FADE IN: EXT. YELLOWSTONE PARK
JONATHAN
Mark, I'd hate to be in your shoes when the park ranger sees this!
MARK
Hey, you were driving the car, Mr. big-time angel!
JONATHAN
Yeah, but you were distracting me with all that 'cutting your beard' talk.
What was that?
MARK
I can't talk about getting a whisker trim without you denting the only
ride we have by running into a 1000-lb animal?
Can't you just make it come back to life so we can make it to the
campground
where those gorgeous chicks were the other night? Nobody is going to miss
one lousy bear. Especially this one; he stinks.
JONATHAN
You forget I am half human. And the human part sees us in the human
lock-up if we don't get the critter moved and hidden.
MARK
OK, help me drag his carcas over to the woods.
JONATHAN IS PICKING HIS NOSE
JONATHAN
(unashamed)
MARK STARTS TO PULL THE BEAR WITHOUT JONATHAN'S HELP
MARK
MARK DROPS THE BEAR, WHO HE HADN'T MOVED ONE INCH, AND BEGINS TO EXAMINE HIMSELF
JONATHAN
Hey! Here? Right in front of me? Come on, buddy, at least
go over there out of my sight.
MARK
What's wrong, no men's locker rooms in Heaven?
Seriously, I think I have pulled something. It's killing me.
JONATHAN
Come over here. Where is the pain?
MARK
MARK POINTS TO HIS LOWER REGIONS
JONATHAN
Probably yanked a Sartorius tendon.
JONATHAN PUTS HIS HANDS ON MARK'S GROIN AND STARES AND SMILES, TRANCE-LIKE
JONATHAN
Yep, I was right. You're toast. And you're warm!
MARK
Hey! What the ... ? Back off! Can you fix it or not?
JONATHAN
(looking puzzled)
Ah, no I can't. I'm an angel not a doctor.
JUST THEN, THE BEAR BEGINS TO MOVE A LITTLE.
MARK
Hey! Look out! He's moving! Let's get outta here!
JONATHAN
Wait, Mark. He may need our help. What are you, chicken?
MARK
Hey, don't call me chicken. I mean it.
JONATHAN
(laughing)
You baby! This bear is a friendly bear. One of the friendliest
bears that could ever be. Almost human.
MARK
And you know this how? ...
JONATHAN
MARK
Hey, that angel crap seems to come and go more or less capriciously.
How do I know when you can be supernatural and when you can't?!
JUST THEN THE BEAR ROLLS OVER AND GETS UP AND STANDS ON HIS HIND LEGS, GROWLING
JONATHAN
(to the bear)
MARK
Friendly bear, huh?
Whoa, he's a monsta! That thing has to be 20 feet tall!
JONATHAN
(looks at Mark with dopey expression)
Twenty feet? He's not even 6 feet. Five feet, tops. Like
Hop Sing was.
JONATHAN NOTICES THE BEAR MOVING HIS ARM
JONATHAN CONT'D
MARK
Looks like he's reaching in his pocket.
JONATHAN
Pocket? Uh, would that be the pocket of his, fur coat?
MARK
JONATHAN
You stooge! He doesn't have pockets!
MARK
Maybe we ought to tranquilize him until we figure out what to do.
JONATHAN
Ah, sorry buddy, I don't happen to have any of that type juice on me.
MARK
And you call yourself an angel! Pitiful.
JONATHAN
I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
MARK
No kidden', Jonathan, what are we going to do now?
JONATHAN
Well, do you know anything about hypnosis?
MARK
Doesn't it require a watch and a chain, or something like that?
JONATHAN
MARK
Hey, that's two semi-incendiary epithets you have hurled at me
in the last few minutes.
JONATHAN
So! What are you going to do, quit and go back to your other job?
(laughing heartily)
MARK
If you weren't so well connected I'd mess you up, but good!
JONATHAN
(pretending to pray hard with squinty eyes)
I'm reporting your insolence right now.
MARK
(hearing someone coming)
JONATHAN
MARK
JONATHAN
Maybe it was the bear. He's up and not looking too happy, you know.
MARK
No, I heard a noise like a squirrel squawking.
JONATHAN
You scared of little squirrels now?
MARK
(seeing a uniformed man walking up)
JONATHAN
MARK
(pointing at the approaching park ranger)
JONATHAN
MARK
OFFICER
Say, who are you two clowns? Why is this big bear just standing there?
MARK
Hey, he's right. After the bear got up, it hasn't done anything.
MARK LEANS OVER AND RAPS ON THE BEAR'S SKULL A FEW TIMES
MARK CONT'D
ALL YUK IT UP
BEAR
That's because I'm not a bear.
SECOND OFFICER TAKES BEAR HEAD OFF
BEAR (CONT'D)
You two birds are under arrest for driving recklessly on federal
property and for so callously dismissing a bear's death.
MARK
Hey, I wasn't doing anything. He was driving!
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