Blood Simple Page #26

INT. ADJACENT APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT VISSER'S HAND

Abby (out of frame) has grabbed it and now THUMP she slams

the window down on his wrist, catching it between the window

sash and sill.

Her other hand flashes across frame to THUNK pin Visser's

hand to the sill with Ray's knife.

QUICK CUT:

BACK TO VISSER:

We hear the shatter of glass as the shock causes his head to

break through the window. His hand is nailed into the

apartment next door. He is in pain.

ADJACENT APARTMENT

Abby back slowly from the window, staring at the hand. From

the ground below we hear the faint and echoing sounds of the

shards of glass shattering against pavement.

ABBY'S POV THE WINDOW

Visser's pinned hand is writhing.

As we hear a muffled CRACK, a circle of light opens with a

puff of plaster dust in the wall that separates the two

apartments. A line of light shoots across the dark apartment

from the bright bathroom next door.

BACK TO ABBY:

Staring at the wall. We hear a second CRACK.

ABBY'S POV

A second hole has opened in the wall, letting through a second

shaft of light.

Four more sharp reports in rapid succession: With each gun

blast a bright circle opens and a new shaft of light

penetrates the dark apartment.

Finally we hear the CLICK of an empty chamber, and the clatter

of the empty gun being dropped to the floor of the bathroom

next door.

CLOSE SHOT ABBY:

Staring at the lines of light that crisscross the apartment.

There is a long moment of silence, then a sudden THUMP.

ABBY'S POV THE WALL

Six circles of light.

The circles go black momentarily as there is another THUMP.

And another. Each time Visser pounds his fist against the

wall, there is a muffled THUMP and his swinging arm strobes

the bullet holes.

BACK TO ABBY:

She turns and hobbles toward the door of apartment. The

muffled thumping continues, as in her dream.

HALLWAY:

As Abby emerges from the adjacent apartment. She stops and

looks down the hall.

ABBY'S POV

The stairway is at the far end of the hall. The door of her

own darkened apartment stands slightly ajar.

ADJACENT APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT THE WALL

The bullet holes strobing. The pounding, more purposeful

now, grows louder and more intense.

Finally, with a crash, Visser's fist penetrates the wall in

an explosion of light and dust.

HALLWAY:

We pull Abby as she limps hesitantly down the hall.

ADJACENT APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT VISSER'S HAND

Waving aimlessly through the ambient dust. He is blindly

groping for the sill--and the knife that pins his other hand.

His outstretched middle finger just grazes the handle of the

knife.

ABBY'S HALLWAY / APARTMENT

Pulling Abby as she draws even with the door of her apartment.

ABBY'S POV

Her pearl-handled revolver sits on the shelf just inside the

door, where Ray left it. It catches the light from the hall.

ADJACENT APARTMENT

EXTREME CLOSE SHOT VISSER'S FINGERTIPS

The side of his middle finger rubs against the knife handle;

the tip of his index finger barely touches it. Visser's

fingers are trembling, indicating that his arm is stretched

to its uttermost.

A surge against the wall gives his fingers another inch or

so and they curl around the handle of the knife.

ABBY'S APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT ABBY:

As she steps in from the hallway to pick up the gun. She

looks around the apartment.

ABBY'S POV

The window of the apartment, its glass now completely gone,

lets in streetlight. Ray's corpse is a dark form in the middle

of the floor. A bright shaft of light slices across the room

from offscreen. It glints on the shards of glass that litter

the floor, just as in Abby's dream.

BATHROOM:

CLOSE SHOT VISSER

As he slowly, quietly draws his hand in from the hole in the

wall. He is holding the knife.

He turns slowly to face the door, listening.

ABBY'S APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT ABBY:

She steadies herself against the wall and turns to look toward

the bathroom.

ABBY'S POV

The bathroom door stands slightly ajar. The interior of the

bathroom is a bright band in the shadowy recesses of the

back of the apartment.

BATHROOM:

CLOSE SHOT VISSER

Moving quietly toward the door.

ABBY'S APARTMENT

CLOSE SHOT ABBY:

Staring, almost transfixed, at the bathroom door. She raises

the gun, trembling, and trains it on the band of light.

ABBY'S POV

Visser's shadow falls across the crack in the doorway.

BACK TO ABBY:

She shifts the gun slightly and fires.

ABBY'S POV

With the roar of the gun, a small circle of light opens in

the door. As the door waffles under the impact, we hear Visser

collapsing behind it.

BACK TO ABBY:

Leaning against the facing wall. She lowers the gun. She

slides down the wall to finally rest seated on the floor.

She brushes a drop of sweat from her eye.

HER POV:

The cracked bathroom door spilling light.

BACK TO ABBY:

A pause. After a moment, her voice comes out half-choked:

ABBY:

...I ain't afraid of you, Marty.

HER POV:

The bathroom door. Quiet for a long moment.

Then, from inside the bathroom, we hear laughter.

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