Angel Eyes Page #4

SHARON:

I’m semi-okay. I heard about

the... ceremony and the party.

KATHY:

(embarrassed)

Oh. I hope you’ll be there.

(pause)

Really.

Sharon smiles a bit, appreciating the support. She pats

Kathy’s arm.

SHARON:

Take it easy. You too, Champ.

The boy offers his little hand to shake again.

SHARON:

Oh, no. You’re not breaking my

fingers again.

They smile and drive on and Sharon walks toward her car

and Robby.

EXT. CITY PARK -DAY (NEXT DAY)

We WATCH moms and kids and a basketball game in the park

and PICK UP Catch walking by. Two pre-teens are playing

bounce and catch with a rubber ball against a (tennis

practice) wall, and one of them misses, and Catch makes a

lunge and snags the ball. Instead of throwing it to one

of the boys, he fires it at the wall.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

One of the boys catches it, bounces it off the wall

toward Catch. Catch grabs it, and now he’s part of this

rapid-fire game --and he’s athletic and funny, too,

playing hard and mugging and making them smile until... a

POLICE CAR comes ROARING down the boulevard, slowing a

bit to CHIRP its SIREN a few times --clearing traffic.

Catch glances up and sees...

CATCH’S POV

Sharon is in the car beside Robby.

ON CATCH:

Stunned by the sight of her --and he doesn’t know why.

He can’t move, can’t breathe, eyes fixed on her. The

POLICE CAR pulls around a truck and ROARS on --and

that’s when he is struck by a memory, a little like

lightning. It comes as a quick -

FLASHBACK -EXT. FREEWAY -ACCIDENT SITE -CATCH’S POV

--The man near death. Sharon is bending close to him,

this all just a sliver of an image, and it jolts him.

BACK TO SCENE (PRESENT)

The police car is now converging with other squads just

half a block away. Catch throws the ball back to the

boys and runs toward the police incident. The boys watch

him go, wondering.

EXT. CLOSED STORE -DAY

A police car is parked askew near this closed store --as

now Robby and Sharon’s UNIT ROARS to a STOP beside it.

Two cops are calling and motioning to them, one holds a

shotgun. This is RAY JULIETTE.

RAY:

Break-in alarm. One suspect in -nobody

out. Take the back.

And they are moving.

EXT. BACK OF CLOSED STORE -DAY

Robby and Sharon are hurrying around to the back as we

hear more POLICE UNITS CONVERGING in front.

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ANGLE -STREET

As Catch arrives on the scene and sees Sharon and Robby

moving around the building to the back. He is still

amazed at the sight of her. He decides to follow her,

keeping her in sight, driven.

ON SHARON, ROBBY

They are scouting through crates and weeds as a young man

is flushed from cover at the back of the store and runs

from them.

ROBBY:

Freeze!

The man runs on, and Sharon chases with Robby close

behind her.

she runs.

Sharon speaks to her shoulder radio mike as

SHARON:

(to radio)

Three-A-5, foot pursuit. Suspect

fleeing south on Pico Place, young

man, green jacket. No visible

weapon...

(to Robby)

Robby!

ROBBY:

Right behind you!

(to man)

Stop and lie down with your

arms... sh*t.

The man has jumped a fence. Sharon follows.

ROBBY:

Careful!

SHARON:

I see him!

She goes over the fence, then Robby.

EXT. PARKING LOT -DAY

The man runs and Sharon chases. Robby, not far behind

glances off to the side, seeing Catch, still following.

ROBBY:

Citizen on your right! Hey!

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

But Sharon is now closing on the fleeing man who turns

suddenly, pointing a handgun!

ROBBY:

Gun!

And Sharon, wide-eyed, is already pulling her weapon, but

not in time. The man is aiming at her and about to fire

when he is tackled by Catch.

Catch and the man go sprawling, and the gun flies out of

the man’s hand, and Sharon is on him in an instant,

pointing her gun at him...

SHARON:

Freeze! Right there!

Catch scrambles to his feet. Robby joins Sharon and puts

his knee in the man’s back and cuffs him, then glances at

Catch. So does Sharon. But Catch starts to hurry off.

ROBBY:

Hey! Wait!

Two other cops (Ray Juliette and SANCHEZ) rush toward the

suspect on the ground.

RAY:

You got him?

ROBBY:

He was armed.

RAY:

Jesus.

ROBBY:

Citizen took him down.

RAY:

No sh*t!?

Sharon stares across the lot to where Catch has halted.

More cops are converging. Ray Juliette and Sanchez move

toward Catch, while a sergeant and others surround Sharon

and the suspect. In between the crowd of cops, Catch and

Sharon glance at each other, during...

ON CATCH:

as the cops reach him.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

RAY:

What happened here?

CATCH:

I... just saw it and... I saw the

gun, so...

ON SHARON:

ROBBY:

You all right, Pogo?

She is shaken, speaks softly.

SHARON:

I was dead. Y’know.

She glances toward Catch. (She doesn’t recognize him

from the accident.) Their eyes meet briefly, but then

their attention is pulled to the others. Sharon speaks

to her sergeant.

SHARON:

He had me. I was dead.

ON CATCH:

He is shaken, too. Sanchez is taking notes as Ray checks

his I.D.

CATCH:

I was just walking by. I live

near here.

Ray nods, handing the I.D. to Sanchez.

SANCHEZ:

Sergeant’s going to want to talk

to you, Mr. Lambert. We’ll need a

statement.

RAY:

Don’t worry about it. That’s just

procedure. Look --we appreciate

what you did. No bullshit. Let

us buy you a drink tonight, all

right? You know where the Rib

House is?

Catch glances at Sharon again, and he nods.

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EXT. UPSCALE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD -DAY (SAME DAY)

Catch, a bit bruised and dirty from his tackle, is

carrying groceries up the walkway steps to a small, well-

kept home. He is taking out a key as he walks to the

covered portico.

INT. MRS. CHU’S HOME -DAY

ELANORA CHU, 60, is an attractive woman with warmth and

intelligence in her eyes. She is in a wheelchair, at a

writing table where she carefully translates an English

text into Chinese characters.

She glances up as Catch opens the front door and heads

for the kitchen, speaking as he goes, not looking at her

or into the living room at all.

CATCH:

I got you nectarines because the

peaches are hard as rocks.

ELANORA:

Your jacket’s all dirty.

She rolls away from the table in her motorized chair -and

as they speak across the house, she performs a

ritual...

CATCH (O.S.)

I tackled a guy.

Elanora is moving about the living room, picking up

framed photographs and turning them face down. We don’t

see what --or who --is in these photos. She is turning

them all in a routine way, used to this.

ELANORA:

Why would you ’tackle’ a guy?!

CATCH (O.S.)

Why do you think?

INT. KITCHEN -DAY

Catch is at the cupboards, putting away groceries as

Elanora rolls into the kitchen, her CHAIR HUMMING.

CATCH:

He had the ball. He was going for

a touchdown.

ELANORA:

Can you be serious?

(CONTINUED)

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