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EXT. DOWNTOWN STREET IN FT. DUPREE
They are walking through the downtown area. Kit kicks a paper bag that someone has discarded on the sidewalk.
KIT
Somebody dropped a bag on the sidewalk.
She appears nervous about being seen alone with him.
KIT
Everybody did that, the whole town'd be a mess... Hi.
He greets a passing stranger.
KIT
You're a redhead.
HOLLY
I know.
KIT
Anybody ever call you "Red"?
HOLLY
Yeah, but I don't like it.
KIT
Why not?
HOLLY
Just don't... I've got a headache.
KIT
Yeah?
He steers her toward his car, a customized Mercury. As she gets in, he asks her:
KIT (O.S.)
Can I come around and see you tomorrow?
HOLLY
(startled)
Okay.
EXT. FEEDLOT – SERIES OF ANGLES
We see Kit at work at the feedlot. throwing hay to the cattle, feeding them pills, etc.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on
with my studies. Little by little we fell in love... As I'd never been popular
in school and didn't have a lot of personality, I was surprised that he took
such a liking to me, especially when he could've had any other girl in town if
he'd given it half a try.
The MONTAGE includes a shot of Holly running toward Kit's car for some rendezvous.
HOLLY (V.O.)
He said that I was grand, though, that he wasn't
interested in me for sex and that coming from him this was a compliment. Held
never met a fifteen-year-old girl who behaved more like a grownup and wasn't
giggly. He didn't care what anybody else thought. I looked good to him, and
whatever I did was okay, and if I didn't have a lot to say, well, that was
okay, too.
EXT. TREE BESIDE RIVER
Kit and Holly are sitting under a tree. playing cards on a blanket. Holly surveys the area.
HOLLY
What a nice place.
KIT
(absorbed in game)
Yeah, the tree makes it nice.
HOLLY
And the flowers... Let's not pick them. They're so
nice.
KIT
It's your play.
SERIES OF ANGLES
Holly's father paints a picture. using a stereopticon to help with his backgrounds.
TRACK with Kit driving down a street in his Mercury. Holly sits watching
football practice.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Of course I had to keep all this a secret from my dad.
He would've had a fit, since Kit was ten years older than me and came from the
wrong side of the tracks, so called. Our time with each other was limited and
each lived for the precious hours when he or she could be with the other away
from all the cares of the world.
EXT. UNDERNEATH BLEACHERS
Kit and Holly are necking underneath some bleachers. In the distance we hear the NOISE of the football practice.
HOLLY
My stomach's growling.
There's an old Fudgesicle over there. You want it?
HOLLY
No.
Kit laughs, and starts her laughing, too.
KIT
Somebody else is going to get it.
HOLLY
I don't care.
KIT
Kids eat that kind of stuff in Korea.
At this her expression turns serious.
SERIES OF ANGLES
Kit in CLOSEUP at a fence in the feedlot, an intense look on his face.
VARIOUS ANGLES of the cattle in their pens. They look numb and morose.
TIGHT SHOT of Holly necking with Kit.
HOLLY (V.O.)
In the stench and slime of the feedlot, he'd remember
how I looked the night before, how I ran my hand through his hair and traced
the outline of his lips with my fingertip. He wanted to die with me, and I
dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.
EXT. HOLLY'S BACK YARD
TIGHT SHOT of Holly's pet catfish in a bowl.
CUT TO WIDE SHOT of Holly with gloves on carrying the fish through the garden in
back of her house. She looks around warily, then throws it out among the
melons.
HOLLY (V.O.)
The whole time, the only thing I did wrong was
throwing out my fish when he got sick. Later I got a new one, but this incident
kept on bothering me and I turned to Kit.
EXT. STREET
Kit and Holly walk down a sidewalk in the residential part of town. Kit is consoling her about the fish.
HOLLY (V.O.)
I didn't mind telling Kit about stuff like this, cause
strange things happened in his life, too, and some of the stuff he did was
strange.
EXT. FEEDLOT
Kit steps on top of a dead cow, as though to convince himself that it is dead.
HOLLY (V.O.)
For instance,. he faked his signature whenever he used
it, to keep other people from forging important papers with his name...
INT. HOLLY'S BEDROOM – NIGHT
The CAMERA DOLLIES BACK to reveal Kit lying in bed. His attitude suggests that this is a scene of her fantasy.
HOLLY (V.O.)
And as he lay in bed, in the middle of the night, he
always heard a noise like somebody was holding a seashell against his ear. And
sometimes he'd see me coming toward him in beautiful white robes, and I'd put
my cold hand on his forehead.
EXT. RIVERBANK
Kit puts on his jacket and heads down a riverbank to the edge of the water. Holly comes into view, buttoning her blouse.
HOLLY
Did it go the way it 'uz supposed to?
KIT
Yeah.
HOLLY
Is that all there is to it?
KIT
Yeah.
Her questions make him uncomfortable.
HOLLY
Gosh, what was everybody talking about?
KIT
Don't ask me.
Silence.
HOLLY
Well. I'm glad it's over... For a while I was afraid I
might die before it happened... Had a wreck, some deal like that.
Kit points to an uprooted tree lying in the water a hundred feet away.
KIT
You see where that tree fell in the water?
He climbs back up the bank.
HOLLY
Yeah... The river must've washed the roots away... You
don't care about anything I say, though.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. NEIGHBORING AREA
Holly walks down the bank of the river. Kit falls in behind her,
carrying a large stone. The CAMERA DOLLIES with them.
You know what I think?
HOLLY
What?
KIT
That we should crunch our hands with this stone. That
way we'd never forget what happened today.
HOLLY
But it would hurt.
KIT
Well, that's the point, stupid.
She gives him a cold look.
HOLLY
Don't call me stupid.
KIT
Okay, but I'm going to keep it for a souvenir...
He throws it away and picks up a smaller one.
KIT
Or maybe one that's lighter.
He walks over to the car. A bridge is visible in the distance.
EXT. FIELD
Kit releases a large red balloon into the evening sky. A small basket is fixed to the bottom of the balloon.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Kit made a solemn vow that he would always stand
beside me and let nothing come between us. He wrote this out in writing, put
the paper in a box with some of our little tokens and things, then sent it off
in a balloon he'd found while on the garbage route.
(pause)
His heart was filled with longing as he watched it
drift off. Something must've told him that we'd never live these days of
happiness again, that they were gone forever.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. CATTAILS
Holly's dog bounds through a stand of cattails. Holly speaks angrily to her father, who walks toward the dog with a gun. We do not hear their voices, only music. He shoots the dog and Holly runs off in horror.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Then, sure enough, Dad found out I'd been running
around behind his back. He was madder than I'd ever seen him. As punishment for
deceiving him, he went and shot my dog.
EXT. BRIDGE
Holly's father drags a duffel bag out of his truck and dumps it over the side of a bridge, into a river. It goes under briefly, then bobs to the surface. The current takes it off.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. MUSIC SCHOOL
Holly sits in the second-story window of a music school.
HOLLY (V.O.)
He made me take extra music lessons every day after
school and wait there till he came to pick me up. He said that if the piano
didn't keep me off the streets. maybe the clarinet would.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. BILLBOARD
Kit approaches Holly's father, who is hard at work, painting a billboard along a deserted stretch of road. Kit is eating a peach.
KIT
Sure is pretty.
FATHER
What'd you come out here for?
KIT
I wasn't aware there was any law against it.
Kit sees that this kind of talk will not do. He is silent for a moment, then throws the peach away.
KIT
You know Holly... well. she means a lot to me, sir.
Holly's father goes solemnly about his business.
KIT
You know, before I met her, nobody could ask me how I
was doing with my girl. Matter of fact, I didn't really have one.
FATHER
Is that right?
KIT
Yeah.
Kit walks off a few paces and leans against the father's truck.
KIT
It okay me leaning on your Willys here?
Holly's father does not answer.
KIT
Listen. I got a lot of respect for her, sir.
(pause)
That's about as good a one as I know to tell you.
FATHER
Well, it's not good enough.
(pause)
Just what do you think would happen to her if she
stuck around with you, Kit? Guy like you.
KIT
She'd get along okay. And if she didn't, well, she
could take off, just take off, (and) I wouldn't mind... I'd always tell people
I deserved it.
Holly's father comes to his feet and fixes Kit in the eye.
FATHER
You get out of here. I don't want you hanging around
any more. You understand?
He lets these words sink in, then returns to his seat.
FATHER
(shaking his head)
You're something.
Kit waves goodbye.
KIT
Takes all kinds, sir.
He walks to his car, looking back once.
SERIES OF ANGLES
LONG SHOT of father at work at billboard. Kit approaches Holly's house,
collects the evening newspaper from the sidewalk, and knocks on the front door.
Holly's father picks her up from a park outside the music school. Kit, when he
gets no answer, enters the house. The jeep, with Holly and her father, rumbles
down a residential street.
INT. HOLLY'S HOUSE
Kit is going through Holly's dresser, throwing her things into a suitcase. A pistol is visible in his back pocket. Suddenly, Holly's father appears in the dresser mirror, standing at the end of the hall outside the bedroom.
Kit walks forward to greet him. The CAMERA
DOLLIES with him.
KIT
Hi.
FATHER
What're you doing?
KIT
I've got a gun here, sir. It's always a good idea to
have one around.
Kit draws the pistol. He is shaken, though he must have seen this coming.
FATHER
What do you think you're doing? Go on, get out of
here.
KIT
Well, I got it all planned... and I'm taking Holly off
with me.
He looks at Holly, who has appeared on the landing, uncertain what her reaction to all this will be.
FATHER
Okay, boy, I'm turning you over to the authorities.
Kit steps forward as Holly's father starts down the stairs.
KIT
What for?
FATHER
For coming onto my property... With a gun.
KIT
No, you're not either.
FATHER (O.S.)
Yeah? Why not?
