The Crying Game Page #14

JUDE:

You vanished quite effectively. Became

Mister Nobody. And you've no idea how

useful that could be.

FERGUS:

What do you mean?

JUDE:

We've got some plans here. And we'll need

a Mister Nobody to execute them.

FERGUS:

No way, Jude. I'm out.

JUDE:

You're never out, Fergus.

She looks at him hard. He looks away.

JUDE:

Maybe you don't care whether you die or

not. But consider the girl, Fergus. The

wee black chick.

He leaps up from the bed.

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FERGUS:

Leave her out of this.

JUDE:

Jesus, Fergus, you're a walking cliche.

You know we won't leave her out of this.

But I'm glad to see you care.

She brings her lips close to his so they touch.

JUDE:

And I must admit I'm curious.

He grabs her hair and pulls her head back.

FERGUS:

What the f*** do you know, Jude?

She pulls a gun and sticks it between his teeth.

JUDE:

You f***ing tell me, boy --

Fergus stares at her. Then says quietly:

FERGUS:

She's nobody. She likes me.

JUDE:

So I suppose a f*** is out of the

question. Keep your head down, Fergus. No

sudden moves. And not a whisper to her.

You'll be hearing from us.

She kisses him briefly, with the gun at his temple.

JUDE:

Keep the faith.

She goes. Fergus stands in the darkness.

EXT. HAIR SALON - EVENING.

Fergus, walking toward the hair salon, flowers in his hand.

He stands outside watching, the flowers behind his back. Then

the chair turns and we see it is Jude.

Fergus freezes. He sees Jude looking at him, smiling

brightly, then talking back to Dil

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INT. HAIR SALON - EVENING.

JUDE:

He your boyfriend?

Jude, turning in the chair.

JUDE:

Lucky you.

INT. INDIAN RESTAURANT - NIGHT.

DIL:

Carnations.

FERGUS:

What?

DIL:

He'd bring me carnations.

FERGUS:

So I got it wrong, then.

DIL:

Not at all, honey.

FERGUS:

Don't.

DIL:

Okay.

She smiles brightly at something behind Fergus. He turns and

sees Jude is there. Fergus stands, suddenly.

He throws some money on the table, grabs her arm, and frog-

marches her out.

FERGUS:

Come on.

DIL:

Why, honey --

FERGUS:

Come on.

DIL:

You gonna tell me why?

FERGUS:

No.

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As they pass Jude, she smiles.

EXT. INDIAN RESTAURANT - NIGHT.

Outside the restaurant. Fergus marches Dil away.

DIL:

What's wrong, Jimmy? Tell me what's wrong

--

FERGUS:

Not here.

They pass out of shot. In the background we see Jude rising.

INT. METRO - NIGHT.

Dil and Fergus making their way to their seats at the bar.

DIL:

You gonna tell me what it is?

A figure sitting down at the bar. It is Jude.

JUDE:

What was it?

DIL:

You know her, Jimmy?

JUDE:

Jimmy, is it? Do you know me, Jimmy?

FERGUS:

Dil, this is Jude.

DIL:

You following me?

JUDE:

Yeah. Just checking. He being nice to

you, Dil?

DIL:

Ever so nice. Aren't you, Jimmy?

JUDE:

That's good. I'm glad. Young love, as

they say.

DIL:

Absolutely. The younger the better.

Doesn't come your way much, I suppose.

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JUDE:

Don't go looking for it, Dil.

DIL:

Well, maybe you'll get lucky. Someday.

JUDE:

A bit heavy on the powder, isn't she,

Jimmy?

DIL:

A girl has to have a bit of glamour.

JUDE:

Absolutely. Long as she can keep it.

Isn't that right, James...

She leaves. Dil watches her go.

DIL:

It's her, isn't it?

FERGUS:

What's her?

DIL:

She's the thing you had to tell me.

FERGUS:

Kind of.

DIL:

I'm sorry, you know that? I'm really

sorry.

She looks at Col

DIL:

You see that, Col?

COL:

Saw it, Dil.

DIL:

F*** it, is what I say.

COL:

Yeah. F*** it, Dil.

DIL:

F***ing men, Col --

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COL:

F*** 'em.

There are tears in her eyes. She stands.

DIL:

And f*** you, Jimmy --

She staggers out of the pub. Fergus sits there. There is an

expression in Col's eyes that makes Fergus feel very, very

small.

COL:

You could always make it up to her.

FERGUS:

How?

COL:

When a girl runs out like that, she

generally wants to be followed.

FERGUS:

She's not a girl, Col --

COL:

Whatever you say.

But Fergus rises and walks out.

EXT. METRO - NIGHT.

A figure standing down the alleyway, smoking. Fergus looks

toward it, but Jude is standing there, waiting.

JUDE:

She went that way --

Jude grabs his arm.

JUDE:

But you come with me.

She draws him down an alley where the same car is waiting.

They get inside.

ANOTHER CAR - BY THE PUB.

Dil, sitting inside a taxi watching Fergus and Jude getting

in the car.

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INT. CAR - NIGHT.

In the moving car. Jude is driving, Maguire next to her.

Fergus sits in the back.

FERGUS:

So it was you all the time.

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