Gone Girl Page #19

These two spend their days in the

bar Amy bought them. Playing, what,

Lauren, playing house?

NICK:

What the f***?I

LAUREN:

Siblings often enable and abet. I

haven’t examined Nick or his

sister. But they seem very, very

close.

ON TV:
Go whispering in Nick’s ear, him smiling.

ELLEN:

Disturbingly close, Lauren.

A dopey Business Traveler nudges his friend as he points at

Nick and Go on the TV.

DOPE:

Twinsest.

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NICK, furious, silent, pulls down his hat and walks past.

183 INT. GRETA’S CABIN - NIGHT 183 *

As Ellen Abbott signs off, AMY looks absolutely sated.

ELLEN:

And so we close with a question:

What kind of moral rot allows a *

beautiful, talented, kind, smart,

loving mother to vanish without the

heavens hearing our outraged cries?

Amy Elliott Dunne, we care about

you and we will not forget. And you *

know what else we won’t forget: *

Missouri has the death penalty. *

AMY:

Can I bum a cigarette? *

184 EXT. CABIN - NIGHT 184

Amy, elated, triumphant, takes a drag of her cigarette, gives *

a little squeal of joy. *

185 INT. CABIN - NIGHT 185

Amy marches over to her calendar and looks at the date marked

for KILL SELF. She crosses it off. And the next month’s and

the next month’s. She takes out her DISPOSABLE. *

AMY *

Hi, I’d like to report some *

activity on the property of one *

Margo Dunne. *

186 EXT. LADUE - NIGHT 186

Toniest neighborhood in St. Louis. Toniest house. Nick

smooths his shirt, chews a mint. Rings the doorbell. DESI

COLLINGS, 30s, handsome, preppy, answers. Rears back.

DES I:

Mr. Dunne.

NICK:

Mr. Collings.

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Desi doesn’t invite him in. Strange charge in air: Desi

thinks Nick is guilty; Nick thinks Desi is innocent.

NICK (CONT’D)

(realizing)

You were there. At the volunteer

center. I saw you.

DE SI:

I wanted to help.

Nick pulls out one of Desi’s embossed envelopes.

NICK:

I got your address from this.

DES I:

~my and I believe in the lost art

of letter writing.

NICK:

I’m curious why you still write

her. After everything...

DESI gives him nothing.

NICK (CONT’D)

You dated a few years, right?

Boarding school.

DES I:

My first serious girlfriend.

NICK:

Why’d you break up?

DES I:

That’s a strange question.

NICK:

You treat her bad? Cheat on her? *

DES I:

That’s a rude question.

NICK:

Let me tell you what she told me.

She told me you unraveled after she

dumped you. You stalked her.

Threatened her. And finally you

attempted suicide on her bed in her

dorm room. Had to be sent away.

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DES I:

Your wife is missing and you came *

all this way to tell me this? *

NICK:

I’m curious for your version.

Ugly pause. DESI shuts the door on Nick.

187 INT. NICK’S CAR - NORTH CARTHAGE - NIGHT 187

Nick drives home: past the Carthage sign. Welcome Back to

Carthage, ya’lll

A188 EXT. THE BAR - NIGHT A188

Nick drives past: The joint is jumping: Journalists,

lookiloos. A girl is having her photo taken out front.

188 INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT 188

BONEY is pouring over the diary. Early parts. She’s smiling.

GILPIN:

You’re reading it again? You know

how it ends.

BONEY:

(not looking up)

It interests me.

GILPIN:

Hey, Rhonda?

(she looks up)

“He’s going to kill me.” The End.

BONEY:

Why’d he go to his dad’s house to

burn it?

GILPIN:

No one’s there. It’s private.

BONEY:

Why didn’t he make sure it actually

burnt?

GILPIN:

Because he tripped the alarm and

you were all over his ass.

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BONEY:

The whole thing just feels.. .easy. *

Like finding an envelope marked *

CLUE. *

GILPIN:

Ever heard that phrase, Rhonda: The

simplest answer is often correct?

BONEY:

I’ve actually never found that to

be true.

189 EXT. GO’S HOUSE - MORNING 189

The doorbell rings. Nick opens onto TANNER in a seersucker.

BIG GRIN from Tanner.

TANNER:

Elvis is in Missouri.

TITLE CARD:

July 10, 2012

FIVE DAYS GONE:

190 INT. GO’S KITCHEN - DAY 190

GO, NICK and TANNER at the table. GO pours coffee.

NICK:

Maybe we should take everything to

Boney. Make our case.

TANNER:

OK, Nick. Go. Make your case.

Convince me!

NICK:

First, you need to understand Amy.

She loves to teach lessons.

GO:

Play God.

NICK:

Old Testament God.

TANNER:

Keep talking.

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NICK:

Amy finds out I’m cheating. She

decides to punish me. She fakes her

death. She makes the case against

me:
the blood in the house, the

credit cards, the life insurance.

GO:

She does the treasure hunt.

NICK:

The key is the treasure hunt: Amy

was taking me on a tour of my

infidelities—and rubbing my nose in *

them. Clue One she leaves for the *

cops to find. It leads us to my *

office—a place where I had sex with *

Andie. And what do we find there,

but a pair of women’s underwear— *

TANNER *

Racy. Looks bad. *

TANNER (CONT’D)

Clue 2?

NICK:

Took me to my dad’s. Also a place

where Andie and I had relations. *

TANNER:

Clue 3?

NICK:

Took me to the woodshed. Where we- *

GO:

God, Nick!

NICK:

We had limited options.

GO *

Hotel? *

NICK *

Credit cards—Amy would see. *

GO *

What about Andie’s credit card? *

NICK *

Statements go to her parents. *

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Tanner reads through the clues. Picks up Clue 2.

TANNER:

“Let’s head on over to the little

brown house.” This leads you to?

NICK:

My dad’s house.

GO:

Dad’s house is blue.

NICK:

(after a pause)

After the divorce, when he stopped

seeing us, I pretended he was a spy

named Mr. Brown who had to pretend

he had no kids.

GO:

You never told me that.

(pause)

You told her that? *

TANNER:

Nick, there were incriminating red

panties in your office, and there’s *

an incriminating Showcase Showdown

worth of crap in the woodshed. *

NICK:

Yes.

TANNER:

So what in god’s name is at your *

dad’s house?

191 EXT. BILL DUNNE’S HOUSE - DAY 191 *

Tanner, Nick and Go stand outside. It’s been cordoned off.

192 INT. TRUCK STOP DINER - DAY 192

NICK and GO are chowing; TANNER is sipping a Clamato.

TANNER:

Whatever the hell they found, we

have to assume it’s very bad.

(pause)

OK. We have a lot of uncontained

issues here.. .Nick, do you have a

guess what Andie’s mindset is?

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NICK:

She hasn’t phoned me back since the *

vigil.

TANNER:

OK, and Amy’s parents?

Nick shakes his head: Bad news. *

TANNER (CONT’D) *

OK, we have serious pressures here. *

We have a hurt young girlfriend who

will go public any moment.

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