The Omega Man Page #11

CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE

NEVILLE:

Oh, I won't let them do that, honey...

Maybe...

GROUP SHOT - CHILD

CHILD:

Are you God?

Neville smiles. Lisa cuts in.

LISA:

Let's find out if he’s even a doctor before we go promoting him.

They laugh as Dutch picks up the child puts her in cab of truck.

MED. CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE, LISA WAVING AT YOUNGSTERS

The fountain splashes In the B.G.

REVERSE SHOT TRUCK PULLING AWAY

CAMERA PULLS BACK. Truck in B.G. moving away. In F.G. on either side of frame in profile are Neville and Lisa looking at one Another.

DISSOLVE:

MED. SHOT - INT. RICHIE'S ROOM

Neville has a glucose drip set up, and on a table beside the bed various equipment for blood samples, etc. He stands looking down at the boy who mumbles, twists, resting uneasily. Neville picks up a hypo, draws some fluid from a small phial, gives Richie a shot. After a moment or so, his restlessness abates. Lisa comes into room quietly, comes up behind Neville quite close. She is in shadow, only barely visible.

LISA:

How about a break?

NEVILLE:

Well need one. There's nothing more to do until tomorrow...

LISA:

I mean for dinner.

Neville turns.

MED. CLOSE SHOT - LISA - NEVILLE'S POINT OF VIEW

In this shot, we discover for the first time since the very brief encounter in the clothing store that Lisa is an exceptionally beautiful woman. She is dressed In a white mini-skirt, completely feminine.

REVERSE SHOT - NEVILLES REACTION

MED. TWO SHOT

Lisa takes Neville’s hand, Pulls him toward other room.

MED. SHOT

In B.G. Lisa moves toward phonograph, Neville heads for liquor cabinet. As he passes bust of Caesar and chessboard, he glances down at, board.

NEVILLE:

Your move

MED. CLOSE SHOT - LISA AT PHONOGRAPH

She looks up slightly puzzled.

LISA:

What are we playing?

CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE

taking gin and sherry down from cabinet. He turns, looks puzzled too. Then he LAUGHS.

NEVILLE:

(pointing at bust)

My partner. Also my attorney executive officer, chief of staff...

Lisa takes cap off bust, perches it on her own head, grins at Neville.

LISA:

You sure know how to pick ‘em.

CLOSE SHOT -CANDELABRA, TABLE SET FOR DINNER

MUSIC is lush, insinuating The table setting Is expensive china and crystal. In B.G. the balcony, drapes parted, moon low in sky. SOUND of GLASS being filled, CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal Lisa and Neville sitting at table. He has on a shirt, neckerchief, sports coat.

NEVILLE:

How did you find the dress?

Lisa smiles.

LISA:

The same way you found the jacket. I hustled it.

Neville looks thoughtful.

NEVILLE:

I wonder why either of as bothered to pick them up.

Lisa finishes a mouthful of food.

LISA:

No bother. The house-fuzz was on extended vacation. Anyhow, you never believe you're the only one left. There was a song: someday my prince will come...

Neville grins.

NEVILLE:

Yeah. That was in Show White.

Lisa blushes, looks irritated, but goes on.

LISA:

I kept thinking, someday something's got to come along ... and that's about what happened.

NEVILLE:

What?

Lisa looks him over.

LISA:

(sardonically)

Something,

MED. CLOSE - NEVILLE

smiles, pours wine,

NEVILLE:

One question...

CLOSE - LISA

LISA:

All right. What?

CLOSE - NEVILLE

NEVILLE:

Those stadium lights... how did you manage that? No power, no gas for the emergency generator, the patching...

CLOSE - LISA

looks smug, coy.

LISA:

Oh, Massa Neville, this year chile's gone to college. School of electrical engineering at Berkeley.

TWO SHOT:

Neville rolls wine on his tongue.

NEVILLE:

I'm surprised you didn't barn the stadium down.

Lisa, Angry slams down her fork.

LISA:

Don’t be a wise ass mister. I saved your tail. Anyhow, if you'd been listening to the kids at Berkeley instead of fooling around in a lab with your superbugs...

Suddenly, from outside, where it Is now dark, we HEAR:

MATTHIAS (O.S.)

So you’re back, Neville. That escape was very clever very "scientific.

Neville goes on eating. Lisa looks up, her face frozen with an old fear,

NEVILLE:

What's wrong...

LISA:

Nothing. Oh, its his voice. I’ll never get used to it, to hearing it. We were with him for a while, you know

CLOSE SHOT - NEVILLE

He is surprised, Interested.

NEVILLE:

With him?

CLOSE SHOT - LISAS PROFILE

LISA:

When it happened when even the army fell apart and there was nobody left, Matthias would walk the streets at night ringing a bell. What people were left lived alone, like animals. Richie and I had as a place In the back of a furniture store... We heard his bell, and we came out to see... And there were other people. We thought we were alone...

MED. TWO SHOT

Neville shakes his head.

NEVILLE:

There were weapons, cars, food

Lisa shakes her head almost angrily.

LISA:

And there were two kids completely alone, with the ruins-of the whole world and six million corpses around them. Matthias gave us the Family, for a while,

CLOSE SHOT -NEVILLE

NEVILLE:

What happened?

MED. SHOT - LI SA

She stands now, walking amidst the books and paintings of the left side of the room.

LISA:

We helped with the burial, with the burning, but when it was done, when the worst was past...

TWO SHOT - LISA AND NEVILLE

MATTHIAS (O.S.)

We can hear the music, see the lights... it must be wonderful up there... everything a man could want.

Lisa has paused as Matthias' distant VOICE comes into the room. She shivers and continues.

LISA:

They noticed how different we were. They hated our skin, our eyes, They resented us because we could still walk in the sunlight, enjoy the breeze and the flowers and the clouds rolling in from the oceans.

CLOSE SHOT - LISA

LISA:

And one night, when they were awake and we slept, Matthias and the rest tried to kill all of us ... some of us got away and hid out.

LONG TWO SHOT - NEVILLE AND LISA

During conclusion of last speech, Neville has risen and walked across room to her.

MATTHIAS (O.S.)

Everything you could want except another like yourself

CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON LISA who looks at Neville. Her lips are moist, her eyes soft.

CAMERA TURNS, HOLDING LISA, to TWO SHOT: now two profiles.

MATTHIAS (O.S.)

It's an awful thing to be alone, Neville, to be the last of something...

Neville stretches out his hand. Lisa comes to meet it.

MED, SHOT - EXT. APARTMENT - MATTHIAS, FAMILY

It is quite dark and WE SEE MATTHIAS' FAMILY more as dark masses than as individual figures. CAMERA PANS FROM ONE FACE TO ANOTHER as dialogue goes on, pausing at each to show the horror and loneliness of these creatures - They are all looking up, some without glasses. INTERSPERSE WITH SHOTS of brightly lit penthouse, LONG SHOT - UP ANGLE.

LISA (O.S.)

I believe he's right, don’t you?

NEVILLE (O.S.),

I don't have to believe. I know.

LISA (O.S.)

If all this hadn’t happened, what do you suppose you would have done. Sooner or later.

NEVILLE (O.S.),

I don’t know. Maybe I'd have stayed out one night, or walked downstairs, sooner or later.

LISA (O.S.)

It's different now, for me...

MED. SHOT - INT. APARTMENT, LISA AND NEVILLE

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