STEPHEN KING's
THE STAND



Screenplay
by
ROSPO PALLENBERG

SECOND DRAFT
March, 1990


Transcribed
by
DON ALEX



REEL FOUR



CUT TO:

EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE (COLORADO) - DAY

Harold and Nadine cruise abreast on their motorbikes,
 Harold on the side where the road drops off.  The wind
is in her hair, which is totally white now.  She wears a
flimsy shift, her face, arms and legs exposed to the sun.


HAROLD
The only bad thing is that I lose you to him.

She steers closer to him, causing him to shift closer to the edge.

NADINE
He'll find you the right prize.

HAROLD
After you ... any woman is just going to be a sack of potatoes.

Nadine smiles.  She draws closer still and pats his cheek seductively.

NADINE
Trouble with you, Harold, you're not really evil.
You're a smart-
ass nerd ... who overreached.

HAROLD
I am evil.

She pinches his cheek causing him to drift still closer to the edge.

NADINE
You still have baby fat!

HAROLD
(indignant)
I don't have baby f --

-- Before Harold can control the bike, he shoots
 off the road.  Continuing, she hears the CRASH.


NADINE
Oops!


EXT.  ROAD THROUGH MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS - DAY

The sun beats down.  Nadine rides on, her face,
arms and legs red from the exposure.  Her
hair trails behind her ... a white bridal veil.



EXT.  ROAD THROUGH HIGH DESERT - SUNSET

Sunburnt a terrible shade of red, Nadine comes sailing
 over a rise.  She makes out a man leaning against
the hood of a Chevy in the middle of the road.


She slows, a strange smile on her face, and comes
to a stop before the man.  He is the Walkin' Dude:
 fancy boots, tight jeans, the belt with astrological
 signs, the jacket which now sports a “Have A
Nice Day” button, the Stetson cocked forward.


WALKIN' DUDE
(sweet sing-song)
Nadine, Nadine ... how I love to love Nadine.

NADINE
Here I am ...

She gets off her bike.  He lifts the brim and we finally see
 him.  Overly handsome, old and young, very masculine but
 with a few feminine features, he has a powerful presence.
  His eyes are piercing, one blue, one yellow-green.


Nadine stares at him.

WALKIN' DUDE
Do I disgust you?

NADINE
You do ... or maybe I disgust myself ... waiting for so many years for
 something
impossible ... that's now flesh and blood. What do I call you?

WALKIN' DUDE
Randall ... Randall Flagg.

NADINE
Randall ?!  ...  Randall “the Midnight Rambler” !

She giggles, but stops when he unzips his fly.  She
sees something below frame that terrifies her.


He moves with lightning speed.   He carries her
 to the asphalt.  Her sunburnt body scrapes
 against the rough surface.  She gasps in pain.


WALKIN' DUDE
You will bear me a child.

He starts to possess her.  Her body arches, and her eyes go wide.

NADINE
No!!   You'll tear me APART --

The scream of agony builds to beyond audibility.  Her
 mouth is wide open, and in the dark cavity we hear a
 deep strong THUMPING.  And in the darkness we see --


-- a lava flow spilling into the sea, steam exploding.  And the THUMPING--


EXT.  MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS - MOONLIT NIGHT

-- becomes the eerie BOOTFALLS.  The fancy
boots appear not to touch the ground.


But for the boots, his legs pumping, the Walkin' Dude is naked.
  He runs in great slow motions bounds.  He carries Nadine
 in his arms, her body limp, her thighs streaked red.


YELPING, HOWLING wolves run alongside him.

His breathing is a fierce rasping:  he yells:

WALKIN' DUDE
My bride ... will bear me ... a child ... and on the day ...
 of it's
birth ... Abigail's city and all of her people ...
 will be turned to
dust ... A blood sacrifice ...

The figure of the Walkin' Dude with Nadine in
 his arms runs uphill at an unnatural speed.


WALKIN' DUDE'S VOICE
-- in honor ... of my successor.

His declaration ECHOES through the mountains.


CUT TO:

EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE - DAY

Larry and Stu, with a rucksack, walk with Kojack
trotting along in his master's shadow.  Tom wears a
 beanie with a propellor, and rides a heavy-duty dirt
 bike; and Dayna is on her ten-speed.  Larry is unhappy.


LARRY
Fellas, Mother Abigail said “go now, go as
 you are”. 
I don't know about bikes ...

STU
Or weapons?

Stu pulls out his pistol.  And Tom whips out a
CAP GUN, SHOOTS.  The others jump in fright.


DAYNA
What she said was more like Bible talk, stuff you have to interpret.

LARRY
She said nothing about guns ... All she said was “fear no evil”.

Tom sees him first.  He gasps.

They continue in silence. --

TOM
Holy gee ...

Frozen in rigor mortis is Harold at the edge of
the road, his cheek bones showing through
the flesh.   His cheeks have been bitten off.


The four stare, and fear comes over them.
Kojack doesn't dare sniff too close.


STU
There's a job to do, so let's move it.

DAYNA
Fear no evil?

Under a pall of dream they get going again.


EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE - LATER - DAY

They continue in silence when suddenly the
 jet, flying low, is upon them, strafing them.


Tom takes off on his bike, pedaling like a demon, heading west.
   Stu and Larry press against the rocky slope.  They watch
in dismay as the jet banks arond; they also gape at Dayna.


She steps into plain view at the roadside, and begins
tearing off her clothes, about to expose her breasts, --



INSIDE COCKPIT

-- and the pilot sees the naked female figure waving to him.
He's distracted; flustered for the blink of an eye.


Only a last second yank at the joystick saves
him from slamming into the mountainside.



EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE - DAY

Stu and Larry watch the jet shoot upward and out
of control ... till moments later the pilot bails out,
the parachute opening in the distance.  The warplane
disappears behind a ridge followed shortly by an explosion.


Tucking in her shirt, Dayna approaches.

DAYNA
I could see he couldn't handle her.  What now?

STU
We've been spotted. We should split up.

DAYNA
I'll catch up with Tom, okay?


CUT TO:

EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE - MOONLIT NIGHT

The pilot of the jet watches two Jeeps pull up.
Armed to the teeth, Lloyd's goons -- male and female --
 jump out, followed by Lloyd and the Walkin' Dude.


The pilot swallows hard as the boss struts closer.

PILOT
I only had five hours training, sir.

WALKIN' DUDE
Should be enough. If you're worthy of me.

The Walkin' Dude's eyes glow with rage.   The pilot
 turns and bolts.  The Walkin' Dude laughs stridently.


The pilot runs as fast as he can when he hears
 CLOCKING BOOTFALLS, clocking fast, faster.


The Walkin' Dude's bootfalls -- the silver filigree
 are shiny claws -- no longer hammer the asphalt,
but suspended above it they make a SQUISHING
 sound -- a sound that becomes the flapping of wings.


WALKIN' DUDE
You scroooowed up!

The pilot glances back, terrified.  He sees that the Walkin' Dude has
 his arms stretched forward, and his hands form make-believe wings.


Out of the fluttering hands a crow seems to materialize.

The pilot is so frightened he stumbles and
 turns to face a crow flying right at him.


Running to catch up, Lloyd and TWO LIEUTENANTS
hear the PILOT'S GHASTLY SCREAM.


The pilot staggers, and Lloyd shines the beam of his flashlight
 through a hole in the pilot's chest.  The pilot crashes to the
 asphalt.  Lloyd and the two Lieutenants gape in awe.


Ahead, the Walkin' Dude is perched on a rock,
 seeming more like a bird till his posture becomes
human again.  Lloyd and the two Lieutenants approach.


WALKIN' DUDE
Go away.  I got work to do.

Lloyd and Lieutenants head back to the Jeeps.

LIEUTENANT #1
(whispering)
I don't get it, Lloyd.  We lose our only airplane
and the Dude wastes our only pilot.


LLOYD
Hey, I wouldn't question the Boss.  He's got the big picture ...

LIEUTENANT #2
Yeah, the big picture!


BACK WITH WALKIN' DUDE

Still seated on the rock, he snarls, baring his teeth, and a WOLF --
 inches from his face -- SNARLS back.  He turns away from
the wolf and stares ahead, his eyes wide and intense.   And --



EXT.  WILDERNESS - MOONLIT NIGHT

-- suddenly a point of view -- hugging the rocky
 terrain -- hurtles downhill at a reckless speed.


It runs across the arroyo, bounds up a perilous slope,
 slinks forward among the shrubs where --



EXT.  RUGGED TERRAIN - MOONLIT NIGHT

-- Larry and Stu are asleep.  It is about to reach them,
when -- teeth bared and GROWLING -- KOJACK
 leaps at the point of view which jerks back.



EXT.  ROAD ALONG MOUNTAINSIDE - MOONLIT NIGHT

The Walkin' Dude is jolted from trance and into a rage:

WALKIN' DUDE
Who were they?  Who has the old nigger dared to send against me?


CUT TO:

EXT.  ROAD THROUGH SCRUBLAND (UTAH) - DAY

Alone, Tom pedals along.   He smiles at the butterflies,
 saying “hello”.   From behind, two JEEPS ROAD up and pull
 alongside:  it's Lloyd and his goons, and the Walkin' Dude.


TOM
Holy gee, the Big Boss.

Tom is caught by surprise but keeps on pedaling.
The Walkin' Dude stares at him, and begins to sense something.


TOM
Holy gee, you got big guns.  Me ...

He whips out his cap gun, shoots.  Lloyd levels
 his automatic at Tom, squeezes the trigger. 
 The Walkin' Dude deflects the weapon and
 the bullets just miss Tom ... who just smiles.


TOM
You got a bigger bang than me, holy gee ...

WALKIN' DUDE
(to Lloyd)
Can't you see he's a retard? They make good workers.
(to Tom)
What's your name?

TOM
Tom.

WALKIN' DUDE
Tommy, get yourself a job.  Tell them the “Dude” sent you.

TOM
Holy gee, yessireee!

The JEEPS ROAR ahead.


CUT TO:

INT.  MGM GRAND HOTEL - PENTHOUSE - NIGHT

Nadine rattles the doorknob, knowing it's useless.
   She strolls restless through the plush apartment and,
 in frustration, reaches for her groin to masturbate.


She thinks better of it, goes to the TV, switches it on.  “Triumph
 of the Will” is playing.  She tries another channel.   Another part
 of “Triumph of the Will”.  Another channel.  Again, “Triumph
of the Will”.  Nadine gives up and slouches into an armchair.


The door is unlocked from outside, and the
 Walkin' Dude struts in.  She gives him a bored look.


WALKIN' DUDE
You're supposed to ask how my day way.

NADINE
How was your day, Randall?

WALKIN' DUDE
Tough.

NADINE
Sorry.

He grabs her by the wrist and, concentrating, her starts to lift her.

NADINE
Don't hurt me!

WALKIN' DUDE
Hurt the mother of my child ?!

He lifts her until she floats midair.  She's shocked --

-- when he tears open her dress and rests his hands on her belly.

WALKIN' DUDE
I can feel the babe!

NADINE
So soon?

There's panic in her eyes.


INT.  ORDINANCE BUILDING  (NEVADA) - DAY

The workers wear overalls and hairnets.  Bombs hang
from conveyors.  A conveyor starts up, a bomb slowly
moving, and two workers converge on it from different
directions:  Tom and Julie Lawry, she sporting a
 neat suntan.  They begin to lock in the detonator.


JULIE
Hi, I'm Julie.  Just got back from vacation
at Johnny Carson's house in Malibu --
(eyes go wide)
Don't I know you?

Tom's face is pinched, but then broadens into a smile.

TOM
Holy gee, don't know if I'd forget a pretty girl like you.

Smiling, he busies himself with the detonator.
She looks at him, remembering him.



EXT.  ORDINANCE BUILDING  (AIR FORCE BASE) - DAY

Tom and Julie watch as a crane lifts the bomb they've armed
 from a forklift onto a pyramid structure of other armed
 bombs.  Two vehicles pull up.  Lloyd gets out of a Jeep;
Trash, out of a Sand Crawler, an all-terrain vehicle.


Lloyd gapes at the precarious pyramid of bombs.

LLOYD
Trashy, I don't know from bombs.  But
ain't it like dangerous to stack 'em like that?

TRASH
Trashy likes dangerous, no?

Lloyd steps away, troubled, when Julie sidles up.
She yanks off her hairnet and tosses her mane loose.


LLOYD
Not now.  I've got work to do, Julie.

JULIE
It's about work, Lloyd.

She points to Tom, who's doing wheelies on his bike.

JULIE
My co-worker is one of them, Lloyd.

Lloyd looks and recognizes him.

LLOYD
The retard?

JULIE
I met him before, in Kansas ... on his way to the old nigger woman.

Tom -- sensing something -- keeps on pedaling,
putting a distance between himself and Lloyd.


Lloyd storms up to Trash.

LLOYD
Trashy!  You've got a traitor working
for you.  The retard.  I want him caught.

TRASH
The “Dude” tells Trashy what to do.
Lloyd is only an orderly in a nuthouse?  Yes!

LLOYD
I'm the Dude's right-hand man.
I'm taking charge here.  Julie!

Julie follows him to his Jeep.  Trash is a snarl of two voices:

TRASH
My dream -- These are -- is the Great Fire -- just fireworks.

Trash leaps into the SAND CRAWLER, FIRES
it up, and charges at the pyramid of armed
 bombs.  He knocks the corner bomb out of place.


The pyramid begins to collapse, and bombs
roll and tumble toward Lloyd and Julie.


Lloyd bolts to the Jeep, leaps in, tears off.

JULIE
Wait.  Wait for me.

The bombs overtake her, and --

-- the detonator of one hits the ground, and the BOMB EXPLODES.

Julie is vaporized from sight.  Other bombs hurtle forward.

Looking at what he's unleashed, Trash laughs madly.

Driving flat out in the Jeep, Lloyd glances back to see --

-- BOMBS skittering, flying, tumbling, and EXPLODING in his wake.

From a distance, Tom watches airplanes and hangars go up in flames.

At the wheel of the Sand Crawler, Trash
weaves erratically, now in utter despair.


TRASH
The Walkin' Dude will love Trashy no more.
(sudden exhilaration)
Unless!  Unless?  UNLESS!

The Sand Crawler is about to run over Tom.  Tom pedals
 frantically out of its way.  The all-terrain vehicle heads
 straight for the fence, flattens it, heads out into the hills.



CUT TO:

EXT. / INT.   MGM GRAND (LAS VEGAS) - EARLY DAY

The Walkin' Dude is staring out, levitating in the lotus
 position.  PULL BACK till we see the rest of Las Vegas
 with the sun rising behind it.   Then-- SWOOP IN ON
a few floors down from the penthouse, onto a ledge, --


-- where a crow alights.  Inside a suite,
there's a huge, heart-shaped bed.



INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

In the gaudy bed, beneath a heart-shaped mirror,
 Dayna and Lloyd break apart after fierce lovemaking.


DAYNA
I'm one lucky lady meeting up with you.

She turns from Lloyd and grimaces in disgust.

DAYNA
I could feel you taking out on me your grudge
 against that
fellow Trashy?  Feeling better?

LLOYD
All kinds of better.

Rolling her eyes, her gaze drifts to the window, and she notices --

-- the crow flying away.

LLOYD
Trashy's a pain ... but a fucking genius.

DAYNA
Sayeth the Boss?

LLOYD
Sayeth the Boss.

She simpers flirtatiously.

DAYNA
When do I get to meet the Boss. I'm starting
 to believe you're
not his right-hand man.

LLOYD
He's a busy guy.

She gets out of bed, flounces toward the bathroom.

LLOYD
You shouldn't go around without
clothes.  You're making me horny.

DAYNA
... Wouldn't we be keeping the Boss waiting?

LLOYD
(a flicker of fear)
Oh, shit.


INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - BATHROOM - EARLY DAY

Dayna enters.  She has nearly closed the door
when she hears a KEY TURNING in a lock.


INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

The Walkin' Dude steps in.  Lloyd is uneasy.

LLOYD
Yes, sir?

WALKIN' DUDE
(smiling)
Where is she?

Excited, draped in a sheet, Lloyd heads for the bathroom.  

LLOYD
Doll!  Guess who --

A glance, and Lloyd freezes and shuts up.


INT.  BATHROOM - EARLY DAY

Dayna has heard.  Through the crack of the
 unclosed door, she sees the Walkin' Dude from
 behind.  Her heart pounds, her mind races.



INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

The Walkin' Dude addresses Lloyd in a confidential tone.

WALKIN' DUDE
Julie, your witness, is dead. So until we catch that retard
Tom, we don't really know if he slipped past under my radar.
(points to his head)
But this chick of yours --


INT.  BATHROOM - EARLY DAY

Dayna is too busy to eavesdrop.  She rummages through
 her rucksack, pulls out a knife and special sheath.



INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

WALKIN' DUDE
-- So get her.

Visibly shaken, Lloyd heads for the bathroom.

LLOYD
Dayna!


INT.  BATHROOM - EARLY DAY

Dayna has heard, and hears Lloyd coming.
 Moving with desperate speed, she straps a clip to her
 forearm, and then slides the blade of the knife into
 the spring-loaded clasp.  She flushes the toilet, and --



INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

-- the sound causes Lloyd to hesitate at the door.


INT.  BATHROOM - EARLY DAY

Dayna slips into a robe, and pulls the sleeve
 over the arm which the trick knife is strapped
 just as Lloyd barges in.  His voice quivers:


LLOYD
Come on out, Dayna.

She grabs a brush.


INT.  LOVERS' SUITE - EARLY DAY

She comes out brushing her hair to
 boost her bravado.  Dayna acts surprised.


DAYNA
H-h-hello!  You're no older than I am.

WALKIN' DUDE
What did you expect?  A vampire?

DAYNA
... Lloyd's shitting in his pants.  It's about me, right?

WALKIN' DUDE
Dayna, dear, how did you ever believe you could
 escape my
roving eye, my psychic tentacles?

DAYNA
Tom, the grinning retard, did.

He glares at her, his eyes intense, fierce.

DAYNA
You're trying to hypnotize me.  Cut it out.

He steps closer.  Her hand loosens
 the sleeve that conceals the weapon.


DAYNA
So the future is about paranormal powers?

WALKIN' DUDE
And hi-tech.   And I have both. We're invincible.  That's why it's
useless for Mother Abigail to send agents against me.  Do you know
what, Dayna?  I'm going to let you go ... Lloyd, phone reception,
 and
tell them to have a gassed-up motorbike ready for the lady.

Lloyd goes to the phone.  Dayna fights to suppress hope.

DAYNA
Now ... why would you let me go?

WALKIN' DUDE
Isn't it obvious?  You go home and tell your
people to stick to your side of the mountains.

The Walkin' Dude smiles affably.

DAYNA
What's the catch?

WALKIN' DUDE
I want the others to go back, too.  Who else has Mother Abigail sent?

DAYNA
... You think I can remember over a hundred names?  And faces?

The Walkin' Dude's sweetness turns into angered shock.

DAYNA
Just kidding.  And testing.

He steps forward and clamps his hand on her neck.

WALKIN' DUDE
Testing what ?!

She finds a residue of courage.

DAYNA
What you can do, and can't. Your powers are not as
 strong
as they're cracked up to be.  Not as strong as
you'd like Lloyd
here, and the others to believe --

He lets out a bloodcurdling scream and flings
her across the room.  Dayna crashes into the wall.


She crumples to the floor, a rag doll.
She's very scared as he steps closer.


WALKIN' DUDE
You will tell me what I want to know ... Or --
or I'll start a fire in your brain and then you'll tell me.

He stops above her, his burning eyes locked on hers.

DAYNA
(very faint)
I'll tell.

WALKIN' DUDE
Of course you will.

DAYNA
(faint rasp)
I hurt, you hurt my neck, my throat.

She motions with the arm with the concealed knife.

DAYNA
Closer.

He stoops beside her.

DAYNA
Heeere!

And the knife, no, a banana -- with the Chiquita
 logo -- jerks out of her sleeve and into her hand.
  About to drive the banana into his stomach, Dayna
 sees what it is.  He laughs uproariously.  She's so
 shocked, she lets him take the banana from her hand.


WALKIN' DUDE
You like my little trick?

He does a sleight of hand and, pronto, the banana is the knife.

WALKIN' DUDE
One day I'll make water flow uphill.
But now ... tell me what I want to kn --

DAYNA
No!

Drawing on an inner strength, she bolts before
 he can grab her and lunges at the window, her feet
 first, using them like pistons to CRACK the GLASS.


She grabs the jagged glass and whips the
 cutting edge across her throat.  Blood gushes.


The Walkin' Dude gets to her too late.  He bellows
 and kicks her and kicks her -- a dead, bloodless body.
  He senses something and turns to see Lloyd staring.


In a towering rage, the Walkin' Dude closes in on him.

WALKIN' DUDE
You think I fucked up?

LLOYD
God, no ... I mean, nobody's perfect.

The Walkin' Dude grabs Lloyd and lifts him up,
 levitates him.   He lets go, leaving Lloyd with his toes
scraping the carpet.  He erupts into a passionate tirade.


WALKIN' DUDE
I've done damn good so far.   Roads from San Diego
to Seattle have been cleared.   Busses and trains run
on time.  There's scheduled T.V. and radio.  There's law
and order.  All misfits have been crucified.   My people
work hard eight hours a day and play hard eight hours
a day.  And the wolf and weasel and crow are protected
species.  And there're no taxes, school is open again ...

His mood is suddenly mellow; and Lloyd is
 standing with his feet on the floor again.


WALKIN' DUDE
By the way, how are the students doing at the Flying Academy?


CUT TO:

EXT.  DESERT WILDERNESS (ARIZONA) - DAY

Stu helps an exhausted Larry along a
trail under the hot sun.  Kojack follows.


The three come to a stand of trees, where
 a trailer is parked.  Stu eases Larry down
in the shade, looks around, and steps --



INT.  TRAILER - DAY

-- inside.  Stu picks up canned goods, and
passing a guitar, his fingers brush the strings.



EXT.  STAND OF TREES - LATER - DAY

Larry, Stu and Kojack rest in the shade.
  They've eaten and drunk from the cans.


Larry finishes tuning the guitar from the trailer and
 begins humming “Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?”.


STU
Funny you playin' that tune.
I heard it when the flu began happenin'.

LARRY
You know anything about it?

STU
Nah.  Do you?

LARRY
No.

He casts the guitar aside.


CUT TO:

INT.  MGM GRAND - PENTHOUSE - DAY

The Walkin' Dude levitates ... projecting.


CUT TO:

EXT.  DESERT WILDERNESS - STAND OF TREES - DAY

Stu, Kojack and Larry are figures disappearing into
 the heat warp, when -- a crow alights on the strings of
 the discarrded GUITAR, setting off WEIRD SOUNDS. 
The crow PLUCKS a STRING with its beak, and
the combined sounds are weirder, LOUDER.



EXT.  DESERT WILDERNESS - DAY

As Stu, Kojack and Larry trek, the WEIRD SOUND
 rings in Larry's ear.  CHORDS BUILD on the sound,
 and VOICES and sights materialize:  Larry becomes --


-- a rockstar onstage, basking in the adulation of fans.

Stu shakes Larry out of his altered state.

STU
Larry.  You okay?

LARRY
... Yeah.  The heat, I guess.

Stu pours some water over Larry's head.


CUT TO:

INT.  MGM PENTHOUSE - VIEW OVER LAS VEGAS - NIGHT

Nadine is bored out of her mind.  The
Walkin' Dude and Lloyd stare out the window.


WALKIN' DUDE
Lloyd, since Trash took off, you've done real good.

LLOYD
'Preciate that, sir.  The boys 'n girls have been lots happier.

WALKIN' DUDE
What boys?  What girls?

LLOYD
The people in the militia. The folks in the weapons factories.

WALKIN' DUDE
I see.   Lloyd, you'll have to learn to like Trashy again.

LLOYD
... ?!

WALKIN' DUDE
(intense)
I sense it, feel it.  He'll be back.
(easygoing)
He's too crazy not to come back.

Lloyd says nothing, staring off into the distance.  Then:

LLOYD
Sir!

He points, and from that direction comes a
ROAR.  The Walkin' Dude and Lloyd see --


-- a B-1 bomber and two F-16s streak past.

WALKIN' DUDE
A B-1 bomber!  Well done, Lloyd.

LLOYD
The F-16s, sir, are armed with sidewinders.

WALKIN' DUDE
Thanks.

Lloyd knows he's dismissed.  As he exits, the Walkin' Dude
 goes to Nadine, who lies on a divan, her belly large.


He shoves his hands under her, and lifts her up.  Their faces are very close.

WALKIN' DUDE
Things are looking up, Nadine.

NADINE
Neato.

He jerks his hands from under her -- she stays where
she is, levitating.  He excitedly exposes her belly.


He floats up himself and hovers over her belly
with his mouth.  He kisses it, making blowing
 sounds and the weirdest baby talk.


WALKIN' DUDE
Uwwww ... neki sakkad, Chathuluuuu ...

Nadine feels a sharp pain and stares at her
belly.  Six spikes begin to stick up from the taut
 surface of her skin -- a claw is pushing up.


NADINE
Oh my God.

The talon-like spikes retreat.  The Walkin' Dude grins.


CUT TO:

EXT.  WILDERNESS - ARROYO (DISTANT LAS VEGAS) - DAY

Stu helps Larry up the bank and
 they reach the edge.  They can see --


-- many miles away -- the sun kicking
 off the buildings of Las Vegas.


LARRY
So far, so good.

The soft rock gives way beneath Stu's feet.
He starts to slide back down.  He grabs at rocks,
but they come loose and he fails to get a purchase.


Stu tumbles all the way to the riverbed, his leg hitting a
 jagged rock.  He gasps in pain, grabs his leg ... it is broken.


He looks up and sees Larry looking down.

LARRY
Are you okay?

STU
Leg's broke ... got some sticks, we'll splint it.

Stu sees Larry pull back from the edge and from view.  Stu is puzzled.

Larry's mind races.  Once again the WEIRD SOUNDS
 EDDY around him.  Crows nearby squawk
 and cackle as they flutter around a carcass.  


Larry steps back to the edge of the arroyo and to the
 ordinary sounds of nature.  He smiles down at Stu.


STU
Where're the sticks? Aren't you going to help me?

LARRY
No, Stu.  I'm going it alone.  It can't wait.

STU
What ?! --

LARRY
Stu, don't you remember what Mother Abigail said?   If you can't
lead, I should. 
Your job -- mission -- was to get me this far.

STU
Hold on there just a min --

LARRY
But Stu, don't you get it? You hurting
 yourself is a
sign ... from her ... to me.

STU
Larry, the sun's gone to your head ... Maybe --

LARRY
(irascible)
Maybe what ?!

STU
Maybe the Walkin' Dude has gotten to you.

Larry just smiles down at Stu.

Stu sees Larry retreat from the edge.  He yells out:

STU
Larry, damn you, I'll have to kill the
Dude AND YOU.   Larry, come back!

Larry doesn't reappear.  Stu's distress is much stronger
 than the pain of his broken leg.  Kojack whimpers.



CUT TO:

EXT.  ROAD INTO LAS VEGAS - NIGHT

Larry walks down the middle of the road toward the blazing lights.


EXT.  SCRUBLAND OVERLOOKING ROAD (LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

On his bike, Tom swoops a rise up and sees --

-- Larry heading toward the Strip.

TOM
Holy gee ... ?!


EXT. BOTTOM OF ARROYO - NIGHT

Kojack brings a stick, and Stu -- working
feverishly -- completes a makeshift splint.



EXT.  STRIP  (LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Acknowledging bystanders and those who spill
 out of the casinos to applaud him, Larry walks
toward the MGM Grand.   Police stop traffic for him.


Larry glances up and sees his name in lights:
 LARRY UNDERWOOD, ROCKSTAR OF THE WEST.



EXT. / INT.  PENTHOUSE - NIGHT

The Walkin' Dude looks down.  He grins smugly.


EXT.  MGM GRAND LOBBY - NIGHT

Lloyd sweeps forward to meet Larry.

LLOYD
Welcome, Mr. Underwood. Your concert will be tomorrow
night.  We've lined up some first rate backup musicians.

LARRY
Good.


EXT.  WILDERNESS - ARROYO (DISTANT LAS VEGAS) - DAWN

Kojack tugging, Stu claws his way up to the edge.


EXT.  BOARDED-UP WEDDING CHAPEL (LAS VEGAS) - DAY

A boy leads Lloyd and a few goons to the
 door of the chapel.  Some boards have been
 torn from the door.  The boy points inside.


INT.  PLASTIC WEDDING CHAPEL - DAY

In the gloom, an attractive WOMAN in a sexy
 waitress outfit is kneeling and praying quietly.


ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
Hail Mary --

Lloyd's goons charge in.  She starts to turn --


EXT.  WILDERNESS  (LAS VEGAS IN DISTANCE) - LATE DAY

Propped on an improvised crutch, Stu makes slow but
 inexorable progress over the rough terrain.  Every time his
 broken leg brushes against something, Stu could scream.


He has to stop.  He takes the opportunity to
check his revolver.  Satisfied, Stu soldiers on.



EXT.  ARENA BY MGM GRAND  (LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Larry is on the bandstand with other musicians -- a
heavy metal rock 'n' roller, a classical violinist, a cocktail
 bar pianist in frills.  Near Larry are the gaudy MASTER
 OF CEREMONIES, Lloyd, and goons.  They, and the crowd
who fill the stands, watch the activity in the arena.


Other goons lead in the attractive woman captured in the chapel,
 still in her sexy outfit.   Meanwhile four open sports cars,
 their drivers in flashy duds, one of them tricked out as a
 pirate, back into the arena from different directions.


The Master of Ceremonies signals, and drummers
start up a nerve-wracking tattoo.   The people in the
 stands watch, excitement and nervousness rising.


The woman, terribly afraid, tries to calm herself.

ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
H-hail Mary, f-f-full ... full ...

The drivers -- one is a woman -- grab her.  Ropes run
from the back bumpers of each car, and the drivers
 loop the ends around the woman's wrists and ankles.


Larry watches without expression.

The drivers get in their cars, and inch forward till the woman
 is suspended by her wrists and ankles -- ready to be quartered
 alive.  The ENGINES IDLE; occasionally there's a REV.


The people in the stands are excited, uneasy, on edge.

Her heart pounding in her throat, she
pushes out the words as loud as she can:


ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
Our Father ... who ... art ... in ... heaven --

WALKIN' DUDE
-- Stay there!

All eyes and spotlights turn to the ramp up to the
bandstand.  In blue jeans a white silk shirt which
 gleams with irridescences, under his jacket, the
 Walkin' Dude makes his entrance.  His BOOTHEELS
CLICK.  He is followed by Nadine who is very pregnant.


MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Randall Flagg and bride who will give birth tomorrow!

A cheer goes up from the crowd.  Larry watches.
  The Walkin' Dude approaches, and he's easygoing.


WALKIN' DUDE
Hi, Larry.   Gonna play for us?

LARRY
I guess.

Larry's eyes drift toward Nadine.  She peeks
 fleetingly in his direction.  They don't make eye contact.


The Walkin' Dude signals; the M.C. speaks into the mike.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Engines ready!

The four drivers REV their SPORTS CARS.

ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
Forgive them, for they d-d-don't-t --

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Tighten ropes.

The drivers inch forward.  The ropes become taut,
 putting tension on her limbs.   She's suddenly
berserk.  Her pleading eyes seek the Walkin' Dude.


ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
Fuck God ... I'll do anything you
want ... Anything ... But let me live ...

Larry watches impassive.  The M.C. turns to the
 Walkin' Dude who whispers something in his ear.


MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Those who don't wish to look: the
Walkin' Dude understand ... Go!


The cars take off, and the woman's body is --

The people watch her body being quartered.
  A gasp of excitement, of disgust, grips the crowd.
  Some turn away not to witness the horror.


Larry watches impassive.  The Walkin'
 Dude gloats.  Nadine's eyes are cast down.
  Lloyd is disgusted and excited all at once.


WALKIN' DUDE
(to Larry)
It gets the folks' blood worked up.

LARRY
I guess it does.

A clean-up crew enters the arena, and
the four cars back into position again.



EXT.  OUTSIDE ARENA - NIGHT

Tom pedals slowly closer on his dirt bike.


EXT.  WILDERNESS (CLOSER TO LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Stu's inexoribility is flagging.  He weaves, trips,
falls, and doesn't get up.  Kojack nudges him, barks.



EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Ladies and gents, allow me to introduce Larry
 Underwood,
the greatest rock star alive --

Applause and cheers from the crowd.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
And if he wants to stay alive ... to earn that right, Larry will,
here and now, disown the teachings of Mother Abigail!

Larry remains impassive.  The Walkin' Dude
 leans toward Larry and whispers to him.


WALKIN' DUDE
Hey, champ, don't forget to kiss ass.

Larry grabs the mike.

LARRY
Kiss your ass ?!
(hamming it up)
Literally ?!  For real ?!  Okay!

Titters, even snatches of laughter run through the
 crowd.  The Walkin' Dude shoots Larry a searing glance.


LARRY
Loosen up, man, I'm an entertainer.
I find material where I find it.

Some in the crowd are secretly amused.  Goon
lieutenants glance at Lloyd for reassurance.


LLOYD
(a whisper)
You'll see, the Boss will come through.

The Walkin' Dude motions gracefully for Larry to address the crowd.

LARRY
To tell you the truth, folks, Mother Abigail had
very little to teach.  Just one thing, come to
think of it.  She said:  “Fear no evil”.  So I will
fear no evil.  So I do not fear the Walkin' Dude.

The crowd is shocked, disbelieving.  The Walkin' Dude
grabs the microphone from Larry, and speaks into it.


The FEEDBACK comes over the LOUDSPEAKER
 as a loud SCREECHING in an unknown language.
The Walkin' Dude -- like everybody else on the
 bandstand and in the stands -- is shocked.  He
backs away from the mike, and Larry speaks into it.


LARRY
What-was-that ?!

The same question reverberates throughout
 the stands.  Giving it his best:


LARRY
The Walkin' Dude, folks, feeds on fear.  Your fear.  HE IS EVIL --


EXT.  OUTSIDE ARENA - NIGHT

Tom hears Larry's words carried by the loudspeakers.

TOM
Holy gee, he's not a dirty rat!

He turns in circles on his bike, wondering what to do.


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

Lloyd and his goons drag Larry from the microphone.
  Larry calls out, hamming it up for the crowd.


LARRY
Hey, police brutality!

Some in the crowd dare to laugh; but most are confused.


EXT.  WILDERNESS (CLOSER TO LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Kojack leading, barking him on, Stu hobbles forward.


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

The goons loop the ropes that are attached
 to the sports cars around Larry's wrists
and ankles.  Larry calls out to the crowd:


LARRY
You people KNOW this is wrong. But you're all scared of h --

A panicked Lloyd slaps Larry hard.

LLOYD
Shut up.

LARRY
(to Lloyd)
Easy, you're afraid of him too.


EXT.  WILDERNESS (CLOSER TO LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Kojack leads Stu along the edge of a deep crevice.


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

Larry is suspended midair by his wrists and ankles.

LARRY
He must kill me because he is afraid of what I say.

WALKIN' DUDE
(to Nadine)
We'll stop this damn “fear” business.

Nadine nods, eyes downcast.  Murmurs
ripple through the crowd.  The Walkin'
Dude whispers something to the M.C. and:


MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Keep tightening the ropes, boys ... but slow, real slow ...

The drivers jolt their cars back and forth.
Larry is yanked this way, that way.  He fights the pain:


LARRY
This is evil ... and I fear ... no evil-l-l ...


EXT.  OUTSIDE ARENA - NIGHT

Riding in circles in a trance, Tom is awakened
 by a notion.  He turns the bike away from the
 arena, and begins pumping, gaining speed.



EXT.  INTERSECTION - NIGHT

Tom careens forward when -- announced
 by a RUMBLE -- a huge industrial MACHINE
 swerves around a corner, suddenly upon him.  


Tom skids to a side and the huge vehicle, its engine
 going full out, spewing smoke, passes inches from Tom.
It's too close to see what it is and who the driver is.


Tom remounts his bike and takes off, searching.
  He calls out quietly, but with intensity:


TOM
Dayna ?!  ...  Stu ?!


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

The cars keep up their back and forth jolts.

LARRY
This pain is evil ... and ... I ... will ... fear ... no evil.

Lloyd leaps up on the bandstand, knocks the M.C. off.
 He takes control of the mike, addresses the crowd.


LLOYD
I'm a killer.  But I'm also an American ...
and this ain't American.  It ain't right.  And --

Turning to the Walkin' Dude:

LLOYD
-- you ain't a man ... You're some kind of a ... a devil!

The crowd is shocked.  The Walkin' Dude's face is
 a mask of fear, but it changes into one of demonic wrath.


WALKIN' DUDE
(a whisper to Lloyd)
I am ... a devil.

The Walkin' Dude jerks a hand at Lloyd's face.And a tiny
 ball of blue fire leaps from the Walkin' Dude's finger.


Crackling, the ball of fire alights on the edge of Lloyd's mouth,
burning the flesh.  Lloyd screams in shock, unable to move.


The crowd watches.  Larry watches.  The Walkin'
Dude gloats as he watches the ball of blue energy
 move across Lloyd's mouth fusing his lips shut,
 locking Lloyd's scream behind bulging eyes.


The crowd is disturbed, gripped by anxiety, and pity.

LARRY
Fear no evil ... fear no evil.

The Walkin' Dude calls out to the crowd.

WALKIN' DUDE
Who else wants to challenge me?

People glance among themselves:  Who will speak first?


EXT.  ANOTHER STREET - NIGHT

Pedaling frantically, Tom searches erratically, and calls:

TOM
Stu ?!  Dayna ?!

He coasts; and he listens, intense.


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

The small fireball twirls above the Walkin' Dude.
He struts triumphantly glaring at people in the stands.


WALKIN' DUDE
So!  Who wants to speak up?

He sees the crowd staring back at him, and suddenly --

-- people spilling down the stands, onto the arena,
 and out.  The reason for the panic is soon evident.


Preceded by its RUMBLE, the huge MACHINE --
 an industrial forklift -- CRASHES through the
stands, breaking its way in ... and people flee in all
directions, scrambling over, trampling each other.


The Walkin' Dude is stunned, a fear rising --
and the ball swells, the fiery light spinning.


Larry, still tethered, is caught in the press of
 people. Three drivers run.  The fourth car is
 crushed by the huge treads of the industrial forklift.



EXT.  EDGE OF LAS VEGAS - NIGHT

Tom senses something.

TOM
... Stu? ... Stu!

He pushes down on the pedals, leaves
 the road and heads into the wilderness.



EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

The escaping, panicked people stumble over Larry
 who struggles to unloop the tethers.  He succeeds.


The Walkin' Dude on the bandstand, and Larry in the
 arena can now clearly see the huge forklift's driver.


He is Trash.  His hair and teeth -- when he grins --
 are falling out, and his face is a raw red mess with
only one eye working.  His arms are covered with boils.


The Walkin' Dude stares at Trash in terror.
 And Larry sees that the ball of fire gets bigger.


TRASH
Sorry about the hassle with the bombs, you'll
forgive me? 
I brought you the fire of undoing.

WALKIN' DUDE
... Undoing?

TRASH
The Big Fire ... The A-bomb.

The Walkin' Dude and Larry's gaze go to the device that
lies in the jaws of the forklift -- a thermonuclear bomb.


Utter dread comes over the Walkin' Dude's face, and as it
 does his face becomes as if made of glass, becoming flesh again.


Larry watches, transfixed as the ball
 of blue fire grows suddenly, becomes
 enormous, crackling and throbbing.


WALKIN' DUDE
Take it away, Trash.  Pl-l-Please. Can't
you see the radioactivity is killing you?

TRASH
My life for you.


EXT.  WILDERNESS (CLOSER TO LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT

Stu lurches onward with grim determination.


EXT.  WILDERNESS OUTSIDE LAST VEGAS - NIGHT

Tom rises and dips as he pedals like a madman.  He yells:

TOM
Stu ?!  Holy gee, there's big danger.

The ball -- diaphanous -- of crackling blue energy begins
 to spin away.  The Walkin' Dude notices -- and his fretfulness
only increases -- but he's locked into a contest of wits with Trash.


WALKIN' DUDE
Take it away.  It's dangerous. Very.  Lloyd!

Lloyd, his mouth cauterized, looks up.

WALKIN' DUDE
Lloyd, get Trash to ... help him take it away.

Lloyd's eyes nearly explode from their sockets --
he has to laugh and he's got no mouth.


LARRY
Dude ... your magic has dumped on you.

He and the Walkin' Dude see the sphere of
energy roll away, passing through the stands.



EXT.  OUTSIDE ARENA AND STRIP - NIGHT

People escape frantically.  Some in cars knock
others over, ram other cars.  The sphere rolls and
spins through matter and people.  It setts off/STARTS
 up CAR ENGINES, BEEPERS on digital watches.



INT.  CASINO FLOOR - NIGHT

The sphere passes through, triggering off the one-armed
bandits.  Coins gush out.  It sets off ALARMS, JUKEBOXES.



EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

TRASH
What's the matter with Lloyd?

Larry climbs up on the bandstand.

LARRY
Dude, listen.  Your magic is playing the town.

The Walkin' Dude, Larry and Trash hear the weird cacophony.


EXT  STRIP - NIGHT

The sphere sets off the lights of Las Vegas.  They strobe wildly,
dizzying the escaping people.  Streams of coins roll underfoot.



EXT.  EDGE OF CREVICE  (CLOSER
STILL TO LAS VEGAS) - NIGHT


Stu soldiers on propping himself up
 on Kojack, skirting the edge of a drop.



EXT.  WILDERNESS BETWEEN LAS VEGAS AND CREVICE - NIGHT

Tom comes sailing over a rise, yelling:

TOM
Stu-u-u-u ...


EXT.  ARENA NIGHT

TRASH
The Master won't thank Trashy ?!?

The crackling surface of the sphere reaches the forklift,
 starts slowly through it, heading for the bomb.


The Walkin' Dude lets out a melodramatic sigh.

WALKIN' DUDE
It's getting flaky here.  Time to bail out.

NADINE
Dude!  You forgot something.

The Walkin' Dude's eyes -- and Larry's -- turn to Nadine.
With her fist, she gives her belly a mighty blow.


The sphere spins closer to the bomb.


EXT. WILDERNESS OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS - NIGHT

Pumping like a madman, Tom comes flying up a slope.

TOM
Stu-u-u ... Kojack-k-k !


EXT.  ARENA - NIGHT

Down on her knees, from under her bloody skirt Nadine
 draws a half-human, half monster BABY CREATURE,
 holding it up.  It has hollow eyes, slit by dark cat's pupils.


BABY CREATURE
Dada ...

The Walkin' Dude takes one step toward it when he notices
 the fireball much closer to the bomb.  He stops in his tracks.


WALKIN' DUDE
Good try, Nadine, to snuff me ... I'm dying ... to come back --

The Walkin' Dude's face starts to grow transparent again.

LARRY
We will fear no evil.

He and Nadine make eye contact.  Finally.
What could have been is in their eyes.  For a second.
The surface of the sphere is an inch from the bomb.


The Walkin' Dude disappears.  And the Walkin' Dude's clothes -- Stetson,
 shirt, jeans and boots -- stand upright for the blink of an eye, then collapse.


LARRY
Thank God.  I will fear no --

The surface of the blue ball of energy touches the atomic
 bomb and a blinding white flash obliterates all --



EXT.  OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS - CREVICE - NIGHT

-- expanding.  An uncomprehending Stu is on
 the ground, Kojack tugging on him, stepping
back into the crevice, pulling Stu down with him.


Kojack and Stu crash to the bottom.

Above, the expanding flash bleaches out the
 landscape.  Out of the whiteness Tom speeds,
 his hair on fire.  He lunges into the rift.


Where Las Vegas once stood, the flash subsides to AN
EERIE DAYLIGHT as the mushroom cloud begins to rise.
  Shock waves hit with flaming debris, and SONIC BOOMS.


Below, Stu has enough presence to put out the fire in Tom's hair.

Above, the mushroom cloud continues to billow up.

Below, Tom regains his wind.

TOM
Larry did it.  Larry called down the hand
of God.  Holy gee, that was something.

Stu looks away, inside himself.

STU
I had to doubt you, Larry.   Sorry I didn't
get a ringside view, but it falls to me to live.

Above, the mushroom cloud reaches the
 stratosphere, when a wind comes out of the east.



EXT.  SKY - NIGHT

The radioactive cloud is blown west, dispersed.


EXT.  CREVICE - NIGHT

Badly hurting, Stu looks up and sees clouds race west.

STU
It's blowing west.   Boulder's safe from fallout.  And us, too.

TOM
Holy gee, that's good?


EXT.  CREVICE - DAWN

The wasteland of the atomic aftermath is tinted pink by the rising sun.


CUT TO:

Snow lashes at --


INT.  INFIRMARY - CAMPUS (BOULDER, COLORADO) - WINTER - NIGHT

-- the windows of the corridor.  Lucy helps an incredibly
 pregnant Frannie down it's length.   She's in pain:


FRANNIE
It's kicking ... it wants out.

LUCY
(to distract her)
Okay, Frannie, what's your choice of names.

FRANNIE
(grimacing)
Don't know ...

They pass Leo bouncing the ball -- he speaks without looking up.  

LEO
If it's a girl, Dayna.  If it's a boy, Larry.

Lucy and Frannie turn toward him in alarm.

LUCY
Leo, why did you say that?

Leo is jolted from the trance.  In spite of the contractions:

FRANNIE
Why did you pick those two names?  Larry and Dayna?

LEO
I don't know ...

He does know.   It shows on his face, but he hides
it from them.  He senses he should say a bit more.


LEO
I guess they are the two ... who ...

He's searching for the right words.

LUCY
The two who take the biggest chances?

LEO
Yeah.  That's it.  The ones who'd get into more trouble ove there.

LUCY
And be the ones not to come back ...?

Leo shrugs, hugs Lucy.

LEO
I love you, Mom.

The women smile, but there's a fear they don't
want to deal with.  The Doc runs toward them.



CUT TO:

EXT.  ROCKIES - WINTER (SNOW STORM) - DAY

Bundled with whatever they've managed to get hold of,
 and looking very much the worse for the wear, Stu,
 Tom and Kojack struggle against the driving snow.


Suddenly an animal bounds toward them.

Stu and Tom recover from the shock, but not Kojack.
  He goes berserk.  The animal is a dog.  A bitch, and
 Kojack sniffs her over, and he's off in amorous pursuit.

Stu and Tom look up, see Leo looking at them.

LEO
Are they going to have puppies, Uncle Stu?

Stu recovers from the shock of the encounter.

STU
... I hope.


INT.  CORRIDOR - INFIRMARY - DAY

An excited Leo leads an elated Stu, his beard
caked with ice.  Tom follows in a state of exhaustion.



INT.  INFIRMARY - ROOM - NIGHT

Overjoyed, Frannie is holding her newborn
 baby when Leo shoves Stu into the room.


Tears welling up, they stare at each other.  Stu
 goes to her, and they kiss; and they kiss the baby.


LEO
Tom and Stu say that Larry and Dayna won't be coming back.

So overwhelmed that he hasn't been able to
say a word to Frannie yet, Stu knows he must
deal with Lucy.  He puts his arm around her.


STU
Lucy, it's true ...

LUCY
I sort of knew.  Leo prepared me.

She draws the boy to her, her eyes shiny.

TOM
Larry saved us all.  He called down the hand of God
 on the boogeyman. 
Holy gee, what a sight to see!

FRANNIE
It's a boy, Stu.  Let's call him Larry.

LEO
Yeah, my dad's name!

STU
Sure.

Stu takes the baby in his arms, turns to
Doc and Zellman who are in a state of
exhaustion -- they've just delivered the baby.


STU
You guys did good.

DOC
Considering I'm just a vet ...

ZELLMAN
And I'm an optometrist.

People crowd in to see the returning
heroes.  Lucy puts on a brave face.


LUCY
Still so much to do.

STU
Yeah, build a new world.

DOC
God, we've gone through a lot.  We're prepared.

ZELLMAN
And we've learned so much!

STU
(the laconic hero)
Really?  Like what?

Doc, Mark, and the others don't have an answer.   The baby
 in his arms, Stu turns back to Frannie.  Holding Lucy's
hand, Leo tugs at Stu's sleeve to get his attention.


LEO
Like we can't help being happy.

Stu and Frannie agree, and even Lucy smiles.


FADE OUT

THE END



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