Bonnie and Clyde Page #11

BUCK:

(still quietly)

Can't. I killed a man. We're in

this now.

BLANCHE:

(loud and shrill)

Please! Please!

BONNIE:

(exploding)

Shut up! Just shut up your big

mouth! At least do that, will ya,

just shut up.

CLYDE:

Cut it out, Bonnie.

BONNIE is affronted. BLANCHE continues sobbing.

BONNIE:

(curtly)

Stop the car. I want to talk to you.

53.

Without a word, CLYDE stops the car.

EXT. ROADSIDE. DAY.

BONNIE and CLYDE get out and walk fifteen feet away from the

car. Both are irritated and touchy. Camera follows them.

CLYDE:

(coldly)

What is it?

BONNIE:

Get rid of her.

CLYDE:

Can't do that. She's Buck's wife.

BONNIE:

(snapping her words)

Get rid of both of them then.

CLYDE:

Why? What's the matter with you

anyway?

BONNIE:

She's what's the matter with me, a

damn stupid back country hick

without a brain in her head.

(contemptuously)

She ain't nothin' but prunes and

proverbs.

CLYDE:

(really pissed-off at Bonnie)

What makes you any better? What

makes you so damn special? You're

just a West Dallas waitress who

spent half your time pickin' up

truck drivers!

This hits home with BONNIE. He has said the unforgivable.

BONNIE:

(raising her voice)

You talk to me like that! Big

Clyde Barrow, just the same as your

brother, an ignorant uneducated

hillbilly.

(with deadly archness)

Only special thing about you is

your peculiar ideas about

lovemakin'--which is no love makin'

at all.

54.

CLYDE stiffens. The two of them stand silent and tense,

almost quivering with anger. They have stripped each other

raw. CLYDE turns and looks back at the car. Everyone is

waiting, watching them. He breathes a deep sigh, like a man

counting to 10 to hold his temper.

CLYDE:

Look, Bonnie-

He can't finish.

Close. BONNIE. She drops her head into her hand for a

moment, comes up a little more relaxed. She looks at CLYDE

and her eyes reflect the realization of the pain she has

inflicted on him. She softens.

BONNIE:

Clyde...honey...I didn't mean all

that, honey. Blame it on all that

shootin', I just felt so bad...sure

enough...Clyde?

CLYDE:

Okay...Okay, hon...let's get

movin'...

He turns and begins walking back to the car. BONNIE walks

alongside him. On the few steps back, she regains all her

dignity and acts aloof from the others waiting for her. She

reaches the car. CLYDE opens her door for her and she gets

in like a great lady. He walks around to his side, gets in,

and they drive off.

WIDE SHOT. EXT. CAR. DAY.

A very wide shot. We see CLYDE's car driving along a wooded

road. For a moment that is all we see, then we should

become aware that far in the distance another car is

following CLYDE's.

Close. Rural mail box. On the opposite side of the road,

CLYDE's car swings across the road and CLYDE, who is driving,

snatches a newspaper which protrudes from the box and hands

it into the car. They drive out of the shot. Camera holds

and soon the following car enters the shot. The man driving

is a Texas ranger. He drives slowly. He drives out of the

shot.

INT. CLYDE'S CAR.

BUCK is reading from the paper.

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BUCK:

(jubilantly)

Hey, y'all, listen to this here:

Law enforcement officers throughout

the Southwest are frankly amazed at

the way in which will-of-the-wisp

bandit Clyde Barrow and his yellow-

haired companion, Bonnie Parker,

continue to elude their would-be

captors. Since engaging the police

in a gun battle on the streets of

Joplin Missouri and slaying three

of their number...

BLANCHE:

Oh, Lord...

We notice CLYDE is wincing.

BUCK:

...the Barrow gang has been reported

as far West as White City, New

Mexico, and as far north as Chicago.

They have been credited with

robbing the Mesquite Bank in the

aforementioned White City, the J.J.

Landry Oil Refinery in Arp, Texas,

the Sanger City National Bank in

Denton, Texas on three different

occasions. In addition to these

robberies, the fast travelling

Barrows have been rumored to have

had a hand in the robbing of two

Piggly Wiggly stores in Texas, and

one A&P store in Missouri, though

Chief Percy Hammond, who first

identified Clyde Barrow's brother,

Buck, as a member of the gang,

expressed some doubt that these

last robberies were committed by

the Barrow Gang alone.

BONNIE:

Go on.

C.W.

(finally)

Clyde, we ain't goin' to see a

restroom for another thirty miles.

Why don't you just stop here?

CLYDE looks relieved.

56.

EXT. WOODED AREA. DAY.

He pulls the car to a stop, gets out and goes off into the

woods. We watch him vanish behind the trees.

INT. CAR.

BUCK still scanning the newspaper.

BUCK:

(with a laugh)

Hey now, here's something! Listen

here:
Lone Cop Arrests Two Officers

In Hunt For Barrow. Police Officer

Howard Anderson's heart turned

faster than his motorcycle when he

forced to the side of the road a

roaring black V-8 sedan in which

were three men and a blondheaded

woman yesterday afternoon.

Everybody laughs. As BUCK continues to read, his voice

remaining on the soundtrack.

EXT. CAR.

The camera goes outside the car and pulls back, way back, to

reveal a police car quietly driving up behind the car. The

car stops a good distance away and one man gets out, the

only occupant of the car. He is tall, dressed in the

uniform of the Texas Ranger. He draws his gun and slowly

approaches the car from the rear. On the soundtrack BUCK's

voice continues; as we see all this taking place.

BUCK:

When he saw several machine guns in

the car he was certain he'd caught

Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and

maybe Buck Barrow and the third

unidentified member of the gang.

It took a lot of telephoning and

explaining to convince the

motorcycle cop that his captives

were two highway patrolmen and a

blonde-haired stenographer from the

Highway Patrol--. Haw! Haw!

(everybody busts up

with laughter)

In the meantime, on screen, the lawman is slowly approaching

the back of the car. Suddenly, cut to shot of CLYDE coming

out of the woods, behind the lawman. His gun is tucked in

his pants. In a second, he sees what is happening.

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BUCK's voice is continuing:

BUCK:

Anderson was held up as an example

for every other Texas peace officer

today. "That was a mighty brave

thing," explained Highway Patrol

Chief L.C. Winston.

CLYDE whips out his gun. The following scene is played

exactly like a classic fast-draw in an heroic Western.

CLYDE:

Sheriff!

BRYCE spins around. Both men fire instanteously, but CLYDE

has the draw on him, and the aim. The gun goes flying from

the SHERIFF's hand. A really razzle-dazzle display of

grandstand marksmanship from Clyde.

Immediately the gang leaps from the car and surrounds the

man, guns drawn.

C.W.

Boy! What a shot, Clyde!

BUCK:

Sweet Jesus, I never seen shootin'

like that!

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