Stuart Little 2 Page #9

STUART:

Snowbell, how can you think offood at a time like this? Stay ontrack, will you?

(suddenly points)

Look!

Stuart and Snowbell zero in on a cellular phone stickingup out of a woman's purse sitting beside her chair.

Stuart rushes to it. He climbs up the side of the purseand tumbles into it, landing alongside a packet of Kleenextissues, a set of keys, a box of Altoids, a pile of loosechange, and the phone. He turns it on and dials.

Suddenly we hear George on the other end and CUT BACK ANDFORTH BETWEEN them.

GEORGE:

Hello, Little residence.

STUART:

(whispering)

Oh, George, I'm glad you answered.

GEORGE:

Who is it? Can you speak louder,

please?

STUART:

(raising his voice

a bit)

George, it's me, Stuart.

GEORGE:

Stuart!

(then lowering his

voice quickly)

Stuart. Where are you? How are

you? Did you find her? Are youall right? How's Snowbell? When

are you coming home? Mom and Dad

are asking lots of questions.

STUART:

So are you. Look, I only have asecond. I just want you to knowthat I found her, I'm going off toget her right now, and with anyluck, we'll be home by fouro'clock.

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GEORGE:

But where are you?

STUART:

We're at the Pishkin -At

that instant a WOMAN's hand reaches into the purse andpulls out Stuart along with the phone.

WOMAN:

I'll just call my husband and -She

sees Stuart clinging to the phone and screams.

WOMAN:

A mouse! There's a mouse using myphone!

STUART:

It's all right, calm down.

a credit card call.

It was

She begins screaming at the top of her lungs.

54 INT. LITTLE LIVING ROOM - DAY 54

George is standing next to the living room phone with hisschool bag still on his back.

Stuart?

there?

GEORGE:

Stuart? Are you still

Suddenly Mrs. Little appears carrying Martha.

MRS. LITTLE

George, is that Stuart?

GEORGE:

(quickly hanging up)

Uh... let me think. Yeah.

MRS. LITTLE

Well, where is he? I thought hewas coming home.

GEORGE:

(nervous)

Uh, he is. Later. He and Will

needed to rehearse some more. In

fact, I just left them at Will's.

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There is a KNOCK at the door. Mrs. Little goes to answerit. Will is standing there.

WILL:

Hi, Mrs. Little, is George here?

MRS. LITTLE

Will?

George turns white and dashes into the hallway.

GEORGE:

Will! I found it.

WILL:

Found what?

GEORGE:

The... calculator.

WILL:

The cal...

GEORGE:

(pulling him)

It's in my bedroom. Come on, I'll

get it.

MRS. LITTLE

Will, where's Stuart?

WILL:

Stuart?

GEORGE:

It's okay, she knows about theplay.

(to Mrs. Little)

They wanted it to be a surprise.

(to Will)

I had to tell her. So she knows

Stuart is at your house, and we'regoing right back over there.

WILL:

(gets it)

Oh, yeah. Right. It's going tobe great. I just needed to getthe... calculator?

GEORGE:

To figure out how long they shouldrehearse.

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WILL:

It's a very complicated play.

GEORGE:

Come on, it's on my desk.

WILL:

See you later, Mrs. Little.

The two boys quickly run up the stairs to George's room.

Mrs. Little stands there with her daughter.

MRS. LITTLE

George, remember, you and Stuarthave a soccer game later.

GEORGE (O.S.)

We'll meet you there!

55 EXT. NEW YORK STREET - DAY 55

Will and George are walking over to Will's house.

GEORGE:

I can't handle this. I'm too

stressed. All this lying. I've

never lied before.

WILL:

That's why she believes you.

56 EXT. PISHKIN BUILDING - DAY 56

Stuart and Snowbell are standing outside the PishkinBuilding wondering what to do.

SNOWBELL:

What are you planning to do,

Spiderman, scale the wall?

STUART:

I'll think of something.

Stuart stands there silently for a moment and then noticesa balloon man selling balloons across the street. His

eyes widen.

57 INT. WILL'S BEDROOM - DAY 57

George and Will are playing Battleship when Will's brotherDAREN, 14, comes into the bedroom carrying a portablephone.

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DAREN:

George, it's your mother.

GEORGE:

My mother? Oh, no. What did youtell her?

DAREN:

Tell her? I said, 'Just a minute,

I'll get him.'

He hands George the phone. George takes a deep breath.

GEORGE:

Mom? What's up? Stuart? Well

actually, he's... taking a nap'cause, they've been working sohard on... the big dance number.

If you want I can put the phone byhis mouth and you can listen tohim breathe.

He holds it up to Will who makes little mousey snores.

GEORGE:

Okay, I'll have him call you assoon as he wakes up... I love you,

too.

WILL:

(mousey voice)

I love you, too.

George hits him.

GEORGE:

No, that was Will's brother.

'Bye.

(hangs up andturns to Will)

Now what do I do?

WILL:

Maybe we should go look for him.

GEORGE:

Where? All he told me was he was

at a wall.

WILL:

A wall? What kind of wall? There

must be a million walls in New

York.

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GEORGE:

Boy, are we in trouble.

WILL:

We?

GEORGE:

Yeah, 'we.' He didn't spend the

night rehearsing at my house.

58 EXT. SIDE OF PISHKIN BUILDING - DAY 58

A helium-filled balloon rising up alongside the PishkinBuilding.

A Coke can is suspended beneath it like a makeshiftgondola. Stuart is standing inside it, slowly dribblingout handfuls of sand to lighten the load. He looks down

at Snowbell who is waving at him as Stuart rises higherand higher up the side of the building.

59 OMITTED 59

60 EXT. TOP OF BUILDING - DAY 60

Stuart rising even higher up the side of the building.

The balloon is being buffeted by winds.

He is almost at the top. He sees the falcon gargoylesjust above him. And then he is there. With perfecttiming he steps out of the gondola onto the terracesurrounding the pinnacle of the building. It is strangelyempty and unguarded. Clearly not many people arrive this

way.

Cautiously, Stuart reaches into his knapsack and pulls outa bow made out of a paper clip and rubber band, and a pincushion full of arrows. He begins stalking through thelarge space crouched like a policeman with a gun.

STUART:

(quietly)

Margalo? Margalo? Are you up

here? Is anybody here?

Stuart sees a large, frightening-looking bird shadow onthe wall. He gasps in fear, then turns to face thedanger. Only it turns out to be Margalo.

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STUART:

Margalo! Are you all right?

MARGALO:

Stuart! What -- ? Stuart, you'vegot to get out of here! Falcon

is!-

STUART:

That's what I figured. That's whyI'm here. I came to rescue you.

MARGALO:

(touched)

Rescue me?

STUART:

Of course!

MARGALO:

So you don't know about...

STUART:

About what? Come on, let's go.

MARGALO:

Stuart... I can't go.

STUART:

Sure, you can.

MARGALO:

Oh, Stuart... there's somethingyou don't understand. I...

They hear:

FALCON (O.S.)

Maybe I can explain.

They look over and see Falcon who beckons.

FALCON:

Let me show you something.

Stuart hesitates.

FALCON:

Afraid?

STUART:

No!

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