Starman Page #28

STAR MAN:

(subtitles)

Iron channel message. Almost caught

by pursuers. This may hinder escape.

Wait for me.

He lets the ball go and, with even more velocity than the

others, it zips into the sky.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. TRUCK STOP - NIGHT

A WOMAN in a Frederick's of Hollywood negligee lets a TRUCK

DRIVER out of one of the Winnebagos parked to the side of

the main building.

WOMAN:

Don't forget to tell the boys where

you had a good time.

DRIVER:

(calling back to her)

You weren't that good.

Her rusty laugh follows him into the parking lot. He walks

between the trucks to a semi which has half of a pre-fab

mobile home tied onto its flat-bed. The polyethylene that

covers the open side of the house flaps in the WIND at the

lower corner next to the cab. The Driver opens his door. He

takes out a staple gun and refastens the dark green plastic

to the house frame.

INT. HALF HOUSE - NIGHT

In the middle of the empty bedroom, the STAR MAN tries to

cushion Jenny against the sudden JOLTS made by the semi as

it lumbers out of the parking lot.

EXT. HIGHWAY 76 - NIGHT

With the Driver taking it smoothly through the gears, the

semi picks up speed.

INT. HALF HOUSE - NIGHT

The STAR MAN moves Jenny into a rectangle of moonlight shaped

on the floor by a high, wide window and strips off her blouse.

The cold light marbles Jenny's skin and makes the blood from

her wounds appear black. With her blouse, the STAR MAN wipes

away the blood on the right side of her head and neck. He

finds a deep glass cut on her cheek and two entry points in

her neck. He concentrates on her cheek and we can SEE the

glow of his brain through his human skin.

A bit of the white light comes out of his forehead. It tumbles

across to Jenny's cheek and settles into the wound. The STAR

MAN watches intently as one end of the wound flares brightly

for an instant, then dies. The flesh left behind has been

closed without a scar.

A larger piece of light drops out of his forehead into what's

left of the gash. With that area suffused in a healing glow,

he shifts his focus to the pellet holes on her neck. He sends

two pieces of light plunging into the wounds. Immediately,

they spread into halos which we can SEE radiating from under

the skin.

Out of the night comes a LONG BLAST ON the AIR HORN and the

STAR MAN has to steady Jenny as the truck swerves around

something in the highway.

When it settles back into its ride, the STAR MAN wipes the

blood off Jenny's shoulder. The beams of the passing cars

through the plastic catch the fatigue on the STAR MAN's face

as he works over Jenny.

EXT. HIGHWAY 76 - NIGHT

With its pre-fab house, the semi rumbles through Julesburg,

Sterling and Ft. Morgan. By the time it gets to Denver, dawn

is beginning to color the tips of the Rocky Mountains.

INT. HALF HOUSE - DAWNBREAK

It's still dark in here. With a chunk of light in his left

hand, the STAR MAN dabs at the last of Jenny's wounds, leaving

behind a phosphorescent bandage. More of these patches glimmer

up and down her right side. He checks her over to see if

he's missed a wound. He hasn't.

He covers her with his windbreaker and, exhausted by his

efforts, sits back against the wall. He waits to see that

Jenny is sleeping comfortably, then presses the palms of his

hands together. The satel compass appears between them. The

green dot tells him he is still on course.

EXT. INTERSTATE - SUNRISE

Colorado Highway PATROLMEN are dropping orange fluorescent

cones across two of the three westbound lanes to form a

roadblock. The sound of a harmonica draws us to Shermin's

helicopter parked in a meadow beside the road.

EXT. HELICOPTER - SUNRISE

As the radio technician plays the harmonica, Lyman clangs

down the steps and bends to wake Shermin who is sacked out

under the fuselage.

SHERMIN:

Tell him I'm not here.

LYMAN:

I did.

Shermin sighs and rolls over on his back. He looks terrible.

SHERMIN:

Get me a radio. At least I won't

have to look at his face.

EXT. MEADOW - SUNRISE

Shermin is holding a field radio to his ear.

FOX (V.O.)

We're growing very concerned back

here. There's no use pretending

otherwise. We're rapidly approaching

a 'condition red.' People are

beginning to ask difficult questions.

SHERMIN:

I'll make this as simple as I can,

George. They disappeared.

FOX (V.O.)

I don't care where you're from you

just can't disappear into thin air.

SHERMIN:

(through a punchy

hysterical laugh)

George, listen to what you're saying.

This thing's changed itself into a

man. Disappearing may not be that

big a deal.

FOX (V.O.)

So far you've let it cross the heart

of America. For two days it has been

absorbing information that is

detrimental to our security. I don't

see the humor in that.

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