Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Page #3

METROPOLIS - CLARK'S POV

A city of majesty: shiny spires atop state-of-the-art

buildings of glass and steel, crowded sidewalks, blasts of

neon advertising, taxi cabs, subway stations. Clark

remains still as walkers brush by him, everyone in a hurry.

Life teems in this, the biggest city of them all, and its

pulse is infectious. Clark checks his watch, looks down

the street toward the Daily Planet, continues walking.

11 OMITTED 11

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12 EXT. DOWNTOWN METROPOLIS INTERSECTION - DAY 12

Clark waits with a crowd at a busy intersection for the

light to change. He casually glances around him: an OLDER

WOMAN with an armful of shopping bags, a young mother

wheeling her infant twins, two school girls in newly ironed

uniforms, a hip-hopper with a boom box, several businessmen

and women.

13 ANOTHER ANGLE 13

A CITY BUS, barreling down the boulevard.

14 INT. BUS - SAME TIME 14

The Driver, humming merrily, speeds along, then, seeing the

red light up ahead, casually steps on his brakes. When his

foot goes all the way to the floor, he panics, frantically

pumping, then trying the emergency brake. Nothing works.

His eyes widen as he sees the red light straight ahead.

15 AT THE INTERSECTION 15

Clark and the group start across, the older woman and young

mother with twins just to Clark's right. When Clark looks

left, he sees the bus, inches away, coming straight toward

them.

16 IN THE BUS 16

The Driver is astounded when the bus suddenly stops dead

right at the intersection. He waits until Clark and other

pedestrians safely cross, then opens the door to the bus,

jumps outside.

17 EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS 17

The light has changed, but the driver stands motionless,

staring at the front of the bus. Beside him, the older

woman with the shopping bags looks like she's seen... a

_miracle_. She looks at the bus driver, then across the

street, where Clark seems to have disappeared into the

crowd. She points...

OLDER WOMAN:

He... he...

-- page break -- Rev. 3/9/93 7.

17 CONTINUED:
17

Cars start honking, but the driver and the older woman are

frozen, staring at a hand print embedded in the grillwork

of the bus.

17A CLARK 17A

ducks into an alleyway, hoping he wasn't noticed. He peeks

his head out to see if anyone has followed him. No one

has. On his sigh of relief we

CUT TO:

17B INT. DAILY PLANET NEWSROOM - SAME TIME 17B

The newsroom is business as usual when suddenly the SOUND

of YELLING causes everyone to turn. A wild-eyed crazy

man (SAMUEL PLATT), filthy, ragged, in a long trench coat,

bursts into the newsroom frantically in search of...

PLATT:

Lois Lane!

When he spots her, he races for her desk, followed by two

Security Guards.

PLATT (CONT'D)

It's going to explode! Here...

He reaches into his trench coat and someone yells...

NEWSPAPER WORKER

He's got a bomb!

Instant pandemonium.. Everyone drops to the ground. Platt

looks around, confused, slowly removes a brown

paper-wrapped package from under his coat.

PLATT:

It's my credentials.

He takes another step closer to Lois, and is grabbed by the

guards. His package falls to the floor in the ruckus.

PLATT (CONT'D)

You don't understand! The space

station has been sabotaged! The *

Messenger is going to explode! *

Miss Lane! You must tell my story!

SECURITY GUARD:

(to Perry)

Sorry, sir. He ran right past

reception.

The Guards cuff him, and start to drag him away as he

continues to rant. Lois protest the rough treatment.

-- page break -- Rev. 3/9/93 7A.

17B CONTINUED:
17B

LOIS:

Wait a minute, don't...

SECURITY GUARD:

We've had trouble with him before.

The guy's a box short of a variety

pack.

They continue to haul him off, but he's still desperate to

get his message to Lois.

PLATT:

Please! You have to believe me!

The space program is doomed!

The security guards drag him into the elevator and the

doors close. Perry breaks the silence.

PERRY:

Okay, folks. Show's over.

Everybody back to work.

The staff returns to work, chatting about the intrusion.

Lois sits down at her desk, watches as a secretary picks up

the package left on the floor, dumps it in a nearby trash

can. Lois, always on the trail of a possible story, walks *

nonchalantly from her desk to the trash can and retrieves *

the package... *

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