Superman Page #8

47INSERT SHOT - JACK

The jack begins to shimmy. The truck shakes.

48CLOSE ON JONATHAN

JONATHAN struggles with the spare tire under the truck, wondering why it won't fit in.

49INSERT SHOT - JACK

The jack continues to shimmy. Suddenly, the stone beneath it slips away.

50CLOSE ON MARTHA

MARTHA screams, horrified.

51BACK TO JONATHAN

JONATHAN under the truck, shoots a quick look at his wife, then - as her scream stops in a gasp - he looks behind himas CAMERA PANS: The' BABY is holding up the truck, two wheels off the ground. JONATHAN and MARTHA are poleaxed with disbelief.

52INT. TRUCK CAB - DAY

The BABY sits happily in MARTHA'S lap. The COUPLE look ahead, lost in thought, MARTHA in particular.

MARTHA:

(carefully)

All these years, happy as we've been, how I

prayed and prayed the Good Lord would see

fit to give us a child.

JONATHAN:

(looks - alarmed)

Martha, there is something downright strange

about that boy. Where he come from, what he

just did back there. Now surely you don't mean to...

MARTHA:

(firmly)

No one must ever know.

JONATHAN:

But folks'll ask questions . . .

MARTHA:

We'll say he's child to my cousin in North

Dakota, and just now orphaned. Jonathan,

he's a baby...

(cuddles baby)

Poor thing.

JONATHAN:

Well...

(sigh)

Maybe we could give it a try for the time bein'.

I'd better hitch the rig and come back to Get

that ... that thing he was settin' in. What do you

make of that thing? Martha'? Martha Kent,

you listenin' to me?

52 CONTINUED

MARTHA:

I was thinkin' what to call him.

I was thinkin' I had an uncle who

was a fine man, you recall him?

The church sexton?

JONATHAN:

Who?- Clark? I never cared two hoots

for that fella.

53 EXT. SMALLVILLE HIGH FOOTBALL FIELD - DAY

CAMERA LOOKS DOWN on a typical midwestern small town high school football field in the 1950's. A coach's whistle signals the end of the team's practice session. A group or GIRL CHEERLEADERS run through their routines nearby. Several PLAYERS practice "extra points" by kicking the ball through the goalposts from the 2 1/2-yard line, now stop, congregate around the bench with the other PLAYERS as they turn in their equipment, prepare to go home.

54CLOSE ON BENCH - TRACKING SHOT

CAMERA TRACKS along the bench as the PLAYERS drop their pads, towels. kicking tees, footballs, etc. on the bench. Picking them up, stacking them neatly and methodically is a bookish-looking TEENAGER of 15. With dark, unstylish hair, heavy-rimmed glasses, and an air of social unease, he is the perfect candidate for team manager - the young CLARK KENT. CLARK nears the end of the bench, looks off at the CHEERLEADERS: five or six wholesomely cute teenagers in their uniforms of sweater, tiny skirt, sneakers, and white socks. They have finished rehearsing their final routine now laugh, applaud themselves, drop their megaphones and run off to join several of the departing PLAYERS. One CHEERLEADER (SUSIE) with an attractive, sensitive face -pauses, sees the megaphones strewn around the ground, begins 'to collect them.

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