Smokey and the Bandit Page #11

INTERCUT - BANDIT I AND II

Bandit's pushing the red line on his speedometer and gestures

for Kate to pick up the CB mike.

KATE:

(into mike)

Yeah, Bandit II, Que pasa?

CLEDUS:

(into mike)

That's a Texas bubble gum machine on

your back porch.

KATE:

(has no idea what he

just said)

What's he...

Bandit grabs the mike.

BANDIT:

(driving and talking)

Uh, Cledus; I noticed.

He starts to hang it up.

CLEDUS (V.O.)

(from CB)

What's a Texas Smokey doing in

Arkansas, man?

BANDIT:

(yelling into mike)

If I knew, Cledus; I'd be on College

Bowl.

Bandit slams down the mike and the accelerator.

HIGHWAY - DAY

and the chase is on. High speed. Way over a hundred. Two

blurs through the Arkansas countryside.

INSIDE CLAYTON'S CAR

Sheriff Clayton is on his police radio.

CLAYTON:

(into mike)

This is Sheriff Clayton. In pursuit

of a black Shelby Cobra, Georgia

license Boy-Adam-Nora. Ocean-Nora-

Eddie. Request assistance.

CUT TO:

TWO ARKANSAS SHERIFF'S CARS

blasting off down the highway in response. Lights twirling.

Sirens wailing.

INSIDE THE LEAD CAR - MOVING

SHERIFF WILLY BRANFORD is riding shotgun. He's fat and

arrogant. He chews bubble gum as he talks on the radio mike.

A DEPUTY is driving. He's twenty-five, wears long sideburns

and mirrored sunglasses.

BRANFORD:

(into mike)

This is Sheriff Branford of Crossett

County. We're already on this joker's

case.

(he pops a bubble)

I got two units intercepting him at

Hamburg crossing. You say you was a

Sheriff?

INTERCUT - SHERIFFS CLAYTON AND BRANFORD

Clayton has trouble steering and talking.

CLAYTON:

(into mike)

That's a big ten-four. Sheriff Buell

Clayton. Texas.

BRANFORD:

(stunned, into mike)

Texas? What the hell you doing in my

goddam county?!?

At that instant, Clayton hits a rut in the road and drops

his mike. He bends to pick it up and the car slides off the

shoulder.

Before he can regain control, Clayton's headed straight for:

AN ABANDONED FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAND

Clayton's car crashes through the stand -- flattening it.

RUNNING ANGLE:

He blasts out on the other side, now sporting one busted

headlight and a dented grill. Somehow he manages to make it

back to the road, losing a hubcap on the way.

BRANFORD:

(over CB)

I said...

CLAYTON:

(picking up mike off

floor)

I heard what you said. And I said...

BRANFORD:

(cutting him cold)

I don't care what you said. You're

from Texas and what you said don't

mean jack diddly here in Arkansas!

Clayton slams down the mike.

ARKANSAS HIGHWAY - DAY - HIGH SHOT

Bandit I whips around a treacherous bend in the highway,

leaving Sheriff Clayton in the distance.

INSIDE SHERIFF BRANFORD'S CAR

The Arkansas Sheriff is mad. He spits his gum out the window --

but it's closed. The gum falls back in his lap. He looks at

it, then pops it back in his mouth again and turns to his

Deputy.

BRANFORD:

What the hell you looking at?

Before the Deputy can answer, Clayton's voice is back.

CLAYTON (V.O.)

(radio)

This is Sheriff Clayton again. I

lost the Cobra, but he's deadheaded

toward you doing damn near 140. If I

was you I'd set up a roadblock.

BRANFORD:

(grabbing mike)

-- And if I was you, I wouldn't be

telling me what to do! Now take a

hike, buster!!!

(he angrily hangs up

the mike and turns

to his Deputy)

Block the road.

HIGHWAY - DAY - HIGH SHOT

The two Arkansas Sheriff's cars slow down and form a

roadblock.

Branford and his Deputy climb out of the car. Branford spits

out his gum, as two other DEPUTIES climb out of the second

car. The four officers move behind their cars. To wait.

A SPEEDOMETER:

The needle pressing 120. Ease back and we're:

INSIDE BANDIT I - MOVING

as Bandit turns to Kate, who's looking out the rear window.

BANDIT:

Well?

KATE:

We lost him.

Bandit sighs relief, then:

A VOICE:

(from CB)

Bandit do you read me?

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