Blue Velvet Page #22

FRANK (V.O.)

(helium voice)

Hey pretty pretty.

Jeffrey then hears three or four shots - deadly sounding coming from a

pistol with a silencer attached.

FRANK (V.O.)

Hey f***, where are you?

Jeffrey sees a furious Frank come storming out of the back room and come

slowly up the hall - directly toward him.

Jeffrey raises his pistol - very slowly. Frank enters the living room.

He looks around. The Yellow Man moans. Frank makes a face and blasts the

remainder of the Yellow Man's head away and this time the Yellow Man falls

dead to the floor. Jeffrey tenses in the silence which hangs in the air. Frank looks to the kitchen. all around the living room. He looks at the closet. He smiles - he slowly goes right toward Jeffrey - smiling. Jeffrey points the pistol. His finger moves to the trigger. He squints his eyes. He doesn't want to kill a man. any man. Frank comes right to the closet door and throws it open, when Jeffrey hears Sandy scream.

SANDY (V.O.)

Jeffrey!!

Frank and Jeffrey lock eyes as Jeffrey pulls the trigger. He yells Sandy's

name and Frank's head is blown off.

We see Sandy's frightened face. We see policemen racing up the stairs in

Dorothy's apartment.

223. EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

We see cop cars with lights revolving, radios blaring.

224. INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - POLICE STATION - NIGHT

The large room is crowded with policemen and members of the F.B.I.

Everyone is talking excitedly. Jeffrey and Sandy are sitting by Detective

Williams in wooden chairs near the center of the room. We hear bits of

conversation.

DETECTIVE WILLIAMS

(to Jeffrey)

Because of your information I alerted

internal affairs to check out Detective

Gordon. I had to keep on with him as

if nothing was different. He slipped

off on his own when he found out we were

going to raid Frank's place.

JEFFREY:

Does Dorothy know her husband is dead?

DETECTIVE WILLIAMS

Not yet.

JEFFREY:

Oh my God. Is her son OK?

F.B.I. MAN

We're looking for him. In your opinion,

why did Frank kidnap Dorothy's son and

husband?

JEFFREY:

He became obsessed with her. She hated

him. He had to have her. He kidnapped

them to control her. to make her do

things. Then she wanted to commit

suicide so he started cutting off ears

as a warning to her to stay alive. I'm

not kidding. Frank loved blue. blue

velvet. He had to have Dorothy cause

her whole life was blue.

F.B.I. MAN

You seemed to see some very interesting

things on your little escapade with

Dorothy Vallens.

JEFFREY:

Yeah. I guess I did.

(He turns to Sandy

with a worried look)

What's going to happen to me?

F.B.I. MAN

We're going to leave that up to Detective

Williams. I'll tell you though. you're

okay. you shot a real son of a b*tch.

JEFFREY:

Yeah. I sure know that. Yeah, but how

many more are out there?

FADE TO BLACK - DARKNESS

225. EXT. BEAUMONTS' BACK YARD - DAY

A huge low roaring sound comes in.

SLOWLY WE COME UP OUT OF A HUGE DARK HOLE. We see we are rising out of an

ear but still among the crevices. They look enormous. We move up and

float above the ear and traverse across a cheek to an eye. Jeffrey's eye.

His face is bathed in light.

All sorts of springtime-in-the-garden sounds are heard.

We suddenly see that Jeffrey is sleeping in his back yard. Detective

Williams is with Mr. Beaumont working in the garden in the distance.

The sprinkler is turning. Sandy comes out on the back porch and calls.

SANDY:

Jeffrey. Lunch is ready.

Jeffrey opens his eyes. He looks around confused for a moment. He sees

Sandy.

JEFFREY:

Okay. I'll be right in.

Sandy goes back inside. Suddenly, a big red ROBIN chirps loudly above.

Jeffrey looks up at it sitting in the cherry tree. The Robin and Jeffrey

seems to exchange a special look.

Jeffrey smiles up at the fat bird.

He gets off the lawn chair and walks away from us toward the back door of

the house. As he passes his father and Detective Williams:

JEFFREY:

How ya doin' Dad?

MR. BEAUMONT

(distant voice)

Hey Jeff. I'm feelin' so much better.

JEFFREY:

Good deal Dad.

He and Detective Williams share a smile.

226. INT. BEAUMONTS' KITCHEN - DAY

Jeffrey enters the kitchen and sees Sandy standing with Aunt Barbara by the

kitchen window. Beyond, in the living room Mrs. Williams and Jeffrey's

mother turn toward the kitchen when they hear the screen door slam.

A large Red Robin has just flown down to the window still carrying a big

bug in its mouth.

SANDY:

(Referring to the bird)

Look Jeffrey.

JEFFREY:

(As he joins Aunt Barbara and

Sandy to look at the robin)

Yeah. I just saw him outside. Maybe

the robins are here.

AUNT BARBARA:

I don't see how they do it. I could

never eat a bug.

JEFFREY AND SANDY

(smiling)

It's a strange world, isn't it?

CUT TO:

227. EXT. FLOWER GARDEN - DAY

Yellow tulips sway in a warm afternoon breeze.

DISSOLVE TO:

228. EXT. SHADY STREET - DAY

A bright red gorgeous fire engine is moving very slowly down the street.

We MOVE IN to see the happy face of a FIREMAN.

DISSOLVE TO:

229. EXT. CROSSWALK - SHADY STREET - DAY

A very clean uniformed, smiling POLICEMAN with arms outstretched allows

clean happy SCHOOL CHILDREN to cross the street safely.

DISSOLVE TO:

230. EXT. TREE - DAY

A songbird SINGS in a tree.

We are in a beautiful park. Slowly we move down and a little hat with a

propeller comes into view. The hat is on the head of a small child who is

dancing slowly toward Dorothy. She is laughing. When the boy gets within

arms reach they embrace. We move close to Dorothy's smiling face. Tears

of happiness come into her eyes, but there is still a distant look as we

hear Bobby Vinton sing the last lines of his song.

"and I still can see Blue Velvet through

my tears."

Blue Velvet dissolves in and takes over the image.

THE END:

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