The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Page #6

Its amazing!

Wow. Thank you.

Now, I don't want to

get your hopes up, but...

Listen to this:

The White House is sniffing around!

The White House?

The President stated the union

addresses next week, and they,

and they love having talking

points in the audience.

I can hear 'em now,

"Look, the American

educational system is working. "

What we really need

are pictures of your parents.

Especially your brother.

Preferably holding a gun, with you in

the background, that would be perfect.

Tomorrow, we go to

New York, do Letterman

and possibly 60 minutes

of us not affirmed up yet.

I mean, If they could just cut through

the crap and make up their minds.

The eyes dont have time to delete, Ally.

There are people lining up to book us.

There you go honey!

You look like a movie star!

Ok, Listen up, T.S.

This shows rating is through the roof.

But, they're gonna wanna ambush you

It's just the price

you have to pay, got it?

He's gonna talk about Layton, for sure.

So, you saw the accident...

You saw the accident, you

didn't understand what happened,

you ran for help, that's it. Remember,

do not express any kind of guilt.

you listening?

Not until we consult with our

lawyers. You understood all that?

We're live in 5 minutes.

You're gonna go back to the green room.

Well.. No, surely, it is normal for

a representative of the Smithsonian...

Miss Jibsen, you'll love our green room.

You can watch the entire show there

on a monitor.

But he is only 10... I mean,...

T.S., Call me Roy.

Hello Roy.

First time on TV?

Lets do it.

We're live in 10 seconds.

On the air in... 10, 9, 8...

My guest tonight has dominated

this week's headlines.

He is to science what

Mozart is to music.

T.S. Spivet, just 10 years old,

and he had sprinted ahead

of legions of scientists

to win this year's coveted Baird Award.

T.S., you're 10 years old,

You're an orphan, you grew

upon a remote ranch in Montana,

your dad wanted you to be

a cowboy. Am I right so far?

Hmm.. Yes.

Coppertop Ranch, 4.73 miles

north of the Divide, 14.92 miles...

Tell me T.S., How does a 10

year old win the Baird Award?

Did the proverbial apple just fall

on your head

and light bulb, you invent

the perpetual motion machine?

It actually already existed.

But, we needed to invented

was a system to...

At an age when most 10 year olds

are climbing trees,

what do you do for fun?

Trigonometry?

I like climbing trees.

You've been conducting

scientific experiments

since the age of 4.

Last year, one of those went

tragically wrong and

resulted in the death

of your twin brother, Layton.

I did not understand what happened.

I ran to get help, that's all.

And oddly, the time

has come to take a look

at this extraordinary invention.

This is the first

perpetual motion machine

in the history of mankind.

Well, T.S. How does it work...

Liza! Do you see him?

That's is my brother. I

can't believe he is on TV!

I mean, This is the same spice that wore

Velcro on his shoes untill he's 8 years old

because he couldn't tie his own laces.

he is on TV!

He went that time when he almost

electrocuted me with his seismograph.

Oh thats, its not mention that on TV...

T.S., how long can the little wheel turn

and produce energy

without consuming energy?

400 years then you have

to recharge the magnets.

400 years!

so, you saying if this

machine were 100 times larger

it could power all of the lights

in this building for 400 years

without spending a dime in electricity?

Well, you still have to

change the light bulbs

given the ratio of

lighting square footage,

that's still significant cost.

I think the time has come to introduce a

very special guest,

T.S.'s mother, Dr. Clair.

Hello T.S.

Hello Mom.

Dr. Clair, you have come

here directly from Montana

you are T.S.'s mother, correct?

Yes. That's right.

T.S., why did you say

in the media that you

were an orphan, is this some

spin coming from the Smithsonian?

I don't know.

I thought they would send me back

home before I could receive the award.

Dr. Clair, You must

have been worried sick,

I mean, he is so small.

Yes, well, when a child disappears,

the world stops turning.

But, surely you must have been

very angry. When you heard..

With all the respect

You asked me a question, I

would like to finish my answer.

When your child disappears

well, you'll lose your sanity.

Some will channel their anger

by kicking goats out of barbwire.

I'm sorry.. Goats! We're talking goats?

Others will surf the

beetles that don't exist.

Those are just feared merely take

a train that is never coming back

so sometimes you just

stop by the tracks,

and stare at the rails.

So you read my journal...

I'm sorry.

I know it's not right.

What about giving a gun

to a child as a gift?

Or letting two kids play

with a gun, in a barn,

unsupervised...

You think that's right?

That's good question actually!

T.S.

What happened in the barn?

Wasn't your fault, T.S.

It wasn't your fault.

It wasn't.

It wasn't anyone's fault.

It was an accident.

As your father said,

what happened...

just happened...

OK, I think,

T.S... Dr Clair

We should,.. We should have a moment.

Just... just forget the cameras

and the audience,

and just.. maybe...

hug?

Cry? Touch, maybe?

Actually, I wanna ask

you about beauty pageants.

I know Miss America

and Miss USA different,

But the criteria they use

.. is shameful.. Why?..

Mom! Mom!

I guess the crown necessarily

be a ravishing beauty...

.. underfed... Mom!

What?

Oh, Yeah.

You will stay here or go?

Go.

A river... of emotion...

No, No, come back!

This is a 20 minute interview,

there's 9 minutes left.

This is reality, this

is better than science!

This is cable TV.

You're a filthy little liar.

You're a little mr.

Wait! wait! Oh!

Where do you think you are going?

To Coppertop ranch.

Cut!

You OK?

Reckon if you're OK, that's all it gots!

My boy's OK.

So, I'm mute..

and I'm dead?

Sorry, Dad.

How come you didn't stop that

morning when you saw me on the road?

Rancher's word, I never saw you.

I need a box of biscuits, a box of

mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.

Are you talking to me or are

you talking to the peanut butter?

Its a diction exercise, moron.

You'd be better out trying

some yourself enough here

or make it on TV again.

I've got some more to do in

the public speaking department.

How about you just show us how

its done the day you're in a movie.

Yeah, or in the running

for Miss Montana.

Or a reality show about a normal person

living with a bunch of

insane hostile degenerates.

Speaking of which, does anyone know

if or when your father is

showing up for breakfast?

You guys don't ever made up?

Look, I know goats eat everything,

including paper... I get'em, I get'em.

But, the fact that one of them

climbed through the kitchen

window and eat all my notes

on the female Ontophagus sagittarius,

and how it copulates with its horns

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