Inherent Vice Page #8

DOC:

You're emotionally involved? With

a boat?

SAUNCHO:

Not just a boat, Doc. Something

much more. I know why I'm so

interested, but why are you?

DOC:

Some story I heard the other

night. Maybe some kind of

smuggling angle?

SAUNCHO:

As attorney and client, this story

you heard -- it didn't happen to

include Mickey Wolfmann?

DOC:

Not so far, why?

SAUNCHO:

According to scuttlebutt, shortly

before his disappearance --

everybody's favorite developer was

observed going onboard the Golden

Fang. What we call a three-hour

tour and back again...

DOC:

Was he accompanied by his lovely

companion?

SAUNCHO:

... Who?

DOC:

My ex-old Shasta Fay?

SAUNCHO:

Thought you were done with all

that sad bullshit.

DOC:

... Everybody make it back? No

one pushed overboard? Nothin'

like that?

45.

SAUNCHO:

Let's order you a boilermaker to

go with the Zombie and you can

start the whole sordid thing over

again...

DOC:

Just asking... anything else?

SAUNCHO:

Word swirling around some of my

friends at the Department of

Justice says that maybe Mickey

Wolfmann's not as missing as we

think?

DOC:

Like gone but not gone?

SAUNCHO:

A rumor that these guys are trying

to broker a Vegas deal with

Wolfmann...

DOC:

Doesn't compute. Say again.

Vegas. Wolfmann.

SAUNCHO:

It's FBI stuff. That's what they

do in Vegas... apparently Wolfmann

owned some property they wouldn't

mind having...

The drinks arrive.

SAUNCHO:

Mmmmmmmmmm. All this good eatin'.

CUT TO:

32-36 OMITTED 32-36

37 INT. DOC'S PLACE - NIGHT 37

DOC is on the couch, pretty stoned, watching PRESIDENT

NIXON on TV at a Republican rally for a group known as

VIGILANT CALIFORNIA. Nixon stands in front of a huge

banner promoting them. A LONG-HAIRED GUY IN THE CROWD AT

THE RALLY STARTS HECKLING NIXON... SCREAMING AND YELLING.

WILD-EYED GUY (V.O.)

(on TV)

HEY, NIXON! TRICKY DICK! F***

YOU! F*** EVERYBODY AND THE FIRST

F***IN’ FAMILY! F*** THE DOG!

46.

PENNY comes out of the bedroom, naked and smoking a

joint, sees the TV and says...

PENNY:

Hey... it's Chucky!

DOC:

Who?

NIXON (V.O.)

(on TV)

Better get him to a hippie drug

clinic!

SECRET SERVICE come over and get him. DOC realizes that

this WILD-EYED GUY is actually: COY HARLINGEN.

PENNY:

That's no hippie! That's Chucky!

DOC:

Who is it? A friend of yours?

PENNY:

Everybody knows him. When he's

not hanging out at the Hall of

Justice, he's at the Glass House.

DOC:

A snitch?

PENNY:

Informant, please.

DOC:

And why's he yelling at Nixon

like that again?

PENNY:

Now he's been on TV. Instant and

wide credibility. The police can

infiltrate him into any group they

want.

CUT TO:

38 EXT. TOPANGA CANYON HOUSE - AFTERNOON 38

DOC, disguised as a REPORTER (ponytail, fedora hat, tape

recorder) and DENIS as a PHOTOGRAPHER pull up to the

house in Topanga Canyon where The Boards are staying. As

they enter the huge mansion, a couple sexy young house

GROUPIES come forward with leis and beads and put them

around Doc and Denis...

INSIDE:

Doc walks through the party...

47.

39 ANOTHER ANGLE 39

SMEDLEY (Spotted Dick band member) and his KEYBOARD.

Doc interviews him, like he's a reporter...

SMEDLEY:

This is Fiona...

DOC:

What do you and Fiona talk about?

SMEDLEY:

Oh, what you'd expect.

Association football, the war inSoutheast Asia, where one canscore, that sort of thing.

DOC:

And how's Fiona enjoying it herein Southern California?

SMEDLEY:

Loves everything but the paranoia,

man.

DOC:

Paranoia, really?

This house...

SMEDLEY:

SMEDLEY grows quiet as he notices road manager-types whomay or may not be working undercover come near -40

ANGLE - DOC 40

Doc lurks around a hallway and runs into: JADE.

DOC:

What, you again?

JADE:

I drove up with Bambi -- she heardSpotted Dick were staying here -DOC

She's keen on the Dick, huh?

JADE:

Tuneful and poetic. English, I

guess. I had to come along to tryand keep her out of trouble.

DOC:

If anybody asks, I'm a rock androll reporter, okay?

48.

JADE:

I'll tell them about your PatBoone cover article.

DOC:

Have you seen the guy I wastalking to at Club Asiatique theother night?

JADE:

Yeah, he's here. Try therehearsal rooms upstairs...

41 REHEARSAL STUDIO 41

DOC makes his way to a SMALL REHEARSAL STUDIO UPSTAIRS.

He steps inside and sees: COY, doing some recording withhis SAXOPHONE... “Donna Lee."

DOC:

Howdy! It's me again! Remember

that chore you wanted me to do?

COY signals his thumb to a cloister of RECORDINGEQUIPMENT.

COY:

What was the, uh, make and modelyou looked at again?

DOC:

... You were asking about a oldertype

VW, flowers and bluebirds andhearts on it?

COY:

No new replacement parts?

DOC:

None I could see.

Street legal?

registration?

COY:

No hassles with

DOC:

Seemed that way.

COY:

Well, thanks for looking intothat, you know, I just wonderedthe way people do. I'll be in

touch.

42 LIVING ROOM AREA 42

DOC looks in another room, sees a big TEEPEE. He steps

inside and suddenly, Coy is with him:

49.

COY:

So you got to see Hope?

DOC:

For a minute. She's okay. And it

looks like she's been staying

clean, too.

COY:

How'd she do it?

DOC:

I don't know. She's back teaching

is all she said. Public health,

drug awareness, something like

that.

COY:

Where?

DOC:

I don't know.

COY:

-- You're not gonna tell me where?

DOC:

Not even if I knew.

COY:

What -- you really think that I

would ever start giving either of

them sh*t?

DOC:

I don't do matrimonials. I have a

terrible history of putting in,

and it's never ended well.

COY:

Don't matter. No way I can ever

go back to them.

DOC:

You can't go back, because if you

did...?

COY:

It would be my ass and my

family's, too. This is like a

gang. Once you're in, you're in

for life.

DOC:

I'm not asking you to give away

any secrets... But I think I just

saw you on the tube at a rally for

Nixon?

50.

COY:

And your question is, is am I

really one of them screamin' right-

wing nutcases?

DOC:

Somethin' like that.

COY:

I just wanted to get clean... and

I thought it was something to do

for my country. Stupid as it

sounds. They saw something in me

I didn't see. These people were

the only ones who were offering me

that. It looked like an easy

call... But what they really want

is to control the membership by

making us feel we're never

patriotic enough. My country

right or wrong, with Vietnam going

on? That's just f***in' crazy.

Suppose your mom was using smack.

DOC:

My, uh...

COY:

You wouldn't at least say

something?

DOC:

Wait, so the U.S. is somebody's

mom, you're sayin'?... and she's

strung out on... what, exactly?

COY:

On sending kids off to die in

jungles for no reason. Something

wrong and suicidal that she can't

stop.

DOC:

... Uhhhhhh... and Vigilant

California, or whoever you're

workin' for, won't buy that?

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