Peggy Sue Got Married Page #19

PEGGY:

What do you mean you and my father

decided? Who the hell are you to

plan my life? Let's get married and

live happily ever after. Bullshit.

I got knocked up. I had to marry

you. I never had a choice.

CHARLIE:

What?

PEGGY:

You betrayed me, Charlie. You were

never there for me or the children.

And now you come and tell me,

"Peggy, you're scared." Of course

I'm scared. If you knew what I knew

you'd be scared shitless.

CHARLIE:

You're crazy! You're really out of

your mind!

PEGGY:

I might be crazy, but I'm not crazy

enough to marry you twice. There's

a lot of things I can't change. I

can't even think about them. I

tried. But I couldn't even help

Rosalie.

(tears start)

I don't want to be bitter. I'm a

naturally optimistic person. But

you took advantage of that.

Charlie bends down to comfort her, in tears. He hugs Peggy

and strokes her hair.

CHARLIE:

Oh, Peggy. My poor Peggy. It's all

my fault. I'm so sorry. I won't

bother you anymore. I promise.

Please stop crying. Please.

Peggy starts to compose herself.

PEGGY:

Will you take me back to my

grandparents?

CHARLIE:

Of course.

Charlie helps her up. Be reaches into his pocket and takes

out a small box, handing it to Peggy.

CHARLIE:

It's almost your birthday. I wasn't

sure when you were coming back, so

I brought your present up here.

With a slow, growing remembrance, Peggy opens the box. Inside

is the gold locket Peggy was wearing at the reunion.

PEGGY:

(anguished)

Oh, Charlie.

CHARLIE:

It opens, too. Look inside.

Peggy opens the locket. She shivers with recognition.

INSERT - LOCKET

Two photos, one of Peggy, one of Charlie, as children.

PEGGY:

Scott and Beth. Where did you get

these?

CHARM E:

Who's Scott and Beth? Your mother

gave me our picture. That's you and

me.

PEGGY:

So are Scott and Beth.

Peggy leans into Charlie, throwing her arms around him,

holding on for dear life. She looks up at him, their

foreheads touching.

CHARLIE:

(tenderly)

I love you.

PEGGY:

I know.

Charlie kisses her, passionately. The locket drops to the

ground. HOLD on the locket, and...

DISSOLVE:

EXT. ON THE HILL - LATER

Charlie and Peggy are lying on the ground, gazing up. A flash

of lightning streaks across the sky.

CHARLIE:

I think we should get out of here.

It's going to rain.

PEGGY:

(musing)

Do you think anybody in the Fifties

ever made love on a bed?

CHARLIE:

What the hell is that?

Flying high above them is an enormous, glowing, liquid neon

kite. The center of the kite inscribed in lights, flashing

like a marquee:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEGGY SUE.

The kite begins to descend towards them. Peggy jumps to her

feet and races towards it. She grabs the tail and starts to

sail away with the kite. Charlie chases after her.

CHARLIE:

Peggy! Where're you going? Come

back!

PEGGY:

I've got to go now.

CHARLIE:

But I love you. I'll love you

forever.

PEGGY:

I'll love you, too, Charlie. I'll

love you for twenty years.

CHARLIE:

Come back to me.

PEGGY:

I'm trying.

As Charlie watches helplessly, a huge bolt of lightning

strikes his car. Peggy smiles. The men from the lodge run

outside. They look up and above the blazing car and see Peggy

floating away. Peggy sees her grandfather in the crowd and

blows him a kiss. Charlie begins to run, following the kite

cord to its source. He finds Richard, struggling to restrain

the runaway kite.

CHARLIE:

Richard, do something!

RICHARD:

I can't! It's out of control!

Suddenly the cord breaks. Peggy floats away.

CHARLIE:

Peggy!

Charlie, Richard and the old men behold Peggy, bobbing and

dipping playfully in the sky. We begin to HEAR Charlie's

VOICE singing "Peggy Sue" O.S. Peggy looks down with wonder

at the earth, and then like a comet, soars into the

blackness. In an instant she becomes a star.

FINAL SCENE:

DISSOLVE/OPTICAL

HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY

Moving from two to C.U. Peggy, fragments of the reunion, the

cake coming towards her, fragments of words in echo effect:

'Your heart stopped for a while..." Father's voice:

'You're a very lucky young lady...' Doctor: 'A (explain) of

the head...' Mom's voice: 'But you're going to be all right

now, the paramedics got there...' Mom, 'We were so

worried..."

Echoing of, until once voice is left. Charlie. Sitting

opposite her bed, as he has been every minute of her illness.

He looks wan and old, worried sick, but trying to sing 'Peggy

Sue' for her.

CHARLIE:

(singing softly).

Peggy Sue, I love you, and I need

you Peggy Sue...

PEGGY:

Charlie? Was I dead?

CHARLIE:

I thought you were...for a while.

PEGGY:

(affectionately)

You look awful, like you haven't

slept in days. And so old.

CHARLIE:

But happy. Very happy, Peggy Sue.

PEGGY:

Charlie, I thought I knew

everything about you.

CHARLIE:

I wanted to apologize. I can't live

without you.

PEGGY:

What about Janet?

CHARLIE:

That's over. I got tired of

translating everything. She thought

the Big Hopper was a hamburger.

Charlie laughs uncomfortably and Peggy Sue looks around her

hospital room.

PEGGY:

Who are all the flowers from?

Charlie pushes himself out of his chair and moves toward the

dresser.

CHARLIE:

Everyone. Maddie and Arthur, Carol

and Walter. Richard Norvick. And

here's a book, by that guy from

high school, Michael Fitzsimmons.

He dedicated it to you.

Charlie returns to Peggy's bedside and opens the front cover

of the book.

ANGLE ON BOOK:
the front page bears the title "The Pilgrim

Soul" and the dedication reads "to Peggy Sue and a Starry

Night".

Peggy smiles but shakes her head.

PEGGY:

It couldn't be me. I hardly knew

him.

CHARLIE:

I'll just set it right here.

He places the book on her bedside table as he sits back down.

PEGGY:

Charlie, I had a strange

experience. I went back to high

school. And I spent a lot of time

with you. And you and Walter and

Leon were singing "I Wonder Why".

CHARLIE:

Oh, God, Dion.

PEGGY:

You were terrific. And I kept

trying to push you away but you

wouldn't give up.

CHARLIE:

I'll never give up.

PEGGY:

Then hold me.

He holds her hand.

CHARLIE:

I loved you since the day I met

you, and I haven't stopped.

PEGGY:

Don't try to charm me, Charlie

Bodell.

CHARLIE:

Listen, I don't expect all the

troubles between us can just vanish

away. But I would do what I can...

PIGGY:

Charlie, please, I need some time.

CHARLIE:

Well, I'll let you get some

rest...so long.

The VIEW PULLS BACK past the flowers. Charlie starts to exit.

Checks himself in the mirror.

PEGGY:

Charlie, I would like to invite you

to dinner at home, on Sunday, with

your kids. I will make a strudel.

He hurries back to her, kisses her again.

They hang on to each other as Beth enters the room.

FADE OUT.

THE END:

PEGGY AND RICHARD SCENE

To be inserted after Dolores/Peggy scene and to replace the

goodbye to Richard scene.

INT. SCHOOL LIBRARY - DAY

Empty except for Richard who sits alone in a study warren,

surrounded by books. Peggy approaches. Be puts down the book

he's reading. He smiles.

RICHARD:

You know, Peggy, there's so many

things to look forward to in the

future.

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