Earth to Echo Page #4

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(leaves crunching)

Stop stepping on leaves.

MUNCH:

There's leaves everywhere.

(indistinct talking)

-(grunting)

- Shh.

What was that?

(electronic tone

pulsing, stuttering)

Where do you think

it's taking us to?

(indistinct talking continues)

(electronic tone continues)

MUNCH:
Maybe another one

of those beepy things.

(tone continues, louder)

(electronic tone continues,

pulsing slows)

(electronic tone stops)

(static crackles)

(static buzzes, crackles)

(deep rumbling)

(metal creaking)

What was that?

I don't know.

(creaking continues,

rumbling fades)

(rattling, clanking,

quiet warbling)

- Whoa! Whoa!

- Get down!

Oh, geez!

Munch, watch out!

Aah! Aah!

TUCK:

Aah!

ALEX:

What's going on?

Dude, Munch, what was that?

(clattering, rumbling)

(boys scream)

TUCK:

Where is it?

Is it over?

- Oh, geez.

-(screaming)

Dude!

MUNCH:

Tuck, stay back.

- TUCK:
Whoa.

- MUNCH:
Stay back.

-(electronic warbling)

- MUNCH:
What's...

TUCK:

Dude!

(whirring, beeping)

- Wait, wait, be careful.

-(electronic chittering)

MUNCH:

Your phone just got a new map.

ALEX:

What?

(electronic whirring)

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Wait, why is it opening?

TUCK:
Hold on, hold on.

Did you see that just now?

-(electronic chittering)

- ALEX:
What is that?

- TUCKI Whoa! What is that?

- MUNCHI What is that?

- What is that?

- Oh, my...

Dude, move, you're

blocking my shot.

ALEX:

it-it's moving.

TUCK:
There's something

in there right now.

MUNCH:

What's in there?

Oh, don't tell me.

ALEX:

Are those... eyes?

(electronic chittering)

Dude, dude, it's looking

dead at us right now.

MUNCH:
Oh, God,

oh, God, oh, God.

ALEX:
It's trembling

like it's hurt.

MUNCH:

Good.

TUCK:
My heart's beating

so fast right now.

Wow.

MUNCH:
Almost got us killed,

like, three times already.

Yeah, but it

was worth it, dude.

Incredible.

All right, so...

I just figured out why Alex's

camera was on this whole time.

So this thing, whatever it is,

it's eyes are, like,

all screwed up, completely.

You see?

So, basically, it uses

his phone to see.

That's insane.

(Alex chuckles)

ALEX (distorted): You think

he can see us right now?

(electronic chittering)

Munch, you have

to check this out.

This is amazing.

(click, electronic snarl)

MUNCH:

Is it?

Is it amazing?

'Cause I think

it's scary as balls.

I mean, obviously people

are looking for it.

- Munch...

-it has access to our voicemails

and our texts and our ringtones.

TUCK:
How do you even know

it's a he?

Are you a dude?

(beeps)

(chuckles)

Wait...

you understood us.

(beeps, warbles)

Whoa. (chuckles)

All right, here's how it goes.

One beep is yes,

two beeps are no.

Watch.

Is one beep yes?

(beeps once)

TUCK:

Yo, that's so tight.

Are we in a barn?

(beeps once)

ls Munch really a woman?

(beeps twice)

Oh, come on, man,

this thing is broken.

Everybody knows

Munch is a woman.

Okay, I have a question.

Are we gonna die tonight?

Why isn't it answering?

What...

Well, that's not good, right?

2O questions with an alien.

Tuck Simms exclusive.

- Let's do this.

- Check it out.

All right, urn,

are you from space?

'(bEEPS once)

- Ooh!

Are you a robot?

(beeps twice)

Do you eat humans?

(beeps twice)

(sighs)

Do you like Earth?

(beeps twice)

Why?

Why doesn't he like Earth?

Do you like us?

(beeps once)

You see? I told you.

We're cool like that.

Come on.

Are you hurt?

(beeps once)

- Oh.

- He's hurt.

Well, his lights

seem brighter, so...

Did that piece help you?

(beeps once)

Uh.

Can we help fix you

or something?

Or... Like, what is this?

Are-are you trying

to build something?

-(beeps once)

- Oh, he's trying to build...

Building something.

Right there.

- What could he be building?

- Yeah.

So, wait, what are,

what are you building?

- Lasers?

-(beeps twice)

'A POFtal?

'(beeps twice)

- Minions?

-(beeps twice)

- A cloaking device?

-(beep twice)

-it's an army.

-(beeps twice)

Ignore him.

- Spaceship?

-(deep electronic whir)

Oh, my God!

Hold up, hold up.

So let me get this right.

So you're building

a spaceship,

- He's building a spaceship.

-and you need our help

building the spaceship?

-(beeps once)

- Oh, man.

This guy is building

a spaceship.

Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Let me make sure

I don't have any plans.

Nope!

We're building a spaceship!

He's building a spaceship.

TUCK (voice-over):

We asked him questions

for almost two hours.

Where he came from.

If there were others here

like him.

We found out he was lost...

and alone.

He was out in the middle

of nowhere,

on his own,

like us.

All we really knew

was that he crashed,

and now he needed us

to rebuild him.

ALEX:

The map says up ahead.

MUNCH:

Are we going the right way?

(horns honking, distorted)

Look, look, look, look,

whatever that is,

the map goes to it.

All right,

so wait-wait a minute.

Let me get this right.

Dude comes from

a million light-years away,

and he wants to come here?

I don't know, the map said so.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You got to look both ways

before you cross the street.

ALEX:

Munch.

(electronic doorbell dinging)

(Tuck chuckles)

So are you... snoopy.

CUSTOMER:

Ten dollars?

- OWNER:
I said no deal.

-$7.50.

OWNER:
I don't want it.

It's tchotchke trash.

If you give it to me as a gift,

I'd still throw it away.

- It's trash.

- CUSTOMER:
No, it's vintage.

OWNER:
No. You don't get

to say the word "vintage."

I'm the one who gets to say

when what is vintage.

Excuse me, sir, you have

a very, very lovely shop.

MAN:

Come on, you sure?

H6)'-

Oh, man, look

at the hand painting.

It's all crafted

right there.

- One of a kind.

- OWNER:
It's trash.

(static buzzing)

(phones buzzing)

-(thumping, rumbling)

-(boys gasp)

-(rumbling)

-(sustained, high-pitched tone)

Uh, uh...

-(tone fades)

- TUCK:
What was that?

F-sharp?

-(metallic creaking)

-(horns blow, squeak)

(note fades slowly)

-(instruments popping, sounding)

-(gasping, exclaiming)

No, no, no! Come on!

ALEX:

Watch out! Watch out!

(chaotic tooting, banging)

(owner exclaims

in native language)

-(Tuck laughs)

- OWNER:
What was it?

MUNCH:

Whoa. ls everybody okay?

-(Alex coughing)

- TUCK:
Hey, Nichols, are you alive?

CUSTOMER:

They broke my girlfriend's lamp!

TUCK:

Wait, what is he doing?

- MUNCH:
Oh. Whoa, whoa.

- TUCK:
ls-is that...

- OWNER:
Sweet babushka.

-(Tuck laughs)

You want to sell it?

- Tuck, let's go! Come on!

- Run! What are you waiting for?

TUCK:

Dude, that place was wrecked!

MUNCH:

Sorry again, sir!

ALEX:

Go! Go! Down here!

TUCK:
Let's get somewhere

so we can look at him.

(electronic chittering)

ALEX:

He's shaking.

(electronic chittering)

TUCK:
Whoa,

he's letting you touch him.

- MUNCH:
I wouldn't, guys.

- Hey, what about here?

Here, set him on here.

-(Alex laughs)

- MUNCH:
He looks scared.

TUCK:

Yeah, why is he all balled up?

Can't you stand?

You all right?

-(electronic chittering)

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