Nurse Betty Page #13

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Dear Del:

This is the hardest thing I've ever done and I can't

even face you. But I need to be honest. We haven't

been happy for a long time. You always say people

need their space, and now you'll have some. I'm

sorry.

Betty

She takes off her wedding band and puts it on the table.

45 EXT. BETTY'S HOUSE/GARAGE - NIGHT 45

Betty raises the garage door, tosses her overnight bag and

birthday money envelope into the LeSabre, and gets in.

She drives through Fair Oaks, past the town limits. She

keeps on driving until her car recedes into the moonlit

prairie horizon.

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46 EXT./INT. LESABRE - DRIVING - NIGHT 46

She comes to a sudden halt in front of the "You are Leaving

Kansas" billboard. She stares hard at it through the

windshield. Suddenly, she hits the gas and bolts off along

the Oklahoma blacktop. She never looks back.

47 INT. BETTY'S LESABRE - THE NEXT DAY 47

Betty yawns, looks at her watch and increases her speed.

When she sees a sign for a MOTEL ahead, she pulls off the

highway.

48 EXT. TRUCK STOP/MOTEL - DAY 48

She parks at a truck stop/restaurant/motel complex, hops out

and runs to the motel office window.

49 INT. TRUCK STOP - MOTEL ROOM - DAY 49

Betty enters her room, immediately turns on the TV, and plops

down on the bed.

VOICE (V.O.)

And now we return to "A Reason to Love."

50 EXT. TRUCK STOP/MOTEL PARKING LOT - SAME TIME 50

A crowded truck stop in the Texas flatlands. THREE TRUCK

DRIVERS in jeans, flannel shirts and denim jackets walk

across the parking lot.

One is an old, grizzled veteran with a salt-and-pepper

stubble and a greasy CAT cap on his head. It's CHARLIE.

Next to him is DUANE, a burly young driver in fancy cowboy

boots. Flanking Duane is WESLEY.

WESLEY:

So you got Asian women?

DUANE:

(Southern accent)

Sure, I got Asian. Got black, white, any

color you like, video and magazine. Got

fat chicks and animals too, if you want

'em. They're extra...

CHARLIE:

Mmmm. Well, it was a piece of luck

running into you, Duane. I thought I was

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gonna have to take Wesley out and hose

him down. All he talks about is those

Japanese gals.

WESLEY:

I like 'em small. When you're inside a

little Asian chick, it's like your dick

is the axle that holds her body together.

DUANE:

That's nicely put. You outta get

yourself to Thailand...

They reach Duane's truck, an empty car-carrier with Michigan

plates, and climb up into the cab.

51 INT. DUANE'S TRUCK - DAY 51

Two Confederate flags criss-cross over Duane's CB unit. On

the dashboard is a Rebel flag pin, a bumper sticker that says

"The South Will Rise Again" and a dozen country music tapes.

Duane gets in the sleeper cab, where stacks of porno tapes

and magazines reach the ceiling. Wesley takes the driver's

seat, Charlie, the passenger seat.

CHARLIE:

What part of Dixie are you from, Duane?

DUANE:

Georgia. In case I didn't tell you, it's

cash only, gentlemen.

WESLEY:

We can live with that.

CHARLIE:

I'm a Yankee, myself. Massachusetts.

Duane passes two videos to Wesley.

DUANE:

Here's Ghengis Kunt and The Demilitarized

Zone. Get it?

(laughs)

They're Korean, so they're pretty hot.

CHARLIE:

You know, it's interesting. The South

lost the Civil War, but they still seem

to get all the glory.

DUANE:

Huh?

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CHARLIE:

Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson

Davis - they're all losers in my book.

Charlie smiles. Duane stops digging through the videotapes.

DUANE:

The f*** you talking about?

CHARLIE:

Even Robert E. Lee was a loser.

DUANE:

(to Wesley)

He goin' crazy on us, or what?

CHARLIE:

Did you know the most brutal, inhumane

prison of the entire war was in Georgia?

DUANE:

Really. And where was that, old man?

CHARLIE:

Andersonville.

(BEAT)

They did horrible things to men there...

52 INT. CHLOE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT - (ON TV SCREEN) 52

Chloe is curled up on her white leather sofa, cowering as

Lonnie hovers over her accusingly.

LONNIE:

I think you better tell me what's going

on here, Chloe.

CHLOE:

I just feel... funny about what we did.

LONNIE:

(laughs)

You feel guilty? Let me remind you of

something, sweetheart. You're in this up

to those fabulous eyes of yours.

Understand?

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