The Crying Game Page #6

Fergus watches him puff the cigarette, the hood just above

his lips. Jody coughs, but keeps the cigarette in his lips.

Fergus gently takes the cigarette from his mouth.

FERGUS:

Go to sleep now.

JODY:

I don't want to sleep. Tell me something.

FERGUS:

What?

JODY:

A story.

FERGUS:

Like the one about the frog?

JODY:

And the scorpion. No. Tell me anything.

FERGUS:

When I was a child...

JODY:

Yeah?

FERGUS:

I thought as a child. But when I became a

man I put away childish things...

JODY:

What does that mean?

29.

FERGUS:

Nothing.

JODY:

Tell me something, anything.

Fergus is silent; his eyes wet.

JODY:

Not a lot of use, are you, Fergus?

FERGUS:

Me? No, I'm not good for much...

EXT. FIELDS - MORNING.

The farmhouse covered in mist. The sun coming through it.

EXT. GREENHOUSE - MORNING.

Maguire opens the door to the greenhouse and clicks the

chamber of his gun. Fergus has a gun in his hand. He checks

the chamber.

Fergus takes Jody, whose hands are still tied behind his

back, by the elbow.

FERGUS:

Stand up, now --

Jody rises. Fergus leads him through the door, past Maguire.

MAGUIRE:

I wish to say on behalf of the Irish

Republican Army --

Fergus turns with sudden fierceness.

FERGUS:

Leave him be --

He pulls Jody through the fields.

EXT. TREES - MORNING.

Fergus pushing Jody through a copse of trees, the gun at his

back.

JODY:

Take the hood off, Fergus --

FERGUS:

No.

30.

JODY:

I want to see a bit. Please, please.

Don't make me die like an animal.

Fergus pulls the hood off. Jody looks around him. He has a

cut lip where Jude struck him.

Fergus prods him on with the gun. Jody stumbles forward.

Fergus is all cold and businesslike.

JODY:

I'm glad you're doing it, do you know

that, Fergus?

FERGUS:

Why?

JODY:

Cause you're my friend. And I want you to

go to the Metro --

FERGUS:

Stop that talk now --

JODY:

Hurling's a fast game, isn't it, Fergus?

FERGUS:

The fastest.

JODY:

Faster than cricket?

FERGUS:

Cricket's in the halfpenny place.

JODY:

So if I ran now, there's no way I'd beat

you, is there?

FERGUS:

You won't run.

JODY:

But if I did... you wouldn't shoot a

brother in the back --

Jody suddenly sprints, and, loosening the ties on his hands,

then freeing them, he is off like a hare. Fergus screams in

fury after him.

FERGUS:

JODY!!!

31.

Fergus aims, then changes his mind and runs.

FERGUS:

You stupid bastard --

JODY:

What you say, faster?

FERGUS:

I said you bastard -- stop --

JODY:

Got to catch me first --

Fergus gains on him -- stretches his arm out -- but Jody

sprints ahead again -- as if he has been playing with him. He

laughs in exhilaration. Fergus pants behind him, wheezing,

almost laughing.

JODY:

Used to run the mile, you know -- four

times round the cricket pitch -- what was

that game called?

FERGUS:

Hurling --

JODY:

What?

FERGUS:

Hurling --

Jody runs, whipping through the trees -- always ahead of him.

JODY:

Come on, Fergie -- you can do it -- a bit

more wind --

Fergus grabs his shoulder and Jody shrugs it off, gaining on

him again.

JODY:

Bit of fun, Fergus, eh?

And suddenly the trees give way. Jody turns, laughing, to

Fergus.

JODY:

Told you I was fast --

Fergus is panting, pointing the gun at Jody

32.

JODY:

Don't do it.

And suddenly a Saracen tank whips around the corner, hits

Jody with the full of its fender. His body flies in the air

and bounces forward as another tank tries to grind to a halt

and the huge wheels grind over him.

Fergus, screaming, "No-!" He almost moves forward, then sees

soldiers spilling from the tank around the body. Fergus turns

and runs.

EXT. TREES - DAY

Fergus whipping through the trees, his body crouched low as

he runs.

INT. GREENHOUSE - DAY

Tinker sitting in the greenhouse. A helicopter screams into

view through the panes and automatic fire comes from it,

shattering every pane in seconds and tearing Tinker to bits.

INT. FARMHOUSE - DAY

Bullets whipping through every window, taking chunks from the

masonry, tearing the walls apart. Maguire, Jude, and the

others on the floor, scrambling for weapons.

EXT. TREES - DAY

Fergus, hearing the gunfire, runs through overhanging

branches till eventually he is hidden from sight.

EXT. CARNIVAL ON THE MONAGHAN BORDER - DAWN.

A forlorn-looking building over nondescript fields.

An old man wheels a bicycle slowly toward it; a rusty car

appears; and Fergus gets out of it.

TOMMY:

Fergus!

FERGUS:

You're back in the pink, Tommy? How're

you keeping?

INT. CARAVAN - DAY

The old man pouring whiskey into a teacup.

33.

TOMMY:

You'll notice I've asked you nothing.

FERGUS:

That's wise, Tommy.

TOMMY:

All right, then. I like to be wise.

He pours Fergus more whiskey.

TOMMY:

So what do you need, Fergus?

FERGUS:

Need to go across the water.

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