Silver Bullet Page #3

Behind or to the side, on the grass, picnic tables have been

set out end-to-end. Women are putting salads and home-baked

breads on these - just about the whole town is going to sit

down to a meal when the meeting's over. Further off, men are

tending barbecues, roasting corn, etc.

JOE HALLER (amplified voice)

I'd like to give you Father Lester Lowe,

of Holy Family Catholic Church!

Enthusiastic applause greets this.

INT. THE CROWD DAY

Most of the town is here, seated on folding chairs. We're

looking particularly at three people - NAN COSLAW, her

husband BOB, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, JANE. It

is JANE - a slightly older JANE - who we have heard

speaking. She is now a bit bored with the meeting, which has

been going on for some time. As the APPLAUSE CONTINUES, she

leans toward her mother.

JANE:

I'm going out for a while, 'kay?

NAN:

All right. Stay close. And make sure your

brother's all right.

As JANE gets up, the applause starts to fade a bit.

NOTE:
JANE is wearing a silver crucifix, and will continue

to wear it through the whole movie.

INT. THE PODIUM DAY

To one side is a big black-and-white photograph on an easel.

It shows a van which has been customized into an emergency

medical unit.

Behind the podium are four chairs. REV. TOM O'BANION sits in

one of them. ANDY FAIRTON sits in another, red-faced and

beaming. JOE HALLER, the town constable, is just returning

to his; LESTER LOWE is just approaching the mike as the

applause dies. LOWE'S face shines with love and goodwill.

LOWE:

For the last ten years...

No amplification. He taps the mike.

INT. JANE

She is making her way down the row to the aisle (the people

should be seated in folding chairs). She passes a GIRL of

about her own age who has overheard NAN'S parting shot.

GIRL (mocking)

"Make sure your brother's all right."

JANE (low)

Marty's a booger.

She reaches the aisle and starts out.

INT. THE PODIUM, FEATURING FATHER LOWE

He taps the mike again.

INT. THE CROWD, FEATURING BOB AND NAN COSLAW

BOB (good-natured)

Just pretend you're in your own church

askin' for money, father! It'll work fine!

Good-natured laughter greets this.

INT. LOWE AT THE PODIUM

A bit flustered, he taps the mike and is rewarded by a BRIEF

SCREAM OF FEEDBACK.

LOWE:

For the last ten years, I have had a

dream. A dream of a time when modern

medical care would come to this small

community, which sometimes seems so far

from Durham, with her lifesaving

hospitals. I hope that this meeting, at

which I see so many of my friends

gathered, will be the start of making my

dream come true.

SOUND:
Enthusiastic applause.

EXT. A SNAKE IN THE GRASS, CU

It's a blacksnake... harmless, but big. It goes wriggling

through the grass toward a stream. In the b.g. - SOUND OF

APPLAUSE.

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