drive around
the big towns, people.
Hope you love my wife,
you know...
I was just
checking out
the weather
situation.
A few showers as well
and light winds
at first,
but its going to be
getting better
throughout the day
and the night...
A bit of cloud
and a bit of rain as well.
People, Ive just had
a phone call from Darren.
Now, apparently, Darrens
just lost his girlfriend.
Brother...
Id say we a
Motor Vehicles...
- Roxanne!
And youre going to jail,
behind bars.
Just like last year,
well hate it.
Camp is lousy, and youre a dork.
Youre right.
You sure are one.
- Hiya.
- Come on.
- What do you want?
- Are you having trouble?
- I cant get these kids on the bus!
- Thats because Im not goin!
Come here. I wanna have
a word with you, all right?
- You guys, you better get on the bus.
- Why?
If yo
motorized cart pulling up alongside ... Hes about 21. Newmeat. His face, unburned yet by the sun, is tense, bewildered, innocent, eyes searching for the truth.
They fall now on a heap of BODY BAGS in the back of the cart. Two soldiers begin loading them onto the plane. Flies - hundreds of flies - buzz around them, the only cue to their contents.
GARDNER
(next to Chris, Southern accent)
That what
drive all the way down
You see, love has a graveyard
An orchard for those
Who fell on their sabers
And paid through the nose
Oh, your shovels a shot glass
Dig your own hole
Bury whats left
of your miserable soul
Down through the ages
All of the sages
- Said dont spend your wages on love
- Dont spend your wages on love
Theres graft and collusion
Avoid the intrusion
And preceding fore
toward violence.
TRAVIS GETS A JOB
Film opens on...
EXT. MANHATTAN CAB GARAGE
Weather-beaten sign above driveway reads, "Taxi Enter Here". Yellow cabs scuttle in and out. It is WINTER, snow is piled on the curbs, the wind is howling.
INSIDE GARAGE
Are parked row upon row of multi-colored taxis. Echoing SOUNDS of cabs idling , cabbies talking. Steamy breath and exhaust fill the air.
INT. CORRIDOR
drivers seat. Middy is in the back.
Charles slams the trunk and gets in. Before Chuck turns
the ignition...
CHARLES
Now just take it easy. Were not
going to a fire.
Chuck reacts.
OUTSIDE
Will watches as the car pulls away.
CAR - MOVING
The Giegs drive in silence. Middy reads from a brochure.
MIDDY
Honey, did you know that the
Albatross was captured by the
Germans during World War II?
CHUCK
No, I
D.A.
What happened after you and your
wife argued?
ANDY
She packed a bag and went to stay
with Mr. Quentin.
D.A.
Glenn Quentin. The golf pro at the
Falmouth Hills Country Club. The
man you had recently discovered was
her lover.
(Andy nods)
Did you follow her?
ANDY
I went to a few bars first. Later,
I decided to drive to Mr. Quentins
home and confront them. They
werent there...
drive along, Bolton watches as she
takes several pairs of surgical gloves from her equipment
bag, slips one pair on, and hands the rest to the others, the
last pair offered to him.
STARLING
Drumgos HIV positive and she will spit
and bite if shes cornered, so you might
want to put these on.
(Bolton takes the gloves and
puts them on)
And if you happen to be the one who
puts her in a patrol car in f
drives
slowly forward. It closes; getting larger; its features
becoming more identifiable: a vessel. Flip-flopping; out
of control. Its stern roaring with flame. It passes; its
blue fire surging into the screen.
"THE THING"
A thundering...
FADE TO:
A BLIND AND FERAL WHITENESS
... Glacial desert... gusts of snow... superimpose:
ANTARCTICA 1982 WINTER
A SOUND
Loud and strident. A helicopter streaks
drive off. But Max was in reverse.
He went right off the back of the ferry.
He drowned.
But if you were complaining
about the weather this week end...
... it could have been worse.
A series of floods...
- I guess its that time.
- You want any help?
There was a terrific recipe for capon
in the Times today.
Takes two minutes.
The National Guard has been
called out...
... and some people may have to