SUPERMAN
... what if I fail you...?

JOR-EL
(beat, proudly)
You could never fail me.

Looking into Jor-El's eyes, its almost as if Superman is comforted. Calmed in a way that Lois just described.

AND JOR-EL EMBRACES HIS SON -- SUPERMAN EMBRACES HIS FATHER -- and a REVERSE-REVERBED PRIMAL SCREAM SOUND BEGINS... starts to GROW...

INT. COFFIN - DAY

INSIDE the DARK COFFIN where Superman lies, dead -- BATTERED and BLOODY, his suit TORN, SHREDDED. THE REVERSE-PRIMAL SCREAM GETTING LOUDER as we PUSH IN on Superman's CORPSE... the SCREAM SOUND REACHES A CRESCENDO AND STOPS AS SUPERMAN SUDDENLY GASPS -- HIS EYES OPEN -- we JUMP so much we might not even realize in the instant his SKIN IS REPAIRED -- his suit RESTORED --