Unforgiven Page #19

FATTY:

ASSASSINS, BOYS, ASSASSINS!

BAWHOOM! Munny lets go with the shotgun and Fatty dives back

into the bunkhouse and...

The Kid is startled and looks over his shoulder.

MUNNY:

SHOOT HIM, KID!

and The Kid grabs the door with his left hand and opens it

and there is Mike sitting on the crapper astonished and one

hand is on his holstered pistol but he's frozen and The Kid

is pointing the Schofield at him but The Kid is frozen too.

MIKE:

NO! NO!

BLAM! The Schofield jumps in The Kid's hand and Mike gets it

in the chest and there is smoke all over and The Kid stares

at Mike amazed and Mike who has a big splotch of blood on

his chest stares back at The Kid amazed also and then...

BLAM, The Kid shoots him again, this time in the face.

BANG! BANG! shots from the bunkhouse and...

BAWHOOM! Munny blasts the bunkhouse with shotgun.

MUNNY:

Come on, Kid.

BLAM, The Kid shoots Mike's slumping body a third time and

he seems hypnotized but...

BANG BANG shots are coming from the bunkhouse and Munny is

screaming and The Kid tears himself away.

EXT. BUSHES - DAY

Munny crashing through the bushes and The Kid is a few yards

behind him and Munny stumbles and scrambles to his feet.

MUNNY:

Did... you... get... him?

THE KID:

(amazed)

Yeah.

EXT. OUTHOUSE - DAY

The outhouse and Mike's body and Fatty and Thirsty and Buck

dashing past, waving their guns.

EXT. WOODS - DAY

The albino mare and the Morgan in the woods and Munny and

The Kid dash up to the horses, gasping for breath, and Munny

tries to mount still holding the shotgun and the horse starts

to prance around and Munny can't mount.

MUNNY:

Hold still.

BANG, BANG, BANG shots are whistling around them and looking

back Munny can see his pursuers firing from cover fifty yards

away.

Munny shoves two shells in the shotgun and hands it to The

Kid who has mounted.

MUNNY:

Cover me, Kid, while I mount.

THE KID:

(panicked)

I can't see 'em.

BANG BANG BANG:

MUNNY:

Just SHOOT!

And KA BLAMMM, The Kid lets go both barrels in the general

direction of the enemy and then Munny gallops away half on

his horse, half-off, in an undignified escape, bullets

whistling around his horse and The Kid behind him shouting.

THE KID:

Where are you, Bill, where are you,

I can't see you. Wait for me.

And then they disappear and gradually the shooting stops.

EXT. OPEN COUNTRY - DAY

Open country at sundown seen from a low hill, and you can

barely make out a lone RIDER approaching in the extreme

distance.

VIEW ON MUNNY:

Standing on the rise and watching the rider in the distance.

THE KID:

Is that what it was like, Bill, in

the old days... ridin' out with

everybody shootin'... smoke all over

an' folks yellin' an' bullets whizzin'

by?

The Kid is behind Bill sitting under a large oak drinking

from a whiskey bottle.

MUNNY:

(absently)

Yeah, I guess so.

THE KID:

Sh*t... I thought they was gonna get

us. I was even... scared a little...

just for a minute.

(pause)

Was you ever scared in them days?

Munny turns from watching the rider's slow approach and walks

over to The Kid who can't see the rider from where he's

sitting.

MUNNY:

I don't remember, Kid. I was drunk

most of the time. Give me a pull on

that bottle, will you?

Munny takes a big pull on the bottle, returns it to The Kid,

and walks back to the edge of the rise to resume his vigil.

The rider is a little closer now and the sun is a little

lower. It is very beautiful.

THE KID:

(drinking heavy)

I shot that f***er three times. He

was takin' a sh*t. He went for his

pistol an' I blazed away... first

shot got him in the chest...

The Kid wipes whiskey from his chin. He has been working

hard to make the hysteria he feels into a high... but it

won't quite come.

THE KID:

Say, Bill...

MUNNY:

Yeah.

Munny is watching the rider and the rider is closer.

THE KID:

That was... the first one.

MUNNY:

First one what?

THE KID:

First one I ever killed.

MUNNY:

(preoccupied with his

vigil)

Yeah?

THE KID:

How I said I shot five men... it

wasn't true.

(long pause)

That Mexican... the one that come at

me with a knife... I busted his leg

with a shovel... I didn't shoot him

or nothin'.

Munny is watching the rider and the rider is much closer but

coming at a walk and Munny goes back over to The Kid for a

pull on the bottle and he's trying to make The Kid feel okay

when he says...

MUNNY:

Well, that fella today, you shot him

alright.

THE KID:

(forced bravado)

H-hell yeah. I killed the hell out

of him... three shots... he was takin'

a sh-sh-sh*t an'... an'...

The Kid is shaking, becoming hysterical, he can't go on, and

Munny hands the bottle back.

MUNNY:

Take a drink, Kid.

THE KID:

(breaking down, crying)

Oh Ch-ch-christ... it don't... it

don't seem... real... How he's...

DEAD... how he ain't gonna breathe

no more... n-n-never. Or the other

one neither... On account of... of

just... pullin' a trigger.

Munny walks back to the edge of the rise and watches the

rider and it is a lovely sunset happening and he is talking

to no one in particular.

MUNNY:

It's a hell of a thing, ain't it,

killin' a man. You take everythin'

he's got... an' everythin' he's ever

gonna have...

THE KID:

(trying to pull himself

together)

Well, I gu-guess they had it...

comin'.

MUNNY:

We all got it comin', Kid.

VIEW on the rider at the foot of the rise and it is Little

Sue and VIEW on Munny pulling the saddle bags off and Little

Sue is still mounted. They are under the oak tree and it is

dusk and The Kid is just sitting there with his bottle.

MUNNY:

I was watchin' you... seein' if you

was followed.

LITTLE SUE:

(scared to death)

Silky an' Faith, they rode off to

the East an' two deputies was

followin' them.

Munny has lit a little candle and spread a blanket and he is

opening the bags to count the money.

MUNNY:

(pouring out the coins

and bills)

You wanna help me count, Kid?

The Kid is leaning against the tree in a semi-stupor.

THE KID:

I trust you, Bill.

MUNNY:

Well, you don't wanna trust me too

much. We'll take Ned his share

together so you don't figure I run

off with it.

LITTLE SUE:

(startled)

Ned's share?

MUNNY:

(counting)

Yeah, he went South ahead of us. I

guess we'll catch him before...

LITTLE SUE:

(blurting it out)

He's... he's dead.

MUNNY:

(counting)

No he ain't. He went South yesterday.

LITTLE SUE:

They... they killed him. I... thought

you know that. I thought you knew

because...

MUNNY:

(looking up)

Nobody didn't kill Ned, he went South

yesterday. He didn't even kill nobody.

Why would anybody kill Ned?

Little Sue just looks back at him, scared, trembling.

MUNNY:

(realizing)

Who killed him?

LITTLE SUE:

Little Bill. The... the Bar T boys

caught him and Little Bill...

MUNNY:

He hanged him?

(Little Sue shakes

her head "no")

Shot him down?

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