Pulp Fiction Page #41

VINCENT:

So you're serious, you're really

gonna quit?

JULES:

The life, most definitely.

Vincent takes a bite of food. Jules takes a sip of coffee In

the b.g., we see a PATRON call the Waitress.

PATRON:

Garcon! Coffee!

We recognize the patron to be Pumpkin from the first scene

of Pumpkin and Honey Bunny.

VINCENT:

So if you're quitting the life,

what'll you do?

JULES:

That's what I've been sitting here

contemplating. First, I'm gonna

deliver this case to Marsellus. Then,

basically, I'm gonna walk the earth.

VINCENT:

What do you mean, walk the earth?

JULES:

You know, like Caine in "KUNG FU."

Just walk from town to town, meet

people, get in adventures.

VINCENT:

How long do you intend to walk the

earth?

JULES:

Until God puts me where he want me

to be.

VINCENT:

What if he never does?

JULES:

If it takes forever, I'll wait

forever.

VINCENT:

So you decided to be a bum?

JULES:

I'll just be Jules, Vincent – no

more, no less.

VINCENT:

No Jules, you're gonna be like those

pieces of sh*t out there who beg for

change. They walk around like a bunch

of f***in' zombies, they sleep in

garbage bins, they eat what I throw

away, and dogs piss on 'em. They got

a word for 'em, they're called bums.

And without a job, residence, or

legal tender, that's what you're

gonna be – a f***in' bum!

JULES:

Look my friend, this is just where

me and you differ –

VINCENT:

– what happened was peculiar – no

doubt about it – but it wasn't water

into wine.

JULES:

All shapes and sizes, Vince.

VINCENT:

Stop f***in' talkin' like that!

JULES:

If you find my answers frightening,

Vincent, you should cease askin'

scary questions.

VINCENT:

I gotta take a sh*t. To be continued.

Vincent exits for the restroom.

Jules, alone, takes a mouthful of muffin, then... Pumpkin

and Honey Bunny rise with guns raised.

PUMPKIN:

Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!

HONEY BUNNY:

Any of you f***ing pricks move and

I'll execute every one of you

motherfuckers! Got that?!

Jules looks up, not believing what he's seeing. Under the

table, Jules' hand goes to his .45 Automatic. He pulls it

out, COCKING IT.

PUMPKIN:

Customers stay seated, waitresses on

the floor.

HONEY BUNNY:

Now mean f***in' now! Do it or die,

do it or f***ing die!

Like lightning, Pumpkin moves over to the kitchen. While

Honey Bunny SCREAMS out threats to the PATRONS, keeping them

terrified.

PUMPKIN:

You Mexicans in the kitchen, get out

here! Asta luego!

Three COOKS and two BUSBOYS come out of the kitchen.

PUMPKIN:

On the floor or I'll cook you ass,

comprende?

They comprende. The portly MANAGER speaks up.

MANAGER:

I'm the manager here, there's no

problem, no problem at all –

Pumpkin heads his way.

PUMPKIN:

You're gonna give me a problem?

He reaches him and sticks the barrel of his gun hard in the

Manager's neck.

PUMPKIN:

What? You said you're gonna give me

a problem?

MANAGER:

No, I'm not. I'm not gonna give you

any problem!

PUMPKIN:

I don't know, Honey Bunny. He looks

like the hero type to me!

HONEY BUNNY:

Don't take any chances. Execute him!

The Patrons SCREAM. Jules watches all this silently, his

hand tightly gripping the .45 Automatic under the table.

MANAGER:

Please don't! I'm not a hero. I'm

just a coffee shop manager. Take

anything you want.

PUMPKIN:

Tell everyone to cooperate and it'll

be all over.

MANAGER:

Everybody just be calm and cooperate

with them and this will be all over

soon!

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