Catwoman Page #5

Season #1 Episode #2

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INT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -NIGHT

MIDNIGHT makes for an open hall window that leads onto a FIRE

ESCAPE. Patience just spots her heading outside.

PATIENCE:

Oh no...

EXT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -ALLEY -NIGHT

Patience reaches the window just in time to see -MIDNIGHT

make a SPECTACULAR LEAP across the alleyway

and ---

LAND ON TOM LONE'S BALCONY.

PATIENCE is annoyed, but also impressed, in spite of herself.

PATIENCE:

Hell of a jump...

INT. PATIENCE'S APARTMENT -NIGHT

ANGEL flings open the closet and bathroom doors in Patience's

empty apartment --no dice. On his way out, he eyes a plate

of cat food and ice cream with a wince.

EXT. LONE'S BUILDING -ALLEY -NIGHT

Patience clumsily CLAMBERS up Lone's RATTLING FIRE ESCAPE,

reaches the level Midnight is on, moves toward the cat.

(CONTINUED)

23.

CONTINUED:

PATIENCE:

You are not worth the trouble -Suddenly,

a WINDOW FLIES OPEN, just a foot away, a GUN pointsin her face. Patience lets out a CRY, jumpsback -

LONE:

Freeze!

It's TOM LONE. But Patience loses her balance, FALLS ---

and LANDS in an open DUMPSTER.

LONE darts from the window, alarmed, realizing his error.

EXT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -NIGHT

ANGEL emerges, shaking his head and shrugging toward theunseen driver of the BLACK MERCEDES, then he climbs in the

passenger door. As the car pulls away -

--LONE hurries from the building next-door toward the alley.

EXT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -ALLEY -NIGHT

PATIENCE painfully gets upright, slipping in the trash, asLONE appears; he's a no-nonsense, gruff cop with a dry wit.

LONE:

You all right?

He clambers onto the dumpster's edge to help her out, sheslips and slides, almost pulls him in after her.

LONE:

I'm really sorry --I'm a police officer, I heardthe noise and just assumed... here, grab my arm.

He manages to hoist Patience to the lip, she's able to climbto the ground. She's drenched in GOOEY GARBAGE, just staresat Lone, a bit dazed from the fall. She can't believe she's

face to face with the man of her dreams. Lone thinks a beat.

LONE:

Habla espanol?

(CONTINUED)

24.

CONTINUED:

She blinks at him, confused, then he tentatively flashes afew HAND SIGNS for the deaf. She waves this off.

PATIENCE:

No, I --see, my cat got out -

MIDNIGHT MEWS, rubs against Patience's leg. She picks thecat up, nods toward her window.

PATIENCE:

I live right up there -

LONE:

I know.

PATIENCE:

You do?

LONE:

I mean, I --I've seen you. Around.

PATIENCE:

Really. Actually, I've seen you too. Around, that

is.

(a nod at the

dumpster)

Thanks for helping me out.

LONE:

Don't mention it. I can't resist a damsel in

distress.

PATIENCE smiles and c*cks her head... flirtatious bodylanguage. She runs a hand through her hair, pulls out somesticky TISSUE PAPER, looks at it with disgust.

PATIENCE:

Oh God, what --what is that?!

He looks over her shoulder, winces.

LONE:

I could run it over to the lab...

She tosses it in the dumpster, finally registering that she'sdrenched in WET GARBAGE.

PATIENCE:

I'm sorry, it was nice talking to you, but --I'm

completely disgusting.

(CONTINUED)

25.

CONTINUED:

Mortified, she hurries back to the entrance to her building.

Lone looks after her, amused.

CUT TO:

EXT. TRENDY CLUB -NIGHT

SPOTLIGHTS before a NIGHTCLUB, a CROWD behind a VELVET ROPE.

A HANDSOME BOUNCER stands guard. SALLY AND PATIENCE are near

the front of the line. Sally has transformed herself, withheavy make-up, a revealing skin-tight outfit that showsplenty of cleavage. Patience is in a conservative dress, one

she might wear to work. Sally HOWLS with LAUGHTER atsomething Patience has just said. Patience looks grim.

PATIENCE:

It isn't funny.

SALLY:

(still chuckling)

Yes it is. All this time you've spent mooning overthat hottie neighbor and he points a gun at you -

PATIENCE:

At least it broke the ice -

SALLY:

I told you men go for trashy women.

Patience rolls her eyes, looks over Sally's clothes.

PATIENCE:

Speaking of which --how do you even stay in that

outfit?

SALLY:

With any luck, I won't need to.

PATIENCE:

I hardly recognize you.

SALLY:

That's the idea. I go out at night, I leavedaytime Sally behind, become a different person.

All women do. Except you, of course.

(CONTINUED)

26.

CONTINUED:

PATIENCE:

(shrugs, checks

her watch)

How long have we been here, an hour? We're never

getting in...

A TRENDY COUPLE --call them RANDY and SANDY --push their

way past PATIENCE, almost knocking her over. Randy's ELBOWgets her in the gut, Sandy's SPIKE HEEL drives into her foot.

PATIENCE:

Ow!

SANDY looks at her blankly as PATIENCE hops, injured.

PATIENCE:

You could say I'm sorry?

RANDY:

Okay, you're sorry.

He and Sandy laugh as the BOUNCER unhooks the rope, stepsaside for them to enter.

PATIENCE:

God, people are so rude.

SALLY:

Yes!

Sally has just gotten the NOD, hurries forward. Patience

follows, limping a bit. The BOUNCER blocks Patience's path,

looking her over from head to toe, disapproving.

SALLY:

She's with me.

BOUNCER:

Then you can stay out here too.

SALLY:

She happens to be a very fine human being -

BOUNCER:

Like I said, she don't belong inside.

PATIENCE:

Sally, just --go in without me -

SALLY:

See, you shoulda bought the dress.

PATIENCE bolts, humiliated; SALLY looks after her sadly.

27.

INT. BUS -NIGHT

PATIENCE sits alone in the back of the bus, looks at -A

YOUNG COUPLE making out... an ELDERLY COUPLE holding hands.

Her eyes drift to an AD for AVENAL BEAUTY overhead --LAUREL

and GEORGES AVENAL, arms around each other. Patience sighsand stares out the window.

EXT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -NIGHT

PATIENCE walks toward her building, the bus kiosk behind her,

the BUS MOVING AWAY. The street is deserted at this hour.

Patience feels very alone, until she looks up to see ---

MIDNIGHT, perched in her window, awaiting her arrival.

A smile appears on Patience's face. She quickens her step,

crossing the empty street, almost to the sidewalk when ---

AN ENGINE ROARS behind her. Patience spins just as ---

THE MERCEDES, LIGHTS OFF, barrels out of the darkness and

WHAM! Hits her full-on.

MIDNIGHT at the WINDOW --the cat lets out a HOWL.

ANGLE DOWN, the MERCEDES has stopped, Patience lies a short

distance behind... in bad shape. The PASSENGER DOOR OPENS.

WITH PATIENCE, barely conscious. ANGEL approaches, studiesher, turns her over with his foot. He nods, a job well done.

INT. PATIENCE'S APARTMENT -NIGHT

MIDNIGHT is bouncing off the walls, HOWLING like mad, lungingand scratching at the door. Finally, the cat charges acrossthe floor, LAUNCHES herself in a dramatic leap and -

EXT. PATIENCE'S BUILDING -NIGHT

SLOW MOTION as MIDNIGHT LAUNCHES HERSELF AT THE GLASS -SMASH!

CUT TO:

28.

EXT. BRIDGE/CITY SKYLINE -NIGHT

SPLASH! A BODY (we don't get a good look) hits DARK WATERhard and vanishes below. MOVE UP TO REVEAL we're at a bridgeover a river, CITY LIGHTS in the distance. ON THE ROADWAY,

CAR DOORS CLOSE and the MERCEDES SEDAN SCREECHES away.

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