The Crazies Page #5

Judy, playing, scans the empty waiting room.

JUDY:

Hmmm, how’s our staff to patient

ratio? I think you’re good.

Everything all right?

BECCA DARLING:

Yeah. Casey Strout’s having some

people over.

JUDY:

Algebra?

BECCA DARLING:

Yep. Math party.

JUDY:

My husband excelled at math in high

school.

11.

Becca smiles. Then:

BECCA DARLING:

Oh, by the way, he was really cool

at assembly today.

JUDY:

Thanks.

BECCA DARLING:

It’s so scary to think what

would’ve happened if he hadn’t been

there the other night.

Judy nods her agreement.

JUDY:

Sometimes you just get lucky like

that.

EXT. CORRAL, FARNUM HOUSE - DUSK

GIANT WET TONGUES licking something, licking each other in

the process. A disturbing image, but only in close-up...

DAIRY COWS at a salt lick.

Bill Farnum stands in the corral watching, ankle deep in mud,

briefcase in hand, blank expression. His wife DEARDRA calls

to him from the house porch in the b.g., twelve-year-old son

NICHOLAS under her arm.

DEARDRA:

William!

If he hears her, he gives no visible indication. Nicholas

jogs down to the fence.

NICHOLAS:

Supper’s ready.

Farnum stands motionless, mesmerized. Nicholas starts to

climb the fence and suddenly his father speaks, without

looking, as though he was listening all along:

BILL FARNUM:

Be in in a sec.

Nicholas heads back to the house. Bill Farnum picks his way

across the muddy pen to the salt lick. Surrounded by mooing

cows, he stares at it -- brick-shaped, pinkish white,

dripping with bovine saliva -- then bends and gives it a long

disgusting lick.

12.

EXT. DUTTON HOUSE - NIGHT

Crescent moon. David eyeing it from the back porch as he

drinks a beer in his unbuttoned sheriff's shirt.

Judy enters the kitchen behind him. Weary from the day.

Sees him through the door. He holds her gaze for a moment

then puts his hand under his shirt and gives it a little

flutter, meaning his heart still beats for her.

Makes her smile.

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

They kiss by the old gas stove. He brushes a lock of stray

hair from her face. Married his dream.

DAVID:

Hungry?

(she nods)

What do you want?

JUDY:

(isn't sure)

Omelet?

DAVID:

Sit.

TIME CUT TO:

Judy at the table eating her omelet. David sitting opposite,

polishing her wedding band on his shirt. A ritual of his.

DAVID:

Could drive you up to see your

parents this weekend, if you want.

JUDY:

(smiles)

Penance for your sins?

He smiles a little, slips the ring back on her finger,

restored to its original luster. Then, still troubled by the

day’s events:

DAVID:

Thought maybe the moon was full, I

don’t know, definitely some

weirdness going around. Medical

examiner said he found nothing in

Rory’s system.

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