EXT. - Camera pan over the ocean and around reapers curve. Camera zero's in on a man sitting on top of reapers curve holding a silver medallion that says "I love you". The man is drinking. Fireworks are set off, it's the 4th of July.
EXT. - The croaker parade --- Floats are up and down the street and people are cheering.
INT. The Croaker queen contest ---
MC That's got to be the prettiest girl we've ever had in this competition, I tell you. Now let's welcome back our six finalist on stage, come on back out girls. There they are, pretty as can be I tell ya. were proud of you girls. you've worked hard.
On the balcony. Barry Cox, Julie James and Ray Bronson are cheering on Helen Shiver.
JULIE Look at her. She was born for this.
RAY I never knew her breasts were so, ample.
BARRY She does these exercises to pump 'em up.
JULIE Guys, I'm on sexist overdrive as it is, kill the commentary.
Back on stage
MC Now in the spirit of Mother Teresa what will be your comtribution to your community and the world at large?
HELEN Well Bob, at summers end I plan to move to New York City where I will pursue a career as a serious actress, it's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression, through art, I shall serve my country.
Back to the balcony.
RAY Do you believe all this shit?
BARRY Work it babe. Their eating it up, look she's incredible.
Back to stage
MC And now. this years Croaker Queen is...Miss Helen Shivers
The crowd cheers as the announcers gives Helen her crown and septor.
BARRY That's my girlfriend, yeah!!!!
EXT. The streets of SouthPort --- On the street the song My Baby's Got The Strangest Ways is being preformed live by Southern Culture on the skids a hundreds of locals are parting.
Helen and Julie walk in.
HELEN How's my hair?
JULIE Hurricane proof.
HELEN Hey, it's all about the hair don't you forget that. especially when you become some big hot shot laywer those professional women types thinks its all about brains and ability and compleatly ignore the do'.
JULIE So the do's vital, got it.
Helens sister Elsa appears.
ELSA Hey you riding with me?
HELEN No tell mom I'll be home late.
ELSA Ah is little miss Croaker getting sauteed tonight?
HELEN Oh a twit with a wit.
ELSA Eat me.
Max runs up to Julie
MAX Hey Julie, I brought you a shooter on the house.
JULIE Oh thanks Max but I have this mental block, can't get past the slime.
MAX How about I take you out before you leave town, you know kind of a bon voyage.
JULIE Ah you know, I don't think so.
MAX We've been friends since forever, now you can't just leave without farewell right?
JULIE Right.
Barry and Ray walk up .Barry takes the shooter from Max.
BARRY A toast to us, to our last summer of immature, adolecant decandence.
He drinks the shooter
HELEN Somebody's buzzed.
BARRY (to Max) Yo chumbake, take a hike.
Barry then pushes Max to the ground and a fight breaks out. Ray pulls them apart.
HELEN Barry they're just friends.
BARRY Okay Ray just taking care of your girl like I promised.
RAY Thanks, Buddie, now lets blow.
HELEN Yeah okay, lets beem down to Dawson's beach. Enjoy a ride?
JULIE (to Max) Bye.
EXT. Reapers curve --- Driving along the highway, driving very dangerously.
EXT. South Port beach --- The four friends are on the beach.
RAY So the boy and girl are making out, right? When they hear over the radio that this lunatic killer's escaped from an insane asylum, he's got this long sharp hook for a hand.
BARRY No, you're telling it wrong.
RAY Shut Up! So the girl, she gets all scared right? And the boy, all hot and bothered, he gets pissed and peels out.
BARRY No, no, no no. That's not the way it goes. Okay the boy goes for help and the girl stays in the car and she hears this scratching sound...
HELEN (interrupting) It's not a scratching sound, it's a drip, drip, drip.
BARRY No. its scartching because the guys been hung from a tree limb and his feet are scratching on the roof of the car.
HELEN No, he's been decapitated and it's the blood for his severed neck that's dripping on the car going drip, drip, drip.
JULIE No he wasn't decapitated, he was gutted with a hook. That's the way I heard it.
RAY You're all wrong, they get back to the girls house and find the lunatics bloody hook in the car door. Now that's the original story, that's the way it really happened.
BARRY Hey, hey none of it really happened, it's a bullshit ghost story to begin with .
RAY No it's not, it's true.
HELEN Yeah. I don't think so Ray.
RAY I swear it.
JULIE Please, it's a fictional story created to warn young girls of the dangers of having premarital sex.
RAY Well actually honey, you know how terrified I am of your IQ but it's an urban legend, American folklore and they all usually originate from some real life incident.
Ray smiles.
Some time has passed on the beach and Helen is running around while Barry is laying on the ground.
HELEN So by that time, I will just be finishing my two year contract on Guiding Light, coinciding with your first year as starting quaterback for the Steelers...
BARRY Cowboys!
HELEN Whatever. Then we can elope in Europe or the Caymans or wherever where I will let you impregnate me with the first of three children, before you head off to rehab and then we can live happily...
Another part of the beach. Julie is walking alone on the beach calling out for Ray.
RAY (running behind her) I'm gonna hook you!!
JULIE Hey Ray you don't really believe all that crap do you?
RAY That's true.
JULIE Please, it's really a phallic symbol.
RAY Oh really?
JULIE Yeah ultimatly castrated. God I'm gonna miss you.
They sit down on the sand.
RAY You don't have to, you can always ditch this Boston thing and come to New York with me.
JULIE Yeah well we can't all sit in the village coffee house and ramble esoterically on our laptops. There just isn't enough room.
RAY See, no one gets me the way you do.
JULIE I understand your pain
RAY Precisely.
JULIE I hate this. I really hate this. You're gonna go off and fall for some head shaving-black wearing-tattoo covered-body peircing philosophy student.
RAY That sounds attractive.
JULIE And I'll never see you again.
RAY Hey, did you know the success rate of high school sweetheart realationships is higher than any other type of relationship?
JULIE Yeah? Name your source.
Ray then puts his hand on his heart. Julie begins to remove her jacket.
RAY Are you sure?
Julie nods yes. Music comes up and the two begin to kiss as they lay on the ground.
CUT TO - Helen and Barry at Barry's car. Barry wants the keys to his car.
HELEN Okay, man-meat, give me the keys.
BARRY Who's car is this? Nobody drives my car but me.
HELEN I know that baby but the Croaker Queen has to get home now.
Helen then grabs the keys from Barry.
HELEN Thank you.
Julie and Ray walk up.
HELEN Hey you two.
Helen tosses the keys to Ray.
BARRY Give me my fuckin' keys.
RAY You're trashed pal.
HELEN Come ride in the back with me, I'll let you do things to me.
BARRY (to Ray) Nobody drives my car but me you got that shit smear?
RAY Loud and clear. Get in the car.
INT. Barry's car. --- Ray is driving, Julie is in the passenger seat and Barry and Helen are in the back seat making out. The car shifts and Barry sits up.
BARRY You can't drive for shit you know that?
JULIE (to Barry) Can you say Al-co-hol-ic???
Sappy music is playing on the radio.
BARRY What the hell is this crap?
Barry then puts on some thrash music and climbs out the sunroof while swilling back the booze and screaming. Barry then drops his bottle on Ray and the car starts to slide.
JULIE You asshole.
RAY What's wrong with you?
BARRY WATCH OUT!!!!!!!
The car hits something hard and skids off the road.
HELEN What was that?
RAY I don't know.
JULIE Is everybody okay?
HELEN Yeah.
RAY Maybe it was an animal.
Barry comes down through the sunroof.
HELEN Oh my god you're bleeding.
Barry wipes the blood of his face.
BARRY It's not mine.
RAY It must have been a dog or something.
BARRY (screaming) - Jesus Christ, my fuckin' car!
They all hop out and look at the smashed up car.
BARRY Fuck! Can't you see where you're going??
RAY Look, it came out of nowhere, I didn't see it.
JULIE A dog couldn't have done that.
BARRY Yeah well a fucking deer could.
RAY You dropped your bottle, I was just...
BARRY (interupting) My dad is gonna freak on my ass.
HELEN It was an accident, leave him alone.
JULIE Where is it? If it was a deer then where is it?
RAY Maybe it ran off.
HELEN I hope so, I hope we didn't kill it.
BARRY Fuck that. Let's go.
Julie sees a man's boot on the side on the road with blood on it.
JULIE Oh my god.
She runs and picks it up.
RAY No way.
JULIE Oh my god.
HELEN But I thought...
RAY I didn't see it.
BARRY No there's no way.
JULIE Oh my god this isn't happening.
Barry runs and gets some flashlights out of the trunk of the car. They begin looking.
BARRY You check that side.
RAY Yeah.
BARRY Come on Helen.
Julie screams in horror, there is a body laying on the side of the road.
RAY I couldn't see him, I swear.
HELEN Is he dead?
RAY I don't know
BARRY Check his pulse.
RAY No way.
BARRY You're the one who rammed him.
JULIE Just do it.
Ray goes towards the body and checks his pulse.
RAY I think he's dead.
BARRY SHIT . . . FUCK!!!
HELEN Who is he?
RAY I can't tell, his face is all messed up.
BARRY What the hell was he doing out here?
JULIE We've got to call the police and get an ambulance out here.
BARRY Hey hey what's your hurry? The guy's dead.
JULIE You're not a doctor you don't make that descison.
BARRY Use your brain Julie, we call the police and were fucked.
JULIE It was an accident.
RAY Look, lets think about this a minute.
JULIE Think about what? Think about what? He was crossing the road in the middle of the night, okay? It was an accident, you weren't drinking or speeding.
RAY There's liquor all over the car.
JULIE But you're sober.
RAY They will never believe I was driving.
BARRY It's my car, they'll nail my ass.
HELEN That's not true.
BARRY Are you kidding? Look at me, I'm drunk as shit, I'm fucked.
HELEN So we'll call the police, just tell them the truth, they'll believe us.
RAY It's manslaughter. We're gonna fry no matter who takes the fall.
BARRY Then we leave right now.
JULIE No way are you crazy?
RAY The grills busted, there's blood everywhere.
BARRY We can clean it up, come on.
JULIE Listen to yourselves. NO, we are going to the police.
BARRY (still screaming) We don't have time for your shit, you understand? We've got to move fast.
RAY Hey, now lets try to stay calm. Focus.
JULIE Don't you get it? If there's some of him on the car, there's some of the car on him, their gonna trace it back to you, you're looking at a hit and run.
BARRY Then we dump the body.
JULIE You've lost it.
HELEN
Like just pretend we were never here.
BARRY We could drag him into the water and dump him in, they wouldn't find the fucker for weeks by that time all the evidence would be washed away.
RAY If they found him at all... The currents are strong, the undertow could carry him out to sea.
JULIE I won't be any part of it.
RAY Look I'm scared Julie, I'm not like the rest of you, I don't have the family or the money to get me out of this. Please.
BARRY This is your future Julie, think about it, college, your schloarship. The guy's already dead, if we go to the police we're dead too.
A truck starts coming down the road towards them.
BARRY Fuck.
HELEN What do we do?
BARRY (to Ray) - Help me.
Barry and Ray pick up the body and carry him over to the other side of the guardrail.
HELEN Shit, they're slowing down. Who is it?
JULIE It's Max.
BARRY Get rid of him.
Max stops the truck.
MAX Julie? What you got car trouble?
Max and Julie look over to the guardrail where Barry is pretedning he is vomiting.
JULIE Actually, it's Barry, he's had way too much to drink and were trying to keep the up-chuck out of the new car.
Max looks back at the smashed up car.
MAX Doesn't look so new anymore
JULIE Yeah, don't drink and drive.
MAX Daddy's gonna be mad.
Ray comes over to the truck.
RAY What can I do for you Max?
MAX You can wipe that "my shit don't stink grin off your face".
RAY Okay Max, will do. Have a goodnight.
MAX You almost got that rich boy act down Ray.
RAY We'll be seeing you Max.
MAX Yup. Take care Julie.
Max drives away.
EXT. Down at the docks. --- Barrys car is arriving, they get out and open the trunk and Barry and Ray start dragging the body down to the water.
BARRY Even if his body washes ashore in the next couple of weeks, he'll be eaten by crabs and small fish. Maybe we'll get lucky with a shark. Take him to the side.
They start to lower him on to the side of the wharf.
BARRY Put him down.
RAY Easy, that's it.
BARRY Lets do it.
JULIE Wait.
RAY What?
JULIE Should we check his wallet and see who he is?
BARRY Why?
JULIE I don't know okay, just to know.
HELEN I don't want to know.
BARRY Let's just pretend he's some escaped lunatic with a hook for a hand and we're doing everybody a favor. Ray, help me.
RAY I don't think I can Barry.
BARRY Shit, we agreed.
JULIE God, come on Barry it's not too late.
BARRY (screaming) You, shut up. Jjust shut up.
HELEN (wanting to get it over with) Christ already. I'll do it.
Helen and Barry start to move the body towards the water when all of the sudden the man wakes up and grabs Helens crown, they all scream and push him in the water.
HELEN (hysterical) My crown, he's got my crown.
Barry jumps in the water after the crown and swims to the bottom where the man has landed with the crown in his hand. Barry reaches for it and as his hands touches the crown the mans eyes pop open and Barry beats the crown away from him while screaming his head off and swims back to the top leaving the man underwater.
RAY Over here.
Barry slams the crown to Helen and walks towards the car.
RAY Let's get out of here.
BARRY We're going home now and never, ever, under any circumstances known to God speak about this again is that clear? It is now mearly a futural therapy bill agreed?
BARRY (screaming) Helen??
HELEN I'll never mention it again.
BARRY We make a pact, right here and now we take this to our grave.
RAY Agreed.
BARRY Julie?
Julie nods her head in agreement.
BARRY (livid) Don't you nod your head. You fuckin' say it.
JULIE (somber) Yeah okay.
Barry runs and grabs Julie by the neck pushing her against the car.
BARRY We take this to our grave, let me hear it.
RAY Let her go Barry.
BARRY You fucking say it!
JULIE Okay Barry, we take this to the grave.
Barry gets in the car wet and furious.
RAY (to Julie) It will be okay.
Julie begins to cry. And they all get in the car and leave. Camera pans in on the ground where a silver medallion that says "I love you" is laying.
JULIE 
HELEN 
ELSA 
BARRY 
BARRY 
EXT. South Port beach --- The four friends are on the beach. 
BARRY 
JULIE 
RAY 
HELEN 
Julie and Ray walk up. 
BARRY 
JULIE 
RAY 
BARRY (screaming) 
