with extraterrestrial
races, Earth welcomes a visit from
whomever receives this greeting. I myself
call upon you to make contact, so that we
may establish relations, open trade
routes...
Brainiac turns away, disinterested. Then, the "friendly" greeting
onscreen turns darker.
LEX (V.O.)
... and discuss any information you might
have regarding a visitor to this planet
of Kryptonian descent.
Brainia
with the OBanion mob from Chicago.
Why dont you just give up the ghost, Toomey? I mean, maybe the eggs gone straight.
Look, I know this guy.
And Im tellin ya, a leopard dont change his stripes.
- You mean spots. - I mean Snaps!
Now, as soon as somethin happens down there--
I dont care what-- you call me.
- Get it? - Got it.
Say, take a gander.
Im comin, Im comin.
Well, well, well. If it isnt litt
without doing
a great deal of damage
to the individuals body.
Excess current
cooks the tissue.
There have been occasions...
where a great amount
of current has been applied...
and the meat will come off
the executees body like meat
coming off a cooked chicken.
The execution
must be conducted
in two jolts.
In / th part of a second...
the first jolt disrupts
or destroys the individuals
central nerv
with me when I travel. BROCK: Can I get you anything? Is there anything you would like? OLD ROSE: Yes. I would like to see my drawing. BROCK: Louis the Sixteenth wore a fabulous stone that was called the Blue Diamond of the Crown, which disappeared in 1792, About the same time old Louis lost everything from the neck up. The theory goes that the Crown Diamond was chopped too, to be cut into a hear
letter was waiting there for me, and Toms things.
I really shouldnt have let him go with us.
It was only a border affair.
One of the Jewish undergrounds had blown up half a dozen bridges.
It really wasnt important enough to lose ones life for.
Is anything?
In my opinion, yes.
Ive known many soldiers, Mrs. Fremont, and war correspondents...
...and news photographers, such as your husband.
But I th
without purpose, up and down the avenues, in and
out of buildings. The city is theirs, they have inherited the
place. Man, in his human form, seems to be gone.
As the CREDITS END, we CUT TO:
6 EXT. A MAIN STREET - DAY
We are looking down from a HIGH ANGLE. The corner of A TALL
BUILDING is in the FOREGROUND. A CORPSE is dangling from A
NOOSE. Its been dead for some time. Its mostly bone now, its
b
without eyes see pathways to his will.
Where shall we dine?
..this costly blood.
Never anger made good guard for itself.
The law hath not been dead...
O me! What fray was here?
- Coz, l... - Yet tell me not, for Ive heard it all.
Heres much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity!
Misshap
yet.
Why would you pack it in?
Well, I just might, you know.
Might think it was a soft idea.
- What does assonance mean?
- What?
- Dont laugh at me.
- Er, no.
Erm, assonance, its a form of rhyme.
Erm, whats an example?
Do you know Yeats?
- The wine lodge?
- No, WB Yeats, the poet.
No.
Well, in his poem
The Wild Swans At Coole,
Yeats rhymes the word "swan"
with the word "stone".
You see?
Thats an
Without doubt he is completing it at
this very moment.
INT. WILLS ROOM. DAY
A small cramped space in the eaves of a building. A
cluttered shelf containing various objects, wedged
between crumpled pieces of paper. Among those we have
time to observe: a skull, a mug that says A PRESENT FROM
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.
At infrequent intervals further pieces of crumpled paper
are tossed towards the s
with
lust:
NARRATOR
But for our love, we were willing to
risk life itself.
And we realize that the Narrator is actually Imhotep himself
on the other-side of the curtains, the bald Priests rush over and close the
doors. But just as they do, the doors suddenly BURST OPEN. Pharaoh angrily
strides in, looks at the Priests. The following DIALOGUE is in ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN, --SUBTITLED.)
PHARAOH
What are