Blood Simple Page #14

There is noise from the bar, as of someone entering.

Ray reacts.

THE DOOR:

Separating the bar and back office. Ray hurries to it.

MEURICE (O.S.)

Marty?

Footsteps approach the door.

EXTREME CLOSE SHOT RAY'S HAND ON THE DOOR BOLT

He turns it gently. The bolt clicks shut.

BACK TO RAY:

Meurice's footsteps draw nearer.

MEURICE (O.S.)

Marty, ya home?

There is a rap at the door; Ray stands frozen. The doorknob

rattles. Ray reaches out compulsively to grab it, but stops

himself before actually touching it.

Now Meurice's footsteps can be heard going casually back

into the bar. We hold on Ray's rigidly set face.

MEURICE (O.S.)

What day is it today, Angie?

WOMAN (O.S.)

Tuesday.

MEURICE (O.S.)

Tuesday is ladies' night.

WOMAN (O.S.)

What?

MEURICE (O.S.)

Tuesday night is ladies' night. All

your drinks are free.

We hear a record drop on the jukebox and a Motown song blares.

Ray crosses to Marty's chair and takes off his nylon

windbreaker. He stoops down and tries to mop up the pool of

blood with his windbreaker. This isn't going to work.

He rises and walks over to the bathroom, the windbreaker

dripping blood.

MARTY'S OFFICE BATHROOM

CLOSE SHOT FAUCET

The song continues faintly in the background. The faucet is

turned on and Ray's hand enters frame, holding a dirty white

towel under the stream of water.

BLOOD-SPATTERED FLOOR

The song continues in the background. Ray's hand enters frame

holding the balled-up towel. His windbreaker is wrapped

inside. The camera follows as he pushes it across the trail

of dripped blood to the pool of blood under Marty's chair.

CLOSE SHOT MARTY

He still has not moved. Ray rises into frame and takes him

under the armpits. He notices something on the desk in front

of him.

CLOSE SHOT THE GUN ON THE DESK

Ray's hand enters frame and picks it up.

CLOSE SHOT MARTY'S COAT POCKET

Ray's hand enters frame and slips the gun into Marty's pocket.

Marty is hoisted up.

EXT. BACK OF THE BAR / PARKING LOT

Ray appears in the doorway. The music from the bar, though

fainter, can still be heard.

There are three or four wooden steps going down from the

back door to the small gravel parking lot in back. Ray backs

down the stairs; Marty's feet THUMP-THUMP-THUMP down the

stairs after him.

The rear door of Ray's car is open. Ray heaves in Marty's

torso. Marty's legs rest on the ground outside the car. Ray

takes an ankle in each hand and pushes.

CLOSE SHOT RAY:

As he shuts the door. He looks up across the parking lot.

RAY'S POV

The incinerator belching fire and smoke. We hear its distant

roar over the bar song. We hear the car door slam.

HIGH-ANGLE TRACKING SHOT TOWARD INCINERATOR

We are looking down on Ray's car as the camera tracks behind

it towards the incinerator. At the cut the roar of the

incinerator is suddenly louder. It grows louder still as we

approach it.

Ray's car draws even with the incinerator without slowing or

stopping. The wadded-up towel is chucked out of his window

into the fire. We hold on the fire as Ray's car rolls on out

of frame.

INT. RAY'S CAR

As he drives down a deserted country highway. We hear the

rhythmic sound of the wheels clomping over asphalt. The radio

is broadcasting a fundamentalist's sermon, periodically

interrupted by static. Ray is sweating.

EVANGELIST:

--so there were three signs, the

second of which is Famine, this famine

which I have already pointed out is

devastatin' Africa and the Indian

subcontinent. And the third of these

signs is earthquakes. Now I don't

know why he threw that in but if you

talk to a geologist, and I've talked

to many, he'll tell you that

earthquake activity--

Ray twists around and looks in the back seat.

RAY'S POV

Marty is lying inert.

EVANGELIST:

--has increased almost eighty percent

in the past two years, and what's

more, in two years' time we'll be

experiencin' what's knows as the

Jupiter Effect--

BACK TO RAY:

He looks back at the road. A car roars by.

EVANGELIST:

--wherein all the planets of the

known universe will be aligned up

causin' an incredible buildup of

destructive gravitational force. Now

in Matthew Chapter Six, Verse Eighteen

the Lord out and tells us that these

are the signs by which we shall know

that He is at our door. There are

many good people disagree with me,

but it's my belief that this

Antichrist is alive today and livin'

somewhere in Europe, in that ten-

nation alliance I spoke of, bein'

groomed for his task--

Ray switches off the radio.

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