Superman Page #19
CMAERA PANS:
CLARK enters, looks around, notices that LOIS' desk is empty, headsfor the REPORTERS.
ANNOUNCER'S VOICE.
It is claimed that the XK101 can hit any target
Completely undetected since it flies well below
all radar systems yet designed ...
ONE REPORTER turns to CLARK.
REPORTER:
Hey, Clark. Chief wants to see you ...
CLARK:
Thanks, Eddie
CLARK crosses back to PERRY'S office.
ANNOUNCER'S VOICE
The ultra-modern, built-in sensory devices can detect
any object in its path and automatic1y avoid it, either
going over, under, or around...
5/5/77 TM
232AINT. PERRY'S OFFICE - DUSK
CLARK knocks. PERRY looks up from behind a stack of news dispatches.
PERRY:
Come in, Kent.
CLARK:
Hi, Mr. White . . .
(gestures)
Is Lois is around today?
PERRY:
She's out west looking into a land fraud deal. I sent young
Olsen with her on his first photo assignment. Some
unidentified joker's been buying up thousands of acres
of worthless desert at incredible prices.
CLARK:
Hmm. Doesn't seem to make sense . . .
PERRY:
The world doesn't make sense, Kent. You should know
that by now.
(tosses dispatch)
Look at this dispatch from Addis Ababa. People break
into a museum in the dead of night - kill two guards - and
what do they take? Some worthless hunk of meteorite .
How do you figure it.
CLARK:
I've never been able to understand violence in any form,
Mr. White.
PERRY:
(sadly)
I know that, Kent. That's part of the reason I wanted
to see you.
PERRY rises ponderously, hands in pockets, strolls pensively toward his half-opened
window, looks out.
16/4/77 TM
232ACONTINUED
PERRY:
I've been in the news business man and boy for
forty years. I got where I am with guts, compassion,
and elbow grease - but most of all with one thing you
sadly lack, my boy - aggression. Take charge, Kent:
Confidence, that's the ticket! Why, when was . .
As CLARK listens, PERRY'S VOICE seems to fade away, is replaced by a high-pitched whine like that given off by a high frequency transmitter. CLARK winces, hearing it, his hand rising involuntarily to his ear. PERRY drones on at the window, apparently oblivious to it.
232BEXT. METROPOLIS ALLEY - DAY
Several stray dogs rummage through turned-over garbage cans, suddenly stop as they hear
The whine, begin to howl and bay excitedly.
232CBACK TO PERRY'S OFFICE
CLARK tries to focus his super-hearing on the sound as it weakens momentarily and
PERRY'5 VOICE .fades back in again at the window.
PERRY:
... get Lois to introduce you to Superman.
Start to hang out with the guy. Give me the
man-to-man angle . . .
More dog howling is heard from the streets through the partially opened window.
232DCLOSE ON CLARK' S EAR
PERRY' 5 VOICE and the dog howls fade away as CLARK'S super-hearing picks up the
high-frequency message.
LUTHOR'5 VOICE
This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less
than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman,
and that's you.
16/4/77 TM
232EANGLE ON CLARK
CLARK listens, eyes widening as PERRY drones on silently out the window.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
In approximately five minutes a poisoned gas pellet
containing a propane lithium compound will be released
through thousands of air ducts in this city . . .
232FINT. CITY ROOM
CLARK slips out of PERRY'S office, quickly crosses the city room 'where the REPORTERS
cluster around the TV.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
(happy chuckle)
Effectively annihilating half the population of
Metropolis.
232GEXT. SIDE OF DAILY PLANET - DAY
Looking up from the street: CLARK jumps out a window high up on the Daily Planet
building. As he falls, a gradual transformation to SUPERMAN takes place in blurred, overlapping stages.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
I know it all seems a bit much, but how else was I
going to get to meet you, Superman? I knew you'd
never accept an invitation to tea.
SUPERMAN hits the street, the transformation having taken place. He stares up into the sky.
232HANGLE ON METRPOLIS SKYLINE - SUPERMAN' S POV
Seen by SUPERMAN'S X-Ray vision: The pulsating, high frequency sound waves originating from somewhere behind the skyline.
LUTHOR' S VOICE
But a disaster - with people in danger - people
who need help . . .
232IBACK TO SUPERMAN
SUPERMAN takes off in the direction of the sound waves, following them.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
I just knew you couldn't resist the chance of sort of ...
pitch in. Know what I mean?
232JEXT. OVER METROPOLIS - LOOKING DOWN - DAY
SUPERMAN looks down at a crowded city street from mid-air. The sound waves seams to
Emanate through a particular section of the sidewalk.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman.
But then, nobody's perfect. Almost nobody.
232KEXT. METROPOLIS SIDEWALK - DAY
SUPERMAN lands on the sidewalk. Happy PEDESTRIANS start forward with "Hey, it's
Superman," etc. He waves them away.
SUPERMAN:
Everybody back, please! Thank you . ..
Arms folded, SUPERMAN suddenly begins to spin in place like a figure skater, around and around at a dizzying speed, boring a circular hole in the pavement as the startled PEDESTRIANS hold on to their hats.
232LEXT. BELOW METROPOLIS STREET. - DAY
A CUTAWAY SHOT showing SUPERMAN boring through the ground with his spinning
motion, heading down through layers of rock, underground city cables etc.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
Unfortunately I'm not in the book, but a bright boy
like you should be ab1e to find the address ...
16/4/77 TM
232MINT. TUNNEL - DAY
The same tunnel we saw OTIS walk down in an earlier sequence. SUPERMAN bores
through the ceiling, hits the floor directly opposite a high-powered radio transmitter. He
looks down the length of the tunnel at the heavy metal door marked: DANGER - NO ENTY CONDEMEND.
LUTHOR'S VOICE
(now in tunnel)
See what I mean? And not a moment too
soon.
232NINT. LUTHOR' S VIEWING THEATER - DAY
LUTHOR, EVE and OTIS sit in comfortable seats in an elegant viewing theater inside the underground complex. A bank of large TV screensfaces them. TWO of the screens show
the two Danforth missile silos. A third has the image of SUPERMAN staring directly INTO CAMERA from the tunnel. LUTHOR sips a tall drink, smugly adjusts several knobs on a large console next to him. EVE chews gum, stares curiously at SUPERMAN. OTIS munches
on a large candy bar, excited.
LUTHOR:
Look at that overgrown Boy Scout, Miss Teschmacher.
Tell me what you see.
EVE:
(chewing)
Cuteness. Dimples.
LUTHOR'S eyes flash. EVE smiles nervously.
6/4/77 TM
232OCONTINUED
LUTHOR:
You like dimples? I'll give him
dimples
LUTHOR reaches for a button on the console.
232PINT. TUNNEL - DAY
SUPERMAN starts down the tunnel for the door. Suddenly panels open on both sides filled with machine gun barrels. They open fire simultaneously in a withering, deafening barrage. SUPERMAN walks forward calmly as thousands of bullets ricochet off' him.
232Q EXT. DANFORTH MISSILLE BASE - DAY
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