Int. Teachers' lounge / office - moments later (2:15 p.M.)

Eddie and Donnie exit Cole's office, moving on while Rose

approaches Kitty, who looks visibly shaken.

ROSE

Kitty, I don't know what to say. They've

suspended him for two days.

(beat)

Ever since this jet fiasco, I honestly

don't know what has gotten into him.

MS. FARMER

Rose, I'll tell you this because our

daughters have been on dance team

together for two years and I respect

you as WOMAN. But after witnessing your

son's behaviour today, I have...

significant doubts...

(stopping herself)

Our paths through life must be righteous.

I urge you to go home and look in the

mirror and pray that your son does not

succumb to the path of fear.

Kitty Farmer turns and walks away.

EXT. DARKO BACKYARD / PATIO - SUNSET (MAGIC HOUR, 5:30 P.M.)

Samantha jumps up and down on the trampoline.

INT. DONNIE'S ROOM - NIGHT (5:30 P.M.)

Donnie walks into his room again for the first time since the

accident, looking around at the new furniture, paint and carpet.

Everything is perfect.

Elizabeth appears in the doorway behind him with a cordless

phone in her hand.

ELIZABETH

(into the phone)

Oh my God, remember that gym teacher,

Ms. Farmer?

(beat)

Yeah. Well, I guess my brother called her

a fat bitch today in class and got

suspended. And my parents just bought him

all of this new shit.

(beat)

Yeah, I know. I wish a jet engine would

have fallen on my room.

INT. MARINO'S ITALIAN BISTRO - NIGHT (6 P.M.)

Eddie and Rose sit across from one another at the bistro patio...

having a quiet dinner to themselves.

ROSE

He's too old to be behaving this way.

Eddie considers this.

EDDIE

Oh, I say we buy him a moped.

INT. DONNIE'S ROM - NIGHT (7 P.M.)

Donnie lies in bed... looking up at the ceiling. He then rolls

over and looks at the calendar on his wall. The days of the month

of October are marked off with an X in each square. Tacked onto

the calendar is a drawing of Frank.

DONNIE

28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds.

INT. PHYSICS CLASS - DAY (FRIDAY, 2:30 P.M.)

As everyone is leaving class, Donnie stays behind.

DONNIE

Dr. Monnitoff?

DR. MONNITOFF

Donnie.

DONNIE

I know that this is gonna sound kinda

weird... but do you know anything about

time travel?

Dr. Monnitoff pauses, turns and looks at Donnie. He seems to

know something.

INT. PHYSICS CLASS - LATER ON

Dr. Monnitoff has drawn a diagram on the blackboard. In his hand

he holds a copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time".

DR. MONNITOFF

So... according to Hawking... wormholes

might be able to provide a shot cut for

jumping between two distant regions of

space-time.

DONNIE

So... in order to travel back in time,

you'd have to have a big spaceship or

something that can travel faster than the

speed of light --

DR. MONNITOFF

Theoretically.

DONNIE

-- and be able to find one of these

wormholes.

DR. MONNITOFF

A wormhole with an Einstein-Rosen bridge,

which is, theoretically... a wormhole in

space controlled by man.

DONNIE

So... that's it?

DR. MONNITOFF

The basic principles of time travel are

there.

(beat)

So you have the vessel and the portal.

And the vessel can be anything. Most

likely a spacecraft.

EXT. SCHOOL COURTYARD - NEXT

Cherita Chen listens to this conversation intently.