Thelma and Louise Page #13

EXT. RURAL ROAD - DAY

Louise is driving. They fly past a kid on his bike on a

long gravel driveway. He watches them. A huge cloud of

dust blows up as they pass him. He turns and rides his bike

down the driveway towards the house.

INT. CAR - DAY

THELMA:

Louise, you'd better slow down.

I'll just die if we get caught over

a speeding ticket.

Louise looks at the speedometer touching 80 mph and lets her

foot off the gas. Louise is looking a little nervous.

LOUISE:

For the first time in my life, I

wish this car wasn't green.

THELMA:

Are you sure we should be driving

like this? In broad daylight and

everything?

LOUISE:

No we shouldn't, but I want to put

some distance between us and the

scene of our last Goddamn crime!

THELMA:

Oooooweee!! You shoulda seen me!

Like I'd been doin' it all my life!

Nobody would ever believe it.

LOUISE:

You think you've found your calling?

THELMA:

Maybe. Maybe. The call of the wild!

Thelma howls like a dog and drinks a little bottle of Wild

Turkey.

LOUISE:

You're disturbed.

THELMA:

Yes! I believe I am!

INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

Jimmy is in a small room with Hal, Max, other cops, looking

stunned.

JIMMY:

I swear to God, she wouldn't tell me

one thing! Christ! You oughta try

to find that kid that was with 'em.

HAL:

Tell us about him.

JIMMY:

Just some young guy. Around twenty

years old. Dark hair.

Jimmy is really upset and has to really struggle to control

himself.

JIMMY:

(trying to remember

him)

They said they'd picked him up along

the way. He was a student. But he

didn't look right. But he left when

they got to the motel.

MAX:

Do you understand that you may be

facing an accessory charge?

HAL:

This is serious, son. A man is dead.

JIMMY:

I know! I'd tell you if I knew!

Goddamn! I know something happened,

or she wouldn't have left. I'm trying

to remember everything! Find that

f***ing kid. He probably knows

something.

EXT. DRIVING SHOT - DAY

Thelma and Louise are in the car. Thelma is taking empty

little Wild Turkey bottles out of her purse and throwing

them out the window.

LOUISE:

So what's the plan, Thelma? You

just gonna stay drunk?

THELMA:

Try to.

LOUISE:

Litterbug.

They come ROARING up on a semi-tanker carrying gas. We see

their FISH-EYE REFLECTIONS in the shiny tanker.

The mud flaps are the shiny silhouettes of naked women that

Thelma and Louise saw earlier. The truck is going slower

than they are.

LOUISE:

Aw, great. This always happens.

Whenever you're in a hurry.

She noses out to see if she can pass, but there's a car

coming. The car passes and the truck HONKS. The truck

driver's arm comes out his window and waves them past.

THELMA:

Isn't that nice? Truck drivers are

always so nice. The best drivers on

the road.

As they get next to the truck, the truck driver is smiling

and waving at them. They smile and wave back. He flicks

his tongue at them. Louise screams.

THELMA/LOUISE

Ugh!! Gross!! Oh my God! Aw, God!

Louise FLOORS it and speeds past him.

THELMA:

Ugh!! Why do they have to do that?

LOUISE:

They think we like it. Maybe they

think it turns us on.

Louise shivers with disgust.

INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

Jimmy is looking at police mug shots of a lot of young guys.

Hal shows Jimmy a mug shot of J.D.

HAL:

Is this the guy you saw them with?

JIMMY:

(looking closely)

It's him.

MAX:

(clapping his hands)

Oh, happy day.

JIMMY:

You gotta be kiddin' me. They picked

up a murderer?!

HAL:

Armed robber.

JIMMY:

Oh, great.

MAX:

(to Hal)

They're flying him here right now.

He was picked up this morning for

parole violation. They also found

about six grand on him, so he probably

knocked over something while he was

out there. They can drop him by

here for questioning. I'm so happy.

JIMMY:

(overhearing)

How much cash did he have?

EXT. POLICE STATION - DAY

J.D. arriving, handcuffed, at State Police building.

EXT. DIRT ROAD - DAY

The T-Bird is entering terrain that looks more like desert.

The top of the T-Bird is up.

INT. CAR - DAY

LOUISE:

Thelma.

THELMA:

Yeah.

LOUISE:

I want you to call Darryl.

THELMA:

What for?

LOUISE:

To find out if he knows anything.

If you think he does, you gotta hang

up because it means the police have

told him and the phone is probably

tapped.

THELMA:

Jeez, Louise, tapped the phone? You

think so?

LOUISE:

(agitated)

Oh, come on! Murder one and armed

robbery, Thelma!

THELMA:

Murder one! God, Louise, can't we

even say it was self-defense?

LOUISE:

But it wasn't! We got away! We

were walkin' away!

THELMA:

They don't know that! It was just

you and me there. I'll say he raped

me and you had to shoot him! I mean,

it's almost the truth!

LOUISE:

It won't work.

THELMA:

Why not?!

LOUISE:

No physical evidence. We can't prove

he did it. We probably can't even

prove he touched you by now.

They both pause for a moment.

THELMA:

God. The law is some tricky sh*t,

isn't it?

Then:

THELMA:

How do you know 'bout all this stuff

anyway?

Louise does not answer the question.

LOUISE:

Besides, what do we say about the

robbery? No excuse for that. No

such thing as justifiable robbery.

THELMA:

Alright, Louise!

EXT. DIRT ROAD - HELICOPTER SHOT - DUSK

As the sun sets, the T-Bird drives deeper into the vast

desert.

INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT

Darryl is sitting in the hallway. Two officers are leading

J.D. down the hall.

Hal, Max, other plainclothes officers follow. Darryl looks

at Hal questioningly. Hal doesn't respond and the entourage

quickly goes into a room. Darryl stands and crosses the

hall to the room as the door shuts in his face.

DARRYL:

(yelling at the door)

Hey! Hey!

INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT

J.D.

Who's the nut?

HAL:

That's Thelma Dickinson's husband.

J.D.

Aw, God.

INT. POLICE STATION - HALLWAY - NIGHT

Darryl tries the doorknob, but the door is locked.

INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT

Hal, Max, J.D., other officers. There is a VCR and monitor

set up in the room and they view the videotape of Thelma in

the convenience store.

J.D.

(pleased)

Alright! She did good! Didn't she?

HAL:

Well, son, she's doin' a damn sight

better 'n you right now.

MAX:

Where did you get $6600.00 in cash?

J.D.

A friend.

HAL:

We spoke with a gentlemen today who

says he personally delivered very

close to that same amount to a Miss

Louise Sawyer. Do you know her too?

J.D.

Umm, yes. She was driving.

HAL:

He said he took it to a motel in

Oklahoma City. He also says that at

that time he met a man. He identified

you through a series of mug shots.

He also told us that you and Mrs.

Dickinson seemed "close." Is that

true?

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