{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1404\cocoasubrtf470 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;} \margl1440\margr1440\vieww15300\viewh12440\viewkind0 \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\pardirnatural\partightenfactor0 \f0\fs24 \cf0 \ TH2 M3DICIN1] SHOW OF BAWDY BILL\ A pilot episode for a weekly musical-comedy\ \ \ \ \ by \ \ \ Anthony Stephenson\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ FIRST DRAFT (Feb., 1985) \ WGIV:,' Reg. So. 331771 \ \page \ 2.\ \ THE MEDICINE SHOW OF BAWDY BILL\ \ \ 'ADE IN:\ \ EXT. COUNTRY ROAD- -DAY\ \ A very low-angle close-up depicts a milestone by the side of the road.\ \ Oxen's P.O.V. shows the milestone pass by as a timeless country road comes \ into the swaying picture.\ \ A profile of the ox is seen as "canned" laughter is heard. The camera then \ focuses on the ornately carved yoke and pans along it towards the driver's \ seat, which is empty. We hear a woman giggle.\ \ BILL (0.S.)\ I'd better see how're we doinl.\ \ Camera pans up to see CRAZY CROW, BILL's Indian partner, tying the final \ knots of rope holding the tarp on top of the wagon. He finds his way back \ to the driver's seat and just gets the reins in his hands when BILL comes \ through the curtains. The last few seconds slow down to a standstill.\ \ WIPE TO\ \ EXT. FOREST SCENE--DAY\ \ A streambed with a view of some woods in the background. We hear the scuffling \ of feet as the scene comes to life - in reverse. CRAZY CROW has run (back) to\ a patch of Acoris Calumur (Sweet Flag) and has swiftly dug out the entire plant \ before has run from the wagon.\ T-\ EXT. CAMPSITE\'97DUSK\ \ CU of a bottle of candied Sweet Flag is being held high by CRAZY CROW who we \ see as the camera trucks out. He is in archetypal fool's dress ana working the \ crowd gathered around the stage of BAWDY BILL's wagon, who, along with REGINA \ is on stage, in costume and selling bottles.\ \ BILL\ Yes my freinds, either by chewing these roots, \ or, in people-pleasin' candy form, Sweet Flag\ will cure everything from a toothache to a \ stomach ache.\ \ The crowd mumbles in disbelief as the camera zooms-in on BILL, who starts singing.\ .\ BILL\ You bellyache?\ That's your mistake.\ 'Cause something so right \ can not be denied.\ \ The crowd mumbles.\ \page \ 3.\ 'rom crowd FOY, zoom\'97in on REGINA who continues the pitch.\ \ hgGIYA\ You can not deny\ the deal of your life\ Show me your cards\ and I'll give you my jars.\ \ She holds the bottles at each side of her breasts as the crowd roars. \ XLS follows BILL.\ \ BILL\ That could be yours\ it should be yours!\ SO don't deny \ give it a try'.\ \ 'S follows CRAZY CRO' in the crowd.\ \ CRAZY CROP\ What you think for pair o' dime? \ Thanky sir. or buck or bill \ you will be fine\ Thank you, you're swell.\ \ \ \ MAY\ Hey, where's my wallet? I've been \ robbed% There's a thief in the crowd'.\ \ \ \ People start checking themselves as CRAZY 'RC's' breaks into dance. Some have \ similar discoveries as the crowd begins to disperse. Each character in the \ crowd finds something more outrageous that is stolen (e.g., purse; watch, \ shirt, his girl, etc.)\ \ EXT. EOUNTRY ROAD\'97DAY\ \ A continuation of the earlier scene of BILL and CROE at the ariver's seat \ of tne wagon, M.S.\ \ BILL\ \'97hat was all that about?\ \ CROW\ Me find Sweet Flag.\ \ BILL\ Hm. Yeah, one thing fer sure...\ y'never were the type to hold up\ our progress.\ \ CM CRC/ who gives a wry glance at BILL. \ BACK TO SHOT\ \ BILL \ Hey, ya got any smoke?\ \page \ 4.\ \ CROW nands nim a hand-rolled cigarette. BILL takes it and puts his arm through \ the curtain.\ \ BILL \ Regina, do us a favor...\ \ BILL leaves his arm there for a moment before he sticks nis whole upper body \ through the curtain. After a few seconds he pulls himself back as a CU snows \ his reaction as smoke spews irom his mouth. CROW motions.\ \ CROW\ Someone coming...\ \ Camera stops traveling, continues to follow wagon as the angle picks out the \ oncoming wagon.\ \ WS depicts each wagon coming into frame from either side and stop as they near. \ It is sunset.\ \ MLS--DR. RICHARD CARTaR\ CARTER\ So, hot\ \ CU--RILL smilingto - hotBILL\ \ MCU--CROW raises hand\ \ CROW\ How.\ \ Twoshot of WILL & CRC' as BILL stands\ \ BILL\ Look at that, Dick Carter.\ \ .C--RWGINA, looking bubbly, pokes her head through tne curtains.\ \ REGINA\ Howdy cc'.\ \ ART. CAaFwIRb--WIGHT\ \ DR. CARTER nas a fat, ugly boy for an assistant who, like the others, is eating, \ drinking, and generally having a good time. WS slow zoom to WILL.\ \ BILL\ ...or about that buffoon who woke up thinking he \ was as big as an ox because he was trying to get \ into that boy's pantaloons instead of his owns.\ \ laughter, pan to CARTER\ \ CART :2\ Wait till you hear this one: A gentleman approached \ me with the honest opinion that ducks were quacking \ in his stomach. Of course I merely brushed him off \ with an explanation of inaigestion. But lie was persis-\ \page \ 5.\ tent. I finally cured him when I explainea \ that he had evidently eatea many duck eggs \ in his life and that they had collected and \ hatched.\ \ Zoom-out, laughter \ \ MS--3ILL\ \ BILL\ Yeah, that's pretty good, but tell GINA and \ CROW here what tifix fer rheumatism.\ \ MS--CARTER\ \ CARTER\ Well, you might want to write this down. I \ Prescribe this for gout, cramps, infirmities \ of the joints and si-\ \ TWOSHOT--CARTER CROW\ \ CROW\ News?\ \ MCS--CARTmR\ \ CARTER\ Er, uh, well. Take a young fat dog and kill him...\ \ MS--REGINA who puts her hand to her mouth\ \ REGINA\ Ohmigosht\ \ MCII--CARTER\ \ CART RR\ ...scald and clean him as you would a pig, then \ extract his guts through a hole previously made \ in his side and substitute in the place thereof, \ two handfuls of nettles, two ounces of brimstone, \ one dozen hen eggs, four ounces of turpentine, a\ handful of tansy, a pint of red fishing worms, and \ about three quarters of a pound of tobacco, cut up \ fine and mix these ingredients well together before \ putt4ng them in the dog belly, and then sew up the \ whole\\ TheAroast him well before a hot fire, save the \ oil, anoint the joints and weak parts before the fire \ 4s hot as you can bear it, being careful not to get \ wet or expose yourself to damp or night air, or even \ heating yourself, or in fact, should you not expose \ yourself in any way.\ \ stands up\ \page \ 6.\ RHSINA\ Nell you can be sure I won't.\ \ NS--3ILL\ \ 3ILL\ You got that Crow?\ \ pan to now who grins\ \ CRO'S\ Like pokeweed pop.\ \ SXT. OATSITI--MORNING\ \ DR. CARTER'S ASSISTANT is attending the doctor as BA'SDY BILL'S entourage \ rolls out.\ \ CRAW\ 'Shoal\ \ TS BILL sr. SRO in wagon\ \ BILL\ doc. How're 7\ \ 3S--CARTHR\ \ CARTYR\ Ah, well, you know about getting on and \ how it has the tendency to extenuate a \ man. 'sell, forn4itely for me I have a \ special formula. A combination of bear's \ gall mixed in run, 'prangs, peels, a pen- \ knife of gold (the secret ingredient) in \ honey and my own spit. Ah, Nature has its \ ways. Say, which way are ye going?\ \ MS-BILL\ \ BILL\ To the Capitol.\ \ MS--CART'SR\ \ CARTER\ Ah, well then. You'll be going through \ Stifflertown. They asked me to stay for \ their tradinl fair - but I already did \ what I could there. So let me wish you \ a safe journey. And remember, if any of \ those recipes I gave you does more harm \ than good, abandon's it. I bid you adieu.\ \page \ TBDCHOT--BILL & CROM\ \ CROW snaps the reins as BILL waves.\ \ BILL\ Thankee, sir. Now, you take care \ of him son. Bye.\ \ CXT. =SKIRTS 0\'bb TOM77--DAY \ \ TWOSHOT--BILL '4 CROW in wagon\ \ CRAZY CROW\ ..from the great sea / between / sun and moon / \ he rest / his head on a / pillow / of oil which /\ poured forth / a drop in which / the three / elements \ / of the / Great Work / is seen / and collected in / \ clothes / from fields after / sun and rain / bull and \ cow / and man and woman / cook and distill / over and\ / again / until till the Golden / \'bblower / can be picked \ / and (etered / to the Sun / until / it withers to /\ black / and is nurtured / to the / color of infant's \ blood which / is...\ \ RSCINA pops her head through the curtains.\ \ RTGINA\ Ch hilly boy, guess who won't \ be able to dance for a little \ while. Yes, the curse has struck.\ \ BILL\ 'Sell, that's okay. From the looks \ of this town, there'll be no bally- \ hoo here anyway.\ \ Separate camera Pans show women taking down their clothing off clotheslines \ and a sign in the window of a boarding house saying:sMo dogs or actors."\ \ Long crane shot shows the wagon coming up to what appears to be a fair. \ Music is coming from the des7ce being operated by a vendor and his monkey.\ \ itIFT TO\ \ ?XT. STR'IT--DAY\ \ mS BILL & RSIGINA walking along the street ouserving the various vendors. \ A panhandler begs for a coin as BILL flips him one, saying to RSIGINA:\ \ BILL\ An intern.\ \ MS BILL as he notices something across the street\ \page \ 8.\ SILL\ I don't believe it.\ \ They walk past a display to a poster in a shop window.\ \ R7GINA\ That is it, Bill?\ \ PS\'97?DS/RR \ \ MS--BILL\ \ BAUDY BILL\ Tony Pastor's idea's catchin' on. \ But they're callin' it vau-de-ville. \ He never did like that name. Too\ sissified he used t'say. Yeah, lookee \ here, what's tnis - "chaste behavior \ of the entire company." Heh, heh and\ and look, "no women in tightst" Ha, ha, \ ha, hat\ \ REIrtRuND\ Calculated to amuse the giddy and \ excite the laughter of fools.\ \ FS--RET,IRIIND, low angle silhouette against the sun \ \ TWOSHOT--BILL & REGINA\ \ BILL tilts his hat and walks back into the street with REGINA.\ \ BILL\ Pardon me, father.\ \ SONG & DANCE BOUTINS\ \ BILL\ I hope you won't object \ to your supposed defect \ But what you see, is not, you see,\ as what I see as fine -\ I think you can detect\ the gains and loss in check \ But what is this as we exist \ so disposited in time -\ \ CHORUS\ (Yeah) Put out the bottle\ Put out the puss\ Put in a day-long day \ Then put up with you\ \page \ 9.\ \ GILL\ Last week I met a fellow\ who could not be called just yellow \ His billiard game had brought\ him sname and with it slugs\ of lead -\ \ CHORUS\ Put out the bottle \ Put out the puss\ Put in a day-long day\ and put up with you -\ \ fitV:42.d.ND\ A lesson can"( be learned\ Through what is lost and earned \ Picture Jesus as you exist\ and he shall be reborn -\ \ CHORUS\ Put out the bottle \ Put out the puss - \ Put in a day-long oay \ and put up with you\ \ BILL\ Put it in a barrel\ Put it in the zoo\ Put it here then put it there \ Then go to Timbuktu\ \ CHORUS\ Put out the bottle \ Put out tne puss\ Put in a day-long day \ then put up with you\ \ (Yeah) put out the bottle \ Put out the puss -\ Put in a day-long day \ and put up with you -\ \ END OF SONG & DANCE\ \ DISSOLVE TO\ \ .".01.1111A 3 9 WU ;2; C\ \ EXT. CAmPSITE--LATE A713ENOON\ \ A variety of shots of dandelions are arranged. CU CROW'S hands over pots and \ fire as he mixes and adds things together in a cauldron, pot, and pan. Camera \ zooms-out to frame shot of CROW with a dandelion in CU. MLS from above shows \ CROW cooking with patches of dandelions here and there, including a picked \ bundle by his side. MCU Of CROW preparing dandelions with bacon dressing:\ He washes the leaves, cuts them across in several places, puts them in a\ bowl and seasons with a pinch of sugar, salt, and chopped onion and its juice, \ cuts bacon into three small pieces, browns in pan, attends to three bowls\ by rubbing with a clove of garlic, adds dandelion preens to the nowlc, removes\ \page \ 10.\ \ three coiled eggs from the cauldron, returns to the now-crisp bacon which \ he redoves and adds twice as much vinegar as there is eacon fat, he starts\ peeling the eggs until the fat/vinegar mix boils up upon which he pours over \ the greens and finally adds slices of egg. The camera angles up to see BILL, \ REGINA, and MABELINE arrive in camp arm-in-arm.\ \ END MONTAGE SEWENCi \ \ WS\'97CA\'95PSITE\ \ CROW stands up to greet the arriving party.\ \ CROW\ Hear you come, but not expect company.\ \ BILL\ Crow, I'd like you t'meet Mabeline 'aith. \ Mabeline, my colleague and friend, Mr. \ Crazy Crow.\ \ MAB-,0LINE\ A pleasure, I'm sure.\ \ TS - -BILL\ \ Camera follows BILL who deposits a box of things into the wagon and helps \ REGINA into the back of it as well.\ \ BILL\ Yeah, managed t'pick up a few things - \ sugar, spice, and something nice. Got \ some lard, we got some felt, even got\ a dead hare - it's already been smoked. \ It'll be a change from the jerky.\ \ MCU\'97MARELINE\ \ MA3ELINo]\ Don't forget my box.\ \ TWOS OT--BILL & CROW\ \ BILL\ That's right, tomorrow morning we have \ to stop in town t'load up Mabeline's be-\ longings. She's been laid up in that town \ ever since her husband died. Been living \ off the things he used t'sell. But get this \ - she's got the voice of a sapsucker:\ \ MCU\'97MABELIN. s chest\ \ CROW\ Yes, healthy looking lungs.\ \page \ 11.\ \ vS--MOULINS, CROW, & BILL\ \ MAD:BUNS\ You look pretty healthy there yourself, \ kimosabby.\ \ CROW bends over to pick up a bowl of dandelion salad as BILL goes to the wagon. \ \ VS--MABELINC watches and then accepts the bowl that is offered.\ \ TWOSHOT\ \ CROP\ Been cooking dandelion. Wine for \ later. Salad?\ \ MS--MABELINE\ MABELIITE \ Uh, well...\ \ MS--CROW\ CROW\ Go ahead. Take.\ \ O77SHOT\ \ YAW:LIMB\ Well, okay. Mmmm.\ \ CROW\ You like?\ \ VA3PLINS\ I like...\ \ CROW\ Me put in meat...\ \ \ Mmmm, ke it.\ \ CROW\ Put in leaves, \ Take out leaves, \ put in bacon, \ take out meat, \ put in bad wine, \ out come cream.\ \ \ I like it, I like\ \ CHOW\ ..et rabbit.\ \page \ 12.\ \ approach\ \ \ If mou're like me, I bet you just \ can't Let enouLh of it.\ \ MS--7TYL7A\ \ RiTurx\ You sone:le:al seen what they did \ on my birthday. ?it for a queen\ it was...thought I'd died and been \ reborn again.\ \ TWOSHOT-73ILL\ \ BILL\ Oh, she was rockin,... \ ready to roll away -\ \ ROLL IMACW TO\ \ EXT. ROAD INTO TOWN\'97MORNING\ \ The wagon ambles across the screen. Camera zooms-in to a pony express rider \ in the distance and eventually runs past the screen from side-to-side, after \ which a person walks on screen to the other side of the screen into town \ where the wagon has stopped.\ \ INT. BOARDIMG ROOM--DAY\ \ The door flies open as MASGIINE enters followed by BILL d CROW. \ \ Camera follows MA1tLLINE.\ \ MABELLINN\ It'll take me just a minute to\ pack my things. Meanwhile, you'll\ find two medicine chests in the closet.\ \ Camera follows BILL\ \ BILL\ Well let's see what we're packinl\ here first\'97Ant Hastings Compound \ Syrup - we could use a batch of pre-\ packaged cough syrup\'97Ayer's Sar- \ saparilla, Wright's Fills\'97See, Crow,\ it's something like this that made \ Mister Wright, with his "Indian's \ vegetables," rich.\ \page \ 13.\ \ \ YS\'97DOARIUSG ROOM\ \ CROW\ Those lucky vegetables. \ Can you handle it?\ \ BILL\ Yeah, I got it. Let's go.\ \ PIABSLIUd\ I'll be ready in a minute.\ \ bloGS2sIN appears at the door after DILL & CROW leave.\ \ McGUFFIN\ Mabeline: ':That's going on here?\ \ MS--MABSLIN crabs\ \ MAILLIn\ I've had enough, McGuffin. I've found a \ way out of this bat(h)house. Now I'll be \ able to sing without the cover of vain- \ glory religiosity. I'll be able to dance \ and romance. And I'll be able to carry on \ in my husband's business in what seems to \ be fertile ground.\ \ McGUTFIN\ But what about us, honey pot?\ \ MABUINS\ Oh, get lost McGuffin. Pin your pumpin' \ on some other woman of estate.\ \ McGUFFIN\ I object: And besides, you owe me. NO, \ I won't let you:\ \ FS--BILL appears at the door\ \ BILL\ ';hat's all this?\ \ WS\'97BOARDING ROOM\ \ MADSLINF.\ Oh, this is :.clauffin. He's a fr- a friend \ of my late husband.\ \ McGIS7FIN\ Sir, I think you should know that !i.ss\ Faith is a valuable asset to this commu-\ nity and that I will do all I can to keep her.\ \ Camera follows BIL\ \page \ 14.\ \ BILL\ Yell I think she's pretty nice too. \ And I agree with yea, I teink that \ she is of great value to society. \ You must agree with me there, no?\ \ 710SHOT\'97BILL & McGN'\ \ NeGiFFIN\ ;'ell, yes...but -\ \ Camera follows BILL\ \ BILL\ So you must agree that it is for th-\ \ WS\'97BOARDING ROOM\ \ McGUNFIN\ Hey wait a second...\ \ SILL\ It is for the common good that all parties \ involved seek the correct path of action and follow \ the direction given by the fickle-finger-of-fate. \ To follow John Stuart .1,111s1 ideal of the Greatest\ Happiness Principle, we will follow a direction that \ is not merely a chance or consequence of events be-\ yond our control - it is the destiny of (a) human being'.\ \ NAB:BUTE\ And it is your destiny to get lost, McGuffin.\ \ EXT. STRaC--DAY\ \ REGINA is sitting on the driver's seat of the wagon. C:710'.' can be heard ar- \ ranging tnings in the back. A kid is wandering around nearby - he looks upset.\ \ ON\'97REGINA\ \ REGINA\ What's the matter, darlin'?\ \ 71S--KID from RtGiNA's POT \ \ KID starts to cry\ \ KID\ My mommy's lost.\ \ REGINA\ She can't be far from here. \ Where did you see her last?\ \ KID points\ \ KID \ Over there.\ \page \ IC.\ \ MS - -REGINA\ \ She looks in the direction indicated and then back at the KID.\ \ REGINA\ And she's not there?\ \ FS\'97KI D\ \ \ \ \ \ RLGINA\ there do you lino?\ \ RIL\ I don't know.\ \ RRGINA starts to get up.\ \ REGINA\ Well someone's got -\ \ MOTHR comes around the corner.\ \ YOTHER\ There you are. Where have you\ been? I told you not to go any- \ where. Have you been talking to \ this trollop?\ \ TGI:TA\ I beg your pardon:\ \ MOTHER\ Come along now.\ \ XCU--REGINA is full of compassionate thought and then hears raises. \ \ 'WS--WAGON\ \ BILL is loading some luggage and is being followed by ?I= c7I-nT721\ who are arguing.\ \ LT\ Oh, you don't think I can? \ Just watch.\ \ FS - -Y.eGU7FIN\ McGUPPIN\ What about the carriage I gave you, \ the marriage I begged you?\ \ T OSHO' - L\ \page \ 16.\ MABDLI\'95S \ They're more suited for you.\ \ McGUIFFIU\ And by chance, our plans?\ \ \ \ VA3SLINE\ They never looked like they sere true.\ \ 7S--tthGITTIFIN is taken aback and bumps a laider which spills red paint on nis face. \ \ WS\'97STBSST shows that McGUFFIN can't see, but calls: "Mahe. Mabet"\ \ BILL\ tthGuffin...(f)luck of(f)... \ uh, the Irish to you.\ \ CROU\ Get up:\ \ EXT. CAUFSITT\'97DUSK\ \ A crowd is watching the two women dance as BILL claps and sings "She'll Be \ Coming Around the 'I.ountainu as CROW plays the harmonica.\ \ INT. WAGON\'97DUSK\ \ The two women come running in. The two men can be heard carrying on their \ business amongst the crowd outside whose cIapping and whooping drowns the \ sound of McGUFFIN calling for "Mabe. Mabets which eventually dies down. \ VABELINE & RSGINA flop down across from each other, look at each other, \ and then laugh. hIABELINE raises her fist.\ \ I\'95ABELINE\ To humoring their humours:\ \ The previous two scenes are repeated twice, each subseoubnt sequence of ssbnos \ is starter by a sclapper" indicating Take 2 and Take 3.\ \ EXT. YAIN STREMT A2TEENCON\ \ Wagon ambling down the street.\ \ MS--BILL\ \ TILL\ Now there's a might innerestin' looking \ honkytonk. Let's see what kind of action \ is going on down here.\ \ s__.E6T--DIT:31:\ \ The wagon is being hitched as BILL & Co. assemble and start towards the hon- \ kytonk. A man aopronches them.\ \page \ DR. CONSTANTI3T RAil'IN7SQGT:\ Pardon me, rq good man, would you have a light?\ \ CROW seems to snap his fingers like a lighter as MABELINE looks on in amazement.\ .\ R.VoIrilSZTE\ Allow me to introduce myself. I am Doctor \ Constantine Rafinesque. I couldn't help but \ notice that you are a medicine man.\ \ !13--CR011 as he blows out the light\ \ CROit\ s right.\ \ TWOSHOT-33ILL & RAPIYENUE\ \ BILL\ You mean the Dr. Constantine Rafinesque? \ The one who wrote that article about all \ the corn and swines you run into in rural \ parts?\ \ RAPIKESGGE bows\ \ RAFIKENUl\ In person.\ \ SILL\ How are the pearl farms going in the Ohio \ Valley, anyway?\ \ RA7IN7SQUE cnuckles\ \ RAFIN SQL,\ No, that' s something I do not believe I'll \ live to see.\ \ \ \ PLUM=\ Pearl farms? Why that sounds...interesting.\ \ \ \ \ quite. lilt trough you may be amused of my \ joVes about society or even Audohon. Let me \ just give you my all-purpose prescription for \ good health which is full of milk, fruits and \ vegetables, the outdoor life, and a good heal- \ thy shit every day.\ \ BILL\ Claim ladies, we must be going. Glad t'meet \ you, sir. Take care.\ \page \ 18.\ \ \ INT. HONKYTONK - -HAPPY HOUR\ \ Camera pans a large room full of tables with gambling, a bar on one side, \ booths on the other with a stage in the back. Much rowdy and taboo activity \ seems to be going on including dancing Ooys on stage. The camera finally \ finds our group seated at a booth.\ \ MS--REGINA who will discreetly point\ \ REGINA\ ...or like those two over there.\ \ FS--MAN & WHORE\ \ WS--REGINA, SILL, CROW, & MA3H1INE\ \ REGINA\ They'll have a few drinks, one of\ 'em will make an offer to go upstairs, \ and then comes the punch line, disguised \ in his drink.\ \ CU--MACELIN3\ \ REGINA\ Then she can do what she wants with him.\ \ CROW \ Hey, scope the cutpurse.\ \ ES--DEXTER & CUSTOMERS\ \ A boy is seen moving in and out of curtains near the entryway snatching wal- \ lets and purses of people as they leave.\ \ ?B--STAG'\ \ Tne dancers finish and run off stage as an emcee comes on.\ \ \ Oh, thank you, thank you.\ \ CU--MARELINC\ \ EMCEE \ that a life.\ \ MS\'97M. C.\ \ di1C7F,\ More of that s(t)imulating entertainment\ as the evening goes on. But now, ladies and \ gentlemen, let me introduce "-hite 7.atsY/\ \page \ 19.\ "\ \ Cho saxcousnoss of tw act next do is Miami ia ihn,:mound as a Cw scans\ the loot 71XTl7 sms accicoolated.\ \ PD--CraTOR as he arranes two piles. hfle see toe JOADAC: co:e in behind oia.\ \ crabs, WS\ \ MArAGER\ You scroungy dog, you: Taking half of my \ money: Who do you think you are?\ \ The :il.CAGER 6rabs DEXTER by the scruff-of-the-neck and deposits the loot into \ his coat pocket. de starts to slap the kid around as he yells at him.\ \ MA:TAGER\ Trash like you are a dime-a-dozen. You \ think you can get away with stunts like\ that? Wait till we finish with you in \ the basement...\ \ DEXTER manages to stomp on the MAUAGER's foot before pulling a shelf of dry \ goods on him. The kid puts a bucket on the guy's head after kicking him in \ the crotch. He then pushes him against a cabinet that spills molasses and \ flour all over him DEXTER runs out.\ \ EXT. STREET--NIGHT\ \ DEXTER is seen in the distance heading towards the wagon of Bawdy Bill & Co. \ Camera zooms-out and pans to see the MANAGER come running out and stops for XCU.\ \ INT. HONKYTONX\'97NIGHT\ \ A grinning, white-haired character tosses a dunce cap full of macaroni at the \ camera as the crowd roars at the CLOWN.\ \ TS\'97DROSS gropes and then somersaults in the macaroni.\ \ LS\'97CLCWN is handed another duncecap from a performer who proceeds to write \ another verse on a chalkboard with a chalk-impregnated quill while miming it. \ The tune they are dancing to is "Yankee Doodle Dandy." They finally pick a \ distinguished looking gentleman to take the spotlight - but he remembers\ the words. The crowd boos as he is abandoned. They then stop to raise MABELINE \ to tne occasion. She pauses a second, and then with lush orchestral accompani- \ ment, she starts to sings. A chorus even seems to add to tne enchantment.\ \ MS - -DRUNK looks up from the floor.\ \ MS--THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEAN is enraptured.\ \ FS\'97MANAGER walks in and is held spellbound for a moment before signaling \ an assistant to take instructions.\ \page \ 20.\ \ \ PS\'97MADELINE finishes, looks around, and lets out a little giggle. \ \ Camera zooms-out as the crowd roars and macaroni is thrown everywhere.\ \ OTS--CARDPLAYER Ects oacnroni on ois cards which oe dripds on his leo and \ comes up with a new hand.\ \ Y3--0711,2 CARUPLAYER sees this and tries to pull a holster-shot and ends up \ shooting off the leg of a chair which 'mocks someone over who thereby trips \ the C1,7-7 who spills racarord on the IMES7IYG7FROM GENTIMMAN who stands up \ into a man sipping a beer who turns around and punches him across the table \ as a well-dressed wrestler grabs the beer drinker and throws him across the \ room. Lanterns flare-up as everything takes on a red glow while devils break \ through the walls. All of today's professional fighters seem to be in the Drawl.\ .\ DCT. STREET - -NIGHT\ \ BILL & Co. arrive outside. The MANAGE:Ws ASSISTANT, .o has a vague resemblance to McCUFFIN comes out a second later--PS\ to McCUFFIN comes out a second later--PS\ \ MANAGER'S ASSISTANT\ Pardon me, Miss Can we speak for a moment?\ \ TWOSHOT--AABELINE & BILL\ \ MADELINE \ Well, uh...\ \ FS--MGR's ASST., MADELINE, BILL, REGINA, & CROW\ \ MGR's ASST.\ On behalf of the management I would like \ to offer you the opportunity to sing at \ our estaolishment.\ \ CU\'97MADELINE\ \ MABYLINE \ Yes'.\ \ MS\'97REGINA\ \ REGINA \ Mabe:\ \ RS\'97MAD:LINE, REGINA, BILL, CROW, & MGR's ASST.\ \ MADELINE\ Yes, oh yes. Oh, I had no idea... \ Success comes so fast:\ \ BILL\ Think about what you're sayin' \ there now, sweetheart.\ \page \ 21.\ MGR's ASST.\ We'll be prepared to pay you twenty \ dollars a month plus tips.\ \ TYOSHOT--',A3ELPIE & REGINA\ \ REGINA\ But what about the show, Mabel\ \ BILL \ Yeah, babe. Humouralism?\ \ FS--AflINE, REGINA, DILL, CROY, & MGR's ASST.\ \ MADELINE\ Hey, I want to thank y'all fer gettin' \ me out of Stifflertown an' teachin' me \ your song and dance. But isn't this wnat \ you said I was destined for?\ \ CROW\ Is that what you heard?\ \ MABELINE\ Hey, listen, Bill. You can have what's \ left of those pills. They never done me \ no good no how. And now, sir, I do be- \ lieve you can help me with my things.\ \ TWOSEOT--BILL & CROW\ \ CROW\ I'll never understand show business.\ \ INT. WAGON- -HIGHT\ \ BILL, CROW, & REGINA enter and find their bunks.\ \ REGINA \ (Gaspt)\ \ BILL \ What is it?\ \ DEXTER\ Hey lady, don't scream. People are \ trying to sleep - besides, you'll give \ me away.\ \ BILL\ Okay verbalize. 'hat's going on here?\ \ REGINA\ There's a boy in my bed'.\ \page \ a.\ \ \ DEXTUR\ Please lady, please hide me.\ \ RGGINA\ Where's your mother?\ \ a:XTeiR\ She died.\ \ Rai:GINA\ Oh, I'm sorry. Then where's your father?\ \ D'IXTGR \ I don't know.\ \ DILL\ Where're you stayinl, son?\ \ DTXTGR\ Don't make me go back there'. \ They'll kill me fer sure:\ \ REGIYA \ Who? Where?\ \ CHOP\ Him chtpurse. Honkytonk urchin.\ \ BILL\ well, son, I don't want no trouble...\ \ RSGIUli\ It's our duty, Tiill. He has no place else.\ \ BILL\ Well, I [set a feeling he's not fooling. So \ tell you what, we'll make a move tonight at \ least on out of this here village, and then \ see how things look in the morning. Crow, you\ stay back here. Honey, you might wanna get some \ shut-eye while \'95e're on the road. Yo, Rocky'. \ Let's hit the road.\ \ The sound of the ox's "moo" cries out. \ \ CXT. STAGS 4 TiA7h3GAPS--GlY\ \ m the klimakos of a "reek smrl t_ :.atr e, tbs. juxtaposition of the 'o,nn\ in the background looks as if it is on the froskenion (stage.) Several sta- \ tues of the gods can be seen, as well as a large altar. A play has begun \ composed of fifty maidens wearing costumes of oriental richness - not strict- \ ly Greek. They carry the wands of suppliants and compose the CHORYS who are \ singing and dancing. When they finish, DAUAUS comes forward.\ \ CHORUS\ Bethink thee, what dispraise\ Of Zeus himself mankind will raise,\ If now he turn his face averted from our\ If now, dishonored and alone,\ \page \ 23.\ \ OHORNS(contld)\ The ox-horned maiden's race shall be undone,\ Children of Epaphus, his own begotten son -\ Zeus, listen from on hight - to thee our prayers arise. \ Zeus, hear and save'.\ The searchlng poisonous hate, that Io vexed (P drave, \ Uas of a goddess: well I know\ The bitter ire, the wrathful woe\ Of Hera, queen of heaven -\ A storm, a storm her breath, whereby we yet are drivent\ \ DANAUS\ Children, be wary - wary he with whom\ ye come, your trusty sire and steersman old:\ And that same caution hold I here on land,\ \ CROSS-TAPE TO\ INT. WAGON--DAY\ Superimposition of REGINA sleeping as the play continues. She awakes on the \ word: dust, then starts to get up on: hark.\ \ DANANS (contld)\ And bid you hoard my words, inscribing them \ On memory's tablets. Lo, I see afar\ Nast, voiceless herald of a host, arise;\ And hark, within their grinding sockets ring\ \ TNT. AGON--DAY\ 75 of wagon whzel zooms-out to follow =INA as she steps out of the wagon\ and then crabs around to show her POV facing the full-house attending the spectacle.\ .\ DAPAUS (contId)\ Axles of hurrying wheels: I see a;proach,\ 3orne in curved cars, by speeding horses drawn,\ A speared and shielded band. The chiefs, perchance, \ Of this their land are hitherward intent\ To look on us, of whom they yet 'nave heard\ \ now comes up behind RTGI7A\ \ CROm' \ agic?\ \ PAPAL'S\ Ty messenger alone. Nut come who may,\ \ 2.2GINA\ Hman? Oh. It looks like a Greek revival \ meetin' - a play I should say.\ \ C2 -CATAN5\ \ TANA25\ And come he peaceful or in ravening wrath \ Spurred on his path, Itwere best, in any case, \ Damsels, to cling unto this altar-mound\ Made sacred to their gods of festival, -\ \page \ 24.\ \ \ IANAUS (cont' d)\ A shrine is stonger (cough) than a (cough) \ (cough)than a tower to save,\ A shield -\ \ He starts coughing uncontrollably. Someone rushes him a cup of water, but \ that doesn't help.\ \ T/OSHOT--REGINA & CRY\ \ \ Quick Crow, run him up some of a \ cough syrup.\ \ LS--CROW running to ampitheatre\ \ 70L3 IMAGE TO\ \ EXT. OUTSID7 ATITHEATRE--DAY\ \ Camera follows the audience who are now leaving the theatre. Some are get- \ ting into a long line leading to bristling business being done at the camp \ of BILL & company.\ \ EXT. COUNTRY ROAD--DAY\ \ SILL & CROW are at the driver's seat travelling down a road, MS.\ \ BILL\ I don't know what was in it. \ Did you try any?\ \ CROW\ No, but if we see cherry tree, can get \ inside bark, one teaspoon and hot water.\ \ BILL\ Yeah, I heard about cherrytrees, but I got \ a better one. You get a handful of mullein \ leaves, maybe a little boneset herb, simmer \ each cup with brown sugar and boil it till \ ya get coughdrops. Ye know what I'm sayin'?\ \ CROW\ Yeah, I'll buy that.\ \ INT. WAGON - -DAY\ \ REGINA is sleeping as =TER comes upon the jug of dandelion wine, sniffs \ it, and proceeds to enjoy himself.\ \ BILL\ So Crow, you haven't seen my watch then? \ We'll have to be looking for signs anyway.\ \page \ 20.\ \ XT. CAMPSITC--DAY\ \ SILL is undoing the ox as CROW is gathering wood. DEXTER stumbles out and \ belches as he watches CROW whose eye glimmers as he winks at DEXTER. The \ camera pulls back to reveal the twigs he is gathering are laid out in an \ ornate desi 01. DEXTER starts to wobble as he sees CROW in double-vision. \ CROW seems to be moving rhythmically as if in dance. His two imaees dance \ into spirals as DEXTER seems drawn to CROW. CROW "spacewalks" backwards into \ one image and starts a hip-hop dance as we hear American Indian music with\ a funky mix. He does a dance routine that interacts with camera effects. \ His "electric boogies is passed into DEXTER whose solemn expression becomes \ joyous. DEXTER finally bursts into a colorful regurgitation.\ \ On the other side of the wagon, BILL is helping REGINA down and then gently \ kisses her.\ \ BILL\ Saw a few logs?\ \ REGINA \ Mmmm...Whatis that noise?\ \ The camera follows WICTINA as she walks around to see DEXTER vomitting. CROW \ is in the background building a fire. DEXTER staightens up.\ \ DEXTER\ I guess I was sick.\ \ \ What's the matter, dear? Do you \ have a fever? What have you been \ eating? C'mon child, verbalize: \ Whaddya think, Bill?\ \ BILL\ Here, take two of these and see \ me in the morning.\ \ As comforts DEXTER, BILL spots something on the ground.\ \ TILL\ Well lookee there. 3iy vatcn.\ \ '7XT. c.c.IPsInEH-rin-um \ \ Me--teeI7A\ \ eedItTA\ Here Dexter, have some more of this \ goldenseal tea.\ \ MC7--DdreR\ \ DeXTIR\ 70, really, I'm feeling ch better nob..\ \page \ 26.\ \ RiGINA, DEXTER, CROW, & ROCKY the OX\ \ REGINA\ You know the best cure for sickness \ is to prevent it from happening in \ the first place...\ \ CROW \ Ugh.\ \ REGINA\ sure a young whippersnapper \ like you gets plenty of exorcise - \ how about your diet, did you usually \ eat well/\ \ DVXDid.\ eb: veah. lid get whatever I wanted. \ You know: sassafras sticks, licorice,\ pies. You know, no junhy old liaa beans \ or potatoes. Good stuff!\ \ ILI\ Dexter, someday you'll make a fine \ customer for the likes of me.\ \ 77G/TA\ Oh my dear God, have mercy. Hasn't \ anyone told you of the forbidden fruit/ \ ,.-37 boy, I would bet you that that apple was candied.\ was candied.\ \ CROW takes a jug from BILL\ \ CROW \ Ugh.\ \ REGINA\ We're no longer in the Garden, you \ know. Life is frought with snakes-in- \ the-grass.\ \ BILL\ ...that can prove tasty, at that'.\ \ REGINA\ Old-fashioned meat and potatoes, hard \ work, and a godly spirit have guided my\ parents and those before them into old age.\ .\ DEXTER\ Ah - who wants to grow old.\ \ CROW gives the jug to BILL\ \page \ 27.\ \ CROW \ Ugh.\ \ BILI\ You're right. Who wants to grow\ old? Not me. I cling to those days \ of innocence. I even wonder what it \ might have been like to have lived\ thousands of years ago in that perfect \ society of Atlantis. Ah, yes.\ \ CRT'\ A perfect society.\ \ 31LI\ Yeah, you know...didn't things seem so \ easy once? Now we're always hoping that \ it gets better.\ \ REGINA\ Here, Dexter, have some more of this. \ How do you feel?\ \ DEXTER\ Thank you, ma'am. Pine.\ \ ILL takes a swig from the jug.\ \ BILL\ I mean, I should be thankful for what \ I've got.\ \ REGINA\ Now you're talking sense.\ \ BILL\ But I'm one of a breed that won't \ settle for the prosy.\ \ CROW\ The what?\ \ BILL\ The prosy, tne pure\ the simple and demure\ The nine-to-five and two-bit jive \ that makes the hive a dive.\ \ REGINA \ Are you sure?\ \ BILL\ Aren't you cured?\ \ CROW \ Ugh.\ \page \ 28.\ \ \ Camera follows BILL as he stands up dramatically.\ \ BILL\ To plug into eternity\ with every breath I take\ To reap each year's annuity \ as so much soul I oake.\ \ Music comes in as BILL begins to sing.\ \ BILL\ As I scoot with the loot\ from the songs that I toot \ I can truly feel it's mine\ seem' faces feeiinl tine. \ I can sell it as I croon\ and to boot, I have the moon.\ And every time I feel the bug \ I simply fill tne spoon.\ \ REGINA joins his performance.\ \ P2GINA\ Your nabit's not as rude\ as those we have screwed\ - sometimes even justified,\ as your role in giving time.\ \ CU--DTXTHS: wi\ ITSXTSR\ This dude must think we're from the con\ I mean the folly of buffoons\ is like dirt swept under the rug\ which eventually turns to ruin.\ \ CROW \ Ugh.\ \ BILL belches.\ \ INT. WAGON\'97SIGHT\ \ C-O; is attending to SEXTSR who is coughing while SILL comforts 7NSSI7A.\ \ BILL\ He'll be alright, ;row's giving him\ a little angelroot. So you just relax. \ Here.\ \ BILL tucks her in.\ \ HILL \ Sweet dreams.\ \page \ 29.\ \ mIII, kisses 7.79im3 as she looks at DTXMaR with some concern and then snuggles \ off to sleep.\ \ TISSOltr. TO:\ \ \ \ The imx;e 3issolves into a radiant temtmrs of snakeskin es a montage of 1 i \ cimal plants :.re surveyed. :vent:ally snakes arc seen slithering throu\'b1, the \ brush until all there are arc snakes. mgd. CARmz]Y. is new seen among them. Hz \ is scantily clad and has the body of a virile young man. He is revelling in \ his contact with the snakes. gestures with the larger ones and eventually\ pulls an enormous specimen onto a bed in what is now the hotel room. Two buxom \ nurses dress the doctor as he continues to act outlandishly. He then takes a \ scanel and cuts open the snake. He starts to fill the snake with the stuff he \ once described, except this time he includes hot dogs and a coumle poodles. \ The snake is zippered up and CATT6,6 gestures as the nurses both massage tle \ snake in a stimulating fashion. The snare eventually rises up to about 60\ and starts spurting out oil. They all start catching it in teacups as CARTg2 \ pontificates on the elixir of life being everything we desire and that it is \ the direct result of what our investments are mace in.\ \ Tim 027.10.! 33a;^ !C:\ \ DISSCLMS Mrla\ \ tX7. C.Y.P.7176--nOTTIMG\ \ All the :Lon aro um: and are chasinc; something in the brush. TTO:: :otions \ end coaee to hor.\ \ OTS--::\'b0^T7A PC7\ \ m.X7\'97at\ at it Till'.\ \ 060m \ texts good now.\ \ S_ 71LL no10.1nx a\ \ \ -hers: Look at he siza of this \ teart\ \ \ \ \ dr=aimed about snakes.\ \ \ tat is your dream7\ \ era follows anITZ, as the background becomes warned-out and sne sings.\ \page \ 30.\ \ =TINA\ ThIckLird singing in the dead of night -\ Take these broken wings and learn to fly - \ All your life -\ you were only waiting, for this moment to arise.\ \ The following verse cross-dissolves with the following scene.\ \ RT GINA\ Tlaakbird singing in the dead of night -\ Take these sunken eyes and learn to see - \ All your life -\ you were only waiting for this moment to be free.\ \ T. NG3NCAITSITT--ffONING\ \ A crowd is in attendance for The Medicine Show of Bawdy 3111 Co.\ \ \ \ TILL\ ...passed down through the ages oy the\ wisdom of his forefatasrs, oy Indian friend \ here has passed along the secrets of the Noble \ Savage. Nobility of the impeccable union of \ Man and Nature. The understanding and balance\ of nature can be put in your hands - put to your \ own personal use fot the good of you and those \ you love.\ \ 7S--CSOW\ \ GROW\ And all that for a discount of two, ninety-five.\ \ EXT. YTS CANSPSITE--DAY\ \ The crowd in attendance here is noisy and confrontational. \ \ NS--BILL moves about dramatically\ \ BILL\ ..you call this Noble Savage a heathen? Is \ that what you call a man so close to Nature? \ But what is Nature, my friend? And what is God.\ Why, you say God is everything, he is everywhere. \ So then I ask you what is Nature? why, Nature is \ everything, and everywhere'. So who soul: be closer \ to God than a man so close to 3ature? Do not be so \ tainted by your prejudices, my good don, but out \ your faith into this tincture untainted by the a- \ dulterations of the unnatural.\ \ \ \ \ And all that for just one-ninety ove.\ \page \ 31.\ \ rA.007--WAY\ \ 7ne show is on the roa \ \ \ 777:3717.--7ILL \'84HO.'\ \ -JILL\ Yeah, I've been thinkini. You know \ that secret :in Saac Garter was taikin' \ about?\ \ \ \ His young fat dog?\ \ SILL\ 70, I neon his penk e of ,je Lust.\ It seems to me t:kLt I recall neetdng a\ ian fellow wio formula that came \ from high in the iiralayas. 'sing joweis \ and metal:, they mix up. whut tkny call\ ?precious mesicine.7 bow, dorit know \ how nacM the patientsbet involved in the\ rituals or procedes ir parirk these\ concoctions, but just looking at a theetrois \ house, costumes, stage, and actors is suf- \ ficient for mahy to give the play four stars.\ \ CRO'l \ Huh?\ \ an a- to refinotrors in a pond or stream, ith following r.7\ \ \ lHOSE-OI3SCI77 OS:\ \ PAILSAD7S 0177H CITY--rISHO\ \ Camera pans after estallishing the twilight twinkling of a city's lints in the \ far distance to where KILL is holding idGI7A.\ \ \ BILL\ Sparkling in the glory of so many bright \ ideas, it's sometimes hard to see the real \ constitution of what we've instigated. But \ there she is. Yes, and soon now I'll be as \ competitive as that other staid old insti- \ tution where we met Dr. Pafinesque at.\ \ \ h K7 :A\ \ R7GI7A\ What does that mean7 ou're not thinking of \ giving up the road are you?\ \ \ BILL\ ro, my sweet. It means that we take our own \ show on the road and n it with stylel\ more hiking- prices. Yo more quick-change \ artistry. :a, my dear, now we rake magic!\ \page \ 32.\ \ \ Husic starts as they begin to sing.\ \ KiIDA\ Khat's tee matter, Kill\ hrm the magic gone? \ fan't you feel it still\ are the hours long?\ I can still- Let thrilled-\ every time you deal- but\ That's the matter, bill\ is the feeling ?Tong?\ \ DILL\ He,:ina, my queen\ don't put it down until you see \ The biafest break in your life \ cominl at cha, doing time\ I'm talkin' 'bout the men\ who're gonna feed us off Our Land \ Talkin' 'bout the land o' plenty \ an' Lone to make a pretty penny.\ \ HiGIHA cuts ir. as they stop singing and turn to walk back to\ \ HEOIKA\ Hey, enougr of this haf-humnint pou \ mean tl say that someone's actually \ offered to pay you to do \'95riat you're \ already supporting yourself?\ \ DILL\ You Lot it, babe. I simply promote \ their line of products and they add \ our expenses to their payroll as we \ sell their merchandise. Ke'll even \ have our own agent.\ \ O.73/7A\ ell, my my, what a l you think of next?\ \ Tl ILL\ f".ail-order bribes?\ \ \ \ \ CU--DILL adt\ \ DILL\ ...or the Order of Knights...\ \ camera pans from his case into the starry twilight and then sans down to \ DILL dressed as a king ready for battle. As his army assembles around hint, \ an aide addresres him.\ \page \ E .6 and arm:, s assetbled around him ready for battle.\ \ AIDE\ Sire, we are ready for battle.\ \ ES--(KI 7G) BILL\ \ KIBC TILL\ Tine. ::v stead: Ah, wait. Bete: me a\ \ 7-03120T--KIHT R AITT]\ \ \ -nat would you like, my lord.\ \ zirG\ "I demand the water which is closest to my \ heart, and which likes me above all things.\'b0\ \ CU--JUG\ \ Camera closely follows the water being handed to him as he gulps it down. \ As the camera slowly zooms-out, his discolored and veined arms and legs are \ noticeable. The soldiers are urging him to mount his horse.\ \ \ KIIIG\ \'b0I can not. I am heavy and my head hurts me, \ and it seems to me as though all my limbs are \ falling apart.\'b0 Oh, damn it all: Listen, I'm \ going to have to sweat this one out. Heat yon \ chamber in which I will abide some time.\ \ CROSS-BADE TO: \ \ Soldiers open the chamber door to find the KING laying prostrate.\ \ OTS--SOLDIBR'S ?Olt\ \ SOLDIERS\ He's dead: The king is dead'.\ \ WIPE TO:\ \ Two physicians and their attendants are summoned - one is Egyptian, the other \ is Alexandrian - and are accusing each other of being incompetant.\ \ WS--SOLDIRRS, DOCTORS, & =CU-2ACR\ \ ALEXANDRIAN DOCTOR\ Okay, okay. If you're so brilliant, I leave \ it to you.\ \ TheEGYPTIAE DOCTOR and his attendants pratically dive at the body of tne \ KIBB and proceed to tear it apart. A montage follows showing the body being \ grounded up into a powder and then mixed with moistening medicines. Tney\ tnen take this conurniind and form the body of the KING as he was found.\ \page \ 34.\ \ CROSS-7AD TO: \ \ Soldiers oven the chamber door to find the KING laying prostrate.\ \ OTS--SOLDIPR'S POV\ \ SOLDIERS\ One king is dead,\ \ ':IS--from inside the chamber\ \ EGYPTIANDOCTOR\ No, no. Fret not. He is only sleeping.\ \ As the crowd fills the space, the DOCTOR supervises their washing of the \ medicines that are sweating out of the KING.\ \ CROSS-FADE TO:\ \ The soldiers open the chamber door once again to find the KING laying prostrate. \ \ OTS--SOLDIKR'S POV\ SOLDIERS\ Oh, he's dead for sure this time.\ \ The DOCTOR comes forward.\ \ DOCTOR\ "We have killed him that he may become \ better and stoner in this world after \ his resurrection on the day of judgement."\ \ At this point, the king's family attacks the DOCTOR, taking his medicines and \ driving him away.\ \ CROSS-11AD TO:\ \ DS\'97ALP:CA TRIAN DOCTOR\ \ AICKANNRIAN DOCTOR\ No, I would advise you not to bury him.\ \ TWOSHOT--DOCTOR & OIDIEF,N\ \ QUEEN RKGINA\ Why should we even listen to your type? \ So far, your results have been poisonous.\ \ DOCTOR\ Your highness, my only thoughts are of the whole.\ \page \ 35.\ \ \ CROSS--TADV\ \ V.07uAG7\ \ ET. CHAL.'d2,---vIGET\ \ Tne king's body is gonad into a powder once again. The eowder i2\ clean and then left to dry. The d'OCTOU then rdXRS one prrt sal ammoniac and \ two parts nitre with tile pulverired corpse and rakes a paste :Axed with lin- \ seed oil. This is then _laced in a crucible-shaped chamber with holes in the \ bottom with another crucible below it. Tire is heaped upon the cronible where \ the melted liquid runs into the vessel below. The KING then rises out of this \ and cries in a loud voice:\ \ 172 :..,.(TAG. \ \ FS--KING dILL\ \ KING\ n".ihere are my enemies? I shall kill \ them all if they do not submit to met!'\ \ S POV\ \ A multitude of royalty and contemporaneous parsons of importance throughout \ history and naricularly of this story are seen bowing before him.\ \ INT. CIICC3dR--KORNING \ \ ThrOSHOT--JUSTKR & Cilid9UPOlAID\ \ JUSTUR\ So this king is really something, huh?\ \ CHAMD7RilAID\ Oh yes, use your blood, tear out your \ fingernails, or...\ \ She goes to a shelf and we can see that she takes a bottle of purified mer- \ cury which she pours an ounce into a crucible upon which she tosses a pinch \ of her own hair whereupon she sparks up a fire at the charcoals whose mer- \ curial brilliance dissolves to a cornerstone in the middle of the town that \ HILL is now restinp his foot as REGINA sits down with construction doing on \ in the background.\ \ \'95: X2. CONSTHUCTIOK SITh--DAY \ \ 73--PILL & PoGIITA\ \ 3ILl\ You know, ya look at that yard tight now \ and can't tell whether this building will\ be some fancy honky-tonk or even a hospital. \ It just goes t'show, that even though a \ judge will sentence a handful of characters \ all day long, each with a different story, \ the outcome had few variation=.\ \page \ 36.\ \ \ ILL(contid)\ Kinoa' like a doctor, ylknow?\ \ I7T. 20A1177.0Oa--DAY\ \ The members of the board are in attendance as DILL is SY.)eF be7ore them, T.7.\ \ BILL\ mean, isn't it your conception -or ,.All\ I say pre-concedtione 7lsit you 'n.sn m: to by or1I \ 1ne what you're selling:, riAte So, if the :eolde \ hear what tn7y're looking. for nyyryene's taste \ will le T you ean itane no. by\ my face and aad - yust like the f but os a, epil'ann.\ \ 7- - -CA7\ \ \ \ 'ILL\ 'an of reHnoem, fi.\ T'svery character.\ \ \ \ \ \ -ILL\ but if I :oald 010 ait one noun\ that coula refer to t Itecohye, and\ tnyreby leave any critique fully diges- \ ted, I would only ask that it be followed \ by the rignt verb ant object.\ \ Samcra pans to the 7' -am of the joss who ceremoniously stands up.\ \ CHAIRhAN\ Okay, we'll think about.\ \ CUT TO BLACK\ \ The black image remains as credits begin after thirty seconds. Then a very \ slow zoom-out reveals the eyeball of one of a number of characters waiting \ outside the boardroom.\ \ CHAIPYAN (v.0.) \ Next'.\ \page \ }