The Horse Whisperer Page #6

DAVID GOTTSCHALK (V.O.)

Did you speak to Farlow?

ANNIE:

Yes. We're suing.

DAVID GOTTSCHALK (V.O.)

Is that absolutely necessary? It'll

just make it a bigger story.

ANNIE:

David, he signed an agreement that

he wouldn't talk to the press and

he's libeled me by saying I faked

the figures. You're not going soft

on me, are you?

Silence. Gottschalk doesn't immediately respond. Everyone

waits. Covert looks between characters suggest this is

interesting -- has Annie over-stepped her bounds with the

magazine's owner? Annie waits without a shred of anxiety --

even though she might have some. Finally:

DAVID GOTTSCHALK (V.O.)

Well, I suppose we could use another

good public feud...

ANNIE:

Exactly...

Everyone silently acknowledges Annie guts and influence.

EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - MORNING

It's perfectly still. We are looking down an empty TWO-LANE

ROAD covered with fresh snow. We see the girls slowly riding

out of the woods, talking. They cross the road and start up

into the woods on the other side... They are trying to sing

a LIZ PHAIR song, "CHOPSTICKS"

GRACE/JUDITH

(singing)

"I met him at a party and he told me

how he like to drive me home... He

said he liked to do it backwards..."

GRACE:

(singing)

"...I said it --"

JUDITH:

(singing)

"...and I said that"...

GRACE:

(stops singing)

No, wait, it just goes... "he said

he liked to do --"...

Suddenly there's the SOUND OF THE METAL OF JUDITH'S HORSE

scraping on some sheer ice hidden under the soft snow. Judith

notices first...

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