Rough Diamonds Page #13
- Year:
- 1995
- 90 min
- 335 Views
horizon for any sign of Chad...
ELENA:
(sotto)
Please...
A rustling sound stops her in her tracks. Dead silence, until...
A HAND GRABS HER LEG, AROUND THE FLASHING ANKLE BRACELET, DRAGS
EXT. EVERGLADES CLEARING - DAY
Marie hacks her way through the overgrown foliage with the tire
iron, like a Prada clad big-game hunter...
MARIE:
(calling out to Elena)
You see him?
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No reply, just her own voice echoing back...
MARIE:
Elena?
She rolls her eyes.
MARIE:
Useless b*tch...
Kristen's unmarked car races across the desolate swamp road.
INT. KRISTEN'S CAR - DAY
She checks the flashing GPS signal. Getting closer...
EXT. EVERGLADES - DAY
Elena bursts up to the surface of the bloody water, gasps for
breath. Looking down she sees Chad, holding on to her like his
life depends on it. It does...
He pulls her back down into the water, just as she catches a
glance of the circling GATORS...
Using her as leverage, Chad pulls himself out of the swamp,
climbing over her writhing body to the relative safety of solid
ground...
Elena coughs and splutters, floundering in the blood soaked water.
The ravenous Gators approach, sensing a feeding frenzy...
CHAD:
Don't move! Don't splash, they can sense
you in the water, they'll rip you to
pieces...
Elena freezes, looking round at the black eyes breaking the
surface of the bloody water, gliding in for the kill...
ELENA:
Hel..help me...
She reaches out a hand to Chad, only a few feet away...
.
He hesitates, then reaches out to her. But stops short of grabbing
her trembling hand. Just balls his fist, squeezing every last drop
of blood out of the open wounds on his palm...
The dark blood cascades down into the water around Elena...
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CHAD:
No.
And he smiles as the Gators ease open their powerful jaws...
WHACK!
Chad's eyes roll back into his head as blood flows from his nose,
ears and mouth. He falls forward, stiff as a board, and SPLASHES
down into the water next to an apoplectic Elena. Behind him stands
Marie, the BLOODY TIRE IRON in hand...
Marie reaches out a hand, pulls Elena out of the water. She
collapses onto her back and sucks in the stagnant swamp air...
MARIE:
What are you doing? Our diamonds are
about to become dinner...
Elena can't move, leaving Marie to wade into the swamp...
Kristen approaches a fork in the swamp road at high speed. She
checks the GPS scanner. It doesn't show her which way to turn...
KRISTEN:
Which way, which way...
Split second decision. Left. She spins the wheel, takes the left
hand fork...
Bad choice. Just a few meters down the right fork is an abandoned
BMW, an idle airboat, a crashed car, one dead man and two wild,
wild things...
Elena and Marie, soaked to the bone, drag Chad's cold, dead corpse
out of the trees. Marie drops the body, heads straight for her
abandoned BMW. Elena follows, stumbling through the vines, her
clothes dripping wet, shivering more from nerves than cold...
.
MARIE:
Get rid of the body. And his car...
ELENA:
Where are you going?
MARIE:
Where do you think?
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ELENA:
I don't...I don't have a clue...
Marie spins round, a vicious look in her eyes. She holds the blood
soaked diamonds in her hand...
MARIE:
Chad made us an appointment to sell
these. I'm gonna keep it...
Elena looks down to her flashing ankle bracelet...
ELENA:
It's only a matter of time before my
Marie turns back around, flings open the BMW door and gets in.
MARIE:
Then I suggest you get to work...
She fires up the powerful engine, speeds away in a cloud of dust,
leaving Elena the most deeply unpleasant task of her young life...
EXT. CHAD'S CRASHED CAR - AFTERNOON
Elena struggles to drag Chad's bloody body back to his crashed
car. The tail lights flicker, throwing an ominous red glow over
the dense thicket of overhanging trees.
ELENA:
(sotto)
Jesus...
With a Herculean effort she manages to stuff Chad's inert body
into the driver's seat. She stumbles back, horrified at the grim
tableau before her...
EXT. MUSEUM - AFTERNOON
Marie's car comes barreling into the parking lot outside the stone
Museum building.
INT. MUSEUM - AFTERNOON
The Curator paces back and forth, like an expectant father, in
front of the empty glass case that used to house the diamonds.
Marie bursts into the Museum, and he strides up to meet her,
shocked when he sees Marie's covered in blood, sweat and guilt...
CURATOR:
Marie? Are you alright?
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MARIE:
Never better. Got the money?
The Curator nods nervously.
CURATOR:
extraordinary circumstances
surrounding...
MARIE:
Good.
She fishes in her bag for the diamonds...
CURATOR:
I...I received a call from your
'associate'. He said he would be handling
the transaction.
MARIE:
Change of plans. My 'associate' got tied
up at work. Completely swamped...
The Curator nods, unsure if he inquire further...
Marie finally pulls out two blood soaked Diamonds from her bag,
thrusts them at the Curator. He screws up his wrinkled face,
afraid to touch them...
MARIE:
Calm down. It's just blood.
EXT. CHAD'S CAR - AFTERNOON
With trembling hands, Elena opens the trunk of Chad's crashed car.
She pulls out a plastic gas container, sloshing the fuel around
inside, then trailing it back across the vine covered ground...
She carefully places the empty container down, standing twenty
feet back from the wreckage, fumbling in her pocket for a match...
She can barely control her hands, her whole body shaking in
fear...
Finally she pulls out a MATCHBOOK, still sopping wet from the
swamp. She strikes match after match, but they won't light, until,
finally, one produces a tiny flame that simmers for a second then
smoulders out...
ELENA:
Don't do this to me, please...
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In frustration, she runs back to Chad's car, looking desperately
for a lighter, climbing all the way in. Because of the slight
slope it's on, the car's flimsy door slams shut behind her.
Elena pays no heed, continues to rummage through the glove
compartment.
ELENA:
You gotta have a lighter or some...
She's cut off as the WRECKED CAR'S HORN BLARES OUT!
Deafening, the sound echoes around the dense undergrowth. Elena's
heart skips a beat. Chad's corpse has slumped forward against the
steering wheel.
ELENA:
Jesus...
She struggles with all her might to pull Chad's body back off the
horn...
.
Silence reigns once more. Elena takes short, sharp breaths. Looks
over at Chad's body slumped to the side, leaning against the
driver's side door...
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