Nurse Betty Page #26

CHARLIE (cont'd)

You don't look comfortable here. That's

'cause you don't like being the center of

attention, do you? Nah. You're like me.

WESLEY:

What the hell's the matter with you?

Wesley grabs the photo, tears it in half and tosses it. Then

he starts walking. Charlie is stunned for a moment, but

recovers quickly. He finds the pieces and stuffs them in his

pocket, then catches up to Wesley.

CHARLIE:

That was a really shitty thing to do.

WESLEY:

I'm sick of looking at her mother-f***ing

face.

A beat... they walk for a moment.

83.

CHARLIE:

Don't talk like that. She's my last one,

Wesley, my final target.

(to photo)

Don't you realize your special, that you

represent something?

This is too much. Wesley explodes.

WESLEY:

What? What does she represent?! What

could some cornbread white b*tch from

Kansas who's dragging our sorry asses up

and down the Louisiana Purchase possibly

mean to you?!! I'd just love to know...

CHARLIE:

I dunno... something.

(BEAT)

Why is she doing this to me? Why?...

WESLEY:

I don't know, but when we find her she's

gonna die for it.

101-102 MOVED 101-102

102A INT. ROADSIDE GARAGE - LATE AFTERNOON 102A

The Lincoln Town Car is raised up high on the hydraulic jack.

Wesley is at a pay phone out front.

WESLEY:

Can you describe her to me?... Okay...

Yeah, that sounds like her... Thanks.

He hangs up and goes into the garage, where he addresses the

Town Car above him.

WESLEY (cont'd)

They found her in Vegas.

No answer.

WESLEY (cont'd)

Perfect match on the description.

ON CHARLIE:

Lying across the front seat taping the reassembled photo of

Betty to the dash. Charlie's beginning to come apart. His

hair is uncombed and his clothes are wrinkled. His eyes have

a thousand-yard stare.

84.

WESLEY (O.S.)

(CONT'D)

Sounds like she's with the buyer Del

lined up.

Charlie pulls himself up on the door and looks down.

CHARLIE:

How'd they describe her?

WESLEY:

You know, blonde, thin, whatever...

CHARLIE:

Not so fast! Slower... 'blonde, thin',

yes... Did they say she had style? A

kind of grace or anything?

Wesley rolls his eyes, then goes straight to the levers

controlling the hydraulic jack.

WESLEY:

(to mechanic)

How do I get this f***ing thing down?

MECHANIC:

I wouldn't if I were you. He got pretty

upset when I tried it...

103 INT. LAW OFFICE - A DIFFERENT DAY 103

MERCEDES LOPEZ, early 40's, impeccably dressed, enters her

office loaded down with a bulging briefcase and a stack of

files under her arms.

(The entire scene is in Spanish.)

MERCEDES:

What do you think my father would do if I

told him I didn't want to be a lawyer

anymore?

ROSA:

Probably the same thing my mom would do

if I got engaged... have a heart attack.

MERCEDES:

So how's it going with your new roomie?

What's her name?

ROSA:

Betty. It's O.K. except I'm worn out.

We spent all weekend looking for her

85.

doctor-boy. How can a big time heart guy

leave no trace of himself?

MERCEDES:

So tell her to settle for the old one in

Orange County.

ROSA:

She's gonna have to 'cause I'm out of

ideas.

MERCEDES:

Maybe we're suing him for malpractice.

What's his name again?

ROSA:

David Ravell.

MERCEDES:

God, that sounds so familiar. Ravell,

Ravell... where's he out of?

ROSA:

I'm not sure now. She said he used to be

over at Loma Vista. I never heard of it.

MERCEDES:

Loma Vista?

(laughs)

You mean like the guy on "A Reason to

Love?"

104 INT. ROSA'S APARTMENT - LATER 104

Rosa enters, tosses her purse on the table and goes straight

to the VCR. Written in magic marker on a video is "A Reason

to Love, Apr. 23." The tape Sue Ann gave to Betty.

She pops it in and turns it on. The OPENING TITLES start ...

The characters appear ... one is an impossibly handsome man

over the title "DOCTOR DAVID RAVELL."

105 INT. HOSPITAL PHARMACY - LATER STILL 105

Betty working at a desk in the pharmacy. The same clerk as

before busies himself at another counter. Rosa appears at

the glass partition and raps urgently on it.

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