PAIR
OF LEGS, this one in stylish shoes and stockings, marches to
the red ball and steps on it. A red mallet is brought down
hard on the red ball causing the adjacent green ball to
thunder out of view. The Pair of Legs manuevering the green
ball departs. This process of elimination is grimly
repeated with the yellow ball and yet again with the blue
ball.
However, when the BLUE MALLETED PLAYER mak
PAIR OF EYES, and
even as we drink this in were back in -
INT. THE BAR
AT THE END OF THE BAR - LARRY, the Ugly American. Hes got
an obvious attitude, all of it bad. But theres something
about the guy -- hes not all bluster, and he has the look of
a seasoned tough guy who knows how to get rough and tumble.
Hes big, and yeah hes got a gut, but the rest of him looks
solid.
LARRY
(talking to the air)
pairs of surgical gloves from her equipment
bag, slips one pair on, and hands the rest to the others, the
last pair offered to him.
STARLING
Drumgos HIV positive and she will spit
and bite if shes cornered, so you might
want to put these on.
(Bolton takes the gloves and
puts them on)
And if you happen to be the one who
puts her in a patrol car in front of the
cameras, and I have a feeling you wil
pair of
backless slippers.
INT. EUGENES CONDOMINIUM. EARLY MORNING.
JEROME emerges from the incinerator room into a large, luxurious
loft-style condo containing a bizarre assortment of equipment -
arranged somewhat like a production line.
Long, scrupulously clean metal work benches are arranged along
one entire wall. Laid out on the benches in neat rows are
dozens of plastic bags - some filled, s
pair of eyes peer from the cage. Taking the
point of view of the eyes from inside the playpen, one
sees the mansions Christmas tree from between the dark
cage slats.
GIDDY YULETIDE SINGERS
"He knows when you are sleeping,
he knows when youre awake..."
The family cat skulks past the cage -- almost. Without
warning, the cat is yanked -- so fast and powerfully it
seems that its been sucked -- throug
PAIR of thin needle-nose pliers reach in the borehole and extricate the mosquito remains. These are dropped on a brightly lit glass slide. A conveyor belt starts, and the slide moves along. arriving under a long-lensed microscope.
IN MICROSCOPIC PERSPECTIVE, a thin needle pierces the bug and delicately removes a fragment of tissue.
PINCERS snare the fragment, dropping it into a narrow tube. The t
PAIR OF EYES
glare at Pamela from behind the cut-outs in the plastic
vizard.
PAMELA
gasps, stumbles backward.
THE FIGURE
flips up his mask to reveal
JIMMY HOWELL
a gangly teen, wearing a hockey jersey... skates slung over
his shoulder.
JIMMY
Hey, Mis Whittington, whats up?
PAMELA
My blood pleasure. You scared the
hell out of me.
JIMMY
Oh. Sorry. Im on my way to the
ring and --
PAMELA
(interruptin
ADJACENT ROOM, SHOWING A POLITICAL COMMERCIAL.
AMES
(TO SECRET SERVICEMAN)
...Thats him.
AMES MOVES OUT OF THE SHOT. LEAVING US ON THE POLITICAL COMMERCIAL.
WE SEE TWO BUSINESS PEOPLE ON THE PLANE, A MAN AND A WOMAN.
BUSINESSMAN
Well, all I know, you dont change horses in the middle
of the stream.
BUSINESSWOMAN
"Dont change Horses," well, theres a lot of truth in
that.
THE IMAGE SHIFTS TO A PRESI
The sun shines brightly on the classic facade of the main library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. In the adjacent park area, pretty hustlers and drug peddlers go about their business.
FRONT STEPS
A few people lounge on the steps flanked by the familiar stone lions.
INT. MAIN READING ROOM - DAY
People are dotted throughout the room sitting at the long oak tables polished by decades of use. Readin
adjacent
Natural History Museum. They are moving in and around an odd
freeform sculpture.
POV - SCULPTURE AND CHILDREN
a blur where the sculpture seems to be distorting the children,
almost like mirrors in a fun house.
NEKHORVICH
wipes his eyes, a horn honks. He looks toward the sound.
MOVING SHOT - SATCHEL (INT. AIRPORT SECURITY - DAY)
on the belt that takes it thru X-Ray. On the other side a