Frequency Page #34

Frank climbs in the car. Satch closes the door, taps on the

roof, Frank is on his way home.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - JOHNNY'S ROOM - LATER

JOHNNY is asleep in bed. Elvis sleeps at the foot of it. In

the shadows next to them, Julia sits very still in a rocking

chair, half-asleep, half-awake. Staring out the window. Her

eyes are bloodshot. She has been through hell.

A faint STAIRWAY CREAK. Elvis stirs. He looks up to SEE:

FRANK standing in the doorway. He looks a wreck.

FRANK:

Hey, bud.

JULIA:

Frank...

And she is out of the chair. They meet in a hug. Over her

shoulder Frank takes a long look at his sleeping son.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - STUDY - LATER

Relatively cleaned up, but very bruised, Frank is at the

desk, trying to repair the DISASSMBLED RADIO. Julia comes in

and sets down a cup of coffee. She kisses him on the top of

his head, casts a wondering eye on the radio, and leaves.

EXT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - NIGHT - 1998

John pulls into the driveway and stops. He stares out the

window, exhausted. And then something catches his attention.

A SOUND. Coming from inside the house. The HAM RADIO?

He bolts from the car, runs to the door, scrambles to get the

backdoor key into the lock, as --

FRANK (O.S.)

(over the HAM)

John, John? You there? Johnny?

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS

John barrels into the kitchen, leaving door ajar, and runs...

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - STUDY - CONTINUOUS - 1969 & 1998

John hits the squawk bar on the HAM which...

JOHN:

I'm here, Dad. I'm here.

INTERCUT FRANK AND JOHN.

FRANK:

We did it, John. We stopped him.

A short pause, John looks confused. He sits down.

JOHN:

Wait. Something's wrong. I don't...

FRANK:

What's wrong?

JOHN:

I don't remember. Why don't I remember?

WHACK! CLOSE ON FRANK, the back of his skull smashed by the

butt of a .45 wielded by CARL SHEPARD.

FRANK hits the floor with a thud, Shepard looming over him,

reaching for a set of handcuffs.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - STUDY - NIGHT - 1998

JOHN:

Dad? Dad? What's...

WHACK! The butt of a .45 smashes the back of JOHN's skull.

He tumbles to the floor...fighting to stay conscious.

CARL SHEPARD stands over him, the gun pointing at his head.

SHEPARD:

My turn to steal your life.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - STUDY - NIGHT - 1969

Shepard stands over Frank. Frank tires to struggle up.

Shepard forces him back down, tromping a boot into his chest.

SHEPARD:

You're a clever f***, fireboy.

And he snaps a handcuff on one of Frank's wrists then

wrenches him to a steel radiator in the family room where he

circles the pipe to the floor with the handcuff chain and

attaches the other cuff to Frank's other wrist.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - STUDY - NIGHT - 1998

John is woozy. He reaches down to his holster - it is empty!

Shepard has got John's 9mm in his left hand. Holding the .45

to John's head, Shepard pops the clip out of the 9mm and

tosses it aside. He then snaps a handcuff around John's

wrist, begins dragging him to the radiator.

John's FOOT ERUPTS up into Shepard's groin. The .45 goes

flying across the room. For a suspended moment, both men are

riveted to the .45 spinning on the floor.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT - 1969

Frank, struggling to breathe, is slumped by the radiator

staring up at Shepard's groin. The .45 goes flying across

the room. For a suspended moment, both men are riveted to

the .45 spinning on the floor.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT - 1969

Frank, struggling to breathe, is slumped by the radiator

staring up at Shepard, who is staring back with pure menace.

The SOUND OF A SHOWER can be heard upstairs. Shepard looks

up. Smiles.

SHEPARD:

Time to meet the family.

FRANK:

(struggling to breathe)

This is between you and me.

SHEPARD:

Not any more.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - MASTER BATHROOM - NIGHT - 1969

Julia luxuriates in a steaming shower. Singing, softly.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT - 1998

A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR THE GUN between John and Shepard.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT - 1969

Frank desperately tugs at the handcuffs. Steel bites down on

his wrists.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS

Julia smiles as she sees a figure through the curtain.

JULIA:

Hey, Bud. Want to join me?

And the shower curtain flies open to reveal SHEPARD.

SHEPARD:

Sure do.

Julia lets out a bloodcurling scream and plasters herself

against the shower wall.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Frank reacts to the scream and tears with everything he has

in him to rip away from the radiator. No way.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - JOHNNY'S ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Johnny stirs awake at the sound of the scream...

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT - 1998

John and Shepard are in a desperate TUG OF WAR over the gun.

They KICK viciously at each other. Butting heads. But John

is still woozy from the head wound and Shepard is still very

strong. BANG! The gun goes off.

INT. SULLIVAN HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT - 1969

Julia is paralyzed against the wall. Staring into the dead

as-marble eyes of Shepard. He looks her up and down.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes