TEXT: THE CLAWS OF AXOS BY: BOB BAKER & DAVE MARTIN 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: SPACE (A distant object moves through the vastness of space. Elongated with a round middle, it moves swiftly towards its destination.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. RADAR DISH (DAWN) (A turning radar dish points to the dawn sky.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (The results of its scan appear on a screen in UNIT HQ's tracking room. A uniformed RADAR OPERATOR monitors this and the other read-outs...) 1st RADAR OPERATOR: Twenty-five MPS...one million miles...mass - variable. (A 2nd RADAR OPERATOR sits back with a coffee and a satisfied smile.) 2nd RADAR OPERATOR: Well, if that's its course, we've discovered a comet. Run another course check. (The 1st OPERATOR does so, but...) 1st RADAR OPERATOR: It's altered its course! 2nd RADAR OPERATOR: It can't have. 1st RADAR OPERATOR: Oh, yes it can, mate! You can say goodbye to your comet, 'cause whatever that thing is... (He reaches for a phone.) 1st RADAR OPERATOR: It's on collision course and heading straight for Earth! [SCENE_BREAK] 4: SPACE (The object of their attention is unlike any other spacecraft. Organic in looks with a skin-like hue, its forward end looks like a circular segmented doorway. The main part of the craft has folds and ridges.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5: INT. AXOS (Inside are creatures from a nightmare. Bipedal in form, they are a mass of seething red and orange tentacles.) [SCENE_BREAK] 6: SPACE (The craft approaches Earth...) [SCENE
SUMMARY:
When a mysterious object lands near the Nuton power complex, UNIT investigate and encounter the Axons, a group of aliens who offer the mineral axonite, which can duplicate matter, as a gift.