Leviathan Page #7

BOWMAN:

(not taking her eyes off

the screen, answers him)

The weather's good, I already

checked, but I'll be off in a minute.

WILLIE:

(to Jones)

Hey, Jonesy, who's the best power

forward in the NBA...Jameson?

JONES:

Jameson? Who're you trying to

con?

They grin at each other--a standing joke and Jones leaves.

DORMITORY:

Jones enters the Dorm with his snack and tosses a can of

Coke across the room to DeJesus.

JONES:

Hey, Hazy! We got a day off

tomorrow, Kemosabi! Let's get

sh*t-faced!

DEJESUS catches the can and pops the top sending a shower of

carbonation all over Cobb under the sunlamp.

JONES(cont'd)

How about you, brother Cobb?

Little Wild Turkey?

Cobb wipes the Coke from his sunglasses and shakes his head.

DEJESUS:

No, man, Cobb is a Chivas drinker,

from way back. Ain't that right

Cobbie?

Jones and DeJesus laugh and take long pulls on their Cokes.

Cobb turns and watches them. This is obviously a nightly

ritual.

COBB:

You guys are crazy. What

the hell you play that stupid

game for?

DEJESUS:

(acting drunk)

What game, Cobb?...I'm on

my way to Nirvana...

COBB:

You're on your way somewhere

all right...the looney bin.

DEJESUS:

(laughing)

I'm on the way to the looney

bin? Hey, man, I'm not the dude

sun bathing in his clothes.

INT. SIXPACK'S BUNK - SAME

CLOSE ON The Pet of the Month as she smirks coyly from the

centerfold, her body twisted into an awkward position

representing mad desire.

Sixpack closes his privacy door then smirks back at the

photo.

SIXPACK:

Oh, Darlin'...come sit on

my face...

He stirs in the bed and adjusts his pillow and SCREAMS! The

SEA SPIDER is suddenly right there on his shoulder, dead.

Sixpack sits bolt upright in his bunk and slams his head

against the roof of the bunk, then stumbles out screaming.

He hits the floor and rams his foot into a table and screams

in more pain.

The whole dorm looks up amazed, Cobb takes off his

sunglasses, even Jones and DeJesus temporarily "sober up" to

stare.

SIXPACK:

That b*tch!

MESS:

Sixpack storms into the Mess with the dead Sea Spider. He

points angrily at his bleeding foot. Jones and DeJesus move

up to watch.

SIXPACK:

(moving into room)

B*tch! Look what you did!

WILLIE:

(imitating Sixpack)

Sorry, darling...Just thought a

little humor would loosen us all

up...you know?...

Everyone laughs, but Sixpack. He has revenge in his eyes.

He holds out the ugly, limp creature and advances toward

Willie.

SIXPACK:

You think you're so funny?

Wait till you taste this!

As he pushes the dead creature into her face BECK'S VOICE

behind him makes him freeze.

BECK'S VOICE(O.S.)

That's enough!

Everybody turns to see Beck standing in the doorway.

SIXPACK:

Look at my foot, sir! This

b*tch put a goddamn sea

monster in my bunk!

BECK:

(cold as ice)

How do you know it was Williams?

SIXPACK:

(trapped)

Huh? I...uh...uh...

BECK:

All right, Sixpack, you and

Williams are gonna pull water

duty tomorrow--

SIXPACK AND WILLIE

(protesting)

Bullshit! What?! She...He...

BECK:

(cutting them off)

At ease! You both have a half

day...Anymore sh*t and its a full

one.

CLOSE ON BLACKBOARD/ MESS - MORNING

SCREECH! Chalk on the blackboard as Bowman writes "2" in

place of yesterday's "3" over the neatly lettered words

"Days Till Pickup."

Jones, sitting next to Cobb, looks up from his tray of

cereal and holds his head in mock misery.

JONES:

Oooooh. Damn! Not so loud.

Turn down the music.

COBB:

What music? There ain't no

music.

DeJesus enters holding his head and sits on the other side

of Cobb.

DEJESUS:

Oooooh.

Cobb looks from one man to the other, realizing what they're

doing.

COBB:

You know it's really crazy to

pretend to be drunk, but it's

f***ing insane to pretend

to have a hangover.

BOWMAN:

(to Jones and DeJesus)

Your "hangovers" made you miss

the Sixpack Good Morning Show.

(imitating Sixpack)

"No goddamn boy is going to make

me go out on a down day."

JONES:

(grinning)

Yeah? How'd the kid hold up?

COBB:

(pleased)

Pretty good. He sent them

out videotaping outcrop.

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