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Tuesday January 2, 2024


REAL EARLY
3AM HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN - Drama, 1 hr.
Jonathan and Mark accidentally run over a bear while joyriding in Yellowstone Park. Mark attempts to move the animal before the Feds see it, ruptures himself and requires a miraculous intervention from his companion.

HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN

"Bear With Us"

 

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)

Be with you in a minute.

MARK STARTS TO PULL THE BEAR WITHOUT JONATHAN'S HELP

MARK

Ow! Ooh my groin! OW!

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

All around this area.

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

Ah, Angel? ... Duh!?

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)

Easy, big fella.

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

Hey, what is he doing?

MARK

Looks like he's reaching in his pocket.

JONATHAN

Pocket? Uh, would that be the pocket of his, fur coat?

MARK

Very funny.

Hop Sing?!

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

Stand aside, you dummy.

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)

Hey, what's that?

JONATHAN

What's what?

MARK

That noise.

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)

Hey. Who's that coming?

JONATHAN

Where?

MARK
(pointing at the approaching park ranger)

Right there.

JONATHAN

Hello.

MARK

Hello officer.

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

Hey! Anybody home!?

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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