Thoroughbreds Page #5

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Every business starts small.

Oh, really?

And what's next?

You're clearly only selling

to minors

because you don't wanna

get involved

- with the real dealers.

- Hey, you don't know me.

You don't know me.

Give me a decade,

I'm gonna be driving a car

just like the one out front.

I'm gonna move my family

into a neighborhood

just like this one.

Because I got the drive.

Oh, yeah.

And the mental toughness.

And a permanent spot

on Connecticut's

sex offender registry.

So, I guess the day you move in

you'll have to drive

that expensive car

door to door

introducing yourself

and trying

to convince them that...

the only reason you had sex

with a child

is because you were too afraid

to talk to anyone your own age.

[PERCUSSION MUSIC PLAYING]

[AMANDA GRUNTS]

Give me the phone.

TIM:
You're not gonna use this.

Not in this house.

Not in this neighborhood.

Cops would be here in a second.

Give me the phone.

Even if we were in the middle

of nowhere,

you wouldn't shoot.

Even if no one...

would find out.

[TIM CHUCKLES]

You cannot hesitate.

The only thing worse

than being incompetent

or being unkind

or being evil

is being indecisive.

[WATER SPLASHING]

Oh.

[GROANS]

AMANDA:

You did something stupid,

and you took a head wound,

but we've stopped the bleeding,

and you're in a stable

condition.

- I have to go to the hospital.

- AMANDA:
No.

I have to go to the hospital.

LILY:
They're my mom's Vicodin

from her back surgery.

AMANDA:
Take no more than two

at a time.

Keep it clean and it'll heal up

naturally.

What am I gonna tell my dad?

AMANDA:
Why will your dad care?

Because I live with him.

Wear a hat.

We're keeping this, by the way.

We'll put it inside the grill.

TIM:
The what?

The second grill.

It's the one furthest

from the house.

Mark never uses it.

You can come get it

Saturday night.

TIM:
That's in, uh...

- three days.

- BOTH:
Yeah.

You can't give the f***ing hole

in my head time to close?

It has to be Saturday.

I'm on vacation with my mom,

and Amanda's at a residential

psychotherapy program.

If you tell anyone

about any of this

or if you don't do your job,

we'll send the audio,

which we've put online,

to the police.

I'm out.

I'm out.

You...

you try anything,

you're going to jail.

I'm sorry, who...

who's going to jail?

AMANDA:
We're just two minors

with incredibly expensive

- family lawyers.

- LILY:
Uh-hmm.

AMANDA:
On the other hand,

if you have one more

legal issue,

even a minor drug offense,

you're getting 15 years.

[BRUSH SWISHING]

[LILY SIGHS]

Do you think

he's actually gonna do it?

He is.

Just enjoy your spa weekend.

I'll see you when it's done.

[BRUSH SWISHING]

Do you want, like, a...

I don't know, a hug or...

No.

Okay.

[AMBIENT MUSIC PLAYING]

Thank you.

LILY:
Thanks.

Mmm, so good.

[POP MUSIC PLAYING]

SINGER:

[INDISTINCT]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[METAL CLANKS]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

SINGER:

[INDISTINCT]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[GASPS]

Oh, my God!

What are you doing here?

MARK:
I thought I'd drive in.

Save you the train ride.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[SLAMS]

LILY:
F***ing coward.

You know, he's probably on his

way to the police right now.

- AMANDA:
He won't.

- You don't know that.

AMANDA:
He doesn't wanna get

himself involved

- in any legal trouble.

- LILY:
Well, then he'll come

after us.

I mean, he took his gun back.

AMANDA:
He has nothing to gain

in doing that.

He'll leave us alone,

and we'll leave him alone.

He doesn't deserve that.

AMANDA:
So, what, you want us

to track him down

and kill him too?

Let's just murder

half of Connecticut.

We'll do it ourselves.

I don't think

you're in the right mindset

to be planning this.

- What kind of mindset am I in?

- Lighting a cigarette indoors.

- That kind of mindset.

- Oh, is this your house?

- Or is this my house?

- I'm just saying,

that if we're gonna do this

it's because

it's the right thing to do.

Not because you're upset

and you're going through

a hard time.

What kind of "hard time"

am I going through?

I mean everything.

"Everything"?

What is "everything?"

My life is fine right now...

AMANDA:
I mean, you got expelled

from Andover.

And you lied to me about your

internship.

[CAR APPROACHING]

Is that Mark?

[FOOTSTEPS]

What is this?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

Ow, uh, God.

Where'd you get these?

A store.

MARK:
Is this a thing

you do now?

You a smoker?

[EXHALES]

If my dad

found me smoking in his house,

I would've gotten the buckle-end

of the belt.

Is that what you wanna do?

MARK:
Just throw the pack out.

I won't tell your mother.

- Tell her.

- She doesn't need one more thing

to make her anxious.

Which you'd know,

- if you'd bother...

- Leave her.

What's that?

If you want

what's best for her...

leave her.

You couldn't possibly

understand someone else's

point of view.

Could you?

Not mine,

not your friends',

definitely not your mom's.

- F*** you.

- Because in your brain,

all these people

are just...

little offshoots

of your consciousness.

We're all your maids,

aren't we?

Your cleaning ladies.

Your personal trainers.

You know what?

Put all the sh*t in your lungs

that you want.

We need to stop protecting you.

Life needs to knock you

around a little.

Oh, and the only reason

that I am still sending you

to Brookmore

is that I've paid in full.

After that,

you're off my payroll.

Princess.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[DOOR SLAMS]

You didn't do anything.

- [METAL CLANKS]

- AMANDA:
You were never unsafe.

So, you're okay with him

talking to me like that?

He's a cock.

Is that new information for us?

Honestly,

he's not even that off-base.

I mean, empathy isn't

your strong suit.

But you know that.

You're great in other ways.

- [EXHALES]

- Hey! There you go.

What?

The Technique.

You've been practicing.

I'm not using

The Technique, Amanda.

Hey, can I ask you something?

Yeah.

Do you remember that time

in ninth grade

when we were driving home

from my dad's funeral,

and you were holding me,

and we were crying?

Yeah.

Were you using The Technique?

Yeah.

That was good, wasn't it?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[MARK GRUNTING]

Ah, f***!

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Sara, this is

Mr. Geoffrey Hamilton.

Little Miss Crewe is

our new pupil.

How do you do?

How do you do?

I believe I'm to

teach you to ride.

It's funny to think how everyone

in this movie is dead now.

Or, like,

at least very old.

He's probably got

a motor-scooter now.

She... pees in a bag.

She's an obligation

to her family.

They take turns visiting her.

And...

and when they sit next

to her bed

and this movie comes on the TV,

she goes, "My,

- what a pretty young thing..."

- You're bumming me out.

AMANDA:
You okay?

LILY:
I'm fine.

Why?

AMANDA:
Just three days

of radio silence and then,

like, very urgent text messages.

AMANDA:
You know, if you wanna

get back to the plan we can...

I don't wanna talk

about the plan.

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