image on screen abruptly
SMASHES TO:
INT. CEREBRAL HYGIENE ROOM - CONTINUED - GRAINY BLACK & WHITE
-- and dead silence -- and we find ourselves watching old
soundless 16mm footage of what happened next: a blur of
scalpels and saws as the Patients viciously vivisect
Vannacutt and Nurse, whove been crammed together on that
same gurney. The B&W CAMERA PUSHES IN TIGHT on Vannacutts
screaming maw -- a
as their
voices echo in the sky.
THE CHILDREN (contd)
Seven eight, gonna stay up late...
Jacob takes his hands away from his face and starts to
frantically pull on his seat belt. SNAP - it flies off his
back and miraculously turns into a PARACHUTE. Rope swirls
into the air - the wind grabs the canvas - and Jacobs body
slows with a violent jerk.
But at least hes not falling anymore. Jacob
image as the logo is revealed to be a hanging center-
piece in the display window of a store that sells Batman *
sleds, lunch boxes, T-shirts, and ticking-to-twenty-
before-Seven clocks.
8 EXT. GOTHAM PLAZA--EARLY EVENING 8
Bathed in pristine snow and packed with ELATED SHOPPERS,
POINSETTIA GRASPING LOVERS, BLESSED CAROLERS, and an
overwhelming array of Christmas decoration, the intimate
Plaza ce
image appears - obscure
at first, then becoming more solid. A vision.
He sees a house - a small, stone, one-story, u-shaped house.
The house has a flat, tile roof and an unusual, wooden rain
gutter, with windows outlined in black and a prayer flag in
the courtyard. A spotted dog is in front of the house,
barking, though we cannot hear him. The vision becomes
completely clear, for an instant - cle
image lurches as he sweeps
the grounds, locating the boathouse.
6 EXT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT
Concealed in the shadows, Harry is shucking out of his drysuit.
Underneath is he is wearing black tux pants, suspenders,
cummerbund and a formal shirt. He puts a tiny plug, like a
hearing aid, deep in his ear canal. A SUB-VOCAL TRANSCEIVER.
Very advanced.
HARRY
Switching to sub-vocal. Gib, you
copy?
GIB (OVER