Raising Arizona Page #18

Hi lets go with the other barrel.

The shot chews up the front grill, shatters one headlight

and blows out the other front tire. The hood of the car flies

open.

The car is squealing to a halt and Gale and Evelle pile out,

still bellowing.

GALE:

Goddamnit H.I., ain't we got enough

to contend with?

Ed is running over to Gale and Evelle's car, throwing open

the back door to look for the baby but coming out only with

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care.

Evelle is staggering around in shock, looking in disbelief

at his own blue body.

ED:

Where's the baby?

Evelle points this way and that, in a state of confusion.

EVELLE:

I think we left him on the roof of

the... he must be back at the...

Hi and Ed are climbing into their car.

GALE:

Let us come with you!

Hi and Ed are already peeling out.

GALE:

...He's our baby too!

CLOSE ON NATHAN JR.

Sitting placidly in his car seat that sits in the middle of

the road in front of the bank.

We can hear the wail of the police siren still approaching.

As we hold on Nathan Jr. we hear the distant booming of a

shotgun.

As we boom up to show the empty street beyond the baby, we

hear the crack of return fire and furiously squealing brakes.

The screech culminates in a loud explosion that snaps off

the siren wail. The police car is apparently history.

From beyond the crest of the road ahead a ball of flame has

leapt up with the explosion. As the explosion echoes and

fades we hear the deep rumble of an approaching engine.

Lenny Smalls' motorcycle appears over the rise. Framed against

fire and smoke, he is coming directly toward us, and the

baby.

FROM BEHIND HI AND ED

As they top a rise coming from the other direction. We see

the baby sitting in the middle of the street, and Lenny fast

approaching from the background.

LOCKED DOWN TO MOTORCYCLE

The extremely low wide shot, locked down to the speeding

bike, shows us rushing toward the rear of Nathan Jr's car

seat.

With a clank of chains Lenny's hand drops down into frame,

palm forward, tensing to scoop up the car seat that we are

almost upon.

A tattoo on Lenny's wrist reads "No Prisoners."

REVERSE:

Low shot with Nathan Jr. in the foreground.

He is scooped up and out of frame as Lenny roars by.

ON LENNY:

Roaring along. He hooks the car seat over his handlebars.

OVER HI AND ED'S SHOULDERS

Lenny is approaching. Under her breath:

ED:

What is he?

HI:

...D'you see him too?

Lenny is sawing a shotgun out of his back holster and leveling

it at the oncoming car.

Lenny is sighting down the gun, swinging it around as he

approaches the car.

HI AND ED DUCK JUST AS:

The shotgun spits orange flame and the windshield explodes

in.

Lenny roars by.

LENNY'S POV

The baby on the handlebars in the foreground; the road rushing

by beyond him.

The bike banks into a hard turn.

FACING HI AND ED

Shooting through where the windshield used to be, cutting in

at the end of the skid as the car rocks to a halt.

Hi and Ed are raising their heads. Facing forward, they do

not see Lenny approaching again through the rear window.

He is sawing out his second shotgun.

Hi looks around, reaches and pulls Ed down beneath him just

as:

KA-BOOM! - The second shotgun roars and the back window spits

in.

As Lenny roars past the back window he casually flips

something in.

LOOKING DOWN AT HI AND ED

Folded over in the front seat. Below them something bounces

into and around the leg well - Lenny's grenade.

EXT. CAR

As the two front doors fly open and Hi and Ed spill out - Hi

from the driver's side, heading for the far side of the road,

and Ed from the passenger side.

ON ED:

As she dives for cover behind a parked car. Beyond her -

KABOOM! - their car explodes and bounces, pouring black smoke.

ON HI:

The explosion flings him to the ground in the middle of the

street.

THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE

Looking up the street to where Lenny is wheeling his bike in

a U-turn. He is not finished yet.

Hi flat on his back, woozily shaking his head.

He weakly raises himself on his elbows to look down the

street.

HI'S POV

Looking down the length of his own body. His legs stretch

away in a V.

Crashing down from a wheelie, Lenny's roaring bike is almost

upon him - aiming up the middle of the V.

HI:

He rolls. As the bike is roaring by:

HI'S HAND

Reaches and snags a chain on Lenny's passing boot.

HI:

Dragged several yards before the boot shakes him off, leaving

him on his stomach in the middle of the road.

Hi looks up the road.

HI'S POV

Lenny is again sluing the bike around.

REAR WHEEL OF BIKE

Smoking as it skids around in the foreground, completing its

turn.

Boom up Lenny's back to reveal Ed stomping straight up the

street toward him - unarmed, unafraid.

ED:

I want that baby!

BACK TO HI:

He reaches back to pull up his shirt, revealing a gun tucked

in his pants in the small of his back. He grabs the gun.

OVER LENNY'S SHOULDER

As Ed closes in.

ED:

Gimme that baby, you warthog from

hell!

Lenny's arms rise into frame. With a roll of his wrists two

knives appear in his hands.

BACK TO HI:

On his stomach, sighting down the gun toward Lenny.

HIS POV:

Ed stepping into his line of fire, blocking Lenny.

FROM BEHIND LENNY

Raising an arm to stab.

Ed stoops to scoop the baby from the car seat, revealing:

Hi, behind her. He fires.

LENNYS HAND:

Drilled by Hi's bullet, drops its knife.

The exit wound spurts, not flesh and blood, but a brief jet

of fire.

LENNY:

Quick as a flash hurling the other knife at Hi.

HI:

As the knife stings the gun out of his hand.

KNIFE ON THE GROUND AT LENNY'S FEET

Lenny bends to scoop up the knife he dropped.

TRACKING BEHIND ED

As she runs toward the bank, clutching Nathan Jr. to her

chest.

INT. BANK

As Ed bursts in. The floor is littered with obedient hayseeds.

From where he lies prone:

OLD TIMER:

Just lie down on the floor, missie.

BANG:
The front door bursts open before Lenny's roaring hog.

It sails off a step into the sunken atrium, and lands with a

CRASH amidst the hayseeds.

TRACKING BEHIND ED

As she runs for the back door and pushes through it.

TRACKING BEHIND LENNY

As he slaloms through the wildly scattering hayseeds.

EXT. BACK OF BANK

As Lenny bursts out.

With a whipcrack effect he looks left, then right. He jerks

the bike right, to where an alleyway flanks the side of the

bank.

ALLEYWAY:

Ed is running up the alley toward the front of the bank as

Lenny enters. He roars after her.

LENNY'S POV

Roaring down the alley.

TRACKING IN FRONT OF ED

As the bike approaches behind her.

BACK TO LENNY'S POV

Closing on Ed as she reaches the mouth of the alley. A plank

swings into frame, straight at the camera.

REVERSE:

Matching action as Hi finishes swinging the plank into Lenny's

face.

Lenny hits the ground hard as his bike spins out from under

him.

THE BIKE:

Riderless, twisting crazily into the street where it

collapses.

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