INT. CHARLOTTE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

A heavy set, well dressed, overly bejeweled woman approaches the airline counter of FLY AMERICA airlines. She appears panicked and rushed. Behind the counter an effeminate male agent with an erect posture visibly stiffens at her approach. Under his breath he warns a cute, young female agent that one of their most difficult repeat passengers is approaching and to let him handle it.

The woman reaches the desk and explodes. Where's my cat - she bellows. A long sequence of colorful dialogue regarding the airlines, the airport, and the sexual persuasion of the agent she is addressing are heard. The male agent adjusts his tie, puts on a fake smile, and condescendingly asked her what the problem is.

At this point the woman breaks down in furious tears and relays how she checked in three bags and a cat in Chicago and she went to the baggage claim area to find three bags and no cat. Male agent tries to calm her down and asks to see her ticket with the baggage claims attached. He enters something on the computer in front of him and then picks up the phone.

INT. BAGGAGE LOADING AREA OF AIRPORT Hub bub of activity. Baggage carts are whizzing by and planes can be seen and heard approaching in the background.

Stocky, muscular baggage handler answers phone and shouts in order to be heard. Listens to story then exclaims "Jesus Christ, not her." Hangs up phone and shouts over noise for small, wiry baggage handler driving a cart. Second handler drives over and screams "what now !"

First baggage handler shakes head and says that he won't believe what's happened. "You know that bitch that flies at least every two weeks and is always busting our balls about a scratch on her luggage or the fact that the bags arrived too late after the flight or the fact that she broke a fucking fingernail getting off of the plane. Well, guess what! Now we've lost her pussy and she really has her claws out.

What the hell are you talking about exclaims the second baggage handler. Her cat, man, her damn cat! The first handler shouts. She checked her cat in Chicago and they can't locate it in baggage claim.

INT. SEPARATE ROOM IN AIRPORT STACKED WITH ANIMAL CARRIERS Audible sounds of meows and barking in background. Two young baggage handlers are standing over animal carrier in center of room shaking their heads. Are you sure it's dead asks a tall one with a shock of hair over one eye. You know a lot of people sedate their pets so heavily that they don't wake up for two days after a flight. A shorter Mexican handler pulls out a visibly stiff large Tabby cat with glassy wide open eyes and a parted drool ridden mouth from the cat carrier. "Oh shit, exclaims the tall handler.

At this point they start arguing about one of them rough handling the cat carriers, etc. Into the room walks the other two baggage handlers who have obvious authority over the other two. The two younger handlers stand in front of the cat carrier and the dead cat on the floor. Stocky handler reads off a flight number and asks if they've seen the missing cat. First they try to cover their tracks, then arguing ensues, then nervous explanations and excuses filter into the conversations by the two young handlers. Small wiry handler roughly shoves them out of the way and sees dead cat. He looks at the baggage claim ticket on the carrier, moans audibly, and says "We're in deep shit now." Goes into explanation about who cat belongs to, how much trouble she causes, and how prone she is to write the president of the airlines.

Stocky handler who is obviously in charge gestures with his hands in downward motion for everyone to calm down. Says he has an idea. "Listen, that looks like a pretty common cat to me." "It's just a big fat grey tabby with no distinguishing marks as far as I can see." "Why don't we just replace the cat with one from the animal shelter since it sits right behind the airport."

Other handlers take turns arguing that he's nuts, that they'll never get by with it and that there must be some law against something like that. Stocky handler argues back that they could all lose their jobs over this because the woman is a raving bitch and the airline will do anything to shut her up and keep her happy. Says this cat was probably like a kid to her and she will look at it like murder.

Two younger handlers start arguing about how the animal carriers did have luggage packed on top of them and there was rough handling in the rush to unload the plane and that some forensic guy can probably determine the time of death and what caused it.

FLY AMERICA TICKET COUNTER

Effeminate agent is trying to soothe woman and telling her that cat was put on wrong flight but should be here in one hour. Woman starts screaming and threatens that it better not be one minute over one hour because she and the cat have a schedule to keep.

PICK-UP TRUCK WITH FLY AMERICA EMBLAZONED ON THE SIDE SEEN SPEEDING DOWN THE ROAD. INT. TRUCK WITH TWO YOUNG BAGGAGE HANDLERS INSIDE.

Truck seen pulling into animal shelter. Both guys get out - walk in to reception area and say they are looking for a cat. They are lead back to a long cement floored room with rows of cages on both sides. Start looking at all the cages, then start arguing again. Large stocky woman with keys is eyeing them suspiciously and asks what they want the cat for. They tell her their aunt's cat died and they want to replace it with one just like she had before. Finally come across aging lethargic grey tabby cat that looks a little rough but should fit the bill. Ask woman if she can clean it up a bit and she bites back that this ain't no beauty parlor. They pay for cat and head back to airport.

CORNER OF BAGGAGE HANDLING AREA

All four baggage handlers involved stand over cat cage. Pull out cat and start discussing probabilities of pulling this off. Agree cats needs to be cleaned up and proceed to wet paper towels and wipe it off. One handler pulls out comb from back pocket and proceeds to groom it.

FLY AMERICA TICKET COUNTER

Cat carrier seen on baggage belt behind effeminate ticket agent. Woman approaches ticket counter. Agent smiles and hands her cat carrier. Woman takes carrier, looks inside, screams and faints. Ticket agent opens mouth in surprise and gets on intercom calling for security. Two security guys come running and try to revive woman. Finally she sits up and exclaims in disbelief that it is a miracle. I checked my Fluffy on board in Chicago dead and was just bringing her home for the funeral and burial in Charlotte. But the flight revived her. It's a miracle. It's one of the unexplained wonders of God. She gets up and pulls herself together, thanks airline agent, and is seen walking out door of airport with cat.