Peggy Sue Got Married Page #8

Peggy wipes away a tear. At the stunned reaction of the class

and Miss Otto.

EXT. PLAYING' FIELD

The baseball team practices. Michael Fitzsimmons runs laps

with the track team. One lone boy kicks a soccer ball.

CLOSE - A BATONTWIRLING IN THE AIR

WIDEN to INCLUDE the baton spinning down, falling into the

hands of a uniformed majorette who deftly passes it through

her legs and twirls it back into the air. Another baton — it

rises, spinning awkwardly and falls through Peggy's hands

onto the ground. Six MAJORETTES in uniform are practicing.

Dolores is one of them.

DOLORES:

(to Peggy)

What a girl. What a twirl. You

know, Peg—Leggy, you're gonna get

demoted to hall monitor -

HEAD MAJORETTE:

Come on, Peggy Sue.. Try it again.

You haven't been practicing.

Peggy gamely tries it again and manages at least to catch the

baton and continue twirling. She continues, enjoying herself.

Michael runs by, the lonely long distance runner.

EXT. PLAYING FIELD — LATER

The group of majorettes heads toward the school. Peggy sees

Charlie leaning against the car, waving her over.

CHARLIE:

Looking good out there.

PEGGY:

Thanks.

CHARLIE:

I noticed you were giving me the

silent treatment at lunch. I guess

I deserved it. I've been thinking

about my three year plan and I

think it's unworkable. I must have

been delirious.

PEGGY:

I thought it had a lot of merit.

CHARLIE:

In the abstract maybe. Get a grip

on yourself! But when I imagine you

going out with other guys, I

feel... ah...

PEGGY:

Rejected, worthless, miserable.

CHARLIE:

Yeah. Like that.

PEGGY:

Good.

Peggy turns, and walks away. Charlie looks miserable.

INT. PHYSICS LAB

Peggy enters and approaches Richard. He is too engrossed

constructing an elaborate kite to notice her.

PEGGY:

What a great kite.

RICHARD:

I'm writing a book on kite

construction. What did you want to

talk about?

PEGGY:

I want to ask you a question.

(beat)

Do you think...time travel is

possible?

RICHARD:

Are you doing some kind of science

project?

PEGGY:

Sort of.

RICHARD:

Well... in a Newtonian framework,

the possibilities were limited, but

with the advent of relativity

theory, the idea of absolute time

can no longer be reasonably

affirmed.

Peggy hasn't understood a word.

RICHARD:

And then, there's Richard's

Burrito.

PEGGY:

What's that?

RICHARD:

That's my own theory based on a

Mexican food called the burrito.

I had it once when my parents took

me to Disneyland.

PEGGY:

Iknow what a burrito is.

RICHARD:

Well, I think time is like a

burrito. Sometimes it just folds

over on itself and one part touches

the other.

PEGGY:

What's inside?

RICHARD:

You can till it with whatever you

want. From illusions to memory,

from experience to innocence, from

happiness to the entire universes

PEGGY:

So you think time travel is

possible? For people?

RICHARD:

Absolutely. People, dogs,

elephants.

PEGGY:

Listen, you've gotta keep this a

secret. You can't tell a soul.

Promise?

RICHARD:

Okay. I promise.

PEGGY:

This is serious. Nobody can know.

Ah, I've returned from the future.

I traveled back here 25 years.

RICHARD:

You probably are crazy. Wait a

minute. Is this some kind of joke?

I know what you all, think of me.

PEGGY.

No. Really. You're the smartest

person I know. It sounds

unbelievable. But I can prove it.

RICHARD:

Oh yeah?

PEGGY:

You have a blind grandfather. One

day you're going to invent a

machine that reads books for blind

people. I read about it. You're

going to be famous. You're going to

invent a lot of things.

RICHARD:

How, did you know about my

grandfather?

PEGGY:

Because I'm telling you the truth.

I know what's going to happen.

There's going to be test tube

babies and heart transplants. And

an American named Neil Armstrong is

going to walk on the moon. On July

20, 1969.

RICHARD:

Holy Toledo! That's six years

ahead of schedule!

EXT. STREET

Peggy and Richard are walking, carrying their books.

RICHARD:

But when did you leave? Are you

here until then? Were you there

until now? What direction are you

going in? Are you a moving point on

an infinite line extending into the

past? Can anyone do it?

PEGGY:

I don't know.

Oblivious, Peggy and Richard walk by Shower's Cafe. Inside,

Dolores and Carol see them.

EXT. ANOTHER STREET — APPROACHING RICHARD'S HOUSE

RICHARD:

I'd be very careful if I were you.

You don' t want to fall into the

clutches of some madman with plans

to manipulate your brain.

PEGGY:

That's why I was getting a

divorce..

(beat)

What I really think is that I had a

heart attack at the reunion and

died.

EXT. RICHARD'S DRIVEWAY

RICHARD:

You look pretty good for a corpse.

PEGGY:

Come on, Richard, I'm serious.

RICHARD:

You're giving me the creeps.

PEGGY:

Am I dead or not?

RICHARD:

There's one way to find out.

Richard stops and throws down his books. He steps in front of

Peggy, throwing down her books, dragging her to the curb.

PEGGY:

What're you doing?

RICHARD:

Confucious says, The way out is

through the door. There's a truck.

There's your door.

A large truck speeds towards them.

RICHARD:

Step in front of the truck! If

you're dead, it won't matter. The

truck'll go right through you. Go

ahead! You're dead!

Peggy takes one step off the curb. The truck is getting

closer. The truck BLOWS A LOUD SUSTAINED WAIL.

PEGGY:

No! I don't want to die!

INT. RICHARD'S GARAGE

A completely outfitted laboratory, kites decorate the walls.

RICHARD:

Okay, you're not dead, but

according to every law of science

what you say happened to you is

impossible.

PEGGY:

What if it's beyond science? What

it it's God?

RI CHARD:

Einstein said "God doesn't play

dice with the universe." I'm a

scientist. I believe that there's

an order to things. Why would God

bring you back as a high school

girl?

PEGGY:

I don't know.

RICHARD:

You're a molecule in chaos, a

discontinuent aberration. Maybe

you've just got powers of

precognition. Well, maybe you're

just out of whack.

PEGGY:

I told you, I've already lived my

life. I don't know how or why I'm

here, but you have to help me get

back. I want to get back to my real

life!

RICHARD:

All right, I'll work on it, I'll,

do some research. But in the

meantime, don't get crazy.

PEGGY:

I'm trying. I'll see you tomorrow.

(heads out the door)

RICHARD:

What if you're not here tomorrow?

INT. KELCHER HALLWAY

Peggy comes home, enters hallway.

MRS. KELCHER (O.S.)

This necklace is sapphire, it was

my Grandmother's.

Peggy Looks into the living room.

PEGGY'S POV:

Her mother is sitting on the sofa with a strange MAN in a

suit. She's served him tea. There are several, pieces of old

jewelry spread on a cloth on the coffee table. The man is

examining one of the pieces. Mrs. Kelcher seems surprised

that Peggy's home from school.

Peggy moves on into the kitchen.

INT. KELCHER KITCHEN

Peggy hears her mother let the man out. She enters the

kitchen.

PEGGY:

Who was that man?

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