38. Everything - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. ENTU CAFE - DAY


• JONATHAN
• What happens when we reach the edge?


• JONATHAN waves his salad fork at MIKE who sits across from him at a small metal table.


• The Cafe is filled with light streaming in through two large picture windows that face a busy street.


• JDust motes and steam dance together above the cups.


• Mike fingers his turtleneck.


• MIKE
• The edge?


• JONATHAN
• Yeah, the edge of reason, of knowing...the edge of God, if She exists.


• MIKE
• I suppose you'd go crazy, or discover everything that you could know in an instant...and it would be too much...you'd either die or your mind would erase or...


• JONATHAN
• I'd like to go there...find out what it's like...it'd be worth that split second of...everything before everything went dark. To touch the face of...well, the unknown...I'd give everything.


• MIKE
• Everything?


• JONATHAN
• Yeah.


• Mike leans over the table and shoves Jonathan.


• EXT. MIDDLE OF THE AIR - NIGHT


• Jonathan is falling through the air, wind slamming into his face, he spread his arms instinctively.


• The wind rips the scream from his lips.


• Below him, the glow of the city spreads toward infinity, squares and grids marching to the dark horizon.


• The city's veins are filled with the liquid gold of constant travel, and they pulse far below him.


• He falls faster and faster, the lights below racing to meet him.


• His eyes open wide.


• JONATHAN
• I see it!


• He closes his eyes, seconds before the pavement catches his body in its crushing embrace and everything goes dark.


• FADE TO BLACK.