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SERIES OF ANGLES – TREEHOUSE
Holly is off somewhere in the forest. putting on lipstick. Kit sits on watch in the crowls nest, a pair of binoculars close at hand. On sound, over the music, we hear voices whispering to them. Kit sees a movement in the brush. A moment later a figure appears, a hunter, carrying a gun. Kit shouts a code word to Holly. She takes off running, as Kit clambers down the planks of the treehouse and collects his shotgun. He tells her to hide, runs through the woods and dives in a hole, under a cover of leaves. She jumps behind a log. Several shots of the still forest follow, then the hunters appear, a shoulder here. pant leg there. The music ends as one of them cocks his gun. They pass right over the hole where Kit is hiding. Kit rises up slowly, gives them a gentlemanly word of warning, then shoots all three in the back. He checks to see if anybody else is with them, then calls weakly out to Holly.
KIT
Holly!
Holly picks her way through the brush, back to the treehouse.
EXT. TREEHOUSE
They are packed up and ready to leave. Kit slams the trunk of the Mercury.
KIT
Get in the car, Red.
He takes a bird cage off the roof of the car and throws it away.
KIT
We don't need this.
He climbs a ladder, looks In the cabin of the treehouse to see if they've left anything behind, then jumps down. He flips over the wicker hemisphere that covers their rooster. The rooster walks off, free. He surveys the woods, then looks back at Holly, who returns his look and gets in the car.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Kit felt bad about shooting those men in the backs.
but he said they'd come in like that. and they would've played it as down and
dirty as they could, and besides, held overheard them whispering about how they
were only interested in the reward money. With lawmen it would'tve been
different. They were out there to get a job done and they deserved a fair
chance. But not a bounty hunter.
EXT. BADLANDS – SERIES OF ANGLES
We see a flat expanse of the Badlands. The Mercury appears over the horizon and heads toward a solitary house. A man appears at the door of the house, Kit's friend, Cato.
HOLLY (V.O.)
We went to hide out with a friend of Kit's from the
days of the garbage route.
EXT. CATO'S HOUSE
Kit gets out of the car, takes a chicken from the back seat and walks over to face Cato. He keeps a safe distance.
KIT
How you doing, Cato?
CATO
Not bad.
Kit steps forward, rifle in hand, and offers Cato the chicken.
KIT
Take that sombitch.
Cato takes it, a wan smile on his face.
KIT
What you been doing?
CATO
Running this place for a fella in town. Nothing much
to speak of.
KIT
Well, I don't notice us hustling trash, either.
Kit walks over to inspect the interior of Cato's house.
KIT
Where'd you get them antlers?
CATO (O.S.)
They come with the house.
He refers to a set of deer antlers, mounted over the door. Kit looks inside, then back at Cato.
KIT
Oh, Cato, I want you to meet my girl, Holly Sargis.
Holly smiles and says hello.
EXT. PICNIC TABLE
They sit at a picnic table under a tree, having lunch. Holly is
telling a joke at Kit's urging.
HOLLY
Did you hear the one about the guy in the nuthouse
that went around naked, with only a hat and gloves on, and this nurse came up
to him and said, "Hey, what... You can't walk around that way," and
the guy says, "What's the matter? Nobody comes around here." Anyway,
the nurse says, "What do you have the hat and gloves on for, then?"
And the guy says, "Well, you never know."
Cato bursts into laughter.
KIT
Isn't that funny?
Cato stops laughing. He wants to give Kit the right answer.
CATO
Yeah, I guess.
KIT (O.S.)
She plays the clarinet, too.
Holly smiles politely.
HOLLY
Don't you ever get bored around here?
CATO
Sometimes. The other day, though, an old boy was
plowing in the field over there, found some old Spanish coins.
KIT
(suspicious)
That's what he told you, huh?
CATO (O.S.)
No, he showed me one.
HOLLY
What'd they look like?
CATO (O.S.)
Kind of round, like so... Gold. I'll show you if you
want.
Kit and Holly eye one another. Kit sees the chance to make a fortune here. He is careful to conceal his feelings, though.
KIT
Let me finish my supper.
Holly, big-eyed, bites into an apple.
EXT. FIELD
Kit, Holly and Cato walk out to the field where Cato heard the coins were found. Holly picks up a pot lid.
KIT
We're thinking of going down to Texas. Holly wants to
visit some of her people down there, but after that I don't know... They say
Mexico's nice.
Cato stops.
CATO
Kit... Maybe I'd better get a shovel.
KIT
Okay.
CATO
I'll catch up with you.
KIT
Okay.
Kit walks out into the field to join Holly. Cato turns back.
HOLLY
I found a lid. It was laying on the ground over there.
KIT
Put that down. It's dirty.
Holly tosses the lid at him. He picks up some dirt clods and starts throwing them at her. She squeals and dodges. Cato watches them for a while, indecisive, then turns and runs.
HOLLY (O.S.)
Hey, you're throwing big ones!
Suddenly, Kit spots Cato.
KIT
Cato!
Cato jumps over a trough and comes to a stop in front of his truck, a water tanker.
CATO
The shovel's in the truck.
Kit raises his gun and shoots Cato through the belly. Cato falls, then gets to his feet and stumbles toward the front door of the house. Kit follows him for a while, then skips forward and opens the door for him.
INT. BEDROOM
Cato falls on his bed and rolls over to face Kit. Kit walks in calmly and picks up a photo on the bureau.
HOLLY (V.O.)
Kit never let on why he'd shot Cato. He said that just
talking about it could bring us bad luck and that right now we needed all the
luck we could get.
Kit sets the photo down.
KIT (O.S.)
You never told me about her.
He looks under the bed, then walks out the door.
INT. LIVING ROOM
Holly stands near a window. smoking a cigarette. Kit sets his rifle down and surveys the room, which is cluttered with odds and ends.
KIT
Look at all this junk.
HOLLY
How's he doing?
KIT
(shrugging)
I got him in the stomach.
Holly sits down.
HOLLY
Is he upset?
KIT
He didn't say anything to me about it.
He takes a drag off her cigarette and gives it back to her. He leafs idly through a catalogue on the table, then walks over to look in the bedroom.
KIT
Bunch of junk.
Inside the bedroom Cato is still conscious, but his breathing is heavy. Kit walks back to Holly's side. HOLLY is looking through the catalogue.
KIT
He stole that cage. I saw him doing it.
Kit wants this to have been an execution, not a murder.
KIT
Whatcha looking in there for? We can't afford any of
that.
HOLLY
(defensive)
Just looking.
INT. BEDROOM
As they bicker in the other room, Cato inspects his face in a mirror.
KIT (O.S.)
Why don't you go in there and keep him company for a
while?
Holly walks in the door.
HOLLY
Hi.
She sits down.
HOLLY
That your spider in there? in that bottle?
CATO
Yeah.
HOLLY
What do you feed him?
CATO
Oh, flies... grasshoppers when I can catch 'em.
HOLLY
Does he bite?
CATO
He never bit me.
We hear the sound of a car HORN in the distance. Holly turns and looks.
EXT. CATO'S HOUSE
A 1951 Studebaker approaches the house. There are two people inside, a BOY and a GIRL. Kit comes out the front door. The Boy and Girl get out, but seeing Kit, they wait by the car.
Hi. where's Cato?
KIT
Well, he's gone.
BOY
Gone?... Where?
KIT
He said not to tell.
BOY (O.S.)
Oh yeah?
KIT
Yeah, he said for you to give us a lift into town.
You're the ones with the Studebaker, aren't you?
The Boy hesitates a second, then starts for the house.
BOY
Well, I just need to pick up something in the house.
Kit draws his gun.
KIT
No... You go in there, I'll have to kill you.
BOY
What's going on?
KIT
Can't afford to take chances.
The Girl is baffled.
KIT (O.S.)
Come on out of there, young lady.
Kit waves them out into the neighboring field with him.
KIT
Let's us step out in this field here.
The Boy raises his hands.
KIT
Nah, skip that... I'm going to have to keep an eye on
you, though.
BOY
Okay.
KIT
You don't mind?
Holly steps out the front door and smiles at the girl.
HOLLY
Hi.
EXT. FIELD
Holly and the girl walk through the field toward a storm cellar where the boys are waiting for them. The wind is blowing hard.
GIRL
What's going to happen to Jack and me?
HOLLY
You have to ask Kit. He says frog, I jump.
GIRL
Okay.
HOLLY
What's your friend's name?
GIRL
Jack.
HOLLY
You love him?
GIRL
I don't know.
Holly thinks about this for a moment.
HOLLY
I've got to stick by Kit... He feels trapped.
GIRL
Yeah. I can imagine.
HOLLY
Well, I've felt that way, hadn't you?
EXT. STORM CELLAR
Kit guides the couple into the storm cellar.
KIT
Okay, you two, down in the cellar.
They head down the steps into the cellar, the Girl first. Kit stops the Boy for a moment.
KIT
You promise to stay down there for an hour?
BOY
Yeah.
KIT
You expect me to believe that?
He looks back at Holly, as though to ask whether he should.
BOY
Yeah.
Kit nods and waves the Boy down into the cellar. The Boy disappears. Kit shuts the door.
KIT
I'm going to shut the door.
Kit sticks a pin through the latch, hesitates, then fires two shots down through a seam into the cellar. He retreats to Holly's side. a little surprised at what he did.
KIT
Think I got 'em?
HOLLY
I don't know.
KIT
Well, I'm not going down there and look.
He starts running away from the cellar. Holly follows him. A storm is gathering on the horizon. Kit offers Holly his hand as they run. but Holly does not see this.
