Gone Girl Page #6

GO:

When you’re upset, you bottle up.

You can seem. . . angry. . . like

NICK:

Please don’t say like Dad.

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GO:

Or else you swing into your Mama’s *

boy charm offensive—it can feel *

glib.

NICK:

Great, I’ll try to balance on the

exact edge of your emotional razor.

F***ing press conference.

GO:

Just be-

NICK:

Myself?

Silence. Because the obvious answer is no. *

50 OMIT - INT. CAR - DAY 50 *

51 EXT. POLICE STATION - DAY 51

NICK and GO arrive at the police station and get out of car.

52 INT. POLICE STATION - DAY 52

BONEY walks NICK and GO in. The busy crowd of cops parts: we

see RAND and MARYBETH, SUITCASES at their feet.

BONEY:

Your in-laws made it.

NICK approaches warily. RAND hugs him fiercely. MARYBETH

stays outside the circle.

MARYBETH:

We played tennis last night, Nick!

I just can’t get over it.

NICK:

Marybeth, I’m sorry.

RAND:

(to Marybeth)

We’re here now.

MARYBETH:

I knew you shouldn’t have moved *

back here.

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NICK:

(pointed)

We didn’t have a lot of choice.

RAND:

We are all worried, we are all

scared. But we are all here now,

and we will find Amy. Together.

He pulls MARYBETH in on the hug. She allows it but keeps

tracking EVERYTHING in the office.

53 INT. POLICE STATION - DAY 53

Boney and Go POV on group hug.

BONEY:

They get along?

GO:

Honestly, here’s the secret to

Nick. He looks like the preppy

a**hole from the ~80s teen movie,

but he’s really the A/V nerd with

the pet ferret.

54 INT. STATION CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 54

BONEY leads the ELLIOTTS and NICK into a room of a HALF DOZEN

BORED LOCAL REPORTERS: Texting, eating, gabbing. As they

catch sight of handsome NICK, they put down their sandwiches.

AMY’s gorgeous MISSING poster is revealed. An AMAZING AMY

book jacket is revealed. Everyone is extremely attentive.

NICK:

Thank you for coming. My wife, Amy

Elliott Dunne, went missing from

our home on July 5 between 9 am and *

11:
30 am under very concerning *

circumstances. We ask for anyone

who may have knowledge of what has

happened to her to come forward.

And.. .he’s done? Rand steps in.

RAND:

Amy is our only child. She’s smart

and beautiful and kind. She really

is Amazing Amy.

(MORE)

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RAND (CONT’D)

I know there are millions of people

out there who grew up with her and

care about her. We care about her,

we love her and we want her back.

MARYBETH:

Amy is a decorated scholar. She

forged a successful career in

journalism. She returned here to

her husband’s hometown, and she

made a life in her adopted home.

Now Amy needs your help. We are

setting up a volunteer headquarters

at the Drury Lodge. We have a

hotline, 1-855-4-AMY-TIPS and our *

website is FindAmazingAmy.com.

Nick and the Elliotts pause for a few photos. The Elliotts

look devastated; NICK looks annoyed. A PHOTOG asks Nick to

pose next to Amy’s photo: a demented PROM SHOT. SNAP!

NICK looks more annoyed. He glances at GO; she prods him to

SMILE. NICK flashes a sudden, smarmy SMILE, overly charming

and oily. The CAMERAS click crazily. SNAP! SNAP! He drops it.

55 INT. POLICE CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 55

BONEY, RAND AND MARYBETH and NICK are at a conference table.

Boney is taking notes. The Elliotts have their two suitcases

with them. They open one: It’s filled with “AMY FILES”: Photo

albums, news clippings, Amazing Amy books.

MARYBETH:

We have suspects you’ll want to

look at, Detective.

Rand is pulling out photos, notes, from a manila envelope.

RAND:

Amy’s the kind of girl who attracts

admirers. Tell her, Nick.

NICK:

It’s very true.

RAND:

We’ve had a few instances where

things got

MARYBETH:

Scary.

(to Nick)

Do you know about Desi Collings?

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A photo flies into frame: AMY, in an old prom shot with DESI

COLLINGS. Boarding-school beautiful. It echoes the ‘~prom

shot” we just saw of Nick and “Cardboard Amy.”

NICK:

Yes. I know all about Desi. I know

he writes her letters.

MARYBE TH:

He was obsessed. He attempted

suicide after Amy broke up with him

sophomore year. We filed a *

restraining order. *

BONEY:

This would be high school.. .20

years ago?

MARYBETH:

He moved to St. Louis-that’s just

two hours away—

NICK:

To be fair, he’s from St. Louis—he

moved back. I’ve read his letters.

They’re friendly.

MARYBETH:

Threatening?

NICK:

Friendly.

RAND:

We also have Tommy O’Hara. This was

only eight years ago in New York.

She broke up with him—he got very

physical. She filed charges.

NICK:

I did not know this.

BONEY:

(taking notes)

What was the charge? Sexual

assault? Battery? Threat?

RAND:

I only know it was bad.

BONEY:

OK. Thank you. Anything. . .recent?

Silence.

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56 INT. POLICE STATION MAIN ROOM - DAY 56

BONEY is walking them out. Reporters are closing in like

curious sharks. As RAND and MARYBETH answer a few nibbles,

BONEY grabs NICK. A bit clandestine.

BONEY:

Got a minute?

57 INT. BONEY’S OFFICE - DAY 57

In the center of BONEY’s desk sits the ENVELOPE: CLUE ONE.

BONEY:

Imagine our confusion: missing

persons case, and here we find an

envelope marked CLUE.

NICK:

For our anniversary Amy always did *

this treasure hunt— *

BONEY:

Hoping you can tell me what this *

means.

NICK:

You want to solve my wife’s

treasure hunt?

BONEY:

It’ll help us track Amy’s movements *

before she disappeared: Where she

went, who she might have seen. *

He takes the clue, doubtfully, dreadfully, and reads.

NICK:

“Although this spot couldn’t be~ *

tighter/it’s a cozy room for my *

favorite writer” I think I know *

this.

58 INT. COLLEGE - DAY 58

NICK and BONEY weave past bored summer-school kids. NICK

reaches his office, finds his key, steps over a pile of MAIL.

AMY (V.0.)

After-school meeting? Don’t mind if *

I do...

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59 INT. NICK’S COLLEGE OFFICE - DAY 59

It’s dust mote-y, messy, CRAMPED.

AMY (V.0.)

Maybe I’ll teach you a thing or

two.

The blue ENVELOPE—CLUE TWO—sits in the center of Nick’s desk.

He gives a glance to BONEY before touching it.

BONEY:

My guest.

He picks up a pair of SCISSORS that sit next to a MATCHING

STAPLER and opens it. Boney reads over his shoulder.

INSERT on note:

Hey, handsome man—let’s go

undercover. You be the spy and I’ll *

be his lover. Let’s head on over to

the little brown house.

We’ll play hot, doting husband and

sweet loving spouse.

BONEY’s POV as she pokes around, looks in his file drawer.

Unlike Amy’s, it has but one file: BOOK IDEAS. The file is

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