Kate and Leopold Page #4

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LEOPOLD:

What is this? Who are you?

His hand comes to rest on a glowing red lever.

CARLSON:

Oh, God.

She YANKS on his arm. Instinctively he pulls away,

accidentally thrusting the lever into action. Carlson falls

from the machine.

CARLSON:

(suddenly frantic)

Get out of there! Get out now!

The machine LIGHTS UP.

LEOPOLD:

Miss Carlson... I...

CARLSON:

No!!!

The compartment door snaps shut.

CARLSON:

Sh*t!!

There is a BRIGHT WHITE FLASH. Blackness fills the screen.

CUT TO:

INT. N.Y.C. LABORATORY - 1995 DAY

The compartment door slides OPEN revealing DR. KAU, 30's, an

Asian doctor with a THICK BROOKLYN ACCENT. Her face full of

enthusiasm drops as she sees the unconscious Leopold.

DR. KAU

Sh*t!!

She turns to her co-workers, warning them.

DR. KAU

Sh*t!!

She looks back at Leopold.

DR. KAU

Sh*t!!

Her co-workers, DR. PLODDER, austere, authoritative, DR.

DRAKE, muddled and timid, peer inside the compartment door.

DR. DRAKE

Good God!

DR. PLODDER

Everybody stay calm... Lock the front

door.

Dr. Drake and Kau make a move to inspect an unconscious

Leopold.

DR. PLODDER

No, no, no. You mustn't touch him.

The consequences could be

catastrophic.

DR. KAU

He could be hurt, or even dead.

DR. PLODDER

...All right. Touch him.

They approach Leopold. Dr. Kau finds Carlson's note pad on

the ground next to Leopold. She reads the last entry.

DR. KAU

...But I'm stuck and it's only a

dance and he IS the seventh Duke of

Albany...

They all look at one another, then back at Leopold.

DR. DRAKE

Carlson...!

DR. PLODDER

(racing from the room)

Give me a minute...

DR. KAU

Sh*t!

INT. LAB - KATE'S OFFICE - DAY

KATHERINE COLES, a radiant workaholic, types frenetically

into the computer while talking on the phone, trying hard

not to sound upset.

KATE:

Who's upset? People fall in love,

they have to climb back out.

(she laughs but she

is not smiling)

So, what? We'll just be friends now,

Right?

She stops typing and listens for a while. She runs her hand

through her hair.

KATE:

I see. Well I appreciate your honesty.

(using her middle

finger she pushes up

her glasses)

No. I'll just think of this as

surviving another dating accident.

Take care or good luck or whatever

I'm supposed to...

The line goes dead.

KATE:

...say... Goodbye.

Dr. Plodder bursts in. Kate sees his distress and instantly

becomes very centered.

DR. PLODDER

She's back.

KATE:

(rising)

That's impossible! She wasn't supposed

to return until...

DR. PLODDER

Kate. It's Carlson. Something went

wrong.

He hands her Carlson's note pad. Slowly, she sits down.

KATE:

...The 7th Duke...

INT. LAB - DAY

KATE:

(all business, reading

from a printout)

...of Albany. He was the... IS the

son of Emery and Eliza. He was of no

actual importance until he vanished

at the turn of the century without a

trace. It was a sensation. In the

30's they even made a movie about

him. "The Tenuous Duke" with Ronald

Coleman.

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