Grosse Pointe Blank Page #27

MARTIN:

rushes toward the island, grabbing an iron skillet off the

range, and holds it up like a crossing-guard stop sign. He

steps toward the hidden Assassin just as the Assassin rises

SHOOTING. The skillet takes two rounds before Martin hammers

the Assassin's head with it. Debi and Newberry arrive in the

kitchen.

NEW ANGLE - LOW DUTCH

Martin bashes the skillet into the Assassin's skull, which

is beyond our view. He rises spattered with blood and looks

at Debi.

MARTIN:

I was afraid to commit to a

relationship, but now I know I'm

ready to make it happen.

Martin drops the skillet and grabs Newberry and Debi gently

be the wrists.

MARTIN:

I just need time to change.

He ushers them past the bludgeoned corpse and up the back

stairs. He spins and FIRES twice back down the stairs at

another ASSASSIN coming up, blowing his arms off.

HALLWAY:

He leads them quickly.

MARTIN:

It's not easy for me. I was raised

to close off, to control my

feelings...

He takes them into a bedroom, and BLOWS AWAY, an ASSASSIN

coming in through the window, emptying his auto. Martin pushes

Debi and Newberry into an adjoining bathroom. He backs out

through the doorway.

MARTIN:

Lock the door.

They do. Martin starts away, but stops to get something

straight.

MARTIN:

I wasn't raised in a loving

environment.

(beat)

But that's not an excuse. It's a

reason.

INT. FOYER

Martin corners the banister and springs half-way down the

stairs, then hears the front door begin to open.

MARTIN:

My soul was empty--

Martin jams in another clip, and chambers a round. He sees

Grocer beginning to slip in.

MARTIN:

--and it's up to me to fill it.

Martin FIRES the twelve-round clip into the door until the

slide locks back empty again. Grocer backs out fast. Martin

hears a gun REPORT from upstairs and moves back toward it,

tossing the spent weapon.

INT. BEDROOM

An ASSASSIN slams his body against the bathroom door while

Debi and Newberry scream from within. Martin flies at him.

The Assassin wheels on Martin FIRING. Martin pivots out of

the line of fire, still moving forward. He takes hold of

Assassin's neck and snaps it. Martin drops the corpse.

MARTIN:

(through the door)

It's okay. It's Martin The door begins

to open revealing Debi and Newberry.

MARTIN:

I know what I do isn't moral, per

se, but if you could just look past

that, you'd see a man worth loving.

GROCER (O.S.)

Don't listen to him, he's a

professional.

Martin stops short and c*cks his head toward Grocer's muffled

voice coming from the vent. Grocer continues...

GROCER (O.S.)

You're breaking my heart down here,

Blank. I can't shoot through the

tears.

Martin, incensed, bends down and takes the gun from the dead

man. He runs out of the bedroom, gun poised for a kamikaze

firefight...

EXT. NEWBERRY HOUSE - SAME

Lardner and McCullers are poised outside the front door,

about to enter the mix. McCullers peers through the window.

LARDNER:

Did you see Blank in there?

MCCULLERS:

No...

LARDNER:

Good. For a second there I thought

we were in trouble.

INT. NEWBERRY FOYER - CONTINUOUS

MARTIN:

reaches the top of the front stairs to find Grocer heading

up the stairs at him. They lift their guns at each other to

FIRE, when they hear...

LARDNER AND MCCULLERS

power through the front door, guns BLAZING at floor-level,

ala Butch and Sundance.

Martin and Grocer, above, spin on them instinctively, and

FIRE, killing them. Grocer dives off of the stairs and rolls

out of view.

KITCHEN - INTERCUT

GROCER:

heads up the back stairs.

MARTIN:

works his way toward Grocer, moving with stealth toward the

kitchen.

GROCER:

hears him and starts back down.

Martin dives behind the cooking island just as Grocer comes

out of the stairwell blasting. They unload at each other as

Grocer runs a pattern across the kitchen, FIRING at Martin,

crouched, who BLASTS back. Grocer vaults himself through the

air toward a serving window from the kitchen to the dining

room, still firing.

C.U. - MARTIN'S GUN - SLOW MOTION

The last casing floats out of the chamber into the air, and

the slide on the auto locks back-- empty.

NORMAL SPEED:

GROCER:

Flying through the air disappearing through the shuttered

serving window, his flight carrying him past a television

that sits on a lazy susan.

MARTIN AND GROCER - INTERCUT

Martin and Grocer sit on the floor, backs up against opposite

side of the counter-- Martin in the kitchen and Grocer in

the dining room. The hulking old television sits on the

counter above and between them.

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