Badlands Page #11

BOY:

Hi. where's Cato?

KIT:

Well, he's gone.

BOY:

Gone?... Where?

KIT:

He said not to tell.

BOY (O.S.)

Oh yeah?

KIT:

Yeah, he said for you to give us a

lift into town. You're the ones with

the Studebaker, aren't you?

The Boy hesitates a second, then starts for the house.

BOY:

Well, I just need to pick up something

in the house.

Kit draws his gun.

KIT:

No... You go in there, I'll have to

kill you.

BOY:

What's going on?

KIT:

Can't afford to take chances.

The Girl is baffled.

KIT (O.S.)

Come on out of there, young lady.

Kit waves them out into the neighboring field with him.

KIT:

Let's us step out in this field here.

The Boy raises his hands.

KIT:

Nah, skip that... I'm going to have

to keep an eye on you, though.

BOY:

Okay.

KIT:

You don't mind?

Holly steps out the front door and smiles at the girl.

HOLLY:

Hi.

EXT. FIELD

Holly and the girl walk through the field toward a storm

cellar where the boys are waiting for them. The wind is

blowing hard.

GIRL:

What's going to happen to Jack and

me?

HOLLY:

You have to ask Kit. He says frog, I

jump.

GIRL:

Okay.

HOLLY:

What's your friend's name?

GIRL:

Jack.

HOLLY:

You love him?

GIRL:

I don't know.

Holly thinks about this for a moment.

HOLLY:

I've got to stick by Kit... He feels

trapped.

GIRL:

Yeah. I can imagine.

HOLLY:

Well, I've felt that way, hadn't

you?

EXT. STORM CELLAR

Kit guides the couple into the storm cellar.

KIT:

Okay, you two, down in the cellar.

They head down the steps into the cellar, the Girl first.

Kit stops the Boy for a moment.

KIT:

You promise to stay down there for

an hour?

BOY:

Yeah.

KIT:

You expect me to believe that?

He looks back at Holly, as though to ask whether he should.

BOY:

Yeah.

Kit nods and waves the Boy down into the cellar. The Boy

disappears.

Kit shuts the door.

KIT:

I'm going to shut the door.

Kit sticks a pin through the latch, hesitates, then fires

two shots down through a seam into the cellar. He retreats

to Holly's side, a little surprised at what he did.

KIT:

Think I got 'em?

HOLLY:

I don't know.

KIT:

Well, I'm not going down there and

look.

He starts running away from the cellar. Holly follows him. A

storm is gathering on the horizon. Kit offers Holly his hand

as they run. but Holly does not see this.

INT. CATO'S BEDROOM

Cato lies motionless, on his bed. Holly steps forward and

touches him with a yardstick, like a child touching a snake.

HOLLY (V.O.)

Suddenly, I was thrown into a state

of shock...

EXT. HOUSE AND BOX CAR

Kit, rifle in hand, lumbers out a side door of the house

with Cato over his shoulder. He steers for a nearby box car

that evidently served Cato as a shed.

HOLLY (V.O.)

Kit was the most trigger happy person

I'd ever met. He claimed that as

long as you're playing for keeps and

the law is coming at you, it's

considered okay to shoot all

witnesses. You had to take the

consequences, though, and not whine

about it later.

Kit opens the doors of the box car, and dumps Cato inside.

Before closing the doors he checks Cato's shoes, to see if

they are the ones he gave him. Holly looks on from the side

of the house, twenty yards away.

HOLLY:

We're in for it now... If they catch

us.

Kit looks cornered and defensive. Holly thinks for a moment.

HOLLY:

What'd you put him in there for?

KIT:

(shrugging)

Just to keep him out of the sun.

Kit heads out of sight around the rear of the box car. Holly

goes back inside. Kit walks up and down the length of the

box car, talking under his breath and throwing his rifle

from hand to hand, in a state.

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