ROAR OF NAVAL GUNS continues but now WE SEE THEM FIRING. Huge fifteen inch guns.
A SWARM OF LANDING CRAFT
Heads directly into a nightmare. MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS from German artillery shells and mined obstacles tear apart the beach. Hundreds of German machine guns, loaded with tracers, pour out a red snowstorm of bullets.
OFFSHORE
SUPERIMPOSITION:
OMAHA BEACH, NORMANDY
June 6, 1944
0600 HOURS
load is critical.
-Mars surface ops, were losing the signal.
-Were losing the signal here!
Roger that. Transmission terminated.
-Well, people, congratulations.
We collected data on over a dozen new rocks.
Id say this was five years and three trillion dollars well spent!
Come on, gentlemen, keep up with me. I want an exclusive...
with that policeman who was in the Santa Barbara shootout.
-Ill take
load of geriatrics...
...to the hungry
Visa-card-accepting denizens...
...of our northernmost and
most mosquito-infested state!
So?
Whats " redolent"?
Having or emitting an odour.
You mean people wanna
come here because of the smell?
Pleasantly fragrant!
-Not talking about this place.
-Damn right!
Soon as they close this down, theyll
turn it into a tourist attraction!
Theyll disinfect the joint,
loading as the TAXI fishtails to a halt.
Whittlesley gets out, sees the boat still at dock. His face floods
with relief.
WHITTLESLEY
Thank God.
He tosses a handful of bills into the drivers lap, sprints up the
pier as the driver shouts curses after him in Portuguese. Whittlesley
shoves past the dock hands as the last load goes onto the Santa Lucia.
The boats engines churn to life.
WHITTLESLEY
I n
A blurred image forms on a white screen. A horizontal strip of face, eyes motionless and unblinking.
DAVID (V.O.)
Take trust, for instance, or friendship: these are the important things in life, the things that matter, that help you on your way. If you cant trust your friends, well, what then?
EXT. DAWN
A series of fast-cut static scenes of empty streets.
DAVID (V.O.)
This could have been any
Rolls into FRAME. A bauble of green and blue and white swirls of cloud cover. The eerie clip and whistle of cosmic rays is drowned out by static and someone singing 몵MY WAY몶 - in Russian.
2 MOVING INTO FRAME - A SOVIET CAPSULE
Gleaming white. Black letters on its side, CCCP. A Russian COSMONAUGHT in his space suit is outside, repairing radio antenna. He몶s the one singing.
3 INSIDE THE CAPSU
STATIC.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - DAY
SCENE from "DAYS OF OUR LIVES"
PULL BACK to reveal the VIDEO is on a TV in front of a
GROUP OF SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD GIRLS, sitting in gym
bleachers.
[NOTE: The film is shot documentary style. PEOPLE ARE
REAL. Their lives revolve around this pageant. All
speak with a THICK MINNESOTA ACCENT.]
THREE "CIVIL SERVETTES," the local womens group.
[Picture unattract
pencil on the table. He raises his head as though about to speak. Everyone looks up expectantly. And... LORD WALTON goes back to fidgeting. So does everyone else.
CUT TO:
CREDIT. POLYGRAM & WORKING TITLE PRESENT.
CUT TO:
INT. NATIONAL GALLERY. BOARD ROOM - DAY
The scene is as silent and static as we left it Last... then:
GARETH
I suppose we could just sack him.
CUT TO:
EXT. MR BEANS STREET. DAY
static crackles )
( applause )
JOE GARAGIOLA: Thank you very much
and welcome to To Tell the Truth.
Our first guest, hes made a career
out of being the most outrageous impostor
that weve ever come across on this show
and youre going to see what I mean.
ANNOUNCER: Number One
what is your name, please?
My name is Frank William Abagnale.
Number Two?
My name is Frank William Abagnale.
Number Three?
M
static in your brain.
lts that time of the month.
Wont there be trouble if Section 9 butts in on Section 6s operation?
That diplomats a pretty well-known bastard.
Even if they catch him there, all they can do is deport him.
Were the only ones who can get our hands dirty.
Theyre moving. Take us over to the extraction point.
What? The police?
Stop it! Who told you to open fire?! Drop your g