The Weather Girl - pages 83-87

INT. BARKER'S OFFICE - DAY

Leonard storms into the room. Barker sits at his desk.
Leonard throws a report onto Barker's desk. The skies behind
Barker are partially cloudy.

LEONARD
What the hell is this?

BARKER
Relax, Leonard. Have a seat...

LEONARD
Relax? Why should I relax? Bob
says we've been shutting off her
water and screwing with her life
for months, some kind of plan B
thing.

BARKER
Sit down, I'll...

LEONARD
Sit down? Don't you think I should
have known that the people I work
for are working directly against
what I'm trying to do?

Barker jumps to his feet.

BARKER
Sit down, Agent Young!

Leonard seems intimidated. Leonard slowly moves into a seat.

Barker straightens out his tie.

BARKER
Now what you're wondering if why we
keep shutting off her utilities.

LEONARD
That seems about right.

Barker begins pacing.

BARKER
What have you been trying to do
with Carrie?

LEONARD
Excuse me?

Barker stops and looks Leonard in the eye.

BARKER
What has been your goal, Agent
Young?

LEONARD
Well, uh, I want her to be happy.
If she gets too unhappy, it'll be
the end of the world.

BARKER
Alright, and how good of a job have
you been doing?

LEONARD
I don't quite...

BARKER
Is she happy?

LEONARD
Well, sometimes, maybe...

BARKER
You've been doing a real crappy job
if you're trying to keep her happy
all the time, haven't you?

Leonard hangs his head. The skies outside are growing
darker.

BARKER
And that's exactly what we want.

Leonard looks up appearing confused.

BARKER
Son, what would happen if she were
always happy?

LEONARD
Well, it's sunny when she's
happy...

BARKER
And we need rain, don't we? If
she's happy all the time, we all
die. But if she's sad all the
time, we also all die.

Barker grabs a pile of papers and throws them down in from of
Leonard.

BARKER
Weather reports for the last
hundred years. Once this whole
mess started, we couldn't get
anything close to our normal
patterns. Well, we couldn't until
you came along.

Leonard flips through the papers.

BARKER
But somehow, with you, everything's
back to normal. The world's
getting rain, snow, sunshine,
clouds, hell, everything she needs.

Leonard looks up from the papers.

LEONARD
I'm doing a good job?

BARKER
That's right. We had to to plan B
at least once a month last year,
but since you came on, this is the
first time.

LEONARD
But, we're just screwing with her.

BARKER
Maybe we are, but unless you have a
better idea, this is what we're
doing.

Leonard stands, still looking confused.

LEONARD
She's a person. She doesn't
deserve this...

BARKER
You might be right, but billions of
lives are at stake. Life's a bitch
sometimes.

Leonard hands his head for a moment.

LEONARD
She deserves to know this.

BARKER
The hell she does! If you're
looking for a better way to cause a
nervous breakdown, you're not going
to find it.



INT. HOMELAND SECURITY - HALLWAY - DAY

Leonard slumps through the hallway. Barker pokes his head
out of a door behind Leonard.

BARKER
Look, Leonard, keep doing what
you're doing. We don't always like
it, but the world's security is at
stake.

Leonard continues down the hallway.

Leonard looks out the window. The skies are partially
cloudy.

LEONARD
Well, at least I set up that lunch
with Chuck.

Barker's eyes grow wide.

Barker runs out and grabs Leonard's shoulder.

BARKER
What did you say?

LEONARD
Chuck. Her old boyfriend. I
figured that'd cheer her up.

BARKER
What the hell have you done?

Outside, it looks like it's going to rain.