Épisode Résurrection - 2ème partie S01E02 - The Dead Zone Saison 1

Durant un orage, Johnny et Bruce pénètrent dans la maison d'Alyson par la fenêtre de la cave. Ils montent à l'étage mais ne trouvent personne. Johnny touche plein d'objets pour avoir une vision mais il ne voit rien. Selon Bruce, Johnny n'a pas de vision car il fait trop d'efforts. Mais Johnny, lui, pense qu'elle est déjà morte.


GÉNÉRIQUE


Johnny et Bruce vont au commissariat pour signaler la disparition d'Alyson. Mais les policiers ne prennent pas Johnny au sérieux quand il dit qu'il a eu une vision. C'est alors que Walt arrive et rencontre Johnny. Il ne semble pas le connaître tandis que Johnny lui sait qui il est. Dana se présente également à Johnny mais Walt lui dit de ne pas répondre aux questions et de le suivre dans son bureau seul. Ils parlent du don de Johnny et celui-ci parle de son accident. Walt le reconnaît enfin et ne semble pas très heureux de le voir. John explique à Walt qu'il se moque de ce que les autres pensent et lui révèle l'endroit où est enterrée Alyson.

Johnny et Walt sortent alors du bureau. Walt demande à ses hommes de patrouiller dans le coin. Walt envoie balader Dana qui ne semble pas vouloir partir du commissariat.

Walt rentre chez lui. Sarah le salue avec un baiser puis va lui préparer quelque chose
à manger. Ils parlent de Johnny et Walt ne veut pas que JJ (Johnny Junior) aille voir Johnny seul. Sarah lui dit qu'ils ont beaucoup de points en communs et qu'ils finiront par devenir amis. Elle voudrait également inviter Johnny pour un diner la semaine prochaine, ce qui n'enchante pas Walt. Sarah le rassure en lui disant qu'elle l'aime.

Johnny marche dans la rue lorsqu'une limousine blanche s'arrête proche de lui. Le révérant Purdy en sort et marche avec lui. Johnny lui dit qu'il faut qu'il fasse 15 Km par jour. Purdy informe Johnny qu'il lui a ouvert un compte à la banque et qu'il lui a fait livrer des cartes de crédit. Johnny le remercie d'avoir veillé sur sa mère avant qu'elle ne meure. Purdy lui demande s'il a des projets mais Johnny répond que non. Il lui demande d'aller voir ce que sa mère a donné à l'Alliance de l'Héritage. Johnny décline l'offre et lui dit qu'il ne croit pas au surnaturel. Purdy semble étonné. Il veut lui serrer la main mais Johnny lui répond qu'il n'aime pas toucher des personnes depuis son coma. Purdy entre dans sa limousine et part. Johnny arrive devant chez Alyson et touche la boîte aux lettres. Il a alors une vision où il est le facteur et est attaqué par un chien. Il va dans la cour arrière et touche le sol. Il se voit regardant sous la fenêtre d'Alyson lors d'un orage mais Walt interrompt sa vision. Johnny lui explique que le meurtrier était là et qu'il avait observé Alyson. Il lui décrit les bottes de l'homme et Walt lui confirme que c'est bien les mêmes bottes. Il lui alors demande quelle est sa taille de bottes et Johnny lui répond 40 (le meurtrier fait du 43,5). Walt lui dit que maintenant la majorité des policiers de la ville va l'accuser. Le shérif lui demande pourquoi la vitre est brisée et John lui répond que c'est lui qui l'a fait. Walt lui demande de quitter la propriété d'Alyson et le prie de ne pas accepter l'invitation de Sarah à dîner. Johnny lui dit qu'il n'y a pas de problème et s'en va.

Walt marche à côté du docteur Tran et celui-ci défend parfaitement bien Johnny. Il suggère à Walt de prendre Johnny au sérieux et s'en va.

Johnny fait de l'exercice chez lui avec Bruce. Walt, de son côté, appelle les policiers pour qu'ils viennent faire un moule des empreintes de pas sous la fenêtre d'Alyson. Chez Johnny le téléphone sonne. Le shérif lui dit qu'il passe le prendre.

Au commissariat, Walt donne une cigarette à Johnny pour qu'il la touche, ce qu'il fait. John lui explique que le tueur ne veut pas que les gens sachent qu'il fume parce qu'il considère cela comme une faiblesse. Johnny lui dit que sa mère lui a fait des choses terribles. (On parle toujours du meurtrier) Il dit que le meurtrier est impuissant sauf quand il tue et qu'il ne le fait que lorsqu'il pleut dehors pour effacer ses empreintes. Johnny commence alors à parler comme un fou. John lui dit que les victimes ont lutté et recommence à parler comme un cinglé. Walt lui enlève la cigarette et John lui dit qu'il veut seulement l'aider mais Walt veut que Johnny trouve l'adresse et le numéro de téléphone du meurtrier.

Johnny et Walt sortent du bureau et Sarah arrive. Elle se demande pourquoi Johnny est là puis l'invite pour aller dîner mais Johnny refuse.

Johnny, Walt et Sarah se retrouve au restaurant. John lui demande comment ils se sont rencontrés et Walt répond qu'ils se sont rencontrés à l'hôpital puis il y a un long silence. Il parle de hockey et de Foot Ball et de JJ. Deux enfants se bousculent et Johnny a une vision d'un des enfants recevant du café bouillant sur la tête alors il les arrête. Walt reçoit un coup de téléphone d'un policier qu'il lui demande de venir chez Alyson. Johnny et Walt s'en vont.

Chez Alyson, des policiers s'affèrent un peu partout. John et Walt entrent dans la maison et voient Alyson qui semble en pleine forme. Alyson leur explique pourquoi elle n'était pas là et ils partent.

Purdy et un autre homme se chamaillent à propos de Johnny parce qu'il a eu sa photo dans le journal et l'article ne semble pas très bon. L'homme veut que Johnny ne se mêle pas des affaires de l'Alliance mais Purdy défend Johnny.

Johnny ouvre sa porte à Sarah et elle lui dit qu'il va avoir besoin d'amis. Johnny lui demande ce qu'elle veut manger et Sarah lui dit qu'elle s'inquiète pour lui. Ils parlent des visions de Johnny et du passé. Sarah le sert dans ses bras et ils commencent à s'embrasser et je vous laisse imaginer la suite. Johnny se rend finalement compte que ce n'est qu'une vision. Il lui demande de s'en aller mais Sarah refuse. Il lui explique alors que pour elle ça fait 6 ans mais pour lui ça ne fait que quelques semaines. Le téléphone sonne et Sarah s'en va. C'est Bruce qui est à l'appareil et il lui dit qu'il vient le chercher.

Bruce et Johnny se retrouve devant la maison d'Alyson et Bruce lui explique pourquoi la vision ne s'est pas réalisée. En effet, puisque le téléphone sonnait lorsqu'elle arrivait chez elle, elle a courut au lieu de marcher et donc le tueur ne l'a pas attrapé. John dit alors à Bruce que si Alyson n'est pas morte, une autre personne l'a été à sa place. Johnny marche dans la peau du tueur et sens qu'il a besoin de commettre un meurtre. Bruce le suit et ils arrivent finalement devant le cinéma. Il voit une fille dans sa vision et sais que le tueur va la tuer. Dans sa vision, il attrape la fille et l'emmène dans le parcµ. C'est alors qu'il commence à l'étouffer. Mais Johnny est pris dans sa vision et commence à paniquer parce qu'il pense l'avoir tué. Il crie qu'il est désolé et dit à Bruce qu'il sait ce que c'est de tuer.

Johnny et Bruce vont chez Sarah et c'est le petit JJ qui répond. Walt et Sarah arrivent et Johnny lui dit que le tueur à tuer quelqu'un d'autre. Il lui dit également qu'ils ont trouvé la tombe.

Près d'un moulin, les policiers trouvent le corps de la jeune femme. Les médias sont là et maintenant plus personne ne se moque de Johnny car il a eu raison. Johnny est triste de ce qui s'est passé et dit à Bruce qu'elle est morte à cause de lui. Bruce tente de le rassurer. Johnny s'approche de la victime et la touche. Il a alors une vision et découvre qui est le meurtrier.

Johnny et Walt arrivent chez Frank Dodd un policier mais Walt pense que Johnny se trompe de meurtrier mais ils sortent de la voiture et vont sonner. C'est la mère de Frank qui répond et leur dit qu'il est parti pêcher. Walt demande à la mère s'ils peuvent entrer. Johnny s'avance mais la mère l'empêche de passer. John a alors une vision et accuse la mère d'être complice du meurtre des jeunes filles. Walt va fouiller la maison au premier pendant que Johnny reste avec la mère. La mère s'éloigne de Johnny. Pendant ce temps Walt fouille l'étage supérieur et trouve une porte fermée par un cadenas. En bas, Johnny veut rejoindre la mère. En haut, Walt cherche toujours Frank. Il entre dans sa chambre et voit la canne à pêche de Frank près du mur. Johnny entre dans la cuisine où il est attaqué par la mère. Elle tient un couteau et plaque Johnny à terre. Walt arrive au bon moment et tue la mère. Walt dit à Johnny d'aller demander des renforts pendant qu'il descend à la cave. Walt appelle Frank mais celui-ci ne répond pas. Johnny a une vision de Walt mourrant d'un coup de feu tiré par Frank en touchant la radio pour appeler de l'aide mais il voit également son avenir avec Sarah. S'il ne prévient pas Walt, il aura une fille avec Sarah et aura une très belle vie. Il est déchiré entre cette belle vie et la vie du mari de son ex-fiancée. Walt entre dans une pièce où il y a les photos des victimes. Frank surprend Walt et le menace de son arme. Walt tente d'amadouer Frank. Au moment où Frank allait tirer, John abat sa canne sur le fusil et la balle finie dans le planché. Frank pousse Johnny et tente de s'enfuir. Walt lui demande de venir. Ils entendent un coup de feu. Frank vient de se suicider.

Dana veut interroger Walt mais il refuse et lui dit que l'aide de John a été précieuse. Johnny ne dit rien et part.

Merci à DeadZone-fr

...ending with Allison coming home as it begins to rain...
seeing the killer's boots.
1 1 EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - NIGHT - ESTABLISHING (NEW SHOT)
Rain falling. Lightning illuminating the house like
something out of an old James Whale movie. (Note: Include
mailbox in shot so we will recognize the house in Scene
16.)
2 2 INT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - NIGHT - A SMALL BASEMENT WINDOW
breaks as a hand in a black glove punches through it... and our first thought has to be this is the killer but as the hand reaches in, unlocks the lock and then opens the door, we see it's JOHNNY and BRUCE... wet from the rain, eyes intense... Bruce is carrying a baseball bat, Johnny using his cane... lightning flashes now and then... they pause once they're inside... whispering --
BRUCE : Anything you want to tell me?
JOHNNY : Like?
BRUCE : Like 'I can see the killer and he's hiding upstairs in the hall closet'...
JOHNNY : I don't have X-ray vision, Bruce.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - TEASER - 01/17/02 2.2 CONTINUED: 2
BRUCE : Are you sure? (as they climb the stairs) How do you know if you don't try?
UPSTAIRS - INTERCUTTING STEADICAMS AS THEY CHECK THROUGH
THE HOUSE – BRUCE pauses by a door, hesitates, opens it quickly... sees no one inside and moves on...
CLOSE ON JOHNNY moving, encountering no one... he hears a strange noise... clickety-clickety-clickety... he reacts, moves toward the sound...
3 3 INT. DEN - LIGHTNING FLASHES IN THE EYES OF A HAMSTER
running an endless race around its spinning wheel in its cage... it stops to stare at Johnny who sticks his head in the door...
4 4 INT. ALLISON'S BEDROOM
as Johnny enters... like everywhere else, there's no one to be found... he takes off his gloves and starts to touch things... a hairbrush, a nurse's uniform hanging on the back of a door. Bruce enters... Johnny grows more frustrated as the scene continues...
BRUCE : Well, he's not in the hall closet.
More desperate, Johnny starts touching the bed, the walls,the windows...
JOHNNY : The hospital said she went home three hours ago... so where the hell is she... I don't feel anything...
BRUCE : Maybe you're just trying too hard...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - TEASER - 01/17/02 3.4 CONTINUED: 4
JOHNNY : ...What if it means she's already dead?
Off Bruce's reaction...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 4.ACT ONE
A5 A5 EXT. PENOBSCOT COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT - NIGHT (NEW
SHOT)
DODD (V.O.): If you want our help, you'll haveto tell me your real name.
5 5 * INT. PENOBSCOT COUNTRY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT - NIGHT -
CLOSE-UP ON DEPUTY FRANK DODD (23) (RESHOOT ENTIRE SCENE)
In contrast to Johnny's desperation, Dodd is calm,measured... Johnny, wet and impatient, is sitting at Dodd's desk as the deputy takes the report...
JOHNNY : (controlled)It is my real name. Smith. John Smith.
Dodd stares at him a beat then, unconvinced, types a short
burst into his computer. We see we're in a modest office.Up 'till now, it's been a quiet night. Bruce is sitting by the door, watching Johnny give the report. Two other deputies (including ROSCOE, 30) and an attractive but dressed-down police reporter, DANA BRIGHT, 25, are playing liar's poker in a far corner... her feet are up on the desk, crossed at the ankle as a man's might be... she studies a dollar bill...
DODD : And why do you think something has happened to this woman, Mr... "Smith"?
JOHNNY : Isn't it enough that she's still missing three hours after the hospital said...
DODD : We don't begin to investigate missing person reports for fortyeight hours.
JOHNNY : ...She may be dead by then... she may already be dead...
Dodd is growing more suspicious of this man with every
(CONTINUED)

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answer... he studies him a long distrustful beat...
DODD : And how would you know that, Mr. Smith?
Behind Johnny, we may see Bruce hang his head and rub his temple...
JOHNNY (a beat): I just do.
Bruce just can't stay silent any longer --
BRUCE : He sees things. Okay? Like a psychic but times a hundred. He sees things.
At that, the reporter swings her legs off the desk...
DANA : Scuse me, Roscoe...
BRUCE : He saved a baby from a burning house...
JOHNNY : Bruce...
BRUCE : He found a man's mother that everyone thought was dead.
JOHNNY : Bruce... sit down...
BRUCE : Do not, under any circumstances,play poker with him. Okay? Listen to the man.
The Sheriff who has come out of his office to see what the commotion is about... and in case we've forgotten, he is WALT BANNERMAN, Sarah's husband... who moves to Johnny...
WALT : I'm Sheriff Bannerman. Can I help you?
Johnny stands... realizing who he is...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 6.5 CONTINUED: (2) 5
JOHNNY : Bannerman? Walt Bannerman...?
Walt gives him a look - do I know you?
DANA : Dana Bright, Bangor Daily News, Mr. Smith. Are you saying you can help the Sheriff's department catch the strangler?
WALT : Don't answer that. Let's go in my office. (to Bruce)Alone.
(Bruce sits, to Dana)Don't you have anything better to do?
DANA : No.
6 6 * INT. SHERIFF'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS (RESHOOT SCENE)
as Walt closes the door...
WALT : Piece of advice, the media is not your friend. Unless of course you're here looking for publicity...
Walt studies Johnny with deep skepticism...
JOHNNY : I'm just trying to save someone's life.
WALT : And I'm just trying to make sure my county doesn't turn into a three ring circus.
JOHNNY : I don't want to be in a circus any more than you do.
WALT : (a warning, not friendly) Good. Then we understand one
another.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 7.6 CONTINUED: 6
Johnny looks at a photograph of Sarah, Walt and Johnny on
the Sheriff's desk...
JOHNNY : Not quite.
Bannerman sits behind the desk, thinking let's get this over with... he doesn't believe any of this...
WALT : Okay, so let's hear it; you had,what... a... a trance and you saw something... a murder...?
JOHNNY : She may not be dead yet... I'm hoping... sometimes these visions take place in the future and...
WALT : (not listening,overlapping) ...What do they call that – second sight?
JOHNNY:(beat)They don't have a name for what's happened to me.
Johnny studies the man who is married to the woman he loves...
JOHNNY (CONT'D): I had a car accident six years ago after leaving my fiancée's house. I was in a coma for six years.
Dead silence. Walt's face goes pale... he stares at Johnny a long, long beat... after a beat --
JOHNNY (dry): Give my love to your family, won't you?
Walt lets out a deep, incredulous breath... this is a helluva way to meet each other...
WALT : Oh, man.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 8.6 CONTINUED: (2) 6
JOHNNY : Yeah.
He stands up... tries to get a handle on all this...
WALT : Didn't you... didn't you just get out of the...
JOHNNY : ...hospital, yeah.
WALT : Today?
JOHNNY : Yeah.
WALT : And now you come in here talking about trances and murder... you know how that sounds...
JOHNNY : I can't help how it sounds...
WALT : Because, you know, it sounds like you're not entirely all right yet.
JOHNNY : Sheriff, I'm not even close to "all right".
Johnny studies him a long beat.
JOHNNY : If you don't want to believe me, there's nothing I can do about it. But when they dig Allison Connover up from a shallow grave near a windmill, you're gonna have to live with it. (beat)
We both are.
As he moves to the door, frustrated. Off the Sheriff's reaction...
7 7 INT. SHERIFF DEPT - RECEPTION - CONTINUOUS (RESHOOT SCENE)
As Johnny comes out, all activity stops... everyone stares
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 9.7 CONTINUED: 7
at him like a freak... Dodd whispers something to Dana who laughs and turns away, trying to hide it... Johnny feels the stares... moves to the door... Johnny exchanges a frustrated look with Bruce who moves to join him...
WALT : Mr. Smith...(Johnny pauses) Go home. Okay? I'll have units
patrol the neighborhood overnight. If we turn up anything, I'll call you.
Johnny acknowledges and they exit. Once out the door, the deputies start to chuckle...
WALT : You heard what I said. Frank,Roscoe - get out there...
The deputies move...
DANA : The psychic patrol, Sheriff?
Walt is still preoccupied with Johnny as he says: WALT Go out and find yourself a date, Dana. You're not gonna get any love around here.
DANA : I'm not here for the love, Sheriff. I'm here for the doughnuts.
Walt doesn't smile... push to him as his mind continues to work, trying to sort out how Johnny's arrival is going to change his life, his marriage... and as we -
7A 7A OMITTED
8 8 EXT. BANNERMAN HOUSE - WALT - NIGHT (NEW SHOT)
He's still thinking about Johnny. He pulls his sheriff's car into the driveway and gets out, moving toward the house... lightening and thunder in the b.g.... we can hear a solo guitar playing inside the house. Walt pauses for an introspective beat before he enters the house.
DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 10.
9 9 INT. BANNERMAN HOME - NIGHT
SARAH is playing an acoustic guitar by the fire in the fireplace in a pensive mood when Walt enters... she continues playing...
WALT : Hey.
SARAH : Hey.
WALT : The kid down yet?
SARAH : Yeah. Fell asleep during Rugrats.
WALT : Sorry. Tried to get out on time.But something came up.
He comes over, sits beside her on the floor, kisses her hello on the cheek.
SARAH : Busy day?
WALT : Usual. You?
SARAH : We gave Johnny a nice welcome home.
And this is something they would have discussed and decided
together in advance so it's not a surprise to Walt. But Walt remembers the scary guy who was just in his office...
WALT (a beat): Did he seem... okay?
SARAH : He's walking pretty well. You know, with a cane. I think he's happy to finally be out of that terrible hospital.
Walt just looks at her evenly. She stops playing... looks at her husband with love...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 11.
9 CONTINUED: 9
SARAH : You've been so understanding. I know how difficult this is for you. I just wish you could have seen his face come... come alive when little Johnny ran up to him...
WALT (smile frozen, nods,a beat): You know, I... wouldn't want little Johnny alone over there... I mean, without you... with him...(beat)...alone.
SARAH : You're right. It would be confusing.(beat)We're going to make this work. I promise you. You'll like Johnny,I know you will. The two of you have a lot in common...
WALT : Sarah...
SARAH : You both like sports and...cheeseburgers... maybe we can
invite him over for a barbecue next week...
WALT : Let's... just take this one day at a time, okay?
Sarah studies him with appreciation.
SARAH : Okay.
And she kisses him as the crackling fire provides the warm glow...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 12.11 11 OMITTED
15 15 EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - DAY (POSSIBLE RESHOOT OF PURDY
SCENES)
The rain has ended but the ground is still wet from the night before. Johnny is taking a walk in his neighborhood as Purdy's limo arrives. Purdy gets out of the back...beams at Johnny...
PURDY : Howdy, stranger.
The words don't quite fit the man. Six years ago, Johnny might have smirked and made a sarcastic comment but a lot has happened and Johnny stifles any feelings he might have had toward Purdy and simply smiles (and avoids touching him)...
JOHNNY : Reverend.
PURDY : Can I stretch my legs with you?
JOHNNY : Sure. Got to do ten miles this morning.
PURDY: Ten. Well, I don't know if my legs will stretch quite that far...
As they begin to walk, the long limo inches along behind them... Johnny glances back but chooses not to comment...
JOHNNY : Reverend... we need to talk about something...
PURDY : Don't say another word... I've already opened you a checking account, ordered you credit cards...
JOHNNY : (overlapping) What I wanted to say was how grateful I am for all you did for my mother... when she needed someone...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 13.15 CONTINUED: 15
PURDY : (sincerely taken aback)I loved her too, Johnny.
Johnny acknowledges but unlike everyone else, he's just begun the grieving process.
PURDY : Have you made any plans?
JOHNNY : ("no") To walk ten miles today.
PURDY : May I make a bold suggestion? Come visit us out at the
university, inspect your mother's legacy. There's still work to be done...
JOHNNY : Me? I don't think I'd fit in, Reverend.
PURDY : Sure you would.
JOHNNY : The truth is... I've never been much of a believer in anything I couldn't see with a microscope.
PURDY : Even now? After what you've been through? (cordial)
Your... resurrection is pretty strong evidence of a greater power
at work from where I sit. There I go again, preaching. Sorry,
it's my job.
He stops. The car stops behind him.
PURDY : Think about it, okay?
Purdy smiles warmly, sticks out his hand to shake goodbye...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 14.15 CONTINUED: (2) 15
JOHNNY : I don't mean to be rude... I find it difficult to... touch people...since the coma... sort of a phobia...
Purdy studies him with sympathy and concern, nods. Behind him, the limo driver gets out and quickly opens the back door...
PURDY : Anything you need. (call me implied)
He gets in the car.
16 16 EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - DAY
Johnny, miles later, continuing his walk, arrives on the
sidewalk... (lose wild line: "Allsion, where are you")...he studies the building, looking for clues... he moves toward the mailbox, opens it to look inside and as he touches it...
17 17 SCENE FREEZES A BEAT AND PIVOTS AROUND JOHNNY - (OPTICAL)
as he finds himself in a mailman's uniform, carrying a bag of mail... a moment later, a barking dog is snapping at his heels and he runs for his life... the vision ends abruptly as we cut back to:
18 18 JOHNNY
still standing there by the mailbox as before... he takes a moment... then begins to walk slowly around the house.
19 19 OMITTED
20 20 NEW ANGLE - JOHNNY
as he moves outside a bedroom window... he takes another step, he sees boot prints in the soft yard... takes a beat, squats and puts his hand in the muddy print...
21 21 SCENE FREEZES A BEAT AND PIVOTS AROUND JOHNNY - (OPTICAL)
and suddenly he is wearing a raincoat with a hood... it's raining like hell... thunder crashes... his heart pounds,
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT ONE - 01/17/02 15.21 CONTINUED: 21
we can hear it... his breath gets short and tight... he looks down to see --
THE DISTINCTIVE SHOES OF THE KILLER
JOHNNY ECU
as he reacts... and sees...
HIS POV - ALLISON THROUGH THE WINDOW
in her bedroom, taking off her nurse's uniform and placing
it on the door where we saw it hanging before... as she moves to a closet, now in bra and panties...
JOHNNY ECU
and lightning flashes... in a rush of images, we're in...
22 22 EXT. FIELD - NIGHT - (OPTICAL)
as seen in episode one, the shovel is in his hands... the
shallow grave... a girl's body is thrown in (although we don't see her face)...
WALT (V.O.) : What the hell are you doin' here?
Johnny as the man in the rain coat reacts and turns...
23 23 AS THE VISION ENDS RETURNING TO EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE -
DAY - BANNERMAN (RESHOOT ALL OR PART OF THIS SCENE)
standing several yards away... he moves toward Johnny...
WALT : Look, this isn't making things any easier for you and me...
JOHNNY : (the vision still resonating)He was standing here. Last night. Watching her.
Walt sighs, looks at him, looks at the window.
(CONTINUED)

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WALT : Who?
JOHNNY : The man in the boots.
Walt raises an eyebrow.
JOHNNY : Steel-toed Navy boots... size eleven and a half,narrow...
And now Walt just turns and stares at him, would almost laugh if this weren't so serious...
WALT : How do you know that?
JOHNNY : I told you... I see things...
WALT : We got a plaster mold from one of the crime scenes... never told the public... one of those things you don't want the killer to know you know? Steel-toed Navy boot. Size eleven and a half, narrow.
WALT (CONT'D): (beat)By the way, what size boots do you wear?
JOHNNY : Ten, wide.
WALT : Good, because right now every other cop in America would be saying you should be my prime suspect...
JOHNNY : Am I?
WALT : (beat)When the last three girls were killed you were in a coma. As alibis go, that's a pretty good one. Unless you leepwalk.
He walks away, inspecting the house...
(CONTINUED)

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WALT : Come on, level with me: who told you about the boots? I got a leak in my department?
He sees the broken window at the kitchen door...
WALT : What's this?
JOHNNY : I did that. Last night.
WALT : Well, at least we finally have an actual crime here - it's called breaking and entering.
He's had it.
WALT : I want you out of here. Off the property. Now.
As Walt escorts him back to the street he puts his hand on Johnny's back as if to move him along... THE SCENE FREEZES FOR A MOMENT and then continues.
23A 23A PRECOGNITIVE FLASH (NEW SHOT)
STRANGE, FRAGMENTED IMAGES OF JOHNNY AND SARAH WITH TWO
BOYS, AGES 11 AND 5, ALL HAPPILY RIDING A MERRY-GO-ROUND...
LOOKING VERY MUCH LIKE A FAMILY...
23B 23B RESUME SCENE
WALT (noticing Johnny's "trance," impatient)Now what?
JOHNNY : Nothing. Just a daydream, I guess.
WALT : Well, wake up and go home. By the way, Sarah wants to invite you over for dinner. Say no,okay?
JOHNNY : No problem.And we...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 01/17/02 18.
24 24 EXT. CARE CENTER - DAY - ESTABLISHING - (STOCK)
25 25 EXT. CARE CENTER GROUNDS - DAY
Walt and Dr. Tran walking...
DR. TRAN (thoughtful): Allison isn't on call until tomorrow. He actually fears for her life...?
WALT : You should hear him, Doc.
DR. TRAN : Maybe you should listen.
WALT : You're kidding, right...?
DR. TRAN : I know it's difficult to believe.It was for me. But Johnny doeshave a unique precognitive ability.We've learned to take it seriously.I suggest you do as well.
Off Walt's reaction...
26 26 EXT. SHERIFF'S CAR - DAY - MOVING
Looking through the windshield at Walt as his mind works...
trying to balance his cynical mind with the chance... the barest chance that this guy might be able to help catch the son of a bitch who is strangling women. Finally, he picks up the radio...
WALT : Base, this is fifty-one.
DODD'S VOICE : Go ahead, Walt.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 19.26 CONTINUED: 26
WALT : Send Roscoe and a forensics team over to the Connover address...I want molds of footprints outside the bedroom window... might as well go through the whole place...
27 27* INT. SHERIFF DEPT - RECEPTION - DAY (RESHOOT SCENE)
Dodd on the radio, reacts...
DODD : Something happen we should know about?
WALT'S VOICE : Nope. Not a thing. Fifty-one out.
Dodd reacts and, as we widen, throws a curious glance to Dana Bright who we find eating a doughnut, eyebrow raised,a smile forming on her lips.
28 28 EXT. JOHNNY'S HOUSE - DAY
Johnny and Bruce in sweats... Johnny's dragging from a long workout as they come up to the porch... midconversation.
JOHNNY : I'm lucky he didn't arrest me for trespassing...
Johnny collapses onto the porch...
BRUCE : Hey... we're just getting started... walking's not enough...
Bruce picks up a medicine ball on the porch...
BRUCE : ...got to keep your upper body developing...
He throws it to Johnny who can barely hold it up...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 20.28 CONTINUED: 28
JOHNNY (shakes his head): I didn't sleep again last night...
my mind... won't shut down...
BRUCE : Zen meditation, man... Monday nights with me...
The phone rings... Johnny picks up a mobile extension...
JOHNNY : Yes, Sheriff.
29 29 EXT. SHERIFF'S CAR - MOVING
On car phone:
WALT : How'd you know it was me? Don't answer that. And don't leave. I'm picking you up in twenty minutes.
He hangs up the phone, shakes his head at the whole thing.
30 30 WITH JOHNNY AND BRUCE
as Johnny hangs up the phone.
JOHNNY : Maybe he's going to arrest me after all.
31 31 INT. SHERIFF'S OFFICE - DAY
Johnny is seated. Walt pulls out a manilla envelope from his safe...
WALT : I can't believe I'm doing this.
Walt angles the envelope and slides out three plastic evidence bags, marked for the three murders... Inside each are several cigarette butts...
WALT : Aside from the footprints, this is the only evidence our guy might have left behind.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO -21.31 CONTINUED: 31
JOHNNY : You want me to...
WALT : Look, if it's a waste of time...
JOHNNY : I don't know. Sometimes it works.And sometimes it doesn't.
WALT : Now, don't start with me. Already with the excuses...
He pushes the bag at Johnny. A challenge. He leans back in his chair... his gaze says 'convince me'...
WALT : Same brand, all three murder scenes... half the smokers in the county smoke the same kind...
Johnny opens the bag, pulls out a cigarette butt...
32 32 SCENE FREEZES ON HIS TOUCH THEN CONTINUES - (OPTICAL)
in a match cut, his fingers are holding a lit cigarette and it is EXTERIOR - NIGHT... it is raining... CLOSE-UP ON JOHNNY as he takes a puff...
JOHNNY : The cigarettes. Whoever smoked them considers it a weakness. Doesn't want anyone to know.
And as we continue to move, we fuse the two scenes – Walt is in the sheriff's office, Johnny is outside in the rain... he starts to breath harder...
WALT : What's wrong?
Johnny begins to shudder...
33 33 INT. SHERIFF DEPT - RECEPTION - CONTINUOUS
as Dodd outside hears an anguished yell from inside the Sheriff's office... reacts, exchanges a look with another deputy...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 22.34 34 RESUME SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Walt's eyes wide...
WALT : Hey, hey... keep your voice down!
35 35 RESUME FUSION OF TWO SCENES JOHNNY IN THE RAIN AT NIGHT/
WALT IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE - (OPTICAL)
JOHNNY : His mother... did terrible things to him. Painful things. He's impotent. (beat, an insight)Except when he kills. He only kills when it rains. Outside. To wash away any evidence.
Walt reacts, didn't know that. Continuing our move around the INT/EXT fusion...and we may begin to sense a personality change in Johnny... more cocky, a little more wired... he begins to sing softly...
JOHNNY (CONT'D): 'Jimmy crack corn and I don't care... Jimmy crack corn and I don't care...'(interrupting himself)You didn't even find a scrap of tissue under the girls' fingernails, did you?
WALT : No, there was no sign of a struggle at all.
JOHNNY : Oh they struggled. They kicked,they clawed... but their fingers just slipped off the slick vinyl raincoat...
As he takes another puff, we move to reveal a dead woman's body lying at his feet in the rain... and we may realize the cigarette he's smoking is post-coital...
36 36 THE FX ENDS - RESUME SHERIFF'S OFFICE - JOHNNY
as Johnny puts the short butt to his lips and "inhales" as he smiles...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 23.36 CONTINUED: 36
JOHNNY (CONT'D): Slick. I put it on every time and if they scratch... or bite...they don't get a bit of me...because I'm just so slick!
Walt is looking into the eyes of a killer...
WALT : Hey! You're talking crazy!
Johnny's eyes change... he looks at Walt and drops the cigarette butt to the tabletop, exhausted.
JOHNNY : I'm just... I'm just trying to help, Sheriff...
WALT : The killer's home address and phone number -- that would help.
Johnny can't give him that. Walt shakes his head, rises,moves to exit...
WALT : So, I'm supposed to round up all the usual closet smoking, impotent suspects...
37 37* INT. SHERIFF DEPT - RECEPTION - CONTINUOUS
WALT (CONT'D): ...who wear vinyl raincoats...
He stops in mid-sentence as he sees Sarah talking to Dodd... she turns at the sound of his voice and her jaw drops as she sees Johnny and Walt together...
SARAH : Johnny. What are you doing here?
WALT : Just a little police business.Nothing for you to be concerned a...
JOHNNY : He rousted me.
Off Sarah's look --
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO - 24.37 CONTINUED: 37
WALT : (shaking his head)I didn't...
JOHNNY : Told me the town wasn't big enough for the both of us...
And then she realizes this is Johnny... Sarah turns and looks sharply at him... he looks evenly at her, just the barest trace of that old sparkle in his eyes...
WALT : We had a lunch date, didn't we...
SARAH : Maybe Johnny can join us...
JOHNNY & WALT : No... no... no... no... no...
38 38 INT. DINER - DAY - (OPTICAL)
The three of them at a table as the waitress brings their food... soup goes to Sarah...
WAITRESS : Split pea.
And then identical plates of cheeseburgers go to the men.
WAITRESS : Cheeseburger. And a Cheeseburger.
Johnny and Walt glance at the other's cheeseburger and consider the implications.
WAITRESS : Enjoy.
JOHNNY : Thank you, ma'am.
Awkward silence... it's made all the more uncomfortable by the presence of TWO UNATTENDED CHILDREN punching each other in the booth behind Johnny throughout the scene...
SARAH : I love the soup here.
More silence. Johnny gives it a go...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO -25.38 CONTINUED: 38
JOHNNY : So. How did the two of you meet?
Walt and Sarah look even more uneasy which they try to cover...
WALT : The hospital. Actually.
SARAH : I was visiting you. Walt's grandmother was dying...
Nods all around, silence.
JOHNNY : Yeah. Hospitals are great places to meet singles.
Silent beat. Okay, Walt tries to break the ice.
WALT : Sarah says you were quite the hockey player.
JOHNNY : Yeah... yeah, I loved hockey...(beat)Doc says that's over with now.
Walt nods, searching for anything else to say.
WALT : I had a football injury myself.(silent beat,recovering)
My son plays hockey.(beat, realizing)I mean, our son -- all... our son.
Behind Johnny, the kids' MOTHER who has it with them, tries to get them out... they're still punching each other... The kids slide out of the booth, one boy pushes the other and he stumbles into Johnny and as he does THE SCENE FREEZES FOR A MOMENT and then continues.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO -26.38 CONTINUED: (2) 38
PRECOGNITIVE FLASH - THE KID WHO TOUCHED JOHNNY PUSHES
HIS BROTHER BACK AND HE STUMBLES INTO A PASSING WAITRESS
WHO DROPS A TRAY OF HOT COFFEE ON HIM
RESUME JOHNNY who reacts and wheels away from the table and grabs the boy who bumped into him before he can push his brother.
JOHNNY : Hey, guys... no fighting, okay?
The kid looks at him, surprised, and as a result, the waitress scurries by with the coffee and it never falls.
MOTHER : Joey, Nick... come on guys, knock it off...
Walt's cell phone rings...
WALT : Bannerman.
DODD'S VOICE (phone filter): Walt, it's Frank. We're over at
the Connover place. You need to get over here.
Walt's eyes darken.
WALT (expecting the worst): I'll be right there.(shuts his phone)
Sorry. Lunch will have to wait.Let's go Johnny.
39 39 EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - DAY
Several marked and unmarked police cars parked in front...
forensic technicians are moving in and out (mostly out)of the house carrying their gear... Johnny and Walt get out of his patrol car and move toward the door...
40 40 INT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
Moving with them as they enter... to see Allison sitting on the sofa talking to Dodd.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT TWO -27.40 CONTINUED: 40
As she sees Johnny and turns to smile at him, albeit with some embarrassment about the commotion...
ALLISON : Johnny... I don't understand...
Neither does Johnny... he glances over at Walt who, if he had a hammer, would be banging himself over the head with it and will not under any circumstances look at Johnny because he might kill him if he did. And on that image,we –

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 01/17/02 28.
41 41 INT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - DAY
A few minutes later. Johnny stands alone as the forensic technicians continue to pack up around him feeling lost,confused and very much out of place. A few yards away,Allison repeats her story for Walt...
ALLISON (mid-conversation): ...just came home to change... my
sister and I had been planning this for weeks and I was sure
with the traffic and all, I'd never get to Portland in time...
I didn't even stop to check my messages...
Johnny, humiliated, moves to exit...
WALT (O.S.): I'm sorry for the inconvenience...we'll repair the window for you...
41A 41A EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS (RESHOOT ALL SHOTS WITH DANA)
As Johnny comes out, he is accosted by a photographer and Dana Bright...
DANA : Mind if I ask you a few questions,Mr. Smith?
The photographer has one of those cameras that take sixty shots in a few seconds...
JOHNNY : I... I have nothing to say.
DANA : Is it true you were just released from a mental hospital?
Johnny stares at her a beat and walks away... she looks up to see Walt exit, saying good-bye to Allison...
WALT : Just send me a bill for any damages, okay.
Allison acknowledges.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE -29.41A CONTINUED: 41A
DANA (dry): The usual "No Comment," Sheriff?
He gives her a dark look. The muscle in his jaw twitches vaguely. When he notices Dodd and some of the forensics guys snickering at him...
WALT : Get in there and pack up.
42 42* INT. CHAPEL - DAY #3 (POSSIBLE RESHOOT OF PURDY SCENES)
Purdy is sitting as Mike Kennedy puts the latest headline in front of him... the story written by Dana Bright is entitled "Psychic Deputy A Little Wide Of Mark"... the picture of Johnny she shot earlier is featured...
KENNEDY : ...All I have to do is go to a judge and show him this...
PURDY : (overlapping)No...
KENNEDY : ...the man is obviously incompetent to handle his own financial affairs...
PURDY : This is Vera Smith's son we're talking about... part of the family...
KENNEDY : And if he should decide to challenge the administration of her estate, we've a serious problem, Gene...
PURDY : The Alliance can't go after the son of one of its most beloved founders. It would be offensive.
INSERT: Purdy studies the picture...
PURDY : The boy is obviously disturbed.He needs us. He needs me. All that matters now is his welfare.
(MORE)(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 30.42 CONTINUED: 42
PURDY (CONT'D)(beat, quoting):"I destroy my enemy when I make
him my friend."
KENNEDY : John the Baptist?
PURDY : Abraham Lincoln.
43 43 OMITTED
46 46 INT. JOHNNY'S HOUSE - DAY - THE FRONT DOOR
opens to reveal Sarah...
SARAH : I came as soon as I saw the morning paper. Thought you might need a friend.
46A 46A INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
He opens the refrigerator... uses it as a defense from engaging her...
JOHNNY (CONT'D): Want some eggs...? I think I can still remember how to scramble an egg...
SARAH : I'm worried about you.
He takes a couple eggs out of the fridge, reaches in for a bottle of cold cappuccino... impishly trying to joke her attention away from his problems --
JOHNNY : How about some blended iced cappuccino with our breakfast? Our taste of the day...
He tosses it to her as he closes the refrigerator... she frowns as she catches it, knows what he's doing. He moves around the kitchen with busy work relating to his eggs...
Sarah blocks him from the stove, forcing him to pay attention to her.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 31.46A CONTINUED: 46A
SARAH : Walt says you've been in trances since the coma.
JOHNNY : "Trances." That's just so...Walt. Trances.(laughs)I'm not a hypnotist. Visions.Not trances. I see things.Like... like women who are dead but aren't really dead. You know,that sort of thing...
SARAH : Johnny...
JOHNNY (CONT'D): ...If I were you, I'd keep the kid away from me.
He shudders and unable to avoid the feelings any more,sits at the kitchen table, and hangs his head.
JOHNNY : I didn't just lose you in that accident, Sarah. I lost myself.
SARAH : You don't have to go through this by yourself, Johnny.
JOHNNY : I have this amazing guy named Bruce. We're doing biofeedback...
SARAH : And where was he when you had your tonsils out in second grade?
JOHNNY : Tonsils?
SARAH : And someone brought you chicken soup that she made herself...?
They exchange a look and a memory.
SARAH : You can't get rid of me. So get used to it.
She moves to him, wraps her arms around him like she used
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 32.46A CONTINUED: (2) 46A
to... comforting him...
47 47 THE SCENE FREEZES BRIEFLY ON HER TOUCH AND THEN CONTINUES
(OPTICAL)
He sighs in the warmth of her embrace and then he turns to her and kisses her... we can almost taste the delight their mouths find in each other... legs unable to hold them, they sink to their knees, still kissing... beginning to undress one another... but it is only a vision and when it ends...
48 48 JOHNNY IS WHERE HE WAS A BEAT AGO... AT THE TABLE HER
ARMS STILL COMFORTING HIM...
Johnny breaks contact with her...
JOHNNY : Sarah, I really need to be alone right now.
SARAH : No. I'm not leaving.
JOHNNY : It's a little new, you know. For you, it's been six years. For me...
SARAH (realizing): Oh.
JOHNNY (beat): I do want to see you. Only...maybe... we should just... get out of the house next time... be around people...
She understands exactly what he means.
JOHNNY (CONT'D): I mean, just for now. Until we all get used to the...
SARAH : Situation.
JOHNNY : Yeah.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 33.48 CONTINUED: 48
SARAH (beat): Of course. How stupid of me.
JOHNNY : Not stupid, Sarah. Just being a good friend.
She looks at him awkwardly, as the phone rings...
SARAH : I'll let you get that...
And exits...
JOHNNY : (to phone) Hey, Bruce.
BRUCE :(on the phone)Damn, your new brain must come with Caller I-d.
JOHNNY : What's Caller I-d?
BRUCE'S VOICE : (on the phone)Later. Look, I'm coming to get
you. I know what happened.
49 49 OMITTED
50 50 EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - DAY
As Bruce and Johnny get out of Bruce's car...
BRUCE (mid-conversation)...so, I'm talking to Allison all
day at work trying to figure out how we screwed up so badly...
well, not we but you... when suddenly the whole Zen of what
happened became crystal clear...
JOHNNY : Since when are you Zen Master Flash? You take a class once a week.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 34.50 CONTINUED: 50
BRUCE : I'm a master compared to you so zip it up. Life is about moments of time strung together... take one moment out of the string,change one detail, turn left instead of right, and all of life changes. Now look here...
He moves to the side of the road...
BRUCE : This is where Allison said she parked her car... she gets out and opens the trunk to get some of her books out, right...?
He mimes her movements...
BRUCE : She walks to the door.
He walks toward the door.
BRUCE : If you're the guy, where are you?
JOHNNY : I don't know... maybe somewhere over here...
He moves to the left of the door where she might not see him. Then crosses the walkway to the right...
JOHNNY : Or here...
And now he reaches the same spot we saw the boots the night before... as he does --
51 51 THE SCENE FREEZES FOR A MOMENT - (OPTICAL)
and we pivot around to find Johnny as the man in the slick
vinyl raincoat standing there... thunder rolls... but it is not raining yet...
JOHNNY : Here. This is where he was.
He's watching Allison walk toward the door... she talks to him in her own voice but the words are Bruce's... now it begins to rain...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 35.51 CONTINUED: 51
ALLISON/BRUCE : Good. Okay. So I'm Allison and I'm strolling to the door. Only I never get there because of you. You pull me into the bushes. I'm dead. Good-bye.
52 52 RESUME DAY - JOHNNY AND BRUCE
JOHNNY : I'm not getting your point.
BRUCE : Adjust one detail and all of life changes.
Bruce moves back to position one.
53 53 RESUME NIGHT - JOHNNY AND ALLISON - (OPTICAL)
Allison back at the trunk of the car, again: her voice but Bruce's words...
ALLISON/BRUCE : Okay... I'm Allison opening the trunk... only this time...
The phone inside her house starts to RING as it did the night before... Johnny reacts, still doesn't understand...
ALLISON/BRUCE (CONT'D): I hear the phone... and what do I
do?
She runs into the house as we saw her do... right past Johnny...
JOHNNY : She ran.
54 54 RESUME DAY - JOHNNY AND BRUCE
Bruce is holding a cell phone which he just used to call
Allison's number.
JOHNNY (CONT'D)
She ran, instead of walked. And
got by him...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 36.54 CONTINUED: 54
BRUCE : That was me on the phone. Calling for like the fifteenth time trying to find her. She didn't get there in time to answer it.
JOHNNY : He only kills outside. In the rain. Once she was inside, she was safe.
BRUCE : End of story.
A beat. Slow push to Johnny...
JOHNNY : I wish it were.(off Bruce's look)He had a compulsion to kill that night, Bruce. If it wasn't Allison... then he killed someone else.
Off Bruce's reaction...
55 55 EXT. ALLISON'S HOUSE - NIGHT - (OPTICAL)
As we remember it from the murder night... thunder and lightning... the man in the slick vinyl raincoat stands outside Allison's bedroom window... she's inside, taking off her clothes... moving around to find Johnny in the raincoat... we can hear his heart pounding...
JOHNNY : He's frustrated. Angry. Like a predator who's lost his prey.
BEGINNING A SERIES OF MATCHING SHOTS AS WE INTERCUT BETWEEN DAY (BRUCE WATCHING, GUIDING THE VISION) AND NIGHT (JOHNNY AS THE KILLER)...
BRUCE : Okay... you can't get to her so what do you do...
JOHNNY : Can't stay any longer... god, I can feel it...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 37.55 CONTINUED: 55
BRUCE : Feel what?
JOHNNY : The hunger. Oh God. The need.
He begins to walk...
JOHNNY : I have to find... someone...else...
He moves away from Allison's house...
56 56 EXT. ALLISON'S STREET - NIGHT
As Johnny, as the killer, walks casually down the sidewalk,
smoking a cigarette, hands in pockets, hood pulled over his head, thunder and lightning... humming...
JOHNNY : "Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care. Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care."
He pauses in his song as he see something off camera.
JOHNNY
What time did Allison come home?
RESUME DAY
BRUCE : Around nine thirty. Why?
REVEAL POV - A MOVIE THEATER open for a matinee.
JOHNNY : The movie theater.
RESUME NIGHT - THE MOVIE THEATER
JOHNNY (CONT'D): The early show was just letting out...
Moving to reveal from his POV -- a TRIO OF YOUNG WOMEN among the crowd coming out of the movie theater.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 38.56 CONTINUED: 56
They react as they see it's starting to rain, quickly say 'good night' to each other. Two of the women run between rain drops away together; the third, a blonde, moves alone around the side of the theater toward the parking lot.
57 57 EXT. STREET - DAY
As Bruce sees Johnny react...
BRUCE : What? What do you see?
JOHNNY : A woman... going to her car...
58 58 RESUME NIGHT
As the woman moves to her car in the parking lot... not far from a gazebo in an adjoining park.
59 59 IN DAYLIGHT - BRUCE AND JOHNNY MOVE INTO THE PARKING LOT
it's a picture postcard day...
JOHNNY : "Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care, My master's gone away."
60 60 IN NIGHT - SUBJECTIVE POV - THE WOMAN
opens the door to her car... HARD PUSH as we move toward her... she never sees --
JOHNNY AS THE KILLER
who grabs her, wraps his arms around her shoulder and covers her mouth, almost appearing as though he's her date. The rain starts coming down...
RESUME DAY
JOHNNY : Please. Stop.
BRUCE : What's happening...?
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 39.60 CONTINUED: 60
JOHNNY : He's got her. My god.
BRUCE : Talk to me...
RESUME NIGHT - JOHNNY AS THE MAN IN THE RAINCOAT
pulls the woman, struggling, toward the gazebo.
61 61 A RUSH OF INTERCUTS NOW BETWEEN DAY & NIGHT
JOHNNY : Let it stop... now... let it stop... please...
NIGHT FLASH: AT THE GAZEBO, HIS HANDS ON HER NECK
RESUME DAY
BRUCE : Johnny...
NIGHT FLASH: HER HANDS CLAWING AT HIM, SLIPPING OFF THE
SLICK VINYL RAINCOAT
as he pulls her toward the gazebo...
THEN RESUME DAY...
JOHNNY : Stop...
BRUCE : Okay, enough now!
NIGHT FLASH: JOHNNY STARES DOWN AT HIS VICTIM
his hands around her neck as she sags to the floor of the
gazebo...
RESUME DAY...
JOHNNY : (breathless)Let it stop. Let it stop.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 40.61 CONTINUED: 61
BRUCE : That's it! All over!
He is on his knees on the gazebo in anguish...
JOHNNY : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh God.I'm sorry.
He collapses, shaking out of control, Bruce moves to him, holds him, tries to stop the shaking...
JOHNNY : I've killed. I know what it means to kill.
62 62 INT. BANNERMAN HOUSE - DAY
Little Johnny on the run to answer the doorbell... he opens it to reveal Johnny, Bruce behind him... Johnny looks wrecked, eyes bloodshot, shaky, a frightening image to anyone let along a little boy... the boy looks up at him for a beat then runs away...
SON : Mommy, it's that man!
Sarah enters... recoils as she sees how Johnny appears...
SARAH : My God, Johnny...
JOHNNY : I need to talk to Walt... they told me he...
Walt enters, reacts, incensed to see Johnny, makes sure the boy is safely gone. In a low but angry voice --
WALT : This is... this is over the line.
JOHNNY : (overlapping)He killed someone else...
WALT : (overlapping)There's no way I'm...
JOHNNY : We found the windmill. We've been there. We've seen the grave.
As Walt reacts...
DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 01/17/02 41.
63 63 THE WINDMILL - EXT. FIELD - DAY - (OPTICAL)
Moving to find police units, forensics, medical examiner
vehicles, reporters in a wide grassy field with a light,eerie ground fog clinging to the swamplands near-by...
ANGLE - TV NEWS REPORTER
talking to a camera...
TV NEWS REPORTER : ...apparently the latest grim chapter in the continuing horror that has women all over the county afraid to leave their homes at night...
64 64 OMITTED
65 65* EXT. FIELD - CONTINUOUS - DANA - (OPTICAL) (RESHOOT ALL
SHOTS WITH DANA) *
who has moved away from the crowd and her eyes are sparkling as she talks excitedly but quietly into a cell phone...
DANA : ...because I know how they found her and I'm the only reporter who knows....
DANA (CONT'D): (beat)Why do you think I eat all those doughnuts at the cop shop with the boys! Trust me, you're not gonna believe this... just leave the front page open for me...
Finding Roscoe who is moving over to Bannerman by the gravesite where they're pulling a body out of the shallow grave... it is the woman we saw in Johnny's vision... a body... Johnny and Bruce are within earshot...
ROSCOE : Drivers license i-d. Stacey Shephard, age 23, law student out at the college, lives in Brewer.
WALT : Have we been able to reach anyone?
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 42.65 CONTINUED: 65
ROSCOE : Fiancé. Hasn't heard from her in two days. Last time any one saw her she was leaving the movie theater. Right around the corner from the Connover woman's house. (beat, looking at Johnny)
Just like our friend said.
A voice calls "Sheriff" (O.S.) and Walt moves away from Johnny... looks at Johnny once - a grim look that says,okay, I'm convinced, I believe you now... and then walks away... as we stay with Johnny and Bruce...
BRUCE : (off Walt's look): Nobody's laughing at you any more,
John.
Johnny couldn't care less. He watches the woman's body being loaded into a medical examiner's vehicle...
JOHNNY : She was getting married... she wanted to be a lawyer...
BRUCE : Yeah.
JOHNNY : What was that you said, change a detail and all of life changes?
Bruce just stares at the corpse...
JOHNNY : She died because of me.
BRUCE : Allison lived because of you. Somebody's life was gonna end that night. He'd already decided that...
JOHNNY : (in quiet despair)It wasn't supposed to be like this...
BRUCE : What do you want me to tell you, John. It would have been better just to let Allison die and get on with your life?
(MORE)(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT THREE - 43.65 CONTINUED: (2) 65
BRUCE (CONT'D): How am I supposed to answer that?
JOHNNY : How am I?
And we begin to see, as Johnny realizes, how complex his life has become... the huge responsibility he now has... a power over life itself. (Note: From existing cut, remove Bruce's last line in Post, if possible.) The body covered in a body bag moves by them and Johnny steps forward blocking their way for an instant; every cop on the field looks at him with a mixture of fear and puzzlement...
WALT : signals his men it's okay... let Johnny do whatever he
wants to do...
JOHNNY : reaches out and places his hand on the body bag and as he does THE SCENE FREEZES FOR A MOMENT THEN CONTINUES...
Johnny is overwhelmed by what he feels... eyes closed, he sinks to his knees almost in a prayer-like position...
CLOSER ON HIS FACE
as he becomes still...
JOHNNY : I know who it is.
65A 65A OMITTED
DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 44.ACT FOUR
A67 A67 EXT. DODD HOUSE DRIVE - DAY
The Sheriff's car moving through the overhanging trees until it reaches a spooky old house. As it parks in front,Walt picks up the car two-way radio (note: we clearly see his hand on the radio)...
WALT : Base. I'm Ten-seven at the Dodd house.
A squawk from the radio and they're out moving toward the old house.
B67 B67 MOVING WITH THEM
Walt is not happy to be here. Doesn't believe any of this.
WALT : This is crazy... you were wrong about the Connover woman and I'm telling you you're wrong about this. Frank Dodd is no killer...
JOHNNY : The duty roster...
WALT : (interrupting)...Just because he was off duty when the murders happened doesn't prove a thing. I've known him for almost ten years. If you knew Frank, you'd laugh at yourself... he's... he's... nothing but...
(stops himself)
JOHNNY : What.
Realizing in context how it sounds... sighs...
WALT : A mama's boy. He still lives with his mother after all these years.
Off Johnny's reaction...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 01/17/02 45.
67 67 EXT. DODD HOUSE - DAY - CLOSE ON THE FRONT DOOR (OPITCAL)
as Walt's knuckles knock on it. A beat later, the door is opened by a friendly old woman, Frank's mother HENRIETTA (60).
WALT : (uncomfortable)Evening, Henrietta...
HENRIETTA : Walt Bannerman. What are you doing out here?
WALT : Need to talk to Frank.
She glances curiously at Johnny...
WALT : This is... Johnny Smith... he's helping out with one of our cases...
Johnny's eyes are looking past her into the dark house...
HENRIETTA : Frank's not here. You know he always goes up to the pond after bass on his days off... is something wrong..?
WALT : Just need to ask him about a report he was working on... maybe he left it in his room...
HENRIETTA : I cleaned up his room this afternoon... no reports... just a lot of dirty socks...
She laughs at her own joke.
WALT : If we could just come in and look for a minute...
Johnny doesn't wait for her permission... he starts to walk by her but her hand shoots out and grabs him by the arm... as they touch THE SCENE FREEZES FOR AN INSTANT... and as we PUSH IN to Johnny...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 46.67 CONTINUED: 67
HENRIETTA : I told you there's no report here...
68 68 FLASH - HIGH CONTRAST B&W - THE GIRL BEING DUMPED INTO
THE GRAVE - (OPTICAL)
69 69 HENRIETTA'S EYES AS SHE REACTS TO JOHNNY
HENRIETTA : Maybe he took it with him...
70 70 FLASH - HIGH CONTRAST B&W - HANDS CLAWING HELPLESSLY ON
THE SLICK VINYL RAINCOAT - (OPTICAL)
71 71 JOHNNY STARES AT HER
She's trying to maintain her control but his intensity is
unnerving her...
HENRIETTA : Seems to me I did see some papers in his truck...
72 72 FLASH - HIGH CONTRAST B&W - THE MAN IN THE RAINCOAT -
PIVOTING AROUND TO SEE IT'S FRANK DODD - (OPTICAL)
72A 72A OMITTED
73 73 JOHNNY
reacts to his visions...
JOHNNY : You knew.
She pulls out of his grasp... backs away...
JOHNNY : All this time, you knew...
HENRIETTA : I know who you are. Frank told me about you...
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 01/17/02 47.
73 CONTINUED: 73
JOHNNY : (to Walt)He would come home and tell her everything... from the very first murder... names, places, details...
Walt reads her reaction and she's clearly scared beyond what you'd expect in this situation...
HENRIETTA : (to Walt)What are you looking at me like that for? You're not believing him...?
WALT : I'm gonna need to take a look around, Henrietta.
HENRIETTA : You can't do this!
She tries to block him... he moves her out of the way.
WALT (to Johnny) : Stay with her.
Walt starts to go up the stairs...
HENRIETTA : (yelling, perhaps as a warning to someone else)
This ain't no police state! Where's your warrant? I'll have
your job, Walt Bannerman!
73A 73A ANGLE AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS
Walt doesn't have his gun out but his hand is resting on it in its holster... as he looks around the dark second floor... moving through the shadows... someone could jump out at any time...
73B 73B WITH JOHNNY AND HENRIETTA
As she stares at him...
HENRIETTA : You stay away from my boy.
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 01/17/02 48.
73B CONTINUED: 73B
JOHNNY : You kept a journal. About all the women he killed. Where is it, Mrs. Dodd?
Her eyes react...
HENRIETTA : You... you've been sent here from hell.
And she retreats, disappearing into the darkness... Johnny
moves after her...
73C 73C WITH WALT UPSTAIRS - CONTINUOUS
as he opens one storage room and sees something that makes his eyes narrow --
HIS POV - A FISHING POLE AND TACKLE
73D 73D WALT
Now he takes out his gun.
73E 73E* INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS (POSSIBLE RESHOOT THRU 73H)
Moving with Johnny as he tries to find her in the shadows... an instant later she appears from the far side of the refrigerator brandishing a huge kitchen knife... startled, Johnny tries to fend her off but stumbles on his bad leg and goes down to the floor on his back...
73F 73F* HENRIETTA (POSSIBLE RESHOOT)
crazed now... coming down on top of Johnny... the knife coming down toward his chest, he uses his arm to protect himself and the knife slashes his shoulder, blood drips out...
73G 73G LOW ANGLE (POSSIBLE RESHOOT)
looking up at her as the knife is about to come down again on his chest, we HEAR A SHOT... Henrietta slumps forward,on top of Johnny, dead... the knife falling harmlessly beside him...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR -49.73H 73H WIDER (POSSIBLE RESHOOT)
to see Walt still aiming the gun he fired... still alert for danger...
WALT : You okay?
JOHNNY : I think so.
WALT : Get to the car and call for backup.Frank didn't go fishing.
Walt moves through the kitchen toward the basement stairs.
Johnny struggles to get himself up...
JOHNNY : How do you know that?
WALT : I see things too. Like his fishing pole upstairs.
Johnny reacts, moves toward the front door...
73J 73J INT. STAIRS - CONTINUOUS
They creak as Walt comes down slowly... now armed and ready... he tries a light switch at the bottom of the stairs... the lights don't come on...
73K 73K INT. BASEMENT - CONTINUOUS
We can tell it's a large basement... spider webs hang from the ceiling... a rat crawls along a post... an old kids box stacked turntable for 45 rpm records is on the floor... a few records are stacked...
73L 73L INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT
Henrietta's body on the floor... blood seeping out from the wound... the shoes of the killer walk into the scene into the blood... and we pan up to see the dark silhouette of Frank Dodd, no facial features visible, shuddering out of control... he has a gun...

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR - 50.73M 73M EXT. DODD HOUSE/INT. SHERIFF'S CAR - NIGHT (RESHOOT TO MATCH SCENE 73T4)
Johnny gets into the car and picks up the radio and the moment he does... THE SCENE FREEZES FOR AN INSTANT AND AS WE PUSH IN TO JOHNNY...
73N 73N FLASH: WALT PICKS UP THE RADIO AS SEEN IN SCENE B67
(OPTICAL)
73P 73P* JOHNNY (RESHOOT TO MATCH SCENE 73T4)
reacts...
73Q 73Q FLASH: THE BLOODIED SHOES OF THE KILLER - (OPTICAL)
coming down the stairs...
73R 73R* CLOSER ON JOHNNY (RESHOOT TO MATCH SCENE 73T4)
73S 73S FLASH: DODD'S GUN - (OPTICAL)
Moving to find Dodd facing Walt and firing... Walt goes down, dead... Begin montage moving forward in time --
73T 73T INT. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT - DAY - (OPTICAL)
Sarah, dressed in black, tears flowing down her cheeks,packs up Walt's personal items from his desk... she looks up to see Johnny standing at the office door... she moves to him and he takes her in his arms to comfort her as she cries for her lost husband... Johnny holds Sarah who is now free to be his... montage continues --
73T1 73T1* JUST MARRIED SIGN (NEW SHOT)
on the back of a departing car... montage continues --
73T2 73T2* INT. JOHNNY'S HOUSE - DAY (NEW SHOT)
Johnny leading little Johnny to the new baby in Sarah's arms... montage continues --
73T3 73T3 EXT. MERRY-GO-ROUND (REPEATING VISION FROM SCENE 23A)
a shot of the kids, now 5 and 11, on the Merry-Go-Round
(CONTINUED)

DEAD ZONE: WHAT IT SEEMS - ACT FOUR -51.73T3 CONTINUED: 73T3
with Johnny and Sarah...
73T4 73T4 RESUME JOHNNY IN SHERIFF'S CAR (NEW SHOT)
THE VISION ENDS as Johnny understands the choice he has -a choice of Biblical proportions (i.e. David and B

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