INT. RIVERBANK TRAIL - NEAR NIGHTFALL
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(Marius rides down a trail by the riverbank. He looks very weary. His horse looks even more weary than he does.)
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MARI
(Patting his horse on the neck. )
You need to stop girl? Alrighty. We can't stop for too long though. They'll be following us.
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(Mari hops off the horse. Cut to him sitting in a makeshift camp eating a biscuit. He has his rifle out and sitting on his lap. A branch snaps in the woods and he jumps up and aims his rifle. He looks back and forth for a few moments before he sits back down.)
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MARI
(Speaking quietly to the horse (but more to himself))
It ain't nothing, girl. It ain't nothing. Be calm. Just be calm.
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(There's another snap and Mari stands up again. He is very jumpy. There is another snap. And another one. It becomes clear that something is crashing through the woods and headed right for him. He aims his gun at the oncoming sound. A girl, filthy and bloody comes crashing out of the brush. He jumps back at the sight of her and she freezes in her tracks.)
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MARI
(With voice shaking.)
You stop right there!
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EDITH
Shhh! Quiet mister!
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MARI
Don't you shoosh me, girl!
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EDITH
You gotta be quiet or he'll hear us!
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MARI
Who'll hear us?
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(A voice cries out in the distance.)
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STUMPY
(Still far away)
Edith! Where are you girl? You best get back to me before I give you a beatin you ain't never gonna forget!
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EDITH
(In great distress. She is almost to the point of having a panic attack.)
Oh! He heard us! He's gonna pound me proper this time!
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MARI
Is that your daddy?
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EDITH
It ain't my daddy. My daddy wouldn't never lay hands on me the way he does. He killed my daddy over a game of horseshoes and took me for his own.
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MARI
Then who is it?
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EDITH
It's my husband, Stumpy.
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(Mari looks taken aback. The girl couldn't be more than nine or ten years old.)
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MARI
You ain't old enough to be married!
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EDITH
Tell that to the bastard chasing me. I been married to him for two years now!
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MARI
But that ain't legal? Have you gone to the law?
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EDITH
The law don't give a coon's ass about what lowborn hill folk do. A judge rode up while Stumpy was putting himself in me. They both laughed about it. The judge stayed the night in our barn, but before he went to bed he and Stumpy took turns on me. Then the next day Stumpy hit me in the head so hard that my bell was rung for three days. Said it were for laying with another man.
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(The crashing and yelling through the woods gets closer. )
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MARI
So you running away?
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EDITH
I'm ta try finding my aunt in the west. Last I heard she was in EverGreen. Are you headed that way, mister? Will you help me?
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(Mari contemplates the situation. It's obvious he is torn. )
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EDITH
I won't be no trouble! I promise! Please mister! He gonna kill me this time!
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(The voice is almost to them.)
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STUMPY
I hear ya, girl! Who you talking to?
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MARI
Get behind me.
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(Edith quickly cowers behind Mari. A dirty little hillbilly man with a shotgun and a lantern comes crashing out of the brush. Mari has his rifle leveled at him.)
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MARI
She's talking to me.
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STUMPY
Who the fuck are you?
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MARI
Stay back. You put that shotgun down. Now.
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(Stumpy considers aiming the shotgun, but he knows he would die quickly. So he begrudgingly sits it down with open arms.)
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STUMPY
That's my goddamn wife.
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MARI
She's a child. She ain't old enough to be anybody's wife.
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STUMPY
She's plenty old. And that ain't your damn business. Now, girl, you get over here or I'm gonna come over there and fetch you.
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EDITH
I ain't going nowhere with you, Stumpy! I'm done with your beatings!
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STUMPY
Damn you girl! You get over here now or I'll be sticking myself in your butthole tonight! You won't be able to sit proper for a month!
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(Stumpy lunges forward. Mari's training kicks in. He pushes his rifle forward and hits Stumpy right between the eyes with the barrel. Stumpy cries out in pain and staggers back. When he looks back at Mari there is blood running from the cut. )
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MARI
I told you to stay back!
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STUMPY
You son of a bitch!
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(Stumpy moves for the shotgun. Right as he is about to grab it Mari shoots him in the shoulder.)
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STUMPY
You cocksucker! Oh you son of a cunt!
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MARI
The next one's going into your chest.
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STUMPY
The fuck do you want? I have twelve dollars! You want it? I'll give it to ya? Just give me that damn girl back!
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EDITH
I ain't never laying with you again, Stumpy!
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(Edith picks up a rock and pegs Stumpy right in the eye with it.)
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STUMPY
Oh you're dead, bitch! Imma cut you from head to hole!
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MARI
You walk back the way you came, mister.
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STUMPY
Imma find the Judge and be back! The whore is real familiar with him! You'll hang!
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(Edith throws another rock and strikes Stumpy in the forehead. Stumpy is now bleeding from three different wounds.)
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STUMPY
You mother whore!
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MARI
Walk away, mister.
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STUMPY
Fine! But this ain't over. I'm taking my boom stick and going home.
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MARI
You ain't touching that gun. Now walk.
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STUMPY
Dirty cocksucker. I'll split your throat for this.
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(Stumpy walks into the woods. Muttering curses and threats the entire way. Mari walks over and takes the shotgun. He hands it to Edith.)
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MARI
You know how to use this?
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EDITH
Turn it towards someone and pull the trigger.
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MARI
Close enough. Anyone comes here tonight you turn it to them and pull the trigger.
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EDITH
He ain't coming back tonight. He ain't got the gumption for it. His brothers is four days away towards Oxpoint. He ain't nearly as mean as they are.
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MARI
Stumpy ain't the only one I got to worry about.
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(They both sit down by the fire. )
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EDITH
Will you help me get to my kin in Evergreen?
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MARI
(Thinks for a moment.)
I have to get West myself, but I can't have you holding me up. I gotta get there fast.
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EDITH
I won't hold you up none. I know a place where we can get horse for me tomorrow. We will be on the way before mid morning.
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(Mari nods. It's clear he is worried about the situation.)
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MARI
It'll probably get me killed, but I'll get you to Evergreen. Now get some rest. We have a long haul to the crossing tomorrow.
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