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Hero Page #6
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
WINSTON'S VOICE (O.S)
Shitty color! Looka the skin tones.
REVEAL:
THE TV SET IS IN BERNIE'S APARTMENTINT. LIVING ROOM/BERNIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT (RAIN)
WINSTON, fifty and fat, is scowling at the image on the TV
screen in BERNIE'S spartan and tasteless three room apartment.
BERNIE grabs the remote from WINSTON'S pudgy hands.
BERNIE:
Chrissake! Homeless people are
supposed to have shitty skin tones.
Look!
BERNIE points the remote at the screen...
CLICK! A gunfight replaces the BAG LADY ON SCREEN, then a
sitcom, an old movie, MTV, and finally a slick commercial
featuring a sexy bikinied BLONDE.
INT. BERNIE'S APT. - NIGHT
BERNIE:
There you go! Skin tones! Listen,
you gotta fish or cut bait. I
wouldn't even do this if I didn't
have these legal problems. Two
fifty. That's it. I gotta get
outta here, I gotta take my kid to
the movies tonight, I'm late.
WINSTON stares at the lithe thighs ON THE SCREEN as BERNIE
starts rummaging urgently in his closet.
WINSTON:
I'll go two hundred.
BERNIE has just found his good shoes, notices a carton of brand
new jackets.
BERNIE:
Two hundred! How about a jacket?
Wanna buy me a jacket?
INT. MAIN CABIN/BOEING 727 IN FLIGHT - NIGHT
The engines drone as we look into the sparsely populated main
cabin of the "baby Boeing". Among the many empty seats, a MR.
FLETCHER reads a magazine while his ten year son RICHIE plays
LESLIE SUGAR, one of the two Flight Attendants, is serving a
drink to Mr. Smith, a businessman while FREDDY, the other Flight
Attendant, is giving a pillow to an ELDERLY WOMAN.
We DISCOVER GALE, cradling a phone to her ear while she
awkwardly fishes in her purse and pulls out the Silver Mike
Award.
GALE:
It's very nice actually.
(reading the
inscription)
"For Excellence in the Pursuit of
Truth." Uh, listen, I just wanted
you to know I got a seat back on
the early flight after all so...
What?
Reacting to what she hears on the phone, GALE overturns the
purse in her lap and the contents -- wallet, comb, lipstick,
notepad, etc. -- spill on the floor.
GALE:
What do you mean you gave it to
Conklin? Conklin wasn't on that
ledge! Conklin wasn't...
INT. DEAKINS' OFFICE/CHANNEL FOUR - NIGHT
DEAKINS is grinning into his phone, winking at WALLACE who's
standing beside his desk.
DEAKINS:
Gale, you were gonna do the town,
station's expense, see a show, get
laid maybe. What was I supposed
to do?
Still grinning, he breaks off and listens to Gale's faintly
audible response while holding out his palm to WALLACE in a
triumphant "pay me" gesture. Then he speaks into the phone...
DEAKINS:
Okay, okay, you get back tonight,
doll, and I'll take Conklin off your
suicide. Fly carefully... and
congratulations on the award.
DEAKINS hangs up and smugly pockets the fifty WALLACE has fished
from his wallet, chuckling gleefully...
DEAKINS:
What'd I tell ya! They're all like
that, the good ones. They're
junkies for the story. They can't
let go.
INT. MAIN CABIN/BOEING 727 IN FLIGHT - NIGHT
The eight-year-old, KELLY, seated next to GALE is helping GALE
pick up the contents of her purse from the floor.
GALE:
Thank you. Very much.
KELLY beams. And GALE gives a look to KELLY'S mother SUSAN
who's seated on the other side of KELLY.
SUSAN:
There's another credit card on the
floor.
GALE reaches down to pick up her Visa card from the floor.
GALE:
Thanks.
GALE inserts the Visa Card in her wallet with the other cards.
Rain comes down in curtains as BERNIE'S Toyota chugs and farts
through curtains of water.
INT. MOVING CAR/CITY STREET - NIGHT
BERNIE is at the wheel, trying to see through the rain swept
windshield. He's talking to himself as he drives...
BERNIE:
I know why it's raining. I coulda
predicted this. It's raining
because my wipers are f***ed up.
If my wipers were okay, the f***ing
sun would be shining right now.
At night!
INT. COCKPIT/727 - NIGHT
Engines DRONE monotonously. The Flight Engineer is looking at a
magazine while the PILOT and CO-PILOT, surrounded by glowing
instruments, stare into the blackness ahead... until something
catches the bored PILOT'S eye. A red light on the control
panel. He frowns and looks closer.
INT./EXT. BERNIE'S CAR/FREEWAY - NIGHT
Looking for exit signs, BERNIE can barely see through the sheets
of rain that his malfunctioning wipers do little to clear.
Suddenly a sign looms into view and disappears before he can
read it.
BERNIE:
Damn!
INT. MAIN CABIN/727 IN FLIGHT - NIGHT
The engines drone. The cabin is peaceful, most PASSENGERS
dozing or talking softly as GALE glances up from her magazine,
sees SUSAN reading while KELLY sleeps peacefully, her head in
SUSAN'S lap.
PING! The electronic tone. Gale looks up, sees the "Fasten
Seat Belt" sign illuminated.
GALE looks toward the dark window. No sign of any lights below.
No city. No airport. strange.
The P.A. SYSTEM comes to life and the CAPTAIN'S mellifluous
VOICE murmurs soothingly...
P.A. SYSTEM
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your
Captain. We're experiencing a high
reading on one of our indicators.
Ten to one, it's a malfunction in
a gauge, but just as a precaution
I'm going to ask you to fasten your
Attendants run through some safety
procedures with you. I apologize
for the necessity and the
inconvenience.
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