W I L D  A T  H E A R T
         a love story
         written by
         David Lynch
     based on the book by
         Barry Gifford
And now the story of Sailor and Lula.....
1. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY
A MAN rides a screaming massive Japanese motorcycle - wound out to
maximum R.P.M. up the street.
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2. SIGN BY ROADSIDE
The sign reads 揔IDS PLAYING - SPEED BUMPS?
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3. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY
With a whine from hell, the front tire of the motorcycle hits a speed
bump.
The motorcycle becomes airborne and on the way up slices itself in half
as it scrapes along the full length of a Datsun Kingcab.
In the air, the rider and motorcycle twist violently as they fly by.
The motorcycle bounces off a black ?6 Chevrolet and makes a sound like
the end of the world.
The rider hits the same Chevy a moment later.  Like a broken ragdoll
shot from a canon, the man punches through the back window blowing glass
for a block.  He stops somewhere under the front seat and a bubble of
blood forms out his nose.
The motorcycle continues on sliding and spinning with an ear-piercing
howl for one entire city block.
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4. EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS - VACANT LOT - DAY
Two rabid dogs fight ferociously in a vacant lot - ripping each other抯
flesh.  An OLD COUPLE, both with walkers, inch painfully along nearby.
     OLD WOMAN
   Oh my God! ... Why they doin?that?
     OLD MAN
   Who the hell knows.  What you have
   in your mouth?
The old woman begins to turn away, covering her mouth with her hand.
     OLD MAN
   Spit it out!!! ... Pull your teeth
   out ... doctor said.  What you
   tryin?to do?  SPIT IT OUT!!!
The Old Man grabs the Old Woman by the neck and squeezes.  Out comes a
tangled and sticky ball of hard fruit candies.
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5. WASP NEST
A thousand wasps hover threateningly in the air around the nest.  A
SMALL GROUP OF HARDENED CRIMINAL NINE-YEAR OLDS sporting hideous grins,
bat the nest violently to and fro with sticks.  One kid busies himself
shooting a large can of Black Flag garden spray into a crack in the
nest.  Another stomps half-dead wasps up and down the sidewalk.  All the
kids are making animal noises of one sort or the other.
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6. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
The telephone rings.  MARIETTA PACE FORTUNE, a rich Southern woman
around fifty, carries her Martini and Rossi sweet vermouth drink across
the livingroom and answers the phone.
     MARIETTA
   Hello...  Who is this?...
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7. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
A GUARD stands by as SAILOR RIPLEY, twenty-three years old - lost
somewhere between the cool long-gone generation and a used-car salesman
- speaks on a prisoner phone in a green cement cubicle with one bench.
     SAILOR
        (into phone)
   ...Sailor Ripley...  Can I talk
   to Lula?
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6A. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
     MARIETTA
   There抯 no way in hell you can speak
   to her and...
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7A. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
     SAILOR
    (feeling a smile coming on)
   What?...
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6B. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
     MARIETTA
   ...Yes you heard me...  Don抰 ever
   call back here again.
Marietta hangs up the phone as LULA PACE FORTUNE, Marietta抯 twenty-year
old daughter, comes quickly down the stairs.
     LULA
   Mama???
     MARIETTA
   You know who it was and you know
   you aren抰, and I mean ARE NOT 
   gonna see him EVER...  End of story.
     LULA
        (quietly)
   Like hell.
Marietta, her hand still on the telephone, grips the receiver so hard
her knuckles turn white.
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8. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - LULA扴 ROOM UPSTAIRS - DAY
Lula enters her room and cranks up her stereo.  Speed metal music jumps
up to around one hundred twenty decibels.
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9. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
The guard escorts Sailor away from the telephone and back to his cell. 
The iron bars of the door slide across Sailor抯 face and close with a
bang.
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10. EXT. THE MUSIC BAR - NIGHT
A beat-up, red ?4 Ford Falcon station wagon filled with insane
TEENAGERS on speed and PCP race out of control down the street past the
club - leaning out the car in every direction.  They scream out to the
desolate-looking passerby.
     TEENAGERS
   EAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!
The camera cranes up to the neon club sign and gets lost among the hot
pink neon, the frantic moths and the intense electric buzz.
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11. INT. THE MUSIC BAR - NIGHT
Lula and her friend, BEANY THORN, sit at a table drinking rum Coca-Colas
while watching and listening to a white blues band called THE BLEACH
BOYS.  The group segues smoothly from Elmore James抯 揇ust my Broom?
into Robert Johnson抯 揗e and the Devil?and Beany lets out a snort.
     BEANY
   I can dig this music...  But not
   that singer.
     LULA
   Why?...  He抯 right in the groove.
     BEANY
   He抯 so ugly.  Guys with beards and
   beer guts ain抰 quite my type.
     LULA
             (giggles)
   Seein抯 how you抮e about as thick as
   a used string of unwaxed dental floss,
   don抰 know how you can criticize.
     BEANY
   Yeah, well, if he says that all that
   flab turns into dick at midnight,
   he抯 a liar.
Lula and Beany laugh and swallow some of their drinks.
     BEANY
   So, Sailor抯 gettin?out soon, and
   you抮e gonna see him?
Lula nods and crushes an ice cube with her back teeth and chews it.
     LULA
   Meetin?him at the gate.  That phone
   call this afternoon was the signal.
   My deranged mama抯 hid the keys to
   my car.  But of course, I know
   exactly where they are.
     BEANY
   I didn抰 hate me so much, I抎 feel
   better wishin?you luck.
     LULA
   Can抰 all husbands be perfect, and
   your Elmo prob抣y wouldn抰a ever
   got that second one pregnant, you
   hadn抰 kicked his ass out.
     BEANY
   So you抮e gonna be needin?the
   揵lue-bird?pretty soon?
     LULA
   Real soon ... I抣l be makin?the swap
   tomorrow, and thanks again, Beany.
The Bleach Boys kick into some kind of Professor Longhair swamp mambo.
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12. EXT. BAY ST. CLEMENT - DAY
Plumes of smoke from fires rise in the distance.
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13. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
An empty livingroom.  The smoke from the city fire appears during the
course of the DISSOLVE to be in the livingroom - then it disappears.
An empty hallway.
An empty stairway.
13A. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - MARIETTA扴 BEDROOM - DAY
Feet (Lula抯) was across carpet.
A closet door opens.
A hand (Lula抯) reaches into the pocket of a coat in her mother抯
closet.  The hand comes out clutching car keys.
13B. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - STAIRWAY - DAY
Lula races down the stairs and through a door into the garage.
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14. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
The electronic garage door opens and Lula drives her ?0 Black Camaro
out and away.  The garage door closes automatically.
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15. EXT. CITY STREETS - DAY
Lula drives fast up a neighborhood street.  She turns a corner and
disappears.
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16. INT. BEANY THORN扴 GARAGE - DAY
Lula throws her car keys under the front seat and goes around to Beany抯
?7 dark blue Thunderbird convertible - fishes around under the T-Bird抯
front seat for the keys - finds them - jumps in and takes off.
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17. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
Marietta leaves her Cadillac Seville in her driveway and enters the
house.  We can hear her calling out for Lula in the distance.  The
calling changes - it becomes angry.  The garage door opens and Marietta
comes storming out.  She leaps in her Caddy and peels out.
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18. INT. 揝OUTHERN TIME?BAR - DAY
Marietta enters the bar on the run.  She calls out to the BARTENDER...
     MARIETTA
   Where抯 Johnnie?  He抯 not in his office.
     BARTENDER
   Haven抰 seen 抜m yet today, Marietta.
     MARIETTA
    (slightly hysterical)
   Well I gotta find him - right this
   minute!
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19. EXT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
Sailor is waiting out front as Lula pulls up in her T-Bird - throwing
out a cloud of dust.  They抮e both smiling.
     LULA
   Hey baby...
     SAILOR
   Peanut...
They kiss tenderly and then Sailor walks around the car to get in while
Lula opens up a suitcase and gets out his snakeskin jacket.
     SAILOR
   Hey, my snakeskin jacket...  Thanks,   
   baby...  Did I ever tell you that
   this here jacket for me is a symbol
   of my individuality and my belief
   in personal freedom?
     LULA
   払out fifty thousand times.  I got
   us a room at the Cape Fear, and
   guess what?...  I hear Powermad抯
   at 揟he Hurricane.?
     SAILOR
         (smiling)
   Stab it and steer.
Lula tromps it and throws out an even larger cloud of dust.
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20. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
Sailor and Lula lay on the bed in the Cape Fear Hotel listening to the
fan creak.
     LULA
   Did you ever think somethin?like
   about the wicked witch of the east
   comin?flyin?in?...  Did you ever
   think somethin?and then later think
   you抳e said it out loud to someone?
     SAILOR
   I really did miss your mind while I
   was out at Pee Dee, honey.  The
   rest of you, too, of course.  But
   the way your head works is God抯 own
   private mystery.  What was it you
   was thinkin?
     LULA
   Well, I was thinkin?about smokin?
   actually...  My mama smokes Marlboros
   now, used to be she smoked Kools?
   I stole 抏m from her beginnin?in
   about sixth grade.  When I got old
   enough to buy my own, I bought those.
   Now I抳e just about settled on Mores,
   as you probably noticed?  They抮e longer.
     SAILOR
   I guess I started smokin?when I was
   about six...  My mama was already
   dead from lung cancer...
     LULA
   What brand抎 she smoke?
     SAILOR
   Camels, same as me...  Guess both
   my mama and my daddy died of smoke
   or alcohol related illness.
     LULA
   Gee, Sailor.  I抦 sorry, honey.  I
   never would have guessed it.
     SAILOR
   It抯 okay.  I hardly used to see
   them anyway.  I didn抰 have much
   parental guiding.  The public defender
   kept sayin?that at my parole hearin?
   He was a good ol?boy, stood by me...
   Even brought me some cartons of
   cigarettes from time to time.
     LULA
   I抎 stand by you, Sailor ... through
   anything.
     SAILOR
   Hell, peanut, you stuck with me after
   I planted Bob Ray Lemon.  A man can抰
   ask for more than that.
Lula pulls Sailor over to her and kisses him soft on the mouth.
     LULA
   You move me, Sailor, you really do.
   You mark me the deepest.
Sailor pulls down the sheet, exposing Lula抯 breasts.
     SAILOR
   You抮e perfect for me, too.
     LULA
   You remind me of my daddy, you know?
   Mama told me he liked skinny women
   whose breasts were just a bit too
   big for their bodies.  He had a long
   nose, too, like theirs.  Did I ever
   tell you how he died?
     SAILOR
   In a fire, as I recall.
     LULA
   Started he couldn抰 remember things?
   Got real violent?  Mama kept tellin?   me it was on account of lead poisoning
   from cleanin?the old paint off our
   house without usin?a mask...  But
   I don抰 know.  Seems like his brain
   just fell apart in pieces.
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21. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT
CLYDE FORTUNE tears a door off the kitchen cabinets and strews the
cabinet contents all across the counter and floor.  He puts his fist
through the kitchen window.  He leaps on the counter and bats the
kitchen ceiling light - smashing it.  He kicks over the refrigerator.
     CLYDE
   FUCKIN?BITCH!!!!
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22. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
Lula抯 eyes look off, remembering.
     LULA
   Finally in the middle of the one
   night, with me and mama asleep
   upstairs ... he poured kerosene over
   himself and lit a match.
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23. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - LIVINGROOM - NIGHT
Clyde Fortune, completely engulfed in fire, races across and back the
livingroom until he collapses in a fifties modern armchair.  The drapes
behind him burst in flames.
     LULA
      (voice-over)
   Near burned down the house.  We
   got out just in time.
The whole livingroom goes up in flames.
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24. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
CU the red hot ash of Lula抯 cigarette as she inhales deeply.  As she
exhales a cloud of smoke she turns to Sailor.
     LULA
   It was a year before I met you.
Sailor takes the cigarette out of Lula抯 hand and puts it into the
ashtray by her bed.  He pulls her to him and kisses her throat.
     SAILOR
   You have such a pretty, long neck,
   like a swan.
     LULA
   Grandmama Pace had a long, smooth
   white neck.  It was like on a
   statue it was so white?
Sailor drifts his thumb over Lula抯 left nipple then cups her breast in
his hand.  They kiss.
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25. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
Marietta pours JOHNNIE FARRAGUT another shot of scotch.
     MARIETTA
   I knew this would happen.  Soon as
   that piece of filth got out of
   Pee Dee, I knew there抎 be trouble.
   He抯 just got some kind of influence
   over her I can抰 decipher.  There抯
   somethin?wild in Lula I don抰 know
   where it comes from.  You gotta find
   抏m, Johnnie.
     JOHNNIE
   He served his time for what he did.
   Another thing...  If Lula went with
   him of her own volition - willingly,
   that is - there ain抰 much can be
   done about it.
     MARIETTA
   Don抰 talk down to me, Johnnie
   Farragut.  I know what volition means,
   and that抯 why I want Sailor Ripley
   off the planet!  He抯 pure slime and
   it抯 leakin?all over my baby. 
   Maybe you could push him into makin?   some kinda move and then kill him
   dead.  You抎 only be defendin?
   yourself, and with his record,
   nobody抎 fuss.
Johnnie pours himself another tumblerful of Walker Black Label.
     JOHNNIE
   I抣l locate Lula, Marietta, and if
   she抯 with the Ripley boy, I抣l
   give him a talkin?to and try to
   convince her to come back with me.
   That抯 about all I can do.
He takes a long swallow from the tumbler.  Marietta begins to cry.  She
blubbers for a few seconds, and then stops as abruptly as she抎 started. 
Her grey eyes glaze over.
     MARIETTA
   I抣l hire a hit man if you don抰 want
   to help me stop this thing.  I抣l
   call Marcello Santos.
     JOHNNIE
   Now, Marietta, I am goin?to help you.
   And don抰 be gettin?carried away.
   You don抰 want to be bringin?Santos
   and his people into it.
     MARIETTA
   You抮e just jealous of Santos cause
   he抯 sweet on me.
     JOHNNIE
   Darlin? you ain抰 seein?Santos
   again, are ya?
     MARIETTA
   Oh, Johnnie Farragut...  Don抰 you
   trust your very own Marietta?
     JOHNNIE
   Sorry, sweetheart.  Bein?in love
   with you like I am brings out that
   ugly jealous side.
     MARIETTA
   Well stop worryin?about me and
   start worryin?about how you抮e
   gonna get that Lula back here and
   away from that murderer.
     JOHNNIE
   Sailor ain抰 a murderer.  You got to
   get off that kick.  And far抯 I can
   tell, Sailor was entire clean prior
   to that involvin?Lula.  Even there
   he was protectin?her.  You oughta
   be thankin?him for that.  That Bob
   Ray Lemon they say was comin?after
   the both of 抏m.  Why am I tellin?   you this, you was around that night.
   You ought to know just exactly what
   happened.  Sailor just got a little
   too forceful is all...  You remember
   that night...
CU of Marietta?eyes as she thinks back.
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26. INT. BAY ST. CLEMENT HOTEL - BALLROOM - NIGHT
We see Marietta standing in a carpeted hallway above the ballroom. 
Dance band music can be heard in the distance.  Sailor appears coming up
the hallway - slightly drunk - he carefully sets his drink on the carpet
outside the MEN扴 ROOM.
Marietta抯 POV of Sailor entering the MEN扴 ROOM.
CU of Marietta抯 glazed eyes and smiling face.
Marietta抯 POV of walking toward MEN扴 ROOM.
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27. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY
     MARIETTA
   Maybe I was there, but I didn抰 see
   anythin?  All I know抯 that trash
   killed a man with his bare hands.
   Hands which are now prob抣y all
   over my baby!
     JOHNNIE
   Marietta, settle down now darlin?..
   I want what抯 best for her, too -
   Like I said, I抣l do what I can to
   bring her home.
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28. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
Lula is standing in the bathroom of their room at the Hotel fooling with
her hair in front of the mirror.  Sailor can see her through the doorway
from where he lays on the bed.
     LULA
   Sailor, you are somethin?else,
   honey...  When I was fifteen, Mama
   told me that pretty soon I抎 be
   startin?to think about sex, and
   I should talk to her before I did
   anything about it.
     SAILOR
   But honey, I thought you told me
   your Uncle Pooch raped you when
   you was thirteen.
     LULA
   That抯 true.  Uncle Pooch wasn抰
   really an uncle.  He was a business
   partner of my daddy抯?  And my mama
   never knew nothin?about me and
   him - that抯 for damn sure.  His real
   name was somethin?kind of European,
   like Pucinski.  But everyone just
   called him Pooch.  He came around the
   house sometimes when Daddy was away.
   I always figured he was sweet on
   mama, so when he cornered me one
   afternoon, I was surprised more抧
   a little.
     SAILOR
   How抎 it happen, peanut?  He just
   pull out the old toad and let it
   croak?
Lula brushes away her bangs and frowns.  She takes a cigarette from the
pack on the sink and lights it, then lets it dangle from her lips while
she teases her hair.
     LULA
   You抮e terrible crude sometimes,
   Sailor, you know?
     SAILOR
   I can抰 hardly understand you when
   you talk with one of them Mores in
   your mouth.
Lula takes a long, slow drag on her More and sets it down on the edge of
the sink.
     LULA
   I said you can be too crude sometimes?
   I don抰 think I care for it.
     SAILOR
   Sorry, sugar.  Go on and tell me how
   old Pooch done the deed.
     LULA
   Well, mama was at the Busy Bee havin?   her hair dyed?  And I was alone in
   the house.
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29. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY
We see what she talks about.
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   Uncle Pooch came in the side door
   through the porch, you know?  Where
   I was makin?a jelly and banana
   sandwich?  I remember I had my hair
   in curlers cause I was goin?that
   night with Vicki and Cherry Ann, the
   DeSoto sisters.  Uncle Pooch must have
   known nobody but me was home, cause
   he came right in and put both his
   hands on my butt and sorta shoved me
   up against the counter.
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30. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
     SAILOR
   Didn抰 he say somethin?
Lula shakes her head.  She picks up her cigarette, takes a puff and
throws it into the toilet.
ECU of cigarette in toilet.
     LULA
   Not really.  Least not so I recall now.
Lula flushes the toilet and watches the More come apart as it swirls
down the hole.
ECU of cigarette coming apart as it swirls.
     SAILOR
   So how抎 he finally nail you?  Right
   there in the kitchen? 
     LULA
   No, he picked me up.
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31. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN/MAID扴 ROOM - DAY
We see what she talks about.
     LULA
      (voice-over)
   He was short but powerful.  With
   hairy arms?  Anyway, he carried me
   into the maid抯 dayroom which nobody
   used.  We did it there on an old bed.
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32. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
     SAILOR
   慦e?did it?  Whattaya mean?  Didn抰
   he force you?
     LULA
   Well, sure.  But he was super-gentle,
   you know?  I mean, he raped me and
   all, but I guess there抯 all
   different kinds of rapes.  I didn抰
   exactly want him to do it but I
   suppose once it started, it didn抰
   seem all that terrible.  It was over
   pretty quick, and after Uncle Pooch
   just stood there and pulled up his
   trousers and left me there.  I
   stayed in bed till I heard him drive
   off.  Then I just went back into
   the kitchen and finished makin?my
   sandwich.
     SAILOR
   And you never told nobody about it?
     LULA
   Just you.  Uncle Pooch never acted
   strange or different after.  And he
   never did anything else to me.  I
   always got a nice present from him
   at Christmas, like a coat or jewelry?
    (pause)
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33. TWO LANE HIGHWAY - DAY
One hundred twenty decibels - head on collision of a ?4 Ford Pick-Up
and a ?4 Chevy Station Wagon.  No survivors.  Balls of flame and
grinding metal.
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34. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY
     LULA
   Uncle Pooch died in a car crash three
   years later while he was holidayin?   in Myrtle Beach.  They still got way
   too much traffic there for my taste...
   And another thing, baby...  That
   government of ours should be keepin?   us separated from outer space...
     SAILOR
   Here she goes again...
     LULA
   Sailor, that ozone layer is
   disappearin?  Seems to me the
   government could do somethin?about
   it.  One of these mornings the
   sun抣l come up and burn a hole clean
   through the planet like an X-Ray.
Lula strikes a match and lights another cigarette.
     SAILOR
         (laughs)
   That ain抰 never will happen, honey.
   Least not in our lifetime.
Somewhere in the hotel a woman laughs.  It is a kind of wild, crazy
laugh, and for the few seconds it lasts, Lula抯 face goes pale.
     SAILOR
   You okay, honey?
     LULA
   That woman抯 laugh creeps me out.
   I heard somethin?like that...
   somewhere before...  Sound抎 like
   the wicked witch...
     SAILOR
   Just sounded like an old gal havin?   a good time to me...  You ready to
   dance?
     LULA
   I抦 always ready to dance.  But I
   need me a kiss first, honey.  Just one?
Lula and Sailor kiss.  In the middle of the kiss, the woman抯
creepy/crazy laugh is heard again in the distance and Lula抯 eyes snap
open with a kind of fear.
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35. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - BACKYARD - LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING
Marietta is escorting MARCELLO SANTOS and two stiff drinks to a table in
her backyard.
     SANTOS
   I knew you抎 want it again...
     MARIETTA
   That抯 not why I called.
     SANTOS
   Oh yeah - sure ... okay.
     MARIETTA
   Santos...  It isn抰.
     SANTOS
   Have it your way...  But you want it.
     MARIETTA
   Lula抯 gone off with Sailor.
     SANTOS
   What do you want me to do about it?
     MARIETTA
   I want you to take care of Sailor, so
   he won抰 ever be able to bother my
   baby again.
     SANTOS
   Take care of him?
     MARIETTA
   Yes.
     SANTOS
   What does take care of him mean?...
   Do you want me to give him food or
   some clothing?
     MARIETTA
   What抯 with you?...  You know what
   take care of him means.  I don抰
   call Santos except for one big reason.
     SANTOS
   Big is the key word, and I抦 telling
   you I want it bad.
     MARIETTA
   I want you to get rid of Sailor.
     SANTOS
   Get rid of him?
     MARIETTA
   Yes...  Get rid of him.
     SANTOS
   How would I do that?  Send him on a
   trip - like maybe to Hawaii?
     MARIETTA
   Santos, why in hell do you insist on
   playin?this stupid game?
     SANTOS
   Just tell me what you want.
     MARIETTA
   I don抰 need to explain anymore抧 I
   have...  You know damn well.
     SANTOS
   You need to explain it.
     MARIETTA
   All right...  I want you ... to ...
   kill ... Sailor...  As simple as that.
     SANTOS
   Simple?  Kill him?...  How?
     MARIETTA
   That抯 your business...  I don抰 care
   how.
     SANTOS
   Like an accident where maybe Lula
   might also get hurt?
     MARIETTA
   NO...  For God抯 sakes, Santos!
     SANTOS
   Well, like kill him with the atomic
   bomb?
     MARIETTA
   Santos...
     SANTOS
   Explain it...  I told you.
     MARIETTA
   Shoot him.
     SANTOS
   Shoot him?  Like with a gun?
     MARIETTA
   Yes.
     SANTOS
   Where?...  In the leg?
     MARIETTA
   No.
     SANTOS
   Where?
     MARIETTA
   In the head.
     SANTOS
   Shoot Sailor in the head with a
   gun...  Now I抦 beginning to get
   it...  You want me to shoot Sailor
   in the head with a gun.
     MARIETTA
   Yes.
     SANTOS
   But where in the head?...  Not the
   chin, I hope.
     MARIETTA
   No...  In the brains...  What little
   I抦 sure he has.
     SANTOS
   You want me to shoot Sailor in the
   brains with a gun. 
     MARIETTA
   Yes.
     SANTOS
   Through the forehead?
     MARIETTA
   Yes.
     SANTOS
   Wrong!  It抯 much better to blow a
   hole in the back of the head ...
   right toward the bridge of the nose
   ...  Lots and lots of irreparable
   damage.
     MARIETTA
   See!  I knew you had it all under
   control.
     SANTOS
   Why didn抰 you send Johnnie Farragut?
     MARIETTA
   Maybe I did...  Try New Orleans first...
   Lula can抰 ever stop talkin?抌out that
   town.
     SANTOS
   On one condition...
He pauses and smiles strangely.
     SANTOS
   You give me your permission to kill
   Johnnie Farragut.
          MARIETTA
     (whisper)
   Santos...  No...  Please, Santos...
     SANTOS
   You抮e not tellin?me that you抮e
   sweet on him?
     MARIETTA
   No...  But...
     SANTOS
   One day he抯 gonna find out what
   we抮e up to with Mr. Reindeer, and
   he could cause us a lot of trouble.
They stare at each other for a moment.
     SANTOS
   I抦 gonna take your silence as a
   搚es?..
     MARIETTA
   Santos...  I can抰...
     SANTOS
   Shhhh...  It抯 all right...  Also, I
   either take you or that pretty
   daughter of yours to bed.
     MARIETTA
   You fucker, don抰 you ever touch
   Lula -  You fucker, I抣l kill you.
     SANTOS
        (laughing)
   Put your shoulders back.
     MARIETTA
   What?
     SANTOS
   Put your shoulders back, I said.
Marietta puts her shoulders back and Santos comes and stands in front of
her.
     SANTOS
   You got nice tits.
     MARIETTA
   Someone抯 gonna see us.
     SANTOS
    (smiling as he starts
     to feel her breasts)
   That抯 just another part of the price
   to pay.
     MARIETTA
   Santos...  You kill that Sailor,
   otherwise he抯 gonna turn my baby
   against me.
Santos lifts one hand up to Marietta抯 chin and raises her face up
towards his.
     SANTOS
   Look at me...  There抯 no turning back    
   on this...  I抦 gonna kill Sailor...
   That抯 for sure.
           CUT TO:
36. INT. 揟HE HURRICANE?- A SPEED METAL CLUB - NIGHT
We see the sign which has all the letters tipped way over to the right -
as if in a hurricane.  Two leaning palm trees border the sign.
One hundred decibels of speed metal.  We see the name 揚owermad?on the
bass drum.
The BAND segues into 揝laughter House?and it抯 a hot one.  Sailor grabs
Lula and they start dancing like two jacked-up spastics in an electrical
storm.  a few PUNKS actually stop dancing to watch Sailor and Lula. 
They thought they抎 seen everything.
CU of Lula and Sailor - they抮e in love and dancing hot.  An IDIOT PUNK
moves close to Lula and rubs up against her as he dances by.  Sailor
turns to the lead guitar player and signals him to stop the music
immediately.  Suddenly everything is deathly quiet.  Sailor gives the
man a fully extended 揜eno point?..
     SAILOR
   Are you going to provide me with an
   opportunity to prove my love to my
   girl?  Or are you gonna save
   youself some trouble and step up
   like a gentleman and apologize to her?
     IDIOT PUNK
   Don抰 fuck with me, man.  You look
   like a clown in that stupid jacket.
     SAILOR
   This is a snakeskin jacket, and for
   me it抯 a symbol of my individuality
   and my belief in personal freedom.
     IDIOT PUNK
   ...Asshole.
     SAILOR
   (as he moves toward the Idiot Punk)
   Come here.
     LULA
   Sailor, honey...
The Idiot Punk tries to hit Sailor, but Sailor slaps him so hard his
knees almost bend backwards.  The Idiot Punk goes down - fighting back
tears and holding his cheek.
     SAILOR
         (helping him up)
   I抦 sorry to do this to ya here
   in front of a crowd, but I want ya
   to stand up and make a nice apology
   to my girl.
     IDIOT PUNK
          (to Lula)
   I抦 sorry.
     LULA
   Hell, you just rubbed up against
   the wrong girl is all.
     SAILOR
   That抯 good...  Now go get yourself
   a beer.
    (turning to the band)
   You fellas have alotta the same power
   Elvis had...  Y抋ll know this one?...
Sailor starts to sing an Elvis Presley song, 揕ove Me.? As the band
joins in with a perfect back-up - Sailor sings to Lula.  The Speed Metal
crowd is mesmerized.
DISSOLVE TO:
37. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
CU of pink - the whole screen is filled with pink nylon.  Panning down,
we see Lula抯 breasts, which stand up and say 揾ello.? Lula puts on her
favorite pink shortie nightgown.
     LULA
   Why didn抰 ya sing 揕ove Me Tender?
   ...  You told me that was your
   favorite love song.
Sailor turns around from his sprawled on the bed position watching The
Dating Game show.
     SAILOR
   扖ause I抦 only gonna sing that song
   to my wife.
Lula makes a face.  She lies down on the bed next to Sailor.
     LULA
   What you want to watch this trash for?
   Ain抰 one of those people have a real
   thought in their brain.
     SAILOR
   That so?
     (keeping his gaze on the TV)
   You want to tell me what, if any,
   real thoughts you had lately?
     LULA
   What you have to get personal about
   so quick?  All I mean is you could
   possibly read a book.
Sailor grunts.
     LULA
   What抯 that honey?
     SAILOR
   We didn抰 have no TV up at Pee Dee,
   baby, you know?
Lula slides her head up and kisses Sailor on the cheek.
     LULA
   I抦 sorry, sweetie.  I forget some
   moments where all you been the last
   two years.
     SAILOR
   Twenty-three months, eighteen days is
   all.  Don抰 need to make more抧 it
   was.
     (referring to Dating Game show)
   This couple抯 goin?on a date to
   Hawaii.  The girl chose him over the
   other two guys.
     LULA
   Don抰 the reject guys get anythin?
     SAILOR
   Gift certificates to Kentucky Fried
   Chicken.
     LULA
   That don抰 seem fair.
     SAILOR
   Hell, why should the Datin?Game be
   different from real life?  At least
   them boys is gonna get somethin?to
   eat.
LATER - IN THE DARK
Sailor and Lula are in bed.  Lula lays in Sailor抯 arms.
     LULA
   Sailor?
     SAILOR
   Yeah?
     LULA
   Wouldn抰 it be fabulous if we somehow
   stayed in love for the rest of our
   lives?
     SAILOR
        (laughing)
   You think of the weirdest damn things
   to say sometimes, peanut.  Ain抰 we
   been doin?a pretty fair job this far?
     LULA
   Oh, you know exactly what I mean,
   honey?  It抎 make the future so simple
   and nice.
     SAILOR
   At Pee Dee, all you think about is
   the future, you know?  Gettin?out?
   And what you抣l do and what you抣l
   think about when you抮e on the
   outside again.
     LULA
   I just think about things as they
   come up.  I never been much of a planner.
     SAILOR
   It ain抰 altogether terrible just to
   let things go along sometimes.
   Lula, I done a few things in my life
   I ain抰 too proud of, but I抣l tell
   ya from now on I ain抰 gonna do
   nothin?for no good reason.  All I
   know for sure is there抯 more抧 a
   few bad ideas runnin?around loose
   out there.
ECU of match girding along the strike pad and bursting into flame.
Lula lights her cigarette.
     LULA
   You know there抯 somethin?I ain抰
   never told you about, Sailor, and
   this here抯 a story with the lesson
   that there抯 a right time and a
   wrong time for things to happen...
   When I was almost sixteen I got pregnant.
Sailor looks her in the eyes.
     SAILOR
   Musta been a lesson tellin?ya it
   was the wrong time...  What did you
   do, your mama find out?
     LULA
         (nods)
   She got me an abortion...
CUT TO:
38. INT. ABORTION CLINIC - MIAMI - DAY
ECU of dying fetus with one hundred twenty decibels Lula抯 scream over. 
The fetus twitches in its little pod of blood.
ECU of pulsing vein in Lula抯 neck - LOUD VIOLENT HEARTBEAT SOUND - LIKE
A DOUBLE-PEDALED KICK BASS DRUM.
ECU of Lula抯 forehead covered in sweat running down to her eyes - open
wide and WILD.
ECU of fetus into medical trash can.
ECU of bloodied abortion instruments.
The DOCTOR leans across the abortion table.
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   ...from some old doctor with the
   hairiest nostrils and ears I ever seen.
ECU of doctor抯 nose and ears ... HAIR!
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   Afterwards...  Momma says...
We see Marietta standing next to the doctor.
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   ...I hope you appreciate my spendin?   six hundred dollars, not countin?   what it cost us to get here and
   back...  This man抯 the best damn
   abortionist in the South.
           CUT TO:
39. INT. CAPE FEAR MOTEL - NIGHT
     SAILOR
   You tell the boy who knocked you up?
     LULA
   It was my cousin, Dell, done it?  His
   folks used to visit with us summers.
     SAILOR
   What happened to him?
     LULA
   Oh, nothin?  I never let on to mama
   about Dell bein?the one.  I just
   flat refused to tell her who the
   daddy was?  I didn抰 tell Dell, neither.
   He was back home in Chattanooga by then,
   anyhow, and I didn抰 see the point.
   Somethin?terrible happened to him,
   though.  Six months ago.
     SAILOR
   What抯 that, peanut?
     LULA
   Dell disappeared.  Dell was learnin?
   a hard lesson.  What I learned from
   observin?Dell is I think people who
   are frightened want to disappear.
   He抎 startin?behavin?weird?  Like
   comin?up to people every fifteen
   minutes and askin?how they were
   doin?
           CUT TO:
40. EXT. CITY STREET - CHATTANOOGA - DAY
DELL, wearing a soiled double-knit suit stops a LADY in the street, and
smiling about the fact that earlier that morning he抯 placed a cockroach
on his anus, he speaks to the woman.
     DELL
   How抮e ya doin?
           CUT TO:
41. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     LULA
   And just seemin?real spacey and
   actin?funny.
     SAILOR
   Actin?funny how?
     LULA
   Well, like mama told me, Aunt Rootie,
   Dell抯 mama?  She found cockroaches
   in Dell抯 underwear.
           CUT TO:
42. INT. AUNT ROOTIE扴 HOUSE
CU of Aunt Rootie - unfolds a pair of dirty jockey shorts and several
cockroaches fall out.
           CUT TO:
43. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     LULA
   One time, Aunt Rootie caught Dell
   puttin?one big cockroach on his anus?
     SAILOR
   Hell, peanut...
     LULA
   One time - real late - like about two
   thirty a.m.?  She found Dell up in
   the black of night all dressed and
   makin?sandwiches in the kitchen.
           CUT TO:
44. AUNT ROOTIE扴 HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT
In the dark kitchen, AUNT ROOTIE finds Dell making sandwiches - slicing
them on the diagonal.
     AUNT ROOTIE
   What抮e ya doin?
     DELL
   Makin?my lunch!!!
     LULA
         (voice-over)
   Dell told her he was makin?his
   lunch and goin?to work.  He抯 a
   welder?  And she made him go back
   to bed.
We see Aunt Rootie cross the kitchen - take the knife away from Dell and
lead him out of the kitchen.
           CUT TO:
45. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     LULA
   Then he抎 carry on about the weather? 
   Talk about how rainfall抯 controlled by
   aliens livin?on earth.  Also how men
   wearin?black leather gloves...
           CUT TO:
46. INT. AUNT ROOTIE扴 HOUSE - DELL扴 ROOM - NIGHT
Dell, crying uncontrollably, is in the center of the room squatting like
an indian in his jockey shorts.  He has a long ruler stretched out in
front of him which he抯 using to press down on the top of a lone black
glove on the floor.
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   ...are followin?him around.
     SAILOR
   Prob抣y the rain boys from Outer Space.
           CUT TO:
47. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     LULA
   It ain抰 so funny now, though.  December
   before Christmas?  Dell disappeared
   again and Aunt Rootie hired a private
   eye to find him.  He was missin?for
   almost a month before he wandered back
   in the house on mornin?dressed in some
   filthy Santa Claus suit.
48A. EXT. AUNT ROOTIE扴 HOUSE - DAY
Dell walking to house.
           CUT TO:
48. INT. AUNT ROOTIE扴 HOUSE - DAY
Dell enters the front door in a Santa Claus suit so filthy you can
hardly see the red through the black.  He walks right past Aunt Rootie
and goes back into the kitchen.  There he immediately does a spread-
eagle on the floor and violently scratches his left ankle.
     LULA
       (voice-over)
   The private eye cost Aunt Rootie over
   a thousand dollars?  Then a little
   while later Dell ran off a third
   time to some place he said would
   揼ive him peace of mind.? Nobody抯
   seen him since.
           CUT TO:
49. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     SAILOR
   Sound like ol?Dell抯 more抧 just a
   little confused, peanut...  Too
   bad he couldn抰 visit that ol?
   Wizard of Oz and get some good advice.
     LULA
   Too bad we all can抰, baby...  One
   thing about Dell?
     SAILOR
   What抯 that?
     LULA
   When he was about seventeen, he
   startin?losin?his hair.
     SAILOR
   So?
     LULA
   He抯 twenty-four now?  A year older
   than you?  And must be 抌out bald.
     SAILOR
   There抯 worse things that can happen
   to a man, honey.
     LULA
   Yeah, I suppose.  But you know somethin?   baby, hair does make a difference.
Lula turns to study Sailor.
     LULA
   I sure am glad they didn抰 give you
   no prison haircut...
     (sexual whisper)
   Gives me somethin?to grab hold of
   while we抮e makin?love?
They kiss passionately.
DISSOLVE TO:
50. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
Sailor gets up from the bed and begins putting on his clothes.  Lula is
painting her toenails red.
     SAILOR
   Let抯 go dancin? peanut.  I抦
   ready.
     LULA
   We gotta be careful, honey, my mama抯
   gonna have Johnnie Farragut on us
   like a duck on a june bug, and he抯
   one clever detective?  You know how
   clever?  He once told me that he
   could find an honest man in Washington.
   My toenails gotta dry first anyways,
   Sailor.
     SAILOR
   One thing puzzles my mind, sugar...
   You抮e twenty years old - aren抰
   you ever curious why your mama has
   this fixation on keepin?us apart?
   Puttin?a detective on us.  I抣l tell
   ya Lula...  Well...  It抯 more抧 me
   killin?Bob Ray Lemon...
     LULA
   Maybe my mama cares for me just a
   little too much...
     SAILOR
   Yeah, maybe...
Sailor抯 eyes seem to be thinking back...
           CUT TO:
51. INT. BAY ST. CLEMENT HOTEL - HALLWAY ABOVE BALLROOM - NIGHT
We see an empty carpeted hallway and can hear a ballroom dance band
playing in the distance.  Sailor obviously slightly drunk, comes down
the hall.  He carefully, almost losing his balance, places his drink
outside the MEN扴 ROOM and enters.  Marietta standing down at the other
end of the hall - also drunk - smiles and stares at the MEN扴 ROOM door
through her glazed eyes.  Sailor enters the MEN扴 ROOM.
           CUT TO:
52. INT. MEN扴 ROOM - BAY ST. CLEMENT HOTEL - NIGHT
Sailor steps up to a urinal and starts doing his business.  Marietta
suddenly appears - drunk and laughing.  She grabs him and pulls him into
a stall - closing and locking the door behind them.
     MARIETTA
   Hey, Sailor boy, you wanna fuck Lula抯
   mama?...
     SAILOR
   No.
     MARIETTA
   Well, she wants to fuck you.
She starts trying to French kiss Sailor when an OLD MAN comes in to
urinate and Sailor and Marietta freeze - in a kiss.  Sailor is going
crazy in one way (wishing this wasn抰 happening.)  Marietta is going
crazy in another.  The man finishes and as he leaves...
     OLD MAN
    (covering his eyes from
     seeing them)
   Lousy fuckin?homosexuals...
     SAILOR
              (instantly pulling away
     from Marietta)
   What are you, sick?...  I抦 with Lula.
     MARIETTA
   No...  I just wanted to kiss you
   good-bye...  You know too much 抌out
   little Lula抯 mom...
     SAILOR
   Whattya mean?
     MARIETTA
   Well, Johnnie told me you used to
   drive for Clyde and Santos...
     SAILOR
   So?
     MARIETTA
   So maybe one night you got a little
   too close to the fire...  And you抮e
   gonna get burned, baby...  And
   besides that, you抮e shit...  D抷ou
   think I抎 let my little girl go with
   shit like you?...  Why, you belong
   right here in one of these toilets.
     SAILOR
   You抮e gonna have to kill me to keep
   me away from Lula.
     MARIETTA
   Oh, don抰 worry 抌out that...
           CUT TO:
INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT
     SAILOR
   It抯 a prob抣m I don抰 think抯 gonna
   go away too soon though...  Peanut,
   I抦 thinkin?of breakin?parole and
   takin?you out to sunny California.
     LULA
   Sailor! 
     SAILOR
   You up for that?
     LULA
   I抎 got to the far end of the world
   for you, baby...  You know I would.
     SAILOR
   Those toenails dry yet?  We got some
   dancin?to do.
We drift down Lula抯 long white legs to her blood red toenails.
           CUT TO:
54. INT. 揟HE HURRICANE BAR?- NIGHT
CU of Lula抯 dancing feet in black spiked-heel sandals exposing blurred
blood red toenails.  Lula and Sailor are at it again - dancing as if
plugged in to the main power plant.
DISSOLVE TO:
55. INT. BAR - BACK OF 揟HE HURRICANE?- NIGHT
Drenched in sweat, Sailor and Lula sit at a corner table chug-a-lugging
揜olling Rock?during the band抯 break.  Lula notices a girl in the
corner eye-balling Sailor.  She splits her attention between the girl
and Sailor.
     LULA
   ...That抯 an awful long way to go,
   just to get some pussy.
     SAILOR
   Yeah, I had my first taste on that
   trip to Juarez.  At that age you
   still got a lot of energy.
     LULA
   You still got plenty energy for
   me, baby.
Lula has had enough of the girl staring at Sailor.
     LULA
   Take a picture, bitch...  It抣l
   last longer.
     GIRL
   Oh yeah?
     LULA
   I抣l slap those eyes right outta
   your head.
The girl gets up in a huff and leaves.
     LULA
   Sorry, baby...  When抯 the first
   time you done it with a girl who
   wasn抰 hookin?
     SAILOR
   Maybe two, three months after Juarez.
   I was visitin?my cousin, Junior
   Train, in Savannah, and we were at
   some kid抯 house whose parents were
   out of town.  A girl comes up to me
   that was real tall, taller than me.
  
           CUT TO:
56. INT. JUNIOR TRAIN扴 FRIEND扴 HOUSE - KITCHEN - SAVANNAH
We see what he talks about.
     SAILOR
       (voice-over)
   She looked right at me and run her
   tongue over her lips and put her
   hand on my arm - told me her name
   was Irma.
           CUT TO:
57. INT. BAR - BACK OF 揟HE HURRICANE?- NIGHT
     LULA
   What抎 you say to her?
     SAILOR
   Told her my name.  Then she said
   somethin?like, 慖t抯 so noisy
   down here.  Why don抰 we go
   upstairs so we can hear ourselves??   She turned around and led the way.
   I knew I had an important lesson
   to learn that day.
           CUT TO:
58. INT. JUNIOR TRAIN扴 FRIEND扴 HOUSE - STAIRWAY - NIGHT
We see what he talks about.
     SAILOR
       (voice-over)
   When she got almost to the top step
   I stuck my hand between her legs
   from behind.
           CUT TO:
59. INT. BAR - BACK OF 揟HE HURRICANE?- NIGHT
     LULA
   Oh, baby.  What a bad boy you are!
     SAILOR
        (laughing)
   That抯 just what she said.  I had
   a boner with a capital 揙.? I
   went to kiss her but she broke off
   laughin?and ran down the