HALLWAY
Christine opens the girls room door; she looks both ways.
No one is around; she saunters down the hall.
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ANGLE ON A DOOR MARKED BROOM CLOSET
Christine opens this door. She looks into the closet.
There is a very nervous thirteen-year-old BOY waiting for
her inside.
CHRISTINE
Hi, Jimmy.
Christine slips inside the closet and closes the door
behind her.
ANGLE ON SISTER IMMACULATA
Strid
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spinning wool.
PRIEST
And what about your other friends...
you dont like playing with them?
JEANNE
Oh yes, I play with them... lots...
FLASH: Jeanne is battling against some reeds with a
wooden stick under a full noonday sun. Not far away, a
group of kids are in the shadow of a huge tree, playing.
One of them watches Jeanne in the distance.
KID #1
Whats she doing?
KID #2
Playing.
Resume on the Pr
HALL - NIGHT
Stuckey is sipping champagne and talking to a beautiful
WOMAN in a tight sheath of an evening dress. An elegant woman
ELIZABETH STUCKEY approaches from behind him. She taps him on
the shoulder and he turns, startled.
ELIZABETH
Bill?
STUCKEY
(flustered)
Oh... Hi, honey... Millicent,
uh, uh, Millicent.
MILLICENT
Lowell.
STUCKEY
Lowell, right. My wife,
Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH
(ignoring her
effected me so deeply. He proceeded to tell me that they had a script that they hated, and didnt want to hand out.
I begged him to read it, so he slipped me a copy.
I called him back as soon as I had read it. It was an okay written script, that had executed one stroke-of-genius idea really well. The idea to integrate the best elements of the Sandman series of comic books. It had been written by T
SPING LOVERS, BLESSED CAROLERS, and an
overwhelming array of Christmas decoration, the intimate
Plaza center of Gotham City has been dragged kicking and
screaming into a state of beauty and happiness.
*
An ALL-AMERICAN DAD holds up a bowed Batman sled to an *
ALL-AMERICAN MOM. An ALL-AMERICAN SON rushes up causing
All-American Dad to exaggeratedly hide the present behind
his back. *
Just behind t
in half. He tosses it to the ground and looks with a
self-congratulatory air at Ursa and Non.
EFECTS: The luminous Spinning Rings (c.f. Part I) descend and encircle the villainous trio,
imprisoning them like a magical lasso in perpetual motion.
Zod and Ursa are instantly subdued, if sullen; Non stares out at his captors making subhuman noises of rags and frustrations - literally a caged beast.
slide moves along. arriving under a long-lensed microscope.
IN MICROSCOPIC PERSPECTIVE, a thin needle pierces the bug and delicately removes a fragment of tissue.
PINCERS snare the fragment, dropping it into a narrow tube. The tube SPINS, faster and faster until it is a BLUR on the screen.
THE SCREEN FLOODS with an INFRA-RED LIGHT. Gray, oval shapes rock in a neutral mist.
WASH OUT TO:
HOT SUN
hallenged, exiting into the--
8 INT. MAIN HALL - NIGHT
Here the party is in full swing. Harry blends smoothly into
the crowd of foreign dignitaries, businessman and minor mid-
east nobility. They are a high-octane mixture of new oil money
and old European money, and run the spectrum from stodgy
bankers to playboy arms dealers.
Harry strolls amiably among the glittering woman, the cigar
smoking me
knife.
*NOTE: At this point we intercut shots of the empty lobby and halls of the
PLAZA THEATER. A POV shot standing outside the LADIES ROOM door.
BEN
(turning pale)
Listen you sick fuck, is this your idea of a joke?
VOICE
More of a game really.
BEN
What kind of a game?
VOICE
You seem to be familiar with the STAB movies.
Heres how we play. I ask you a question.
You get it right, your girlfrie