Catwoman Page #3

Season #1 Episode #2

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EDNA:

(putting the papers

aside)

Well, congratulations. It seems you've been

chosen.

PATIENCE:

So you think you might have a kitten for me...?

EDNA:

Kitten? No, that wouldn't be appropriate.

Midnight has chosen you.

PATIENCE looks a little unnerved at this. MIDNIGHT, rollingon her back, seems to be baring her fangs at Patience.

EDNA:

It's a great honor. Maus are a very rare breed,

descended from the sacred cats of ancient Egypt.

They were believed to have magical gifts.

(CONTINUED)

7.

CONTINUED:

MIDNIGHT has wrapped herself around Patience's arm, kickingand biting "playfully."

PATIENCE:

I'm not sure she likes me -

EDNA:

Nonsense, she perceives something very special in

you.

PATIENCE:

There's nothing special about me.

EDNA:

Cats see things we don't. Our secret selves --our

souls.

PATIENCE:

Mm. Do you have any Band-Aids?

CUT TO:

INT. PATIENCE'S APARTMENT -NIGHT

CAMERA MOVES THROUGH this modest, neat studio apartment, PAST

a BULLETIN BOARD with numerous PHOTOS. One or two show a

YOUNG PATIENCE, there's a picture of a LITTLE GIRL betweenTWO SMILING PARENTS on a ROLLER COASTER. Mostly, though,

they're snapshots of a chubby TABBY CAT, from kitten hood toold age. Suddenly, MIDNIGHT LUNGES INTO FRAME, attacking apicture of FATSO, ripping it from the bulletin board.

KEEP MOVING PAST WINDOWS facing on the street and an adjacentBUILDING across an alley --it's a corner apartment on thesecond floor. CAMERA HOLDS ON A TV, where a classic OLD

MOVIE like Now, Voyager plays. At a key, romantic moment,

CUT TO COMMERCIAL -

LAUREL AVENAL strides TOWARD CAMERA --statuesque, perfect, asupermodel. We hear the VOICE of GEORGES AVENAL:

GEORGES (V.O.)

You know who you are. You know what you're after.

A MALE MODEL steps INTO FRAME, reaches for her -

GEORGES (V.O.)

You know you're too good for any man...

(CONTINUED)

8.

CONTINUED:

Laurel raises an eyebrow haughtily and SLAPS his face. She

moves past the male model to -

--GEORGES AVENAL. He's Laurel's husband and the companyC.E.O., handsome and charismatic. LAUREL falls into his

arms. He caresses her, deeply in love. Georges WINKS.

GEORGES:

... almost.

CUT TO a PRODUCT SHOT of a JAR OF CREAM, the name "BEAUNIQUE"

and the AVENAL LOGO.

GEORGES (V.O.)

Beaunique by Avenal. You know you want it.

CLOSE ON LAUREL as she tosses her hair back, Gilda-style,

with a seductive pout. She purses her lips in a kiss.

REVERSE ANGLE --PATIENCE watches with a curled lip, on thecouch in a T-shirt and shorts, EATING CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

directly from a pint carton, a dark smear around her mouth.

Suddenly, MIDNIGHT POUNCES at the SPOON OF ICE CREAM.

Patience jerks back, startled, raises the spoon out of reach.

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