Starman Page #2

INT. POLICE CAR - NIGHT

The police officers are beginning to feel anxious. Benny's

nervous fidgeting in the back seat doesn't help them any.

BENNY:

Don't you think you should call a

backup?

OFFICER:

No, we can handle this.

EXT. HOUSING TRACT - NIGHT

The police car passes a road perpendicular to the one it is

on. A couple of houses down that road a faint glow spills

over the sides of an industrial dumpster. As we watch we

hear an eerie high pitched whistle, a shaft of light slowly

rises out of the metal box and seems to fly off between the

houses.

INT. FINISHED HOUSE - NIGHT

As a humanoid silhouette passes in front of the picture

window, a shaft of light floats by in the fog outside. The

silhouette continues around to look at the kitchen. It raises

a hand to eye level. There is a sharp "SNAP" and a hard-edged

cone of light shoots out of the darkness to capture the inside

of the kitchen and pulls back a three-dimensional image of

stove, sink, cupboards, electrical fixtures and walls to the

silhouette.

EXT. HOUSING TRACT - NIGHT

The police car is parked in the middle of the dirt road.

Benny and the officers are intent on a light that reaches

them only in strobes as it moves through the houses in the

direction of the fire on the hill. The police searchlight

swings onto the house.

OFFICER:

(over outside speakers)

This is the police. Identify

yourselves.

It is deathly silent.

Carrying a shotgun the officer motions Benny and Mike to fan

out on either side of him and, guns drawn, they cut across

the tract to where they last saw the bobbing light.

The fog quickly isolates them, heightening their fear. Each

man becomes acutely aware of the loudness of his breathing

and the crunch of his footsteps on the ground. They drift in

and out of visual contact with each other.

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