Gone Girl Page #3

was the clue last year she got so

mad about?

NICK:

(reciting)

~‘When your poor Amy has a cold;

this dessert just must be sold.”

GO:

The answer?

NICK:

I don’t know, Gol

NICK spins, moves his man, lands on Get Married.

GO:

Few years ago—you’d have known.

GO places a pink peg-wife in his car. He glares at it.

NICK:

Few years ago it was fun. Year One, *

the traditional gift is paper—so at

the end, she gave me a bound

notebook.

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NICK (CONT’D) *

So I could write my novel. *

GO:

What’d you give her?

NICK:

A kite. She’d never flown a kite. *

Go spins; skips over the Get Married space.

NICK (CONT’D)

Year Four:
flowers. She led me to *

the dying rosebush in our backyard.

GO:

The one you never watered. . . so *

symbolic. What’s the gift for five?

NICK:

Wood.

GO:

What’d you get her?

NICK:

There’s no good gift for wood.

GO:

Go home, f*** her brains out, then *

smack her with your penis: Some

wood for you, b*tch!

They laugh. Interrupted by the phone. Go answers.

GO (CONT’D)

The Bar.. .Yep, hold on.

(hand over mouthpiece)

It’s Watchful Wally!

NICK:

Bet my gutters need snaking.

(picking up phone)

Hey, Walter. What’s up?.. .Ohl that

is weird. OK, thanks.

(to Go)

Bleecker’ s outside.

GO:

You are way too into that cat.

NICK:

He’s my special furry pal.

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He heads to the door, points at the LIFE board.

NICK (CONT’D)

Tell me how it ends.

12 EXT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 12

NICK pulls up, salutes WALTER, who’s on his front porch

behind a WALKER. WALTER gives a curt nod. BLEECKER is sitting

on the Dunne stairs. Nick scoops him up, heads to the FRONT

DOOR, which is GAPING WIDE OPEN. Nick stops in his tracks.

13 INT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 13

NICK doesn’t close the door. He sets the cat down.

NICK:

Amy?

We follow Nick as he heads up the stairs.

14 INT. BEDROOM - DAY 14

Neat. Empty. An iron sits on an ironing board, pretty DRESS

next to it. No Amy.

15 INT. HALLWAY - UPSTAIRS ROOMS - DAY 15

Nick proceeds—quickly—down the hallway, peering into doors:

An OFFICE (his, a disaster); an elaborately pillowed GUEST

ROOM, and one room that contains only a LITTER BOX. Nick goes

back downstairs, into:

16 INT. DINING ROOM - DAY 16

Two placemats on the shiny table.

17 INT. OFFICE - DAY 17

Amy’s office. Neat as a pin. Empty.

18 INT. KITCHEN - DAY 18

Nick runs back through the DINING ROOM, into the: *

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19 INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY 19

Nick stops short. The carpet is covered with GLASS SHARDS

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