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Stepmom Page #5
Eyes down. Choosing her words.
RACHEL:
She's really a difficult person...
Looks up.
RACHEL:
Best thing ever happened to you was
her throwing you out on your butt.
An afterthought...
RACHEL:
Not that I have a personal stake
in it.
LUKE:
Get ready. To get really mad.
RACHEL:
Uh. Annabelle's video report has been
switched again.
LUKE:
Not yet.
RACHEL:
Hey, I sold my body to Satan to clear
Friday at two o'clo...
LUKE:
We have the kids. Next weekend.
WHAT???
LUKE:
And it's my call. I promised them
water-skiing, instead o...
RACHEL:
(quiet pain)
Our weekend. At that sweet little
B & B.
He puts his arms around her.
LUKE:
And the evil part is. I am so stoked
about the water-skiing. I can't wait.
He tastes her mouth. And again. A sweet, hot moment. Her fingers
trace up his neck. To his hair.
RACHEL:
No, this is good. Celibacy is
healthy. For a guy your age. You'll
get used to it.
From the kiss that follows. He won't have to.
INT. JACKIE'S KITCHEN - DAY
CLOSE ON an ANSWERING MACHINE. IT CLICKS, WHIRLS, and...
RACHEL (O.S.)
Hi, it's the trophy bimbo. Annabelle's
teacher called, and her video report
is being moved up to 8:30 tomorrow.
Sorry to deprive your step aerobics
class of their role model.
RACHEL (O.S.)
Anyway. I'm sorry I lost my temper
the other day. And I'm sure you are,
too, so...
...BEN, looming over the hardware. Fingers poised above the
buttons, and he...
RACHEL (O.S.)
...no, apology necessa...
...strikes! Playing all the keys at once. Like chords on a baby
grand.
INT. CLASSROOM - MORNING
CLOSE on a small TV MONITOR, the angelic face of 10-year-old TAMARA,
practicing for the Miss America Diplomatic Interview, circa 2009...
TAMARA:
Well, I I had a million dollars...
I would use it to...feed all the
precious hungry children of the world.
And bring about total world peace.
PULL BACK to see the class and teacher watching raptly. Filmmaker
Annabelle in the seat of honor next to her proud father. Rachel in
the back of the room, anxiously looking at the back door. While on
screen...
...another face. JARED, bad as he wanna be...
JARED:
A million big ones. Oh. I'd buy
about a thousand babes. Not to do
anything bad, I mean. Just to hang
with.
Near the monitor, Annabelle's eyes are also furtively cutting to
the classroom's back door. On screen now...
...the handsomest 10-year-old since DiCaprio. BRAD the Dreamboat.
Stares soulfully at the camera. Murmurs...
BRAD:
Well, first off, Annabelle. I'd
give half of it. To you.
The class OOOOOS, WHISTLES. Annabelle flushes, but she clearly
likes it. Brad grins a Redford grin her way. And through the back
door BURSTS...
...a harried, disheveled JACKIE. Still in workout clothes. As on
screen...
ANNABELLE:
There you have it. Now ask yourself
The screen goes BLACK. The class, teacher and especially Luke
ERUPT with APPLAUSE. So does Jackie, who has locked eyes across
the room with her mortally-wounded abandoned daughter. Then
Jackie's eyes CUT TO...
...Rachel, a deer in headlights. Death by Army ants would be too
kind.
INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY
Annabelle, Luke and Jackie GLARING at Rachel, who looks awkwardly at
her feet. KIDS stream past, unaware of the gravity of the moment.
JACKIE:
Machines do not EAT message.
RACHEL:
Look, I...
JACKIE:
Of all the cheap excuses. To break a
child's heart.
The jury is in. There is no appeal. Jackie takes her daughter's
hand.
JACKIE:
Don't worry, sweetie, there's still
the Harvest Pageant. And you are
the lead vegetable...
Said with bottomless pride.
JACKIE:
And nothing. And no one. Can
keep me away.
One laser look at Luke. This b*tch is your responsibility. And
she leads her baby off.
EXT. JACKIE'S HOUSE - DAY
A parked VAN, packed with SNOWBOARDS and ski gear. No people. PAN
across the suburban lawn to...
...Luke, dejected, at Jackie's door. Rachel nearby, still peers
into the window of an unlit, empty house. A cellular phone RINGS.
Luke WHIPS it out, like the Governor's pardon hangs in the
balance...
JACKIE (O.S., from carphone)
You paged us?
LUKE:
(distraught)
Where are you?
INTERCUT throughout...Jackie on her cellular, herding the kids
toward a CIRCUS TENT...
JACKIE:
Just outside the big top, we're
almo...
LUKE:
You're WHERE?
JACKIE:
At the Big Apple Circus, it's the
only big top I know. I said I'd
get 'em back tonight...
LUKE:
Jackie, we were taking them water-
skiing for the whole weekend!
JACKIE:
(innocent)
...until the plan changed, when
Jessie's mom gave us these tickets.
What, Rachel. 'forgot' I told her?
Luke's eyes DART to an uncomprehended Rachel. She's never seen
him this angry.
JACKIE:
Don't tell me. Another machine ate
another message? Boy, there's a lot
of that going around! Put her on, huh?
A beat. He hands the phone to Rachel. She brings it to her ear...
RACHEL:
Yeh?
JACKIE:
Think twice. Before you ever pull
that again.
CLICK. The line is dead. And so is Rachel.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK CASTLE - DAY
A glum Annabelle and Ben sitting on a bench watching Rachel at her
photo shoot, George between them.
A beautiful WOMAN appears in the turret -- she lets down her hair --
a modern day RAPUNZEL -- her golden locks fall 17 feet -- now a BURST
of yellow -- as a hundred YELLOW CANARIES fly out from her mane! A
beautiful MAN begins to CLIMB the hair. FLASH! The man DANGLING
in mid air surrounded by canaries.
Rachel works with intense concentration. It's been hours.
Annabelle and Ben are completely bored.
RACHEL:
(to Cooper)
The timing was off -- I need this light.
ANNABELLE:
(to herself)
Just where I wanna be all Saturd...
RACHEL:
(to everyone)
Hold lunch!
ANNABELLE:
But we're hungry -- and I have to pick
up my costume for the pageant! It
starts at seven!
RACHEL:
It's only one o'clock...Why don't you
get another Fudgesicle -- I'll be done
soon -- really soon.
Annabelle and Ben. Rolling their eyes.
LATER...Annabelle asleep on the bench. Rachel stands over her, a
canary on her finger.
RACHEL:
Lunch time Sleeping Beauty. Where's
Ben? Is he in the bathroom?
ANNABELLE:
I don't know...I feel like I'm gonna
throw up.
EXT. PARK MEN'S ROOM
Annabelle stands with Rachel by a line of empty urinals.
ANNABELLE:
What if he's kidnapped?
RACHEL:
He's not kidnapped he's -- he's just
hiding -- he's just -- BENNNN? GODDAMMIT!
Panicked, she grabs Annabelle's hand.
ANNABELLE:
Don't touch me! You bring bad luck!
Rachel. Starting to believe it.
INT. CASTLE TOWER - MOMENTS LATER
Breathless, Annabelle and Rachel CLIMB the castle stairs when they
hear WHIMPERING -- Rachel follows the whimpering -- RUNNING --
RACHEL:
Ben! Ben we're here! BEN!
In the corner of the tower we see GEORGE staring up at her. But
Ben is NOWHERE to be found.
ANNABELLE:
He's gone forever and I'm gonna miss
the pageant.
Rachel once more. Her life flashing before her eyes.
EXT. POLICE STATION, CENTRAL PARK - LATER
Jackie BLASTS up in the Volvo, SLAMS to a stop in a non-spot, RACES
into...
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