Gone Girl Page #15

You need to bleed.

She consults her FORENSICS FOR DUMMIES: blood spatter. She *

dips fingers into her pooling blood, flings her hands toward *

the baseboard. Exact MATCH from the book. She does it again. *

She begins fingerpainting the floor with her blood. She

removes - the needle and tapes her wound. She mops the blood on

the floor with the paper towels. Wipes the blood from the *

baseboard except the specks BONEY saw. Ziplocs the towels. *

AMY (V.0.)

You need to clean.

142 INT. DUNNE BEDROOM - NIGHT 142

Amy is writing in her DIARY. Shots of her in different

CLOTHES, different SEASONS, with all those PENS we

recognize—but always at her desk in the North Carthage house.

AMY (V.0.)

You need a diary! Minimum two *

hundred and seventy two entries on

the Nick and Amy story.

(MORE)

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AMY (V.0.) (CONT’D)

Start with the fairytale early *

days—those are true and those are

crucial. You want Nick and Amy to

be likable. After that, you invent: *

The spending, the abuse, the fear,

the pregnancy, the murder. And Nick

thought ~ was the writer.

143 INT. BILL DUNNE’S BASEMENT - NIGHT 143

Amy is delicately staging the diary inside the furnace.

AMY (V.0.)

Burn it just the right amount. *

144 INT. BILL DUNNE’S KITCHEN — NIGHT 144

Amy changes the code on the alarm, smiling.

AMY (V.0.)

Make sure the cops will find it.

145 EXT. GO’S WOODSHED - DUSK 145

Amy smiling into the woodshed.

AMY (V.0.)

Finally, honor tradition with a

very special treasure hunt.

146 INT. FESTIVA - DAY 146

Amy drives along the river, watching it.

AMY (V.0.)

The world will hate Nick for

killing his beautiful, pregnant

wife. And when I’m ready, I’ll go *

out on the ocean with a handful of

pi11s and a couple of stones. If *

they find my body, they’ll know

147 INT. WATER - DAY 147 *

Splash. Amy’s body cuts through the water feet-first. She’s

bound but already the binds are unraveling. One arm comes

loose and it trails along lazily behind her as if she’s

waving goodbye. Her hair flows behind her, her dress swirls

around her waist like it’s made of watercolor.

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AMY (V.0.)

-That Nick dumped his beloved like *

garbage, and she floated down past *

all the other abused, unwanted,

inconvenient women.

Amy’s body floats, ghostly, past several other female bodies

in varying states of decay. Snails are barnacled to her legs,

fish dart in and out of her hair like it’s seaweed.

AMY (V.0.)

Then Nick will die too. *

148 OMIT - EXT. WOODSHED - NIGHT 148 *

149 OMIT - EXT. WOODSHED - NIGHT 149 *

150 OMIT - INT. GO’S KITCHEN - NIGHT 150 *

151 EXT. GAS STATION - ESTABLISHING - DAY 151 *

The Festiva is parked in an empty lot. *

152 INT. GAS STATION BATHROOM - DAY 152 *

AMY looks at herself in the warped gas—station mirror. *

AMY (V.0.) *

Nick and Amy will be gone. But we *

never really existed. *

TITLE CARD:
*

JULY, 5, 2012 *

1:
17 PM *

TWO HOURS GONE *

From her plastic bag, she removes SCISSORS and begins angrily *

sawing off her hair. *

AMY (V.0.) *

Nick loved a girl I was pretending *

to be. Cool Girl. Men always use *

that as the defining compliment, *

don’t they? She’s a cool girl. *

She unpacks hair DYE, dons the dye gloves, SQUIRTS. *

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AMY (V.0.) *

Cool Girl is fun. Cool Girl is *

game. Cool Girl is hot. *

Dye packed on her head, Amy deposits the long blonde hair *

cuttings into a Ziploc marked AMY HAIR. She eats a candy bar. *

AMY (V.0.) *

Cool Girl never gets angry at her *

man. *

She sheds her tight jeans, SIZE 2, and her Spanx, ref astens *

her MONEYBELT and puts on a sundress, SIZE 8, her extra flesh *

filling it easily. She shampoos her hair, rinses, brushes. *

AMY (V.0.) *

She only smiles in a chagrined, *

loving manner and then presents her *

mouth for f***ing. Go ahead 1 Cum on *

me! I don’t mind, Itm Cool Girl. *

153 INT. FESTIVA - AFTERNOON 153 *

Amy drives past a caravan of twentysomethings: Different *

girls peer out at her, DISMISSIVE. One GIRL is flowy-haired, *

BOHO, a second is ROCKBILLY cute, a third is SHOPGIRL HOT. *

TITLE CARD:
*

JULY 5, 2012 *

4:
17 PM *

FIVE HOURS GONE *

AMY (V.0.) *

The window dressing varies. The *

personality’s the same. Cool Girl *

likes what he likes and puts him *

first and does it all with a *

f***ing smile. *

154 EXT. FESTIVA - LATE AFTERNOON 154 *

Driving SOUTH. The trees get lush. *

AMY (V.0.) *

I waited years for the pendulum to *

swing the other way, for men to *

read Jane Austen and make out with *

each other while we leer. And then *

we’d say, yeah, he’s a cool guy. *

The Missouri Souvenir PEN hits another sign: Lake of the *

Ozarks 89 miles. Amy eats Chili Fritos, drinks a pop. *

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AMY (V.0.) *

I will admit:
For someone who likes *

to win, it’s tempting to be the *

girl every guy wants. *

The forest surrenders to a glowing Walmart. Amy pulls in. *

TITLE CARD:
*

JULY 5, 2012, *

6:
17PM *

SEVEN HOURS GONE *

AMY (V.0.) *

When I met Nick I knew he wanted *

Cool Girl. For him, I was willing *

to try. I wax—stripped my p*ssy raw *

and blew him regularly. I drank *

bourbon and bantered. I laughed at *

my mistakes. I made fun of myself. *

I was game. *

155 INT. WALMART - LATE AFTERNOON 155 *

Amy examines sheets; grudgingly adds 300 count to her cart, *

along with toiletries, swimsuit, cleaning items, tampons. *

AMY (V.0.) *

Nick teased things out in me I *

didn’t know existed: A lightness, a *

humor, an ease. And I made him *

smarter, sharper. I inspired him to *

rise to my level. I forged the man *

of my dreams. *

156 INT. FESTIVA - LATE AFTERNOON 156 *

Driving farther—a sign for Lake of the Ozarks, 10 miles. The *

roads get smaller and smaller, til we hit gravel. *

AMY (V.0.) *

We were happy pretending to be *

other people. We were the happiest *

couple we knew. *

157 EXT. HIDEAWAY CABINS - SUNSET 157 *

AMY pulls in. *

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158 INT. HIDEAWAY LOBBY - SUNSET 158 *

From her MONEYBELT, AMY pulls $200 cash, receives her key. *

AMY (V.0.) *

But Nick got lazy. He became *

someone I did not agree to marry. *

159 EXT. CABIN - DUSK 159 *

She grabs her bags and heads inside, barely noticing: GRETA, *

20s, smoking. GRETA notices AMY—or at least all her STUFF. *

AMY (V.0.) *

And he actually expected me to love *

him unconditionally. *

160 INT. CABIN - NIGHT 160 *

It’s a one-room studio. Not shabby-chic but shabby-k±tsch. *

TITLE CARD:
*

JULY 5, 2012 *

9:
17 PM *

TEN HOURS GONE *

AMY (V.0.) *

Then he dragged me, penniless, to *

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