Gone Girl Page #2

NICK:

Corn-fed, salt-of the earth *

Missouri guy.

AMY:

Missouri?! How cute.

NICK:

Ah:
native New Yorker!

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AMY:

World ends at the Hudson. I’m l~my.

NICK:

So tell me, Amy. Who are you?

AMY:

A. I am an award—winning

scrimshander. B. I am a moderately

influential warlord. C. I write

personality quizzes for magazines.

NICK:

(taking her hand)

A. Your fingers are far too *

delicate for real scrimshaw work.

B. I am a charter subscriber to *

Middling Warlord Weekly—I’m sure

I’d recognize you. So: C. *

AMY:

And you? Who are you?

NICK:

I’m the guy to save you from all *

this awesomeness.

8 INT. APARTMENT ELEVATOR - NIGHT 8

They head down:
tipsy, not touching, but thinking about it.

AMY:

So if you write for a men’s

magazine, does that make you an

expert on being a man?

NICK:

In theory, I know what men drink,

what men wear-

AMY:

How men bullshit.

NICK:

Not with you.

Amy laughs:
ha, ha.

NICK (CONT’D)

I’m serious.

She stops, studies him.

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AMY:

It’s hard to believe you. I think

it’s your chin.

NICK:

My chin?

AMY:

It’s quite villainous.

She places a finger over his chin. Tests the view. *

NICK:

No bulishit. 100% truth.

9 EXT. BROOKLYN - NIGHT 9

They are huddling together, walking to hail a cab.

NICK:

I love New York parties because I *

get to leave and walk out into New *

York. The Great What Next? *

They turn the corner and step into a cloud of powdered sugar

as it’s funneled into a bakery. A SUGAR SNOWSTORM. Nick

grins:
Like this!

NICK (CONT’D)

You know I have to kiss you now.

AMY:

Is that right?

NICK:

I would be a fool to let you walk

through a sugar storm unkissed. *

The sugar floats all around them. A fairytale. They lean in.

NICK (CONT’D)

Hold on.

Nick brushes her lips clean. They kiss.

10 INT. NICK’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 10

A SHABBY, CRAMPED garden studio apartment. BARS on the

windows. NICK and AMY are in bed: blissful. Outside, a car’s *

headlights flash: Their sugary prints light up the headboard. *

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AMY:

Nick Dunne. I really like you.

11 INT. THE BAR - DAY 11

The Master Mind sits untouched as GO sets up LIFE.

GO:

So is Amy going to do one of her

anniversary—whaddaya call it?—

treasure hunts?

NICK:

You mean the forced march designed

to point out what an uncaring,

oblivious a**hole I am.

GO:

Wow.

Silence. Nick stares at the LIFE board.

NICK:

LIFE. I don’t remember the point.

GO:

Deep Hasbro thoughts. Spin. What

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