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THE THING II
treatment written by Garry A. Piazza
based on characters created by John W. Campbell, Jr.

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       It's spring 1982 and U.S. Outpost #31 lay in ruin. Overhead, a
       reconnaissance jet makes an assessment of the damage and moves on to
       the next outpost. Upon discovering the same carnage over the Norwegian
       post, a startling discovery of another kind is made by our
       unsuspecting air crew. They discover, half-exposed in the ice below,
       the carcass of the UFO that once made its journey to Earth to deliver
       a creature ominously fierce enough to be called The Thing.

       The air crew immediately dispatches the news that will prompt a rescue
       effort for the destroyed compounds and a salvage effort for the
       crippled UFO. The entire effort is the sole responsibility of one man
       -- CIA agent, Roman Dorn. Malevolently obnoxious and evil, Dorn's bunk
       operation will prove to be more than just a rescue and salvage effort.

       Upon arriving at the scorched remains of U.S. Outpost #31, Dorn's
       agents discover the frozen stiff body of R.J. MacReady. MacReady's
       body is peeled from the ice with a bottle of J&B stuck to his frozen
       hands and is sent to the cryogenics facility at the Mcmurdo military
       base near the coastline. There, his body is thawed and revived and
       remains comatose while machines monitor his vital signs.

       As MacReady lies in deep sleep, Dorn has built a massive dome over the
       half-buried UFO and is running the operation under the guise of an
       atmospheric research facility (ARF). It's primary objective is to
       sample air quality of volcanic emissions for the purpose of reporting
       ozone depletion information and feed reports back to the United
       States. That's what Washington hears anyway.

       Armed with an array of worker bees, Dorn begins shoring up the craft
       and breaking the ice away from underneath its frozen belly. Months
       pass, Dorn's reclamation effort nears completion. His vision of
       possibly making the craft functional becomes an obsessive desire of
       the ridiculous kind. Dorn is met by one of his agents, Agent Darrel.
       Darrel has managed to open a key part of the craft, the bridge, and is
       given Dorn's full support and compliment of men to satisfy the
       reclamation effort in his area. Blinded by his evil intentions, Dorn
       fails to see the suspicious nature of agent Darrel's ability to figure
       things out with regards to the craft. Could Darrel be the missing
       Childs mutated into one of his own men?

       It's six months later and Dorn receives a phone call from one of the
       medical technicians at Mcmurdo. Mac has awaken from his coma. Dorn and
       his clumsily inept cohort, Reginald Chase, meet with the medical team
       at Mcmurdo. Dorn introduces himself to MacReady and promptly offers
       him a position to work with them on the project. He tells Mac that his
       help would be of great importance to the operation and to their
       understanding of what went on last winter. Mac refuses, concerning
       himself with the whereabouts of the only other living person who was
       with him when the compound was destroyed -- Childs.

       Dorn tells Mac that no other bodies were found at the site. Mac
       becomes hysterical, threatening Dorn with promises of an infiltration
       in his operation. He admonishes Dorn, "You will die, all of you. Now
       that Childs is loose, anyone is fair game." Dorn soon realizes that he
       is not going to get any help from MacReady. MacReady makes one request
       before ending the conversation: to be transported off the continent
       and sent back to the states to resume his copter chartering business.
       Dorn agrees...sort of.

       While boarding the helo to be transported off the continent, Dorn
       offers Mac the position one last time. Mac refuses, stating, "You guys
       do need help, just not mine." Dorn's grin is as sinister as it gets as
       he watches MacReady's helo leave the helo pad for what he believes is
       the last time Mac will see the light of day. Dorn's plan to have
       MacReady whacked while Mac makes his way off the continent is foiled
       though, because...

       In comes Gotha. He's a blood-thirsty alien bounty hunter who has been
       in pursuit of The Thing for many years. Gotha is just the ticket Mac
       needs to survive Dorn's plot. Upon recently entering Earth's
       atmosphere, Gotha settles his craft in under the Ross Ice Shelf and
       monitors the situation topside, looking for any signs of the creature
       he pursues.

       Aboard Mac's helo flying above the Ross Shelf, Mac senses something
       strange about the whole situation. He decides to ask the air crew
       where their taking him. The pilot indicates a bingo with the U.S.S.
       Kittyhawk. Dorn told Mac that it would be with a different vessel all
       together.

       Mac has an unsettling feeling wash over him and decides to try to ask
       the pilot to turn around. The pilot refuses. Enraged, Mac decides to
       fight his way into the controls of the helo. He manages after
       struggling with the air crew but his efforts are much too late. The
       craft begins to descend out of control over the Ross Shelf and over
       Gotha's submerged craft. Upon splashing down into the icy waters, Mac
       tries to administer aid to the dying pilot who now floats half-
       conscious in the cold sea. The pilot's only words to Mac before
       passing on are, "Dorn...kill you." Mac begins to freeze. He uses the
       pilot's body to help warm his. With hypothermia near and little energy
       left, Mac is surrounded by a bright yellow glow from under the surface
       of the water.

       Swoosh! Mac's body is sucked under the cold abyss and is transported
       through a protective tractor beam. On Gotha's ship, Mac's body is spit
       through a membrane that separates the ship from the water. He slams
       into the cold bay deck plates and curls into the fetal position,
       shivering and shaking. Upon looking up, he notices a monolith of a
       figure. Standing before him in leather-strapped metallic boots is
       Gotha. All seven feet of him.

       Taking interest in Mac only as a food source, Gotha has Mac fighting
       for his life. Mac uses some of his sly wit and cunning digress to
       force Gotha to spare his life. Mac informs Gotha (English speaking of
       course because of his onboard technology), that he can help him with
       what he's looking for. He proves to Gotha that only he has seen the
       Thing close enough to know who it is and how to get custody of it. All
       lies of course but it does offer Mac the time to regroup and figure
       out how he's going to survive.

       As Mac makes a deal with Gotha, Dorn is busy at the ARF dome with the
       find of the century. Inside a laboratory deep within the dome's walls,
       Dorn's team of hungry scientists isolate a deformed and half-mutated
       creature found at the site of US Outpost #31. Dorn, informed by a tape
       made by MacReady and found in his ruined quarters at the outpost, has
       instructed his scientists to try and control the mutation process.
       This control would allow Dorn to have a weapon never before thought of
       in the real world. While Dorn's scientists plug away in the lab, a
       mutation process of Dorn's agents is underway right under his
       unsuspecting nose.

       Mac's last great effort to save his ass works as he convinces Gotha
       that he can be of great help. Gotha has informed Mac that all he needs
       to neutralize the entire organism and it's communication string is a
       tissue sample from one of the mutated bodies. Knowing fully that Dorn
       has some of these cadavers in his dome, Mac makes plans with Gotha to
       infiltrate the dome and retrieve the necessary tissue sample. Simple
       enough, according to Mac; or so he thinks.

       Gotha prepares Mac with the necessary equipment and hardware to reach
       the shore undetected and protected from the harsh cold of the
       surrounding sea water. Once on shore at the Mcmurdo station, Mac
       begins assessing the threat of being discovered. Under the cover of
       night, he incapacitates the base camp by disabling the utility
       generator. He is soon discovered however and must fight off the
       onslaught of confused occupants. Once the camp is cleared of people,
       Mac hijacks one of the resident helicopters for the ride to the ARF
       dome.

       Mac plants a cloaking device on the helo and makes his way across the
       frozen landscape virtually invisible to radar. Only a mile from the
       dome, Mac sets the helo down. Once down, the snow beneath begins to
       give way to an unforeseen crevasse. Mac barely makes it off the helo
       alive before it is swallowed up and wedged deep within the ice pack.
       Frustrated, Mac has no choice now but to proceed with the plan.

       At the dome, Mac takes out two of the guards and steals one of their
       uniforms. Inside the dome, he moves around above the shoring operation
       on a mezzanine above the floor level. One glance below with a
       specially equipped visor -- courtesy of Gotha's arsenal of goodies --
       reveals a workforce that has been almost entirely consumed by The
       Thing. Mac moves stealth-like through the dome, blending into the
       surrounding workforce but looking a little suspicious.

       Mac finds his way to the lab and waits for the two lab technicians to
       leave before entering. Once inside, he notices a half-mutated cadaver
       lying on a table sealed inside a Lexan room. He sneaks his way to the
       room and makes his way inside. Mac finds a scalpel and a shell vial
       container. He begins cutting tissue from one of the bodies and is
       startled by the sound of the lab door opening. He ducks below one of
       the gurneys and waits for the intruder to leave. His hopes of that are
       dashed because the young lab technician, Bogle, walks into the sealed
       room and discovers Mac. Mac quickly silences the young technician and
       passes the sample duties on to him.

       With the sample nearly in the container, the clumsy technician drops
       it on the floor. At the same time, the doors to the lab open and in
       walks the senior lab technician, Dr. Ryan. Mac makes a break for it,
       pushing the young technician out of his way and darting past the lab
       doors. The alarm is sounded and soon Mac is followed by an army of
       agents eager to bring him down. In the main tunnel Mac finds himself
       overwhelmed and is beaten into submission and taken back to Dorn's
       office. Once inside, Dorn gives Mac the proverbial treatment, drilling
       him on the situation at hand. He goes on to give Mac a tour of the
       facility before finally stopping back at the lab.

       Inside the lab, a table is prepared for Mac and he's strapped to it.
       Dorn instructs Dr. Ryan to inject Mac with cells from one of the
       mutated cadavers to try and force a controlled mutation on a living
       human. With the syringe loaded and Mac fighting the straps, Dr. Ryan
       brings the needle closer and closer to Mac's arm. Mac screams and
       squirms as the needle tip just touches the skin, then...

       The roof in the center of the lab implodes in one, big BLAST. Everyone
       ducks for cover. Two agents with the guns are crushed under the heavy
       concrete rubble. Dorn and chase escape the explosion and run back into
       the concrete tunnel away from the lab. Dr. Ryan manages to hide behind
       one of the shelves next to the wall. Bogle covers his head, scurrying
       away from the destruction.

       Mac can do nothing but watch, amazed. Gotha jumps through the hole in
       the ceiling, pouncing into a squat on the hard concrete floor. He then
       stands tall. The snow dust and debris clear away from his body. A
       perfect rescue.

       Gotha manages to get Mac out of the dome and back to his craft under
       the Ross shelf. While there, a frustrated Gotha plans on doing things
       his own way. With a potentially devastating thermal charge set, Mac
       pleads one more time to let him get the tissue sample or risk being
       consumed by the massive explosive powers of the thermal charge.
       Reluctant, Gotha accepts after fighting with Mac on the issue.

       Near the dome, two figures stagger their way toward the front gate.
       Mac and Gotha, a seemingly drunken pair, approach the guardhouse to
       give themselves in. With the guards in a state of comfort with their
       appearance, Mac and Gotha let lose on the guards and take them out
       quickly. They run around the dome planting small charges that will
       cave the dome in, each in their own direction until they meet on the
       other side. With the charges set and their plan in action, they are
       foiled once again by Dorn. With no way out and soldiers bearing down
       on them, they have no choice but to give in. However, Dorn knows
       nothing of the charges.

       Mac and Gotha lie strapped to tables in the lab. Unable to get out,
       they watch helplessly as Dorn's men prepare for another injection.
       Dorn, Agent Darrel and Dorn's sidekick, Chase, watch from behind a
       protective Lexan wall as Dr. Ryan uses a set of robotic arms to bring
       the syringe down on Mac. Ryan empties the contents of the syringe with
       one squeeze as Mac bites his lip. Nothing happens. Mac curses at Dorn
       while fighting off the temptation to laugh. Suddenly...

       BOOM! The first charge goes off and shakes the dome. At the same time,
       Darrel begins convulsing in the lab. He falls backward, squirming and
       writhing on the floor. Everyone panicks. Dorn quells any attempt to
       kill it by forcing his soldiers to stand fast. BOOM! The next charge
       goes off. The body of Darrel begins splitting into two. One part of
       the mutation takes on the likeness of Childs and the other remains
       that of Darrel. BOOM! Yet another charge shakes the dome, followed by
       a continual series of explosions over the next few minutes. The Darrel
       half rushes Dorn and his men and takes him out first. The Childs half
       crawls its way to Mac, groping, fighting to stay alive.

       Mac, not knowing what to think, can only lay there and watch. Childs
       reaches Mac and begins loosening the restraints. Childs manages to
       pass on one message to Mac, "Fight it inside, Mac. Fight it like I
       did," he cries before falling to the floor. Released, Mac sees Darrel,
       obviously The Thing, rush out of the lab. Mac quickly unties Gotha and
       tells him to meet him at a rendezvous point. Gotha takes a sample of
       tissue and moves on.

       Mac grabs one of the guards weapons and heads out in pursuit of The
       Thing -- his one last battle with the creature that took the life of
       his team at the outpost and the creature which brought all of this
       upon him. But the battle will be far from over. Before settling his
       score with the Thing, Mac is confronted with the force that Dorn has
       unknowingly unleashed. Will Mac survive the onslaught of infected
       agent workers and bring a final demise to The Thing? Will he be
       reunited with Gotha and watch as the Dome is brought to it's knees? Is
       a portion of the UFO functional and escape-ready for The Thing?
       Perhaps. Mac's success will have to depends on how well he can fend
       off the imminent intruder that now grows within his own body.