Thelma and Louise Page #2

REVEAL Louise. Her room is as orderly as the suitcase.

Everything matches. It's not quite as frilly as Thelma's,

but it is of the same ilk. She is debating whether to take

an extra pair of socks. She decides not to and closes the

suitcase. She goes to the phone, picks it up and dials. We

hear:

ANSWERING MACHINE (V.O.)

Hi. This is Jimmy. I'm not here

right now, but I'll probably be back

'cause... all my stuff's here. Leave

a message.

Louise slams down the phone. A framed picture of Louise and

Jimmy sits on the table next to the phone. She matter-of-

factly slams that face down, too.

INT. THELMA'S BEDROOM - DAY

Thelma is still throwing stuff in, randomly now. She talks

to herself quietly the whole time.

She is taking stuff off of her nightstand, a small clock,

fingernail scissors, etc.

She opens the drawer of her nightstand. Her attitude is

purposeful; she looks as if she knows exactly what she's

doing; although, frankly, she has no idea, and each decision

is completely arbitrary. As she rifles through it, plucking

various items from among the jumbled contents, we see there

is a gun in there, one Darryl bought her for protection. It

is unloaded, but there is a box of bullets. She picks up

the gun like it's a rat by the tail and puts it in her purse.

THELMA:

(muttering to herself)

Psycho killers...

She grabs the box of bullets and throws them in, too. She

tries to close her suitcase, but there is stuff hanging out

all over the place. She stuffs things back in the sides and

heaves all her weight against the top.

EXT. THELMA'S HOUSE - DAY

Louise's green '66 T-Bird convertible pulls into the driveway

of Thelma's house. The garage door goes up and Thelma is

standing in the garage with all her gear. A suitcase that

looks like it might explode, fishing gear, a cooler, a

lantern. Thelma's car, a beat-up gray Honda, is parked in

there, too. Louise gets out of the driver's seat.

LOUISE:

We don't need the lantern. The place

has electricity.

THELMA:

I wanna take it anyway. Just in

case.

LOUISE:

In case of what?

THELMA:

In case there's some escaped psycho

killer on the loose, who cuts the

electricity off and tries to come in

and kill us.

LOUISE:

(going along with her)

Oh yeah, sure, Thelma, that lantern

will come in real handy. Maybe we

could tow your car behind, in case

he steals the spark plugs.

THELMA:

We'd have to. That thing barely

makes it down the driveway.

They load everything into the car. The trunk barely closes.

Thelma heaves all her weight against it. They get into the

car and pull out of the driveway. As they drive down the

street, we hear Thelma let out a long howl.

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