Point Break Page #17

HARP:

This is agent Dietz, DEA. He's got

a record of your suspect's movements

every day for the last three months.

DIETZ:

(stabbing the air

with the packets)

All I wanna know is how are these

guys supposed to be holding up

Tarzana City National on August 2nd,

when they are in Fort-f***ing-

Lauderdale August 2ND!!!

HARP:

Not an easy thing to do, is it,

Utah?

UTAH:

Aw sh*t.

PAPPAS:

Nice tattoo, Dietz.

We hear a faint BUZZ, growing louder as we...

CUT TO:

INT. BEDROOM - UTAH'S APARTMENT - DAWN

The doorbell BUZZ shrieks through the room. It stops.

Starts again. A ghostly dawn finds UTAH and TYLER

sleeping peacefully, limbs entwined like vines.

Johnny's eyes snap open. Spies the clock. 4:00 a.m.

Tyler stirs beside him, coming out of sleep.

Johnny wraps a blanket around his waist and staggers to

the door.

BODHI stands outside the door wearing a lunatic grin.

Behind him NATHANIEL, ROACH and GROMMET hoot from the

pickup.

BODHI:

C'mon brah, there's a righteous

swell. Let's go! Let's go!

Tyler comes into the room, wrapped in a sheet.

Utah sees her knowing smile.

TYLER:

He does this.

CUT TO:

EXT. BEACH - PREDAWN

Vampire morning. A misty predawn, bled of all color.

Steel gray tones. The ocean vanishes in the fog a few

feet from shore.

Tyler and Johnny, carrying their boards, walk toward the

water.

TYLER:

Come on, Utah. Everybody's out

there catchin' all the good rides.

She realizes he has stopped ten feet behind her, like a

great weight has dragged him to a halt.

TYLER:

What's wrong Johnny?

(goes back to him)

You're like a different person.

He stares at her. His expression dark... wrestling with

something.

UTAH:

I am a different person, Tyler.

He lets out a long breath and looks away, out to sea.

JOHNNY'S POV... the water receding into a backlit wall of

mist.

FIGURES APPEAR, faint silhouettes in the fog.

Shades of gray in the gray.

IN SLOW MOTION they weave hypnotically across the screen,

their shapes merging and unmerging as they cross each

other.

STACKED UP BY THE EXTREME LONG LENS, Bodhi, Roach, Grommet

and Nathaniel crave and slash toward us with mystical

grace.

In SUSPENDED TIME we see them hooting and grinning at each

other as they cut aggressive moves close to each other.

Dolphins playing.

Challenging each other in mock combat.

So good, their boards slash past each other with inches to

spare.

There is an incredible sense of freedom and exhilaration.

Bonding forged through mastery of this arcane art.

For the first time we see the core group of Bodhi's tribe,

by themselves. It dawns on us...

There are four of them.

And at that moment Nathaniel drops in front of Bodhi,

laughing at the near miss, and drops his pants in a nasty

wig-wagging moon.

TRACKING SLOWLY IN ON JOHNNY staring, mouth open.

Watching the four horsemen of the Apocalypse ride toward

him.

IN SLOW MOTION, BODHI grins as he slashes past Nathaniel's

shining white butt.

ON JOHNNY, as he reacts to the dawning certainty.

He feels weak, dizzy... like the ground is moving under

him.

TYLER:

Hey. You okay? You look like you

saw a ghost.

SHOCK CUT -- ANGELO TURNING TOWARD HIM, at the drop car

scene. Eons ago. The sound of his voice ringing...

PAPPAS:

Forget about it, kid, They're

ghosts...

BACK TO JOHNNY, as he backs away from Tyler. Still in

shock, recoiling from the situation.

UTAH:

I... I gotta go.

TYLER:

Johnny... what's going on? I don't

get it... did I do something?

UTAH:

No. I'm sorry. I have to go.

I'll, uh... I'll call you later.

I'm sorry.

He sets off running up the beach.

Tyler stares after him. Confused and hurt.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. PAPPAS' HOUSE - NIGHT

Early evening. Utah pulls into the driveway. When he

kills the engine we hear Greek music from inside the

house.

AT THE ENTRANCE Johnny finds the door ajar. He pushes it

open a little to reveal--

INT. HOUSE

Pappas dancing alone in the living room with his shirt

off, holding a glass of ouzo. Facing away from the door

the ample Greek hears Utah's tentative knock. Without

breaking from his dance or turning he calls out--

PAPPAS:

Hey, babe. Get on over here so the

big dog can teach ya how to bark.

Pappas howls like a bloodhound, then twirls around.

UTAH:

Woof, woof.

We see the startled Pappas, at a loss for the first time.

PAPPAS:

Johnny! Uh, you, uh... should call

first, you know? Hey, where the

hell were you all day? You gotta at

least call in or something. You

okay?

UTAH:

Angelo, we gotta talk.

Pappas moves toward him, kind of subconsciously herding

Utah back out the door.

PAPPAS:

Listen, uh... if you're okay, can it

wait till tomorrow morning, kid,

I...

Johnny hears footsteps and turns.

Miss Deer comes through the door like it's not the first

time, carrying a bag of groceries.

MISS DEER:

Angie, they didn't have the kind of

wine you like but I got... oh, hi

Johnny!

Her icy office persona obviously got left there. Her hair

is unbound and flows around her shoulders, and in halter

top and jeans she looks delectably off-duty.

Angelo looks at Utah like don't you say a f***ing word.

CUT TO:

EXT. HOUSE

A few minutes later. Utah and Pappas leaning on his car.

The younger agent seems to have regained his hunt-down

fever.

UTAH:

... so I started tailing him.

PAPPAS:

This Zen master surfer.

UTAH:

Bodhi, yeah. I'm on him all day,

right. He goes here, he goes there,

he goes to Tower Records and buys

come CDs, he has lunch at Patrick's

Road House...

(mock casual)

... he goes into the Assured Trust

Savings and Loan.

PAPPAS:

Did he rob it?

UTAH:

Cute. He was inside for about 20

minutes. The other guy, Roach,

waited in the truck. They were

scoping it out, right?!

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