Kalifornia Page #3

OLD MAN:

(from beneath his

shadowy brim...)

The Antichrist'll be a woman, in a

man's body. Seven heads and seven

tails.

Early gazes at the Old Man curiously, then calls out to the

waitress...

EARLY:

Make that to go.

Early notices the small bug crawling across the counter. He

leans closer to it and watches it. After a moment, he THWACKS

it off the counter with his thumb and finger. The bug lands

on the hot iron griddle with a SIZZLE!

EARLY glances at the Old Man again... then scoots over one

stool closer to him. Early seems curious to want to get a

glimpse under the brim of the Old Man's hat.

IN THE BACK KITCHEN AREA

The waitress is bagging Early's order to go... when the front

door slams shut!

FRONT DINING AREA

The waitress re-enters the room. It's empty. Neither the Old

Man nor Early are there. With Early's food in hand, she makes

her way along the rear of the counter toward the front door.

She glances around curiously. On the griddle, the remains of

something black and charred smoulders. Closer to the entrance,

she stares at the front door. The sign that hangs in its

window has been turned... the backside which faces her reads

"OPEN."

AT THE FRONT DOOR

She wonders about the sign for a moment, then stares curiously

out the window... not a soul in sight. She locks the door

and begins closing up for the night. She turns to make her

way to the rear of the diner then notices something. Slowly

she moves along the side wall, past a number of highbacked

booths.

HER POV:

Sitting on one of the funky old leather seats in a booth are

a pair of RED HIGH HEELED SHOES (the same pair worn earlier

by the Pretty Teenage Girl). The Waitress glances nervously

about the interior. No one in sight.

AT THE BOOTH:

She reaches down slowly and picks up the pair of shoes. Looks

at them closely. Stares at the inside lining. Then suddenly

out of the quiet... a voice.

EARLY:

...Size 6.

The Waitress spins a startled look to the booth beyond hers!

Early leans out from behind the highback partition.

EARLY:

That's right ain't it, size 6?

The Waitress... smiles, nods shyly.

EARLY:

Happy birthday Adele.

ADELE:

Early, you are so sweet.

This is ADELE CORNERS. She's 17, pretty, uneducated and

Early's girlfriend. She steps over to him, gives him a kiss,

then sits down on the seat across from him. She starts to

try on her new shoes.

ADELE:

I feel kind of like the wizard of

oz, you know when she gets the red

shoes.

EARLY:

Well Dorothy, why don't you hand me

that chili there.

She passes the bag to Early. He digs in. Between bites, he

glances over to Adele who's enthusiastically pulling on the

new shoes.

INT. BRIAN AND CARRIE'S LOFT APARTMENT - LATER THAT NIGHT

A door swings open spilling light into a darkened room. Brian

and Carrie, a little drunk, return home from the party.

Their apartment is in an old converted industrial building

in a funky low rent part of town.

Brian walks ahead, Carrie trails behind him, peeling off her

clothes. She begins unzipping her dress, unnoticed by Brian.

BRIAN:

Tonight turned out to be pretty

interesting.

CARRIE:

The party?

She grabs a leather cap that sits on a chair.

BRIAN:

The warehouse. I'm not that drunk.

CARRIE:

It was definitely the high point of

the evening.

Carrie's dress falls to the floor.

BRIAN:

(getting excited)

Just being there where it really

happened. It was different... more

visceral.

CARRIE:

Mmm... I love it when you talk like

that.

Brian is at the foot of the bed, he turns to see... Carrie

has transformed. She has stripped down to her black bra and

panties, fishnet stockings, a nightporter style leather cap.

A surprised Brian stands there a moment. Looking at Carrie.

She looks great.

OMITTED:

Carrie pushes Brian back onto the bed.

OMITTED:

Carrie climbs on top of him. She kisses his neck. Slowly

starts working her lips across his chest and down his stomach.

EXT. EARLY'S TRAILER - MORNING

A solitary trailer sits alongside a run down house.

INT. EARLY'S TRAILER - MORNING

Through the soot tinged atmosphere, sunlight filters in past

the curtained windows. Early is lying face down in bed, his

right arm extended over the side. Adele is in the kitchen

half dressed, and unsuccessfully attempting to iron one of

Early's shirts. She realizes the iron is out of water, she

sets it down and steps to the sink and fills a glass with

water. As she does she glances at a cactus on the counter.

OMITTED:

ADELE:

You thirsty Lucy?

OMITTED:

She waters her small cactus (Lucy).

ADELE:

Bet that feels good, don't it?

NEW ANGLE - THE REFRIGERATOR

Adele smiles then notices that a photo held to the fridge by

a decorative magnet has fallen to the floor. She picks it

up.

ADELE:

Now if that ain't Momma's little

angel.

Adele puts it back onto the fridge. It is a photo of a young

Early with his mother. In the photo Early appears to be about

ten or eleven. he stands next to his mother. Her arm is draped

over his shoulders, she is holding a drink. A cigarette butt

dangles between her fingers. Nearby a portable radio is tuned

to music, when the local radio jingle comes on and segues to

the news.

NEW ANGLE ON EARLY

A handkerchief bandana is tied around his head and over his

eyes.

The NEWSCASTER'S voice gets louder.

NEWSCASTER (O.S.)

...two more victims last night, when

a twenty pound rock smashed through

the windshield of their car...

CLOSER - EARLY'S FACE

Slowly he reaches to his face and lifts the bandana up off

one eye. Even closer on his left eyelid. It flutters... pops

open and blinks. Now... his eyeball stares right at us. The

pitch black pupil contracts in the morning light. The

newscaster's voice continues to amplify...

NEWSCASTER:

This was the third such attack in

the past month and while an extensive

police operation is underway... no

arrests have yet been made.

The newscaster's voice quickly fades away. Early calmly closes

his eyes and drifts back to sleep.

EXT. EARLY'S TRAILER - LATE MORNING

Early emerges from the trailer drinking a bottle of beer. He

looks around the yard, it's full of various kinds of useless

junk. He walks over to his car. Adele appears in the doorway

of the trailer in her bathrobe.

ADELE:

Early...

She glances around to make certain that no one's looking,

then 'flashes' her body to Early with a giggle.

ADELE:

Have a good one.

Early smiles. Adele turns back into the trailer then,

remembers...

ADELE:

Oh... I forgot to tell you, Mr.

Diebold was by again yesterday.

Early looks at the run down house next door where Diebold

lives. A beat up red pick-up is parked in front.

ADELE:

He said, if he ain't got the rest of

his money by the end of the month,

he's gonna "kick us the...

(spells the word f***

to avoid saying it)

F-U-C-K outta here."

Early works his jaw, thinking.

EARLY:

He said that, huh? Cursed in front

of you?

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