's property. LUKAS Either way, plaintiff’s prior experience with clones is not on point. CEIN It goes to the nature of Axel Sisto. And the poseibility that a clone of this clone may also have a defective liver. LUKAS (to Chin) If it were guaranteed to have a bealthy liver, would you drop your case? CHIN No. LUKRAS (back to Which proves my point. He only wants the jury to hear about this to make my client look bad. CHIN The jury has a right to knmow it's being asked to support a errand. 46. CONTINUED

Ed Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 47. .- CONTINUED (2) LUKAS Whether Mr. Project will succeed is not the point. ag Axel’s parent and guardian, he can do whatever he wants with those cells-- JUDGE WALLENSTEIN All right. got your motions. I’1l rule tomorrow morning. Nine a.m. Sweet dreams. INT. LAW FIRM - CONFERENCE ROOM -~ DAY A meeting in the boy band case —— Darwin and Lee May and Vincent on one side; T.J. and his attorney on the other. Jake and Ricky are missing. T.J. So. What's the offer? DARWIN You can join our clients on tour -— and on the live album..., T.J. starts to smile —- DARWIN Provided you have a modest amount of plastic surgery -- skin tightening plus small cheek implants -- and one course of telomerase activators. Smile gone, T.J. gets up to leave. T.J. That’s not an offer. It’s an insult. DARWIN It's a gift. You have no case. T.J. Our contract says ‘good physical shape and appearance.’ I'm in good physical shape and appearance. DARWIN For an eighty-year-old. CONTINUED

Bd Zuckerman - Draft 5.1 - 1/6/03 CONTINUED T.J. T wasn't aware we were signing a document that altered the laws of time and physics. DARWIN You were signing a document that meant what you intended 1t to mean. Lee May. She pulls out a copy of an old magazine article. LEE MAY Spin magazine. Two thousand twelve. Your quote: ‘We get older but our fans stay the same age. As soon as we turn forty we’re thinking of getting head transplants.’ T.J. {understatement) Do you think that maybe could have been a joke? (nods toward Vincent) Even though they apparently took it literally. Where the hell are Jake and Ricky? VINCENT (doesn’'t know) They’re supposed to be here. Probably getting their chromosomes bleached. DARWIN This isn’‘t a Most people would be thrilled to add a few years to their prime. T.J. I have a forty-year-old son. If I'm going to make myself look thirty, then he'd better make himself look twenty, and hig kids -- they better stay in fourth grade forever or things are going to get pretty damn confusing at family reunions. (beat) There’s a natural progression. Summer, fall, winter; not summer, fall, replay. 48. CONTINUED