shape behind the shower curtain freezes. Cates, gun held
level, moves forward... Rips the shower curtain open.
Revealing a young and very beautiful woman, ELAINE MARSHALL.
CATES
Inspector Jack Cates, S.F.P.D....
And youre wanted.
Elaine stares at him as Cates turns off the water.
ELAINE
What am I wanted for?
CATES
I dont answer questions, I ask
em...
A moment as she continues to stare at his pist
shaped out there,
you pop white and radio in.
l will be in each area
monitoring your progress.
lf l see anybody drag ass...
...l swear to God,
you will swim the canal.
-Where is the original pickup point?
-About two klicks up the valley.
So this was a Ranger training team?
When were they due?
They missed contact six hours ago.
Colonel Styles, that doesnt necessarily
mean anything in a storm like
What did the mad dentist do this time?
- I dont know. He was just weird.
Hes crazy. All dentists are crazy.
- Are you late?
- No.
He was weird not the way he usually is.
That can only be an improvement.
Well, its not. Its got me really nervous.
Tell him to shape up or get out.
- Its his house.
- Make him an offer.
- Heres something thatll cheer you up.
- What?
Ever seen one of these up close?
memorial to my dad...
...that would be a concert
that would be performed...
...by all of the fabulous groups
and people that he used to represent.
Its gonna be very fast. Its gonna be in
two weeks. And it had to be in Town Hall...
...because where else could we have
such an event? It had to be Town Hall.
And they had a hole in the schedule.
But its a very sudden hole...
...and weve got two weeks
Of glowing honey-colored stones. Their shapes ABSTRACT as THE CAMERA EXAMINES air bubbles and crystalline patterns.
MOVING UP AND OVER this amber abstraction, the CAMERA FINDS unusual shapes and imperfections caught in the glassy stone: flecks of dirt, hairs, cracks. STILL MOVING. STARBURSTS OF LIGHT ricochet off the different surfaces of the stones.
CAMERA TURNS along a creamy stretch of amber.
The camera is moving toward an Indian city. We are high and far away, only the sound of the wind as we grow nearer and nearer, and through the passing clouds these words appear:
No mans life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a lifetime. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the
at his nemesis. A slow hatred begins
to build. We PRESS IN on Tommy, HEARING his horrid memories:
His sister screams, NO, TOMMY, NO while 10-year-old Tommy
kills Jason, repeating, "DIE, DIE!"
??
TIGHT ON TOMMY
??
As he listens, his eyes well up with a violent rage.
??
WIDER
??
Tommy looks around vengefully. Seeing an old fence a few
yards away, he heads for it. Hawes is confused by his
actions
sent it to me.
It might be from the same person.
So Im encIosing it here.
What?
What?
Dear Catherine.
No. Are you kidding? ReaIIy?
Out Ioud. Read it out Ioud.
Dear Catherine: There isnt an hour without you in it.
I mend the boats, test them. . .
. . .and aII the whiIe the memories come in Iike the tide.
I thought today of when we were young. . .
. . .and you Ieft our worId for a bigger worId.
shape of an arm. We see
the same happen to other parts of his "body" -- hands, legs,
facial features.
EXT. SPACE
The craft the Skull Ship holds then goes dark, the energy being
sucked from it having run dry.
INT. SKULL SHIP - OPERATING THEATRE
The "patient" stops convulsing, as the cable attached to its head
ceases to glow.
BRAINIAC
That was all the energy the craft
yielded?
L-RON
The craft was a
SHAPES that close in on him.
JOHNNY
Oh, God... Oh, God, help me...
please help me...
His eyes glaze over as he remembers
FLASHBACK:
6 INT NEW UNI HIGH - CLASSROOM - DAY - CARMEN IBANEZ
is beautiful, just 18, and quite pleased with herself because
Johnny Rico is clearly infatuated with her.
RASCZAK (O.S.)
The end of another school year, and for
me no doubt another failure...
Rico, pay attention !