Real Genius Page #3

MITCH:

Chris Kinsley.

ATHERTON:

You know Chris?

MITCH:

No, but he's a legend in the Physics Club.

ATHERTON:

Well, you're going to become a legend yourself. You'll be working with Chris. He's a senior now but he's still on the team and still as brilliant as ever.

MITCH:

Wow.

INT. PACIFIC ELECTRONICS INSTRUMENTS-DAY

We see CHRIS KINSLEY, Chris has on his head a pair of those jiggling antennae-like things. WE PULL BACK to revel that he is on a tour of the facilities.

A huge hanger-like room filled with workers constructing and assembling scientific instruments. This place has the look and feel of the Big Time.

Workers put the finishing touches on a communication SATELLITE. Passing through this Disneyland of Science is a well-dressed executive. ROBERT JENSEN, who is guiding Chris on the tour. Chris was heralded as one of the smartest people to ever enter Pacific Tech. He proved to be even smarter than many of his professors. He also proved to be one of the most outrageous people to ever enter Pacific Tech. his antics are legend. Unimpressed with authority, pomposity and bullshit in general., Chris dresses on the sloppy side of life. Currently he's wearing a sports jacket that's seen better days, over a faded sweatshirt that has the logo "I ? Toxic Waste."

They approach a second executive/scientist, MIKE DODD, who is wearing a lab coat, and a beautiful public relations executive named SHERRY NUGIL, who is also wearing a lab coat but in a whole new way.

JENSEN:

(as they approach the couple)

Guys, I want you to meet Chris Kinsley. Chris, this is Sherry Nugil, my assistant, and Mike Dodd.

CHRIS:

Dr. Dodd?

JENSEN:

He's the man who just designed the new Telcom Satellite here.

CHRIS:

I know. Nice to meet you Dr. Dodd. Isn't the Telcom raining debris all over Europe?

DODD:

(smiling, but angry)

That was a launch problem, not a design problem. Why are you wearing that toy on your head?

Chris takes the thing from his head.

CHRIS:

Oh, this. Sorry, I was worried that people would think I was stuffy, You know, no fun; all brain, no penis,

JENSEN:

Pardon?

CHRIS:

I'm sorry, it's just an infantile response to authority.

JENSEN:

(confused)

Yes. you are Chris Kinsley, aren't you?

CHRIS:

No. Well, yes. I mean, I used to be. Now I'm Mhavishnue Kinsley.

JENSEN:

(relieved)

I see. You are being funny.

CHRIS:

Well, I just can't help it. You're such a fun guy yourself.

JENSEN:

Oh yes. I think you'll find we all are, right Mike?

DODD:

No.

JENSEN:

Now Chris, Sherry is going to show you around the place. She can answer any questions you might have about fringe benefits or dress codes or anything and I'll see you back upstairs when you're done, okay? Sherry, take good care of this young man. He's one of the ten finest minds kin the country.

CHRIS:

Someday I hope to be two of them.

JENSEN:

See you later.

Jensen and Dodd exit.

CHRIS:

You are very beautiful.

SHERRY:

You don't act like one of the top ten minds in America.

CHRIS:

Oh, really? How many of them have you met?

SHERRY:

(with a really dirty look in her eye)

Seven.

CHRIS:

Really?

SHERRY:

You'll be eight. Six was Professor Hostetler at M.I.T.

CHRIS:

Old Professor Hostetler? Isn't he dead?

SHERRY:

He is now.

INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE PEI FACILITY- ALITTLE LATER

Sherry and Chris stare intently into one another's eyes.

SHERRY:

And so, coupled with full insurance coverage and bonus plans, you find it adding up to a fairly sizable perks package.

CHRIS:

I have a pretty sizable perks package right now.

SHERRY:

Also, we understand that you people don't care too much for rigid timetables, and that's pretty rare in private industry.

CHRIS:

So are you.

SHERRY:

Is it true that school of yours keeps getting smarter and smarter kids every year?

CHRIS:

Yup! I mean no!

INT. YET ANOTHER PART OF PEI- A LITTLE LATER.

SHERRY:

You see the funding associations are the same. Our theoretical work is in the Blue Sky sector as well.

CHRIS:

You have no idea how much I need that kind of continuity in my life right now.

INT. CATWALK ABOVE A HUGH LAB- A LITTLE LATER STILL

SHERRY:

You just belong here, Chris. We have several of Dr. Atherton's former students and they're all doing quite well with us.

CHRIS:

What number was he?

SHERRY:

Two. One of his other students was four.

CHRIS:

You're wonderful.

SHERRY:

I know.

CHRIS:

Can we go somewhere?

SHERRY:

Yes.

EXT. ROOF OF HANGER-DUSK

The giant dish of a huge radio telescope faces heavens.

SHERRY (O.C)

(between kisses)

Talk smart to me.

CHRIS (O.C.)

What?

ANGLE ON CHRIS AND SHERRY

They are lying in the middle of the dish. Passion mounts, fingers cope with belts and buttons, clothing falls away; my god, these people are having sex.

SHERRY:

Please I need it. What was your favorite course?

CHRIS:

I guess right now I'd have to say Fluid Mechanics.

SHERRY:

Oooooooooh...

CHRIS:

(responding to something interesting Sherry just did with her hips)

And Gym.

SHERRY:

Please.

CHRIS:

Sorry.

SHERRY:

What's your research with Artherton?

CHRIS:

Ultra-high power laser as an energy force for fusion. Tremendous boon to all mankind. And womankind, too.

SHERRY:

Fusion, more fusion.

CHRIS:

It's the process for obtaining enormous amounts of energy from forms of hydrogen, like Deuterium and Tritium.

SHERRY:

Oh, my God, more.

CHRIS:

Extracting the fuels is no problem.

SHERRY:

Hmmmm.

CHRIS:

Getting them to combine and release the energy is the problem.

SHERRY:

Oohh, yes

CHRIS:

It takes temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius.

SHERRY:

Oh, God.

CHRIS:

So, I'm...

SHERRY:

Yes.

CHRIS:

...building...

SHERRY:

Yes.

CHRIS:

...a laser...

SHERRY:

Oh, yes.

CHRIS:

...that pulses...

SHERRY:

Hmmmmmmmm.

CHRIS:

...very hot...

SHERRY:

Ohhh...

CHRIS:

...and causes...

SHERRY:

Yes.

CHRIS:

...Fusion...

SHERRY:

Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

EXT. PACIFIC TECH CAMPUS-DAY

It is an impressive campus of older California Spanish building mixed with modern architectural marvels. This is the Sunday before the beginning of the Winter Term.

We pick up MITCH SIMON and FOLLOW him as he crosses campus. He is wearing a tie and jacket, which only adds to his general sense of being out of place. He is carrying a map which he stops to consult every now and again. He stops an upper classman and asks him a question while pointing at the map. The older asks him a question while pointing at the map. The older student takes great delight in turning the map right side up.

EXT. PRESIDENT'S HOUSE-AFTERNOON

The tasteful and elegant official residence of the university's President. DR. EUGENE MEREDITH. MITCH approaches the open front door, where he is greeted by MRS. MEREDITH.

MITCH:

Good afternoon. I'm looking for

(reading from the invitation in his hand)

the President's Freshman Tea.

MRS. MEREDITH.

(leading him inside)

Oh, good. I'm so glad we have one then. Who are you?

INT. THE HOUSE-CONTINOUS

They pass through on their way to the backyard.

MITCH:

Mitch Simon.

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