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12-15-2003, 04:29 AM
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| The Dude  Join Date: Jan 1970 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,585
 |  ACT I FADE IN: 7 EXT. ROAD – DAY Clark is walking down the road, holding his torn jacket around his arm. He’s dirty. He puts his hand through a hole in the jacket. CLARK Great… LANA Clark? Clark looks up and sees LANA on her horse, on the side of the road. He stops. CLARK Oh, uh, hey Lana. LANA Jeez, Clark, what happened to you? CLARK Oh, uh… LANA Did you get into a fight? Your clothes are all ripped up! CLARK No, uh, it’s ok. I’m fine. Really. LANA (softly) Clark, I don’t believe you. CLARK Lana, I’m fine, really. But I have to go. I’ll… I’ll see you around. LANA Clark, wait! Wait! Lana looks down at her horse for a moment to grab up the reins, but when she looks up, Clark is nowhere to be seen. 8 EXT. SMALLVILLE HIGH – DAY To rock music, students bustle in and around the entrance of the school. Buses drive past after emptying their loads in front of the school. 9 INT. PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE – DAY Principle STEVENS is at his desk, with two PARENTS seated before him. STEVENS Well, I think your son— CHRIS Foster son. STEVENS Foster… son… Well, either way, I think he’ll fit right in here. We’ve got a very welcoming, tolerant environment here in Smallville. SAMANTHA I’ve… heard of strange things that happen here. Is any of that true? STEVENS Well, any town has its legends… SAMANTHA Not quite as many as Smallville, though. I hear it’s because of the meteor rocks. STEVENS I honestly don’t know. But I do know that this is a good school for your… foster son. CHRIS Great. We’re moving in over the next few days. Is it OK if he starts next week? STEVENS Absolutely, and I’ll arrange for some students to help him catch up on curriculum that he’s missed. CHRIS …I… don’t… really know if we need that… STEVENS It’s no problem. A number of families move here in the middle of a semester, and we’ve got a program already in place for helping students like your son. And his record says he doesn’t have any particular learning disabilities… CHRIS Well… STEVENS It really is no trouble. SAMANTHA Ok. It’s ok, Chris. We want Jimmy to meet some new friends. CHRIS Ok. 10 INT. THE TORCH – DAY Clark enters, to find Chloe working on one of the computers. CHLOE Hey, Clark. Chloe notices Clark’s jacket. CHLOE (cont’d) New jacket? CLARK I, uh, thought it was time for a change. CHLOE Well, it is getting colder out. Might even snow a bit this season, they’re saying. CLARK Snow. There’s something we haven’t had in a while. Might be nice to have a white Christmas again. CHLOE I just hope we don’t get any more freezer-Jocks. CLARK That would be good. So, what’s going in the Torch this week? CHLOE Ugh, not much. Nothing really interesting has happened recently. CLARK Uh, yeah… A beat. CHLOE So what’s up? CLARK I just wanted to know if we were still on for tonight. CHLOE Bright and early at 7 p.m. I’ll be ready with my chemistry book. You do know, Clark, that we have these things called “teachers” at this school. You might want to consider learning from one of them sometime. CLARK (smiles) I’ll have to remember that, Chloe. Remember, 7 p.m. Clark leaves. 11 EXT. KENT FARM – DAY (Establishing) 12 INT. KENT KITCHEN Clark takes a bowl of green beans to the dinner table, which is set for three. JOHN and MARTHA follow with other dinner necessities. JOHN The train hit him? Are you sure? CLARK Yeah. It knocked him into the woods, but when I went over there, he was gone. MARTHA But how? CLARK I think he might… be like me. From Krypton. JOHN How can you know that? CLARK When I ran up to push him out of the way, he turned and threw me past him. I landed two hundred yards away! And then the train hit him, and he went into the woods. There wasn’t any blood, and he was gone. John and Martha exchange looks. MARTHA I don’t like it. JOHN Neither do I, Martha. CLARK What if he is from Krypton? He… he could be a relative, maybe. JOHN Now, Clark, let’s not get too carried away here. I mean— CLARK You mean what, Dad? JOHN We don’t know anything about this boy… He could be dangerous. That kind of power is— CLARK Dangerous, I know, Dad, I know. MARTHA Clark, we just want you to be careful. We have no idea what that boy was trying to do to that train… JOHN …Or to himself… MARTHA Exactly. CLARK Well, I need to find out more about him. I have to find him. MARTHA Of course, Clark. We’re not saying you can’t. JOHN We just want you to be careful. CLARK I will, I promise. A beat. CLARK (cont’d) And I’ll take care of Pete, too. JOHN Pete? You didn’t— CLARK When I told him, he insisted on coming along. MARTHA Oh, Clark… Take care of Pete, too. 13 EXT. TREES – DAY Pete and Clark are walking through the impact ditch, picking at broken branches and looking for… anything. PETE You see anything? CLARK No… not yet. PETE Have you tried with your X-ray eyes? CLARK You think I should? PETE You think you shouldn’t? CLARK Good point. Clark focuses his eyes on the ground, and everything goes X-ray. He shifts around, looking at various things, hoping for some kind of clue. He finally zooms in on a small bit of metal and fabric – part of a jacket zipper. PETE Well? You see anything? CLARK Yeah… Clark goes forward, bends down, and picks up the zipper. CLARK (cont’d) A zipper. Well, at least we know that I wasn’t hallucinating. PETE Clark, we knew that from the ditch and all the trees that were knocked down. CLARK Oh. Yeah. PETE Well, let’s keep lookin’. There must be like, some footprints or something, right? CLARK Yeah. Yeah. They continue to search the ditch, until they come to the end of it, near a path in the woods. There are footprints in the dirt. PETE Check it out. Want to follow it. CLARK (determined) Yes. 15 EXT. FIELD – DAY Pete and Clark exit the woods, via the path, and see a house in the distance. There is a moving truck out front. PETE Looks like new neighbors, Clark. Let’s go check it out. They set off toward the house. 15 EXT. THE TALON – DAY Customers bustle in and out of the Talon. The marquee says there’s a Clark Gable marathon running. 16 INT. THE TALON LEX walks up to the counter, where LANA is topping a tray of lattes with whipped cream. LANA Lex! What’s up? LEX Not too much, really. I was just looking for Clark. Have you seen him? LANA No, not recently… She seems a bit sad. LEX (wryly) Do I detect something amiss? LANA I don’t know… He was kind of weird yesterday afternoon after school. It looked like he’d gotten into a fight, his jacket was all torn and dirty, but… he wouldn’t talk to me. LEX Clark’s always been secretive. But getting into fights doesn’t sound much like “The Kent Way.” LANA I know. LEX I have to run, Lana. If you do see him, tell him I was looking. LANA Ok. Oh! And, I was wondering if you had time tomorrow to go over the invoices for the month. LEX Sure. Come by sometime after six. See you. 17 EXT. ZODOWSKI HOUSE – DAY As they get closer to the house, a blur comes zooming out of the house and into the back of the moving truck. When Pete and Clark come around the back of the truck, the boy from earlier, JIMMY, is standing in the back, hefting a couch. CLARK Hello? JIMMY You! What are you doing here? CLARK Looking for you, actually. Can we talk? JIMMY Sure, I guess. What about? He hops down from the truck. CLARK Well, uh, you, actually. A beat. CLARK (cont’d) My name’s Clark Kent. This is Pete Ross. JIMMY Jimmy. Jimmy Zodowski. (A beat) Can I ask you something, Clark? Clark looks over at Pete. CLARK Sure. Suddenly, in slow motion, Jimmy throws a punch at Clark. Clark puts his hand up, and catches the fist, and we go back to normal speed. The shock throws Pete to the ground, and when he looks up, Clark is a few feet backward, tracks in the ground from his feet sliding. PETE Whoa… 18 INT. ZODOWSKI KITCHEN Jimmy, Clark, and Pete are sitting at the kitchen table, drinking soda. CLARK Where are your parents? JIMMY Foster parents. Clark looks a bit sullen to hear that. JIMMY (cont’d) They’re out making final arrangements for me to go to Smallville High. Then they were gonna buy some furniture… or something. PETE You were loading all that yourself? JIMMY …So? PETE Right. So, maybe you guys are like, from the same planet, or something? JIMMY Planet? Look, I don’t know where I’m from. I’ve been in more foster homes than I can count. Every time I get a new… CLARK Gift? JIMMY Burden is more like it. Any time a new one develops, my foster parents freak out, and send me back. I’ve been with the Zodowskis for nearly three years now, though. CLARK Jimmy, I’m an alien, from the planet Krypton. I know, it sounds like something out of a comic book, but… it’s true. And I think you are, too. JIMMY How can you know that? CLARK We can do all the same things. The punch, the train… Can you see through things? PETE Set things on fire by looking at them? CLARK Pete… PETE What? JIMMY Sometimes I can see through things… but… I can’t really control it that well. CLARK I can teach you. JIMMY Yeah? That’d be cool. PETE Aw, Clark, we gotta go – Chloe. CLARK Oh, uh, right. Um, how about if I come back sometime tomorrow? Maybe around 4? JIMMY Sure. That sounds cool. 19 EXT. ZODOWSKI HOUSE Clark and Pete come down the porch, past the moving truck. PETE Clark, are you sure about this? CLARK What do you mean? PETE I dunno, something about him doesn’t rub right, y’know? I don’t know what it is. CLARK (smiling) Maybe the fact that he’s an alien visitor from another planet with powers greater than those of mortal men has something to do with it. PETE Maybe. 20 INT. ZODOWSKI KITCHEN Jimmy is staring at a blank spot on the wall. From his POV, the wall disappears in the X-ray effect, and we see Clark and Pete walking away towards the road. Suddenly, with a slight echo that tells us we shouldn’t be hearing this without superpowers, we can make out their words. PETE (cont’d) I hope that’s all it is. FADE OUT END OF ACT I
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01-11-2004, 07:52 PM
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| Religious Fanatic  Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Shitsville, CF63
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   | AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Man, you are one hilarious son of a bitch! ZODOWSKI! lol!
__________________ "Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. "But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."  |
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01-16-2004, 11:47 PM
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| Astro-Monkey  Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Here, dumbfuck!
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  | My only problem with it is that Clark is usually a little more careful than that. Otherwise, nice. 
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01-17-2004, 12:13 AM
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| The Dude Join Date: Jan 1970 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,585
| Odd that the site didn't tell me that there were any new posts... I didn't put up the rest of the episode because it seemed like there wasn't any interest. Well, I'm glad you guys liked it. We got an A- because some of our formatting was incorrect, but the professor loved it. I'll post the rest of it up sometime, prolly tonight or tomorrow.
__________________ "A million monkeys typing until the end of time will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Ten thousand monkeys typing for ten thousand years will write a Hemingway. Ten monkeys typing over Columbus Day weekend will give you a Dan Brown." http://olympusmans.blogspot.com http://benforrealz.blogspot.com |
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