DANIEL helps MIYAGI pick grasshoppers off the new tomato
vines in the beautifully-rowed vegetable garden. They
put the grasshoppers, alive, into a jar.
DANIEL
I guess insecticide's outa
the question --
MIYAGI
Zi wanted insecticide would shop
at supermarket.
DANIEL peers ints the jar of grasshoppers -
DANIEL
Whatta we do with these guys?
MIYAGI
Very crispy when correctly cooked.
Show vou tonight.
DANIEL
e Gh ~ well actually, 2 was thinkine since we've been working so hard why don't we go gut for dinner conighh? wy treat, of course -- MEYAGZ Deal.
(they shake hands)
Grasshopper gag work every time. LISA VAUGHN appears at the side of che house; she's very pretty, 2b0ut DANIEL'S age, extzemely energetic ane purpose- Zul. She knocks on the wall -- LISA Oh = sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, I heard voices, so I took the liberty of coming around -- I'm Lisa Vaughn -- DANIEL Tim == . LISA Oh, i know who you ere, that's :
(sees grasshoppers} Uh - if I'm interrupting something important -~ ? DANIEL No problen, we were just picking some dinner - er, some grasshoppers! LISA Right - um ~ okay, well - I'm here on behalf of ASP, that's the Alterna- tive Sports Program, it's okay if you haven't heard of us, most people haven't -- basically whet we're trying to do is bring sports to kids in disadvantaged neighborhoods as an alternative to them joining street gangs ~~ DANIEL Yeah, I read about this in the paper nn eet Saee., Ha LISA Thanks - of course getting it to eS wozk great is another story -- The gangs hassle us for invading their (CONT)
LISA (CONT)
turf, and the politicians use the 2 gang threat as an excuse te cut back our funding ~~ Now they wanc so cut it off altogether -~ MIYAGI Gang threat very real. LISA Yes -~ a boy was killed recently -~ Richie Parker, you might nave seen it on the news? He quit a gang to join the program, he wanted to be a Karate champion -- apparently the gang thought he'd turned informer so they -- killed him; at least that's the police theory, no one knows for sure, it's not like lots of witnesses are coming forward -~ DANIEL They never caught the guys? LISA They're working on it ~~ along with the other thirty unsolved cases... Look, I know it's dangerous, but it's ) more dangerous to do nothing -- Iz they cut the program, it'll get worse down there, net better, and Richie will he dead for nothing -- but if we can make the public aware of us and get their support, then we have a chance -= DANIEL Sounds good ~ sh - what do you wane us to do? LISA We're starting a new karate class, kind of in Richie's hener -- Troy McKenzie promised me that if I could get you two to come down and just talk to the kids, help us get’ the bail rolling, that he'd do a feature story on us for Sportscene News -- DANIEL Troy McKenzie? ‘Hiya, Hiya, here we go?! That Troy MeKXenzie? Why would he do @ story on us?
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DANIEL pulls into the faculty lot, sarking behing a VAN
whose side panel bears a sign reading SPORTSCENE NEWS WITH
TROY McKENZIE.
LISA hurries over with TROY: He's thirtyish, a great-looking
ax-jock, impeccably coified and outfitted in an expensive sulc.
Hi, we were just starting to
worry --
DANIEL
Sorry, I got a little lost -~
TROY
(offers his hand)
Troy McKenzie, howya doin', Dan?
DANIEL
Hi, I watch you on Tv --
TROY
That's why we're number one -
" MeGoGGY, how2it goin? :
MIYAGI
MinYAqgi.
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I'll get it right by air-time,
c'mon, the kids're waiting in
the gym --
As they enter the school -
A NEW ANGLE REVEALS CHARLIE -
watching from nearby; behind him BUSTER is talking to some GIRLS.
CHARLIE thinks for a moment; comes to a decision; starts
walking toward the school.
BUSTER
Where you goin', Retard? You don't
get permission te go nowhere --
CHARLIE
What're you, my Mother now?
BUSTER
I look that agly? Get your dumb
ass back hers, man, your brother
said meet him right here --
CHARLIE
e You meet Aim --
He enters the school
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MOVING with DANIEL, MIYAGI, LISA and TROY toward the gym.
TROY
-- scon as they cue me from
the station I'll do my little
intro - ‘Hiya, hiya, here we
go' - follow it with a little
spiel about you guys, then I/ll
come over, interview you, now
it's live, but don't be nervous,
okay?
DANIEL
Live?
TROY
Action television, pal, s?why
we're number one ~- You understand
all this, MeGoccy?
MIYAGI
Mi-YA-gi. Hai.
TROY
Hi.
“ {to Daniel)
He speaks English, right?
MIYAGI
Depend.
LISA
We're here, everybody ready?
She opens the doors and they enter -
THE GYM - CONTINUOUS ~
MOVING with them into the gym, an old huilding in disrepair:
Windows boarded and barred; bleachers scarred and needing
paint -- athletic ecuipment broken, worn-out, hand-me-down:
even the floor is unvarnished and lustarless.
Ahead, a GROUP of KIDS awaits their arrival: A MAN WITH
BLONDE HAIR whose face we don't see right away is talking
to them. TROY'S MINI CREW - SOUND MAN, MINICAM OPERATOR,
S are setting up nearby
DTSs.
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2 there's someone I want you to
The BLOND MAN turns around, revealing himself te be their
eld nemesis: -
DANIEL
Johnny Lawrence??? What the
hell's he doing here?
LISA
Teaching karate -- You know each .
other?
DANIEL
Sort of, we were never exactly
close -~
JOHNNY approaches - he and DANIEL regard each other with tense
but polite caution,
Lisa
Why didn't you tell me you
knew them?
It was John's idea to contact
: you in the first place --
& DANIEL
Really? .
(to Miyagi)
Must be an ambush.
COHNNY
So. LaRusso.
DANIEL
That's me -~
JOHNNY
How's it going?
; DANIEL
T's been worse ~ ‘John’.
JOHNNY
I remember.
LISA
What is going on here? Where
do you know each other from?
JORNNY gives her a little peck on the cheek, which bothers
& DANIEL although he's not exactly surs why ~~
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VERLANE
Tam Verlane Robinson Grady III, never hearda me? You never been to the Comedy Store, vou never been =o the Improv? i am the next great stand-up comic! And now I wanna axe YOU a question: Say I get 2 heckler, some drunk dude, right? i wanna axa if IT hit the guy with this part a my palm POW! is is true Z can ram the sucker's nose~bone into his skull and drive his brain right out th’ back his head? The other KIDS groan and moan ‘oooh’ and 'gross' and ‘weird’ -- VERLANE cbviously gets off on grossing them out -- DANIEL ; Uh - I think Mr Miyagi should answer that one -- He steps back, bows, leaving MIYAGI in the forefront. MIYAGI Question is if using this part of palm can pow ram sucker's nose-bone through skull and drive & brain out back of head, correct? VERLANE Cut the back cf his head and all . over the wall -- More groans; VERLANE'S really getting off now -- MIYAGI Have heard this theory. Come. He ‘lines up' VERLANE in front of one wali; checks it out; changes his mind, re~aligns him with e different wall ~- VERLANE Whatchyou doin', man? MIYAGI Test theory this wall. That wall too clean to get brain on. He pulls back his hand; VERLANE leaps away -- VERLANE You CRAZY? I look like a & GUINEA PIG TO you?
KIDS LAUGH ~~
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JORY
Might help if he had a brain
to begin with --
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