Unforgiven Page #14

ALICE:

You got to look sharp for that old

oak. You miss the oak an' you ain't

gonna find it.

NED:

(to The Kid)

Never mind your shirt, get them boots

on.

Ned is trying to get his own boots on and he goes down on

his ass in the mud.

ALICE:

The roof ain't much but...

THE KID:

What about Bill? What we gonna do

about...

NED:

Come on, Kid. I hope them horses is

still there.

INT. BAR ROOM - NIGHT

Munny crawling along the floor of the bar room, covered with

blood, heading for the door.

LITTLE BILL:

Let the man out, WW. He is desiring

to leave the hospitality of Big

Whiskey behind him.

Munny is crawling past WW's legs and WW looks down at the

miserable semi-conscious creature and he sees clearly the

left hand and the three fingers as they fight for traction

and then WW steps to the door and opens it and Munny crawls

into the rain and the night.

INT. ALICE'S ROOM - NIGHT

SLAP! Alice gets Little Bill's big hand across the face.

SKINNY:

Easy, Little Bill, she's gotta work,

she's gotta turn a dollar a time.

Little Bill glares at Skinny. They are in Alice's room and

Charley is there and Little Sue and WW and it is pretty

crowded.

LITTLE BILL:

(to Alice)

If they was just here for the f***in',

how come they lit out the back window?

ALICE:

(defiant)

On account of they seen you was

beatin' on their friend.

LITTLE SUE:

(bravely)

Th-th-they just c-c-come for the b-

bbilliards, Little Bill, honest.

LITTLE BILL:

(snorting)

Billiards!

(to Little Sue)

An' they was just passin' through?

LITTLE SUE:

Th-th-they was g-g-goin to F-f-fort

B-b-buford t-t-to...

ALICE:

(nasty)

You just kicked the sh*t out of a

innocent man, you big a**hole.

LITTLE BILL:

Innocent of what?

EXT. SOUTH END OF TOWN - NIGHT

The south end of town, NIGHT, RAIN and the Albino mare walking

aimlessly with Munny slumped in the saddle and then two riders

come from between two shadowy buildings and it is The Kid

and Ned and they come alongside Munny, one on each side of

him and Ned lifts his slumped head up and looks at the

battered face and winces and says with his eyes what The Kid

says with his tongue.

THE KID:

Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

CANDLELIGHT, Ned and The Kid, and Ned is sewing Munny's face

with a needle and thread.

NED:

Hold him, dammit.

It is some sort of straw-filled shed and they have stuck a

candle on a board.

THE KID:

(sickened)

Jesus.

(pause)

You done this before?

NED:

(working)

Plenty of times.

Munny is only semi-conscious and The Kid is holding his face

still.

THE KID:

His pistol must of jammed.

NED:

Move the candle closer, I can't see.

THE KID:

He wouldn't of took no beating like

that if it hadn't of jammed. He

wouldn't just give it over an' not

shoot no one.

INT. SHED - DAY

DAYLIGHT in the shed and Munny's face, waxy yellow, crude

stitching, hideous swelling eyes vacant, breathing heavy.

He is lying in the straw and The Kid is looking down at him

with distaste. The Kid is only partly dressed.

THE KID:

He don't look so good.

The sound of the rain is different: it's still coming but it

isn't a storm any more.

The shed is an irregular shelter because one wall and various

parts of the roof have collapsed and the woods outside are

clearly visible.

Silky is sitting on some straw straightening her clothes and

Ned and Alice are climbing out of a corner where they have

obviously been at it and are in various states of dress.

THE KID:

(to Alice)

He didn't even pull his pistol, huh?

NED:

(irritated)

He ain't as tough as you, Kid.

THE KID:

Well, I guess I woulda at least pulled

my pistol an...

NED:

Sh*t, Kid, you pulled your pistol...

right outta the lady an' out the

back window.

THE KID:

That was your idea, I wanted to...

SILKY:

(getting up and

smoothing herself)

We gotta go.

THE KID:

Huh? Already? Hey, I'm near ready

for another advance.

SILKY:

You're gonna use it all up before

you get it.

ALICE:

(about to leave)

No more advances on what you ain't

done yet.

THE KID:

Well, we're just waitin' on the

weather. If the weather breaks

tomorrow we could...

NED:

(to Alice)

We're gonna need more food... at

least three days worth...

THE KID:

Three days? We could kill 'em

tomorrow.

NED:

(a sharp look at The

Kid)

I don't kill nobody without him.

(indicating Munny)

THE KID:

(frustrated)

We don't need him. The two of us

could do it.

The horses are partly under the roof and Alice and Silky are

leading theirs out and nobody is paying attention to The

Kid.

THE KID:

(petulantly)

He ain't nothin' but a broken down

pig farmer.

ALICE:

(mounting her horse,

to Ned)

One of us'll bring food in the

morning. I guess you'll want some

whiskey.

NED:

An' medicine if you got it...

The Kid walks over to the edge of the broken wall and from

the other corner Munny moans loudly and then screams.

MUNNY:

Ohhhhh, ooohhhh no. No, I didn't do

nothin'.

Ned hurries over to Munny and The Kid is left there with the

two Whores who are both mounted now and The Kid is

embarrassed.

THE KID:

Don't it make you sick, hearin' him

like that?

(The Whores turn their

horses)

Don't you ladies worry none...Me an'

Ned, we'll kill those two f***ers.

And The Kid has picked up two pieces of paper that the whores

gave them earlier and they are charcoal sketches, one of

Davey Bunting and the other of Quick Mike and they are pretty

fair likenesses.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

CLOSE on a lantern hanging from a beam in the shed and it is

night again and the rain has stopped though you can still

hear water dripping from the eaves.

THE KID:

It was a lot of sh*t what my uncle

told me, huh?

They are playing cards on the straw floor, Ned and The Kid

and Ned doesn't look up from his cards.

NED:

Depends what he told you.

(pause)

About Bill, you mean?

THE KID:

All of it. About him, an' you an'

Uncle Pete... about robbin' the Rock

Island Pacific... an' about them

Missouri Banks.

NED:

We done that stuff.

THE KID:

Well I guess Bill Munny wasn't no

fearless killer an' bank robber like

he said.

In the other corner of the room Munny gives a loud moan and

both men look at him and then back to their cards.

NED:

Kid, it ain't gonna mean nothin' to

you, but the roof I built on my house,

it don't have a leak in it... not

one.

(The Kid looks

perplexed)

Most folks think a school house is

the first sign of civilizin'... but

I say it's a good roof.

Well, that amazes The Kid, being stuck here with these train

robber-bad men and now this sh*t about roofs and he just

stares.

MUNNY'S VOICE (O.S.)

Claudia... No... Oh, Jesus, Claudia,

ohh...

Ned gets up and takes the lantern over to where Munny is

lying and kneels beside him. Munny looks ghastly, at death's

door.

NED:

Claudia... ain't here, Bill.

MUNNY:

(reaching)

Ned... Is that you, Ned?

(holding Ned's arm)

Ned, I seen... death.

NED:

Easy, Bill.

MUNNY:

I seen the angel of death Ned, an' I

seen the river.

(panicked)

He's a snake, he got... snake eyes.

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