Starman Page #18

STAR MAN:

Jennyhaydn.

She doesn't dare look at him.

STAR MAN:

I am good.

(and he slides the

.45 under his seat)

EXT. INTERSTATE - NIGHT

Jenny speeds up to pass a truckload of horses.

STAR MAN:

What is that?

She doesn't answer. The car passes the truck. The highway

before them is empty.

JENNY:

(finally)

Horses.

STAR MAN:

(without looking at

her)

Horses.

Jenny TURNS ON the RADIO and finds a COUNTRY AND WESTERN

STATION.

STAR MAN:

What?

JENNY:

Music.

It is pleasing to him and he listens for a while, then reaches

in his pouch and takes out one of the dusty gray marbles. He

rolls it between his palms. It changes to a glowing gold as

it grows to the size of a baseball.

JENNY:

(alarmed)

What are you doing?!

The STAR MAN brings the globe close to his mouth and speaks

into it.

STAR MAN:

(subtitles)

Iron channel message. Transmute was

successful. Have captured one of

them. It is taking me to the pick-up

point in a land vehicle.

(eyeing Jenny)

I think I can control it by mastering

its language, which is primitive and

easy to learn. Will arrive on time.

Wait for me.

The STAR MAN opens his hands and, to Jenny's astonishment,

the ball rises quickly and seeps through her roof without

leaving a trace.

EXT. INTERSTATE - NIGHT

The Mustang swerves violently, then straightens itself as

the ball comes through the roof and surges into the sky.

EXT. SKY - NIGHT

Unexpectedly, Shermin's helicopter storms into view. It is

so close we can count the rivets. As it clears, we go to:

INT. HELICOPTER - NIGHT

The flow of traffic on the Interstate below is being fed

into the six television screens from infrared cameras on the

belly of the craft. The image on the screen under the master

begins to move and ends in a close-up of a green Mustang.

It's not Jenny's. With a buzz the red dot appears and Fox's

face interrupts the view of the Mustang.

FOX (V.O.)

I just came from a meeting with the

Security Council and

(the picture breaks

up, but the voice

continues)

in view of the extraterrestrial's

radical change and the fact that all

our efforts

(the picture re-

assembles)

to contact its ship remain unanswered,

it was decided to issue a ten state

'all points bulletin' for Scott Haydn,

Jenny Haydn and the green Mustang.

The officers have been instructed

not to approach the people or the

vehicle but to contact you. You will

then move in and contain the subjects.

Shermin rubs his hands over his face while he digests this.

SHERMIN:

(sorting it out)

You sure you want this, because...

that's putting an awful lot of faith

in people we have no control over...

FOX (V.O.)

I'm afraid the situation demands

that kind of risk.

SHERMIN:

I don't like it, George...

FOX (V.O.)

Dammit Shermin. Earlier you were

asking for help. What's changed?

SHERMIN:

It's messy... the thing's got a gun...

We're just asking for somebody to

get killed...

FOX (V.O.)

We don't know what else to do. We

need results.

SHERMIN:

(accepting)

You'll get results one way or the

other, that's for sure... Okay.

FOX (V.O.)

I'm gonna be here if you need

anything.

His image is replaced by one of the highway.

MAJOR BELL:

They're gonna let some local cop

blow him away.

LYMAN:

Save us all a lot of trouble.

MAJOR BELL:

Jesus Lyman, you're an ignorant fool.

LYMAN:

Bullshit!

MAJOR BELL:

You have no conception of this, do

you?

LYMAN:

You jerk! You look at all the

sweetness and light and goodness you

think'll come out of this. You know

what's gonna come out of this... The

end of religion, the end of

civilization, the end of the earth.

We could become slaves, we could

become a colony of these things.

Don't you see that? Are you too stupid

to see that?

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