Starman Page #24

INT./EXT. MUSTANG - DAY

The following conversation will be played over various views

of Americana:
a station wagon load of kids, waving and

laughing, lovers kissing at a bus stop, billboards, car lots,

a dog taking a leak against a tree, cheerleaders practicing

on a football field, a funeral cortege, a telephone repairman

up on a pole.

JENNY:

You thought we were a different

planet?!

STAR MAN:

No. My ship was doing a map of all

the suns and...

JENNY:

Stars... When a sun is far away, we

call it a 'star.'

STAR MAN:

We were doing a map of the stars and

all the other things up there when

we saw a small ship. My... eh... we

kidnapped it. On it there was a map

that said how to come to Earth. This

was very important. Before then, we

thought we were the only people in

all the stars.

JENNY:

You did? That's funny. So did we.

STAR MAN:

Yes?

JENNY:

Yes.

STAR MAN:

We told our home, and the people who

tell us what to do on my planet said

to come and look but not to talk,

not to land, not to shoot. Just to

look from up there. We came and...

the driver of my ship...

JENNY:

The captain...

STAR MAN:

The captain wanted to land to see

close and to get some things from

Earth to take home. The police came

and shot at us. One of the people

from my ship was killed.

JENNY:

Oh, that's terrible. I'm sorry. Was

he a good friend?

STAR MAN:

I don't understand 'friend.'

JENNY:

A friend is a person that is good to

you... someone you like to be with...

someone you like to laugh with...

STAR MAN:

He was a good friend... The captain

took the ship away fast and I was

not in the ship.

JENNY:

The police shouldn't have started

shooting. But you can hardly blame

them. You surprised them. They didn't

know you were up there. When they

saw you, they thought you were here

to hurt us.

STAR MAN:

I understand.

JENNY:

Sounds like your captain's going to

get hell when he gets back home.

STAR MAN:

What is hell?

JENNY:

It's bad.

STAR MAN:

He will.

Pause. Jenny feels the STAR MAN staring at her. She turns to

look at him. His gaze doesn't waver. She looks back at the

road, then back at the STAR MAN.

JENNY:

What are you doing?

STAR MAN:

Are you my friend?

JENNY:

Yes.

STAR MAN:

(smiles)

I am your friend.

EXT. INTERSTATE 80 - NIGHT

Jenny's Mustang is whipping west out of Lincoln, Nebraska.

We HEAR A JUMBLE OF RADIO STATIONS as the SELECTOR is RUN

THROUGH THE FREQUENCIES.

INT. MUSTANG - NIGHT

Jenny is driving. The STAR MAN finds a RELIGIOUS STATION ON

the RADIO.

PREACHER (V.O.)

(on radio)

God is your creator. God is your

master. God is you savior. God is

the only reason that you exist. If

God...

STAR MAN:

(during the above)

Who is God?

Jenny is tired. She doesn't want to get into that.

JENNY:

Nobody knows.

STAR MAN:

Why?

JENNY:

I don't know.

The STAR MAN lets it drop and finds a COUNTRY AND WESTERN

STATION.

STAR MAN:

I like this music.

JENNY:

I've noticed... Do you understand

what they're saying?

STAR MAN:

Not all... but it feels like a kiss.

Jenny smiles at him, then:

JENNY:

Do you have music up there?

STAR MAN:

Yes.

JENNY:

I'd like to hear it. Can you sing

something?

STAR MAN:

I do not want to.

JENNY:

Don't be afraid... I'd really like

to hear it.

She TURNS OFF the RADIO.

JENNY:

Please.

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