Angel Eyes Page #13

He makes her wait, thinking it over.

LARRY:

And you won’t come around here.

You won’t call. Ever.

In a moment Sharon nods.

LARRY:

And I don’t want you to come to

Mom and Dad’s celebration...

Her eyes snap to his, surprised.

LARRY:

Not the church. Not the party.

Stay away. I don’t want you

around. I don’t want to see you,

Shar.

After another moment, she nods again --and he snatches

the photo out of his shirt pocket and pushes it against

her chest and walks away. The photo falls to the ground.

Larry says without turning...

LARRY:

Go get a life.

... and she snaps.

(CONTINUED)

72.

CONTINUED:

SHARON:

I got a life!

The words burst out of her, thick with tears, but she’s

not crying. Larry stops and turns.

SHARON:

How the hell would you know about

my life?!

LARRY:

I know.

SHARON:

You know nothing about me, because

you don’t want to know. The

family doesn’t want to know me.

Well, too bad. Sharon’s got a

life. Sharon’s got a boyfriend.

Sharon’s going hiking in the

morning with her boyfriend. She’s

not sitting alone miserable like

you want. Too bad!

She reaches down, snatches the Polaroid photo off the

ground, walks to her car, enters and slams the door as

hard as it is possible to slam it.

EXT. SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS -DAY

Moving through the panorama are two small figures on a

hiking trail, traveling uphill on a ridge.

ON SHARON, CATCH

Sharon is pounding along, barely out of breath. She

studies the beautiful view, and it helps her. It lifts

her. Catch is falling behind, breathing heavily.

CATCH:

Hey. Hey! Can you wait up a

minute?!

She waits. He catches up.

SHARON:

I thought you walked all over the

city.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

CATCH:

(gasping)

The city is flat. Okay? Can we

stop here? Can we examine the

view? Have a Milky Way? I’ve

burned every calorie I ever had.

But she walks on.

SHARON:

My favorite lunch spot is another

half mile.

CATCH:

Up?!

She smiles and walks on, and he follows, calling out.

CATCH:

I’m not one of those competitive

guys, you know!

EXT. POND -DAY (BIT LATER)

Sharon is already unpacking their lunch as Catch trudges

up and collapses near a stream-fed pond. She hands him a

sandwich, but he shakes his head.

CATCH:

No thanks. I can’t eat and have a

heart attack at the same time.

She smiles again and takes a bite and stares off, and

soon enough her dark thoughts come and cover her, and

Catch notices.

CATCH:

As soon as you get happy, you get

sad.

SHARON:

I’m okay. Everything’s code four.

CATCH:

Everything’s what?

SHARON:

Everything’s fine.

CATCH:

Fine? This isn’t fine. I know

fine. This is something else.

Something happened yesterday.

(CONTINUED)

74.

CONTINUED:

SHARON:

Yesterday --you mean you want to

hear about it?

CATCH:

Sure I do.

SHARON:

No kidding. Why? You never talk

about yesterday.

CATCH:

All my days are the same.

He keeps staring, waiting. She is chewing a sandwich,

looking at him. Finally, she begins --with no emotion.

SHARON:

Yesterday. Okay. Yesterday we

rolled on a 415. Juliette and

Sanchez had these four guys

against a wall, but they were

H.D.B. and definitely unco-op. It

got pretty jumpy, but we got them

in the car with a couple of

bruises and Robby got a sprained

wrist, so I did the rest of the

shift with a rookie who lost it

over a D.B. in Sunset Park, old

woman who’d been dead maybe six,

seven days, and I usually do all

right but the smell got to me, and

I can still smell her. Then we

arrested a prostitute working out

of her home, and I carried her

little girl out to the social

worker, and the kid was holding on

real tight and making my shoulder

wet and I wanted to punch her

rock-head mother, and then shift

ended and I had a nice visit with

my brother Larry.

He is staring at her. He takes her hands, holds them.

CATCH:

(softly)

I’m sorry. That would make

anybody sad.

SHARON:

Sorry you asked?

(CONTINUED)

75.

CONTINUED:

CATCH:

No. No, you can always tell me.

She stares a moment, then speaks with an irony he doesn’t

pick up on.

SHARON:

Well... I feel better now. You

feel better?

CATCH:

I feel fine. Great.

He takes off his T-shirt and begins stripping off his

shorts, his underwear!

SHARON:

What are you doing?!

She is surprised, smiling, as he plunges into the pond,

her darkness dissipating.

SHARON:

Catch! There’s no swimming here!

And you can’t be naked in a state

park!

He dives under and surfaces again.

CATCH:

Take the day off, Pogo!

SHARON:

What if a park ranger comes?!

He dives and surfaces once more. We STAY CLOSE ON him.

CATCH:

Take your badge off for once.

Don’t be such a damn Marine about

everything. Just...

He stops because she isn’t there. He looks about. Then

suddenly he sees her, poised on a boulder right above

him, in her underwear about to dive! He yelps and gets

out of her way, and she dives off the rock in classic,

near-professional form, a beautiful, sleek dive. She

hits the water just right and surfaces, and they splash

and swim and frolic and dunk each other in unabashed

play.

(CONTINUED)

76.

CONTINUED:

At one point she jumps at him to dunk him, and he catches

her. They are in chest-deep water and their faces are

close. They pause --then she goes in for a kiss, but he

pulls his head back, avoiding that kiss and says...

CATCH:

Someplace I’ve never been kissed.

She smiles, staring, then slowly reaches her hands to his

face, gently closes his eyes and is about to kiss him on

the closed lids, but she changes her mind and instead

puts her lips tenderly on each of the small scars on his

face. Then she moves away. He opens his eyes. She

walks to the shore, moves to her clothes and starts

getting dried and dressed, giving him a soft look.

Catch comes to the shore to dry himself, but as he

dresses, Sharon glances at his body --and the scarring

on his chest and arms. He is troubled about this,

avoiding her eyes. Then he makes a decision.

CATCH:

They tell me I was in an accident.

Long time ago.

SHARON:

Looks like a bad one.

CATCH:

I don’t remember it. I...

She waits --but he says no more. She continues to

dress, sliding her shorts over her wet underwear --but

before she puts her shirt on, she turns her back to take

off her wet bra. He glances at her. She looks over and

catches him glancing. They both smile softly,

ironically, as they finish dressing.

SHARON:

We should be thinking about lunch.

We have to pack up.

CATCH:

So soon?

SHARON:

Some of us have to work.

(teasing)

You ever work?

CATCH:

Yeah. I worked.

(CONTINUED)

77.

CONTINUED:

SHARON:

Oh? You remember that? Working?

She smiles and walks off toward the food. He stares

after her, his smile fading into thoughtfulness, memory,

as he dresses.

EXT. COFFEE HOUSE -DAY

Catch is standing outside, looking in through the large

window, searching. His eyes settle on a man, and he

stares. The man, about his age, is having coffee and

reading the paper. Catch is staring deeply, mustering

his courage. He walks into the place.

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