Silver Bullet Page #4

JANE:

You booger!

MARTY backs up the wheelchair so he's out of her reach.

MARTY (grinning)

It really is for your birthday, though -

try it on Brady. He'll wet his pants.

JANE:

Go to hell!

INT. MARTY, BY THE DOOR

MARTY (smiling)

I love you, Janey.

INT. JANE, IN BED

She tries to be angry with him... and cannot (this is a

response, we'll find, that both MARTY and his UNCLE AL

evoke). She smiles at him a little.

INT. MARTY

He reverses his wheelchair, also smiling a little, and

leaves.

EXT. TARKER'S MILLS, UNDER THE MOON NIGHT

We're looking down at a brave little nestle of lights.

SOUND:
A HOWL.

EXT. A HOUSE SOME DISTANCE OUT IN THE COUNTRY

There's one light on upstairs and another downstairs... also

downstairs is the bluish flicker of TV light.

An ivy trellis climbs one side of the house.

SOUNDS:
Canned laughter; TV dialogue.

INT. THE LIVING ROOM OF THE RANDOLPH HOUSE

STELLA'S MOTHER, asleep in front of the TV.

INT. A PRETTY CHINA DISH, CU

A whole bunch of capsules are dumped into it.

THE CAMERA DRAWS BACK to show us STELLA, sitting by her

vanity mirror. The rest of the room is reflected in the

mirror, including the window - we are upstairs.

[NOTE:
It would be nice to see that fat moon floating in the

window!]

There's a framed picture of STELLA's ex-boyfriend on the

vanity beside the dish of pills. STELLA sets down the empty

prescription bottle the pills came from beside this picture.

We can clearly read the word "Nembutol" on it. There is also

a large glass of water on the vanity table.

STELLA turns the picture facedown. She might be crying but

probably she's not. She takes about five of the pills,

starts to lift them to her mouth-

A HOWL outside... closer.

STELLA looks around for a moment, then takes the pills with

some water. She pauses, looking at herself.

STELLA:

Suicides go to hell. Especially if

they're pregnant. And I don't even care.

She takes another five pills. And another five.

SOUNDS:
Rattling foliage.

EXT. THE IVY TRELLIS NIGHT

Claw-hands are seizing it and climbing. SOUNDS of hoarse,

guttural breathing.

INT. STELLA AT THE VANITY TABLE

She takes another handful of pills... and the window behind

her shatters inward. There is a bellowing roar as the

werewolf throws itself through.

INT. THE LIVING ROOM, WITH MOTHER

She sits up, startled awake.

From upstairs:
ANOTHER SHATTERING ROAR... FOLLOWED BY A

SCREAM.

INT. STELLA'S ROOM, WITH STELLA

She runs... and a huge claw-hand rips through the back of

her nightgown.

INT. THE LIVING ROOM, WITH MOTHER

MOTHER:

Oh my dear God... Stella!

She runs for the doorway and the hall. From upstairs comes a

confusion of SOUNDS: roars, breaking furniture, shattering

glass.

INT. STELLA'S BED, CU

One of those deadly claw-hands sweeps down the bed, ripping

through the sheets... the mattress... the spring itself.

Hairy, muddy feet with protruding talons leap onto it.

EXT. STELLA'S WINDOW, EXTREME UP-ANGLE

The werewolf leaps out - it's graceful, savage, animal.

SOUND:
A TRIUMPHANT HOWL.

INT. THE UPSTAIRS HALL, WITH MOTHER

She's found an ancient pistol somewhere and is lugging it

gamely along.

MOTHER:

Stella!...Stella!

She reaches the closed door of STELLA's room, vacillates

there for a moment... and then pushes it open and goes in.

A long beat of silence as we hold on the door.

MOTHER SHRIEKS.

INT. MOTHER'S FACE, ECU

She shrieks again.

INT. STELLA'S ROOM, WIDE

It's a total shambles; blood is splattered everywhere; the

mirror is broken, the picture of DAN the gay deceiver is

broken; the bed is torn in two. There are big, muddy

wolfprints on the remnants of the bed.

STELLA lies propped in the corner with Nembutols all around

her. Suicide may have been what she planned, but it sure

isn't what happened.

MOTHER SHRIEKS.

EXT. TARKER'S MILLS MONTAGE MORNING

a.) MR. PELTZER puts out his paper rack - just the

"Press-Herald" this morning. He looks shocked and grim. The

scare headline:
BRUTAL MURDER ROCKS WESTERN MAINE. We can

see STELLA'S photograph.

b.) Through the window of Robertson's Luncheonette, we see

the proprietor, BOBBY ROBERTSON, talking earnestly with a

bunch of men. Among them: MILT STURMFULLER, ALFIE KNOPFLER,

VIRGIL CUTTS, BILLY McCLAREN, and ELMER ZINNEMAN, a farmer

we'll meet later.

c.) At Andy's Sporting Goods, ANDY FAIRTON is putting a big

hand-lettered sign in the window. It reads: REMINGTON

SHOTGUNS SINGLE ACTION DOUBLE ACTION PUMP PROTECT YOURSELF

AND YOUR FAMILY!

d.) At the Methodist parsonage, a '53 Dodge pulls slowly out

and MOTHER RANDOLPH gets out, weeping. As she approaches the

parsonage door, LESTER LOWE comes out and embraces her.

EXT. A SMALL BRICK BUILDING ON MAIN STREET

The sign reads:
TARKER'S MILLS TOWN OFFICE.

INT. A HALLWAY, FEATURING A DOOR WITH A PEBBLED-GLASS PANEL

Neatly lettered on the panel: TARKER'S MILLS CONSTABULARY.

And below this:
JOSEPH HALLER.

JOE HALLER (voice)

Okay...yes...Oh, f*** off!

INT. THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE, WITH HALLER AND PETE SYLVESTER

HALLER slams the phone down with an angry bang. He looks

like a guy who has been up all night. PETE, his pudgy

deputy, looks like a high school athlete who has suddenly

found himself batting in the World Series.

PETE:

What'd they say, Joe?

HALLER:

They said they'd be here by noon.

PETE (nervous)

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea telling

that Smokey Bear from the Detective

Division to f*** off, Joe.

HALLER (morosely)

I waited until he hung up. Jesus, what a

mess. I wish I'd stayed in the army. Let's

go on out there.

He gets slowly up.

EXT. TARKER'S MILLS CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL AFTERNOON

It's a comfortable red-brick building on a side street. Ivy

climbs up the sides. Two or three rows of bikes stand along

one side of the building.

SOUND:
The bell rings.

A beat or two, then the doors bang wide and a billion kids

spill out. It's the end of the first day of school, and they

are excited. They range from Grade 1 to Grade 8. Most kids

book it for home as fast as they can, getting on their bikes

and riding or just running.

Everyone has a pink report card.

EXT. A BUNCH OF KIDS, WITH BRADY KINCAID AND TAMMY

STURMFULLER:

BRADY and TAMMY are riding bikes. Now there is the SOUND of

a gasoline engine, and MARTY catches up. He's got the Silver

Bullet's motor running for the first time in the movie.

Later on it will sound extremely powerful, like a racing

car, but now it just sounds like a big lawnmower engine with

a muffler on it. It's pretty cool, though - a bright

metallic silver with flame decals on the motor housing.

Looks sort of like something Big Daddy Roth might have

thought up. On the back is a license plate which says SILVER

BULLET.

BRADY:

Look out! Look out! It's Madman Marty and

the Silver Bullet!

TAMMY laughs.

BRADY:

You glad to be back in jail, Marty?

MARTY:

Sure - I like school.

TAMMY:

You booger.

MARTY:

That's what my sister says, too. Pretty

soon I'm going to start checking the

mirror to see if I'm turning green.

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