Superman Page #22

EVE:

(wary)

If I help you . . . Will you save

my mother first?

SUPERMAN:

But Lois . . . and Jimmy . . . are . . .

EVE:

My mother comes first, promise

me. I know you wouldn't break a

promise.

SUPERMAN:

(he has no choice)

Pro. . . promise . . .

EVE looks around, quickly makes up her mind, dives off the crumbling railing into the pool.

239CANGLE ON POOL

EVE swims over to SUPERMAN who is just about to go under. She reaches out

to unhook he chain from his neck, grabs hold of it, suddenly stops, looks deeply into

SUPERMAN'S eyes.

SUPERMAN:

What ...

EVE suddenly kisses him hard, breaks, then unhooks the chain. The Kryptonite sinks to the bottom of the pool. SUPERMAN actually seems to enlarge in the water, all his super-strength returning in a rush. He looks at EVE curiously, his power recharging itself.

239CCONTINUED

SUPERMAN:

Why did you kiss me first?

EVE:

Cause you wouldn't have let me later.

SUPERMAN:

(now at full strength)

Thank you, Miss Teschmacher...

EVE:

You too.

(almost misty eyed)

I... just can't get it on for the good guys,

you know?

SUPERMAN roars up out of 'the pool, heading for the roof of, the complex like a supersonic

blue dart.

240METROPLIS STREET - DAY

SUPERMAN bursts through the pavement on a busy midtown street, streaks up into the sky at top speed.

240ASKY - DAY

SUPERMAN flies for speed, straining himself to reach the maximum. He looks off and

down.

240BANGLE ON MISSILE - SUPERMAN'S POV

Far below - the missile. In the distance looms the city of Hackensack.

240CBACK TO SUPERMAN

He dives for the missile.

240DEXT. SKY - ANOTHER ANGLE

SUPERMAN plants himself firmly in mid-air directly in the path of the oncomingmissile,braces himself to grab it. As the missile flies straight at him, it suddenly changes course.

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240DCONTINUED

SUPERMAN lunges for it but it veers off out of reach, then whizzes away into the distance.

SUPERMAN flies off after the rocket, a look of grim determination on his face.

240FEXT . HACKENSACK - DAY - AERIAL VIEW

The missile zooms on toward Hackensack.

240GEXT. SKY - ANOTHER ANGLE

SUPERMAN catches up, now comes at the missile from the side. But the sensory device picks him up again - the missile dodges out of range, leaving him behind.

240HCLOSE ON MISSILE

The missile speeds on. SUPERMAN comes back into frame, catching up. He grabs it from

Behind, gripping it tightly. With a mighty effort, he wrenches the rocket off its course. Steering it from behind he accelerates quickly, flying straight up into sky.

241EXT. STRATOSPHERE

SUPERMAN climbs higher and higher over the United States, gaining speed, suddenly flings the missile up into space like a javelin. It whistles off into the blackness as SUPERMAN wheels in mid-air, looks back down at the United States, freezes in horror.

241AANGLE ON WESTERN U.S.A. - SUPERMAN'S POV

ROCKET #2 hits the San Andreas Fault and explodes! A white-hot mushroom cloud starts to form.

241BBACK TO SUPERMAN

SUPERMAN streaks back down to Earth.

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241BEXT. SKY - MUSHROOM CLOUD

SUPERMAN circles the mushroom cloud at top speed, going faster and faster, not only

stopping its expansion but actually compressing it. He then dives straight into the center of

the holocaust.

241CINT/EXT. MUSHROOM CLOUD

SUPERMAN swoops to the base of the cloud, blows up with his super-breath.

241DANGLE ON MUSHROOM CLOUD

The entire cloud with its fallout and pollution is blown high up into the stratosphere, away

from Earth.

242CLOSE ON SUPERMAN

SUPERMAN stops in mid-air, looks, listens. A loud rumble begins, gathering in intensity. The earthquake has arrived.

242AEXT. CALIFORNIA COAST - DAY

The land shakes on the Pacific Coast. Huge chunks of cliff begin to fall into the sea.

242BANGLE ON LANDSCAPE - SUPERMAN'S POV

Great yawning cracks rip open across the land in all directions.

242CANGLE ON SUPERMAN

SUPERMAN quickly dives down; disappears into a crack in the earth.

243ANGLE - UNDERGROUND EARTH

SUPERMAN bores through the underground, desperately trying to repair the crack. He pushes plates of land back together, dams up a flow of onrushing lava, redirecting it, suddenly looks off and up through the earth with his X-Ray vision.

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244EXT. TRAIN TRACKS AND TRAIN - DAY

A long, sleek passenger train hurtles down the tracks, shuddering under the impact of the

earthquake.

244AINSERT SHOT - TRAIN TRACKS

A crack in the earth shoots across the tracks ahead, splitting the rail ties.

244BBACK TO TRAIN

The train rushes on, unable too stop

244CBACK TO CRACK

SUPERMAN suddenly appears in the crack, coming up from underneath, now physically spans it with his body.

244DWIDER ANGLE

The long train rolls over SUPERMAN, continues on safely down the tracks.

245EXT. HIGHWAY AND POWER CABLES - DAY

A complex of enormous electric power cables stretches across a highway jammed with

shaking automobiles and panicked MOTORISTS. Suddenly - one cable snaps: showers of sparks fly high into the air as the live cables drop down toward the metal cars below.

245ACLOSER ANGLE

SUPERMAN swoops down, grabs a cable end in either hand. For a moment he almost

resembles a bright blue light bulb as the powerful current runs through him. Pressing the cables together with his super-strength he literally solders them, then once more safely strings them tight across the highway.

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246EXT. HOLLYWOOD - DAY

The famous Hollywood Sign perched on the hill in Los Angeles trembles, then cracks apart

in the center. It starts to fall.

246AANGLE ON GIRL SCOUT TROOP

SUPERMAN lands in the middle of the broken sign, pulls on the two halves with either

hand, pushing it back together to spell HOLLYWOOD again, solid once more.

247EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE - DAY

The famous Golden Gate Bridge sways precariously, then sags, starts to break in the center.

247ACLOSE ON BRIDGE

Several cars and a school bus begin to topple off, their OCCUPANTS frozen, screaming in

terror.

247BWIDER ANGLE ON BRIDGE

SUPERMAN flies under the bridge, pushes up, saving the vehicles and straightening the

bridge.

247CCLOSE ON SUPERMAN AND BRI DGE

SUPERMAN holds the bridge up, quickly welds the cracks shut again using his X-Ray

vision.

248EXT. DESERT - DAY - CLOSE ON LOIS\

LOIS speeds across the desert in her car which shakes from the impact of the quake.

248AEXT. SKY CLOSE ON SUPERMAN

SUPERMAN, flying at top speed, looks down, spots LOIS. A crack in the earth erupts behind the car, almost seems to chase it, overtaking the car from behind.

248BCLOSER ANGLE

LOIS' car topples into the crack in the earth, falling down some fifteen feet.

248CCLOSE ON LOIS

LOIS is pinned inside her car by the double walls of earth. The crack now starts to close

again, squashing the vehicle as the metal groans and LOIS screams.

248DANGLE FROM BELOW

SUPERMAN shoots up from the earth below, pushes the car up and out, lifts it into the air.

He looks down.

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