【正文】 WYBIE (CONT39。D) Heh. Well, great to meet a Michigan water witch. He picks up his bike, wheels it around, then holds up his gloved hands. WYBIE (CONT39。t hear anything CORALINE Oh, I definitely heard someone, Whywere youborn. A distant dinner bell clangs. WYBIE39。D) can lead people to have ordinary expectations about a person WYBIE39。s Coraline. WYBIE Caroline what? CORALINE Coraline. Coraline Jones. WYBIE (confused, not hearing it) Hmmm... It39。d you get saddled with? CORALINE I wasn39。D) I39。t rent to people with kids. CORALINE What do you mean? WYBIE (suddenly worried) Uh... I39。d see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day. CORALINE (SOFTENS) Huh. Her frown RELAXES and the black cat tilts his head, noticing her change in tone. He steps off the branch, and the well cover thumps in place. WYBIE Surprised she let you move in... Jerks his head toward the pink house in distance. WYBIE (CONT39。ll fall in it! Coraline reacts, hops out of the springy circle. The boy scrapes at the ground, revealing a CIRCULAR COVERING made of WOODEN PLANKS. He wedges a fallen branch under one side, and, using a rock for the fulcrum, pries up the covering. WYBIE (CONT39。m a water witch, THEN (points stick, stomps foot) where39。ll e in my window `n bring me little dead things. The cat PURRS like a diesel. CORALINE (TOUGH) Look, I39。s kinda feral 173。s not really my cat。S A DOWSING ROD! Coraline smacks Wybie. WYBIE Ow! CORALINE And I DON39。 I mean, it39。 someplace dried out and barren, right? I heard about waterwitching before but it doesn39。s forked stick, aims it around. WYBIE (OBLIVIOUS) Hoo! Let me guess, you39。D) GET AWAY FROM ME He SNATCHES it from her as he passes, KNOCKING HER to the ground. He SIDESKIDS his bike, hops off and JUMPS UP onto the stump. Looking TEN FEET TALL from the ground, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING at a peak, the Spy turns his THREE EYED TURRET LENS and studies her like a predatory alien. And then, the thunder and lightning just FADE OUT and this psychokiller, threeeyed spy pulls off his mask and Coraline GASPS he39。S COAT flapping in the wind, he looks like a PSYCHO KILLER! CORALINE (CONT39。D) Not talking, huh? The wind picks up. She grasps the forks of her stick, closes her eyes, and, tracing a figure eight above her, SAYS: CORALINE (CONT39。D) I39。s both angry and relieved when she sees it39。s there? She throws a rock over the wall of stones, HITS THE UNSEEN SPY, causing a CRY OF PAIN. ANIMAL? HUMAN? Freaked out, she GASPS, runs up the trail. NEW ANGLE, SPY POV. We rise up to watch and the black cat hops onto the stone wall. EXT. OVERGROWN ORCHARD CONT. Coraline races down past an OLD TRACTOR and into an ORCHARD. WIND begins to blow. NEW ANGLE as we move beside Coraline through the old apple trees, where she nearly trips on the tongue of a harvest cart. DOWN ANGLE ON on Coraline as she BACKS INTO a circle of TOADSTOOLS in front of a STUMP. BREATHING HARD, she looks out for her pursuer. NEW ANGLE. The black cat shoots past Coraline in the tall grass. She can39。s red leaves, aims it like a DOWSING ROD and heads into the garden. CAM PUSH IN to shrub as the SPY RISES UP, wearing a three eyed SKELETON MASK on his head and SKELETON GLOVES on his hands. The black cat hops into frame, glances at the spy and follows the girl.