Scene 5.28 - Aliens?
EST: INT. Goddess’ Bed Chamber - Night.
POV: Cave Wall
(BUD and CARMELLA have recently made love. They are both smoking and BUD is watching HER illustrations of what SHE is telling him on the cave wall, unseen by the camera.)
CARMELLA
...And then that's how the humans finally become extinct, along with everything else, see?
BUD
What about in all those other galaxies?
CARMELLA
Especially in all those other galaxies. In this universe, anyway...
BUD
I would have never guessed it would be something like that. (Pause.) That's so asinine!
CARMELLA
(Quickly; SHE'S heard it a million times and agrees whole-heartedly.) That’s the way it is.
BUD
The apocalypse is nothing like I thought it would be. It makes it all seem like we're doing it all for... nothing!
CARMELLA
What did you think it would be? Really, I think it's very interesting what you might have thought it was because I can’t imagine otherwise.
BUD
I dunno, like an alien-invasion or something.
CARMELLA
You mean being invaded by something... like this?
BUD
What's that?
CARMELLA
That's an alien.
BUD
Oh my gosh! It doesn't even look like, like anything! Those aren't even eyes! Not even like dirt, or a face, or anything!
CARMELLA
Well, Bud, it's an alien, what did you expect it to look like, like you?
BUD
No, but gosh, when you see aliens in the movies, at least they look like something. What's THAT?
CARMELLA
What else? It’s another alien.
BUD
What color is that supposed to be? Do they all look like that?
CARMELLA
Pretty much, except that one is smiling a little.
BUD
So that’s all there is out there? Things like that?
CARMELLA
Oh no, there's countless types of life in The Universe. And there are more universes than you can imagine. Look at this one -- ever see one of these?
BUD
Omigosh! I thought the first one was weird! That thing's alive?
CARMELLA
Yes, and it pays taxes, goes to church, builds spaceships and tells dirty jokes. On it's planet, it even has your equivalent of a surfboard.
BUD
That thing's aquatic?
CARMELLA
No, this thing's aquatic.
BUD
Oh my! I have seen enough. Do you want me to be sick?
CARMELLA
It makes you feel ill? I’ll have to remember that.
BUD
When you get the creepy-crawlies from looking at bugs, that's one thing. A bug’s got legs, that thing, I don't know what those things sticking out of it are and I don't want to know. A bug could be my twin brother compared to that!
CARMELLA
Here, think pleasant thoughts.
BUD
How am I supposed to think pleasant thoughts when I find out the entire human race ceases to exist because some guy a ten thousand years from now loses his cool and implodes The Universe because he dialed a wrong number and some bureaucrat put the freaking guy on hold?
CARMELLA
That’s not really the end... The end is- Well, look at it this way: If you're around for it, you won't know it's happened until it's already happened, and then it will be too late to do anything about it. You won't even know it happened, because you won't know anything until it starts all over again. Then it won’t matter, because then it hasn’t happened yet.
BUD
Is there an afterlife?
CARMELLA
Isn't life enough?
BUD
Don't you see the entire cosmos?
CARMELLA
I see someone who has already seen and heard enough to have nightmares for a week. Now, I'm tucking you in. Get some sleep. I've got a few errands to run, I'll slip in later and check on you. Now go to sleep and have very pleasant dreams.
(HE does.)
FTB