FADE IN

Late....Kind of.  Halloween finishing up.  Crisp golden leaves ebbing from a side walk.  Moon light gleaming on...

ROUTE 202

A Honda Civic's coming.  Speeding.  The sound of girl's laughing.  Having a good o time.  The car vrooms past....and the earth sneezes. 

INT. CIVIC - NIGHT

Four girls, in sexy costume.  Either 16 or 17.  JADE and VALERIE in the front.  EVE and ZOE back seat.

EVE answers her cell

EVE
What

EVE'S MOM
How's Tyler?  Is Tyler ok?

TYLER'S 7, between Eve and Zoe.  

TYLER
I wanna go home.

A BACKHAND, displayed in his face, from EVE.

EVE
(To Tyler)
I'm not playin. 
(into the cell)
No, he's fine.  He's good. 

JADE
(Driving)
Who takes their little brother with them on Halloween?

VALERIE
How else can you just show up at the door step of all the cutest guys in school in one night.

EVE'S MOM
Eve if you see a car with their headlights off, don't flash at them ok?  That bloods and Crypt thing is going on tonight.

EVE
What do you know about bloods and Crypts?

EVE'S MOM
They’re initiating people into their gang.  The prospects have to ride around with their headlights off, and the first car that flashes them, they have to go after them and kill them.  

EVE
Calm down, we're like following a car load of guys.

Now this happens so fast.  Jade, out of habit, flicks the high-beams at an oncoming car with no headlights on...

EVE
JADE!

JADE
(Realizing)
Oh my God.  Oh My God.

EVE
What the hell is wrong with you?

The girls look back.  The UNLIT CAR swerves right into a gas station.  Obviously turning around.  

ZOE
Jesus.

EVE'S MOM
(Distortion)
EVE!.....

EVE
(Dead battery)
MOM!

THE UNLIT CAR, gets back on Route 202.  South bound, like the Civic.  

VALERIE
This is New Millford.  It's just Jeff or Looney acting stupid. 

The UNLIT CAR, veers wildly in and out of the opposite direction lane.  Trying to pass and...

WHAM!  It smashes right into an oncoming car.  The UNLIT CAR 360's several times on it's wheels.  The car it hit.  An instant accordion.

The girls inhale quick, and with a shriek at just the sight of this.

And just as they are about to feel a sense of relief.  The...

UNLIT CAR moves, pushing out of the collision.  Wildly gets back on the road.

The girls know with out a doubt that this is not Jeff or Looney.  

JADE
Call the Police!

EVE
My battery's dead

VALERIE & ZOE
(Valerie)
I don't have mine.
(Zoe)
I don't have one.  

JADE
We have four girls in this car and no body has a freaken phone that works?

EVE
Jade, just catch up to the guys and beep the horn.

THE GUYS, an overly stuffed SCION BOX CAR, with hands, heads, fluttering out the windows foolishly.

Jade speeds up, as the car admits it has....

LOW FUEL

JADE
No, Oh no.

Jade pounces on the horn.  The other girls stick their heads out the windows.  Waving....screaming....The wind tearing up their eyes.... but it might not be the wind.

Tyler starts to cry.  Senses horror.  

EVE
No, it's ok, it's ok

THE GUYS notice, but then, they speed up.  Take off.  Reaching insane speeds.

JADE
Stupid Idiots! 

The UNLIT CAR, still trying to pass.  Needs to pass.  

EVE
Citgo, there's a cop car at Citgo, all the time.

The Civic,  approaching

CITGO

And of of course, there's no cop there when you need one.

EVE
Forget it..Drive! Drive!

Jade stomps on the gas.... and the car, reminds her again that there's....   

LOW FUEL...

JADE
Shut up!  Shut the heck up!

MOTORIST, now Letting the UNLIT CAR pass.  

EVE
Jade, there's restaurants and stuff after this turn, just fly right into a spot, shut the car off, and take your foot off the breaks.   

Jade get's it, and she floors it into the turn.  Whipping past reflective arrows...breezy trees.....everyone leaning to the left, and....

A STRAIGHT AWAY

Long.  Alive.  A small city aside the road.

THE CIVIC veers into a parking spot.  Engine off.  Lights out in the back.  The body, bucking.  Smoke settling from the dirt parking lot.... 

And after that.  This car could of been here for hours.  

NOW THE UNLIT CAR

Makes the turn.  Breaks.  Surprised by the night life.

Searching.  Reducing speed.  Driving and Breaking.  Not sure if the civic went strait or what.

It continues down the road.  Never stops completely.

INT. STAY AWHILE DINER -- NIGHT

The GIRLS, and Tyler rush in the door.  Shaking.  Hearts on overdrive.  Everything feels creepy.

Decrepit ELDERLY FACES, turn and stare stoically.  Miserable country music depressing them. 

Eve finds a table.  So they can see the road.  Car lights in the distance now.

No one says anything.  No one wants to talk about it.  It's all in the past now.

Eve drinks her water.  Then Jade, then Valerie.  Zoe, then Tyler.  The tension settling.  

EVE
This is New Millford.  It's just Jeff or Looney acting stupid.

A pause, and then...  Everyone cracks up laughing.  Genuinely laughing. 

Water bursting out of everyone's mouth.  Zoe's, drying her eyes.  Tyler's laughing......but....

The UNLIT CAR returns....

ZOE
O Come on.

Zoe starts to flat out cry as Valerie holds her.

ZOE
Why don't they just let it go.

Valerie telling her to shhhh..as... 

The Unlit Car, searches the straightaway again.  Not long before it finds the civic.

Then without any kind of human foresight, the Unlit Car suddenly pulls up to the window of the Diner.

So quickly, as it's windows come down, and two automatic weapons stretch out from the front and back.

The girls and Tyler have no time to react.  They stare stupidly.  And then...

EVERYTHING GOES BLACK 

We can't see anything as many seconds pass.  As..

We still hear the country music, and no sound of shattering glass.  Only a scratching sound on the window.

Vision is restored as Tyler opens his eyes.  The automatic weapons are firing water at the Diner's window.

ADAM, MIKE, JEFF, and LOONEY, laugh outside the Unlit Car, just shooting water guns.

ZOE
(from inside)
So freaken stupid.  Don't laugh at them. 

The boys run in the restaurant, all 16, or 17, messing with the girls.  Unclear chatter going on, about how they pulled off hitting a car.  And how they knew Jade would flash the high-beams.

We notice Valerie's pregnant as everyone follows her to the rest-rooms, still chattering.  

Eve's left at the table with Tyler.  Pretty sure why the guys are hovering over the girls so much.  Probably...

VALERIE

Because her legs are out of this world, even though she's pregnant.  Probably....

JADE

Because she has silky dark hair, laying over her face in the most attractive way.  And...

ZOE

It's because her Look is completely exotic.  She's sexy at one angle.  But then innocent and cute from another.

Eve then finds herself on the windows reflection.  Somewhat expecting something more than what's there.

She turns her head and messes with her hair.  Looking for that something more, in her reflection.

TYLER
What're you doing?

EVE
You see that side angle of me?

TYLER
Yeah

EVE
Don't I look kinda different?

Tyler's looking

EVE
How people see me is not exactly what I see in the mirror, or in pictures but it's not like that right? 

TYLER
Yeah

EVE
Yeah what, it's like that?  Or more like the front version of me?

TYLER
Yeah

EVE
Forget it.