Eight Legged Freaks Page #5
CHRIS:
Oh, great.
WADE (V.O.)
Thanks, Harlan. As I was saying,
Chemical Technologies has been
looking for viable storage sites.
And Prosperity is lucky enough to
be on that list.
HARLAN (V.O.)
Lucky? I think most of us are
insulted that some outsiders think
our town is a perfect place to
dump toxic waste.
CHRIS:
Right on.
Chris’s pickup approaches... The entire town is not much
bigger than a few football fields. The kind of place
where everybody has known each other since childhood.
Some buildings date back to the 1880’s gold rush.
HARLAN (V.O.)
Isn’t this just your latest get-
rich quick scheme?
At one end is the Prosperity Mall. A huge windowless
rectangle in the sand. Permanent signs tout the many
outlet stores inside: Victoria’s Secret, Home and Garden
Supplies, Sport Chalet, etc. Hand-painted signs reveal:
"GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE. EVERYTHING MUST GO. FINAL
CLOSE OUT." On the roof of the mall is a very tall radio
antenna.
HARLAN (V.O.)
Your mall has more employees than
customers.
INT. PICKUP TRUCK (TOWN, MAIN STREET) -DAY
Chris smiles as he listens to the RADIO.
(CONTINUED)
14.
CONTINUED:
WADE (V.O.)
I may have overestimated the need
for 100,000 square feet of outlet
shopping.
EXT. BEVERLY’S HOUSE -DAY
BEVERLY (40’s) is tending to her garden as she listens to
a transistor radio.
HARLAN (V.O.)
And your ostrich ranch?
WADE (V.O.)
If the government subsidies hadn’t
dried up, I’d still be rolling in
cash.
EXT. HARLAN’S TRAILER (MAIN STREET, TOWN) -DAY
An airstream at the far end of town. Signs identify it
as:
"FREEDOM RADIO." A brand new humvee is parked outfront.
INT. HARLAN’S TRAILER -DAY
Walls decorated with clippings about aliens, monsters,
and conspiracies. Two men sit at a home built
transmitter.
HARLAN GRIFFITH (40s) wears an "Aliens Go Home!" T-
shirt. He eats from a box of Frosted Flakes and drinks
Jolt cola.
WADE HALE (40s) is the mayor of Prosperity. A slick-
haired dandy who looks more like a Vegas lounge singer
than a Mayor.
WADE:
With one phone call I could put
together a deal that would make us
all very rich.
HARLAN:
They say money doesn’t buy
happiness.
WADE:
They probably don’t have any.
15.
INT. POLICE CAR (HIGHWAY) -DAY
Sam and her kids listen to the radio.
WADE (V.O.)
Money pays for kids to go to
college. It pays the mortgage.
INT. DINER (MAIN STREET, TOWN) -DAY
An attractive waitress on roller-skates. A harried CHEF.
Locals chow down. The RADIO BLARES in the b.g.
WADE (V.O.)
It puts food on the table.
Haven’t the people of this town
lived hand-to-mouth for long
enough?
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