Could you just take a look
at my radiator hose. Its busted.
Darrell is clearly upset at being cut off. He leans into the
car and looks at the engine.
BOBBY
So?
DARRELL
Its your radiator hose. Its busted.
BOBBY
I know its busted. What did I just tell
you?
DARRELL
Well, you know so much why dont you just
fix it yourself?
BOBBY
If I could do you think Id be standing
here wasting my time. Can yo
cut off by - A SILENCED GUN SHOT: Thwpfft...
FADE IN ON:
INT. A MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL - NIGHT
Its dark, and so it takes us a minute to realize were
MOVING UP STONE SPIRALING STAIRS, up up up in what we now see
is a medieval cathedral. And as we continue MOVING UP
something TRICKLES DOWN INTO FRAME - BLOOD. Running thin,
then thicker, as we CONTINUE TO MOVE UP the stairs and find -
A BODY, sprawled a
machines, things like that.
You have to put money in.
-What does that say?
-Thats an opticians.
I-A...
-N.
-Thats it, brilliant.
Bobby. Not so fast.
Come on, Dad. Come on, its not that far.
-Just a minute. Im coming.
-You all right?
We should have taken the bus.
I said we should have taken the bus.
-Dad, are you sure youre all right?
-Yes. I just want to see Paula, come on.
-Hes all right.
-Daddy
The X-Files "Fight The Future"
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(The classic fanfare from Alfred Newman plays as the 20th CENTURY FOX
logo is shown all over the the big screen. Fade to black - Silence.
(DW NOTE: Enough time to Take your greatest fear and multiply it by X:)
NOW, Mark Snows thrilling new movie-version of The X-Files theme song
begins to play. Seas of blackoil fill the screen then text in white letters runs in.
Machine Inc.,
Bobo, Mullethead...
...Big Sam.
And everyone else
whos just been great...
...in weIcoming Sara
into the famlly. Thank you.
Excuse me, everybody. Id just like to--
-Get up.
-Get up.
-Get up.
-Get up. Get up.
-Walk.
-Walk.
Id like to say a few words
about commitment...
...about honor...
...about responsibility...
...about a very special someone
and admitting to her....
Get up. Pull th
cut
slightly, surprised.
She opens the car door and quickly escapes.
EXT. ROAD
She runs away from the car, down the road, very upset.
INT. CAR
Rod catches himself. He looks at his bloodied face in the rear view mirror
and realizes what hes done.
He starts up the car.
EXT. ROAD
Stacy runs down the road alone, still very upset.
INT. CAR
Rod pulls up next to her and rolls down his window.
ROD
Stacy!
cut across the mans
path.
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DISSOLVE TO:
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The man is ERIC DESMOND, twenty-four, clean-shaven,
determined. Hes clearly out of place here, dressed in a
business suit and a light, camel-hair topcoat.
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Eric is trying to follow some footprints in the snow -- a
predators tracks, those of a wolf or coyote. But the
footprints ahead have faded, covered by the snow and wind.
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DISSOLVE TO
CUT TO:
CLOSE ON ANNIE REED
Pretty, blonde, animated. Jeans, a T-shirt, a Baltimore
Orioles hat.
ANNIE
Why? I just want to know why?
Thats my first rule. I always
ask why. Come on. Tell me.
Cmon, cmon, cmon --
And pull back to reveal:
EXT. CHICAGO ALLEY - DAY
Annie is talking to her boyfriend, a good-looking guy
named SETH. Theyre carrying packing boxes into the
house they share in the Old
Nine Queens Script
What are you reading?
- Nothing. Im sorry.
- Dont worry.
- Will that be all?
- Yes.
This machine drives me crazy.
Ill register it later.
- . plus . ...
- .
Yes, five, of course.
Dont you have a smaller bill?
- Not enough change.
- Ill make it.
What an idiot! I do have it.
The change from the taxi.
The taxi-drivers change.
I took it all from him.
.
Im sure you need the change.
I
THELMA & LOUISE
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by
Callie Khouri
FADE IN:
INT. RESTAURANT - MORNING (PRESENT DAY)
LOUISE is a waitress in a coffee shop. She is in her
early-thirties, but too old to be doing this. She is very
pretty and meticulously groomed, even at the end of her
shift. She is slamming dirty coffee cups from the counter
into a bus tray underneath the counter. It is making a
lot of RACKET, which she is oblivi