Gone Girl Page #13

mantelpiece. She stomps; they all immediately fall face down.

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BONEY (CONT’D)

Yet they remained upright

throughout a life and death

struggle?

NICK:

What do you want me to say...

GILPIN:

You do any housekeeping the day *

your wife went missing?

NICK:

No.

BONEY:

OK, because our guys did a Luminol

test, and I’m sorry to tell you, *

the kitchen lit up. ~iny lost a lot

of blood there. A lot.

NICK:

Oh my god.

BONEY:

And then someone mopped it up.

NICK:

Wait. If someone were staging a

crime scene, why mop up blood? *

BONEY:

(too patiently)

No blood and no body suggests

kidnapping-which tells us to look

at people outside the house.

GILPIN:

Like the homeless you keep *

mentioning.

BONEY:

A pooi of blood and no body

suggests homicide. Which tells us

to look at people inside the house.

Which is what we’re doing here.

A beat. NICK tries to keep his cool.

BONEY (CONT’D)

So. How was your marriage, Nick?

Right now, all we got is Noelle.

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GILPIN:

And she says:
Not good.

BONEY:

Gil, what do you and your wife

argue about? What pisses you off?

GILPIN:

Money. Lack thereof.

BONEY:

Me and my ex, same. I mention it *

because we’ve had a look at your *

finances, Nick. Phew!

She scatters a dozen CREDIT CARD BILLS across the table: all

with NICK’s NAME, all marked LATE. PAY NOW.

BONEY (CONT’D)

One hundred and seventeen thousand

dollars in credit-card debt in the *

past year alone. *

NICK:

Let me see those!

Nick scans the bills.

BONEY:

We pulled up some of the

merchandise. Fun little splurges.

She sets out print-outs of ONLINE purchase pages: the TV,

GOLF CLUBS Boney was asking about in inventory. Also a ROBOT

DOG, and a FENDER ELECTRIC GUITAR.

NICK:

Jesus! This is identity theft or

something! These cards aren’t mine.

I mean:
I don’t even golf!

BONEY:

I do. You bought some great clubs.

GILPIN:

I like the robot dog. *

BONEY:

Let’s talk about life insurance.

NICK:

Wait, we need to look into thisGG

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BONEY:

In April, you bumped up Amy’s life

insurance to $1.2 million.

NICK:

That was Amy’s idea!

BONEY:

You filed the paperwork.

NICK:

For her! Jesus! *

BONEY’s cell phone rings. She picks up. They all wait.

BONEY:

OK. OK. For sure? OK.

(hanging up)

Pregnant. *

NICK wails, grabs his highball glass, throws it at the wall.

BONEY (CONT’D)

So my question becomes—

NICK:

I think I need a lawyer.

Gilpin can’t help but smirk at Boney.

A110 EXT. DUNNE HOUSE - LATER A110 *

GO fights her way through the bramble of media—every crew *

from the vigil and MORE trying to get a react, provoking: GO, *

is your brother a killer? She finally makes it through, FLIPS *

off a nasty cameraman (this footage will come to haunt her). *

110 INT. NICK’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 110 *

Nick is on the phone, Go follows his voice into his room. *

NICK (O.S.) *

Rand.. .No. *

Nick registers Go with a nod. *

NICK (CONT’D) *

I had no idea she was pregnant. I’m *

shocked. . .Look, the fact of the

matter is Amy didn’t want kids. I *

was as surprised as you were—

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Nick stares at phone: Rand hung up.

GO:

You told me y~ didn’t want kids.

NICK:

I was trying to put a good face on.

GO *

You told me, many times, you didn’t

want kids. Then suddenly you have a

pregnant wife. That’s a problem for

you. Especially when you add in

huge debt and secret girlfriend.

NICK:

Stop watching Ellen Abbott.

GO:

You have to f***ing talk to me!

NICK’s DISPOSABLE rings. And rings and rings. Then silence.

NICK:

- Look, ~my didn’t want me to tell

you—just another reason for you to *

dislike her. So it was easier to— *

GO:

Lie to me. Right. V

NICK:

I wanted kids. We’d been trying. No *

luck. When we moved back here, way *

back when, we even went to a

fertility clinic. *

GO:

It didn’t work?

NICK:

She didn’t even try! I did my part-

GO:

Masturbate.

NICK:

—and when it came time for *

her.. .Oh, she’s decided no. Not

interested after all. No thanks. *

GO:

I just don’t believe you, anymore.

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He disappears into the closet. Returns with a shoe box. Pulls

out sheet marked NOTICE of DISPOSAL.

NICK:

A year later, I get this.

NICK (CONT’D)

The clinic is going to toss out

my. . .depos±t, if we don’t contact

them. I gave her the letter. Next

day I see it in the trash.

GO:

You were with Andie by then, right?

NICK:

I wanted a baby with Amy! Amy. A

year ago, Amy being pregnant, that

would have been the best news ever.

He kicks the SHOEBOX across the room. The papers from the

shoebox scatter across the floor. GO picks up a BLUE note.

GO:

(reciting)

“When your poor Amy has a cold,

this dessert just must be-” This is

the clue you couldn’t solve, right?

He shrugs. She pulls out a letter on posh stationery.

GO (CONT’D)

A letter from Desi? That creepy

boyfriend of Amy’s?

NICK:

The adoring rich guy who’d still do

anything for her. It’s f***ing

wrong.

She holds up another document.

GO:

Your prenup?

She sets the box down, backs away.

GO (CONT’D)

Nick, why have you kept this stuff?

It’s like a little box of hate.

NICK *

I did, Go. I hated her. *

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GO:

I love you. No matter what. But you

need to tell me.

NICK:

What are you asking, Go?

She exits, heads down the steps.

NICK (CONT’D)

(calling after her)

Are you actually asking me if I

murdered my wife, Go?

GO:

(dissolving)

I would never ask you that.

She leaves; we hear her name erupt from media outside.

111 EXT. BILL DUNNE’S HOUSE - ESTABLISHING - NIGHT 111

112 INT. BILL DUNNE’S HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT 112

Boney heads to basement door, Gilpin trailing, ANNOYED.

BONEY:

Why was he here that night? His

wife is missing—why come here?

GILPIN:

Who cares, Rhonda? We got this.

Let’s make the arrest.

BONEY:

You know how hard it is to make a *

murder case without a body? It’s *

incredibly difficult. So I want one *

last thing...

GILPIN:

What’s that?

113 INT. BILL DUNNE’S HOUSE - BASEMENT - NIGHT 113

They reach the basement. Dirt floor. Giant whooshing furnace.

BONEY:

I want a body.

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114 EXT. DUNNE HOUSE - ESTABLISHING - NIGHT 114

The final TV vans begin pulling away.

115 INT. DUNNE LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 115

Nick stares at the FINAL CLUE. He writes key words—GIRL, BAD,

PUNISHED, GOODIES, FIVE, OPEN THE DOOR as we hear Amy.

AMY (V.0.)

Picture me:
I’m a girl who is very

bad/I need to be punished and by

punished I mean had/It’s where you

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