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LEONARD:

She's gone and the present is trivia,

which I can scribble down as notes.

Natalie stares at Leonard, thinking.

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NATALIE:

Relax a little, okay? Take off your

jacket.

Leonard takes his jacket off and places it on the back of the

couch, patting the pockets as he does so.

LEONARD:

It's not easy to be calm when -

NATALIE:

Just relax.

She reaches for his arm and unbuttons his cuff, revealing the

end of Leonard's tattoos.

NATALIE (cont'd)

You don't seem the type.

She pushes back the sleeve, trying to read the tattoo.

Leonard watches her. *

NATALIE (cont'd)

Come on.

She starts to unbutton his shirt. He watches. Natalie gasps

as she opens Leonard's shirt and pulls it back over his

shoulders. She tilts her head, trying to read the different

messages.

NATALIE (cont'd)

It's backwards. *

She pulls him up and turns him around in front of the mirror *

to read the backwards tattoo across his chest. *

"JOHN G. RAPED AND MURDERED MY WIFE".

Natalie touches the blank area of skin above Leonard's heart. *

NATALIE (cont'd) *

Here? *

Leonard looks down at the blank patch, then at Natalie, *

vulnerable, confused. *

LEONARD *

It's... it must be for when I've found him. *

*

She looks at Leonard. Leonard shrugs. Natalie studies *

Leonard's chest, avoiding his eyes. *

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NATALIE (cont'd)

I've lost somebody.

LEONARD:

I'm sorry.

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Natalie picks up a photograph from off a messy desk in the

corner. She shows it to Leonard. The picture shows Natalie

smiling and hugging a smirking YOUNG MAN (JIMMY). Natalie *

looks up at Leonard to see his reaction.

NATALIE:

His name was Jimmy.

LEONARD:

What happened?

NATALIE:

He went to meet somebody and didn't come

back.

LEONARD:

Who did he go to meet?

Natalie studies Leonard.

NATALIE:

A guy called Teddy.

Leonard does not react to the name.

LEONARD:

What do the police think?

NATALIE:

They don't look too hard for guys like

Jimmy.

Natalie puts the photo down. She reaches out to Leonard, *

spreading her fingers over the blank part of his chest. *

NATALIE (cont'd)

When you find this guy, this John G.,

what are you going to do?

LEONARD:

Kill him.

NATALIE:

Maybe I can help you find him. I know a*

lot of people.

58 INT. NATALIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT 58

Natalie, eyes closed, has her head on Leonard's chest. He is

shirtless, lying on top of the covers.

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LEONARD:

I don't even know how long she's been *

gone. It's like I've woken up in bed and

she's not here because she's gone to the

bathroom or something. But somehow I just *

know that she'll never come back to bed. *

I lie here, not knowing how long I've

been alone. If I could just reach out and *

touch her side of the bed I could know *

that it was cold, but I can't. I have no *

idea when she left.*

Natalie's eyes are open.

LEONARD (cont'd)

I know I can't have her back, but I want *

to be able to let her go. I don't want to

wake up every morning thinking she's

still here then realizing that she's not.

I want time to pass, but it won't. How *

can I heal if I can't feel time?

Leonard bends his head around to see if Natalie is awake. She

closes her eyes. Leonard gingerly slides from underneath her

and moves silently out of the bedroom.

59 INT. NATALIE'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 59

Leonard enters the dark room. He goes to the couch and picks

up his shirt and his jacket. He notices the photograph which

Natalie showed him on top of some papers on a desk in the

corner. He holds it in a shaft of light from the streetlamp

outside, studying the photo of Natalie and Jimmy.

60 INT. NATALIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT 60

Natalie, eyes open, slides her hand over to where Leonard was

lying, feeling his residual warmth.

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Leonard has his Polaroid photograph of Natalie out. He takes

a pen out of his jacket, rests the photo against the wall in

a patch of light and writes on the back, underneath the

message which has been scribbled out:

"SHE HAS ALSO LOST SOMEONE. SHE WILL HELP YOU OUT OF PITY"

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62 INT. NATALIE'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS - NIGHT

Leonard enters, deposits his jacket and shirt, then slides

into bed next to Natalie.

63 INT. MOTEL ROOM 21 - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE## 63

Leonard lies on the bed (in boxers, bandaged arm) talking on *

the phone. He wipes the excess shaving foam from his thigh,

and feels the SMOOTHNESS of the clean-shaven skin.

LEONARD:

Sammy's wife was crippled by the cost of

supporting him and fighting the

company's decision - but it wasn't the

money that got to her.

64 INT. JANKIS HOUSE LIVING ROOM - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE 64

SEQUENCE##

Mrs. Jankis comes into the room. Sammy is seated, watching

T.V. He looks up at her with a smile. She smiles back, tense.

LEONARD (V.0.)

I never said that Sammy was faking. Just

that his problem was mental, not

physical. But she... she couldn't

understand. She looks into his eyes and

sees the same person. And if it's not a

physical problem...

Sammy's Wife starts shouting at Sammy. Sammy squirms.

LEONARD (V.0.) (CONT'D)

... he should just... snap out of it.

Sammy's Wife THROWS her drink in Sammy's face, puts her head

in her hands, SOBBING. Sammy wipes his face on his sleeve.

BACK TO LEONARD IN MOTEL ROOM:

65 INT. MOTEL ROOM 21 - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE## 65

Leonard, talking on the phone, empties the white paper bag

onto the bed beside him: Two cheap BALL-POINT PENS, SCOTCH

TAPE, a pack of NEEDLES, and a FILE CARD.

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LEONARD (cont'd)

So good old Leonard Shelby from the

insurance company gives her the seed of

doubt, just like he gave it to the

doctors. But I never said that Sammy was

faking. I never said that.

Leonard takes a NEEDLE out of the packet.

66 INT. LEONARD'S APARTMENT WITH HIGH CEILINGS AND WOODEN FLOOR 66

- NIGHT

We move along a hallway towards a closed door. An ominous *

rumbling builds.

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TREMBLING, SHALLOW-FOCUS EXTREME CLOSE UPS:

A glass bottle SHATTERS against black and white ceramic

tiles. A SUDDEN MOVEMENT glimpsed through a water-beaded

clear plastic shower curtain.

The shower curtain pulls TAUT across a GASPING FEMALE FACE.

Leonard's REFLECTION in a MIRROR which SHATTERS.

67 INT. DODD'S MOTEL ROOM - DAY 67

Leonard opens his eyes, frightened. He is lying on the bed in

his beige suit and blue shirt.

LEONARD (V.0.)

Awake.

He rolls his eyes to one side.

LEONARD (V.O.)(cont'd)

Where am I?

He lifts his head and surveys the room.

LEONARD (V.O.)(cont'd)

Motel room.

He rises from the bed, looking at the room as if for the

first time. He starts looking in the dresser drawers, finding

nothing.

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