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Hero Page #13
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
JOHN BUBBER is at the wheel, a shabbily dressed, tired, haunted
man. He gives BERNIE a look. Should he believe?
BUBBER:
You're... a hero.
BERNIE:
Nah, I f***ed it up. I was tryin'
to impress this kid, don't ask me
why. I was gonna rescue his old
man, but I couldn't find the poor
bastard. He musta blew up.
(then...)
I got the hell outta there. I
didn't have the nerve to face the
kid.
BUBBER:
(thoughtful, serious)
A lotta people wouldn't have tried.
It was pretty brave even trying...
BERNIE:
Try stupid.
BUBBER brakes for traffic and a cardboard box from the back seat
hits BERNIE and cascades crushed cans all over him.
BUBBER:
Sorry about that. Just toss them
in back.
(very serious)
A lot of people would say that's
what heroism is... stupidity. Doing
something that if you thought about
it, you wouldn't do it, it's not
in your... interest.
BERNIE indicates the clutter of cans.
BERNIE:
You got a drinking problem or what?
BUBBER:
I sell them at the recycling center.
Gives me a little for gas and food.
BERNIE:
(considering the back
seat)
Looks like you live in here, for
Chrissake!
BUBBER:
In bad weather, yeah. Mostly I camp
out in the woods. I thought maybe
you were down on your luck too when
I picked you up.
BUBBER indicates BERNIE'S muddy, torn clothes, stocking foot.
BERNIE:
Down on my luck! Hey, I toldja,
a goddamn plane fell on me outta
the sky. In America, for Chrissake!
See this shoe! Hundred dollar pair
of shoes. One shoe!
BUBBER glances at the shoe BERNIE'S waving.
BUBBER:
You should give it to someone with
only one leg.
BERNIE:
One leg! Like the Red Cross or
something?
BUBBER:
I know a guy who only has one leg.
BERNIE drops the shoe on the floor, shakes his head, disgusted.
BERNIE:
Sell it to him. You get a couple
bucks, it pays for the ride.
(a beat, then...)
I got a job, nice apartment. I do
okay.
BUBBER:
They interview you or anything?
At the plane crash?
BERNIE:
Hey, do I look crazy? I don't go
for that sh*t... interviews, media.
They're manipulators. "Keep a low
profile," that's my motto.
EXT. FREEWAY - DAWN
The Chevy inches forward as the traffic moves again, heading
slowly toward the city.
BERNIE'S VOICE (O.S.)
(continuing, grandly)
Besides, I got these legal problems.
My attorney don't want me giving
statements to the press.
Traffic is still crawling.
GALE sits up in bed in spite of an I.V. in one arm and a cast
on the other. There's a big bandage across the bridge of her
nose and her left leg is also heavily bandaged...
GALE.
I don't understand. You can't find
him?
She stares incredulously at her trio of visitors, CONKLIN,
CHUCKY, and DEAKINS. DEAKINS, uncomfortable outside his
office, is awkwardly trying to vase a bouquet of flowers.
DEAKINS:
There's a lot of confusion around
what went on last night, it's not
clear...
GALE:
You said all the passengers were
accounted for...
DEAKINS:
Apparently the guy who pulled you
out wasn't a passenger...
A NURSE gracefully relieves DEAKINS of the flowers he's
destroying and skillfully vases them while GALE questions...
GALE:
A paramedic? A fireman? He didn't
have a uniform...
CONKLIN:
From what we could get, there's a
kind of... sort of... "mystery
guy"... involved.
DEAKINS:
We're piecing together different
accounts and...
GALE:
A "mystery guy!" "Not a passenger."
Who?
CONKLIN:
We don't know who he is, he...
DEAKINS:
He disappeared.
GALE:
(incredulous)
A non-passenger, non-rescue-worker
went into a burning plane and pulled
me out and... disappeared?
GALE starts to get up, struggling with covers, I.V., etc.
CONKLIN:
Not just you. Apparently this guy
is the one who opened the emergency
exit from the outside...
DEAKINS:
Everybody! He saved everybody on
the plane! Because of him, no
fatalities! I don't think you're
supposed to move around like that,
Gale. You're attached there...
GALE is getting out of bed, the I.V. still inserted in her arm.
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - LATER (DAY)
LESLIE looks directly into the camera as CHUCKY tapes her over
GALE'S shoulder.
LESLIE:
And all of a sudden, this...
"civilian"... rushed into the
plane. Next thing you know he's
hauling Freddy... he's the other
flight attendant... out and then he
goes back in.
(a beat, a tear,
then... )
That's what gave me the courage to
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