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BOBBY (emotional)

When I got back from the garage, and your

jeep wasn't there, I thought you'd gone and

left me and taken the money.

(off her look)

...Cause I never had any luck with women,

Grace. You don't know what I been through.

The sh*t I've taken. I thought you were

like the rest of 'em... but when you came

out of the house... well you're here Grace

and we might be starting in the sh*t but

we're starting where I never been --

together with someone -- together with you

Grace.

She responds with a luminous smile.

GRACE:

I love you Bobby.

He looks back at her with trust and love in his eyes.

BOBBY:

We're gonna pull this off, Grace.

Just then a HEADLIGHT rakes them from the rear as we hear,

again, the ominous crackle of a POLICE RADIO and the short

brutal "Whoop" of the siren, as Sheriff Potter's VEHICLE rolls

up quickly behind them. Grace's face is caught like a surprised

deer in the headlamps.

GRACE:

Oh, my God!

(then)

Don't stop!

Bobby is in a bind. The siren whoops again. The lights flash to

highbeam.

BOBBY:

He must've seen us swerving on the road,

that's all, just gonna give us a ticket for

swerving...

But even Bobby has trouble believing that as the POLICE VEHICLE

pulls out sharply alongside his and SHERIFF POTTER motions to

him aggressively to pull over on the shoulder.

SHERIFF (into loudspeaker)

Pull over, goddamnit, pull over!

GRACE:

Keep going!

She seems to be panicking. Bobby pulls over.

BOBBY:

F*** this!...Just shut up, Grace. We done

nothing! Be cool. Let me do the talking. He

doesn't know anything.

His vehicle pulled up on the shoulder in front of them, the

Sheriff gets out, shining his power flashlight into their faces.

BOBBY (starts)

'Evening Sheriff, sorry bout that but this

jackrabbit...

Bobby has no time to react as the Sheriff is suddenly there at

his window, jerking his door open, angry. A GUN in his hand,

pointed at them, his eyes on Grace.

SHERIFF:

You had to f*** him, didn't you!

GRACE (nervous cool)

I would never do that to you, baby... He

killed Jake -- said he'd kill me if I

didn't come with him. All he wants is the

money.

Bobby looks at her. He cannot believe what he just heard.

BOBBY:

What!

SHERIFF (flipping, yelling)

Don't lie to me!

Grace knows the jam is up.

GRACE:

OK...but he never made me cum! Really

Virgil, I was only doing what I had to do

so we could be free. Just like we talked

about. It meant nothing.

A pause. Virgil wants to kill her, but he also wants her back

badly.

BOBBY:

You f***ing him too Grace? Is everybody

f***ing everybody in this town?

She ignores him. Her attention on the backpack with the money

between her legs -- the gun is there, inside an outer flap of

the bag.

SHERIFF:

You f*** this guy -- get him to do your

dirty work and you think you can take the

money and dump me?

GRACE:

No baby, you got it wrong.

SHERIFF:

This road don't go to Globe, Grace -- where

were you going to meet me?

His flashlight on the four suitcases in the backseat. She

doesn't have an answer to that one.

GRACE:

It's not like that it... Look, Virgil, I

got the money here.

She gets out of the car on her side, comes around to him, the

pack of money slung on her shoulder, hard to see in the dark.

SHERIFF (hurt)

Oh Grace, you can say what you want...but,

I watched you f*** that pervert for years

while you're telling me you loved me? What

happened to going to Milwaukee together?

You and me -- gonna open up the finest

sporting goods store that city ever did

see? Get us a place on the north shore, by

the lake? Season Brewer tickets! Just you

and me, Grace. What happened?

GRACE:

All talk, that's all you did was talk, and

all I did was sit around getting older

waiting for you to free me! You never did

nothin' Virgil, you're weak! (pointing to

Bobby) He did!

The Sheriff, deeply wounded, casts a hot vicious gaze on Bobby.

SHERIFF:

This is some girl you and me got here

Bobby, yessir, an excellent cocksuck too,

wouldn't you say? (back at Grace)... Course

you had a lotta practice haven't you

darling, going way back to your crazy mama!

GRACE (deadly)

Shut up, Virgil! Take your share of the

money. It's not so bad.

SHERIFF:

I don't want the f***in' money! I'm not

gonna give up everything I got for a lousy

50,000 dollars. It's you. You Grace or

nothing. The whole thing... I want you to

be my wife...(hopeful). What do you way

Grace?

GRACE:

You sound just like Jake... I did see into

the future, Virgil, but you weren't in it.

Go back to your family. They love you.

Bobby gets out of the car, misunderstanding the situation.

BOBBY (misunderstanding)

Look, we got more. We got $200,000 at

least. Split it three ways, we all walk

away...

The Sheriff snaps and smashes Bobby with his flashlight,

knocking him to the ground, kicking him again and again,

gathering the psychic force to murder him. Grace tries to

approach.

SHERIFF:

Shut up, boy! You don't know sh*t round

here! (to Grace) Get back. Did she tell you

that story about the bird flying away?

BOBBY (rolling on the ground)

Ow! Look, I ... ow!

GRACE:

Stop! Stop it!

SHERIFF (kicking again and again)

Were you going to help her fly away,

a**hole? What'd you think, you were the

first boy to drift through this town she

came on to? She tell you the story about

old Jake forcing her to marry him? That's a

good story... How he killed her crazy Mama?

Bobby in bloody agony. Grace stunned that Virgil would reveal

this now publicly.

GRACE:

Goddamnit Virgil, stop! Don't!

SHERIFF:

...But I bet the story she didn't tell you

was the best story of all. How old crazy

Jake was really her Papa. And she liked

f***ing Papa! And now she's killed the

sonufabitch! Just like she's gonna kill

you!

Grace plunges into the pack, pulls the gun and shoots Virgil

across the car in the gut.

GRACE:

No...you! You!

The Sheriff flies back onto the road, stunned, not realizing

what's happened.

Bobby watches unbelieving as Grace quietly steps up over the

Sheriff.

She puts the next round in his nuts, a modern fury enacting

ancient wrath.

BOBBY:

Grace. No!

The Sheriff is wide-eyed, dying in shock. Grace then fires right

at his head in a coup de grace that blows his brains out the

back of his head.

Grace and Bobby both stare, then Grace jumps into action,

dragging the body. She snaps to Bobby.

GRACE:

Help me get him off the road. Into the car!

We'll ditch his car... Get the f*** up!

Bobby stares at her.

EXT./INT. MUSTANG - NIGHT

They're driving. GRACE and BOBBY, wordless, each thinking in

separate worlds. Grace wipes her hands. The bag with the money

between her legs. The Baretta is back in the bag.

BOBBY (finally)

Jesus, did you have to kill him?

GRACE:

Get real Bobby. He was gonna kill you and

me.

BOBBY:

He was in love with you Grace. He would've

done what you wanted, you could've made a

deal and ...

GRACE:

The only deal he had in mind was killing

you for Jake's murder and blackmailing me

into sucking his dick for the rest of my

life... no thanks.

BOBBY:

He was a cop, Grace, they never stop

looking for you when you kill a cop...

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