Hancock Page #20

(BEAT)

And. But when.., where does it end?

(re:
his cape)

Can't stop the hemorrhage... it's

everywhere. And it stays. All that I can

do, Mary. The things I am capable of

doing, I can't blink away the hell I've

seen. It's in me...

(points to his head)

in here and I can't not think about

it. It's in me. It's me.

MARY:

Hancock... what...

HANCOCK:

I just want to let go, Mary. Or I'll

break. I need to get away. Get away to

where? I don't know.

(at Mary)

I need your help.

MARY:

Me? What can I do?

(she's helpless)

What do you want me to do?

HANCOCK:

I want you to save me.

MARY:

How?

Hancock leans forward. Towards Mary. And kisses her.

Their lips lock, twisted and entwined... until Mary, composing

her senses, pulls away.

MARY (CONT'D)

Don ' t.

91.

HANCOCK:

(DESPERATE)

Save me.

MARY:

I can't.

HANCOCK:

You can.

(the hard sell)

AND:

Mary,-I'll take you away. And Aaron.

what... I'll quit. Get a real job. An

apartment. I'll flip burgers. I don't

know what I'm doing... what I'm saying

anymore.

MARY:

(OVERLAPPING)

I'm married.

A pause.

HANCOCK:

To whom?

MARY:

I love him.

The death blow.

HANCOCK:

No.

(turns from her)

Unacceptable.

MARY:

I love him. I'm sorry.

One can almost hear life's precious air seeping out of this

superman - he'd slump over if not for the muscles of steel.

Mary wants to console... but what can she do?

HANCOCK:

I'm cold.

Mary hands him the contents of the bag - the trenchcoat.

MARY:

I'm sorry.

92.

She leaves.

CUT TO:

INT. BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - DAY

Aaron. The school hallway. He holds a wooden hall PASS,

indicating that class is in session.

He swings into the BOYS ROOM.

INT. BOYS ROOM - DAY

A large restroom - empty. Little Aaron passes up on the urinals.

Selects a private STALL. ZIP - urination begins.

Splash segues into drip. DRIP. Aaron shakes off the last drop...

PLOP.

And that's the cue for the adjacent stalls - arms like tentacles

surface from below, shackling Aaron in his spot. He can't see

but, from behind, the stall door opens...

Guess who?

Perceval - possessed. He grabs the back of Aaron's head.

Introduces it to the yellowed waters below.

SPLASH - the head goes in, submerged. What Aaron sees for the

next several seconds: yellow, the thrashing of.bubbles, the

shine.-of white porcelain at.intimate range.

What he hears:
the GASPING of his own breath, GURGLE, and wicked

laughter.

The ambush ends. Perceval. Erlick. Spengler. One of them says...

THEM:

(MOCKINGLY)

"Don't mess with me."

They leave - laughing.

THEM (CONT'D)

(in the distant)

Little sh*t.

Left there and in the stall - Aaron, slumped against the bowl.

On the tile floor. A wet rag of piss.

93.

INT. APARTMENT - DAY

Mary hurries into the room - flustered, adrenaline coursing

wild.

She runs down the hallway to her bedroom, seeking solace in

Horns. The cold, empty bed says he hasn't been home.

MARY:

Horus...

CUT TO:

EXT. SCHOOLYARD - DAY

The school front. KIDS swarm into the streets, freshly released

from captivity. And there amidst bedlam - Aaron, roughed-up and

soiled in disgrace.

He moves to the curb, waiting for someone to take him away. No

Hancock, anywhere.

Aaron waits, hopeful.

EXT. STREET - DAY

Hancock walks an aimless walk - in oblivion, a WHISKEY BOTTLE in

his hand. He's been drinking. L"i

in his path and up ahead, a little girl SUE (8) beckons at the

upper branches of a tree.

SUE:

(so innocent, her voice)

Hymie. Come down, Hymie.

She catches Hancock, Mr..Superhero who can fly, stumbling by.

SUE (CONT' D)

(CONTINUING)

Mister? My Hymie won't come down from the

tree.

Hancock's reaction - "what?"

SUE (CONT'D)

(CONTINUING)

My pussycat. She won't come down.

She stares up at him with big, blue, sad, helpless, innocent

eyes.

94.

So cool, Hancock reaches down for a PEBBLE - takes it in his

palm. Finds the little p*ssy named Hymie. And with a simple

flick of the wrist... shoots it down.

A sharp MEOW. punctuates the task. Hymie drops from the branch,

limp and lifeless. A THUD we hear on impact.

SUE (CONT'D)

(so innocent, her voice)

Holy f***.

Hancock resumes his course, taking off and into the wet sky.

EXT. SKY - DAY

Hancock's drunken flight - erratic and dangerously close to...

BAM... buildings. He strikes the corner of a brick tower,

plummeting downward with the dislocated debris.

He bounces off the concrete -.in an alley.

INT. APARTMENT - DAY

Mary is on the sofa - wondering where Horus might be. She checks

h er watch.

EXT. SCHOOLYARD - DAY

The place is empty. Deserted.

Aaron. On the curb. Some trash flutters by his feet. On his face

- the abandonment of all hope. Nobody's coming, this is clear.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Hancock - on his back and amidst the rubble.

He braces the building to get up. Drops. Gets to his feet, only

to be confronted by the police officer from the boardwalk.

We'll call this one officer REED - a beat cop with something

stiff up his ass.

REED:

What do we have here? A piece of sh*t.

A slow look of recognition seizes his face - this is that

superguy.

Hancock stares at him.

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