Scene 6.20 - Mommy Dearest
INT. NARC-ON-EM `THOPTER - NIGHT
(PORSCHE is fighting the controls of the Narc-On-Em `thopter.)
CLEAN POV
(The `thopter lights across leaves, skipping.)
BACK TO SCENE
PORSCHE
I can't maintain any altitude... we'll never reach the safety of branch. Maybe that small branch.
JEZEBEL
Where are we?
PORSCHE
The Deep Jungle regions... the forbidden area. We must make it to that bough...
EXT. NARC-ON-EM `THOPTER - DEEP JUNGLE - NIGHT
(The `thopter violently hits a leaf and flips up - - almost turning over. It falls slowly back, then slides down the side of the leaf, resting on the small [200-yard diameter] branch.)
EXT. NARC-ON-EM HORNITHOPTER - JUNGLE - NIGHT
PORSCHE
Come on, Mom! Let's go!
(He jumps out of his seat.)
JEZEBEL
Bring the satchels!
(She hands him one.)
PORSCHE
(At doorway:) Hurry -- Our crash might have alerted a worm.
(As PORSCHE puts the satchel over his shoulder, he feels something. He looks at his father's mood ring. He stares at it silently, then closes his hand around it. They jump outside.)
JEZEBEL
(Starting to cry:) A million deaths are not enough for Loogy...
PORSCHE
(Inner voice, reacting to his mother's tears:) Where are my feelings... I feel for no one...
EXT. HIGH BOUGH OF PURPLE-AND-BLUE, LUMINOUS TREE - JUNGLE - NIGHT
(PORSCHE and JEZEBEL are running. PORSCHE pulls JEZEBEL to a fissure in the leaf-branch junction -- through to the other side, where the small overhang of the leaf offers shelter from the torrential rain. JEZEBEL slips and falls to the ground. She cries, pouring out her grief, but soon the sound of it is carried away by the building rush of wind. PORSCHE turns and looks out to the vast, luminous, prismatic, neon, moss-covered jungle, this portion of which is within a thick rain forest. Trapped clouds above rage a flameless thunderstorm. Through a break in the clouds and tree-tops we see:)
PORSCHE POV: The Left-Breast Moon has risen.
(Leaves undulate tide-like in the light of the moon. The wind picks up.)
BACK TO SCENE
(PORSCHE turns, his face illuminated by the two moons above. His eyes lock on the second moon.)
PORSCHE
(Inner voice:) The second moon... from the dreams...
INT. PORSCHE'S EYE - NIGHT
(We move into PORSCHE'S eye, where the left-breast moon appears and revolves slowly. The moon begins to explode. The pieces of the moon soar toward us burning with white-hot flames. Within the flames we see...)
EXT. CASTLE CALDERON - NIGHT
(... a burning meteor roaring over the castle on Calderon. The meteor crashes in the huge, glowing, lava sea.)
PORSCHE (V.O.)
This moon holds my future.
INT. JEZEBEL'S UTERUS/PLACENTA - NIGHT
(Smoldering confusion turning into a small, twisting fetus under the lava. Its eyes are closed. Moving close to it, its eyes snap open. Through the eyes is the pale white face of JEZEBEL.)
EXT. JUNGLE - NIGHT
(There is a huge soaring wind sound and beyond JEZEBEL the leaves roll like ocean waves.)
EXT. LEFT-BREAST MOON - NIGHT
(The moon continues to spew pieces of moving images which are seen then disappear as fast as sparks. The broken, burning pieces float eerily toward us over the undulating leaves below. One image floats closer. It is a hand folded into a peace sign.)
PORSCHE (V.O.)
I am only a seed...
(The index finger folds.)
DUKE CHEETO (V.O.)
The seed must grow.
(The hand turns, showing its back side, "flipping us off" -- the hand floats eerily forward.)
DUKE CHEETO (V.O.)
The creeper must be bakin'-
EXT. BOUGH - JUNGLE - NIGHT
(Through the darkness we move to PORSCHE'S clenched hand. It opens, revealing the signet mood ring in the very center of his palm. PORSCHE looks upward to the moons of Darukkus. He looks back to the mood ring, then to his mother.)
PORSCHE
Listen to me!... you wanted to know about my dreams... and I've just had a waking dream... do you know why?
JEZEBEL
Take a chill pill-
PORSCHE
Simoleon Spice! It's resin is in everything here. The air, the soil, the food... It's like the Truthsayer drug..... It's a poison! You knew the spice would change me. But thanks to your teachings it's changed my consciousness. I can see it... I can see it.
JEZEBEL
(Inner voice:) Is he....?
PORSCHE
You carry my unborn sister in your womb!
JEZEBEL
(Inner voice:) He knows.
PORSCHE
You and your Been Lez-a-bit sisterhood... I'm not your Nick-knack-paddy-whack... I'm something different, something unexpected! (Inner voice:) I'm a seed. A seed of creeper. (Out loud:) You don't know me... Whatever... You don't know me...
EXT. BOUGH - JUNGLE - NIGHT
(PORSCHE'S head goes down. He places the mood ring on his finger. It glows!)
PORSCHE (Cont'd)
(Inner voice:) Father... now I have become a true stoner and I will continue to stone until I have avenged your death! (Out loud:) Father!
(JEZEBEL cries as she stares at her son.)
FTB