wooden
benches, primitive saints in the stained-glass windows --
chickens peck among the straw that covers the earthen
floor.
??
INT. CONFESSIONAL BOX - CHURCH - DAY
A little wooden grill slides open and the friendly face of
the village PRIEST peers at us. He glances about,
perplexed.
PRIEST
Is anybody there?
A small hand appears -- then the face of a girl aged about
10, peering up at him through
covering that it has frozen solid.
NAPOLEON
Who has been putting glass in my
pitcher? Look here, someone has
filled my pitcher with glass!
DUFOUR
Oh, my goodness! Someone has filled
Bonapartes pitcher with glass.
Now, who on earth would do a thing
like that?
BREMOND
Oh, heavens, look someone has filled
my pitcher with glass too!
MONK
Silence! Silence! You should not
make fun of Monsieur Bonaparte
covers the baby with it. He
thrusts the bundle into the Priests hands.
DOCTOR (CONTD)
(in Spanish)
Dead - the child is dead. Now go!
We hold on the mothers anguished face. Dissolve to
A HELICOPTER
Off the roof of a tall hospital building. As it rises up into the night we
see a red cross painted on its side. Its an air ambulance.
The chopper turns away. The Manhattan skyline, every skyscraper a bl
stirrups, while the Doctors open
the doors opposite.]
First and Second Doctors: Come on. Come on, all of you. Thats it,
jolly good. Come on. Come on. Spread round there.
[A small horde enters, largely medical but with two
Japanese with cameras and video equipment. The first
doctor bumps into a man.]
First Doctor: Who are you?
Man: Im the husband.
First Doctor: Im sorry. only people involved are a
to
venture. And beyond that,
infinity...
Pulling back, we discover:
A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY and a strongly built man in his middle
thirties, are riding a mule. The MANS weather-beaten
face frames unusually bright eyes.
On the screen these words: ANDALUSIA, 1491
COLUMBUS AND HIS SON are following a windthrashed path at
the top of the hill. COLUMBUS hums a song, and FERNANDO
looks up at him in adorati