Hero Page #15

DEAKINS:

Any chance we could do some kind

of electronic enhancement, you

think? Get a clear picture,

identify him?

JOAN:

(peering closely at the

screen)

There's no face really, nothing to

work with. Big dots, that's all

you'll get.

GALE:

Look at the guy! He just saved fifty

people. Now he's going to disappear.

Who is he?

INT. BERNIE'S APARTMENT - DAY

UUUUHHHHOOOOOOOW! BERNIE snores loudly, asleep on his sofa,

still in his rumpled, torn clothes. He SNORES again.

MONTAGE:
TELEVISION SCREENS IN CARS, HOMES, TV STORES

VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. RICHIE'S BEDROOM - DAY

ON THE SCREEN, RICHIE is talking directly at the CAMERA, the

interview in his room on videotape...

RICHIE/TV

He said... uh, he said... "I'll save

your father."

VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY

LESLIE appears ON SCREEN, her interview...

LESLIE/TV

-- all of a sudden, this...

civilian... He rushed into the

plane.

VIDEO IMAGE:
FREDDY'S HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY

Freddy appears talking directly at the CAMERA...

FREDDY/TV

I woke up in an ambulance. Leslie,

the other flight attendant, told

me the guy dragged me to the exit.

VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY

Leslie appears ON THE SCREEN again...

LESLIE/TV

"Here, give this guy a hand," he

said. The next thing I knew, he

was going back in there, into all

that smoke...

VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY

MR. SMITH appears ON THE SCREEN...

MR. SMITH/TV

I was crawling around on the floor.

I thought I was a goner!

OFF THE SCREEN/MONTAGE

YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD PEOPLE, RICH PEOPLE, POOR PEOPLE, CONVICTS,

DENTISTS, BLACK PEOPLE, BROWN PEOPLE, WHITE PEOPLE, CHINESE

PEOPLE are watching the report in...

-HOME

-BARBERSHOP

-ELECTRONICS SHOWROOM

-JAIL CELL

-SKID ROW HOTEL LOBBY

-SHADOW LOUNGE

CHICK watching the report.

-CLASSROOM

JOEY watching the report in a classroom.

-EVELYN'S KITCHEN

EVELYN watching the report in her kitchen.

-ALLEY

BUBBER is listening to the report on a radio in an alley.

ON THE SCREEN:

VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. TV STUDIO - DAY

GALE, bandaged, casted, stands in front of a BLUE SCREEN.

GALE/TV

-- out of the darkness... out of

the smoke and the fear... came a

man with no name... no uniform...

but an abundance of courage.

The CAMERA ZOOMS IN SLOWLY on GALE and simultaneously DISSOLVES

SLOWLY TO... "THE IMAGE". It fills the screen as GALE narrates

VOICEOVER...

GALE'S VOICEOVER/TV

A man who was thinking not about

himself but about others, risking

his own life for ours...

(a beat then...)

He's out there now somewhere...

and... whoever you are, I, and the

other survivors of Flight 104, say,

"Thank you! God bless!"

MUSIC SWELLS as the CAMERA ZOOMS IN on "THE IMAGE" emphasizing

the tiny FIGURE alone in the frame surrounded by fire...

INT. DEAKINS' OFFICE - DAY

Flanked by GALE and CHUCKY, DEAKINS is watching the preceding

material on the monitor.

DEAKINS:

Not bad. But if you gotta wear a

cast, you oughtta feature it more

it's parta the story.

(seeing Wallace enter

the room)

Network's taking everything we give

'em. They wanta feed off our six

o'clock whether we find the mystery

guy or not. We're very big

nationally.

WALLACE:

It's a wonderful piece. Emotional.

I love it.

DEAKINS:

We're gonna feature Gale's cast

more. The trick is gonna be keeping

the upper hand on this piece.

As long as we have Gale and there's

no mystery guy, we're the center

of the story. But if he shows up

and somebody else gets him first

or exclusive...

WALLACE:

What about a reward for coming

forward?

DEAKINS answers a RINGING phone. GALE frowns, frets.

GALE:

There could be problems with

something like that Mister Wallace.

What if...?

DEAKINS:

(into phone)

WHAT? THEY FOUND WHAT?

Everybody looks at DEAKINS.

INT. LIVING ROOM/EVELYN'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Ignoring the open schoolbook on the floor in front of him, JOEY

is sprawled on the floor, eyes on the TV screen.

ON THE SCREEN:
EXT. CRASH SITE - NIGHT

A CLOSE-UP of a muddy shoe WIDENS to REVEAL the shoe nestled

in GALE'S sling on top of her cast. She addresses the camera

from a spot directly in front of the crash site while behind

her WORKMEN comb the wreckage under bright halogen lights.

GALE/VOICEOVER/TV

A phone check with survivors has

confirmed that the shoe does not

belong to any of the crew or

passengers of Flight 104. Several

witnesses recall the mysterious

man who saved fifty-four people

referring to his missing shoe.

The conclusion; the unknown hero,

know to many as "The Angel of

Flight 104," wears a size 10B shoe.

EVELYN'S VOICE (O.S.)

Joey! Dinner! Now! Turn that

thing off.

INT. EVELYN'S HOUSE - NIGHT

ELLIOT is at the table with EVELYN as JOEY joins them.

JOEY:

He lost a shoe!

EVELYN:

Who lost a shoe? Wash your hands.

JOEY:

The "unknown hero." They found his

shoe right beside the plane crash.

ELLIOT:

Superman, you mean? Lost a shoe!

What next?

EVELYN:

Elliot! The man saved hundreds of

people!

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