Jeepers Creepers Page #8

WOMAN:

(filtered)

You hear that song? Run.

(Darry’s confusion peaking)

You listening to me? That song

means something terrible is

about to happen to you-

DARRY:

Screw you lady-

WOMAN:

Something so terrible you

could never imagine it-

Darry hangs up angrily. Moves quickly to look out over the

eatery.

DARRY:

You sure you saw that van on

the highway?

(off her look)

'Cause I think the driver

might be in here. On a cell

phone.

TRISH:

That sounded like a woman!

DARRY:

Well why couldn't it be a

woman? We don't know who it

is!

He rushes past the cigarette machine. Looks out into the

parking lot.

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DARRY:

Somebody messing with us,

that's for sure! She knew

everything!

TRISH:

What did she want?

Darry turns and regards his sister.

DARRY:

For us to wait around, which

is exactly what we're not

gonna do.

INT. DELROY'S FOOD AND GAS. NIGHT. MINUTES LATER.

The juke box finishes its selection. Its mechanical arm

replaces the 45 and selects another. The place fills with

music again.

Trish and Darry at a table in back. Beverly steps up to them

with a coffee pot.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

You kids wanna piece of pie or

coffee or something?

They shake their heads no, staring at two STATE TROOPERS at

the counter, conferring with the Manager.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

Let me know if you change your

mind.

TRISH:

You think they believe us?

DARRY:

All they have to do is drive

out to that church. They'll

believe every word.

TRISH:

I don't know if I would.

He looks up with this.

TRISH:

Sounds too much like

somebody's bad dream.

Is she trying to say she doesn't believe him?

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TRISH:

You don't think that's it, do

you? We're dreaming?

Darry doesn't answer. The juke box fills the silence.

TRISH:

Maybe we're having one of

those dreams like in the

Twilight Zone where we're all

ready dead.

You know? We died out on the

road and we just don't know

it?

DARRY:

(quietly)

I wanna be home. In my room.

In my bed.

(eyes up to his sister)

Ripping up every Tales from

the Crypt and Fangoria I own.

He looks at her. Tries to smile. He looks so fragile.

TRISH:

We will get home you know?

He nods. Feeling foolish.

"Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get those peepers? Jeepers,

Creepers, where'd you get those eyes?"

The juke box. Sinatra. Darry’s blood runs cold. Face

suddenly ashen.

Stares across the diner at the juke. Sis watching him

strangely. Tries to follow his line of sight.

"Gosh all get up, how'd they get so lit up..."

He stands. Looks down at sis. “Gosh all get up, how’d they

get that size?”

TRISH:

Darry...?

He moves now. Through the diner. As if drawn by the melody...

“Golly gee, when you turn those heaters on. Woa is me, got to

put my cheaters on...”

Trish watches him from the table. Has little brother gone off

his nut?

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Patrons are stopping their eating. Watching him as he passes

by in some confused trance.

“Jeepers, Creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Oh those

weepers, how they hypnotize...”

Darry at the jukebox now. Staring down into its glow. Thinks

he must be losing his mind. His own striking eyes even more

beautiful in the golden glow of the machine.

“Where’d you get those eyes?”

The song goes instrumental. He looks back at Trish. The

Troopers are at her table. Sis looking over at him. Darry

moves back quickly.

TROOPER GIDEON is a tall, powerful looking Native American.

Strong face and piercing eyes. His partner TROOPER WESTON is

a capable looking woman of thirty or so.

TROOPER GIDEON:

I was just telling your

sister, we're running the

plates and we've got a unit on

their way out to the old

church.

DARRY:

And?

TROOPER GIDEON:

Tell me something. These kids

you saw on that wall? Who were

they again?

DARRY:

(looks to his sister)

Darla Cleeway and Kenny...

TRISH:

-Brandon.

TROOPER GIDEON:

Found their car all smashed up

'bout twenty years ago? Am I

remembering this right?

(off Darry's nod)

Those bodies would be nothing

but bones by now. You said he

still had skin on him and a

ring on his finger.

DARRY:

What're you trying to say?

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TROOPER GIDEON:

Not saying anything-

DARRY:

(on his feet)

I told you -I grabbed one of

them! It was hard. Like

petrified wood! Like he

preserved them or something, I

don't know!

TROOPER GIDEON:

Well then how do you know they

were even real bodies?

Darry thrown by this. Stares at the Trooper.

TROOPER GIDEON:

Look all I'm trying to do here

is get the facts straight-

DARRY:

I told you the facts: this guy

drives a black van and it

nearly killed us!

We saw him throw a body down a

pipe, that dumps into a cellar

under the old church!

I saw the body! He was a guy

my age and he was still alive,

except that he'd been split

from his neck to his navel and

then sewn back up again!

Now this guy must have a

hundred, maybe two hundred

bodies down there, and I've

seen 'em!

MANAGER:

Hey-hey-hey!

Doesn't like this grizzly talk, loud enough for people to

hear.

DARRY:

(lowers his voice)

I mean this guy must be the

Heavyweight Champ of all

serial killers!

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It is Trooper Weston who first notices people standing up

from their tables and moving to the restaurant windows.

DARRY:

You don't believe me? Just

drive out to that church and

see for yourself!

TROOPER GIDEON:

No one's saying you're lying,

Darius-

DARRY:

It’s Darry. Darius is my name,

Darry for short.

There is quite a crowd at the windows now and he and Trish

see it.

TROOPER GIDEON:

And I said we were doing

everything we know how to do.

They step past Gideon toward the dining area. Waitress

Beverly just coming back in the front doors. Looking directly

at Trish.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

That's your car out at the

pumps, isn't it?

EXT. DELROY'S FOOD AND GAS. NIGHT. SAME TIME.

Trish and Darry blast out into the brisk night. Beverly right

behind them.

Ahead is their car. Still in shadow at the pumps. But the

left rear door is open and spilled out onto the asphalt is

Darry's dirty laundry.

The Troopers join them now. Watching as brother and sister

move quickly toward the car.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

Someone saw him from the

window.

Trish and Darry stop. Turn to her. She nods back to the

patrons staring out from inside.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

Thought they had to be

kidding.

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TRISH:

Saw what?!

WAITRESS BEVERLY

(impatient)

The man out there at your car!

The kids and Troopers instantly look for him.

WAITRESS BEVERLY

Well he already ran off!

TRISH:

A man?

WAITRESS BEVERLY

More like a pervert.

(off their puzzled looks)

That's why everyone was

watching. He was outside the

car there sniffing that

laundry.

Darry and Trish staring at her.

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