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LEONARD:

Yeah, well, thanks for the advice.

TEDDY:

Don't go back in there. There's a motel

out of town.

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Teddy hands Leonard the BEER MAT and gets out of the car.

TEDDY (cont'd)

It's been fun, Lenny.

Teddy walks off. Leonard pulls his Polaroids out of his

pocket and finds the one of Teddy. He places it on the dash,

face up, next to the one of Natalie which is still face down

on the dash. Leonard reads the message he has written on the

back of Natalie's picture:

"DON'T TRUST HER"

He flips Teddy's picture over, like a croupier turning a card

at blackjack. On the back it says:

"DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES"

Leonard purses his lips in surprised frustration. He grabs

his pen and scribbles on the back of Natalie's picture,

obliterating the words:

"DON'T TRUST HER"

He flips Natalie's picture over and considers her blurred

image. He looks up at her house, then picks up the BEER MAT,

reading the address Teddy has given him.

LEONARD:

F*** it. I need my own place.

Leonard starts the engine.

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Leonard pulls up in his Jaguar, checks the name of the motel

against the note written on the BEER MAT, then heads into the

office to check in.

Leonard comes out of the office, takes a Polaroid of the

front of the motel, and heads for Room 304.

117 INT. MOTEL ROOM 21 - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE## 117

Leonard (boxers, bandaged arm) talks on the phone. He presses *

the NEEDLE/PEN against his thigh, working on a "D".

LEONARD:

I can't blame the cops for not taking me

seriously. This is a difficult condition

for people to understand. I mean look at

Sammy Jankis. His own wife couldn't deal

with it.

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LEONARD (cont'd)

(listens)

I told you about how she tried to get

him to snap out of it?

(listens)

It got much worse than that. Eventually

Sammy's wife came to see me at the

office, and I found out all kinds of

sh*t.

(listens)

She knew that I was the one who had

built he case for Sammy faking it.

118 INT. LEONARD'S OFFICE - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE##118

Leonard, in a CHEAP SUIT AND TIE, gets up from behind his

desk to shake hands with Mrs. Jankis. They talk, Leonard

nodding as he listens. Mrs. Jankis is crying.

LEONARD (V.O.)

She told me about life with Sammy, how

she'd treated him. It had got to the

point where she'd get Sammy to hide food

all around the house, then stop feeding

him to see if his hunger would make him

remember where he'd hidden the stuff.

She wasn't a cruel person, she just

wanted her old Sammy back.

The tearful Mrs. Jankis gives Leonard a determined look.

MRS. JANKIS

Mr. Shelby, you know all about Sammy and

you decided that he was faking -

LEONARD:

Mrs. Jankis, the company's position

isn't that Sammy is "faking" anything,

just that his condition can't be shown -

MRS. JANKIS

I'm not interested in the company

position, Mr. Shelby. I want to know

your honest opinion about Sammy.

LEONARD:

We shouldn't even be talking this way

while the case is still open to appeal.

MRS. JANKIS

I'm not appealing the decision.

LEONARD:

Then why are you here?

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MRS. JANKIS

Mr. Shelby, try and understand. When I

look into Sammy's eyes, I don't see some

vegetable, I see the same old Sammy.

What do you think it's like for me to

suspect that he's imagining this whole *

problem? That if I could just say the

right thing he'd snap out of it and be

back to normal? If I knew that my old

Sammy was truly gone, then I could say

goodbye and start loving this new Sammy. *

As long as I have doubt, I can't say

goodbye and move on.

LEONARD:

Mrs. Jankis, what do you want from me?

MRS. JANKIS

I want you to forget the company you

work for for thirty seconds, and tell me

if you really think that Sammy is faking

his condition.

Leonard plays with his letter opener, thinking.

MRS. JANKIS (cont'd)

I need to know what you honestly

believe.

LEONARD:

(looks at Mrs. Jankis)

I believe that Sammy should be

physically capable of making new

memories.

MRS. JANKIS

Thank you.

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LEONARD:

She seemed to leave happy. I thought I'd

helped her.

Leonard puts the NEEDLE/PEN down, and wipes blood from his new,

homemade TATTOO, which says:

"FACT 5. DRUG DEALER"

LEONARD (cont'd)

I thought she just needed some kind of

answer.

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LEONARD (cont'd)

I didn't think it was important to her

what the answer was, just that she had

one to believe.

Leonard notices the BANDAGE on his LEFT ARM. He starts*

fiddling with the TAPE, peeling back the corners.

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120 INT. NATALIE'S LIVING ROOM - DAY 120

Leonard sifts through the papers on the desk, agitated. He *

hears a car door SLAM. He looks out of the window to see *

Natalie getting out of her car.

She turns and comes towards the front door. Her face is SWOLLEN

and BLEEDING.

Leonard OPENS the door for her. She RUSHES past him. *

LEONARD:

What happened?

Natalie, intensely AGITATED, FUMBLES with things in her purse.

NATALIE:

What does it look like?!

She turns to Leonard so that he can see the full extent of

her injuries. Her eye is SWELLING UP, and her lip is SPLIT.

NATALIE (cont'd)

He beat the sh*t out of me.

LEONARD:

Who?

NATALIE:

Who?! F***, Leonard! Dodd! Dodd beat the

sh*t out of me.

Natalie FLINGS her purse to the ground in frustration. She

does not know what to do with her hands.

LEONARD:

Why?

Natalie turns to him, ENRAGED.

NATALIE:

Because of you, you f***ing idiot!

Because I did what you told me!

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NATALIE (cont'd)

Go to him, reason with him, tell him

about Teddy! Great f***ing ideal

Leonard APPROACHES her, palms out.

LEONARD:

Calm down.

Natalie starts to HIT Leonard. He takes her arms.

LEONARD (cont'd)

(softly)

Take it easy. You're safe now. You're

safe.

He sits her down on the couch.

LEONARD (cont'd)

Let's get some ice on your face.

LATER:

Natalie, crying softly, holds a paper towel filled with ice

cubes to her swollen cheek while Leonard gently uses a damp

paper towel to wipe the blood from her upper lip.

NATALIE:

I did exactly what you told me. I went to *

Dodd and I said that I didn't have*

Jimmy's money, or any drugs, that this

Teddy must have taken everything.

LEONARD:

And what did he say?

NATALIE:

He didn't believe me. He said that if I

don't get him the money tomorrow he's

gonna kill me. Then he started hitting

me.

LEONARD:

Where is he?

NATALIE:

What are you gonna do?

LEONARD:

I'll go see him.

NATALIE:

And?

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LEONARD:

Give him some bruises of his own and tell

him to look for a guy called Teddy.

NATALIE:

He'll kill you, Lenny.

LEONARD:

(smiling)

My wife used to call me Lenny.

NATALIE:

Yeah?

LEONARD:

Yeah, I hated it.

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