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(holding forks apart)

And it's my job, Victor, to help

them meet halfway. Say,

Scottsdale, Arizona. He gets to

golf, she gets Indians.

MOM:

But there's no river. And no

jungle.

VICTOR:

Nobody gets what they want.

DAD:

Exactly. And wrong. They both

get what they want because they

compromise.

Dad skewers meat on his forks, continuing his metaphor.

Victor is shrimp; Dad is beef.

DAD:

You'd like to do this science

fair. And that’s great. I'd like

you to try a sport. Say, I don’t

know, baseball. Science fair,

baseball. Science fair, baseball.

How do you choose? Guess what?

You don’t have to. No reason you

can't do both. You meet in the

middle.

(bringing forks

together)

Everyone's happy.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Victor is stood on the side of the baseball field with

his Dad who is head coach. Sparky is there aswell to

support Victor.

Toshiaki is pitching. Nassor is catching.

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DAD:

Look at what Toshiaki's doing.

Keeping his eye on the target.

Never losing his concentration.

Toshiaki pitches and the batter misses. Nassor catches

the ball.

GYM TEACHER:

Strike three! Next Batter!

Camera PANS to find Mr. Rzykruski -- who is simply in

Victor's imagination.

MR. RZYKRUSKI

I want you to concentrate on your

project for the science fair.

We continue to pan past Mr Ryzkruski and come back onto

Victor trying in vain to keep focused on the game.

Toshiaki winds up for the pitch.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Victor’s Mom is in the stands for the big game -- along

with all the kids we’ve met so far, and many of the

adults. Sparky is completely taken by the ball and his

eyes follow it around the field.

MOM:

Come on honey!

Toshiaki pitches again and as Victor swings to hit the

ball Sparky leaps up catching the ball mid jump. The

other kids snigger.

TOSHIAKI:

Nice catch Sparky.

DAD:

Come on Victor, please. Tie Sparky

up and get your head into the

game.

GYM TEACHER:

Time out!

Victor takes Sparky to the bleachers and ties him up.

VICTOR:

Sorry boy.

He walks back onto the field.

Elsa arrives at the bleachers with Persephone.

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ELSA:

Hey Sparky.

She sits on the bleachers with Persephone to watch the

game. Sparky looks over admiringly at Persephone.

GYM TEACHER:

Play ball.

Victor swings for the ball again. And misses.

GYM TEACHER:

Strike One.

DAD:

Nice try son.

Once again Victor remembers wise words of Mr Ryzkruski.

INT. CLASSROOM - CONTINUOUS

Mr. Rzykruski stands in front of the classroom black

board.

MR. RZYKRUSKI

When conducting an experiment,

trying is the important thing. It

is OK to fail as long as you keep

trying.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Back on the field at the bleachers Weird Girl arrives

with Mr Whiskers. She sits by Elsa and Peresphone. They

exchange a glance.

MOM:

Come on Victor- you can do it!

Toshiaki pitches again and again Victor misses.

GYM TEACHER:

Strike two!

TOSHIAKI:

Yes.

MOM:

Come on honey!

Elsa, Weird Girl and Mr Whiskers will Victor on.

This time when Victor swings He

hits!

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He almost forgets to run until Sparky BARKS at him.

DAD (CONT’D)

Victor run!

Sparky pulls on his lead and it works loose.

The ball rolls out of the park.

Sparky goes after it, his stubby legs bounding.

MOM:

Oh Sparky!

EXT. STREET - DAY

The ball rolls into the street and Sparky manages to grab

it in his mouth.

Proud of himself, Sparky turns to look back at Victor.

Just then...

A CAR:

SCREECHES up at him. Sparky reacts. We CUT AWAY as the

car hits.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Every player, every kid, every parent is stunned.

Horrified. We end CLOSE ON Victor.

VICTOR:

Sparky! Noooooo!

EXT. PET CEMETERY - EVENING

Dad buries a wooden box. Victor watches at the grave

side, devastated. His Mom and Dad give him a quiet moment

to grieve.

EXT. BACKYARD - EVENING

Persephone nudges the tennis ball through the gap in the

fence. She’s waiting for Sparky.

Disappointed, she leaves the ball and slowly walks away.

INT. BEDROOM - EVENING

Victor lies in bed, staring up at the ceiling. Mom and

Dad sit on the edge of the bed, trying to comfort him.

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MOM:

He was a great dog. A great

friend.

DAD:

The best dog a kid could have.

MOM:

When you lose someone you love,

they never really leave you. They

just move into a special place in

your heart. He'll always be

there, Victor.

VICTOR:

I don't want him in my heart. I

want him here, with me.

MOM:

I know. If we could bring him

back, we would.

Mom kisses Victor goodnight and turns to leave.

MOM:

Try and get some sleep sweet heart-

things will seem better in the

morning.

INT. ATTIC WORKSHOP - EVENING

In his attic workshop, Victor is finishing work on his

projector. He threads the film and starts it playing.

Sparky-saurus is attacking the Pterodactyl. Victor

smiles for a moment, then the sadness returns.

DISSOLVE TO:

Victor’s sadness remains as we travel through a changing

scene around him- in his bedroom, at breakfast, in the

car on the way to school and finally in the classroom.

MATCH CUT TO:

INT. CLASS - DAY

Back at school Victor is despondent. Unable to

concentrate, he doodles pictures of Sparky in his

notebook and barely listens to the lecture.

MR. RZYKRUSKI

Just like lightning, the nervous

system is electricity.

(MORE)

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MR. RZYKRUSKI (CONT'D)

We are wires and springs and

cables to send the messages.

“Foot! Move! You are standing in

the fire!”

Mr. Ryzkruski lifts up a plate with a cloth on. He

reveals a dead frog.

CHILDREN:

Eww!

MR. RZYKRUSKI

Even after death, the wiring

remains. Watch as the muscles

respond to the electricity.

Mr Ryzkruski places the frog onto his desk and begins to

hook an electrode to its leg.

The wiring is attached to a small box that can generate

an electric charge.

Mr Ryzkruski now attaches the electrode to the frog’s leg

and, with a flip of a switch, turns on the electricity -

The frog leg jumps up as if alive!

And so does Victor.

He looks back and forth between Mr. Ryzkruski’s

demonstration and his doodle of Sparky. An idea.

Victor bursts out of the school doors and starts to run

home.

EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY

Victor runs through the street on his way home.

EXT. VICTOR’S HOUSE - DAY

He runs into the garage and grabs a whole lot of tools,

gear and equipment.

INT. VICTOR’S HOUSE - DAY

Victor raids the kitchen for some household appliances.

Mom sits on the couch reading and only barely registers

what he is up to.

MOM:

Hi Victor, how was school?

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VICTOR:

Ok.

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