Unforgiven Page #2

INT. DELILAH'S ROOM - NIGHT

DELILAH ON HER BED, her face covered with blood-soaked rags

except for her eyes. Alice has hot water and is ministering

to her and Little Bill is looking down at her from his

enormous height, still in his bearskin. He looks disgusted.

LITTLE BILL:

She ain't gonna die, huh?

You can now see fear in Delilah's eyes, and the other

whores... CROW CREEK KATE with crazy pop-eyes and frizzy

hair, and LITTLE SUE who is fifteen and meek even when she

isn't terrified, and FAITH who is the oldest of them and not

very attractive and SILKY who is blonde and the prettiest...

are watching from vantage points in the doorway or in the

room.

ALICE:

(determined)

She's gonna live.

(Little Bill turns to

go)

She didn't steal nothin', She didn't

touch his poke.

LITTLE BILL:

(stopping and turning)

No?

ALICE:

All she done was... when she seen he

had a teensy little pecker... she

gave a giggle. That's all. She didn't

know no better.

Little Bill turns away, disgusted, and starts out of the

room and Alice gets up and follows him.

ALICE:

You gonna hang 'em, Little Bill?

INT. BAR ROOM - NIGHT

Davey sitting naked on the floor of the bar room and Mike is

sitting near him, still in his leggings and both men are

shivering because they are fifteen feet from the potbellied

stove where Clyde is standing watching them.

It is a big room, with a crude bar and four tables and some

moose and elk heads on the wall. The door near the rear where

it says "Billiard Room" leads not to a Billiard Room but to

the six little "rooms" that are the whorehouse and and now

you can hear Delilah groaning from there.

And Little Bill enters from the back of the bar room, stooping

to pass through the doorway under the sign that says "Billiard

Room."

Little Bill is huge and ominous. Some say he acquired the

bearskin by staring the bear to death and others say he

drowned the animal in spit. Anyhow, he's big with a drooping

moustache and he is sucking on his church warden's clay pipe

and you know he isn't scared of anything.

And the two cowboys are scared to death, not just shivering

from the cold, and Bill just looks down at them and sucks on

his pipe and Alice comes in from the back way too and then

Skinny and a couple of the whores gather in the doorway.

LITTLE BILL:

Clyde, step across to the German's

an' fetch up one of his bullwhips.

Stark terror on the faces of Davey and Mike as Clyde exits.

ALICE:

A whippin'? That's all they get?

After what they done?

LITTLE BILL:

(sucking on his pipe)

Whippin' ain't a little thing, Alice.

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