Nurse Betty Page #21

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CHIEF NURSE:

(cont'd)

Well, I'm sorry, but I can't even

consider you without references or a

resume. And frankly, I don't know how

you could have forgotten them.

85 INT. HOSPITAL / HALLWAY - LATER 85

On her way down the hall Betty passes a patient's room when

the sound of A PERSON MOANING stops her. She can't help but

go inside. A TV plays commercials.

AN OLDER WOMAN lies in bed, alone and staring at the ceiling.

Betty looks around and notices several arrangements of

flowers on a deserted nightstand. She brings them over to

the older woman's bedside, positions them, then gently

strokes her head.

BETTY:

There... you rest now.

The woman's eyes flutter. She is disoriented at first, then

calms as she adjusts to the comforting sight of Betty. Betty

takes her hand.

OLDER WOMAN:

Who... who're you?

BETTY:

I'm... I'm Nurse Betty.

The woman smiles serenely at this and begins to drift off.

Betty checks her monitors as the opening credits of "A Reason

to Love" begin to play.

She glances up at the doorway at the same moment and sees Dr.

David Ravell standing at the entrance. He checks the chart

on the door, smiles warmly at Betty and then moves off. In a

flash, Betty is up and after him.

The THEME MUSIC is her private soundtrack as she checks out

every man in surgical scrubs, looking for David Ravell.

Then... She sees him. In all his glory at the end of a

corridor walking away from her. Betty gives chase. She

gains steadily on him, her heart racing. As they near

Emergency the NOISE LEVEL picks up.

He stops at the nurses' station. Betty closes the gap. She

starts to run.

BETTY (CONT'D)

DAVID!!!

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He turns to face her ... It's not David Ravell.

BETTY (cont'd)

Sorry, I thought you were someone else.

(BEAT)

Do you know Dr. David Ravell?

The man shakes his head. Betty keeps going, looking around:

it's incredible - the size, the activity, the intensity.

86 INT. HOSPITAL - EMERGENCY AREA - SAME TIME 86

DOZENS OF PATIENTS lie on gurneys awaiting treatment in a

holding area. It's still more intense at the entrance:

VOICES talking back and forth urgently, POLICE OFFICERS,

CIVILIANS, DOCTORS AND NURSES converging.

87 EXT. HOSPITAL - EMERGENCY AREA - LATE AFTERNOON 87

FIVE AMBULANCES unload patients at the same time. At that

moment a group of TWENTY JAPANESE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS

reaches the E.R. portion of their tour.

A WHITE MERCEDES tears up the ramp and SCREECHES to a stop.

A YOUNG MAN in gang colors is pushed out, bleeding heavily.

A DOCTOR runs at the Mercedes to head it off, yelling

indignantly. The car plows right into him and takes off.

Another ambulance crests the ramp, lights flashing. The

Mercedes SLAMS into it head-on. NURSES AND DOCTORS run into

the parking lot. A GANGBANGER gets out of the Mercedes, dazed

and wobbly. He pulls a pistol. Everyone dives for cover.

The Mercedes driver is unconscious. The driver of the smashed

up ambulance is slumped over the wheel. The rear doors fly

open, and a young Hispanic woman, ROSA HERRERA, leaps out.

ROSA:

SOMEBODY HELP US! PLEASE, SOMEBODY!

Doctors and nurses work on patients and try to get to the

injured doctor, but the kid with the gun keeps them away.

SECURITY GUARDS draw their guns and scream at him to drop it.

ROSA (cont'd)

WHY ISN'T ANYBODY HELPING US?!!

(to gunman in Spanish)

Hey, you little sh*t! If I had a gun I'd

shoot you right now!

The loading area is jammed with panicked people. Doctors and

nurses creep out of the hospital on all fours, trying to stay

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low. No one is getting to Rosa, whose frantic eyes find

Betty. They look right at each other.

ROSA (cont'd)

What are you standing there for?!

Betty walks toward her calmly, indifferent to the danger as

Rosa pulls the gurney out of the ambulance herself. A

PARAMEDIC lies unconscious inside.

ROSA (cont'd)

You gotta help him, he's hurt bad!!

On the gurney is a YOUNG MAN with a chest wound, nearly dead

from blood loss. A DOCTOR appears and quickly examines him

while keeping one eye on the gunman. He looks up at Betty.

DOCTOR #1

Forget it! He doesn't have a chance.

Help us over here.

The doctor takes off. Rosa looks at Betty, crying.

ROSA:

Please!

Betty hesitates, then checks his pulse - he has none. She

peels back the bandages over a huge chest wound.

ROSA (CONT'D)

Danny, it's gonna be all right!

Betty looks at Rosa again; looks around for help - there's no

one. She plunges her fingers into the wound.

ROSA (cont'd)

(panic)

What are you doing?

BETTY:

He has no heartbeat!

ROSA:

You're hurting him!!

BETTY:

I'm massaging his heart. I saw it done

once.

ROSA:

ARE YOU CRAZY?!! STOP IT!!!

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