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    <scene_description>"DAZED and CONFUSED" by /SW1"\*1^ Richard Linklater /H^K.^A Draft as of: 02.20.1992</scene_description>
    <character>DAZED AND CONFUSED</character>
    <dialogue>CAST OF CHARACTERSi</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Lead Senior Guy a : Randy -PINK\* Floyd - runs with all crowds: jocks, etoners, poker group intelligentsia and acts accordingly TONY Olsen - witty, intellectual,, paper editor, poker group member, a bit shy around ths girls but ends up with Sabrina DON Dollar - cocky, charming, not smart, womanizer, fun guy, has thing with Shavonne Keith PICKFORO -cool, quirky, a stonar who's got it all together although hia party gets busted BENNY McCracken - athlete, a little dumb, intimidating, but in it for fun, drinks lota of beer Lead Senior Girls: J O D X Kerr - socially popular, smart, Mitch's older sister, Sabrina's "big Bister' KAYE Faulkner - smart, analytical, most matura of senior girls, social f S H A V O N N E Rhodes - boy eraxy, popular, hot stuff Lead Freshmen\* MITCH Kerr - Jodi's younger brother, popular, athlete, gets 'busted\* the worst by seniors but ultimately gets lucky, ends up with Julie r^ S A B R I N A Davis - very striking end mature for her age, a bit shy but a bit calculating at the sane time, ends up with Tony Supporting senior Girlst C Y N T H I A Dunn - smart, a bit socially inhibited, has crush on Tony (unbeknoweat to him), hangs out with tha pokar guys D A R L A woods - tough, humiliates freshman like a drill sergeant, a female O'Bannion MICHELLE Burroughs - Pickford'a girlfriend, doesn't talk much but is perhaps the coolest girl around JULIE Danford - sophmore, parties, flirts with Mitch and ends up with him Supporting Senior Guysi MIKE Nawhouse - intellectual, poker group/paper staff guy, best friends with Tony but has darker edge, ' ready to push the boundaries Paul SLATER - endearing stoner, accepted by all because of his basically fun and intereating perspective ROYCE Crawford - smart black friend of Tony and Mike's, poker group/paper staff guy but not completely with his white friends HUDSON Higgins - athlete/party guy, friends with O'Bannion and Benny, more of a sidekick with a car Fred O ' B A N N I O N - sadistic, 2nd year senior, the only ^ ,-•• real -bad guy' in the movie but gets commuppance from freshmen guys Additional Guysi Bobby W O O D E R S O N • older guy still hanging on to high school scene, basically cool end looked up to but is getting more pathetie as the years go on ELVIS Spivey - A little older black guy who haa ambiguous relationship with the crowd at the Emporium though obviously the most respected, •coolest' guy there. Possibly just taking whicey' money at pool. C L I N T Bruno - aggressive jerk, rides around with Party Guys tl and #2, picks on Mike at beer bust, ultimately gets in fight i Additional Girlsi STACY Woodward - has older boyfriend she talks about losing virginity to, best friends with Julie SUSAN Sumner - gets drunk and out of control at beer bust ' Supporting Freshmen: i 1 . CARL Burns - a bit of a smartass, shortstop on Mitch's team, competes with Mitch a little on coolness TOMMY Lewson - catcher on baseball team, looka up to Miteh a bit Adam KZRSK - gets busted by O'Bannion but apearheads revenge scenario Freshman Girls #!-\*" /$!\*SS"\ .-•\*" ' • /$n>\*\</scene_description>
    <character>FADE IN:</character>
    <dialogue>OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Behind logos and title cards we hear the eerie and edgy beginning of Aerosmith's 'Sweet Emotion''. The titles are offset by random high school yearbook photos of members of the case. Some are their official school pictures with their activity listings, while others are the students in various extracurricular activity poses. The last title reads:</dialogue>
    <scene_description>LAST DAY OF SCHOOL MAY 28, 1976 12:55 p.m.</scene_description>
    <character>SERIES OF SHOTS</character>
    <dialogue>As the song kicks in we SEE many of these same characters in their lunch-time environment.</dialogue>
    <character>AEROSMITH</character>
    <dialogue>•Sweeeet emooootion... Sweeeet emooootion...\*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A) Inside a car, a joint being rolled on the underside of a frisbee.</scene_description>
    <character>AEROSMITH</character>
    <dialogue>-Talkin' 'bout things and nobody cares...•</dialogue>
    <scene_description>B) A convertible driving through the school parking lot in slow motion. C) In another car, the long-haired inhabitants finish off a beer and toss it out of the car.</scene_description>
    <character>AEROSMITH</character>
    <dialogue>"Wearin1 other things that nobody wears..."</dialogue>
    <scene_description>D) Students laying around in the smoking section with bad attitudes. E) In a shop class, a guy drilling small holes in a paddle he's making. F) Girls unloading a large quantity of grocery supplies from their cars and putting them in one truck.</scene_description>
    <character>AEROSMITH</character>
    <dialogue>'Callin' my name but I gotta make clear..."</dialogue>
    <character>A</character>
    <dialogue>G) Guys playing cards at a picnic table in the snack bar area.</dialogue>
    <character>AEROSMITH</character>
    <dialogue>"Can't say baby where I'll be in a year...•</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>The convertible parks next to a crowded, smoke-fiiled car with</dialogue>
    <character>HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>the windows rolled up. KEITH PICKFORD and MICHELLE BURROUGHS soon hop out of this car and head toward the school. Standing next to his truck, RANDY 'PINK' FLOYD calls out to them.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Pickfordi You stoner!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford acknowledges him with a slightly sarcastic, mimicking voice as he and Michelle walk over to him.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>They say it'll kill ya but they don't say when...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>How's it lookin' for tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Three kegs...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Cool. But the big news is... Check</dialogue>
    <scene_description>jjptV this shit- out. Pink grabs a tarp in the bed of his truck and with one quick motion, jerks away the canvas and reveals a smiling Ronald McDonald statue. Formerly of the drive-thru line, Ronald has a speaker in his stomach.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Awwrighc...</dialogue>
    <character>MICHELLE</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Me and Dollar nabbed it about four- thirty this morning. We just went through there for lunch... They got this old lady standing out there taking orders by hand.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He imitates a little old lady scribbling on a note pad.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Did you want fries with that? The thing's three feet away from her.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They laugh a bit and walk together up the stairs to the school.</scene_description>
    <character>INT: HALLWAY - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>Pickford, Michelle, and Pink walk down the hall.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Can't believe we gotta be here ac all today...</dialogue>
    <character>MICHELLE</character>
    <dialogue>Let the torture begin...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They pass PAUL SLATER near a water fountain.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Slater, son...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>How's it going?</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>It's fixin' to be going A LOT better...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Slater pops something in his mouth and takes a quick gulp at the fountain. He then offers up his hand and Pickford "gives him five\* in the slowest, coolest way possible.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>So what time tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>'Bout nine or ten...</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>All right.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Slater walks away while Pickford, Michelle, and Pink walk near Pink's classroom door.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Later...</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>See you up there after...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As Pickford walks away, he acknowledges TONY OLSON and MIKE NEWHOUSE standing in the hall near the door to Pink's classroom.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>If it isn't Woodward and Bernstein.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony and Mike just smirk at Pickford as Pink slows down near the door. y#\*\*Y,</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Men.</dialogue>
    <character>2</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>So was this a smoked or liquid lunch?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink points at him like "yeah right" as a friend and'classmate of theirs, ROYCE CRAWFORD, pokes his head out of the door.</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Poker game still on for tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know about tonight for me.. .</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>, I thought we should all go out.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>And do what?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I'm probably going to Pickford's party.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Exactly - we should do something like that. We can play poker any time.</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know, sounds suspect, we'll have to put it up before the committee.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Royce and Pink head into the room while Tony suddenly remembers something he wants to tell Mike and gestures for him to walk with him down the hall a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I had this dream last night...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(grins quizzically)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Okay, you have to promise not to tell ANYONE.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Say I promise.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(reciting)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>'I promise not to tell anyone...'</dialogue>
    <character>2</character>
    <dialogue>Tony gets a little quieter and makes sure no one is listening.</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Okay... In this dream I was having sex with what had a perfect female body but...</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>But what? What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony changes his mind.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I can't say...</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh come on, you can't give a build- up like that and then not deliver. Okay, so, a beautiful female body, we're off to a good start...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gestures for Tony to continue.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>^ But the head of... •Abraham Lincoln.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>MIKE doesn't really react at all.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Hmmm.•.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>The hat, beard...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(changing subject)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh well, best not think too deeply about this one...</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Best not...</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>. I gotta go see Mr. Lane. I'll be</dialogue>
    <scene_description>back after a while... Tony walks off aa Mike heads into the classroom.</scene_description>
    <character>3</character>
    <dialogue>Later, inside the newspaper class. Pink, Royce, JODI KERR, KAYE</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>FAULKNER, SHAVONNE RHODES, and CYNTHIA DUNN are deep in discussion.</dialogue>
    <character>3</character>
    <dialogue>ROYCE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>...Did we already say the one where that big game hunter arrives on the island and decides to hunt Giliigan?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>No... That's 27...</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>What about the time that rock</dialogue>
    <scene_description>group, "The Mosquitos" visits the island and Ginger and Mari Ann form their own group.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>,' That's 28. \ • KAYE</dialogue>
    <dialogue>I That's got to be about all of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>them... Didn't they only make two season's worth of that show?</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>f0^ Mrs. Howell was also in that group.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony walks in and the entire class dies laughing.</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Abe!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony flashes a quick glance toward Mike, who's acting like nothing happened.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Honest Abe... read us a Gettysburg address, Mister, or is it Misses? Lincoln.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Amid continuing laughter, Tony quickly gains his composure and calmly motions to the class to quiet down and listen.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>It's MISTER EDITOR to all of you for the next year... you bunch of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>! mundane feeble wits. He then sits down right in front of Mike and glares at him.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Death...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r MIKE I was very specific, I promised not to cell anyONE. I told EVERYone. 3 CONTINUED: (2) From the hallway, DON DOLLAR looks in the room, makes sure the teacher isn't there and then gestures to Pink in the back of the class v</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Pink! You ready?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink walks over to the door.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I can't go yet. As soon as Mrs. wilk gets here and checks roll we can probably all split. Go get Benny and check me out on the way back.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Cool. ..</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don walks away down the hall. 4 INT: SHOP CLASS - DAY t Don looks into the shop class and gestures to BENNY McCRACKEN who is standing off to the side, putting the finishing sanding couches on a large paddle he has made. Benny gestures for Don to hold on for just a moment. In the back of the class, Slater and two others, STONER #1 and STONER #2, discuss the more technical aspects of rock and roll. On Slater's desk is a three foot bong he has made as his final woodworking project.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>...Man, I heard when Nugent was playing in Miami, or maybe it was San Francisco... Anyway, man, this chick gets up on stage and starts giving him a blowjob while he was playing, man, "Stranglehold."</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <parenthetical>(excited)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No way...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Stoner #1 gestures toward his project: a roundish, hand-carved Led Zepplin logo.</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #1</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, last week in New Orleans... Bonham... one-hour drum solo...</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>Wow.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/S^"V</scene_description>
    <character>4</character>
    <dialogue>STONER #1</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Benny, man, I feel sorry for those incoming freshmen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Benny smiles and makes a gesture like he's giving someone a spanking with his newly sanded board. The teacher of the class, a middle-aged bald man named MR. RIX, is laid back in his chair fast asleep with his mouth open. On his way out the door, Benny goes up to Mr. Rix and pops the top of a coke in his ear. As Benny rushes out the door, Mr. Rix slowly wakes up.</scene_description>
    <character>MR. RIX</character>
    <dialogue>Get back to your seats...</dialogue>
    <character>I 5 INT: HALLWAY OUTSIDE SHOP CLASS - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>Out in the hallway, Benny proudly shows his board to Don as they start to walk down the hall.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Check it out. I just drilled a series of small holes... to cut down on the wind resistance and create more of a sting on impact.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>In an upbeat, cocky manner, Shavonne walks by and gives a slight smile.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hmrran.. . Lookin' good Sha-Vaaan.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She walks past but Don keeps watching her. She eventually turns into the girl's room but looks back at Don before she enters.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Caught yah!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He laughs as they keep slowly walking.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>She wants my dick.</dialogue>
    <character>I. BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>! Yeah sure... Like every other girl</dialogue>
    <scene_description>at this school. She was looking at me, anyway.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Shiiit, man, I get so much pussy... I should be banned from this place.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Banned for being such a pussy?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/$^\*V</scene_description>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Fuuuck you man.</scene_description>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>Shavonne, Jodi, and Kaye are hanging out in the bathroom. Kaye</dialogue>
    <character>GIRL'S BATHROOM - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>and Jodi share a cigarette while Shavonne primps in the mirrar.</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>...Yeah, he acts all cocky now but did you notice when he poked his head in the room a little while ago, he didn't even look at me?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Forget him.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Is Randy Floyd going out with anyone right now?</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>I don't think so. I don't know fcbo\*r" that guy. Watch him in action - he's like a politician.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Just because a guy isn't like the Neanderthals you like. I mean, you basically don't like any guy whose IQ approaches triple digits.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Before Shavonne can respond, Kaye jumps in.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>You know, this is really pathetic. All you ever calk about is guys. Everything is always guys - going to watch guys do whatever it is they're doing at the time, getting all dressed up so maybe some guy will notice you... Do you think guys spend one-tenth the time we do thinking and catering to us? Hell no... They•re too busy DOING things besides preparation for us... What do we DO? Sit around and plot about them in some way or another.</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, but look at the shit they do: playing sports, fixing up their cars, ... It's all bullshit anyway, who can take it serious?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i 6 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>We don't have any choice BUT to take whatever they do serious.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>v,</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Exactly.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Shavonne)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>And there you were in class with</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I them trying to list all the Gilligan's Island episodes without even a HINT of irony. • SHAVONNE What the hell are you talking about, girl? ,I , KAYE I You never thought about that show? • It's what's called a male pornographic fantasy. Think about ' it... You're basically alone on an island with two readily available women... one a seductive, sex- goddess type, the other a healthy, girl-next-door type with a nice "^ butt. So. guys have it all - the Madonna and the whore, and what do women get? Nothing. A geek, an over-weight middle age guy, a nerdy scientific type... those are all types that your typical male feels least threatened by. So in the male viewers mind, he puts himself on the island and. he can have it , all. A woman puts herself on the island and she's bored shitless.</scene_description>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>You're really full of it. First off, you forgot Mr. and Mrs. Howell, and second, the audience is</dialogue>
    <scene_description>\[ probably half women, anyway. i KAYE My point exactly. Women are taught to not mind being bored as long as they are occasionally acknowledged. (thinking) And being stranded on an island awaiting rescue is a TOTAL metaphor for the position in which most women are put in in this society today. Jodi walks over to Kaye. CONTINUED: (2)</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>You know, ever since you spent spring break with your sister at college you've had this fucking attitude...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kaye suddenly seems to realize she's gone maybe one step too far and pulls back a little.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>well excuse me for thinking about things a little...</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, that's it... stop thinking so much.</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Kaye)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You need to get laid.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>From the hall, Benny can be heard.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY (O.S)</character>
    <dialogue>Pink! we're off to raise hell. Let's go, man!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi hears them and walks out. INT: HALLWAY - DAY Jodi walks out in the hall and sees Benny, Don, and Pink walking away. She catches up to them.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, Benny. You guys take it easy on my little brother...</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>I got room for his initials right here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He shows her his board and all the guys laugh a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Just don't get him any more than anyone else.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, okay, you win. Even though Mitch is a card-carrying smartass, as a personal favor to you, because we like you so much, we'll take it easy on him.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/R^\*\ CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>But he's not a smartass... No more than any other eighth grader.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>So you have our word. Little brother will be okay.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I was just kind of worried about him. Sounded like everyone wanted to kill him.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Bye.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Bye. Thanks.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi walks back to the others while the guys turn and continue on. As soon as Jodi is. far enough away not to hear them, Don looks up at Benny with a kind of mischievous grin on his face.</scene_description>
    <character>. DON</character>
    <dialogue>/•N,^ Bullshit?</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Major bullshit! He's a dead man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Man, this place is vacant. All the seniors gone on their senior trip...</dialogue>
    <character>I BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm glad those losers are gone. This is what it's going to be like all next year.\*.. US running this place.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Really...</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>You guys hear about O'Bannion?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, what a dumb-shit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On the way out the door, they pass a group of three young \*\*• Vietnamese girls. Benny does a double take.</scene_description>
    <character>8</character>
    <dialogue>Benny, Don, and Pink walk up to Pink's truck.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>...But that's my point. We're totally being over-run by those Vietcong. Why don't they just stay the hell where they were? We don't i need 'em. I On top of the building in the background is the departing Seniors obligatory 'senior prank' - an outhouse with \*SRS.'76" painted on the side. Pink looks up at it as they begin to get in his truck.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Witty guys...</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Shotgun!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Before Don gets in the truck, he reaches over, pulls up the tarp, and glances under it.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>How's Ronnie doin' today?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A^\</scene_description>
    <character>9</character>
    <dialogue>As they drive along, Pink tries to explain the Vietnam situation</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>to Benny without being too condescending.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>...Well maybe because our country had something to do with fucking up where they lxved and the least we could do was help out the ones that got away.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Now wait. The side we were fighting for finally lost, right?</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>But not while we were fighting with them.</dialogue>
    <character>10</character>
    <dialogue>They pull up in front of 'Edgar Allen Poe Intermediate School</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>and park.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone was bailing out, but hey, when they lost we lost.</dialogue>
    <character>^ 10 CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We never lost no war, man.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>When the communist troops swarmed into Saigon and everybody was running for their lives, holding on</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i to planes and pushing choppers into I the sea and shit, it was all over. A defeat by any logical definition.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>It might not have worked out perfectly, but I bet we killed a lot more of them than they killed us, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Benny positions a speaker on top of Pink's truck and hits a switch on his CB. He reaches for the mic.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Yes... we probably killed lets more of them than they did us.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>^. That's all I'm saying.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>With his board in one hand and the mic in the other, Benny assumes a confrontational pose facing a wall of classrooms that are all glass windows, many of which are open.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay all you freshman wimps, listen up! Any of you ever heard of Fred O'Bannion? He was the meanest senior last year. I would've been the meanest senior this year except O'Bannion just found out he's going to be a senior again this next year. He flunked out and he's really pissed off about it! I feel sorry for you guys. And because we feel sorry for you, we're going to take it easy on you. If you wait for us after school today, you'll only get one lick from each of us. If you run like the cowards you are, it's open season all summer long. And Mitch Kerr... we're especially looking for you! Your ass will be purple before this day is over!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>z^WN A^\*\ IS</scene_description>
    <character>11</character>
    <dialogue>The room is buzzing as MITCH KERR looks out the window with a</dialogue>
    <character>INT: JUNIOR HIGH CLASSROOM - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>mixture of dread, fear and excitement. Sitting near him are his friends TOMMY LAWSON and CARL BURNS. A few seats away are GEEK #1 and-GEEK #2, intensely playing a juvenile folded-up paper football game.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>You better get out of town. man. Spend the summer with your grandparents or something.</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>You are going to show up to our game tonight, aren't you?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I'm pitching. Kind of have to.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>How should we inscribe your tombstone?</dialogue>
    <character>GEEK U</character>
    <dialogue>How 'bout "Bent over.'</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He and Geek #2 giggle. Mitch and the other guys barely acknowledge them.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah right, piss-ant.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's all because I supposedly smart- mouthed some senior I've never met, and because my sister is Miss popularity... Why aren't they after anyone else?</dialogue>
    <character>, CARL</character>
    <dialogue>! They are, man, believe me. . Across the room, a group of FRESHMAN GIRLS (#l-#4) are going over ' 1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>a list of those scheduled to be picked up after school by the senior girls. SABRINA DAVIS, a little shy but more mature I looking than the others, sits away from the group but is ' listening in somewhat. Behind her is FRESHMAN GIRL #5 who, like I Sabrina, is not in the "inner circle." Freshman Girl #1 reads \ aloud from the list. i</scene_description>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL #1</character>
    <dialogue>.Nita, Terri, Jill.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to sabrina and Freshman Girl #5)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>(more)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>J/J0^>\</scene_description>
    <character>11</character>
    <dialogue>FRESHMAN GIRL #1</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, looks like you guys didn't make it.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Okay, it says to wear clothes you don't mind getting ruined...</dialogue>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL "3</character>
    <dialogue>And I heard to never wear shorts or your knees will be skinned completely off from air-raiding so much.</dialogue>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL #4</character>
    <dialogue>You know Tammy Jones was blinded for all last summer...</dialogue>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL #1</character>
    <dialogue>After it was all over last year Jo Ann Gregory's hair was matted so bad she had to have most of it cut off...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They let out an almost collective moan at what awaits them but are excited at the same time. Sitting a few desks over, BLACK CLASSMATES U , " 2 , and #3 are taking this all in.</scene_description>
    <character>BLACK CLASSMATE #1</character>
    <dialogue>Girl, you gotta be crazy to let some big girl do that to you.</dialogue>
    <character>BLACK CLASSMATE #2</character>
    <dialogue>You white girls are funny.</dialogue>
    <character>BLACK CLASSMATE #3</character>
    <dialogue>And I wouldn't let one of those senior guys whip my butt for no reason. Nobody but my daddy's ever done that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Standing in the hallway trying to get someone's attention is CHRIS PENTICO, a fellow student.</scene_description>
    <character>PENTICO</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, get Mitch.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Freshman Girl ft3 looks over at Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL #3</character>
    <dialogue>Psst!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch looks over at her and then sees Pentico in the hallway holding up a set of keys.</scene_description>
    <character>11</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Awwriight! Pentico got his brother's car.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Thank god.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>. Pentico points down the hall. ! MITCH (to others) I He'll be at the side door. . Tommy walks up to the teacher, MR. LINDSAY, who is reading over some papers. I TOMMY I You know Mr. Lindsay, every second I you let us out early increases our I chances of survival exponentially. Mr. Lindsay looks up and then assumes a new air, ready to say something wise to the young men. i /f^ ' MR. LINDSAY \ It's like our sergeant told us before one trip into the jungle: (maniacal) 'Men, 50 of you are leaving on this mission and 20 of you ain't comin' back.' The boys look up as if wanting to hear more. They don't.</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>That's it, end of story?</dialogue>
    <character>'. MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>That's your send-off?</dialogue>
    <character>MR. LINDSAY</character>
    <dialogue>You want more? What do you want to hear?</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know, what happened?</dialogue>
    <character>MR. LINDSAY</character>
    <dialogue>Pretty much what he said.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all kind of look at each other and groan.</scene_description>
    <character>12</character>
    <dialogue>Pink's truck pulls up near the practice field. Several coaches</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>are milling about when they notice a few of their prize specimens have arrived. COACH CLEMENTS, an older and rather stoic man 's flanked by COACH ALPERT, who's younger, bigger, more aggressive and piayful. He approaches the guys as they get out of the truck.</dialogue>
    <character>COACH ALPERT</character>
    <dialogue>Any of you ladies gonna be ready to play some football this coming fall?</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>I've been doing so good in my English classes, coach, I think I'm going to take next fall off and become a writer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>COACH ALPERT</character>
    <dialogue>Boy, you couldn't write your name if it wasn't stenciled on your locker.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to all -of them)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>\ Now don't go getting soft on me</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i this summer... Sitting by a pool somewhere, chasing the muff around... They all laugh a little as they start walking back to the school.</scene_description>
    <character>COACH ALPERT</character>
    <dialogue>Break down!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Benny automatically falls into a stance where his knees are bent, his fists are clenched and held firmly up near his face, almost karate-like. Don only slightly goes through such ridiculous motions and Pink not at all.</scene_description>
    <character>COACH ALPERT</character>
    <dialogue>Hell, my grandmother's quicker and tougher than you panty-waiscs... Course she is 6'3', 250 and runs a 4.5 forty.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Noticing Pink's poor attitude, Coach Clements suddenly rouses a little and points at him.</scene_description>
    <character>COACH CLEMENTS</character>
    <dialogue>Randy Floyd, before next fall, you're in need of a serious</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r attitude adjustment young man.</scene_description>
    <character>12</character>
    <dialogue>Don and Benny glance back at the coach and then at Pink, who</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>keeps walking but doesn't say anything back.</dialogue>
    <character>COACH CLEMENTS</character>
    <dialogue>Better get your priorities straight and watch out with that other crowd you're running with. Don't think we haven't noticed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As soon as they are all at a safe distance and walking tcward -he school, the guys start to ride Pink a little.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Priorities...</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>An attitude adjustment...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Forget you guys.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As they continue to walk, HUDSON HIGGINS drives up near them. FRED O'BANNION is sitting in the passenger side of the car. Jt^Z\ O'BANNION Benny, let's go.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Don and Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I told O'Bannion I'd go over there with him and Hudson.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Later.</dialogue>
    <character>\*</character>
    <dialogue>Benny heads off while Don and Pink enter the school.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i</scene_description>
    <character>13</character>
    <dialogue>Don and Pink walk down the hall in no particular hurry. In his</dialogue>
    <character>INT. HALLWAY - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>I usual cocky way, Don looks into various classrooms along the way, !, acknowledging those he deems worthy of recognition. As an</dialogue>
    <scene_description>UNDERCLASSMAN walks by. looking a bit afraid of Don to begin with, Don acts like he's going to hit him. The Underclassman reacts by covering himself up and bracing for the blow. Don pulls his punch, of course, and leaves the Underclassman to walk off totally humiliated. He and Pink keep walking like nothing happened. Soon they are at the door to Pink's class.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I better put in a final</dialogue>
    <character>AP\*°-</character>
    <dialogue>appearance...</dialogue>
    <character>13</character>
    <dialogue>DCN</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Who you got in here with you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks in and sees the very cute and sensual LETICIA GARCIA , sitting near the door.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>. Chi-chi! Come skip out. Let's go</dialogue>
    <scene_description>|! get naked... ' She smiles but shakes her head "no." He sticks his tongue out at her very suggestively. The teacher, MS. STROUD, suddenly looks I out the door and begins to close it. | MS. STROUD I Take it somewhere else, Mr. Dollar. (to Pink) 1 You gracing us with your presence today Mr. Floyd? I\ PINK Why not... (to Don) I See you up there later. P ^ DON •• (to Floyd) • Later Pink. (to Ms. Stroud) Ginny, I been meaning to ask you out. What are you doing this weekend? It'll be legal... school's out. She rolls her eyes a bit as he walks off smiling and then closes the door. Don continues down the hall but, without an audience, seems a little lonely. Suddenly, MR. IRVINE walks around a corner and looks straight at him.</scene_description>
    <character>MR. IRVINE</character>
    <dialogue>Don, either get in a classroom or come to my office, right now!</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>I'm right here in Mrs. Snelgrove's. I was running an errand.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He quickly ducks into a classroom.</scene_description>
    <character>14</character>
    <dialogue>Don walks into the class and soon acknowledges Pickford,</dialogue>
    <character>INT: CLASSROOM - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>j$f&\*K</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Michelle, and JULIE DANFORD sitting in the back. -. 21.</scene_description>
    <character>'"""' 14 CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>He then walks up to the teacher, MRS. SNELGROVE, an old lady on the verge of retirement. She's reading a romance novel and doesn't even know he's there until he speaks up.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Mrs. Snelgrove, Mr. Irvine is out in the hall and requests to speak to you briefly.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Possibly not even sure if Don is in her class or not, she gets up and walks to the door. Seeing nobody, she walks a little out into the hall. At this, Don suddenly shuts the door behind her J and locks it. As she knocks on the door, he heads to the back of the room and opens a window. I DON</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction> Hey, let's get out of here. I •</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He hops out as Pickford, Michelle, Julie, and several others follow.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Let's go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>1 MICHELLE f ^ we're out oThere"!</scene_description>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>Cool...</dialogue>
    <character>15</character>
    <dialogue>Others continue to hop out the window into a courtyard area and</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>u generally head to the parking lot. i | 16 EXT: COURTYARD - DAY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Trying to get Pink's attention, Don taps on the glass of the window to his classroom.</scene_description>
    <character>17</character>
    <dialogue>Inside the classroom, the students are anxiously waiting for</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>school to let out. Pink subtly heads to the back of the room, opens the window, and calks to Don. In the front of the class, Ms. Stroud is sitting and talking informally with a few of the more interested students.</dialogue>
    <character>17</character>
    <dialogue>MS. STROUD</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>...I don't think it matters who finally gets nominated, the Democratic candidate is going to win in the fall. . .</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Across the room, Jodi. Shavonne and DARLA WOODS plan >-heir strategy.</scene_description>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Darla)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So all the supplies are in your truck?</dialogue>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Just waiting for the right moment.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She smiles in a sort of menacing way. The bell finally rings bw before everyone gets going, Mrs. Stroud signals for them to listen up to one last thing.</scene_description>
    <character>MS. STROUD</character>
    <dialogue>Just remember this summer, when</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/flfffpN, you're being further inundated with all kinds of American bi-centennial brouhaha: what we're really celebrating is the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males didn't want to pay their taxes. (smiles) Have a good summer.</scene_description>
    <character>18</character>
    <dialogue>People dart out of the classroom and into the hall where students</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>are trashing it with extra paper and random contents from their lockers. Darla, Jodi and Shavonne all head for the parking lot.</dialogue>
    <character>I' 19 EXT: HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>Cars are starting and music is blaring. Darla checks to make sure their supplies in the back are secure while the others pile in. Soon they are off.</dialogue>
    <character>20</character>
    <dialogue>Outside the junior high, all hell's breaking lose. Some guys are</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>running for their lives as cars of seniors take off after them. Some boys make it to their parent's car or a school bus just ahead of the seniors. Mitch, Tommy, and Carl all jump in Pentico's idling car.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/(fiS^S. 23</scene_description>
    <character>20</character>
    <dialogue>ADAM HIRSH is carrying lots of books and is lagging behind them</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>a bit.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Hurry up Hirsh or we're gcnna leave your ass!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hirsh makes it to the car and they speed off. Unfortunately, as they are pulling out of the parking lot, they pull up right next to the car with O'Bannion, Benny and Hudson in it. Almost J simultaneously as they are spotted, they all duck down in their seats in total horror.</scene_description>
    <character>)</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Shit! That's them. Let's get out of here. i O'Bannion can barely contain himself at the sight of the entire carload.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>O'BANNION</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Shoowee! Ducks on the pond! Pentico manages to pull out ahead of them but the chase is on.</scene_description>
    <character>21</character>
    <dialogue>In contrast, the senior orderly as they load up freshman girls.. Before their mouths. With the notice Sabrina standing</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>girls seem much more organized and three trucks with nervous and giggling getting in, the seniors put pacifiers in trucks almost full, Jodi happens to nearby.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Who are you?</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <parenthetical>(looks around)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Uh, nobody... I mean I wasn't on the list.</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Get in.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Sabrina looks a little hesitant at first but soon gets in the ' back of one of the trucks. Jodi gives her a pacifier while ' Freshman Girls #1 and #4 look a little miffed that Sabrina made the cut somehow.</scene_description>
    <character>22</character>
    <dialogue>"\*•</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>In hot pursuit, the carload of seniors are right behind Pentico's</dialogue>
    <scene_description>car, honking and waving their boards in the air. f" . 24.</scene_description>
    <character>22</character>
    <dialogue>The nervous freshmen sit in Pentico's car like caged animals.</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>CARL</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pentico! Lose those ass-wipes!</scene_description>
    <character>PENTICO</character>
    <dialogue>I 'm trying, m a m</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I He takes a quick turn that the seniors miss. But, instead of ' backing up or turning around, Hudson trenches through the yard c a corner lot and is soon right behind Pentico's car again I</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction> 23 EXT: SUBURBAN STREET - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Inside Pentico's car. Mitch anxiously has his hand on the doer •handle. The car suddenly slows down.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction> PENTICO</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>You better haul ass man...</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Good luck.</dialogue>
    <character>24</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch suddenly leaps out of the car, runs to his front door and</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>vanishes. The seniors don't know what to think.</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Those little fuckers! Fuck! That was Kerr!</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Damn!</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>That's bullshit!</dialogue>
    <character>25</character>
    <dialogue>when Carl jumps out near his house, O'Bannion is out of the car</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>and right behind him. He quickly overtakes him and is soon standing between Carl and his front door, paddle in hand.</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Nice try, freshman... And just for being so brave, I'm only going to give you three licks.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/tfJRV - Just as he starts getting his board ready, the front door opens and CARL'S MOM is standing there with a shotgun. AF&\*\*</scene_description>
    <character>25</character>
    <dialogue>CARL'S MOM</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>I don't think so, you creep...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Carl is horrified and embarrassed at his mother's behavior.</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Mooom!</dialogue>
    <character>CARL'S MOM</character>
    <dialogue>Get in the house, Carl.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to O'Bannion)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Now get the hell off my property.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>O'Bannion is slightly shocked but soon amused at all this and just slowly backs away with his hands up in the air a little.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <parenthetical>(extreme sarcasm)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sorry, ma'am. Just making sure your son got home safely. You two have a pleasant afternoon, oh, and Carl, I'll be seeing you around.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He smiles at Carl like "I'm going to kill you when I get the chance" and walks off.</scene_description>
    <character>26</character>
    <dialogue>The freshman girls are in a circle with the senior girls walking</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>around them. The attitude of the senior girls varies from fun- loving to sadistic. Darla seems to have assumed the role of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i tyrannical drill instructor.</scene_description>
    <character>II '</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>You disgusting little freshmen</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| sluts... AIR-RAID! The freshmen girls are on their stomachs immediately.</scene_description>
    <character>;| DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>That was pitiful! On your feet,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>j you lazy little bitches! As soon as they are all up, she yells again.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Air-raid!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They drop again.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>"-\*• How did you punks ever make it out</dialogue>
    <scene_description>of junior high? (more)</scene_description>
    <character>26</character>
    <dialogue>DARLA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>The future of our high school is doomed with losers like you no- counts coming in. Now, let's try it one more time...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Most don't know exactly what she wants and don't get up very quickly.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>That means GET UP you worthless</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I little bitches! . They all get up immediately. • DARLA I . Air-raid! , They all are on the pavement quicker than ever.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Well, we tried, we gave you a chance. But because you little</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i prick teases can't quite follow A\*\*\* instructions, we'fe going to have { \*\*\*" to try something else. She signals to several of the others who bring over "the i supplies." Soon they are dumping rounds of flour, syrup, ketchup, and vegetable oil all over them. Occasionally one will crack an egg over someone's head. Meanwhile, in the crowd of amused onlookers, Tony and Mike analyze the proceedings as they sip slushes.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>I 1</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>...What's fascinating is the way not only the school, but the entire community supports all this or at least turns their heads. I mean, they apparently have permission to</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i use this parking lot, no parents seem to mind...</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I And actually, the freshmen girls 1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>are even made to feel privileged to be participating.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>As are the freshmen guys who the seniors want to bust the most. It's the ultimate stamp of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>y£^N approval.</scene_description>
    <character>26</character>
    <dialogue>Back in the pack of girls, the seniors have now paired off wi-'-</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>the girls and are humiliating them individually, shavonne walks Freshman Girl #1 over to Pink, who's standing there with Don and some of the others.</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>Propose to Mr. Floyd.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I I Freshman Girl #1 gets down on her knees.</scene_description>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL 41</character>
    <dialogue>will you marry me?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Well, I dunno... what'11 you do for me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i i FRESHMAN GIRL #1 Anything you want.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Anything?</dialogue>
    <character>\*</character>
    <dialogue>FRESHMAN GIRL #1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anything. Don whispers something in Pink's ear. They both laugh a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>He wants to know if you swallow or spit?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She's not even sure what he's talking about. FRESHMAN GIRL ftl Uhh, whatever you like.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I guess I'll marry you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>While Freshman Girl #4 is pushing an egg across the parking lot with her nose, Darla is giving Freshman Girl #3 a hard time. She pokes her in the breasts.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>What are these?</dialogue>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL "3</character>
    <dialogue>Uhhh... well...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A bit confused, she looks at Darla's rather flat chest.</scene_description>
    <character>FRESHMAN GIRL "3</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe you wouldn't know...</dialogue>
    <character>26</character>
    <dialogue>DARLA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Air-raid smartass!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She does. I</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Get up!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>When she does, Darla pokes her again even harder.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>They're still here. Keep air- raiding 'till I get tired!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She hits the pavement again while a little farther away a small group of freshmen are made to sing "Flaming Mamie" to the crowd.</scene_description>
    <character>FRESHMEN CHORUS</character>
    <dialogue>'I'm a flamin' Mamie, I'm a bedtime baby, I'm the hottest little momma in town..."</dialogue>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Now sing 'Seniors'!</dialogue>
    <character>FRESHMEN CHORUS</character>
    <dialogue>'Seniors, seniors, s-e-n-i-o-r-s, Seniors, seniors, s-e-n-i-o-r-s. They're the seniors of B.H.S. They're the seniors and they're the best, Seniors, seniors, s-e-n-i-o- r-s. ..'</dialogue>
    <character>27, EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>1</dialogue>
    <character>FIELD NEAR DAIRY QUEEN - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>We suddenly SEE the goings on from a great distance, through binoculars. Then we SEE the freshman Geek #2 hand the binoculars over to Geek #1, who quickly zeros in on the action. They are in a field that overlooks the parking lot.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>' GEEK ft2 ', Man, they're really getting it! Terri is pushing a peanut across the parking lot with her nose. GEEK ftl Ha! Jill just got an egg cracked over her butt... They both chuckle. Suddenly, Benny and Hudson appear behind them.</scene_description>
    <character>27</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Hold it right there you little fuck-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>l wads! f They freeze, terrified.</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>t What are you guys doing up here?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Spying on your classmates? i</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>what grade you in?</dialogue>
    <character>GEEK #2</character>
    <dialogue>Going into 8th, sir.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i BENNY Bullshit! You're freshmen.. i i GEEK ftl i No it's true.</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Then why the fuck are you up here</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/tm"K in the weeds? GEEK ftl The only reason we're up here is we didn't want to be mistaken for freshmen...</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>You're lying... bend over.</dialogue>
    <character>GEEK #2</character>
    <dialogue>Oh man...</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>> You don't want to get busted? Tell</dialogue>
    <scene_description>us something useful, where are all I you little rats gonna be hiding tonight?</scene_description>
    <character>| GEEK #1</character>
    <dialogue>Uh, there's a party tonight at the Catholic rec room.</dialogue>
    <character>' HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>We already know that shit, that's easy. Tell us something we don't know, like where we can get Kerr.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A\*\*\*-1 The two Geeks look at each other but aren't sure what to say.</scene_description>
    <character>27</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>That's it. Bend over and kiss ycur asses goodbye.</scene_description>
    <character>GEEK #2</character>
    <dialogue>We know where Mitch is going to be.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Benny and Hudson look at each other like "bingo." I ." HUDSON I Well maybe now you're talkin' a little bit. ' BENNY I where? ) . GEEK ftl You won't bust us? " BENNY (' Tell us and I might cut you some slack. GEEK ftl You won't bust us?</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Tell me where I can find Kerr tonight and I won't bust you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both hesitate a bit at the thought of informing, but Geek #1 finally gives in.</scene_description>
    <character>GEEK #1</character>
    <dialogue>He's pitching in the 8 o'clock game.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Well, well, what do you know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>GEEK ft2 We can go now? Geek ftl starts to move away but is quickly cut off by Benny.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Now hold on a second, just hold on a little bit there.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(mock seriousness)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Something you guys said disturbs me a little. Let me get this straight- maybe I'm a little slow...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(more)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>/fs^n^V</dialogue>
    <character>27</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY ^</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, first you guys lie to us,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>1 your seniors, that you're not -, freshmen, and then you narc on a I good friend of yours..-. Is that right? J Sensing a no-win situation, they give no response.</scene_description>
    <character>! � BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>\\ ; (getting madder)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| . I think there' s only one thing I J hate more in this world than a liar ' and that's someone who would I totally rip-off a friend. | (instructional) I> Assume the angle.</scene_description>
    <character>GEEK #1</character>
    <dialogue>'l. You guys said you wouldn't bust us! ! 1</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>I said I wouldn't bust you...</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I didn't promise shit. Grab your ankles! They both reluctantly and nervously bend over and brace themselves for pain.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>And as they say, this is going to hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I He gives them each a major whack. i</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Air-raid!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both hit the ground and then get up for another whack of Benny's board</scene_description>
    <character>!" 28 EXT: DAIRY QUEEN PARKING LOT - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>1 Back at the parking lot, Tony and Mike continue to contemplate 'i all that's going on around them, enjoying it at the same time.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>...I believe it's because we don't have a significant rival high</dialogue>
    <scene_description>"""' school within 30 miles of us... (more)</scene_description>
    <character>28</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>You know, most schools have a cross- town rival or the next town over is the mutually agreed upon "evil</dialogue>
    <scene_description> other" in which one can project all hostility and blame.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>...So it's like we've declared war on ourselves... feeding off our own.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Exactly - under the guise of an initiation ritual.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Just then, Jodi brings Sabrina over to propose to Tony. Sabrina shyly gets down on her knees in front of him. ; I</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Will you marry me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony seems a little awkward at first but soon gets in the swing of the game.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mike)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What am I supposed to say here?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(mocking himself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So, uhhh, what'11 ya give me?</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>i Anything you want. '! • TONY I Define anything.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever you want.</dialogue>
    <character>I'</character>
    <dialogue>,</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Think of the possibilities...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>There seems to be an attraction between them. Since Jodi has wandered off, Tony gestures for her to stand up.</scene_description>
    <character>I'</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>So really,, what's your name?</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Sabrina.</dialogue>
    <character>"\*- TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm Tony. Anthony, actually. This is Mike.</dialogue>
    <character>1</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <character>28</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hey.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Hi.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi wanders back over. i , JODI So what's going on over here, social hour? I'm supposed to be being a bitch right now. (to Sabrina) Back to the pit, kid. J Sabrina glances back at Tony as she's being marched away. Tony i\* kind of waves bye to her and she sort of waves back in a shy but 'slightly teasing manner.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Am I mistaken or did you just catch a bit of a rap with that young</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i thing. (sarcastic) You stud...</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(mock cocky)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Well, you know how it is.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I bet she's pretty cute once you clean all that shit off her.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i (realizing) i. It's finally happening... we're seniors. They'll now be all kinds of younger girls who think we're cool just by virtue of our age and senior status.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I guess it's some sort of a compensation for all these tortuous years of neglect. You have to admit, despite our accomplishments in other areas, we don't have a whole lot to show for ourselves in the female category.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mike sees an opportunity to build his case for them going out later that night. '< 28 CONTINUED: (3)</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah and it's pretty tough when you</dialogue>
    <scene_description>; never want to put yourself in a position of MAYBE something I happening. MAYBE if we left -he poker table one weekend night and I did something else, MAYBE something i would have the opportunity of happening. And then you might just ' experience something a little more tangible than an Abraham Lincoln I dream...</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I And MAYBE if you wouldn't set the •| dialectic up in such simple and : confrontational terms, just MAYBE</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I could do it and not feel bullied 4 into it. You could use a Thomas i Jefferson dream. I I 29 EXT: DAIRY QUEEN PARKING LOT - DAY AF^ On the other side of the par-king lot, O'Bannion comes walking ( '""""• over to where Benny, Hudson, Don and some others are swapping j their first round of senior-guy bonding stories.</scene_description>
    <character>, HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>...Man, Benny wore their butts out. Oh lord did he bust their ass...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The others laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>.' Did you hear I got a shotgun pulled</dialogue>
    <scene_description>on my ass?</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>No! Who?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>• That guy I went after. What's that • little fucker's name... Carl</dialogue>
    <scene_description>something.</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Carl Burns.</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, that's it. Burns. The door went flying open and his old lady's</dialogue>
    <scene_description>-~. standing there with a fuckin' shotgun. I said whooah bitch.</scene_description>
    <character>29</character>
    <dialogue>The others laugh.</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>0'BANNION</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I can't wait to find that fucker, i• He's dead meat. He simulates swinging his board and giving a big whack to someone.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>I And here's one for your mother,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>motherfucker. I Laughter. II 30 EXT: CAR WASH - LATER AFTERNOON .. The trucks full of freshmen go through an automatic car wash, cleaning off the girls. They sing "S-e-n-i-o-r-s" as they go l' through. ,! 31 EXT: DARLA'S TRUCK - DAY \[~ A-\*- The freshmen girls are being driven home. In the back of Darla's truck, Jodi sits with Sabrina and some of the other freshmen. I JODI i Do you have a big sister yet?</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <scene_description>No. I really don't know anyone. Me and my mom just moved here about six months ago.</scene_description>
    <character>' JODI</character>
    <dialogue>•J What does your mom do?</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <parenthetical>(a little uncomfortable)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Something to do with a hotel. Her and my dad got divorced and we moved.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Which house is it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sabrina looks out at the neighborhood.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>This one here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>j^T^N f^ 36.</scene_description>
    <character>, 32 EXT: NEAR SABRINA'S HOUSE - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>i The truck pulls up in front of several houses. i JODI</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I know it's kind of corny, but I was supposed to have a little , sister by now. What do you think? Sabrina smiles. I ; SABRINA Yeah sure. ) JODI And me and some friends are going j to a party tonight. Wanna come? " , SABRINA Yeah, that sounds fun.</scene_description>
    <character>' JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I We'll probably be by around 8:30.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Is that cool?</scene_description>
    <character>I SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>^ Yeah.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The truck drives off and Sabrina begins to walk up the driveway. I She watches the truck disappear into the distance and then veers I, around the house to a small trailer out back. i 33 INT: SABRINA'S HOUSE - DAY I Inside, she passes her MOM on the way to her room. Her mother l" • wears a maid's dress and sits watching TV with a drink in her I hand and a cigarette burning. She doesn't seem to notice that Sabrina is wet and dishevelled.</scene_description>
    <character>,'</character>
    <dialogue>SABRINA'S MOM</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Hi honey...</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Hi.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sabrina walks to her room.</scene_description>
    <character>34</character>
    <dialogue>Pink knocks on Pickford's front door while his parents are</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: PICKFORD'S HOUSE - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>loading up the family station wagon. His mother notices him.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD'S MOM</character>
    <dialogue>Are you looking for Keith?</dialogue>
    <character>34</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, is he here?</dialogue>
    <character>\* PICKFORD'S MOM</character>
    <dialogue>Go on in. I think he's here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i 35 INT: PICKFORD'S HOUSE - DAY Pink lets himself in and walks down the hall. He comes to Pickford's door and knocks. The door cracks a bit and we see Pickford's paranoid glance. Seeing Pink, he opens the door. They do one of their patented slow, cool handshakes as he enters his room of rock star posters, centerfolds, and surrealistic prints. Michelle sits in a bean-bag chair with headphones on.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>PICKFORD</dialogue>
    <scene_description>\ Piiink... I I PINK My man.. .</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>Pickford goes back over to the door and locks it by sticking an</dialogue>
    <scene_description>^ ice pick in a hole\*in the frame that acts like a dead-bolt. He then goes over to his bottom drawer and removes it completely. i In the space below the bottom drawer, he pulls out his stash. He grabs a pre-rolled joint off his Frisbee tray and lights it up 11 after he hands Pink a full bag.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>' A sample of the goods?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| . Cool... He takes a hit and passes it back.</scene_description>
    <character>,' PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>l Fifteen bucks...</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>As Pink hands over some cash, there's a sudden knock at the door.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I He panics, quickly handing the joint back to Pickford, who tries ' to remain calm as he quietly but quickly starts putting everything away. i</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I Who is it?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD'S MOM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Keith, I think you need to come out here.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>What is it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>yf^N</scene_description>
    <character>35</character>
    <dialogue>PICKFORD'S MOM (O.S.)</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>There's someone here that says he needs to talk to you.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>What about? Who is it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He finishes putting everything away and even gives a little quick spray of some air freshener. Then there's a loud knock at the door and his father's voice rings out.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD'S DAD (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Keith! Open the door.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford pulls out the ice pick lock and opens the door. At the last minute Pink remembers he has a bag of pot in his hand and stuffs it down the front of his pants.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Who's out there?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>PICKFORD'S DAD, a rather large man semi-fashionably dressed in a leisure suit type outfit, steps into the room.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD'S DAD</character>
    <dialogue>Did you order some kegs of beer?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suppressing a panic, Pickford walks over to his window and looks | out.</scene_description>
    <character>,I 36 EXT: PICKFORD'S HOUSE - DAY</character>
    <dialogue>i.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| We see Pickford's P.O.V. out the window. There is a guy i ' \* unloading kegs from his liquor truck.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>•I (under his breath) .; Mother fucker...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i (to father) ' That guy said I had something to do , with those kegs?</scene_description>
    <character>37</character>
    <dialogue>,'</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Outside, Pickford walks right up to him. Oblivious to the situation, the delivery guy pulls out some paperwork.</dialogue>
    <character>DELIVERY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>Are you the right Mr. Pickford?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford is so angry he is practically chewing his teeth.</scene_description>
    <character>37</character>
    <dialogue>PICKFORD</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(low voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Aren't you a little early?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The delivery guy looks at the paperwork.</scene_description>
    <character>DELIVERY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, hour and a half early. I'm trying to get off early today so I thought I'd swing by and see if anyone was here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford glances around and notices his parents are now watching their interaction.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>...So, I guess you got the wrong house...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Delivery guy finally catches on when Pickford motions with his eyes to his parents.</scene_description>
    <character>DELIVERY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, okay. Sorry for the</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r A-\*- inconvenience. Wrong Mr. Pickford altogether... He starts loading the kegs back up and Pickford walks up the driveway.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD'S DAD</character>
    <parenthetical>(serious)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Were you going to have a party here tonight, son?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>No. I don't know WHAT that was all about.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD'S DAD</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Do you know anything about a party here?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I haven't heard anything...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>His father looks at both of the young men for an extended moment and then over at the kegs being loaded up. He looks back at them and then makes a decision, shaking his head.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD'S DAD</character>
    <dialogue>-^. Start unpacking - we're not going</dialogue>
    <scene_description>this weekend.</scene_description>
    <character>37</character>
    <dialogue>I I 1</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED: (2)</character>
    <dialogue>He walks away. PICKFORD'S MOM</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Frank! I Pickford sees there is little he can do at this point and iust | stands there, practically in shock. !</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I (low voice)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I can't believe what just I happened...</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Bummer. Let's cruise.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>•' SERIES OF SHOTS ,| As the sun goes down and the music cranks up, we see various I early evening activity: A) The lights going on at the Sonic drive-thru as a car cruises ,i through. B) The lights going on at the baseball fields where games are "\*\* being played. Mitch is pitching in his game. i • C) As they prepare for the evening, Jodi goes over to Shavonne I, and with a pair of pliers helps zip up her almost physically I impossible tight jeans. i E) O'Bannion, Benny, and Hudson popping the top on some beers as i • they drive around. 'l , . F) Pink, Pickford, and Slater pass a joint and watch Michelle in , the process of painting the Ronald McDonald statue black, white, and red of an unspecified design. Pink takes off. G) Tony setting out chips around the poker table while Mike makes a a phone call and Royce straightens up portraits of Washington, Lincoln, and Kennedy that hang on Tony's living room wall. i H) At the baseball field, seniors with their boards begin to congregate by the dugout fence while Mitch pitches. ) I) Freshman Girls #l-ft4 taking turns blow drying their hair, practicing dancing, and doing tongue exercises. 'I J) Jodi, Kaye and Shavonne picking up Sabrina as she sits on the curb waiting. K) Stoners #1 and #2 knocking on Pickford's door with the three -. foot long bong in their hand. When Pickford's father opens the door, they look at him, then at each other, and practically sprint away. /fWK\*.</scene_description>
    <character>38</character>
    <dialogue>Tommy, the catcher, approaches t h e mound to talk to Mitch who</dialogue>
    <character>E X T : BASEBALL FIELD - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>looks past the dugout and sees the intimidating line of seniors</dialogue>
    <scene_description>; lined u p w i t h their boards.</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, don't worry about those</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, g u y s . . . Let's just get this last I! guy out. II MITCH I Yeah, easy for your ass to say.</scene_description>
    <character>I TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>There's nothing you can do about</dialogue>
    <scene_description>it.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>How'd they all know I was going to be here?</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, forget them. You're pitching a good game.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(joking)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- Just cause you're'not going to be</dialogue>
    <scene_description>able to sit down the rest of the summer, don't let it affect your | concentration.</scene_description>
    <character>! MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I Up yours...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Tommy smiles and runs back to the place while Carl, the I shortstop, comes to the mound. 1</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Mitch. Can you do the rest of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>; us a favor and leave through the I. gate in center field. That will draw them all out there and the ' rest of us can get away. I mean, they're going to get you anyway.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I Get out of here.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>i1 But if you survive, try to make it</dialogue>
    <scene_description>to the party, okay? Then I think we're all camping out behind Tommy's house. /s^""^ O'BANNION v Hey Kerr! Quit stalling!</scene_description>
    <character>38</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Hope you got more than a jock strap on under your uniform, Kerr!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tommy runs back to his position and Mitch winds up and pitches. Strike two.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Don't choke now, Kerr! If you don't get this guy out we're really going to wear you out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch throws strike three to end the game. Amidst the hoopla, he just stands there not knowing where to go. Eventually he gets :r. the line where the two teams walk down a row telling each other "good game" but glances over at the group of seniors who are now shadowing him. After his last "good game, " in which one of the 'guys on the other team says "good luck," he picks up his stuff near the dugout, barely looks around, and then slowly walks toward the center field gate. The seniors quickly head that way.</scene_description>
    <character>39</character>
    <dialogue>ijffSv</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Later, past the centerfield\*fence, the seniors are like a group of wild animals feeding. They cake turns giving Mitch licks as he leans against a car. When they are through, they get in their cars and trucks and take off.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>'! Pink walks up as the last guy, Hudson, is giving Mitch licks.</scene_description>
    <character>'. HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>I' You next, Pink? 1</dialogue>
    <character>1 � PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i l ' He borrows Hudson's board and stands behind Mitch, who looks up at Pink wondering if he's going to bust him. His eyes are completely red and watery.</scene_description>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey you heard Pickford's party got busted...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Total rip-off, man. His old man found out. Someone narc'ed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>s0\*&\ Pink pulls the board back all the way like he is going to hit Mitch hard but bluffs and stops an inch from his rear end.</scene_description>
    <character>39</character>
    <dialogue>He then gives him the slightest tap and hands the board back to</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>H Hudson.</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>3ut hey man. we got a coupia sixers and a few dubes... you with us?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I'll probably catch up with you later.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I| HUDSON i Later, man. Hudson takes off to catch up with the others</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hey man, you need a ride? I Mitch seems surprised at his friendliness and then looks around I a bit. j MITCH Yeah, I think everyone left me. '""\*- He wipes his nose and eyes on his sleeve and is still holding i back tears. i</scene_description>
    <character>J</character>
    <dialogue>\</dialogue>
    <character>40</character>
    <dialogue>A little later, Pink and Mitch are driving along.</dialogue>
    <character>'. PINK</character>
    <dialogue>i • . ... I remember they caught my ass</dialogue>
    <scene_description>after baseball practice. Actually, it's best to get a lot at one time. i1. After about 10, your butt gets so , numb you might as well get it over with. f MITCH t Yeah...</scene_description>
    <character>PINK.</character>
    <dialogue>I had some cool seniors, chough. They'd bust the hell out of you then cake you out, get you drunk, stuff like that.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <character>40</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Since the party isn't happening, me and some other guys will probably end up riding around. Want us to cruise by and get you?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Think it's safe?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, should be. After you get it bad, even the guys that haven't busted you yet will give you a few days. It'd be a cool move to go out and let 'em know it doesn't bother you that much.</dialogue>
    <character>I 41 EXT: MITCH'S HOUSE - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <dialogue>i They pull up to Mitch's house where he gets out. j PINK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Be by in an hour and a half or -\*. so. . .</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Cool. Thanks for the ride, man.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Sure. Hey, put some ice on it for about an hour. After that it'll be nothing a few beers can't take care of.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink speeds off. ,\ ,i 42 INT: MAIN DRAG - NIGHT \[ Inside Jodi's car, the girls are jammin' to the Isley Brother's "Fight the Power." Jodi is driving and checking out everyone i they drive past. Kaye is in the passenger seat while Sabrina I sits in the back just kind of checking everything out. A carload of girls, driven by Julie, pulls up beside them.</scene_description>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>i; (to Kaye and Jodi)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Did you guys know the party was cancelled?</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>""\* Yeah.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>J0&\*,</scene_description>
    <character>42</character>
    <dialogue>JULIE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Nobody told us anything! We just went by there and his father yelled at us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They drive away and are soon replaced by a carload of guys, PARTY I GUY ftl, PARTY GUY ft2, and an aggressive jerk we will come to know</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>later as CLINT. The driver, Party Guy ftl, quickly checks them out and makes extended eye contact with Sabrina before driving off.</dialogue>
    <character>PARTY GUY #1</character>
    <dialogue>I like the one in the back seat best.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They pull away but Sabrina is perked up a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>i)</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>What did he say?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>' Kay? and Jodi decide to give Sabrina a hard time,</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Who, that guy? I think he said</dialogue>
    <scene_description>something like, 'The one in the back seat looks like a dyke!' They both howl with laughter.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>No he didn't!</dialogue>
    <character>). KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>" Yeah, you're right, he actually •' said:</dialogue>
    <scene_description>) (mock drawl) , 'Looks like the one in the back t' seat could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch." i: They both shriek with laughter again.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, that's exactly what he said.</dialogue>
    <character>43</character>
    <dialogue>The guys are in the middle of a hand, but, as usual, are more</dialogue>
    <character>INT: TONY'S HOUSE - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>focused on their conversation than on winning another quarter.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>...I'm just saying, once you're labeled, that's it.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(more)</parenthetical>
    <character>43</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE '</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>High school kids don't seem to be able to comprehend muitifaceted personalities...</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Sounds like sour grapes to me...</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mike)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So how have you been labeled?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Tony)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Who's play is it?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Tony's.</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Then go already.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony pulls out a pocket calculator and punches in some numbers before deciding to throw in a couple of chips while Mike continues. $m"v</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>You know, just like Tony... the slightly wimpy, slightly nerdy type. Women are the worst when it comes to that. Ask any high school girl what qualities she looks for in a guy and she'll say, \*oh, that he's intelligent, sensitive, has a good sense of humor." But that next day that same girl will be walking down the hall getting felt- up by some brain-dead gorilla linebacker.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Mike folds.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>•The only way to compete is to start a rumor you're hung like a horse or something.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>After Royce tosses in a few chips, Tony reveals his winning hand and scoops up the pot.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>What am I even still doing here?</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mike)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What did Cynthia say when you talked to her earlier?</dialogue>
    <character>43</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>She's going to come by here and we're going to go by that party. You guys can stay here ail night, play cards, and then go home and yank it as always.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>For the record, I never said I was opposed to going out anywhere...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I. ROYCE Me either...</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>i Well then good - it's decided.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>. Royce starts dealing the next hand.</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Five card drool.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Mike)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Your brief derogatory allusion to masturbation made me remember a thought I had the other day in reference to that subject.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony and Mike lower their cards and look around at each other like 'this should be interesting.'</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>i Isn't it funny how everybody does</dialogue>
    <scene_description>\ it but if someone happens to catch you... Mike and Tony exchange glances as if Royce speaks from personal</scene_description>
    <character>I:</character>
    <dialogue>experience.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i ROYCE (continuing) ...you get treated like some kind of sicko.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>But it's like practice for the real world. The same principle is at work in politics...</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Politics is the real world?</dialogue>
    <character>A^>-</character>
    <dialogue>43</dialogue>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>...For example, all the stuff Kennedy did was okay because he didn't get caught, but Tricky-Dick got nabbed and they made him pay for it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Royce and Mike kind of look at Tony like they're wondering which side he's on.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Not that I minded him paying for it, of course. In fact, I gotta go take a Nixon right now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gets up from the table and walks to the bathroom.</scene_description>
    <character>44</character>
    <dialogue>Reving up in front of Mitch's house is a jacked-up Nova driven by</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>BOBBY WOODERSON. Slater sits in the passenger seat and Pink is in the back seat. The car honks a few times impatiently before Mitch appears and heads toward the car.</dialogue>
    <character>45</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch hops in the back seat of the car and they get going.</dialogue>
    <character>INT</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>whose wheels?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>ft You know Bobby?</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey man.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>How's it going?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Already seemingly stoned, Slater turns to Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Say man, you got a joint?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch looks over at Pink and then back at Slater.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Nahhh. Not on me.</dialogue>
    <character>45</character>
    <dialogue>SLATER</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>It'd be A LOT cooler if you did.</dialogue>
    <character>46</character>
    <dialogue>They pull up into the Emporium parking lot and all get cut.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>SLATER</dialogue>
    <scene_description>...That stoner Pickford's in there. I KNOW he's got some weed. Mitch looks a bit in awe of the whole setting as they walk up to the door.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Sure I'm safe in this place?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>It'll be fine, just play it cool if anybody starts messin' with you.</dialogue>
    <character>^ 47 INT: EMPORIUM - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>They walk in the Emporium at the apex of the night's activity. Every pool table and the all rows of foosball tables are occupied as Dylan's 'Hurricane\* rages on the multi-speaker stereo jukebox. Everyone else is milling around talking or watching others play but continually looking around to see who's coming and going.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i Much of the room's focus is on the main table where ELVIS SPIVEY ,' is playing. Wooderson heads over to Elvis' table while Pink and \ Mitch follow Slater over to the foosball table where Pickford is i . playing and several others, including Michelle, are hanging out. i Pickford slams home a "pull shot\* and then looks up from the table with a confident, cocky attitude.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Slater, Pink, happnin'?</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Prickford... You winnin'?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>i Am I winnin'? You know better than i to ask me such a question... i He pops the ball back into play and almost immediately banks a</dialogue>
    <scene_description>shot in for a score.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>-v (continuing)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Toyin' with the chillren...</scene_description>
    <character>47</character>
    <dialogue>SLATER</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Bummer about your party...</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>What can I say? Much abuse. It's beyond me - the delivery guy bricked. Dead issue. So where you boys comin' from?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I Ridin' around with Wooderson.. I SLATER</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Say man, I was hopin' to score a I dube or two from you. I He puts the ball into play. i' PICKFORD After I school this boy, I'll be ready to take a reefer break myself... He cockily swats the ball back and forth all over the table ^ between his various men and then does a goalie \*toe shot' the length of the table for the score.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I amaze myself sometimes' on this table.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey man, you need to see the finished product.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Slater and Michelle)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Let's go drive it around front.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford and Slater head outside while Pink and Mitch lag behind because Pink stops briefly to talk to Julie. f PINK | Julie... | JULIE 11 Hey...</scene_description>
    <character>\[. PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I (gestures)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>You know Mitch?</scene_description>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah, I just heard about you. Are you all right?</dialogue>
    <character>47</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. What kind of stuff did you hear?</dialogue>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>You know... usual reports.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Geeze</dialogue>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>Well, I'm in the process of making my way across the room so maybe I'll see you guys later.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>t</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All right. Later.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Bye.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She gives Mitch a sort of double-take as she walks away. Mitch watches her walk across the room and then interact with a group of older guys. As Mitch and Pink start gravitating toward the ^ front door, she looks over at him again. Pink stops at the pool table where Don is in a game and gestures for him to come outside. i</scene_description>
    <character>48</character>
    <dialogue>Pickford, Slater, and Michelle drive the truck into the parking</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>| lot. A large object covered with the tarp rides in the bed of > 1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>the truck. Pickford pulls right up front and then turns so as to best display the contents in tha back to the people standing , around. Everyone's curiosity is piqued as Pickford gets out of the truck and hops in the back for the unveiling.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>i You guys ready?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The crowd responds favorably and at the right moment, he and | Slater jerk away the tarp. Unveiled is the Ronald McDonald i statue recently transformed into Gene Simmons of KISS with the i properly painted face, black outfit and menacing grin. Everyone howls in approval. They soon get out of the truck and mix into the crowd. While Mitch kind of stands against the wall, Slater, Pickford, and Pink are sitting on the hood of Pickford's car. Don walks over to Pink. jpm\' DON Who painted that?</scene_description>
    <character>48</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>, Michelle, mostly. 1</dialogue>
    <character>�� DON</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh hey man. they're onto us.</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>Someone was listening to the police band and said they heard the cops are lookin' for Ronald.</dialogue>
    <character>' PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Really? Shit.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, they said that it was two</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, , young Caucasian males in a pick-up truck.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Somebody must have ripped us off. , i Slater looks over at Don.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, Pickford's got a dube we're about to go burn...You with us?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Ten-four on burning some weed.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pickford)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You driving?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i i</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>i I reckon...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They start to get in the car as Slater looks over at Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>You cool, man?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch doesn't quite know what he's getting at.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Like how? i</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Man, are you cool?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I guess so...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/fP^V Slater hops off the car and goes over to the others while Pink walks over to Mitch. k</scene_description>
    <character>48</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>> He was just asking if you get high.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Like smoke pot?</dialogue>
    <character>, PINK</character>
    <dialogue>i Yeah. I MITCH , Oh.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I never have... but...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Don and Slater start to pile into Pickford's car. Pickford kisses Michelle goodbye before she walks toward the Emporium. i</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>•I (to Mitch)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It's no big deal, really. You usually don't even get high the first few times.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD.</character>
    <dialogue>Pink, you with us?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I think I'll hang here for a bit. Catch up with you later.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever, man.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Let's rock and roll...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i Pink and Mitch head back inside. Pickford gets behind the wheel but Slater suddenly remembers something.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh hey, wait up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He quickly runs back over to Wooderson's car, reaches into his tape box, and pulls ouc ZZ Top's "Fandango!" As he walks back across the parking lot, we hear the live introduction to the first song on the album, "Thunderbird." SERIES OF SHOTS A) We see the 8-track tape in the deck and as we hear the words:</scene_description>
    <character>ZZ TOP</character>
    <dialogue>'Get high everybody get high. Get high everybody get high. Get high everybody get high.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(more)</parenthetical>
    <scene_description>J0&\*\*</scene_description>
    <character>48</character>
    <dialogue>ZZ TOP</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Get high everybody get high. Have you heard? what's the word? it's Thunderbird...'</dialogue>
    <scene_description>B) The same guys riding around, taking hits from the joint. C) Mitch standing next to Pink and Wooderson watching a pool game. He takes a big gulp of beer not far from a sign that says •It is illegal for minors under the age of 18 to consume alcohol on these premises." D) Jodi, Kaye, and Sabrina at the Sonic. As Jodi spikes their cokes with some rum, Shavonne gets out of another car and gets in with them. "E) Tony winning a big hand at the poker table. I</scene_description>
    <character>49</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>When we return to the car with Pickford, Don. and Slater, they</dialogue>
    <scene_description>h, are engaged in a high-speed game of 'cat and mouse" with a carload of girls. They dart in and around other cars and dangerously weave in and out of traffic just to keep up with or i lose the other car. i i</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Let's cruise by the 8th grade party, we might get a sitting duck or two.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>At a traffic light, they see they are next to Shavonne, Sabrina, Jodi, and Kaye.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>1 Hey man, roll down your window.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i Watch me catch a quick rap. (to girls) Hey, what's happnin'?</scene_description>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>'i What are you guys up to?</dialogue>
    <character>", SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>f Oh, a little weed...</dialogue>
    <character>' JODI</character>
    <dialogue>We heard there might be a beer-bust later.</dialogue>
    <character>^ PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The light changes. Afl\*\*</scene_description>
    <character>49</character>
    <dialogue>SHAVONNE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Well, I guess we'll see you guys one place or the other.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Check YOU later.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Later.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Slater)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>why are you always such a fuckin' dork?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(imitating him)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>See YOU later. They don't want to hear that shit.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Well they don't want to hear anything, man - all the women our age are little prudes, anyway. It's like they all got together and said "let's forget our biological urges.\* Just to spite us. The</dialogue>
    <scene_description>(UPV women in the classes ahead of us were wild. Our class - worthless. I bet other high schools aren't this bad... 1 PICKFORD 11 Sounds like somebody hasn't gotten past the sniffin' butt stage lately.</scene_description>
    <character>' SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm telling you man, I can't wait</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| to get to college. >' DON I i I'm gonna stay gettin' it.</scene_description>
    <character>I PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Really. Walker said in their dorm</dialogue>
    <scene_description>III room they got this list of girls they can call up at any time and I they'll come over and fuck. I The guys become almost giddy at the thought.</scene_description>
    <character>50</character>
    <dialogue>As they-approach the party, they pull up next to O'Bannion's car</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: JUNIOR HIGH PARTY - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>where he, Benny, and Hudson are already staking it out.</dialogue>
    <character>50</character>
    <dialogue>-</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hey men, any luck?</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>They gotta come out sometime.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Really.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Dollar! Got a beer over here with your name on it.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>I I might hop in with them for a</dialogue>
    <scene_description>while.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Later.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, Don gets out, walks over, and gets in with them as Slater and Pickford drive away.</scene_description>
    <character>51</character>
    <dialogue>Pickford pulls past rather slowly. Two younger boys, SMARTASS #1</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: JUNIOR HIGH PARTY - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>and ft2, sit on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>What grade you boys in?</dialogue>
    <character>SMARTASS #1</character>
    <dialogue>8th.</dialogue>
    <character>SMARTASS #2</character>
    <parenthetical>(correcting him)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Going into 8th.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <parenthetical>(insinuating)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There wouldn't be any 8th graders</dialogue>
    <scene_description>> going into 9th inside now would ! there? I' The smart-asses they are finally emerge, ftl slowly takes the I cigarette from #2, takes a drag, and then calmly flicks the ashes off. SMARTASS ftl I don't know, it's not our day to t keep up with them... f^ At this, Pickford jumps out of the car and runs around to the two boys. He has a board with him. /0G\*\</scene_description>
    <character>52</character>
    <dialogue>Carl and Tommy are looking at the goings on outside.</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>CARL</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Shit - we're surrounded.</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Right after they leave might be a good time to get out of here. You ready to go?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They look back outside as Pickford, after making a seemingly friendly gesture of putting a hand on each of the boys shoulders, suddenly knocks their heads together. He hops back in the car and peels out.</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Let's get outta here.</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Where's loverboy?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They walk back through the party where the dance floor is filled with junior high kids who've been dancing very slow to Olivia Newton John's "I Honestly Love You." The song changes to Bread's 'Make It With You\* and most of the dancers simply resume their dancing in the same "hugging" fashion. Not. seeing their friend, they walk back to an adjacent room that is filled with piles of kids making out.</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Hirsh! Wherever the hell you are...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hirsh and Freshman Girl ft2 look up.</scene_description>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Let's go, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hirsh slowly gets up and walks over to them and talks in a low tone so she can't hear.</scene_description>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>Why do we have to go now? I'm just getting started...</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>'Cause they're looking for our asses. They're circling the place like buzzards but they just left.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>z(\*\' It might be our best shot at making it out of here alive. S3.: 52 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Plus it's time to ditch this place anyway.</dialogue>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>Well maybe I'M having a good time...</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Well then maybe YOU aren't camping out with us later.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>53 EXT: JUNIOR HIGH PARTY - NIGHT Tommy, Carl, and Hirsh get to the front door and cautiously look put. They slowly walk past the chaperone who's watching the door.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAPERONE</character>
    <dialogue>If you leave you can't come back...</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Good.</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>We're never coming back.</dialogue>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>Man, I had my hand up her shirt - I was getting there.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Getting there?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Tommy)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You hear that? He was "getting there\*.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Hirsh)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Son, you wouldn't know what to do with it even if you did "get there" so don't worry about it.</dialogue>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>Just 'cause you guys were striking out.</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Grow up, boy. That was our last junior high party, we're freshmen now. We're in the big time...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Where all the girls put out. Your days of lying around pulling tongue all night are over.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>jA0&\</scene_description>
    <character>54</character>
    <dialogue>As they turn the corner and continue walking down the street they</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>notice they are being trailed in the distance by a car with its lights off. They say nothing but glance nervously at each othe- Sudderily the lights come on and the car is after them.</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Shit...</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Scatter!</dialogue>
    <character>�</character>
    <dialogue>They take off in separate directions. The car happens to follow in Hirsh's direction before O'Bannion jumps out and physically runs him down.</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Where you runnin' to boy? We ain't gonna hurt you... Tell you what, you just grab onto that fence and start counting the stars. You might be seeing some new ones up there pretty quick...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i He laughs sadistically. Still nervous, but resigned to his fate, Hirsh does as he says. He bends over a little and O'Bannion gives him the first big whack. At a safe distance, Carl and Tommy watch Hirsh get busted.</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <parenthetical>(low voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Bastards...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hirsh continues to get busted in the distance.</scene_description>
    <character>55</character>
    <dialogue>Riding around, Jodi, Shavonne, Kaye and Sabrina stop by where</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: BACK STREET - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>Hirsh is getting it.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Take it easy on the boy why don't ya...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don comes over to the car as Jodi and Shavonne get out of the car.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Ladies...</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. Who's this one?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>55 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Adam Hirsh... caught him coming out of the junior high party.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>O'Bannion, finally through with Hirsh, starts toward the car. As Hirsh begins to walk away all the while re-adjusting his underwear, O'Bannion grabs a beer and tosses it to him.</scene_description>
    <character>0'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Hey punk, have another present!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hirsh catches it, and keeps walking, slowly and painfully, taking short breaths and trying not to cry too much.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>This fuckin' sucks! Last fuckin' day of school and no party, no fuckin' nothin.'</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>You guys got any more beer?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>That's the ONE thing that IS going on.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don walks over to the car, opens the trunk which is basically one large ice chest, and pulls out several beers. He hands a beer to each of the girls. He doesn't recognize Sabrina but gives her a flirtatious smile as he hands her a beer.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hi.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>An anonymous car speeds by.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE FROM CAR</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck her, I did!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They peel out as O'Bannion almost instantaneously takes a step toward them and grabs his crotch.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>Suck me! .</dialogue>
    <scene_description>56 INT: TONY'S CAR IN SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD - NIGHT In Tony's dad's car, Cynthia has joined the poker crowd as they drive around. They don't say much ac first. A^\</scene_description>
    <character>56</character>
    <dialogue>ROYCE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Cynthia)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fairly uneventful, huh?</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Tony, continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Tell her your theory about how President Ford's old football head injuries are effecting the economy.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Did you know Ford was on the Warren Commission?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I have a confession to make. You know how for the last year or so I talked about going to law school so I could be an A.C.L.U. lawyer or be in a position where I could help people who are getting fucked over? Well, as I was standing in line at the post office</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I after school yesterday, the sudden realization hit me that I don't want to do that. I mean it sounds i good, but I really have to confront the fact that I don't much like the people I've been talking about helping in the future. I don't think I like people very much, period. I mean you guys are okay, but I'm just trying to be honest about being a misanthrope. Royce kind of rolls his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to the others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I think I gotta go take another Nixon.</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Up here anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>,\ The car pulls up near a black nightclub called 'Elizabeth's Soul 'j Power.•</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I can't believe your bailing out on us, Royce. Just think of how you could be cruising around endlessly</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A^,^"^- all night from the Sonic to the</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, we get the point.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(sarcastic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Or maybe we'll catch some freshman and bust them with our paddles.</dialogue>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>A little too WASPy for my taste.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Drop me off here, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony keeps driving and is soon right in front of the club. The guys milling around in front check out this car of white people. Royce ducks down a little.</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>Shit. Pull up farther.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony finally snaps to Royce's dilemma and pulls up a ways.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>r Oh...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Royce is a bit amused at all this by the time he gets out of the car.</scene_description>
    <character>ROYCE</character>
    <dialogue>What are you trying to do, get me killed?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He walks away toward the club.</scene_description>
    <character>57</character>
    <dialogue>Jodi, Sabrina, Shavonne and Kaye are standing outside talking.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>JODI</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Shavonne)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>...I'm not at all surprised you have a crush on Don. He's an idiot.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You know what he did in class the other day? The teacher handed back the finals... He always has this system where he cheats off the person next to him and pays them five dollars if he makes an A, four dollars for a B, three dollars for a C, you know. Well, he gets back his test and he had made a D.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(more)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>/0toK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>S3:</scene_description>
    <character>57</character>
    <dialogue>,. f</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>JODI (Cont'd) He was so mad at the the guy he had</dialogue>
    <scene_description>cheated off of. He said: (imitating him) > Why didn't you tell me you were stupid? ) They all laugh. 1</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I Can you believe we're seniors?</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Not at all. Even during the freshmanizing this afternoon. It didn't feel right.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I Yeah, like we were impostors or 1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>something. i Kaye leans on the wall.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>- It's like, our seniors - now THEY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>were seniors. Nina, Dralane, Kim Cook... that was the real thing. Us, I don't know about. ii JODI Really. It feels to me like we just graduated from junior high.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>It was at the senior's graduation the other night, seeing them all in</dialogue>
    <scene_description>11 a bunch... this weird panic passed over me. I thought of just this iI town, then all the high schools in the state, then the whole country. .: Millions of us that will graduate ', next year and then be flooded into j colleges and then the real world. Ii It's like they'll be too many of us. At some point it can't grow anymore, it just goes bust. And , then there won't be room for any of us.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I always wonder what other kids around the country our age are</dialogue>
    <scene_description>>tffr\*&V ' doing or what they're like.</scene_description>
    <character>57</character>
    <dialogue>SHAVONNE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Or do you ever think like, what's the guy I'm going to marry doing right now?</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Shavonne)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The guy you're going to marry is probably just going into prison.</dialogue>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>Right.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A Trans Am pulls up.</scene_description>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, that's that guy Stacy's been talking about. He's like 26 or something. Her mom doesn't know anything about it.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>She says they've been working up to it lately...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>""\*•" STACY WOODWARD kisses the OLDER GUY goodbye and gets out of his car. He checks out the pack of girls before driving off. Stacy walks over to them with a big grin on her face.</scene_description>
    <character>SHAVONNE</character>
    <dialogue>You did it! I can tell! You lost it, you little slut...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Giddy with excitement, they all laugh as she kind of hugs • Shavonne.</scene_description>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <dialogue>' I can't believe it... I'll remember ! the last two hours of my life</dialogue>
    <scene_description>forever. i SHAVONNE I Two hours? Does that include a ' stop at the Sonic?</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <parenthetical>(low voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>' What was it like?</dialogue>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I don't know, kinda hurt a</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/^\*\A'\*\*- little...</scene_description>
    <character>57</character>
    <dialogue>SHAVCNNE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>What was IT like?</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>i STACY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kinda big. They all let out a bit of a shrill, i</scene_description>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I think he said we're going to do it again next week.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i Wooderson, Pink, and Mitch walk out of the Emporium.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Pink, you heard anything more</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>about a beer-bust?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink gestures to Wooderson.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Talk to this man here.</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Patience, people, patience.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Wooderson keeps walking while Mitch gravitates over to Sabrina.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing here?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I was going to ask you the same thing.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both kind of chuckle at their sudden cool status of hanging out with the older crowd.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>I heard you got busted...</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Uh, yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>They just got Adam, too.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Really? How bad?</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>/0£\*\ t Bad.</dialogue>
    <character>57</character>
    <dialogue>,</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Man. So what have you guys been j doing?</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Just riding around, mostly. X didn't realize that it's Jodi that's your big sister.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Uh, yeah...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi comes walking over.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>You guys talking about me over here?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So I heard they got you.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Uh, yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I can't believe it - I asked them</dialogue>
    <scene_description>""•" to take it easy on you.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Great - no wonder.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i:</scene_description>
    <character>58</character>
    <dialogue>i I. ' 1.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Hirsh, Tommy and Carl walk down a dark street with a few buckets full Of SCuff. CARL</dialogue>
    <scene_description>| (to Tommy) I ...Face it, boy, you hadn't had j pussy since pussy had you. I. TOMMY I Yeah, right. (imitating Hirsh) Well I had my hand up a girl's shirt once... I was really 'gettin' there!' Carl and Tommy laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>Kiss my butt, Lawson. I wish I</dialogue>
    <scene_description>"-\* still was at that party instead of listening to your stupid strategy that got me busted. A^\* 67.</scene_description>
    <character>58</character>
    <dialogue>CARL</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>You got busted because you couldn't get away.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Carl reaches down and picks up a large empty Jack Daniels bottle.</scene_description>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>You try to out-run O'Bannion. I'm</dialogue>
    <scene_description>) going to be laughing my ass off when it's your turn - when he's . bustin' your ass. | TOMMY ' I heard last year, when they caught I about ten freshmen at one time, O'Bannion backed his truck over some pizzas and made 'em eat it.</scene_description>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, that's bullshit, right? The idiot flunks his senior year so he can be a dick two years in a row? Is that legal?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r / ""\*k Carl suddenly tosses the bottle straight up in the air above them. They all look at each other for an extended moment and then take off running, i</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Goddamn you Burns!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The bottle comes crashing down right behind them.</scene_description>
    <character>59 . EXT: EMPORIUM PARKING LOT - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>I O'Bannion's truck drives up at the Emporium and lets Don out. He</dialogue>
    <scene_description>walks over to where Wooderson is leaning on a wall drinking a ', beer while the rest of the guys, Pickford, Pink, Slater, and I 1 Mitch are all hanging out near Pickford's car a few feet away. Don walks up to Wooderson. i l! DON Wooderson, boy. I haven't seen you in a while. Whatcha been up to?</scene_description>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Same old shit... Workin' for the city. Been thinking about gettin' back in school.</dialogue>
    <character>DON-</character>
    <dialogue>Back to the J.C.?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>(\*•\* 68,</scene_description>
    <character>59</character>
    <dialogue>WOODERSON</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe. That's where all the girls are.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>But on the other hand I really just as soon be workin' and makin' money than spending it listening to some dipshit that doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. At least you got some change in your pocket.</dialogue>
    <character>I DON</character>
    <dialogue>Really...</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>! (to Mitch)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>You're a freshman, right?</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Who are the finest girls your age?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>j0&\</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Wooderson boy, you're going to end up in jail.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The others laugh a bit and Wooderson goes along.</scene_description>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>That's what's so great about high school girls: I get older but they stay the same age.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey Pink, you haven't seen 'em yet.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He opens the door, sits down, and cranks up his stereo,</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I just got these new Craig Powerplays... quad.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Bad-ass.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Anyone up for another spin?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don quickly decides he's ready to go. f" . 69.</scene_description>
    <character>59</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Shotgun...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What do you think?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, what the hell.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As Don goes to get in the passenger side door, he finds Slater momentarily sitting in his seat.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Someone's gonna have to be latering my seat, man.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm going back inside, man, don't worry.</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, me too. You boys have fun.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>ff^-y They walk to the Emporium door while the guys start to climb in V ^ Pickford's car. He revs it up while Pink and Mitch get in the back. Mitch is a bit squeezed at first because there is a bowling ball in his seat. He holds it up and inquires.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Whose is this?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know. It was in the car when I first got it.</dialogue>
    <character>,</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford... you driving in to get Aerosmith tickets tomorrow morning?</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>1 Unless I end up getting so waisted</dialogue>
    <scene_description>tonight I can't.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>If you do, can you get me two tickets?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink hands Pickford thirty dollars.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>This should buy me a bag of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>^ A-\*- Colombian.</scene_description>
    <character>59</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah right.</dialogue>
    <character>60</character>
    <dialogue>They pass around the joint and a few beers as they ->am to ZZ Top</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch takes his first puffs without much fanfare. From the passenger seat, Don mischievously motions Pickford to pull over.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, pull up to these trash cans.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car slows down and pulls over next to a few trash cans that are sitting on the corner of somebody's front yard. Don leans far out the window and picks up a big metal can.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Stay near this side and gun it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car creeps along for a little while then peels out. At top speed, Don releases the trash can and it completely obliterates a mailbox that was in a front yard. The sheer visceral thrill of it all has the carload in an excited state.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Whooaah! Man!</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Shit-yeah!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Almost immediately, Pink rolls the back window down and leans out.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Let's get one of those over there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car pulls over and he grabs an old beat-up metal trash can.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Floor that motherfucker!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car races off. He catches a large wooden designer-type mailbox dead-on. They whoop it up even more. •i DON I Awwright!</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Heeeyuuuu</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You should throw that bowling ball out.</dialogue>
    <character>60</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Think?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, lose it. It doesn't fit anyone's hand, anyway.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch grabs the ball and apprehensively leans out the window.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Okay.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford floors the accelerator and the car is flying. Not really aiming at anything, Mitch tosses the ball into the air. In a slow motion shot, the ball crashes through the windshield of a car parked on the street. The guys seem more shocked than thrilled at first - perhaps at the sheer extent of the property 'damage. 1 PINK i Shit man... someone's car. Mitch looks back at the broken windshield with a mixture of fear and shame. The others start enjoying it when it becomes apparent they've gotten away.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Aww, fuck 'em anyway.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Man, that bowling ball said "hooff" to that damn windshield.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Some poor slob's going to come out to his car tomorrow morning, on his way to work and...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all start howling.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Strike!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>More laughter. Having officially copped all of them, Mitch goes along with the victory celebration.</scene_description>
    <character>! DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey man, we're out of beer. We need a Quick and Easy stop.</dialogue>
    <character>61</character>
    <dialogue>^</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: QUICK & EASY - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>The car pulls into the parking lot.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>AF^ 72</scene_description>
    <character>� 61 CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We're also out of cash. Hey, pull I up over there, heading out that way.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>What, you're going to steal it?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>I got it all staked out. It'll be easy. I just need someone to be look-out.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Oh come on man, you're gonna get us in trouble.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>C'mon. I need you to stand by the door.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pickford)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Have it runnin' and ready to go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r Mitch hesitates a bit but is' soon walking with Don up to the store.</scene_description>
    <character>62</character>
    <dialogue>Don and Mitch get up near the store.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I don't know about all this, man.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Just stand up here and act like a look-out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i (whispers) i I'm really going to pay for it but let's fuck with them. I • Mitch grins briefly and then tries to act serious as Don enters the store. He looks back at Pickford backing the car up and then back inside at how Don is doing. He sees Don bolting for the 'i front door. He pulls the door open and then they sprint to the '| waiting car.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hurry up man! Get in!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>-,./-\* But just as they hop in the car, a middle-aged guy walks up to r^ the driver's side and points a pistol at Pickford's head.</scene_description>
    <character>62</character>
    <dialogue>PISTOL GUY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Don't move or I'll shoot the shit out of ya!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford doesn't know what to be more panicked about, the gun at his head or the robbery in progress.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Don)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Don, give the beer back...</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Don't worry about the beer, man. I really paid for it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pickford flashes him a quick quizzical look that soon turns into a panic once more.</scene_description>
    <character>PISTOL GUY</character>
    <dialogue>You busted my mailbox, didn'ya?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what you're talking about man, but... •</dialogue>
    <character>PISTOL GUY</character>
    <dialogue>Tamperin' with mailboxes is a felony offense. I done called the</dialogue>
    <scene_description>,1 po-lice. I think you boys need to get out of the car, nice and slow.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>. Whadda we do?</dialogue>
    <character>PISTOL GUY</character>
    <dialogue>> I said get the fuck out of the</dialogue>
    <scene_description>car... now! Don has sec the beer near the gear shift in such a way that it can't be seen by the guy with the gun. He slowly is shifting the car into gear.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>1</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <parenthetical>(reasoning)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What, you're going to shoot us for something YOU think we did?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>j PISTOL GUY I don't think, I know. I seen you. ?:</scene_description>
    <character>62</character>
    <dialogue>PICKFORD</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(reasoning)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sir, I'm still not quite sure what</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- you're talking about but you had better put that gun away before you ?et in some big trouble. There's aws against this kind of behavior you know.</scene_description>
    <character>PISTOL GUY</character>
    <dialogue>I got witnesses. When the po-lice get here we'll just let them figure it all out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The tension has built to a peak.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(under his breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Just go man, before the cops show. What's he gonna do, shoot us?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>No, he's going to shoot ME.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pistol)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>x^\*\ It's like this: the smart money</dialogue>
    <scene_description>says you probably won't murder - and it would be murder - someone over an alleged tampered-with mailbox... Don suddenly pulls Pickford down at the same time he stomps on top of his foot.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Duck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all duck as the car peels out. As Pickford regains the wheel, the guy shoots in their direction.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Motherfucker's shooting at us!</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Go! Lose that son-of-a-bitch!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car turns at a corner and hauls.</scene_description>
    <character>63</character>
    <dialogue>Tony, Mike and Cynthia are riding around.</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(sarcastic voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I need me ah brewski -</dialogue>
    <character>63</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Weeeell...</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Actually, my next door neighbor has a refrigerator full of beer. And his garage is always wide open.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Hmmm.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>I've always wanted to steal some, I just have never been a big beer drinker. I don't know, it's the taste - call me weird.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(quick)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Weird.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Well, the true Dionysian way would be to steal the beer and spend the</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A0£?\ rest of the evening drinking it. I think that's what everyone in this car needs... some good 'ol worthwhile visceral experience.</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Like what?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Getting so drunk you throw up. A little sexual activity...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cynthia impersonates some brutish guy.</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>You're right - I'm gonna git drunk and either git laid or git inna fight...</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Seriously. You have to be up for anything.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>But do you ever feel like everything we've been taught and everything we do is just at the service of our future selves.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>It's like it's all preparation...</dialogue>
    <character>63</character>
    <dialogue>CYNTHIA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, but what are we preparing ourselves for?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Death.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Life of the party.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>I But that's valid - if we're all</dialogue>
    <scene_description>going to die anyway, shouldn't we enjoy ourselves now? I'd like to j quit treating the present like some minor, insignificant preamble to i , something else...</scene_description>
    <character>64</character>
    <dialogue>Soon Mike and Cynthia sneak up to the garage, go inside, and then</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>run out with a couple of six-packs. They hop in the car and Tony drives away, but not before signaling his turn.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r. 65 INT: EMPORIUM - NIGHT The guys are standing near the featured pool table where Elvis is in a big game with a hustler from out of town. Pickford is recalling the gun incident to Wooderson and Hudson. , PICKFORD i I was inches away from getting my I head blown off. . (points at Don) And Evil Knieval here just throws I \* the car in gear and floors it. \[ DON ' 1 (to Pickford) What? Did you get shot? Did we l have to wait around for the cops to bust us? No.</scene_description>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>But it was ME who he had the gun</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>on, not you. It was ME who was going to get his brains splattered.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Don't worry, if that idiot would have pulled the trigger, he would have had US to deal with.</dialogue>
    <character>I</character>
    <dialogue>i</dialogue>
    <scene_description>(f^ 77.</scene_description>
    <character>65</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(amused)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>That's right, what are you complaining about?</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>They're up to seventy-five a game...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>After his turn, Elvis walks over to the pack of them.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Elvis)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Elvis, you takin' this g u y s money?</dialogue>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <dialogue>Workin' on it. How 'bout one of you going and getting me a sixer of Schlitz.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He reaches in his pocket, pulls out a small roll of bills, peels off a five, and then looks over at Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Across the street at the Quick...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He hands him the money while the others look on. Mitch hesitates a little at first but then gets going after Elvis gives him a confident nod before he returns to the pool table.</scene_description>
    <character>66</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch overcomes any nervousness and walks in with a calm,</dialogue>
    <character>INT: QUICK & EASY - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>confident manner. He quickly selects the six pack out of the refrigerator and on the way toward the register grabs a stick of beef jerky. He approaches the CLERK like he's done this a hundred times before.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Clerk)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>How's it going tonight?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He lays the beer and the beef jerky on the counter and puts the five on top of them.</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>It'll be going a lot better when I get off in a couple of hours.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I hear that...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/\*\*\*\*>• 78 .</scene_description>
    <character>66</character>
    <dialogue>The clerk only then scrutinizes Mitch a little.</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>CLERK</dialogue>
    <scene_description>You're eighteen, right?</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <parenthetical>(quickly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah... just graduated,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i The clerk bags it up and gives him change.</scene_description>
    <character>| CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>So you off to college in the fall?</dialogue>
    <character>I MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I Still not sure. I'm working right , , now for the city... thinking about</dialogue>
    <scene_description>hanging onto the job for a while. It's money in m y pocket... i</scene_description>
    <character>, CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>I hear that...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i H e bags u p the beer and hands it to Mitch w h o heads for the door.</scene_description>
    <character>�\* MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Take it easy...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i</scene_description>
    <character>67</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch exits the store, takes a few steps, and then breaks into a</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, big grin. Just then his 8th grade buddies call out to him from the shadows.</scene_description>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks surprised to see them and walks over near Pentico's idling car.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>What are you guys doing?</dialogue>
    <character>TOMMY</character>
    <dialogue>What's in there?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gestures to Mitch's bag. Mitch plays it cool.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>A sixer of Schlitz.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Carl)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>r-" And hey man, you OWE me one for</dialogue>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, yeah, they busted the hell out of Hirsh. too.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I heard.</dialogue>
    <character>' PENTICO</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Hirsh)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Tell him what we're doing.</dialogue>
    <character>HIRSH</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>, Is that bastard O'Bannion over</dialogue>
    <scene_description>there?</scene_description>
    <character>68</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch walks up outside the Emporium, past a group of girls that</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: EMPORIUM - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>includes Julie. They all know why he went over there and seem a bit surprised (and impressed) by his success.</dialogue>
    <character>^ JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>r^s^ They sold it to you?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>'i (casual)</dialogue>
    <scene_description>'Course...</scene_description>
    <character>69</character>
    <dialogue>He walks back in and all is a bit quiet around the pool table.</dialogue>
    <character>INT: EMPORIUM - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>11 Elvis calls a pocket on the eightball and lines up a complicated i bank shot. Everyone glances nervously at each other as he</dialogue>
    <scene_description>proceeds with, confidence. Elvis banks the eight perfectly and as the ball drops in the side pocket, the place erupts. After a little hand-slapping congratulations, the losers pay up. Mitch gets an opening and takes Elvis his beer.</scene_description>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <dialogue>'Salright...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He grabs the beer and tosses one to Wooderson. Mitch begins to dig through his pocket.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I got your change...</dialogue>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <dialogue>Forget about it... What's your name again?</dialogue>
    <character>69</character>
    <dialogue>MITCH</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch... Kerr.</dialogue>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <dialogue>A beer?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Taken slightly aback at the offer, Mitch hesitates only brief'v in accepting this gesture from the coolest guy in the olaee' in front of everyone else, no less. He takes ?he bSer and twists otf the top in one motion. " "</scene_description>
    <character>ELVIS</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Wooderson)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>wooderson... How 'bout that bust at the moon tower? Here's most of the first keg.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He takes Wooderson's hat off and drops a twenty in it. Wooderson starts walking around the Emporium taking donations.</scene_description>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Keg fund for the bust...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Julie and Stacy each drop a dollar into the hat and then Stacy AP\*^ whispers something in Wooderson's ear while she and Julie look over at Mitch. An older man wanders into the Emporium as if looking for someone. Oh my god... Isn't that Rene's father?</scene_description>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <dialogue>How embarrassing... I would DIE if</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i my father ever did something like that.</scene_description>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>At least she's not here I don't think. Jee-zus.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch walks over to the front door and glances out. He looks • back at O'Bannion one more time and then steps outside the door. He waves his arms to the guys across the street and then quickly steps back inside. Mitch then walks over to Julie and Stacy and • slowly escorts them closer to O'Bannion's table. On the way over, he whispers something in Julie's ear.</scene_description>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <parenthetical>(loudly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>They're busting Carl Burns out back?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>^ ^ O'Bannion suddenly looks up from his game. He motions to a friend standing near him.</scene_description>
    <character>69</character>
    <dialogue>0'3ANNION</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Here, cake over for me.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Can't believe it. Get your boards...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He walks outside as several follow. From across the room, Don over Micch excuses srsScy^SiS oe:?. - •\*-•"\*"ss^e</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey man, that Julie chick likes you.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Think so?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>She's a fox.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>I'll tell you though. Play it cool, man. If she gets the impression you like her too much, she'll be off with someone else</dialogue>
    <scene_description>M before you know it. I i' MITCH Really? I )' DON Yeah. You got to play it right. Like if she asks you to ride out there with her, don't do it. Just tell her you have a ride and, you know, just say... I' (extra casual) "Maybe I'll see you out there a II little later.\* ll (almost apologetic) I know that sounds stupid but h that's how it works.</scene_description>
    <character>70</character>
    <dialogue>O'Bannion and company arrive out back to find Carl standing there</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>with Hudson and Benny, about to be busted.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>V ^ 82.</scene_description>
    <character>70</character>
    <dialogue>0'BANNION</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>ShoowweeJ We got another...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Hudson and Benny)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Lemme go first on this one, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, whatever.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>' O'BANNION Thanks. (to Carl) ' So we meet again... i (to others) i This little fucker's mom pulled a shotgun on my ass this afternoon! (to Carl) ' You had any licks yet?</scene_description>
    <character>CARL</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>All right! Another cherry...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Carl)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Now I think you should put your hands up against the wall there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Carl slowly obliges.</scene_description>
    <character>O'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>i You must be one dumb freshman son- i of-a-bitch to be out tonight ; somewhere where you'd get caught. >' • I thought I was going to have to i spend all summer hunting you down</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i but then you show up out of nowhere i. like a little lost puppy dog. He positions himself behind and to the side of Carl and gets ready to give him his first lick.</scene_description>
    <character>,;</character>
    <dialogue>O'BANNION</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I'd like to dedicate this first lick to your mother... fucker. Just as he's drawing back his board, at the height of his sadistic glee, O'Bannion catches a solid drop of paint on his arm. He holds his swing in mid-arc, dumbfounded. As he stares at the drop, he gets another drop on the head. Confused but curious, he looks upward just in time to see the source of his stunning and thorough drenching in white paint and other junk from above. In the confusion and O'Bannion's general helplessness, Carl sprints to Pentico\*s waiting car that has pulled up. He jumps in and they peel out.</scene_description>
    <character>71</character>
    <dialogue>The car quickly makes the block and heads down an alley where •-</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: ALLEY BEHIND EMPORIUM - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>picks up Hirsh and Tommy who've climbed down from the roof-top" After jumping in the car and driving away, the freshman guys a^e absolutely ecstatic: laughing, screaming and "slapping ten" w i ^ each other. Pure victory.</dialogue>
    <character>72</character>
    <dialogue>iI</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Back behind the Emporium, O'Bannion is cursing ever/one,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>;</scene_description>
    <character>0'BANNION</character>
    <dialogue>...And you lazy fucks didn't do shit! How 'bout some back-up, you</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I numb-nut cowards! You even let ! 1 that little fucker get away - didn't even go after them! Pitiful! Physically humiliated and embarrassed, he walks over to his car. i On the way, he suddenly smashes his board against the street, cracking it into many pieces. He throws the piece that is left in his hand as far as he can and leaves the rest on the ground. He gets in his car and speeds off. Only then do the others look at each other and howl with .laughter.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction> | 73 INT: TONY'S CAR AT SONIC - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A waitress brings their order out to the car on a tray that she i . hangs on the driver side window. Tony starts examining the goods and passing them out.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>., .</dialogue>
    <scene_description>...Let's see, tater-tots with cheese, onion rings, burger with mustard, tater-tots with no cheese, ' a cherry coke... I can't believe ;i I'm doing this. I always swore I'd i never be here and here I am sorting | tater tots...</scene_description>
    <character>,| CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>So beer bust at the moon tower?</dialogue>
    <character>.I TONY</character>
    <dialogue>' Are we going?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As they talk, Mike stares out the window at the cars going by on the main drag. Suddenly he perks up.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Whooah! You guys see that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>^PfcH, /0^\*>.</scene_description>
    <character>73</character>
    <dialogue>TONY AND CYNTHIA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Where? What?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>A woman in that car that just drove by pulled up her shirt and flashed her tits in this direction.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(excited)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No sir...</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes sir.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A couple of cars take off after the drive-by car.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>See, those cars are chasing her.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>WOW...</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>r •</dialogue>
    <scene_description>0m</scene_description>
    <character>-</character>
    <dialogue>l wish I was one of chose people who could do something like that. You know, that spontaneous.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>> Don't let us discourage you.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>See, now THAT'S visceral activity.</dialogue>
    <character>74</character>
    <dialogue>As Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Night" plays in the background, we</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: ROAD TO MOON TOWER - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>SEE many cars and the different groups partying as they drive out</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, of town to the moon tower. They seem to be lead by the "Ronald McDonald/Gene Simmons" truck driven by and Don, Pink, and Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>75</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>The cars drive down che dark road to the clearing near the moon tower that serves as Che central gathering place. Most cars park on the periphery but Wooderson, Benny, Don and a few others stand next to a truck that is alone in the center with a keg of beer sitting on its tailgate. The "McDonald/Simmons\* statue stands right behind the keg. Two speakers have been placed up on the truck's cab and are blaring music from a tape deck. Some clever</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/9mA- sorts have now wired up "Ronald/Gene's\* stomach speaker to the rv truck's CB's P.A. system where if you calk into the mic, it comes out of his stomach behind the keg. /ilffll^v</scene_description>
    <character>75</character>
    <dialogue>CONTINUED:</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kaye, Jodi, and a few others walk up as Sabrina lags a little behind. They pass a group of guys standing around with cans of beer, .but not drinking. A guy who was in a car earlier, Party Guy \*1, gestures for Sabrina to come help them out a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>PARTY GUY #1</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, we're doing hot-shots... when I get this can up to my mouth, say go, okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sabrina is a little unsure but goes along.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He opens the bottom side of the beer with a can opener and then puts his mouth over the opening and his finger on the pop-top of the can. The others are already in this position. He looks at her and indicates to say the word.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Ready, set, GO!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all almost simultaneously pop their tops and practically inhale their beers. One finishes slightly ahead of the others and tosses his beer can to the ground. The winner. Sabrina wanders into the crowd.</scene_description>
    <character>76</character>
    <dialogue>Cynthia, Mike and Tony walk up as Mike seems to smell something.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hmmm. Someone's tokin' some reefer... Clint overhears Mike's observation. To show off to his immediate crowd, he hands them back the joint and approaches Mike.</scene_description>
    <character>CLINT</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, just a second. What did you say?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>When?</dialogue>
    <character>�CLINT</character>
    <dialogue>Just then as you walked past, what did you say?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>About what?</dialogue>
    <character>76</character>
    <dialogue>CLINT</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>You said "someone's toki.v some</dialogue>
    <character>V,</character>
    <dialogue>reefer."</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I might have said something about smelling some marijuana... an observation.</dialogue>
    <character>CLINT</character>
    <dialogue>Well I'M the one smoking marijuana, motherfucker. You got a problem with that?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>No, I don't have a problem with that.</dialogue>
    <character>CLINT</character>
    <dialogue>Then why did you say that, man. So I'm a fuckin' pot-head, what's it to you?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pushes Mike)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Huh?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JI("S"\ (pushes again) Huh? < Pink sees the jam Mike is in and comes over to help him out. . PINK (to Clint) It's all right man, he's okay. Clint calms down a little and slowly heads back over to his group. As Mike re-joins Tony and Cynthia and they begin to walk away, Clint sort of points back at him. i CLINT Okay geek, I'll be watching out for your ass... Mike just turns and keeps walking.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Great, just what I need. The Cro-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I Magnon man shadowing me.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>You mean getting your face punched in isn't on your list of worthwhile visceral experiences?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>-^ As they walk, they pass a drunk girl, SUSAN SUMNER heavily making f\*\*^ out with a guy. When she's noc kissing him, she's taking big gulps of beer.</scene_description>
    <character>77</character>
    <dialogue>Pink, Mitch. Slater and Pickford are ail climbing up the moon</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: MOON TOWER - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>tower ladder,</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Mitch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I can't believe you've never been out here.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Never have. Why do they call it the moon tower, anyway?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>In the 20's they built it to simulate the light of a full moon. So it's like the people around here have a full moon every night of the year.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>And they haven't repaired anything since the twenties so be careful, some of the steps are about to give.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>This place used to be off limits. Some drunk freshman fell off the top about ten years ago and smashed his skull on a crossbeam.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>It's a cool view though... Good place to toke...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They get to a rather small platform at the top. The view on one side is the city and on the other the country. They stare out at the city and back down at the others below.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Look at this whole fucking town. It's completely dead. All those idiots that go off to their little boring jobs and then drive home to their little cubby holes to watch T.v. and awaic death.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>If you're not careful, chat could be any of us in a few years.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>A^\*^ Not me, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>(^ 88.</scene_description>
    <character>77</character>
    <dialogue>Slater fires up a joint as Slater stares off and ponders society</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>r</dialogue>
    <scene_description>in a different way.</scene_description>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Think how many people out there are fucking at this very minute.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i Mitch just stares down at all the people at the beer-bust. Down below the tape is being changed to something else. Some scream out their suggestions and objections.'</scene_description>
    <character>RANDOM VOICES</character>
    <dialogue>ZZ Top: Nugent! Free Bird!</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <parenthetical>(shouting down)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Zepplin!</dialogue>
    <character>RANDOM VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Captain and Tenille!</dialogue>
    <character>WOODERSON</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck you!</dialogue>
    <character>78</character>
    <dialogue>Tony, Mike and Cynthia are leaning against one of the cars.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sacco and vansetti. They all laugh a little and Mike gets an urge to be a little more public.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(yells)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sacco and Vansetti!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This is drowned out by a new song, cranked up all the way. Mike's tone suddenly changes.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm going to get that guy.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>what guy?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>That asshole on the way in, Clint -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- the super-dominant male.</scene_description>
    <character>78</character>
    <dialogue>TONY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I wouldn't suggest that.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I've got it all planned out. Most fights at places like this never get past a punch or two before it's broken up, right? There's this almost natural instinct to not upset the herd too much. So, I just have to be sure to get one good punch in and then play defense.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Why are you even thinking like this?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>At first, you're relieved to get away from the situation, but now there's a level of humiliation</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/$$&\ setting in that I can tell is going to be with me a long time. This could be yet another experience i that contributes to me being a little ineffectual nothing the rest of my life. I have the conscious ability to rebel against that. If nothing else, it'll set an example and a tone for my senior year. It's like when you go into prison. They say walk right up to the baddest dude in the whole place and punch him right in the nose in front of everyone. He might beat , the crap out of you, but nobody will ever fuck with you because who ! wants to get punched in the face even one time? You gotta prove you're one of those who's not afraid to... { He doubles up his fist and punches his other hand in the palm with a loud pop.</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Great.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sabrina wanders by Tony and after they make eye contact, she boldly goes up to him.</scene_description>
    <character>' SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Do you remember me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>78 CONTINUED: (2)</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Only if this afternoon's offer still stands.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <parenthetical>(flirting back)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Uh, what am I supposed to say? Anything you want...</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>That's what I want to hear.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They don't quite know what to say next but Tony has subtly made room for her to stand next to him while they lean on the car. Cynthia looks at Sabrina and then back at Mike like "Who's this intruder?" She seems more irritated that Tony has perked up at tSabrina's presence.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Do you know what time it is?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(changes mind)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No, don't tell me. It'll ruin the rest of my night.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cynthia and Mike decide to walk around. 79 EXT: BEER BUST - NEAR KEG - NIGHT Cynthia and Mike are slowly walking toward the keg.</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Why'd we even come here? I always feel a little out of place at things like this.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, it's amazing. On one level I don't give a shit about anything in the entire world but that hasn't taken away a kind of shyness. You'd think you could blow off caring if people accepted you or not.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I can't believe he's flirting with that little freshman.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She happens to say this in earshot of Darla, who comes over to them when she hears the magic word. 79 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Did you say freshman?</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, right over there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She points at Sabrina across the way.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <dialogue>Hmmm.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Darla)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No trouble though, okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Darla keeps looking at Sabrina while she wanders back to her pack •of friends. Mike and Cynthia continue.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You can't blame him, though. He doesn't even know you like him. It's kind of difficult.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA'</character>
    <dialogue>I know it. I hate this, let's not even talk about it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>80 EXT: BASE OF TOWER - NIGHT After climbing down from the moon tower, Mitch, Slater, Pickford and Pink run into Julie, Stacy and some of their friends.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Cottonmouth man, I need some beer!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Julie wanders over to Mitch.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. You want to go over and get a beer?</dialogue>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>Sure. Did you ride out here with them?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all start making cheir way toward the keg.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. How 'bout you, you got a car?</dialogue>
    <character>30</character>
    <dialogue>JULIE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Uh-huh.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pointing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>That blue Camaro.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They walk by an even more drunk Susan and a different guy, ?a--y Guy #1. as they are getting in the back seat of a car. A 'ew'of Party Guy #l's friends are kind of milling around the car.</scene_description>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Julie)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Susan's drunk again.</dialogue>
    <character>JULIE</character>
    <dialogue>God, every time...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch looks back at the car as they walk away.</scene_description>
    <character>81</character>
    <dialogue>/0WN</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: BEER BUST - NEAR KEG</character>
    <dialogue>Pink walks over to where Benny and Don are standing.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Piiink.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, so here's the story: if we ever get busted, we tell them we found it down by the river.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Right at the bottom of that main path.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>When did we find it?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Early this evening, as it was getting dark.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Just don't be driving around town with it standing up in the back unless you want the cops all over your ass.</dialogue>
    <character>^ DON</character>
    <dialogue>{A\*\*\* Man, screw the cops in this town.</dialogue>
    <character>81</character>
    <dialogue>BENNY</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>And I can smell that reefer on you a mile away, boy. Coach Clements is right - you've been running with chat bad crowd again.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Attitude adjustment...</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Priorities...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I just want to know who narced on me. I mean why else would he single me out? It's not like I'm the only athlete in our school that parties.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Ahhh, don't worry about it. Fuck what those coaches think.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don gets that mischievous look on his face as he looks over at all the people in line for the keg. I</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>| Check this out.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(yells)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Cops!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>In a panic, they all either toss their beers or walk away quickly from the keg.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>, Amateurs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don laughs as he walks over to the keg and pours himself a beer. I We suddenly HEAR someone off in the woods in another direccion ' throwing up. Everyone kind of laughs at this anonymous person's misery. i , 82 EXT: NEAR CARS - NIGHT Cynthia and Mike are back near Tony and Sabrina leaning against a car and talking.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>...I just think it's important to rebel against all those petty fears</dialogue>
    <scene_description>r """" like pain or even death, (more) 82 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>If you can gee to thac point where you are not only not afraid of death but perhaps even embracing it, then there is no longer any bad. Everything then goes beyond judgement - good/evil, right/wrong - it's all bullshit.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>From your perspective maybe, but certainly you're not implying chat this is valid thinking for everyone.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not everyone and of course my perspective - for better and worse it's the only one I've got.</dialogue>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>So if there is no absolute morality, judgement, or anything else, would you push the button that would start a global thermo- nuclear war if you could?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm noc sure, depends oh my mood at the time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all laugh a little. Cynthia rolls her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Great.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Although Tony, seems to have been paying more attention to Sabrina, he finally jumps in the conversation.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Let's just say we're thankful the button to che nuclear holocausc is in the hands of politicians worried about re-election and not someone like you going through an existential crisis.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mike gets a little antsy and begins to walk away.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever... Me and my existential crisis are going to go walk around. Later. Much.</dialogue>
    <character>83</character>
    <dialogue>Near another truck with a stereo going, Pickford, Michelle, ?'-k</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Slater. Stoner #2, and Stacy sic in a circle on the ground</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i . passing a reefer and listening to Neil Young's "After The Goldrush." No one says anything for a while but then Stoner #1 \* and Slater start in.</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #1</character>
    <dialogue>This song is about aliens landing.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Of course, man. This country was founded by people who worshipped aliens - George Washington and them. They were all a part of some cult that was way into that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I '  George toked weed too, man. He grew it at Mt. Vernon.</scene_description>
    <character>STACY</character>
    <dialogue>Suuure.</dialogue>
    <character>SLATER</character>
    <dialogue>Really man, it's true. He thought it would be a good cash crop for Che southern states. The man was a visionary... And here we are tokin' to his vision 200 years later.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Slater does a little salute with the joint before passing it.</scene_description>
    <character>84</character>
    <dialogue>Kaye, Cynthia, Jodi and Pink are standing around talking.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>KAYE</dialogue>
    <scene_description>...It's like all our decisions have been made for us. what are our true opeions? We can ride around, stand here and talk. There's gotta be something interesting going on somewhere else... It's just that we're stuck in bum-fuck-ville.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>And it's all so generic.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I wish I was like Italian or Black or something... anything to not</dialogue>
    <scene_description>"^. feel like I stepped out of the Brady Bunch.</scene_description>
    <character>84</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>So what is it more of, the place we're stuck in or the time period we're stuck in? Maybe nothing's going on anywhere. Maybe nothing's EVER gone on anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>t I KAYE ...I really liked Tony's last column about this decade. What was that one line? "The uncertainties of the 60's have been sold out for i the certainty of boredom in the 70's. . ."</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. I'm working on this every- other-decade theory: Okay, the 50's were boring, the sixties rocked, and the 70's obviously suck, so maybe the 80's are going to be cool.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(optimistic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I figure we'll be In our twenties</dialogue>
    <scene_description>-s and hey, it can't get any worse. Pink walks around over to Tony. ij PINK I ' Tony, real quick. I don't want to i be sports editor. I'd rather write '! features, editorials, anything but I sports.</scene_description>
    <character>� TONY</character>
    <dialogue>You're all we have. Just be editor</dialogue>
    <scene_description>•, and I'll let you write whatever | else you want. i</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I just, you know... enough of my life has been spent on sports already.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>. >| Jodi walks around over to Pink.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Let's go get another beer.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Okay,</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A^S^ Pink and Jodi just kind of smile and walk away. /SS^V</scene_description>
    <character>85</character>
    <dialogue>Mike stands at a distance observing the car Susan is in as the</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>door opens and Party Guy #1 gets out. Several of the guy's drunk friends are practically standing in line to make out with her. Another guy is soon kissing her and feeling her large breasts. Suddenly 3enny walks over to them and sort, of breaks it up.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>I don't think you boys should be taking advantage of Susan when she's drunk,</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(lower)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I We all did that when we were</dialogue>
    <scene_description>younger and it wasn't very nice.</scene_description>
    <character>PARTY GUY #1</character>
    <dialogue>Great, when it's our turn we have someone like you keeping us in line.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey fuck you, man. Seriously, you guys get lost. Get going before you get hurt.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As the guys disperse, Susan\* stumbles over to the rear car door, opens it, and sits down. i .</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Susan)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>li You gonna be all right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i</scene_description>
    <character>I| SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>I ''</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ohhhh, God, I drank too much. I chink I'm startin' to not feel so good. Apparently more interested in intimidating the guys than accually helping Susan ouc, Benny soon walks away. As soon as the coast is clear, Mike walks over near her. She is looking down and is barely conscious.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>You okay?</dialogue>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(mumbling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Guys are fucking bastards...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks up at him, studies him for a second, then gestures for him to come closer.</scene_description>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>C'mere. What's your name?</dialogue>
    <character>85</character>
    <dialogue>MIKE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Mike.</dialogue>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>Do I know you?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, I think so. I know you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She grabs his hand and pulls him closer to her. Soon he is sitting right next to her in the back seat.</scene_description>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>You're kind of cute. Do you like me?</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She slowly pulls him down on top of her.</scene_description>
    <character>86</character>
    <dialogue>Jodi leads Pink into the woods. They are both kind of laughing.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Suddenly Jodi stops, turns around, and is face-to-face with Pink, She kind of smiles and then puts an arm around his neck and starts kissing him. He willingly goes along. Soon they break.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Shavonne was right.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I What?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I I1 She said you're the kind that</dialogue>
    <scene_description>always waits for the girl to make the first move. i PINK What's that supposed to mean?</scene_description>
    <character>'< JODI</character>
    <dialogue>well it's true, it just worked for me. I was testing you.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>It's easier. Why, did I pass or fail?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>j0&>\*</scene_description>
    <character>86</character>
    <dialogue>She comes closer to him and they start kissing again. Sudden'y</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Jodi backs away and looks right at ? m k . He seems to be enjoy--a the situation and quickly turns to the side, grabs something out of his"-- pocket and puts it in his mouth. He then cooly, in an almost Bogartish manner, turns to her with a joint dangling from the side of his mouth. Jodi laughs but seems to be going for something else.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>So how would you define yourself; more of a jock, a stoner, or a smart guy like Tony and Mike.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes the joint out of his mouth.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>What, you can only be one thing? Hey, I'm just trying to get by as painlessly as possible. What is this, a "let's analyze Randy\* session? How do you define yourself?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>^ Don't get all mad.' Just a few</dialogue>
    <scene_description>thoughts. i They start kissing again. 1</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So, Randy, don't you have a girlfriend or something.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know, here and there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This is not really what Jodi wants to hear and she kind of backs off and chinks about it a little.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>So, in relation to me, chat would</dialogue>
    <scene_description>ji mean I'm here right now, and there , as soon as I'm out of your sight.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi starts walking back to the bust and Pink follows.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Gimme my joint back.</dialogue>
    <character>87</character>
    <dialogue>In the back seat of the car, Susan and Mike are kissing wildly.</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>Soon her breasts are out of her shirt and Mike is all over them. If not quite sure what to do, he makes up for any lack of experi-ence with enthusiasm and curiosity. Suddenly Susan becomes coherent and pushes him off her.</dialogue>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>Stop!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pushes him)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You fucker!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mike is surprised at her sudden rage and moves away a little. She then.kicks at him.</scene_description>
    <character>SUSAN</character>
    <dialogue>All you bastards are the same! All you want is one thing!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(kicks again)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Well fuck ALL of you!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She kicks one more time as he gets up and out of the car. He looks back and she sort of shoots the finger at him but hardly seems focused on him at all. He moves away from the car but watches her try to button her shirt back up while she starts crying. i 88 EXT: OTHER SIDE OF KEG - NIGHT Julie and Mitch are getting pretty cosy standing against a tree when they are interrupted.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Kerr!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch looks around and sees Don standing across the way with Benny, Hudson and a few others. Jodi and Pink come out of the woods and kind of smile at each other as they part. She holds up the joint and he just waves her off as if to say "keep it." As she keeps walking, he falls in with his crowd.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>That's righc. YOU, freshman.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>C'mere boy! We need to have a word with you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch looks a bit nervous and then looks over at Julie.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>I guess I better go see what they</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/^>C ' want.</scene_description>
    <character>88</character>
    <dialogue>JULIE</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, you probably should,</dialogue>
    <character>" MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Shit. I'll be back... maybe.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>By the time Mitch gets over to them, their cone has lightened uo to a good-natured ribbing session.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Look at him, a little Casanova.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch grins a little.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>He's got that little shit eatin' grin on...</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>What'd I tell you, huh?</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Not bad for a little freshman.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/0$\*\ MITCH (humored) Whatever, man.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>I just want to know are you gonna be fuckin' her later or are you gonna be a little wimp?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch dishes it back to them.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>How do you know I haven't already?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Shit, boy, get out of here...</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Son, I think it's past your bedtime...</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>You should catch a ride with her if you can... Tell her we left you and you don't have any other way.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, see what happens.</dialogue>
    <character>88</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>You beccer get back to her, boy.</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. You guys take it easy.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>We want a full report in the morning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>, 89 EXT: EDGE OF WOODS - NIGHT Kaye and Jodi are standing off to the side, taking it all in. i' JODI , I feel like walking and smoking \[ this joint.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, good idea.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Check ouc Shavonne... Her and Don's little mating ritual unfolding before us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They look across the way to see Don walking away from Shavonne as she follows. He then stops and twists his way into her arms } momentarily before they break and walk farther into the woods.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>j' Do you ever just see people and</dialogue>
    <scene_description>think of us as simply produces of lusc and sex? At the moment of i . conception we were all the farthest thing from our parent's mind...</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>I And most of the kids in our</dialogue>
    <scene_description>generation are mistakes, anyway.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>,i Yeah, and I guess it wasn't legal I to abort us so they were stuck.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>t Mitch and Julie come walking by. Jodi mocions for them to come</dialogue>
    <scene_description>over. They do.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Is chat a beer in your hand, little brother? Have you had more than one of those tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, yeah, who's counting?</dialogue>
    <character>89</character>
    <dialogue>JODI</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>I guess I better get used to me and my little brother being at the same social functions. What time are you supposed to be home?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch is acting cool but in an amused, up-beat manner.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, an hour or two ago...</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Don't think for a second Mom won't be waiting up for you when you get home, no matter what time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch and Julie start walking away.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH</character>
    <dialogue>Just do me a favor and don't ask her to cake it easy on me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks at Julie and then past her where he catches eyes with Sabrina, who's in mid-flirty conversation with Tony. They A&\*\*. experience a big moment of recognition and smile and shrug at each ocher as if to say "this is che life, but this is crazy." • I I '. 90 EXT: NEAR PARKED CARS - NIGHT Tony and Sabrina continue talking. I; I TONY ...Isn't it someone's theory thac • our encire personalicies are formed by che time we're seven or so? , Thac's kind of depressing, I actually, think of all the stuff I' we're stuck with by default. Jodi and Kaye walk by them on their way down the road.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey guys...</dialogue>
    <character>TONY & SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey...</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>We're going to take off for a bit. You okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>90 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sabrina)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I can give you a ride.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. So I'll either see you later or catch a ride with Tony.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, cool.</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Bye.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Tony)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Certain things stick wich you forever. Like when I was in second grade, in order Co gee words right on a spelling test, we used to make up sentences where the first letter in each word stands for a letter. Like arithmetic was 'A rac in the house might eat the ice cream," and geography was "George eats old gray rats and paints houses yellow."</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tony laughs.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>I'll probably be seventy years old and when I go to write one of those words, one of chose scupid sencences will still go through my head every single time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both laugh a bit. Darla suddenly walks up to Sabrina and Tony.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sabrina)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Air-raid!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both seem kind of surprised, and Sabrina looks up at Tony.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <parenthetical>(even meaner)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I said air-raid freshman!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tension mounts considerably and Tony feels a little confronced.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>whac for? C'mon.</dialogue>
    <character>90</character>
    <dialogue>DARLA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>This is between me and her and she better be on that ground in five seconds.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everybody just kind of stands there. I TONY She doesn't have to because she's I with me.</scene_description>
    <character>DARLA</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sabrina)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Air-raid or its your ass!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>i ' TONY i • , (to Sabrina) Don't do it. Sabrina still says nothing but looks at both of them, sort of weighing the aggressor against the protector. A little unsure of what to do, she still doesn't air-raid. A\*K , r v --K That's it you little freshman bitch! I'm never going to forget this. I'm going to make the next year of your life hell! Darla storms off while Sabrina and Tony just kind of look at each other like "what was that?" Mike walks over to them.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, don't air-raid for that bitch. I hate shit like that. It's like that Clint fucker in front of all his friends...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He does a re-enactment by pushing Tony.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(continuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Huh?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pushes again)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Huh, motherfucker?</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, okay.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mike suddenly sees Clint raising hell in the keg line. As if led by some wild instinct, he starts to walk over to him.</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>The dominant male monkey will get his comeuppance.</dialogue>
    <character>90</character>
    <dialogue>Clint's back is to Mike when he walks up to him. He holds a f'-ll</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>beer in his hand and kind of glances around with a slight quizzical look on his face. He soon focuses on Clint and pours his entire beer over Clint's head. As a stunned Clint whir's around, Mike quickly drops the empty cup and punches Clint a</dialogue>
    <scene_description>I fairly good one in the face. Unfortunately for Mike, Clint recovers rather quickly, grabs Mike's shirt with one hand, and starts punching him with the other.</scene_description>
    <character>91</character>
    <dialogue>Tony can't believe what's happening and starts to run over to the</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>scene of the fight.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sabrina)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Shit, he really did it, I can't believe it.</dialogue>
    <character>92</character>
    <dialogue>Pink and Benny see the commotion and almost instinctively run</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>over to the fight.</dialogue>
    <character>93</character>
    <dialogue>As Tony. Pink, and Benny arrive to try to help break it up, they</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>are shielded from the fight by a large wall of people circled around the nucleus of the fight. Contradictory to Mike's plan, no one in the immediate vicinity seems to want to break up the fight. Worse still, by being such eager spectators, they are actively shielding out those who want to help Mike.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Move it!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink, Benny, and Tony (by following their lead) aggressively push their way through the crowd. Finally, as Mike continues to get the holy shit beat out of him, the guys break through and pull Clint off Mike.</scene_description>
    <character>94</character>
    <dialogue>Jodi and Kaye are walking through the woods smoking a joint when</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: WOODS - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>they come across an old cemetery. They walk through it, looking at headstones. In the distance, we HEAR cars and trucks starting up and leaving the beer bust sight, Kaye is soon staring at a grave and seems far, far away in her thoughts. Jodi senses this and says nothing. Kaye suddenly turns and starts walking out of the cemetery.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>94 CONTINUED: Jodi follows as they head off farther down the road. 95 EXT: 'FOOTBALL FIELD - NIGHT Pink, Benny, and Hudson are walking around roaring drunk on the football field. They do imitations of their coaches in ranting, authoritative/aggressive voices..</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Don't you get up! Don't you quit! You're wearing Hornet green!</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Stick him! Stick him! I want you on him like stink on shit!</dialogue>
    <character>HUDSON</character>
    <dialogue>Pitch man, pitch man, that's yo'</dialogue>
    <scene_description>itch man! I wane you to knock his ?ights out! Put him in dreamland!</scene_description>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>You don't want to hit him. Hell, my grandmother hits harder than that. 'Course she is 6'4"/ 250.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink assumes a mock-serious pose as he walks nearer the others like a coach at halftime.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>People, we can't gee out there and play for ya. And IF I COULD, we wouldn't win by two points, we'd win by twenty-two points.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>And have you ever noticed, it's these same fools that are always saying...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(imitative voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>People, chese are che best years of your life. They told me chac when I was your age and I didn't believe ic Chen, but now I see they were telling the truth. If I only knew then what I know now...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(normal)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I just want to go, yeah, if you're a dumb-fuck, it just might be the best years of your life.</dialogue>
    <character>BENNY</character>
    <dialogue>Really.</dialogue>
    <character>95</character>
    <dialogue>PINK</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED{</character>
    <dialogue>If at any poinc in the future I start thinking of these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly a quick police bleep is heard and a squad car pulls UD and puts a light on them.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>Hey! You three! Get up here!</dialogue>
    <character>95</character>
    <dialogue>As they walk up to the cops, they see them looking through the</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: FOOTBALL FIELD PARKING LOT - NIGHT</character>
    <dialogue>bed of the truck at the Ronald/Gene statue.</dialogue>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <parenthetical>(excited)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This you boys' truck?</dialogue>
    <character>COP #2</character>
    <dialogue>Looks like Ronald got a face-lift.</dialogue>
    <character>97</character>
    <dialogue>Julie's car is parked at the turn-around of a desolate road.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: CUL DE SAC - DAWN</character>
    <dialogue>Mitch and Julie lie on a blanket in the grass not far from the car as the early morning radio plays. They are making out in a big way. They eventually roll over and then both stare up at the clouds going by in the pre-dawn sky.</dialogue>
    <character>98</character>
    <dialogue>I</dialogue>
    <character>EXT:</character>
    <dialogue>Kaye and Jodi wander back to the beer bust site. Everyone seems to have vacated although there are still a few empty cars there. It seems to be getting lighter outside.</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>We gotta see the sun rise from up there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They walk over to the moon tower and start climbing.</scene_description>
    <character>99</character>
    <dialogue>Shavonne pulls up in front of Don's house to drop him off. They</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: DON'S HOUSE - DAWN</character>
    <dialogue>continue what seems co have been a long make-out session but</dialogue>
    <scene_description>""- before they can get very far, they HEAR the bleep of a police car (^ behind them. /0^</scene_description>
    <character>99</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Shit...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don gets out as Cop #1 approaches him. COP n Good morning mister Dollar. You had a busy night? Don says nothing but notices Pink in the back seat looking kind of glum.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #2</character>
    <dialogue>You ready to go for a ride?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He opens the door for Don as he gets in the back of the car.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>Absolutely no talking between you two.</dialogue>
    <character>100</character>
    <dialogue>("•"\*</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: MOON TOWER - DAWN</character>
    <dialogue>They are soon looking out at the horizon, awaicing che sun. Kaye has a distant expression and occasionally looks down.</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>I can't scop chinking about this tombstone I saw back there. This girl was only 19 when she died. 1948 to 1967. It's jusc sad.</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Sucks... Buc you can't let stuff like that bother you.</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>But it's like who's even thinking about her right now?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know. People that knew her. You're thinking of her.</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Because there's a rock in the ground with her name on it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both stare out at the horizon.</scene_description>
    <character>^A-\*. JODI</character>
    <dialogue>She looks back down where all the people were gathered earlier.</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>What's going to happen to all of us? I mean, everyone thac was here tonight... within a year or so, we'll all be scattered and most of us will never see each other again...</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, probably.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kaye's attention switches when she notices something in the distance.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you see the lights over there?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>Where?</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Flickering, past that big house way up there on the left... it sort of sparkles on and off.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What IS that?</dialogue>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I don't have my contacts in.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi rubs her eyes a little as Kaye grows a little anxious.</scene_description>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>You HAVE to see them...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jodi rubs her eyes again and looks. Kaye stands right next to her and puts their heads near each other so she's sure she's looking in the right place.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>A flickering light?</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Here, let roe try.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She gently rubs Jodi's closed eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JODI</character>
    <dialogue>I should be able to see it...</dialogue>
    <character>KAYE</character>
    <dialogue>You have to.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>( , ill.</scene_description>
    <character>100</character>
    <dialogue>There's an extended, almost dramatic moment.</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>JODI</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(exciced)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I see it!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both feel elated and hug each other. i</scene_description>
    <character>101</character>
    <dialogue>Cop #1 and Don walk down the path toward the river.</dialogue>
    <character>EXT: RIVER - DAWN</character>
    <dialogue>DON</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It was kind of dark, but I believe we walked down here... Don acts like he's trying to remember how they found the statue. Of course he's trying to think what exactly Pink might have told the officers. Soon they are by the creek's edge.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>So where exactly was the object when you boys made this miraculous</dialogue>
    <scene_description>/0&\ discovery? Don looks around a bit for where Ronald might have been. He points to a slight clearing at the end of the path.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>He was laying somewhere in this area.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The cop seems a bit perplexed that cheir scories seem to match so far.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, quick: when you found him was he face up or down?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don answers as if he clearly remembers.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Face up. Positive.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The officer looks at him, definitely frustrated and slightly disgusted.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>Let's go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>At the police car, he opens the door for Don. He and Pink both /flpfitf sit there not fully aware of their fate. 102 EXT: DON'S HOUSE - DAWN They pull up in front of Don's house and Cop #1 angrily turns -a Don.</scene_description>
    <character>COP #1</character>
    <dialogue>You are one lucky little prick.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Pink)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You too. Get lost.</dialogue>
    <character>COP #2</character>
    <parenthetical>(to both of them)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Now we don't want to hear about you two getting in any more trouble.</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <parenthetical>(sarcastic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh, no sir.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The police drive off. Once they're at a safe distance, Don and Pink kind of look at each other in amazement.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Face up?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Face up! Yes!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They give each other "ten" in this clear victory over che system. As they stand out in the early morning street, Pickford's car drives by and stops.</scene_description>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Happnin' boys?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pink and Don walk over to the car.</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Hey man, you guys goin' to get the tickets?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Want to go? We're on our way right now. I'm catching my third wind...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Don looks in the car and sees Slater asleep in the back.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>That Slater?</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, he's totally passed out but when he wakes up he'd be pissed if we didn't take him along.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>102 CONTINUED:</scene_description>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Don)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Wanna go?</dialogue>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>I'm out of it, man, but go ahead.</dialogue>
    <character>PICKFORD</character>
    <dialogue>Well bros, we gotta be gettin.' That line's getting longer every second.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Pickford)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Maybe I'll cruise down there with you guys.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He hops in the car.</scene_description>
    <character>DON</character>
    <dialogue>Later... You guys be careful.</dialogue>
    <character>PINK</character>
    <dialogue>Later1</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Before Pickford throws the car in gear and speeds away, he holds up Aerosmith's "Toys in the Attic' tape and gives a thumbs up. 103 EXT: SABRINA'S HOUSE - NIGHT While the rest of the car waits on him, Tony walks Sabrina up the driveway. Avoiding walking all the way to the trailer out back, she scops near che fronc door to the house.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>My mom might be waiting up, so you probably shouldn't be standing there when I open the door.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>You were supposed to be home at what time?</dialogue>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>I think she said twelve or twelve- thirty. I'm probably grounded all summer.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(jokingly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So, you want to go out... this fall sometime?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She smiles then seems a little nervous.</scene_description>
    <character>103</character>
    <dialogue>SABRINA</dialogue>
    <character>CONTINUED:</character>
    <dialogue>Well, thanks for the ride, and breakfast and everything...</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, after you've been drinking beer all night it's kind of good to eat a bunch of pancakes and syrup.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both stand there a little awkwardly, knowing it is time for the good night kiss. Tony has a sudden thought and looks around a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>I smell my coin collection.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He quickly realizes this out-of-the-blue statement could not possibly make any sense and attempts to clarify.</scene_description>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>The oil-based cleaner I used co use on my coin collection when I was nine years old...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(gives up)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>j0^\*\ Anyway...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He leans over and kisses her. As he backs away a bit she pulls him toward her and they have a major session. They finally part; he's in a bit of a daze while she smiles a bit.</scene_description>
    <character>SABRINA</character>
    <dialogue>Bye.</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <parenthetical>(gestures to house)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Good luck... you know, with the parental units and all.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gets in the car and drives off.</scene_description>
    <character>104</character>
    <dialogue>Inside the car, they ride him a little.</dialogue>
    <character>INT:</character>
    <dialogue>CYNTHIA</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Parental units? Bruised and swollen, Mike is leaning against the window but has not completely lost his sense of humor (although he can barely open his eyes).</scene_description>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <parenthetical>(sarcastic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You pull that tongue?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CONTINUED: lQ4</scene_description>
    <character>CYNTHIA</character>
    <dialogue>So all in all, did this beat playing cards tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>TONY</character>
    <dialogue>Hmmm. Though I didn't win the money I would have at the poker table, it's okay because you guys paid for most of the breakfasc.</dialogue>
    <character>MIKE</character>
    <dialogue>Just one question - how does she rate wich Lincoln?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They drive off. INT: MITCH'S HOUSE - DAWN 105 Mitch walks into his house, chinking of his evening and smiling. MITCH'S MOTHER is standing there and ha momentarily gets an "obedient son\* expression on his face. As if she's been preparing for hours, she's not mad but rather reasonable when she confrones him.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH'S MOTHER</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, ehis is your one. Your sister told me everything so I've decided eo make ehis deal with you. I'm going to try to be open-minded, but next time you come in at sunrise, we're going to have some trouble.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mitch kind of shrugs his shoulders and raises his hands as if co say "okay, good.\* He concinuea on eo his room, slips off his shoes and walks over eo his bed. Noe quice finished, his moeher pokes her head in his room.</scene_description>
    <character>MITCH'S MOTHER</character>
    <parenthetical>(concinuing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So what, are you drunk? And who's chat girl in che Camaro chat gave you a ride?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Miech just lays down on ehe bed, grins slightly, and slowly closes his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>DISSOLVE TO:</character>
    <dialogue>jdSSB^N 1 1 6 .</dialogue>
    <character>^ H EXT: HIGHWAY - DAWN</character>
    <dialogue>•\* Pickford, Michelle, Pink ™ H " 106</dialogue>
    <scene_description>speeding down the early m S n i n /i ghh w^a 1y <^ \* ^ 0 0 ^ Placer are Slater and Michelle finish r o u - Pickford drives Li, They fire ie up while Pink tu^9 \* 2 0int 0 1 in <=h e back o n che seat U ° then scares cue ae ^ ^ p e y ^ ^ S / ^ ""eo and</scene_description>
    <character>THE END</character>
  </scene>
</script>

Summary: The film opens on May 28, 1976, the last day of school at Lee High School in Austin, Texas. The next year's group of seniors prepare for the annual hazing of incoming freshmen. Randall "Pink" Floyd, the school's star football player, is asked to sign a pledge promising not to take drugs during the summer or do anything that would "jeopardize the goal of a championship season". When classes end, the incoming freshman boys are hunted down by the seniors and paddled. The incoming freshman girls are also hazed; they are rounded up in the school parking lot by senior girls (led by Darla), covered in mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs and forced to propose to senior boys. As day fades to night, freshman Mitch Kramer escapes the initial hazing with his best friend Carl Burnett, but is later cornered after a baseball game and violently paddled. Fred O'Bannion, a senior participating in the hazing tradition for a second year after failing to graduate, delights in punishing Mitch. Pink gives the injured Mitch a ride home and offers to take him cruising with friends that night. Plans for the evening are ruined when Kevin Pickford's parents discover his intention to host a keg party. Elsewhere, the intellectual trio of Cynthia Dunn, Tony Olson, and Mike Newhouse decide to participate in the evening's festivities. Pink and his friend David Wooderson, a man in his early 20s who still socializes with high school students, pick up Mitch and head for the Emporium, a pool hall frequented by teenagers. As the night progresses, students loiter around the Emporium, listen to rock music, cruise the neighborhood and frequent a local drive-through restaurant. Mitch is introduced to sophomore Julie Simms, with whom he shares a mutual attraction. While cruising again with Pink, Pickford and Don Dawson, Mitch drinks beer and smokes marijuana for the first time. After a game of mailbox baseball, a neighborhood resident brandishing a gun threatens to call the police. They barely escape after the resident fires at their car. After returning to the Emporium, Mitch runs into his middle school friends and hatches a plan with them to exact revenge on O'Bannion. The freshmen dump paint on O'Bannion from a roof, causing him to leave in a fit of rage. After the Emporium closes, an impromptu keg party is planned in a field under a moonlight tower. Cynthia, Tony, and Mike arrive at their first keg party, where Mike is threatened by tough guy Clint Bruno. Tony runs into freshman Sabrina Davis, whom he met earlier during the hazing and begins spending time with her. Mike, suffering from the humiliation of his confrontation with Clint, decides to make a stand by punching him; in return, he gets tackled by Clint and receives a beating from him. The fight is broken up by Pink and Wooderson. Football player Benny O'Donnell confronts Pink about his refusal to sign the pledge. Pink, the only player not to have signed, believes it violates his individuality and beliefs. Mitch leaves the keg party with Julie. They drive to a nearby hill overlooking town to make out. Tony gives Sabrina a ride home and they kiss goodnight. As night turns to dawn, Pink, Wooderson, Don, Ron Slater, and several other friends decide to smoke marijuana on the 50-yard line of the football field, where Wooderson advises Pink to "keep livin'" without concern for what is expected of him. The police arrive and, upon recognizing Pink and Dawson, call Coach Conrad, their football coach. Conrad lectures Pink about hanging out with "losers" and insists that he sign the pledge. Pink says that he might play football, but he is not going to sign it and leaves with Wooderson and Slater to travel to Houston to obtain tickets to an Aerosmith concert. Mitch arrives home after sunrise to find his mother has waited up for him. She decides against punishment, but warns him about coming home late again. Mitch goes to his bedroom, puts on headphones, and listens to "Slow Ride" by Foghat, as Pink, Wooderson, Slater, and Simone Kerr travel down a highway to purchase their tickets.