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. Comments are closed.
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