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EXT. CIELO VISTA MALL - DAY ESTABLISHING SHOT : view the sign and the mall in the
short distance, looking regal & prosperous.
It's a fantastic sunny day in the spring. This is the
building that just wreaks of commerce at it's finest.
Multiple stores under one roof, prospering.
The parking lot is full. Most of the cars are from the
local High School. So they vary from Escorts to Acura's.
CREDITS ROLL INT. MALL HALL - DAY ESTABLISHING of store fronts & people walking & talking. We see a set of new cars on display in the halls, a large
fountain near the escalators & all glass elevator.
We see the store fronts of the fashion stores, a video
game store, a toy store, & all the food places.
INSERT: 3:12 P.M. THURSDAY People are coming and going. It's a mall for God's sake. INT. FOOD COURT, NEAR PIZZA PLACE - DAY This is the section where multiple food places are
located & a lot of uncomfortable chairs & undersize
tables.
At a table near the pizza place are J.J. ROBERTS, 17 and
rugged looking. He has long bangs and the baggy jeans and
the chain hanging from his pocket and a leather jacket.
With him is his best friend, the polar opposite, STEVE
GUTHRO, also 17. STEVE is very clean cut and has on the
shirt of one of his favorite basketball teams. He wears
the matching ball cap. He has on tight jeans and the belt
that does the loop that's in fashion right now as well as
a letter jacket.
J.J.
So I'm breaking up with Kim.
STEVE
(with a mouthful of pepperoni
pizza)
Why ? You just started going out with
her.
J.J.
Yeah, well.
STEVE
You had sex with her didn't you ?
J.J.
What did you expect ?
STEVE
Look, every time you start going out
with a girl, it's like a conquest. You
sleep with her, then you dump her. It's
chronic.
J.J.
Don't say "sleep with her", you sound
like a fucking idiot.
STEVE
You're the fucking idiot.
J.J.
Why ? Because I like sex, because I
like sex with many different girls ?
You're the one that's holding onto your
V card like it's SO precious.
STEVE
My "V-Card" ?
J.J.
You're virginity. Jesus, this is what
I'm talking about. How are you ever
going to get laid with high morals and
no ambition to experience the wonder of
sex ?
STEVE
There's more to it than that. I'm very
religious. I'm saving myself.
J.J.
I'm religious too. I worship St.
Mattress.
INT. FOOD COURT, NEAR CHINESE FOOD PLACE - DAY Over at another table near the Chinese food place, sit
ALICIA ALEXANDER and VANESSA YOUNG. ALICIA, 16 is a
peroxide blonde that screams of being daddy's little
girl. She has the money clothes and has the
innocent/deviant thing. VANESSA on the other hand is more
on the obvious side. She is a brunette and wears clothes
bordering on illegal in some states.
ALICIA
So ? Tell me !
VANESSA
(filing her nails)
Mr. Anderson said we have to get this
lab work done. "The effects of
marketing on the consumer". We are
after all, stuck together as lab
partners.
(sees Alicia giving her a
look)
About the fraternity party ?
ALICIA
Yes, dish please !
VANESSA
Well, I got invited at this very food
court by two brothers of the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity to go to their
"safe sex" party.
ALICIA
College guys. They are so mature.
VANESSA
Yes, they know all about taking care of
a girl. It's all about respect, girl.
ALICIA
So what happened ?
VANESSA
Well, it was a party. I had a few
cocktails and stated to feel frisky.
ALICIA
What's frisky ?
VANESSA
You've never been with the football
players and felt ..... you know.
ALICIA
Not really.
VANESSA
But you dated Sean Goheen for 11
months. He is the hottest guys in
school. You two never....
ALICIA
Well, yes, but I never felt the.... you
know.
VANESSA
Girl, do you have any idea what you are
missing ?
ALICIA
The conditions have to be right. I have
to be in the right frame of mind.
VANESSA
Right frame of mind ?
ALICIA
Yes. Like if I were with Leonardo
DiCaprio, I wouldn't need the
conditions to be any different. But
with ordinary guys, I mean they're just
so..... ordinary. What does it take for
you to get.... there ?
VANESSA
About fifteen minutes.
INT. FOOD COURT, NEAR PIZZA PLACE - DAY CUT TO: Back to J.J. & Steve J.J.
(long drag off of his soda
through the straw)
What is the matter with you ?
Steve looks around. STEVE
(beat)
What ?
J.J.
You. You're sitting there all pensive
and quiet. This isn't that pre-game
bull shit is it ?
STEVE
Don't start on that, it works.
J.J.
What are you ? Rocky ? The "Eye of The
Tiger ?" Gimme a break.
STEVE
Just because you suck at sports...
J.J.
I don't suck at sports. I'm just
morally against sports. It's
Neanderthal. How can you pit a man
versus another man and expect to have
an even match ? By our very nature we
are different, no two people the same.
What's the point ? How do you better
yourself by defeating an inferior
opponent ?
STEVE
As much as I love your diatribe on the
defeatist nature of sports, I happen to
think that you better yourself in
competition. It drives you to higher
levels that you wouldn't get to without
competition.
J.J.
There's nothing you can't do all by
yourself.
STEVE
Besides that, it's just fun. I like to
feel healthy. There's also the team
work. You can accomplish more as a team
than you can by yourself. We learn to
be more than teammates. We're friends.
J.J.
Friends with a bunch of moronic but
wipes.
STEVE
May I remind you that we all have to
get good grades to play, while you fail
most subjects without even trying.
J.J.
Do you really judge people by an
outdated grading system ? Just because
I refuse to do homework, does NOT make
me stupid. I learn a lot and I discard
the rest. It's like an educational
salad bar.
STEVE
Did you hear about .....
INT. FOOD COURT NEAR CHINESE FOOD PLACE - DAY CUT TO: Back to Vanessa & Alicia. ALICIA
Did you hear about Stephanie Allen ?
VANESSA
She's my cousin, of course I know. It's
such bull shit. That asshole Bobby is a
liar.
ALICIA
I've known Bobby Hadberger for three
years, I don't think he'd....
VANESSA
Date rape my cousin in the boy's locker
room. Look Stephanie may get around a
bit, but No means NO. It's....
INT. FOOD COURT NEAR PIZZA PLACE - DAY CUT TO: J.J. & Steve still sitting in their chairs. J.J.
It's bullshit. I know her. She hates
that guy.
Steve keeps his head lowered during this discussion. He
is obviously disturbed by the subject matter.
J.J.
That jock asshole ! She quit school
today. Did you know that ?
STEVE
No. I didn't.
J.J.
She is too ashamed to go back. Everyone
thinks Stephanie is either a liar or a
ho. Neither choice seems to good.
(looking at Steve's gaze at
the ground)
What do you think happened ?
STEVE
Why ask me ?
J.J.
You're on the basketball team with him.
What kind of guy is he ?
STEVE
He's a great point guard. Maybe god
enough for all state....
J.J.
Not what kind of player he is stupid. I
mean, what the fuck kind of GUY is he ?
A good guy or one of those repressed
Christian bastards like you ? One of
these days my friend, you're going to
explode if you don't find a hole to put
it in, you know what I'm saying ?
STEVE
If you don't mind, I don't want to talk
about it. Bobby Hadberger is a good
guy. Generally.
(long beat)
So you've got to meet with the social
service people every other day now ?
J.J.
Yeah. It's major suckage.
STEVE
How'd your old man take it ?
J.J.
(lifts up his shirt)
How's this for his temperament ?
J.J. shows a scar on his ribs where a large bruise is
showing as well as a scab from a recent cut.
STEVE
Jesus !
J.J.
(lowers his shirt down)
Unlike your dad, mine thinks Jesus is
an exclamation, not a person.
STEVE
Can I ask you something ?
J.J.
We've been friends for five years. You
ask me things all the time.
STEVE
Does it bother you to be here ?
J.J.
At the mall or my station in life ?
STEVE
At the mall.
J.J.
Not really. Why ?
STEVE
It might bother me a little to be at
the mall where you got fired for
stealing.
J.J.
That's the difference between you and
me.
STEVE
Not the only difference, my friend.
J.J.
It's the main one. I don't give a shit
about what any one else thinks. Besides
I have to get my last paycheck. Let's
go.
J.J. & Steve get up & take their trays to the trash INT. FOOD COURT, NEAR TRASH CANS - DAY As they (J.J. & Steve) pour off their trays, Vanessa &
Alicia show up to do the same.
VANESSA
Hey J.J. ! What's happening ?
J.J.
Vanessa, how ya doin' hot thing ? I'm
sorry about Stephanie. What are you up
to here ?
VANESSA
Nothing. A psychology lab project. You
guys know Alicia, don't you ? She's my
lab partner.
J.J.
(rolls his eyes)
God. Are you the girl that spends more
money on peroxide than she does food ?
ALICIA
You're that guy who everybody says got
fired right ?
J.J.
Nice tact.
ALICIA
I tell it like it is, thief boy.
VANESSA
And who's this ?
J.J.
This is Steve.
STEVE
Hi.
Steve is looking over Vanessa & getting a little red in
the face (embarrassed) from how high her skirt is.
VANESSA
Hi back.
Vanessa is scoping out Steve as a potential conquest. She
is scanning him from top to bottom.
J.J. has an irritated look on his face as he stares at
Alicia.
J.J.
What the fuck is that in your hair ?
ALICIA
What ? This ? It's a scrunchy.
J.J.
Wha the fuck is a scrunchy ? It looks
like the elastic part of a sock. You
basically have a sock in your hair.
ALICIA
It is not a sock. It's scrunchy.
J.J.
And you paid for this ? Quite a fashion
statement. It says "Have sock, in
hair".
ALICIA
(to Steve, ignoring J.J.)
How's the basketball team ? Is Bobby
going to us to State this year ?
STEVE
(very sheepishly, eyes gogin
straight to the ground)
Uh, maybe. I hope so.
VANESSA
(to J.J.)
Any way, what ARE you doing here ? You
did get fired, you know. So it's not
like you HAVE to be here.
J.J.
I'm getting my last paycheck. I need
some money.
ALICIA
I'm sure you could just sell some crack
and get your money that way. I thought
you burners only needed enough for your
next fix anyway.
J.J.
Unlike you, my daddy doesn't own a car
dealership, princess. Besides I don't
sell crack. That's a ghetto drug.
ALICIA
Oh, Ha Ha Mr. Funny. Why don't you
like, get an education then you won't
be such a ..
She makes the universal gestures on her forehead stating
that J.J. is a LOSER. Alicia begins to walk away. Vanessa
starts to follow.
J.J.
I think I saw some rich college guys
earlier.
(reaches into his pocket)
Do you want some condoms ?
ALICIA
Whatever !
Alicia starts to storm away in a huff, repulsed. J.J.
They're ribbed for your pleasure.
VANESSA
See ya later.
Vanessa kisses J.J. on the cheek. VANESSA
(to Steve)
Bye !
Alicia grabs Vanessa by the arm and starts to pull. J.J.
(to Alicia)
Try not to let those roots show so
much. Maybe try more peroxide, less
water.
J.J. makes the LOSER sign back at her, sarcastically.
Steve is staring at Vanessa's ass as she walks around the
corner. J.J. notices.
STEVE
Who is she ?
J.J.
Don't even think it, pal. Vanessa's
been around blocks you haven't even
seen on a map.
STEVE
What do you mean ?
They start to walk to another part of the mall. J.J.
I've been friends with Vanessa since I
was five. She just has yet to meet a
guy that she didn't like. I love her to
death, but she'd tear you apart.
INT. LANE'S VIDEO GAMES & ELECTRONICS - DAY This is Gary Lane's store. It's a used electronics &
video game store. There are far too many neon signs
indicating a price & sale. It looks like a used car
salesman's view of a store.
GARY LANE is there, early 40's with an Italian look & a
gut hanging over his belt. He's tan and has an annoying
high pitched voice. He's talking to JERRY, early twenties
who is taking all the abuse.
GARY
I told you to move this product. What
the hell's going on here ? I mean sell
the fucker. Sell, sell, sell. What's so
hard about that ?
JERRY
Sure thing, Gary. I'm on it.
GARY
Just get the hell out of here. Go to
the back and get the 402's.
J.J. enters with Steve. GARY
Aw, hell. What the hell do you want ?
J.J.
I came for my last paycheck.
GARY
You think you're getting a paycheck,
you little punk ? Fuck you and the
horse you rode in on.
J.J.
Look I worked for the twelve days
before you fired me, now I wanna get
paid for those twelve days.
GARY
Consider the shit you stole severance.
Now get out. I don't want to see you
near here again, or I'll call the cops.
J.J.
I want my goddamn pay. I worked & you
have no proof I stole shit from you.
There's a few moments of silence as a staring contest has
begun. Gary's vein on his forehead throbs (visually).
Then he opens up a book behind the counter. He starts to
write in it.
GARY
Here's you're fucking check, now get
the hell out of here. I don't want to
see you no more.
Gary hands him a check. J.J. takes it and walks out. INT. MALL HALL - DAY J.J. looks like someone punched him in the gut. Steve
looks baffled.
STEVE
Was he always like that ?
J.J.
Gary ? He's always been like that. I
mean you saw him yelling at Jerry right
? He's a little high strung.
STEVE
Were you serious about not having any
proof ?
J.J.
Yup.
STEVE
So he fired you and he didn't even have
any proof that you stole anything ?
J.J.
Sort of. Gary thinks everyone is out to
get him. He has accused every single
employee of stealing since I started
here two years ago.
STEVE
Has anyone stolen from him ?
J.J.
Well not until now.
STEVE
So you did steal from him ?
J.J.
I didn't say that. I'm just saying that
money ACTUALLY was missing & someone
took it. I just got fired for it.
INT. MALL HALL - DAY Further behind the guys, Vanessa is watching them from a
discreet distance, Alicia is staring at on outfit in a
window.
ALICIA
Did you see this ? It's like 20% off.
That's a lot.
She sees Vanessa eye balling the guys. ALICIA
Hello, don't make me call your pager.
VANESSA
Come on, let's follow them.
ALICIA
Why ? They're a couple of losers.
VANESSA
J.J. has been a friend of mine since I
was little. He's the only guy I've ever
met that hasn't treated me like an
object.
ALICIA
He has a real attitude problem.
VANESSA
So do you.
ALICIA
Yes, but I'm rich. I'm supposed to have
an attitude.
VANESSA
I think that Steve guy is really cute.
ALICIA
He is kind a cute. He can at least play
sports.
They follow the guys around a corner. INT. MALL, NEAR WATER FOUNTAINS - DAY Several people walk slowly, admiring the water fountain
as it sprays water into the air in patterns.
J.J. & Steve stop at a bench in front of the new 2000
model cars (or whatever year it is). There are a ton of
fake trees with plastic leaves.
J.J. has a bag from the music store & starts to open his
CD.
STEVE
Why'd you buy that ?
J.J.
Fiona Apple ? Are you kidding me ? Have
you seen her ?
STEVE
Don't tell me you bought that just
because you think she's good looking.
Buy a poster, not a CD.
J.J.
No man, it's not that. Look how skimpy
she is. She's like a needy child in
Africa and I'm doing my part. She
obviously NEEDS me to buy this CD so
she can get some food in her.
STEVE
You have issues. I take that back. You
have the whole subscription, buddy.
J.J.
(looks at the car before
them)
Look at this shit. Alicia's daddy's got
cars sitting in the middle of this mall
for advertising. She is the typical
Daddy's Little Girl.
STEVE
I think you like her.
J.J.
What ? I hate snobby little whiners.
All she does is comb her hair & try to
look appealing to guys with money.
STEVE
That's almost word for word what you
said about Melissa Graft. You dated her
for six weeks.
J.J.
Six weeks, three days, and four hours.
Do you know why I remember it so
exactly ? Because it was torture from
minute one to the last minute.
They both stand up and star to walk on. STEVE
I think you really cared about her and
that's why it hurt so much.
J.J.
Well Doctor Love, why don't you have
anyone if you're so fucking
understanding ?
J.J. sees Vanessa & Alicia following them, the girls
trying to be nonchalant.
J.J.
Dude, the babes are following us.
STEVE
Where ?
J.J.
Back there.
We see Alicia & Vanessa try to look nonchalant. Alicia
looks bored, Vanessa seems gameful.
J.J.
I've got an idea. Follow me.
The guys duck into a door marked "Employees
Only/Emergency Exit".
INT. MALL SERVICE HALL (RED) - DAY J.J. & Steve are walking in one of the service halls that
run behind the entire mall.
The walls are concrete blocks painted red, with a white
stripe.
There are doors every sixty feet or so on either side
with an unceremoniously written name of the store for
which they enter into.
STEVE
Where the hell are we ?
J.J.
Service tunnel.
STEVE
What are these for ?
Steve just stares at J.J. blankly for a moment. J.J.
Jesus, how do you think they bring in
shipments ? Through the front door ?
These are the service tunnels. All
deliveries are made back here. How do
you think the employees get in the
place and open the security gate ?
Magic ? Look, we'll lose the girls back
here.
STEVE
Maybe I want them to find us.
J.J.
Just come on....
They turn a corner and the paint on the walls are now
green.
There are four sets of stairs right in a row. They go up
the first set of stairs.
PAN TO: Alicia & Vanessa enter in, from around the corner where
the guys just were, sneaking casually.
ALICIA
This, like, smells back here.
VANESSA
It's not so bad. Where DID they go ?
They were right in front of us a second
ago.
ALICIA
Who cares ? We can't see the sales from
this side of the store you know.
Vanessa walks over to the four sets of stairs and paces
for a moment.
VANESSA
Which way did they go ?
ALICIA
(eyes down, trying to be
unimpressed)
Not interested.
VANESSA
Then how do we get back ?
ALICIA
You mean you weren't paying attention ?
VANESSA
I though you were.
ALICIA
Great. We're lost in the back end of no
where.
From behind them J.J. jumps out. J.J.
BOO !
ALICIA
SHIT !
The girls are scared & shriek. VANESSA
Don't be an asshole.
ALICIA
You are so immature.
J.J.
I did get that look from you like a
deer in headlights.
ALICIA
That's only because you look like
somebody hit YOU with a truck.
VANESSA
(trying to be seductive)
Hello again.
STEVE
(very sheepishly)
Hi.
VANESSA
Now I remember where I've seen you. Are
you on the varsity basketball team ?
STEVE
Yeah, I spend most of my time on the
bench, but I'm on the team.
VANESSA
It's a start. Maybe you need a new work
out routine.
J.J.
Do you have any idea how much peroxide
is in your hair ? Why would anyone try
to pretend you're a blonde when you're
so blatantly not ? I mean look at your
roots for Christ's sake.
ALICIA
Why don't you just shut up !
J.J.
That was witty ! I think I hit a nerve.
They all start to walk through towards door. J.J.
Hey, can I call you Rooty ? I mean your
roots are blacker than Dennis Rodman's
VANESSA
Don't listen to him. He's just being a
dick.
Vanessa slaps J.J. on the back of the head. J.J.
Hey ! Watch it or I'll tell my boy here
about your tattoo.
STEVE
Tattoo ?
VANESSA
Never mind about that. Now Shut up.
Where in the hell are we ?
J.J.
These are service tunnels. You know,
for deliveries.
(off the silent stares)
Jesus, just follow me.
INT. MALL SERVICE HALL (BLUE) - DAY They are all four walking together, with J.J. in the
lead.
Mid conversation : ALICIA
I refuse to believe Bobby would do that
to anyone !
VANESSA
Well, I know Stephanie. Why would she
lie ?
ALICIA
I don't know. Steve back me up here.
You know Bobby, right ? Do you think he
would do the things "Stephanie" accused
him of ?
Steve does not answer, he just looks down. VANESSA
Well ?
STEVE
Shouldn't we be out into the mall yet ?
ALICIA
We have been walking back here for a
while now.
J.J.
We're almost out of here.
ALICIA
How do you know ?
J.J.
We're in the blue hall, right ?
(points to the blue painted
concrete bricks)
That means we're in the North Hall. We
were in Red, which is the West Hall.
Which means that beyond this door
(points to the door at the
end of the hall)
is the answer that will shut you all
up.
INT. MALL SERVICE HALL DOOR - DAY They all four get to the door. Big dramatic pause, while
J.J. holds on to the handle of the door.
J.J.
(with confidence)
I know these tunnels like the back of
my hand.
ALICIA
And how might that be ? Smuggling ?
J.J.
Very cute there, Rooty. Say, do the
curtains match the shades, if you know
what I mean ?
ALICIA
You'll never know. You'll never know.
STEVE
How DO you know where we're going ?
J.J.
I used to have to take in the shipments
for the store in these, so I got to
know them. Now just follow me through
this door & we'll be in the middle of
the food court.
J.J. opens the door & they walk into a storeroom. INT. STOREROOM OF TOY STORE - DAY This is a fairly small store room with a fence divider
halfway through the room, then a break room table.
There are three guys at the table cutting up cocaine
while one of them places it in a baggy inside a teddy
bear. There is the fourth man, the leader JASON MATHERS,
mid to late twenties and semi long blonde hair, he has on
the vest of the Toy Store Employee/Asst. Manager,
standing in a corner putting the teddy bears into
cartons. In his right hand is a yo-yo he is contantly
raising and lowering.
All motion stops in the room as the three older Mexican
guys cutting the cocaine stare at the four kids in the
door.
There is PEPITO, a pint size menace from the streets,
wearing a janitors uniform, then there's ROBERTO, a six
foot seven scary looking fellow with long hair in a
ponytail that seems to have more oil than Exxon, ans
finally JUAN, a average size, average build Mexican
wearing another janitors uniform.
VANESSA
This does NOT look like the food court
to me.
STEVE
(whispering out of the side
of his mouth)
What do we do ?
The Mexican guys are looking to JASON as he just stares
at the kids.
J.J.
Excuse us fellahs, we were just
leaving.
JASON
I don't think so. Gentlemen ....
The three Mexicans get up. J.J.
Let's get outta here !
The four kids turnaround & haul ass out of there. Jason and the bad guys burst out of the door after them. INT. MALL SERVICE HALLS - DAY Montage Ala |