Badlands Page #10

CATO:

Sometimes. The other day, though, an

old boy was plowing in the field

over there, found some old Spanish

coins.

KIT:

(suspicious)

That's what he told you, huh?

CATO (O.S.)

No, he showed me one.

HOLLY:

What'd they look like?

CATO (O.S.)

Kind of round, like so... Gold. I'll

show you if you want.

Kit and Holly eye one another. Kit sees the chance to make a

fortune here. He is careful to conceal his feelings, though.

KIT:

Let me finish my supper.

Holly, big-eyed, bites into an apple.

EXT. FIELD

Kit, Holly and Cato walk out to the field where Cato heard

the coins were found. Holly picks up a pot lid.

KIT:

We're thinking of going down to Texas.

Holly wants to visit some of her

people down there, but after that I

don't know... They say Mexico's nice.

Cato stops.

CATO:

Kit... Maybe I'd better get a shovel.

KIT:

Okay.

CATO:

I'll catch up with you.

KIT:

Okay.

Kit walks out into the field to join Holly. Cato turns back.

HOLLY:

I found a lid. It was laying on the

ground over there.

KIT:

Put that down. It's dirty.

Holly tosses the lid at him. He picks up some dirt clods and

starts throwing them at her. She squeals and dodges. Cato

watches them for a while, indecisive, then turns and runs.

HOLLY (O.S.)

Hey, you're throwing big ones!

Suddenly, Kit spots Cato.

KIT:

Cato!

Cato jumps over a trough and comes to a stop in front of his

truck, a water tanker.

CATO:

The shovel's in the truck.

Kit raises his gun and shoots Cato through the belly. Cato

falls, then gets to his feet and stumbles toward the front

door of the house. Kit follows him for a while, then skips

forward and opens the door for him.

INT. BEDROOM

Cato falls on his bed and rolls over to face Kit. Kit walks

in calmly and picks up a photo on the bureau.

HOLLY (V.O.)

Kit never let on why he'd shot Cato.

He said that just talking about it

could bring us bad luck and that

right now we needed all the luck we

could get.

Kit sets the photo down.

KIT (O.S.)

You never told me about her.

He looks under the bed, then walks out the door.

INT. LIVING ROOM

Holly stands near a window. smoking a cigarette. Kit sets

his rifle down and surveys the room, which is cluttered with

odds and ends.

KIT:

Look at all this junk.

HOLLY:

How's he doing?

KIT:

(shrugging)

I got him in the stomach.

Holly sits down.

HOLLY:

Is he upset?

KIT:

He didn't say anything to me about

it.

He takes a drag off her cigarette and gives it back to her.

He leafs idly through a catalogue on the table, then walks

over to look in the bedroom.

KIT:

Bunch of junk.

Inside the bedroom Cato is still conscious, but his breathing

is heavy. Kit walks back to Holly's side. HOLLY is looking

through the catalogue.

KIT:

He stole that cage. I saw him doing

it.

Kit wants this to have been an execution, not a murder.

KIT:

Whatcha looking in there for? We

can't afford any of that.

HOLLY:

(defensive)

Just looking.

INT. BEDROOM

As they bicker in the other room, Cato inspects his face in

a mirror.

KIT (O.S.)

Why don't you go in there and keep

him company for a while?

Holly walks in the door.

HOLLY:

Hi.

She sits down.

HOLLY:

That your spider in there? In that

bottle?

CATO:

Yeah.

HOLLY:

What do you feed him?

CATO:

Oh, flies... grasshoppers when I can

catch 'em.

HOLLY:

Does he bite?

CATO:

He never bit me.

We hear the sound of a car HORN in the distance. Holly turns

and looks.

EXT. CATO'S HOUSE

A 1951 Studebaker approaches the house. There are two people

inside, a BOY and a GIRL. Kit comes out the front door. The

Boy and Girl get out, but seeing Kit, they wait by the car.

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