Stuart Little 2 Page #10

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MARGALO:

Stuart, don't!

STUART:

It's all right.

Stuart follows Falcon into Falcon's lair.

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There is stolen merchandise -- jewels, rings, pins,

etc.!-- in old paint cans.

Falcon enters with Stuart and Margalo behind him.

MARGALO:

Please, Falcon -STUART

What is this?

FALCON:

My treasures. All the things inhere... are stolen... many of themby Margalo.

(points)

This one... and this one...

(holds up Mrs.

Little's ring)

And this special one.

STUART:

My mom's ring! How -- ?

FALCON:

Try to follow along. She justpretended to be hurt, so you'dtake her in. That's what she

does. 'Oh, maybe if I had a placeto sleep. A little jewelry boxperhaps.' Sound familiar?

STUART:

(to Margalo)

You...?

FALCON:

Margalo works for me. In fact,

she does anything I tell her todo... or else.

STUART:

I see...

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Margalo is ashamed.

FALCON:

Aw, look at him... his little

mouse heart is broken. By theway... if you've ever had mouseheart... it's delicious.

MARGALO:

Falcon, don't.

Falcon walks towards Stuart. Stuart raises the bow.

STUART:

(aims his bow)

All right, birdbrain, give me backthat ring... because my friend andI are leaving.

MARGALO:

Friend?

FALCON:

Friend?!

STUART:

That's right. Friend.

He looks at Margalo. She smiles. Stuart smiles.

FALCON:

(to Stuart)

Good-bye... 'friend."

MARGALO:

No!

Stuart fires a pin from his bow. It travels truly butFalcon turns sideways and catches it in his mouth. Then

he spits it back at Stuart. The pin catches Stuart'scollar and pins him to the wall, his feet danglingpathetically off the ground. Falcon keeps coming at him.

STUART:

I hope I wasn't out of line withthat 'birdbrain' remark.

Falcon pulls out the pin. Stuart drops to the floor.

Falcon towers over him, spreads his wings and screeches ashe shows his claws.

MARGALO:

Falcon, no!!

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Falcon picks Stuart up in his talons and flies him overthe edge of the building. He holds him for a beat... then

drops him.

MARGALO:

Stuart!

She goes to help him, but Falcon intercepts her violentlyand carries her SQUAWKING into an old, small, battered

birdcage. He throws her inside and slams the door.

MARGALO:

You didn't have to kill him!

FALCON:

I didn't. The sidewalk's gonna do

it.

STUART FALLING:

Stuart, screaming, is tumbling rapidly. He gets an idea.

He pulls off his backpack and empties it. Then clutching

it by the backstraps, he holds it over his head. The wind

catches it creating a parachute effect which, at least,

slows his rate of descent. It fills with air and becomes

a parachute. He begins to float down.

He lands in a moving garbage truck. Luckily it is a softlanding and he quickly stands up. Unfortunately, as hestands a load of garbage is dumped on him. A big metalcan hits him on the head. His eyes crisscross as theworld blurs before him and he topples onto a mound ofgarbage bags and passes out.

62 EXT. GARBAGE BARGE 62

Stuart covered in coffee grinds and not sure where he is.

He hears the sound of a BOAT WHISTLE and grabs histhrobbing head. Quickly he climbs to the top of a moundof garbage bags and gasps. He is on a garbage bargepulling away from a Manhattan dock and heading out to sea.

At the far end of the barge, up a high metal wall, he seesthe barge CAPTAIN and his first mate piloting the boat.

He scampers over a ton of rubbish and tries to call up tothem.

STUART:

Help! Help! This is a mistake.

I'm not supposed to be here.

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But they are far away and he is barely a speck to them,

his tiny voice drowned out by the ROAR of the ENGINE.

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64 EXT. PISHKIN BUILDING - DAY 64

Snowbell is standing anxiously in front of the PishkinBuilding looking lost and forlorn. He stares up at aclock and shakes his head.

SNOWBELL:

I'll bet something terrible hashappened. What should I do? Oh,

Lord, I need my belly tickled.

65 EXT. WILL'S HOUSE - DAY 65

There is a KNOCK at Will's door. WILL'S MOTHER answers

it. Mrs. Little is standing there with Martha in astroller and two soccer uniforms.

MRS. LITTLE

Mrs. Wilson, hi. George andStuart left without their soccer

uniforms, so I brought them over.

Kids -- they'd forget their headsif they weren't attached.

MRS. WILSON (WILL'S MOTHER)

Well, George is here, but... Ihaven't seen Stuart.

MRS. LITTLE

(confused)

But... he slept over here lastnight.

CLOSEUP - GEORGE

MRS. LITTLE (O.S.)

(angrily)

George?!

GEORGE:

(to Will)

Which way is Canada?

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66 EXT. GARBAGE BARGE - DAY 66

Stuart is on the barge. He's using a broken piece ofpencil to write on a dirty scrap of paper. A whiskeybottle is alongside.

STUART:

Dear Mom and Dad, I am writingthis letter and placing it in thiswhiskey bottle, so you will knowwhat's happened to me -- your son,

Stuart Little. In a few minutes I

will be dumped under a ton ofdisgusting trash into the EastRiver.

(thinks)

No, that might upset them. Dear

Mom and Dad. I've run away tojoin the circus. I will from now

on be known as Gazombo the

Mouseboy. Say good-bye to George.

Give Martha a kiss for me. All

my love... Gazombo.

He rolls it up and starts to put it in the bottle butdrops the bottle. It breaks.

STUART:

Oh, I am so useless. I thought aLittle is always supposed to seethe silver lining... that mustmean I'm not even a real Little.

Behind Stuart something glints. Stuart's ears twitch.

He's sensing something. Slowly, he turns. He sees the

glint.

STUART:

A silver lining.

He walks towards the pile of garbage from which the glintappeared. He begins tossing aside refuse, until he seessomething that amazes him.

STUART:

I don't believe it!

(gets closer)

It is!

To his absolute astonishment he has found his broken

airplane buried in the garbage.

STUART:

My airplane!!!!

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He pulls pieces of the plane out of the rubble and staresat what remains of it. It is not a pretty sight. It has

broken wings, a smashed front window, a badly damagedfuselage, and the flight manual jammed inside. It's in

terrible shape and there is no way it could ever fly.

STUART:

The silver lining! This is it! I

am a Little!

He takes a deep breath and begins scouring the barge foranything he can find.

We watch Stuart consulting the flight manual andassembling a pile of strange objects, Band-Aids, Styrofoamcups and packing material, old combs, string, cardboard,

Q-Tips, rubber bands, electrical wire, and lots of AAAbatteries which he pulls out of old television remotes andbroken electronic toys.

Dowzer and Snoop fly over to watch Stuart, intrigued byhis extraordinary industriousness.

He hears:

SNOOP (O.S.)

Hey, Dowzer, come here.

Stuart peeks over a mound of garbage and sees two stupidpigeons, SNOOP and DOWZER. Snoop is looking at somethingwe can't see.

SNOOP:

Wanna see the stupidest-looking

pigeon you ever saw?

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