Final Destination Page #21

ALEX:

through the flames, as if sensing the oncoming horror, defying the image...

ALEX:

NO!

He looks toward...

Clear - ALEX'S POV

She... is the last sight he'll ever see.

WIDER:

The power line ERUPTS! Alex disapears behind the wall of fire and sparks

before falling limp on the driveway.

CLEAR:

Schreck, Weine and PARAMEDICS rush to the girl. Schreck turns back, calling

out to a paramedic, helplessly watching by ther burning car.

SCHRECK:

Is he alive?

CLEAR'S EYES

flash open, horrified, answering the question...

THE SKY:

a web of LIGHTNING CRACKS across the Heavens, as if Death was making a final

angry proclamation.

SCHRECK AND WEINE

CAMERA EASES IN on the agents, exchanging rattled expressions that convey

their unease in the proof that Alex was right.

CLEAR - OVERHEAD

As a pair of paramedics work on her, a soft breeze blowsacross the girl, and

only the girl. CAMERA MOVES DOWN TO HER FACE, her eyes opened... welling

with tears... seeming to realize... to sense, he is gone.

CUT TO:

INT. DELIVERLY ROOM - DAY - CLEAR

SCREAMS, as if reacting to Alex's death, but in actuality is is a reaction

to the pain of delievering her child.

DOCTORS AND NURSES

stand between Clear's legs in the stirrups...

DOCTOR:

A little more. Little more!

CLEAR:

breathes, pushes hard. Alex's parentsstand on each side of her, holding her

hand, wiping her forehead.

THE DOCTOR:

cuts the umbilical cord.

DOCTOR:

He's here. A beautiful boy.

CLEAR, KEN AND BARBARA

smile and fight back the tears, Clear begins to laugh euphorically through

the tears.

CLEAR:

I felt him! When the baby was

born... I felt Alex pass through me...

like the night he died...

Clear lifts her head up, still battling the pain of labor...

CLEAR'S POV - THE BABY

covered in goop, eyes shut... a new life arrives.

DOCTOR:

looks at the clock and reprots to an attending nurse. Another nurse cleans

up the baby, wieghs him and places him in a hospital bassinet.

DOCTOR:

13th of May... 4:25 p.m.

CLEAR, KEN AND BARBARA

Barabra places a cool wet cloth on Clear's forehead...

BARBARA:

Exactly a year... to the minute.

Everyone recognizes the eeire, yet beautiful coincidence. Clear leans her

haed back, relieved, euphoric...

CLEAR:

We beat it, Alex.

Cleaned and wrapped in a swaddling blanket, the baby is placed in the

mothers arms. The long retrospective harmonica of Neil Young's "Long May You

Run" reprises as Clear looks at the I.D. braclet...

WRIST BRACLET:

"Alexander Chance Browning II."

DELIVERY ROOM:

CAMERA PULLS BACK. The birthing room is quiet; the people introspective. The

doctors. The family. The mother and child. A room of new life, in which,

each recalls a life lost.

As "Long May You Run" OVERLAPS

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. ALEX'S BEDROOM - DAY - FLOWERS

A bright, colorful arrangment of flowers is carefully placed into a vase.

CAMERA ADJUSTS to REVEAL Alex's bedroom is now lived in by Clear and the

baby. Clear makes the final adjustment in the arrangement, then checks the

sleeping baby in the bassinet.

Clear moves to her bed with a book. As she settles in, O.S., a faint RUSTLE.

CAMERA INCHES IN ON CLEAR as she looks to...

CLEAR'S POV - THE FLOWERS

a soft breeze causes the petals to flutter...

CLEAR:

looks toward...

CLEAR'S POV - THE WINDOWS

which are closed.

CLEAR'S POV - THE FAN

which... is off.

CLEAR:

looks across the room...

CLEAR'S POV - THE ROOM

The breeze moves through the flowers... billows the cutains, posters and

photos on the wall... until seemingly settling over the bassinet. The lace

trim and blankets rustled by the breeze, it is hovering over the child.

CLEAR:

CAMERA SETTLES, but her expression does not reflect fear. She knows Alex is

here... and she smiles, tears welling in her eyes.

THE BABY:

the bassinet trim settles, as if the presance is leaving. Before it fully

departs...

CLEAR:

the wind softly and rapidly passes over Clear. He smile remains as the room

becomes still and her eyes looks across the room.

CLEAR'S POV - ON THE WALL

is a pencil rubbing, like people take awat from the Vietam veteran's

Memorial. The name... "ALEX BROWNING..."

CUT TO:

EXT. MT. ABRAHAM HIGH SCHOOL - DAY - CLOSE - MONUMENT

"ALEX BROWNING" is marked in the granite. CAMERA PULLS BACK TO REVEAL the

name has been added to the memorial, along with Tod Waggner, Valerie Lewton,

Terry Chaney and William Hitchcock.

A hand ENTER'S FRAME, fingers hover in space before they gently trace over

"Terry Chaney." CAMERA ADJUSTS TO REVEAL Carter Horton, staring at the name.

Alone, he allows himself the moment to grieve. Carter glances up to find

Clear approaching with the baby in the stroller.

Carter straightenes, and nods, then begins to walk away. He hesitates, then

turns back to Clear.

CARTER:

Alex was right.

Clear looks up.

CARTER:

(CONT'D)

It did skip us.

Clear smiles. As she takes the baby out of the stroller...

CLEAR:

I believe... that's what Alex

beleived. But how do we know... this

wasn't the design all along?

Clear holds baby Alex up to the monument, showing her son his father's name.

Carter stands, watching. CAMERA WIDENS to REVEAL the entire monument against

the deep blue sky. At the base in readable, but understandable lettering...

"FLIGHT 180."

CAMERA HOLDS as "Long May You Run" CONTINUES... RETURNING each of us to the

awaiting darkness.

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