I Am Sam Page #5

ANNIE:

And people worry you're not smart.

INT. ANNIE'S APARTMENT - ONE WEEK LATER

The apartment looks like a fallout shelter. The kitchen

contains enough canned goods to last a year. Brightly

colored crocheted doilies - Annie's hobby - adorn every

available surface. The BRIGHTLY COLORED WEB of an

AGORAPHOBE.

Lucy sits in Annie's lap, getting her first piano lesson. WE

SEE LUCY'S TINY FINGERS on the keys. In a SERIES OF

DISSOLVES, it is joined by Annie's hand tapping out one note,

now two notes, and as the weeks pass, a chord. Until finally

the notes merge to become the most unlikely duet of "Twinkle,

Twinkle, Little Star".

ANNIE:

This is Mozart. He did twenty-two

variations of "Twinkle Twinkle Little

Star". You smell good. You can tell a

lot about a person by their smell. If

they've got too much perfume on they're

covering something up. You gotta watch

someone who smells like soap. Gotta

wonder what their priorities are.

Nervous people. People who try too

hard. They smell like fish. But you.

You smell like milk. Milk and hope.

Lucy leaves the piano and toddles over to Annie's loom and

plays with a ball yarn.

VOICE (O.S.)

Groceries, Annie.

ANNIE:

Thanks.

Annie opens the door to pull in the groceries. The ball of

yarn ROLLS OUT the door and Lucy chases after it. Annie,

terrified, bellows:

ANNIE (CONT'D)

Lucy! Come back here! Come back!

It becomes obvious Annie can't walk outside. Trembling:

ANNIE (CONT'D)

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds..."

Hearing the familiar tune, Lucy stops and toddles back.

Annie sweeps her up, relieved and we --

INT. KARAOKE BAR - NIGHT

Sam on stage, with Ifty and Brad as his back-up singers,

continuing the song in the oddest, most heartfelt version to

Lucy who sits on Robert's lap and in heaven.

EXT. PARK - DAY

A beautiful blue sky. And "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

continues as Lucy's THREE YEAR OLD laughing face SWINGS INTO

FRAME on a swing then DISAPPEARS out THE OTHER END OF FRAME.

Now Lucy SWINGS BACK DOWN and out of the other end again...

Sam's FACE, glowing with delight, APPEARS AGAINST THE SKY and

then disappears. Sam and Lucy are on swings surrounded by

MOTHERS and KIDS at the park.

LUCY (V.O.)

Daddy, where does the sky end?

SAM (V.O.)

Let me see, let me see. I've never been

there but they say it's somewhere near

China.

EXT. PARK - ONE YEAR LATER

Lucy FLIES INTO FRAME, now FOUR, sitting on Sam's lap,

swinging.

LUCY (V.O.)

Are lady bugs only girls or are there

boys, too. And if there are, what are

they called?

SAM (V.O.)

The Beatles.

EXT. PARK - ONE YEAR LATER

Then Lucy FLIES INTO FRAME, now FIVE, followed by Sam.

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