Unforgiven Page #17

MUNNY:

(leaping up, shouting)

BRING HIM SOME GODDAMN WATER, YOU

A**HOLES.

THE BOULDERS. Nothing happens, you can't tell if the cowboys

are behind there or not.

DAVEY'S VOICE (O.S.)

Please boys... I'm shot in the gut...

I'm bleedin'... bring me...

MUNNY:

(shouting)

WILL YOU TAKE HIM A F***ING DRINK

FOR CHRIST SAKE! WE AIN'T GONNA SHOOT.

There is a pause and Munny looks down at the boulders where

the cowboys are hiding.

TEXAS SLIM'S VOICE

(from behind the

boulder)

You ain't gonna shoot?

MUNNY:

No.

And then, after a long moment, Munny sees Texas Slim come

out from behind the boulder and run nervously toward the

rock where Davey lies and he is carrying a canteen.

JOHNNY'S VOICE (O.S.)

Don't you shoot him, you a**holes.

The Kid is trying to see but of course he can't.

THE KID:

They takin' water?

MUNNY:

Yeah.

Munny is watching and he sees Texas Slim disappear behind

the boulder where Davey is lying and there is a moment of

silence... and then the voice, a scream of grief and

anguish...

TEXAS SLIM'S VOICE

(from behind the

boulder)

Oh, Jesus, Johnny, they've killed

him... they've shot up his gut... oh

Jesus, they've killed young Davey...

oh, those murderin' bastards, they've

killed our Davey...

And The Kid spits in the dust and Ned wipes his forehead

with his bandanna and Munny scuffs the dirt with his boot.

HOOVES ON FLAT ROCK and the three riders, Munny, Ned and The

Kid, are trotting their horses over a smooth slab of rock

near a hill. They are silent, glum, then,

THE KID:

When we gonna double back?

MUNNY:

After a ways.

NED:

(not looking at them)

Not me.

Munny looks up sharply but Ned just looks straight ahead.

NED:

I'm goin' on down to Kansas.

MUNNY:

We got to kill this other one first.

(Ned doesn't answer)

Sh*t, Ned, if we're lucky, we could

kill him by nightfall... or maybe

tomorrow morning. Then we could head

back, all three of us, with the money.

Ned reins in his horse and Munny pulls up too and then The

Kid.

NED:

(looking him in the

eye)

You want the Spencer, Bill?

(he holds out the

rifle)

MUNNY:

(lamely)

Sh*t, Ned, this ain't the time to

quit.

THE KID:

You're gonna lose your share. If you

don't...

MUNNY:

Shut up, Kid.

Ned just holds out the rifle and after a moment Munny takes

it and Ned takes a box of cartridges from his pocket and

hands them over.

NED:

I'll see you, Bill. See you, Kid.

And he turns his horse and heads off across open country at

a trot and Munny watches him go till he's about fifty yards

away.

MUNNY:

(shouting)

HOLD ON, NED.

And Ned reins up and Munny gallops up to him and holds out

the Spencer and the bullets.

MUNNY:

I ain't worth a sh*t with it.

Ned takes the rifle, sheathes it, gives a curt nod and turns

to go.

MUNNY:

Me an' the Kid, we'll head over to

the ranch an' as soon as we find

him, we'll shoot him. Then we'll

come back an' the three of us pick

up the money an' head South together.

NED:

Supposin' he don't go to the ranch?

MUNNY:

I'll bet anything he won't go to

town nor he won't ride out on the

range. Right off he'll hole up at

the ranch.

NED:

(turning away)

I ain't waitin', Bill.

(looking back)

I'll look in on your youngsters when

I get back.

MUNNY:

(calling after him)

Ned, don't pay no mind to what the

Kid said about the money. I'll bring

your share along, hear? The Kid's

full of sh*t, hear?

EXT. LITTLE BILL'S HOUSE - DAY

VIEW on the roof, late afternoon, and Little Bill is crawling

around up there with a bucket of tar which he has got on his

moustache and his face and he looks up because he hears the

clatter of hooves.

VIEW ON CHARLEY HECKLER

Galloping his horse up to Little Bill's house and Charley is

very excited and he swings off the horse in front of the

porch and the porch is at once closer to completion and closer

to collapse than last we saw it.

CHARLEY:

(looking around,

breathless)

Little Bill, Little Bill...

LITTLE BILL'S VOICE (O.S.)

Yeah.

Charley looks up, startled and Little Bill is looking down

at him over the eaves.

LITTLE BILL:

(sheepish)

Makin' some repairs.

CHARLEY:

(breathless)

The killed one of them cowboys.

EXT. MAIN STREET - NIGHT

NIGHT, CLOSE VIEW on torchlight flickering on Davey's waxy

face and dead eyes as Eggs, Germany Joe and Paddy haul the

blood-caked body from the back of a buckboard. WW is looking

on queasily, taking notes, and behind him the street is alive.

WIGGENS' VOICE (O.S.)

...an' Parsons said how he seen three

men right after sun-up headed out

East an' one was ridin' a old blue

Morgan an' another was on a white

mare, only he didn't...

And only a few yards away from the buckboard, in front of

the County Office, Little Bill is being besieged by Deputies

and Townsmen.

FATTY:

Amos over at the stable says to ask

you if the County's payin' feed for

ALL the horses or if...

CHARLEY:

...Witherspoon says he ain't gonna

sell us no more thirty-thirty shells

without we pay...

And the dogs, snarling, fangs bared, pulling at the leash

and Tom Luckinbill is trying to keep control.

TOM:

...use the dogs then the county's

gotta take responsibility for...

LITTLE BILL:

(calmly)

Never mind about them horses, Fatty.

Just you ride out to the Bar T an'

make sure that other cowboy stays

put an' don't expose himself, hear?

INT. ALICE'S ROOM - NIGHT

Alice's room and the whores. They are sitting glumly in the

dim light of a simple lamp. Little Sue is wiping tears away

and Delilah is staring blankly.

DELILAH:

(to no one in

particular)

I didn't think they'd really do it.

ALICE:

(nasty)

What did you think, they come clear

up from Kansas to f*** us?

DELILAH:

(vacantly)

That Kid... he's just a... boy. And

that other one, Bill, being true to

his wife...

ALICE:

What wife? He don't have no wife.

DELILAH:

(shocked, hurt)

He said...

ALICE:

I told you, he don't have no wife,

not aboveground, anyhow.

Delilah just eats the pain raw and just then...

SMASH! A rock comes through the window and you can hear

someone shouting.

VOICE OUTSIDE (O.S.)

You f***in' murderin' whores.

And they all sit there stunned and then Alice recovers and

gets up and goes to the window and hurls the rock back.

ALICE:

(shouting)

HE HAD IT COMING! HE HAD IT COMING

FOR WHAT HE DID... AND THAT OTHER

ONE TOO... BOTH OF THEM... FOR WHAT

THEY DONE.

EXT. COUNTY OFFICE - NIGHT

Little Bill and the crowd and the torches outside the County

Office and suddenly there is a commotion and shouting and

everybody turns North and...

Fuzzy is riding into town at full gallop shouting at the top

of his lungs.

FUZZY:

We got one. We got one of them

f***ers, we got one...

Bystanders part as Fuzzy brings the horse up in front of the

County Office and reins hard and addresses himself

breathlessly to Little Bill.

FUZZY:

We got one of them f***ers, Sheriff,

out by Cow Creek, we...

LITTLE BILL:

Alive?

FUZZY:

Hell, yeah. A bunch of us Bar T boys

went out lookin' on account of them

killin' one of our own. We come across

this f***er on a roan goin' South

an'...

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