I, Tonya Page #12

JEFF:

What’s up?

Shawn mimes whacked Nancy crying out ‘Why?!?’

JEFF (CONT’D)

Whoa!!

SHAWN:

Yeah!

JEFF:

Shawn. Are you trying to tell me youhad something to do with this wholeNancy Kerrigan thing?

SHAWN:

What the f***, Jeff?! Of course I

JEFF:

Don’t-say another word or I’ll beforced to go to the authorities.

And Shawn realizes Jeff knows he’s wearing a wire. Jeff leans inclose to Shawn. KISSING CLOSE.

JEFF (CONT’D)

I’ve had love in my heart for you onlyI can’t help you with this. But youmade your bed. Now die in it.

Jeff walks out. Shawn looks outside nervously to the G-men.

191 INT. DIANE RAWLINSON’S HOUSE -LIVING ROOM -DAY

Tonya and Jeff wait for Bob Rawlinson, Tonya’s lawyer.

TONYA (V.O.)

Diane’s husband’s a lawyer so in themorning we meet up at their house. Itwas nice. They had a living room andstuff like that...

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TONYA:

Why don’t we turn his ugly, fat assin? Big, dumb, freakin’, tub a guts.

JEFF:

Cause it’s only his word against ours.

You & I gotta stick together-

TONYA:

I’m gonna lose everything! I worked mywhole life for this and he-

JEFF:

If it ever came down to that, I’d tellthem you didn’t have anything to dowith it. But right now we gotta getour story straight. Since they can’tpin anything on us -we didn’t knowanything.

TONYA:

We didn’t know anything.

Diane and Bob Rawlinson, lawyerly handsome, join them.

BOB:

Look. They arrested Shawn and he’ssaying it was all your idea, Jeff.

TONYA JEFF:

We didn’t know anything! We didn’t know anything!

TONYA:

It was supposed to be mailing some-

Jeff squeezes her arm hard. She screams, turns to him.

JEFF:

It’s gonna be a sh*t show for us realsoon. We gotta get home.

Tonya nods. He yanks her quickly out the door.

192 INT/EXT. JEFF’S TRUCK -RAWLINSON’S DRIVEWAY -DAY 192

The second Jeff gets in the truck, he turns to her.

JEFF:

What part of keeping your mouth shutwas unclear, you stupid c*nt?!

76.

Jeff, furious, screeches onto the road. Tonya, humiliated,

studies him in film noir like shadows. It dawns on her:

TONYA:

There’s... There’s more than what

you’re saying the story is, isn’tthere..? (Finally) Did you do it?

JEFF:

Shut up I’m telling you!!

TONYA:

Sh*t! Sh*t! Goddamnit-How could youdo that? Then say you love me? Youknow skating’s my life! F***! What didyou do?! What did you, Jeff? What did-

She screams as Jeff throws back his fist and swings HARD

193 INT. TONYA’S HOUSE -DAY -CLOSE ON: MODERN DAY TONYA 193

TONYA:

BAM. He freakin’ nails me right in theface. That’s when I knew.

194 INT. F.B.I. HEADQUARTERS -DAY 194

Tonya, in a business suit with lawyer Bob, meets the F.B.I.

TONYA (V.O.)

To this day he has never admittedto me, which I wouldn’t careanyways, but he’s never admitted tome he actually did it. But I knew.

In that moment I knew he planned itand he had it done.

195 INT. JEFF & TONYA’S BEDROOM/OUTSIDE BEDROOM DOOR -DAY 195

Tonya packs furiously as the front door slams. As she hears Jeffapproach she quickly locks the bedroom door. He BANGS.

JEFF:

I can’t believe it. You gave me up.

TONYA:

No. I didn’t!

77.

JEFF:

The FBI showed me your transcript.

196 INT. F.B.I. HEADQUARTERS -OFFICE -DAY 196

Jeff is dumbfounded as he reads the report. G-Men gloat.

197 INT. JEFF & TONYA’S BEDROOM/OUTSIDE BEDROOM DOOR -DAY 197

TONYA:

That’s cheating!

She throws everything she can into the suitcase & zips it up.

JEFF:

Damn it I told you they couldn’t proveanything. All I wanted to do, baby,

was protect you. You’re all I everwanted.

She stops momentarily. She considers opening the door.

JEFF (CONT'D)

Honey? I f***in’ lost you now didn’tI?

She rises. But instead she races to the window and opens it.

TONYA:

What did you want me to say? I toldthem that you did this because you didfucking did this!

JEFF:

Tonya, what am I supposed to do?

She throws her suitcase out the open window. She hesitates.

TONYA:

I-Oh, Jeff... (Sincerely) I think-

You really need to just kill yourself.

Then she escapes through the window. Jeff stares, open mouthedon the other side of the door. He begins to cry.

198 INT. SHAWN’S HOTEL ROOM -NIGHT 198

A nervous but excited Shawn is interviewed.

78.

INTERVIEWER:

There is a feeling out there that the

person who was power mad, who was

megalomaniacal was you. And that you

had all these fantasies of espionage

and that this whole thing was

something you cooked up to fulfill a

deranged fantasy.

SHAWN:

Incorrect. Um. I’m a bodyguard and

international counter terrorism

expert. I work around the world for

espionage agencies.

INTERVIEWER:

But Shawn, you don’t.

SHAWN:

But I do.

INTERVIEWER:

But Shawn, we’ve checked and you

don’t.

SHAWN:

But I do.

INTERVIEWER:

But you don’t.

SHAWN:

But I do. Um. I’ve been quoted as an

expert on terrorism trends and

profiles-

INTERVIEWER:

Where?

SHAWN:

Um. In. I believe it was the-oh... It

was a travel magazine a couple years

ago during the Gulf War.

199 INT/EXT. TONYA’S APARTMENT -FRONT -MORNING

Tonya steps outside and is SURROUNDED on all sides by reporters.

Overwhelmed as she heads to her car she tries to remain ‘casual’

but their shouts are deafening.

79.

200 INT. CLACKAMUS MALL -ENTRANCE -OREGON -MORNING 200

Tonya, mobbed by press, GIDDY over the attention, makes her wayto practice. 4,000 spectators fill 3 levels of the mall.

Fans hold up homemade signs reading, “Portland is Proud ofTonya!” “We Love Tonya! Deal With It America!”

Many languages shout questions at Tonya. She smiles & waves.

201 ARCHIVAL TV FOOTAGE: 201

CONNIE CHUNG:

Here in Portland Oregon, another

day of practice for skater Tonya

Harding. She’s still working out

everyday right behind me, fully

expecting she’ll compete later this

month at the Olympics in Norway.

MATT LAUER:

Police and the FBI continue to keep

looking into last weeks attack on

skater Nancy Kerrigan-

ABC REPORTER:

...Even as the U.S. Figure Skating

Association convenes a hearing

panel to consider if there are

grounds to remove Tonya Harding

from the American Olympic team.

ANN CURRY:

...Harding’s former husband said

Tuesday that she knew about the attack

on Nancy Kerrigan from the beginning.

202 INT. LLOYD CENTER ICE RINK -OREGON -DAY 202

Tonya finishes her routine & the crowd cheers. She looks up.

TONYA’S P.O.V-As far as the eye can see, cameras are pointed ather like weapons. Lenses and flashes and clicks capture herevery move. Tonya is the most famous woman on earth.

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203 INT. COURTHOUSE -HALLWAY -DAY 203

Jeff, hair slicked, moustache shinning (if possible) is led offin cuffs followed by Shane, Derrick & Shawn. Bulbs flash.

JEFF (V.O.)

The papers all said I plead guilty,

which I did. But not to planning theattack which it turns out didn’t

matter. (To the camera) Once I knewabout it and didn’t report it andtried to cover it all up, I wasguilty.

204 EXT. HARDING HOME -FRONT YARD -DAY 204

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