Natural Born Killers Page #6

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SCOTT:

Well, basically, what we did was

put part of the old show on

first...

ROGER:

But we changed the order around

so it wasn't super obvious...

SCOTT:

Then we added the new sh*t to

the tail...

ROGER:

So we film the interview, and

we can just slap it on at the

end.

Wayne and Unruly Julie grab chairs and sit.

WAYNE:

Okay, let's see it.

CLOSEUP OF VIDEO MONITOR SCREEN

We see a show rewinding.

ROGER (O.S.)

Now we got to film a new intro

for the follow-up episode. But we

put the intro for the first

episode at the beginning

temporarily so you can see it

with some scope.

WAYNE (O.S.)

I hear ya. Play.

CLOSEUP OF ROGER'S HAND

pressing a play button.

CUT TO:

29.

STATIC.

Then the opening slate for "AMERICAN MANIACS" FILLS the

SCREEN.

BEGIN:
"MICKEY & MALLORY'S REIGN OF TERROR"

EXT. HIGHWAY -DAY

Wayne Gayle is standing in the middle of an empty

highway. The CAMERA LOOKS UP FROM the ground. With a

WIDE ANGLE LENS, he looks practically mythic.

Wayne speaks into the camera.

WAYNE:

Hello. Welcome to 'American

Maniacs.' I'm your host Wayne

Gayle. And this is Highway 58.

Wayne walks TOWARD the CAMERA. We DOLLY BACK.

WAYNE:

To some the fastest distance

between point A and point B. To

others a beautiful stretch of the

American landscape. But to Mickey

and Mallory Knox, it was a candy

lane of murder and mayhem.

While we hear Wayne's narration, we see a:

MONTAGE:

of home 8mm movie footage. These are films of Mickey

and Mallory living a normal life.

A.

HOME MOVIE --Mickey shaking hands with the judge who

married them. Mallory stands happily by Mickey's

side.

B.

HOME MOVIE --Mallory hamming up the sex angle, as

she poses by Bob's Big Boy.

C.

HOME MOVIE --Mallory sitting on Mickey's lap at

home.

D.

HOME MOVIE --Closeup on Mallory asleep in bed.

Mickey (holding camera) tickles her under her chin.

Mallory slaps herself in the face with a handful of

shaving cream.

E.

HOME MOVIE --Mickey and Mallory posing with Santa

Claus.

(CONTINUED)

30.

CONTINUED:

F.

HOME MOVIE --Mickey being surprised on the toilet.

WAYNE (V.O.)

After living a very routine, drab,

nothing out-of-the-ordinary-everhappens

kind of life, the

sweethearts shocked the entire

nation with a cross-country crime

and murder spree that lasted only

three weeks, but left -

G.

PHOTO --Black & white photos of bloody victims -men

and women.

H.

PHOTO --Black & white photos of a blood-stained

police chalk outline.

WAYNE (V.O.)

--forty-eight known bodies in its

wake. Including -

I.

HOME MOVIE FOOTAGE --Mallory and her parents during

happier times. All three are smiling. Mallory's in

the middle with her arms around them. Mallory's

father is eating a chicken drumstick. Mallory takes

a bite out of it while he's holding it.

WAYNE (V.O.)

--Mallory's very own parents.

J.

PHOTO --Color postcard of Los Angeles.

WAYNE (V.O.)

They started their crime wave in

Los Angeles.

K.

Wayne Gayle stands in front of a Circle K convenience

store. He speaks to us.

WAYNE:

And they were finally apprehended

here at this Circle K in St. Paul,

Minnesota.

CUT TO:

EXT. CIRCLEK-DAY

This sequence is filmed in 16mm color, cinema verite a la

"Cops."

The CAMERA RUNS BEHIND three blue windbreaker-clad cops,

as they run up to the Circle K, shouting obscenities.

(CONTINUED)

31.

CONTINUED:

In front of the store three windbreaker cops have Mickey

on the ground, beating him with nightsticks. One cop

lies on the ground near him, holding his hands over his

face, screaming:

To the left Mallory is slugging it out with a windbreaker

cop, matching each other blow for blow.

Meanwhile, the three cops we ran with reach the action

and join in.

CUT TO:

MONTAGE:

A.

NEWSPAPER --Newspaper or magazine color ad for a

7-Eleven store.

B.

NEWSPAPER --Newspaper or magazine color ad for a

gas station.

WAYNE (V.O.)

They started off robbing 7-Eleven

type stores and gas stations and

later graduated to banks and the

big time.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET -DAY

Wayne Gayle walks down the street. The CAMERA WALKS WITH

him. He speaks INTO the CAMERA.

WAYNE:

Mickey and Mallory's idea of an

armed robbery was a little

different than most. It was an

assault, actually.

EXT. 7-ELEVEN STORE -DAY

Wayne interviews BISHOP, a young blond kid with a "Flock

of Sea Gulls" haircut. Bishop's name appears on the

SCREEN.

BISHOP:

Well. I knew that Mickey and

Mallory kill everybody when they're

through, except for one clerk.

There were a couple of people in

the store then, and I was working

with Stevo. And I like Stevo, you

know? But I was thinking, what

could I do to make them pick me to

be the clerk that gets to live?

32.

INT. 7-ELEVEN STORE -DAY

This scene is shot through the store's black & white

video surveillance camera. The date and time of day are

burned into edges of the FRAME.

Mickey and Mallory charge into a 7-Eleven store, cocking

their shotguns and shouting things.

Mickey SHOOTS a customer who lies on the ground

screaming.

Mallory BLASTS a female customer, holding a Big Gulp.

She flies into the comic book rack.

Mickey points his shotgun at Bishop the store clerk and

screams:

MICKEY:

Money! Money! Money! Fast! Fast!

Faster! Faster! Faster than that!

Bishop stuffs money in a bag as Mallory guards the door,

shotgun ready.

Stevo, the other store clerk, walks in from the back

room carrying boxes and wearing a Walkman.

Mickey and Mallory spin around and SHOOT him.

As all this mayhem happens before our disbelieving eyes,

Wayne's narration happens over it.

WAYNE (V.O.)

They'd storm in with shotguns,

and kill every customer in the

place right off the bat.

CUT TO:

SMILING PHOTOS:

of other victims. We CUT FROM each photo TO the

next photo after SHOTGUN FIRE.

EXT. BLEACHERS -DAY

Wayne Gayle sitting on football bleachers. He stares

INTO the CAMERA for a few beats. Then, after his

dramatic silence, he talks.

WAYNE:

Sick, isn't it?

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

33.

CONTINUED:

WAYNE (CONT'D)

(mournful pause)

After killing numerous people,

they would always leave one clerk

alive. One clerk... to give them

the money, and tell the tale of -

INSERT -PHOTO

Black & white snapshot of Mickey and Mallory standing

next to each other, guns in hand, smiling for the

camera.

WAYNE (V.O.)

Mickey and Mallory.

INSERT -PHOTO

Police academy black & white snapshot of Officer Gerald

Nash.

WAYNE (V.O.)

Patrolman Gerald Nash was just one

of the twelve peace officers that

Mickey and Mallory murdered during

their reign of terror.

INSERT -PHOTO

Black & white photo of Gerald Nash and his partner Dale

Wrigley, dressed in their uniforms, arms around each

other.

WAYNE (V.O.)

Gerald and his partner Dale

Wrigley were parked at...

INSERT -PHOTO

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