Joe Versus the Volcano Page #20

JOE:

Why do you love me?

PATRICIA:

On the raft. You gave me the

water. No one's ever put my

life ahead of theirs. So I

love YOU and I'm jumping into

this volcano with you!

JOE:

Did I ever tell you that the

first time I saw you, I felt

like I'd seen you before?

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She shakes her head. They kiss. There's a big

EXPLOSION. The ground shakes. They lose their balance

and grab each other. There's a second EXPLOSION. He

loses his balance. She catches him.

JOE & PATRICIA

Whoa! Whoa!

JOE:

This is it!

They look at each other. They jump in. A SLOW-MO

stylized leap. Right after they jump in, the platform

slides into the volcano.

191 WHOLE ISLAND - NIGHT 191

Which looks like a face. The face grimaces. We hear a

GASTRONOMIC GROAN. Then the volcano spits out Joe and

Patricia who are holding hands.

192 JOE AND PATRICIA - NIGHT 192

rocketing

Against a background of fire and EXPLOSIONS, come

rocketing RIGHT AT us and BY the CAMERA.

193 CHIEF AND HIS PEOPLE - NIGHT 193

They watch Joe and Patricia, out of view, go by overhead.

The Waponis scream and take off down the hill. The Tobi

smiles and stays. He speaks to the Woo.

CHIEF:

So. You did not want them.

(to the retreating

natives)

I won't go to that no good

island!

(to himself)

For me, this is the end.

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194 JOE AND PATRICIA - NIGHT 194

leaving a trail of smoke, land in the ocean.

JOE:

What happened?

PATRICIA:

It just spit us back out

again. Joe, we're rejects!

JOE:

Well, I did it. I did it. I

did my job. I jumped into the

volcano. We jumped into the

volcano.

195 STRETCH OF BEACH WITH BOATS - NIGHT 195

The Waponis grab their ducks under their arms, grab their

boats and launch themselves.

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196 JOE AND PATRICIA - NIGHT

in the water

PATRICIA:

Look!

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197 JOE AND PATRICIA'S POV - NIGHT 196A

We see the Waponis fleeing the exploding island, heading

for the lousy island.

198 EXT. VOLCANO - NIGHT 198

The VOLCANO EXPLODING completely. The whole island is on

fire and breaking apart.

199 JOE AND PATRICIA 199

watch while paddling.

200 EXT. ISLAND OF WAPONI WOO - NIGHT 200

The island is sinking. The Waponis are fleeing.

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201 JOE. AND PATRICIA201

looking at this amazing sight.

JOE:

So the Waponis were right.

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PATRICIA:

What do you mean?

JOE:

They said if there wasn't a

sacrifice, their island would

sink. And it did.

Joe and Patricia exchange looks. Then Patricia looks

past Joe, seeing something.

PATRICIA:

Oh my God, look! Look!

Joe looks where she's looking.

202 EXT. YACHT - NIGHT 202

A yacht just like the one they were on. This yacht has

friendly eye of another color.

203 JOE AND PATRICIA 203

in the water.

JOE:

A boat!

PATRICIA:

It's The Tweedle Dum!

(shouts)

Ahoy! Ahoy!

(to Joe)

Come on!

They start to swim.

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204 EXT. THE TWEEDLE DUM - NIGHT 204

Picking up Joe and Patricia. Patricia's crew is on

board, that is Dagmar and the boat boys.

PATRICIA:

It's my crew! They're alive!

DAGMAR:

We were saved.

PATRICIA:

That's wonderful! That's

amazing!

DAGMAR:

We were very lucky.

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Graynamore is watching the island sink through a

telescope. Meanwhile, two boat boys wrap Patricia and

Joe in blankets. Graynamore, oddly calm and detached,

given the circumstances, looks away from the eyepiece of

the telescope. He says to no one in particular.

GRAYNAMORE:

There goes my dream of beating

the sh*t out of the

competition.

PATRICIA:

Daddy?

Graynamore ignores her. During this scene the island is

slowly sinking in the b.g.

GRAYNAMORE:

You kept your bargain, Mr.

Banks. To the letter. The

miracle of course is that you

kept the bargain and you're

alive.

JOE:

So what? My number's about up

one way or the other.

GRAYNAMORE:

Yes.

He's a trifle uneasy.

PATRICIA:

Daddy?

GRAYNAMORE:

I thought you were dead, young

lady. I thought you drowned.

Both of you for that matter.

I just got here to see what

kind of alternate deal I could

cut with the Chief. But the

Chief, I'm afraid, is history.

PATRICIA:

You don't show any sign of

being glad I'm alive.

GRAYNAMORE:

Oh, I'm glad. I'm just

disappointed about losing

these mineral rights. It

meant a lot to me. It was a

real opportunity.

PATRICIA:

You are so... full of holes.

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Graynamore looks at her, a little irritated and puzzled.

But then his attention shifts to Joe.

GRAYNAMORE:

This is a small boat, Mr.

Banks. Too small to keep a big

secret all the way back to

L.A. Come out, Kenneth!

Kenneth emerges from the shadows where he's been

skulking. It's Dr. Ellison; the doctor who told Joe he

was going to die. He's got a drink and he looks nervous.

JOE:

Dr. Ellison.

KENNETH:

Or words to that effect.

GRAYNAMORE:

His name is Kenneth Hindmick.

Business Affairs. He works

for me.

KENNETH:

Hi. Need your taxes done?

JOE:

Kenneth Hindmick.

KENNETH:

Need any terrible job done?

I'm your man.

JOE:

Not Dr. Ellison.

KENNETH:

Kenneth Hindmick. I'm not a

bad guy, really. I just have

an unfortunate tendency to do

what I'm told.

Joe nods numbly.

PATRICIA:

Joe?

JOE:

His name is Kenneth Hindmick.

GRAYNAMORE:

And he made believe he was a

Dr. Ellison.

(MORE)

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GRAYNAMORE (CONT'D)

And he told Joe here that he

had something called a brain

cloud, and that he was going

to die. So that Joe here would

agree to jump in the volcano.

PATRICIA:

Oh! That's dastardly. You're

both dastards.

Joe, still focused on Hindmick, pushes her aside.

JOE:

I don't have a brain cloud?

KENNETH:

No, you don't have anything.

You're just a hypochondriac.

Sorry. Or, looking on the

bright side, congratulations!

Joe takes a step for Kenneth.

Kenneth takes out a gun and points it shakily at Joe.

JOE:

You know, I'm gonna beat you

up!

KENNETH:

Hold it! Don't make me kill

you when there's nothing wrong

with you! I feel bad enough

already. I told you he'd be

mad.

GRAYNAMORE:

So we'll just take turns

watching him till we get back

to L.A. Nobody'll believe his

story anyway.

PATRICIA:

I will. I'll back him up.

GRAYNAMORE:

Now, Patricia, when we get

back, I'm going to give this

boat to you, and you can sail

off into the distance with it

and be done with us all.

PATRICIA:

No deal.

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GRAYNAMORE:

(talking to Kenneth)

So we'll take turns watching

the two of them till we get

back to L.A., and then we'll

turn them both loose, and I'll

keep the boat.

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