What are we going to do....?
MORSE THROWS HIM OFF
G R E E N
What are we going to do?
M O R S E
What do I have a plan? Am I supposed
to have a plan...?
Morse moves to a piece of the encircling fire,
which has burnt down. he starts to build it up. He
takes the note “Gone Bear Hunting, Jack Hawk”
from his pocket.
GREEN (PEERING
OUT PAST THE FLAMES)
What are we going to do
C h a r l e s . . . ?
A N G L E
MORSE PAUSES. HE TURNS OVER JACK HAWK’S
NOTE, AND WE SEE THE 19TH CENTURY
ADVERTISEMENT “STRIKE FAST” MATCHES,
THE CAMPER’S FRIEND. AND THE DRAWING OF
THE INDIAN SPEARING THE BEAR.
A N G L E
MORSE AND GREEN, MORSE LIGHTS THE FIRE
G R E E N
... What are we going to do?
M O R S E
We’re going to kill the bear.
GREEN
What do we use for bait?
MORSE (ABSENTLY)
...we ‘lure’ him - you know,
Masai boys, in Africa. Eleven
years old. They kill lion with
s p e a r s .
G R E E N
Uh huh. (Pause)… how do we lure him?
MORSE WITHDRAWS THE SPEARPOINT FROM
THE FIRE, LOOKS AT IT, HE NODS AND
REPLACES THE SPEARPOINT, REVOLVING IT
IN THE FIRE.
M O R S E
... and what One can do, another
can do...
(Green doubts their ability to kill the bear. In the
script, Morse shows Green a picture in the book
of how it will be done, but this is excised from
the film.)
G R E E N
You can’t kill the bear, Charles.
He’s...he’s... he’s (shakes his
head) Been ahead of us, the
whole, he’s been playing with us,
he can read our minds, he...
M O R S E
What one can do, another can do.
You weakling. Do you want to die
out here...?
(PAUSE) DO you? (PAUSE) You coward.
(PAUSE) Do you hear me?
(PAUSE) “I’m going to kill the
bear.” Say it...
G R E E N
. . . I . . .
M O R S E
Say it... “I’m going to kill the
bear.” Say it:
G R E E N
I’m going to kill’im.
M O R S E
And tomorrow I’m going to kill
the motherfucker.