Starman Page #20

STAR MAN:

No.

JENNY:

You'll keep the car. I'll take a

bus...

(an awful possibility

occurs to her)

Am I going up there with you... in

your ship... up there?

STAR MAN:

No.

JENNY:

Then let me go. You don't need me.

STAR MAN:

No.

JENNY:

I feel like I'm going crazy here.

You're Scott. But he's dead. I don't

know what's real anymore. I can't be

here with you.

The STAR MAN is unyielding.

JENNY:

Do you understand what I'm saying to

you? You can keep the car.

(she hands him some

money)

That should be enough for gas from

here to there. Please let me go.

STAR MAN:

(taps the red dot on

the satel compass)

When we get here.

Jenny slams herself angrily back in the seat.

JENNY:

You bastard.

Her upper lip trembles and, in spite of herself, she might

cry. The STAR MAN sees the center lane is open. He checks

his side mirror and drifts over, only to be caught by a light.

The car is still rolling when Jenny makes her move. She throws

open the door and, by the time the STAR MAN turns around,

she is out and running.

STAR MAN:

Jennyhaydn!

He takes his foot off the brake to go after her and the car

lurches into the cross traffic. He clambers back behind the

wheel, regains control and cuts a hard right in front of the

other car waiting at the light.

EXT. STREET - SIOUX FALLS - DAY

Over her shoulder, Jenny can see the Mustang coming. She

dodges up a brick walkway toward a J.C. Penney shopping mall.

The Mustang skids to a stop at the curb. The STAR MAN jumps

out in time to see Jenny push her way past a stream of

pedestrian traffic and enter the mall. He leaves the car and

zigzags through the people in that direction.

INT. SHOPPING MALL - DAY

As he barges in, the STAR MAN accidentally knocks a cup of

Coke out of a YOUNG MAN's hand.

YOUNG MAN:

Hey!!

In a panic to find Jenny, he continues jostling past people

to look in the shops that border the atrium.

MEZZANINE:

Jenny warily approaches the railing and peers over. Below

her the STAR MAN comes out of a record store. She turns away

and gets on the escalator to the second floor.

ON THE GROUND FLOOR

The STAR MAN thinks he sees Jenny in an electronics store,

but when the girl turns around, it is obviously not her.

Backing out of there, he knocks over a sandwich board

advertising a restaurant. The LOUD THWACK it makes when it

hits the cement turns faces in his direction.

Jenny's is not among them. His eyes raise to the mezzanine.

Maybe she's there. He looks wildly around for a way up. He

spots the escalator and, trying to keep the upper floor in

view while he runs for it, he slams into an unattended pram.

It begins to tip over. The BABY INSIDE SCREAMS. The STAR MAN

manages to snatch it out of the carriage before it hits the

floor. He is looking for a place to put it when the MOTHER

comes charging out of a plant store.

MOTHER:

My baby!!! He's stealing my baby!

Burt!!

The STAR MAN holds the baby out to her.

She grabs it out of his hands and he turns to leave.

MOTHER:

Burt!! Somebody stop him!! He was

stealing my baby!!

Two tough-looking MEN in T-shirts step in to block the STAR

MAN's way to the escalator.

MAN:

Where you think you're going?

Not understanding, the STAR MAN tries to get by them. They

push him back.

STAR MAN:

Please.

A tall, skinny blond man with spectacles elbows his way to

the Mother.

MOTHER:

He was trying to steal Gloria.

Two steps and Burt is on the STAR MAN. He spins him around.

BURT:

Is that right? Huh?

He throws him back against the crowd that has gathered.

STAR MAN:

(stutters)

Please.

Burt pulls the STAR MAN up by his shirt front and shakes

him.

BURT:

Is that right? Come on. Answer me.

Fear erases the STAR MAN's tenuous grasp of English and he

begins to jabber in his own language. This makes Burt even

madder.

BURT:

Were you trying to steal my baby?

Huh? Answer me!

STAR MAN:

Jennyhaydn!

SECOND FLOOR:

Jenny has just gotten on the escalator to the third floor

when she hears her name. She knows she shouldn't but she

gets off and joins the crowd at the railing. From there, she

can see the STAR MAN trapped in a circle of people. He clubs

Burt away from him and tries to thrash his way out of the

mob.

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