Blood Simple Page #24

ABBY'S POV

The splintered top half of the cue stick on the coffee table.

INT. ABBY'S HALLWAY

Abby approaches her door in the foreground and lets herself

in.

INT. ABBY'S APARTMENT

Looking toward the window. The room is dark. Through the

window we see the facade of the building across the street.

Abby enters frame in the foreground, in silhouette against

the window, and throws an overhead light switch. The bright

light reveals Ray standing by the window, looking out.

RAY:

(abruptly)

Turn it off.

Abby jumps, startled.

ABBY:

Ray...

EXT. ROOF OF FACING APARTMENT BUILDING

From the roof of the building across the street we are looking

down on the facade of Abby's building. Most of its windows

are dark, but in a brightly lit fourth-floor window we can

clearly see Abby and Ray.

A man is on the roof in the foreground, hitching a rifle to

his shoulder.

INT. ABBY'S APARTMENT

Ray turns from the window which, with the switching on of

the overhead light, has become a mirror of the interior of

the apartment.

RAY:

Just turn it off.

EXT. FACING ROOF

The light goes out in the apartment across the street; its

window goes opaque.

INT. ABBY'S APARTMENT

Dark now. Ray still stands by the window, looking out. Abby

still stands by the light switch.

RAY:

(answering a question)

No curtains on the windows.

Abby is clearly apprehensive--about Ray, not about anything

outside.

ABBY:

...So?

RAY:

I think someone's watching.

Abby doesn't understand, and has had enough. As she throws

the light back on:

ABBY:

So what'll they see?

Ray turns angrily from the window.

RAY:

Just leave it off. He can see in.

EXT. FACING ROOF

Ray and Abby are once again clearly visible. Ray is starting

across the room.

INT. ABBY'S APARTMENT

Abby takes a fearful step back as Ray strides toward the

light switch, next to her.

ABBY:

(abruptly)

--If you do anything the neighbors'll

hear.

This brings Ray up short. He stares at Abby. It registers

that it is him she's afraid of.

RAY:

You think...

He shakes his head.

RAY:

...Abby. I meant it... when I

called...

Abby takes another step back. Her voice comes out, after a

pause, half-strangled:

ABBY:

...I love you too.

Ray winces. He slowly shakes his head with a pained half-

smile.

RAY:

Because you're scared.

We hear the dull report of a rifle and the deafening sound

of shattering glass. The gun shot hits Ray in the back,

knocking him to the floor. He lies still.

CLOSE SHOT ABBY:

She stares dumbly down at Ray. She looks slowly up to the

window.

THE WINDOW:

It has a gaping black hole. The sound of shattering glass

still reverberates in the apartment. Small shards of glass

chink down from the window and shatter on the floor.

BACK TO ABBY:

Staring at the window, paralyzed--almost in a trance. Quiet

except for the chinking of glass.

EXT. FACING ROOF

We are looking through the telescopic sight of a high-powered

rifle. The rifle sweeps up from Ray's body across the brightly

lit room, and centers Abby, still staring at the window, in

the cross hairs.

INT. ABBY'S APARTMENT

We are looking past Abby toward the shattered window at the

far end of the room. A brass lamp stands in the foreground,

between Abby and the camera. Abby still stands paralyzed.

Glass has stopped chinking from the window to the floor;

there is a painful silence.

Suddenly Abby dives to the floor just as CRASH the rest of

the window falls away and PING the brass lamp somersaults

toward us from the impact of the bullet.

The window is now completely gone--just a black hole in the

brightly lit wall.

ABBY:

Scrambles into a corner at the window end of the room. The

only sound is her heavy breathing. She looks over at Ray,

then up at the bulb on the ceiling.

ABBY'S POV CEILING BULB

BACK TO ABBY:

Breathing heavily, almost hysterical. She looks down at the

floor.

ABBY'S POV

Ray is sprawled on the floor in a pool of blood and broken

glass.

BACK TO ABBY:

She reaches down and pulls off one of her shoes. She throws

it at the ceiling bulb.

We hear the bulb shatter and the room goes black.

Abby rises and makes her way cautiously across the glass-

littered floor toward Ray. She stoops over him.

LOW SHOT THE DARK APARTMENT

Its front door in background. Abby rises into frame and backs

toward the doorway, staring down at the floor. One of her

hands is covered with blood.

ABBY:

Ray--

She winces and almost loses her balance as we hear a piece

of glass crunching under her bare floor. She turns and moves

to the front door, favoring one foot, and throws the door

open.

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