PLASTIC MAN

She is staring up at the enormous full moon above her.

                         POPPY

          Icky...?

EXT.  MAIN LAB

O'Brien dives from the lab as part of it collapses with a

shower of CRASHING GLASS.

EXT.  ROOF

The rail gives out and the helicopter falls.

It seems for a moment to drift like a snowflake as Poppy

reaches at the moon.

                         POPPY

          Plastic means forever...

It hits the roof and shatters through it as though it were

sheet candy.

Susan is thrown out over the edge dangling from the rail

as --

The helicopter shatters through the building with an ear-

bleeding CRASH before its metal carcass bursts into

flames.

As Susan clings to the rail, she looks up and sees

Nebbleman.  He stares at her through his broken glasses.

                         NEBBLEMAN

          This is all your fault, Susan...

He bends toward her clutching fingers.

EXT.  GROUNDS

O'Brien is searching everywhere for Susan.

                         O'BRIEN

          Susan!  Susan!

EXT.  ROOF

Nebbleman is peeling up her fingers, when --

The tower begins to fall.

With a final METAL SHRIEK the legs give out completely.

Still holding on, Susan falls with the tower.

Nebbleman's eyes bulge as he is thrown over the rail and

into the fiery abyss...

O'Brien looks up as the tower arcs down and sees Susan

clinging, dangling, about to be buried beneath it.

                         O'BRIEN

          Noooo!

A red rubber rocket sears across the night sky.

Susan's grip fails and she drops into --

O'Brien, who has flattened himself out like a giant luge

chute.

She slides away as the tower collapses into the fiery

oblivion, falling lightly into the soft waiting arms of...

                         SUSAN

          My hero...

They kiss.

We RISE ABOVE them, REACHING UP FOR the moon in all its

luminous glory, WATCHING as it morphs into a blazing sun.

We PAN DOWN TO a new day.

EXT.  CITY STREET

O'Brien is carrying a brown bag filled with groceries.

Susan is walking beside him.

She suddenly starts laughing.

                         SUSAN

          God, when we were in that store all

          I could think about was that one

          time, when we were in school, and

          you attacked that little kid who

          wanted some cereal.  Do you remember

          that?

                         O'BRIEN

          I remember I was trying to help...

                         SUSAN

          God, what a fight that was.

                         O'BRIEN

          We were different people then.

                         SUSAN

          Do you suppose that was our problem?

          We met before our time?  I think

          that happens a lot.  People, events,

          planets all just circling each other

          waiting for that moment when

          everything clicks into place.

O'Brien is no longer listening to her, staring at

something like an attack dog.

                         SUSAN

          That moment of synchronicity where

          everything seems to work out just

          the way it should.

Walking straight toward them is the Litterbug.

                         SUSAN

          I suppose if there were a god, it

          would be those moments that would

          make me believe in her... or him.

Just like he did before, the Litterbug gulps from a

styrofoam cup.

                         SUSAN

          Daniel, what is...

She sees what he is staring at just as the Litterbug

crumbles the cup and pitches it into the bushes.

                         SUSAN

          Oh no.

The Litterbug continues toward them.

                         SUSAN

          Daniel, please, don't, not today,

          it's such a nice day...

She watches him bracing for the attack, jaw working,

hackles raising, fists clenching.

                         SUSAN

          Aww shit.

The Litterbug reaches them, shoves his way past and

O'Brien --

Lets him go.  He smiles.