The Horse Whisperer Page #7

JUDITH:

What was --

The horse staggers... Judith looks to Grace --

JUDITH:

Grace!

The horse tries to find tracing with his hindfeet, kicking

up sprays of snow and ice shards. The horse suddenly falls

on the ice and goes down hard on its knees...

GRACE:

JUDITH!

The horse stumbles to get back on its feet, slipping again.

Frightened, it rears and Judith, caught off balance, is

thrown, her foot catching in the stirrup...

JUDITH:

GRAAACE!

Her horse, unable to find its balance, starts to slide

backward down the incline.

GRACE:

PILGRIM, COME ON! MOVE!

Grace, directly behind Judith, tries to turn Pilgrim to avoid

being hit by the errant horse.

What follows, we see from Grace's perspective. The details

that form the images and sounds of Grace's mind are fast,

disembodied, almost surreal as --

Judith's horse bulldozes into Pilgrim, taking his legs out

from under him, sending both horses careening down the icy

slope. Grace hangs onto Pilgrim's neck. Judith, her leg

helplessly tangled in the stirrup, is dragged, her head

bouncing on the frozen ground.

They slide all the way back down to the COUNTRY ROAD. Pilgrim

is the first to find his legs and stand. Grace manages to

sit up in the saddle. She sees Judith's horse stumbling back

onto its feet, one of his legs broken at the ankles, walking

in confused circles, dragging Judith -- her face bleeding,

her leg hanging from the stirrup.

GRACE:

(frightened)

Jude, you okay?

JUDITH:

(softly, crying)

I'm okay... I'm okay.

She tries to extricate her leg from the stirrup.

Grace sees it before she hears it. A GLINT off of steel. We

then hear the rumbling SOUND of a TRUCK coming around the

bend... The Girls on their horses in the middle of the road...

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