Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Page #12

The door instantly opens to reveal Platt, wearing a woman's

robe over a pair of pajamas, a WWII steel-pot helmet, and

holding a tire iron.

DISSOLVE TO:

47 INT. SAMUEL PLATT'S APARTMENT - ONE HOUR LATER 47

Lois sits on a pile of books, Clark leans against a wall.

We PAN the room as Platt speaks, a mile a minute. His

living room is filled with items collected out of other

people's garbage: a bird cage, a headless hobby horse, a

windmill from a miniature golf course. Magazines and

newspapers are stacked everywhere.

PLATT:

They said I was crazy, but wouldn't

_you_ be? After the drugs... they

drugged me, you know, right after I

submitted my report to Dr. Baines.

LOIS:

Dr. Platt, how could the Messenger

have been sabotaged? In order to

bypass security...

(beat, thinking)

Unless the orders came from high

up.

PLATT:

You see, under extreme temperature

conditions, the particle isolators *

were in danger of shutting down. *

To prevent that, we installed

heating devices. But when I broke

into one of the off limit labs, I

discovered that the heating devices

had been replaced by coolant

systems.

CLARK:

To freeze the ion particles? *

PLATT:

Of course! So that they'd fuse *

and the Messenger would blow up!

It's all in my report!

LOIS:

What report?

PLATT:

The report I gave to Dr. Baines.

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47 CONTINUED:
47

LOIS:

Do you have a copy of that report?

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49 INT. EPRAD PLANT - DAY 49

Lois and Clark walk through the vast EPRAD complex;

following Dr. Antoinette Baines. Even under the white lab

coat, it's obvious that Baines is even more beautiful than

she looks on TV.

DR. BAINES

Naturally, we're all still in a

state of shock. I don't suppose

I have to tell you what a *

catastrophe the explosion was. *

Commander Laderman... he was one *

of our best. Three kids, his wife

Anna...

LOIS:

Dr. Baines, what's being done to

investigate the cause of the

explosion?

DR. BAINES

Well, we won't know anything until we

examine the burned wreckage. We're in

the process of moving it to a hangar

for inspection.

LOIS:

Can we take a look at it?

DR. BAINES

Sorry. No press allowed.

CLARK:

No exceptions?

Baines gives Clark an almost provocative scan.

DR. BAINES

I'll see what I can do.

LOIS:

On the subject of Dr. Samuel Platt...

-- page break -- Rev 3/22/93 32.

49 INT. EPRAD PLANT - DAY

Lois and Clark walk through the vast EPRAD complex,

following Dr. Antoinette Baines. Even under the white lab

coat, it's obvious that Baines is even more beautiful than

she looks on TV

DR. BAINES

Naturally, we're all still in a

state of shock. I don't suppose I

have to tell you what a

catastrophe the explosion was.

Commander Laderman... he was one

of our best. Three kids, his wife

Anna...

LOIS:

Dr. Baines, what's being done to

investigate the cause of the

explosion?

DR. BAINES

Well, we won't know anything until

we examine the burned wreckage.

We're in the process of moving it

to a hangar for inspection

LOIS:

Can we take a look at it?

DR. BAINES

Sorry. No press allowed.

CLARK:

No exceptions?

Baines gives Clark an almost provocative scan.

DR. BAINES

I'll see what I can do.

LOIS:

On the subject of Dr. Samuel

Platt.

-- page break -- Rev. 3/17/93 33.

49 CONTINUED:
49

DR. BAINES

I have his file right here. A real

waste of talent. Seems that the

pressure of building the space

station, along with his divorce,

finally got to him. He started

drinking and taking drugs. It went

from bad to worse. We kept him on

as long as we could. But, after he

set-fire to one of the

laboratories, we had to let him go.

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