Heavenly Creatures Page #5

JULIET:

(V.0.) Mummy and Daddy sent me to the Bahamas to recuperate. I didn't

see them for five years-but we're together now and Mummy's promised

they'll never leave me again.

INSERT:

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHTPULL BACK from little 5-YEAR-OLD PAULINE. She

is lying in bed with a younger HERBERT

and HONORA

standing over her, looking very concerned.

PAULINE:

(V.0.) I spent ages in hospital, too . . . with my leg. I had to have

all these operations.

EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY

PAULINE:

Osteomyelitus turns your bones to chalk. It took them two years to

drain all the muck out.

Pauline looks despondently at her leg.

JULIET:

Cheer up! All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases! It's

all frightfully romantic!

CUT TO:

EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAYPauline is furiously pedalling her bicycle along

a country road.

EXT. ILAM/DRIVEWAY - DAYLOW ANGLE . . . a tree-lined driveway.

Pauline rides her bicycle up the drive. She pauses, wide-eyed.

PAN TO . . . ILAM - a large stately house, set amongst beautiful

gardens . . .

Pauline puts her bike on its stand. She pulls the Mario Lanza album out

of her bicycle bag.

Pauline is about to approach the house when she glances across the

garden, and is transfixed by an enchanting sight:

Juliet on a sunlit bridge that spans the Ilam stream. She is wearing a

shredded chiffon dress, with a Christmas tinsel crown and a necklace

made from tinfoil. Sunlight filters through the trees, lending Juliet a

magical quality. She's casting flowers onto the water. Pauline stands

transfixed. Juliet sees her and smiles.

JULIET:

Hi, Paul!

SUDDENLY! . . . an 8-year-old boy - JONATHON HULME - comes charging out

of the bushes and lays into Juliet with a wooden sword. He is dressed

in a "prince's" costume.

JULIET:

0www!

Jonathon runs away. Juliet gives chase, yelling to Pauline.

JULIET:

The evil Prince Runnymeade is escaping! Get him, Paul!

Pauline joins in the chase after Jonathon, careening through garden and

bushes.

Juliet and Pauline lose sight of Jonathon. They pause in a clearing,

catching their breath.

JULIET:

The blighter's gone to ground!

JONATHON Yaaaa!

Jonathon drops from a tree, onto Pauline, sending, her sprawling. He

whacks her on the bottom with his wooden sword.

JULIET:

God! Jonty! Jonty-stop it! Go away! We're not playing anymore . . . go

on, bugger off!

Jonathon pokes his tongue at Juliet, turns and runs away.

Juliet offers her hand and pulls Pauline up. She pauses, a look of

shock on her face . . .

The Mario Lanza record lies broken on the ground. Pauline looks

distraught.

JULIET:

0h, God . . . I'm so sorry!

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