build,
here and there and there...
some hideous cities
made of stone...
so that our world-weariness
lies in the squares and streets...
houses and apartments.
Because were empty
and wereallin!
Were all empty and all in. "
Whats that called?
"Chasing the wind... "
Something is needed--
some kind of joy.
Konrad?
Konrad?
Murphy.
"Today is like any other day.
Time goes by much slower. "
What a strange
apartment.
- Hi.
- Hi, Mrs. Connelly.
Im Nancy Kendricks.
This is my husband, Alex Rose.
Hello.
We were wondering
if we could look around.
[Coughs]
I dont feel up to it.
Im sorry, dear.
Nice seeing you again, Kenneth.
[Coughing and hacking]
You have a Mommy-and-Me
park over here.
You got shopping that way.
No traffic.
It is ideal.
Heres my card
if you want to make an offer.
Theres a lot of heat
o
in this godforsaken den of vice and misery behind me.
Every year the Reformers came.
Every year the Points got worse.
As if it liked being dirty.
Where am I going to go?
Move.
The Reverend wants you out of here.
You may or not know Bill, that every day I go down to the waterfront...
...with hot soup for the Irish as they come on shore.
As part of building a political base.
Ive noticed yo
apartment.
Im clean, man. Im showing this family
the empty apartment.
- No way, Papo!
- All right!
All right, Papo.
Well take over from here.
(man screams)
- Why does he scream?
- Maybe he sees ghosts.
Is this a haunted house?
- (mother) Its like Fort Knox.
- Cool!
- Where did you learn that?
- What?
- "Cool."
- I just heard it.
Youre American already.
Its disgusting.
- Race you in, Christy.
- Wo
apart.
Clusters of shark cartilage float through the water like white ghosts.
The Captain, the Science Officers and the entire Crew just stare,
frozen in place by the strage horror before them.
CUT TO:
9 INT. SHINKAI 9000 - NIGHT
The vessel cruises through the valley of death.
Everyone is nervously taking readings, making calculations and
adjusting equipment. Gone is the excitement and euphoria o
building...
putting up a fancy parking lot.
Capitalist bastards!
They will not move me
out of my apartment.
I have some former students
who pull considerable weight.
Is the mayor
a former student of yours?
You cant fight capitalism
in the courts.
You got to go to the streets.
Man the barricades,
plant the dynamite.
Blow up the cesspool.
You want, you can move in with me.
I appreciate that, Jacob.
building with us.
Exactly.
That way they can keep tabs...
...on whos coming and going.
- They probably staked out your boss.
- Why do that?
Well, Mr. Kakihara,
three years ago you yourself...
...cut Mr. Suzuki of the Funaki family
out of a porn video sales racket.
Word has it that he hasnt forgotten.
So, you think Suzuki
is behind all this?
Its only a rumour.
But behind your back
Mr. Suzuki is ba
APARTMENT - NIGHT
The room is a tiny CUBICLEprison cell meets 747 bathroom.
Narrow cotwall-screen droning away in the B.G. --
PERKY NEWSCASTER
The Bengal tigerextinct for over a
centuryis making a comeback. These
cloned tiger cubs at the Beijing Zoo
are...
Jake laboriously pulls his pants off -- rocking to one side
pushing the fabric down past his hipthen rocking to the
otherand so on.
His legs a
building.
Oh, my God!
- Whos your friend?
- Jay Wendorff. But its not his apartment.
- Its his girlfriends.
- Whats her name?
Uh, Kelly. Kelly Coulter.
So, okay, thats two.
One time at Schottingers
photo archive...
second time
as the doorman.
Third, I see this man,
hes in a van at the mall.
- What are you doing at the mall?
- Im working.
- Im making a statement for the open spaces.
- [Horn Honkin
apartments...
in Borough Park,
Williamsburg.
Im sick and tired of you living
in a house without a telephone.
Oy, such a greenhorn.
I know, I know.
You live with an old tailor
who saved your life in Poland...
and he desperately needs
your rent money to live.
A sob story.
Let me see this.
Now youre starting to write.
This is great. Great.
Whats with the scribbling here?
Wheres the rest of it?
If yo