Trainspotting Page #12

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - LATER

Spud cooks up, watched by Swanney.

Nearby lie the drugged forms of Renton, Sick Boy and Allison

and Baby.

INT. RENTON FAMILY HOME, LIVING-ROOM - NIGHT

Renton's Mother and Father sit reading the paper and a

magazine.

INT. RENTON FAMILY HOME, PARENTS' BEDROOM - NIGHT

Renton trawls through drawers and any containers (shoe

boxes, make-up boxes, under the mattress, etc.) until he

finds some cash/jewelry.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

Renton lies back, staring vacantly ahead.

Tommy flops down beside him. Renton shows barely a flicker

of awareness.

TOMMY:

Lizzy's gone, Mark, she's gone and

f***ing dumped me. It was the video

tape and that Iggy Pop business

and all sorts of other stuff. She

told me where to go and no mistake.

I said, is there any chance of

getting back together, like, but

no way, no f***ing way.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD SITTING-ROOM - DAY

A few elderly patients sit in armchairs watching daytime

television.

Renton and Spud jump and climb through an open window.

Watched by the helpless patients, they calmly disconnect

the television and take it with them as they leave by the

same route.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

Renton and Tommy slumped side by side as before.

TOMMY:

I want to try it, Mark. You're

always going on about how it's the

ultimate hit and that. Better than

sex. Come on, I'm a f***ing adult.

I want to find out for myself.

Renton huddles up and leans away from Tommy.

TOMMY:

I've got the money.

Tommy produces ten pounds from his pocket.

EXT. STREET - DAY

Renton and Spud run along the street.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

Tommy lies drugged on the floor.

INT. FLAT TO BE BURGLED - DAY

The door of an ordinary flat is kicked open.

Begbie walks in, crowbar in hand, followed by Sick Boy and

Spud.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

SICK BOY:

Honor Blackman a.k.a. P*ssy Galore,

what a total f***ing misnomer. I

wouldn't touch her with yours. I'd

sooner shag Col Kreb. At least you

know where you are with a woman

like that. Not much to look at,

like, but personality, that's what

counts, that's what keeps a

relationship going through the

years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin's

got f***ing great personality.

Sick Boy opens the heel of a his shoe to reveal a syringe.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

Swanney hands over a small bag of heroin in exchange for

ten pounds from Renton.

INT. FLAT TO BE BURGLED, KITCHEN - DAY

Spud checks the fridge and pulls out a large chunk of deep-

frozen meat.

He hits with the crowbar until it fractures and splits.

Inside there is some jewellery.

INT. CAR - DAY

The car is empty. A window is broken and the door opened.

The car alarm goes off.

Renton reaches under the seat and finds the radio/cassette.

He then pulls the bonnet release.

EXT. CAR - DAY

The car alarm rings on until Renton calmly produces a pair

of wire cutters and a spanner to cut free and release the

battery.

The alarm is silenced.

Renton walks away with the battery and the stereo.

INT. GP'S SURGERY - DAY

RENTON (V.O.)

Swanney taught us to adore and

respect the National Health Service,

for it was the source of much of

our gear. We stole drugs, we stole

prescriptions, or bought them,

sold them, swapped them, forged

them, photocopied them or traded

them with cancer victims,

alcoholics, old age pensioners,

AIDS patients, epileptics and bored

housewives. We took morphine,

diamorphine, cyclozine, codeine,

temazepam, nitrezepam,

phenobarbitone, sodium amytal

dextropropoxyphene, methadone,

nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine,

buprenorphine, dextromoramide

chlormethiazole. The streets are

awash with drugs that you can have

for unhappiness and pain, and we

took them all. F*** it, we would

have injected Vitamin C if only

they'd made it illegal.

The GP examines Renton's chest and smiles.

The GP turns to wash his hands. Renton pulls on his shirt

and steals a prescription pad off the desk.

INT. SWANNEY'S FLAT - DAY

Renton lies back with his eyes close. A football enters

the frame to bounce off his head and out again.

He opens his eyes and it happens again.

Opposite him, Spud, Sick Boy and Tommy stand looking down

on him.

Tommy throws the ball again.

INT. PUB I - DAY

It's the first day of the Edinburgh Festival.

Renton, Tommy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie sit drinking.

They observe a young male American Tourist walk in in a

bulky red anorak and glasses. He goes past them towards

the toilet.

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