18. "A Man Jumps From The Fortieth Story Of A Building. As He's Passing The Twenty-Eighth Floor, He Hears A Phone Ring And Regrets That He Jumped. Why?"

FADE IN.

EXT. ROOFTOP - DAY

CLARK stands at the edge of the roof, forty stories up, and stares down over the edge.

He checks his phone.

CLARK: (beat) She's not going to call.......

He looks over the edge again and stares at all of the traffic passing by below.

He stares for a moment and then drops his phone over the edge.

CLARK: It's useless. There's no point anymore. There's no point to anything........

He takes a step over and leans forward.

He falls effortlessly towards the ground.

He thinks to himself as he descends.

CLARK: I don't know why she wouldn't call. I feel like all in all I've been a pretty good guy. I might not be the most normal person ever born, but I deserve a chance.

As he falls he starts to count the stories that he passes by.

CLARK: 40, 39, 38, 37, 36.......

He stares at his watch as he falls.

CLARK: I wonder how long this is going to take me. Which I guess is another way of asking how long I have to live....... What a strange thought that is. I never really thought I would die like this...... But to be honest, I wasn't really sure that I would ever die at all........

CLARK continues counting.

CLARK: 35, 34, 33, 32, 31.......

CLARK peers into the windows that he passes by.

CLARK: This place was always kind of a dump. The people were decent, but the job was rather bland. If she didn't work here then I never would have even applied...... I could have been doing much better things with my time. In fact, I've done much better things with my time. I'm important. I could have been doing just about anything. But as far as I was concerned, if I was going to be doing anything without her, then it wasn't something that I was interested in doing. She was my everything. I wanted to give her the world......

CLARK stares at the ground below himself. It is getting closer.

CLARK: But here I am. Falling to my death. Because she didn't even have the decency to call. One of the greatest men to ever live and she couldn't even call......

CLARK starts counting again.

CLARK: 30, 29, 28.........

Suddenly CLARK hears a phone ring.

CLARK: Hey. That's coming from my office.......

The phone beeps and a woman's voice is heard.

VOICE: Hey Clark, this is Lois. Just wanted to make sure you got my message about dinner on Friday night. I would love to go with you. Just call me back when you can. Thanks! Bye.

CLARK: Oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, I gave her my work number........ My bad.

CLARK reaches into his pocket and pulls out a glowing green rock.

He hurls it down below himself with incredible speed and it puts a hole in the sidewalk below him.

CLARK slowly starts to fall slower and then stops all together, floating in midair.

He rips off his shirt and reveals the superman symbol beneath his clothes.

CLARK: Damn, and I thought she didn't like me.

CLARK blasts off into the sky and disappears into the clouds.


FADE OUT.