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ADAM is now<strong>here</strong>. T<strong>here</strong>'s no ground, no sky, nothing to stand on<br />
or hold onto or give boundaries or distance. Just vast nothing.<br />
Not white and not colored either. Noise of a CLOCK TICKING.<br />
ADAM looks about in surprise, and doesn't like what he doesn't<br />
see. He turns right around to head back up the steps.<br />
T<strong>here</strong> are no steps.<br />
ADAM<br />
Barbara?<br />
He runs off a little in the distance, and calls again from over<br />
t<strong>here</strong>.<br />
He goes even farther away.<br />
IN THE FOREGROUND --<br />
ADAM<br />
(Quietly) W<strong>here</strong> are you,<br />
darling?<br />
an enormous geared wheel -- the size of a man -- rolls by,<br />
tearing up the unseamed ground. Something pours up out of the<br />
tear -- ooze or stuffing.<br />
ADAM runs forward and stares after the wheel, which is now out<br />
of sight.<br />
TWO SMALLER GEARS --<br />
looking very much like components of a giant watch -- spin along<br />
behind him. One of them veers suddenly towards him, and though<br />
ADAM jumps out of the way, the gear snags his trouser leg and<br />
shreds it.<br />
A PERFECTLY ENORMOUS GEAR --<br />
comes barrelling towards him. ADAM leaps out of its way. The<br />
gear turns, fish-tailing, kicking up ooze and stuffing.<br />
ADAM flings himself suddenly to the right, but trips into the<br />
path of the gear. As he's about to be crushed, he's suddenly<br />
jerked up to safety.<br />
EXT: FRONT PORCH -- NIGHT<br />
It's BARBARA who's grabbed him, and quite evidently saved his --<br />
not life, perhaps -- but existence. He's shaken, breathless.<br />
BARBARA stares at him, as if wondering what he's just been<br />
through.<br />
ADAM<br />
(Weakly) You saved my --<br />
uh -- something.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Two hours.<br />
ADAM<br />
What?<br />
BARBARA<br />
That's how long you were<br />
gone.<br />
Over WINTER RIVER, the Independence Day fireworks explode. ADAM<br />
and BARBARA's faces are painted with the light.<br />
INT: LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT<br />
BARBARA leads ADAM into the house.<br />
ADAM<br />
Anything happen while I<br />
was away?<br />
BARBARA<br />
I made a couple of small<br />
discoveries.<br />
She is standing in front of the mirror over the hearth mantel.<br />
On the mantel is BARBARA's prized collection of porcelain horses.<br />
ADAM comes to stand beside her. They look into the mirror, and<br />
t<strong>here</strong> is no reflection of them.